#god it feels weird calling him that

[fairielai]

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[necrotic-nephilim]

jealousy really is the driving force of DamiTim as a ship. love that for them. love how Tim has the Robin mantle ripped away from him and he has to suffer the jealousy of watching Dick and Damian bond. how possessive over Dick Tim can be, to have him stolen by Dick.

even more so though, is the jealousy from Damian. how on earth do you cope when you finally get to be Robin, a role you've convinced is your birthright, and no one really likes you? every prefers the Robin who came before you? Dick regularly reminds you that he can always go and call Tim back when you act out? like the complex Damian has over Tim is unreal. Tim, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had everything handed to him his whole life. he never had to struggle or fight for his place like Damian did. Damian has spent his whole life fighting and proving himself, and yet he can't ever seem to truly claw the mantle of Robin away from Tim. even when Tim lets it go, becomes Red Robin, they seem to share it. Tim can slip back into the role of Robin whenever someone like Dick or Bruce need him to, because *he's* the Robin who they need. he's the Robin who was able to find Bruce. he's the Robin that Ra's wants an heir out of. he's the Robin who even Jason respects. in Damian's eyes, everything Damian has fought tooth and nail for, was handed to Tim.

so of course he's going to react to Tim with violence and aggression, especially after finding out Tim has contingency plans for him. no matter how much Damian proves himself, he's never going to be enough, especially not to Tim. and so his deep refusal to see Tim as family, to acknowledge Tim's legacy is all driven by such an angry jealousy. Tim understands aspects of Bruce's legacy that Damian doesn't, like the need to sweet talk and play nice with the elites of Gotham, even if they're corrupt. they exemplify different aspects of Robin, and the aspects that Tim exemplifies are the aspects that Damian knows he'll never fully understand and therefore holds such a deep contempt for. he wants to fight criminals, not play nice with politicians. Tim understands the side of Gotham that's utterly foreign to Damian. if anything, he represents that side of Gotham, to Damian. a pretty little rich boy who's nothing but a know-it-all and not a real son of Bruce. he can't be a Wayne. he can't be Damian's family.

and all of that angry jealousy leading to unhealthy obsession turned a weird, angry crush from Damian is just my bread and butter. that is how DamiTim should be. to me. Damian obsessed over hating Tim Drake so much he accidentally ends up sort of in love with him and that only makes Damian angrier. because he can't prove everyone right by *also* liking Tim. he can't let Ra's win like that, because frankly why wouldn't Ra's be delighted by Damian and Tim getting together. and it builds and builds with angry passive aggression towards Tim that culminates in angry hate-fucking-that's-not-just-driven-by-hate. love and hate are always viewed as opposites in shipping and i think they're the same intense passion just in different directions. and for the best ships, they're very intertwined. what is DamiTim is not the peak of that. "i put so much of myself into hating you i had no choice but to fall in love with you somewhere along the way" core. love that bleeds into hate and hate that bleeds into love. "you make me so angry i regularly passively try to kill you but not with any real effort because who would i obsess over if you were actually gone" core. murder attempts as a form of courting. contingency plans to take each other out as a love language. they're unwell.

[looseinthecatroom]

Right. Let's get this REAL clear here, yeah? For as much as I hate diving into the clusterfuck of bad takes surrounding Nandermo, I gotta say something real loud and clear;

There is NO universe, none at ALL where I give a flying kaleidoscopic fuck if Nandor and Guillermo ""go cannon"". Or get together in some sort of idealized monogamous soulmates situationship. None.

What I DON'T like is how throughout the entire show run, the IDEA of Guillermo and Nandor as a couple was never explored. (other then as a joke once or twice)

PLEASE feel more then free, feel OBLIGATED (if you want them to be platonic) to bring up IN TEXT that they simply aren't interested in each other in that way. There are ten thousand ways to do it!

My kingdom for in the next episode (there is some weird... last episode thing still right?) it's mentioned that they got together for like a week before they both decided that just wasn't what they wanted. Or that they used to fuck when Guillermo was new to the vamily but it low key sucked.

My hand in marriage for a mention of Guillermo having, or specifically not having for whatever reason, a crush on his super cool idealized REAL VAMPIRE boss man when they met, but getting over it the longer they spent together.

My heart for ANY acknowledgement that these are two queer men deeply interwoven in each others lives in a show where the entire rest of the cast is constantly hitting on each other and having chill low key background sex on the reg, and if they are platonic (completely fucking fair) acknowledging in any way in text the idea that they could not be platonic if they wanted, but that they do not want that.

I DO NOT care about ~""shipping""~. There is a history far older then the medium of censoring, or even just being really fucking weird about, queerness, vs the decade or so of increased visibility we've just had. And all I need is simply to see the possibility actually acknowledged and then discarded in text if that's what the writers prefer. I need to see... actual explicit character development and acknowledgement of who these two are, what they mean to each other and why. Not this string along shit (with a side of making fun of the fans, because THAT doesn't clearly shoot any claim to good intentions/ignorance in the foot and lay out what kind of people are in charge) unless you ARE planning to pay off the "will they won't they" tension. (INCLUDING with a "they won't and here's why"!!)

[batsplat]

following on from this. not to always bring marc into everything (sorry marc) but if assen 2015 had happened against jorge, valentino would have very likely pulled something similar again imo. rather than what he actually did, which is approach marc almost immediately for a nice normal friendly handshake and backing off during the podium celebrations. should be noted that during laguna seca '08, valentino was very much committed to yapping at casey on the podium with the world's biggest smuggest grin on his face

partly that disparity is because jorge not marc was the direct title rival, partly it's because valentino was treating marc with kid gloves right until the second that he wasn't, which marc was seemingly entirely oblivious to. if anyone other than marc had said what he said in that presser, had then continued on with similar rhetoric during sachsenring, valentino would quite likely have gone nuclear. he's done it over less than that. his fondness for marc made him continue to exhibit uncharacteristic restraint... except that fondness unfortunately is what left valentino feeling so very betrayed when (to his eyes) marc could not leave well enough alone

[corpish]

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[moe-broey]

Amateur Hour but I gotta outsource this. Aromantics. Heed my call. What is "romantic" love to a non-believer?

Bonus Round if you're not entirely ace -- does experiencing any amount of sexual attraction influence your answer? Also acknowledging that both aro/ace identities exist on a spectrum. Believe me. I am deeply familiar... with so many kinds of spectrums........... 🧍

Also if this breaches containment It's Not That Serious........... just a personal question. For a friend. Me 🙂‍↕️

[astro-b-o-y-d]

Last night on Discord, I was talking about how funny it'd be if Ford came across that little 'I'm a Preteen' blurb in TBOB, and was like "Okay, well, he's OBVIOUSLY lying. Except...he was in the Nightmare Realm for a trillion years. A crumbling mess of chaos with no rules or logic...And Dipper and Mabel told me that Mabel's bubble had the ability to make summer last forever. Would it...be a stretch to assume it came from a place with similar abilities? No, that's silly...right?"

Cue the rest of the family walking in on him the next morning with a whole red yarn conspiracy board, as he tries to figure out if he was actually acting as some interdimensional demon's babysitter for the past thirty years.

[moonchild-in-blue]

So Goblin....thoughts?

I love it so much even though it ripped my heart out

Okay, honestly? I thought it was a little disappointing. Tbh I got a bit bored of the main couple real fast. Nothing against the actors - they are both wonderful and did a fenomenal job - but Goblin x Euntak's plotline fell kinda meh to me.

I can understand the need for the time skip, cus sure a high schooler being the bride of an almost-thousand-years old dude is... 👀 But idk! It dragged a bit, and I couldn't really feel the chemistry between them.

HOWEVER. MR GRIM REAPER AND SUNNY???? Beautiful amazing spectacular show-stealing etc etc. I loved them SO MUCH WOW. (fyi, they played the main couple in another kdrama after that, called "Touch Your Heart". Very lighthearted and cute, they just work so so well together)

I liked the side plots and characters (Goblin's nephew, his friendship with the Reaper, their whole backstory etc) more than I liked the mc. Euntak especially, she never clicked for me. The last time I rewatched, I just ended up fast-forwarding all later scenes between them two (really I was there for Lee Dongwook and Yoo Inna), which is never a good sign in a romance kdrama.

But obviously it's one of the best rated dramas ever so it's not like it was terrible. Just the main plot that didn't do it for me. I found the Goblin himself to be a little boring too.

Soundtrack is 10/10 tho, oh my goodness!! Stay With Me and Beautiful Life are in constat rotation (it helps that I love both EXO and Crush but. Stay With Me the song you are!!!!).

[elfsyellowflowerzart]

oooh blast from the past, i drew this of omalia and torelai in 2019... its wild how much my art has changed...

[dailyautophagy]

I can’t imagine being so young I need an audience to feel real

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Tell me why there was a medical emergency on a day where a medical emergency should not have been involved lmao wtf

[cosmogyros]

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[robotsafari]

man. i'd rather have the devs make riku stare deadpan into the camera and call me, the player, a slur than have him say this shit like are you fucking kidding me.

[voiddemon]

anyway trying to design a generic ass mfer

[sillyfreakx5]

i miss him so much :(((

(tw for implied grooming/csa in the tags)

[flutt3rb4tz]

i wanna form an actual opinion on the sh2 remake but god i cant get past how much they butchered eddie's design. he looked like me originally and now hes just That Fat Guy you see in video games, same style and everything. it makes me really sad. not to mention im TERRIFIED of how they'll handle his psychosis