#i am definitely not late as hell.

[pioneers-productions]

I really love froggy.... Could i have some gifs of her??

froggy gifs for u :3

[whollyjoly]

@luztoyeweek 2024 day 2 - francis forever by mitski

[magicicephoenix]

oh lord they coming

happy 414 day! since last year i did batim enemies, this time it’s batdr allies :)

without text once again under the cut!

[kaythefloppa]

The struggles of being a Lion King fan and a Wild Kratts fan witnessing major fandom events happening on the same day is a living struggle.

[pynkhues]

The same people on X who post that not partaking in the femme Louis head-canon is racist have posted that they hate when people use she/her pronouns for Lestat. And they don't care what he calls himself even though he's used she/her pronouns in the show, because he is a MAN. Surprise, surprise.

I mean, as you said, it's not exactly a surprise, anon. I sometimes wonder if some people's more aggressive behaviour in the fandom has been partially motivated by - - mm, not jealousy, perhaps, but frustration maybe over the fact that Lestat's already done in canon on the show what a lot of them want Louis to be doing (i.e. he's worn drag, used she/her pronouns, compared himself to a mother, been the unemployed, supportive spouse to a working partner, been the birthing parent of a daughter [which I say just because Louis pretty explicitly doesn't see Madeleine as one]). Things that in some people's narrow view of gender 'feminises' him - again, I don't think Lestat's all that feminine really as a character. Is he gender non-conforming? Mm, maybe? I really tend to think he's just Lestat, haha. That said, these are all things that he's canonically done already - and the fact that the show has gone there with Lestat explicitly kind of muddies the water a bit as to how you might be able to argue why the show might not have with Louis. if Louis being femme is what the show's canonically trying to get across, why haven't any of these things happened with him, given the show's clearly not afraid to go there, y'know?

I mentioned it in my posts last weekend too, but I do wonder how much of it is about trying to temper the waters ahead of s3, particularly with this holding to the idea of Louis as a gothic heroine. Again, I don't think either he or Lestat are personally (I think Claudia is a quintessential gothic heroine, and a brilliant one at that, as I've said before), but, through Anne, TVL is deeply entrenched in the female gothic as a story, and it'd be pretty impossible to deny that there are traditional gothic heroine tropes in Lestat's story - from the abuse within his father's house, to the utter lack of familial protection that sees him almost torn apart by wolves (and gosh, it's not gothic, but The Little Red Riding Hood parallels are explicitly talked about in canon - Lestat relates to her! More than once!), to Magnus terrorising him through Paris before he rapes and kills him, to Armand's tormenting obsession, to Marius' patronage that eventually sees him straight into Louis' arms and a real (albeit complicated) love story.

I do think a lot of these parts of the fandom aren't overly familiar with the books, but I think a lot of them also know enough at this point to be Aware, y'know? So in some ways it feels like - - mmm, pre-emptive action from a few people? Or, I don't know. I said it in the last post, but there is this sense of some people wanting to salt the earth of this fandom so nothing they don't like can grow, and maybe it really is just that. But anyway, yeah. Not surprised, and I'd just ignore it, anon, if you can.

[kaleida404]

Gemtober Day 6: Vanadinite

[Image ID: A drawing of Vanadinite, a Houseki No Kuni OC. They have blocky, bright red-orange hair and are smiling calmly, wearing the standard gem uniform /.End ID]

[pride-of-storm]

on the one hand 'i get to put up whatever shower curtain i want' is kind of a stupid hill to die on, but on the other hand i have acknowledged your claim on every other hill i could have picked, so fuckin acknowledge my claim on this one

[todayisafridaynight]

any hopes for kiwami 3? like things u wanna see added or changed stuff like that

if they dont keep kiryu's goofy walk stance and the hoof-like walk sounds i dont wanna play it

[toxooz]

ALSOOOOOOO i Finally got to ride a skateboard at the skatepark with bf n friends for the first time ever yesterday and i feel so 👀👀👌👌👌💯💯💯 i managed to be able to balance and push around and stop without falling and it was fun tbh!! i can see getting muscle memory and improvement by doing it consistently 😤 i just hope this aint too short of a phase for everyone so i can hopefully get me own board soon 🙏

[showyoumyfavoriteobsession]

next week we're going into the peak of our conference season (starting on wednesday we'll have 6 conferences in 11 days) and our department's website decided to act up this week so we have to use workarounds for everything and still the most cosmically unfair part to me is that satisfactory 1.0 launches the day before everything gets the most busy which means i absolutely cannot play it for the next two weeks or i will be exhausted and get zero work done

[silverselfshippingchaos]

r.une is so awesome! he's the kindest guy ever and I always drop by the thieves guild whenever I'm not doing anything just to hear his pretty voice

[deers-doodles]

Yknow I've been wondering smth recently. Does anyone else like, ship their lamb with kallamar at all?? Because I remember asking in a server who I could ship my lamb with for more oc x canon stuff for me to make and someone said I could ship them kallamar. And ever since then I've been curious to know if anyone else ships their lamb with kally. 🤔

To be completely honest I don't think I've ever seen anyone else ship their lamb with kally- like I've seen the obvious narilamb everywhere, some occasional lamb x leshy and lamb x heket, and maybe even once a bit of lamb x shamura. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone do it with kally. I'm sure there's a tag full of the stuff but most of the time I either don't think about looking it up or I just straight up forget about it- yknow what imma finally look into this. Cause if I don't do now right after I'm done typing this I don't think I'll ever remember to check 💔😔

[dowotdashdotdot]

heyyy didnt hit post limit tonight

ugh i guess i have to be responsible with my endless reblogging 😒

[justanotherjaydrawing]

God, writing original stories is so hard sometimes. What do you MEAN I need to introduce my characters in a coherent manner? What do you MEAN the audience doesn't already know and love my oc's the way I do?? Why don't they already love my oc's like I do!??

[angstandhappiness]

Interesting

Okay, not to defend Gotham War or anything, but I think I'm talking myself into liking what I see it's trying to do. Starting with some great tags on this post:

#i get why people are hating on it i really really do. trust me#but TO BE FAIR... zdarsky has been making it overwhelmingly clear that bruce is SERIOUSLY unwell right now#like it's been nonstop Horrors for him for like. over a dozen issues straight. with no rest or time to process. and he doesn't have alfred#who was a HUGE part of his support system not to mention the finances etc etc#iirc there's even a panel that pretty much outright states that this is more of an issue of control than morality#and that includes the choosing sides thing like the batkids seem more concerned w how bruce is going off the fucking rails than#just the moral aspects#anyway (via @clownprince)

#Batman#Bruce Wayne#REAL#REAL REAL REAL#LIKE. Zur En Arrh is a LITERAL Defense Mechanism going Malignant at this point#Not only that but throughout Zdarsky's run there's been allusions to illnesses and Bruce Not Having A Good Time#Not Having a Good Time and Not Having Time At All to take stock of the sheer What The Fuck-ery that's been going on recently#Because it's been a CONSTANT steam of What The Fuck-ery nonstop#And the Worse is yet to come if one considers the future issues synopsis and the ''I am a Gun'' story by Zdarsky#(At most I'm a little bit concerned over how Zdarsky will try to wrap this up‚ but that's a normal concern especially about Comics)#(Especially Batman Comics considering how often Editorial likes to... do things) (via @kaosvrow)

I agree with so much of the criticism of Gotham War, especially that the arguments for or against Selina's plans are absolute garbage by characters who should be making better arguments and that the other characters are being used as bobbleheads instead of actually giving them their canon personalities--and, okay, I will also point out that in the VERY FIRST ISSUE, Selina's plan gets someone killed and so I'm willing to extend some grace that the story isn't trying to push forward that either way is actually right, I honestly don't think it's about that. I think it's a story about Bruce Wayne's mental state, because Zdarsky's been building this up for awhile now, like the issue immediately prior to Knight Terrors? Shows us Bruce's mental state is ALREADY absolute TRASH right then:

Zur-En-Arrh was already leaking through the seams of his mind, he was already feeling the impending doom of everything he cared about being burned away, that his mind literally couldn't watch his kids being happy and together and getting along without feeling like it was all burning to ash.

And then Knight Terrors happened, which was one more thing digging hard, boney fingers into his trauma, and he handled it pretty well in the moment, but it's such a giant, non-stop pile of stress on a mind that is already damaged to hell and back because of his trauma.

Further, the very first issue of the Gotham War storyline? The very first panel, the one that sets up the stage of what's going to happen, makes a very clear point about how this is about Bruce fracturing:

And then on the very next page, Zur-En-Arrh is literally stalking at the bars of the cage around Bruce's mind.

And then Bruce wakes up and it's immediately more establishing just how worried everyone is about him because so much has been piled on lately:

Bruce hides his missing hand from his family, just like he's trying to hide how scraped thin he is right now, and goes out on patrol.

Where his internal monologue is all about how defensive he feels lately, how he feels like the years are catching up to him, how nothing feels right but this, making it clear that Bruce is hanging onto Batman with a death grip because it's the only thing that feels stable to him right now.

And all of this is in the first TEN PAGES of the first issue, this is our set-up, this is our foundation, this is what we're being given to understand what this story is about. Then Batman #137 happens and it's literally ALL ABOUT BRUCE'S MENTAL SPACE, that Selina's plan is the catalyst, not the driving point behind all of it. Again, I'm in 100% agreement that the Batkids are acting like cardboard cutouts because you will never get me to believe that they didn't notice crime going down or that they wouldn't be pointing out that Gotham's wealthy are just going to start making their security lethal in response or that the Court of Owls won't step in, that this is not a long term solution to giving these people lives beyond crime, or even that a lot of them should be agreeing with Bruce, that they don't get to decide who is an acceptable victim. But the story isn't really about changing up the way comics deal with crime, it's about even the Batkids are framing it in terms of how it's about Bruce. Jason is really the only one who seems onboard with trying out Selina's plan, but even his confrontation with Bruce isn't really about that, it's about all their baggage, their fight immediately becomes about how angry Jason is at the way Bruce has treated him. This fight isn't happening because Jason's a true believer in Selina's plan, it's happening because he's angry at Bruce and Bruce is in a shitty mental place, after all the non-stop horrors AND feeling like he's been betrayed by the kids who he thought understood that people being victims wasn't acceptable, and so he lashes out at Jason.

When they fight, it's not because they're siding against Bruce, it's because he's become unstable and dangerous. The why of it doesn't matter, it's not about that.

(And I'm actually okay with the way that fight happened because I can buy that, for example, Cass might be holding back against him, she's a stronger fighter than he is, but he's being ruthless because of the state he's in, while she might be feeling more cautious.) When they fight, it's not because they're siding against Bruce, it's because he's become unstable and dangerous. The why of it doesn't matter, it's not about that. Even further, when Bruce fights against his kids, he's wrong and biased, especially in the fight with Dick, who he thinks has a sloppy offensive and doesn't know darkness like he does--to which Dick just immediately cracks him in the face because, yeah, Dick Grayson does know darkness and Bruce isn't as untouchable as he's trying to make himself seem (because being Batman is all he has right now).

I think it's important that it's Dick who defies his expectations here, because this story is building off context of what happened between Selina and Bruce, that they were truly together for awhile, they were about to get married--Selina mentions that it the first issue, it's a major thorn in that conversation when she throws out how she doesn't believe that Gotham needs Batman anymore, it needs her.

She's giving him what he said he always wanted, she's giving him the thing that kept them apart, he should be happy, should they head to the church now? Saying that he won't because he wants to be Batman more than he wants to solve the city's problems.

The failed wedding between them is important in part because of what Selina's saying here, illustrating that both of them are bringing a lot of baggage to the table but also because of what else happened during that storyline, why the context is so important. Because that storyline dovetailed into one about Bane wanting to take over Gotham and he needed Batman unstable and distracted, which was working after Selina left him at the altar, he was a mess. But you know what was saving him at the time, bringing him back from the ledge? THIS KID:

Dick was the one poking and prodding at Bruce with jokes and warmth and care and it was working. He actually got Bruce to cry in front of him, to release some actual genuine emotion!

Dick makes Bruce more emotionally stable, to the point that Bane had to hire KGBeast to shoot Dick in the head just because he was so good at stabilizing Bruce--this is also why Dick's the one who says he'll go talk Bruce down off his moral ledge in Batman #137.

So, it's Dick that has to be the one to defy his expectations in the fight, has to be the one who breaks through Bruce's offense and knocks him down in what feels like a betrayal even when it isn't, because this isn't a story about who's right and who's wrong, it's a story about Bruce isolating himself because he's mentally fractured to hell and back, because he's not trusting his kids, he's still hurt by Selina leaving him, he's still grieving Alfred's death, he's run ragged physically and emotionally and mentally by a series of exhausting horrors piled on him, he's lost his family's fortune, he's not even living in his own family home anymore. (I focus on Dick here as an illustration of tying this back to previous examples of Bruce crumbling and important context that the storyline is drawing on, but Gotham War isn't really specifically about Bruce and Dick's relationship, but more about Bruce's relationship with all his kids, like Tim and Jason and Damian all have equally important moments. But it's a very direct example of how his children are a huge part of his support system and draw him back from the ledge of being just Batman and back into being Bruce.) That's why the issue ends with Bruce getting the papers telling him that the bank sold Wayne Manor to Vandal Savage, because it's one more thing that's stripping Bruce Wayne away from the character, and leaving him with nothing but Batman and Zur-En-Arrh. Gotham War isn't actually a story about a war for Gotham. It's a story about Bruce Wayne going out of control and everything is written to serve that. The characters' fights are catalyzed by Selina's plans, but they quickly become about Bruce's relationship with the characters. The narrative makes heavy-handed points about Bruce feeling like he's losing his grip, that he's hallucinating and talking to himself, that he is extremely mentally unwell right now. Everything Zdarsky's been writing (like especially the "I Am a Gun" storyline right before Knight Terrors) has been building up to fracturing Bruce Wayne.

[rextheravenous]

I might just be autism posting bit there's something so refreshing pairing olives and pecans together