#does no one else have this urge?

[sing-me-under]

Why are there like no fics about Bruce leaving Gotham??? Why does no one ever talk about that part of his origin story? Why is it literally only “parents died when he was 8, he left Gotham to train to be Batman, he returned to Gotham and became Batman”? That’s like 10 years, give or take, of adolescent development? Are you telling me this man who dresses like a bat to fight crime spent 10 years being a relatively normal angsty very rich teenager?

You cannot convince me that he hadn’t attempted some form of vigilantism that was at least moderately successful enough to convince him that prepubescent crime fighting partners are not a horrible idea. There’s no way he would’ve thought “fighting crime will be good for Dick” if he didn’t think it was good for himself. The only difference was in their training at that age.

Why is there only Batman The Knight???? A man has been around for a hundred years and only one story goes into his years before Batman?? I like BTK well enough, but it can’t possibly be the only pre-origin interpretation because I’m personally not very fond of the whole underground fighting ring bit, and I somewhat would have preferred a different take on his time with the LoA. But that’s what fanfiction is for, and I can’t find any???

I want to read about an angsty but determined 16-17 year old Bruce Wayne running away from Gotham and Alfred’s detached leniency (you’re just a butler!) in some strange parallel to Dick Grayson running away from Gotham and Bruce’s controlling tendencies and the awkwardness between traumatized ward and trying-so-hard-to-be-supportive-but-inevitably-failing guardian.

I want to read about Bruce’s developing moral code as a teenager and if maybe, just maybe he may have killed someone or been an accomplice in a murder that has him so utterly convinced that he would definitely go evil if he killed the Joker. I like the idea that Batman did kill people before Robin (I’ve read this take in the backstory of a few fics but nothing that really goes into it beyond a few sentences). I like the idea of Bruce maybe witnessing a few too many times how killing has more consequences than it’s worth, including but not limited to the corruption of one’s soul because (if I’ve said it before, I’ve said it too many times) killing people is not good for you. It is in fact a slippery slope, and very few people have the drive and willpower to handle it and Bruce is not one of those people if the tendency towards evil Batmen is anything to go by.

I also want to read about Bruce Wayne just being an angsty teen that naturally evolves into Playboy Extraordinaire Brucie Wayne. He should do drugs under the bleachers, be a general high-society nuisance, and hang around sketchy areas no-parental-guidance-stalker-era Tim style.

[sashisuse]

THE VOICES.

[hanzajesthanza]

(Adam Dudaczyk) The fact that vampires drink blood to get that *meaningful hand-neck gesture* - you made that up? (Andrzej Sapkowski) Yes, I didn't model myself on anyone here, I don't know anyone who wrote before me about the fact that vampires drink blood not to satisfy their hunger, but to satisfy their thirst for… entertainment. Texts: the guys sent me to get blood, I was flying drunk… The fun was great.

as i reread this i couldn't stop thinking of this meme

[lylahammar]

why the fuck is it so socially acceptable to say hateful stuff about people with red hair

[spellsparkler]

most relaxed girl in the world (who wants to kill you). everyone say hiii elias

[notmoreflippingelves]

Thinking about how narumitsu immediately becomes infinitely more interesting to me when a third party poly option is introduced . And this is pretty much the case for *any* third party.

Like

Just Narumitsu

Langwrightworth? Kriswrightworth? Lanawrightworth? Wrightedgequill? Larry/Phoenix/Miles? Godowrightworth?Gumwrightworth? Miawrightworth? Justinewrightworth? Klavwrightworth? Emawrightworth?

And this is even the case for pairings I don't like. Like I don't particularly like narumayo or mitsumayo either, but I can kind of wrap my head around Phoenix/Maya/Edgeworth as a poly ship. Same with not really liking naruodo most times but really vibing the idea of Phoenix/Apollo/Miles/

[heavencasteel420]

It is genuinely funny to me that, in a no-UD/superpowers world, Henry Creel could be just some forty-year-old blond guy. I guess you could make him over-the-top bad in a more mundane way (he’s a serial killer or a vicious crime boss), but what if you’re writing a lighthearted AU and he’s just, like, a dick? No one in the party wants to be in his social studies class because he’s sarcastic and a tough grader. He’s a shitty landlord who wants to raise the rent on adult Chrissy’s flower shop. He’s rude to Joyce at Melvald’s so her kids decide to TP his house. The older teens are in their mid-twenties and one of them is dating him, and the age gap is whatever at that point but he absolutely kills the vibe at every gathering. I think more people should explore this dynamic.

[adxmanial]

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[toomuchdickfort]

HANG ON

[lunarharp]

er... extreme amount of dragon age: the veilguard scribbles to soothe my heart🐦‍⬛💀

[royalreef]

(( As a kinda silly OOC thing: I like conceiving of Miranda (and her connections through the Merkingdom) as being an anti-OP muse.

As in, I like the thought of, the more OP someone or something else is, the worse of a time they have being able to do anything to Miranda. She is, very intentionally and within the logic of her own universe, designed to be able to handle those with extreme power and authority and to be able to undermine everything they can throw at her and counteract anything that they try to do.

She's already a royal, next in line to her throne! She has to be able to fully handle other people in similar positions without risking any damage to her own, and this is something that she's dealt with her entire life. She very much knows all the risks associated as a part of her job, her title, her entire reason for being born, and she's well-trained in the formal and informal methods of striking down anyone else who might even come close to a position to her own.

Which, of course, means that muses that very much aren't OP, that are just normal people or much closer to it, are much, much more capable of threatening Miranda and the Merkingdom both as a point of intention. This is something that I very much want and very much want to encourage. Especially because the reason this is such a problem is the way that the Merkingdom and, thus, Miranda, entirely overlook and ignore such threats and treat them like non-issues. The fact that most Merkingdom royals, upon actually encountering a landfolk, have a range of responses from discomfort to dismissal to ignorance, is one that is very purposeful here. The ones that they're most likely to pay attention to are the ones in the most danger, and the ones that they aren't likely to care very much about beyond petty malice and as another means to inflate their own egos. And, as it is, the ones they're most likely to pay attention to are those that have decided to pose a risk.

And it's a thing that I've been dealing with from the beginning too. From the start of this blog I was very bothered by the idea that some OP character would decide to singlehandedly "fix" or destroy the Merkingdom from a position of equal or greater authority. Which is not to say that I didn't want it to be changed or that there weren't ways to dismantle it. But rather, I wanted it to be more organic, and I wanted to deal with the actual question of how that even happens, and I wanted to ask the question of what could measurably improve this situation and Miranda's life both.

Which meant that, yeah, the more OP a muse is the more intentionally destined for failure they are, and the closer they approach "some guy", the more they'll be able to achieve. Which is not to say it won't be difficult or hard to do, or that there's not the possibility for failure (again, even at her most basic, Miranda is a macropredator that can easily maim someone, but more typical "normal" muses are more likely to possess caution and try to read her body language before pressing her), but the fact remains, very intentionally, that they are the only ones who will be able to do it.

[our-lady-of-mcr]

everytime i think im done ranting i remember something else LMFAO this one is extra long i hit tag limit god mf damn

[lesbianlanval]

“Victorians were way more misogynistic than medieval people” have you considered misogyny as like an expression of power dynamics within the context of a period and not just a simple sliding scale of Less or More or is nuance like. entirely dead

[tshifty]

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[welcometothepartypal12]

Does anyone else ever NOT want to wear certain clothing items because they’re their favorite and they want to like, save them for a better time? Mostly because if they wear them now, that means they can’t wear them later because they have to wash their clothes first? And like you want to be able to have them wearable at all times so that means not wearing them sometimes even though it’s all you want to wear like every day?

[zeawesomebirdie]

Okay yes I just had major surgery less than a week ago, but

cleaning is a massive part of my writing process and it's absolutely destroying me that I'm not allowed to start cleaning any part of the house for at least another week