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[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[themandaloriansdiaries]

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What I Write: angst or fluff!

What I will Not! Write: r*pe or SA, abuse/abusive relationships, harassment or incest.

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[gl-saveme]

PETRICHOR CAST ROYALTY

👑 Engfa Waraha Miss Grand 2022 Winner 👑 Charlotte Austin Miss Grand 2022 5th Runner Up 👑 Meena Rina Miss Grand 2023 5th Runner Up 👑 Malin Charaanant Miss Grand 2024 Winner

Random facts under the cut

Engfa also finished 1st Runner up in Miss Grand International 2022 and Malin placed in the Top 20 for Miss Grand International 2024.

Meena is also 1/2 of the MeenBabe ship with the Miss Grand Thailand 2023 winner Aoom Thaweeporn. They'll star as a secondary couple in the 2025 Y Entertainment upcoming gl drama About Galaxy.

Charlotte is Thai-British, Meena is Thai-Iranian, and Malin is Thai-Singaporean.

Engfa is a professional singer and Meena is a professional ballroom dancer (please look up videos of Meena dancing)

Meena has a LOT of tattoos on her back, side, and leg

[lesbianshepard]

favorite past time on reddit is finding transphobic comments and putting their username into redditmetis because 90% of the time they also post a bunch of personal information that's easily pulled. Reply to their comment with "Do your two children know that their mother, a 34 year old woman, is spending her time insulting trans people on the internet? Is this why you posted on r/marriage about feeling like you're growing apart from your husband? A professional illustrator from the greater London area really should be more careful about what she posts online. Your mother is looking down on you with shame, and your dad who rarely calls probably doesn't like you much either."

About half the time they delete the comment and block me, but the other 50% they just delete their entire account. Don't post shit online you don't want other people seeing 🤷

[chipper-smol]

@pupppppppy is to blame for this scene finally getting out of my head

Context: this is the split second when possessed Wukong punches Nezha into the ground and then turns to MK. These two are not on good terms in this au, so Wukong begging for Macaque to save MK is a pretty big deal

scene after courtesy of puppy

[theflowerofthecommonwealth]

Omg- I thought that I had imagined this line of dialogue because I haven’t gotten it in my last playthroughs of Fallout 4!!!

But I found it after digging through Nicks game dialogue!!!

But now I have the question… How many secretaries DID walk out on Valentine during his career as a Detective in Diamond City? How many times has Nick come home after a long, hard case only to find his office completely empty and abandoned? That the person that he trusted with his beloved cases and work had just packed up and moved on?

Did he start telling himself to not get too attached to any hired help after this happened a few times? Did he start repeating to himself that his secretaries leaving him was nothing personal because they needed a consistent job to survive?

How well did that work in comforting him? Or did it still tug at his heartstrings a bit each time he thought about how many people once occupied that secretary’s desk?

Did Nick get a feeling that Ellie would be a different kinda gal from day one when he met her? Did he have an internal conflict to not dote on the quippy and spunky kid running his errands and setting up his appointments?

How many times did he walk into his office and expected Ellie to be gone? Did he always try to prepare himself for the heartbreak of retuning to yet another empty office, only to be surprised with the fact that Ellie was faithfully waiting for him?

How long did you think it took him to realize that Ellie would never leave him like that? That things were different now?

Plz give RoboDad a hug.

[silverwhittlingknife]

hi Silver! o/ because that fanart made me wonder - would you happen to know when/where Dick's stuffed elephant plush Zitka turns up in the comics?

GREETINGS CAM <3333 THAT ART WAS SO CUTE

Yeah, I think your instincts are right - it's a truly adorable bit of transformative fandom, but I'm 95% percent sure it's not comics canon. Barbara has canon plushies, but I don't think anyone else does.

I got kinda invested in the investigation (it's hard to prove a negative!) and I ended up typing out an entire History of Elinore/Zitka, so, uh, if you're curious, meet me below the cut for:

Where does Elinore / Zitka - the animal - appear in comics?

Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?

Where does Elinore / Zitka appear in comics?

We're gonna go in chronological order!

Dick's circus elephant friend was first created for practical reasons: in Batman 436, Marv Wolfman does a big expanded flashback to Dick's circus backstory as a way to subtly show us Tim before officially introducing him (so that we can have a technically-solvable mystery-of-Tim's-identity in LPoD). In this comic, there's an elephant named Elinore who loves Dick:

Aww. Such a cute elephant!

Batman 436 comes out in August 1989. New Titans 60 comes out a few months later, in November, and guess what? When Dick visits the circus, he is suddenly surprised by an unexpected blast from the past! It turns out that even though it's been years, Elinore still remembers him!

Here's the part where Elinore remembers Dick:

SUCH a cute elephant. I love her.

(Guess who else still remembers Dick even though it was so long ago. Guess which other character is about to be an unexpected blast from the past. Guess which character Elinore is directly paralleling guess guess guess sorry everything is about Dick and Tim in my mind but I can focus I swear)

Four years later, in 1993, Batman: The Animated Series retells Dick's origin story. They like and keep Wolfman's elephant, but they change her name to Zitka:

Wolfman doesn't return to the elephant beyond those two appearances, and a few years down the line, New Titans gets cancelled and Wolfman's not writing Dick anymore anyway. So the animal gets abandoned for a while, until Devin Grayson, a fan of both Wolfman and B:tAS, revives the Wolfman-era Titans team in JLA/Titans and then the ongoing series Titans 1999.

Grayson then brings back the elephant in a flashback to Dick's past in Titans 16 (Jun 2000), where she imports the B:tAS name. Sometimes I'm skeptical of TV-to-comics imports, but honestly, I endorse this one. You lose the alliteration, which is a shame, but IMO Zitka is a better elephant name than Elinore.

Here's Dick with the newly-christened Zitka in Titans 16:

Grayson also briefly references the elephant in Gotham Knights 20 and - in a final angsty callback - in Nightwing 88 (Feb 2004), where Zitka tries futilely to comfort Dick in the midst of his trauma conga line:

... And... honestly, I think that's it for comic appearances? The two Wolfman comics plus the three Grayson comics.

Both Wolfman and Grayson are writing multiple titles - Batman, New Titans, Titans, Gotham Knights, and Nightwing between the two of them, spanning a big chunk of Dick's post-Crisis canon - and both writers use the elephant for heartwarming moments of nostalgia, which means if you're doing a post-Crisis readthrough for Dick, Elinore/Zitka feels memorable. But I don't think she actually shows up that much.

For post-2011, I am not as well-informed - throwing this out to the dash? anyone know? - but I feel like Zitka the heartwarming symbol of Dick's heartwarming circus past is, uh, thematically very at odds with the Court of Owls evil!circus vibes, so my instinct is that this story element was almost certainly dropped in the reboot.

Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?

In WFA, yes; in main comics continuity, no. Technically, I have not read every comic ever published, so I could be wrong!! But I don't think so.

Below, find my rambling reasoning on the tonal vibes of pre-Crisis, post-Crisis, and post-2011, and why this particular story element doesn't seem right to me for the first two.

Pre-Crisis (...okay, mostly the Silver Age): stuffed animal, yes or no?

tl;dr no, requires too much background knowledge on the part of the reader, plus the elephant wasn't a thing until later

Elinore doesn't get created until post-Crisis, but also just generally, pre-Crisis callbacks are more along the lines of this reference in Batman 129 (published in 1960), where, wow, Batman and Robin are hunting jewel thieves - and it turns out Robin recognized this strongman! BUT HOW?!

The comic goes on to recap Dick's entire origin story in flashback, on the assumption that you may not know it.

(BTW, if you'd like to know more about Haly's Circus throughout the years, nightwingology has a great post here summarizing a lot of fun plotlines and characters!)

Basically: Silver Age comics are very self-consciously episodic and kid-friendly; they're not generally gonna do overly-elaborate callbacks because they don't know what comics their kid readers may have randomly picked up or remember.

By the time of post-Crisis, comic books were being written for an adult audience buying from the direct market, i.e. readers who are collecting whole runs & don't need or want Dick's origin story to be recapped to us in full every time it's referenced. That's why in post-Crisis, we get stuff like "hey, neat, this particular soda brand is getting mentioned in several different books!!" or "in order to understand this story arc, buy SIXTEEN DIFFERENT COMICS in FIVE DIFFERENT RUNS and read them ALL ACCORDING TO A NUMBERED ORDER and also you better be following the individual plotlines and recognize these five minor characters who we don't bother to introduce!! Good luck!!" But the elaborate post-Crisis plotlines - and subtler worldbuilding like a stuffed animal callback to Dick's backstory - don't make a lot of story sense UNLESS you're imagining your readers as completionist adult fans.

So IMO a stuffed animal wouldn't be a pre-Crisis thing unless it was The Episodic Story Of the Week, and I don't think a stuffed animal is action-adventure-y enough for the fast-paced storytelling of the Silver Age. (Unless it, like, came to life and tried to eat you or something.)

Post-Crisis: stuffed animals, yes or no?

tl;dr: no, Dick's a manly tough guy, he's not gonna have a stuffed animal, that'd be lame, like something Tim might do

Part of the edgy grimdark adult vibes in 80s/90s comics is that some characters who used to be kinda silly & goofy & lighthearted - like Batman and Robin - get reimagined as Serious and Angsty and Edgy in a Tough Cool Manly Brooding Way. This massively affects characterization for Bruce, Dick, and Bruce and Dick's relationship.

(I obviously love this change & love the tense Bruce-and-Dick interactions, but plenty of fans of the earlier fluffy comics really disliked the edgy retcons of Miller / Wolfman / Starlin / et al.)

The upshot is that post-Crisis is a period when you could have a recurring reference like a stuffed elephant, but you wouldn't have a stuffed elephant, not for Dick. I think a toy like that would be too cutesy / childish / effeminate to give a male character in post-Crisis, unless you were poking fun at him.

Now, you could probably let Tim have a stuffed animal, because Tim is sometimes cool but also sometimes a tryhard loser who is faking being cool and not entirely pulling it off (see e.g. the Robin comic where he practices tough-guy faces in the mirror, or the Teen Titans comic where Conner discovers his cringy Enya CD, or when he's fanboying over Connor and it's awkward, etc etc.). A stuffed animal would be deeply embarrassing, and you'd have to be careful to compensate by having Tim do something cool afterward - but Tim's character concept allows for "he's kind of a loser sometimes."

But Dick isn't!! In post-Crisis, Dick's a tough / impressive / "cool guy" character, the kind of guy anyone would want to be, even in the flashbacks where he's Robin, and even in the stories where he's more lighthearted than angsty. It'd be kinda lame for Dick to have a stuffed elephant, so he wouldn't. I feel like Dick would be more likely to poke fun at it if someone had one, like when he's making fun of Wally for liking the Hardy Boys. Dick could have a Batman action figure, at most, and if he had one he would have it ironically.

Basically: in post-Crisis, a male character hugging a stuffed elephant feels more likely to be a punchline to me, not something poignant. (Even with Tim, Tim could have an embarrassing stuffed animal, but he couldn't hug it when sad - that's too far. Maybe Booster Gold might do this. Probably he wouldn't, but spiritually, he would. Sorry Booster ilu! <3)

Instead, Dick instinctively deals with his inner turmoil like the TORTURED ACTION HERO he is: by punching things and brooding and yelling and joining the mob and sleeping on rooftops and going on obsessive secret missions and acquiring Angsty Stubble!! Just like Batman!

(Technically I don't know if Bruce ever joined the mob but you know he would.)

Anyway as you know this is my favorite continuity and I am poking fun affectionately, but uh, yeah sdfsfdsfs. No stuffed animals.

Post-2011 / Infinite Frontier / Wayne Family Adventures: stuffed animals, yes or no?

tl;dr it's in WFA! Probably not anywhere else, but it could be.

Post-2011 stuff tends to be cutesier overall, most of all in the current Infinite Frontier era. So I don't feel like this would be tonally out-of-line with IF comics. Taylor tends to go for more meme-y references rather than fanfic references, though.

So the obvious best fit is WFA, which is aiming for a rough approximation of Silver Age family-friendly vibes - wholesome, episodic plots, Teaching Good Moral Lessons For The Youth, etc. - plus lots of Easter eggs for fanfic readers and some comic references.

And look, here we are:

Aww.

Whew - that's everything I could find!

Anyway as you can probably tell, I LOVE the elephant, so this was a very entertaining rabbit hole to go down, thank you <3

[fabuloustrash05]

Things that are canon in Dragon Ball Z Abridged but NOT in actual Dragon Ball Z (Part 4)

~ Buu Saga Addition ~

Videl’s mom died from cancer

Sharpner is either gay or just incredibly flamboyant.

Vegeta sees the Capsule Corp interns as slaves. It’s kinda insinuated that Bulma sees them as slaves too, but uses “interns” as a cover up.

Vegeta admits he was hearing Goku’s voice in his head after his death, similar to Ghost Nappa on Namek after Nappa’s death. Does this mean Vegeta was being haunted by Goku’s “ghost” at some point during the 7 year time skip as well?

Krillin and Android 18 named their daughter Marron after 18’s grandmother.

18 is aware of Krillin’s ex girlfriend Maron and her and Krillin thought it be funny to mess with people regarding their daughter’s name and making their friends think 18 doesn’t know.

Kibito is racist towards mortals.

"Morty" is slur deities use against mortals.

Krillin and Vegeta have become friends and have movie nights together.

Not tipping or returning your shopping cart counts as a bit of evil that can led to you being control by Babibi’s magic.

A week before the Word Martial Arts Tournament, Krillin hosted a barbecue party. Vegeta attended and brought potato salad. This info was what made Goku realize that Vegeta is “truly lost” and pure evil at heart after becoming Majin Vegeta.

Vegeta attends PTA meetings.

Vegeta now refers to Krillin by his name and not “the bald monk” or any other insulting nickname (and he hates himself for it). This is most likely Vegeta’s way of showing he respects someone, by calling someone by their name and not an insult.

After hugging is son for the first time, Vegeta is now 100% convinced that he’s a better dad than Goku.

“Kaka-Tot”

Vegeta finally sees Goku as his “best buddy”

From the alternate take: The narrator is aware that he was gone for so long and only came back to remind us that Vegeta is dead (even though we literally just saw it happen XD )

PART 1 - PART 2 - PART 3

[jekyll-doodles]

for the emojies ask... I choose red heart (what is their love language), for all the wakey wakey lords in "the after"

❤️ RED HEART - their love language(s)?

Nigredo - Words Of Affirmation

Albedo - Quality Time

Citrinitas - Acts Of Service

Rubedo - Physical Touch

This really applies to most stages of their unfortunately long, complicated lives.

[moeblob]

You know, sometimes you just play an otome and go "that's my son" and then he's the mom of the group. It just happens like that sometimes.

[amndees]

Can u tell me more Abt ur OC? Like lore or fun facts or if u have a colored drawing of them to see their color palette ? (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠) No pressure tho !

hi yes i would love to! thank you for asking!!!

here’s a colored version of the drawing had in my original post ab this ^^

they are actually a very powerful psychic with only one ability, to be able to block out and not be affected by other psychics abilities. so when saiki does his whole mind control / gene alteration thing on the entire population they r just like ?????? bc they r not affected

they aren’t really aware of this power though, just knew they could tell when weird things happened that people around them either ignored or found normal. it was only found out once aiura transfers to saiki’s school and they could see their power since she’s able to see people’s aura (and their aura is visible even in saiki’s bc it works like a barrier or shield)

I’ve taken to calling them Une (like immune, for their ability) but if i come up with something better i might change it. their hair is actually dark brown and they dye it a purple-blue color. i imagine they were upset as a kid when everyone’s hair started changing to cool colors and theirs stayed the same lol

for some backstory, not power related—

une used to stay with their auntie while their parents traveled for their jobs. after the first time saiki started a time loop they caught on pretty quickly since things that already happened were being repeated (the sense of deja vu was to strong). people were starting to think they were crazy since they kept insisting that this already happened LAST YEAR.

une’s family felt like they needed a change of scenery so they moved to their other aunt’s new house and now live with her and their cousin.

now here’s the family tree i made so it’s easier to understand! they're actually related to yuuta so they are neighbors with saiki,,,

since they have a lot of free time bc they take online advanced classes, they decided picking up a part time job at a nearby coffee shop would be a good idea

saiki actually meets them at the coffee shop first and is kind of weirded out since he can’t read their mind but also. he has priorities (his sweet treats) and prob thinks its just another nendou situation. he does investigate it more when he realizes they r actually his neighbor…

i have more ideas but this is getting long so that is it for now ^^!!

[fang-and-feather]

Names of my OCs

Just a brief post fir me not to forget them before I can make full introductions, especially the new ones

Carina Corale - Third royal child from Indicolite, Birth Kingdom: Indicolite, Family from: Indicolite, Paired with: Leon in normal canon, Silvio in fantasy AUs

Altair Galioto/Corale - Carina's younger twin brother, same info, but was kidnapped as a child and lived most of his life in another country, hence the dual surname, Paired with: Mireille

Julya Corale - Second royal child of Indicolite, Carina and Altair's older sister, same info as them, Paired with: Rio

Yara Sylvan - Birth Kingdom: Indicolite, Family from: Mother from Indicolite, Father from Schrol, Paired with: Clavis

Rosalina Sylvan - Yara's younger sister, same info, Paired with: Nokto

Alma Olize - Second princess of Schrol, Birth Kingdom: Schrol, Family from: Schrol, Paired with: Chevalier

Linet Kaji - Birth Kingdom: Rhodolite, Family from: Mother from the royal family of the lost kingdom of Adamite (she doesn't know) - maternal grandfather from Obsidian, - Father from Kogyoku, Paired with: Licht

Eileen Kinsey/Najm - Birth Kingdom: Jade, Family from: Mother from Jade, Father from Rhodolite (half-sister of the Rhodolite princes - none of them know), adopted after her mother died and sometimes uses her adoptive father's last name (her adoptive father is Linet's godfather), Paired with: Mattias

Cecil Kinsey/Najm - Eileen's younger half-brother on their mother's side, Birth Kingdom: Jade, Family from: Mother from Jade, Father from the royal family of the lost kingdom of Adamite (Linet's cousin, but he also doesn't know), also adopted, Paired with: Emma

[writing-for-life]

Sandman Casting News!

Well, not really, but Barry Sloane is now officially confirmed as Destruction. He must be so relieved he doesn’t have to bite his tongue anymore 🤣

Plus a few other characters we don’t know yet…

https://x.com/redanianintel/status/1717545026941571492?s=12

[notllorstel]

saw my first proper DB content and love these guys

[unproduciblesmackdown]

has happened plenty around iconis goings on but what an all-timer

[solarpunkani]

Minor W for the solarpunk zombie story, we finally reached the front gate of the town GOD BLESS

Already shoving other OCs into the project as minor characters

Now the problem.....

I am overthinking EVERYTHING