#encyclopedic knowledge

[tanavast17]

I know what most of this means and I’m proud but slightly scared

every normal fantasy author goes to Q&As and they get questions like "hii i love your writing! where do you get inspiration for all your amazing worlds and characters?" and then the author will respond like "I go on frequent woods walks and I like to watch history documentaries :) it gets me really inspired" and then brandon sanderson will go to Q&As and get a question like "if you had a nicrosil compounder, could they burn the stored investiture and then store it again to generate infinite investiture? and if so, could you use that to generate infinite stormlight, provided the nicrosil compounder was also a knight radiant? and using the infinite stormlight, could you establish a perpendicularity using bondsmith powers, travel through the cognitive realm at high speed with the infinite stormlight, go to sel, and use nightblood to eat the entire Dor, permanently disabling the magic of Elantris?" and then brandon responds with "RAFO. You'll find out in Stormlight 5"

[beets]

[laurasbailey]

[shushmal]

steve, occasionally the mental terrorist: so, is lizard jail actually fun?

eddie: please stop

steve: like, you all yell the entire time at each other. must be hard getting the lizard out of prison.

eddie: i know you're doing this on purpose. stop it.

steve: you're like the judge right? and everyone else is the lawyers? who's the defense attorney and who's the prosecutor?

eddie: please

steve: what crimes did the lizard commit to receive 25 consecutive life sentences?

[maddycheyenne]

its so funny how sqq and sqh are collectively losing it and li yu’s just swimming around and being cute

also i got this idea from this

[witherby]

Thinkin about Bruce being obsessed with Hal if he gains a little weight. He sees some tension in the waistline, sees the beginnings of a muffin top, and goes absolutely crazy.

"I didn't think you could get hotter."

Hal, who gained some weight because a severe injury knocked him out of the hero game for two months and he's just been recovering on his ass while he heals: I'll genuinely construct a noose and hang you with it if you joke like that again.

Bruce, confused: I'm not joking? As a matter of fact, I'm tempted to ask Alfred to start carbo-loading you. I'm thinking horrifically dirty things about your body. I want to take a week off of work and patrols to worship every inch of you in the Poconos. Can we make that happen? Would it upset you terribly? I'll buy you all-new clothes to accommodate you if the answer is yes. Please say yes. I'm prepared to beg.

[inchidentally]

considering there’s two videos of the same topic it’s safe to say this is a part of a fic where every single thing about Lando is precious and worthy of full attention for Oscar, even Lando’s specific curl patterns

[elkscreams]

Adventures in raising a ten year old

[skitskatdacat63]

Here are some other F3 Seb pics I thought were really cute

[epersonae]

putting this on its own post now that I have had a decent night's sleep

two days ago I read a post wherein someone proposed a very different sort of soulmates AU. I immediately had shivers, and it felt terrifyingly real. For an hour or two, I rotated various sorts of soulmate world-building concepts, and then I realized that it needed as little world-building as possible, just all vibes.

I sat down with my laptop, and in an hour or so had jammed out the first ~1400 words, barely slept all night, and then wrote the rest yesterday, with a break for a walk, another to rewatch some bits of s2, and then to watch a completely unrelated video while @veeagainsttheday beta'd it.

Every fugitive hour leaves its mark (M, 4622 words)

There’s a mark. And if you have the mark, well, that means there’s someone out there that has it too. Not everybody has it, and there’s a lot of stories about what it means: particular gift, isn’t it, to know there has to be someone who is drawn to you, bound to you, you need them and they need you? But his mum had the mark, and his dad had the mark, and well. In which having a soulmate isn't necessarily a good thing, and the distinction between fate, grace, and love.

thank you anon for the genuinely brilliant idea; if you ever want to chat, asks and DMs are open, and if you ever write yours, I'll be the first to hype it up. (let me say that I have only gotten just amazing comments, so don't let the haters deter you!)

[bununuu]

in honor of xlov’s debut, here’s a favorite boys planet video of rui and wumuti~

[glitter-stained]

I know some people argue that robin!Jason and Dick were never close post-crisis pre n52 because they only interacted a couple of times in canon and I understand that due to Dick living away when they first met they wouldn't be as close as the relationship Dick has with some of his other siblings, but I would also wish we would take in account that for all three of Jason's years, we have like 30 issues of Jason's run. That's exceedingly small. We have batman #416, we have that one moment in teen titans (i forgot the issue) of jason working with the team, and i think the ski trip we found out later about was included in the same canon*. (also, i do feel like even if you didn't know/like eachother before going on a ski trip together by the end of the ski trip this will have changed, and the picture definitely felt like they were getting along even though Jason's face in the picture was comically weird.) I'm not sure if there were other interactions shown or mentioned, but hey, 2-3/30ish isn't a bad score at all! If we're going 3/30, that's a whole tenth of Jason's robin era.

(And I'm talking about their relationship from Dick's pov since it's the one in question here but it's clear to me in Jason's run, even post-crisis, that Dick is often on his mind and important in his life (with a certain inferiority complex the little siblings of very cool people know well) with stuff like I think Batman #410 or Jason is Legends.)

And even more importantly, 30ish is extremely short for three damn years. That's ten issues per year! Do we assume that Jason was sitting on a shelf for the whole time he's not working with batman in the comics? Do we assume batman was sitting on a shelf twiddling his thumbs all that time during those three years he appears, either? It's perfectly logical to make the assumption that Bruce and Jason were still going out as goddamn Batman and Robin even when it's not shown on screen and having a relationship and interacting together even when it's not seen. In fact it's the most reasonable and logical assumption even. It's obvious Jason and Bruce's interactions extend past what was shown on screen so why wouldn't Dick and Jason? We know from Dick's relationship to his death that Dick cared about Jason. We know how much his death impacted him. Regardless of the (now retconned) terrible mess that was their relationship after Jason came back, they had a relationship, and it was good, and how deep it went is up to interpretation but it doesn't cheapen or lessen any of Dick's relationship with his other siblings to acknowledge that (like, seriously, even though some of them might view it as such in the story, dick's love isn't a prize that can only go to the one blorbo to win the competition. Personally I don't see Robin Jason being his favourite, and that's fine. Probably since, as I only have one sibling to be weird about, this is one aspect of Dick and Jason's relationship that I don't project onto them.)

There's a difference between saying "those are the only canon interactions between Dick and Robin!Jason that we know of" and saying "those are the only interactions that happened between Jason and Dick when Jason was Robin", especially if the next sentence is going to be something like "read a comic". I want to insist that I'm not saying that they have to have been super close. All I'm saying is I don't see, with the knowledge I personally have of canon and the retcons I choose to disregard (because of terrible writing), why considering that they were close wouldn't be canon compliant.

Leeway, nuance and up to interpretation stuff are fun and should matter for evaluating the level of canon compliance of your own headcanons, and I think it's especially important when trying to police other people's interpretation of canon: are you certain their interpretation is fanon and you're correcting it with the right canon, or is it a case of two headcanons clashing in the blank space between comic pages?

I just found it strange to never see it taken in account in the sometimes pretty emphatic takes I saw on the debate around their relationship, so those are my two cents on the matter. All this to say, [theatre joke in coming], when it comes to Dick and Jaybin, we could all stand to be more chill.

* btw i'm excluding dixon's nightwing year one from this conversation because I hate how it manages to shit on every one of the characters i've seen him write in it so violently and also fuck dixon, my jason comes from post-crisis not that crappy weirdo retcon.

[cedric-k-rossignol]

[macbethz]

hes just like me fr

[vantabone]

it's quiet

[gen4grl]

i bought leaks, butter, bananas and bean jam jelly!