#*violent impulse*

[agoodpretender]

He’s so goofy I hope he lives forever and ever

[prlssprfctn]

"If I had a nickel everytime one of my parental figures that I trusted and loved led me to this specific spot in Ethiopia under false pretenses I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice."

Context: Death in the Family + Batman and Robin (2011) #20

-🐳

this is insane, but so true—

which hurt more, Sheila betraying him like this for herself, or Bruce, re-traumatising him, because Damian ultimately means to him more than Jason does now? i bet it was the second one. i bet Jason knew that if places switched, Bruce wouldn't retraumatise others for his sake.

[cryptocism]

Do you ship BartKon or Timkon or something else? Really, who do you ship Kon with? Maybe I want to hear all your ships

Just say as much as you want really

there's evidence for both my bartkon and timkon affinities on this blog (and the much rarer, most refined of timbarts)

the truth is i like pretty much any ship as long as its got an interesting dynamic to play off of (and usually comedy potential) and kon is a great character because he has an interesting dynamic with basically everybody

the yj crew in general has kind of a perfect blend of defined characters and interesting dynamics that could create all kinds of cool story potential, romantic or not. but vis a vis Romances Specifically..... hold on you've got me thinking about this now im gonna do a thing one sec

ok now that ive successfully pepe silvia'd this

cissie and anita are such perfect foils for each other man.... if yj 98 picked back up where it left off, i think anita's parents should be aged up again pretty quickly, but in the interim i would love to see these two forced into a caretaking duo

anita + slobo, self explanatory. nobody knows whats going on with them except for them and i think that's beautiful. matching each others freak 4ever

i think most of them should have unrequited crushes on each other bc it would be funny namely the slobo>thad>kon clone crush conga line + the kon>bart>tim pining isoceles

greta queen of unrequited pining she is out here stalking she is out here threatening perceived romantic rivals she is ending the world she does it all and not having powers would not stop her

tim dating bernard is canon but i think it would be funny if they're both also into kon (plus ideally steph would lowkey be dating tim too + dating cass but that's batfam shit Whatever)

medium hot take i think kon and cassie should date sometimes bc they're best friends and love each other. just constantly walking the line of platonic/romantic and changing statuses every other month

love cissiecassie but i also think it's funnier if they've never kissed and just thought really hard about it and there was never a right time

cassie + rose self explanatory they should invent new and fucked up ways to murder each other romantically

i also want cassie chronically fumbling a rotating cast of civilian/villain/hero side characters bc she's got that peter parker syndrome where she can pull anybody and everybody but the universe is not on her side when it comes to being a good girlfriend (especially now that dc seems committed to tim no longer fumbling all of his relationships. gang we need a fumbler and cassie is right there)

i realize now i made a chart for romance but the only two i have actually dating is tim/bernard lol. the rest are either unrequited or "it's complicated"

[batcavescolony]

I feel like comic writers and some fans have forgotten that Young Justice is mostly about the girls. The main storylines were about Secret/Greta, Cissie, and Anita. The boys were there but they had their own runs. Take Young Justice Dark Crisis, yeah it's all about the boys IF you only read the first 5 ish comics. After that it's either big comic events or about the girls. Really the girls are the main characters of Young Justice, the boys are there to draw people in.

[twinterrors29]

the Jedi Apprentice Novels are Obi-Wan's fabricated, over-dramatic mission reports, recorded as the official accounts for those missions due to the fact that Qui-Gon failed to submit his own versions

this is why Obi-Wan comes off as such a plucky poor little meow-meow, yet Qui-Gon and all adults involved seem slightly evil and abusive but are not actually treated as such by the narrative (Obi-Wan thinks they're Mean To Him Specifically, but also deep-down knows that they're not actually out to get him for the most part) (but that doesn't mean he won't complain or make them look bad in his reports)

[englandhatepage]

sorry we’re beating your blonde boyfriend up

[aalghul]

where are these posts of people overcorrecting by saying jason's never been angry/impulsive ever? everyone complains about them but all I've seen is people saying "jason was only angry/impulsive a limited amount of times and it wasn't any more than any other robin was. his general character was happy, clever and bright, so the few instances shouldn't define him any more than they do other robins" and people decide that by saying he wasn't angry/impulsive constantly, we're saying he's never behaved that way at any point.

dc pushed the categorization of jason as such so hard that now even when jason behaves in the exact same way as another character, he's more likely to have any action less than perfect be used as support for his being regularly angry/impulsive. tim can beat damian (unprompted) while damian's begging him to stop (tim does not stop; alfred pulls him off damian) but that doesn't mean he's an angry character; he's just emotional in that moment because of the context. but the context never matters when it comes to jason. there's the presumption that jason simply is angry and impulsive and lacking skill, so there's no need to inspect what may be causing his behaviour in that moment. it doesn't matter that jason did not have more instances of excessive anger or impulsiveness than any other robin, it doesn't matter that most of jason's time as robin does not support the idea that those few characteristics should define him. everyone has already accepted that jason is those things based on words and retroactive additions; you don't have to prove it, people already believe it based on retcons designed to make jason unlikable (usually to provide a comparison which uplifts tim). whereas any one making the claim that anger manifesting as physical aggression is a defining trait of tim drake's would actually have to prove the assertion using acceptable comics and actual logic. because, unlike with jason, these negative traits aren't a given for tim.

the facts are that jason's hopefulness, compassion, bright attitude and cleverness were more important to him as robin than anger/impulsiveness. the former were more relevant even in the stories that bring up the anger/impulsiveness! because those are consistent character traits for him, and the latter show up in certain emotional behaviours.

[taxidermy-tuesday]

i need to kill siffrin with hammers

[finz-art]

More comic practice, yay! Yeah, so, turns out touch can at times be a huge trigger for Eddie due to some past trauma ;-;🖤

[mumblesplash]

...yknow it wouldn't have saved them but think there is an argument to be made that at least SOME of this could have been avoided if coach ben had let misty bleed out that deer

[fence-time]

Heuahhhhhhhh

[shannonsketches]

Bulla might have been shown as 100% mini-Bulma right now but no one can convince me that she did not get Vegeta's personality. My headcanon is Gremlin Baby Bulla terrorizing all her toys like her inner oozaru instinct and has the Vegeta™️ scowl when things aren't going her way. And she won't CRY. She would just Vegeta-Glares her way into things when she's upset. And the only time she actually smiles and giggles and be happy baby is with Mama and Trunks because like Papa Geets, she is the happiest with them.

This is how Trunks is in the manga, so it wouldn’t surprise me if both kids ended up being a horrifying blend of both their parents, haha.

I’m not mad about Bulla being a miniature version of her mom, though. Especially because let’s be real, (in the manga/toriyama’s version of the story) Bulma is smart and patient but she is also the most impulsively violent person in that house. Vegeta used to blow up planets for a living but Bulma will run you off the road for free on a Tuesday afternoon (which, credit where it’s due, I think is actually a real gag Toei did in Super fjjd)

I personally enjoy the idea that Trunks was a grumpy-looking baby who was relatively well-behaved, but Bulla is a giggly ‘normal’ baby who is much more outgoing and social but also much, much more chaotic because she’s simply too smart. That’s the miniBulma we deserve.

I do also really enjoy the idea that their tropes would be subverted as they get older though. Give (Mainverse) Trunks the gag of absolutely bawling his eyes out for two seconds and then going “Oh wait I have an idea” and Bulla her dad’s mafioso-ass “I’m going to fuck you up now” energy when she’s upset.

[frobby]

im so sure rin okumura would LOVE it at furin

[demonicshadow]

are we uh as a fandom not gonna talk about the horrifying lore drop during the pictures and shit made for Red October with tord. like if the shit he was going through in those is real. um holy fucking shit thats extremely horrifying.

[dafpork]

FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE. OOF. BUT INSTEAD OF THE FANDOM IT'S ALSO CARTOONISTS THEMSELVES (@ TLTS). OUGHHHH 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Daffy Duck Syndrome is real

[saxandviolins77]

DEEPLY curious about your vision irt devastator and starscream, do you have any extended thoughts on that? (beautiful baseball piece btw! the pose is very dynamic, the colors rich, and i really adore how devious Devy looks in your style)

The general throughline is:

What if the bratty 60-year-old commander and the bratty 17-year-old living weapon had beef with each other?

Additional context undercut

So, I already mentioned this before, but Scrapper and Starscream are "divorced," and while Scrapper simply does not care for SS whole existence and finds him the most tiresome person he ever knew (especially after he enlisted), Starscream, on the other hand, LOATHES him. So much so that he goes out of his way to blow everything Scrapper does out of proportion to make him seem like an awful person (they both are, but Starscream is making shit up at this point).

Why am I talking about Scrapper and Starscream?

Because Starscream does not understand combiners. AT ALL. So he thinks Scrapper and Devastator are the same person and treats him accordingly. He thinks this way and refuses to change his mind because 1. thinking of Scrapper as this guy who gets the smallest bit of power and becomes an infantile attention-seeker loudmouthed jerk works great for the version of Scrapper he made in his mind, and 2. He can't grasp teamwork, so obviously the other Constructicons are lending their free will to that egocentric psycho!

Now, to our big teenager... He just wants a friend... Or just a meaningful relationship.

You see, most people either idolize Devastator or find him scary or disturbing (Decepticons included). So he doesn't have many people to talk to; Soundwave is his manager, but she made it very clear that their relationship is strictly professional, and she makes sure to not give any openings for any sort of "friendship" (he still thinks of her as his best friend).

SO STARSCREAM.

Starscream is the only guy on the Victory that dares to talk smack to Devastator (because in his mind Devy = Scrapper); at first, he's pissed because he has never experienced something like this before, so he treats Starscream as he would any upstart Autobot.

But Starscream keeps bickering with him and keeps treating Devastator as if they're old friends or something... So he starts playing into it and actually having a back-and-forth with him... And it's like... An actual conversation and Starscream treats him like a person!

Devastator very much hates Starscream's attitude and sometimes just smacks him, but he still has that weird urge to not be viewed by him as a dork, so he'll really play up his act to seem "cool". He also gets sick enjoyment when Starscream finds himself in a pickle and goes running to him for help (when not mindwashed, he'll happily use this as an opportunity to be a brat).

So uh... It's a very messy non-relationship where both sides have completely different ideas of what is going on in the other's mind... Except for Soundwave, who's looking from the sidelines and thinking: "Not my circus, not my monkeys... 😑"

SIDE NOTE: Lol, yeah, I think I did pretty well in that piece. Devastator is a pain in the ass to draw, and I insist on always drawing full bodies. Glad it could be read as a baseball pose (it's a windup because he'd be a pitcher... Because he canonically has a good throwing arm... Trust.) Also, suspend your disbelief because he could never pose like that in a real-world scenario, no kidding.