#red nw

[archerinventive]

“The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.” — Alice Meynell

Last week I found myself at Critical NW surrounded by so many incredible people and the amazing pieces of artwork they brought to life.

The experience was absolutely life changing, and it allowed me to be open in ways not usually felt.

One of the highlights was exploring the thought inducing exhibits that filled the place, including this piece, which was one of my favorites.

I spent a lot of time running with glee through the thousands of streamers the crew had mounted.

It was a sensory nirvana, and so exhilerating as you never knew what you might find concealed in the tangible rainbow.

In a moment of inspiration, and with the help of Ash Steele, we snagged a quick photo before running off to more adventuring.

I'm so pleased with how it turned out. It captures the confidence I was feeling in the moment, and I hope to create more works like this in the future, should fate and my own steel allow.

Due to the risk of being suspended for nudity on certain platforms, you can find the uncensored version on my Patreon.

A huge thank you to everyone who made the event possible. You truly make magic happen. ❤️

[succo-al-limone]

[lululablette]

I hope he walks into an electric fence and pisses himself and die actually 🥺🤤

Collection of blorbo neon white from the hit game neon white

[2021-good-actually-58b-1]

here we go

a switcharound au of neon white

NEON RED

her rivalry with neon green continued for so long that she managed to overtake his score. before that she got really close to beating him but didnt and that annoyed her so much she went a little mad. after her return from glass ocean next year her entire appearance has changed to something very reminiscent of neon greens usual attire, including the mask (by the way the mask is a reference to wlfgrl). perhaps she wanted to take his place so bad she turned into him.

using her charms she used other neons as pawns and stepping stones, and those who refused to cooperate were. well. shot. neon green went a little soft on his long-time rival and was beaten as a conclusion. he didn't think of it as a big deal, he could recover his position next year. or the year after that... but with the power of now red mechanical halo neon red grew stronger and stronger (and went madder and madder, controlled by the artifact). now she is a powerful, nearly unbeatable being with a lot of followers on her side, enchanted by her beauty and strength.

[crsssie]

hi, its the anon who requested for number 9, sorry, i forgot to put the character (got too excited hahahaha... whoops) if its alright can it be tim drake x reader? thank you

his hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room - tim drake x reader

You shuffle slightly, white sheets ruffling under you, sun spilling onto your face past the blinds as you turn around, blinking slowly at the man next to you.

Tim shuffles as his arms tighten around your waist, a gentle groan slipping past his lips. "'s too early for this."

You thread your hand through his hair, ruffling it with a yawn. "I gotta go."

"Just a few more minutes."

"Tim, if the paparazzi catches us together here, I'm going to die."

"No, you won't." He grumbles. "I'll protect you."

"You know you won't be able to do that." You mumble. "Let me go."

Tim falls back asleep as you leave, shuffling of clothes in the room, and all of your stuff taken with you.

When he wakes up, you are but a dream he had between the sheets, the feeling of your skin still in his hand, the white still stained with you.

He misses you already.

1989 event

[princesseevee06]

um. can you tell i’m normal about them

[storfulsten]

eaouuugh

[nataref]

"whats in your pants?" the dominion soul card, ofc

[starvcives]

Top 5 nightwing v2 moments and top 5 foods

ohh my godd nightwing 96 my beloved. truly some of the most INSANE character arcs and dialogues of all time. i still cant pick!

okay so i dont really remember which issues are V2 so if some of these are wrong just use your imagination, my fav moments from nightwing v2 in no specific order::

dick expressing his love and pride for tim. goshh that scene really was everything. dick watching and admiring tim just like people used to admire dick, feeling confident in his little brother and how much he's learning and how he's oh so better than him.

"God, I love that kid. I love him too much to let him see me like this."

especially with what comes after! tim actually taking the time to come to dick and ask him how he felt about the adoption. tim tells dick that bruce still needs him, needs to believe that dick is on his side, and by extension tim needs dick too. and dick's response! his justified anger bc he's in such a bad place rn and he does not wanna here about bruce's fake promises, especially coming from tim.

"Remember how I once told you that Batman needed a Robin? Well that's still true.

But even more than that, he... he needs you. You know, not like every second or whatever, but at the end of the day he needs to know that you're still on his side. It's...important."

and what does dick say?

YOU--! --You have no idea how much of my life I've wasted believing that was true.

2. the whole evil mob arc like "ooh look at me im so bad and evil and everything i touch rots" like babe aint nobody believing that except youu. quoting del's post (im pretty sure) dick grayson you look for your father's love in the most fucked up places <3

"You take as long as you need son, and when you're ready to come home just show up day or night."

3. the scene where roy comes to check up on dick?? hello??

"Nightwing? That you, man? Good to see you fighting the good fight bro!"

"Roy..."

"Ive been hearing all these crazy rumors that you've gone over to the dark side."

AND THEN- THE PUNCH. OUGH.

he is trying to keep roy away, if he keeps him at arm's length, makes sure he doesn't come back, then he won't get hurt. this is dick's mess and dick needs to fix it. classic deflection trick from the bat-book. he also doesn't want roy to see him like this. dick envies roy's sense of self...his ability to stay even when things get tough.

roy's abandonment issues vs dick's active detachment fight

4. the blockbuster monolgue scene... truly one of the best nightwing villains. feeding into dick's guilt complex... u can never go back and the way forward is washed with the consequences of your sins. it's an understatement when i say i lost my MIND reading this.

here's a link to the transcript of the post comparing grayson's dialogue vs taylor's reboot version

5. when dick goes to meet helena and she tells him

"Even if I wanted to, I couldn't pry them away from you with a crowbar."

referring to rose and sophia when dick asks helena to care for them--bc he trusts HER.

like.. deep down u know she is right. my girl was not taking his shit today. so much can be said about their relationship and about dick from this one scene but i'm afraid i don't have the words to say it. but i could link some great dickhelena metas here and here.

bonus: literally all the scenes with sophia and rose in them. i really disliked how they left that knot untied, there was so much potential there... so much love and discovery. never getting over them and their messed up little family of have beens and could bes..

--- 𓆩♡𓆪

as for my favorite foods.. that's a toughie. im a really picky eater so those vids you see on social media about going to restaurants and ordering chicken nuggets is exactly me. buttt here's a fragment of an answer::

i lovee my mom's homemade food. mama's cooking is always the best and whenever i venture anywhere away from home it's literally all i can think about. also i know all the love she puts into each and every fresh meal and there never passed a day she let me leave home on an empty stomach <3

the loml kfc fried chicken. look i LOVE chicken of all types- butter chicken, fried chicken, chicken kebab. but kfc chicken as my friday takeout meal has always been a staple in my life.

ALSO CHICKEN RENDANG MMM. THEY WERE REALLY COOKING WHEN THEY MADE THAT.

aloo paratha with butter. you can keep your pancakes and ur waffles there's nothing i'd rather have for breakfast than a yummy aloo paratha and i KNOW im not the only one.

[ottovanvonveen]

Damian Raskae.

[thorsenmark]

Nevada Grandeur by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the northwest while taking in views across a mountain desert landscape to sandstone peaks and other formations. This was at a roadside pullout in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. With this image, I decided to focus on one of the more prominent formations of Bridge Mountain with its quite distinct colors in the rock layers. Given the high ground I was located on, I was able to capture a more leveled-on look but still have a foreground to add interest to this Mojave Desert in Nevada. Kind of a balanced view between the flatter areas to my front with the ridges and peaks off in the distance. I later worked with control points in DxO PhotoLab 6 and then made some adjustments to bring out the contrast, saturation and brightness I wanted for the final image.

[lazaruspiss]

i would actually love some nightwing recs from you

Aha! You activated my trap card <-(completely forgot how public they are with their nightwing obsession) (ps: i also talked nightwing recs here too <3 i simply love to talk about my baby boy)

My "area of expertise" is mainly Nightwing 1996, so that's where most of my recs come from. There was also Nightwing 1995, which was more of a test run for 96. I think it had 4 issues total? It's not bad, just not noteworthy either. I've been working on a big spreadsheet of info for 96, including trigger warnings, but im only like. 15 issues in. hashtag pain and suffering. Issue #1 already has a woman being threatened, I have it down as "attempted rape" in my list, and that kind of sets the tone for what you need to be able to handle to read everything in that series.

The biggest downside is that it's all pre Damian :( son boy i miss u and i wish u were in better comics. Tim is funny tho. The first arc in 96 is great scene setting, and Tim shows up in #6 to be a lil stinker :3. We establish Dick's goals, motivations, etc, as well as what the state of Blüdhaven is and who our main baddies are.

It's all a bit heartbreaking in retrospect. Dick fails. He wants to be more independent and remove himself from Bruce's shadow, Blockbuster is established as the big bad for him to bring to justice, and he wants to make things at least a little better for the people of Blüdhaven.

He ends up dragged back to Bruce by an invisible leash, he technically beats his main villain but only in the absolute worst way after losing everything (and continues to lose more after, losing things he didn't know he had), and Blüdhaven is destroyed.

Dick loses. It's a bad end. A tragedy even. And yet, because of the nature of comics like DC, his story continues. It continues in crossovers and fan service and whatever else might sell. His most personally meaningful story ended prematurely for fucking War Games. sorry I know I just complained about this but cmon.

There were some good storylines after that! But I'm still bothered by the fact that the Tarantula arc was cut off after like, 2 issues. Road to Nowhere (#94-95) really did go nowhere. But the concept was there and it had the potential to be a decent story about an abusive relationship.

Mobbed Up (#108-111), Renegade (#112-117), and Brothers in Blood (#118-122) are some of my favorite arcs, all post Blockbuster. But after those I kind of lost interest. Annual #2 also came out sometime after all those, and I can't stress enough that it is absolutely not worth reading. It was written an illustrated by men, reduces Babs and Kori to nothing more than romantic partners, and completely misrepresents older stories. They literally retell older Dick/Babs moments, but without anything that could make their relationship at all complex or questionable to the consumer. Dick saw her as a sister, but rather than use that as a sign of closeness and respect they cut out all reference to that entirely because god forbid relationships have any nuance nowadays. Annual #1 was alright. I think it came out in the first or second year of the 96 run, and it's a nice self contained murder mystery one shot that showcases Dick's workaholic habits, his want for a family, and his tendency to try and change himself to makes others happy. He also comes off as very accidentally arospec. There's a moment where he tries to get a woman to stay with him by saying things like "but I could learn to love you" and if that wasn't me everyday throughout my middle to high school years than I don't know what is.

Outside of 96, I wanna point out The Search for Ray Palmer: Red Rain. Which may not be a Nightwing story but is absolutely a Bruce & Dick story (with vampires!) I haven't actually read much of the original Red Rain because. Dick's not really in that one. The Ray Palmer spin off however has Dick hunting down his parents' killer: one vampire king, Bruce Wayne. If you find those posts about Dick initially being a vengeance hungry 8 year old interesting than this is about as close as actual comics get. In the main timeline, yeah, Dick wants revenge, but because he's 8 and really just going through it rather than being genuinely bloodthirsty he's very easily talked out of it. In the Red Rain universe there is no comfort. He's alone, and grief consumes him. Bruce killed his parents for that very purpose, because he wanted Dick to be consumed by grief and hopelessness like him. Getting Dick to be like him and getting Dick to be obsessed with him was kind of his entire goal from the moment he laid eyes on him. Bruce's main presence up until the end where he shows up is shown largely through Dick's hunt, through Dick's obsession. Bruce wanted them to be inseparable and he very much succeeded in the end. By the time Jason and crew cross paths with them it's already too late. Everything is as Bruce wanted it to be. So a yandere vampire brudick au, basically.

There's also Outsiders 2003, which I keep meaning to read but haven't quite gotten to. Dick leads another team, but Donna just died so he's even meaner and cagier than he usually is.

gah. i really wanna finish that nightwing spreadsheet. i'll probably post it once i finish the 1996 section, or at least get it caught up to where it stops before crossing over with war games.

i've made a lot of these but theyre just things that i eventually wanna read, the dick grayson one is really the only one with anything in it rn <-(one track mind. and that track is called blorbo)

[sexysilverstrider]

yes pokemon masters ex is a gacha game and itll always predatory but im also thankful that they are giving attention to the human characters and most of all--giving them voices

[2021-good-actually-58b-1]

(regular) red from a little while back

i wonder how well do neons remember their faces

[theplotghost]

Lots of good old fashioned chaos!

[thethingaboutnapkinman]

full discloser i hated red hood jason until i read RHATO rebirth