#which is scarier

[bbbbbbbbatman]

Headcanon that Bruce doesn’t give the shovel talk to his kids’ partners because 1) everybody in the caped community knows what Batman’s capable of and how protective he is of his children so shovel talks feel redundant and unnecessary, and 2) the constant prolonged fear of a shovel talk that never comes is almost more effective than an actual shovel talk

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

The thing I found funniest about Needles is (compared to the Distortion) he seems a little bad at his job. He didn’t hunt his victim, they just tried to mug him, and when he did get them he didn’t get enough fear out of them before they bled out. He called emergency services to get some more spook out of someone and completely failed at it for like 15 minutes. He rambled about his life story for most of it. I love this pointy idiot

[maxescheibechlinichacheli]

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

y'know something i really love about the Eddsworld fandom? the amount of variation people put into their own headcanon designs.

GET A LOOK AT THE MENAGERIE...

designs belong to:

@serperioranimations - @minkshame - @starrixle - @0fl0wer - @normieauaskblog - @ryemackerel - me :3

@disc1osed (i think they deleted their tumblr since i started this piece in November ☹️)

and @athaiie on twitter!! (GET A TUMBLR ALREADY THAI)

[pomefioredove]

see I actually WAS stalked for 2+ years by this guy who had developed some kind of strange psychosexual obsession with me, and thought he owned me (sexually) (we'd never had sex by the way) (we had never even dated). not exaggerating. he told me this in those exact words? it was very scary to have people I barely knew reaching out to me to tell me that he'd been asking around for my contact info again. this is the guy whose convinced I'm his soulmate and we're going to get married and have 8 children btw. he also continuously tried to manipulate me into wanting him except I could tell and thought it was really funny bc I can't take anything seriously

with that context in mind I hope you understand why I would think Rook is just cute and silly. I would be enamored by him. I would be sending HIM flowers and poems. my boo boo keys

anyways this story is funny to me so you can laugh

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Riot Kings, pages 211 and 212

first // prev //

[hiwaaranit]

"It’s a fae trap! Look out it’s a fae trap"

Fae trap? In my America? That’s just the wind

As a Native American lemme elaborate it’s-LITERALLY THE WIND get out of there it’s gonna get you

Don’t look at it, touch it, throw a rock at, god forbid you shoot an arrow at it you’ll be carried off to who knows where and then you’ll have to walk all the way back. It so inconvenient.

[zandotherthings]

We love an ADHD riddled bisexual who convinced himself that he’s cursed and his two boyfriends who don’t believe in curses but need him to stop getting himself into situations

[vilelittlecritter]

"Machine... I will cut you down, break you apart, splay the gore of your profane form across the STARS! I will grind you down until the very SPARKS CRY FOR MERCY! My hands shall RELISH ENDING YOU... HERE! AND! NOW!"

My stupid ass:

[harmonysanreads]

That... was quite the prologue

[andiv3r]

Okay important question, do you like Good Omens in an ADHD way, an autism way, or a secret third way (you're normal about it not even sure people in this last category are real tbh)?

[chamerionwrites]

A thing about spy characters (and maybe especially likable spy characters that the audience is rooting for) I’ve found is that a surprising number of people have a hard time reading manipulation as manipulation unless it is framed as wholly insincere. Like just because somebody means some or all of what they say does not mean they are not choosing their words and manner in an extremely calculated way to get something they want.