#been spinning it in my head

[lil-vibes]

need me a fem! skk ballet and/or figure skater au so bad yall dont understand

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[bruciemilf]

“You don’t seem very afraid.”

Superman is a sunshine giant. That’s how the camera flashes portray him, how the media frames him, how every mouth from Metropolis to Gotham describes him.

And even if Batman has to look up, Clark still feels tiny, watching a trail of limp aliens bodies laying down at the other man’s feet.

Maybe they wouldn’t be so battered if they didn’t kidnap a tiny birdie with heart shaped bangs, currently clinging to the Knight’s leg.

It’s a very specific kind of power Bruce carries. Like someone who fist-fought the world and won.

“You don’t seem very frightening.”

Clark is sweating and it’s not fear.

[shkika]

exactly where u belong

[applestruda]

Silly boatem designs for a silly star au im making

[yoyo-s-coffee]

A human sank deeper into the water just because of the weight of these feathers.

Very normal about ch. 287

[smiuffzo]

Selfish.

[halflifebutawesome]

hi!! if you’re still taking drawing requests I would adore some frenrey cooking/domestic moments 👉👈

they’re making joshies birthday cake and they’re getting it everywhere and Benny REALLY wants to lick the spoon cmon bro lemme just a little bit

[crownorclover]

★★★★★

I don't usually do reviews, but Spiritbusters really helped me out.

While my property did sustain an unfortunate amount of damage, I was assured that it was the spirit's doing and given a very generous discount! Thanks Spiritbusters!

[phantatrix]

Man, seven years of computer science for this, huh?

[artbyblastweave]

So I want to draw out some of the grousings I put in the tags of @phaeton-flier's recent post on Waller's characterization in My Adventures with Superman.

I think the problem you're gonna run into with adapting Waller in 2024 is that they basically nailed her completely twenty years ago in the DCAU Justice League continuity, they already captured the perfect balance of good intentions and ruthless utilitarian amorality. In the DCAU, Waller's arrival on the scene was contextualized by more than a decade of superheroic precedent- she lives in a world where Superman specifically got brainwashed into attacking earth, she lives in a world where Kryptonian war criminals took a shot at Earth, she lives in a world where an alternate-universe totalitarian Superman crossed dimensional boundaries to take a shot at earth. She lives in a world where Superman helped disarm the world's nuclear arsenal at the behest of a guy who turned out to be the fifth column for an extraterrestrial invasion. She lives in a world where the Justice League formed specifically to stop something similar happening again and then tripped over their own dicks when one of their founding members turned out to be a partisan mole for an extraterrestrial empire. She lives in a world where these city-leveling clowns have consolidated sixty or seventy other city-leveling clowns in an orbiting circus that's armed with a city-leveling orbital laser canon. This is just the stuff that would have made the in-universe news, there's even more I'm not mentioning here. In other words, she lives in a world where it's completely reasonable not to trust the superheroes and to want to have contingencies against them.

She does horrible things in pursuit of those contingencies, but they're targeted, goal oriented horrible things. Aside from her usual suicide squad routine she clones and basically enslaves dozens of super-soldiers, which is of course terrible on the face of it, but comparatively easy to justify from the realpolitik cold-equation way in which she approaches things. When her bullshit generates externalities for civilians, it's not because she sics those super soldiers on them. She doesn't declare martial law. That's not what she's after! She just keeps losing control of the bastards, and then she shrugs, and she signs off on additional bastards from scientists and magicians who've proven time and time again that they do not have their shit buttoned down- but what else is she going to do? Roll over? Let the capes treat the world like their playground?

Crucially, the DCAU version is also capable of realizing when she's prioritized the wrong threat- she's capable of re-evaluating and de-escalating. She's got a foil on that show, a guy who starts from the same place of concern as her but isn't capable of course-correcting because he's too much of a belligerent paranoid maniac. That guy is General Wade Eiling. And in a version of MAWS that doesn't need to set Sam Lane up for a redemption arc, I would have Waller as the one in Sam's position, as the well-meaning extremist who loses control of the monster she created and gets frozen out in favor of a significantly less principled hardliner in the form of Eiling. Alas.

The fundamental thing about Waller, at least to me, is that she's uninteresting as a ground-floor antagonist. While I've yet to get around to the original Suicide Squad run where Waller originated, I'm confident in my understanding that it was a postmodern project from the word go, exploiting years of ossified genre convention and rogue's gallery bloat to make the points that it was trying to make. This is part of why I think the first Suicide Squad film went over like a lead balloon- it tried to wish that built-up continuity into existence out of nowhere, whereas the second movie was simply a lot more naturalistic about faking that larger context. This show feels like it's doing something similar on a meta-level- exploiting decades of audience familiarity with Waller and how plots involving her tend to go, in a way that papers over how weirdly early in the progression of this continuity they've brought her into the fray. She usually isn't the joyless jackboot on the frontline trying to snuff out the incipient heroic age- she's the beleaguered repairmen brought in years after the novelty has worn off, after the superheroes have had their goddamn chance, with all the ups and downs and near-misses that entails, so that she can make entirely novel mistakes in reaction to that context. As it stands, she's kind of 0 to 100 in this, and something about it feels off.

[fairyyybread]

[cartoonguy08]

I’m gonna explode if I don’t write this down

Boots n’ Bombs right? Soldier X Demoman?

Personally. And this is my opinion, they are very gentle with each other

Hear me out

So, I always repeat this since I genuinely see this as something Soldier may struggle with, is showing affection and even receiving affection. (BLU) Soldier is paranoid like all hell (cough cough his apartment) and I also kinda perceive the little barricade he has in front of his door as maybe a figurative of sorts? It’s a stretch but he’s so closed off with the rest of the world he doesn’t wanna let anybody in because they’ll hurt him.

literally and figuratively.

Demoman probably is very loving to his partner, I see it that way, he’s a down to earth guy when he’s sober and genuinely I always saw him as “he’s an affectionate guy” like he’ll show you a lot of affection. I get this from the voice lines when he’s drunk and saying stuff like “I love you man”. Think it’s funny and cute

That being said. I don’t think he receives much affection either. He’s thinking he’s not worthy of help “I didn’t need your help y’know..” (for medic) and in general his mother always telling him to get more jobs, must be a lot of pressure on a person. He drinks to cope with the fact he can’t feel the type of warmth he gives other people but never receives, he probably feels he doesn’t deserve it since he has to be of use first. If he’s not working why should he receive praise? That and that one time I read an analysis essay on him and something stuck out to me: he hides his true explosive feelings because the last time he showed them as a kid his adaptive parents died from his explosion. Somewhat like that, but yeah that’s, that’s a lot for a kid and the fact his mom only came back for him because he was getting into the family job says a lot.

So because of this:

I think they would be gentle with each other. At first Demoman shows affection towards Soldier, Soldier doesn’t know how to handle it but he likes it slowly, and through time, starts to show Demo affection too.

They’re rotting in my brain. They kiss tenderly, they hug each other, they say affirmations, they nuzzle each others necks what have you.

I they wouldn’t make each other better because they’re both clinically insane (specifically Soldier) but they would definitely bring each other comfort of some kind.

(Sorry for yapping guys this was on my mind last night, and I fell asleep in the middle of writing it so if there’s any errors forgive me 💀🙏)

[jays-therapist]

*throws this at your feet* lilo & stitch au anyone???

[rat-nitty]

Gee Saiki

[phantomrose96]

Your sham sacrifice fic is so good! Jack and Maddie's reaction to the idea that they killed Danny is particularly haunting. I am curious though - how did they decide that it probably wasn't Jazz? Was it because of her response to all of this?

(Sham Sacrifice: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2)

Thank you!!! 🥰

I think there are a lot of things that point to Danny over Jazz... The math says that one of their children died in the portal well... which one? Their daughter who's maintained absolute top marks in school, who's shown no real change in demeanor, happiness, energy, engagement, reliability, ever since the portal opened?

...Or their son, whose grades have plummeted ever since the portal opened, who comes home late or not at all, who's become cagey, unreliable, secretive, and impossible to really connect with anymore?

And only one of them has a dead-ringer ghost who appeared with the portal opening.