#they argue about it for eternity

[rubydubydoo122]

I saw someone say a while ago that Jason attacking Tim at Titans Tower was just Tim hallucinating bc he was feeling guilty about being Robin even though Jason's not dead. Which is great, amazing, I think the whole Titans Tower thing is Bonkers, but I think it would be so much funnier if Jason tried to Gaslight Tim into believing the Titans Tower incident never happened, not because he's like evil, he's just super embarassed about it. like Or Tim did actually hallucinate Jason at TT but thinks it was real, so when he tells Jason about it, Jason's so fucking confused, and Tim thinks Jason's Gaslighting him

Tim: Remember that time when you broke into Titans Tower and beat me half to death while wearing a Robin costume from party city

Jason: What? Tim, I know i'm crazy, but I'm not...Insane.

Tim, pulling down his collar: I literally have the scar to prove it

Jason: Bruce told me that was from Clayface pretending to be me, which, might I just say rude. Tim... are you ok? Did you hallucinate me attacking you? like, I know I've done that before, but...

Tim, frowning: I don't think I hallucinating. I was benched for a while after because I had to recover-

Jason: well, you were benched around the time I was dropping hints that I knew who Bruce was outside of Batman, he probably just benched you to keep you safe. You probably were working too many cases with too little sleep and your imagination started to run wild.

Tim: Are you gaslighting me?

Jason: Are you gaslighting me?

[helianthus21]

I think there's sth to be said about the first meeting of Marius + Armand vs that of Armand + Daniel.

Marius appearing to Armand as a savior when he lies half-dead in the brothel (I think Armand even says he thought for a moment it was Jesus Christ coming to answer his prayers) vs Armand appearing to Daniel as a nightmare creature. Marius carrying Armand out of a dark and bleak place vs Armand actively locking Daniel up in a cellar lmao. Armand being like "oh please would a monster give food and shelter to poor orphan boys?" when Marius calls himself a monster vs Daniel openly and affectionately calling Armand an evil bug who devours millions of lives.

sth sth seeing the sleek facade first vs. immediately being confronted with the ugly parts. sth sth a story of salvation turning into one of horror vs a horror story turning into a (gothic) love story.

[softerseasons]

people on tumblr have got to learn that someone reblogging and disagreeing on your post that uses easily searchable key terms is Not fucking inciting harassment. if they have stated that they do not condone harassment, them arguing with you is Just them arguing with you. a large follower count does not preclude them from being a human being who is allowed to interact with your public posts.

you're also not being harassed when it's just a bunch of people disagreeing with you, anon or not.

harassment is sustained, malicious continuance of stated or shown unwanted actions. it's harassment when you say 'stop, i dont want to talk about this' and they continue, or when they're sending threats or abuse or sexual content that you have not allowed. until that point, it's just people disagreeing with you.

you don't have to enjoy people disagreeing with you, but y'all really need to fucking learn the difference. disagreement does not inherently equal harassment.

mwah. much love

[phoenixwithapencil]

I want to stick AC Cloud and degraded Angeal in a room together I think they could be guilty bastards mired in the past together and they’d somehow come out sadder than they came in

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

something really refreshing about house of anubis is that despite a main plot point of the show throughout all three seasons being eternal youth, it’s never a woman who’s obsessed with it. the only characters that are actually super fixated on the idea of eternal youth and beauty are male.

[persona-2-daily-reminder]

Daily reminder that demon contracts are pretty fun to just do any number of combinations.

[facethemuses]

how do i keep on ending up in post limit jail every night 😭😭😭

anyway, your favourite julia designs or headcanons about how she looks? 🩵

I love to analyze absolutely anything about julia, and her fashion DOES accidentally play a very fun role in her characterization.

I really love her pre crisis fashion, which does cross over a bit to her skirt suits she wears in batwoman. her red coat from the 80s needs to make a come back so bad, they colored her green jacket she wears in eternal red one issue and it slayed.

pre crisis julia LOVED red. it doesn't play much into her character from what I can really see, it's just feminine 80s fashion. I might see more of a pattern as I read more julia remarque comics.

I really appreciate in modern comics when they actually try to style her more alternative, it's a really easy way of showing her trying to escape alfred's legacy. but this is truly the only time we see her really styled in that way!

for the rest of her time during batman eternal and the endgame run she seems to be just wearing whatever she can get her hands on which makes sense because she was in fact kidnapped to america without her clothes. (return of the red coat and julia's emotional support green jacket)

julia your bitch too bad!!! your homo too sexual!! they gave you one pair of jeans and a fuckass coat and yet you out cunted them all

post eternal and endgame is her superheavy and bloom arc where she is wearing this jumpsuit uniform for almost every single appearance. she never really takes it off. julia, do you own any clothes of your own??

at the end of the run, julia DOES appear in this pink and blue ensemble, which feels strange. because this doesn't feel like something julia would wear herself, this feels like a compromise.

this feels like julia trying to stifle herself and make herself feminine and palpatiable enough for her father and the others. this feels like julia trying to become what is expected of her rather than what she is. just like what she does in the run in question: she fills the role in comms that her father does rather than the active fighting role she would have more experience in.

(mind you, this looks like the same jacket.. does julia have this jacket in three different colors?? did bruce just buy it in bulk when he kidnapped her and handed it to her??)

then we get her batwoman run!! It's right after this that we only really see her wearing more formal clothes. her falling into the skirt suits this run as she also fills the "alfred" role for kate definitely feels like she's trying to mimic him in this way.

she's dressed in suits, and skirts, and dark colors mostly.

julia trying to appeal to this more formal feminine look at the same time she's trying to get more trust from bruce through spying on kate feels linked. maybe if she mimics a female version of her father enough, bruce will like her, and then alfred may just like her as well.

in fact the only time we see julia dressed like she is in the beginning of her run in eternal, is when and right after she's kidnapped and of course would fall back onto what comforts her the most!

she still does return to those lighter softer colors within the latter half of the run, just around the time bruce appears hmmm.

then, in the joker 2021 run, we only see her in actual suits. not the skirt suits she was wearing to try to appeal, but not the casual look she had before. that's not someone it seems she feels like she can return to.

she has to hunt for alfred's killer, and by keeping a middle ground of a formal funeral type look, she can feel justified.

she can balance this more masc side of her fashion post alfred's death the way she really couldn't in life. she had to be alfred's daughter, but now she can be julia again.

julia's over the run of eternal slowly gets more feminine as time goes on in a way that feels purposeful almost. she's trying to fit in to the batfamily, and she has to chip away at her own self-image to do it. so she loses the punk, the masc fashion. she dresses in pink and in skirts.

but she still can't gain the acceptance she wants. because alfred doesn't want a daughter, he wants bruce. then alfred dies but julia can't fully return to that casual look because of course she can't.

when batman and robin forgive bane for killing alfred, someone has to hold onto that grief and mourning. julia lives in a constant state of mourning, and her clothing in joker 21 shows that.

she can't return to the dark colors and punk aesthetic because she sold it to try and get her father's love, she cant accept that light feminine style because it wasn't really her. so she's dressed for a funeral, because that's all she can do now is hunt bane and grieve her father. that's all her character is allowed anymore.

to be alfreds daughter, julia was slid into more and more feminine styles. to be kate's comms girl she was dressed like a feminine alfred. to be bane's killer she's dressed like she's attending a funeral. julia's fashion is stuck in the 2010s because that's where she is stuck with alfred's death and with her slow vanishing.

to be dressed as julia isn't something she's allowed anymore.

[kurohaai]

inflicting Aitunes to the world because I miss them so much (it has been 48 hours)

[slayerdurge]

A Deal with God (Post-Ending Durgetash Fanfic)

CHAPTER TWO - THE REUNION

Enver re-entered his body screaming.

As The Dark Urge listened in transfixed stillness, his screams gradually changed into a strange and discordant mixture of laughter and sobs, and all she could think was that she’d heard that sound before.

But she couldn’t place it until a series of sensuous fragmented memories crashed into her mind—the damp stone walls of an underground dungeon, the thrust of steel as it penetrated flesh, the tantalizing ferrous scent of fresh blood, an influx of saliva pooling in the bottom of her mouth, and the howling keen emanating from the pile of meat in front of her. Then came the feeling of satisfaction. The knife clattered to the floor, and as she wiped her mouth, she heard the sound change.

It was the sound of a torture victim who’d been offered a moment of reprieve, and the only coherent thought she could form in the mangled, macerated caverns of her brain was that that sound should not be coming out of him.

She couldn’t say exactly how long the sound continued, but eventually she became aware that it had stopped, and that his eyes, which had been alternately twitching and rolling backwards into his head, had refocused. He was looking at her.

She became aware of what she must look like, standing stock-still and staring at him in paralyzed silence, but she could rouse herself to neither speech nor movement. 

Slowly, he sat up, supporting his unsteady balance by spreading his hands flat on the rock’s surface. He looked around, taking in the sizeless expanse of the Astral Prism. His gaze seemed to sharpen. “How long?” he asked.

“How long…” She didn’t immediately understand the question. 

“How long was I dead?” he repeated, over-enunciating each word impatiently. 

The twinge of annoyance that caused within her brought her fully back to herself. “Less than a day,” she said. “Maybe slightly more. I lost track of time during the battle.” She glared at him pointedly. “You’re welcome, by the way. For your life.”

He stood, wobbling slightly but catching himself and righting his posture quickly. He walked towards her, stopping when there was only a few feet of distance between them, and met her gaze evenly. “Thank you,” he said, without a trace of sarcasm. “For my life.”

The Dark Urge found it suddenly difficult to maintain eye contact. 

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[bagheerita]

Ronon puts up with so much. The man deserves a medal.

[sidesteppostinghours]

pulps law is that whenever i get insane enough about something, i will inevitably attempt to make a persona 5 au, regardless of whether or not i am successful at it.

[giantkillerjack]

Betty is so relatable I would do the same shit for my wife

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my least favorite fantasy writing tropes is when the writers set up a Good vs. Evil paradigm (often with say heaven vs hell or light vs darkness) and then they write in some shit where it's like "this is an eternal conflict that won't end because AKSHULLY the evil ravening forces of doom that want to destroy/enslave all of existence are just morally gray and both forces are karmic equals where the universe needs both to survive and you should actually try to be both dark AND light" like

I'm not saying that that kind of story doesn't work, I just feel like the way most fantasy stories write it (especially if it's initially written as Cosmic Good vs. Evil and then retconned to be "they can both be good/evil in their own way") feels more like a stupid attempt to be subversive and edgy than anything that actually makes sense morally or philosophically speaking.

Like. I do agree with the concept that there will always be both good and evil/light and darkness in the universe, but I don't think that's because the Forces Of Evil are actually misunderstood tragic heroes and the Forces Of Good are akshully evil and hiding it. I think it's because Being Good is something that you have to consciously try to be and there is no point at which you Achieve Goodness and can relax the rest of your life never having to improve yourself as a person or do work to combat injustice in the world. Because in that case, the fact that "both good and evil exist" is just a statement of fact about how there is never a point in life where you're simply done with your personal/spiritual/moral journey. Not some inane statement about how akshully things like spite and hatred and crimes against humanity are a necessary part of existence that you should embrace because being an Enlightened Individual is about how Being Good and Being Evil are akshully the same thing cosmically speaking and you should welcome in the forces of darkness and violence into your heart bc you're incomplete without them!

[laneofpennies]

Cookie Run fans love to see developed and complex characters and reduce them to a single trait like they’re a Smurf

[poetryqueer]

planning document must be going well I just said the words “explaining the endurance of Platonism could be the life I’m living” to myself. Alone. At 2:30am. Because yeah. Could be.

[zaritarazi]

enough of the grace granted to fence-sitting jews, to the jews that are too scared to stand up to their mommies and daddies about palestine, so they come online and tone police. i am humbled by the grace nonjews have shown these jews. as a jew that has never been a zionist, who has no zionist family, and who grew up around many other anti-zionist jews, you have been far kinder to these genocide-abetters than i ever could be. and so as a jew, i see your grace, and i personally respect you and your commitment to equal and social justice.

but you don't owe these cowards a fucking thing. when they come on and say "this is a dogwhistle but this is a legitimate palestinian charity" ignore them. they can get with the right side of history, or they can stay with their congregation. you aren't required to hear them out. you don't owe them a single thing.

these spineless cucks will decry nonjews tokenizing anti-zionist jews to say "antisemitic" things, and then those antisemitic things are literally... things that the iof is currently doing. on video. daily. so tokenize me all you'd like. i have lots of other antizionist jewish friends i grew up with- we're all white jews, tokenize them, too. until palestine is free, until those cowards remember who their fucking G-d is, don't waste your time on them. from the river to the sea.