#bullet rambles

[alloycow]

LET'S FRICKING GO

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[gorgynei]

literally so obsessed with werewolf bts where the guy in the suit is just hanging out. my favorite images ever

[crows-of-buckets]

Zevwarden friendship is so important to me... I love them so much

[evilrobertsmith]

BUT DOES ANYONE NOTICE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭BUT DOES ANYONE CSRE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[mollysunder]

It's kind of crazy how Caitlyn's already constructed a version of Jinx that doesn't exist. Caitlyn said she could hear Jinx's laugh, but Jinx has never laughed in front of Caitlyn. Then during the "Hellfire" sequence we get this shot Jinx Caitlyn and the strike team are hunting down.

Jinx has NEVER looked at Caitlyn like this. This is a Jinx from Caitlyn's revenge fantasies, and is no better than the Sky the hexcore conjured up to bait Viktor in his unbalanced state.

[homkamiro]

Sorry for not posting anything for a while I've been busy and tired and tired and busy and

[artist-issues]

it’s the bane of my Halloween that there are so few good werewolf stories that aren’t just shock-and-awe, “let’s show you how many variations on sex and variations on the dismemberment of the human body there are!”

I just keep watching The Wolf Man & reading The Were-Wolf, and sometimes throwing a little Marvel’s Werewolf By Night in there.

Where’s the good stuff? Where’s the “man’s desire to be more than what he is leads him to a dark, twisted, out-of-control place?” Where’s the “pure sacrifice can slay the beast?” Where’s the “a seemingly good man struggles with the monster within?”

Why do I have to keep seeing weird twisted furry fantasies; or SURPRISE, the werewolf is a RELIGIOUS LEADER AGAIN; or look, we spent our whole budget so you can see this naked guy’s bones rearrange themselves; or look, he likes being a werewolf, it’s like a sadistic superpower for him; or look, what a unique twist—the werewolf can be the gooood guyyy as a tired old allegory for how “othered” vaguely “different” members of society can be; or look, “look, you don’t like any of those, we’ll just show you comically large werewolf talons stabbing through the face of a screaming human—in glorious red 3D! That’s what you wanted, right?”

No. No, it’s not.

And don’t suggest cartoon episodes about werewolves to me. Because those always hit the same trope; “the werewolf isn’t the real side of the person with werewolfism—they can be cured by being reminded of who they truly are through love!”

I mean that trope gets close. But it’s not werewolf fiction. Werewolf myth is supposed to be about a man who really is a monster—he wants what he’s not allowed to be—and then, as an object-lesson of that man-trying-to-meddle characteristic, the man gets to be “what he’s not allowed to be”—instead of a human, he loses all reason, all free will, all desire for good things, and instead can desire only blood. Then he has to slowly realize that. Then he has to either try, unsuccessfully, to protect others from himself—OR he has to be killed by purity. At it’s best, it’s the sacrifice of someone or something pure—but most iconically, that’s just “something silver.”

WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE NOBODY WANTS TO WRITE GOOD WEREWOLF STORIES ANYMORE?

We lost the point. We lost the point. The monster stories are supposed to say 1) there is such a thing as purely evil things, so beware & 2) the purely evil things can be triumphed over, but not through the effort or acceptance of the purely evil things, themselves.

That’s the point! Why do you think we have all those myths and legends across cultures? It’s not to say, “try werewolfism, it’s fun.” It’s not to say, “drink blood!” It’s to say “beware, there are monsters out there, and here’s what to do about it.”

[yume-fanfare]

i know i spend like 80% of my time here shilling for some manga you've never heard of in your lives but if you take one (1) manga rec from me, can it be this one?

cupids but with guns.......... fantastic art wonderfully executed story

[biocrafthero]

[alloycow]

OKAY EVERYONE

HOME FROM WELCOME HOME IS HOT OKAY??!!

Thank you for listening <3

[rosie-toast]

Finally read love bullet

[lonelyzarquon]

A thousand bodies piled up I never thought would be enough To show you just what I've been thinking

[lenny-link]

i love sniperscout, and i lover sniperscout shippers even more, they so whimsical and silly their art just never fail to make me happy

[mollysunder]

Some people have long essays for why Viktor will s2's main antagonist. Meanwhile I think Viktor will be a main antagonistic because he's got some of the worst traits of a tech bro. Iykyk.

[theatypicaljournal]

Junk journal pages dump because I did a few in one go

[shycorvid]

I've read on other posts that some people think authors keep to the batfam when it comes to DC because they're more comfortable using that solid fanon foundation. And that might be true for some, but here's my POV:

I grew up with Batman. The movies and cartoons mostly, yes, but I know enough to make my own headcanons and play with the characters in the way that pleases me most. And what I like most about the bats, besides childhood nostalgia, is that they're human. They don't have powers. They have their brains, training, and gadgets.

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm really not up for playing the whole "why didn't you write this super-powered character do this" or "you do know that this guy can do that" game just because I forget Superman has ice breath or something silly like that. And, sure, I write Danny in the dpxdc crossover just fine, but that's because I'm comfortable picking and choosing our favorite ghost boy's power level- as is most of the dp fandom. We can make him OP as hell or weak depending on our mood, and no one bats an eyelash. Forget that Green Lantern literally has nothing but his imagination to limit him, and people get real uppity about it.

So I'm most comfortable having these super-powered demigods being background characters. Honestly, I don't like playing with OP characters. There's way too many powers to keep track of regarding Superman and his family alone, and I have no patience for powerscalers who want to "but actually" me if I dare "nerf" a character or two.

If I ever expand into the DC-verse, most likely I'll just gravitate to the Arrows.