#that's the worst and I feel it everyday

[farshootergotme]

Been reading one of the Nightwing comics... And hit a part in Dick's narration.

Dick is thinking about how a plan must be precise, and remembering advice from an older performer at his circus.

A performer whose shtick included diving thirty feet or so off a platform into a bucket of water - somehow, that could be pulled off by calculating the just right degree of angle when you hit it.

Dick is thinking about it in connection of the precision needed, and we're thinking, okay, it's a nice circus memory, brings home Dick started learning before joining Bruce... and then he says

"I was there on the day he miscalculated the angle - just by a degree or so. And broke his neck"

Teeny Tiny Dick, less than eight years old, had to watch a friend die a gruesome death on his routine job. Long before his parents died. Long before he was Robin.

Like, no freaking wonder Dick didn't hesitate to go out to fight psychos as Robin - kid was already used to death being part of your job...

Man. I think I need a moment.

Gosh- Dick, darling, you need serious therapy.

[clarisinne]

Hey Claris! Just wanted to let you know your comics are getting me through a rough patch, they never fail to make me laugh or gasp and get a reaction out of me on those bad days. Your storytelling skills are incredible and I reread your comic whenever things get really hard. I’m so inspired by your work and you deserve all the love and recognition. ❤️❤️❤️

I genuinely don't know what to say literally these are the messages that touch me the most, I can assure you things will get better and you will figure it out and in the meantime I'm glad to keep you company with my silly comic if it helps you get through the day, truly thank you from the bottom of my heart for reaching out <3 ily and you can count on me

[bittersweetblasphemy]

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[alexjcrowley]

Saying Swiss Army Man is about gay necrophilia is like saying Oedipus Rex is about a guy who fucks his mom. You're only technically correct.

[bunnihearted]

🌙☁️🌌

[iftitah]

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[caramellashton]

'this is like wanting your kid to get better by yelling at them and hitting them… you know it won't change/fix anything.'

EXACTLY I have been saying this for so long!! it's not gonna work and it's just gonna make everything worse. it's not a form of activism to just bully people until they conform to what you want; humans are autonomous people capable of choosing good, and like. we could be in the fandom of another band that doesn't even try, whose fans have given up on them and are just there for the music and the drama, but it's like the minute they do try to do something good they have to do activism a certain way and it almost becomes a kind of purity culture and purity culture is famously about control and not good for anyone.

but it's also people trying to be funny in the comments with thinly veiled frustrations that come out as insults about their appearance (which especially gets to me bc like. does body positivity stop if you're famous? or are they just idealised figures/bodies/personalities for us to look at and pretend our bodies don't change over time and we don't like it when they remind us that they actually do?) or their partners or how they express themselves. and it's the aura of entitlement that erodes their right to autonomy and individuality that gets me, not only because the way we get the creative music they make is them expressing that.

anyway i do think we as a fandom can do better and i want to attempt to start a conversation about that rather than trying to call people out in the comments. still thinking of how. there's a lot of people in the fandom who are struggling and exasperated with life and relate to their songs and the pressure has to come out somewhere; it ends up being in comments they feel like won't ever be seen except for by people who agree with them, at people who seem to far away and too big to ever see getting hurt by their comments. at least that's what I assume happens. but yes, they were bullying a cat

I agree with everything...

Was it always like this? It can't be because this is too much, none of the hate was on me and I couldn't take it, I wonder how the guys (or any celebrity) feels, being judged about the tiniest move you do, it's crazy I would totally lose my mind.

That's not how life is... yes I would love to be a fan of good people but if the gf/partner of the artist you're a fan of is bad and their friends are bad what does that make them? Maybe it's on you, maybe YOU should pick better idk 😭.

[rosekasa]

I really needed to hear that abt the social media thingy. I've spent quite literally years trying to be popular and be like every other famous artist I see and it has never helped, only I started hating my art more.

big hugs anon. i was talking about this to my best friend last night because i think believing the grass is greener on the other side is such a deceptively destructive thing. the desire to have popularity is something i really struggled to fully shake off before i realised that even when i achieved 'popularity' (i.e., when i reached the numbers i thought would give me satisfaction) i didnt feel any better. i didnt feel like i accomplished anything. in fact i usually just felt Worse, because i was like, wow, for years ive dreamed about breaking 1k on a text post and now that i have i dont feel any better. what's the point?

it made me realise that, without fail, anytime we crave something, it's because we crave whatever feeling we think it'll give us. to me, popularity meant allowing myself to feel loveable and valuable and like i could enjoy posting with the confidence that my thoughts matter. it meant feeling good about myself and my creations and like im always so excited to create, rather than feeling obligated. it meant feeling free and loved!! and as i embodied that more it was so funny how the physical manifestations of those things started showing themselves. and it didnt even feel like a big deal because i already had the feelings i wanted

sorry for such a long response zhdkska i just have. so many feelings about this. being trapped in the thought process that getting a specific thing will make me happy has caused me so much pain in my life, always after the thing actually happens.

[learnelle]

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[radioactive-cloud]

third massive drone and missile attack in four days that was launched at 4-5 am, how i love living next to a terrorist country 😍

[cautiously0ptimistic]

catch me in my mm era~

[geddy-leesbian]

I truly went on an emotional journey last night

[bunnihearted]

📓🖊️🧸

[sugucidal]

hellooo! I just wanted to say that it really annoyed me as well to see the hate comments on your series, like it’s so good- and the people who are commenting are hypocritical! If they don’t like it then they can scroll? It really bugs me when people have nothing better to do when they hate behind a screen on pieces of work they couldn’t dream of replicating

don’t take it to heart pookie- besides your fic i swear is the LEAST problematic fic out there- have these poeple seen what others write… it gets a bit weird there. but where im from, when you’re 18, you’re an adult, they’re probs from somewhere where you have to be 21, but it just really disheartens me to see people who take time and effort to produce things for their own benefit get slated for existing like what! 😬

(hehe im the anon who spent 50 mins reading your fic the other day btw <3)

NONNIEPIE ૮₍ ྀིྀི› ⸝⸝⸝ ‹ ྀི₎ა usually im one to hear people out with their complaints but at the end of the day...i write this shit for free. and ik my work isnt everyones cup of tea and thats fine but thats why (like u said) scrolling exists. dont let my work piss you off or make you uncomfortable. you are not being forced to read it and i promise you its not gonna change the trajectory of your life if you do decide to read it only to complain. like i said, i write for an ao3 based audience and my fic is one out of the many examples of what's popularized on there ໒꒰ྀིっ˕ -｡ྀི꒱১

[simcardiac-arrested]

you are normal about absolutely nothing homie.......... what are these lies................

HEEEEELLPPPPPPP HHHHEEEEEELLPPPPPPPPP GET ME OUT OF EHRE GET ME OUTTTT I NEED TO DELETE MY DISCORD ACCOUNT HEEEELPPPPPPP HEEEEELPPPPPPP I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE

[ame-to-ame]

there are things that you don't do for a year or more and pick up just right where you left off and these days i fear loving you might be one of them