#unrelated. of course

[spitbrain]

put me in coach. coach put me in. coach. COACH PUT ME IN-

[flwrkid14]

Casual Chaos: Tim Drake’s Makeup Stream

Danny, known to the internet as Nebula, had been teasing a special stream for weeks. Fans were buzzing with excitement and theories, especially when the announcement popped up: “Doing My Boyfriend’s Makeup!” Naturally, the chat erupted into chaos. Danny was pretty private about his love life, so this reveal had the fandom on edge.

When the stream finally went live, Danny greeted his audience with his usual laid-back grin. “Okay, today’s the day. Let’s see if I’m any good at this,” he said, spinning a makeup brush between his fingers. “But first, let me introduce you to my boyfriend.”

The camera panned, and there he was—Tim Drake, sitting there as if this was the most normal thing in the world. No big introduction, no fanfare. Just Tim, giving a small, nonchalant wave.

“WAIT. IS THAT TIM DRAKE???”

“Like… THE Tim Drake??”

“No way he’s dating Nebula, what is happening???”

Danny, fully aware of the chaos brewing in the comments, didn’t even acknowledge it. He just turned to Tim. “Ready for your makeover, babe?”

Tim shrugged, totally calm. “Let’s do it.”

As Danny started applying makeup, the chat kept freaking out, but the two of them acted like it was just another Saturday. In Gotham, though, it was a different story. The Bat's group chat was blowing up:

Dick: “TIMOTHY JACKSON DRAKE-WAYNE, EXPLAIN YOURSELF.”

Jason: “How does a nerd like you land Nebula of all people???”

Steph: “I AM CRYING. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!!”

Damian: “This is unacceptable. Drake, I demand an explanation.”

Bruce: [Typing…]

But Tim? Unfazed. He ignored the constant buzzing of his phone and sat still as Danny carefully lined his eyes and added a touch of mascara, keeping up casual chatter with the stream.

“You know,” Danny said, holding up a shade of lipstick, “Tim’s got this effortless model thing going on. I’m just enhancing what’s already there.”

Tim raised an eyebrow, smirking. “I didn’t exactly sign up to be your runway star.”

“Wait… he’s actually REALLY pretty??”

“Tim Drake is hot, confirmed.”

“LOOK AT HIS CHEEKBONES OMG.”

As Danny finished the look, adding some extra blush and a light gloss, the reaction was immediate. The chat was losing it. Tim glanced at himself in the mirror, barely reacting. “Well… I don’t hate it.”

Danny leaned back, admiring his work. “Not bad, right?”

Meanwhile, back in Gotham, the bats were still going wild.

Steph: “Tim, you better show up to every gala looking like this from now on.”

Jason: “You’ve been holding out on us with this face, man.”

Dick: “This is ICONIC.”

Bruce: “We’ll need to discuss this later.”

Tim finally glanced at his phone and snorted at all the messages. “They’re never going to let this go, are they?”

Danny just grinned at the camera. “Probably not. So… next time, you'll do my makeup, right?”

The chat, of course, exploded all over again.

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

[jade-bright]

Version of my au where Stiles goes with Derek and Laura to New York, and went to college there + absolutely inspired/taken from the beginning of BarlowGirl 's fic on Ao3, Where the Wind Don't Change

In a nearby cafe studying with other kids in his class.

Classmate 1, nudges Stiles: Who's the gorgeous dude glaring at you? Derek: *Outside the cafe staring intently at Stiles through the window* Stiles, without turning or looking up: I owe money to the Russian mafia Classmate 2: What?

[generalgathers]

i feel like one of the reasons people didn't like heretic as much as they thought they would, is because we got too used to villains being "likable" as people.

in recent horror, human villians tend to be either 1) extremely humanized and given a lot of sympathy/background on why they do what they do. think jigsaw for example 2) a goofy, exaggerated, sometimes supernatural slasher contrasting over the top gore.

so when people see a truly insufferable villain, they dont know what to do with it. it's meant to be uncomfortable when he rants at the girls for hours about how everything they know is wrong. his jokes are meant to fall flat and make him look pathetic. the true horror IS to be trapped by a "reddit atheist", so if you found yourself annoyed at him, it means hugh grant did a good job.

for god's sake the guy keeps women in cages and he based his house's layout on dante's inferno, he wasn't meant to be likable.

[fireflysugarpie]

cumplane au but they both keep accidentally dom-ing each other

[noxemma]

I'm sure this has already been done, but I was rewatching Two Towers and I could not unsee the parallels of Aragorn trying to return Arwen's necklace and the mix tape scene from 12x19 🫠

[nenoname]

stan twins the canon cptsd brothers i will always think about all your unaddressed issues that would make perfect plot fuel for your spinoff

and also the whole 'stan getting that poem by bill via a website which contrasts with bill getting one from the axolotl via a website' foreshadowing thing

like idk i would love something like su future but like more optimistic, aka not an accumulated breakdown that has to be mostly resolved off screen at the end :/// but something thats being kinda addressed throughout? (although would love to see one of them turn into a monster thats always fun lol)

stan having severe issues from his dad and those years of being homeless that we keep on getting more info on but never really getting confronted on (the drifter catalogue and tijuana incident...), him being completely alone for like twenty years when running the shack before soos comes along to the point that 1998 is noted as his low point, and him not really learning about bill+what he did to ford until ages after he killed him if he ever did get the full context

while i think amnesia and everyone seeing him as a hero actually helped with stan's 'i'm a worse version of my brother' thing its still a lingering issue too and we now got him being insecure over his own hands

ford being immediately thrown from 'being tortured by bill' to 'being stuck in the multiverse and being chased by bounty hunters constantly', him fully expecting himself to die when destroying bill, and him only now being safe for the first time in 30 years ....relatively safe, he's still in constant danger because of course he is

idk in the end the series wants them to be happy and they deserve it, its why i wasn't too worried about the book being like 'ooh bill is back!! and the book is haunting ford' thing cos i knew they'll be ok

[casscainmainly]

can you dive more into bruce’s dislike of cass’ femininity?

Sure!! To preface this, gender and Cass is a really nuanced topic that has a lot of interpretations, all equally valid. This is just my own interpretation, and is mainly situated in early Batgirl (2000). I also recommend reading my gender and sexuality posts for Cass' persepctive on her relationship with gender. But since I've gotten a couple questions about it, I'll cover specifically Bruce's evolving opinions on Cass' gender here.

Beginning

From Batgirl #1, Puckett establishes Bruce's view of Cass: she is like him. Both Barbara and Bruce (and Cass herself) acknowledge this, and it allows Bruce to understand Cass in a way Babs doesn't. This isn't gendered yet, but the seed (that Horrocks will pull on) is there - Bruce closely associates Cass with himself, meaning he focuses on the ways they're similar and ignores the ways they're different.

This similarity is comforting not just for Bruce, but for Cass as well. They are equals - they have similar fighting abilities, philosophies against killing, ways of expressing themselves, etc. She doesn't have to hold back, not with him. Both of them wanted her to be 'like him'.

Bruce does not want Cass being taken "away from [him]". "You want me to think she's like you," he tells David Cain in #5. His biggest fear is Cass being like someone else, and not like him.

The Threat of Stephanie Brown

This recurring motto - 'you're not like them, you're like me' - crops up again when Bruce talks about Stephanie in #38. I've discussed how this makes Cass think she lacks something in femininity, but for Bruce this is him drawing a line between Steph and Cass. Steph is a 'girl', treated like one by Bruce: incompetent, not to be taken seriously, belittled. But because Cass is 'like Bruce,' she can "never" be like Stephanie. Cass being like Stephanie challenges not only Bruce's views of both women, but also his own highly cherished belief that him and Cass are the same.

Steph's feminine presence threatens Bruce and Cass' relationship, kicking off a series of issues where Bruce desperately tries to suppress Cass' gender and sexuality.

Vacation

When Cass encounters Tai'Darshan (a boy love interest) and lets him go, Bruce agrees to send Babs and Cass on a vacation. His motivations are extremely murky: Babs implies it was a set-up to get Cass into action again (justified by a panel of Bruce evilly smirking), but a panel right after has Bruce looking sad:

From #40: "You don't really give a damn about Cassandra, do you?" The juxtaposition between these two panels - one with Bruce (sans mask) smirking, and the other with Batman brooding - suggests he does care about Cass, but he struggles with how. For the first time he's realising that Cass isn't like him, that she's a girl with all that girlhood entails, and it frightens him. The cowl (Batgirl) allows him to ignore what's underneath, but Cass is coming through more and more.

But when Babs mentions Kon, the struggle goes out the window.

Thi anger is funny in a girldad way, but it goes to show how much he cannot stand the thought of Cass exploring her sexuality. It's not just that he doesn't want his little girl to date - it's that somehow, Cass embodying her girlhood will separate her from him forever.

Loss

Babs explicitly points out Bruce's feelings in #42. Though she couches it in non-gendered terms ("school, a job"), it's no coincidence that it's specifically a gendered thing - "falling in love" (with a boy, Kon and/or Tai) - that Bruce is reacting to. So far Bruce has threatened Cass away from Stephanie (her first female friend), Tai/Kon (love interests), and has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction in Babs (Cass' mother figure). He tries to limit any relationships that allow Cass either feminine solidarity or expressions of her femininity.

Bruce sees girl!Cass as fundamentally opposed to Batgirl!Cass. Batgirl is like him - Cass is not. She's "distracted. Unfocused. Unreliable..." That last adjective is super interesting, because it frames Cass' explorations of gender as an insult against him. Cass becoming more girl-like is making her "unreliable" to Bruce, making her harder to trust.

"If you've got better things to do than being Batgirl, Cass, just say so." This can be read as an ultimatum, but also as a genuine question. He's asking if she wants to be like him (Batgirl), or go her own way (Cass). When she picks Batgirl, he tells her "no more trips to Kansas." To be like him, she must give up her explorations of gender/sexuality.

Firing

In the aftermath of a trip to Tai's hometown (during which he dies), Cass grows increasingly distant to Bruce.

Bruce finally realises that Cass is not like him - that her differences, most vitally expressed in her girlhood, means she needs something different from him. "She no longer tells us what she's doing..." Bruce still associates Cass exploring her gender as disloyalty to him and his symbol, but this time he acknowledges that maybe that disloyalty is a good thing.

Then we have maybe the most interesting part:

Bruce's "I wouldn't know" is a response to Babs' second dialogue, but it's interesting to read his words as also a response to the first. Because Bruce wouldn't know what it's like to give into hormones, to "have sex, take wild risks, misbehave". Of course he's had sex, but his life is so consumed by his mission that Bruce has limited opportunities to explore his gender. In a way, Bruce's repression of Cass' femininity reflects his repression of his own gender exploration.

The Fight

In #50, Cass and Bruce get into a fight, during which Babs questions whether Cass is trying to "kill" or "kiss" Bruce. In the broader context of their gender struggles, this fight is the culmination of Cass and Bruce figuring out their gender expressions and sexualities. I'm reading this not as a romantic kiss, but as a symbol of sexual release - of defying sexual and gendered repression.

Bruce finally explicitly asks Cass who's she loyal to, and Cass points to the Bat. For Bruce, this choice symbolises that Cass is still loyal to Batgirl/Batman, but also her own person; he finally understands how Cass is like him, but also unlike him, and that her (gender) difference doesn't make her any less able to wear the symbol.

This fight is often analysed from Cass' perspective, but it was clearly important to Bruce, too. It was the turning point in his treatment and understanding of Cass - after this point, their relationship never hits the same lows again, and Bruce starts treating her like her own person (cultiminating in the Batgirl (2008) adoption). In Gabrych's run, Bruce leaves Cass alone and doesn't stop her from searching for Shiva, a huge difference from the way he previously handled her feminine relationships and soul-searching.

Ending

So I guess to say Bruce hated Cass' femininity (which I wrote in a previous post) is an oversimplification; it's not purely misogyny (though that was a part of it), but his longing for her to be exactly like him that caused him to try to repress her gender/sexuality. Her femininity was a marker of difference, a sign she was not completely subsumed in him and his symbol. However, Horrocks' run also shows how Bruce changes and grows, learning to accept Cass as his wonderful daughter.

I hope that answers your question!!

[laikascomet]

When can we expect the Laika's Comet anime adaptation?

whenever i have the means for something like that to happen! im just one guy, after all.

[wobiwan]

just out of curiosity...

[true-blue-sonic]

*pointing at Sonic* I need to know more about how this man expresses love

because I just realised that I my writing is 100% physical touches in my ships, but Sonic does not do that. At least, not as overtly as I tend to write it. I honestly struggle to remember a time wherein he was the one initiating physical contact that can be taken as romantic, haha! He's not averse to touches and stuff: he shakes Blaze's hand no problem in Rush, he holds and hugs Elise and also strokes her shoulder when she is upset... but it not at all overt, either. Tails comes bursting in after thinking Sonic was dead for 6 months and Sonic's hug is literally restrained to just holding him by his sides for a bit; not to mention he looks quite startled by Elise hugging him the first time and doesn't/didn't always seem so eager about getting glomped by Amy. So Sonic's clearly not much of a hugger, and thus I can't imagine him being a cuddler either!

So then, how would Sonic express love to someone he's in a relationship with? Sonic's shtick is kind of that he runs off a lot and likes doing things on his own, though he's also always happy to spend time with friends and share his adventures with them. So... quality time or something? Maybe words of affirmation, since he's the living embodiment of "My Friends Are Cool And Awesome"? I'm looking into this for a Sonilver fic, and I'm struggling a bit with seeing how they would bond into a relationship🤔

[completeoveranalysis]

[2]

Ooh! Yuuko confirming reincarnation is canonically real in this universe. 

WHICH, like, is not technically a surprise, especially since they’ve done so in other works (like Wish, which is in the same canon as xxxHolic), but it's NICE to have another little thread of knowledge about the universe works behind Tsubasa. And it very much ties into all the Hindu/Buddhistideas that are threaded through it all. 

And it’s so endlessly fascinating that ‘clones’ or ‘manmade people’ are technically excluded from the whole samsara idea that other souls go through, so even if Yuuko and Clow can pay for their rebirth it still won’t be the same process with the usual effects. It’s just a very fun series of ideas that Clamp are working through it all. 

On the plus side! Sakura has lost her memories so many times already it’s satisfying on a plot level that actually this time she gets to keep them. 

OH TIME LOOP?

OR - LIKE

Are 

I suppose it depends on if they’re being ‘rebirthed’ in the past and will live back towards this moment again, or if they will be reborn in the present (or maybe even the future) and will time travel back to this moment for other reasons. SAY, FOR EXAMPLE, if they turned back time and hopped in a jam jar to pay the price of waiting until Yuuko could free them just in time to save the universe. Just as a random example not related to anything.

I SUPPOSE WE’LL SEE

[spookberry]

My favorite musical fyi is in fact Daddy Long Legs, which from what I understand is fairly different from the book purely because the book comes from just one pov where as the musical has two. But also both the book and the musical are WILDLY different from the Anime??? which is so sad cuz the anime looks like this

like look at her! I love her!!! But they aged her down?? She's supposed to be a college student. And worst of all they DIDNT age down her love interest?????????

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Here are some screenshots from Future Fight as we hope for the best for our fave getting released in Rivals. :) For the record I have no idea what I'm doing in this game, I just rushed to get Charles and Erik as soon as I could 🙃

PAAAAAUUUSSSEE ON THAT COAT MAGS ONE...... hello handsomb.......

[suddencolds]

finding vanilla sickfic on ao3 for the exact character you want to see whumped 😭😵‍💫😣🥹☀️🌱