#but I can mostly ignore them

[squidnids]

Do you know about "Remember, I'm not a fish." will stop hiccups?

I did see that post, yea, pretty funny lmao. Unfortunately I am actually a fish irl so it won’t work on me 😔 you know how it is

(But seriously, I got hiccups really bad the last big run too. It activates something within me…)

[myfictionalfables]

For awhile I’ve been working on my own TFP AU, I don’t have a name for it yet, but I did make designs for the characters :]

Some of them have stayed the same, while others have changed completely. Honestly due to personal preference :]

I have more on this AU and what I want to happen with it, I’m also working on a small fan fic for it.

almost forgot to add their paint changes

[gaywineauntsstuff]

I just saw someone say that Tim was the only member of the batfamily who didn’t suck at math.

With the exception of Dick (acrobatics) and Cass (body language) none of the Batkids are THAT much better than the others at a certain skill

Yes Jason is a better shot

Yes Tim is a better detective

And on a technical level they’re much better

Sure

But that means that if they have a 0.001% chance of cracking a case or making a shot. There will be a noticeable difference between Tim being the character or say Damian.

Otherwise

Not particularly.

Think of each skill like a normally distributed curve okay with the mean being your average hero/olympian/hacker/genius

Right

The Batkids will be at the 96th percentile in the skill

With the exception of 1 of them being at the 99th percentile range

Unless you are writing something you can comfortably say is complex/difficult enough to warrant drawing attention to the 3% difference. It’s annoying to bring it up

I exclude Dick and Cass

Because Dicks introduction is the fact he can do something the rest of the kids can’t to the point where it’s an identifier within his own story. It’s how Tim found him, a signature only he can do.

And Cass because she is genuinely cartoonishly cracked in her own storyline and in batfamily stuff she’s borderline a mind reader

(Could also argue Jason for supernatural stuff and the all blades)

These are exceptions because yeah

If you told me Jason, Dick or Steph cracked a difficult case in a run I wouldn’t treat it as shocking information

If you told me Tim, Dick or Damian managed a tricky shot with a firearm in a dire situation (like what happens in the Grayson run) it would be interesting, surprising but like not? Shocking?

If you told me that Jason did a quadruple summersault off a building and landed on his feet I’d be confused as shit

And even WITH Dick and Cass the other kids are still FREAKISHLY good at D&Cs special skills but they both have unignorable signatures

This is a very long winded way of saying when an author simplifies a character down to

“Oh look nice flippy one”

“Smart one”

“Angry gun one”

“Pet collector”

It’s annoying because you basically ignore all the interesting overlap

Like guess what Dick literally has a habit of collecting strays (see the rabbit and 3 legged dog he lives with in his apartment in the new run)

Tim is fucking badass and is very good at dealing with explosives

Damian is canonically currently thinking of leaving the family business and no longer being a hero to maybe focus on helping people in other ways

Jason occasionally works with magic and demon bullshit

And every single one of them is a genius okay literally every single one of them could get a masters in physics, chem, bio and history in like 2 weeks flat.

Their stats are stacked

All of them know enough info to be able to do 99% of a task and yeah someone might call Tim or Dick in for detective help or Jason for muscle and restraining backup but in 99% of cases THE OTHER CHARACTERS SHOULD BE EQUALLY competent

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

I'm instinctively a little wary of anyone who's a little too insistent that the artificial aging is 100% above board and basically the same as aliens with different life cycles. I get that the clone wars did not explore the effect growing up at twice the normal rate might have on a human being, so following that canon is fine, but that doesn't change the fact that the clones are humans, not aliens with a naturally shorter lifespan. The accelerated aging was unequivocally a violence done to them. At best it just means they missed out on having a child hood. At best. If anyone wants to explore other effects it could have had, or play with the fucked up worldbuilding that is right there, good for them.

[ipostmysimpingstuffanonymously]

My entry for the SatoSho Discord Weekly Prompt: Just Friends

[thekidsarentalright]

so fobcore to be up for two awards they deserve to win, lose both of them, not even show up to the awards show But dress up in silly outfits for their prerecorded performance. would expect nothing less from the band of all time tbh

[withthewindinherfootsteps]

…What’s this?? WWX not being a self-sacrificial idiot??

It’s almost like… that isn’t a personality trait…

[sunnist4rs]

I hate men because today after years of my brother mocking me whenever I talk about something I’m well informed on by saying I did no research I finally told him how much it upsets me. So straight after he brought up my male assault statistics and called them fake before leaving.

[sick-ada]

ignoring downpour for a second, i have a personal theory (that someone has definitely had before) that the void sea doesn't really let you escape. monk and survivor see the slugcat tree, which a lot of people take to be "oh yeah everyone they know is here and theyre finally home", and hunter returns to the arms of NSH

but ive been thinking about this ever since i first beat monk cause like. monk seems scared in their cutscene, not glad to see everyone or to reunite with survivor like i thought they should be, which always struck me as weird. this is what theyve been chasing the whole time, right? their sibling?

the whole "everyone is here and it's all good" sort of afterlife thing doesn't make sense for rain world imho. it's all a loop, thats the point, and theres no escape. so my suggestion is that what they're seeing is their beginning starting again. more literally, the start of the game, the opening shot of their campaign's cutscene. hunter can also be taken like this, as instead of returning to their creator's arms after reaching the void sea (which doesn't make sense because how would NSH have ascended) theyre going back to when this all started, when NSH first created/modified/purposed them

and monk, as the most spiritually connected of the vanilla slugcats (based on them being called the monk and the fact that they produce karma flowers), is the only one that understands this. theyre struck with the realisation that all of this is for nothing and that it's all leading back to the same thing eventually. maybe centuries, millenia from now, when new civilisations have emerged and been covered in dust and swallowed by the void, but it will happen again. there is no peace. there is no escape from the cycle. it is a perfect circle, unbroken, and this is the closest they'll ever get

[sysig]

Wuh oh (Patreon)

Bonus:

The novel experience of being crushed by a giant rock, a visual metaphor

[ahalliance]

American-validated Frenchge 🥖

transcript below

[Video Transcript begins:

[Video starts mid-sentence]

Etoiles: —and you put this face— next to the camera! Like this!

Foolish: (laughing) You’re so French!

Etoiles: I’m so French, that’s my main problem. Like I’m so French, I try sometimes to nerf myself and be like, less French

Etoiles: But that feels good to hear this because you say I’m so French and like, some racist people in France think I’m not because I’m Arabic too, so—

Foolish: Ohhhh

Etoiles: —that feels good too, you know

Foolish: No dude, you seem like a French ass French person—

Etoiles: (laughing)

Foolish: I don’t know how else to put it. Simply put

Etoiles: That feels good, man. I was saying hello to Tarik and all his chat was saying like Frenchge, the emote they are putting—

Foolish: Oh yeah

Etoiles: —the emote they are putting. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Video Transcript ends.]

[cordycepsbian]

oh the wonder of that wild wet world

[koszmarnybudyn]

Hi yes hello. I love your art. I love your Malev scribbles. I love your Malev headcanons because they're IDENTICAL to mine (fellow blondie brown-eyed Arthur enjoyer 🤝🤝🤝🤝🤝)

Your jarthur scribbles have given me so much serotonin that my brain actually whited out for a brief second when the image loaded. Thank you.

Yesss blonde brown eyed arthur for life!!! I'm very happy you enjoyed them they were a riot to make :) honestly all i do is draw those two speaking of have some more doodles from my sketch book this time:

[ask-hws-singapore]

Hey there! Are you familiar with Mr Iceland besides diplomatic purposes? Since that time Mal, Indo and Phil hung out with him, I was kinda wondering where you were lol

(P.S. mod I love this blog sm)

Relying on the sea is one of the main things we have in common I guess. Overbearing 'brothers' is another thing.

But I think Iceland is very nice to talk to. Uh. Maybe I get a bit too comfortable sometimes. I hope he don't think I complain too much. He's also Hong Kong's friend so, I guess if anyone can put up with that guy can't be too bad.

[unforth]

Hey if you're a white person (as I am too!) and reading the stuff about End OTW Racism (@end-otw-racism) is making you uncomfortable CONGRATULATIONS THATS THE POINT bipoc have been uncomfortable in fandom for decades and some of yall can't face being uncomfortable for five seconds and still have the gall to have shit like BLM in your descriptions.

Put your money where your mouth is. Be uncomfortable. Actually read what they're talking about and what changes they're proposing instead of jumping right to BuT wHaT aBoUt My DaRk FiC (they want to protect your dark fic and help ensure you're safer from harassment over it!)and ThEy'Re PrO-cEnSoRsHiP (they are explicitly not).

I'm so fucking tired of having my posts and those I reblog on this topic largely ignored on my personal account, but ESPECIALLY I'm furious about how ignored posts on racism in fandom are when I put them on the danmei art sideblogs.

I see racism every single fucking DAY as part of running those accounts. This isn't some nebulous thing happening elsewhere, this is us!

If you don't care, I really need you to take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself WHY DONT I CARE?

Because YOU SHOULD FUCKING CARE.

[strawberrycamel]

hey psst c'mere... no a little closer... a little closer- there we go

Loop lips are part of a racist caricature of Black people. Stop drawing Black characters with loop lips. I don't care how they look in canon, it's racist.

okay that's all you can go