#like practice what you preach

[stargirlie25]

Gwynriels when people insult Gwyn:

SOME Gwynriels when people insult Elain

I love Gwynriel and my fellow gwynriels but not these kinds.........anyways every side of the fandom has its bad.

[grapehyasynth]

Wilmon- “We’re more than just roommates…”

Hope ur still taking. Prompts!

Thank you! I had an idea for this and then @enjoythesilentworld posted this about jealous roommates in denial, which inspired me! With their permission I'm placing this in that universe.

"We're more than just roommates, you know," Wille says, following Emil's gaze across the party to where Simon is giggling over the foosball table, fighting Rosh for the ball.

"Oh yeah?" Emil asks, distractedly, his beer bottle hovering near his lips, half-forgotten as he watches Simon. Wille understands, and empathizes, but that's the extent of his warm feeling towards this guy who's been flirting with Simon all night.

"Yeah. Just in case there was any confusion. Wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea." He swirls his own drink, tosses the rest of it back, sets it down sharply. "Simon's not available."

An hour later, maybe more, Simon finds him in one of the dark crowded hallways of this maze of a house.

"You have to stop telling people we're together!" Simon shouts, his hand circling Wille's wrist to draw him closer so they can hear each other over the music. His thumb presses into the meat of Wille's palm and Wille's fingers curl instinctively around it. "We're roommates."

"We're not just roommates," Wille insists stubbornly.

"It was one time--"

"Three times." They've had variations on this argument before.

"And unless you want to put your money where your mouth is, it's only going to stay one time."

That effectively shoves Wille's snarky response back down his throat. Simon's thumbnail is digging into Wille's palm, and in the dim hallway he can't tell if Simon's hooded eyes are looking down at his lips.

[liedownquisition]

Jason Todd's timeline and "Age"

So, there's a lot of discussion of Jason Todd's age esp as relative to other sidekick vigilantes, particularly Tim and Mia. I believe the exact words are usually something about a "grown ass man beating up/trying to kill teenagers."

DISCLAIMER: This particular post is specifically regarding the "grown ass man vs teenagers" statement, I have posts regarding the "tried to kill them" portion and other stuff like "seriously Jason Todd is like being shot by a marshmallow gun compared to what goes on directly before and after him in these incidents, also you don't bitch about the right stuff, also a lot of you prop up characters who are Objectively Worse, and no that's not hate on your fave it's just me calling out hypocrisy". It just takes time to find digital copies of the panels I'm using. NOTE I AM NOT JUSTIFYING HIS ACTIONS. I'm just saying y'all blow it out of proportion for petty character hate. Like, shit, they're superheroes. Jason's soooo fuckin' tame. He's not even framed as a big deal to the teens it's only the adults that think it's that much of a problem.

Courtesy readmore post cut:

Now, to start off, we all know Jason died at 15 & a few months off from 16 (if you want me to dig up panels, sure, but I figured at this point that wasn't in question). Tim at this point is somewhere between 12-13, and we have this panel in Lonely Place of Dying which takes place a few months later:

So that's a ballpark of 2-3 years between Jason and Tim.

But Tim's age is really fucky and they keep de-aging him tbh. We can extrapolate that his confrontation with Jason was between the ages of 16-17 bcs it's after the arc where he has his incredibly shitty 16th birthday in Robin Vol2 #116 and before Red Robin where he's stated to be 17. This would put Jason between 18-19 at the time. (If you really want me to find panel sources for Tim's birthday and his age in RR then, sure, but I don't think they're necessary. I used it more as a guidepost for Jason's age, since we have a clear idea of what the age gap is.)

At least, on paper.

Mia for her part I've had a hard time finding like, on panel mentions of her age and if anyone can direct me to it being explicitly stated I'd love that. I'm rereading old comics but it's a LOT of comics to hunt down & dig through. To my understanding she was fifteen when Ollie first met her, and there's at Minimum of about a year and a half between that to her meeting Red Hood, more likely at least two? because there's at least few months between that and her joining the Titans, the Doctor Light stuff, then One Year Later, and then returned to Star some 3 months after Ollie came back to run for mayor? And then Jason not too long after. So, two years feels safe. Puts her at 17-ish, Jason at 19-20

Once again, I specify: on paper.

People would happily point out at this point that the upward stretch of a 4 year age gap is a "huge gap in maturity." And yeah, under normal circumstances, I'd agree.

But, and this is going to get contradictory bcs I found Two different timelines (BOTH written by Winick, lmao), and depending on how you read it it could be up to three different possibilities. Let's Start with Batman Annual #25: Daedalus & Icarus.

Timestamp before Jason's resurrection, which is pretty well known at this point:

Next, him waking up from a coma afterwards, when he escapes the hospital:

Now the above could be interpreted as either 1 year after he died if we're assuming that it's using the same "start" point to count as the resurrection (unlikely), or one year after he came back (more likely).

Next, the timestamp right before a guy recognizes him and sells him out:

And, finally, the timestamp before being put in the Pit:

That is, count it up, between 3-3 1/2 years where Jason was dead, in a coma, or otherwise not particularly... cognizant of the world around him. His ass is NOT developing emotionally, socially, or mentally like this, which pretty handily bridges the gaps there. Taken at face value, Jason's maturity level is going to be, unironically, younger than Tim's in the wake of these setbacks.

Now, if we go to Lost Days issue 1, it doesn't specify how long he was dead, nor how long he was in a coma, so we'll just carry those two over, what we DO have is this from just after Talia brought him home:

This puts him as being on the streets for five months, so we're at just shy of two years so far. And then we have this:

Which is right before Talia puts him in the Pit.

So, in summary: 6 months dead, 1 year coma, 5 months on the street, and something like 1-1 1/2 years with the League which...

Actually puts us on almost the exact same timeframe either way. 3 to 3 1/2 years. It just changes whether Jason was on the streets or with the League for longer.

And is utterly incomprehensible because comic timelines are a freaking nightmare.

If we're being generous, then that would put Jason at a minimum of 19, maybe toeing the line of 20 for UTRH, again, on paper, because like hell are you convincing me he did less than a year's worth of training abroad throughout Lost Days. Yeah maybe they trained him in fighting while he was catatonic, muscle memory and all that. But the other teachers that we KNOW of? The bombs, guns, probably something to get him up to date on handling all that tech we see him using, Egon, potentially arguably All-Caste if you want to draw from n52...

but you'd have to knock at least a year and a half off of his internal/personal development from death & coma, at minimum. Maybe you could argue he was somewhat developing while in his "the lights are on, but nobody's home" phase, you can't say it's at the same level as a normal person might when going about their day to day life, and it's difficult to measure. But he's not hitting the kind of milestones that he should be for his age. I wouldn't put him at anything less than two years behind. So if we use our upper estimates on Jason, and lower estimates on both the developmental setbacks and Tim/Mia's ages that gives us:

Jason toeing 20, mentally 18, fighting Tim at 16. 2 year gap, kind of stretching the physical age gap if we assume Tim had just barely turned 13 when he showed up to be Robin. - OR LESS

Jason maybe 21, mentally 19, fighting Mia at 17, two year age gap again. Honestly, still not that big of a difference - OR LESS

And, to be frank, that's not even counting the mental development issues that come from the intense physical trauma from dying - and I swear to fuck don't give me the "He's not the only one who died he's not special" speech.

HOW MANY OF THE OTHERS YOU'RE USING AS A GOTCHA LOST, *GESTURING AGGRESSIVELY ABOVE*, LITERALLY MULTIPLE YEARS OF THEIR LIFE.

Not counting adults, of course. Barry lost years, Hal lost years, Ollie I think also lost a couple years? but A) they came back still adults, bodies pretty much the same. B) While Jason's body didn't go through a magic growth spurt in canon, it did still grow esp while with the League.

I'll eventually get around to Titan's Tower & GA#72 (tbh, there are other people who've already done Titan's Tower and it'd probably be better than what I do, so I'm more going to focus on the latter, but there IS a specific part of the former that drives me nuts that I don't see brought up a lot), and maybe if we're feeling spicy all my issues with UTRH starting with how Winick is just as guilty of retroactively writing Jason as being inherently a bad penny since his Robin days as any of the other "modern" writers. Like, bud, Severe enough Head Trauma is legitimately enough to change someone's personality, not to mention trauma. It wouldn't hurt your narrative for that eerie difference, the Shade of What Once Was if you're really going for RH being Like that.

Final addition: I swear to god if you use my post to start up some kind of petty-ass ship war or flame other characters I will immediately turn off reblogs and replies I am Not Dealing With That Shit, please and thank you.

Anyways, @glitter-stained, your interest made me decide to actually put the work in now to pull it up rather than passively gather stuff to dump whenever discourse pushes me over the edge so, here ya are. Looks like you did have it closer on the mark than I did.

[queen-paladin]

Always thinking of her (female character who is punished by the narrative for not being “as cool” as another female character)

[sketch-cat]

Your light

[reanimatedgh0ul]

it's crazy to me that angsty broody danny™ is as popular as it is in fanon when it's like first off have you even MET danny and secondly SAM EBONY DARK'NESS DEMENTIA RAVEN WAY MANSON IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE OUT OF ANYONE IN THE TRIO SHE'S THE ONE WHO'S GONNA ACT LIKE THAT OK I NEED MORE OF Y'ALL TO REALIZE THIS

THIS RIGHT HERE IS LITERALLY WHAT SAM VS DANNY WOULD LOOK LIKE ACTUALLY

[draculagerard]

Okay I understand the animosity towards vegans who try forcing others to be vegan, but I need you guys to understand that they are just a really small, vocal community online, and that I’ve never met a single vegan who acts like that. You know what I HAVE seen a disturbing number of times though? Non-vegans forcing / tricking vegans into eating animal based products. I need you guys to understand that trying to intentionally feed a vegan animal based products is fucked up and it WILL make make them lose trust in you forever, no matter how close you are with them

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Ngl, reading the words "we'll continue to support workplace whistleblowers" is a buckwild thing to hear any political party say in a world where the current Dark Capitalism Joke is "well, I'm not a Boeing whistleblower, so my survival rates look great"

[douglasfeiffel]

i am really enjoying impact winter but yet I find myself wondering the same thing I wonder when consuming most vampire media: if the vampires can control how much they drink from someone, why don't they? It's hard to see the vampires we're supposed to see as good people as good people when they're murdering non-vampires left and right when they could. according to the story itself. just not do that

[tentacle-therapissed]

SvS is great because Janus's argument is simultaneously so well crafted and also so deceptive and manipulative. Look at him go. He really fits the lawyer role to a tee

[humandisastersquad]

Rly tired of people using “no ethical consumption under capitalism” to justify buying shit like their dozenth funko pop

[thelastsaiyanprincess]

y'all be like "minors DNI/DNF" and then...... constantly reblog posts written by minors lmfao

[lesbianusahana]

The more I think about it I’m glad I went along and made a priv because I’ve started confining my more Personal And Pathetic Selfship Tangents there and I like to view it as doing you all a massive solid. Can’t scare the hoes if you post hoe-scaring worth content where they can see it

[userjiminie]

hey, i have a funny opinion 🤩 nothing, absolutely nothing in this goddamn fandom is so serious that you should feel comfortable saying that people should d1e or k1ll themselves.

[snail-speed]

I think the most fucked up part about the whole allegations bullshit is the hypocrisy and the fact that, while not good at manipulating, they clearly know how to word that shit well enough for impressionable people to buy it and not bother to do a background check on them.

Like the person I replied to was annoying and I blocked them, sure, but they're a minor. A minor seriously came up to my post to try and argue that it's not weird as fuck for Xtriel to defend a man that groomed a minor because "it only happened once". Keep in mind Xtriel is the person behind the most prominent allegation document + Twitter threads, and said groomer friend is the one that has been pushing for people to regard Rox as a pedophile.

[moraygrotto]

on the flip side of this, i should assert how important i think it is not to idolize someone too much in the tumblr kink community—if ur a fan of someone's blog, and they make posts that hit your kinks perfectly, that person is also invariably going to Absolutely Not be into at least one of the topics you love. they are creating for themself, not for you. especially for those who struggle with RSD, it's important to come to terms with this fact as early as possible, and try your best to conceptualize the people you look up to as people first & kink creators second