#sorry!! but you're losers!!!!

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

oh. and by the way. the racism that both Louis and Claudia face?? it's not like. a Subtle story detail. it's quite possibly one of the most overt throughlines of the story, actually. to be pretty Blatantly racist while simultaneously claiming to enjoy a show that from Day One has been examining anti-blackness and the forms that it can take is like. a little bit astounding. the cognitive dissonance is phenomenal; it would almost be impressive if it wasn't so gross. my god. "reverse racism." tsk. please. maybe we should all try growing a fucking brain as we venture further into the new year. hmm?? maybe we should try that.

[silverwhittlingknife]

So you're a go to source for all things Dick&Tim bros and you tend to write primarily from Dick's POV. So, odd question, but if you were to summarize their relationship from his POV in FIVE panels which panels would you pick? Keeping in mind that one specific aspect of their relationship that you love needs to be clearly represented by each panel (loyalty, trust etc). I hope this is a fun challenge and not an annoying question so if you don't want to answer that's cool! Have a wonderful day!

No more talk. The same thoughts run through two minds... (SotB 29) / You're my equal. My closest ally. (RR 1) / I can't stop thinking how much I rely on him. (GoG 3)

25 Feelings Dick Has About Tim

This was such a kind ask & a cool challenge which I totally failed; here are TWENTY-five panels of Dick's POV on Tim sdfdsfds Look, I got carried away! Marcia and Cindy! The boys!!

OKAY SO BEFORE I GET TO THE PANELS A FEW NOTES:

WARNING THAT THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN HERE because I love conflict but but but you gotta remember those are not the final word!! They are complicated people and sometimes they get mad at each other BUT ultimately their relationship is so hugely important in both their lives & they love each other and rely on each other so much -!!! <3

Also I have CONCLUDING THOUGHTS at the end about what Dick's POV leaves out (mostly: a lot of Dick defending & protecting & supporting Tim, which Dick does instinctively but isn't very self-aware about most of the time)

I have loosely organized my list into 5^5 format (5 categories with 5 examples each!), so if you want to skip to a relevant one, here are the categories!!

Below the cut:

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1-5)

On second thought, he's endearing & fun (#6-10)

Grief is complicated & he's all tangled up in mine (#11-15)

I love him & think highly of him (#16-20)

I rely on him & though it's hard for me, I trust him (#21-25)

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1 - 5)

1) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze me and Bruce, but he doesn’t know me at all, he should get lost (New Titans 61)

2) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze Bruce but he doesn’t know Bruce at all, he should get lost (Gotham Knights 26)

3) He is so nosy about stuff that is MY business (Robin 0)

4) He sounds like an insincere suck-up half the time... but okay, fine, if you push him he's got a sense of humor about it (New Titans 65)

5) I'm sure he's a better vigilante than me. It's my fault for being a failure, but I resent him anyway. (Nightwing 9 - Dick's having a nightmare)

On second thought, he's kinda endearing (#6-10)

6) He worries too much and gets anxious so easily, but it makes him fun to tease (Robin 67)

7) I'm not that competitive - okay, so maybe I'm a little competitive, I gotta make sure he doesn't get a swelled head (Prodigal)

8) I'm supposed to be his favorite! It is not cool for him to be fanboying over my not-girlfriend's not-boyfriend!! (Birds of Prey 19)

9) We have fun together. I can kick back and relax when it's just the two of us. Plus I get to boss him around a bit. (Prodigal)

10) He’s always trying to reassure me, and I guess it's a little comforting, but also he doesn’t really get it. Or me. He makes excuses that he shouldn't, because he doesn't understand that I suck. (Nightwing 64)

Grief is complicated and he's all tangled up in mine (#11 - 15)

11) He reminds me of everything I try not to think about. Sometimes the memories are so strong it hurts to look at him. (Batman 441)

12) WHY IS HE BEING IMPOSSIBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN??? THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING (Nightwing 139)

13) We're the same. He says all the things I don't let myself think about. It's like arguing with myself. (Nightwing 139)

14) He thinks he gets to tell me what to do but he doesn’t, fuck him (Battle for the Cowl)

15) Life sucks, so what. I sucked it up so he should too (RR 1)

I love him and think highly of him (#16 - 20)

16) He’s the closest thing to a brother I’ll ever have.  If someone hurts him I will hurt them harder. (Nightwing 6)

17) I can't handle the idea of losing him. (Nightwing 97)

17) He’s so good and I’m not. I'm afraid I’m bad for him. (Nightwing 110)

18) He’s better than me, and it’s kind of a relief because I know no matter what he’ll be okay. (Gates of Gotham 3)

19) In my head he’s the responsible one.  (Gotham Knights 10)

I rely on him, and though it's hard for me, I trust him (#20-25)

20) I know I have to trust him but I'm afraid he'll make the wrong choices and get hurt (Nightwing 139)

21) I'm sure I know what he should do because I see myself in him - not that I can take my own advice, but he should (Blackest Night 3)

22) I trust him.  When I’m losing my grip on things, he pulls me back. (Gotham Knights 10)

23) I want him to trust me (Red Robin 12)

24) He can tell when I'm lying. Sometimes he sees my weaknesses better than I wish he did. (Detective Comics 874)

25) He’s always there when I need him. (Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files)

Final rambling thoughts:

TIM: Uhh, okay, so I'm just skimming this list - do you really trust me? you're not just saying that? - but anyway, I'm confused because you left some stuff out? Like some stuff that's kinda important? DICK: No? I think I got everything? TIM (starts counting on his fingers): The time I was having a bad day but then I called you. The time I got captured by Two-Face but then you saved me. The time I fell off a train but then you saved me. The time I fell off a building but then you saved me. The time I fell off a different building - DICK: I feel like you're trying to make some kind of point but I'm not sure what it could be.

SO THE THING IS, I put 25 panels in here and not a single one has Dick catching Tim when he’s falling!!! But I think that's a central motif of their relationship from Tim’s POV, not Dick’s. I love Dick, but in some ways I think he is spectacularly un-self-aware.

And I think he especially has a lot of blind spots about Tim. He kinda intermittently gets that Tim admires him, and he enjoys it in a playful I-get-to-boss-you-around way. But Dick tends to consistently underestimate all of his own good qualities & skills, and he meets Tim at a point in his life when he's especially down on himself & his abilities. And so he's unable to see his own influence on Tim, & therefore unable to fully understand a lot of Tim's priorities and loyalties and motivations, because you can't actually understand Tim without understanding Dick's impact on him. There's a fascinating moment in Bruce Wayne: Murderer when Dick's completely blindsided & upset to discover that Tim doesn't entirely trust Bruce, even though this has been a definitive fact of Tim's whole thing ever since he showed up with his Batman needs Robin theory, and Barbara has to actively remind Dick of the obvious-to-everyone-except-Dick fact that a lot of Tim's loyalty is to Dick, and Tim loves Bruce but feels free to be more wary of him. (And to give Bruce credit: this is not something he ever begrudges.) But anyway Babs points this out, and Dick manages to sorta process it for about five seconds, but he cannot actually accept it into his worldview so instead he discards it at the speed of light and goes off and has an argument with Tim instead sdfsfdsf

All of Dick's virtues - Dick's kindness at the circus and Dick's determination to fight through grief and Dick's rigid sense of morals and Dick's vigilante skills and every time Dick has ever backed Tim up or listened to him or protected him or saved him from something or just been casually kind to a stranger in Tim's presence etc etc etc - all these things loom really large in Tim's mental story of Who Dick Is, and What Dick And Tim's Relationship Is. Tim meets Dick before he meets Bruce, trusts Dick more than Bruce, aspires to be Robin instead of Batman. And so in Tim's default version of the story, Dick is the super-special and admirable hero and Tim is... nobody in particular, a tagalong outsider who's barely managing to be a hero, not part of Dick and Bruce's family and not part of their story, who, if he's VERY LUCKY and tries REALLY HARD, might be able to fight his way to proving himself and offering something to Dick that Dick will value, if Dick doesn't get fed up with him first.

But that's not Dick's version of the story!!!

Dick's version of the story is almost the exact opposite, a story where Dick's an outcast failure black sheep who's screwing up everything he tries, and meanwhile Tim is The Sudden New Perfect Robin Who's Better Than Me And Probably Bruce Loves Him More And Probably They Gossip About What A Loser I Am, mixed with a complicated edge of Tim Thinks He's So Smart But He Doesn't Know Me/Us At All. Dick gets much more attached to Tim over time, and Tim gets unnervingly better at the know-it-all psychoanalysis so then Dick gets to have complicated feelings about him being right instead of just annoyance at him for being wrong, plus Dick's relationship with Bruce improves a lot, so Tim stops feeling so threatening. But Dick never fundamentally changes his basic theory of their relationship in which Tim is highly impressive and capable, and Dick is not so much.

And so asking Dick about Tim is kinda like if you asked George Bailey to tell you about Harry Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life; like, you'll be there for five hours while he tells you how great Harry is, and how accomplished Harry is, and how he doesn't really get how or why Harry does the things he does, and maybe George does feel a little resentful or jealous sometimes, but that pales in comparison to all his admiration and trust for Harry who he loves so much, who's better than him in so many ways, and he's not gonna openly gripe but secretly he can't help but feel sometimes like he's such a failure in comparison to Harry, a perfect person who emerged fully formed from Zeus's head with all the virtues and also all the accomplishments, etc. etc. etc. --

-- and he will not actually remember the part where he changed and saved Harry's whole entire life unless you literally send him to an alternate timeline in order to force him to remember it. <3

[montanabohemian]

honestly, the people bitching about an objectively insane episode of wwdits are SO BORING. it's just a silly little comedy about some idiot vampires that live together and commit atrocities in new york. like what is so difficult to comprehend about that.

of course lazslo would create horrifying animal lab experiments that can talk that guillermo has to take care of.

of course nandor and colin are besties.

of course nadja makes 50 dunkin runs for a crazy lady.

it's just a weird show that is outrageous and funny and sometimes carries an emotional wallop. it's not fucking rocket science.

[jinglejails]

(o ᴗ ᴗ)

[shotbyafool]

it was so awesome that they let Dave Malloy up on the stage for the Tonys that one time. sure hope that happens again some day

[jonathanbyersphd]

The conversation we aren't having is that it's an entirely different thing for Jonathan to stay in Lenora than it is for Jonathan to stay in Hawkins.

Like, Lenora Jonathan doesn't have much but he has a best friend. And more importantly, no one knows him. He's not Lonnie's Boy or psycho pervert Byers. At most his Lenora reputation is a stoner. And compared to the hatred Hawkins has for the Byers family that's nothing.

[neathyingenue]

OC SMASH OR PASS

Rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

Thanks for tagging me for this @viric-dreams and @the-dye-stained-socialite --and thanks for your patience now that i can finally get to it!

Silvia Salcedo, the Radical Sonneteer

Age: 23

Gender: Woman (she/they)

Sexuality: extremely alloromantic lesbian

middle image by the incomparable @the-clay-quarters // now featuring cool wax wind scars >:p

✅Pros:

a femme-inineomenon! great fashion sense, luxurious hair she'd love for you to touch (body hair too!!)

super switchy--can be high-handed and demanding, or sweet and obliging; opinionated always. will sub, dom, give, or receive, especially enjoys service topping and power bottoming; will try to turn the tables at least once during your encounter

ticklish and squirmy

makes you feel like you're doing an amazing job, either with direct praise or just her reactions

there is no escape from the big brown eyes

will call you cute things in Spanish

devotedly administers aftercare <3

😐Beige flags:

lesbian and not into fellas

partnered (against all odds)

won't fuck anyone who is also fucking one of her father figures 💀

🚩Cons:

extremely unchill: high-strung, nervy, will not fucking shut up

WILL fall in love with you for a week if she's fucked you. after that week she'll be fine but it'll be awkward in the meantime

will probably cry post coitus

clingy

not yet comfortable in her polyamory

low standards. If she lets you hit it, that's not much of an accomplishment!

will subject you to a rant about whatever story her newspaper is working on (usually mediocre reviews of mediocre plays)

she's just kind of a loser idk you guys

[scaredstupid]

i think you're swell!

[statementlou]

hey do you any of you football enthusiasts want to join our little louie fantasy league? It's premier league only sorry :/ is there an international cross league version or like all european leagues? that would be so fun but idk about it... so anyway anyone who wants to play this one that we do have should click the link and sign up!

[fadeintoyou1993]

"i don't like nancy because she broke steve's heart and she's so mean and he never recovered wah wah wah" you're a loser and you don't understand steve harrington nor nancy wheeler and you're stupid also get out of my tags also you have lice

[mackmp3]

i really dislike those things that are like 'oh yeah i'm so deep and moody i listen to radiohead and jeff buckley can you tell i'm so delulu teehee girls when no loves them' like AHHHHH COME ON it's just the shallowest thing ever, you don't like that music because you're hastag mental illness aesthetic you like it cos it's good music????

like i'm sure they think they're so alternative or something but that's literally not what it's about????? like yeah ok some of it maybe can be a little funny but some of the stuff i see just has such toxic vibes 'i'm so fun at parties' 'girls when they rot in bed' 'i'm such a fun person to be around' 'behind every hot girl is this album that got her through hashtag trauma' 'pov you're a total loser' overlaid over pictures of a while bunch of actually very very good albums. perfectly normal playlists of not-actually-very-alternative music. 'oh but i relate so hard on a personal level' yeah that's the point of songs????? that why that music is still popular, cos it resonates with people???

like i'm sorry??? a lot of this isn't even like tragic music??? the beatles are on there??? talking heads?? stevie wonder??? someone explain how listening to sigur ròs or sonic youth or david bowie makes you a loser??? like c'mon you can listen to sad music without making it your entire personality or like it's some sort of indicator of anything. liking this music means you have good taste now can you stop being pretentious about it!!! you're not edgy or mysterious if you're making frickin instagram edits about it!!!

and so much of it has this sort of 'i'm hot because i'm mentally ill because this song made me sad once uwu i'm just like jeff buckley frfr' which is just so icky. romanticisation of mental illness isn't cool guys and you're not delusional for thinking abut your crush while listening to sad love songs

the aestheticisation of alternative music just really pisses me off and so much of it is just super toxic can we stop with that i'm seriously gonna stop making radiohead jokes it's not even funny anymore

[vide0n4sty]

once again, i am neither proship or anti, i am an adult human being who pays taxes and has basic reading comprehension

[maeby-cursed]

i don't say this often (mainly because i keep all my cheesiness hidden safe away in my sideblog) but im so grateful to everyone who has chosen to follow this blog. i really really enjoy the small cozy community we've built here and im immensely moved whenever you guys say that you like my words. it's still hard to believe that i now interact w blogs that ive been following for years and get to have fun and kind mutuals to talk about silly thoughts with.

so yeah, if you're here ! i love you so very much and i appreciate you.

[zelena777]

I'm back to my au Big shot incident and decided to make loser baby song from Hazbin hotel with Spamton and Angela/Izrael, sorry for my huge fiasco of the important things they've done.

[silvermoon424]

How have you known Sailor Moon is a feminist cartoon series?

I'm kinda confused by the wording of this question

Do I know Sailor Moon is feminist? Yes, I'm well aware.

How do I know? I have eyes and basic media literacy skills, lol.

Also, one of my favorite pieces of "Sailor Moon is definitely feminist" evidence is when Jadeite gets run over by a plane for being sexist, with this scene leading up to it:

[eternalnostos]

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