#im not tagging this this is just nonsense

[cosmosluckycharms]

Showtime☆

pt 1

Little Miss

Your momma was just a regular lady. Despite not being rich she gave you everything she could.

She'd take you out to parks with your cousins, she'd drop you off at your grandfathers house when she had a job interview, she'd listen to you talk about your nonsense, and she would bake for you and help you bake! She wasnt rich by any means but she tried her best! You knew she'd give you the clothes on her back if you asked!

Momma wasnt anyone important to others. A mere fling by Bruce from back in his Brucie Wayne days. but she was important to you! Momma didnt hide your father. She wasnt emparrassed. She said it was amazing to have "such a ball of sunshine" with her!

She never told you she was glad you werent broody like your father

Despite never meeting your father, you wondered what he was like. Was he as sweet as momma? Was he kind like momma? Would he take you out for ice cream like momma?

You never fully had time to wonder though, Momma was always dropping you off at your grandpas house whenever she had a job interview. Which was basically every other day. You didnt mind though! It gave you more time to get closer to your grandpa!

You both had similar personalities! you both liked music, games, themeparks despite how you could only go once at 5 years old. your grandpa and momma had to save up for 8 months and a half, walking and talking and baking and, and, and-

Youre 7 when your mom dies. She died from not getting her Pneumonia checked out. You wanted to beat yourself up for not noticing, you wanted to cry and throw up and blame it on yourself, but the truth was no one knew besides her.

You felt something was off because the months leading up to her death her smile was fading. Momma didnt want you to worry and snitch to your grandpa and put more on his back so she kept quiet and never told anyone.

She couldnt even tell a doctor, she couldnt afford the medical bills and she'd rather die then tell bruce

You always were very observent. You mourned for a while, as much as you could anyways. You couldnt mourn for long, you had to keep going, for momma! You kept smiling, for momma.

You and your grandpa tried your hardest to keep going for her, to keep her memory alive. You held onto the art projects she started but never finished, onto the books she never released, onto the movies that never made it in the industry.

Youre 7 when your grandpa dies. He died from accidental overdose from his off-brand medications.

You tell yourself he isnt dead hecantbedeadhecantdieandleavepleasedontleavemecomebackplease

Everything was a blur from there. You decide to creamate him, like momma.

You space out for what feels like hours. Its been a while when you stop dissasociating and realize you're at a police station where theyre taking dna tests on you to see if you have any other family to take care of you.

Its a shock to others when it points to Bruce Wayne being your father, and it shocks them more when you immidiately say you already knew and how you immidiately brighten up and go on talking about the things your momma said about him.

After what feels like hours, someone who definitely does not look like who your father picks you up.

He says hes your fathers butler, you didnt even know those were real! You thought they were made up for movies!

He keeps trying to talk to you in his fancy car, you try to keep the conversation going to distract yourself from how you really just want your momma.

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hi im new at writing pls be nice sorry for the mistakes

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[birdieisnotwriting]

ramble about jason ? who is he? i feel like id like him

JASON PETER TODD my beloved my strange sad undead-ish son. gripping your shoulders intently. thank you so much for giving me this opportunity it means a lot to me  

i am putting this under the cut bc it got stupid STUPID long lol. its also very incoherent and rambling so idk. be warned.

(mild tw for references to addiction, sexual assault, and violence/blood)

jason todd is the second adopted son and robin to bruce wayne/batman. he grew up in a extremely poor part of gotham (which gives him a connection to the underdogs that bruce never had oop) his dad went to jail/died when he was a kid, and his mom ended up passing away from a drug addiction. jason became a self-sufficient street kid at a very young age.

how do independent young street kids meet up with the motherfucking batman?? easy. they jack the tires of the batmobile.

THIS IS HIS REAL BACKSTORY. IM NOT KIDDING. WHO IS DOING IT LIKE HIM!!!!

anyway baby jason helps bruce take down a crime ring inside of a school and bruce goes you’ve got gumption! be my robin blah blah blah and jason becomes robin ii!! im sure this will go so well for him

as time goes on jason’s anger management issues start rising to the surface and bruce, the biggest hypocrite on the east coast, takes umbrage with this. just like bruce, jason has an extremely strong drive to do the right thing and obtain justice, but he often finds himself frustrated with the constraints of the legal system.

this comes to a head with felipe garzonas, the son of a diplomat who sexually assaulted a young woman but cannot be held accountable due to ”"diplomatic immunity”” the young woman ends up hanging herself out of desperation. jason—who is particularly sensitive about violence toward women—takes this hard. he goes to felipe’s apartment to exchange some words and, well.

personally, i don’t think jason killed garzonas, but i wouldn’t be particularly upset if he did. guy was an asshole and nobody should feel bad that hes dead. but already we can see the cracks forming in jason and bruce's relationship and in jason's relationship with the extremely strict bat ethos.

anyway, jason gets benched as robin due to his anger issues (bruce. come on. a modicum of self-awareness.) while he’s benched, he discovers that the woman who raised him was not, in fact, his biological mother. jason runs away from home to find her, bruce eventually catches up, and they find jason’s biological mother, sheila haywood, working as a doctor in ethiopia.

unfortunately for everybody involved the joker is also in ethiopia doing….some joker nonsense with nuclear weapons. i don’t fucking know. anyway, turns out sheila is working for the joker, and jason, in an attempt to save her (because of COURSE he was trying to save her, because he is always always trying to be good and caring and heroic) gets lured into a warehouse and beaten half to death with a crowbar. joker leaves jason and sheila in the warehouse with a ticking bomb. they don’t get out in time. 

that’s right!! dc just killed off a roughly fifteen year old robin!! ahaha!!

it’s important to understand that like. jason STAYED dead. like he was dead for a long-ass time!! i’ve read that a common saying in comic book circles was something along the lines of “only two characters stay dead: jason todd and bucky barnes” and uh. i feel we all know how the bucky barnes thing went. anyway.

i'll help you guess, bruce. this is jason. surprise!!!

yeah he’s back!!! roughly sixteen years real time and four-ish years comic time after death in the family, we get under the red hood where jason todd returns to gotham city with a vengeance. how did we come back, may you ask? superboy punched reality too hard. he dug himself out of his own grave. wandered around brain dead for a bit before he got tossed into a magic pit and came out spitting mad. don’t worry about it it’s mostly handwaved. 

wasnt kidding about the grave thing tho

(but wait!! if it’s four years comic time and he died when he was fifteen, wouldn’t he be a whopping nineteen years old?? yes. yes he is. possibly less, if you don’t count the time he spent brain dead or comatose. this will help to explain many of his succeeding actions)

anyway jason comes back to gotham and he is PISSED bc 1.) batman clearly isn’t an effective deterrent, seeing how crime continues to run rampant. gotham needs somebody to follow through on the threats and take the people who can’t change out of the equation. 2.) the joker is still alive. bruce claimed to love him like a son, and yet the man who brutally tortured and murdered him is still alive. 

AHHHHH anyway im normal

they fight about this. blow some stuff up about it. jason kills some guys. eventually, jason tries to give bruce an ultimatum between killing the joker, letting jason kill the joker, or killing jason so jason won’t kill the joker. bruce handles this by uh. hitting him in the neck with a batarang. ahahahaha

(wow that’s a lot of blood!! wouldn’t that have killed him?? some people (me) think it did, and whatever brought jason back for round 2 brought him back again for round 3. your father didn’t break his closest held rule to kill your killer, but he did to kill you. fucked!!)

anyway, after this jason’s role fluctuates. he goes through a phase where he’s a full-on villain/antagonist (and a ginger?? for some goddamn reason??) and then he moves into a more anti-hero/tortured hero role, which is roughly where he’s at now. sometimes he kills and sometimes he uses rubber bullets. sometimes bruce lets him do whatever and sometimes he really really doesn’t. depends on who’s writing him. 

there are a LOT of things that i like about jason peter todd. i think it’s pretty wild that he died that one time. i think it’s cool that he’s high-key a lit nerd (in just the comics i’ve read, he’s casually dropped references to orwell, austen, dumas, and a few others that i don’t even know despite having roughly five sixths of an english degree.) i think the white streak is cool. i love how stupid and dramatic he is at his best. i like the dumb loser quips that he makes. i think it’s wild that he’s doing all this in his late teens-early twenties.  

i love his deep, deep empathy, especially for the people batman overlooks.

i think his fraught relationship to his own emotions is incredibly fascinating. jason tries so hard to present himself as somebody who doesn’t give a damn and can’t be bothered by anything, but he’s a terrible liar and his true, explosive emotions always leak through. he’s always furious and grieving and trying, and no matter what he does, those are coming through to the surface.

loathe as i am to give scott lobdell credit for anything at all ever, there’s a really good illustration of this in red hood and the outlaws vol 2 (a jason comic that is not great, but is at least readable and often even fun). jason’s just found out that his dead and presumed estranged biological father tried to write him letters and reconnect while he was in prison. jason never got these letters, so he never got the chance. he goes to his father’s grave and digs it up, all the while screaming that he doesn’t care.

obviously, he does care. he cares so deeply. he tries to cover it up, but it just keeps on exploding through. it’s so delicious. 

anyway if you’re bored and you want to explore jason’s whole deal, i recommend starting with the under the red hood movie. it’s a little over an hour long, it does a pretty good job of hitting condensed emotional beats (even if it has to cut some pretty good moments from the comic). jason is voiced by none other then Jensen Fucking Ackles, and he does a really good vocal performance.

if you like that, i recommend moving on to the under the red hood comic, which has even more fun/absolutely emotionally devastating beats. the other essential jason reading is lost days, which covers how he trained to become red hood and is pretty good except for one weird moment at the end that everybody just kind of ignores because it is ah. bad. 

every other jason comic ranges from pretty okay (seeing red, which is technically a green arrow arc but jason shows up and is written well) to good and fun but throws a lot of random names at you really quickly (task force z, the hill) to entertaining enough if you lower your standards (red hood/arsenal, red hood and the outlaws vol 2, appearances in the morrison batman and robin run) to actively bad but characterizes jason pretty well despite everything and you’re desperate (gotham war) to do not read at any costs unless you are truly at your limit oh my god (red hood and the outlaws vol 1). there are plenty of other ones where jason has more of a supporting role. there's also a lot of excellent jason-centric fic, which is where i got into batfam, but this is long enough already jesus christ.

i’m wrapping up now because this has turned into a goddamn manifesto. to anyone who made it to the end, thank you. you’re a doll. here are some of my favorite moments of jason being absolutely silly as a palate cleanser.

(REALLY RICH COMING FROM THE GUY WHO ALSO DIED)

ANYWAY. truly he is one of these guys ever and i fear i am unwell.

[thecmaly]

can't even cat nap in peace 😾

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more windbreaker comics

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[right to left]

finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[salemoleander]

I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.

BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.

That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.

The phrasing of his Task!!

Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.

Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.

Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.

The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.

Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.

Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.

Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.

Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.

My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.

Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!

If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun

[vamp-bites]

I'll be your mirror, reflect what you are, in case you don't know

(I'll Be Your Mirror by Nico and The Velvet Underground)

[heartorbit]

i'm sending this endless melody to a nameless you

[beastlyidiocy]

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^ i care about this scribble deeply . He he ehehe hehe

[aeon-uriel]

[kkoct-ik]

IT'S FINISHED! I'VE FINISHED IT!

for the past few months i've been putting together a guide for writers looking to make OCs who suffer from DID, since i have a personal investment in good representation and an absurd amount of autism. and today it is FINISHED!!

it's gone up on my neocities, but i really wanted to post about it too.

here's the link

please check it out / bookmark it / share it if you're interested! if just one person finds this useful and makes art from it all my hours of hyperfixation will be worth. ok. love you

[neon-catarina]

neoncatperson actually animating for once?????? AND its cccc related?????????? woah?????

who wants to listen to me ramble about why be born is my favourite song btw

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

[cherrirui-official]

New hyha looks weird, why is Salty bald??

@saltydkart-reblogs

[tategaminu]

Twitter if we ever get pregnant Rayla explaining how the baby was created by a magic spell and/or divine intervention:

[kat1nkulta]

Sunset wayfarer Loop

Unlike with Faelantern, this one didn’t remind me of Loop at all I just wanted to draw them with butterflies and also yay sunsets

Anyway OG and effectless ver. below

The text version is blasted with light effects bc the dungeon events are shown on an old display screen and are glared to all hell. Finally got it again in MD so i can add the ingame ss

[medicalunprofessional]

the enemy!