#i gain a year of life

[aliengirl]

@CCcreators WE NEED MORE HAIRSTYLES LIKE THIS FOR KIDS PLEASW😭😭

[cidnangarlond]

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[payasita]

vibiano + addressing the bizzyboy fashion crisis ✨

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Another year has passed, and with it the opportunity to reflect back on all that has happened. While my growth was not as dramatic as last year, I can still see lots of positive change.

I'll never have enough ways to say thank you for all the love and support you have given me this year. On to 2025!

(2023 summary here!)

[sameboot]

I just think theyre neat!

[aingeal98]

More Jason and Cass thoughts (sorry but also not sorry) but if I was magically given full control over DC and could write what I'd want obviously I'd make Cass Batman but I've been thinking of what sort of reaction and role Jason would have in response. I think I'd write his version of "Congrats on the new job!" as a test, involving the Joker and civilians and gangs and Red Hood and a ton of explosives. Bruce failed me, and now he's given up. You're his successor, let's see how you handle this dilemma that freaked him out so badly he threw a batarang into my throat rather than let me avenge my own death in front of him.

So obviously Cass will overcome the traps and the puzzles. That's the fun part to show how competent both of them are and sprinkle in little character moments as we go. But then we reach the emotional crux of the matter, probably laid out as some sort of saw trap because it's Jason. Here I am, a victim of murder. You say nobody dies tonight but I did, and I want the man who did it dead. Not only did Batman fail to avenge me but he failed to stop the Joker from going on to create even more victims. What right do you have to stop me from getting justice for myself? What right does this man have to life after what he's taken from me and from countless others? I'm not trying to kill a random stranger, I'm specifically demanding justice for my own death that I never got while I was gone.

There are two ways this could go. The straightforward route if I knew my time on this run was limited would probably be a pyrrhic victory like the ones Cass's og series was so fond of. Just like Bruce in utrh, she acts on instinct and saves the Joker (and Jason this time) . A win technically, but she fails the test. Jason is once again vindicated but with nothing to show for it. The story ends with Cass sending the Joker back to jail and going back to the batcave, where the old Robin costume looms judgementally, highlighting her failure. It would be the most fitting end given their character molds, all tragedy and conviction and unstoppable force meets immovable object etc.

However... I think the option I prefer would be a little different. Cass levelling with Jason, a killer talking to a murder victim. She has no right to stop Jason from getting justice, she has no love for the Joker but she knows any death she allows to happen like this would devastate her, just like that death row inmate long ago she tried to break out but ended up letting go once the family of the victim talked to her and demanded justice. I think... In this specific situation, she'd just be honest. Morally she has no right sure. Personally she just really really doesn't want anyone to die. Give her one chance, please. Let her try it her way. Not demanding, not lecturing or insisting, just... Please. Don't do this. Let me try another way.

And then what? Jason asks.

In the end a deal is struck. Cass will take the Joker and lock him up, ensuring he never harms anyone again while also trying to rehabilitate him. But the second she fails and he gets free, Jason kills him and she won't stand in his way. It's the kind of deal that leaves both of them mildly disgusted and dissatisfied with themselves, neither of them naturally creatures of compromise when it comes to this specific topic. But Cass is willing to do anything to avoid death and Jason did not expect the new Bat to be so... Flexible? Kind of? Of course maybe she won't actually hold up her end of the deal and when the Joker gets loose she'll try and stop Jason from killing him and he'll get his miserable vindication, but right now this is something strange and new and he's mildly confused and curious about where it will go. He doesn't believe in her ability to contain the Joker forever but he's willing to let her try because her reaction to that future failure interests him. She's given him a sword of damocles to hang above her head and he didn't ask for it or expect it. It's the type of power he never thought the Bat would just... Hand to him.

The conflict ends with neither of them fully winning or losing. They both don't really know what to feel about this.

The thing is, the second Cass let's Jason kill the Joker she's hanging up the mantle. She's staking the Bat on this, because it's always go big or go home with her when it comes to saving others, even someone like the Joker. In this magical universe where I have unlimited power, Cass would lock the Joker in a secret bunker and have Leslie Thompkins talk to him daily, mostly because I think her pacifism speeches and debates in the comics would make a fun contrast to the Joker's evil sadism. (But what about his rights? Doesn't he deserve a trial and to be held in a regular prison? I'm going to be honest I think Cass would be very comfortable bending the rules on this specific situation. Morally questionable but I'd have fun with it. She's going to let Leslie treat Joker like her personal pet project to save his soul because yes she wants him to change but also she's got a city to save every night so go crazy Leslie, have fun.)

And the Batman series would continue with Cass as the lead, new challenges and new antagonists and every twenty issues or so for the first hundred we'll cut back to the Joker briefly if his chats with Leslie can help highlight some thematic element of the current arc. But bit by bit he'd slowly fade away onto oblivion, maybe getting referenced every hundred issues or so until eventually no one remembers or cares about him because there's so much else going on. Meanwhile Jason's got a good thing going as Red Hood, primarily based in Park Row and a tentative ally on the occasion when their vigilante work aligns. Unlike Joker he's a much more frequent character in the comics, and after say 10 years (this is my magical fantasy universe Cass's batman run is going to last for a very long time alright) when people think of DC characters they think of Red Hood long before they think of the Joker.

Is any of this realistic? Right now of course not. It's why I'd go with the pyrrhic victory if I actually got the chance, because it would be the best way to tell the story in the larger context of the Bat narrative. But it's my fantasy DC editor and writer daydream and I'm going to dream big. They're never going to be normal happy siblings, their personal demons will never fully let them be free and the looming possibility of losing everything they currently have narrative wise if Bruce comes back as Batman will always be there. But it's maybe the closest to peace they'll ever get. Unsatisfying and tame compromise that probably violates several laws and ethical codes but whatever. Cass has never read the Geneva convention and Jason's not going to shed tears over the Joker. Let him die relevancy wise if not physically.

[warmsol]

yaaa this convinced me to give her a chop sometime soon weeee

[avocado62524]

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 147

psychically induced chronic illness squad

[kirby-the-gorb]

[annadeef]

the werewolf gf's blood runs warm! @artbytesslyn

[amanitacurses]

hi! ive never interacted with ur blog via asks before but im obsessed with ur link designs i think pict (minish cap link so sorry if thats not their name!) is my fav!

could u give them a strawberry for me?

~ hylianmewmew

I think you were thinking of Minish, if you meant the Hero of the Minish - but Pict IS also from Minish Cap, as he's the Hero of Men ^^ so I gave them BOTH strawberries for you!

Also thank you 🥺 I try really hard on all my AU designs!

[wassupmygays]

CAMERON'S GREASER PANTS HAVE "MOM" PAINTED ON THEM 😭😭😭😭

"this is custom to my greaser look because i love my mom so much and she's a huge part of my backstory. So she is with me every show, every time i go on as Steve! Which i love :]" (source)

im gonna cry thats the coolest and sweetest thing ever

[juuria]

jjk doodles durin work

[zorangezest]

So I got a question for ya, how'd you come up with your oc's? Was there any inspiration or did they just pop up and start flooding you with ideas?

what have you DONE you’ve unleashed the yap, sorry for the wait I wanted to compile a proper post for this lovely question! huge ramble under the cut because if there’s always something I can yap about it’s my darling dirtbag kids

I’ve actually been extremely unhappy with my ocs for a long time, so that’s why their designs are extremely inconsistent LMAO but struggling with them so much taught me a lot about what kind of story I wanted to write versus what I thought would make a cool story—I think I was trying to make them way too serious and that’s just. not really fun for me?? I love cool stories like arcane, spirited away, and chainsaw man, but writing something like that is a completely different story hahaa

I uh. I have a really bad habit of making characters before figuring out a story for them, all my current characters have been around for YEARS and have never adhered to a proper plotline so they’re always changing from one thing to the next HAHA the character evolution timeline for some of these kids is. unfathomable. this is a whole life cycle

just. don’t even get me started. pinchesso used to be wearing yin’s skin. yin used to be dead (he still is, but differently). that’s just the previous iteration. it goes so much farther. kill him

i have a lot of story ideas floating around but I always thought they were too silly or not what people would be interested in—I have like a whole roster of cartoon characters I’ve never posted anywhere—but surprisingly it was drawing all these goofy transformers comics that made me step back and go. what the blucking bluck was i on?? I genuinely haven’t had so much fun creating as I have making stupid comics that make people laugh, and I think that’s why I’ve always been unhappy with my kids, because they never stood for something that I loved to do. I love goofy, wacky stories with hilariously serious undertones, so, really, creating for this fandom has taught me a lot, and reminded me of what I really wanted to do—you have all given me inspiration to make things as silly as I want :)

On a side note, if I could give a face to all my artistic struggles, it would probably be my darling Roro’s:

like. This used to be her!! She had no joy! No whimsy! Nothing! I was trying so hard to make her like an edgy broody character. WRONG! Batshittification laser!

Sorry this is so incredibly funny to look at side by side HAHA

Will i always be struggling with characters? Yeah probably! But Im really happy with the direction they’re going heh heh.

thank you if you’ve read this far! this got quite long and quite personal my bad chat, I saw this question in my inbox and went ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ tysm for asking and being curious about my kids!