#anime-hipster-the-amazing

[kaimactrash]

Finally finished off this celebratory redraw!

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, the first tome of the Scott Pilgrim Comic came out the 18 August 2004, 20 whole ass years ago, absolute madness! but also amazing, 20 years of my favourite character!

I chose to kinda do a little legacy thing by having the Demon Hipster Chicks be coloured for each (coloured) version of them we've seen.

The front left with the blue tones is the coloured version of the comic, and the back left. also blueish, is the colouration for the Scott Pilgrim Takes Off anime, the back right is the movie, and the front right is my fave, from Scott Pilgrim Vs The World The Game. Love me some bright pink bitches ngl.

This was a bit of a challenge but pretty fun!

Happy late anniversary Scott Pilgrim Franchise!!

The original panel is below the cut:

[britcision]

Listen I had a good long chonk I was gonna give you but it’s been a long day and I broke my headphones and I am SUFFERING

So you all can too

Have some more chapter 14 of Dead and Loving It, happy WIP Wednesday!

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A Good Excuse To Be A Bad Influence ii

When they’d finally dragged themselves to bed, Tim had offered to let Tucker use one of the manor’s nearly infinite guest rooms.

They’d picked one out and everything, changed into pyjamas (Tucker borrowed an old pair of Dick’s), and sat on the bed talking about technology until they both fell asleep.

Probably around 8am.

Tucker hadn’t had a proper slumber party since leaving Amity Park, but he was kinda getting used to waking up tucked next to a still-sleeping Wayne adoptee when his phone buzzed around 10am.

Foul treachery from Danny. As usual.

Tucker barely woke up, hand crawling from the pile to rest against the PDA, and that was all he needed. His awareness slipped from the device to his phone, always linked.

From his phone to Danny’s. Into Danny’s music app, where he picked a suitable vengeance even as he slipped back into sleep.

Watched Danny through the phone as if it were a dream, easily filtering out the sounds of his own music as Danny flailed around, trying to turn the music off, trying to turn the music down, failing on all counts, and flailing his way out of the dorm.

Down to meet Jason, his phone now buried in six layers of socks that did nothing to stop the music from being heard, or Tucker from watching.

Tucker cranked the volume a little more anyway. The thought had to count for something.

If Danny wanted to call him petty, well, Tucker Foley could redefine “petty” all on his own.

Providing his friends with a semi-mocking soundtrack really was the least of his abilities; he was literally doing it in his sleep.

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[madnessismydestiny]

Another swap au, this time, in a bit of a role reversal way, where the throuple are trying to date eatch other, while Scott and Ramona are the ones trying to control/destroy their love life.

in this au, Gordon/Gideon used to know Ramona in highschool, and altough Gordon was born with his mind powers, he wanted to prove himself himout the need of abbilities, so he gave them away to Ramona. Years later, they were then reunited, with Gordon being a music producer and Ramona useing her mind abbilities to people with their problems, witch made her very ritch, altough there are those who that how she helps others are….uestionable. Gordon proposed the idea to her that he could help produce some music for a company (comercials and such) with also maybe remove some of his own fears and doubts, she accepted and she did remove it… atleast, that’s what she told him. He diden’t know when it had started, he diden’t know when his memories started to get foggy, he diden’t know when he had forgotten his name, all he knew was that his mind was slowly being locked away, with Ramona trying to control his thouths like a puppet. He diden’t know how to get away, expect if he had another form to hide away into… and he did find a way. Potions left from another company was his salvation, so he took the one he seemed the most fitting, and ran away in his cat form. He knows he can’t go back home without Ramona going looking for him, nor go back to his original job, so he hides away, not wanting Ramona get her Gideon back… if that is his real name.

Matthew used to date Scott in highschool, and they even formed a band togeather, that soon got bigger over the years. Sadly, it seemed that the original sparks that once was there has been fading away, with Scott usually talking how Matthew is a powerfull fighter and has amazing musical talant, altough it was nice, it seemed as if that was all Scott saw him as now, presenting him more as some kind of ‘exotic’ animal or plant, not a real person anymore. The last straw was when he discovered that Scott was cheating on him with some other powerfull and rich girl, so Matthew left, both the band, and Scott. It was chertanly lonely being on his own, even with the demon hipster chicks, it still wasn’t enough. That was until a man stumbled unto his street, who seemed to not fully where he was and clearly needed help, so Matthew took him in, and trying to figure out how to help the man called Gideon.

Julie powers lives with her ex-boyfriend Stephen, who came out to her as gay not too long after moving in togeather, but even tough they are stuck togeather for now, they still care about eatch other and try to figure out how to move along and away with their lives. They both work at The rockit, with Stephen as a musician and Julie as a waitress… even if their not the greatest at their job. It wasen’t until the place was getting a new employe that things began to change. She diden’t know what exactly it was, but there was something about the passionate Matthew that she thouth was interesting, so they started to gang out togeather. at one point, there began to appear an extreamly smart cat to Julie and Stephen's place, who they began to take care of, who they named Gigs, and even tough the cat always seems to go away in long periods of time, he always come back. It wasen’t long before Matthew then introduced to her his new roomate called Gideon, who also wanted to try to work at the Rockit. It siden’t take long before all three of them began to hang out a lot togeather, and even thouth Julie and some feelings for Matthew, she coulden’t help but notice that his eyes turned to Gideon, and she coulden’t but also agree that there also something about him. She definitely was curious as to see where this thing between the three of them could lead to… she proberbly would regret that thouth later, when the messy past came litterally crashing down.

inspired by lakesparkles and lux-wave’s swap au’s.

[marlinei]

Seeing Dungeon Meshi go from a well liked but relatively under the radar (though still popular, it still got an anime obv) Manga to something i constantly see fanart for, the art of it at conventions, and see fan merch for it online. I don't think I'm ready for the same thing to happen to WHA. Like I 100% don't want to gatekeep this amazing story. But the little annoying hipster inside of me screams.

[cottoncandiescupcakes]

Fav cozy/farm/house/collect games I played after Stardew Valley

Ooblets:

Lil guys follow you around, cozy hipster clothes, a little house, farming, planting seeds that grow into ooblets

Fae Farm. I recently started playing this, I LOVE it. Similar to Stardew but with a fairy twist. You can even get wings!

Disney Dreamlight Valley

AMAZING, Disney characters, the best clothes and furniture system ever with great customization. I adore this game

Another option, entirely free, is picrew and azealia dolls for just the dress up and character create aspect. Picrew has anime style, Azealia has more Disney style

[widthofmytongue]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

I have answered this several times before I think, but in order to keep up and spread the positivity, let's gooo.

1) Reconfiguring my outward aesthetic appearance to better reflect my true self. What I will say about having pink hair and wearing a keffiyeh and a jacket covered in queer and Jewish and leftist badges and carrying a trade union bag is that young people of colour with non-British accents smile at me and are comfortable approaching me to ask directions and stuff. Having spent the 2010s presenting as a white male hipster nerd, no one really approached me, and I did receive occasional comments that I looked like a middle class twat (usually from people who were more middle class and definitely more twat-ish than me). Returning to my roots as a visibly queer, Jewish, commie punk puts the right people at ease.

2) Working from bed. This is obviously not about working, especially as I don't think the work I'm actually paid to do is super meaningful, but the freedom to WFH (work from home!) three days a week is amazing. Awhile ago I watched the LOTR trilogy while running reports and updating spreadsheets.

3) Making delicious food for myself and eating it in massive quantities. During lockdown I got into the habit of living almost exclusively on ready meals, and aside from some (amazing restaurant-quality) omelettes, I only recently got back to cooking for myself. Also turns out that a lot of the food I think of as staples are very Jewish? I guess I kinda knew that, but like goyische potato salad sounds boring af y'all are missing out.

4) Deviant sex. I'm not sure I want to elaborate on this too much, but I am very glad of my engagement in d/s and how strongly I lean into T4T stuff.

5) Gotta say my animal buddies again. A couple of my avian neighbours were recently moulting, and when they grew their feathers back, they looked like dinosaurs armoured with spines. So cool. Also my feline housemates train me to do things in the dumbest but sweetest forms of symbiosis.

I'm gonna keep going.

6) Stimulating conversation on deep and complex topics. I've had lots of interesting and invigorating interactions lately with people on tumblr and in person about Palestine, Jewish values and identity, community organisation, gender, King Crimson, John Carpenter, Star Trek, London, the intersection of poststructuralism and historiography, and of course postcolonialism.

7) Union work. As mentioned above, I do not think the work I get paid for is especially meaningful. What I do think is meaningful is being a hard leftist (and yes, also queer, Jewish, immigrant, neurodiverse, erstwhile lumpenproletarian) voice in my professional environment. I think it's both important for me to represent union members, uniting their concerns with systemic initiatives, and also to provide a more outright Marxist approach on my union branch's Executive Committee.

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[beatricebidelaire]

Daniel Handler on living in San Fran

I moved to New York because New York was the center of everything literary. And I moved away from it for the same reason. (...) I wanted to work someplace where I wasn't attending a release party for every book written by everybody I knew. (...) There are all these books about young people in Manhattan. I think because San Francisco doesn't have a notion of itself as the center of the world, you're more likely to write about something else that interests you.

Daniel Handler's recommendations on places to visit in San Francisco

If you are not frightened of the cold, head over to the Dolphin Club and ring the bell. Wait for a while. Eventually someone will open the door and you will put a small amount of money into an envelope and sign a piece of paper saying you understand you are about to do something foolish. Then, go change into your bathing suit and swim in the Bay. It is very cold but you will see many beautiful things, including old ships, which you may touch, and sea lions, which you may not. A good thing to do while waiting for someone to answer the door is read a new book you have picked up at Green Apple, Booksmith, City Lights or any other of my town's amazing bookstores. If you see me in the water, I do not need rescuing although it might look like it.

Daniel Handler on the changes of San Francisco

“Changing” is a word applied so readily to “San Francisco” nowadays that it sounds like the town changed its name: I grew up in San Francisco, but I now live in Changing San Francisco. Twenty years ago, when it was just San Francisco and Lisa Brown was just my girlfriend, we didn’t see any wild animals around our apartment. Probably the wildest thing in our neighborhood was a sex club called Eros. We never visited it, and it was nondescript from the outside, but there’d been some articles about it, or maybe a piece on the radio, so people always asked us about it. “We live right near it,” we used to tell them. “It’s near our video store.” Nowadays, though, in Changing San Francisco, everyone asks about the tech industry. The tech industry is the presumed source of all changes in Changing San Francisco, from traffic to homeless encampments, from the new businesses that are springing up to the old ones closing their doors.

Daniel Handler on San Francisco and its tech industry

My novel has the tech industry in it, if only because it would be impossible to write about San Francisco without mentioning it, the way it would be impossible to write about Paris without mentioning food, or Mumbai without mentioning colonialism, and like food or colonialism or any other knotty topic, I’m not always sure what I’m talking about. I never hear the latest news or buy the latest gadget, but, like everyone else, I’m now guided on road trips by a talking map, even to places I’ve been countless times. If I’m on foot and I want to go home, I can summon a stranger who will drive me there and I don’t even have to talk to them. I give them all five stars, the highest rating. I don’t have the bona fide know-how to chart the tech industry’s influence, but I know it’s having an effect on San Francisco, or taking a toll is maybe what I mean. We now have a culture of tech bros in my city, although “tech bro,” as with “hipster” or “yuppie” before that, is a term only applied to other people. “I hate tech bros,” is something I’ve heard from more than one person who makes what any reasonable person would call a ton of money working for an internet site everyone uses. Twenty years ago, nobody said this, although, of course, people spouting nonsense is not a new phenomenon in San Francisco, or anywhere else.

Daniel Handler on scheming to get his wife to agree to move to San Francisco

I married a New England woman. She’s from a family where you live in Manhattan until you have a child, and then you move to Long Island. Or if you’re a rebel, Connecticut. That’s kind of what I thought was maybe going to happen. But also I’m a big propagandist for San Francisco, too. When she and I were first dating we spent a summer here, and I pretended that every spectacular thing that I took her to was a thing I’d stumbled upon. Like, “Oh, I’m hungry, do you want to have some dumplings right here? Could you use a little pick-me-up? Let’s just stop by Cafe Trieste! We’ll have an espresso. I go here sometimes …” Everything was the most spectacular version. And then I kept saying, “I’ll live anywhere, it doesn’t really matter to me!”

[ritzcuit]

"tthe amazing digital circus" hate is so forced its stupid to me. "the fanbase is annoying" Name one fanbase that isnt + What fanbase bro its been around for two weeks max bro you cant make sweeping gestures abt a 2 week old collection of people bro + Widely children + Judging based on aesthetics + L + Ratio + Not The Shows Fault

"its hazbin hotel" Insane to me. insane to me. So idk about you but my critiques with hazbin are its an Unfunny show with a Fucking hideous tangenting illegible art style created by an Abusive toxic little freak .... just bc jax is annoying and quirky and sans undertale Oncelerified doesnt equals. Stupid criticism. literally not the same.

"industry plant" Not what that phrase means + dismissing months of hard work by an indie group of creators bc it gained popularity quickly is crazy. What industry. "um but theyre already merch?" YEAH. THAT HAPPENS. HUH? HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN A KICKSTARTER OR SOMETHING??? ppl can make plans for merch before a product launches. Normal behavior.

like i have horrible Hipster Disease that makes me scorn anything popular ok, ive been told "omg ruby youd love jax hes a Mean Bunny" and i hate him bc hes such obvious bait for a specific type of person And i know im gonna see weird art of pomni with a bust-waist-hip ratio that would make anyones internal organs wither away ............ BUT LIKE ............ IT'S A WELL DONE PILOT WITH STYLIZED ANIMATION DONE BY INDIE CREATORS ...... LIKE GIVE IT UP. REJECT THE HATER WITHIN YOU...OK? let the Quirky Cartoon Surrealists have this. its fine. just say "i dont like it" i BEG people to stop making insane reasons to Justify their dislike. OKAY?

the hhazbin hotel one really gets me... like say you met jax and judged the entire rest of the pilot + fandom based on his type of character. GET A GRIP!!!!

[isawken]

tag game!

fav animal: capybaras. worms. hyenas. the humble olm. these are my friends

fav bug: fireflies :) i am an expert firefly wrangler

fav flower: sunflowers, chicory, and rosemary isn't a flower but i'm putting it here anyway <3

fav drink: suntory whisky 🫶

star sign: sag life baby

1 song on repeat lately:

current or last tv show: i rewatched justified fx for the third time recently. they dug freaking coal together

last movie watched: godzilla minus one. my girlfriend (the titular godzilla) looked amazing as always

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[christian-is-a-dumb-boy]

Before I start, if you happen to find stumble onto this, this is for a class that I'm in. I choose Tumblr because I realized that it's actually a very good place to do this assignment and it would be very fun and interesting to make a Visual Essay here and with my themes too, which is very Tumblr and Pinterest like (which is where I got many of these photos from). If you are in my class, I'm sorry that I came up with this idea. My Visual Essay - Media Throughout the Years and How it Shaped who I Am. By Christian M.

2010 - 2012 was a unique time for fashion. There was still some 2000's elements in our fashion, and these photos show that. It's really iconic how everybody dressed like a wealthy suburban mother despite being a 16 year old named Amber from Albany, Georgia. Fashion in this era was about looking and dressing older, and we see this in our media too. Pretty Little Liars had girls who were supposed to be 15 but dressed like 23 year old interns from NYC, and Nene Leakes literally wore the second outfit in her "The Ghetto" meme from Real Housewives of Atlanta. I was five in 2010, so obviously I wasn't dressing like this, but I thought every teen just looked old because of how they dress despite having one green streak and braces.

This type of being older mentality also was in our music at the time, but in a different way. I love early 2010's music because everybody just was going down the electro pop pipeline, and all of the songs were good. One of my favorite songs back then was Selena Gomez's 'Love You Like a Love Song", which is really underrated. It's just peak early 2010s wannabe futuristic pop, because the song has some techno in it when Selena sings. I was a huge Selena fan already because of Wizards of Waverly Place, and this song changed my life (being dramatic but you get the idea). She isn't the only one that does this. Kesha was well known for doing this and again, Kesha made some bangers. The music was all about sounding like the future, while the casual fashion was about looking older. https://open.spotify.com/track/0laYHRpNTS6i8FXdupHkJ4?si=209bee3a44664ce9 https://open.spotify.com/track/3pYDZTJM2tVBUhIRifWVzI?si=cc6cacc99b024f27

Oh 2013, how you were just....bad for casual fashion. This is where I remember analyzing what people wore and noticing what was trendy and what we liked. It was bad. Teal tops that said 'Pink' literally held us at gunpoint to wear them. I was never really experimented with clothing as a kid because in my opinion, most of the boys clothing at the time was bad, which is why all of the photos are gonna be women's clothing because they either look good, or iconically bad. That was a pet peeve with me whenever we went shoe shopping. The girl shoes were colorful and had personality while the boy shoes were black and white, or an ugly neon green or orange in some random lines if you took gym too seriously at age 8. This is when I wished I was a teen in 2013 because 2013 tumblr hipster and grunge fashion was something that I wished to lived in.

2013 music was really good or bad. Despite coming out in 2009, Party in the U.S.A I feel like was huge in 2013 which made everybody (including me) to wear American flag shirts, pants, and bathing suits. One amazing song from 2013 was Demi Lovato's Heart Attack. Back in her prime, she made some hits, and one of them was this song (Shout out to Give Your Heart a Break too, another amazing hit). It was bad for me. I only had Episode (that story app) because Demi was in it. Demi and Heart Attack accidently created my first internet phase, and it's something that Demi Lovato that has nothing to do it but still needs to pay the price for.

You saw these images and probably went "Chris, how the hell did Demi Lovato made 9 year old you into a anime fan and why?" in your head, and I'll tell you how and why! So like I said, obsessed with Heart Attack when I was a kid, and while I was on YouTube searching for the song, I found this video of Heart Attack, but in the title, it had the words 'nightcore video' in it, and it had Taiga (short girl in the first photo) in her angel outfit from ToraDora (which I never watched until recently and I recommend it along with the other three). If you don't know what nightcore is, it's just song sped up to make the singer sound anime like (which they didn't but regardless I still ate that shit up). These are top tier shows, honestly. I honestly think mostly everybody in my class would like Yuri on Ice (because it's an creative english class). https://open.spotify.com/track/5w24qGKT4DHCKHKU0jPlcK?si=df10a0191d3441ee

Every queer kid had a musical phase. That's just how it is. I don't make the rules for it. I was also that queer kid. My 5th grade teacher, Mr. DeBell, told my class in 2015 that there was a musical about Alexander Hamilton, and played You'll Be Back. I was hooked. Listened to the soundtrack regularly and found other musicals like Be More Chill, Dear Evan Hansen, Every Starkids musical. I'm a terrible singer, but I'm still gonna try belting First Burn. This was also the year I had my Percy Jackson phase, another queer kid staple. I found Percy so charming and Nico so cute in the books and it's so embarrassing, yet so funny. The Percy Jackson Musical was the first musical I ever saw too because we went on a school field trip for it. https://open.spotify.com/track/1A2gifkaEngunqZAFHUS0j?si=c753e346c04141e7

You just saw these images and are either cringing at me, cringing at younger you, or both. 2016 was where my "edgy" phase started. I wasn't edgy in the way every other guy in 2016 was edgy, if anything, cringe culture would've bullied me, but I just liked those angry "emo" songs and disturbing anime's. This is also when I discovered punk, alt, emo and goth fashion, which is all different thing and I don't care what people say, those types of fashions have always look good. People who dressed like that, especially now because cringe culture has been making a comeback, are being harassed but they are really the sweetest and down to earth people ever. People who dressed alt, or punk, or goth were always nice to me and I will always defend them. I personally don't dress like that because I was called emo for wearing a black jacket and black pants in the winter in New York, so obviously people don't like that type of fashion where I'm from, and also if you know me in real life, you know I'm a 5'6 year old guy who has the face of a twink (Tyler Oakley let's be honest), so I don't think I could pull it off. But if you look at my profile picture, it's what I would dress like if I could pull it off, and I probably would kill a fragile, sickly Victorian child before the black plaque reaches them if they saw this version of me.

These were all from different time periods except for the top picture. For 2015 - 2018 fashion that was considered "emo" or punk or goth, it wasn't but that's what i grew up on. These had a gripe on us back in 2015. I remember seeing so many people on youtube wearing that striped school girl skirt and people in pinterest showing off their cat stocking. other alt or "alt" fashion were band shirts, specifically PATD and TOP, flannels, short hair but very long hair in the front, stockings in general.

A few years later, in 2019, I got into K-pop. I wish I had a unique story but I don't. My exe who's also a close friend of mine now was just playing a K-pop song because he also likes it and it was TWIT by Hwasa and it was catchy to me, so I looked it up, found out that she was in a group, Mamamoo, and that was it. I listened to a few songs before like obviously Gangnam Style and Gentleman by PSY when they blew up and also Like This by Wonder Girls (who are legends) when I was a kid. My top three groups in their debut order are Girl's Generation (2007), Rania (2011) and TWICE (2015). If you ever wanna give the genre a try, Girl's Generation and TWICE are the two groups to listen to, as someone who of course loves and also used those two groups to get other people into K-pop both accidentally or on purpose.

I think it's really funny how 12 year old me was listening to "sad" music and music that is just "so deep and so meaningful" and then 14 - 16 year old me listened to just the most upbeat and happy, catchy music (Rania's is the only one that isn't cheerful, their music is very camp if you know what that means). https://open.spotify.com/track/6qyz1KOlGJsKYJ4ZsRmRSD?si=7cd52297243b4301 https://open.spotify.com/track/2BQIMF7CyLe2xAKzh74A4C?si=ff220ef47b3143f2 https://open.spotify.com/track/1utDFK1ARQcuZSwapf3cfb?si=97492c9682a74e12

I am really excited to see what college me is gonna get into. I still like most of these things, and it'll be interesting to see what similar new stuff are gonna come out in the next few years.

[kineticpenguin]

It will never not be funny to me that Larry Correia completely missed the point of a kid's movie with talking animals in it, created "Kung Fu Panda Syndrome" (term for a character achieving undeserved success because they believe in themselves) and then wrote a book where not only does he explain this thing he hates in detail, he winds up having his moronic man-bunned millennial hipster soyboy punching bag successfully "Kung Fu Panda" himself, to the amazement of the protagonist.

Just not funny for any reasons he intended.

[britcision]

Aw, I’ll be nice this week I think, assuage your fears

Just a little early taste of the next chapter

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Well, Brucie Wayne hadn’t died. Gotham escaped annihilation by a sliver. There might still be something of worth left in this dump.

Vlad wandered amongst the guests as they returned to the main hall, wondering idly where those bloody Wayne “children” had all gone.

For all that people were sooo protective of them, no one seemed to care where they were during the actual danger. Typical.

Not that he minded. Vlad would be quite happy not to run into any of them again for quite some time. He had fences to mend first, and no desire to provide more fuel to the fire.

There was some form of commotion off to one side of the hall, yet more yelling, and Vlad let himself drift over. Honestly, the voices were almost familiar…

Although some of the more choice words weren’t. Vlad assumed they were vile exhortations of some sort, especially from the gasps of those around him.

It was actually rather impressive. He thought he had a rather extensive vocabulary of curses, but someone was putting him to shame.

At least his little moving bubble of space was usual as he made his way through the crowds. People who got too close soon realised who he was and pushed their way into the crowds to avoid him.

No jostling for Vladdie today. Maybe it wasn’t the very worst after all.

He was honestly a little surprised to find Samantha and Pamela Manson in full duet. As much as Samantha always wanted to scream herself hoarse at these events, usually she kept a lid on it.

It took a moment for the words to sink in, to realise that Daniel and young Jason were at the center of even this little ball of ire. His jaw dropped.

“I CANNOT believe you?! Why is it ALWAYS like this, EVERY TIME?! I was DEFENDING YOU and you can’t keep your legs shut for a minute at a time!” Samantha bellowed, fists clenched and a glint of tears in her eye.

“You utter HARLOT! Shameless STRUMPET, leading that INNOCENT BOY astray! DISGRACING my poor baby girl, you are WORSE THAN YOUR PARENTS Daniel Fenton!”

Pamela was actually crying, being held by her husband to prevent her from either running to Sam or full on attacking Daniel.

Vlad was going to put his money on attacking. The Manson women had a worrying streak of rage. Although…

Brows furrowing he tuned out the noise for a moment (Pamela had clearly been reading a lot of period romances) and focused on the thread of emotion he’d picked up.

Samantha was… delighted. Vlad might have suspected it was just at the chance to finally scream at a gala, but there were no darker feelings anywhere.

She was having a wonderful time. And Daniel and Jason, for all that they looked contrite, for all that Daniel’s head was slumped, were equally delighted.

Something was going on here, something all three young people had orchestrated. From the content of the yelling and the state of undress…

Vlad’s eyes widened. Daniel was wearing Jason’s tie. Jason’s shirt was missing three buttons.

Well that would certainly put both young men in an excellent mood, but at a gala?!

He was quite sure his cheeks must have blanched at just the thought. He’d noticed they were fond of each other, but so soon?

Perhaps Jason would have to be a son-in-law rather than an actual son. He simply wouldn’t accept the other way round, no matter how much Daniel might resist.

Daniel was perfect… if apparently a little easy. Not disloyal though, which was something of a relief. He’d never have considered Daniel capable, since he was loyal to his friends long past the point of fault.

Even now, he was perfectly happy to be harangued by both Samantha and her mother to allow Sam to make some sort of point.

He was distantly aware of the crowd parting again, but didn’t turn to acknowledge the arrival of… Brucie. He looked a little the worse for wear, likely from the thermos more than the actual rogues.

A thin smear of blood at his hairline betrayed where the thermos had struck, and the faint shadow of an oncoming bruise. He should probably be having someone scan his head, but since it usually appeared to be empty that was probably of little concern.

Well, he wasn’t likely to pay Vlad any mind.

Not with this little display.

**

Bruce had barely had time to pull Damian aside in the hopes of a debrief before shrieks and yelling once more filled the dining hall.

It couldn’t be Harvey after all, could it? As annoyed as Robin clearly was by the distraction, Bruce had no choice. He headed to the center of the yelling.

No matter how much it made his throbbing head pulse.

It definitely wasn’t Harvey at least. While Two Face probably knew all of the words being yelled, he would never say more than half of them. Not even at his worst.

The thought almost dragged a smile out of him, but a particularly loud curse rang off the marble and set up echoes in his skull. At least one of the voices was almost familiar.

The crowd parted without him having to jostle through it, and he’d never been more grateful to Gotham’s high society. Didn’t quite think about why they might want to help him get to the center of the action.

Damian - no, still Robin until he changed, had disappeared into the crowd at some point, but Bruce forged on anyway. He’d probably gone back to help Red Robin watch over Croc.

For now, he just had to focus on whatever else had gone wrong this evening, finally stepping through into an almost clear patch of floor and what must have been the commotion.

And arrived just in time to see Sam Manson turning from berating Danny and Jason, to point an accusing finger at her mother. Pamela actually shut up in surprise.

“And YOU! This is ALL your fault! If you had just let me be with Valerie this NEVER would have happened! She would NEVER do this to me! I’m NEVER dating another man again!”

Pamela looked like she might faint, her face pale as her daughter’s words sank in.

It didn’t take Gotham’s best detective to work out what must have happened. A quick glance at Danny and Jason showed them both… far more dishevelled than simply making out in the closet would allow.

Bruce’s eyes narrowed, clocking the missing buttons, ruffled hair, Jason’s still partially open pants, and his stomach sank.

At a gala. Even in the height of his playboy days, Brucie had never gotten caught at a gala. He had a sudden sympathy for Alfred and resolved to give the man his most sincere apologies.

If Bruce’s heyday was anything like this for the old man, he owed him far more than that. Maybe a fruit basket. A nice new shotgun.

He stepped forward quickly, taking advantage as Sam drew in a breath to try and inject some calm.

“I’m terribly sorry, but what has happened here?”

All eyes turned immediately to him and he spread his hands, gesturing for peace. Pamela rallied at once, pulling free of her husband and shooting Danny an utterly poisonous look.

“Oh I am so sorry Brucie, this is entirely my fault! We should never have brought that awful Fenton boy, he’s been CORRUPTING your poor Jason, taking advantage of him, he’s a dreadful influence!” She fluttered, clearly unsure where to direct her attention.

Behind her mother, Sam snorted loudly.

“It was Jason’s dick in Danny’s ass, MOM, I’m pretty sure he was involved!”

And that seemed to fluster both boys more than any of the previous yelling, Danny’s cheeks burning as he clapped both hands over his mouth. Jason was doing his best not to laugh.

Bruce gave him a Look, because they Would be discussing this later, and wasn’t in the least surprised when Jason just rolled his eyes. Still, there had to be limits.

Danny clearly had a far greater hold over Jason than he’d feared. It was an effort to force himself to remember Danny’s youth.

Bruce had been that age not all that long ago. And, as he’d just realised, probably a lot worse in certain specific ways. Perhaps they were just indiscrete. It didn’t all have to be a devious plot.

He gave Pam his very best soothing smile, taking her hand gently.

“It has been a very dramatic evening already, I’m sure the boys were just over excited. They will go and wash up and then Jason and I will have a quiet. Word.” He layered the last two words with intent.

Honestly, this was perfect. An excuse to get Jason alone, get a report direct from the source. Jason wouldn’t tell the truth, but Bruce knew him well enough to know what the lies he told concealed.

Sam Manson seemed equally derisive of the idea as Jason himself, shooting Bruce a vicious glare that looked eerily like her mother’s.

He almost took a step back. But she didn’t have that thermos anymore.

“Of course Famous Playboy Brucie doesn’t think fucking around with someone else’s partner is a big deal! Where do you think Jason learned it?” She snarked, sending an icy dagger straight into Bruce’s heart.

Had he done that? No, it was just his aching head. And the building wave of exhaustion. Jason knew as well as the others that the playboy thing was a front.

Had Jason ever had good relationship role models though? His parents certainly weren’t, and Bruce himself had definitely never been much of one.

If the closest thing he had was Talia, perhaps that explained why he’d fallen so easily under Danny’s sway…

His mind was wandering. Perhaps he should have one of his boys check him for a concussion.

As if summoned by his thoughts, suddenly Nightwing and Signal were there, pushing through the crowd. Thank all that was good that this was about to be not his problem for a while.

“Alright everyone, calm down, the cops are already on their way, let’s not also give them a murder,” Nightwing declared far too gleefully. It set off… something, but Bruce couldn’t quite put his finger on what.

Maybe taking the chance to head home early was a good idea after all. It wasn’t as though Jason would be courting donors for his own projects today.

No, Jason was courting much worse things, a dark little part of Bruce grumbled, and he fought to squash it down.

Jason was an adult, and whatever choices he made with other consenting adults, no matter how bad said choices were, were his own.

Since when were any of his baby boys old enough to be caught fooling around in closets?

Maybe he also needed to go and sit down.

[folansstuff]

do you have a favourite artist? if not, how about your favourite song or album? you don't have to pick strictly by the way! curious about your music taste <3

This is such a tough question lmao, thanks for the ask tho! Love talking abt music

The early-20's art degree white dude that i am compels me to say Radiohead, since In Rainbows is easily one of my favourite albums of all time.

Ball Park Music are home-town heroes (shout outs to Brisbane), I'm pretty sure they've never made a bad record and they were my first ever concert.

I'm always going to be in love with Black Country, New Roads' first two records and their jerky poetry-post punk. Same thing with Do Nothing, who i get to flex hipster points on since I've been listening to them since their first EP.

Open Mike Eagle is a rapper i really love, smart n funny, his record Anime, Trauma and Divorce is so amazing.

There are so, so many more lmao, I could go all day. Thanks again for the ask! <3

[justsomeoneintoomanyfandoms]

thank you for agreeing to an exchange! 🗣️💕

fandoms: obey me! ; genshin

name: raven / pronouns: any / sexuality: ??? (no preference for OM!, but male preference for genshin)

personality traits: introverted (distant, little interest in getting close to many people), extremely independent (often refuses to rely on others), confident (arrogant), straightforward (blunt, sometimes tactless), decisive, even-tempered, good sense of humor, playful, teasing, mischievous, realist that leans optimistic, curious (nosey), a bit of a troublemaker/rulebreaker, does not shy away from conflict

hobbies: video games, watching anime, drawing (digital), painting (watercolor, acrylic), baking (but NOT cooking), reading, cosplay, thrill-seeking activities

likes: cats, sweets, good food, cool weather, aromatic candles, lattes, traveling, piercings, tattoos, puns (!), learning foreign languages, cleaning, new experiences, trying new foods, trying new skills, people with a good sense of humor (quite subjective), people who are flexible and open-minded

dislikes: dogs, spiders, bitter foods, hot weather, strong scents, pessimism, rigidity (in personality or environment), feeling restricted, possessiveness, conformity, having to be responsible for other people (i.e. people being dependent on me), boredom, when people don't stand up for themselves (i tend to look down on/clash with people who are overly insecure).

types / categories: intj-a ; 7w8 (yes i know type 7 is super uncommon for intj) ; love languages: physical touch, quality time ; zodiac: virgo sun, sagittarius moon, scorpio rising

misc.: clumsy ; accidentally misuses slang or phrases bc i can never remember how they go (e.g. "let's bust this popsicle stand" instead of "blow this popsicle stand") ; able to pick up new skills relatively quickly ; studied french, korean, and latin in university (as well as psychology and medieval history - i could not pick just 1 area) ; prone to being a bit directionless in life ; prone to bad luck but tries to find the humor in most situations ; tends to be pretty quick/harsh when deciding to cut people out of my life ; life approach: to live a life of varied experiences, to not take life too seriously

appearance / aesthetic: 5'1 / 155cm, round cheeks w/ a dimple on right cheek, button nose, green eyes, wavy ash brown hair (often switch between growing it out really long or cutting it super short, dyeing it; i like to change it up. hair is currently bleached and toned white). no tattoos (i want some!), several piercings (5 in one ear, 4 + an industrial in the other, navel piercing), clothing-wise my style tends to be hipster or comfy/casual goth? idk i love flannels and fishnets and combat boots. my overall color scheme is black/sage green/gray.

Hi Raven! Thanks for the request! Of course, I love doing matchup exchanges! I hope you like your matchups!

In Obey Me, I match you with...

Barbatos enjoys baking with you. He's canonically the best person at both baking and cooking in the game so no matter how good or bad you are, whatever you tow make together will always taste amazing. Luke's so jealous of both you and Barbatos.

This guy will do his very best to make sure you never feel like you have to be responsible for him. He's a butler, if anything he feels like he should be the one looking after you!

Barbatos is also the best person to talk to about all of your language and history interests. He's been around for so long and seen so much that any questions you have are easy for him to answer.

Loves your misused phrases. If it was anyone else, he'd correct them but he never wants to make you feel bad about your slip ups. He finds them endearing.

Barbatos is pretty busy most of the time taking care of Diavolo and the castle but when he does have free time, he wants to spend it with you.

Whether you're baking, learning a new language, or trying out a new skill, he just wants to be able to spend time with you.

In Genshin Impact, I match you with...

Your good sense of humour balances out Cyno's...unique sense of humour.

Cyno's another one who won't make you feel like you have to be responsible for him. He's gotten used to taking care of himself as General Mahamatra. He'll actually have to get used to letting someone else go small things for him.

He'd love your baking! Cyno doesn't really take much notice of what he's eating but if you've made it, he'll savour his food a bit more. He doesn't want your hard work gone too quickly and without proper acknowledgment.

Usually busy with his Mahamatra duties but all of his free time is spent with you. He doesn't mind what you do, as long as you're together.

He would like to go for walks with you finding stray cats and saying hello to them.

I see Cyno as someone who also knows a few languages (if only so he can make jokes in those languages as well). He'd love to sit down with you and spend an afternoon going over all the languages you know, comparing your knowledge of the languages you both know and helping the other learn a bit of the languages the other doesn't know.

A big fan of quality time. He enjoys the comfort your presence provides him with.

[typhonserpent]

@anime-hipster-the-amazing is this your son?

My two brain cells communicating

[fire-dwelling]

On the meta stuff in FF, are you against it on principle or just because of the execution, like the whole weird Tamaki twitter rant, ruining Soul Eater by proxy, etc?

I'm against the meta stuff in Fire Force just because of the execution, not on principle.

I'd be hypocritical to criticize meta stuff on principle when I've enjoyed, and likely written online repeatedly, about specific moments of meta stuff that work for me, whether it's a fourth-wall break, an Easter egg, a mythology gag, a reference, whatever.

I'm the guy who enjoys Chowder despite how much whining people at the end had about the fourth wall jokes. I'm the one guffawing when Catwoman in that Adam West animated Batman film offers to give herself up if Batman reenacts the ending of the third Nolan film and Robin says, "Holy unsatisfying ending"--because the entire Adam West series was a campy wink at the camera that reinforced the comedy and the superhero fantastic. I grew up on Animaniacs and Looney Tunes and Tex Avery cartoons talking right to the audience, acknowledging they are cartoons within their own world, breaking the suspension of disbelief, even when I'm watching the old Looney Tunes shorts on TV instead of at the movies but understanding the gags when Yosemite Sam is talking at someone in the movie theater audience: I can appreciate this stuff, I enjoy these meta gags, I laugh at them. But notice that all of those examples are comedies. Ohkubo instead wanted this stuff taken seriously--and it falls flat on its face.

This isn't even like forcing references for the sake of it, however awkwardly done to the point that they take the audience out of the story: see every remake, every bit of recent Sonic the Hedgehog content, every mythology gag in Doctor Who that feels tacked on. (And even Who did better with the fourth-wall break because it is, intentionally or not, eerie and discomforting in order to make the mystery more engaging.) At least Buckaroo Banzai was, again, a comedy and an overall pastiche of the serial narrative that you jumped into it right in the middle so of course you don't know what the watermelon is for: that is the joke, the meta stuff is integral to the gag.

But there is next to nothing integral to the two major meta moments in Fire Force: Tamaki's role in this world, and the book Maka's parents read to her at the end.

The former is the one time we have someone as a symbol of any larger aspects to this world that, without them in it, the world collapses. (The story tries to make Shinra, Sho, and their mother take on those roles--but they are hardly embodiments of any detail, they aren't even cliche enough to be archetypal.) If it turned out that just about every character was purposefully so archetypal as to be needed for this world, maybe the meta stuff would fit better: Akitaru is the father to his soldiers, Takehisa is the blunt honest guy, Maki is the hot-blooded passionate one, etc. But, because Ohkubo managed to make these characters _not_ so one-note as that, he fails at even that setup. It's Gomez Addams trying to be a failure and succeeding despite himself, or The Producers: he failed at failing--he could have made this all so one-note then, surprise, it was like that on purpose, and he wasn't even that conceited, hipster, pseudo-intellectual enough to do that! Gah!

And the latter is just confusing: why is there now this book that has the exact same name as the manga? Why would a story about the origin of the world be called Enen No Shotobai--was the book at all about that amazing brigade, or was it about the origins of the world?

As I've said, the Tamaki rant was frustrating: Ohkubo was getting offended over his story being criticized, he broke the fourth wall to complain that readers didn't understand him (similar to the presence of the doppels of Joker and Benimaru allowed the original characters to complain how those characters are misunderstood) all to defend something I find reprehensible, where he tries to excuse his perving on an underage girl by claiming it's all about declining birth rates and idealized sexuality (which, again, he is saying is in the form of an underage girl: fuck this guy).

And, yeah, it ruins Soul Eater by proxy when it's part of the shared universe and shared timeline, rather than just a work by the same author or even, as someone else has suggested, if it was an alternate world or part of a multiverse.

And ending the story with Maka being read the entire manga as if it was a children's book account as to the origins of this world is one last middle finger to the readers. Anything more I can say on this would probably be the same nitpicking I've done: why is this the last moment for the story, why is Ohkubo reminding us of his better work (Soul Eater, with Maka here) within his inferior work (Fire Force), is this children's book selection something that we should shrug as a Death Child thing (of course Maka's parents would read this violent account to their child)?

Funny how next to none of this is ever brought up in Soul Eater. I know that a work, especially one trying to be quote-unquote "realistic," would not have characters suddenly saying, "Hey, remember how the Big Bang happened almost 14 billion years ago, and how dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago," because no one rehashes and info-dumps their world history and lore building like that. But seriously, no one ever brings up, "Yeah, this world used to be entirely on fire--that's why the soil is so full of carbon or whatever happens when you burn everything"?

So, yeah, that's another reason it bothers me: it's not just that it's trying to be meta, it's that even the meta stuff screws with pre-established details that make the worldbuilding less enjoyable and gets in the way of plot, setting, and character progression.