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The thing about Batfamily that makes them hard to write is that they are a family on every sense of the word. But not a function one because none of them are functional human beings.
They all have flaws and their own shit to deal with regardless of what they are inserted into. So their interactions should be nuanced and with intention. Also, understanding all the character motivations and background.
I mean what do you want to pass? Why are they interacting like that? Where the time line is right now for them?
The huge critic about batfam before is that it got so much edgy it became out of character. But taking of the edgy does not mean taking all the nuance and hurt that comes from their history and intrinsical points of their characterization.
Personally I think the batfam is less "Were all family <3" and more "We're trying to be despite it all."
DC like "ah, I see you're yearning for DC content that's actually fun to consume! how would you like all your favorite hard edged characters ground into a fine, flavorless paste?"
#I think a lot about that because as I try to write them in my fics I get how fucking draining is to get all of them all the time#there are so many motherfucker each one with their own similarities and little crinckets are are extremely necessary to their#characterization#and yeah sure for me it's fanfic so it's not that deep#but dc writers shoult at least bring that into their planning instead of playing with character as if they are their dolls#this is a huge criticism I have about DC as a whole is never about the characters but the concept they want to push onto what they're in it#for example concept > history > THEN character#and not character > story that them > and finally concept that intertwine on each other#and THAT since killing joke#q rants
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the crusaders do have a healer.
they don't like to talk about it.
#jjba#kakyoin noriaki#kujo jotaro#joseph joestar#muhammad avdol#daily#((bet you thought i abandoned this blog. well jokes on YOU. i havent stopped thinking about it ONCE since i started it.))#((the guilt is killing me. but not really. anyway this is 100% canon to my blog's continuity and you may quote me on that.))#((i cannot guarantee regular updates going forward but i am at the very least trying to get back on track!))#((regardless! hope you enjoy this silly joke. i spent a long time on it and i definitely had more to say about it but i forgot.))#((peace and love💚))
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love when you can ask the Narrator why the Princess is a Princess and he's like 'well i uhhhh YOU did that. maybe it's because uh... something something about her being above you... but still approachable... look i don't want to analyze or anthropomorphize your--' my guy. i am a primal being of Order and Eternity and Shaping. You're the one who convinced me I was some dude and were quite willing to take credit for shaping my view on the world through narration five seconds ago. Are you gonna look me in the eye and tell me the desire to interpret something worthy of adoration and more powerful than me as a dommy princess is written in the very nature of the universe or are you going to show me your browser history like a man
#this is a joke but the 'so where did i get the Idea of a princess from??' still stands#since we remember nothing and don't seem to have many ideas about like. what the world looks like#but when given the conception of 'we're a hero' from the narrator's Quest#we immediately go to 'so the thing you're telling us to kill is a Princess' -> i.e something I'm not SUPPOSED to kill#and in fact am supposed to respect and cherish#and/or pledge eternal loyalty to#(and then on a deeper level we KNOW that we're the dragon#we're the biggest threat to her we're what has the power to trap her and keep her here#we're a monster just like her)#but my point remains. as a god-entity stripped of memory where did we get the idea of a (human/like) Princess. do we still have like...#the threads of common narratives sort of built into our structure b/c we're the god-half concerned with Shaping and Naming and Order?#that would kind of slap#anyway uh. dragging myself offstage now#slay the princess#slay the princess spoilers#stp spoilers
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"We need more male SA rep!!!"
Y'all couldn't fucking handle them
#drv3 killing harmony#danganronpa v3#danganronpa drv3#danganronpa#ryoma hoshi#korekiyo shinguji#Also uh since I don't really see people talk about what happened to Ryoma that much#Uh salmon mode and if you say let's take off our clothes Ryoma says “Stop. I'm having flashbacks from prison.”#LIKE WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO THAT#Also with Korekiyo sister jokes aren't fucking funny and they never were#God I feel so fucking bad for Korekiyo and Ryoma
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Luke being Percy’s bi awakening is starting to make more and more sense cause why did Percy compare every attractive man he met to him 😭
He met Apollo and Hermes, two very attractive gods and went “You know who you look like! Luke Castellan!”
He was missing his memories, homeless, didn’t even KNOW who Luke was and when he met Octavian he was like “mhm, your a kinda cute pale white boy with blonde hair. Wait! You remind me of someone…”
Like Percy idk man maybe all that hate for Luke stems from somewhere else
#Annabeth didn’t like Percy in TLT cause she clocked he thought Luke was cute#there’s also beckendorf#someone said Percy bisexually described beckenforf and it’s been stuck in my head every since#cause yeah#and there’s his homoerotic relationship with Ethan Nakamura#his bromance almost romance with Jason#but luke was what started it all#that’s why he had to kill him#he can’t have his bi awakening be a murder and war criminal like what#it’ll ruin his reputation#he had to go#half of this is a joke half of this isn’t#percy jackon and the olympians#pjo series#percy jackson#pjo hoo toa#pjo tv show#heroes of olympus#pjo#luke castellan
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Peter chews hard candy like they're soft much to the horror of everyone else. I just know a jawbreaker hates to see him coming.
i have been trying to figure out for this entire fic when i could have peter biting metal or a jaw breaker or something because it's so fucking funny to imagine peter mid conversation with someone and he pops a jawbreaker into his mouth and bites down and it crunches and the person stands there in horror thinking "this kid doesn't know about jawbreakers and he just broke his teeth holy fuck... wait a fucking minute."
#it's tim i picture this happening to#peter starts pretending he eats screws and rocks#tim can't tell if he's joking or not#peter continuously doing this as a bit for the rest of his life just to stress tim out#no one believes that peter is eating rocks until alfred walks in on him tormenting tim (affectionately)#and the entire manor hears british shouting#bruce freezes in a war flashback to the rare timed alfred had yelled at HIM as a kid#which he has not heard since then#but alfred just saw his great grandkid EAT A ROCK#that being his final straw would kill me#erinwantstowrite#ao3#ao3 fanfic#leap of faith ao3#peter parker#leap of faith catch me if you can#thank you for the ask!
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North and Simon: (shaking hands on killing Simon potentially)
#detroit become human#north wr400#simon pl600#markus rk200#josh pj500#jericho is just... so funny to me as like. how they function (or dont)#like im v glad that i did a Good Job my first run and no one hated me but i also felt like a very distraught parent#in regards to how markus is just able to either hurt them (by suggestions OF THE OTHERS IN THE GROUP)#or help them because hey what the fuck i just dragged simon to safety and now north wants me to kill him#and then simon like oh no north got shot you should leave her BUT ! i saved her and made simon happy#so its like you know what they have to have some animosity but also respect#i feel like i wanna see more of north and simon being buddies ... and i might have to do that myself#but i also apologize if this is ooc for them because i really did only just play through once and got a not good end#i probably missed a lot of lore and stuff so im v sorry if im Messing Them Up#its currently just me liking their designs and vibes and hoping im not ruining other fans lives by being wrong#and i honestly dont know when north would kill simon but hes on her possible victims list#so since both of their victim lists include themselves for suicide it just reminded me of the meme#with im so mad im gonna (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health)#and it was like yeah watch north be like im gonna (well if i cant kill myself because markus said no suicide) murder someone
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For no reason at all, here's Cass punching Dan Didio.
#cassandra cain#she doesn't kill#but she doesn't lose either#cass always wins in the end#batgirl#this is a joke i do not condone violence :)#but since cass is 'toxic' :)#let's see her do some toxic things :)
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see, chonny jash is amazing bc you'll hear the most resonating lyrics you've ever heard in your life played to the most ascending music you've also ever heard in your life and then look up at the music video you're watching to see the actual black and white outline of the steve-o laughing meme played completely straight alongside the lyrics. absolutely unreal, chonny jash is memes/shitposting first, godly music second
#the whiplash between his joke name vs what he sings about is almost enough to kill somebody#chonny jash#chonnys charming chaos compendium#cccc#ik he's stopped using it since like cccc but still. the older lyric videos are so fucking funny for this#jaggy posts
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people getting upset at seeing charlie's girlfriend again is really fucking funny because literally she hasn't done anything. what did she do
#smiling friends#charlie dompler#smiling friends zoey#i say as a man who wants that critter so bad i am willing to start killing people#for legal reasons that is a joke by the way#i am mr dompler after all but i guess it's because i don't have any charlie ships that are ''in danger''#i selfship with him but since that has no way of being even a smidge canon obviously im accepting of it
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my contribution to that one text screenshot
featuring more of the Cone
#clemart#ttcc#toontown corporate clash#winndoe#Winn Dos#Doe Vinci#Mac Opsys#stupid idiot rabbit interrupts beautiful yuri. lets kill him.#it feels like 5000 years since I've drawn winn. im sorry winn... and doe. ive let you down#this might be a little ooc for doe idk but i have to make the textpost work. okay. i have to.#please my families on the line theyre going to hurt me if i dont make this joke#ill never see my wife and children again#my shoulder hurts i speedran all of the rendering in like 4 hours#the paintings are screenshots from the actual toon hall i just sized them up crazy style and put an overlay on them#i didnt feel like actually drawing paintings sorry#the thumbnails for this were actually a slop drawing. i was originally just going to do a slop comic
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Alert: this is a very stupid post and not to be taken seriously.
So when it was revealed the first attack on Keyleth was Ludinus trying to test drawing out Vax, folks were pointing out that Ludinus would have had to stay up to date on Vox Machina romances in order to have the information to make that plan, which is very funny. I posit an additional hypothetical: if the preliminary attack had accidentally been fatal for Keyleth herself (I say accidentally because Ludinus would want to wait to execute the plan in full later, so wouldn't have killed her then) then Ludinus would have lost his bait and would have to figure out another way to draw out Vax.
And you know what that means. Matchmaking. Get the sad bird man to fall in love again so he can threaten the new person. Ludinus using every iota of his skill in manipulation and patience and influencing of events to set up Situations, and he needs it because as a celestial champion Vax is not just walking around into your average coffee shop. He becomes the king of tropes. He reads trash romance to get ideas and runs into Caleb at a naughty book store in Rexxentrum and it's very awkward for both of them. With centuries of experience and villainy, HOW has it come to this-
#he's picked up a Fiona Fancypants novel & felt deeply unsettled for no reason he could detect and since ignored everything from that author#once again this is a joke post not to be taken seriously#it's just Monday and I'm dodging the horrors#if Ludinus did kill Keyleth in serious Vax would probably go straight to the source in vengeance#also Gilmore - though happily married - is certainly still there and would be a next target perhaps#and Vex as foxqueen pointed out#as I say this is purely to envision Ludinus using all his prowess for something stupid lol#c3#critical role#ludinus da'leth#op#it's shitpost o'clock
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I'm finally posting Jax~ He's Vanitas's s/o hehehe (mainly in good timeline but he's also in the canon) Prns are He/They, he's a tasmanian devil btw if you're wondering
#art#my art#artists on tumblr#izuart#izzy oc#jax the tasmanian devil#vanitas the hedgehog#ultimate lifespawn au#human au#sonic oc#sth oc#tasmanian devil#sonadow fankid#fankid au#oc#original character#sonic art#sth art#sth#I LOVE HEEEEEE#but yeah he’s very fed up with vanitas and his bullshit#but vanitas is also the only one he’s patient with when it comes to bs lol#he will gladly tell vanitas to fall over and not get up and yet loves him so much#it’s just how he loves#they’re kinda fushigoro and yuuji coded imo lol#yuuma ichida would voice jax 100% or koki uchiyama#but like he will tell vanitas to go away and d** and ppl are concerned but genuinely he does care for him lmfao he’s just so sick of vanita#or he threatens to take vanitas out himself lmfao and vanitas makes a joke about it and jax is teetering towards violence#also jax is trained to kill but in good timeline he’s just a med student lmfao he’s gotta earn a living somehow since assassin work isn’t i#in canon tho he’s for sure an assassin
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fortnite duos can really give you whiplash
#live laugh love potassius peels <3#fortnite#potassius peels#peely#korra#legend of korra#i think we're gonna have to kill this guy#ik the meme's a little outdated but this was a request#and also it's still funny#also wow it's been ages huh#fanart#digital fanart#meme#i guess#idk how to tag joke art#ignore every hand in this drawing#i have legit not actually drawn since that alan wake stuff i did months ago#i'm serious i haven't touched the program#i need to get back into the swing of things cuz my ability to draw HAS atrophied#i've never watched legend of korra and drew her almost entirely from memory i'm sorry ;;
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The narrative of D&D
Fantasy High Junior Year has made its exploration of the tropes, mechanics, and structures of D&D readily apparent, perhaps even more so than the earlier two seasons. This is unsurprising for a show in which the characters are, in-universe, extremely aware of their mechanics and indeed in a high school intended to develop them. And yet, while Brennan Lee Mulligan pokes at these structures, the story still rests squarely within them.
This is not accidental; in longer form narratives (and Fantasy High as an overall story certainly is one, though each individual season exists in a strange no-man's land of campaign length) there is a distinctive pattern to the D&D narrative, one that is outright stated in the player's handbook. D&D is a progressive advancement game; characters grow in power and in sociopolitical import as they level up. They begin, even at level 1, as exceptional people (no commoner stats for them) and are destined by the fact that they are in a D&D game for greatness. There are things D&D supports well; travel, social interaction, one-time skill use, and combat. There are things it does poorly, notably downtime and stories that are not built along the lines of heroic fantasy.
I think this is a value neutral statement, in that I think that trying to avoid playing D&D while playing D&D is a futile exercise; your character will become more powerful while playing it and the only way to avoid gaining this power is to play a different game. I also think that while D&D has the potential to comment on our world from a new perspective, as most speculative fiction does, and is certainly not without flaws, that conversation is one for a later date. The structure exists; like it or not, it exists. There are other games to play that support other stories.
Fantasy High is direct in its engagement: characters are aware of their classes. They learn about the conventions thereof in their high school coursework, and must justify their multiclassing, both with their current level of power in their base class as well as with what they have done (both narrative and mechanical justifications). The antagonists of Junior Year are the Rat Grinders, explicitly commenting on Experience vs. Milestone leveling; several characters provide an eye into such D&D player tropes as min-maxxing and focusing on RP vs only on the game and mechanical elements. The Seven, set in the same world, operates on a similar premise; the party risks being broken up because half are still in high school and they would not survive a split of that level. Adventurers at the Aguefort Academy must adventure, and both the humor and deconstruction come from the juxtaposition of the conventions of D&D with the typical life of a high school student. The characters do level up; they do become more recognizable; they do have to save the world, repeatedly.
A somewhat subtler deconstruction comes in the form of NADDPod's first campaign, or as it was introduced, The Campaign after the Campaign. As envisioned by Brian Murphy (a player in Fantasy High; it is perhaps relevant that the two shows both began production around the same time), the world in which it is set is grappling with the aftermath of the "campaign" of the three legendary heroes Alanis, Thiala, and Ulfgar, who had slain Asmodeus, among other feats. While this ended a war, it set off several crucial events. Most centrally to the story of NADDPod, Thiala, disillusioned with her role as the healer, broke her worship of Pelor and used the heart of Asmodeus to ascend to godhood; she would eventually become the final antagonist of the campaign. However, the death of Asmodeus also set off a power vacuum in Hell. NADDPod's third campaign is set two centuries after the first, and the new legendary heroes (the Band of Boobs of the first campaign) have been dealing with the aftermath of an extraplanar war of the gods; Mothership, the main antagonist, arose in Thiala's wake. This is all typical actions leading to consequences, but the idea that the butterfly that flapped its wings was the resentment of someone having to play the cleric is notable (and is directly contrasted by Emily Axford's Bahumia characters, who openly embrace healing and support casting, breaking Thiala's cycle while cleaning up her mess.) But NADDPod too is heroic fantasy, even with the science fantasy elements present in the second season, and even slots nicely into the PHB tiers.
Critical Role does not, per se, strive to deconstruct in the same way (though Matt Mercer does provide some direct retorts to Forgotten Realms lore, particularly that of drow). But like NADDPod, the consequences of past campaigns influence subsequent ones. Campaign 1 is very easily recognizable as a classic "gain influence and power" story, and while Campaign 2's heroes the Mighty Nein retain a refreshingly low profile throughout the story, it does still progress in a typical way, though in a rather more self-directed manner.
Campaign 3 is interesting, in that it initially deviates from some of the more classic tropes of early D&D, but ultimately succumbs (to its benefit, in my opinion) to the inertia of the heroic fantasy arc. Bells Hells do not work their way up from level 1 or 2 taking on odd jobs; they begin the campaign by joining up with a benevolent patron, and several party members have pre-existing powerful connections. They receive the use of a skyship by episode 22 and level 6 (something even Vox Machina considered having to steal at level 13) and inherit it not long after. And yet: despite this, and a pivotal set piece of the apogee solstice in which a comparatively low level party plays a part among many factions, following a brief split the campaign begins to run on more familiar tracks. For all the early privileges the team enjoyed and the theological debates they engaged in, they ultimately find themselves in a position identical to that of the archetypal Vox Machina: facing an evil wizard who, after a rushed solstice ritual mid-campaign, only partially unsealed a long-imprisoned ancient deity of manipulation and destruction and now wishes to finish the job. One must assume Delilah Briarwood is appreciating the parallels from within Laudna's psyche.
Worlds Beyond Number is a player on the scene to watch out for, especially because Mulligan has shown himself to enjoy playing with these tropes and his players are all immensely knowledgeable and experienced players (and in Aabria Iyengar's case, DMs) themselves. Rather like Bells Hells, two of its three characters are coming in already in storied positions, despite being level 2, and it will be interesting to see if it bucks the trend. I don't think it needs to. I think there's plenty of variety to be had within this subgenre, and I think a quiet pushing at the boundaries is frequently more effective than full-scale subverstion. But should that be the plan, it will take a lot of work; even with immense awareness of the path D&D sets forth it seems DMs - and players - tend to stay on it.
#i gotta make a separate like. website-based blog for shit like this i'm basically writing articles for free (which. they'd still be free)#cr tag#d20 tag#naddpod tag#wbn tag#i'd been thinking of this since fhjy got really into it and some joking around about c1 vs. c3 parallels motivated me to finally write it#anyway! hope you like it.#also i killed a very hilarious darling here expect a shitpost soon probably
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people who entirely blame jack for what happened with will didn't watch the same show. as the audience, we see that will isn't sleeping, and that hannibal lied about his stability, and will's blackouts and sleepwalking. we are an outside observer privy to information other characters don't see. jack only knows what is told to him, he can't read minds. he can't know how bad will is doing if will doesn't tell him. he trusts will is a grown adult who will take care of himself. a socially and professionally trusted and admired medical professional tells jack that will is fine! what reason does jack have to not believe that will is capable to not only do his job but make the sound decision to stay or go. why is jack the bad guy here?
and regarding will getting arrested, ALL the evidence was against him. he had no memory and no alibi for the murders he was being convicted of. he was at sutcliffe's office when he was murdered, after hours, when no one else (supposedly) was there. he was the last person to see georgia alive. he knew he went to minnesota with abigail and came back without her, no memory of leaving but the hallucination of having killed her. he threw up her ear. flesh and bone and hair of every victim was woven into his lures, a hobby that everyone knew he had. what exactly was jack supposed to think? was he supposed to ignore evidence? it would be against all logic and common sense to just assume will was innocent. even will doubted his own innocence. ofc we, the audience, knew he wasn't guilty, but jack can't see what we see. he even risked his career, against his better judgment, to help will. he had no reason to, but he cares about will. he cares about him a lot, and a lot more than people give him credit for.
jack cared about will deeply, saw him as a friend, for the entire show. giving him the benefit of the doubt up until the very end. the confidence he has that will is a good and trustworthy person in the last episode gets him mocked for "not seeing will as he truly was" but when he assumes will is a killer in s1 people also get mad at him for not having *enough* confidence in will. which is it?
jack is a good agent, a good friend, and did what he could given the tools he had to do his job. he can't help people who refuse his help (aka will), he can only try so much.
and hannibal is a master manipulator. he played every single character on that show and had them convinced he was normal and safe, sometimes for years. every single person who outright blames jack for everything got as manipulated by hannibal as jack did! because hannibal planted distrust between will and jack, and with the audience and jack. if you think jack is the problem, congratulations, you got played by the villain of the show.
#jack crawford#will graham#hannibal lecter#hannibal#hannibal nbc#nbc hannibal#had this drafted since july lmao#the speaking clown#this is a pro jack blog#and before anyone makes acab jokes. maybe don't compare a fictional character to irl cops that systematically harm and kill innocent people#in real life and do so repeatedly and brutally and get away with it on paid leave#the scene where freddie lounds gets roughly handcuffed and mandhandled IS inappropriate but DOES NOT compare to#the heinous acts of real life cops
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