#or the one to enable the behavior

[azatas]

really really can’t recommend kevin can f**k himself enough, especially if you grew up watching sitcoms. it’s such a well done deconstruction/criticism of the genre and the way they blend the sitcom with the drama and the reality of what being married to a guy like kevin would be is so unique and bold and i think they nailed it

[farshootergotme]

Look, I love Alfred as much as the next person. But when there's moments like this:

Outsiders v3 #21

I've gotta really wonder... does he know how bad things can get when Bruce and Dick are arguing?

Because I don't like the implication that he knows things get physical sometimes and that he just leaves them knowing that.

[what-is-my-aesthetic]

Going to stay anonymous to. Avoid the proshippers finding me but you quite literally have the best takes on shipping. Ily Athena

ALSOOOO on a completely unrelated note CONGRATS ON GETTING MARRIED!!! Sending all my love to you and Ben!!

THANK YOU!!!!! Omg your positivity and well wishes means so much to me! It really was the most magical day ever 🤩😔

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[necrotic-nephilim]

Hear me out, dead dove alfred x dick

YES YOU GET IT. YOU SO GET IT.

i am *begging* for more Alfred inclusion in Batcest on my hands and knees. i'm a Tim/Alfred truther, but Dick/Alfred is so fun. there's always this default characterization in the Batfam that Alfred is good and this pillar of support and the Grandfather who everyone trusts and leans on. and that is boring to me. (also not really canon imo, Alfred condones and acts on a lot of shitty behavior-) but it's fun to play with as a subversion. when someone like Dick gets taken in by Bruce, he barely registers the kindly butler. and of course he bonds with Alfred eventually, but it's a wholesome bond. Dick will always be fighting with Bruce about something, which makes Alfred the respite. the one who helps with homework, stitches him up after patrol, talks to him about his problems, etc. so to make Alfred the more predatory, fucked up one? that's fun. it's fun bc Dick wouldn't *expect* it.

like. it'd start just small and slow enough that Dick is questioning if this is wrong or not. Alfred has seen him naked in just about every position to stitch those awkward to reach places, so if Alfred walks into Dick's room when he's naked or goes into the bathroom when he's showering well, it's a little weird but boundaries are weird in general for all of them. if Alfred's touch lingers when he's stitching up Dick, he positions Dick in compromising ways, well he's the medical expert and Dick trusts him.

and then when it tips over into overtly sexual it get so fun bc. it's not like Dick can tell Bruce. Alfred is basically Bruce's father and entire support system, Dick doesn't want to take that from him. and when Alfred touches him he uses all the grooming tactics. telling Dick he's mature for his age, he's not like other teenagers, he's so pretty, eh can be trusted with important things, all of it laid on thick. Dick's been canonically groomed, so it's clearly a tactic that works well on him, esp from someone he'd already trust like Alfred.

i just think that Alfred being so willing to agree with Bruce adopting all these teenagers he clearly has no emotional capacity to take care of. is something we could take advantage of in a dead dove way. a reasonable adult would object to this. but making Alfred groom them is fun. and like i said in my dom/sub headcanon post, i think for Alfred it's all a mental game. he's never going to "force" any one to do anything. he talks Dick into it. sure, Alfred can fight and he's not defenseless or frail, but he likes not *needing* to get physical or exert strength. bc if he talks Dick into it, then it's far more questionable if it "counts" as grooming, to Dick. bc Dick agreed to all of this and it's *Alfred*, he could've easily fought him off. it's a very fun mind game and to me, the most fun part about including Alfred in Batcest as the morally questionable one.

[dragonnarrative-writes]

hi! hope your week is going well. for the wip game, i am a big fan of slasher handler, but i’m also intrigued by being gaz’s ex. your choice, but if there’s anything you want to share for either 👀🧡

For the WIP Ask Game!

Oh. Oh. Oh. Being Gaz's ex is... a helluva project. It's an exploration of the end of a relationship when no-one is "winning." I wanted to explore another side of Golden Boy Gaz, where his dogged determination to do right in the world has a negative impact on his relationships.

The main character is Autumn, who has filed for a divorce that Gaz refuses to sign off on, and I'm waffling between writing it from a first person/reader POV or third person.

This first part takes place with Gaz in the hospital after an injury. Autumn is still his emergency contact. I'm skipping ahead a bit, but I think this short exchange really showcases the energy I'm going for.

“Who are you texting?”

“Ron,” you answer without looking up from your phone.

“Does Ron know that you’re married?”

When you set your phone down, Kyle, Price, and Soap are looking at you with hard expressions. Simon’s out, picking up lunch. If Kyle was going to spring a guilt trap, now would be the time.

You'd tell him that Ron is your cousin Veronica, who’s allowed you to move into her apartment since you started your new job, if he’d just asked. A part of you reflexively thinks about his pain levels, if he’s due another round of pills. That part is quickly squashed by the knowledge that he knows to ring the nurse if his pain gets to bad, instead of taking it out on you.

So you go low. “Did Crystal know you were engaged?”

The next section hurt my feelings when I wrote it, so I'm putting it under the cut.

CW: Discussions of infidelity, relationship turmoil, inattentive partner

Autumn isn't leaving Gaz because he cheated, by the way. That happened once before they got married and once after. They almost called off the wedding, the first time, but they did premarital counseling and things were "resolved." The second time happened a year into their marriage. With a second round of counseling, Gaz really seemed to get his act together. Autumn went into individual counseling to work on trust, anxiety about his job, her expectations of the relationship, and general maintenance. And there weren't any issues with infidelity ever again. In fact, she once offered to open the relationship, with rules, and he declined.

She's divorcing him because her eyes are brown.

The issue in their relationship, as I see it, isn't that Gaz did something really bad. It's that he and Price have the same affliction that makes them not recognize that they don't actually see their partners as whole beings. Two years after they got married, Autumn realized that Gaz didn't really care about her as much as either of them thought. He got her birthday wrong (switched the month and day). He forgot their anniversary after he cheated. He bought her apology flowers, an arrangement which contained flowers she was allergic to.

And when she bought colored contacts on a whim, he didn't make any comment until she prompted him.

"Hey, does anything about me look different?" She asks, three days into wearing the contacts.

"I've been trying something new with my eyes, but I'm not sure if it's that noticeable."

"I dunno, lovie, you look stunnin' as always."

"Nothing seems different to you?"

And he looked at her, really looked at her, for a minute. "You know I've always loved your green eyes."

And that was the beginning of the end.

[ozonecologne]

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[118diazs]

if i see one more person say that helena didn't take chris she's just being a loving grandmother i'm going to kick a man

[wimbledon2008]

https://www.tumblr.com/wimbledon2008/758490690828288000/forget-sending-chris-away-on-miscellaneous?source=share

Buck would be trying not to have a panic attack the first time Eddie suggests having sex while Christopher is home (even with the bedroom door locked).

me reading this ask:

sorry to take you to suplex city like this but buck is a grown man with a canonically adventurous sex life who is deeply in love with a single father with whom he wants to have beautiful baby-making sex with at all times. so no, he's not going to do that

also buck, like eddie, respects christopher's independence. he's a teen boy who doesn't need constant supervision and he isn't an idiot, so he's not going to go barging into his dads' bedroom when the door is closed anyway lol

[kind-of-a-shitty-wizard]

i know its probably been done to death but i love the concept of the shivering isles as only a realm of "madness" insofar as no one in tamriel has a concept of what neurodiversity or mental illness is lmao

[ladynicte]

Something something Andrew is addicted to Ashley so he keeps enabling all her bad traits something something codependency is a two way street

[sassmill]

I just want to be allowed to scream at my sister the way she screams at me. I want to be allowed to slam doors and throw things and break things. I want to be allowed to react to the way she treats us and not be called selfish.

[lastoneout]

like idk how else to say it anymore but there is a REASON that a lot of terfs are sexual assault survivors and it's specifically BECAUSE those women come pre-loaded with a severe and easy to exploit fear and distrust of men

[7kahart]

afterparty

[rozaceous]

somehow, i find myself on the edge of falling into scum villain despite not wanting to (time, too many fandoms, etc etc), due to your posts...halp

ahhhhh I love sv so I'm of no help in talking you off this edge I fear 😅

but as for 'too many fandoms' I have a rebuttal which goes something like, our interests in things come and go. 'being in a fandom' is really just participating in a community of ppl who like the same thing, and as a community is never built on any one person's back, you're free to dip in and out as you please. there are no obligations associated with liking something. if you think you're going to enjoy a new piece of media, then I think--why not! the point is to have fun!

[positively-peachy-143]

There's this guy at my school who's literally so Bob Sheldon coded its crazy. He's like super insensitive and pushy and attention whore-ish (I got a video of him actually harassing me) but also his parents gave him free reign of everything his entire life and he probably just wants someone to finally tell him no and push back and then when that day comes he'll be outwardly upset but inside he'll be smiling and relieved

[veone]

Ummm it’s anti black because you seem to be invalidating that person as being black- which how did you get that percentage anyways?

Gen question when does blackness end in your eyes anyways? When the person stops looking black? Because you can’t see them online. When the person is a quarter black? What if they still “look” black?

Where’s the line and why does it matter when black issues affect all types of black lives?

At this point I don’t understand or see where you’re coming from. Your entire posts just seem so bitter about a mixed race person and constantly bringing that ab about them and how valid their blackness is…

Before you say anything, because for some reason it matters so much to you, this anon is afro.

….so your just gonna ignore the actual conversation around this person, a conversation that’s been ongoing for months and take offense that yoonie got compared to logic and called 25% black as a vent joke over the fact he tired to deflect from his actual anti black behavior by saying I’m black as well like that cancels it out…okay.