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Roderick and Suzy, living the high life at their penthouse. At that time Roderick had covered his gray hair, so it looks slightly darker. Suzy had grown hers long and for some reason her skintone wasn't the original one, I've since changed them both. 😊
#the sims 3#sims 3 gameplay#ts3#ts3 gameplay#sims 3 simblr#my current gameplay#the sims 3 late night#bridgeport#my old 2011 save#the kingstons#roderick kingston#suzy strummer#los sims de ana#anamoon63 sims#excuse the sims 3 spam
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One of my first digital pieces (2010) versus one of my recent ones (2024)
We all start somewhere!
#picked these cause they're in a similar pose lol. i mean not at all. but sort of... more than my other art at least...#oh fuck im so tired im saving this to drafts and coming back later#my anxiety meds wipe me the fuck out so im trying not to take them in the day#and they're like legit borderline a sleeping med for me. i take one and in 30 mins im OUT.#so I'm. i mean i was already only taking 1-2 in the day and then 2-3 at night#anyways it makes me sad when people say they dont have an artistic bone in their body#and especially when they say they could never draw like me :(#dont put yourself down to lift me up! i don't want my art to be used for you to be mean to yourself!!!#lots of experiences of people comparing themselves to me and being mean to themself...#feels bad. it's okay if you're slow it's okay to be learning it's okay!!!#I'm me and you're you and we're here to learn from each other. i just wanna hang out..#y'know what I'm just gonna post without saying anything i WILL forget I made a draft#i have so many things i intend to post and then forget#it's a wonder I post anything#i only do it when i get bored. and run out of stuff to scroll through#like whelp. guess if i want a post I have to make one myself.#also the second one is really good idc that it's a study i still drew it#art growth#this was in 2010 btw#i started highschool in 2011#I've grown a lot and you can too.#also I've never really been one to dislike my old art. like idk I was trying... if it's bad I just won't look at it whatever#like i wouldn't be mean to someone else who made that so i don't get a free pass to be mean just cause it's to me#man my thoughts are bungled. okay sleep time#if my phone made typos you didn't see it
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Teenage me used to write exclusively in my email (unhinged behavior tbh) because it had a good search system and also because I was sending my writing to friends.
Anyways, I’ve been trying to archive these hundreds of emails into a Scrivener file because I don’t trust my email at all. It’s been slow going because I keep getting distracted by reading them. And rereading these has been a TRIP.
Please have these doodles of how I imagined my two main ocs in the year 2014 (they had a lot of iterations between 2009 and 2017).
#simultaneously embarrassing and charming to me. they had all the authentic earnestness that only teenage me could’ve imbued them w#He could turn into a tiger and was an unbearable person in 2012-13 specifically but was a sweetie the rest of the time#She had no powers but was taken on a time travel trip to save him and was always looking at clocks and biting her lip#they evolved so far that they eventually became new characters altogether#so they don’t exist anymore#but they mark a very special time period of my creativity#my ocs#looking back at my grown age of 28 now I’m like ‘my god what’s happening in there’ as I point to my old emails#tell me why I used ellipses so much in 2011#al chatters#digital sketch#old ocs#nostalgia#my art#doodles
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Screenshots of an abandoned "Minecraft Town" from Beta 1.7.3 that I tried to build in probably circa 2021.
#Minecraft screenshots#2011 Minecraft#Taken in 2024#Taken Today#Minecraft Beta#Beta 1.7#old Minecraft#retro Minecraft#My attempt to build a town totally failed.#Beta 1.7 equivalent of Creative Mode#I didn't want to survive and fight monsters; I just wanted to build something magical.#That's what the deal is with the hacked items.#I wanted to build something beautiful but I just didn't have the awareness; so everything turned out cramped and unimpressive.#I think I should undo these buildings in a copied save file and then start it over again.#Mineblr
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End of an era
Musicalchaos07->JonathanByersPhD
#can you believe getting my doctorate in Jonathan Byers only took 2 years?#crazy#crazier that i had my old username since 2011#The THINGS old girl has seen#so long london had a good run#(i already saved it on a side blog)
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WOE: ANCIENT UNFINISHED MS PAINT MADOKA MAGICA ANIMAITON BE UPON YEE!
#not worm#madoka magica#puella magi madoka magica#madoka kaname#pmmm#homura akemi#pmmm kyubey#animation#my art#theres no rhyme or reason behind me posting this btw#except for the fact that i am CONSTANTLY fighting myself in a battle to post all of my old weird animations on here on a daily basis#u guys have no IDEA the kind of eldritch horrors i am saving u from having to witness...#madoka magica spoilers#i guess???? it came out in 2011 sooo...oh god 2011.....
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every time i open jorge lorenzo’s instagram there is some new batshit crazy stuff he posted, it’s a joy every time, the man is a motogp legend, and he decided it wasn’t enough, he needed to defeat every other corny millennial man alive by exclusively following women and posting dude bro advice
this is so funny to me because honestly I have no clue what he posts on instagram beyond what gets reported on motogp news sites or (more commonly) what crosses the pond to reddit, but can't say I'm surprised... I don't use instagram myself so I have no clue what these men actually do on there lol. these days I am getting further updates on their activities via tumblr! quite glad not to be directly experiencing a lot of it!
anyway yeah that does all sound very... him. kinda reminds me of that 2013 controversy where monster energy did this thing where they made a video of him showing off his mansion filled with bikini-clad models. the video ended up being taken down, it was seen as tasteless both given spain's economic situation and... y'know, the gender of it all. and jorge does have an... interesting approach to social media in general. also definitely the most opinionated of the retired aliens these days! casey probably comes in second and he does have a lot of thoughts about many things, but generally speaking it's not QUITE as relentless as it is with jorge. he's really missing a bit of a filter lol, there's an entire career arc here where when he was younger he was all about finding himself and establishing a character and explaining to the world who he really was, before getting burned by the world and being way more closed off for quite a few years, before retiring and relaxing a bit and sharing everything that comes to his head. for better or for worse. he may be cringe but at least he's free
#one thing i do really admire about the spanish/italians is how they do at least TRY to bully their rich athletes#like the marc crying over evading taxes thing?? damn they need to start doing this shit to all our celebrities#//#brr brr#batsplat responds#alien tag#the shades of misogyny are one thing but it's all so TACKY. extremely poorly socialised child prodigy athlete and boy does it show#like god that man really needed to be at the club. absolutely critical levels of should have been at the club#completely skipped the stage of his development where he just learns to relate to other human beings. any other human being#I do agree the cringe social media persona IS an important part of the puzzle like... the way he just keeps going#jorge is SO concerned with his own image but then you give him this tool of expression he can't ever stop fiddling with...#real lack of restraint. does yield quite a few gems#valentino is NOT reposting stories about motegi 2010 and reminiscing about the good old days. just wouldn't do that would he#he saves all his good ranting for podcasts#mind u I swear not a year passes in which casey isn't relitigating jerez 2011#like my man I love you but was it really THAT serious. are we sure
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Chris Pitt-Goddard in Spy (2011-2012) | 2x11 Christmas Special: Codename – Show Stopper
#spy#spyedit#spy 2011#chris pitt goddard#mat baynton#mathew baynton#*#*mat#i made these back in feb so they're saved with my old gif settings but shhh it's fine#i'll almost definitely make more gifs of this episode at some point anyway so meh#just enjoy chris being a cutie#i <3 him soooo much
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new mcyt fans will never know the true og
#paulsoaresjr just posted a video for the first time in so long and its making me nostalgic#i started watching his videos in 2011. can you believe that.#hes touring his first tutorial world and im like. I REMEMBER THAT. i remember where i was when i saw that the first time!#head in hands.#VIVIDLY remember watching his first tutorial series before i had ever even played minecraft myself#in my grandparents basement borrowing my grandpas computer every time we stayed the night there......#and then years later using his aether mod videos on vacation to escape the 30+ family members we were sharing a house with#man...............#you are all like babies to me. dont talk to me about mcyt unless youre a true og.#send this post to a modern ranboo fan to make tjem explode#hidey hole.... cozy cottage.... spy chicken..... save me#blahblahblah#any other paulsoaresjr fans out there........ can anybody hear me.... hes literally THE og.......#tale of kingdoms mod..... GOD damn it. head in hands. i wish i was 12 yrs old again so badly
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Went to Target during a trip to the next state over with Mom so we could have a fun day out, and I found DC Comics Manga, and this Joker one is so tempting to grab an ebook of
This sounds like a typical fanfiction plot idea and I'm all for it
Also, found some cute Lego polybags, which is a nice bit to add to my Lego collection I'm rebuilding, as I'm mostly grabbing small bags and bricks from thrifting
A cute farmer with a scarecrow and a bunny, and a "birthday train" micro build.
Also, I decided to finally try a minifigure blind box, since my Lego are gonna need some people for them, and golly, they've changed since I was a kid
I got an Olympic runner guy with running blades prosthetics and a Harpy with articulated wings! I found out that they're making minifigs now that includes some wild fantasy elements and disability representation. I really want to find the dog groomer one with the Afghan hound and has a cochlear implant, the dog is cute and since hard-of-hearing runs in my family, that has a bit of a personal sentimental concept there...
Anyway, my Valentine's day was pretty cool. Nothing but good luck, people were very polite and friendly, and absolutely nothing went wrong this year. 🥹
#We also went to a Mongolian buffet and it was great#And I found an epic Lego Dots set marked down to an irresistible and reasonable price#They have these wonderful color tiles that are like a neon 90s aesthetic and the tiles will smooth out the builds nicely#I got some second hand bricks and tiles and have been testing out ideas that includes tactical fidgeting functions#I haven't built with Legos since 2011 so this will be a great time#I used to have a massive box of pieces my brothers gave me over the years but they had to be donated because they couldn't fit in the van#I'm gonna just keep everything in a bucket now#To save space#But I mostly want bricks and tiles and snot bricks and technics#Snot bricks just means studs not on top like an acronym#It's the funny bricks with connections on the sides#I've been watching so many cool lego deep dive videos and the new techniques and possibilities I've seen makes me want to try new ideas#I've always been a builder at heart I just love making stuff and I miss my old lego because I used to build visuals for my art as a kid#Lego ain't just for kids anymore and I love it#I'm obsessed with the Dots right now too#So cute
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drawing my time traveler character bc she was the only good thing to come out of my concept art/3d modeling class (i learned nothing about character design or 3d modeling and this character was the only assignment actually about character design that we did (i did my senior project on character design and learned way more about it than a whole semester long class that was supposed to teach me it))
im also going insane trying to track down the shoes i used for inspiration for hers but alas i cant find them
#my art#original character#oc#uh she still doesn't have a name but eh#also i really wish i couldve kept the original photoshop file of her but when i tried to move it into my google drive it wouldnt let me :(#mustve been something with the school network or something but still#god even though ive graduated already and dont have to deal with that class anymore i still wish i never took it#the teacher did not teach very well and that class was soul sucking to be in (it also didnt help that we had block schedule so it was a#2 hour class)#giving us old pdfs on learning maya from 2011.... making us copy some other guys drawing but not really in a way to learn from him or his#character design...#dumping her family issues on literally everyone who came into the class (i had to listen to this all the time bc i sat at the front)#i mean at least the teacher liked me i guess but that didnt help the class like. at all.#digital drawing for concept art / 3d modeling my beloathed#anyways for this assignment specifically (the time traveler)#she gave us a book to look at with. character design stuff? i think? and the page we were looking at had some time travel agent woman#concept art on it#that design was really dumb looking imo but it was also probably pretty early concept art for a game so i dont blame it much#it was some generic hot woman with long platinum blonde hair (described as strange despite it not being strange at all)#and wearing a suit that conveniently showed cleavage and had a thigh slit on her skirt#she was holding some old ass briefcase and one of those plastic umbrellas with polka dots on it (the umbrella was her time travel device or#whatever)#the teacher told us we had to make a time traveler so i set out to yassify and transify this design a bit#i think the only sort of character design tip we learned during this whole like. month we worked on this for was to make a moodboard of#our ideas#but eh i still really like the design i made and i was able to get nice and creative with ut#just wish i was able to save it on my own computer and not the school computer :(#2023#oc tag
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And now let me introduce Roderick's oldest son, Randy Kingston.
RANDY KINGSTON
Parents: Roderick Kingston and Tiara Angelista.
Sisters: Melanie and Bonnie.
Stage: Adult
Traits: Artistic, Flirty, Star Quality, Eccentric, Friendly and Angler.
Main Skills: Fishing, Cooking and Gardening. He's good as well with Piano and Inventing.
Music: Pop. Food: Pancakes. Color: Blue.
Zodiac sign: Gemini.
Career: Angler. He's currently a Level 7, Local Ahab.
Randy followed the Angler career, for two important reasons, one, that Angler is one of his traits, and two, cause he wanted to catch a very special a very special fish that he needed to prepare a meal with which he could resurrect his deceased mother, Tiara Angelista. That fish was the Death Fish, and the meal was Ambrosia, for which he required one more ingredient: Life Fruit. That's why Randy, not only put all his efforts in fishing, but also in learning gardening and cooking.
Like his father, Randy loves the Bridgeport nightlife, but he's also a family man, loves the outdoors and being one with nature.
Lifetime Wish: Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous. - Reach Celebrity Star Level 5. - Be worth at Least 100,000 Simoleons. Which he already fulfilled.
Randy had another wish, though, he was obsessed with resurrecting his mother, Tiara, so he spent many nights fishing in the small cemetery lake for Death Fish, he even traveled to Al Simhara in search of Life Fruit, which he now grows in his own garden, to prepare Ambrosia, the meal capable of bringing dead sims back to life. We will see later whether he managed to resurrect Tiara or not, and what happened next.
Status: Married (for the third time). As a flirty man Randy has gotten himself into far more trouble than his father ever could, not for nothing has he been in three marriages already. The first was to his high school sweetheart, Diedre Littler, with whom he had four daughters: Josephine, Thalia, Brenda (now adults), and Samantha (still a teenager).
His second marriage was to Belisama Hemlock (for whom he left Deidre). With her he had two children: Roderick (named after his grandfather) and Megan (in the picture with Belisama). Randy and Belisama were very happy at the beginning, but everything was ruined after the babies were born cause Belisama, being a vampire, insisted on continuing with her old nocturnal habits. Randy was fed up with that, and asked her for a divorce. Belisama had to leave the house and Randy kept the custody of the children.
Currently, Randy is married to Elspeth Cook, (Jeffrey and Lady Cook's daughter), with whom he had started an affair while still married to Belisama. After Randy's divorce, Elspeth got pregnant, so they decided to get married immediately.
Today they live happily, with their baby boy, Ryan, and Randy's other three children. They say the third time is the charm. Let's hope that this marriage will last forever.
#the sims 3#sims 3 gameplay#ts3#ts3 gameplay#sims 3 simblr#my current gameplay#the sims 3 late night#bridgeport#my old 2011 save#the kingstons#randy kingston#deidre littler#belisama hemlock#megan hemlock#elspeth cook#ryan kingston#los sims de ana#anamoon63 sims
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yall should just be glad you havent read my old ff.net time fics from way back tbh
now thats some good non-native english jank :)
#its under a whole different name please dont go seeking them out#but yeah. ive gotten far in the past like. 15 years? idk when i used ff net it was before i moved to deviantart around 2010/2011 lol#now that was terrible stuff. maybe one day i'll go through my old stuff for your amusement as i do have them all still saved#im a heavy believer in never deleting your old arts tbh they are a learning tool#maybe one day. i would probably need to get drunk for it lmao but yeah.. yeah i have them on hand lol#night is an absolute mess on main
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beloved butch abby and her soft femme
a/n: yeah, this is a self indulgent as fuck drabble <3 this is heavily inspired by my own relationship so sorry if it gets too niche </3 my fiancé and I just have a running joke about how much they are like abby so it kinda veered off that way. I still think its rly cute regardless
how you meet! <3
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who manages a nice cafe a few streets off of downtown in a big city somewhere on a northern coast. she's stumbling in the front door, grumbling about how the delivery trucks always drop packages out front instead of the back when she sees you.
sure, she's used to tourists, but it's fucking february. hardly anyone is traveling, let alone for anything beyond the major sights, and you're sitting in a booth, sipping on a hot latte with lipstick stains on the mug and clasping your hands like a princess as you look over your scrapbooking supplies. yeah, you're a local.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who doesn't even bother trying to get your number at first. she's too busy with the cafe, with lev, with crippling debt from her attempt at medical school before her dad passed -- at least, that's what she tells herself and her coworkers who catch her ogling you when you show up more and more.
she notices some pins on your tote bag when you come up one day, listening to you chat to the barista and waving them off each time they ask her a ridiculous question like what syrups do we have, playing stupid so she is forced to interact with you.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who just can't resist you when you start showing up more and more, so she goes home and listens to chappell fucking roan because she sees a pin on your bag. she hates it, but one day, after a month or so, she adds it to the morning Spotify shuffle, and just turns and smiles and says "me too" when she hears you telling the barista how much you love my kink is karma.
"oh my gosh, really?!"
yeah, everyone knows that's bullshit.
dating! <3
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who surprises you with full on fucking roses every date night, which are often on Wednesdays, because she loves taking you to karaoke nights. no, she doesn't sing, but she'll hold up your mirror for you to check your makeup before you run on stage, singing something adorable like from the start by Laufey.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who is always so delighted when you swing by midday, dropping off a handmade lunch in a cute little metal bento box, even if she's covered in flour. she'll bring you to her office, give you a little somethinggggg sweet to hold you over, make you a coffee and send you on your way.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who is so scared to have you meet lev, her fingers are physically shaking when you two are in the same room together for the first time. lev is a little suspicious of you at first, but quickly becomes well-adjusted when you start sending baked goods home with abby for him as well.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who comes over to your apartment in a black tank top and sweats, hair messy whenever (yep! you guessed it!) the sink is clogged, because city plumbing is terrible and she's fixed them enough times at work to be able to save you from a regular bill each month. plus, the way you thank her is always payment enough
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who nearly fucking cries when you make her a homemade Christmas stocking. lev doesn't celebrate, and without her dad, she hasn't found a reason to do anything like that just for herself. so on Christmas morning, when she carefully shakes out a set of matching heart-shaped carabiners, yeah, she does cry a little bit.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who shyly comes out of the bathroom one day holding some chest tape, asking if you’ll help her put it on because “for some reason the right side is halfway on but I put it on backwards on accident so I can’t get the plastic off so—“ (obviously you help her)
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who offers to buy you tennis skirts, athleisure dresses, fucking lululemon or whatever it is that will get you to come to the gym with her, even just to sit on her lap when she does hip thrusts. she loves sending you mirror pics after leg day, and yeah, you of course die every time.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who weaves through crowded downtown like it's nothing with you on her arm and two tote bags of your mail hanging from her arms when you finally get around to sending it out. she insists that she doesn't mind the little canvas bags with their floral prints.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who wears her beat up brown leather jacket like she's trying to run through the fabric. Lets you help her condition the material and put on patches, and even goes so far as to wrap you up a matching red one for your birthday that year.
as for her other clothes, she's constantly wearing little holes in the elbows and knees that you're more than happy to stitch up for her, and she swears her heart flutters every time she catches a glimpse of the woven embroidery thread in a green tee shirt or wool sweater.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who goes feral for the type o negative/out of the fire TikTok trend. she doesn't have her own account, but when you show her the videos of girls in their dainty Mary Janes stepping on to leather or work boots, she agrees without batting an eye, much to your surprise.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who slips a tag with your name on to it next to her other dog tags, keeping it like a secret special token on her necklace.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who lets you do her hair sometimes, even though she's perfectly fine at it herself. she just adores those sweet late nights in her bedroom where you're rubbing some warm-smelling lotion into her back and weaving her hair back into place.
nsfw! <3
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who is a god damn sucker for praise and worship, both ways. she feels like you two are the only people in the world when she's on her knees, hands inching under your skirt and up your thighs while you purr sweet things in her ear, and she's telling you all the things she wants to do to you.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who definitely talks you through it, and is constantly astonished by just how into her you are.
"oh, fuck baby -- you're dirty, jesus,"
"she's so needy for me, huh? you gonna let me take care of her, baby?"
"mmpf, thank you, thank you--"
"fuck, i know baby, i know. you can, i know you can. you're taking it so well, let me do it f'you. shit"
-`♡´- beloved butch abby whose hand nearly rips the mattress open the first time you're sat in front of her, leaving little lipstick marks on her strap as you work your mouth around it, making a slobbery and moaning debauched version of your pretty self for her.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who lets you slip a finger between her legs while you suck her strap, lets you push it inside while your mouth pushes the base of her strap against her clit until she's shaking and stuttering and practically face-fucking you.
yeah, she stays strapped up on dates, too.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who has a mean 3 finger combo that she'll pull out absolutely anywhere - in the back of her truck, on the kitchen counter, in the bar bathroom, wherever she sees fit.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who takes mirror selfies while you're riding her, or just in her lap, sucking on her neck or looking shyly back at the mirror. puts her huge ass hand on your ass, squeezing it and saves the photos for her own personal spank bank. the arch of your back drives her crazy.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who melts so easily under your prettily-painted nails, dragging down her abs while you murmur how handsome she is right into her pussy. her legs twitch, and god, she's trying so hard not to fucking crush you (not that you'd mind), but she about loses it when you ask her to sit on your face.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who hoists you on to her shoulders against the inside walls of her office, the door locked shut and your hand clamped over your mouth during her lunch break. covers up any stains on her shirt with her apron, acting like she needs to work up another batch of something while you're prancing out breathless and pink in the cheeks.
-`♡´- beloved butch abby who lets you play Jesse Jo Stark when you fuck in the backseat of her truck, hands intertwined and leaving palm prints on the steamy windows while you eat each other out in parking lots, murmuring I love you's while the truck rocks back and forth.
#Spotify#abby anderson#tlou#tlou2#Ellie williams#fanfiction#the last of us#part 2#smut#lesbian#female reader#fem reader
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NO......... THE REASON I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO FIND THE SON LUX DEANCAS VID IS BECAUSE IT GOT PRIVATED
#ALL THIS TIME......................................................#I SWEAR TO GOD SOMEONE POSTED IT ON HERE STRAIGHT LIKE NOT THRU YOUTUBE BUT EITHER ITS OLD ENOUGH THAT IT WONT RUN THRU SEARCH#OR THEIR BLOG IS NOT ON THE SEARCH ENGINE. GOD#IT REALLY IS CALLED 'I HEAR THE SINGING LIGHT' AND ITS BY K9LOVER27 ITS REAL I DIDNT MAKE IT UP#AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH#EVERYONE... SAVE THE VIDEOS U LOVE#i am 64 pages deep into a blog i SWEAR rbed it one million years ago...... i am feeling deranged tonight folks#ITS ON THE WAYBACK MACHINE HOLY SHIT!#FROM 2011..... OH MY GOD
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I need the comic book fanfic writers to be made very aware of something:
Roy Harper is the only one to EVER call Jason Todd "Jaybird".
This isn't a family name that he picked up on, or that Roy made and the family has adopted. Roy is literally the only person to call him that. Dick doesn't, Babs doesn't, Bruce doesn't, nobody but Roy does.
The others call him Jay sometimes, in old comics Jace was said a few times (which I actually like and wish people would use literally at all). Bruce has said "Jay, lad" like once and fandom adopted him calling Jason "Jaylad" but that's not horribly egregious so I tolerate it. Dick occasionally calls Jason "little wing". That's about it.
Jaybird is very specifically a Roy Harper thing.
(Honestly yall better appreciate me actually looking back in RHATO 2011 because BOY do I hate this comic. It's not only poorly written, but in my opinion, ugly as fucking sin and I need to burn my retinas now)
That is the first instance of Jason ever being called "Jaybird", and it becomes a lowkey running gag that Roy calls him that and Jason "hates" it.
And then we get this post Heroes In Crisis
This whole thing may have been poorly written because, again, Scott Lobdell sucks, but the intent is to evoke intimacy to make Roy's death hurt. Jason is supposed to have just lost his best friend and was told by Bruce Wayne whose last appearance in his life was beating the shit out of him and, oh yeah, who saved Jason? Roy Fucking Harper.
In addition to the fact that Roy only left Jason to get help for himself. He was supposed to be in rehab/therapy, somewhere safe, and he fucking died because of handwavy Speedforce shenanigans or whatever it's been retconned to now because nobody liked Heroes in Crisis. Roy was supposed to be getting better and he died ostensibly in an accident. Like if that's not the worst fucking bullshit--
This scene of Jason calling himself by what he deems a stupid nickname would mean jack shit if everyone and their goddamn cat called him "Jaybird". But it being a Roy-specific thing makes this scene distinctly about Jason being vulnerable and actively grieving. It's such a cliche trope, and a real coping mechanism, to call a deceased loved one's phone just to hear their voice in their inbox message again. He probably has no thoughts that Roy will ever hear it so this is just for him, but he's letting himself accept this dumb nickname Roy gave him now because it was Roy that gave it to him and Roy is fucking dead.
Like, in fairness it probably frustrates me more because I ship the two and parallel it with Oliver calling Dinah "pretty bird", but like...even as just a cheeky friend nickname, nothing romantic behind it, having everyone else call Jason that feels wrong. Especially his family who he still has so many issues with and, like it or not, he's closer to Roy than literally any of the Bats at this point.
This isn't the only time I've seen the fandom do this (this being giving nicknames between characters that just don't exist); Jason calling Tim "replacement" is absolutely rampant in the fandom and I hate that too because he never calls Tim that, and refers to him as such like once. I have a whole list of actual nicknames and insults these motherfuckers call each other somewhere, but maybe another time.
In short
STOP HAVING EVERYONE CALL HIM JAYBIRD.
Thank you and have a nice day. <3
#DC Comics#Jason Todd#Red Hood#Jaybird#Roy Harper#Arsenal#I am losing my goddamn mind#I'm just so tired#RHATO#Heroes in Crisis
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