#but I did say 'challenge accepted'

[wildskissed]

@waterdepths gets a lil' bit of fluff

She's been sketching him for a long while.

Some nights when he's out enjoying the evening, stardust in his eyes as he's mapping out constellations to his heart's content, she watches. In moments like those she believes there is a time to be alone with one's thoughts, and yet he captivates her in everything he does, so she watches, wonder in her eyes as he lets the night calm him. Other nights, she'll retreat to the edge of her tent after dinner, still watching everyone compliment Gale on his meal of the night, and she'll sketch, smiling to herself at how deeply their compliments to him seem to affect him. It's not ladylike to stare, and she knows that, but it's too much not to let it all out, especially when he does so much for all of them.

When he does so much for HER.

Eve has never felt she was one for poetry, so writing him something in her deep appreciation for him, could never stand alone--so instead, she's managed a sketch to accompany it. She's spent far too long on his eyes, wanting him to feel something when he looks at it, always wanting to be swallowed whole by those deep brown eyes of his. He's ENCHANTING, and while she never would have thought she'd say that of a wizard given the other couple she's ever met, he holds a special place in her heart, which was why she was putting forth the effort in the first place, trying to capture him on parchment in the middle of a storm, with eyes that could command anything.

Once all is quiet, she finds herself rolling it all up with a quite literal bow, slipping it just through the flap in Gale's tent so he'll see it later. There's no rush, and she certainly can't leave it outside to get stepped upon, but she wants him to have it. She knows enough from all these magic lessons together, that he needs someone to look at him as if he's the world all on his own, and he is. He deserves every bit of affection and appreciation that she can give him, she just hopes the poetry lives up to the standards she's sure he places on himself with his own, as her skills there leave much to be desired...but every word comes from her HEART:

His eyes are deep as caverns, hidden treasures guarded tight. His hands strong and rough from all he's endured, yet gentle in their plight. There's a great wisdom nestled deep within him, desperate to break free, for all he desires is affection, and fulfillment in just being allowed to be. His power erupts like a volcano, dangerous and true, but he handles it quite expertly, and keeps each motion steady as a rock. He can taste the sparks the lightning brings as it licks along his skin, and he's never felt more alive as when his nerves are feeling every shock. There's an unadulterated passion that beats deep beneath his chest, and he's too devoted to ascertain just how beautiful he is. He's every color of the sunset and every star up in the sky. His smile lights up every room like the brightest firefly. The sadness deep inside him helps him to mask his pain, of the rot that's there within him, hiding what he's come to trust as shame. But to be in his presence is to truly feel alive, as every breath he takes will make your heart take flight. If only he could truly understand the great tempest that he is, for every moment he's around, brings naught but utter bliss.

It rhymes, and it's SAPPY, but she knows that it's the thought that counts as she retreats back to her own tent to read a book she's borrowed from him. What's a little embarrassment when it comes to showering someone with compliments and affection? He'd do the same ten fold and perhaps with a little more decorum, and it'd sound far more like a sonnet, but she's CONTENT and that's what matters.

[kaiserouo]

Soul Silencer Ghost

[cluescorner]

Randomized Robins AU - Ages + Worst Trait Exercise:

Steph (25):

Says her worst trait is her murderous rages (she is exaggerating for dramatic/comedic effect, she’s killed 3 people tops and for very good reason)

Thinks her worst trait is her spitefulness (one of the few traits she definitely got from her father + one that prevents her from fixing her relationships and living her best possible life. She’ll refuse to interact with someone she dearly loves after an argument (happens significantly less after Tim’s death) or will say things she knows are hurtful just for the sake of having the last word. This trait will worsen in some ways as the list of people who have wronged her and those she loves grows, but will also ease up as she matures and realizes the harm it’s doing to her relationships with those she loves most.)

Her worst trait really is her spitefulness

Cass (26)

Says her worst trait is her self-righteousness (she believes that her goals are righteous and, as a result, she is righteous. Cass becomes very defensive whenever someone questions the mission and often does not second-guess herself. This is a trait she only develops later in life as she grows closer to Bruce/learns to understand herself more/starts to love herself more. But she knows she isn’t perfect and when somebody she trusts criticizes something she is doing she is willing to listen. She just usually isn’t the one to START the introspection.) 

Thinks her worst trait is her self-righteousness. 

Her worst trait actually is her obsessiveness (she gets it from Bruce and, while not as bad as him, she will easily become preoccupied with her night-life and the mission if someone isn’t there to pull her back. She will do this to the point of self-destruction and it hurts her relationships with the people she loves, especially Steph.)

Tim (24)

Says his worst trait is his spitefulness (he actively rejects the idea of mending his relationships with the older members of the family and this causes him to also lack good relationships with the younger ones)

Thinks his worst trait is his obsessiveness (similar to Cass, if he gets fixated on a task or idea he will neglect everything else in his life in order to dedicate more time to it. Unlike Cass, he will almost never be dragged away from it unless Pierrot snatches control of the body and forces them to take care of themself.)

His worst trait actually is how manipulative he is (the KING of guilt-tripping and using people’s emotions against them. He’ll do whatever he needs to do to get what he wants, he’s not above crocodile tears. And he will do it to whoever he needs (or wants) to with little care for how his actions impact others.)

Pierrot (Insists: “Age doesn’t apply to me! And even if it did, I'd probably be the oldest. Or the youngest! I’d never be a middle child, though.” Mental assessments by the Bats have put him around 21, with a margin of error of 3 years. Pierrot has called this “blatant character assassination by my eternal rival!”)

Says his worst trait is that he is an irredeemable psychopath without any regard for the wellbeing of others (this is a lie and everyone who's important to him understands this). 

Thinks his worst trait is his parasitic nature (he literally would not exist had Tim not suffered the way he did. Plus he is a living reminder of one of the worst things that happened to many of his loved ones. He is a parasite injected into a functional person's body and contributes to his continued suffering. This is also a largely incorrect judgement of himself, caused by his actual worst trait.)

His worst trait actually is his limited sense of self (he doesn’t really know who he is outside of ‘inheritor to the legacy of the Joker (a man he despises yet also views as a father)’ and ‘chip in Tim’s brain that became sentient��. He slowly develops an identity over the course of his life and relationships with other people, but he lacks the foundations of identity that most people have. Pierrot will often almost become a caricature of himself and what others perceive him to be because it's the only person he knows how to be. This causes wild swings in how he behaves and relates to others, sometimes to the detriment of himself and others.)

Dick (17) 

Says his worst trait is his clinginess (he is a very extraverted person who likes to be around others, which mixed with his fear of abandonment after his parents died means that if he goes a few days without seeing/talking to a friend he will get very anxious.)

Thinks his worst trait is his anger issues (he gets ticked off very easily and will explode on people. He’s kind at his core and is usually very nice, but he has a temper that can escalate significantly. Spoiler (and later Twist) help him channel this anger into something positive.)

His worst trait actually is his anger issues.

Barbara (18)

Says her worst trait is her disability (internalized ableism, she thinks of herself as less valuable than the other Bats because she cannot be out there in the capes like they can. She will grow out of this as she matures and as she learns how invaluable her support for the team is.)  

Thinks her worst trait is her disability 

Her worst trait actually is her overly-independent nature (In an attempt to overcompensate for everything she can no longer do, she has resolved to do literally everything that she possibly can without any help from others. This results in many instances where she either takes on too much and winds up not being able to fully realize any of her tasks or where she makes her life and the lives of others significantly harder by refusing help when offered/not asking for it when she needs it.)

Damian (16)

Says his worst trait is his perfectionism (he is overly critical of both himself and others, taking any flaw or problem and amplifying it to an absurd degree. This is due in part to his life with the LoA (where even a brief misstep could lead to death), in part to how others treated him initially as Spoiler (any flaw was fixated on and used as a reason to either mistrust him or portray him as unworthy of the mantle), and in part due to the fact that he is Bruce’s son (the only person with worse perfectionism problems than Damian). Gradually, Damian has improved in this regard but it’s still a massive barrier to both his own happiness and his relationships with others.)

Thinks his worst trait is his perfectionism 

His worst trait actually is his perfectionism

Duke (16)

Says his worst trait is his definitely-real secret evil side (says this as a ‘my dad is a villain so who knows??’ joke)

Thinks his worst trait is his impulsivity in his words (Sometimes he will crack a joke or say a remark without thinking it through, leading to a LOT of hurt feelings and drama. He’ll say something without thinking it through and wind up seeming insensitive. This isn’t done because of malice, rather because Duke is someone who’s quick to act and speak. But while the mantle of Insight and his awakening powers have helped him with his actions, they do not always help with his loose tongue. As such, Duke gains an unfair reputation in the media as an instigator and will accidentally cause family drama through what he says.)

His worst trait actually is his impulsivity in his words

Jason (14)

Says his worst trait is his bad manners (he grew up on the streets and has no idea how rich-people society works, which he’s pretty insecure about considering he’s now the youngest kid of Bruce freaking Wayne). 

Thinks his worst trait is his reactiveness (Jason never got the privilege of planning ahead for various events in his life, so he instead needed to rely on being swift and harsh in how he could react to situations. It’s saved his life on multiple occasions and helps significantly in his role as Spoiler, but it can also lead to extreme overreactions (accidentally causing kidnapping scare after Jason ran away following a fight with Dick) and a struggle to plan things out ahead of time. As he grows more secure in his place in the family and in life, this trait will lessen but never fully dissipate.)

His worst trait actually is his reactiveness

[villainsidestep]

wait tho…. the public needs to know how jay feels abt maelstrom’s murder(s?)…..

[amethysttribble]

I have a thought rolling around in my head about how fandom has a very rigid, very bland, very one-dimensional idea of what a ‘good’ parent looks like, and how this vision is entirely fantasy and wish-fulfillment

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

i know that when carlo suddenly decided that he needs to marry guy made a whole list in his head n like had a deadlines n shit. like it was some kind of a task he needed to do

[acourtofquestions]

Hearth to hearth, the Flame of War went.

Over snow-blasted mountains and amongst the trees of tangled forests, hiding from the enemies that prowled the skies. Through long, bitterly cold nights where the wind howled as it tried to wipe out any trace of that flame.

But the wind did not succeed, not against the flame of the queen.

So hearth to hearth, it went.

To remote villages where people screamed and scattered as a young-faced woman descended from the skies on a broom, waving her torch high.

Not to signal them, but the few women who did not run. Who walked toward the flame, the rider, as she called out, "Your queen summons you to war. Will you fly?"

Trunks hidden in attics were thrown open. Folded swaths of red cloth pulled from within. Brooms left in closets, beside doorways, tucked under beds, were brought out, bound in gold or silver or twine. And swords-ancient and beautiful—were drawn from beneath floorboards, or hauled down from haylofts, their metal shining as bright and fresh as the day they had been forged in a city now lying in ruin.

Witches, the townsfolk whispered, husbands wide-eyed and disbelieving as the women took to the skies, red cloaks billowing. Witches amongst us all this time.

Village to village, where hearths that had never once gone fully dark blazed in answer.

Always one rider going out, to find the next hearth, the next bastion of their people.

Witches, here amongst us. Witches, now going to war.

A rising tide of witches, who took to the skies in their red cloaks, swords strapped to their backs, brooms shedding years of dust with each mile northward.

Witches who bade their families farewell, offering no explanation before they kissed their sleeping babes and vanished into the starry night.

Mile after mile, across the darkening world, the call went out, ceaseless and unending as the eternal flame that passed from hearth to hearth.

"Fly, fly, fly!" they shouted. "To the queen! To war!"

Far and wide, through snow and storm and peril, the Crochans flew.

[tenok]

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[mars-ipan]

i do love my family very dearly but the internalized ableism the men in here struggle with is. so much

[homophyte]

it is interesting to me that ive seen lately (n yknow this is subjective and likely not any real social force just what ive seen) many queer people simultaneously talking about taking back and embodying unpalatable and ‘unmarketable’ queerness (the recent return to the terms faggot and transsexual come to mind) which i think is pretty evidently shaped by the conservative moment were in of demonizing queer ppl and especially gnc and trans people as predators--it reads as a return to queer isolationism in the face of external hostility, imo--while at the same time ive seen a lot of rallying around the “original” 6 stripe rainbow flag as opposed to any of the purportedly ‘factional’ flags of different queer identities, with the assumption being different identity flags divide us while the rainbow flag encompasses everyone and its kinda fascinating to me bc the rainbow flag is probably the single most marketable and palatable and uncontroversial symbols of queerness which has been seamlessly uptaken by those who wish to sell it back to us as gets pointed out every pride month with all the cringey pride merch.... i dunno you could maybe take that as a point of hypocrisy and claim the queer community is itself in a conservative moment rn where its returning to a sense of history and historical continuity (perhaps even out of that sense of external threat) or even that the queer community has for some time been in a conservative moment given the like, decade of identity discourse and lashing out at any people deemed to not have a sufficiently established history or however we should categorize the bihets/ace discourse/transtrender-tucute discourse/pan discourse/bi lesbians discourse (because lets be frank its essentially all the same discourse just keeping up its momentum by leapfroging from one target to the next) which i think is, like, SOMEWHAT true but not entirely? its more interesting to me, in any case, as an expression of a conflict the queer community is facing given that current state of affairs RE antitransness and that very recent history. like, the simultaneous need to retreat to a safe sense of community which is welcoming to the very things the outer world is demonizing ie mutable gender, complex or contradictory experiences of gender, gender expression which is hostile to the cis binary, but also the ways in which it has to grapple with those discourses which have largely defined the community infighting for again the past decade. its queer people begging the question ‘how can we make the queer community welcoming to the girlfags and genderfucks and tboys who are being threatened when we have spent so much time making the queer community a hostile place for anyone with a non-conventional or not easily (or even just palatably) sortable sense of queer identity’. and the answer it seems to be grappling with at the moment is like, welcoming all that diversity of experience but being absolutely averse to naming it. yes we love all the fuckery with gender and sexuality never be marketable but like, ew, why are you calling yourself [insert microlabel here]. you can be genderweird but you cant call yourself genderweird. you can only exist as queer in the broadest possible way (the all-inclusive gay pride flag!) but if you try to name the specifics or use those identity labels weve been fighting over for years youre doing it wrong (the progress pride flag is now ugly and cringey and ‘too much’). i think theres something also to the way (at least on this site) transmisogynistic discourses have really taken hold as legitimate (though yknow i wont downplay how much a problem transmisogyny has like. always been in queer spaces no matter what) in the name of protecting n defending trans people. like its just regurgitated transmisogyny but its being mobilized supposedly in the service of helping trans people. idk its definitely getting a little late for me to string this together fully coherently but theres a throughline there, in the ways certain ideas are being consolidated and reified as ‘yes were more progressive now!’ when i think theres definitely something to question there in terms of like...are we? are we actually? are we doing better by the people were trying to help or are we setting strict standards and forcing ppl to adhere to them again?

[brazilian-whalien52]

And I mean, sometimes they learn this while they are young because there is definitely a kind of reward for "being sharp with your tongue" during school years. Some people can't fit in and the way they find to be cool is being the one making fun of others.

A piece of advice is that quickly people grow up and do not find this kind of joke funny, they do get offend on the way you treat them and others around. In school people have to take you because their is no "escape" you have a class/year and you follow with them until graduation if you never change schools. But when people have the choice? Oh boy, they will absolutely exclude you from social circles for being mean and in the workplace they already have their group of friends outside of this environment. The maximum you are going to have is people pleasers that may act friendly towards you but in the first chance will drop this relationship. Learn to be decent to other people.

it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesn’t matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply so not enjoy being treated like shit.

[kweenofkonfusion]

hey hi, I'm just gonna vent about about a fandom thing I've seen in a fandom I'm in under the cut. it's mostly just me exasperatedly ranting, feel free to scroll past.

Something that really irks me in with fans from fandoms with intentionally fucked up characters who interact with each other is when people go ‘oh this ship is TOXIC. These characters are so TOXIC, why is the show shipping them together??? Eewwww!’

Like fam. That’s. That’s the whole point. The characters are fucked up at the beginning. Their relationship is fucked up. That’s the point. The whole relationship subplot is how that grows into something either better or nonexistent. That’s The Point?!

Of course the couple is toxic! They’re both shitty people at the start! Their entire relationship is based off a shitty situation! It’s Going To Be Toxic. The whole subplot involving them is how they grow past that.

I just. I’m so tired man. ‘But the characters aren’t healthy for each other-’ that’s the goddamn point what are y’all missing here? That’s what makes the relationship interesting to watch.

Please. Please stop insisting characters have to have perfectly healthy relationships only and that fucked up relationships with fucked up people don’t have artistic merit please I’m begging you.

[six-improbable-things]

I forgot to post anything about this, but I did the scene where I had to read some of my writing to the dnd party (twice!) and they were SO nice about it. I couldn't stop smiling. (which was kind of a weird disconnect since the scenes were super dark, lmao.) But augh, I'm so glad they were nice to meeee. My poor boy Rook is Going Through It right now, and things are about to get worse.

Next session we also might get to do our first version of ship combat using the rules I made which is kind of wild. I'm very nervous, but I feel like after this last session and sharing stuff I wrote with them (out loud!!!) I can handle it. Probably.

[villainsidestep]

self care is deciding that if two sides of a triangle are fucked up the third one has to be too

[strikersin]

If my Actual Real Life Father saw this blog I wouldn't even be able to die. I would just live. LOL. At that point I guess we have different things to worry about .

But I can see his confused and perplexuated reaction . Haha. It's actually cute

[detectivekirigirislays]

needed to srsly get this off my chest but i genuinely think that bkdk haters atp are just disregarding the immense character development both izuku and katsuki went thru and the shift in their relationship dynamic throughout the manga

platonically, romantically or whatever you see bkdk as, they are not toxic anymore. grow up. people can change, people are different, ur childhood bully prolly hasn't changed and u can't forgive them and that's fine, that's valid, but it's different w bkdk. izuku forgave him, and katsuki is actively trying to change himself and the strained relationship he and izuku used to have prior to the well-developed rivlary-slash-other halves relationship they have as of the moment.

i say this bcos i was in a similar situation. 9 years ago, i myself used to pick on this one girl. a year later, i seriously regretted what i did, apologized and did my best to change and atone for what i did, and 8 years later, we are still the best of friends. i gen can't imagine a life without her because she's one of the people i talk to the most and i love her sm.

regarding chapter 424, sure, we acknowledge that katsuki is prolly saying what he said because he thought they'd definitely still be competing for the resy of their lives esp since both of them learn to grow and develop around each other, but isn't that the beauty of it? isn't the idea of katsuki dreading at the thought and assumption of not being able to chase izuku any longer the beauty of the whole line? sure, portray it as rivalry, there is a hint of rivalry in that sense too, but in the bigger picture, it's the idea that HE HIMSELF thought that he'd be at izuku's heels for the rest of their lives, that they'd be chasing each other and helping each other to grow to their limits until the end of their lives as heroes.

platonic, romantic, call it whatever, but you can't deny they've grown so much from where they started as. they've changed, and an argument that bkdk is toxic is pointless and stupid atp.