#makes me shudder

[redshoes-blues]

The Worst period drama trope is when the revolutionary/radical socialist character “learns from their ways” and just…becomes a status quo lib. Or even worse: an actual member of the aristocracy

[burning-sol]

I hate the devil emoji I hate the devil emoji I hate the devil emoji--

[mefausto19]

curious about what's in store for you for 2023? :D

let AO3 decide!

(this is a random generator that will give you four (4) ao3 tags, so you know, warnings for what that usually entails)

[tiredfoxtf]

Does no one else finds mushrooms and fungi fucking terrifying.

[pim-trying-not-to-die]

i rlly thought i’d escaped all the lessons about self-immolation when i left school but here i am, cringing like fuck again

[beastlyidiocy]

my sweet old man who is genuinely too kind for the world he lives in :(

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

Ao3 is down :(

[ninjasmudge]

silly cotl corporate au where lamb was supposed to be building narinders company back up from the ground, and instead of handing it over to him at the end, they engineer a loophole so now theyre the CEO while hes been demoted to their personal assistant.

except that he's REALLY good at it, even though he keeps trying to do things to fuck up their position and make them look incompetent. he tells them the wrong room for a meeting and they miss an assassination attempt by not showing up. he doesnt bother to send off a confirmation email to a partner company and it turns out the deal they were about to sign wouldve lost them half their stock. lamb thinks hes doing it on purpose because he secretly approves of them, narinder himself is livid

[omaano]

"I've grown these for you."

My first entry for the @rexobibingo - because what is a Gardener/Gardening about if not making leafy things grow out of love? (You can, of course, grow your leafy things out of spite too, I guess, that's always a very fair motivation if you ask me)

Keeping to good old habits from my previous bingo experience, please allow me to wholeheartedly and very passionately recommend @dharmaavocado's fic that has been on my mind throughout the whole time while I was working on this drawing We Who Love Our Hands in Dirt which was likely the first fic that has sold me on this ship, and Hanahaki as allergies will never stop being fascinating to me as a concept *w*

[thecruellestmonth]

Remembering stuff like Alfred having Bruce and cutting his hair and and dressing him. Which could mean anything but really reinforce the upstairs/downstairs servile relationship. The lack of modesty or shame a rich person has around their staff is something else. And it’s just a like. Almost a Caste system where Alfred is second class and can never BE on Bruce’s level as an equal let alone authority figure. And Alfred is happy with that! Because that’s the story and he is, after all, the butler

[laufire's cool post on Alfred & Bruce]

Yeah, Alfred is not Bruce's father. Bruce is the pater familias of his household like his father before him, and Alfred is his very cherished manservant. Alfred can be a caretaker and a confidant, he can even be parental (-ish), but he's not a parent. (Note to self: rant about the awkward and aggressively enforced line between "parental" and "parent" in Batman mythos.)

IMO one of the most compact arguments on Alfred's role is in Batman: Year One (IIRC the very comic that established Alfred as an old servant of the Wayne family, instead of his original story of being hired by Bruce). Grant Morrison was on some podcast (I think either Kevin Smith's podcast or "Hypertime to Podcast"?) talking about the significance of how Bruce's first act as Batman is to ring a bell to ask for Alfred to help him. We see Morrison emphasize this moment in The Return of Bruce Wayne, where The Bell is a relic on the same level as The Pearls and The Gun.

I can agree it's a defining moment. To some extent I'm willing to accept Morrison's suggestion that Bruce ringing the bell symbolizes the value of asking for help, teamwork, comradery, family, humility, etc—and most fans would be happy to sprint with that interpretation. But I can also juggle a separate interpretation that branches off and veers to the left...

You do not ring a bell to ask for help from your parent or friends or family—you ring a bell to summon a servant.

Bruce becoming Batman in Year One is the story of a prince reclaiming his kingdom. (The Return of Bruce Wayne is a renewal of that story.) Summoning the family manservant is the act of Bruce finally accepting his royal inheritance, after his foolish attempt to slum it with the rabble. A good king is kind and attentive to his subjects, and considers the opinions of his advisors—but they're never his equals or his superiors, no matter how much he cherishes them. They're his subordinates. Nobody is on Bruce's level as an equal, nobody can win a case against his authority, in Gotham. Bruce is the rightful heir of his kingdom. The king and queen are dead, long live the king.

—I know some vocal fans are very critical of Miller, but there's no disputing that Miller's Batman: Year One is the definitive Post-Crisis story of Bruce's invention of Batman, and pretty much every modern comic writer and fan recognizes it. It's likely no comic writer or story has had as much enduring influence on the Batman mythos since Miller wrote Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. Case in point: Alfred.

So yeah. Alfred isn't Bruce's dad. The Gotham TV series probably makes the strongest case for Alfred as Bruce's dad, and even then I personally think there is wiggle room to say eh they're family and they love each other but they're not quite parent & child. Everything else—Batman '66, BTAS, the Nolan movies, Lego Batman, Battinson—ultimately doesn't Alfred cast as Bruce's dad, for the best. Recent comics and the later Arkhamverse games try to force the father-son thing, but it's cheap and unearned.

[brainworms-all-night-long]

So amazing news, my computer just suddenly shut off and won't boot back up so that's all of my unfinished art lost once again yippie!!

Well anyway, here's a thing I've been last working on before I got very rudely interrupted

These two fuckers have been jumping around my brain for the past week nonstop someone escort them out already

Something funny because Uzi is from a planet called "Copper-9" get it? Copper nine? Copper to Nine like "[Name] to Earth, you with us"? hillarious I know

Something something Uzi is a robot that grew organic parts due to bullying and loneliness + some funky genetics stuff, while Nine is an organic guy that stapled robotic parts to himself because he was bullied due to some funky genetics stuff

[da-shrimping-station]

Love how we're all down for freaky deaky kinks and philias for the devils but bad hygiene? No thank you!!!

Unexpected solidarity thanks to the one and only King of Lust.

Babe you're hot af but I'm gonna have to put you in the wash before we do anything.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Wait, people don't wash their pillows? I don't wash mine ALL the time that I wash my sheets, but at least every other time I wash my sheets (maybe every time during the summer).

It depends on the kind of pillow you have whether you can really wash it effectively. A lot of memory foam just can't handle being washed. Water goes in but it never comes out- horrifying breeding ground for mildew and bacteria.

But uh. Having worked in mattress sales that even people who use down or polyfill pillows tend not to wash them and it's.... something I try not to think about.

[nerves-nebula]

im so funny, i was like

"yeah i enjoy romance but not that basic 'omg i just wanna hug you and kiss you and love you and snuggle you' shit that makes me sooo uneasy. i just want a comfortable silence and someone i know i can trust and watch stuff with and feel comfortable around no matter what. someone i can really fully trust that I don't have to put on a whole weird lovey dovey show around. that other stuff feels so fake and forced and weird, even if it's true it's like, oh my god shut up what are you talking about." <- IDIOT!!!! YOU'RE AROMANTIC. GOD.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

super disorganized sketch page because i do what i want

[clonehub]

I have so many Thoughts on the current HEAVY conservative swing the world is facing rn and how it manifests in fandom, media illiteracy, a violent aversion to making connections between the real world and the media we consume/how we perceive it, and this very juvenile and firm divide that doesn't make sense (anti and pro) but I think the most intriguing part of it would be OP and those like them insisting that by defaulting to what they believe is the norm and then proclaiming "anyone who thinks the clones don't fuck each other all day every day is just shoving their own societal mores onto this fictional sub/species/group of people" is committing the fatal flaw being arrogant enough to think that their ideas about sex, sexuality, and family aren't absolute SHINING through their preferred ships. As in they think "(Brown) teenage boys and men Of Course would have insatiable libidos and no taught or learned guidance around sex and sexuality, and they'd have all my same values about sex and sexuality, they'd just be fucking like Animals cause That's What (Brown) Men do, Duh" is like. The normal and smart and culturally neutral take. And not the deeply milquetoast hegemonic take that's been dominating society for centuries lmao.

(EDIT: I've been told by multiple māori fans and other PI fans that clonecest is a racist stereotype. Through my own research, this is due at least in part to the fact that māori are stereotyped by racists as sexual abusers of family members)