#and when I just did that action animation of him

[sarahcmarie]

I like to imagine that because dick was a ball of energy and Jason was pretty well behaved as a child Bruce thought he had seen all sides of the spectrum when it came to kids and then he adopted Tim

“Tim absent parents drake” who spent so much time alone he essentially rejects any actions Bruce takes at parenting him

“Tim rules only apply if your caught drake” who appeared well behaved but was in fact not only worse than dick with his shenanigans but better at hiding it

“Tim I can fix him drake” who whenever Bruce isn’t looking gets parented by his seventeen year old

“Tim even if he doesn’t act like it is still very much a teenager drake” skateboarding down staircase banister

Over the years Bruce got a parental instinct when ever his kids are doing something they shouldn’t he get this itch and it is about Tim 63% of the time that causes the trouble

And when Tim isn’t the one who did whatever it was that set off Bruce’s parental sense he either orchestrated it to distract bruce to keep him from finding out he did something much worse Tim did or to distract him so he can do something he doesn’t want Bruce to know about

And whenever Bruce try’s to punish Tim for whatever the fuck he did this time Tim will just take it as a challenge

Tim’s grounded? Tim decides to sneak though all of the manors security systems without being caught

Benched as robin? Suddenly glitter bombs are found all over Batman’s patrol route until Tim is unbenched

This also applies to when his siblings are in trouble

Damian can’t keep another animal? a new animal sanctuary suddenly opens up

Dick and Bruce get into a screaming match? Suddenly Bruce only has left shoes

Bruce lectures Jason on killing? Suddenly all Bruce’s suits are bright pink when he has to attend a WE meeting while Tim smirks at him from his seat in the board room

[rbundollie]

Batfam animal transformation based on the thought that when you have 2 cats, one is a beautiful idiot and one is a terrifying demon. When two cats show up at the manor, one is sweet and loving around Dick and the other keeps trying to trip him down the stairs. Featuring Damian who tries to help but instead the cats flip personalities around him and Duke who shows up just to be tripped.

Partial Fic

Dick stumbled up from the cave, heading almost blindly to his bedroom. Damian had long since gone to bed, and Duke and Alfred weren't up yet. Bruce and Cass were out of town, though, so there was extra case work for Dick.

Dick trudged up the stairs when a soft sound had him looking down. A cat brushed against his legs with a rumbling purr. Dick reached down and stroked along its silky back. “Hey there. Where'd you come from?” Damain must have snuck it in. The cat melted into his arms as soon as he picked it up. “Okay puss, you can come with me.”

Dick made it up a few more steps when suddenly his foot caught on a weight, and he crashed down. The cat in his arms yowled and flounced off while the cat he'd tripped over hissed loudly in his direction, clearly affronted at his existence.

“Ok, Damian and I are having a talk about this in the morning. How many of you are there?” He hauled his aching body up and finally made it to his room to collapse on the bed.

Dick was dropping off to sleep when a warm presence snuggled up to his back. Dick rolled over and there was the fluffy cat again (at least he hoped it wasn't a third). But it clearly wanted a snuggle so Dick wrapped it up and drifted off to sleep.

~

Damain eyed the orange cat perched on the top of the fridge. It'd been there when he came into the kitchen that morning, bright green eyes observing as he navigated around. Damian knew how to handle grouchy cats though and the best course of action for now was to ignore it. It'd eventually get hungry or curious and approach him.

After he finished his breakfast and the cat still hadn't climbed down, Damain decided to try the old can of tuna trick.

As soon as the can opener started up, the cat began meowing. Damian barely got the lid off completely before the cat was sticking its head in the can.

"Hold on," Damian softly admonished. "You'll cut yourself." He tipped the can onto a plate and let the cat eat, stroking along its large ginger back. It clearly wasn't starving wherever it came from.

The cat rumbled a deep purr and pushed its head into Damian's hand.

“Very well. How about we retreat to the library. The window seat in there has a perfect sunning pillow we can enjoy.”

Clearly approving of this plan, the cat climbed into Damian's arms.

~

Dick awoke late the next day and immediately panicked he'd missed taking Damian to school. He threw the covers back, and there was an indignant yowl in response as a fluff flew through the air.

The cat landed on all four paws, glaring at him with its tail up straight and ears back.

“Um sorry puss….” Dick vaulted up and opened the door, skittering around the cat before rushing downstairs. “Damian!! Damian!”

Alfred appeared first. “He's in the library.”

“Thanks Alfie” Dick turned to sprint toward the library when he noticed his bedmate had caught up. The fluffy black cat was pushing up against Alfred's leg.

“New friend sir?”

“I'm not sure when Damian snuck them in but there are at least two.”

“I did no such thing.” Damian appeared. The orange cat that had tried to unalive Dick the prior evening was perched across his shoulders. It hissed at Dick again.

“Tiger here was in the kitchen this morning. It was the first time I'd seen him.”

Damain caught sight of the fluffy black cat. “Oh there is another.”

Orange, now named Tiger, growled. The black cat chittered and pressed back against Dick.

“Hmm…” Alfred looked at them all. “I have to assume one of the others is playing a prank then or it's related to a case. Perhaps call Master Timothy or Master Duke?”

“School!” Dick shouted.

Damain eyed him disdainfully. “It's Saturday Richard.”

“Oh phew. Where is Duke then?”

“Master Duke left earlier for a patrol. He should be back in a few hours.”

Tiger had removed himself from Damian's shoulders and purred at Alfred's feet. The black cat began trying to climb up Dick’s leg.

Damain reached for him and the previously friendly cat hissed and swatted. Tiger took offense on violence towards his friend and squared up. The cats began hissing and swatting each other until Alfred stuck his foot between them. “Maybe separate rooms till we figure out what is going on?”

Dick scooped the black cat which started purring immediately. Damain lifted the ginger and retreated to the library.

And so, it persisted. Dick couldn't approach Damian without Tiger taking offense. The cat seemed to realize that by just puffing up and growling, Damian would send Dick away.

Controversially, the little black cat would yowl and cry if Dick left his sight. He'd run after him with sad noises till Dick reappeared. For no particular reason Dick started calling him Ziggy.

Dick tried reaching out to his brothers but Tim had disappeared (again) and Jason wasn't answering his phone (again) which meant Dick had no idea who was responsible for the animals.

Dick had exhaustedly crashed one room over from Damian's claimed library when Duke finally arrived. “What's with the cat Dick?”

Dick groaned. “I was hoping you'd know.”

"Pretty sure there were no extra cats when I went to bed last night.”

“Is that Thomas!?” Damian yelled from the next room. “Does he know about the cats!?”

“No! He said they weren't here when he went to bed!”

“Why are we yelling!?” Duke chimed in.

“The cats can't be crossed!” Dick yelled in his face.

Ziggy suddenly zoomed out the door. Dick sighed before “Ziggy no!” came a shout from the next room. Duke and Dick rushed over to see Damian dangling Tiger over his head while Ziggy danced around his feet. “Cease and desist, Ziggy!”

Damian tried to step back, but the cat was there immediately. He tripped, fell, and launched the orange furred cat up in the air.

Duke tried to dart forward to catch but suddenly Ziggy was there again and Duke hit the ground. Dick dived and caught Tiger but Tiger didn't appreciate it and bit him on the hand. Dick cursed and let him go. Ziggy was there again and the two ran out of the room together.

The boys were left behind in various prone positions.

~ it's Steph's fault. She dumped the transformed Tim and Jason at the manor because she had a Saturday lab to attend. ~

[sirxlla]

hi so there's been this gif going all around twitter and i saw a buddie prompt but i was wondering if you could find a way to make it buck x fem!reader instead? maybe reader is away for work and buck is just going insane missing them? just whatever you deem fit. (the tweet: https://x.com/bucksnaturals/status/1883622497956044895?s=46 )

THANK YOU in advance and if this goes against anything just ignore and i am so sorry ☹️🫶

Thinking Of You

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Warnings: NSFW, self-care (him taking care of himself 😉)

Prompt: above but here is the link they are referencing -> the tweet: [request anon] I love this prompt sm. Its so good. 🙌🏻

Notes: female reader, italics are actions and thoughts.

-With that said it's all under the cut-

Buck always hated when you had to leave for long business trips like this. Why the hell couldn't they just have the business meetings over Zoom like they did during COVID? Fucking hell, it was awful not coming home to you every day and waking up next to you every morning.

"Awwww, there's my man. How was work, Baby?" You asked as you struggled to set your camera up to face time call him, one of Buck's shirts tucked into your silk sleep shorts. You sat back on your bed as you looked at the screen of your iPad.

"Work's really not the issue, Honey. You've been gone like almost a month, and it's just really shitty without you here, and Eddie moved to Texas, so I'm just really feeling so isolated."

"Well, I might, if I get lucky, get to come home early, and it's all we can hope for, right?" You felt really shit for how long this whole entire thing was going on for. A coworker had quit and made everything so much harder for you and almost tripled your work.

"It's hard to sleep without the smell of you. It's just hard to relax without you by my side, you know the weight of it?" Buck held his phone up so you could see his face a bit better after he rolled over in your shared bed.

"I know, Buck. I'm like that, too; sleeping alone has been awful. I'll be home as soon as I can. I promise but I can maybe help with everything else. So my perfume is on my bedside table, I forgot to bring it. Spray it on something, maybe? And I have a weighted blanket in the hall closet. Those should help. Sleeping in your shirt has helped me so much. I bought myself a weighted stuffed animal, and it helps me a lot. I know it sounds dumb-"

"No, it doesn't sound dumb. I really appreciate it, Honey." He interrupted before he saw the clock behind you, noting that it was 3:30 a.m. for you. You should be in bed, and he's keeping you up by bitching to you about missing you; you looked so tired, dark circles hung under your eyes.

"I'll let you go, okay? You look so tired, Hun. I will take your suggestion and see if it helps. You need rest, and I guess I do, too."

"Yeah, it's late. I'll let you go but let me know how that goes. Okay, Ev?" You said as you grabbed your iPad; maybe you could lie down before getting up in a few hours to go back to work.

"I will, I love you, Sweetheart." He smiled as he looked at the screen of his phone and your sleepy face.

"I love you, Buck." You whispered as you struggle to keep your eyes open. "Bye."

"Bye." He whispered back before he hung up reminding himself to remember that pretty and tired face of yours. He went to the closet and grabbed the weighted blanket and the perfume; he opted for spraying it on one of the tank tops you wore to bed, laying it on the pillow beside him before heading to sleep.

Both you and Buck called nightly, and he'd spray your perfume on the tanktop before bed, then he'd be led off to a blissful sleep.

It was the middle of the night, and he panted in his sleep, pushing his hips into the bed to try to relieve the pressure between his thighs. Your breasts pressed against his face as he breathed in the sweet smell of your perfume. His skin felt like it was on fire, his eyes flitting back and forth as his dream progressed into him pounding his hips into yours. This left him tossing and turning until he woke himself up.

Between him, the wind outside, and the moon that crept in was extremely obvious how horny he was.

It wasn't a surprise to him considering that dream. God damn it, he missed you so much and it had been for so long, it felt, and not just the sex but everything. That dream made it unbearable.

Fucking hell, he wasn't one to masturbate but damn it, tonight it was impossible to think of anything else but you; as long as you lingered in his thoughts, then he'd never get a lick of sleep due to his current stiffness.

With his eyes still closed, he reached his hand over to your pillow to that tank top that sat on top of it, bringing it to his nose and breathing it in, which just made the ache turn into a throb. It caused him to let out a deep growl in his throat. His left hand held the shirt to his nose, his eyes closed as he found his right hand massaging his chest like you often did during or before sex. You knew how much he loved it.

In his mind, he pictured your naked body, your hips, the look on your face as you rode him. He moaned as his hand moved down to the space between his skin and his boxers slowly using his thumb to circle the tip of him, the same way you would. He imagined the exact shade and color of your eyes, how you focused on his face when you gave him any bit of intimacy, which made it clear to him that you care for him and how he's feeling.

Buck growled and whimpered into the tank top as his imagination started to feel like his reality. Your hand down his boxers slowly pumping him, your eyes and ears noticing his every reaction and sound. He pumped faster but slowly enough to tease himself the way you would.

You always took him to the edge of oblivion before allowing him to finish. The thought caused him to push his hips higher upwards as he groaned and whimpered at the feeling.

He wouldn't be able to do it as well as you, but he'd damn sure try. Evan continued to think of you, your kisses down his body as you lowered yourself down to his weeping tip, swirling your tongue over it like a lollipop with your eyes open to watch him as your hand pumped him. Your expression eager for him to climax on your tongue.

Before he knew it, he felt white pleasure wash over him, his hand and underwear were covered in arousal, and he felt a lot less pent up.

"I'd've done that if I knew you needed it so bad, Ev." You said as you set your duffle bag down, a smirk in your tone. "It's nice to know you think of me though."

A blush covered his face as he realized he'd been caught pleasuring himself to the smell of your perfume. He pulled his hand from his boxers before swiftly heading to the bathroom to clean himself up.

You changed as he was gone, slipping out of the shoes you'd been in all night. That red-eye flight was catching up to you and the only thing you craved now was Evan to be near you while you slept. Changing into one of his shirts and nothing else besides your panties, you flopped onto the bed with a huff.

Evan came out of the bathroom with a look on his face like a kid that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar, his heart hammered in his chest as he came to lay down with you.

"I- I- I can explain." He started with a nervous tone. You knew he didn't usually masturbate, but to you, it was whatever. It was fine; most people do it.

"Shhhh..." You smile as you cuddle into his chest, hooking your leg over his hips. "I'm glad you think of me, Ev. It's kinda sweet."

"Sweet? You just caught me jerking off with your tank top." He was astonished; most women he'd dated were so not into this kinda thing and most definitely didn't think it was cute. They saw it more so as maybe this guy was a creep. He was confused.

"I don't mince my words, Evan. I meant what I said." You said as you cuddled into him. "I'll leave you some better stuff if I go out of town again, okay?" You mumbled into his chest, pulling him even closer than before.

"Alright?" He was still so confused but relaxed, and he felt how calm you were and how steady your breath was, which caused his heart to steady and ease its worry.

"Mmm hmmm..." You mumbled as you fell asleep pressed against your sweet dork of a man.

Masterlist

[peppertaemint]

JM & The Peacock

Quite a few people have been waiting for this post so I hope I can do it justice. Here we go…

There are different ways for people to peacock, and different reasons why they might do it. Think about it like this: when you go to a job interview, you want to have a bit of pizzazz, right? You want the interview panel to walk away thinking, they’re a perfect fit, and forget about all the other interviewees. Peacocking is what people (and animals) do to show they are a good fit for something, and something is usual mating/partnering. *chokes*

Is it always romance and relationships? No. When we’re trying to make new friends, some level of peacocking can occur, too, depending on personality type. When we make new social connections, invariably people want to demonstrate their value as a connection. To a potential friend, you are saying “I’m fun” or “I’m worth knowing,” and you might do that by showcasing all your dirty Hannibal fanfics or your collection of priceless Fabrege eggs. 

What does this have to do with our favourites, KM? Well, I hope I’m not bursting any bubbles here, but JK seems to have gone through a peacocking phase with Jimin lasting from sometime in 2014 and calming by 2018. And, just so we’re clear, I’m not talking about peacocking in the pick-up artist sense, where someone wears something outlandish to attract interest in hopes of a hookup. As I said, I’m specifically talking about the acts some people do to differentiate themselves as worthy mates. And these behaviours tend to have attention-seeking qualities, hence the connection to the word.  So, yes–you got me–I am saying that JK has done things to show himself as a good potential mate for JM. As much as I try to rationalize this list of actions, I can’t possibly understand them in any other context. If they just have a bromance, it’s the wildest bromance on record. o.O

Let’s get to it. JK loves demanding and holding Minnie’s attention. But, peacocking is more about sending a specific message through your actions to your desired. These are my favourite “peacocking” moments. Maybe you can even add to the list![[MORE]]

JK using a soccer ball to lure Tae away from JM and then take his place

This is a really early example and you could almost write it off as just a flirt tactic, if it wasn’t clear JK was scheming, knowing the camera was capturing everything he did. That means he knew that at some point JM would see what he did (message = received). Tae is sitting beside JM, so JK kicks the ball toward him, and as soon as Tae goes after the ball, he swiftly takes his place next to JM. This is a clever and cute way to demonstrate the lengths you’d go to be beside someone, and I would have loved to see JM watching this video at the time.

Consistently ranking Jimin lowest in looks

For the first year or so, JK was constantly put on the spot to rank the members according to their looks. Invariably, he always ranked JM the lowest. Why is this peacocking? It fits the pigtail-pulling school of flirting, of course, but it’s also a very loud way of differentiating yourself. He’s drawing attention to JM by placing him last over and over. I bet you never remembered how he ranked Suga, for example. He’s also showing daring because he’s not catering to the feelings of JM. In a lot of ways, he’s saying to JM, I know you can take it, so come play with me at this level. He’s not being mushy or soft. 

Backhug slow dance

Hmm, doesn’t this look like something you’d expect KM to do now? But this is from 2015. They are at an event, dressed to the nines, and JK pulls JM into a romantic slow dance. He’s skirting his hands over his hip bones and pelvis, leaning and caressing. This is very “I’ve got you, babe, and I don’t care who knows.” Given the time frame of this, it feels very peacock-y and a little shocking.

The on-stage stare (0:10)

Again, this is c. 2015ish. And this moment was one of their first, big public stares (lol, what a sentence). Prolongued, unbroken eye contact is not a platonic action, and JK’s body language here is very assertive. Since our society is super heteronormative (yuck), if you were to replace Jimin with a lady, what would your conclusion be? Probably that JK is “staking a claim” or “making his interest known.” Given the context of this moment (surrounded by an audience during a concert), it seems more like JK is making a statement to show his boldness and lack of fear when it comes to JM. He’s saying, Yep I’m looking at you and everyone can see. Got a problem with that? He’s setting a bar and asking JM to join him.

The Run BTS police episode with the spanking

This clip has been discussed a million times, but let’s think about the context. They’re shooting a variety show. There’s probably 10+ people watching them behind the camera, plus the other group members. So what does JK do? He shows off his strength and his dominance, lol. He’s saying, I can take care of you but I can do with you what I please. And I don’t care who sees. If that sounds a bit too overbeaing, think of it like this: he’s saying, We can play like this, and I’ll start. And, if you watched the whole episode, you’ll know that JM does return the play. He smacks him a little too hard with a book. Oopsie! (caveat: we don’t know what was filmed first, but I would still hazard that the smack came after this).

Stealing candy from JHope to give to Jimin (6:55ish)

I love this one because it’s as basic as it comes. Minnie seems to want a candy, so JK just grabs it from JHope and gives it straight to Minnie. Well, he actually feeds it to him directly. Oh boy. And I love Hobi’s face because he’s smiling as he looks at JK, but once he looks away, he’s got unmistakable distaste on his face LOL. But, this one is really transparent, and JK’s self-satisfaction is apparent in his swagger as he does it. JK is like, You need something? I will get it for you, no matter what it takes (even if I’m annoying my Hyung). Showing preference and a willingness to put someone before others is a definite sign of interest and worthiness. I will put you first.

Walking through a sprinkler unbothered (BV2)

Okay, this is classic peacocking for a few reasons. Before JK walks through this sprinkler at the urging of Tae & JM, he was standing on the rocks looking at the ocean with the two. Then, a wave came in and splashed him, and only him. JM died of laughter, and JK was a little embarassed. It was genuinely funny. But, if you’re trying to impress your desired, you don’t want to let on that you’re annoyed/mortified that the perfect moment was wrecked? That would show too much ego and pridefulness. So, when there’s a suggestion to walk through a sprinkler, he accepts without hesitation: water is no foe of mine! It’s all about showing you don’t care in front of your desired, but also taking another opportunity to make that person laugh.  

Re-enacting Jimin’s songs & dances for comedic effect

There are many examples of this, especially of the song Lie in particular. JK loves to mimic his singing and dancing, but what’s really going on here? He’s showing he knows all of JM’s lyrics, how to sing the song and how to do all the dance steps. He’s also paying homage in a way that makes JM laugh. And, it also ensures all eyes are on him for something that relates to JM. Isn’t that interesting? o.O

GDA 2017 dance

Ah, this is one of my all-time favourite examples. Peacocking is all about drawing the attention of your desired, and what does JK do? He decides to sexy dance for JM on TV and in front of a live audience, and yes, that dance is for JM, not for us nor for the audience present… You might be thinking, oh, he’s just being goofy. Did you see JM’s reaction? That isn’t the reaction of “my friend is a goofball” – that’s rare shyness on JM’s behalf. This one, like others, is about fearlessness and not caring who’s watching. And that fearlessness is about daring to be a bit sexy for JM on purpose in front of others, as well as saying, I’ll embarass myself just to put a smile on your face.

As you can probably see from the list of examples, a lot of these actions are designed to invite JM to either play with him in a certain way, or show JK’s daring. Flirting (and mating) rituals are as much about play as they are the biological stuff going on in the background. We look for people who play how we play, enjoy what we enjoy and respond to our behaviours in a desireable way. Consider this: if baby JK did the slow dance with JM, and JM just turned around, slapped him and walked away, that would be a clear message, wouldn’t it? Or, if in the Run episode, instead of returning the play, JM was angry or annoyed, wouldn’t that show incompatibility and a misstep on JK’s part? Hmm!

As a relationship evolves, actions that would be seen as peacocking during a courthship period become affirmations. Examples of this could be grabbing the giant chunk of snow in the hills in New Zealand, the GCF video(s) and Rosebowl. And beyond these meaningful actions, JK’s peacocking has really translated into over-the-top, cornball flirting. Some examples:

Do you smell something burning? … My heart is burning.

What do you get when you mix blue and red? … That’s right, I purple you.

Singing “Jimin nothing stronger” to the tune of BwL.

Reading a fortune cookie to Jimin during an official interview (+room full of people) and saying his name informally. “May I say this to you? Jimin-ah, if you’re not #1, it’s okay. (Where are you going??) You’re always #1 to me.”

His mock use of the impersonal “Jimin-ssi” in so many different flirty tones.

Does JM peacock? He does, but not in the same way. JM is about affection and possession. JK has always been the apple of his eye, but over time, he became JM’s prize, or his prince to put it in a less weird way. And, JM has always been content to show his clear desire for JK without any subtlety. Perhaps we could think of it like JM tells and JK shows. JM does show too, but let’s consider these paraphrased lines: 

I like you so much I don’t know what to do 

I can’t live because of you 

We are in a love relationship 

On my day off, I will go on a date with Jungkook

I want to go on a trip with Jungkook

Jungkook I promised to go to the moon with me Jungkook

The person who makes me happiest is Jungkook

The thing that makes me happiest is when I wake up and see Jungkook

[skeptiql]

Guard Fidds / Seven - On Death

Back when I was alive, those long gone days, I often wore my heart dangerously on my sleeve. Open to the elements, I suppose, bitter cold tending to sink its sharp teeth into the musculature of my atriums.

It never once swayed me in life, though in death I’ve shut myself down. Bolstered the gates, locked the cage, the sleeve it once sat beating on now hidden by metal plating. My kind demeanour and need to be needed never once deterred by cold fronts is long gone to the wind. One too many clumsy misplacements of trust and honesty really ought to break a man much sooner than his demise, but the straw broke the camel’s back after a hardy distance travelled.

All I ever did was care, perhaps the love was put onto the wrong person or perhaps I was too bold to hide my true identity to a cruel and unforgiving world, but I cared till my dying day. Shown unbelievable things both abysmally ugly and incredibly stunning by a man whose whole being was an anomaly of its own.

And I was just a man. An ordinary man who never stopped for a moment to consider himself nor the consequences of his actions on the wellbeing of his mind and body. I lived and loved for the other person not once considering my life as more than a service to the world. I had my skills, I had my purpose, I had my glory and it killed me in the process.

Physical death is agonisingly slow, but the mental takes double the time. Each millisecond stretching to a millennia as adrenaline pumps into the blood stream both pouring out and clogging up. That gave me enough time to see the misplaced love; the trust and good will I had abandoned my everything for, to see him flee without a second thought.

Foresight tells me that I shouldn’t hate the man for reacting for instinct alone (we may have been human but that doesn’t exclude us from animal impulses). The guilt, however, consistently resides.

I died for my adoration and in turn he died also. The fate of his life laid in my fumbling grasp without any knowledge of that responsibility, the timelines witnessed now telling me what I had passed for. The endless, repetitive and agonising viewing of every life I could have lived being projected for my eyes and optic nerve torture.

For I had lived an honest life. This is the reward. My heart is fickle and masked; this screen torments me so.

[artist-issues]

Hi! How do you think the Aladdin live action remake compares to the animated film? I'm interested to hear criticisms but I also found it to be one of the more fun-to-watch remakes.

Okay

Here’s the thing

This is not your fault. I work with students on the weekends and several of them from different walks of life and grades have told me that they like the Live Action Aladdin better than the original and not just that they like it, they love it, for some of them it’s their favorite. Movie.

And I just feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone. So any overzealousness in responding to this ask is not directed at you, I think you have good taste and a good head on your shoulders.

But their favorite? Their favorite movie? LA Aladdin is so bad. Objectively. Like, from a movie-making standpoint, if you didn’t even compare it to the original. I’m thinking, pacing-wise, first and foremost. Why does it feel like “One Jump” was so poorly choreographed that the people in it couldn’t move in-time with the tempo, so the editor had to fast forward their motions to fit the lyrics? Didn’t even try to cover that up? Why does all the costumes look like costumes, like we’re in a really elaborate high-budget high school production?

Secondly, acting. The guy who played Aladdin at no point convinced me that he was in love with Jasmine, afraid for his life, or insecure. At no point. And those are all very important to the plot. And he’s the lead. Even Will Smith feels like he’s trying to put himself in the head of his character in high-emotion situations but he can’t quite get there. Feels forced. The bad CGI doesn’t help.

Thirdly, likability of characters.

LA Aladdin—the character—is handsome. And that’s it. Other than that, he’s a dipstick crossed with a complete jerk. He falls backward out of windows and fumbles around in front of girls and clings to a lie at the cost of his new best friend’s eternal freedom just because he starts to believe that lie, himself, and get a big head?

Genie is preachy, not funny. He has no believable stake in the game—because they removed all reference to him caring about his own freedom to make him seem more flawless. Why? Why did they do that? The original Genie gets sarcastic and even bratty, out of genuine hurt, when, after all he’s done for him, Aladdin turns back on his promise and refuses to set him free. Why does he act bratty and hurt? BECAUSE HE IS HURT. Because for ten thousand years that’s been his fondest dream, and because he started to think Aladdin was his real genuine friend, but in this all the emphasis is placed on painting Aladdin as a scummy punk who won’t listen to reason so that the new Genie and the girl-power Princess can look better by comparison.

So Genie can’t say, “after all, you’ve lied to everyone else, I was beginning to feel left out. If you’ll excuse me—Master.”

Because that would be him showing a lack of grace. Bitterness. Might make Genie, himself, look a little flawed—RELATABLE AND HUMAN, and it might underline the fact that he meant it when he said he wanted freedom. Oh, no, we can’t have that. Just have him say, all noble, “oh, you’re gonna drink from that cup. You’re breaking my heart.”

Please.

Who cares that Genie is set free when Genie didn’t seem to be all that trapped or broken-up about his captivity beforehand? Leave him in the lamp, he’s happy as a benevolent fairy godfather, doling out wisdom and one-liners for all eternity to ungrateful brats. 🙄 That’s how any competent audience member feels when they changed Genie’s characterization around.

And again, they made those changes so that Genie would look wiser and more gracious in that moment. Gee I wonder why they needed to make Genie seem more flawless this time around. I wonder what’s different about this Genie versus the original Genie.

And not only that, but they changed Jasmine’s character to make her more flawless and perfect, too. Because “women empowerment.” So now she’s not a real human girl who wants to be treated like a human being and get to be normal. No way, that’s too “simple naive girl” of her. We gotta make her strongggg and wiiiiise and a better leader than her father. Now she’s a political dreamer!

EUGH.

That’s not Jasmine. The whole point of the original Jasmine is that she wanted to be free, to be treated like a human, not a prized pet or a trophy, and she wanted a real friend. She never wanted to be Sultan. Never never never. She was the type of character who was trusting enough to assume a shopkeeper would happily give an apple away to a starving child—trusting enough to still love Prince Ali even though he turned out to be a liar not once but twice,—trusting enough to teach HIM TRUST.

Trust that he’s not going to be cast off just because he’s a street-rat! Trust that he can let other people know who he is, without having to be all money-and-status obsessed—

—no, listen, listen,

Aladdin’s whole character—and this movie is supposed to be about Aladdin—is that he’s insecure about who he is.

He thinks that because he’s poor and lives on the streets nobody will love him and he’ll always have problems that he’s trapped in. What does he think the solution to those problems are?

Wealth. Royalty.

And is that true? Are wealth and royalties also the guarantee of problems going away? No. But he’s never had those things before, so how would he know that?

I’ll tell you how.

Jasmine shows him.

When they’re in his hovel in the city, he is so excited to show her his view of the palace, and it’s the first thing that takes his eyes off of her for the scene—and she immediately turns away, dispirited, sits down, and sarcastically pops his daydream-bubble of how nice it must be to live in the palace. She is the reason his idea of having “no problems in the palace” stops being his dream. And they both bond over feeling trapped.

If Princess Jasmine wants to be Sultan, instead of wanting to be normal and free, then Aladdin is less able to connect with and relate to her. Their romance is less impactful. And she has less of an impact on him, on changing the way he sees the world. Because they go from “real people” to “strong-female-character and her supportive-male-trophy-boyfriend.”

And. Furthermore. He doesn’t even have to face the pressure of being offered the position of “Sultan.” Because Jasmine wants to be Sultan. So the LA movie just quietly eliminates the part where Sultan offers that to Aladdin, and fear and doubt cross over his face, and his big character flaw of insecurity makes a comeback. They just eliminate that part. So that Jasmine can want to be Sultan, and Aladdin can remain mildly supportive.

That is awful.

Because then, in this scene, which is the unraveling of all three main characters:

Aladdin has no real reason not to set Genie free. Absolutely none. They just came from a meeting where his future as a prince is guaranteed, and the villain seems to be gone. And, Aladdin feels no fear. Because he doesn’t have to be Sultan. He can just be a pampered prince on the arm of Jasmine. He clings to the lie—even though he starts this scene by saying it’s not a lie. He tells Genie he can’t do it on his own—but then he says he’s changed, “Aladdin is gone,” so which is it? Is he lying and he therefore needs Genie to keep it up, or is he no-longer-Aladdin so it’s not a lie and therefore he doesn’t need Genie anymore? Either way, his reasons for keeping Genie around are nonsensical. Cruel. Self-centered. Mind numbingly stupid. The scene is written terribly because they’re having to play TWISTER around the character motivations they’ve been slicing to pieces. So Aladdin is no longer sadly but relatably affirming that he’s still insecure, and needs the lie to keep the woman he loves: “Without you, I’m just Aladdin.” Instead, he’s a self-righteous double-talking punk. So that his girlfriend can look empowered and his genie can look wise.

Genie preaches and sermonizes and talks-down-to instead of honestly and emotionally reacting to the fact that his friend is betraying him and refusing the one dream he’s ever had. Will Smith’s face doesn’t move when he says “you’re breaking my heart.” He says it like an emotionally-manipulative school teacher, who knows the phrase sounds impactful but has no real vulnerable emotion to attach to the tone he says it in. It’s bad acting, is what I’m saying. And no wonder, because nothing about this is compelling. If Genie doesn’t care much about being free, then what’s the big deal, in this conversation? Why are they even arguing? Because Genie is disappointed in his new best friend’s moral fiber? None of that stopped him from helping Aladdin with the lie up until now. So now both characters look stupid and duplicitous, but Genie has the disadvantage of looking unsympathetic, too. Who cares if he’s free at the end of the movie—he “doesn’t care nothing about that wish.”

Jasmine isn’t in this scene but as I’ve said a hundred times, she cannot want to be Sultan. That cannot be her dream. Because if it is, 1) she’s not Jasmine. Shes not the girl who sics her tiger on princes and lets birds out of their palace cages and most importantly runs away. When they give her a new Girl Power dream, they have to go with the much-lamer version of the story where she’s not leaving behind everything she knew and boldly, if naively, trying to start a new life when she meets Aladdin. She doesn’t get to show that she’s willing to throw all that away and walk back into her gilded cage to save his life when her adventure gets him captured by palace guards. Instead, she’s just sneaking out to get to know her people for a quick little jaunt in the marketplace, and he’s caught later by himself in a less-emotionally impactful way like a bumbling cat-burglar in the palace, while she lies like we’re in a romcom. 2) she can’t want to be Sultan because it means she has an end-date to feeling “trapped” on the calendar, and that’s when her father dies and her dream automatically comes true. Regardless of who she’s married to. So there again, no reason to really connect with Aladdin. 3) Jasmine’s whole character is that she wants to be treated like a human. Being the Suktanwould be the exact opposite of that, for her. She’s already lived that. I’m so fed up with what they did to Jasmine. She was the perfect Princess for the lesson “the truth will set you free” and in this remake they made her the focal point of “positions of power will set you free.”

I’m not even going to go into Jafar.

This movie is terrible.

[magnecalliope]

via @bigmoon-is-bigwife:

#It started with only Clown because Ros wasn't as close with Sneeg yet but at some point she realized it was a punishment for Sneeg too #I think for her to admit her life has value to Clown was easy. Clown has done nothing but try to keep her alive. He has made it so clear #that Ros being alive is one of his top priorities. With Sneeg she wasn't quite sure at the time but I think the Owen situation was a big #realization and bonding moment for the two of them. That bond has since only strengthened with the castle alarm system

I think this is probably a direct result of Sneeg's initial hesitance about including Ros in his twohickey project. When he originally invited Clown to level at it, it was Clown who invited Ros to come along too, not Sneeg, and Sneeg paused enough that Clown had to back track and ask him if it was okay for Ros to come too. She enjoyed the time she spent with Clown and Sneeg, but like you said, I think until the Owen situation Ros was under the impression that Sneeg let her come along as nothing more than an emotional support animal for Clown.

#I think this is definitely a LOSA specific thing too because Ros and Aimsey have a weird relationship with love and death #it gets kind of muddled and confusing for them. they care about each other but seemingly not enough to live for each othe r #after Ros got Aimsey's life she did feel an obligation to not die for Aimsey but that was because it was AIMSEY'S life and not her own #im not sure Ros values her life on it's own in regards to Aimsey

Aimsey defined their character pre-death as a passive observer of the environment they occupied, doing as little as possible to effect the world around them. In some ways looking for death, even if they weren't putting an active effort into dying. The journals that Ros found after the Keepers killed Aimsey even said that they had only just started wanting to live, implying they do struggle with suicide ideation. If we consider Ros as being a person with hyper-empathy, then I think it's entirely possible that Ros's increased suicide ideation around Aimsey is a result of her picking up on Aimsey's own suicidal feelings and internalizing them as her own. Aimsey seems to think their death would be an overall positive to Ros, and so Ros believes in turn that her death would be positive for Aimsey.

In fact I think hyper-empathy could really explain why Ros seems to bounce back and forth so much on her progress. Aimsey feels suicidal so Ros feels suicidal when they are together. Bad is excited about murdering anyone and everyone, so Ros becomes excited at the prospect of Bad killing her. Neither Clown nor Sneeg seem to struggle with suicidal feelings, and they don't want to kill Ros, so she feels confident and in love with life when she's around them. She becomes more enthusiastic about messing with people and killing them when she's with Clown, and when she's around Sneeg she's more calm and action oriented.

I think its important to note that for all Ros tries to make a martyr of herself for any cause whatsoever, when she threatens to kill herself with Sneeg and Clown she frames it as a punishment, meaning she recognizes that her death is neither beneficial to nor desired by them.

[deoidesign]

Hi, how did you learn to draw Steve's physique?

Ohh what a complicated thing to answer...

When it comes to how I learned to draw anything, it's hard to say anything too specific since it's always a culmination of many years of assorted study and practice... but I can try to do my best to explain some of the biggest things that helped me learn, some tips I keep in mind, and maybe at least some places to start/delve further.

(just a little disclaimer it's not like my drawings here are going to be 100% medically accurate.. they're just to illustrate concepts!)

The main thing about learning various physiques is understanding anatomy. Which feels obvious, but I don't mean proportions; these are important, but perhaps more important is understanding the skeleton and how it moves and learning where muscles connect to bones and where fat grows on the body. When you understand how these function on a more mechanical level, depicting form and movement in a way that feels natural comes in tow.

For instance, understanding things like the pronation and supination of the radius and ulna, as well as the fact that muscles can ONLY contract or relax, will help you understand a bit better which muscles will be flexed and which will not while someone moves. It's inherent to the positioning based on the structural makeup of the body... It's not like you NEED to memorize all the muscles and bones, of course, but understanding and gaining at least a passive familiarity with the concepts really helps.

In tandem with this concept is the way parts of the body flow into eachother. Muscles ALWAYS come in groups because they can only contract. Whatever muscle is there to lift something, there is a muscle on the other side to pull that bone back down. What this results in is a series of straight edges next to curves, which gives us a lot of really lovely "s curves" and dents and folds and so on and so forth just naturally occurring.

I would suggest at least learning the "bony landmarks", which are bones (usually) visible on the surface of the body. things like the iliac crest, the great trochanter, the 7th vertabrae, the acromion process... These can be used to help you understand the parts of the body as angles and relationships, rather than trying to remember lengths and sizes, which vary immensely... (since you asked about steve, he can be our model... also study these on your own don't just take my word for it haha, these are the ones I personally keep in mind)

I've done the same thing with body hair... learning where it grows and in which directions... It helps me make up variations without needing reference, because I have a set of rules I can follow.

The biggest thing that helped me understand all this on a much deeper level was my ecorche course. I sculpted this guy. We started by sculpting the entire skeleton to understand the bones, and then we added muscles on top. Not every single muscle, of course, but the "artistic muscles" AKA the ones which directly affect the surface of the body. Doing this let us see where muscles connect, because we would make a shape, put it on the bone where it actually goes, and then you get to see how other muscles overlap that.

This helped me, perhaps, more than anything else. But I also didn't just start with this course, I had been drawing for years before I even took it. I had been in school for years before I took it. Not that I think it wouldn't be helpful to someone just starting out, but I do think that the more you know going in, the better an in-depth course like this will help you and stick with you. Classes are also expensive, though so I'm not really like... recommending you pay potentially thousands of dollars to take one... But it did help me a lot, personally.

I also, of course, have done many figure, gesture, and master studies...

These just help you quickly gain a stronger understanding of generalized anatomy, and gives you real life examples of and practice with of how people move and balance.

What all this does when combined, is gives me a very solid ability to depict movement and form in a way that feels relatively natural from my subconscious without the need for reference.

The rest of how I've learned to draw his physique is honestly mostly just stylization. I understand the body, and this is how I am depicting it for his level of musculature.

And as I move into depicting him in other ways, either moving in comics or in animation, realistically rendered, or extra stylized, these concepts inform every step of that process for me! When he keeps the same/similar relationships between parts, he gets to still look like himself.

It ALSO really helps when putting clothes on, because the way cloth falls and bunches and lifts is all directly related to the form it is on... So the more you understand that form, the more you can depict clothing and movement in a way that feels natural.

This is all, of course, true when I draw anyone, you asked about Steve so I'm trying to mostly show with him! But because I'm just drawing from raw information of general anatomy rather than trying to study one body type at a time, it allows a lot more "give," I think!

Like, here's most of the cast from TTA so far... actually, they're not as varied as I thought they were nevermind LMAO ignore this part

But, it also makes monster and alien design much easier! It's a lot easier to come up with non-human anatomy when I understand human anatomy, because I can manipulate the knowledge I have...

There is infinite more to study in the world of anatomy... The complexity of the human body goes extremely deep. For our purposes as artists, we need only depict a fraction of it, but more information rarely hurts the process.

I'm sure there's something in here that's wrong on a technical level, I'm mostly going off of memory. But that's kind of my point - I understand enough generally and conceptually that when I am missing something and need to find reference for it, I understand what I'm looking at. It's much easier than trying to learn AND draw at the same time.

I hope even one thing in here helped you! Sorry it's so long.

[blacklegsanjienthusiast]

so you know how zeff says to sanji “you can walk right back into the ocean for all i care” after sanji threatens to walk? yeah i think about that line a lot and specifically the way zeff says back. he doesn’t just say sanji can walk into the ocean, he says he can walk back into the ocean. it’s such a simple distinction but it holds so much meaning because, for all intents and purposes, sanji came from the ocean, from that storm and that rock. that single word signifies that whatever happened before, whatever sanjis life was before, doesn’t matter to zeff and it never will because well, why would it? zeff doesn’t give a damn about his past, for all he cares this kid and responsibility for him was chucked at him by the waves of that storm 9 years ago and that was that. and as for sanji? yeah it’s even more meaningful. in his own words: “13 years ago, vinsmoke sanji escaped the kingdom of germa and died at sea”. vinsmoke sanji died and the person he is now, the one who was shaped by zeffs guidance was born. the sanji we see really did come from the ocean, from a random part of the east blue that carried the ship that took him away from germa. it was because of that ocean and that ship that he was able to live the life he deserved and be the man he was supposed to be.

[shannonsketches]

he's so important to me

[c0nn0rb0t]

Slowly he opened his eyes again once the lights were off again, taking in the home...his home...he remembered this place. He remembered helping the older human into the bathroom to sober him up, waiting for him to get dressed. "Thank you. I'm sorry about the lights, my eye sensors just need a little bit to adjust back to normal again"

Getting cleaned up sounded like a good idea, he'd be able to fully access the damage without obstruction. Cautiously he followed behind the human, scanning as much of the environment as he walked, removing a few more errors along the way. The android stopped, hesitating once the canine came out from Hanks room...the beast was familiar and he did recognized the animal...but he worried the dog would be scared of him as he looked now.

Course that worry was stamped out when the hulking furball jumped up and started licking his face. At first he froze, a bit scared by the sudden action, but with the humans hand on his back steadying him, he gave the dog a few pets. "Hey there Sumo...I missed you" He couldn't help the tears that started streaming down his face...he had a home, and a family that he had forgotten about because of some insane human...and now he was home, and his memories were slowly coming back, and his system was stabilizing once more.

He looked back up at Hank when he spoke, head tilted as he wondered what the human had for him. His LED flickered once he seen the coin, his eyes lit up briefly in recognition. Carefully he took the coin from Hank, holding it in his own hand for a few moments.

After a moment he started to roll the coin across his knuckles...it was stiff, haphazard, and no where near as smooth as he could normally. At one point he even dropped the coin on accident into his lap. But he picked it back up and started back in playing with it...after a few times it seemed his movement started to smooth out again. He gave a little smile "Thank you, I've been missing this...forgot I needed this even. I'd glad you held onto it for me."

He spent the rest of the car ride home trying to calibrate his joints, only putting the coin away when they pulled into the driveway. He looked up at the house, a memory coming to him...he had come here using a taxi to get the Lieutenant for a case....he remembered having to break a window to get inside.

Once they both got inside and the lights were on, he had to quickly shut his eyes due to the brightness...he wasn't used to it due to him moving around at night for the past several weeks. But with the new lighting, the human could see just how awful he looked. His once well kept appearance was now a mess, his clothing dirty and worn with a few rips in the fabric. He, himself was obviously fairly dirty, symptoms of being out in the elements for lord knows how long.

[infriga]

I convinced my mom to try the live action One Piece, because she's the type to like this style of show even though she isn't into animation and would never read manga, but I didn't think I'd be able to convince my dad because he's usually a stickler for more grounded and realistic stories (his favourite genre is war movies, his favourite movie is Saving Private Ryan, for reference). But, when I brought up with him how I figured it probably wouldn't be his thing because it was fantasy, he mentioned to me that he does enjoy some fantastical stuff if it has like an internal universe logic, like Star Wars, and the more I thought about it, the more I remembered that he also enjoys campy fun action adventure stuff that doesn't take itself too seriously like Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Carribean.

And One Piece has both that internal logic for why people can perform crazy feats (even if it isn't explained right away) which I mentioned to him (just that there is a reason why people can do crazy things in this world), as well as the campy fun action adventure thing going for it, especially in the Live Action (the fight against Morgan's base even has a major Indiana Jones vibes ngl). So I explained that to him and asked if he wanted to try it, and he agreed to watching the first episode with me to decide if he'd watch it with my mom and me.

AND HE ACTUALLY SAID IT WAS INTERESTING SO FAR!! Like, he is NOT the kinda guy to enjoy anime or manga or even western cartoons, always refuses to watch anything anime and doesn't show any interest when I talk about it (I've managed to convince him to watch a few movies like Sword of the Stranger but it's obvious that even when he's not bored or doesn't hate it, it still doesn't catch or keep his interest), and he's really picky about anything fantasy or SciFi, if it like sets off his bullshit meter too much he starts nitpicking the logic behind certain abilities, or decisions, or explanations, etc. I once tried to get him to try Gravity Falls and he wanted to stop after the first episode. He's THAT picky.

So the fact that he actually laughed several times while watching the first episode of OPLA with me, commented about Luffy's character positively several times (he seems to think Luffy is really funny which surprised me cause I thought he'd be the most entertained by Zoro but I mean I can't blame him it is Luffy after all), never cringed or criticised or said anything about how ridiculous it was, means a lot coming from him cause he's always really blunt and honest about his opinion on this sort of stuff (which is fine I don't want him to pretend to enjoy stuff when he doesn't). He actually watched the whole first episode without it losing his attention, and seemed to have fun! And he agreed to watch the rest with my mom and me!

This sort of thing is one of the reasons why I dislike when people just dismiss the idea of live action adaptations entirely. I get that people are jaded with past failures, and don't like when live action is treated like a replacement for or improvement from animation when it isn't. But it is a valid medium just as much as animation or comics or writing are, and can be used to produce some amazing things. And the fact is, there are people who have a hard time connecting with other mediums who will otherwise never engage with this media in its original forms. Live Action, when done well and done right, can reach new audiences and welcome them into the fold in ways the original formats never can.

One Piece didn't need the live action to be popular, obviously, and the live action cannot and will not replace the original, nor should it. But I love that we get to have it alongside the manga and anime. It's just more of what we love, it's the cherry on top of an already stellar multi-layered cake. It complements the original rather than taking anything away from it. And for the first time in over a decade I might be able to share One Piece with my parents, who would only ever have a chance of experiencing it and enjoying it in live action. There's just something so awesome about that for me personally. I just wish more live action adaptations would understand what the One Piece live action understood about the adaptation process, and that's how to keep the heart of the story in-tact, so more people from more fandoms could have a chance to share something they love with more people who it would otherwise not reach.

Anyway, thank you Oda and the OPLA cast and crew for doing live action right for once!

[spinnysocks]

kiburi x ushari but specifically doomed kiburi x ushari. more than anyone else in the army they believe with full sincerity that scar's plan HAS to work because they can't succeed without him

[sskk-manifesto]

Next time we should just skip over ep 3 and do a chapters 84-87 reread

[fleshdyk3]

god i fucking hate my dad

[griff-chatters]

Everyone talking about the Minecraft new trailer and yapping GUYS LOOK AT WHAT ELSE DROPPED

I have sooooooooo many feelings about it and god only knows if any of them is positive