#i literally cannot stress that enough

[halfagone]

DPxDC Family Week 2023 - Day 3

Let me first preface this by saying, this is the longest piece of a single-chapter fanfic I have ever written. It stands at little over 26k words. There are a lot of tags that I would strongly suggest you read through first before you commit to reading this fic. Thank you.

Rated: M

Summary:

How Jason and Danny's respective adoptions changed their lives and morality. For better, and for worse.

Alternatively: Jason dies. There are quite a few people that have very strong opinions about that. And the consequences thereof.

Excerpt:

Jason had not been Robin for very long when a new face hit the streets. And by streets, Jason meant the landed on the rooftop right across from Jason as the stranger dashed off into the night, goodies in his bag and jewelry in his gasp. “Hey!” Jason shouted after him, grappling from roof to roof in hot pursuit. He was sure Batman wouldn’t be happy with him running off like this, and he would certainly have to prepare for the lecture he’d get when they returned to the Cave (or, hell, once he got back to the Batmobile), but for now Jason was not going to let this new criminal get away. Jason might be new to the job but he was no worse than Dick was. He could handle the responsibility, and he was intent on proving it.

[youredreamingofroo]

I shouldn't be either because I literally failed english time after time (in my defense, it was MOSTLY the school's fault), but this is GENUINELY the best advice you can take for writing a story, if I could show you my planning doc for WAS, you'd see how it's just barely scrapping by as organized, I've got like 5 or 6 conversations/scenes that are supposed to occur later in the story almost completely written out.

Even if its bad, that's THE POINT. ITS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD, IT HAS TO BE BAD TO EVENTUALLY BE GOOD, write it down, and go back to it later when you can, going back to my planning doc, I have some scene concepts written out roughly, is it bad? absolutely, does it matter? no, why? Because at least I know what I was talking about and can fix it later when I can.

here's a note that i keep on my phone on my home page at all times with just, ideas, concepts that I wanna make into a scene or conversation (scribbled out, but you get the point, also don't worry about the thing at the top of the first ss LMFAOOO)

With ADHD, it's a constant onslaught of ideas, I have groups of tabs on Google that I've saved with songs that I wanna use for scene ideas, even if it's just a song, and you write the lyric that you wanna base the scene off of down and expand later, it's better than NOT. WRITING. THE IDEA. DOWN. I'm sure I'm not preaching anything new by all means, I just say this to continue to encourage people to write the ideas that they have down, I write my ideas down pretty much anywhere I am, in the store grabbing groceries and I got an idea for my story? Write a basic note of the concept I'm thinking of. in my bed about to fall asleep and I just had an idea for a new sim? writing it down RIGHT NOW. wherever you are when you get your idea, WRITE IT DOWN (unless your actively driving... please wait til you park to write it down 😭).

and going off topic for a second, but if your idea doesn't make it to the cut/another idea takes the place of the previous idea, THATS COMPLETELY FINE!! It happens SO often, it's incredibly prevalent in song writing, just look up unreleased song lyrics vs released song lyrics, they often end up being completely different. When I was gonna start NSB back up, my idea for the first post after the recap was to have Cataleya cleaning around the house and yelling at Calico, that NEVER happened, and that's okay!!! I love what came out instead, and it gave me an opportunity to start doing something I never really realized I was passionate in doing which is making gifs out of scenes.

I rlly shouldn’t be sharing writing advice, bc I’m by no means an expert on it, but if I were to recommended anything, write shit down as you think about it.

My best ideas come to me at the most random moments, so I use my phone a lot, but writing things down as immediately as possible has absolutely improved my productivity. Even if it’s just a sentence, even if it’s rough as fuck, or doesn’t entirely make sense, write it anyway, you’ll thank yourself later.

[cuntbrow]

the british finally giving david tennant a bafta nomination not for his prestige and heavy roles like des and broadchurch but for his wracking performance of a sopping wet boyfriend ready to give it all up for his blond. truly everyone has a little tennant-dickmatized tumblrina in them

[markanddebbie-protectionprogram]

Let's address the MVP in the atom eve special: Zak

He gave Eve an opening to show her interest. And when she got into detail, he listened to every word.

He didn't disregard her intelligence or bitterly called her a "know-it-all" or called her names like "nerd" or "weirdo", instead, he was fascinated with her. He openly showed interest in wanting to know what she knows.

Of course there's a little personal agenda that he needed to learn these things but you can tell that he was genuine with her.

What really made me feel so emotional is that Zak celebrates Eve, he proudly compliments her to her parents. And he's aware/probably aware that she's not a very verbal kid around her parents so he took it upon himself to prove her genius.

He showed every model Eve built and carefully picked them up to show them off. You can even see Eve smile when he showed the magnesium model. And even if he doesn't completely know what the final model is, he still praised it.

And can we applaud this dude? He literally understood what was happening to her, what she was seeing, before her own parents did. And if this was his first time babysitting her? That's just all the more impressive of him to be able to realize.

Even as Zak said all that about Eve being able to see and memorize molecules, you can feel that he was amazed by Eve the entire time.

You can see that Eve was visibly distressed in this moment cause her parents aren't the least bit happy.

But Zak handled it well. Teens would fold or agree when the adults seem to disagree or don't want to hear them out (especially if they're babysitting, wouldn't want to lose that pay). But that's not the case with him. He didn't raise his voice to be heard. But he made it known that he thinks what Eve knows and what she can do is cool.

And most importantly, Zak didn't forget his manners. He thanked Eve and made sure she knows that she helped him a lot by showing that he's confident he'll do well in his test.

He literally did every single thing right. This boy was raised right. We don't have much info on him but he was a great character in the entirety of his screen time.

I don't think I can stress this enough but his whole scene was amazing.

Eve looks super young here and she might not remember this moment but I'm sure she's glad that at that moment, someone made her feel okay with herself.

That what she's seeing is okay.

That what she knows is okay.

And that it's okay to show it to others too.

[bitegore]

Zionists want you to conflate Judaism and Zionism. Zionists want you to believe that Judaism cannot exist without Zionism and that all Jews are Zionists. Zionism would have Jews believe that a Jewish state is the only way that they can be safe from antisemitism and will point to any instance of antisemitism as proof that Zionism is the solution- so Zionism wants gentiles to be antisemitic in their support of Palestine. They want you to conflate all Jews with Zionism and the state of Israel, and they want you to treat all Jews regardless of political affiliation as the face of Israel. Antizionist Jews exist, and incidences of antisemitism ostensibly acting against Zionism will not help dismantle the forces propping Zionism up.

Don't do their work for them.

[bixels]

Jesus man, relax.

[sadcoms]

the doctor and rose were dating confirmed: shooting scripts edition

bonus: jackie tyler being the doctor’s mother-in-law

[myoonmii]

I keep thinking about Merlin’s love for Arthur and how it’s so clearly portrayed in the show to the point that it practically drives the plot of the show. However when it comes to Arthur’s love for Merlin it’s more subtle and sometimes difficult to even grasp, and I started thinking why that was, aside from the obvious fact that Arthur has a lot of trouble expressing his emotions affection or otherwise. I think it also lies in the fact that Merlin knows Arthur intrinsically throughout the show; he is one of the closest people to Arthur, and sees him for who he really is. Arthur admits as much.

Sure, Arthur knows Merlin but the main part of the plot is that he really doesn't know Merlin. Merlin wants him to desperately understand him and “see me for who I am” but he can't yet. And I think this subconsciously creates a barrier in the way in which Arthur can care for Merlin, and how Merlin can let himself be seen by Arthur.

Which is why I think he was also so hurt when the magic reveal happens because more than the betrayal of Merlin having magic, it was the betrayal of Merlin not letting Arthur see him for who he really is and for hiding a main part of himself. Arthur says it himself “why did you never tell me” that’s what hurt him the most.

I think the most damning piece of evidence for this is the fact that while we see snippets of Arthur’s feelings for Merlin thought the show, the biggest signs are in the last episode after the magic reveal; in which he finally gets to understand Merlin, and this time REALLY know Merlin, and as the barriers of what held them back from understanding each other truly fall away, Arthur evidently “falls in love with Merlin all over again”. We see him actually express himself to Merlin.

This is another reason why I think if anyone was ever to create another season of Merlin after Arthur’s return, it’s physically impossible not to make it about Merlin and Arthur acknowledging their feelings for each other. Because there is no way forward without them acknowledging how deeply they care for each other, obviously anyone is free to argue what kind of love that is, but its impossible not to see the deep love there either way.

They always knew they loved each other, just maybe never realising how much and what that means, because its almost second nature to everything that they do.

[valtsv]

wtf did you do to have that many people after you lmfao

i resent the implication that i did something to deserve being treated like shit on the heel of people's shoes for literal years, but if you must know i made a few too many cringe posts and liked problematic media (dream smp) back when that was a big deal. looking back i recognise that i was a bit annoying and that i could have been more reasonable in how i behaved, particularly in response to legitimate criticism, but i want to stress that none of the merciless unthinking cruelty i endured made me want to change or even think i could. i had to rebuild from the ground up after literally falling apart under the stress people were putting on me for their own entertainment because the alternative was fucking killing myself, which i genuinely thought was the answer because i'd been convinced by my bullies that i was a threat to everyone around me and would be doing the world a favour by letting "better" people take my place.

[penofwildfire]

It's actually insane how much Ninjago can get away with tormenting dragons because they're not humanoid and people don't think about their pain as much. The OG 4 became Ultra and then got killed and eaten. Other dragons were also victims of the Hunters. Zanth was tortured and experimented on for years. Heatwave got kidnapped and has watched several of his tribe members die of a terminal disease, an illness that Egalt also has and is apparently very painful. Riyu watched his tribe mother die violently in front of him. Multiple other Arch Dragons were murdered off screen. If this shit was happening to humanoid characters there'd be hundreds of fics and fanart about it. We talk a lot about how characters don't really die permanently in Ninjago but this isn't a rule that's ever applied to the dragons and that makes me crazy.

[sage-nebula]

How Bill says he feels about Ford currently:

How Ford says he feels about Bill currently:

[lbhslefttiddie]

youve heard of sex flowers get ready for the flower that makes you into a celestial shoujo herione complete with particle effects you cannot turn the fuck off and creates a wifebeam so powerful it can incapacitate and maim and keeps making you burst into tears and fall on your ass which makes the wifebeam More Powerful and you also cannot turn this off either. and is also still, sort of, a sex flower

from one of my favorite fanfictions, Celestial Afterglow by elanor_pam, a fic that defies description in the best possible way

[aromantic-diaries]

My favorite argument against literally anything like "it's not natural" or something along those lines is simply I Don't Care

[thinkershipman]

SHAUNA SHIPMAN: AN ORESTEIA

[icebluecyanide]

I saw people talking about that scene where Yassen shot Max as a huge betrayal of Alex and it's kinda funny to me like yeah he involved Alex in a murder but also I cannot emphasise enough that Alex decided to join a criminal organisation. People have been telling him he'll need to kill for days now, Alex has watched them kill multiple people already, I get that it sucks for him but you cannot team up with a known killer and be that shocked when actually his secret extra mission was to kill

[spookberry]

This looks so lame in a photo, but this is my favorite spot in the world. Its so beautiful, it makes me feel like I could paint galleries full of just this.