#long-(ish) post

[blitzy-blitzwing]

I love misunderstandings. 😎😎

[goldsnek]

No Mercy.

[pokeberry5]

Hi for doodle request, can I see Tim showing Damian pictures he took before being Robin?

i got carried away thinking about them

the reality lol:

i think it'd be funny if what finally brought them together is damian gaining a grudging respect for tim when he learns about the obsessive lengths tim went to in the lead up to his assumption of the robin title and tim realizing he's found a fellow devoted dick grayson admirer (just-nightwing admirers and dick-grayson-friends don't count)

bonus:

they're both fanatics

the panel is from new titans #60

[hinamie]

dropped everything because i had to do a proper tribute :( have an updated redraw of my very first yoi piece

2016 - 2017 - 2024

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

[teasodium]

happy May the 4th !

Also fuck Mark Hamill n anyone else who doesn't support 🍉

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 4: Haunted

[peak-dumbass]

So I finally watched Dragons Rising part 2….

THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS (MAKING COLE SOMEHOW GAYER)

I CANT MAKE EVERY SHIP I LIKE INTO A POLYCULE THAT JUST WON’T WORK 0(-(

[ruporas]

i made a digital vw zine, there's a bunch of stuff on here that hasn't been shared elsewhere! if you're looking for a barrage of vw being really clingy and all, look no further :]

LINK

[jjkyaoi]

i love alastor because he’s so used to people being impressed by him that it gets under his skin SOOOO badly when they aren’t. he’s always like yeahhh lol btw i was missing for seven years and then came back with no explanation OOOHHH wonder what that’s about !! and the one time carmilla was like. actually that isn’t any of my business and idgaf 🤷‍♂️ his entire mood was Killed. he already had smth against lucifer for whatever reason but when the king of hell didn’t know and didn’t care about his infamous radio show that he garnered his feared reputation from he immediately was like Oh I’m Going To Squash Him Like a Bug. like ok. you can just say you want people to think you’re cool dude there’s no need for all this

[blitzy-blitzwing]

That loving stare. 🥺❤️

[aroaceleovaldez]

how Nico functions narratively as a character is always extremely funny to me because he has like, exactly 3 modes: exposition, damsel, and dues ex machina.

Exposition Mode is usually whenever Annabeth (#1 designated exposition character. #2 is Grover or insert mythological figure of the hour here. #3 is Nico) or someone else isn't around to exposition for the present cast. He has an excuse to somehow randomly know everything and everyone, no matter what, especially if it's relevant to the plot. He'll randomly develop new skills or personal arcs purely as an excuse to put him in situations where he can exposition, such as him being able to gain insight into the future/prophecies via ghosts (which is a thing in Greek mythology, but still). This is actually why it's extremely difficult for him to function as a POV character in a stand-alone story or first book of a series, because the way Riordanverse functions, the POV almost always only has as much information as the audience going into things and a secondary character explains information to them as they go along, unless it's later on into a series and it makes sense for the characters and/or audience to know that already. That's why Nico doesn't function well as a POV for TSATS but Will would work fine, because Nico's designated narrative role is Knowing Everything/Everyone, Somehow (particularly relating to the Underworld).

Damsel: he just gets kidnapped a ridiculous amount of times. Also that plus his penchant for passing out means there is ample opportunity for scenarios where Nico, despite being extremely powerful, needs to be rescued. Pairing this with how he's always off doing absolutely anything, absolutely anywhere, and somehow knows everybody, he's a perfect means to push the plot forward with an easy "oh no we need to rescue/protect Nico for the millionth time" side-quest or addition to stakes at hand. Or, similarly, if you need to take Nico out of the equation for a bit because he's too powerful and would fix it immediately: oops he passed out/needs to be protected/is kidnapped/etc.

And then as mentioned before - Deus ex machina, kinda literally. Nico is extremely overpowered for a reason; Because he's the catch-all solution to every problem. Just throw Nico at it. We can BS a new epic power for him that vaguely makes sense and yeah he's just that powerful and will pass out because of it probably. Yeah sure he can rip people's souls out and instakill things. Yeah he can teleport anything anywhere under essentially any circumstances. He'll just be a little sleepy. A lil eepy. He needs to take a lil nap. It's fine.

Basically. Solution to literally every situation in the Riordanverse: Throw Nico at it. Just throw Nico at it. It'll make sense. It'll work. Unless he's the primary POV in a stand-alone novel, short story, or first book in a series. Then it won't make any sense because you suddenly have to backtrack like 2/3 of Nico's entire narrative functions and suddenly he is Only A Damsel.

[radarchives]

pov: you're a spoiled prince but then daddy randomly decides that tomb is life

[chelledoggo]

okay, so this may be a completely inconsequential thing that i'm reading entirely too much into, but... you ever notice how during stressful, emotional, or awkward moments, Ragatha will kinda... do these things with her hands/arms? like she'll fidget with her hands, rub her arm, hug herself, etc...?

it's kinda giving "self-soothing stimming" to me. as an autistic person, i sometimes do similar things with my arms when things are stressful or awkward.

like in this scene, after they return to the Candy Kingdom and Princess Loo is congratulating them. yeah, the ordeal is over, and Ragatha's smiling, but her nerves are very likely still frazzled from it all and this is her way of calming herself.

and of course she does something similar while she's giving her eulogy at Kaufmo's Funeral...

again i'm probably reading entirely too much into it, but this is giving off the vibes of a self-soothing stim she's developed to help her deal with everything she's dealing with and suppressing.

[awkwardosthe3rd]

Hey do you have any warriot cats designs?

Uhh yes? Do you mean like personal spins on official cats, or fan OC's of the series? :0 I probably got both tbf (some of this stuff is low quality, cuz I admittedly scouted it off of google, since some of my old Twitter stuff just kinda- vanished and I ain't gonna be digging up the old USB disk rn) Some older official book stuff:

And some fan OC and AU stuff

[teasodium]

that moment when you are the eldest sibling n you coerce your youngest sibling with snacks so they can give emotional advice (ghibli redraw also >;3)

silly fun idea that i may follow up one day with Mikey info dumping about Edo period queerness.