#yells about conspiracies

[randomfoggytiger]

Mulder was pretty weird and antisocial this episode. Even Scully was like "...what?"

4 x 03 Teliko

[ominous-horse-noises]

anyway i want to reiterate that i hope the rat grinders are tpk'd, revived and uncorrupted solely bc i want them to have to spend senior year together. 'redeemed' doesnt necessarily mean friendly with the bad kids and honestly? its so much funnier if they continue being bitchy to each other but without the trying to end the world stuff. they've built plenty of positive relationships w/ former villains now it's time for the next stage: uneasy alliance buzzing with the tension of both sides trying to hold back the urge to clown on each other

introducing, fantasy high senior year: the group project

[twin-pisces-art-bin]

New Zelda game AND Four Swords, I'm eating well!

the fact this things called the Tri Rod and makes copies... Tri Rod, Four Sword what's next dual shield that makes a body double?? lol

[freakurodani]

i think katara and her righteous fury is a beautiful beautiful thing

i think she should call out republic city council on some bullshit and aang should be behind her and when the council looks to him like "Avatar pls" he just shrugs

"my most applicable title right now is 'Katara of the Southern Water Tribe's Husband' actually "

[batbabydamian]

so, Batman #147… rambling about the difference in how Zdarsky portrays the two current Robins

this is a fantastic run for Tim, and very much written like a return to form of what plenty consider the best dynamic duo, but even more so "the best Robin". once Damian's introduced in this run, Zdarsky really makes sure you still know that lol

1. "We don't need anyone else" VS "I need my family"

#147 clearly exemplifies the contrast, so i'll go through it first. Damian, having fallen for Zurr's lie and accepted him as the real Bruce, goes so far as to say in the very first page "We don't need anyone else." it's cold colors, machinery, and hollow declarations of "father and son" for these two.

towards the ending, Tim has deduced where the real Bruce is hiding and brings him food expecting Bruce's knack for self-neglect. it's all warmth, sunshine, and mutual understanding - also a cute back and forth of "Batman and Robin" between them. on top of this, where Damian isolates Batman & Robin from family, Tim is the one to remind Bruce about "helping each other." Bruce heartily agrees with "I need my family" for a weighty end.

along with this parallel, from #138 Tim makes it clear that even in opposition, he's only ever trying to help Bruce. Damian was still on the wrong side with Zurr-induced-Bruce here at the time too 😭

2. Tim's independence as both a hero and partner

Tim is written as the ideal Robin to Bruce's Batman, and has made Robin its own independent hero on equal footing rather than a sidekick - it's made in statements by both Tim and Bruce, and through the entire narrative. he takes initiative and tries to foresee what would ultimately help Bruce. beyond being great partners, there's many bits showing their emotional connection ("i'm scared of being lost, but i'm more scared of losing you, Bruce" hit me like a bag of bricks). tbh this almost could be a Batman and Robin run lol

added the first panel from #126 of Tim declaring he's his own hero outside of Bruce, proven plenty especially in his backups in #131-134!! the other panels are a few highlights from #128, #130, and #135 of the partnership between Tim and Bruce

granted it's Zurr, but Damian is mostly seen following orders and given pensive looking panels when there's something concerning. While Tim continued to represent Batman's ideals during his own solo quest to find Bruce, Damian doesn't question or take action against "Bruce's" sudden shift in ethics

Batman #134 Backup - Tim showing support toward Toyman VS Batman #146 - Zurr and Damian confront Harley as she pleads about her change of heart

another kiinda parallel in #147 is Bruce acknowledging Tim's hard work to become Robin compared to Damian who's out here going Batman and Robin/Father and Son. i don't think it's an intended parallel but just the state of continuing to show Tim in a better light - Tim put in the effort "to become the second-best Robin" while Damian is Robin because..."son." supposedly less effort on his part too, because LOA.

second pic is from Batman/Catwoman The Gotham War: Scorched Earth, felt fitting to add since Tim mentions needing to "know everything" in both. and the humble brag. which ofc Tim believes Dick is the best!! but also. jic we didn't know Tim is the best current Robin sdfgh

3. Damian's blind loyalty as "Bruce's son"

there's a weight to the Robin title when regarding Tim, whereas Damian's "Robin" role is excess and counterintuitive. he's delegated to desperate sidekick to Bruce, as well as becoming an obstacle to the family. being Robin only seems significant to Damian in how it ties himself to his father, and his single Robin quality is a loyalty that's been written to an extreme fault. the only positive angle i could see this in is Zdarsky aiming to put Damian in a sympathetic light in how far Damian was willing to fall to stay by his father's side, hence, fooled by that nightmare story/confession. the problem with this is that we have not seen a single emotional connection between the two in this run, so why should we care about that relationship.

also, Damian constantly bringing up his position as Bruce's son just makes him look entitled? since Bruce rightfully expressed his claim of having the others as his sons too (with the unfortunate exclusion of his daughter)! so it's like a "lol you're not that special" vibe when looking at it from the outside?? ykw concerning #138, Damian saying "You're the one trying to destroy my father" also could have been in contrast to Tim saying "We'll help our dad" at the end.

Zdarsky seems to believe the only meaningful part of Damian being Robin is he's the son of Bruce, and not a single nod to any noble aspect Damian's achieved beyond that. we're constantly reminded of Tim's greatest hits as Robin, from taking on the mantle to pull Bruce out of darkness (#135, #138), mastermind a whole takedown (Gotham War: Scorched Earth), and always being on the same wavelength with Bruce etc. the entire run sings Tim's praise, and it's deserved!! my problem is how it's in stark contrast to Damian's portrayal of being the other Robin who's only special because he believes he's the greatest son and wants to be at Bruce's side.

so all this to say, if your fav is Tim YOU'RE EATING WELL!! personally as a chronic enjoyer of things, this has been an entertaining run! as a chronic enjoyer of Damian, it's definitely not for many of his fans at this point in time.

i did like this part!! his grin!!

[hanzajesthanza]

when your friend is writing a fic or analysis it feels like this

[incesthemes]

spent half the day researching scorbutic nostalgia and now that my brain is thoroughly melted, i cannot stop thinking about what this means for jopson's death.

the vivid hallucinations produced by scurvy come from an "over-stimulated imagination focused on images of food and home, capable of inducing fits of ecstatic pleasure and dismay." in this guy's book too he discusses the case of ralph clark, who had erotic fantasies of his wife while suffering from scurvy—particularly so alongside the more typical fantasies of food. the "ecstatic pleasure" apparently seem to be capable of taking on nearly any form. the author lamb also suggests that the nostalgia takes form "not as a yearning for the reality of home or land, but as an obsessive engagement with an experience that is present but accessible only through the imagination."

and when applied to jopson, this "obsessive engagement" is imagined in the form of crozier. the food is there—but he rejects it, physically pushes it away, as he crawls toward crozier. and it fits with the context of the scene too, because at this point in time, crozier has finally become "accessible only through his imagination" since he believes crozier is leaving him behind and betraying him.

so this scorbutic nostalgia jopson suffers is manifesting before him not as a fantasy of food or health or sex or home or anything—it's crozier.

which of course you can therefore draw even more deranged conclusions from existing motifs and themes. if cannibalism is the ultimate form of intimacy, then crozier can become the fixation of jopson's scorbutic lust. if erotic fantasies are an acceptable obsessive engagement, then the consumption of him is erotic in its own right. he refuses the food because crozier is the thing he needs to stay alive. he is food. he crawls across the shale toward crozier because crozier is the object of his ecstatic pleasure.

do you see it. am i crazy. probably. jesus christ

[pixelatedquarter]

Obsessed with Keith TDT showing up to their hotel room in 2011 after playing in Munich with a documentary about Paul McCartney being dead, grabbing Scott and Andy along for the ride and them falling so deep into the rabbithole that by 2:20 am they've assembled the conspiracy corkboard and Andy goes "Wait! I know a guy." and takes to twitter to ask his hiatused bandmate currently a week away from releasing his remix single about how much he wants to fuck the city of chicago if he knows about all this conspiracy shit. And apparently he did know.

Everything about this, from Andy & co.'s descent into madness to Patrick being The Guy to call when there's weird facts and conspiracies is amazing.

[kate-apologist]

i am begging for someone to canonize a little more info about kate's other kid because a deep dive into the wiki revealed the potential they're in the 3-6 age range when she has to go dark (assuming it's around the 2017-2018 time span) which......

the implications??????

to be fair it's based in an aside by kate's half-nephew who might not have been aware of her second kid (unlikely considering him and gordy are besties but hey who knows) that places the potential span of time from 2011 to 2014, when the line in death in heaven about kate being a divorcee is canonized. and of course doctor who canon is more malleable than playdough, so all of it can be taken with grains of salt but still!

i love stories that have kate's second kid being a young adult, i think it's fun (and i've done it all the time) but now i want to see a 2024 return to power kate trying to rebuild her relationship with an at most 13 year old at youngest 10 year old who hasn't seen her for around 6 years. like her grappling with her own terrible relationship with her parents while trying not to do the same to this kid who already probably resents her a little bit for up and abandoning them

i'm pleading i'm begging for more kate content at any given point but cmon that's the same around age that her mother breaks up with the brigadier and they fully separate the parallels-

[variousqueerthings]

I appreciate that 2023 is the year of david tennant casually wearing queer pride fits out of the house

[gentlenotes-moved]

Hey y'all. Minor update

So I went to my new gi doc and she is really nice and sweet. I told her everything and turns out the gerd pills I have rn are the strongest they have and it's the stuff they give full grown adults with stomach ulcers??? I told her it doesn't work at all anymore (and neither does my nausea pill) and she said that that's pretty concerning. Along with the fact that (she said) gerd is most common in overweight, older adults and i'm an underweight 18 year old girl. so.

But I haven't eaten a proper meal since Thanksgiving and I've been basically surviving on granola bars (and OTC antacids which don't do shit lmao) bc for some reason it's the only thing I can keep down almost entirely. I usually eat about two a day and that's pretty much it bc my stomach doesn't seem to able to take more than that. If I try to eat anything more or anything different I'll get to the brink of vomiting for hours, if not the entire day. Like one bite can trigger it.

So my doc was like "well that's not fuckin good! that's concerning as hell!" so I have a scheduled upper endoscopy on Thursday morning and y'all have absolutely NO clue how fucking ecstatic i am for it. Like it's goddamn christmas day. Istg Thursday is the day that's keeping me going rn

[karlyboyyy]

Hey so did anyone else’s parents try to convince you - a literal child - that 9/11 was the start of the end of times because they were convinced they saw satan’s face materializing in the smoke and flames which was obviously a sign that hell was manifesting on earth and that demons were taking over, or was that just some more traumatizing idiocy I grew up with that I should probably be in therapy about?

[towlerknows]

If Louis and Eleanor do get back together (which is unlikely, but Mirror says different), I don't care. She was fab during Elounor 2.0, kept to herself, didn't make herself the main character. So yeah, if he decides to go that route, I have nothing to say about it.

I hope he's happy.

[kitnita]

okay so maybe. jbenn didn’t play any of game three (lmao) so he didn’t experience the same Humiliation the rest of the team did. so they needed to be super cringefail in the first to get him on the same page. and actually things are going to be fine from here on out & they’re still gonna win and —

[louderfade]

exene talking about the state of the world. the good stuff starts at eight minutes. or you can just read the transcript complete with the usual errors that accompany robot transcribed speech (the irony of which is not lost on me). maybe it's not about transhumanism and living forever (or maybe it is who knows), but there's definitely an agenda of surveillance and control at work which is designed to keep the powerful in power. cash rules everything around me and you will own nothing etc. the future is worse.

[crystaldeclear]