#Preparing to Fly

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[yourangle-yuordevil]

Birds of a feather AU hedcanon time! Beelzebub is a seraphim but cuts the feathers of their own wings to appear like a dominion and keep in line all the other dominion of The Fallen Flock.

Dominion usually uses intimidation to earn respect, but Bee counts on their look to intimidate and on their seraphim ability to glamour others and convince them to do what they wants, submitting easily. Nobody suspects that they are a seraphim 👀

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DC x DP Prompt *13*

Of course something like this would happen, while Bruce was out of state with Alfred. Some business for Wayne Enterprises had come up and after he was sure the kids had everything under control in his absence, he left.

If Tim had known this would happen, he would have volunteered to go instead of Bruce. But his newest case had just been to intriguing.

Tim looked at Damian, Dick and Jason. They seemed to feel the same way as him.

Tim just had wanted to look something up before dinner! He had found the two floating Toddlers in the Batcave. And after he send a quick emergency signal up to the Manor his brothers had come down prepared for a fight.

Instead all they saw where two black haired three-year old Twins, who were either bothering the poor Bats or crawling into the mouth of the T-Rex.

"You can order Pizza, I'm not going to deal with... this", was all Jason said with disdain, before he left for the stairs to the Manor.

And yeah... absolutely understandable. Tim would do the same if he could.

"Dick, get the pool net. Damian, prepare a room. I'm going to call Uncle Clark and ask him how to handle flying Toddlers", a deep sight escaped Tim.

Why had it be today, when Alfred wasn't here.

[kuravix]

All the art I drew for @/sanji-outfit-tourney's colour spread tournament :)

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Captain America: Brave New World (CABNW) analysis

This movie is all about themes of rehabilitation, hope, and not allowing your past to define your future.

Sam is redefining the mantle of the shield, and reclaiming his independence. Since reaching adulthood, he has worked as part of the military, or in a major team, and always besides super powered people (not that he was the only regular human in the Avengers, but you know). And now Sam gets to herald a new age of modern values of rehabilitation.

Steve was also a man of hope, but he (as a white man) fought the Other: fascists and aliens. AKA, unredeemables (in the short term) and nonhumans. He was from WWII; while the full truth of the matter is that the USA did not join the war out of altruism and a wish to save oppressed peoples, I personally feel glad that the USA was able to help out in those matters. I feel our part in the war was justified when it came to stopping multiple genocides. Many people also feel this way, and hold WWII up as this bastion of ‘justified’ wars. Many feel it’s okay that Americans went to Germany and Japan and started killing people, because they were doing it first.

Same thing with alien invasion storylines. I love Steve, but the only person he is MCU-canonically pursuing rehabilitation for is Bucky. He has different values as both a survivor of WWII, a witness to the explosive growth of fascism in the early 1900s, and a white man. Sure, Steve grew up disabled and Irish(-American) in the early 1900s, but he was also a blue eyed blond haired American man who shows no trace of an Irish identity on screen. Steve is a hopeful, principled and angry man.

Meanwhile, Sam grew up being othered as a Black child and then man, joined a war that was never justifiable (never confirmed what war he was in but no war the USA has perpetuated in the 2000s, if not even earlier, has been justifiable), and then continually had to be an examplar wherever he went. Except for possibly War Machine (I’m not sure where he fits in), Sam was the ONLY Avenger of Color. Ever. (And the only one from a more rural area)

And yet Sam always chooses hope and kindness. He has it rough - as the only Avenger of Color, he had to always choose others needs over his own. He and Isaiah Bradley (another person restored by Sam’s rehabilitative justice <3) discuss the weight of that. Bradley points out time and time again that Sam doesn’t owe the world his kindness, his willingness to be a hero, his health and well-being. After all, Bradley got fucked over for doing the right thing, a Steve-type thing, in a Black body. But Sam decides to push on anyway.

I’m not saying Sam isn’t angry. He deserves to feel angry, he has as much right to the emotion as any other human being. But every single goddamn time he can, he chooses to be kind. He chooses to believe that people can find worth again. And that takes a strength of will that is frankly insane. PLUS he does it without a consistently optimized body.

And he chooses to be kind to Ross, of all people. Ross, who is clearly trying to be a changed man in the events of the film - but still a man who imprisons innocents and whose first instinct is to pick fights with nations who own nuclear weapons.

But Sam still reaches out to him. Still helps Ross meet Betty while Ross is in prison. Is the better man, every goddamn time.

Hell, they even represent what changes Sam could herald for the fate of the United States, and even the world, visually. In Ross’s panic as the Red Hulk, he destroys the White House*, a symbol built by slave labor. And under Sam’s tenure as Captain America, it will be rebuilt - along with what a hopefully better United States of America.

I love Sam Wilson, and I am SO excited to see his future as Captain America.

*and possibly also the Washington Memorial? I know he goes by but the detail slipped my mind. It also was built with slave labor. Some might quibble and try to claim that the obelisk was built by skilled stonemasons, but many many many enslaved people were extremely skilled laborers. So there is a huge chance that the stonemasons were enslaved. And even if they used completely white/free Black stonemasons, the quarried stone was mined by enslaved people. So yes, it was built by slave labor.

(Also I think it’s cool that Sam’s getting his own villains like Serpent and Leila Taylor made an appearance? She was basically his only canon love interest EVER**, and she hasn’t appeared since the 1970s. I think it’s still possible that he might be given a male LI or they just never pursue that angle of the character, but at least she and Sam have a relationship built on at least some respect and personal chemistry. Unlike Steven and Sharon.

Personally I’m more of a fan of Samsteve or even SamJoaquin than SamBucky, but that’s just mostly because while he’s grown on me in the last few years, I’m not really a Bucky fan. Samsteve probably won’t happen because of the stupid time travel thing (though who’s to say they didn’t at least have a fling? Plz?) but SamJoaquin could happen! I wasn’t sold on Joaquin right away - his sunny personality was tripping my betrayal alarms in my movie expectations brain - but I am glad to be wrong. I’m excited to see him as Falcon again once he heals up!

**There was a werewolf princess lady? But she literally never came back. Which disappoints me because I thought she was funny (I read her issue) and really unique. She was human but had a device to specifically control werewolves? And they do exist in the MCU, thanks to Werewolf by Night…

I LOVED the dogfight scene. Great body work on Anthony Mackie’s part, interesting background, awesome moves (cutting through a plane with a wing? Punching and pulling a pilot out of their plane and letting the rest of it just fall?? Sam and Joaquin together???) and fucking BOMBSURFING

[chocolateisbrainfood]

I DID ART. I just flowed with it and somehow I got a weird little guy who I adore and might become my next Tumblr and AO3 profile Pic. I've been using the first TF art I ever drew (Sunstreaker) so far, but after a year maybe it's time for a change. What do you think?

[clumsypuppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[faaun]

the way that diff languages sound r so fascinating they're all different and all so vivid

[candycryptids]

Tataru's decided if she doesn't look behind her, it's certainly not happening. The saviors of Eorzea can and will do whatever they please, apparently.

Kizuna and Keathan belong to @dustedbooksandreadingnooks (and he also designed this Raha! 😌)

Couple of bonus edit editions under the cut :)

[Johnny is referencing @johnnylandslide 's most excellent Wolship that I super enjoy and all those tender moments he's posed with her ;w;]

This is also just referencing a panel from the Webtoon 'MOONSTRUCK' (from episode 7, Riri's Bubble Ice Cream part 1) where the poor protag of that particular story goes to the beach to try to find a new boyfriend.... only to find this beach popular for dates is full of couples! 😱 .... the WEBTOON as a whole has been super interesting and fun to read so if you read webcomics I recommend that one c:

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Just thinking about the soon to be seen goodbye in the rain and the fact that we watch Eddie spraying water on the glass walls of the changing room and the water theming the show likes to use around buddie and how we get water bringing trauma, but then having that trauma bring them even closer together.

The water on the locker room preceded Bucks and Eddies respective trauma spirals through the episode and culminated in them closer together than before with Buck taking on Eddies lease - making that grand gesture and giving Eddie the capacity to make the choice he wants to - to quiet the daemons in his mind. and how the rainy goodbye will ultimately do the same thing - trauma before healing and increased closeness - the trauma of being separated and the healing of coming back together and closer before can only be together as there is nowhere else to go in terms of bringing them closer!

[crazylittlejester]

Wars physically can’t knock over Twi? How big is he?

(assuming this is for the modern au guys since even if my regular War couldn’t physically push Twi over if Twi saw it coming, he’d at least be able to trick him and get him off balance and THEN push him down if they were sparring)

Modern AU Twi is the tallest of the modern au guys. He’s 5’10 and around 185 lbs and very strong, he’s the guy you call to help move furniture around because he can get it done quickly. War HAS tried to knock him down before, multiple times while they were just messing around in the snow or out at the ranch, and at most Twi just stumbled back a little bit. It’s not that Warriors isn’t strong, it’s just that he’s not a very big person. He has a narrow build and even though he’s only two inches shorter than Twi, he’s a good 65-70 pounds lighter. He can try to run at Twi and knock him down all he wants, but Twi can just literally grab him and toss him away. Picking up War is like, pretty easy for him, and even when War gets a little bit of a running start and jumps at him, if he’s PREPARED for it he can stop himself from falling down

War hasn’t successfully knocked Twi over Ever, not even at the start of high school when Twi used to be really little and a good few inches shorter than him

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happy halloween!!!

[swedishjazz]

You know, I claimed for years that I'd totally cook more and be better at it if I didn't hate my kitchen. It was the kitchen's fault the sink was always full and my fridge was full of half-empty takeout containers. A different kitchen would fix me. And as it turns out, I was fucking right. I love my tiny and half-finished but well-lit and functional kitchen, and I don't even hate hand-washing the dishes as much as I feared. I haven't gotten takeout in two weeks and I'm not even sad because I made SUCH a good sandwich just now. And why yes, those sprouts I put in it? I DID grow them myself ;':)

[hulloitsdani]

Well ain't this a tangled web we weave? I did not expect this turn in my high effort shitposting character arc, yet here we are!

But as promised, in celebration for the CYL8 win, here is an Alfonse anatomy study rendered for your viewing pleasure! Just in time for valentines day.

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Welcome, COPPER! >:}