#if that makes ANY sense

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby isn't scared of any FNAF animatronic..

[frownyalfred]

“who should we cast as Batman next??” look at the actor in question. do you want to punch him in the face? and kiss him? possibly both at the same time? that’s your Batman right there.

[stardayzzing]

[Apollo]

Not insanely neat (Im so serious I just hate clean lineart/anatomy at this rate) but yall haven't seen Apollo fully grown in my design so here he is!!

He does grow into the solar flare-ish wisps (that Helios also has!) Because you see in the old piece that he doesn't have any, just curls!!

There's some other easter eggs but I'll let yall find them (or not)

[helsensm]

khaos Kung Lao AU sketches dump

after I saw @novicedraws khaos Raiden design I got an idea: what if Raiden got his scar on the arena and that fight was the first time Kung Lao saw him?

he's just desperate 🤗

and I made a new/updated playlist because I can't log in to my old account for some reason 🫠

[soleminisanction]

So a while back I ran the numbers to confirm a suspicion that fandom trends towards a trans Tim Drake, and there's a lot of bits and pieces around his canon material that I think contributes to that interest. But there's a particular, subtle one that's been poking at my mind a lot because I think it might actually be a pretty significant factor that nobody really notices:

His costumes.

The original Robin costume, the one Dick and Jason wore, is childish but exposing. It's innocent enough when they're being drawn as spunky children, but during the period when Dick's still wearing it into his late teens and early 20s, it's practically as revealing as a lot of the women's costumes (and, in retrospect, almost certainly laid some of the groundwork for him sometimes being sexualized by the art and writing the way female characters normally are -- George Pérez, at least, absolutely put him on display every bit as much as he did Starfire and Donna).

Damian's costumes, meanwhile, lean more into archaic/fantasy armor designs and are thus largely genderless outside some vague allusions to the codename's Robin Hood roots. And Steph's is, well, a minidress, and one designed to show off her figure, drawing explicit attention to her femininity.

But then you have Tim's most iconic costume, his original one, which is not only fully covering in a way the original look isn't, it also, by virtue of being designed in the 90s, sports a very specific feature: molded body armor shaped to look like pectoral and abdominal muscles. In other words -- an idealized male body.

Not every artist always included that detail, but it was an explicit part of the design that you don't see as much these days, at least not for teen heroes. Which means it's inadvertently the perfect costume for a trans masculine Boy Wonder. It's got built-in body shaping. The cape and tunic layers even help to make his shoulders look wider.

Tim's second costume, the OYL later suit, doesn't explicitly have this body shaping element, but some artists still hint at it in the same way that Dick's Nightwing suits do (ie, we assume they're not showing off their real muscles with skintight suits for safety reasons, but who knows). Plus it comes with the bonus gay longing of changing the colors to mourn the dead crush he's too deep in the closet to recognize.

And then you've got his modern Robin look which has the same kind of shaping going on in a sleaker, more subtle way, though it can vary from artist to artist how much the red part of his suit is drawn as a breast plate vs. a part of the bodysuit.

As a bonus, the design also has a tendency to make him look lean and lithe, in an interesting contrast to Damian who, despite being physically smaller than Tim, tends to have a presence that makes him come across as stockier and more solid, possibly because he's more heavily armored.

You even see this with some of Tim'snon-Robin looks. I've mentioned this elsewhere but, the original Red Robin look making him look older when the cowl was up honestly makes a lot of sense. That suit was originally designed for a Dick Grayson who was pushing 60 to conceal the extent of his age while still communicating his maturity and development. It makes sense that it'd work the other way, to make 17 year old Tim look like he's in his late 20s/early 30s.

It's tunic over a body suit design is also just aesthetically pleasing in terms of forming an elegant male body type, the same way a well-cut suit can be. Again, it does especially nice things for the shoulders, which is why I personally prefer it to the fully bodysuit redesign they give him in the latter part of the series. Although as we can see from the details in Marcus To's art, even that body suit has seams strategically placed to suggest muscles.

And then of course there's the 2016 Rebirth era Red Robin costume, which is just a more heavily-armored version of his classic Robin look that's trying really hard to make him look masculine and mature, which means... exaggerated muscles.

And the thing is, it's not that this doesn't happen with other characters' costumes. But for various reasons it specifically didn't happen with the other Robin costumes, like I described at the start.

Which is not something I think people consciously notice. But I do know that, when I was writing my transmasc Tim fanfic a few years before realizing that I myself was also transmasc, one of the images that solidified the story for me was how good it would've felt the first time a transmasc Tim put on his new Robin costume and saw the Boy Wonder looking back at him. And I remember specifically thinking about how nice the shaped armor would be for that sort of thing.

It's kinda funny how an obvious attempt to enforce gender norms wound up, for lack of a better term, backfiring, at least in my opinion. There's just something about exaggerating the masculinity of Robin, a role designed to contrast and foil the already exaggerated masculine ideal of Batman, that makes it feel like a performance.

[roaringwish]

Abstract Matarajin-sama inspired by Osamu Sato's art style

[time-and-spuds]

Remembering the wrong things

[annabelle--cane]

I think my official advice for prospective tma listeners is: take seasons one, two, and four at whatever pace feels most natural to you, but if you try to burn through season three too quickly then your brain ends up feeling fried and frazzled, and if you take season five too slowly then you may feel as though you are covered in cold sludge. season three is at its best when you take it slow and really absorb all the mini arcs as you go, and season five is at its best when you go through it more like a novel and really go along with its provided pace without inserting your own beats of downtime.

[ghouljams]

why is calling them dad so much hotter than daddy? i feel insane

IMHO it's because "daddy" has become so mainstream that it's lost all the original kink that used to follow the word. It feels unearned when men in fic are like "yeah you like when daddy touches you" because like... I guess?? Who said you had any authority over me??? Cringe.

Also because so often the "daddy" title is used in conjunction with a reader that is basically just untagged age-play so they always feel really "innocent" or childlike, and there's always some aspect of "little girl" play but again it's untagged. Idk it just squicks me out like you cab call yourself "daddy" but that doesn't mean I have to be a little y'know?

"Dad" commands authority. There's no buttering up to it like "daddy." Its adult, and unquestionable what the power dynamic is. You aren't a "little" but you're definitely not an equal partner. There's less of a caregiver aspect because the implication is that you can take care of yourself, but this older man is around to help. Whatever that means. "Dad" is what a lot of people call their actual fathers as well so there's that taboo feeling to it as well. Idk "Dad" implies(for me) that you're of age and able to fight back, which makes the "taking advantage of you" aspect feel a lot more... real.

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

being pissed off about the ending of shameless and how none of the characters really got justice but then remembering that right now ian’s happy, healthy, and with his husband and terry’s dead now so they can finally be happy and safe.

[leftneb]

thinking about the imbalance of lando on pole and oscar starting P10.

thinking about how their personalities counterbalance each other (lando's 24/7 hyperactivity or nervous energy vs. oscar being the least flappable guy on the planet). but how they can bring the other to laugh and giggle and just be happy without even trying.

thinking about how they are NEVER dressed for the same weather. lando always overdressed and oscar barely ever seen to be wearing something that isn't a tshirt and shorts.

and (still) thinking about the green-red colour coding for them. how the contrast there wasn't even intentional. how the two colours combined make papaya. somehow they're different but the same.

lando's unstoppable force to oscar's immovable object,,,,

like they complete each other,,,,,, the constant push and pull,,,,,,,,,,

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

Lois and Clark 4x17

[feedthepigeons]

I know this has probably been done before and this meme is kinda old already, but I just couldn't help myself~

[timeskip]

I don't think Kite is Gon's father figure but I also don't think he's NOT Gon's father figure. It's like, yeah Kite doesn't think of Gon as a son (god no.) and I don't think Gon consciously sees Kite as a father figure, but he DOES project a lot of feelings about Ging onto Kite because Kite is his closest tie to Ging and the only way he can feel worthy of his father is through being worthy to Kite. And that desire to be seen by Kite is a lot of what Gon sees as "father figure"-esque, knowingly or not.

[sleepytoycollection]

as excited as I was when I first saw her, and gorgeous I still think she is, I think now I've seen the Corpse Bride animatronic in person a few times, I don't think I'll actually get her.

I think what I really wanted was to experience her in person, and now that I have a couple times, I don't feel the need to actually own one anymore. I'm good.

[mynameisonionhaha]

the toxic skater boi and the bad boy of broadway