#his relationship with jim

[ninetimesbluedemo]

It feels kinda problematic but I spend so much time around queer people that i genuinely forget that some people are cishet

Yesterday i got reminded of phil ochs' girlfriend Karen and i was seriously shocked for a moment bc in my head, subconsciously, i thought of him as gay🤧 i know he was married to Alice but any marrige could be a lavender marrige, right?

Obv Idk phil and who says you cant be bi or something, but yeah. Idk why im writing this, its stupid and im stupid but I just need to rant about phil ochs bc I love him and I guess I was projecting onto him or smth

aksnsjsjbshs this is the realest ask I have ever received

[aerialworms-art]

Lifespans.

(ID under cut)

[Image ID: A three-way venn diagram floating against a starfield. The circles are coloured; one yellow, one light blue, one a darker shade of blue. The yellow is the smallest, the two blue ones over double its size, with the darker blue the biggest. The yellow is half covered by the two blue circles, while it takes up a small amount of the two blues. The centre overlap between all three is labelled "the precious few years we three were together".

There is very little overlap between the yellow and the darker blue without the lighter blue.

The work is signed 'aerialworms'./End ID]

[iwasbored777]

They asked Lee Majdoub what he thinks of Stobotnik vs what Stone thinks of it and this man chose violence omg the more I read the more painful it gets

[certainlyathrill]

is this anything beatle people?

[awhphooey]

Blinky Fankid :3

"Who's the father?" Blinky. "But who did Blinky have a kid with-" Blinky had a kid with Blinky. Trolls don't need two parents to be made.

Anyways this is Doctor Pickle Pepper aka Pickle, and in the universe he's part of, Kanjigar dies several years before canon and it's Pickle who's the Trollhunter before Jim. Blinky adores him and yes this makes his bond with Jim 10x worse, thank you for asking!

[imjustagoldfish]

It's really so sad that even deep inside, pretty much on the brink of death, Sherlock doesn't realise how much Mycroft would cry.

Can you guys fucking imagine tho? If Sherlock really died? His brother would probably blame himself for it, no matter the cause of Sherlock's death. Like I'm so glad they actually planned Reichenbach together cuz man wouldn't have survived those 3 years before Sherlock came back.

Mycroft was literally ready to die for him! He was concerned for him from day 1 and it's just really sad that Sherlock couldn't see it.

[bayetea]

truly one of the biggest letdowns in piper's writing in hoo specifically is how it doesn't dig deeper into charmspeak and what a disturbing thing it is to have the power to control someone's mind. like I swear this is interesting stuff and more people would get into piper as a character if this were explored a bit more in the text. you definitely see piper disturbed by her own power and hesitant to use it (and note that like many other characters, i.e. leo and hazel, her powers have always been a source of trouble in her life - like how she got in trouble for stealing a car even though all she did was ask for it), but in my opinion the books spend way too much time in piper's perspectives on other stuff when charmspeak is such an unusual and fascinating and terrifying power that offers so many interesting avenues of character exploration

and I really wish the books would have talked more about the canonical fact that charmspeak is more effective against people who are (or could be) physically/sexually attracted to the user. this is a power that children of aphrodite have - a power that is implicitly tied to sexuality as a defense or offense. like this inherently necessitates that piper weaponizes her sexuality against monsters and deities and giants and any other antagonist that want to harm her. which is crazy. especially because she's a teenager and especially because piper is initially characterized as an underconfident girl who goes out of her way to downplay her appearance (do you guys remember how much harassment piper goes through in the books and what little gravity is afforded to those moments... like she has dangerous characters aggressively flirting with or expressing attraction to her A Lot, and she has to play into that attraction to save herself or her friends no matter how uncomfortable it makes her)

I think there's such a dark undertone to all of this that's worth investigating. we know that piper doesn't like herself, doesn't like her powers, and doesn't like demigod life. hoo has her on a journey to become more confident in herself as a person and as a daughter of aphrodite but it's always going to be fucked up that part of her role in the prophecy seven is becoming confident enough in herself that she gets better at weaponizing her ability to violate the free will of others - and her ability to use her sexuality as an armament of war

[littleaipom]

toby time!

[mythicalyeticat]

Two Face is such a tragic character cause he was the handsome and charming DA that was going to pull Gotham out of hell along side Gordon and Batman and then Maroni splashed that acid and it was all over. He’s tried so many times to get back to his life, to get back to Gordon, and Batman, and Bruce but something always goes wrong and he ends back up as two face. And I just think it’s so sad. He is literally doomed to fail by the narrative. His loved ones are doomed to watch him fail over and over again, he truly is one of Batman’s most tragic villains.

[theerurishipper]

Honestly, I do love Dick as Nightwing and Bruce and Dick's complicated relationship, but sometimes I like the old days when things were sweet and simple you know? When it was just them and Alfred and they all had fun with each other. Like when they blew off boring parties to go on patrol by using Dick's bedtime as an excuse. When Bruce let Dick go off on his own and said he was allowed "a little escapade" and ruffled his hair. When Alfred always brought coffee and "turkey sandwiches with Swiss cheese" to the Batcave while Dick and Bruce happily talked about their nightlife escapades. When Dick would make Bruce laugh regularly.

When they discussed Hamlet while riding in the Batmobile. When Alfred picked Dick up from school and dropped him off on dates and helped him go behind Bruce's back on cases. When Dick and Bruce would play fight with each other. When Dick made Batman's meetings with Gordon "more optimistic." When Bruce was being a helicopter parent and wanting to know why Dick would want to go to a public school. When Dick would sneak off with Clark when Bruce wanted him to stay back to finish his homework, and Clark did it for him before Bruce noticed. When Bruce teased Dick about his failed date, and they talked about it and their love lives. When Bruce apparently told stories about Joker to Dick during rides in the Batmobile. When Dick was actually the one who named the aforementioned Batmobile. When they would banter even in between a serious case. When Dick would cling onto Bruce to annoy him. When Dick was contemplating how alone he felt, and Bruce just showed up to catch him and do a routine on the trapeze with him. When Bruce would call Dick "kiddo." When Dick even called him stuff like "Bruce-ter." When Bruce used to call Dick "chum." I miss those days.

Yeah a lot of these are from Robin: Year One but that's just because it's the one I remember most. But there's a lot of them just having a good time and it doesn't feel like we see a lot of that anymore.

[illeaadante]

Star Trek AU: Spock's Suspicions

Could be AOS or TOS as this is very AU. But.

Imagine:

Jim, for whatever reason you want, knows Amanda and Sarek, independent of Spock. Maybe he met them first for whatever reason, but, he has a relationship with them that doesn't revolve around Spock.

Well, he mostly has a relationship with Amanda. They're friends. (They commiserate over their respective Vulcans. This is pre-Spirk but Amanda knows what's up and Jim never really tried to hide it from her.) And Jim is the type to casually flirt with his friends. He hypes up Amanda, even sends a wink or a compliment Sarek's way, but it's all in good fun. (Amanda does have to explain to Sarek that some humans do flirt with everyone without any actual intent, because he got a lot little bit possessive.)

So, put this together and the first time all four of them are in the same place:

Jim: *being friendly and flirting with Amanda as usual*

Amanda: *playfully flirting back*

Sarek: *allowing this interaction to happen*

Spock: *witnessing, bluescreening*

ALL Spock can think is: "...... did the captain fuck my parents?!?!?!"

and that question Eats. At. Him.

And these interactions Keep. Happening.

Sometimes they go on Shore Leave and Spock barely sees Jim OR Amanda because they're doing things together. (Spa days and massages are very common between the two of them. Amanda didn't want to go to a massage parlor alone, and Sarek obviously wouldn't go for that, and Jim is basically always in need of a massage, so it worked out.) And Spock doesn't generally seek out his father, so he has no way of knowing for sure that the three of them aren't together.

Eventually it comes to a head and Spock just, breaks. He has to ask.

Spock knocks on Jim's door in the evening.

Jim: come in.

Spock: Captain... Jim. I have a... personal... query...

Jim: no, Spock, I did not fuck your parents.

Spock: *turning around and booking it for the door* I no longer have a personal query. Good night, Captain.

Jim: *politely waits for the door to close behind Spock before busting a gut laughing*

Jim: *immediately calls Amanda to tell her what just happened*

Spock believes Jim, but the thought doesn't truly get put to rest until he actually melds with Jim the first time and sees that, no, his t'hy'la didn't fuck his parents. (He did proposition them a few times though. It was mostly joking. Mostly. Spock has to meditate about that for a long while.)

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

I'm rewatching Trollhunters in the background right now, and the disfunctional mother son relationship between Jim and his mom is making me crazy.

Like, he's taking care of the household and his mother for years as a teenager and before probably. She is sometimes giving half hearted comments about him not having to do so much, but very obviously she's not gonna make him stop do all the cooking and cleaning. Y'know. Both because they've been living like this for years, and because it's obviously also very comfortable to have someone do all the house work.

Then Strickler comes into the picture, and if we ignore the whole Troll and changeling side of the story, Barabara gets very offended cause Jim doesn't want her to meet him privately. Again, ignoring the whole magic and trolls stuff, STRICKLER IS JIMS TEACHER. If Jim hadn't figured out that Strickler was a changeling he probably wouldn't have a problem with it, but the fact that he does, no matter the reason, should be enough for Barbara to put a stop to the relationship. Her child is clearly uncomfortable with her seeing/dating that guy, for whatever reason, and even clearly vocalized it. But she doesn't care about, or rather, she tells Jim that she "wouldn't expect something like that" from him. Obviously not, cause she may see him like her child/teenager he is, BUT DOESN'T TREAT HIM LIKE ONE.

And then Jim, unknowingly to Barbara, becomes the Trollhunter, and his behavior changes. He's suddenly doing reckless stuff, sneaking out, getting bruises, landing in detention and even at the police station, barely avoiding a police report. What does she do? Asking him what's going on? If everything's alright at school? If he has any other problems? Maybe trying to lower his workload around the house, which again, he's doing most of that as a teenager and longer probably.

Nah. She doesn't do anything until he lands in the hospital. Except for again, dismissing him rather negatively at the one topic he's openly expressing any negative opinions about (Strickler). And after he lands in the hospital she now starts not asking questions, but demanding answers. Demanding answers from a teenager in a difficult situation who is also now acting much more like a teenager than he ever did before, from her point of view at least. Except she obviously doesn't know how to deal with a teenager, cause she has never had to raise or live with a teenager. She instead lived with a child pretending to be an adult for years, that was partly much more of an adult than she was, who did way to much work even before Jim became the Trollhunter. So she throws punishments at him and grounds him, but does he listen?

No. Cause why should he? Not only is he dealing with things much more important than being grounded, yknow, saving the world, he's trying to protect her from the sheer knowledge of the supernatural and physically protecting her from getting harmed. And again, for the majority of the time since his dad left he pretended to be an adult. He was and is the main adult in the household, dealing with important things she doesn't even know about.

The only one's treating Jim like a teenager are teachers, other children and Blinky and Aaargh sort of when they're not in the middle of Troll business. Strickler, in the first episodes where Jim doesn't know about his true identity, is much more of a parental figure to Jim (also after his redemption later on tbh) than his mother.

In summary: Barbara is treating her son like an adult, almost like a partner, instead of a child/teenager. And when that isn't possible anymore she doesn't know how to properly treat him. She also doesn't really care that her son is uncomfortable with her being around Strickler, or Strickler in general. And it takes Blinky telling her (when Jim is 16) that Jim might be affected by his father leaving when he was five years old.

Jim meanwhile is treating his mother more like a child/teenager instead of the adult and MOTHER that she is. Seeing her as his responsibility. Cooking for her. Cleaning for her. Telling her to rest and take breaks.

They obviously love each other other. And their relationship might not be toxic, but it's very much disfunctional. In a way that is mostly negative for Jim.

[chekovs-merkin]

okay, having watched the thing, I don’t think it actually “canonises” Spirk, not any more than any other time they held hands or any of the big scenes from the movies. in fact, I think this is rather more a passion-project/“elevated” fanwork from Shatner, Rod Rodenberry, and the Nimoy estate, than actual canon. That, and all my reservations about the whole cgi/deepfake “de-aging” aside,

I really like this thing, in all it’s cringey, kinda bad, earnest glory.

This felt like the “real” Kirk, a kind of hero that just doesn’t have the space to be (re)created in our present collective consciousness, who likes walking among nature and smelling pretty flowers and watching the sunset with his soulmate (platonic or romantic or both or whatever). It’s a little bit misguided, a little bit controversial, but it has heart, which I feel is also how Kirk has always been able to reflect Shatner at his best. I also like the ambiguity of how exactly it was that they were reunited. That’s best left to interpretation I think.

And I guess I’m glad that there’s a version of them that were together at the end and is a little closer to the mainstream than my favourite fics on ao3.

[martyrbat]

i think jim is characterized at his best when hes always a step away from a nervous breakdown and is in denial about being pussywhipped for batman

[yuripira4e]

I love the trope of “kid without a mother/father figure discovers magical world and gains 4 of them”

[spicypepperflakesss]

I always thought Muriel was too quick to get over his mental roadblocks with social interaction and physical affection. Then I thought of something and it made sense

💚 Muriel Headcanon #2:

The farther his mind is from his violent time in the Coliseum, the safer he feels

Ever wondered why Muriel quickly took to acclimating to normal life?

It's because of that. And, though he'd never admit it, because of you

Want him to wear a onesie to bed? He'll hate you for it, but sure. Want him to read the same raunchy romance novels you're into? He probably won't understand, but he surprises himself when some story parts are funny or endearing

Want him to be friends with Julian? It might - can - happen. They both went through similar things. And they have more similar things to talk about than he cares to admit. He'll never tell you though

The funny little things in life help him get his head out of the bloody coliseum and into the present

Then, one day, it finally clicked. He's not The Scourge anymore. He's more than that. He's Muriel.

Your loving partner. Dear friend. Brave son. And upstanding citizen

This hit him when he got sick one day. Real bad. That was the first time he thought he'd die.

Then he thought - he'd hate to not wear your pajama onesie for the last time.

Hate to not read your books with you as his favorite evening past time.

To not be able to tell all his friends, including Julian, everything he wants to say to them. To tell Julian to get over himself so he can stop being a little bitch about opening up to the people he cares about

And that's when it hit him

Life is beautiful. And it's beautiful because you're there. Everyone is there. And you have all chosen to see life as a gift to enjoy, despite all the horrors you've all been through. Because of all the horrors you've been through.

And he couldn't be happier. He would have never experienced this life outside of the Coliseum walls.

And he would hate it if he died now and never get to experience these things again.

Thankfully, he lives. Everyone is relieved

Today, he'll still groan a complaint if you make him wear the onesie. To read another raunchy novel. To have his ear dragged by the drunk doctor to listen to Julian's woes in life -

But when you're not looking, he hides a small smile on his lips.

He hates it, but it's a problem that he doesn't mind having. He wouldn't have it any other way.