#for a dramatic showdown

[egophiliac]

couple more quickies, because I gotta work through my Shroud-family feelings before I can even begin to process the Diasomnias, please bear with me 🙇

anyway, I couldn't decide which composition I liked better, so I did both!

[mzminola]

#villain Jason might have made an even better DICK antagonist #instead we got tentacle Jason and decided to ignore the possibility forever #but it could have been really interesting! #at the time Dick had been burned BADLY 3 or 4 times in a row #trying to redeem villains #can you imagine Jason acting as an antagonist after all that?! [tags via OP]

Villain Jason was so fun. Like one thing I adored in Under the Red Hood was that Jason was so clearly what happens when a Robin, specifically, becomes a villain. Other evil futures or alternative dimension selves or whatever don't really utilize the Robin-ness the same way.

But Red Hood Jason was making quips, and doing showy flips despite being built closer to Bruce now, making use of insider knowledge & specialized training, doing the "Let's team up and tackle these baddies together!!! :D :D :D" thing, it was great.

Evil Future Tim is just a very tired, sad Batman with guns, Dick is walking in some established villain's shoes, etc. Anybody could act like the villains they get to be.

So this era of Jason being a Dick Grayson nemesis, that works really well with themes of legacy & influence. Because Jason was Robin. The second one! He took up Dick's first mantle, with his blessing (after some hiccups). And now he's killing people? In the fucking Nightwing suit???

Jason & Tim both idealized Dick's Robin and they are doing such different things with that idealization from Dick & Tim's perspective, and...a great big snarl of different-not-different-same-better-worse from Jason's.

Then the whole Battle for the Cowl fiasco, and Jason kicking around after to cause more trouble for Dickbats as Red Hood.

Jason who's cruel on purpose is an entertaining villain, and I think one of the reasons is that he saves that cruelty for anyone else he views as a villain, and the other capes. If it was spilling over onto everyone he'd just be Random Gotham Rogue #Umpteen, instead of Jason Todd.

Conceptually Jason coul have made a really good villain for Robin Tim.

I got into the fandom about 6 months before Damian showed up. And there WAS quite a bit of villain!Jason fanfic at the point, most of it centred around him and Tim. I really enjoyed it.

I like the current fanon Jason better, now. I like him as a grouchy and somewhat unstable brother. I like him as a book nerd and chef. I like him firmly believing everyone hates him while they desperately try to convince him to come home. I even like a lot of the stuff where the Pit is almost another personality which he is fighting!

But there's something REALLY intriguing about a Jason who's actually cruel. Who's completely in control of himself, and just likes hurting people. It's not really fair to the character, but I still enjoy it!

(I feel similarly about evil Talia. It isn't fair to the character, but the fanfic is fun!)

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

i....am so normal about them

[just-some-guy-joust]

THE FINALE.

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[edwardteachswombtattoo]

What gets me every time is Stede's sincerity. His honesty. The slightly cheesy and childish but sincere love confession only Stede could pull off. "You wear fine things well" and "What makes Ed happy?" and "I love everything about you" and "You make Stede happy". So sincere with his feelings, respecting Ed's boundaries, no ulterior motives. He just..loves everything about Ed. Ed wears fine things well. He wants to know what makes Ed happy. Ed makes Stede happy.

[many-gay-magpies]

oh also the reveal that powerful knight gloreth telling the big scary monster to "go back to the shadows from whence you came" was actually little kid gloreth turning against her shape-shifting friends because her parents told her she was a monster hit me BIG TIME.

[thexgrayxlady]

I could see Jack crippling the world's economy as a byproduct of some insane crypto scam he threw together as a way to get more money for Jackbots because his parents cut off his allowance and just being so angry about it because he almost destroyed the world but he did it wrong.

[smiggles]

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[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

I-

Oh my gosh

That was ABSOLUTELY A M A Z I N G

SLFKGHLJHS DR LUBELLE GOT SQUISHED BY A COW

CARLOS IS THE NEW DEAN AAAHHHH!!!

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 😭😭😭😭 HE'S INVESTIGATING THE DESERT OTHERWORLD!!!!

Also Cecil's attachment to the lights above the Arby's :'D like it makes so much sense obviously but just hearing him talk about it in the beginning and then at the end 😭😭😭 I literally can't :'))

And related to that, "ancient radio host" 👀👀👀 YESSSS we love when we vaguely acknowledge that ;)

And related to THAT, as I was thinking the whole time, I love how Dr. Lubelle didn't even try to explain Cecil XD. Girl really was just gonna leave him and the Ralph's lol, and that's how it should be 😌 I mena if it had to happen lol. Or just like, Cecil not being explained in general.

Anyway

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

YESSS EVERYONE'S BACK!!!

Except, of course, for one 😭

All Mourn the Glow Cloud <33

So yeah :'D I enjoyed this episode SO freaking much (the weather was beautiful by the way - not in a calm way, but just super good lol). Another year :').

Night Vale, I love you so freaking much <3. Thank you :')).

[puhpandas]

if Gregory has a cool new model/design in the DLC I'll shit myself

[taegularities]

hear me out..

cmi jk knocks on oc’s door to try and get her back and she opens it half naked and then a shirtless hoseok comes to her with his hair all messy asking who it is. Jk then realises that they were in the middle of doing ‘things’ and apologises for disturbing them and walks off🙂

... so that's the kinda angst y'all crave, huh? </3

[airenyah]

ray chen is just such an adorable, precious human being

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Chase’s relationship with First is a strange one. He instigates ‘death battles’ with First but God help anyone else who comes close to killing his “husband”

Strange perhaps. but oh so tantalizing~ (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖) It's about that sweet sweet undescribable bond that blooms between people who clashed as opponents and equals, my man. And occasional fights to death and proprietary behaviour is Chase's questionable way of flirting, lol.

also i have a small collection of tumblr posts that kinda fits their ship dynamics in my head ;P

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also extra silly ones;3

[just-some-guy-joust]

You're gonna earn a reputation for never having a single tournament go perfectly at this rate :^3. Anyways hopefully you dont get anymore realizations during this tournament, have a good week!

false the lovecore showdown was great because it was me and 50 loverboy fans constantly screaming at me about how much they love their boy and that was awesome unfortunately there's now 600+ of you here screaming about many different things and a lot of those things are things that i did wrong

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