#the outsiders volume 3

[austenpoppy]

For Dick :

Annual 2 is a stupid retcon that doesn't make sense. Dick proposed to Kory after getting raped by Mirage in NTT, as a way to prove to her she was the only one for him - and at that time he was hanging very tightly to Kory as his last source of happiness. They tried to get married within a month, maybe less, and all Dick wanted was to get married; I'm not sure he would've gotten to Gotham unless he had to out of absolute necessity.

Plus Babs was a bit older than Dick in the New Earth continuity, not the same age as him (and the way Dick was written as Robin ?? Awful).

Thinking this is Dick's character would be like saying Wally West can be characterized from "Heroes in Crisis", Cass from all evil Cass issues, Superman from "Injustice", and Bruce from that time he fed rats to Dick. It would also negate Babs' argument to Dinah that she shouldn't go back with Oliver and marry him in Birds of Prey.

On top of that, the very point of Dick and Babs' entire romance as depicted by Chuck Dixon was that Babs had pushed people away after she got shot because they were reminders of someone she couldn't be anymore. It was one of the reasons she broke up her engagement with Jason Bard (Birds of Prey #19). She blew off Bruce and her father in Oracle : year One (Batman Chronicles #5). She admitted to Dick she'd given up on a lot of things after having to use a wheelchair, like "Dancing. Skating. Feeling carpet on bare feet" (Nightwing 1996 vol. 2 #38), including Dick.

DickBabs, for me, as depicted in New Earth, is about childhood friends who reconnect after some time spent apart, after one decided to leave behind the world of his mentor (a reflection of their relationship) and the other got crippled for life and had to reinvent herself entirely, and the first wants them to be close again while the second hesitates because that very closeness is a reminder of what she's lost.

But if you mix Annual 2 in-between, none of their dialogues in Nightwing volume. 2 or Birds of Prey makes much sense anymore.

Trying to decide what is canon and what isn't is hard for comics, but retcon (for a continuity) + doesn't match with previously established canon + chronologically incoherent timeline + out of character behaviour = non canon.

Other example : before Garth's wedding (still New Earth continuity), Donna said that Roy and Dick were fighting over her when they were teenagers. Literally all established canon, including flashbacks in Teen Titans vol. 2, show that it was mainly Wally and Roy trying to woo Donna. Therefore it's not canon. See what I mean ?

Bruce; my kids are so innocent and can do no wrong!

Dick: cheated on Kori with Babs while engaged

Babs: hacked the American government for petty reasons

Helena: framed a semi innocent man for guilty man to walk free because of plan

Cassandra: killed and revived a man with one two punches to teach him what death feels like

Jason: is a crime lord

Tim: blew up LoA bases and prob killed thousands

Steph: stole a million dollars from Bruce

Damian: almost killed a zookeeper to free a tiger

Duke: blew up a warehouse because it would make his job easier

(This all happened that day)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

End of Empathy (time for violence)

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[radiantmists]

does three have to reload its arms

[kissablelips-desireslure-vol3]

BAREBACK AUDITIONS 5

Directed By: Michael Lucas

Featuring: Marq Daniels James Castle

©️ LUCAS ENTERTAINMENT

[beclight]

i just had a great(?) idea.

See how from volume 3 onwards the sparklecare artstyle doesnt have diversity anymore.? (vol 3 is almost exclusively done by kc according to the credits at the bottom of each page, and in vol 4 all the clowns have her exact artstyle) well. i thought about that and came to a conclusion;

why dont the fandom all redraw V3-V4 pages. dozens, hundreds of people. with all kinds of styles, and skill level. teaming up, redrawing each 1-5pages. then slowly redrawing the whole thing with our own hands, our own artstyles. We'd post our new, diverse-artstyle sparklecare with all pages in order on a blog or smth.

seeing the credits at the bottom of the vol2 pages was my favorite thing ever, after a while i even would start to recognize each team member's artstyle, and i found it very charming how each individual style conveyed different emotions throughout each character yet still fit'd the main style of the comic and they all went very well together. as much as i like the current artstyle of the comic (controversial opinion, i know.) it OBJECTIVELY is way less "alive" feeling and expressive than vol 1 or 2's for exemple, and the lack of diversity that seems to be allowed within the zcp doesnt help. if all of us, as many as we are, created and directed a massive re-draw collab of sparklecare hospital, we could have this alive sparklecare that we deserve once again.

[kissablelips-desireslure-vol1]

LET FREE THE CURSE OF TAEKWONDO (2024)

LEE SEON (as Ju Yeong)

&

KIM NU RIM (as Do Hoe)

[everynart]

[dreamofbecoming]

normally very into the sounds of the city outside but something about the cacaphony rn is overstimulating the hell out of me

[lamellas]

We r functioning off 3 hours of sleep today lets GOOOO

[bmpmp3]

finished up that Yume no Tobira cover with the VirVox dudes i was working on! It took me so long to balance the audio levels and make the video that Voicevox had a major update between me starting and finishing LOL

[housewifebuck]

ngl ima little jealous of you, i struggle to get any traction in 911 fandom (partly cuz i’m wimpy) and you just waltzed right in and instantly are popular and friend with everybody

oh and your gifs are very very pretty, should have started with that. :))))))

this ask is blowing my mind a little bit. im literally just some guy...

[mashmouths]

is it an adhd thing to need to reinvent the concept of a study space so you have any chance of actually studying or just a facet of being alive that no one warned me about

[ratt-fried-this-pasta]

AFTER LITERAL MONTHS OF WAITING, THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES BOOK ONE APPEARED IN MY LOCAL BOOKSTORE WOOO

I love the old manga art style hehe very pretty >:)

[freyjaofthenorth]

"country is the worst genre" "hip hop is the worst genre" you are all anglocentric children

there is only one genre that is objectively awful with no depth of history nor meaning to save it, and that crime against music is epadunk

[peachybutch]

somewhat personal under cut

I don't have a lot of physical traits that I take any pride in. But the one thing I am proud of is my hair--I have these really soft and pillowy chestnut brown curls that wouldn't look out of place on a porcelain doll.

And, like, it took a lot of time and struggle to encourage my hair texture. This was after years of straightening it because my parents/family said I looked like I didn't take care of myself. So, I'm proud of myself for pushing through the initial discomfort, cutting it all off, starting fresh, and putting the work in to get it back to the point it's at now.

Which means it makes it all the more tasty when the shitty older women in my community--the same ones that let their husbands threaten to kill me as a teenager when I didn't make myself available to date and wore jeans to church--come up to me and ask me for my hair routine.

And I get to smile at them and tell them that I just use fuckin. head and shoulders from winco and brush it once in the morning. And I watch them seethe. Am I lying? Yes. Do I feel guilty about it? Not even a little bit. Suck my entire cock, Tammy.

[traitimdoithay]

i’d like to believe that if takahashi had more time on memory world that the way just... everything was treated would have been settled in a more satisfying way. but i don’t think he was ever prepared to properly answer the question of “how do you deal with the sole survivor of a massacre wanting justice for his people through the genocide of an entire kingdom—despite the general public not even being aware the genocide ever happened—while also dealing with a young pharaoh who although has his heart in a good place in that he seeks justice, is still somewhat complicit in upholding the crimes committed by those before him”