#which one of you was this... /lh

[allgremlinart]

does he have plot relevance or do u just like old men

re: Jeong Jeong

WELL MAYBE IT IS BOTH !! LEAVE ME ALONE !!!

like yes technically he appears in maybeeee 3 episodes but his initial meeting with Aang sets up Aang and Zuko's parallel firebending journeys in The Firebending Masters and also he provides important worldbuilding re: Fire Nation deserters and adds depth to Zhao so WHADEVER !! old men who live in caves are important to ME...

[necrotic-nephilim]

i personally have very complicated feelings on the Gotham Knights video game and the routes it takes with characterization. i think it has a charm to it and it goes in an interesting direction with everyone (especially within the confides of the plot of the game) but it does have certain moments that veer painfully fanon for me. (such as: the dialogue where Tim drinks too much coffee) it's an interesting story for what it is but i don't view it comics-based for characterization and therefore don't care to interact with it much for like. fanfic purposes.

that *said* though. i do have to give the game some kind of credit for giving one of the top five JayTim moments that lives rent free in my mind. every since i played the game, the cutscene lives in my mind daily. it's the specific cutscene where Jason and Tim are arguing about whether or not Jason's non-lethal bullets are too dangerous for the field, and the argument leads to TIm *standing in front of the target* Jason is shooting and telling Jason to shoot him. it lives rent free for me. i never stop thinking about this.

the absolute certainty Tim has that he is in no danger standing in front of Jason, who has a loaded gun pointed at his face. the way Jason *hesitates* for just a moment before lowering the gun. he thinks about it for just a second. Gotham Knights JayTim seem to get along very well and can rely on each other, but Jason still clearly holds a bitterness about his death and Tim that flickers through in some lines of dialogue under the guise of jokes. especially since this game deals *heavily* with concepts of Pit Madness causing an altered state of consciousness, i think it's believable that occasionally, Jason fights the urge to fight and hurt Tim for the feeling of being replaced.

i like their tension so much in this canon. they get along but you can *tell* Tim is afraid of addressing Jason's trauma or even addressing Jason head-on, and Jason leans into spooking Tim about it. which isn't very comics feeling in their dynamic, but it is an interesting way to place their dynamic if you're playing with a more timid Tim who's newer to the role of Robin. (which he seems to be in-game) he really doesn't want to offend Jason, or worse, piss him off. but he'll still face Jason head on for things like this, while completely aware of what Jason could be capable of.

and Jason seems very protective of Tim and respecting Tim as a Robin in typical Jason fashion. if Tim pushes, Jason *will* relent. he knows this is a kid who's proved himself and should be treated with equal respect, sometimes even more than Dick and Babs do in-game.

so for all that to culminate in Tim stepping in front of Jason's loaded gun that he *knows* is on the edge of being too dangerous, just to force Jason to listen? it's the most unhinged way Tim could've gotten his point across in this scene. he was literally daring Jason to hurt him and playing with a very dangerous fire. but he did it anyway bc he believed he could make Jason heel just at the thought of hurting Tim. and he was *right*. they're gay and i'm feral ty.

[ore-ion]

Scene redraws (repaints?) From the TF:One trailer, though I was only really focusing on the colours

Most recent one from last night; [I didn't detail it much bc pneumonia made me exhausted a little too quick smh]

And one from last month;

[winteriron-trash]

rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo

This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.

I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.

This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.

I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.

[zukkaoru]

btw i cant believe there are 0 other works in the port mafia boss gin tag on ao3. no one else sees my beautiful post-beast light novel vision

[basketobread]

you have such cute art and a wonderful personality so to find out that you go by bob of all names hit me like whiplash. what the hell are you doing with a name like that bestie

ASOUDISGDASHOHDIUDBIUAHDIUSA LISTENNNN??? ITS THE ABBREVIATED VERSION OF MY USERNAME?!?! BASKET O' BREAD... BOB... LEAVE ME ALOOOONE

[twinktor-frankenstein]

Neil Newbon is so talented, he can go from being my silly little girlfriend to the most annoying motherfucker ever so fast

[zestest-lemon]

Pikmins

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

"Cuhut it out- you guys!" "Nu-uh, not until you're all perked up first! You don't want those gym challengers meetin' with an ol' mopey leader, do ya?" "Whitney's right, dear friend. No need to hide that beautiful smile of yours, alright?~"

What it takes to cheer up Johto's beloved ghost boy 👻💕

[puppyeared]

I made a lmk oc

[mendfri]

[the-clay-quarters]

hello estival update: the geography of the kolomans is driving me insane. it is likely to continue driving me insane for the whole event. i cant wait! /excited

[camzverse]

Nooo cam u dont want to analyze the psychology behind mikes actions in the bite of 83 even though scott didnt put anywhere near your amount of thought into it noo dont do that. freak

[fountainpenguin]

Oh gosh, "The Private and Intimate Life of the House" (also Great Comet) would make such a good Dale & Dev animatic... 😬

- "Yes, father; yes, father." - "And I have no friends, no, never go anywhere! Never invited..." - "I can hurt you... but I never, ever, ever, ever, would... No, Father- I love you, father!" - "And my fate slips past; is this all I'll make of my life? Will I never be happy?" - "Oh, that offends you, does it??" - "It's my money and I'll throw it where I want to! Not at you!" - Can't find glasses -> Panic and screaming - "And I dare to judge him... I disgust myself."

Hazel showing up for "A New Dev-elopment": I know they'll like me! Everyone has always liked me :)

Dale: I'm about to end this girl's whole career.

[carrionhearted]

Being in to very different fandoms at the same time is like… whiplash.

I look to one side and see people having lighthearted fun with these absolutely abhorrent, reprehensible, and morally bankrupt characters… joking around with the gruesome source material in all its horrific, sadistic, violent and murderous glory! Exploring all that fun stuff from behind the protective barrier that is ✨fiction✨. And people generally get along!

Then I look to the other side and see people ripping each other to shreds in a NEVER ENDING debate over wether or not some deeply human character (who’s done bad things for morally grey or otherwise nuanced/ non-evil reasons) DESERVES TO LIVE??? WAGING THEIR WAR TIL IT ESCALATES TO THE POINT OF *REAL LIFE DEATH WISHES* BEING TOSSED AT OTHER FANDOM MEMBERS, OVER THE ARBITRARY ENEMY LINES???????

I want to study this. I want to know why.

[spiderwebbd]

Hello PHIGHTING fandom please accept this peace offering in exchange for letting me in your humble community

Alt version of boombox below :]