#you can reblog this if you want idc

[agnesandhilda]

yes being no contact with a parent will saddle you with tremendous grief and sorrow at seemingly random times but it's also kind of funny like. my life is a narrative and it's being haunted by a man with a bald spot

[dykescooby]

I kissed a beluga whale

[necrotic-nephilim]

this is not a ship post, but something that frustrates me a lot in fanon concerning Jason Todd that attempts to soften Jason's return to Gotham for the sake of found family domesticity or easy hurt/comfort or just sliding him into the Batfam sooner, is they all seem to fundamentally misunderstand Jason.

because there seem to be a lot of fandom popular concepts of Jason coming home much sooner and just not having his whole Under The Red Hood arc. which in theory is fine and i can see the want to simplify canon to make room for your lighthearted more fluff-leaning concepts. but in everyone without fail, the way they address the clown-shaped elephant in the room is by having some throwaway line that "oh Jason quietly kills the Joker and moves on".

when the Joker being dead or alive is not the *point*. if by some chance accident, the Joker had died prior to Jason's return, whether by ridiculous freak accident, getting whacked by a fellow villain, hell even someone actually doing so to avenge Jason, it *would not* satiate Jason's anger. because Jason's end goal in UtRH is not to simply kill the Joker: it is to make *Bruce* kill the Joker. Jason's anger is directed to the idea that to Jason, if Bruce truly loved Jason, he would've killed the Joker. that is love, for Jason. compromising your personal values for love and not letting someone go unavenged. when Jason was Robin, almost every angry or misguided thing he did was born of love. he wanted to kill/hurt Two-Face because he believed Dent killed his father. he was so angry at Felipe because an innocent woman was dead due to that man's actions. he wanted to save his mother in a situation he knew he shouldn't be in because he loved her. his anger, his violence, it is driven by love and feelings of righting wrongs. that is how he thinks wrongs *should* be righted. that is how you avenge and *love* someone.

because so long as Jason's return to Gotham doesn't end in Bruce killing the Joker (which, it never will bc Bruce is Bruce), Jason will never forgive Bruce. you cannot wave away the layers of hurt and complicated trauma by killing Joker offscreen. because Jason will still be angry that Bruce didn't avenge him. in his eyes, that means Bruce did not love him enough. he was not truly loved by Bruce the way he loved Bruce. bc Bruce was Jason's whole *world*. prior to being taken in, Dick and Tim, they had support systems. they had loved ones. they knew what stability and healthy family love looked like. Jason *didn't*. and that's not to say that Catherine Todd did not love him with her whole heart and thus he loved her, but it certainly wasn't a stable and safe support system for Jason to grow up in. Bruce was Jason's first real sense of a stable, healthy life. and so of course Jason poured everything into Bruce and loved Bruce so devoutly. Bruce was his world. like he says, if it had been Bruce, Jason would've stopped at nothing.

so his betrayal is rooted in that he was not avenged, not that Joker is alive. so long as the Joker does not die by Bruce's hands, it will never be enough for Jason. (in this era, at least.) notably, this is also why i don't think it would change a thing if Jason knew the whole "oh Bruce wanted to kill the Joker but Superman stopped him" tidbit that fanon has really latched onto as a way to pacify Jason's anger toward Bruce. Jason knowing that wouldn't change a thing, in my opinion. because Jason knows Bruce. and a tenant of Bruce's character is that he grapples with murder *every day*. the whole point is how *easy* it would be for him. he is a human weapon, trained by killers, trained to be deadly. he is the greatest strategist to exist. he knows he could kill someone and get away with it. *no* trace, no proof, nothing. and he knows he *wants* to. wants to kill the Joker, Joe Chill, anyone who's hurt him that viscerally.

but he *doesn't*. that's the point. Bruce wakes up every day with that question on his mind, and every day the answer is the same. Bruce's morality is not a decision he made in an alleyway when his parents died, it's a decision he continues to make every day and he *must* continue to make in order to remain who he is. Jason is quite familiar with the fact that Bruce grapples with this daily. i do not think it surprised nor fazed Jason to know that Bruce did *consider* killing the Joker. that he wanted to. maybe even planned to. but a consideration, a want, a plan, is just a thought. it's nothing substantial, and substance is everything to Jason. at the end of the day, Bruce didn't. he was talked down by *Clark* of all people with an excuse of diplomatic immunity, as if Jason and Bruce don't both know that Bruce could've *easily* found a way to make it look like an accident or some other loophole. because he's Batman. there's always a loophole. he always finds a way when he actually intends to. but he never actually intended to kill the Joker. so he didn't. and Jason would know that there was never an intent. it's an interesting piece of fodder to add to the nuance of Jason and Bruce, but honestly, i think it'd make Jason angrier to have that excuse thrown in his face. as if Bruce hasn't beaten Clark half a dozen times by now. it's a flimsy nonsense excuse that Jason would rip to shreds.

so while yes, i understand the wish for easy lighthearted fanfic that doesn't have to deal with the nuances of canon, i think that Jason's character will always be so deeply robbed and altered if you try to fix his thirst for vengeance with an off-page killing of Joker at Jason's hands. it was never the point. the point was that -in his own eyes- he wasn't loved enough for Bruce to make an acception. he realized that not even his *death* would come before Bruce's Mission. Jason truly believed that Bruce loved him and held him as the most important thing in the world, and now he has proof that Bruce didn't. because the Mission mattered more.

i'm not saying i have a solution to this conundrum if you're attempting to solve it for fanfic/fanon, nor am i even saying it's a bad thing it exists. i just think it becoming overwhelmingly common has led to misunderstandings surrounding Jason's motivations and feelings about this arc and it's an unsatisfying solution that only seeks to pacify Jason's rage and his trauma responses for the sake of found family-ification.

[zillychu]

you know that art collab meme where one person does the sketch, one does the lineart, one does colors, shading, etc? it'd be really cool to see artists just. do that and be like "cool I did this part, who wants to take over?"

even if someone already did lines and color and shading, you could still do your own lines. or add color to multiple people's lines. there could be dozens of versions of the same picture, all with different combinations of artists

cause I think sometimes to unwind, artists have a favorite part of the process. some of us just like to do rough messy sketches of an idea. some like to zen out doing lines but don't have the energy to think of a good subject/composition. sometimes adding shadows and glowing light is the fun part!

idk I'm not a big artists able to start trends or anything but I think it'd be cute and fun to have a tag that says "yeah feel free to add to this and pass it on (or finish it)"

like... #opencollab or something? hmm

[peteytheparrot]

Erm. Okay do you want this delivered as an ask just on your blog or do you want me to display the shameful fruits of my labour on my own blog.

That’s what your last post was about….. ON YOUR OWN BLOG LLLL 🔥🔥🔥🔥☄️☄️☄️☄️☄️😈😈😈😈😈😈

[transgender-chiroptera]

i wanna post more bats but they're juusstt niche enough that there aren't too many to reblog from other people and I can only queue so many at once.... This is the eternal struggle of the batblogger. If anyone could put me on to anyone else who regularly posts bats/bat art please do so! But yeah I need to follow more batbloggers.

[crackanronpa]

sorry for such a serious post here, and i'm kind of nervous writing this, but i figured it would be good to post it here

there is a real reason why mod kyoko is no longer part of this blog, and it's not just personal reasons we just didn't want to be out about it yet

as of writing this post i have made a proper callout post on mod kyoko on twitter, and you can find the post here

to summarize the post; he is an extremely obsessive stalker who constantly breaks boundaries, has abused and manipulated all of the members of this blog, has stalked a content creator so hard that they had to hard wipe most of their existence pre-content creation off the internet, victim blames everyone that he's ever abused by calling them the abusers and blaming them for their trauma, and he consistently is lgbtphobic in the form of being transphobic towards my partner (referring to them as if they're a cis woman), homophobic towards me (same reason as before, i'm a gay man by the way), and lesbophobic despite also fetishizing lesbians (also repeatedly trying to date them despite him considering himself a man)

the callout post is. hundreds of pages long, so if you want to suffer through reading it more power to you, it's a lot to take in and i'm still fucking shaking after posting it

but that callout post is the real reason mod kyoko is no longer part of this blog, and i just figured now that it's properly posted now, it might be a good idea to inform our followers why he's no longer a presence

sorry again for the serious posting but i talked with the others and they also agree that this is a post that needed to be made here

-mod kokichi

[peanut-with-wifi-access]

Was originally gonna send this as an ask to @skyclan-funny-name-squad but then I ended up ranting too long and decided to make my own post. Have fun with this idea, anyone who sees it.

[cishetlessfashion]

My families 14 year old doberman, Coconut, is being put down today 😥, so here she is in her cool industrial goth leg braces

This is a very recent photo btw like last week, look how well she aged, she's such a supermodel!

She had hip dysplasia for years and it finally caught up with her, she's a tough, sweet old girl, strongest dog I've ever met

[flautistsandpeonies]

Now, I'm already a pretty liberal blocker all round, but I think I've gotten to the point in this fandom where I block people over stuff I usually didn't before. Like say:

"Wei Wuxian is stupid" Blocked

"Wei Wuxian is annoying" Blocked

"Wei Wuxian is selfish" Blocked

"Wei Wuxian is lazy" Blocked

Or stuff that's just textually or factually wrong like:

Wei Wuxian actually can't play the dizi/is terrible at music. (I just....why??? Multiple times the story tells us that he's good. The only time it was bad was because he was using a reed and intentionally playing it wrong. It literally says, point blank, that he's doing it like that on purpose.)

Everyone found Wei Wuxian annoying, childish, etc. (You're starting to sound like Jin Zixun. They hate him but sometimes people would outright defend him and his skills/character.)

Wei Wuxian was using Lan Wangji. (asgfghlkjin HUH!?)

Everyone knew Wei Wuxian had come back immediately. (They didn't. It literally took half a year for the cultivation sects to find out he had returned, and they only found out cause Jin Guangyao used information that Wei Wuxian couldn't possibly have known- Subian sealing itself. Lan Wangji found out because Wei Wuxian played the song that he didn't know Lan Wangji wrote. Jiang Cheng found out because he happened to be there when Wei Wuxian's cynophobia caused him to panic. Lan Xichen sort of knew because Lan Wangji would only bring Wei Wuxian to the Cloud Recesses. And Nie Hauisang is the reason he's back in the first place. Literally everyone found out by chance/a headshaker's planning.)

Blocked Blocked Blocked Blocked Blocked

[necrotic-nephilim]

in lieu of having posted any writing/headcanons/asks in the past few days because i have been *so* busy and unable to do anything fandom-related which is terrible and evil, i have a poll out of morbid curiosity and self-indulgence. i've been meaning to ramble here about how i feel about DC's lack fo Deaf representation and which Batfam members i would personally make Deaf, but i am mildly curious about the larger opinion and now i will subject you all to the question, i would love to hear thoughts/opinions/headcanons on any specific choices. (would love d/Deaf/HoH opinions esp but i'm mostly expecting this to reach the hearing crowd, so opinions from hearing ppl are ones i'm very curious about. if you've never given it thought before you are going to now or else /lh)

[godmerlin]

Happy 50th Birthday to the man, the myth, the legend that is Robbie Williams. He's been such a massive part of my life for almost as long as I can remember. It doesn't seem possible he is at this milestone birthday but boy am I glad he is!!!! We didn't loose him!!! I will forever be grateful for the 3 concerts of his I was able to attend. (And hope for more in the future) and that I got to meet him in the flesh. Also that one time he instagramed lived me and I ruined infinity war for him 🤣 he's just that concrete in my life. And no. I don't care if you think it's lame, or don't like him...or don't know who he is. This is my blog, my space, and he's an important part of who I am as a person. So anyway, this is just my ramblings.

I am so proud of him. I am so happy for him. I am so truly inspired by him.

I love him.

So yes, I hope this birthday is the best one yet!!!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[hollowslantern]

(data for size) the way you could do a critical thinking exercise bit out of this post about critical thinking. like. did the original post bring up arguments over author morality? if not, why did the replier, vergess, decide to bring this into the discussion? what kind of things might an artist create that would bring their morals into question? what motivations might vergess have for defending such authors on a post where criticism against them had not been raised? let's look at vergess's ao3 profile, linked publicly in its pinned post. what is your opinion of the works posted and bookmarked on this account? do you feel they add important context to vergess's reply, and do you find your opinion changed as a result?

[genesisvirus]

it may be my own gender weirdness but i love seeing people hc characters as trans but the opposite direction of their canon genders

tails? yea he can be transmasc. but she can also be transfem! shadow? yea that's a girl now. sonic? actually- i have a problem with that one. only becuz everyone draws her with pants like NO!!! she would NOT wear pants she'd wear a skirt!! come on guys!!

[spynorth]

Lucas North + insert cool theme idea here.

[siren-serotonin]

i love being both an artist and author bc extra suffering creatively yay!!