#this shit that they are doing is WAY too realistic

[sangunary]

BatFam x Batsis Reader.

SYPNOSIS: Batsis is us.

The Whole Family Sitting Together To Discuss About Damian's Problem Of Chocking Criminals.

Dick: "It's against our moral to restrict their airflow... You're not going to listen huh."

Dick: "Reader, tell him why we don't chock people"

*Reader Standing Dramatically Near The Window Looking Out Into The Forest.*

Reader: "I once was just like you Dami... Chocking people out like it was a side hobbie"

Reader: "But... Damian, I realised that..."

*long pause.*

Reader: "That some people liked being choked"

Reader: "I learn it the hard way, he told me to chock him harder and ever since that day I haven't even have the gut to stare at anyone's neck for even a minute."

Dick: "You're just traumatizing him!"

*Damian haven't tried to chock out any person from that day... due to disgust.*

*Dick checking out the new upgrade Bruce made for the batmobile.*

Dick: "I don't see much change... It's just the belt is made from better leather and alot wider... Why is that?"

Bruce: "I've noticed that Reader like to rest their head on the belt and sleep, I assume it must be uncomfortable for her to sleep on so I've improved it."

Dick: "You couldn't add more seat but can improve the belt so that it would be more comfortable?. Your favouritism is showing clear as day, B!"

Bruce: "Priority."

*Superman Decided(Begged) to babysit you and now you're stuck with Luthor for some reason.*

Luthor: "What is so funny?"

*Reader on the ground laughing so hard that they are literally crying.*

Reader: "You got... the second sun on your head!"

Reader: "Ha! Is your ultimate power your baldness?!"

Luthor: "That isn't funny kid"

Reader: "How could you ever ambush anyone? Your shiny head is a dead giveaway!"

Reader: "I can see my reflection on your head!"

*Luthor always wear a hyper realistic wig near you to protect his ego.*

*Reader Got kidnapped by deathstroke.*

Reader: "Too scared to show your true face? How ugly are you?"

Deathstroke: "Im not here to entertain you, but I supposed I rather have you see my face before you die."

*Deathstroke taking off his mask.*

Reader: "HOLY SHIT... you're atrocious! Put that shit back... You should put trigger warning next time my PTSD almost activated!".

*Reader trying to show Tim how the mission should be done."

Reader: "See ain't that hard... Just following the plan invade, destroy, put away for the popo and explode"

*Tim reading the plan.*

Tim: "There is no explosion here... it's leave. The last step is leave."

Reader: "Oh, im dyslexic-"

*The villain hideout exploding on the background."

Tim: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"

Reader: "Can't a girl be dyslexic in peace?"

*Jason introducing Reader to his (gang) members.*

Jason: "This is my rat, sell drugs to her and I'll have your hands for decoration"

Reader: "Isn't that abit too much?"

Jason: "If you dare ask for drugs I will personally hang you from that celling."

Reader: "... Okay"

*Few days later. Reader being hang from the very celling.*

Reader: "I only did it to see if you actually would! I would never do drugs and you know that! Please take me down from here! I think there's cockroaches up here!"

Jason: "Well, you're going to be part of the celling unless you rethink about your life decisions!"

Roy: "How can a mere human hang another human that high up?"

Jason: "Raw Disappointment".

[frooogscream]

Sorry OP but this is a stupid take and I can only assume that you haven’t a huge variety of trans people in your life.

You realise that trans men and nonbinary people are NOT the same fucking thing? Like these are literally two different identities! Izzy is not only “short”, he’s extremely masculine in a very classically queer way (he’s literally a leather daddy). That is something a lot of queer/trans men can relate to, another group of trans men/mascs can relate to Jims gender expression which is also great and brings me seamlessly to my next point:

We can have MULTIPLE trans characters! Plus queer people -including trans people- are all different and we do not pick fav characters based on “oh this one has a similar identity so I MUST identify with this one” but on who they are as characters …you know like every other fan! Because trans people too have personalities and interests beyond “being the trans one”. Not everyone can relate to Jim! Like I love Jim, they’re my fav characters after Izzy but they do not resonate with my personal experience of queerness vs. Izzy -a middle aged very masculine in a visibly queer way hairy leather daddy, jaded by some of the shit he’s been through, taking some time to warm up to people but ultimately doing ANYTHING to protect his found family- is exactly the person I would love to and can realistically become!

Jim is great but Izzy can represent my personal experience of queerness in a way they don’t, that dosnt make one of them “better” rep , but that aspect of Izzy being a little rough around the edges and having been through some shit imo is one of the reasons why so many trans people -who tend to suffer high rates of abuse and violence- related to him specifically.

Izzy being played by an OLDER queer man, many of us are used to trans characters being played by cishet men as a joke in older media or by young gendernonconforming/NB/“soft uwu trans boys” in modern media (all of the later ones absolutely have their place and are relatable to some queer people, simply not to many trans men) so wanting representation of older, hairy, masculine, fat trans men is a very common thing you see in fandom discussions. And Izzy happens to fullfill three out of these. I love to see older queer characters, it gives me a sense of there being a future for me in an increasingly hostile world. Older queer characters are hot! Older queer characters make me happy😌 Lastly: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY TRANS CHARACTERS! I’m tired of the “oh you get ONE canon rep and then you’ll be happy with it and don’t you dare turn more characters trans in fanwork!” - like, fuck off! I’m gonna make Jim and Izzy have depraved t4t age gap faggot sex in drag and there’s nothing you can do against it!

It’s wild how OFMD has a canonical transmasc nonbinary character yet the trans content went to Izzy (who is not canonically trans, he’s a bit short)

[watermelonlicker]

"babygate killed this fandom as it was designed to do."

This sentence made me cry now. I haven't thought of that this way. I always thought babygate was to push Louis (and Harry) further back into the closet, but I never thought by doing this, the fandom will loose a lot of larries. And not because they don't believe in them being a couple, but because they got fed up with this shit.

I came to the fandom only in 2022, so I missed all of this. But a close friend of mine was a huge 1D fan, and she left the fandom totally. Recently we discussed some stories about the boys, and she told me literally all of his fan friends thought Harry and Louis were a couple, it was never a question.

She also said, she might enjoy their solo music, but she's so disappointed in how the boys were or still are handled that she won't listen to anything from them anymore (she thinks even their solo work royalties are tied to XF and/or SC, and she just doesn't want to support that).

She's still friends with some people from that fan group, and some of them follow the other boys' solo career, but not H and L anymore. And not because they don't like them, but because they think them being more and more successful ties them down even more.

And now reading your last sentence of that post it dawned on me, yep, this what exactly was the goal of babygate to erase the activity of these fans. They're still here, but they just won't put up with this shit anymore, they won't engage anymore. And that's also one of the deepest cut on Louis' career.

i agree with all of this like babygate happened for a multitude of reasons but i definitely think weakening the fandom/causing division played a factor. i said that about a zarry ask i answered not too long ago where some of the zarries even felt like planted accounts. the shift in 2015 was genuinely so crazy and blindsiding and my gf told me it only got worse in 2016 onwards.

and ive said many times now about why i returned here instead of twitter and it was bcos i saw the harries so freely making fun of jay/fizzy’s deaths without anyone calling them out but larries and they’re considered the better fans than us bcos they what? they don’t acknowledge the closet of two queer people? ok.

and i definitely agree about their money still being tied to sc in some form. you have the x factor contracts to think about + syco entertainment is a branch of sony so they technically never left sony. columbia (who harry is currently signed to) is also a part of sony and the azoffs have monopolized everything. like i’ve said before it’s one giant web you can’t untangle yourself from unless you want to like… have no career. people who have no understanding of anything think harry is “free” bcos his closet is glass but he was still saying on hslot that he can’t wait to be more open which is why a lot of people think hslot changed his perspective on his career/image going forward but at the end of the day there’s just so many terrible factors so it’s anyone’s guess. i try to be optimistic but i’m also realistic.

anon is quoting this

also what i said about zarries pls my teen nemesis

[smoulderingocean]

What happened in the interviews I heard people are pissed? Almost like only the actor that plays Nick cares about the show and understands the characters I guess? lol I swear the writers treat Nick like garbage when he's the best part of this show. I can't with nobody really being on his side he sacrifices everything while the same doesn't happen in return idk if anyone else if frustrated too? I don't see how there will be a spinoff series and Nick not being there for his daughter make it make sense.

It's just the same old inflammatory, reactionary, shock value shit this show has sadly used more and more for the marketing. I think a lot of people were spoiled by the fun press in S4 and so this feels like it's even worse, but it's actually fairly in-line for how they've done things since S3.

Max has always been really thoughtful, introspective, and respectful in how he treats fans. He's the son of a famous director, and he enjoys both being a creator and being a consumer of entertainment, so I think he gets it in a way that the others don't. He knows what it's like to be played with as a viewer and knows how viewers like to be treated, and he knows from his Dad and from his own creations how to treat fans. Playing games with people isn't enjoyable and he knows it.

They do treat Nick like garbage despite him being the best part. It's really unfair when you compare that to the white characters like Serena, Lydia, and Lawrence. I think they never ever expected him to be as popular as he is and they, at best, didn't know how to handle it properly on a "women's" show, and at worst resented the fans for elevating him. (That surprise is kinda naive considering good men characters that are supportive love interests are universally popular.)

Nick gives and gives and gives, and does a lot of little stuff, and it's either forgotten or ignored. I do find that frustrating. Just because Nick isn't this big bombastic character or rebel doesn't mean he's not worthy. I really dislike that the show insists that only one kind of resistance -the huge stuff that is for "everyone"- is the only valid kind. Small levels of resistance and "only" doing things for those you love is just as valid too, and it's more common and more realistic.

We know from TT that Daisy/Holly's Dad is a good man- he's not a commander and he's so deeply involved in things like June (she was referred as to being "up to her neck in it" while Nick was described as being so "Deep underground he needs a tube to breath") that Gilead hates him. They can't not end the series on a good note for Nick and his daughter. It wouldn't be fair to her.

[brostateexam]

I was going to go to a college reunion in June, and I'm not going any more. After trying for two months to coordinate pet sitting, wrangle flights, figure out logistics, and sitting down to budget all this shit I was just like "...do I even want to fucking do this" and the answer was "not if it's gonna be this hard, no."

I wish I were in a different phase of my life where I could just pick up and go, and where travel was easy for me, but that's just not the case. Getting someone to take care of the cats while I'm out of town is apparently a herculean task that would require me to make acquiring pet care a full time job, there is simply no way of getting directly to my stupid university from an airport without a minimum of renting a car and 3ish hours of driving, there are no direct flights from my airport to any of the airports in driving distance from my college, the direct flights from the other airport in my area are all red eyes or arrive at times that don't work -- the list goes on.

I feel like a failure because there are plenty of other people in my life who managed to get this together and I just didn't/couldn't, but hey, maybe I'm a failure. I definitely failed at this; that is just factual. Hopefully it's okay to fail at this because I'm going to have to live with the consequences of that, which will hopefully not be too emotionally or socially dire.

I'll never see my college campus again (this is the last reunion because they are closing the campus and folding it into its parent university), and that hurts a bit, but I'm not sure I'd ever really planned on seeing it again anyhow. I'm sad that I couldn't get it together, but there is some peace to be found in being realistic.

[nightbornfeyre]

One of a million reasons I love Feyre Archeron.

Yes, I relate to her deeply, but beyond that, Feyre was such a breath of fresh air as a female protagonist. She’s strong and brave, but also soft and compassionate. She’s been through hell and survived, yet she doesn’t let that harden her into someone cold or dismissive. Feyre embraces her vulnerability. She wants love, wants connection, wants family. She listens. She grows. She doesn’t pretend to have all the answers.

She’s not the typical “boss bitch” archetype we see everywhere—the one who’s always right, always above emotion, always untouchable. Honestly? That kind of character feels like a copy-and-paste template at this point. Strong women in media have too often been reduced to being cold, rude, dismissive of others' feelings, emotionally detached, and completely unwilling to rely on anyone. They bulldoze their way through everything, and when they do show weakness, it's only ever about external obstacles—never internal struggle. They’re often written more like emotionless machines than real, complex women.

But Feyre? She’s a warrior and a survivor. She faced Amarantha. She died for the people she loved. She played a double agent and willingly returned to the hands of her abuser to protect her court. She saved Velaris, fought for the Summer Court, protected her sisters, and rescued Rhys when he was captured. She is fierce. But she’s also kind, open-hearted, willing to forgive, and incredibly emotionally intelligent. She’s not afraid to say, “I need help,” or “I want connection,” and that’s what makes her powerful.

She’s realistic. Because in real life, if you’re rude to everyone and act like you know everything, people don’t stick around. That “I don’t take shit from anyone” energy only works in fiction—and even there, it’s getting tired. Feyre shows us that you can be strong and soft. Brave and tender. Powerful and human. And I think that’s why she’ll always be one of my favorite female characters.

one of the reasons i really love feyre is that she's not the classic "girl boss" character, even though she has elements of it. she's a badass but more because she has to be at times.

hunting to feed her starving family, going under the mountain to save tamlin and prythian, fighting hybern and sacrificing herself to the spring court to save her sisters and the inner circle, going to the prison and working with the bone carver, and so on - she is so, so brave and strong. look at how she saved all the people she loves and more, countless times. but she did these things because they were the right thing to do.

what she really wants is peace and freedom to be who she wants to be. this is partially why her relationship with tamlin didn't work. he gave her peace (for a time) but not that freedom that she craved to explore and be who she wanted to be. to me, her relationship with rhys works because she knows who she is and she is whole without rhys - rhys makes her life better. she doesn't need rhys, she wants rhys.

i love that feyre is so brave and cutthroat when she needs to be, but only because she is protective of those she loves. i love that she is peaceful and warm and loving, that she makes time for everyone, especially those that have less than her. that she has true friendships with people like mor and cassian that have nothing to do with her relationship with rhys. i love that she cares so much for her sisters despite everything they did to her. i love that at the end of the day, she just wants to paint and be creative and explore a better world. she would live a whole life without violence if she could. i love that she can pick up a bow and protect her own but that is not what she would choose for her life if she had the choice.

i just love her. she's one of the best female characters I've ever read. soft but brave, loving but fierce, a leader with the utmost compassion for others, my true high lady who deserves nothing but the best things that life can give.

[cosmicrhetoric]

junior year of fantasy high hitting WAY too close to home and i know it does that on purpose but now that im over a decade removed from my own junior year of high school (which i do still consider to be one of the worst years of my life way way way too much on my plate and i wasnt talking to anyone and i was so fucked i might be remembering this wrong but there was at least a three week period where i only ate grapes and frozen corn out of a bag but whatever i went through all of that shit and i didnt even get to KILL people about it where's MY axe why didn't i get a fucking axe at any point during that year it could've fixed everything) the stress token segment of gameplay is making me want to pull my hair out. just wracking up more and more disadvantage on checks bc you don't have time to sleep or eat. it's such an evil mechanic to put in your game and he's evil for doing it aaaugh

[dreamsy990]

drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy

[skullzy20]

I'm so happy they decided to add this much depth to Amir instead of making him purely one-sided like people might expect him to be at first

it really makes you want to learn more about each of the characters and GOD is it worth it

[vicedmuses]

truth be told, he didn't think that his luck would ever run out. at least not when it came to ripley. he always wanted to be with them and would try to seduce them any way that he could. still, that boyish smile spread across his lips again. "fine, i'll behave. just for you though." he winked at them too. realistically, they were probably the only person that could get him to settle down now. that was saying much. although it wasn't going to work all of the time. he did, at the end of the day, still have to be a little shit. "you try though and that's hot enough as it is." his hands moved up and down their arms, over their thighs, down their back. anywhere that they could land on, he was already exploring. it was why he knew that he wasn't going to be able to restrain himself too much. not unless ripley was the one that stopped him from going forward.

which, didn't seem like that was going to be the case anymore. "quiet, i can do that." they had practiced for this day every time that they hooked up. "you'll be on door watch and i'll just focus on pleasing you, how does that sound?" william returned the kiss, sucking on their tongue a little bit. he wanted to taste every single part of them, but he knew there wasn't going to be enough time. "fine." he started to find himself breathing heavier. "no cumming. no nudity. just in case we don't have time for everything, tell me what you want me to do. where you want me to start." his kisses went over to ripley's shoulder again, finding it hard not to take their shirt off.

ripley laughed a little when he kicked off his shoes, following suit but doing it much more carefully, laid them together just next to the couch. "don't start wearing out your luck now," they teased, feeling their body relax the longer they were like this. semi-alone and close together, as if this were any other day they hung out together. they folded so easily too when he pushed into them. sighed against his lips, allowing him to deepen the kiss where they were hesitant, following his lead by turning to their side to face him fully. "that's true, you're my little shit. even if i can never exactly keep you in line," they joked just before he began to press his lips down their skin, hands roaming over their form. suddenly, they felt utterly stuffy in their big t-shirt and loose shorts. felt themself clench around nothing, because fuck did william seem to have a visceral effect on them.

"i- i don't know," they answered, voice low and soft. both their hands came up to cup his cheeks, kissing him again, couldn't seem to get enough of him. "we'd need to be quiet." it was too risky, too out in the open. anyone could sneak in and catch them, the whole neighbourhood would know. and yet, their tongue slipped inside his mouth like they were hungry for him. "and- and stop the moment we hear the door open." it felt like they were laying down rules rather than trying to rationalize their way out of it. and judging by the way heat shot through them, it was becoming more and more obvious that it was the former. "can't take off our clothes, and you can't cum on me."

[omtai]

it feels everytime mcr does something major everyone has got to complain for the next week and a half. feels like christmas dinner daily on tumblr the way everyone’s fighting all the time

[gifti3]

sometimes i kinda forget about the yandere aspect of ray and then ill remember he killed blaze cause he flirted too hard at the mc

[greenerteacups]

Hi GT! I loved being reminded of that iconic Hermione quote from Book 6 (she only dates REALLY GOOD quidditch players), and the fact that you brought up how the Draco in canon would obviously find this interaction hilarious.

My question is, do you think, emotionally and psychologically, there is any chance that the book canon Draco could have ever had a crush on Hermione? Not whether there were any signs of it, but just whether you think it would have been possible with who he was and the way he was raised and socialized?

And then, double question, do you think LH Draco would still have developed feelings for Hermione even if he hadn't been sorted into Gryffindor and/or joined the trio's friend group?

Hey, friend! I liked this question so much I went absolutely bonkers and wrote an essay about it. Then I wrote another one about the second question, which made me even more bonkers. I'm sticking my little novel here under a readmore so it doesn't fuck up people's dashboards.

I like this question a lot, I see a lot of debate about it in fandom circles. I think canon Draco is incredibly emotionally immature, even compared to the Golden Trio, up until Book 6. Which is a fully realistic portrayal for a fifteen-year-old kid: he hasn't had to face giant monsters or ex-dictators trying to kill him, why would he be anything but a normal rich fifteen-year-old bully? That is, annoying, self-obsessed, and generally predisposed to believe whatever his parents tell him about the world?

In OOTP, though, his threats take on a tinge of menace. He starts off normally, just gloating about his prefect badge and making fun of Hermione raising her hand, but by the end of the book, he's called her "mudblood" multiple times in public, he's cracking jokes about the Longbottoms being in St. Mungo's, and by the beginning of HBP he's applauding the idea of violence being done to her ("Who blacked your eye, Granger? I want to send them flowers.") This maps to the slow darkening of tone over OOTP and HBP especially — schoolyard taunts are morphing into slurs and allusions to violence, which, yes, good, exactly. Notably, most of this bullying happens before Draco has any reason to be stressed or worried about his own future, so it's not like he's just lashing out from fear (not that it would be excusable if he was, anyway).

Is it possible to talk that way about someone you have a crush on? Maybe, I dunno. You'd have to grant that somewhere between Book 3 and Book 6, Draco is exercising a lot of repression and self-denial, which, personally, I don't read that in the text. I do believe they have compatible personalities, mostly because I think they're both really catty and manipulative, and they both love a Scheme. (That shit where Draco fakes out Ron and Harry with the duel in Philosopher's Stone? Hermionecore. She would've loved it. She would have been pissed the fuck off at him, but she would've respected the game.) That crack about Draco loving Hermione's #fuckron era in HBP was earnest, because I think their canon selves actually would enjoy each other's bitchiness, but their completely opposing political ideologies would be an immovable roadblock to any friendship with each other. Specifically, I think it would be an obstacle for Hermione, who has good reasons for believing his ideas to be dangerous. Draco seems like he's thoughtlessly parroting his parents' views, which is why I believe you could see a shift in his ideology during or after the war, when his parents very obviously fuck up their lives real bad. That's why I think postwar AUs tend to win out over canon/eighth year AUs on veracity. Not to say they're better! It's just that the time gap gives the author more flexibility in terms of characterization.

I think the more compelling argument against Book Draco having a crush on Book Hermione is that they don't know each other well enough to like each other. I do, however, really like AUs that take that premise and spin it — basically do a "behind the scenes" canon-compliant story where there's a whole arc happening that Wasn't Relevant to Harry's Journey. Because, like, Harry took a whole year to figure out one of his best friends was time traveling on a daily fucking basis. Like, yeah! Sure! She could have been hooking up with someone behind his back. The plot of War and Peace could have been happening in that fucking castle and Harry wouldn't know shit about it. (God, I love him. Perfect protagonist, no notes.)

That tees up the answer to the second question, which is: would Lionheart Draco still develop feelings for Hermione if he weren't in Gryffindor? And I think the answer has to be probably not! If he were in Slytherin, while he would obviously be a different person from canon without Lucius to guide him, he would be socialized in a way very similar to how Theo and Pansy are socialized from Book 1-3. He might be more reserved and less antagonistic, but I'm not sure when he would ever spend enough time with Hermione to develop a friendship with her, let alone a relationship. Part of the reason he fixates on Hermione in the first place is because he's the only person in Gryffindor he feels remotely close to/equal with; her intellect allows him to pretend that she's just a "different" muggle-born, or somehow special in a way that makes her a suitable companion for him. (Also, the fact that she's an annoying know-it-all and has no friends means that she, too, is a bit of an outsider in the first year, and that bonds them.) By the time they're old enough for her to give him the rightful shit he deserves about those beliefs, they already have a strong foundation of friendship, which they can both rely on to weather the conflict his ideology causes. If you take away that basis of friendship, and stage their meeting/befriending even a few years later, I think his ideology becomes too entrenched for him to entertain the idea of a friendship with her. And if he's around Slytherins, he'd be surrounded by people willing and eager to accommodate him just because of his name — he'd never be isolated in the way he is in Gryffindor, and hence would never have to self-examine his own behaviors in order to build friendships.

The other counterexamples are (a) if Draco is sorted into neither Gryffindor nor Slytherin. This depends on how you read the culture of the Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff houses; I'm going to go ahead and say I don't see a Hufflepuff!Draco happening, like, in any recognizable universe. Not because Hufflepuff isn't a great house, but Draco (at eleven, mind!!) just has none of the requisite qualities for it. He's not patient, he's not loyal, he doesn't give a hot shit about fair play; he is, arguably, hard-working, but there are hard-working people in every house, and we don't meet anyone in Hufflepuff that's remotely like Draco in temperament or values. The closest parallel is Ernie Macmillan, but Ernie just cares about shit a lot more than Draco does. Ravenclaw is an option, but we don't know a lot of the people in Ravenclaw, so a lot would depend on how able Draco is to find friends that share pureblood ideology, and how much he's forced to change in his early years. It also depends on if, in that universe, Hermione is sorted into the same House he is. But at this point, we're making big changes at such an early point in the canon that things could potentially go anywhere.

[asexual-pervert]

The older I get the dumber arguing on the Internet becomes. Crazy how some people are like. 30 and still doing it

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[mistystarshine]

"Your magic system needs to be consistent and well defined and grounded in logic and reason and-"

Fuck offfff, we're here to tell stories and have fun. Live your best life and embrace the Hirohiko Araki rules of worldbuilding.