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Y'know, it's so funny to me when people make out like Tim Drake would keep files on how to take down his friends when Tim has explicitly said he disagrees with Batman on this:
[Young Justice (1998) #36]
Like, yes, during his Red Robin tenure he does make a Hit List full of contingency plans for known heroes. But if you go and read that, you'll notice that, while the Justice League and Damian may be on there, Tim's own friends are decidedly absent:
[Red Robin (2009) #14]
In fact, a lot of these heroes are people that have either (a) attacked Tim specifically, (b) have a track record that includes turning evil/getting mind controlled, or (c) are on the JLA (meaning Batman probably already had those files compiled and Tim just stole them).
So yeah: Tim's not down with contingency-planning for his friends. You know which one of the YJ crew DID agree with Batman though? My favorite blorbina Anita Fite, aka Empress:
[Young Justice (1998) #36]
But yeah, this contrast is honestly fascinating to me. Because while both Anita and Tim have been shown to be incredibly loyal individuals, this exchange really highlights the fact that, between the two of them, Anita is far more likely to engage in this kind of pragmatism when she thinks it's necessary to get the job done
The whole Our Worlds at War arc actually does a really good job of illustrating how both of them react to betrayal from within. It's not just the Batman Files conflict either -- I'm thinking specifically about the hallucination-based torture Granny Goodness put them through, which showed them their worst fears. Most of the team ended up having to watch their loved ones die, but what's super interesting to me is that we really only see Anita and Tim hallucinate that their loved ones blame them for their deaths:
[Young Justice (1998) #37]
Like. It's not the same as a teammate turning evil at all. But it does give us a good idea of how they'd both react when faced with a friend or teammate doing harmful things, albeit on a smaller scale. Because where Tim kind of just accepts Superboy yelling at him and moves straight into bargaining for Kon's life, Anita actually flips the script, gets angry, and defends herself against her father:
[Young Justice (1998) #37]
(she actually gets so righteously pissed off that she manages to break out of the VR simulation Granny Goodness had her trapped in, but that's another point)
But yeah, it's super interesting, because by this point, both Anita and Tim have been set up to be very similar characters. They both can be a little bit obsessive, they both have some issues with boundaries and stalking (Tim with Nightwing and Batman, Anita with Cissie), and of the team, they're both portrayed as the "normal" members (Anita does technically have mind control powers but she barely ever uses them, and in a fight, she's basically just a very good, human-level fighter)
But at the end of the day, though Batman forces Robin to put on a cool front of objectivity, Tim (at least in his pre-grief-spiral era) ultimately wants to see the best in his team. When the people he cares about screw up, he wants to give them second chances. And when that trust gets broken, his first instinct is to try to use diplomacy, or, failing that, simply remove himself from the situation (as we see at the end of the Our Worlds at War arc when he quits the team)
Anita, on the other hand, while still incredibly loyal, does not hand out that loyalty unconditionally. We see this when she tries to keep her identity secret from the YJ squad, we see it when she gets pissed in Granny Goodness's hallucination when her father blames her for her mother's death, and we see it when she later blames Secret for her perceived role in Anita's father's death
Anita also happens to sit right smack dab in the middle of the YJ morality scale; while she's generally pretty chill and willing to abide by typical superhero codes of ethics (unlike Slobo and Secret), she's also been shown to bend those rules when she believes it's necessary (as seen here when she tortures and threatens to kill a man for trying to hurt Cissie). Ultimately, what this means is, between Tim and Anita, it's honestly Anita who'd probably be the most willing to put her personal qualms aside, buckle down, and go against her loved ones if it was the only reasonable option
Anyway. This is a really long-winded way of saying I think Gun Batman's biggest nemesis should be Empress
#anita fite#meta#tim drake#young just us#LISTEN hear me out i may be an anita girlie but i'm also right#they barely interact but that doesn't change the fact that they're FOILS your honor. one reflects the other#plus she's probably got hella connections in the government like let's face it fite and maad definitely knew amanda waller#gnome talks comics#red robin#yj98#young justice core four#batfam#batfamily#dc comics#anita tag#kon el superboy#donald fite#titans of tomorrow#gun batman#long post#tim tag
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He was just being a silly little guy!
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#jin guangyao#wen ruohan#nie mingjue#lan xichen#JGY's character is the zigging and zagging guy of all time#We love a little meow meow that can bite and scratch and kill you.#We also love a little meow meow that can mewl pathetically!#'He's evil now and torturing his former friend?" ZAG TIME: He's a spy and feels soooo awful about it!!#ZIG TIME: He (probably) didn't need to go that deep into the role and kill as many people as he did.#Something I really love about the sworn brother trio is how they reflect how our feelings distort our perception of others.#Lan Xichen represents how when we love/care about someone -anything they do can be endearing. They aren't manipulative: they are clever.#Its less about rose tinted glasses and more about reframing every look you get of them. The constant justifications you make for them.#They just need a space to be loved! “They care for me so I will stand by them no matter what to show them I'm there for them!”#While NMJ represents how when you dislike someone - Everything they do is an affront or proof of their foul character.#Everything is a sign. Everything is 'proof' they are just as awful as you want them to be. Every 'good trait' is twisted.#The problem is that most people are just human. They are flawed and they are capable of good and bad things.#Meng Yao's motivations are very complex. Yet he's extremely human all the same. He isn't the saint nor the monster of the story.
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“Sometimes when magicians vanish, they leave something behind…That’s how Trucy became Trucy Wright…my daughter. To be honest, I was pretty lost those first few days. Thinking back on it, it was a pretty dark time in my life. But Trucy…happy, smiling Trucy…she was my light.”
#doctorsiren#ace attorney#phoenix wright#trucy wright#beanix#ace attorney fanart#comic#art#digital art#my art#fanart#procreate#this started out as me wanting to give an origin to his dumb beanie#but then it became something so cute 😭😭#she’s his sunshine 😭#I took inspiration from Gwen Stacy’s universe where the colours reflect the mood and characters#especially for the part where Gwen hugs her dad —> Trucy hugging Phoenix#the only time that Trucy is fully blue is when she’s empathizing with Phoenix#because he probably told her that it’s okay to cry as well#I’M REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS GRRR 😭💖😭💖#if I had a nickel for everytime I’ve created something where a dad is crying and their young child comes to comfort them and cheer them up#I would have a LOT of nickels#also!! when doing the shading#i first laid down shadows over Phoenix’s entire form#but then when shaping the shadows I took shadow away from Phoenix and added small shadows to Trucy#and she’s acting like a sort of pseudo-light source (the beanie also acts as this as well ^^)#sunshine is my middle name (not even joking) and so Trucy being his light resonates with me#it’s funny bc this comic literally contradicts the comic I did a couple days back because in that one he already has the beanie#but in this one Trucy says Iris helped her make the beanie
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I’ve had a few people ask but as long as my art isn’t tagged with OC or some sort of Sona tag I’m totally ok with you tagging it as kin/therian/ect
#postings#I make my art based on my own personal emotions but try to have them in a way that can be reflected onto the viewer#so if you connect with it enough to tag it that it’s a WIN for me#art by my friend pencil peach go follow her NOW#you probably already use her meme emojis go FOLLOW HER.
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the struggle when you want to go "finally! a story that focuses on friendship over romance!" but then you start shipping them. I'm sorry aro nation (I'm aro) i do like the idea of stories focused on friendship but sometimes the chemistry is just stronger than intended
#this is about:#trobed#gelphie#the old friends from merrily we roll along#stucky#(I'M NOT INTO MARVEL ANYMORE. I'M JUST REFLECTING ON MY PAST RN.)#probably more I'm forgetting#worth mentioning I'm aplatonic as hell. i love platonic relationships in pieces of media but this miiight have to do with me being apl
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So i found an extremely interesting commment on bilibili from someone who had bought and read the entire og lhl script and also watched the show
translation: ask the director, so much fluff got deleted…. the script was filled with so much ship content, better than a lot of danmei novels i’ve read. In the later periods it was a solid reciprocal relationship, xiaobao was so top energy, and xiaohua really liked to sajiao (playing cute). When xh when to explain to xb that he didn’t kill his dad his first sentence was “i’m sorry i betrayed your trust, i was wrong okay?”. when xb went to save xh from the palace, xh was tortured for information and xiaobao helped him dress his wounds, and also broke the hand of the man who hurt him. xb felt so bad for him he started crying and xh started to sajiao “i’m very glad that you came to save me, but look (waves handcuffs), i had it under control” xiaobao also asked “how are you” xiaohua replied that shan gudao went to the palace to find the mother bug and xiaobao replied “i was asking how your wounds were”…… also when xiaobao broke out of the trap improving his original swordplay his opponent wasn’t qi mushan but li xiangyi….lastly when xiaobao gave xiaohua his qi xiaohua’s internal monologue was “the world only wants the all knowing, all capable, godlike li xiangyi, but at least someone still insists on treating me like the normal person li lianhua, that is enough” it’s all gone i’m so mad
#mysterious lotus casebook#li lianhua#li xiangyi#lian hua lou#fang duobing#fanghua#I feel like I need to clarify this#The opinions of the comment I translated do not reflect my own views ok please don't come at me#I'm well aware changing the script to make it feel less like danmei was probably good for cy and zsx bc otherwise cp fans would be crazier#This is just me translating something I found interesting not my personal opinion
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One of the things I just adore about the fannon portrayal of Jehan Prouvaire is how most people depict him as effeminate or nonbinary, somewhat introverted, shy, and disinclined to aggression, but they do so with nuance.
Jehan isn't shown to be defenseless or weak-willed, he fights for what he believes in and generally doesn't fall into that delicate twink stereotype. So often, I find the characters I relate to most cannot be shown as both the queer, eccentric, and introverted type as well as the assertive and strong character. Jehan stands out, however.
#probably because he's a character largely written by a bunch of queer people who understand how one can be fem and “demure”#and also a fighter and a leader#fannon jehan has definitely helped me reflect on my identity as a nonbinary queer and fem person and recognize that those traits don't#detract from respectability#anyways good morning I'm ranting about dead French twinks again#les amis#les mis#jehan#jehan prouvaire#queer characters#les miserables#barricade boys#popcornwithnate
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okay, having watched the thing, I don’t think it actually “canonises” Spirk, not any more than any other time they held hands or any of the big scenes from the movies. in fact, I think this is rather more a passion-project/“elevated” fanwork from Shatner, Rod Rodenberry, and the Nimoy estate, than actual canon. That, and all my reservations about the whole cgi/deepfake “de-aging” aside,
I really like this thing, in all it’s cringey, kinda bad, earnest glory.
This felt like the “real” Kirk, a kind of hero that just doesn’t have the space to be (re)created in our present collective consciousness, who likes walking among nature and smelling pretty flowers and watching the sunset with his soulmate (platonic or romantic or both or whatever). It’s a little bit misguided, a little bit controversial, but it has heart, which I feel is also how Kirk has always been able to reflect Shatner at his best. I also like the ambiguity of how exactly it was that they were reunited. That’s best left to interpretation I think.
And I guess I’m glad that there’s a version of them that were together at the end and is a little closer to the mainstream than my favourite fics on ao3.
#this won’t change much how i think about them i don’t think#if i must acknowledge generations it’s still only as part of ophelia_j’s first best destiny to me#much better than ‘canon’ will ever be imo#what i think is actually interesting is how this whole thing reflects on shatner’s relationships to nimoy their characters and mortality#which is probably part of why i can be so accepting of it#man in his 90s does what he can to tie up his loose ends#spock#jim kirk#james t kirk#star trek#star trek tos#spirk#star trek unification#the one thing I refuse to acknowledge is what I think they tried to imply with Saavik though#nope nope nope
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maybe its just my pedantic streak rearing its head again but really, truly. can i be honest? i dont get why people call yj/core four codependent. thats not what that word means. tim and cassie having a Bad Time with grief does not mean their relationships with kon and bart were unhealthy. grief is a whole other beast here. like do you guys know what the word "codependency" means because im getting the feeling that thats a no
#rimi talks#i see it fairly often and i just. thats not? what that means?#like someone having a hard time with grief and doing unhealthy things to cope with grief. is not. like.#that is not in any way a reflection of the relationship or the person they are grieving. hello? does anyone hear me. grief is its own THING#yes i know this is probably me being a useless pedant and no one making said jokes actually cares about this distinction#but you see. *i* care. and im standing on a soapbox and everything#core four
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learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way
#experiencing some BIG FEELINGS OVER THIS REVELATION#listen i have never ever been bothered abt not seeing someone in a while or making time to talk to them bc in my mind its like not thst muc#time has passed. i mean it with every fibre of my being that when im like 'oh its ok even though we havent talked in a while and have our#own things going on it doesnt mean we're not friends anymore since we left things on a good note 8 months ago' i sincerely believe that#and for the longest time i just thought everybody makes peace with it at some point and not automatically assuming the other person doesnt#wanna talk to me anymore or smth. my longest lasting friendships are with ppl who work the same way i just thouhght that was normal#whatever organ everybody has that makes them reach out to their friends and plan hang outs i probably dont have it#i was already hesitant to ask out Alex bc i spend almost every waking hour doing smth that isnt talking to ppl unless they happen to be in#the vicinity. and at first it was bc i planned on making sure i had everything set up so i dont get stressed out and do it one at a time#but then i find out theres a friendship decay mechanic? and after dating and marrying someone you lose -10 friendship points for every#day u dont talk to them?? actually ive probably been losing friendship points this whole time without knowing bc of this?????#and i notice a lot of my own habits are also reflected in how i play bc ive been avoiding getting close to pierre and marnie since its more#of a professional relationship. like i know theyre npcs but im approaching it the way i would in real life its fucking nuts#i think its a little relieving im playing /as/ a character than myself bc as im playing im just making up little interactions in my head#than approaching things the way i would myself so it takes a bit of the stress off trying to put myself in there as a spectator. but well#being in a relationship demands a certain amount of energy even more so when theyre things that already take up energy on its own#like making time to talk to your partner and make sure they know theyre loved. i dont always have energy to put all my mental focus into it#and this is true for real life so im not really bothered by not dating anyone. but when its a game and i want my character to be with someo#and i know its fully optional and i know i could just apply the same logic to this i dont /want/ to. sometimes i want to experience#the same things other people do at least to a certain degree without the same emotional andmental stakes#no offense krobus#yapping#stardew#stardew valley#puppy plays sdv#sdv#this game has me by the ankles man
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUNK!!! My sarcasm king, my cinnamon roll, my space Gordon Ramsey 💛💛💛 he deserves the world ( and beyond) so everyone wish him the best birthday ever! ✨✨🎂
#happy birthday#my boys#voltron#vld#voltron legendary defender#voltron hunk#hunk garrett#hunk vld#hunk voltron#he doesn't get enough love#💛💛💛#i believe the sticker is from papersuteka but correct me if I'm wrong#don't mind me in the reflection#i should probably invest in better lighting lol
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#alolan raichu#holy shit these alolan forms are kicking the fuck outta my ass#the things i do for you all. my production value on this blog has increased over the years and i don't think i can get away with the same#weird shit i used to be able to when i couldn't find a good model so now i'm having to learn how to use blender and shit??#downloading weird scripts off the internet just because i can't find the right models. and now alolan raichu has kantonian eyes#they have kantonian eyes. i know. i'm sorry. i don't know how to fix it and this is the best you're going to get because i had to work for#like an hour and a half just to get to this point. and i know the lighting is dark. it's. it's bad. it'll probably be like this for all#the alolan forms at least. and holy shit when we get to gen 9 it's going to be even worse#this is a wreck!! this is a wreck. i had to use the sv model for this one and it's like#i dunno the eyes in sv aren't textures?? they're procedural. they're fucking. shaders. in sv. which is why espeon's pupils#are no longer pupils and are instead reflections (lie‚ falsehood)#and i'm. dissolving. y'all're gonna have to bear with me moving forward bc i've gotten Very used to the “it just works” nature of#the older models that i was using but this is getting way harder on me as we move into newer generations
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Put a bullet in his brain and we'll take Maxwell off your plate.
#i honestly just thought the concept of the eye reflection and the popped blood vessel was cool. thats like the only reason i made this lmao#that first pic looks familiar like a webtoon or something. probably other art i saw at some point#i promise i didnt copy this ive had the idea in my head since NPMD came out i swear#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#the guy who didn't like musicals#hatchetfield trilogy#team starkid#starkid productions#starkid musicals#starkid#peter spankoffski#stephanie lauter#ruth fleming#max jagerman#the lords in black#nightmare time#tickle me wiggly#musicals#hatchetverse#hatchet town#hatchetfield#tw blood#you can tell what i used as a reference for the second pic lol#cyanart
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Need book recs. Post your favorite book in the tags and what you enjoy about it.
#Hard to pick#but I do enjoy Frankenstein#Starts slow so you really have to shotgun it#but it is so funny watching terrible 20-something victor try his absolute hardest to absentee father#and this 9ft tall eloquent corpse man chasing him around about it#and i think it touches so many universal themes w/o hitting you over the head w/ them#so what you ultimately take from the book is as reflective of the reader as the book itself#And a special shoutout to Howl’s Moving Castle#nothing cheers me up faster#probably the book I’ve reread most
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spectre of what you used to be
#is this anything#genuinely#i probably wont add as much tags since this is so self indulgent dkkekflrlfldlfldlflsdl#i could literally go on about how this man has such a complicated relationship with himself and the differences between the past and presen#t#same with his grim-looking design and how it reflects his own general state as a person#the fact that his clothes and hair colors are opposing fucking kills me man#this man is just a tragedy#shit i draw#enochposting#the great ace attorney#enoch drebber#tgaa#dekmflelfldlfldlfldlfldllxdlldlsldlslclsxlsllddlld
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hello!! hope you're having a good day :D
since you're doing the pride flag challenge, I hope you don't mind me requesting the lithromantic/sexual flag!
left is lithsexual and the right is lithromantic, idm which one you pick :]
(it means to feel romantic and/or sexual attraction to someone but doesn't want the feeling reciprocated or stops once it is :>)
Day 297 of posting Jevil every day
#pride palettes#lithromantic#I wanted to go with the Lithromantic palette because I thought the green and red was interesting and also because it feels familiar#five colors.. mostly black? this is the closest I’ve gotten to drawing Jevil in his actual color palette since we’ve started this!#this whole June Pride event has been so exciting and it makes me really happy to see you all getting happy when you see yourself reflected#in a palette. But I do miss drawing regular Jevils!!!#I may get my chance though. Day 300 is coming up fast and it’s gonna be during June. do I do a regular Pride jevil or a special normal#palette Jev? I guess we’ll see how I’m feeling day of.#hmmm. hey if you’ve read this far- want some Dailyjevil lore?#when I started dailyjevil.. Jevil wasn’t even my favorite Deltarune character#It was Rouxls Kaard actually. Actually had a big crush on him- crazy right?? I don’t get those often.#Anyways I started Dailyjevil on a whim in the middle of my 5th period English class. I noticed there wasn’t a daily jevil art blog and#thought I could try it for a month or two. By the way- I had drawn Jevil like twice before this. Never could’ve seen it lasting this long!#Now I have around 300 Jevils in my camera roll. I didn’t think it would last once my Deltarune fixation wore off.#I’m probably gonna go in detail of it all later once this is all over in a big thank you post#I’m starting to plan what I’m gonna do for the final day#gah!!!!! I can’t believe I’ve almost made it!!!!!#dailyjevil#deltarune#deltarune jevil#jevil#jevil deltarune
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