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[laufire]

🧡 kissing in bed / lazy kiss / cuddling + JayTimMia

𓆩😈𓆪 𓆩😈𓆪 𓆩😈𓆪

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There was no rush in their movements, but just after Jason walked out of the Nest, Red Hood gear carried inside a duffle bag over his shoulder, Mia and Tim started their walk towards his bedroom.

Theirs was a –yet undefined– odd relationship, in their line of work. Known each other for five years, set up on an utterly ordinary date by friends; a date neither aliens nor gangs nor any other type of miscreant had the decency of interrupting, and thus, the most absurdly normal, appropriate evening Mia had experienced with a man.

That was Tim, in every way, if you asked anyone in her life: appropriate, suitable. Acceptable. The kind of catch Mia should and would want to date. Age-appropriate, on his way of becoming college-educated, firmly on the side of the angels –never, ever one to stray.

read the rest in ao3.

[bitter-hibiscus]

Hey hi you have piqued my interest and I would love to hear your thoughts on Jason and Roy's interaction in New Titans #20-21 :)

OKAY OKAY OKAY!!! SO THOSE ISSUES ARE SO SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME BC THEY SET THE FOUNDATION OF JASON'S RELATIONSHIP WITH AUTHORITY HERO FIGURES AND. ROY IS PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY POSITIVE ONE

Sorry for rambling about more than just Roy and Jason but I had to set a foundation for my points.

The only three people who actually speak to Jason at any point for more than a single line in those issues are Donna, Hank, and Roy.

Donna, as is plainly stated in the text, is not actually talking to Jason, but to Robin, and she expects him to act exactly like Dick Grayson does.

In the beginning of the story, this isn't particularly an issue, since Jason is very excited to be included and Donna isn't actually putting any kind of pressure on him. HOWEVER, as issue #20 progresses, it becomes really, really serious. Particularly in this scene:

Donna, who up until this point Jason generally worshipped in that way children always do, just showed him she's not only capable of extreme violence against her teammates, but also willing to completely leave the people depending on her behind. (I may not be the biggest Donna lorehead but I'm pretty sure this isn't something she does often. It is, however, what Jason sees her doing, and that's important.)

Jason, kindhearted, boneheaded Jason, immediately calls her out on this. He trusts that Donna is a capable and trustworthy hero and team leader, but the image of a perfect heroine has been broken.

Donna puts almost the... complete opposite kind of pressure on Jason that Bruce does. Bruce has trained Jason to obey, and to try and force him into a leadership role while three of your teammates are literally unconscious is, to say the least, stress-inducing to a little kid.

(oops, the Donna part got long. I have a lot of feelings about them, okay?)

The second person who interacts with Jason in those issues is Hank, who is, you know. Hank.

The first thing he says to Jason is mocking his age, which Jason seems to be pretty self-aware of in a negative way, being the only child in a group of 20-something-year-olds.

Then, he actively stops Jason from joining a fight and doing his part as a Titan:

It's the polar opposite of how Donna treats Jason in this issue. Hank sees Jason as incapable and unfit for being a Titan. It's both demotivating and incredibly insulting, especially when Jason was trying to do the right thing.

So we're 0 for 2 for grown-up superheroes being dicks to Jason.

Enter Roy Harper, stage left.

Roy is the only member of the team to both acknowledge Jason as a teammate and still speak to him like the child he is without being patronizing or mocking, despite his conflicting and complicated emotions on the mission they're going to, because Cheshire. He keeps himself friendly and inviting to Jason, forces himself to joke around, because Jason is a child who shouldn't be responsible for Roy's Whole Ordeal.

He actively humors Jason's worship and wonder of superheroes, but still jokes around with him like Jason is an equal and not a kid he's babysitting.

He offers Jason company and empathy, and encourages him to share his view of the situation, once again treating Jason as a team member worthy of being listened to, but not particularly of being in charge of anything. Jason, for his part, pays attention to what's happening with Roy, and expresses concern over what Roy's feelings on the situation might be.

(long pause to admire how beautiful Jade looks in this story. anyway)

This scene is also really important, I think. Not only for the obvious reasons of Lian Being Revealed, but because even though Roy is reeling from the knowledge that he has a child, he still has space in his thoughts to care about Jason and want him safe. Even though Jason's attempt to lighten the mood was... less than optimal. Lol. I love him so much

Jason is there for what some may argue is the biggest part of Roy's development as a character, and even though he's secondary to everything that's happening, Roy still considers Jason an important part of the situation. He still takes Jason into account, despite desperately wanting answers from Jade.

I have nothing to say about those panels but look at them. my babies. jason is so so worried. his new friend is not ok and he cant help :(

TLDR: Jason's interactions with most adult heroes are.. pretty bad, (Not all. Shoutout to my men Joey Wilson and Garfield Logan,) but Roy is a major exception to that rule. He's compassionate and funny and a hurricane of emotions, and he's the first adult outside of Batman and Nightwing to canonically show Jason a little bit of kindness. While not in any way backed by canon, I do think that Jason's interactions with Roy filled him with determination to be a good hero and earn other people's trust. Those two issues have very small interactions, but I do believe they're some of the most important pieces of original Robin Jason content, largely due to Roy's presence.

[fisheito]

@trainto1925 and now u got ME thinkin!!!

wondering when eiden would have gotten good enough at plushie making to create his entire harem in doll form. ...possibly around the time blade showed up. eiden got a lot of practice making thousands of Eiden Plushies as gifts 🤣

imagining how eiden starts to do a lot of impromptu "visualisation" exercises when blade joins the roster

BLADE: but why was lil yakumo embarrassed when i showed garugaru the box in front of-- EIDEN: (sighing goodnaturedly) ok, say..um *grabs the nearest two items* pretend this cup is garu, and this spoon is yakumo---

after some repetition, eiden wonders if blade will understand better if he just has dolls representing everyone thus begins the plushie brigade

[mercyisms]

hello anon and apologies for promptly dropping off of the face of the earth after promising to reply to this. in the interest of trying to be useful, i'm going to dash something off-the-cuff, but i hope it helps! i think this idea is already routinely demonstrable in the text, but tamsyn muir was also kind enough to explicitly spell some of this out in this lovely interview: "That said, the God of the Locked Tomb IS a man; he IS the Father and the Teacher; it’s an inherently masc role played by someone who has an uneasy relationship himself to playing a Biblical patriarch. John falls back on hierarchies and roles because they’re familiar even when he’s struggling not to." one of the ways this is dramatized in the text is, y'know, john shoving some of the earth's soul into a barbie. pygmalion the earth into perhaps the most iconic form of white femininity. it's a move that may be complicated by details such as a) john's indigeneity and b) the queerness implicated in john preferring barbie to any of his more 'masculine' toys, but there's a lot to interrogate here on how john's proximity to systemic oppression (across various lines) is retained and the ways in which they're replicated despite his intentions, or the ways they come through even when certain axes of oppression (gender, race) operate differently in the nine houses than on contemporary earth, or what john prioritizes above altering these systems. so on one hand, thinking about john's affinity to tall blondes might lead you there. however, because the 6ft tall blonde is not just alecto but is, in fact, an enduring role, now you can open up some more questions. for me, these questions might look like: what is the relationship between this role and john and john's empire?

the 6 ft tall blonde is always john's bodyguard. that's another key point of comparison. we may consider: when the bodyguard is alecto, she is stylized as a (to really simplify it) romantic counterpart in some ways; she is a caretaker (i'm quite sure there's a line in ntn about how john is unable to sleep unless alecto strokes the bridge of his nose or similar; possibly the only one granted access into the fact that john is afraid); she, based on what we have to go off of, trusting of and ultimately deferential to john's judgment prior to entombment. she is also stylized as a highly, and traditionally, feminine person (see: barbie), though alecto is repulsed by and in conflict with her body and gender presentation. and then you might consider augustine. at the urging of his lyctors, john entombs alecto. john identifies augustine as one of the lyctors most repulsed by and mistrusting of alecto. in her vacancy, the lyctors come into their roles as the emperor's fingers, and augustine, first saint, takes up a particularly key role. we might also note that augustine is staked out by the text as deeply gender ambiguous (g1deon and mercy, among others, are gendered without hesitation. the narration questions augustine's gender), but frequently pivots on misogyny. certainly, he accuses mercymorn of trying to become A.L. bodyguard 2.0 but in a way that a) suggests she is failing and b) while mercymorn and M-- both function as guardians and protecting figures to John, both come to the table with a different texture. augustine (exchanging 'your mom' jokes, etc., with john pre- dios apate minor) and A-- (thinking especially of how john remembers only A-- calling his new eyes 'cool') is also fulfilling a role for john that his other (remaining) lyctors are not. humanizing confidante, perhaps. he is not only a thousand year old friend but a caretaker for a slightly more fallible and human john. augustine also reaches a point where he can no longer support john. where john-as-emperor and the goals and demands of his empire diverge from what augustine sees as morally defensible. and so he's replaced. augustine and john wrestle. they reach an equal impasse. and ianthe -- rather than save her mentor and overthrow god -- chooses to sacrifice augustine and take up his place. of course, kiriona is also present and given some nicer titles, but by the end of nona (see: the tower besties little fight before the tomb is opened) we understand gideon is being used by john, while ianthe is the bodyguard proper, choosing what information to feed back to john (NO new updates on his duplicitous sluts, thanks!) and working very hard to keep john separate from alecto, in order to keep mr. gaius in a state that benefits ianthe and ianthe's goals. ianthe also has some wild and fucky (complimentary) gender shit that may also be fun to track. also, notably, ianthe is not of particular interest to john, who vastly prefers harrowhark. the strain of desire is possibly broken. so we don't just have, you know, a very fun enduring bit of the 6 ft blonde bodyguard, but we also have an interesting progression. we can see how this role evolves. john shaped alecto in one way, and had to set her aside. augustine allowed himself to be shaped by and used by john, up until a point. ianthe is the consequences of john's empires and the decisions or neglect that coalesced into the nine houses' politics and hierarchies, but we've reached a point where john is now (wittingly and unwittingly) in conflict with these hierarchies. the 6 ft tall blonde is not only a signal that certain hierarchies, roles, and systems persist in john's empire, but i think you could compellingly map out ianthe is the logical conclusion of said systems & that provides a really interesting context to read her actions & plots, both in conversation with alecto (and her shifting position) and augustine, but also with john. (and the 'rebrand' john is engaging in during nona, as he moves away from the neo-roman lyctors to tower princes & a flirtation with greater indigenous stylings, ex. 'kiriona' over 'gideon'.) anyway! i hope some of this helped. i know i'm not necessarily spelling out the entirety of my personal reading here, but i hope i've laid out some of the pertinent points of analyses and also some of the 'work' (points of comparison or characterization, etc.) that i think is happening wrt to our tall, tall blondes.

[donnatroyyyy]

If there’s ever actually a good Live Action Teen Titans show about the OG team, I NEED a New Girl-like scene where Garth finds out he’s colorblind. Like you know how there’s that whole scene of Winston thinking money is brown and stuff and Schmidt being like ‘if that’s brown what color do you think you are’? Yeah I need it in teen titans format.

[which-is-the-very-best]

can you please include some kind of directions in your polls? which image is which button? i'm not familiar enough with pokemon to know without googling, but i still wanna participate. thank you, have a nice day

I try to always put them in order of the picture from left to right! Most of the time I'll put the color as well! (My bad on the Forces of Nature poll 😅 I was rushing)

I have to Google a lot of them myself so I get it

[makerofmadness]

I decided for fun to show my dad (iranian and muslim) the stuff about the crob update and ask for his thoughts and the fact that he wasn't offended by it either had me convinced that the outrage it's been getting has been primarily by people who aren't middle eastern or muslim

btw I have the screenshots:

I'll update when I ask my mom for her thoughts too but for now: please, don't just throw around terms like that at innocent things, you only end up weakening their impact and people will take you less seriously when something actually offensive shows its ugly head

edit: got one reblog in fudging December and like Can we please move on this stuff is long over I just want to enjoy the funny centipede lady that I kinda kin and tbh I was a bit TOO defensive during this but I still feel like people didn't handle this well like this is basically just like. If you feel the need to boycott the entirety of cookie run for just one update but can be an encanto fan despite Aladdin also being a Disney movie (and being worse than the Yogurca stuff in my opinion) as well as being made by westerners while CR is an eastern game (albeit Korean specifically and not like Middle eastern) then like. I question your priorities and why you're being harder on this game. I guess. Idk maybe I'm just an idiot I'm not some big media analysis expert (but I do have my own problems with Yogurca as a setting don't get me wrong I didn't really talk about this much but. Like I'm never gonna try to claim it's perfect I just don't think it's unsalvageable or that anyone who likes the characters is bad)

[heartsbreaking]

it's bullshit. it's complete and utter bullshit. alysia knew her family cared about chris, that her aunt and uncle wanted what was best for chris, but this couldn't possibly be it. she couldn't possibly imagine a solution to this where taking a son away from his dad indefinitely was a good idea. eddie lasted longer than she thought he would, but he left and she only lasted a little bit longer before she was following him outside.

it was kind of a dumb question to ask, but she had to. everything he was feeling she was sure she couldn't comprehend it to the extent he was feeling it. "chris will get over it...sometime." alysia replied tentatively. she stepped a little closer when he stopped pacing and put her arm softly on his shoulder. "sure, alright." she sighed and tried to think back to what might not have made it to him. "you know how tia marcela just got on facebook like two months ago? well, she was apparently going through every facebook post we've all ever made or been tagged in. she found my carrie costume from halloween last year and called mom asking why no one told her i had been in an accident. she asked just about everyone but me, until someone finally explained the plot of carrie to her."

REPLY to @118diazs / eddie diaz *

[izutsoupmi]

How speedy *is* that sea cucumber anyhow

it's highly dependent on the terrain. You see, as an aquatic creature, the dry atmosphere slows him to a slightly-above-average human walking speed (it's how we managed to get pictures of him in the first place). Keeping a speedy sea cucumber in these conditions turns it into an evil sea cucumber (slow and dry), which can be fatal.

In water, however? They're so superlatively speedy you couldn't possibly overstate their quickness with words.

[trainedsubway]

Why estonia?

‘why estonia?’ good question!

my three main points

1. he looks like a complete dork

2. really tame and not (TOO) chaotic guy

3. (the kicker) chop chop mochi boy

asides his dorky look, (and attitude… he runs a blog… Please..) hes noted to be very calm and overall pretty talented! (PERFECT!!! I LOVE THAT!!! A MAN WHO DOES IT ALL FROM SINGING TO INSTRUMENT PLAYING TO TECH SAVVINESS,,,) HES ONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS THAT ARE SO??? cute . i like dudes swagged up with that dorkcore nicheness. ALSO IS IT NOT PERFECT HE TAKES CARE OF THOSE FAT LITTLE BLOBS 😭 UR TELLING ME ITS NOT CUTE THE IDEA OF HAVING THIS GUY PROUDLY INFODUMP THOSE SQUISHY BABIES TO YOU AND SO HAPPILY TOO!!! hes just a chipper lad 💙

but asides that hes an acquired taste . many people may say he is “Ouuu… a tap on the back i guess… 😭” NOT ME THOUGH. ID ABSOLUTELY WIFE THIS MAN .

Thanks for asking im really crazy about this whiteboy swagger this guy gives to my crippling dead corpse 💙

ALSO IF THIS WAS ABOUT WHY I DRAW HIM SO MUCH IT FILLS INTO THIS . I REALLY LIKE HIM I LOEWHBRNAHEHWHSHDH YAYYYYY

[irxne]

It was terrible and terrifying that Irene had to perform while not feeling well. I've only seen a handful of clips but she literally looked like she was going to drop on the spot, she was pale and swaying and so out of it. SM is so vile...

she looked really tired and sick. even though she decided to perform after it being announced that she wouldn't participate i do wish there was someone on the staff that had stopped her. it should not be expected for idols to perform/work when they're sick. it really is awful that they just let her go...

[showduo]

ooc: i'm getting sleepy so i'm going to hang out on the dash and discord until i pass out ! good night everyoneeee have a good sunday to those who are living in the past, still. :D

[b1mbodoll]

thinking sososo hard about 🎀 nonie’s hanbin ask like he’s been on my brain all day other than ningning im so excited to work on it soon

[quietlyblooms]

i think i'll work on a lil writing for a bit or simply take a break uvu i need to pace myself with plotting or i'm gonna burn myself out. so i promise i'm not forgetting you and thank you for being patient with me <3

[shattersaurus]

Hello everyone!

I am currently running a BLACK FRIDAY sale over at our etsy shop, all of the items in my shop are available for a 50% discount from the 16th to the 29th of November. So if you like what you see and could see my queer little dinos stickers as the perfect holiday gift for friends and family, then please consider supporting my art, by visiting my little dino store over here.

Have a great time and cheers to you all!

If you have any requests or questions, please don't hestitate to reach out!

[fyrewalks]

find me on disco while my brain buffers after the nap i just had. hoping to finish drafts and perhaps post a starter call later!