#stove names

[viviraptor-art]

i'd like to formally thank duel links for this tag duel tournament in general, but ESPECIALLY for rex and téa having a fun interaction! what an interesting tag team o_O bonus:

[petitesmafia]

domestic skk

[just-another-obsessed-fangirl]

breaking hearts for the fun and it's bloody

day 7 of @jagertittyshipweek: blood (i know it's not day 7 yet, i was just too excited to wait)

bloodless human version here:

[poisonousquinzel]

"the only reason Harley's called Harley Quinn and not Harleen Quinzel or some other moniker is because the Joker manipulated her into thinking the similarity in her name and the name of a specific type of clown meant they were destined to be together and that means she's intrinsically tied to him forever and can't exist as a character on her own because her origin is tied to him" ass take has gotta be the worst one I've seen as of late,,, like really can't lie it's stuck in my head lol 😭

i wish i could go about life misunderstanding characters this much and thinking that one who's been a canonical domestic abuse victim since her og origin episode / comic, who is partly (story wise) inspired by a real life dv victim who survived

In the afterword, artist Bruce Timm shares that their Harley was based in part on a real-life friend who was stuck in an abusive relationship: “I’m happy to report that the ‘real-life Harley’ did finally break away from her ‘Joker’ and has been happily married to another man for several years now.”

[Source]

is a character who's "girlbossified" when she's allowed to grow past and outside of her abuser himself,, and that that means idk writing her without him dilutes her character and takes away everything interesting and flawed about her? that she should never be written without him / without her world revolving around him, due to him being the catalyst in her origin?

The Joker's part of her origin because he was the root cause of her fall, the villain, the bad guy, the abuser. that doesn't mean she's required to be forever tied to him?

This isn't even a problem in the actual comics or anything. It's just absolutely 100% not.

No one even pretends Joker isn't intrinsically tied to her story, or more specifically her trauma. No one in real life and no one in their universe.

Tim Drake literally mentioned The Joker in like the last chapter of her (2021 - ) comic ffs!!! 😭

"Did the Joker make you want to do that? Do you wanna unpack that, Harley? Do you wanna talk about The Joker?!"

Harley Quinn (2021-) #42

But it's almost like people grow and heal and evolve. Her codependency and shit are flaws that are not permanent and are things she (can) and is working on.

She's riddled with flaws and they've gone nowhere! she's just trying her best to stay afloat and better herself bit by bit because she isn't Dr. Harleen Quinzel anymore, she can never walk into a medical building and apply and expect them to not know who she is upon a singular search in the system.

She's just Harley Quinzel now, she still has the skills and experience and schooling, but she also has a long serious criminal record, severe mental health issues and is living in a city that rightfully does not trust her. She can't go back, she can't get her old life back, and she can't go back to being Her, The OG "New & Improved" Harley Quinn who's world revolved around 1 person and him alone, because she would die.

He'd kill her, maybe not immediately, but he would be the death of her.

And she knows that. It's a lose lose.

The only real option she has is to lay down and die or to survive. To float and swim bit by bit until she finds stable ground.

Until she finds a way to live with herself again.

Harley's "obliviousness" is a coping mechanism that we literally see her dealing with since BTAS.

A warped world view that does in fact make her actions more complex,, and makes the aftermath / come down all the harder for her as she has to grapple with the internal traumatic response to Everything with Joker while also dealing with the world she's waking up to and realizing the real reality of her actions and the actual pain it left behind. It's literally been in her character plain as day since her First Personal Comic from 2000!

It's something taken seriously and something she knows, regardless if she even remembers the crime, that she has a responsibility to take accountability for. She almost lets Clown Hunter execute her because she was involved in his parents death, even though she doesn't remember the night, she trusts Batman enough that if he says she was there, she was. And she's going to own up to being there. She starts a therapy group for ex clowns post Joker War, she's become a (court ordered) professor and during all of these arcs Joker and his influence on her and her life are mentioned and acknowledged and present.

He's not been removed as an intrinsic aspect of her story, but he is no longer the center of her world and that is a good thing.

It's almost like character growth after 30 goddamn years is something that happens.

And! you know who else is intrinsically tied to Harley Quinn's character just as much as The Joker?

Poison Ivy and Batman.

Her three primary connections since the Beginning, since the original series that everyone wants to pretend was so so different about her than it ever was, was Joker, Batman and Ivy.

And a primary goal (Harley wise) for 2/3 people she's been connected to since Batman The Animated Series has literally been to get her away from the 3rd. They've just successfully helped save her in most universes now, even when she's the one who pulls the trigger in the end.

It's been over 4 years since I made this blog and I still cannot wrap my head around this fandom's deep seeded hatred and disdain for actual character development.

"Sorry", but that's just such a disgusting take built on misinformed foundations and idk a personal rage for bad guy characters not being bland, predictable one note entertainment for the rest of their miserable existence in comics until they're shelved for being fucking boring one note d-list characters?

[hana-bobo-finch]

pikmin 5 final boss

[bluedillylee]

Jaskier loves his ugly cat

[possum-quesadilla]

DUDE I’VE GOT SUCH A FUNNY STORY FROM SCHOOL TODAY.

We were playing a game where we had to throw a ball around and not drop it. Our teacher was making up rules as the game went on. One rule was that we could only stand on one foot.

The ball was thrown to this one guy. He dives for it, but falls. That wouldn’t be so bad, except for the fact that he tackled a big (and expensive) speaker when he went down, broke one of the legs on it, and FELL THROUGH A SLIGHTLY OPEN DOOR INTO THE NEXT CLASSROOM.

This is the same kid who

Eats erasers

Got his computer taken away once because he was searching up people’s home addresses (some of them Did Not tell him their addresses)

Set an image of tank blueprints as his profile picture

Probably knows everyone’s confidential info

He terrifies me but he’s kind of funny sometimes.

It’s Cosmo btw

WOAAAH DUDE THAT IS. INSANE!! Thank you for sharing that killed me

Glad to hear kids are still wildin out at school

[theweirdcobrakaifan]

You guys just look at terry silver and John kreese and think none of this wouldn’t have happened if you two moved in together and ran cobra Kai side by side in 75 instead having a break up in that tattoo parlor

[samglyph]

Hi everyone. Thinking about Yellow again.

[hall0wedwyrm]

Okay I get the hype with Stardew Valley now. I understand.

when you set into the rhythm and understand what to do it's so chill. I have to get used to finding the towns folk though... some of my time has been used on wandering around hoping I run into the one I need. (I took a cauliflower to Jodi and I could not find her until I walked into Pierre's and she was just there)

(also accidentally gifted Sebastian a Geode and he literally said "...?" and I couldn't stop imagining my little character standing there like 😳)

[thirteenemeraldcats]

Ye ole tag game!

Tagged by the incredibly talented (and all around incredible) @fanficfanattic to post the last sentence I wrote!

He’s still propped against Roy’s side; head still firmly planted into the solid place where Roy’s arm meets his chest. If he concentrates, if he squints his tired eyes and holds his gentle breath, he can hear the steady thump-thump of the older man’s heart. 

Posting two sentences because 🤷‍♀️

Tagging with no pressure @jamietarttsnorthernattitude @jamiesfootball @sighonaraa @kvetchinglyneurotic @abubblingcandle @nativestarwrites and literally anyone/everyone who wants to share!

[necromancy-and-tax-evasion]

The stove in question

[pagesofkenna]

i wanted to make a post about a thing but the more i think about it the more i want to say and it's just going to end up being a big ramble essay, so instead i'll just give the thesis statement, thusly:

as the #1 Ratgrinders Apologist (self-appointed), of course they're the final boss fight to the death. i expected nothing less and the people trying to make discourse about it are ignoring the entire context of this being a Dungeons and Dragons game

[henreyettah]

The convention I’m tabling at in November just posted the artist alley exhibitor descriptions and on the one hand I’m very excited about finally doing it but on the other hand I am shitting myself about it because now it’s OFFICIAL

[greenfrogartist]

@the-stove-is-divorced I know I said I'm gonna read your newer fics, and I know I did my homework to read some of them (I've just found a way to watch LMK and I'm gonna do just that once I'm finished with Danny phantom)

But I need you to understand that I am a weak nostalgic simple frog who fell for the temptations of rereading your older fics for the hundredth time rather than start on any of the new ones that I know for a fact I would love and I'm sorry for that

[vastlymushy]

change needs to happen and i don't like it