#i'm just here to listen

[heroes-fading]

I’m also not a big fan of the JJ storyline. It actually makes me so sad how little of a childhood Ellie got to experience 😭

Also I keep seeing pregnant Ellie fics on ao3 and it literally makes me want to hurl 🤢

got this ask last night and was like "answering this is gonna be a doozy" so i'm gonna rip this band-aid off lmaoooo

i think the reality of fic is everyone is coming at it with their own like, very deeply embedded and personal feelings and that's going to be different in what resonates or what squicks you from person to person. for me personally i don't love pregnancy as a plot (as someone who is probably waiting until she hits 30 for a hysterectomy and calling it a day because parenthood and more specifically pregnancy are Not My Thing). but for other people i think that looks different.

i think when you add in the layer of queerness that becomes even More of a really complex thing as far as how people feel about pregnancy. in my head, i want ellie to be a happy teen without having to worry about shit like a baby but i'm also very much coding my own experiences into that (and my own traumadumping -- women in my family have had kids young and missed out on young adulthood and resented their kids for it and it's just a very fun complex pile of feelings just like, heterosexually in their case, not even adding in layers of how queer women and other folks who have uteruses might feel). but for others, it's more positive and forward-thinking future thing.

i can't speak for how lesbians feel about pregnancy specifically. i'm a bisexual married to a dude. you don't need my opinion on this.

there's also the layer of what blood relationships do or don't mean and how people feel about that, especially in the context of queerness and how many of us have had horrible relationships with blood relatives either because of fun things like generational trauma or homophobia and transphobia -- so of course found family tropes Hit Different. "my child is completely fine" "ma'am your child's favorite trope is found family" in a nutshell. of course so many of us resonate the most not with blood-relations but the complex and willing decision to make someone part of your family without blood and someone who accepts and loves you for who you are not because of blood but because of choice.

i know for me i have my own personal preferences and interpretations and they're not like, god. i think that's true for everyone and how they come at media, and i think having a gut reaction to that is only human and fair. different things are gonna hit us differently. anyway, that's all to say it's not my thing but i also just want to acknowledge why that is and how everyone is going to have a different relationship with that. no one fic writer has the Best Interpretation Ever, we're all gonna come into this with our own baggage. that's the fun part of writing fic, you literally just get to do whatever you want with how things may resonate with you. we don't owe it to any given fic writer to resonate with their themes more, that's just writing bb!

and i haven't read any of 'em because, like i said, it's not my jam. so other people might have more in depth feelings about content but i'm not really interested in touching that because i don't really want to read it. and that's fine, people have a right not to read something that won't resonate with them and their experiences. some people like sweeter or more bittersweet fic. some people have diff opinions about characterizaiton. some people like some concepts and hate others. pregnancy is of course going to be really fuckin' complicated.

just like how people don't have to read my fic, lmao, the closest i'll get to talking pregnancy is mentioning abortion pillz~ goes without saying if you're not down with abortion rights there's the door please don't let it hit you.

there is one thing that pisses me off tho and i'm gonna put that under the cut because tw // david and all associated shit

fics who have ellie become pregnant as a result of rape are not my friends, they do hit a very bad gut reaction with me. right now in the united states after roe being overturned teen girls are having to carry their rapist's pregnancy to term. i don't want to read about that. i don't want to read about how it can be a "blessing in disguise" (a violent right wing talking point), i don't want to read about how that affects joel, i just. don't.

that is where that line gets unbelievably crossed for me.

anyway, donate to your local abortion fund. teen survivors should never, ever have to carry their rapist's baby. fuck that. also what's with some fics acting like abortion isn't a thing post-apocolypse or in texas... we've been doing this forever!

[fanaticalthings]

Bruce coming home one day to find Robin Jason clinging onto a chandelier with Dick below him cheering him on.

Bruce: Jason what are you doing?

Jason: Dick said that you missed his antics after he moved out and so he’s teaching me how to be a better son

Dick: After this we’re going to drive the Batmobile into the bay :D

Jason: We’re going to what? I mean yeah! Right into the water.

Jason trying to whisper to Dick: Dick I can’t swim though

This just further fuels the chaotic dynamic of Dick and Jason during a time where Dick was still going through his teenage angst and was absolutely not a benevolent role model LMAO

I mentioned it in this post, but it's just so funny to me to imagine a Jason who grew up with an absolutely WILD Dick Grayson as an older brother, while the younger batkids grew up with a more mellowed out and mature (arguable but when measured against the other kids, he wins by a landslide) Dick Grayson.

Robin!Jason era:

Dick: You wanna go out and get high?

Jason: I can't, I have homework.

Dick, sputtering: HOMEWORK?

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Dick, about to do an elaborate (and totally not dangerous) acrobatic move in the manor: Watch this, littlewing

Jason: You shouldn't do that, it'll make Bruce upset.

Dick, on the brink of angry tears: Why are you like this.

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Jason, dejected: Listen, I know you don't approve of me because you think I'm not good enough as Robin, but-

Dick: Not good enough as Robin? I don't care about that, I just think you're a little bitch

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Dick taking Jason out on a hangout for the first time: OK, looks like I got my work cut out for me. Take out a notepad and write everything down. I will NOT have my successor embarrass me like this. So what you wanna do to piss off Bruce-

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[Years later, Jason returning to Gotham with the fury of a thousand suns and the chaos to match it]: I'm gonna make your life a living HELL, Bruce

Dick, older and relatively more chilled out: Okayyyyy, maybe let's just– calm down a lil, haha, no need for the theatrics

Jason, betrayed, observing a Dick Grayson who is teaching his new younger siblings to behave and be mature: Dick, what the FUCK

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Present!Dick, mentoring Tim: Make sure not to be too impulsive, don't wanna raise Bruce's blood pressure

Red Hood!Jason spying on them from afar: Who even ARE you??

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Jason: So you teach me ALL of that, only to turn into the ONE thing you despised so greatly all those years ago

Dick, sweating: Well-

Jason: I'm ASHAMED. How can you be worthy of being called my PREDECESSOR?

[s0up1ta]

playing with them in my head like barbie dolls

[sabertoothwalrus]

appreciation post for the second half of dungeon meshi where senshi clearly starts treating chilchuck more like an adult. and also how the two of them start looking incredibly married

[brainrotcharacters]

makes me giggle to think of X2 Logan meeting dp&w Logan when this is a thing

[ninthriven]

Micah-10 & Mihaylova

[rhupi]

Obito's late ass during the rainy be like

[caguaydreams]

So the first character Sonic gets for you is Shadow, and the first available item is a rainbow effect...

Ahem 🤨🏳‍🌈?

[exoexid]

was watching khadija mbowe's reaction to "not like us" so these are some of my favorite comments of people theorizing about what j. cole might be up to these days:

[golyadkin]

I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr

not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work

believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody

[abd-illustrates]

Are you gonna make the playlists for the heartless characters public? Or has that already happened and I just missed it

AH I haven't shared my character-specific Heartless playlists as some of the songs on them were SUCH specific picks that they risk being highly spoilery lol 😅

(For funsies tho I'm gonna put some of my non-spoilery-est top tracks for each character under the cut! 🎶)

HEARTLESS: Heartbeat – The Midnight

ALCHEMY: Transform – Julianne Hough (this was the very first track on Alchemy's playlist it is SO them)

FLINT: Change Your Heart Or Die – The Midnight

EIRA: In The Cold – Vincent Lima

DOPPEL+GLASS: Call Them Brothers – Regina Spektor (And "Still Here" from Treasure Planet, but especially the Alex Ubego version)

RIVER: Machine Learning – Janani K. Jha

CREED: Hunting Witches – Kyle Stibbs

LORELEI: Siren Song – Lambia (Also: Ado’s version of Unravel 😩👌)

DIANA: Hell’s Comin’ With Me – (the Chloe Breez cover in particular)

LANCE: Blood Upon The Snow – Hozier (Most of his playlist is the kind of metal and high energy tunes you might expect for him, so this one's a fun outlier :3c )

BANDY: HARLEQUIN! – Vana

DOCK: Eye For An Eye – 8 Graves

[benevolenterrancy]

May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

[tapakah0]

[54625]

"Have you no more memories?"

I am made of memories.

"Speak, then."

[blocksgame]

imagine a minecraft smp with an emergent story told in a chaotic and novel fashion by people bouncing off of each other that doesn't look anything like conventional stories and owns its own fascinatingly messy and gorgeous contradictions

[galactaknightyaoi]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GALACTA KNIGHT!!!! And congratulations to Meta Knight for experiencing the Cain Instinct for the first time.

Galacta Knight, as you might've been able to tell already, is one of my favorite characters, and KSSU is one of my favorite games (the original SS was my introduction to Kirby!) so I wanted to go all out. Happy day, old man. I pray for at least 20 more years.

Oh, and don't worry! He's not upset about the cake smash, he thinks it's funny. And he got back at him.

As for the in-universe explanation for there being 16 candles in his cake?

... 500+ didn't fit in safely.

The birthday boy and his family were just a bit too flammable.