#yikes! what an awful trend!

[estellaestella]

Loving the way everyone fell for Nicola Coughlan after so many celebs have had buccal fat removal surgery. She's 37 and plays a teenager 😁😍

[howlingday]

Yang: Ruby, what did you do?

Ruby: I don't know what you're talking about.

Yang: You got your ass beat again, didn't you?

Ruby: Just because I'm covered in bruises and marinating in my own urine doesn't mean I got my ass beat!

Yang: It was the Beacon staff again, wasn't it?

Ruby: (Quiet) I don't wanna talk about it.

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Ozpin: Miss Rose, we will not tolerate loitering in the classroom!

Ruby: Dude, I was in homeroom!

Ozpin: That's a confession! Get her, boys!

Ruby: (Gets the shit kicked out of her)

Ozpin: (Holding Ruby by her neck, Laughing) Oh my god, she fucking pissed herself! Oh, I'm so Schneeting this! I'm gonna tag this as "PeePanties"!

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Yang: Yikes... That's awful- And oh my god, it's trending!

Ruby: Please tell me you're joking.

Yang: Nope. They even got your picture.

ProfOzzyP: Just busted another kid for loitering. She peed her pants. #PeePanties #Wrecked #Beacon

[schnellonline]

its 6 am right now as i write this, but i cannot sleep cause i need to express my absolute disdain for TikTok formatted videos. the fact that multiple websites have TikTok short form analogs and we all just accepted it is just so heinous. having some fucking PRICK mug at the camera while they're greenscreened in front of what they're talking about it is just so infantile. i get why its that way due to time constraints and algorithms or whatever, but its so brainwashing and genuinely unhealthy to scroll through hours at a time. rapid firing info into your soft little microplastic skull as your eyes ache at the sight of another "satisfying pimple popping" video - your face full of desensitized contempt, but you still watch. it makes me so absolutely fucking livid to see that this is how most people learn about things now. nobody searches anything or does their own research (and if they do its the bare minimum) they just gawk and absorb it and then move on without ever grasping or understanding. its just hyper fast trends that die quicker than mayflies or digging up shit (that takes 5 seconds of googling and plagarizing from any article you can find) to show to your gullible followers so you can rake in some cash. its so fucking AWFUL to talk to someone about a certain thing and they mentioned that they learned something from TikTok cause you know that they learned it from fuckin Chase Bradford or fuckin whatever on TikTok who has a billion followers (yet you have never heard of him in your life) and mugs to the camera talking about heinous murders and true crime or whatever while making faces and going "yikes!" or "that's disturbing". it fucking frustrates me so much that the ushers of information that every braindead little dopamine slave follows is some make up caked gal giving inaccurate info about a fucking piece of history or culture or something. its absolutely disgusting. it just breeds laziness and makes you less self aware. everything about TikTok is just bad - and i know literally knows it and just accepts it cause "it can't be that bad for you" but absorbing the world through shortened clips of some fucknugget(s) rambling on about liminal spaces or some other inane trendy bullshit is so ACTUALLY dystopian. probably the most powerful psychological operation/project to come out of china like ever. it has literally changed an entire generation of youth.

[mcalhenwrites]

( abuse tw / abuse cw )

Me: I write about child abuse to process what I've been through and bc I want to see a trend away from it FB algorithms: so you want more abusive parenting memes and advice flooding in from shitty pages? Me: actually that content sends me spiraling for days bc that's not fiction, people are condoning awful treatment of children IN REAL LIFE! Huge difference from the fiction I write! I only have FB to follow a couple of local pages and keep in touch with a few friends who don't use other sites, esp now that twitter is useless for me so I've abandoned that, but... It's so hard to not just fucking delete it when I rarely see friend posts, rarely interact with friends, and cannot fucking stop seeing awful shit like this. Anyway, even if you're like tee hee being shitty to kids is funny and "some kids deserve to be hit" and doing some mental circlejerking about how strict you have to be with teens since you failed to raise them decently the first few years of their lives... I am not your ally or your friend or w/e if feel this way. I advocate to make physical punishment illegal both in schools and in homes. I write people like you as the fucking antagonists and villains. So feel free to unfollow if you think it's horrible that I'm against child abuse. (Yikes.) Hell, block me for both of us! People who read my work tend to pick up on my stances, but a lot of people who don't read my work don't know... so I'll just spell it out clearly. I'm all about gentle parenting. Talk to kids. Sympathize with toddlers whose life experiences are less years than what it takes for someone to go to college to get a degree! Masters or bachelors, depends on the toddler! Feel like no one can judge me for what I write with IRL shit being so much worse. God forbid I depict shit that actual people go through with the purpose of either making it uncomfortable or to make it relatable to other people who've been abuse victims (or even still are, bc sometimes people need to know that what they're going through is not their fault). I enjoy writing, but environmentalism and anti-abuse are common themes in all my works. Even the high fantasy ones, like my dragon universe stories. Anyway, people who want to do better and try their best and sometimes slip are forgiveable; people who think child abuse is right and normal and correct somehow? I don't have to tolerate your company, and I hope if you never learn to be decent, you end up abandoned by the people you abuse, if only so they can thrive without you. (A lot of general use of "you" but seriously if anyone follows me who is like this... yeah, block me. I will only mourn the pain you'll inflict on others, not the loss of you in my life.)

[bluefeatheredvelociraptor]

Twitter folk having a fit because they don't understand Tumblr humor and are complaining about it. And it's really funny to me 🤣

I mean, even RJ Palmer is annoyed by the Goncharov tag doing its rounds in Twitter, like c'mon:

Funny how twitterites are the first to remind you that you can mute words and block people in the bird app so you don't see content that isn't to your interest. But then don't apply it themselves when something they don't like pops up in their timeline. Figures.

Oh, imagine that, a shitpost became viral and people are engaging with it. Oh, god. Oh no. It left its target audience, the horror.

How dare we steal Twitter's thing, they are the only ones that can create viral memes :c

And we get to the yikes. Twitterify Tumblr? No thank you.

If something's been clear since I joined this site is that we'd rather sink our own ship than letting that happen. Why? Because Twitter interactions and user culture are goddamn awful (save some reaally curated spaces). For a place with such a limited conversation format, there's a lot of vileness and vitriol running rampant in that site. Word your message a little off or lean a little left and hordes of sanctimonious twitterites can come get your ass and make you the villain. No matter if what you tweeted was harmless, everything can get misconstrued for the sake of it. They will dig up shit you posted years ago (or make it up) to sell the idea that you're an irredeemable monster of some sort and the real people behind the profile (or their careers) can get endangered. Except for true villains, those get idolized. And with the muskrat's takeover, those people are more protected and unhinged than ever.

And also because of that same limited communication format, trends in Twitter tend to be fleeting and unimportant in a matter of hours, whereas here trends can mature and become part of the users culture. That's why Tumblr self-references itself all the time. And that's why it's so hard to engage when you first arrive to the site. The Goncharov phenomenon is only the latest example of the inner workings of Tumblr but twitterites are acting as if we personally went and kicked them in the sheens. Or forced them to watch it unfold, Clockwork Orange style.

Anyway, I rarely post about things like this and I'm certainly not wanting to pick a fight over which site is better, but this thread really made me chuckle. I like both sites because they are different experiences and allow for different ways to engage with the world, but the truth is the bird app becomes exhausting very, very quick. And I think that the fact Twitter wants everything else to run like, well, Twitter, is rather disingenuous on their part, lol.

[stealth-black-leg]

Oh my, Yamato. Boy, have I gotten in messy arguments over Yamato through the years. "He's not trans" my brother in christ, he literally looks at the camera and says I'm a man "It's bad representation, actually" *looks at the camera in transmasc who feels very correctly represented by Yamato* "Kaido only treats him like a man because he wanted a son because women can't be shogun" where even is that in the manga I've had countless people use that argument and it's completely made up 😭

I'm perfectly aware that most of what makes Yamato great was completely accidental on Oda's part. I know he wasn't thinking of gender envy when he wrote Yamato's adoration of Oden, but as it happens, Yamato's adoration of Oden can very easily be interpreted as gender envy. "Yamato is not trans, he's delusional and thinks he's Oden" or maybe he's taken Oden as his role model and expresses it how he can. Oden is the kind of man Yamato wants to be, so he copies him. And you know what? It's so representative of many trans experiences, my own included. Accidental or not—like it or not—it's fantastic and accurate representation.

That's been a summary of my general experience in Yamato arguments in the last few years, so to focus more on Anon's criticism:

"A translation error" Is it a translation error to translate the Japanese word for "son" as "son"? Is it a translation error to translate the Japanese term for "young lord" as "young lord"? Granted, Japanese doesn't have gendered pronouns the way English does, but every single gendered term that is used for Yamato is masculine. Every single one. Is it also a translation error to have Yamato tits-out in the men's bath? 🤨

"Oda's art style is misogynistic" That's beyond the point, but alright. You don't like the One Piece art style, that's perfectly valid (though imo it's not particularly worse than the general trend in manga and also occidental comics, no matter how much people tend to focus their criticism on Oda, nor is the manga as awful as the anime in this regard). But it feels like a bit of a stretch to claim that Yamato can't be good representation because, what? Because he has big boobs? You are aware that there are transmasc people out there with big boobs, right. You are aware that the are trans people out there who are perfectly fine with their bodies and only change their pronouns, right. You are aware that trans experiences are multiple and varied and to try to policy what's "good trans" and "bad trans", even if it's regarding a fictional character, is pretty awful. Right?

I will admit that Oda has fucked up with his queer representation in the past (Sanji's timeskip, yikes) but I can't agree with the claim that he can't do it right when there are characters like Kiku (a trans woman who's perfectly accepted by her peers and treated mundanely) or EMPORIO IVANKOV.

Fuck you. I'm going off a tangent here, but let's talk about Emporio fucking Ivankov. Let's talk about a queer, genderfluid man who co-funded the Revolutionary Army; who has built not one but two safe spaces for queer people, all of whom he protects rabidly. Let's talk about a character that embodies revolutionary ideals (freedom for the oppressed, death to the oppressors, liberation for the people) unmistakably tied to queer freedom. No one is free until all of us are, and a proletariat revolution without queer rights means nothing. Ivankov is a very funny character who I'm always happy to see, but from a more meta point of view, his figure is SO IMPORTANT. I honestly can't believe that this was accidental on Oda's part. And I pity you if you can't see it, or don't want to see it, and choose instead to call One Piece "a not sophisticated enough story with shallow characters". Because, really, truly, it's not.

I've been waiting to respond since you made that post mocking us for wanting problematic characters banned from your polls because apparently you are not taking legitimate criticism of anime seriously. Because it is full of poor representation of minorities and lgbtq+ and you and all of your followers are laughing about it like it's nothing.

I will start with Yamato because everyone acts like one piece even though it's so full of misogyny. Having a trans character is amazing when I don't even think Yamato is actually trans. I'm pretty sure it's a translation error and everyone has latched on to it. So again that is not good representation if it's not confirmed representation and even if it was confirmed, it's not good representation. Yamato because of the one piece art style by default Yamato is full-blown a fetishization of trans people because all one piece characters if they are drawn, female presenting are drawn like sex dolls. So unless they go through an actual gender transition and not just a pronoun change. There cannot be good representation with Yamato because Yamato is a fetish, not a fully fleshed out character. I mean to boil it all down. I don't think the author is capable of having any good lgbtq+ representation one piece is just not a sophisticated enough story and the characters are just too shallow for that to be possible

Bleach did a similar thing with Yoruichi acting like it was so amazing to have a character of color and she is supposedly bisexual but she's just waifu bait and it reeks of misogyny and fetishization of BIPOC. She's a furry to top it all off. It doesn't help that the bunny chick from my hero is basically the new gen version of the same character, but at least she is disabled too. So at least they tried to do something with her character other than waifu bait

So I would like to know why every character I've seen promoted as great representation in anime for either the BIPOC or LGBTQ+ communities seem to only be horribly fetishized, useless, waifu bait. Not actually a good character.

And even when Japan is dealing with its own ethnic minorities and indigenous populations it still does a horrible job by playing into the Noble Savage stereotype Hollywood likes to play into. Have you not seen the anime Golden Kamuy? It's about Japan's own first Nations tribe and it's So disrespectful to that. I swear they could not have had a single person from Hokkaido, much less a member of the actual Ainu people involved in the creation of that anime or manga. And yet I've seen so many people brag about that anime and manga and how it's so good for diversity. When again, every single Ainu character acts like a bad native American stereotype from like a 1950s American Hollywood western. It's that bad and don't get me started on the fan service in that show. It's at a level that could be considered exploitative but it's okay. Some of the characters might be gay so it's representation. To top it all off it reinforces white colonial beauty standards because the main Ainu character is specially because she's half white and has blue eyes like her white dad and she talks about how she's going to be a new kind of better Ainu for the future because she's white passing. That show is a reductive racist dumpster fire and I can't believe anyone says otherwise.

But you said you won't ban characters unless the fandom becomes too toxic. But you really should consider looking out for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities by not promoting toxic problematic characters and actually banning these toxic problematic characters and shows

Fandoms vs Illiteracy #1

Feel free to critique the essay but not the person nor the person's intelligence. Do not call names, degrade the person, or personally attack them in any way. The purpose of this series is to critique/analyze the arguments contained in the essays.

For those unfamiliar with the characters mentioned, here are pictures. The names are in the alt text.

And here's one of the promotional images for season 2 of Golden Kamuy

So now that everyone is a little bit more familiar with everything mentioned in the essay and knows the rules, feel free to do your own research and respond.

[liopleurodean]

Season 7, Episode 14: Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie

Sam's running fast

Yeah

That's awesome

And slightly horrifying

Okay, that is creepy

THE GLITTER TITLE CARD

The countdown 😂

Yeah

What? No way

That wasn't even English

...thanks for the imagery, Sam

Yikes

Back to Kansas!

Wow, that's conservative

That's what I wanna know

Fair enough

Nope

Dean.

In Kansas?

Whoa

OCTOPUSSY

Poor girl

Why do they always act like that?

Oof

Yikes

She's freaky

Really, Dean?

Yeah, a little

Right...

Interesting

Like Chuck E. Cheese's

Why would Dean recognize that?

That's rough

Poor girl

Suspicious

Maybe

That's really suspicious

Really?

Yeah, I bet

Uh oh

Yikes

A horse?

A unicorn???

Rip that guy

THE RAINBOW TAIL

That's a weird way to switch

Uh oh

Rip Sam

Ouch

Good question

Or a unicorn horn

Yeah, he knows

At Plucky's, I'll bet

You absolute liar

Yikes

Absolutely not

I think it is

Liar

But what about the 0.01%?

Oh, Sam...

Oh yeah

Poor Sam

It's brighter than I expected

That's just freaky

Poor girl

What.

Oh, that's gotta be it

Right...

Of course

As evident by Sam

Poor kid

That's weird

Yeah...

Wow

Seabiscuit.

There we go

Is Dean gonna actually use chopsticks correctly?

HE IS I LOVE HIM

Argh, I hate that

Uh oh

Something's lurking

Yikes

The single purple ball 😂

Rip that guy

Mm, the trend of classic cars continues

Yikes

THE BALL WASHER

Shark bait, ooh haha

You're a nerd, Dean

There we go

Fun

Really?

New victim

Poor Tyler

Oh, that's bad

Back to the Sam Smack-Down

Yikes

Nah

Mm, probably not

So it's not ghost activity, but it could still be something else

It's a plan

Have fun with it

He's got a point

Yay

Uh oh

Yeah, that's not creepy at all. Come on, Dean, you can do better than that

Dean.

Oh, that's just weird

Dean would absolutely destroy skeeball

Fair enough

Poor girl

Good for you

I don't think this is gonna go anywhere

Yikes

What'd I tell you?

Dude. Turn off preschool voice

Oh, great. That kind of kid

Hah, nice

Wow

Poor kid

Not exactly

It probably is

I don't like that guy

That poor dude

Wow!

That's kind of ridiculous

Pfft

Ouch

Dude.

Dean.

Wow...

Right...

Aw, Dean

They're next

Have fun with that

What.

What do you know

I KNEW IT

Yeah

Are you?

B-WORD

Uh oh

Poor Sam

No kidding

RIGHT FRIGGIN' NOW ASDFGHJKL

What's your angle, Dean?

So that's what this is about

Did they?

No! They won't!

Ah. The real culprit

There's probably more to the story

Probably not

Huh.

That's freaky

I almost feel bad

Ooh, that's a rough way to go

Poof! With sparkles

Oh, he's gonna get glitter everywhere. I'm almost (almost) glad they're not using Baby

THE WHIMPERING LAUGH

That's hilarious

Yeah, that's one of the funniest things I've seen all day

"which time" ASDFGHJKL SAM

Was it?

Yes!

Dean.

Asdfghjkl

Rip

Oh, that's just creepy

[lacrimosathedark]

Is rhato really not worth reading? :( Honestly I was interested because I wanted to see red hood jason run around with friends (also dog... That's so sweet I love that he had a pet) but I just saw ur post (thank u for it btw ur doing the good work, intense boost of serotonin from all the dog) and was wondering if all its faults are really egregious enough to make it unreadable? :0 hope ur having a good day!

Honestly, it depends on your tolerance and attachment to the characters.

I'm going to spoil a bunch of stuff so if you want my spoiler-free tl;dr: the second series might be worth it. Mileage may vary. The first is absolutely not--just read a summary. Recommendations for Jason reading in the last couple paragraphs of the post!

The first series centers around Jason, Roy Harper/Arsenal, and Koriand'r/Starfire.

The characterization isn't great. Jason gets dumbed down, makes some off-color jokes, and feels like he's just an "edgey protagonist". Basically a mouthpiece for Lobdell and Lobdell is a sack of shit.

The characterization of Roy Harper is...not great. It's not necessarily inaccurate, but it's honestly only accurate for early Roy Harper. Like, decades and decades of character regression. They also in New 52 changed his backstory like...a decent amount. Like, I think initially his Navajo heritage was removed? And then it was made that he might have accidentally killed his Navajo foster father while drunk??? It's yikes. They also changed his self-destructive weapon of choice from heroin to alcohol. And removed that he was pretty much fully recovered from addiction and actually spent a lot of time volunteering to help people struggling with addiction. It also very much removes how close he was with Dick Grayson. They grew up together, formed the Teen Titans together. They were tight. Dick actually helped Roy through a relapse, was one of the few who would help him. And the biggest issue? The lack of Lian. Lian caused a huge change in Roy's behavior. Before Lian, he was, tbh, a fuckboy. But pretty much as soon as he learned about his daughter, he single-mindedly tried to retrieve her from her mother and was the best father he could have possibly been while being a vigilante (ignoring Devin Grayson's Arsenal run where he let Lian play with guns wtf). Everything he did, even in part the people he saw, was connected to Lian. She was his entire world. And y'know what? Jason was present--as Robin!--when Roy learned he was a father. And that's never mentioned.

As for Kory, it is absolutely awful. They give her gnat-like memory and face-blindness and make her hypersexual. Kory has never been a prude, but she's also a romantic, not one to just sleep around, and they made her pretty much all about sex. It also changed her backstory and made her more...angry. Kory has always been a being of emotion and is prone to righteous rage, but she was never fueled by anger the way she could be in RHATO. It also almost completely--and this seems to be the trend!--erases her relationship with Dick Grayson! Which is probably her most important relationship period, just maybe edged out by her relationship with Raven or Donna. Barely. And she has completely forgotten all of them. It's incredibly dumb.

The New 52 as a whole, is godawful with a handful of exceptions. You're better off reading the summaries.

The second series swaps out those two for Artemis Grace of Bana-Mighdall and Bizarro Superman. It is overall marginally better...at first.

Artemis is also sexualized, and there ends up being a somewhat-forced romance between her and Jason. Could there be excellent chemistry between them? Yeah. But she suffers from "Men Writing What He Thinks is a Powerful Woman" Syndrome. She's not awful, though. She's wlw, very much in love with her deceased childhood best friend that she essentially had to kill because she lost her shit. She also does not take Jason's shit and it can occasionally be funny to watch them interact.

Bizzaro is incredibly difficult to fuck up. He's (initially) got toddler-level intellect. He speaks like a caveman. "Me am Bizzaro", y'know. Then he nearly dies and Lex Luthor manages to save him but he's temporarily a super-genius, which isn't...too bad. But then he's essentially made an addict to synthetic Kryptonite, which he literally bathes in like a Lazarus Pit like???? It's bad. And then when he finally stops being a genius, it gets worse. Like...ugh. But Jason's relationship with Bizzaro is actually sweet; it's compared to Jason being a big brother to him. He literally starts their relationship telling him everything's gonna be okay, and then buys him a stuffed Superman doll that Bizzaro names Pup Pup (mimicking Superman's "Up up and away" thing) and it's really cute.

Under the second RHATO run umbrella is Red Hood: Outlaw, which is Jason going solo for a bit. I wanna talk about that, but first I really need to talk about the ooc trauma conga line that came just before it.

So, Jason just found letters Ma Gunn had kept that Jason's dad had sent him from prison. It's a whole thing. But through this, Jason learns that his father was put away not for any of the awful shit he actually did, but as a fall guy for the Penguin. And Jason kinda...loses it. He hunts Penguin down, reveals his identity, and shoots him point blank in the face.

(Don't worry he got better)

But we all know how Bruce feels about people killing in his city. He has been allowing Jason to operate in Gotham, despite his general disapproval, so long as he doesn't kill anyone. And Jason almost killed the Penguin, and definitely tried to.

Bruce Wayne's parenting skills vary wildly between writers. Some people making him a loving and affectionate, if emotionally stunted, parent. Some make him emotionally and physically abusive. He has, admittedly, hit his children before. It varies widely enough that I think it equally valid to say he's a good parent or a bad parent due to your personal canon. But what happens here is out of character despite even that, because the one constant is he always loves them.

The Goddamn Batman hunts down Jason and very much brutalizes him. Like, punches him hard enough to break his helmet. Like, completely shattering the front of it so you can see Jay's whole fucking face. He's yelling about how if Jason left it would be his own choice and not Bruce's, and saying shit like "No more Red Hood!" and it's...disgusting. Really bad.

Jason manages to get away long enough to discover that his HQ is falling apart. It's kinda complicated, but basically to save them and entire Gotham block, Bizzaro drags their HQ into another dimension, and Artemis goes after him. So, Jason just lost two more good friends. (for note: he hasn't heard from Kory since RHATO, and he quite literally broke up with Roy at the end of Red Hood/Arsenal, "it's not you it's me" speech and all, and the most he's heard from him is second-hand from Waylon Jones aka Killer Croc who is his addiction recovery sponsor like????) And then Bruce does the thing where he appears behind you. And he proceeds to attack Jason again.

Out of nowhere a savior arrives: Roy Harper! He has a knockout gas arrow that knocks them out and carries Jason to safety.

He takes Jason back to the island they stayed with with Kory as Outlaws and helps with his recovery, and Roy lets Jason in on a drug trafficking case he's been working. Partway through, Roy goes separate ways from Jason because he's going to "superhero rehab". Jason teases him but is supportive, and they go separate ways.

And then Roy fucking dies at Sanctuary because Heroes in Crisis was even worse than RHATO!

You know who comes to tell Jason that Roy's dead?

Bruce.

Their whole interaction is actual fucking bullshit. Not because what is written itself is bad, but in the context of their last interaction it rings hollow and disgusting. They hug. Like??? That is so fucking tone deaf I can't even--

Jason just lost Ma Gunn (who's missing), Bizzaro, Artemis, Bruce, Gotham, and possibly the rest of his family. And then Roy on top of that who he has not one, but two series with establishing their closeness. And Roy died, as Jason says, somewhere he was supposed to be safe. He actually calls Roy's phone and leaves a message that starts with "Hey, it's me. Jaybird." This man pretended he hated that nickname; he once told Roy to "choose between Jaybird and your trachea. You can't have both." and like--fucking ow. Throughout the rest of RHATO, it is repeatedly brought up how effected Jason is by Roy's death.

(Which makes me even more mad when he comes back to life and doesn't fucking tell him like??? Fuck the people writing Roy rn let him go back to Gotham and find Jason and Lian I am begging)

But other than that, the earlier part of Red Hood: Outlaw is pretty good. Funny enough, the time that it's good is pretty much the duration of Dog's appearance. It's honestly coincidental, but she does make everything better. But Jason kind of does what he initially planned to do! He's practically running crime in Gotham from the Iceberg Lounge, which he stole from Penguin! He's a semi-legitimate business owner! And the art is still decent there, and damn, boy looks good in a suit.

After the departure of Jason from Gotham (and Dog from the comic :( ), is an era called Generation Outlaw. It's written sooooo bad. Jason accepts a teaching job from Lex Luthor to train the next generation of supervillains. Like??? The premise itself sucks.

The kids are worse.

First off, the art is ugly. Second, only two of them have actual names. The rest are only known by their "villain" names.

One of them is literally a genius baby and her zombie "mom". She has no actual name, just "Baby in Arms" and "Mombie". Dumb as shit.

What really gets under my skin is DNA. DNA is referred to as nonbinary. What's the problem? Well first of all, it keeps being brought up, like it's one of their 2 personality traits. The other? They literally identify as a multiplicity rather than a singularity. Like, they refer to themself as "we" and "us". This is first of all, annoying, and second of all, reinforces the trope of enbies being amorphous inhumans. I hate it and I hate them. (However at least Jason treats them with moderate respect unlike Roy who repeatedly misgenders Stitch in Titans Academy and god do I hate that characterization of Roy)

And it just goes further down the drain from there.

Honestly, if you want Jason content that's not Death in the Family, Lost Days, Hush, or Under the Hood, (cuz they're all old and technically a different continuity, sort of, it's complicated) Batman: Urban Legends is where to look, followed by Task Force Z (though maybe read the run-up to it which is in Detective Comics 1042 I think? there's a few issues). They both have pretty good grip on Jason's character. It reinforces his anger, his general emotional-ness, and his empathy. It also reinforces that he's intelligent, clever, and plays dirty. And it finally tries to address the distance between him and the Bat-Family, which is entirely Bruce's fault. And it makes his vow to not kill based on his own moral choice rather than appeasing Bruce! And it's not that he thinks killing is wrong, but that he's faced with the fact that even killing the scum of the earth can have innocent collateral. It's so good.

He's also in a few crossovers with his family, like when all the Robins show up in Robin to catch Damian, it's great. Robin as a series is pretty great actually. And before that I'm pretty sure he appears in Joker War. I think specifically in issues of Nightwing. Jason is also in Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter, and in the 2017 Talent Showcase has a story where he's training Duke Thomas.

Also if you don't mind Elseworlds, Wayne Family Adventures on Webtoon is honestly so good and it does Jason great justice. He is a dramatic bitch, a book nerd, makes jokes about his death while also demonstrating accurate trauma from dying, and due to the premise being essentially Slice of Life, he can have actual healthy relationships with his family and it's so cute. Also Alfred's there and alive which is always a bonus.

But yeah. RHATO is kinda yikes.

[moviethoughtswithkate]

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

I really enjoyed this movie. Meryl Streep was great, of course. She brought a lot to the character by keeping her voice level and quiet. She was fearsome and loathsome but awe-inspiring.

Its treatment of disordered eating is pretty horrendous but sadly realistic. Emily goes on a diet of eating nothing at all except for the occasional cube of cheese; Andy boasts about going from a 6 to a 4. Especially in 2006, off the heels of the 1990s heroin chic supermodel trend, this felt very realistic: the smaller and skinnier you were, the better. I don't think the movie is endorsing this mindset at all, I think it's depicted as one of many negative aspects of the toxic fashion industry. However, depicting it at all draws attention to the enormous elephant in the room which goes pretty much unacknowledged by this movie: the misogyny fueling the fashion industry. Is there any industry has gained as much from the standards placed on women, and women's resulting insecurities?

Obviously, that is not what the movie is trying to be about, and that's fine. Movies can be about stuff other than oppression and misery. The Devil Wears Prada is about Andy's crazy, intense year in a glamorous job in the fashion industry and what happens when work swallows up your life. But it really is hard to ignore the misogyny at the heart of the fashion industry, women pitted against women, its presence ominous and unacknowledged throughout the film. The only time it's really brought up is Andy saying that people are harder on Miranda than they would be if she was a man, but... so? The movie never made me terribly concerned about Miranda's wellbeing being affected by sexism. It definitely made me concerned about her status as a perpetrator of sexism, though, against almost all the other female characters, including Andy. Why should I care about the sexism towards Miranda if it's never shown to affect her in the film?

The Devil Wears Prada is good for what it's trying to be. It achieved what it set out to do, is what I'm saying. My problems with it have to do with the things it didn't set out to do. If you are able to not give a shit about women or misogyny for 2 hours, though, this is a thoroughly enjoyable, funny and original film. I'd actually watched this movie when I was young, maybe 12 or 13 (yikes if you think about the messaging I would've absorbed about misogyny etc but we're pretending that doesn't exist now), and upon this rewatch the jokes hit so much better. Emily being hit by a car and the scene with her and Andy at the hospital? Hilarious. Miranda's deadpan "Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking," was fucking hilarious and my favourite line.

[crownedwille]

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aw, i did not expect to get tagged, thank u! @justfriendsbestthings

favourite colour: blue

last song: happier by omar rudberg (giving that banger the streams it deserves)

last movie: dead poets society (haven't finished it yet tho yikes)

currently watching: chucky season two right now and in general rewatching white collar

other stuff i watched this year: angel, only murders in the building, what we do in the shadows, heartstopper s1, hsmtmts

shows i dropped this year/didn’t finish: just point to above as i haven't finished any of them yet except the last one

currently reading: i have so many books i have started reading at some pointover the years but i haven't finished any yet wow i see a trend here...

currently listening to: renee rapp's album

currently working on: my fic i guess? i'm really excited about it

current obsession: i think young royals still counts but it's been going on for almost a year, i guess you could say sweden in general, i follow so much swedish/stockholm content i'm soaking it all up (i have such bad wanderlust it's not even fun anymore lol)

i'm tagging @glimmeringdreams (sorry you're getting tagged again lol)

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tagged by @labrador-tea - tyy and sorry i took so long

favourite colour: red (yes like enjolras)

last song: 梦回 from the longest promise is playing rn

last movie: just rewatched swan lake so i could make an edit for oomf’s collab for its anniversary!

currently watching: only murders in the building + rewatching word of honor hehe

other stuff i watched this year: i have almost 70 things on this list do you really want it 😭 but highlights were good omens, spiderverse, schmicago, modern family, grey’s anatomy, atla + tlok, kim’s convenience and gotg vol 3 i guess?

shows i dropped this year/didn’t finish: i very rarely drop shows tbh!! but i forgot i was watching grace & frankie so i guess i technically dropped it… planning to return to it eventually tho

currently reading: nothing T-T still keep trying to get through les mis from start to finish instead of in random sections but i keep forgetting i’m reading it lol

currently listening to: don’t listen to podcasts and only get audiobooks for uni assigned books which i didn’t have to get any for this sem!

currently working on: editober 2023! should be working on my editing main’s theme too but (should really be working on catching up with uni hashshsh)

current obsession: good omens, les mis (always), and word of honor has resparked bc i’m rewatching <3

tagging: @p4nicaker @frhog @les-amis-dcd only if y’all want to!

[shewhotellsstories]

I was watching a reaction video last night and a really tone deaf rant brought back some memories. I can’t help but continue to feel troubled by this awful trend of shippers and stans being horrible to actors who play characters they feel are a threat to their ships. I’m reading a bit about about Kat Graham getting hate from Delena stans in addition to the run of the mill fandom racism (didn’t follow the show for it’s last two seasons). Candice Patton has really gone through it in her years working on The Flash. Rahul Kohli’s appearance on Supergirl was brief, but the stans still descended to harass him. Same story with Staz Nair regrettably from what I’ve seeing from the sidelines. SC and Reylo stans were so aggrieved that they decided it wasn’t a total dick move to invalidate John Boyega and Mehcad Brooks’ experiences with racism just because they decided something isn’t racist if you don’t like the person involved over the summer. Which like, yeah, we’re discussing systemic racism and police brutality but sure. Your ship’s the most important thing here obviously. Troublingly I remember a faction of stans from the ATLA fandom call an actor a pedophile over a ship, which yikes. Seriously, yikes. In that vein I notice the level of vitriol gets dialed up if the actor is a person of color. But I also vaguely remember OUAT actors after another being driven off of twitter one by one because things got so nasty in the fandom. And Chris Wood has spoken out about being cyber bullied too.

I just don’t get what the people who do this are hoping to accomplish. Based on my understanding actors have little control over scripts and even though I have many opinions about the shows I’ve watched, I haven’t felt the need to be awful to actors over it. There is a fascinating psychological study here somewhere.

[ihopesocomic]

I’m the Kyoga anonymous and I wanted to say thank you for the kind words at the beginning of your message! My life has been getting better- basically taking baby steps.

I didn’t know about these characters in Cow of the Wild. The only situations I know is people defending Ashfur or Bramblestar and blaming Squirrelflight in Warriors (I’ve seriously seen some horrible excuses false information, and awful victim blaming. I’ve seen a Ashfur fan blamed Brightheart for the dog attack, referring to her as Lostface, during an argument on why Ashfur isn’t a terrible cat. They apologized for it, after getting called out for it but it showed me that some fans just need to calm down) and the situation with Kyoga, Karabi, and Lite. I do agree with what you said about Kyoga trying convince Karabi to let Lite live; I believe Karabi had the right to attack Lite since he started a war on her kingdom, killed her lions and family, and all of this so he can take her mate. That scene could’ve been written a lot better- basically the whole series could’ve been written a lot better.

You're welcome! It's always good to hear about people rising above their abuse and bettering their lives, whether that be by making "baby steps" or not. c:

And yeah, the same issues played out in Cow of the Wild sadly. Just not as bad imho because we didn't have Mink begging Balder to spare Rune's life after he committed genocide. ugh

And I have the exact same issues with Thistleclaw. Dear God, does he have fans who just... paint Bluefur as a bitch and flat-out erase how terrible Thistleclaw was and maintain he was a good father and husband despite the very opposite being written down in canon IN NUMEROUS BOOKS (aka not just the one told from Bluefur's perspective). Some Warriors fans really struggle to hold the abusive male characters to the same standard as their female detractors and it's a worrying/annoying trend, to say the least. With Bramblestar, it's harder to see it the first time you read the books and don't have somebody point out to you how eh he is written but Thistleclaw was deliberately written to be an abusive dickwad even before Spottedleaf's Heart and I honestly cannot wrap my head around why people continue to ignore that. And no: "disregarding Spottedleaf's Heart as canon" does not make him a good character either. All sorts of yikes about that, by the way.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking Thistleclaw as a villain but God, if people could stop trying to argue he's simply a "misunderstood family man", that would be great. Especially when Crowfeather is right there and fits that archetype better.

[butterflies-dragons]

Hey! There was a giant lemon cake with phallic image in alayne chapter. Do you think it some coincidence or it means something? Especially it's presented by petyr. Also Sansa and her enemies giving her lemoncakes give same vibes as Hansel&gretel story.

And best of all, Lord Nestor’s cooks prepared a splendid subtlety, a lemon cake in the shape of the Giant’s Lance, twelve feet tall and adorned with an Eyrie made of sugar.

For me, Alayne thought, as they wheeled it out. Sweetrobin loved lemon cakes too, but only after she told him that they were her favorites. The cake had required every lemon in the Vale, but Petyr had promised that he would send to Dorne for more.

—The Winds of Winter - Alayne I

Petyr Baelish is grooming Sansa, that’s the awful truth. And he has studied Sansa, he knows what she likes/wants and he will use that knowledge in his favor.

He knows she had a distant relationship with Ned, so he becomes Alayne’s father.

He knows that Ned neglected her and that she always craved for her father’s validation, so he gives her that, he praised her wits for example, and called her clever and smart. 

If Sansa says something like “I can’t” or “I don’t know”, he is there to encourage and support and tell her “you can do it” & “you know it”.  

He knows she loves knights and tourneys, so he allows her to organize a tournament, whose winners will belong to a kind of “Kingsguard” for Sweetrobin, based on the child’s favorite hero of the legends: The Winged Knight, Ser Artys Arryn.

He knows she loves lemon cakes, so he gives her a giant lemon cake.    

The Tyrells has used the same strategy:

"Sansa," Lady Alerie broke in, "you must be very hungry. Shall we have a bite of boar together, and some lemon cakes?"

"Lemon cakes are my favorite," Sansa admitted.

"So we have been told," declared Lady Olenna, who obviously had no intention of being hushed. "That Varys creature seemed to think we should be grateful for the information. I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off. Alerie, will you have them bring the food, or do you mean to starve me to death? Here, Sansa, sit here next to me, I'm much less boring than these others. I hope that you're fond of fools."

—A Storm of Swords - Sansa I

We all know how much Sansa loves her lemon cakes, but the Tyrells and Littlefinger really treat her as if she were a child like Sweetrobin:

"Will they be lemon cakes?" Lord Robert loved lemon cakes, perhaps because Alayne did.

"Lemony lemony lemon cakes," she assured him, "and you can have as many as you like."

"A hundred?" he wanted to know. "Could I have a hundred?"

"If it please you." She sat on the bed and smoothed his long, fine hair. He does have pretty hair. Lady Lysa had brushed it herself every night, and cut it when it wanted cutting. After she had fallen Robert had suffered terrible shaking fits whenever anyone came near him with a blade, so Petyr had commanded that his hair be allowed to grow. Alayne wound a lock around her finger, and said, "Now, will you get out of bed and let us dress you?"

"I want a hundred lemon cakes and five tales!"

I'd like to give you a hundred spankings and five slaps. You would not dare behave like this if Petyr were here. The little lord had a good healthy fear of his stepfather. Alayne forced a smile. "As my lord desires. But nothing till you're washed and dressed and on your way. Come, before the morning's gone." She took him firmly by the hand, and drew him out of bed.

—A Feast for Crows - Alayne II

The lemon cake in the shape of the Giant’s Lance

The Giant's Lance is the tallest peak of the Mountains of the Moon within the Vale of Arryn, extending three and a half miles above the the valley below.

The great-grandfather of Petyr Baelish was a Braavosi sellsword that came into the Vale of Arryn at the service of Lord Corbray. His line was continued by his son, who became a hedge knight and took the head of the Titan of Braavos as his sigil.

As I mentioned in this post, a sword, Ice in particular, works as a phallic symbol in Sansa’s chapters. 

So, we can also make this association:

The Titan of Braavos = A Giant

The Giant’s Lance = Tallest Peak

Lance & Peak = phallic symbols 

Lemon cake in the shape of the Giant’s Lance = I don’t want to write it 

We can also say that Petyr Baelish is “compensating” his “shortfalls”, after all he is a short man called Littlefinger.  

Yes, I think this giant lemon cake could be seen as a phallic symbol and it makes sense with Littlefinger grooming her... yikes

¡¡¡SOMEONE SAVE HER PLEASE!!!   

My friend @lostlittlesatellites has already wrote about these subjects, giant lemon cake as phallic symbol and Hansel and Gretel story: 

I argued that lemon cakes in Sansa’s arc actually spell people trying to exploit Sansa’s weakness in an almost Hansel & Gretel way and a betrayal that follows.

“Interestingly Sansa’s first chapter in AGOT poses questions that will drive majority of her arc. Her desire for a courtly life in the South will not only prove to be hollow but worse a dream that turns into nightmare. Sansa asks two questions: “What could you want to see? It’s just fields and farms and holdfasts” and “Why would you want to ride a smelly old horse and get all sore and sweaty when you could recline on feather pillows and eat cakes with the queen?”

The world is larger than Sansa has been taught to believe, reclining more inward into her dreams with the strict regime that she taught to look away from the window. She doesn’t think she is prepared enough and that she needs more training. Yes, she doesn’t know enough but neither does Arya or Bran or Jon. Having Sansa finally leave her cage after completing her tutelage under Littlefinger is continuing that student-teacher dynamic she has had since Septa Mordane. People come to love the security of the cage they live in too long. This is why it takes so long to take out the fear of the outside from Sansa because the fact that she has barely any experience keeps her thinking she needs someone to rely on.

[…]

The “Feather pillows and cakes with the queen” part represents the glamour that attracts little boys and girls like Sansa. However, it is hollow as Sansa comes to realise about many things. In fact, people offering Sansa lemon cakes in Sansa’s storyline often forebodes a betrayal from the person offering it. Cersei offers her lemon cakes and a few chapters later she has Lady executed and even later, she has Ned arrested. Olenna offers Sansa lemon cakes, which Varys offers as valuable information to bring her guard down in order to lure her into her trap of marrying her to Wilas and getting hold of Winterfell and the North. They have her wear the murder weapon, which could implicate her for Joffrey’s murder even if their target is Tyrion. Littlefinger is offering her a 12 foot phallic shaped lemon cake in Sansa’s TWOW chapter. Given how happy Sansa is in this chapter that she is almost forgetting that she isn’t Alayne, the food is way too lavish when Winter is coming and along with this trend with lemon cakes, the clock is going to strike 12 and the illusion is going to break very soon. Soon Sansa will prefer riding those “smelly horses” and getting sweaty and sore in order to escape over those lemon cakes and feather beds offered by untrustworthy people. For Sansa’s arc to be fulfilling she has to experience the lives of small folk up close before she helps them. As a character whose view range is often myopic, she has to be put in the middle of the lives of the small folk to truly understand them.”

I highly recommend you to check @lostlittlesatellites blog, she’s a great ASOIAF meta writer, you can read more about these subjects here and here. She covered a lot of themes and symbolisms around Sansa in the Vale, some of them very disturbing regarding Littlefinger’s present and future actions against Sansa...   

But despite all that, since GRRM is a writer that likes to give different meanings to a same thing, there are also some very interesting details that are worthy to mention about the real Giant’s Lance:

So lovely. The snow-clad summit of the Giant's Lance loomed above her, an immensity of stone and ice that dwarfed the castle perched upon its shoulder. Icicles twenty feet long draped the lip of the precipice where Alyssa's Tears fell in summer. A falcon soared above the frozen waterfall, blue wings spread wide against the morning sky. Would that I had wings as well. 

—A Feast for Crows - Alayne I

The Winged Knight was Ser Artys Arryn. Legend said that he had driven the First Men from the Vale and flown to the top of the Giant's Lance on a huge falcon to slay the Griffin King.  

—A Feast for Crows - Alayne II

I can see strong dragon imagery here... 

I already wrote about how Sansa wishing falcon wings could be foreshadowing of her getting dragon wings.  

Here I also listed all the similarities between Jon and Sweetrobin.

But the most interesting detail is that the real Giant’s Lance is Stone covered by Ice/Snow. 

Sansa’s Vale arc has a lot of connections with Jon Snow, like this parallel that I called “Children of the Mountains”.

There is also the names of the waycastles Stone (Alayne) and Snow (Jon).

And one of my favorite Jon Snow reference in Sansa’s chapters, the ghost wolf, big as mountains:

All around was empty air and sky, the ground falling away sharply to either side. There was ice underfoot, and broken stones just waiting to turn an ankle, and the wind was howling fiercely. It sounds like a wolf, thought Sansa. A ghost wolf, big as mountains.

—A Feast for Crows - Alayne II

So, 

The Giant’s Lance is the tallest peak of the Mountains of the Moon.

The Giant’s Lance is Stone covered by Ice/Snow.

Sansa compared those mountains with a giant Ghost Wolf.  

I’m sorry Littlefinger, you can’t touch this girl!

Thanks for your message.

[darkshadowismyspiritanimal]

hcs for tokoyami dating a girl that likes pink, keeps up with the latest fashion trends, girly girl??? love ur work by the way

//Note: I said I’d post this ages ago and didn’t. Yikes, my bad. Hope you enjoy!// 

Tokoyami puts a lot of effort into his aesthetic, so he admires people who do the same. 

So, when he meets you, he is in awe of how dedicated you are to your aesthetic. 

I mean - keeping up with the latest fashion trends isn’t easy. 

So that you are so on point means you put a lot of time and effort into your style, and he’s honestly super impressed by that. 

This is Tokoyami, so he has no intention of ever telling you that he likes your. Like ever. 

He’s more the type to just secretly admirer you and hope you get everything you want in life and are happy while also having all the angst and heartbreak that only Dark Shadow is aware of. 

Of course, you ruin his plan almost immediately by choosing to strike up a conversation with - of everyone in 1-A - him. 

You compliment his aesthetic and immediately start asking what his inspirations were, etc. 

And Tokoyami does not know how to respond for a moment (which is so unusual considering his large supply of angsty one-liners that are always ready to be of use) because you were asking him about his aesthetic. 

Thank goodness his feathers hide when he’s flustered. 

Honestly everyone in the class immediately suspects he at least thinks you’re cute - those who really know him know he’s already crushing way too hard. 

1-A ships it. 

1-B ships it. 

Y’all are Hawks OTP. 

No seriously, as soon as Hawks gets a hint of Tokoyami having a crush he’s all up in his birb’s business. 

Hawks is dedicated to the cause and the cause is getting you two together. 

You pretend to be oblivious for Tokoyami’s sake - but honestly its a sigh of relief because now you know your crush likes you back. 

Once you two are dating, Tokoyami surprises you with a lot of gifts that show just how much he pays attention to your aesthetic. 

If a new clothing store is on trend he’ll get you a gift card, or pick you up some accessory you just need. 

It’s really cute. 

Also you two go shopping together. Like all the time. He was never the biggest fan of shopping but you make it so much easier and he loves that. 

[bokutosbestie2]

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Ah thanks to those who are reading this story! Love you all ☻

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Y/N Pov:

After getting dropped off by Atsumu, I check my phone to only see 20 miss calls from Semi.

Yikes, he probably thought I died or something...

I decide to call him back.

" Hello. "

" Y/N WHAT HAPPEN TO YOU! I WAS TRYING TO FIND YOU ALL OVER THE PARTY! " he shouted through the phone.

" OK FIRST OF ALL CALM DOWN! I'M OK DON'T WORRY! "

" Thank GOSH! I REALIZED YOU WERE GONE AROUND 3 am?! "

" Wow what a nice friend realizing I was gone after 5 hours at the party! " I say with sarcasm.

" HEY! AT LEAST I REMEMBER?! "

" YEA! You right... " I laughed.

" OH ALSO?! How did you get home your car is still at the Venue?! " Semi asks confused.

" WELL!  A guy name Atsumu helped me out when I was completely out! "

" ATSUMU?! THE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER?! LIKE THE REALLY GOOD ONE?! "

" Yea?! The one with the twin! "

Why is he so surprised?

" DO YOU GUYS KNOW EACH OTHER?! "

" No, we just met last night! How do you know him ?" I asked curiously.

" We used to play volleyball together in high school same with his brother Osamu! Also, Osamu catered for the party! "

" Hmm, interesting... Well, I met Osamu at his restaurant."

" Osamu is the calmer twin but he still pretty crazy, on the other hand, Atsumu is a big flirt with the girls watch out!" Semi laughs on the phone.

" Yea not interested. "

" Haha, that's a loss for him! Anyways you need a break from volleyball players. " Semi laughs.

" Yea I do! Alright SEMI SEMI I'm gonna get going now I have to finish a couple of things from work. Also, I need to cure this hangover before tomorrow. "

" Ok then ILL LET YOU GO! BYE! "

" Bye Semi! "

We both end the call.

Now I need to find a way to get my car before noon because I have tons of work to do.

I can't ask Semi to take me there because he staying at a friend's house, I can probably ask Kenma to help me. I haven't seen him in a while so maybe we can catch up a little also.

I shoot a text to Kenma.

Texting on phone:

Y/n: “ Hey are you free right now? “

5 minutes later

Kenma: " yea why? "

Y/n: " Do you think you can come over right now?!

Kenma: " I don't see why not. "

Y/n: " PERFECT! "

I put my phone down on the counter and change into different clothes because I was still in Atsumu shirt.

I guess I'll be keeping the shirt until we meet again, or if we ever.

30 minutes later

I hear my doorbell ring, and it was Kenma.

" KENMAAA COME IN! " I say happily."

" Hey what's up its been a while! " he says as he went in for a hug.

" Nothing really.. "

" Bs I heard you and Kageyma broke up.. "

" FROM WHO?! " I say confused.

" Hinata... "

" OH YEAAA HIS BESTFRIEND... "

" Yea, he didn't really tell him but Hinata suspected when he texts him " how are things going with y/n, " and let's say he didn't take it well. " Kenma said in a conflicted tone.

" WHY did he not take it WELL! He the one who broke up with me?!" I say angrily.

" Did he ever tell you why he broke up with you? " Kenma asked.

" No, he just said I dOn'T LOvE yOu aNyMoRE "

I’m so annoyed right now why is he acting like the victim.

" That's it? " Kenma was surprised.

" YEA! "

" Oh wow, I really didn't think that the reason like... Strange."

" Who cares, I don't like him either. "

Obviously, I was still hurting but it's fine I don't need him.. Screw him.

" If you say so! "

Kenma Pov:

Yea no she still likes him...

Y/N Pov:

" Enough about him... DO you want to help me get my car?! "

" Wheres your car? " Kenma asks confused

" UH well, It's at a Venue.. "

" Did you go to a party or something? "

" Yea Semi had a party yesterday and let's say I got a little too wasted... BUT don't worry someone helped me out... "

" Uh, who helped you out? "

" I don't know if you know him but he is also a Volleyball player, his name is Atsumu the last name is Miya? "

" Wait a minute the one with the twin? "

" YEA HIM!"

" Are guys friends?! " Kenma asks

" No, I literally just met him last night. "

" Atsumu is a nice guy he just a big flirt. "

" THAT'S WHAT SEMI SAID?! "

" Well, it's because he is always out with a new girl every week. "

" Yea no thanks... " I say weirded out.

" Ok, so are we going to get your car?! " Kenma asks in a bored tone.

" Ok, let us go! "

I got into Kenma's car, luckily the venue is only 20 minutes away.

" AHH MY Precious car!! " I shouted.

" SHEEZ be louder next time will ya. "

" Kenma stop being grumpy... " I say as I try to keep in my laugh.

" Yea whatever go get your car now! "

" Already kicking me out... "

" Yes! "

" AH YOUR SO COLD! " I laugh

" Ok well thank you Kenma! We actually need to hang out ok?! "

" Fine... We will one of these days. " he smiles.

I get out of the car, wave to Kenma then I get in my car.

Finally, I can go home now and start working on projects.

After the 20 minute drive, I get in my house and start working on the three projects.

Meanwhile At this time:

Atsumu pov:

I'm sitting on the couch, my phone started buzzing uncontrollably.

What the heck.

I flip my phone over only to see texts from my friends. I open up the group chat and see something unexpected. A PHOTO OF ME AND Y/N IN THE CAR ON “ THE PEOPLES “ TWITTER PAGE.

The big 4 :

Sakusa: Oh so is she another new girl?

Bokuto: Already Atsumu?!

Hinata:  Isn't that Kageyama's ex!

Me: NO NO THEY GOT IT WRONG WE ARE NOT GOING OUT!

Me: ALSO HINATA DID YOU JUST SAY?! KAGEYAMA EX?!

So that's who broke her... What a small world.

Sakusa: Sure that's what you say about every girl..

Bokuto: Can we get a Rip

Hinata: Rip.. Also Yes

Sakusa: Rip

Sakusa: Damn already making moves on a girl who broke up with her boyfriend.

Bokuto: Wow..

Hinata: HAHA I WONDER HOW KAGS IS GOING TO REACT TO THIS..

Me: CAN YOU GUYS STOP THAT?!  YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG...

Sakusa: Ok then if she, not a random hook up who is she, and does she know she on " the people's " Twitter account label as mystery girl?!

Bokuto: YEA DOES SHE KNOW!?

Oh my, we just met and she isn't going to like this.

Me: NO SHE DOESNT KNOW...But she was some random girl at the party Osamu was catering. I decided to help her out because she was alone and drunk so I took her to Osamu's house, so she can sober up. The next morning I took her home because she left her car at the Venue... I DIDNT THINK THE Paparazzi WOULD CARE SO MUCH?!

Hinata: Wow Atsumu that was nice of you.

Bokuto: ^^^

Sakusa: Well you're going to have to tell her or do something about it because we all know how crazy your fangirls get.

Me: Fine fine let me tell her right now.

After texting the group chat, I was about to text y/n only to remember... I don't have her number, but I think Osamu has her number.

I texted Osamu, now I have to wait for him to respond.

Now back to y/n :

Finally, I'm almost done with this projects...

Then all of sudden I get a text from Tendou.

I looked at my phone and I can't believe what I see... He sends me a screenshot of Me and Atsumu in the car... It was trending on Twitter. The title was " Star setter mystery girl? "

Texting On phone:

Tendou: I didn't know you guys were going out?

Y/n: OH MY GOSH? Please tell me this is a joke?!

Tendou: No I don't think so...

Y/n: WE ARE NOT GOING OUT... I MET HIM LAST NIGHT!

I explained to Tendou what happened last night.

Tendou: this Has to be the most miss interpreted picture ever. LMAO!!

Y/n: YEA IT IS NOW EVERYONE AT WORK IS GOING TO ASK ME... OH NO KAGEYAMA PROBABLY SAW THIS!

Tendou: HAHAHA.. WHO CARES HE BROKE UP WITH YOU... His loss..

Y/n: YOUR RIGHT! BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE KNOW AS ATSUMU ANOTHER GIRL?! I DON'T EVEN KNOW THE GUY!

Tendou: Has he talked to you about it?!

Y/n: No HE DOESNT EVEN HAVE MY NUMBER?!

Tendou: Well this is going to be fun to watch...

Y/n: NO it's NOT..

I stressfully put my phone down on the counter...

What I'm I going to do?! HOW DID I GET INTO TO THIS MESS?

I hear another notification go off on my phone... It was an unknown number.

Text message:

Hey can we talk?

Y/n: Who is this?

Atsumu: Its Atsumu

Y/n: NO WE CANT TALK DID YOU SEE TWITTER?

Atsumu: YES I KNOW THAT'S WHY I WANT TO TALK?

Y/n: Also? HOW DID YOU GET MY NUMBER?

Atsumu: OSAMU GAVE IT TO ME!

oh, yea I forgot I gave him my number.

Atsumu: WELL HEAR ME OUT! This will die down tomorrow, me and the team are leaving for Osaka in the morning so you don't even have to see me again.

Y/n: Sheez that's a harsh way to put it.

Atsumu: I mean if you want to see me you can~

Oh my, I can hear his flirtatious tone from here.

Y/n: NO!

Atsumu: AW you're SO MEAN!

Atsumu: ALSO I DIDNT KNOW Kageyama was your boyfriend...

Y/n: Who told you that?

Atsumu: Hinata! We play on the same team..

Y/n: OH Gosh NOW IT SEEMS LIKE IM JUMPING AROUND Guy to Guy...

Atsumu: YOU THINK IT MAKES YOU SEEM BAD? IT MAKES ME SEEM BAD TOO!

Y/n: Atsumu Shut up! Everyone knows you're a big flirt.. now I'm going to seem like I'm one of your little playthings.

Y/n: WHAT IM GOING TO SAY at WORK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO ASK IF WE HOOKED UP?!

Atsumu: I have an Idea.. What if we pretend we're dating?

Y/n: HUH?

Atsumu: It will fix both our reputation.. I won't be seen as the guy who hooks up with every chick and people at work can stop questioning you. There's a BONUS we can make Kageyama jealous... You can win him back.

Y/n: IF we do this... together in private we don't have to act as a couple right.. I just MET YOU...

Atsumu: Yea don't worry your not even my type, this should be easy because I won't be near you.

Y/n: DEAL!

Atsumu: PERFECT! Just let me know if anything happens tomorrow! Ill fill you in too!

Y/n: Fine.

I place my phone down on the nearby table.

WHAT HAVE I DONE? IS THIS REALLY GOING TO WORK?

Atsumu pov:

Why couldn't have it been with much cuter girl? Now no girl is going to talk to me.. Stupid paparazzi.

Chapter 5

[thatblondeperson]

So I learnt from that Tim Drake Guy's tumblr that Steph is a bully and abusive with Tim is that true. I ask since I know you seem to agree with a lot of the thoughts expressed on that blog. Can you help me find some examples of Tim/Steph comics. I was going to get YJ but the same tumblr blog says it's bad

So I want to preface with some very solid advice I've learned from being in fandom. It's really hard to learn anything from any blog because so much of it is opinion based, that the line between headcanon and canon gets far too muddied too often, and there's also always going to be biases that come from very personal spaces. It's important to take everything that every blog says ESPECIALLY in the DC fandom, with a very large grain of salt because half the fandom really doesn't actually seem to source their information with anything other than out of context panels, shitposts, or their own perfect ideals of what they want to gleam from the pages of each comic. It's all interpretive, and I'm sure that sounds a little bit petty, but I'm adding myself in here too because I have my own opinions separate from others, despite my firm ideology in staying as close to canon as I possibly can.

As far as that blog, I actually strayed away from them because I no longer agreed with a lot of what was being said. It got to the point where it was getting very unnecessarily negative all the time, and I want no part in this ship war that drives practically every bit of drama in the Tim fandom. I think that there is a lot of merit to some of the opinions on that blog, and they're clearly an expert on Tim in many ways. I knew them personally, so I can attest to that. But I think they also read only what they WANT to read on every page, and I think that makes for a lot of gaps where misinformation can leak in. That got filled with a lot of straight up wrong assessments of Stephanie Brown, and unfortunately that blog was already prime traffic for antis to spew unnecessary hate, so once the blog itself got on board, I tapped out.

No, Stephanie is not an abuser or a bully. I think tumblr throws around the word abuse far too casually. At most, Steph teases Tim, but never to a malicious or purposefully hurtful extent. She pokes at him, just like you would with a best friend. He barely even protests. A simple "Steph..." every now and again, but he even teases her back often and jokes with her. She's not an abuser, in fact, she herself is a victim of severe abuse in her childhood. Her flirting at the beginning of her and Tim's relationship is a bit intense, but she's 15, and doesn't know how to catch his attention. Her boyfriend was clearly way older than her and did not treat her well, her father abused her mother, and she was sexually harassed by her father's friends. She's never seen a healthy relationship to know how to act. Once they get together, she mellows out and is actually very compassionate and kind with Tim, and especially supportive.

A lot of haters throw around all this terrible stuff she did.

They say she stole Robin from Tim. He stepped away from the mantle, and she thought she caught him cheating, and Bruce opened up the opportunity for her.

They highlight a time when she almost blew Tim up. Bruce told her to do something drastic to force Tim to be a better Robin. Should she have thought it through? Yes. But she was young, and still desperate to prove herself.

Steph is a loose canon throughout a lot of her appearances. She doesn't always think before she acts, and that is one of her major flaws. She gets into trouble often, and that causes a lot of tension between her and Tim, often from him becoming overprotective of her.

Steph starts out fairly cynical in the beginning and softens up over time. After the explosion stunt with Tim, she does get her act together and she goes through a fantastic character arc where she really improves upon herself. She becomes a beacon of hope, but she really already was one. She's always been a source of light for Tim. She's a constant tether for him throughout their relationship, and she constantly bringing him back to reality. I think their dynamic is really great, and it does hurt me a lot how often she gets dragged through the mud now. It's tumblr, what can you do?

It's also interesting to me how often Steph is called out for being the unhealthy one, and they never talk about how Tim was the shitty boyfriend way more often:

Kept his identity from her but didn't respect keeping hers private

Kissed her when he was dating someone else at the time (he's actually kinda known for subtle two-timing, but this is hardly brought up by fans)

Essentially stalked her for a while

Often told her she needed to stop being Spoiler (overprotective nature yes...but still)

Interesting how the relationship is only toxic because of Steph. Hell she even gets shit for getting upset that Greta straight up tried to kill her in Young Justice, because they think it was selfish of her that she was desperate to learn Robin's identity. Yeah sorry...murder vs wanting to know your crushes name? Which is worse?

I'm also not going to sit here and demand that everyone love Steph. It's ok that people don't like her, I could give 2 shits, but if they're gonna spew hate, I'd prefer it be rooted in truth. Some of what I see written about her is just so so wrong...there's a trend in anti culture to even write her as Tim's rapist which YIKES. That's so beyond a healthy amount of dislike for a character.

Anyway, comic recs!!!

Detective Comics 647-648. (First appearance of Steph/Spoiler with classic "love at first brick" moment.)

Robin 57-65 (First date issue which is the cutest thing ever. Robin does a little flip at the end because he's so happy. And the chronology of Steph being pregnant which Tim was supportive of the whole time. Super sweet)

Robin 100-104 (Steph gets sick and Tim brings her soup. Lots of cute domestic moments, and you get more into Steph's past)

Robin 111 (more about Steph's past with Tim being super supportive, also the infamous piano issue which is a personal favorite of mine)

Robin 116 (very cute moments after Tim forgets his bday and everyone, Steph included, surprises him)

Robin 119 (supportive bf Tim, strikes again)

Robin 120 (Steph being an amazing supportive gf)

Batgirl 8 (Steph's run, where she and Tim collide again for the first time in a long time. Awkwardness and tension ensues, Tim tries to make a move)

Red Robin 10 (more crossover, very fun. More awkwardness and tension)

Convergence Batgirl (Not the best run, but a nice bit of closure for the pre flashpoint universe. Very sweet and wholesome.)

There's way more that I could list but I'm awful with issue numbers tbh. I know the stories, but I don't have the catalogue memorized. Better people than me have probably made a masterlist of TimSteph comics lol

I don't think you should let any blog turn you away from any particular series. I think if you wanna try out the new YJ, go for it!! I'm very cynical to anything published post 2011, but YJ is the only thing I've consistently read that's NEW, in years. I find it fun. Is it the best? No, not by miles, and it gets stuck with a lot of nonsensical filler often. But it's still a very cute and fun run.

I hope this ask gave you a lot of good info! I also recommend the very long post that should be just below this that goes into a lot of fandom misconceptions about Stephanie brown with more picture examples to highlight everything. Thanks for the ask, anon! I hope you have a lovely time reading these comics and hopefully many more!!

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