#ik he was giving tim so much attitude

[leslieseveride]

i'm laughing so hard at the image of tim crouched down next to kojo with an ink pad on the floor and kojo just keeps giving him the dirtiest side eye while tim lifts his paw like, "you know, i expect this kind of behavior out of mom, but i trusted you." smh 😒😒

[kitkats-and-kittens]

I hate both the ways fannon (and now cannon) is slowly beginning to present the Al Ghuls.

On one hand you have the people who make Ra’s and Talia almost cartoonishly evil. Which is annoying because it does a disservice to both their characters, is usually rooted in very racist stereotypes and is also used to present Damian’s family as two conflicting sides. You’ve got his evil, horrible, no good Al Ghul family roots and then his perfect, holier than thou batfamily side.

Its especially annoying because in recent comics the batfamily hasn’t been treating him much better. With the amount of times he’s just up and left on secret missions you think they’d be taking care of the literal 14 year old. It’s just so dumb and incredibly one dimensional.

Then on the other hand you have people who absolve them of all guilt. Although I love good Grandfather Ra’s Al Ghul and good mom Talia it’s still not entirely accurate. I prefer it to making them just unrealistically evil, but you can like these characters and still accept that Damian was abused by them.

Ik Dc struggled with media literacy, but despite how it’s presented online abusive situations are not nearly as cut and dry as shown on TV. It’s not always ‘oh my dad beats me every day and I hate him’. Sometimes parents love their kids despite being bad for them, sometimes kids love their parents despite the way they’re treated. Sometimes these situations resolve themselves and sometimes they don’t.

I’ve always seen Damian’s relationship with Ra’s and Talia as complex and maybe I’m projecting a little, but I love the comics that take on a more nuanced perspective of the way he grew up. Personally my headcanon is that while Ra’s and Talia were both bad when Damian was growing up, giving him to Bruce kind of opened their eyes to the realisation that if they didn’t treat him better he was going to leave which kickstarts both the redemption arc and improving their relationship.

And ik it’s a bit beyond Dc, but I really hope they’ll drop the racist attitude towards the Al Ghuls. Tim stans too cause honestly the ‘Ra’s is obsessed with this pathetic little white boy’ is actually so problematic, but that’s a whole other conversation.

[intimidating-fettuccine]

OOOH IVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER FOR REQUEST TO OPEN!!! Anyway I wanted to ask personality swap between Jeff and Toby? I kinda see them as polar opposite but they are both pretty dumb with their actions so if that we're to happen some how...how do you think they would hide it? (If they even know) and how would the pastas that hang around them feel like!

(Go ahead on dump for tim since ik you wanted to write for him for a bit!)

I tried my best since I liked the idea, I hope you enjoy. Although I didn't dump for Tim very much I suppose :p

You said to write for Tim, and listen I'm going to be honest; he notices immediately that something is wrong. Let's say they encountered a curse on a mission that swapped their personalities. They're still in the same bodies, just acting like each other, however, they are very aware of this fact but don't want to draw suspicion to themselves. They try to be quiet as they get home, trying to rush to their rooms, only to be stopped by none other than Tim himself, questioning them on how the mission went. Toby, feeling unusually dismissive with Jeff's personality, says it went fine and that Tim shouldn't get so stressed about these things, which Toby previously wouldn't have ever said to him, sparking alarms.

Then, of course, Jeff with Toby's personality feels the need to rush out an apology, saying that Toby didn't mean it, sparking even more alarms within Tim. He's standing there in utter confusion, mouth hanging open as he looks between them, only for both of them to wish him goodnight and book it back to their bedrooms. Of course, Tim immediately reports this to Slender, and then soon everyone knows and now has to navigate them with switched personalities for who knows how long. It's strange to watch, seeing Jeff be so much more sensitive and timid and sweet, and even stranger to watch Toby be the most relaxed he's ever looked, without a single care in the world about anything at all, being way more smart-mouthed and overconfident than he ever would be. To be honest, the mansion is just equally disturbed and confused by the change, and none of them know how to interact with the two of them anymore. Slender and Tim are absolutely aghast at the way Toby is acting specifically, as the once respectful and kind boy now constantly has an attitude and is constantly poking fun at everyone and annoying them, and then there's Jeff, trailing after him and apologizing and trying to calm things down.

Toby is dismissive of the whole thing, saying it's fine and they can just wait it out, it's not like it's a big deal (as Jeff would say), but then there's Jeff freaking out and unsure of himself now because all of a sudden his anxiety has skyrocketed and he's drowning in all of the behavioral issues/stressors/anxiety that Toby has from his past trauma (as Toby usually is), and it's very hard on Jeff. Of course, Toby notices this, and I do think he'd probably spend time with Jeff keeping his eyes on him. I think he'd give him advice, and remind him that everything is okay (like Jeff normally does for Toby, but now it's Toby doing it), and I think it would honestly be good for their relationship, as they come to understand each other much better. By the time they finally revert back to normal, the two of them are much calmer and more patient, especially with each other, and it turns out to be a good thing for everyone, honestly. Jeff and Toby are normally at odds because they don't understand the way the other works, but thanks to their switch, now they finally can. Although, people are still timid around them because despite their personalities reverting back, it seems they've adopted some of those traits, with Toby still being unusually relaxed and sassy, and Jeff being a bit more reserved and anxious. They're sure they'll fully revert back in time, but for now, they've gotta live with the strange looks they keep getting when they interact with people.

[pumpkinsy0]

since ponyboy cant seem to stay awake for shit (always passing out like bro please stop being a drama queen go to a doctor for this 💀🙏) lemme get some hcs for CURLYS reaction if pony passed out around him?? i feel as though youve done this already.... but more hcs bring me joy

yknow i dont think ive done this before actually, so y not

•curly wouldve noticed something was up w pony but theres not much he wouldve done until pony actually passed out, nothing personal, its just that curly doesnt take care of his own self and that can show through when other r sick around him, he has a “just push through it” attitude over it, “maybe itll pass” typa deal

•ur lucky if curly can even catch pony before he falls, curlys not weak, but just not the fastest to understand that ponys gonna pass out, its like curlys mind goes blank too

•but yea, pony passes out and thats when curly freaks out, cause he doesnt know what to do, like at all, usually when someone gets hurt, tim just handles it and curly watches, sometimes helps, but not much. but unfortunately, tim aint here so theyre both done for

•when it comes to ppl he cares about, curly obviously does gaf, so its not like he leaves pony there, but he is running around like a headless chicken trying to dig around his brain to find out what to do, its not like he can just full on carry pony home, like i said curlys strong but not “carry someone home miles away” strong

•hes slapping pony a lil, lets b serious, im not saying it has to b HARD, like small “hey cmon wake up” kinda ones, he gets aggressive when worried what can i say

•however it is completely possible that he just tries finding someone from ponys gang or tim or maybe even angela and hes like “yea i need help here” and then that person is just left to do most of the work

•i dont think he would just full on leave ponys side tho, he just becomes kind if a nuesance, just looking over the persons shoulder to see what theyre doing, telling them to b careful even tho THEYRE doing most of the work here n curlys just watching em intensely

•u couldnt pry curly away from ponys bedside, curly WILL b one of if not THEE first faces pony sees when he wakes up and curly wouldnt let pony even ask what happened before he does, theyre both confused as hell

•someone does eventually have to tell curly to back away for a bit and give pony space, hell maybe it even IS pony saying it, curly can come off strong at the worst times possible, its alright sometimes but other times, its just a lot

•at some point in time, ik curlys laughing at pony for it though, ofc its when ponys feeling all better but still, he WOULD

[purplesmmr]

yo i'd love some sa headcanon spewing

thank u,,??? sm?? i lov

ohh my g osh which ones to do,,, i’m jus gonna do a couple for each of my Kids so hang in there lol (also thanks to @wordofyourbodyreprise aka em for helping me out with a go o d dea l of these)

melchior:

he vapes,, like all the time

he hates children but loves babies for some reason??

he has te r r ibl e facial recognition 

his full name is melchior alwin gabor

is a miracle baby bc his mom had a l o t of complications during the pregnancy

wendla:

a few of her bad habits include chewing the skin off of her lip and biting her nails

she is Killer at makeup and will give eve r yon e makeovers at sleepovers

she smells like the japanese cherry blossom lotion from bath and body works???

full name is wendla rose aurelia bergmann, with aurelia being her confirmation name

she’s got a liiil bit of bpd

angel bb who’s too good for the cruel world

she and max von trenk are actually p good friends bc he works at a bookstore by her house

moritz:

ASEXUAL BB

he’s v depressed and is schizophrenic

he has a hearing brother named alex (lol original rite) who acts as a translator for him

he & martha dated for like a wh i le back in like middle/early hs but they broke up but he still lovs her (n now they’re in a happy poly relationship w otto)

full name is moritz daniel stiefel (ag ain w the originality lmaooo)

ilse:

she’s the friend who straight up buys sex toys for her friends as Gifts

raging lesbian

she collects the most insane prom dresses you could ever imagine

full name: ilse felicity neumann

calls melchior daddy to make him uncomfortable

used to have a fwb relationship w my girl martha

martha:

she steals her boyfriends’ food all th e ti me 

she hasn’t been to her parents’ house in like three years bc of Canon Reasons

full name is martha amara bessell

smokes w moritz n has a Special tattoo otto designed

despite having marks on her body that she’s p ashamed of, she’s still not afraid to show some skin bc she’s fl aw l e s s

Fashionista

hanschen:

BI!!!!!! AS!!!!!! HECK!!!!!!!!!

and he’s in Lov with ernst ofc

he’s an emotional and verbal abuse victim (from his biological dad) and that’s why he overcompensates w his ego and attitude

his bio dad left him n his mom early on but then his mom got remarried & had thea n melitta so they’re only hans’ half sisters

he’s the “we get it, you vape” friend to melchior

naturally amBIdextrous

full name: hans peter rilow

if he ever has an office job, he def saves porn to his computer

gave max von trenk a bj in the middle of class once

Short

he’s the clingy drunk

ernst:

he’s gay, karen

he has like,, seven siblings

fluent in german

wendla’s bff

he totally lost his virginity at one of melchior’s sleepovers (thnx hanschen)

he has severe dissociation as well as ptsd, and ocd. he’s one outcome of what can happen with cherrypicking in the churches poor bb :(((

bOI HAS LIKE THREE MIDDLE NAMES

ernst zachary raphael jonathan robel; jonathan being his confirmation name

total bottom ex ce p t fo r so me tim e s

he rly likes flowers/botany and biology

georg:

he plays like,, mcfuckin nine instruments,,,

likes dogs

he’s the kid that everyone thinks is gay but turns out to be unfortunately straight

he’s dating melitta???

lactose intolerant

full name: georg milo zirschnitz

is prbly going to julliard 

everyone thinks he n otto r Gay

otto:

he’s an art hoe and the stoner friend

knows how to drive boats

wants to do smth artsy for a job but actually ends up as a pediatric nurse my boy

full name: otto henry lammermeier

in the poly relationship it’s rly him and moritz dating martha but honestly?? they’re p much all dating each other???

likes to Yell

thea:

she & melitta r twins

she n moritz came up with everyone’s sign names

likes to roast her brother

know s e v er y thin g

full name: thea marie rilow

uses text talk Too Much

melitta:

vegan & ace

she’s the broadway bb of the family

triple threat whom??? more like infi n it y thr ea t

she’s classically trained in ballet, swing, ballroom, and tap

musical theatre h oe

full name: melitta barbara rilow

anna:

ik a lot of ppl are like “o yeah she’s marianna wheelan” and i see that now lol,, i didn’t realize this when i first got into the fandom so i went to em and was like ”yo. anna’s bobby’s sister” and thus anna marie mahler was born

she Hates being known as bobby’s sister so she tells everyone that her last name is pronounced like mah-ler instead of may-ler

does wheelchair roller derby

scares ernst

oka y that’s it (for now) lol i hope y’all enjoy it

send me more musicals to do headcanons for!!

[studentchow]

Brewdog is the Justin Bieber of the Brewery World.

To understand Brewdog is to have a base understanding of the nature of the Craft Ale and Microbrewery scene and the modern history of brewing the UK as a whole. The advancement of tech and how beer is sold in pubs can be described thusly:

Here’s a drinking game to play- Drink everytime you read “Brewer(y/ies)”. I certainly did when I wrote each one, and it made writing this so much easier and tougher at the same time:

Originally Pubs, Taverns and Inns sold Ale, brewed inhouse. These “Brewpubs” are the basis for modern Taphouses and unfortunately there are only a handful nationwide today. These died out as more commerical and larger breweries were built. These Pubs would normally be tied to one Brewery still but that would be done offsite. Some of the Breweries and Brands would then be bought up, or integrated as a larger mass for modern consumption. It’s why Martson’s, Wychwood and Ringwood all come under the same company.

Fast forward to the 1970s and 80s. Homebrewing had been licensed since 1963 and was a popular pasttime. Chain Pubs like Wetherspoons were introduced that had no tied loyalties to any anyone and could stock whatever they wanted (despite nowadays being merged into their own groups which now do their own discount deals with Breweries), imported beers were more popular as Michael Jackson’s (not the singer) “World Guide to Beer” became a best seller. The main dominating forces in the market were reffered to as “The Big Six” (not to be confused with the Big Hero 6 or the Sinister Six).

Hehe. Classic.

These Six were Scottish and Newcastle, Courage Imperial (which have merged now to become Scottish Courage), Whitbread, Bass Charrington (both having been bought and shared between IntBev and Coors), Watney’s and Allied Breweries (now part of the Carlsberg Group- the wheel spins on it would seem). Their domination of the market and need to mass churn out Beers lead to the rise of more carbonated barrels which in turn resulted in the Consumer Advocacy Group known as the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) with the intent to distinguish between “Real” Cask Ale, and Ale kept by the Big Six in the now mainstream carbonated, filtered, and pasteurised barrels/ Largers. The downside however to this and the founding of CAMRA came the image that brewing was an dated profession; akin to other manufacturing professions held by the working class in a world rapidly moving towards a service sector based economy. Ales and CAMRA being the equivalent to the Socks and Sandals. There’s no denial that UK Real Ale had an image problem. Nowhere near as bad as “Lager Louts” but the scene needed a Rennaisance.

Enter the US and it’s innovations to image and marketing. Which brings us to the import of the late 90s all the way through to the 2010s. Suddenly; it was cool to market these underdog breweries, producing quality drink products the brewers cared about just as much as the old timers but with hip, new labels and imagery. In short; Craft and Real Ales were modernised. Some would say Gentrified. Even Microbreweries could produce relatively large quantities enough to begin to sell to a larger audience. Breweries like Brooklyn, Thornbridge, and Brewdog emerged, with the latter being founded in 2007 in Scotland by Martin Dickie and James Watt (phew, we’ve caught up now).

Brewdog sailed in on a wave of Counter-Culture, portraying themselves as the Underdog Heroes of Craft, here to stop all those Lager touting Big Six style wannabes; a company that gave a shit about what it made. It’s not a new tactic, Musicians had been running that show for decades hence why Brewdog’s first proper product is called Punk IPA- a rebellion of taste sensation, a youthful attempt at an IPA (a product that, if I’m being fair, I enjoy; even though it’s basically the same as Jaipur- right down to the fact that Martin Dickie was the one that developed Jaipur at Thronbridge before moving on to set up Brewdog). Brewdog have also made a fair few good marketing decisions. They’ve released recipe books on their beer so it’s now classed as open source, they employ over 800 passionate people across their production plants their own globe wide bars, and which has resulted in the company being one of the fastest growing in the food and drink industry. They also opened up a Crowdfunding/Shareholders initiative to increase consumption in exchage for investment based rewards.

Brewdog’s image has slipped however over ther past few months and a history of shady behaviour surrounding legal battles, and Equity for Punks, make the point that wherever a business trades on Counter Culture, so to, will there be businesses willing to double dip the sincerity it garners to get away with some unreasonably shady behaviour.

So recently Brewdog has come under fire for two lawsuits aimed at Bars/ Pubs that use vaguely similar names. “Draft Punk” (if Dickie and Wyatt thought they were the targets because of an [at best] tennous link between an establishment that sells beer, AND a brand of beer, they seriously need to get Spotify Accounts).

Pictured: Not Martin Dickie or James Wyatt.

The other was “Lone Wolf” (which Brewdog claimed infringed on their trademark for their Vodka before backing down).

The obvious critique of these moves is that coming from a company that trades on the anti-establishment vibes picked up by it’s consumers, this comes off as duplicitious and hypocritical, but if you go further back, into the history of the company, these decisions crop up all too often.

Equity for Punks, The Company’s Crowdfunding scheme has plenty of criticism. Originally; when I first started writing this article the idea was to write a highly detailed account of each time Equity for Punks messed up, but as I dug deeper and peeled back more layers, the scheme and business practices unveiled  a laundry list of poor decisions. These include:

Reinvestment of profits rther than paying dividends to its investors (who have an annual ability to sell their shares, but as Brewdog haven’t floated on the Stock Market yet there have been more than enough peices written by media outlets and blogs considering whether investors will make their money back).

Producing an exclusive Tesco Finest Double IPA while looking to crowd funding (a move I like to call the Corporate/ Crowdfund Doubledown- which can be found on Page 4 of the Brewer’s Karma Sutra).

Diluting Shares that have an input/ are worth value by sharing them at such tiny percentages, their value drops massively.

Starting a CrowdCube fundraiser for 4 Year Short Term Bonds when they realised that Equity for Punks 2015 wouldn’t meet it’s £25 million goal.

James’ response to this article in which he calls critics “haters” (if at any point as a businessman you have to stop and ask “Am I sounding like Donald Trump Tweet”- you know you’ve gone too far), which; while not bad for consumers- does illustrate a point I’ll be making later.

Crowdfunded on Indiegogo for a $250 a night hotel (because: Punk Rock).

And finally (for now): Wyatt and Dickie’s inconsistent over inflation of the company’s value. In 2015, judging on who you ask, the owner’s valued the business between £283 million and £306 million (extending all the way to a £1 biillion flotation by 2020). This was however overturned when the Company sold 22% to Private Equity House “TSG Consumer Partners” which also owns Pabst, which valued the company at £1 billion. While this does overturn previous actions and give investors some value back to their shares by inflating their worth to match the value of the company, there still isn’t an opportunity for those investors to sell, and given the company’s roots this move once again flies in the face of the company’s image as an anti-establishment. Wyatt and Dickie claim the company was started to share a love of great beer with everyone, but failures as an indie and now this shift has exposed the company for the cynical cash grab it is.

The original title for this article was “Brewdog is the Sex Pistols of the Brewery World” because that evoked similar ideas: Manufactured Anti-Establishment except their origins are reversed. The Sex Pistols started manufactured but have some good tracks and they’re still largely looked at positively several decades down the line; where as Brewdog started in a garage and haven’t been round long enough to tell yet. Then it was Tim Westwood for the same reason except Westwood’s image is way more self deprecating, and how Brewdog get away with screwing it’s fans over is not funny. In the slightest. Soooo, I can only believe the Company’s closest modern analogy is Justin Bieber because they share all the same symptoms: Manufactured Counter Culture, Overzealous and exploitable fans, Cynical Cash Grabbing by owners so grossly thin skinned when it comes to criticism with overly inflated opinions of their products; pulling edgy PR stunts/ nightmares in a desperate scramble for relevance that is so ultimately overdone that it’s boring (no really). I enjoyed Brewdog’s products but now the image has turned me off, and as some one trying to build a brand on Crowdfunding, the more this attitude is allowed to prevail, the more it’ll poison the well for the rest of us. And the worst part is that Brewdog isn’t the first company to want their industry’s share of the Big Six’s Revenue whilst cashing in its fans loyalty and goodwill. Chances are it won’t be the last either so as consumers we need to be better at telling Businessman ike Wyatt and Dickie no when they try to pull it, whether thats by writing about it once they start to take a bit of criticism, or going out and refusing to buy when the time comes to it. In short:

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