#my poor boy just KNEW

[stinkybrowndogs]

My post-election break down has resulted in 9 extra dogs…..

Everyone meet Meadow, a very sweet little mutt who I am fostering through my local shelter

Everyone meet Meadow’s puppies, 8 of the chunkiest little potatoes u have ever seen (in order; Thistle, Saffron, Tarragon, Parsley, Rhubarb, Dillweed, and Chamomile)

And everyone meet my favorite of the puppies …… Baby Brown Dog (Fennel)

Everyone is happy and filled with milk and mama is doing so good! We have a very exciting and fun 8-12 weeks ahead of us 🥰🐶🐾 once these little guys are old enough, they will be available for adoption through the shelter, as well as mama Meadow!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This is the start of something new

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[hoelko]

here's a soul-destroying thought:

how much MK enjoys and is having fun with his new powers in A Hero is Born

to how much pain and distress it's causing him in Pitiful Creatures

[welcometogrouchland]

Batman #149 by chip zdarsky is mostly unremarkable, but I'm really fascinated by how it makes a great case for 'good' endings not saving 'bad' stories*. Because there's a lot of interesting concepts in this issue (bruce having to deal with his rapidly aging and decaying clone making him think about his own life, re-establishing a 'nest' so to speak for his family after pushing them away, etc) but bc of the OOC slog that came before it, almost every moment w/ the batfamily comes off as unearned and disingenuous imo.

Like, everything with Damian is the perfect example in this. Because in isolation it's...fine. admittedly it's a missed opportunity to not go deeper into how Damian would feel about a clone of his dad who tried to kill considering Damian's relationships with clones of himself (the heretic rejects and respawn) or with former enemies who wanted him dead but who were manipulated and/or brainwashed (like suren and maya).

Zdarsky doesn't go into any of this but you could maybe excuse it as the issue not being about Damian. However, coupled with the previous bizarre characterizations of Damian in 147 and 148, it ends up not being fine- instead it starts to feel...icky how Damian (who, despite often being drawn and written as white, will never have his connection to the non-white al ghuls forgotten and will always be effected by racism even when not portrayed as a poc) is constantly written as overly violent, uncaring and narrow minded in this run. Coupled w/ trying to recanonize the morrison origin for Damian it's like. OH this is badly written and laden with subtle bigotry, sick**

That's me going into detail on it with Damian but it's applicable to other things in this issue- the way Cass, Steph and Duke have all been ignored or turned into jobbers makes their inclusion in the 'family' here feel hollow instead of satisfying. Bruce proclaiming that Zur was still a part of him and he needs to accept responsibility for his actions (when it means taking in clone son) wrings hollow when just last issue zdarsky was bending over backwards to separate Bruce and Zur bc otherwise the Jason thing would get really awkward. Ends are achieved through means that feel hollow or strange. I'm at my destination but damn why'd the bus have to do all that???

I only really have opinions on this latest arc of zdarskys Batman bc it's the one I've read the closest (bc I'm a hater, masochist and avid follower of even the bad damian storylines) but it's not saying great things.

Bc zdarsky can do one thing good in this book, and it's write Bruce and Tim. And yet this entire story, whether of his own volition or editorial mandate, includes other characters who aren't Bruce and Tim, the fabric starts to unravel in very telling ways.

(p.s, I think pennyworth manor is an interesting idea but I feel like in execution it's just gonna be 'bruce living in a house haunted by the memory of the people he couldn't save' but with a different dead guy this time. Illusion of change and whatnot)

*whether or not the ending is good is up to you ofc, as is your opinion on the proceeding arc! I saw some ppl complain that the ending was too "WFA" for them, which I get even if I dont think it'll literally be the same premise. If anything it's probably a lead into the new tec run. Likewise many ppl who aren't in the weeds of Damian and Jason characterization liked the previous arc! But I have my opinions and rest my case before the bench

**disclaimer, I'm white and portrayals of bigotry in comics are complicated and subjective, but I am basing my point here off what other poc comic fans on socmed have been saying about 149. Also the "sick" is sarcasm incase that wasn't obvious

[wispedvellichor]

"We can take your games back to the stars"

"We can fight across the constellations if that's what you want"

Is it even a David Tennant Doctor if he's not proposing (very homosexually) that his timeless enemy and him abandon humanity and go off together, just the two of them?

[fleetsparrow]

Thinking about Dick and Roy as kind of parallels to each other.

Both taken in by heroes. Both raised as sidekicks and partners but not quite sons. Both ended up coming of age with distance between them and their mentors.

But then things start to differ as adults.

(Correct me if I'm wrong on anything with Roy, because I only know pieces and I'd love to know more.)

Dick is constantly pulled back into Bruce's orbit by force or by choice. Roy seems to have a more... active role in deciding when to let Oliver back into his life.

Roy raises Lian, getting to have her as a center of his world, and establishes himself as his own hero.

Dick is a bit more stuck in the shadow of Batman. Every marriage attempt gets destroyed. Every new balance found gets toppled by catastrophe.

Roy actually gets a life outside being a hero. Dick's whole world revolves around the superhero community.

It's just very interesting that the things DC seems so eager to erase from Roy's story are the things that let him grow up and become his own person.

Which, now that I'm thinking about it, also maps onto Dick. Every time he gets Free of Gotham’s everything, something pulls him back into it. Like an unwilling or unknowing Peter Pan, he's not allowed to grow up, not really.

And after all the reboots and retcons and resets, their relationship gets lost, too.

Idk, man. I miss when things for "adults" also meant growth and maturity. Not just tits and senseless violence.

[bardicious]

Okay, maybe Ill change my mind on Charlie this episode, but so far, the side characters I've liked are: Amelia, her dad, Benny, and Garth. Kevin, his mom, and Charlie are on thin ice.

[polydamnory]

Redactober Day 5: Avior

I can’t draw men lol I triedddddd but I don’t think I succeeded. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very proud of this design, but I don’t think I executed it quite the way I wanted.

Also, do not expect me to participate in even most of the days for this, I only have like 3 of the guys designed and I really struggled figuring those 3 out (again, I cannot draw men).

Anyways, here’s my fancy pretty boy who definitely knows more than you do and is not afraid to show it! I love him!!!

[brionnnne]

note that i will only ever call mithrun "stupid" jokingly. by "stupid", i only mean "frustrating behavior that i am immensely familar with". seeing him do something that makes me groan aloud, closing my eyes, sighing "stupid (affectionate, mournful)". like when he fucking... his dumbass "i don't want to [use the bathroom] right now, so it's fine." oughh. i know you! i know you! that's not how that works!!! and he's smart!!! he's so smart... but god, god... he's kind of an absent professor. he's kind of a cloudcuckoolander. i love him dearly. he gets called a dummy, a little idiot, and i flick his forehead, a little bonk of hard-heads, like "try again, idiot. that's not how bodies work." and "ooh, 'that's not going to work'. yes it is. shut up, stoopid. stubborn little man, my god." rolling my eyes forever.

[stealingpotatoes]

wait is ahsoka like the crazy wine aunt in your au? whats she been up to?

right either i need to develop telepathy or you guys need to stop using "your au" bc i do not know which one you mean LMAO

if you mean skywalkers apart au, then u can just look thru the tag and find her aunt soka-ing after she anakin and rex reunite 7 years post-rots <3

but i'm ASSUMING you mean the rey skywalker-djarin au given I. posted that last? in that she's mostly doing canon shit i guess (this depends on how much i like the ahsoka show by the end) BUT showing up to the Jedi Academy a bit more (tho she insists she can't teach at all, She Is No Jedi) (she says and then helps lessons anyway) and healing her trauma by existing in the same space as luke. like a therapy dog if the therapy dog was your evil brother-master's son

[thesmokinpossum]

It's honestly kinda insane to me that Vito trusts and respects Fredo so little that even with his strict catholic moral he literally trusts the reports of his late son's ex-mistress more than anything his actual son has to say like wow, you're not even pretending to care for this man at this point 😬

[sysig]

By the skin of your teeth (Patreon)

[jitteryjive]

i need to remake my cup bros ref… both cup and human designs… it’s been almost a year(?) and i’ve developed the headcanons and i would like to share with the class!!! (i wrote thirty tags. Please help me)

[red-n-ded]

to be fair, deku and uraraka did not get together just yet. assuming the translation for the epilogue is accurate, it was that they wanted to talk more again (as they hadn't really kept in touch.) clearly the reason why theyre reconnecting is related to romantic feelings but the point im making here is, well, sometimes feelings dont remain the same! you could just say that, down the line, they realized that they wanted to remain friends but still have a mutual fondness for one another. relationships and feelings are funky and complex and there is beauty in different interpretations

you know what, that's valid (and an interesting thought :D)

[oifaaa]

thoughts? thoughts???

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS GIRL OMG I'M TORN BETWEEN ADORING THIS AND CRYING.

the art is PHENOMENTAL

The art really isn't but it's the best I could do with my laptop crashing on me every 5 minutes bc it can't handle background colour

[ghostbeam]

I wish I could explain to u the dynamic me and rin have in my brain I hate him so much he hates me more he has the most correct opinions about horror movies of anyone I’ve ever met he hates my favorite scary movie he’s madly in love with me he hopes I die he calls me at 3am cause he sleeps better afterwards I want to chew on him he blocks my number six times a day