#you should have this knowledge

[half-a-life-left]

spamton puts some knowledge to good use

[ohitslen]

Kiss gun!

Based on this tweet!

[kaiserouo]

"Huh."

[bethanydelleman]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you bring credentials instead of evidence to an argument, you must be in want of a loss.

However well known the source of your education, your experience ought to make you better at citing evidence, not at demanding absolute acceptance of anything you happen to say, related or unrelated to your field of interest.

To be considered accomplished, a debtor must have a thorough knowledge of the source material.

[blue-jos10]

‘wow dr minyard how are you so calm and patient even with the insane ones?’

‘i’ve had practice.’

[wackywatchdotcom]

ive been thinking about this concept for WEEKS

[sunlight-shunlight]

my personal headcanon is that after flemythal uses the well's power on my lavellan for the first time, it sort of forcibly readjusts her accent when speaking elvhen, from "reasonably fluent modern dalish" to "crisply upper-class ancient arlathan". and she doesn't actually notice this at the time, bc by the time it happens, she's already Experienced Crestwood, and doesn't speak elvhen often otherwise.

but the next time she talks to solas and drops in a word or phrase in (stilted and unhappy) conversation, he very much does notice the shift, and feels a sense of palpable horror that she's already been a bit changed.

[revvethasmythh]

It actually feels very meaningful when Laudna tells Orym, "You wield a blade gifted by the Voice of the Tempest, why would want this wretched thing?" and Orym pauses for a long second before saying, "The blade's from my family, first."

Whether this was intentional or a slip of memory, Laudna does not know the origin of Orym's sword. She connected it to a gift from a powerful political figure, not from Orym's husband, who gave it to him and is the reason he still carries it as a poignant connection to a lost loved one and also a reminder of what the Vanguard has taken from him and countless others. Paired with her asking him, "Why do you care so much?" and Orym turning to the others to answer for him because he's made it very clear for a very long time why, exactly, he cares so much, it feels telling that Laudna is not actually considering and/or aware of the place he's coming from in this conversation.

She doesn't even know where Seedling came from.

[buttercupshands]

I've been thinking a lot lately

ref to the quote under the cut

under the cut for maybe some people that would like to try and guess *shruggs*

[gildui]

JONATHAN PRICE » BRAVO SIX cr: John Price

GAZ ✖︎ GHOST ✖︎ SOAP ✖︎ BRAVO SIX

[greenconvor]

Friend: I don’t like that one Jedi lady

Me: Who?

Friend: The one with the two white lightsabers

Me: *trying to stay calm while talking about my favorite character* Ahsoka?

Friend: Yeah! I didn’t like her

Me: *taking deep, calming breaths*

Me: Okay. How come?

Friend: Her tv show made no sense

Me:

Me:

Me:

Me: Did you watch Rebels?

Friend: What? No I haven’t watched any of the animated sho—

Me:

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Peeped the horrors

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[conspiracy-frog]

Hohenheim is a really interesting character to me and I liked him quite a bit when first watching fmab but now every time I rewatch it I find myself more and more bitching about the man lol . Not character wise but DAMN every time some shit happens I can't help but go " HM maybe that could have been avoided had he not left his wife to die alone and orphan his children" IDK just a suggestion my guy if you can dick around in Liore 3 days before the apocalypse you are clearly not busy enough to not pick up the phone and dial home 😭. Maybe your eyes hurt cause your prescription is bad but you can also show more facial expressions than contempt when looking at your small children idk where they could have possibly gotten the idea that you hate them. Or probably most critically I know you are heartbroken and also emotionally inept but perhaps ... don't antagonize your son after seeing him for the first time in however many years ? Like huh I wonder why he would react like that when the first thing his deadbeat old man did was berate him for how he responded to the death of his ONLY guardian after the other one seemingly abandoned him?? And then asked about the house as if he even lived there??? I'm BEGGING Hohenheim to please ask one of the Xerxians inside his soul to give him parenting tips I'm sure they have at least some he needs help

[glitter-stained]

I do think it bears repeating, fanfic writers can write whatever the fuck they want. It's not their responsibility to introduce readers to the canon because they are not writing canon they are writing fanwork!

If someone reads a fic about a coffeeshop and they assume the characters are coffeeshop part-timers, and it causes them issues in fan spaces because the characters in the source material are assassins, that is 100% on the reader for assuming that the hurt/comfort coffee-shop no cape AU was a fair representation of the source material. It's not supposed to be. Fanfic writers have no obligation to be canon-compliant.

If someone reads a fic that is not canon compliant, that is not the writer trying to convince you of their interpretation of canon. You should not assume that every fic is a character study with the same identical relationship dynamics as in canon because most fanworks are not an extension of canon nor are they obligated to be. And yes, even if the trope in question is popular fanon, even if other people will see it as gospel and not engage with source material and yk what, even if the trope itself, in the context of the actual source material, does a disservice to the character's arc. Because fanfics are not just fandom work, though it's very important that they are, they are also stories in and of themselves, works that have value proper to itself and writers do not owe you canon compliancy.

I've written a fic with many fanon elements, including pit rage, and you know what, I like this fic. I wrote it because I wanted to write about a depressive episode with psychotic characteristics and I thought Jason -and elements from fanon Jason- would be interesting to explore that idea with, and I wrote about pit rage because I wanted to write about catharsis, and the pessimism that comes with growing up in fear of the idea of the cycle of violence and how internalized psychophobia (and classism but that wasn't explicit) feeds into that fear, and how the addition of an element like the Pit, which literally makes feeling emotions dangerous, in the context of a severe depressive episode, would fuck into that interplay, and screw Jason's priorities enough to trigger the switch from passive to active suicidality. There are other examples of fanon tropes I found interesting to explore in that fic, but I'm focusing on the pit rage thing in this example because it shows up a lot in this discourse.

I have read the damn comics. I mostly see late-onset Pit Madness as patchwork to salvage late post-crisis Jason, which I'm not often interested in as I don't often acknowledge those stories (especially with all the retcons and maybe retcons established since then), and I think using it in the context of Under the Hood is a disservice to his character. But just because that trope can be a disservice to an analysis of his character in canon, doesn't mean it can't be good for in the story I am telling right now, which holds value in and of itself, because it has helped me process feelings and others have told me it has helped them and I do not owe anybody canon compliancy.

So when some little fucker commented a long ass paragraph on my fic about how it was one of the worst fics he'd ever read because everyone was OOC and condescendingly explained to me that my fic was way too nice to the batfam and none of them would do that- yk, I was angry. Because that fic was 5 chapters long and they commented on chapter 5. They had all the opportunity to stop, or at least not comment on their hate-read (which is a practice I've never understood). And most importantly, they assumed shit about my knowledge of canon based on their inability to view my work as anything but an extension of the canon they consume. They very clearly wanted something out of my jason-centric jason & batfam members fic that the tags should have told them they would not find there and instead of, I don't know, reading fucking Task Force Z, they decided that it was on me. But their inability to view my writing in its context, recognize my work for its own worth and stop assuming things about people they don't know for five fucking minutes was actually the problem. And it's, frankly, insulting as fuck.

I very rarely get hate comments, and that one was a long time ago -actually now that I think about it, it was almost an entire year ago. Readers are usually very nice to me and honestly, after how stressed I was of getting hate for the horse movie fic, I can't emphasize enough how much I love you guys and how lovely you've been.

However, I see takes on this website that shove the responsibility of "fanon" and people not engaging with the source material onto fanfic writers all the time and that annoys me so much. Canon is plural, self-contradictory, often OOC, has a multitude of problematic takes and honestly in the context of the batfam specifically, it's very depressing: I struggle to imagine them ever actually getting to the happy ending as a family together. So if Dick and Jason's relationship wrt Bruce makes me sad and I want to write or read fics in which Dick stands up to Bruce and protects his little brother, or I need the catharsis of a story about pit rage, or I'm mad at dc for glazing tim at the expense of other robins or at tim for being rude to a character i like, and i retaliate by putting tim into jason fanboy jail, that's just fine actually. That's a non-issue.

This essay has become way longer than I thought considering how simple the idea is, so here's the TLDR:

#1: Don't like, don't read.

#2: Fic writers do not owe you canon compliancy.

#3: Fic writers are not responsible for whatever fanon belief you're mad at.

#4: Stop assuming shit about fic writers based on what they write, you do not actually know these people.

#5: Fanfic is not just an extension of canon those are stories of their own merit.

#6: You have to respect fic writers even when you don't like their fic.

Or, to be even more concise:

Just don't be a dick.

[the--firevenus]

I had a dream of a crack dc twitter au where lex was talking shit about Thomas and Martha Wayne and Bruce who's always act like Brucie on twitter drop his act and start dox and threaten lex on twitter dot com

Everyone on shambles, someone accused what Bruce said sounded like what batman would say only for Bruce to reply back "he's not the only bitch that is Gotham born and raise.", the bat kids trying to take his phone away, lex fight back and they going to throw down logan Paul style behind some batburger, Oliver queen was like "WHY WOULD YOU ANGER HIM!? YOU WILL DIE!!" and people were like "WYM OLLIE!?!?" "there is a reason why the boarding school stories only about our make out......" man is traumatize.

Gothamites making bets and polls, Alfred pennyworth having war flashback to Bruce angry teenage years and know he can't stop him from kick lex ass behind batburger (him and ollie 🤝 burden by the knowledge ™), Jason and Damian is Bruce no 1 hypeman on all this, Dick was like just trying to save his father pr but it is rotten work, Tim and Cass trying to record the fight, Steph is out of town and pissed she missed all this but Babs save the footage for her

I can't make the twitter au thing so have this rambling and yapping

[quickfixinator]

ad astra per aspera

do do do do dooo doing the tumblr thing where I ramble about the thing that I made either in the tags or under the post. in this case I believe I will be doing both.

I find it a bit unfortunate with pieces like this that I've either workshopped for months or have thought about way too hard, how I end up having nothing to say about them at the end. someone explain that to me, or don't. that's cool too.

I made an alternate version where he's getting dragged down by bill hands because that's:

a) sick as hell

b) somewhat plot relevant

someone tell me if I should post that or not. is that cool or am I insane. I feel like I could've done more but what I've ended up with is satisfactory for me so I'll move on now. thanks for coming to my ted talk.