#even moreso now

[timethehobo]

Finding myself needing a different type of Tech support after the end of TBB.

[quarian-ark-searcher]

JOSHUA BASSETT in London, 10.05.23

[technicolorxsn]

thinking abt that day again....

[deerspherestudios]

Does Mycheal know that humans live shorter than him?

He does! Has been long aware of it, actually!

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the thing i'm most disappointed about with riordanverse fandom now versus like 2014 is not only has the fandom not gotten any less racist or queerphobic or ableist (in fact in some regards its gotten worse!) but now it's just boring too. like there's no fandom infrastructure anymore - the community these days is almost entirely source material-driven - and you deviate from canon even slightly people get weird about it. whatever happened to the post-HoO fanon boom. the fandom needs to get weirder again. and self-sufficient. and less offensive.

[pocketgalaxies]

beau and caleb butting heads so bad about what to do with essek...oof!

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » the astronomer philosopher, the earth and the moon

[qiu-yan]

jiang cheng at the club

i answered kind of speedily but hm blorbo should not be at the club

teenage era? the most debatable era tbh. on one hand - for one, if jiang cheng goes, he's going because he thinks that's what the cool kids his age should be doing, rather than because it's what he actually wants to do. for two, if he goes he's certainly going with wei wuxian. there's a good chance he'll have a good time with wei wuxian, but there's also a good chance that he'll spend the entire experience way too high-strung about wei wuxian doing something stupid (guaranteed) that will make both him and yunmeng jiang look stupid (not guaranteed but still likely) and/or put wei wuxian in danger (also very likely). there's also an even higher chance that wei wuxian will end up fucking off to chat/flirt/etc with other people (eg. lan wangji who wei wuxian also managed to drag to the club, who then gets drunk and thus wei wuxian now has to babysit), thereby leaving jiang cheng all by his lonesome. jiang cheng can probably talk to strangers, but he came here to have fun with wei wuxian and now wei wuxian has ding dong ditched. bonus points if wei wuxian promised to be designated driver and now jiang cheng has to uber home.

on the other hand - teenage wei wuxian and jiang cheng are definitely making the club more fun. mostly wei wuxian. and, despite all of the above, jiang cheng is probably having a good time...most of the time...too.

adult era: nah. jiang cheng is busy. it would be nice if he could let loose and forget about everything for a few hours, but he would not do that. realistically he'd just spend the entire time stressing about his growing to-do list, and the music would give him a headache.

also, everything at the club would remind him of wei wuxian. wei wuxian, certified party animal, was almost certainly the one dragging jiang cheng to the club in their youth; jiang cheng probably does in fact have some happy memories of clubbing with wei wuxian. but those happy memories are gonna curdle into depressing ones the moment he steps through the doors and is reminded of wei wuxian again. the photos of wei wuxian doing a keg stand behind the bar are making him miserable, and he in turn is going to make it everyone else's problem.

postcanon era: also nah. mostly because he'd almost certainly run into jin ling et al. sneaking into the club with fake IDs, and now everyone's yelling.

on the other hand....maybe he and wei wuxian can eventually reconcile over a night of partying they're both frankly way too old for. or maybe when they wake up the next day in the same ditch with matching hangovers.

[ssaalexblake]

arachnids in the uk is an ep about a super rich guy (who is clearly based off of the fascist in that white building in the usa) illegally disposing of waste to avoid paying to get rid of it properly, leading to an ecological disaster that kills both people and severely effects the local fauna in devastating ways and y'all still won't talk about it being anti-capitalist

skill issue tbh

[robynator]

very yummy character design to me is dark/tanned skin and either white or blonde hair. i eat it up every time

[akuma-tenshi]

that time of year again. how're we feeling coa fans <3

[communist-hatsunemiku]

people posting clips of Miku on their desktop are making me foam at the mouth. NOOOO SHE BELONGS WITHHH MEEEEE ID PROVIDE THE MOST LOVING DIGITAL HOME!!!!!

[starrbar]

I genuinely did enjoy problematic ships in a vaccuum until fandom got shitty about it. Now I enjoy them rebelliously. Congrats, y'all, you made me worse. :3

[joleneghoul]

Ngl this might sound stupid but lets blame the learning disability but writing dialog is so fucking hard for me mentally i think mostly bc of english teachers nonstop saying i cant use the word said. I feel like that did not help me know wtf to do in that situation at all.

Like character voices and everything else is very fun to me its just thst 1 thing thst stresses me out for no reason still 😭

[stinkypire]

Ranpo and Dazai parrelels. In dark era, Dazai had a plan in which he was held at gunpoint, basically put in danger. He talks about how everything when according to his plan, and Oda is unamused at it.

Similarly, in untold orgins, a similar scernio occurs in which Ranpo puts himself in danger knowing Fukuzawa would save him. Instead of being hit with unamused words, he was hit with a slap because of how upset Fukuzawa was with Ranpo putting himself in danger like that.

They both are genuises that had certain planned/use their knowledge to their advantage, but this causes a disconnect with the people around them as they don't consider how the others around them feel about them putting themself in danger. Thus, showing while they are genuises and prodigies, the human mind has shown to be troubling for them and something they fail to understand to a certain extent. Now that I think about it the "a mind of a steel trap" quote Oda said can be applicaple to Ranpo as well. However, Ranpo was not as far into the darkness of the world as Dazai. But what if Fukuzawa never found Ranpo? He already had shown to think as human as monsters due to a not understanding how they felt and the agency was a place made for him that helped him as well. What if someone like Mori found Ranpo instead of Fukuzawa?

But overall, both characters are similar in ways and I wanted to point it out.