#Right and Wrong Part 3

[delzinrowe]

Bonus:

[araneapeixes]

I'm soo happy to finally post my piece for @bg3womenswrongs <33 so many fantastic artists who made incredible artworks, I'm so honored to be included!!

[quirkle2]

scenes that make me wanna eat drywall dust

[silverwhittlingknife]

So you're a go to source for all things Dick&Tim bros and you tend to write primarily from Dick's POV. So, odd question, but if you were to summarize their relationship from his POV in FIVE panels which panels would you pick? Keeping in mind that one specific aspect of their relationship that you love needs to be clearly represented by each panel (loyalty, trust etc). I hope this is a fun challenge and not an annoying question so if you don't want to answer that's cool! Have a wonderful day!

No more talk. The same thoughts run through two minds... (SotB 29) / You're my equal. My closest ally. (RR 1) / I can't stop thinking how much I rely on him. (GoG 3)

25 Feelings Dick Has About Tim

This was such a kind ask & a cool challenge which I totally failed; here are TWENTY-five panels of Dick's POV on Tim sdfdsfds Look, I got carried away! Marcia and Cindy! The boys!!

OKAY SO BEFORE I GET TO THE PANELS A FEW NOTES:

WARNING THAT THERE ARE SOME NEGATIVE EMOTIONS IN HERE because I love conflict but but but you gotta remember those are not the final word!! They are complicated people and sometimes they get mad at each other BUT ultimately their relationship is so hugely important in both their lives & they love each other and rely on each other so much -!!! <3

Also I have CONCLUDING THOUGHTS at the end about what Dick's POV leaves out (mostly: a lot of Dick defending & protecting & supporting Tim, which Dick does instinctively but isn't very self-aware about most of the time)

I have loosely organized my list into 5^5 format (5 categories with 5 examples each!), so if you want to skip to a relevant one, here are the categories!!

Below the cut:

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1-5)

On second thought, he's endearing & fun (#6-10)

Grief is complicated & he's all tangled up in mine (#11-15)

I love him & think highly of him (#16-20)

I rely on him & though it's hard for me, I trust him (#21-25)

I hate him and find him infuriating (#1 - 5)

1) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze me and Bruce, but he doesn���t know me at all, he should get lost (New Titans 61)

2) He thinks he’s so smart and can psychoanalyze Bruce but he doesn’t know Bruce at all, he should get lost (Gotham Knights 26)

3) He is so nosy about stuff that is MY business (Robin 0)

4) He sounds like an insincere suck-up half the time... but okay, fine, if you push him he's got a sense of humor about it (New Titans 65)

5) I'm sure he's a better vigilante than me. It's my fault for being a failure, but I resent him anyway. (Nightwing 9 - Dick's having a nightmare)

On second thought, he's kinda endearing (#6-10)

6) He worries too much and gets anxious so easily, but it makes him fun to tease (Robin 67)

7) I'm not that competitive - okay, so maybe I'm a little competitive, I gotta make sure he doesn't get a swelled head (Prodigal)

8) I'm supposed to be his favorite! It is not cool for him to be fanboying over my not-girlfriend's not-boyfriend!! (Birds of Prey 19)

9) We have fun together. I can kick back and relax when it's just the two of us. Plus I get to boss him around a bit. (Prodigal)

10) He’s always trying to reassure me, and I guess it's a little comforting, but also he doesn’t really get it. Or me. He makes excuses that he shouldn't, because he doesn't understand that I suck. (Nightwing 64)

Grief is complicated and he's all tangled up in mine (#11 - 15)

11) He reminds me of everything I try not to think about. Sometimes the memories are so strong it hurts to look at him. (Batman 441)

12) WHY IS HE BEING IMPOSSIBLE ALL OF A SUDDEN??? THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING (Nightwing 139)

13) We're the same. He says all the things I don't let myself think about. It's like arguing with myself. (Nightwing 139)

14) He thinks he gets to tell me what to do but he doesn’t, fuck him (Battle for the Cowl)

15) Life sucks, so what. I sucked it up so he should too (RR 1)

I love him and think highly of him (#16 - 20)

16) He’s the closest thing to a brother I’ll ever have.  If someone hurts him I will hurt them harder. (Nightwing 6)

17) I can't handle the idea of losing him. (Nightwing 97)

17) He’s so good and I’m not. I'm afraid I’m bad for him. (Nightwing 110)

18) He’s better than me, and it’s kind of a relief because I know no matter what he’ll be okay. (Gates of Gotham 3)

19) In my head he’s the responsible one.  (Gotham Knights 10)

I rely on him, and though it's hard for me, I trust him (#20-25)

20) I know I have to trust him but I'm afraid he'll make the wrong choices and get hurt (Nightwing 139)

21) I'm sure I know what he should do because I see myself in him - not that I can take my own advice, but he should (Blackest Night 3)

22) I trust him.  When I’m losing my grip on things, he pulls me back. (Gotham Knights 10)

23) I want him to trust me (Red Robin 12)

24) He can tell when I'm lying. Sometimes he sees my weaknesses better than I wish he did. (Detective Comics 874)

25) He’s always there when I need him. (Teen Titans / Outsiders Secret Files)

Final rambling thoughts:

TIM: Uhh, okay, so I'm just skimming this list - do you really trust me? you're not just saying that? - but anyway, I'm confused because you left some stuff out? Like some stuff that's kinda important? DICK: No? I think I got everything? TIM (starts counting on his fingers): The time I was having a bad day but then I called you. The time I got captured by Two-Face but then you saved me. The time I fell off a train but then you saved me. The time I fell off a building but then you saved me. The time I fell off a different building - DICK: I feel like you're trying to make some kind of point but I'm not sure what it could be.

SO THE THING IS, I put 25 panels in here and not a single one has Dick catching Tim when he’s falling!!! But I think that's a central motif of their relationship from Tim’s POV, not Dick’s. I love Dick, but in some ways I think he is spectacularly un-self-aware.

And I think he especially has a lot of blind spots about Tim. He kinda intermittently gets that Tim admires him, and he enjoys it in a playful I-get-to-boss-you-around way. But Dick tends to consistently underestimate all of his own good qualities & skills, and he meets Tim at a point in his life when he's especially down on himself & his abilities. And so he's unable to see his own influence on Tim, & therefore unable to fully understand a lot of Tim's priorities and loyalties and motivations, because you can't actually understand Tim without understanding Dick's impact on him. There's a fascinating moment in Bruce Wayne: Murderer when Dick's completely blindsided & upset to discover that Tim doesn't entirely trust Bruce, even though this has been a definitive fact of Tim's whole thing ever since he showed up with his Batman needs Robin theory, and Barbara has to actively remind Dick of the obvious-to-everyone-except-Dick fact that a lot of Tim's loyalty is to Dick, and Tim loves Bruce but feels free to be more wary of him. (And to give Bruce credit: this is not something he ever begrudges.) But anyway Babs points this out, and Dick manages to sorta process it for about five seconds, but he cannot actually accept it into his worldview so instead he discards it at the speed of light and goes off and has an argument with Tim instead sdfsfdsf

All of Dick's virtues - Dick's kindness at the circus and Dick's determination to fight through grief and Dick's rigid sense of morals and Dick's vigilante skills and every time Dick has ever backed Tim up or listened to him or protected him or saved him from something or just been casually kind to a stranger in Tim's presence etc etc etc - all these things loom really large in Tim's mental story of Who Dick Is, and What Dick And Tim's Relationship Is. Tim meets Dick before he meets Bruce, trusts Dick more than Bruce, aspires to be Robin instead of Batman. And so in Tim's default version of the story, Dick is the super-special and admirable hero and Tim is... nobody in particular, a tagalong outsider who's barely managing to be a hero, not part of Dick and Bruce's family and not part of their story, who, if he's VERY LUCKY and tries REALLY HARD, might be able to fight his way to proving himself and offering something to Dick that Dick will value, if Dick doesn't get fed up with him first.

But that's not Dick's version of the story!!!

Dick's version of the story is almost the exact opposite, a story where Dick's an outcast failure black sheep who's screwing up everything he tries, and meanwhile Tim is The Sudden New Perfect Robin Who's Better Than Me And Probably Bruce Loves Him More And Probably They Gossip About What A Loser I Am, mixed with a complicated edge of Tim Thinks He's So Smart But He Doesn't Know Me/Us At All. Dick gets much more attached to Tim over time, and Tim gets unnervingly better at the know-it-all psychoanalysis so then Dick gets to have complicated feelings about him being right instead of just annoyance at him for being wrong, plus Dick's relationship with Bruce improves a lot, so Tim stops feeling so threatening. But Dick never fundamentally changes his basic theory of their relationship in which Tim is highly impressive and capable, and Dick is not so much.

And so asking Dick about Tim is kinda like if you asked George Bailey to tell you about Harry Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life; like, you'll be there for five hours while he tells you how great Harry is, and how accomplished Harry is, and how he doesn't really get how or why Harry does the things he does, and maybe George does feel a little resentful or jealous sometimes, but that pales in comparison to all his admiration and trust for Harry who he loves so much, who's better than him in so many ways, and he's not gonna openly gripe but secretly he can't help but feel sometimes like he's such a failure in comparison to Harry, a perfect person who emerged fully formed from Zeus's head with all the virtues and also all the accomplishments, etc. etc. etc. --

-- and he will not actually remember the part where he changed and saved Harry's whole entire life unless you literally send him to an alternate timeline in order to force him to remember it. <3

[the-triggered-lizard]

Obsession? I don't have an obsession! Who said I have an obsession?!

Anyways, here's more Velvet and Veneer fanart. (They deserve to be on a vogue cover. Who are we kidding. They are literally ICONS)

(Click for better quality)

Their outfits are based on this silly little concept art that i love very much:

[burningparadiseduck]

Neuvillette is the greenest green flag to ever exist in this green world.

[destielgaysex]

what would you like to see in a revival? or what do you think is more likely to happen plot-wise?

personally i would want the revival to ignore the s15 finale like it never happened and pick up after 15x18, but better. aka dean doesnt die, they find/save cas, and jack isnt God. billie and amara get a better endings. eileen appearance. aka a short mini-series that finishes the show better (how I WANT IT). but most likely, i think the potential revival will be a continuation of the end of the winchesters.

i only watched the last 3 or 4 episodes of the winchesters. my friend and i were curious wtf was happening when it we found out it wasnt a prequel but a sequel. for those who didnt keep up with it, the winchesters is about a different universe john and mary. they arent OUR dean's john and mary.

the winchesters takes place after dean died but before sam dies and goes to heaven. dean escaped/left heaven to explore the multiverse (his motivations for this could be explored in the revival) and he found this type of monster, the akrida. this is from the spnwiki "The Akrida are a species of monster not from Earth who have tried to invade multiple times in the past. According to Dean Winchester, they are a threat to all of existence. They were created by God as a failsafe to destroy existence in case he failed in his own efforts"

in one of the last scenes of the winchesters, dean meets mary and john (+friends) form this other universe. when they ask how he traveled between universes (from spn wiki) "Dean explains that he was looking for his family and that he comes from a long line of hunters, and he was hoping that somewhere out there was an Earth that had a version where Dean's family had a shot at a happy ending."

i dont give a fuck about the akrida or alternate universe mary and john, but what i DO find interesting is the concept that dean cant rest even in heaven. that he is "looking for his family." well we know from bobby in 15x20, john and mary are in heaven. jsut down the road from dean... so. what OTHER family could dean be talking about. besides sam who is ALIVE on earth... Cas... i mean this is MY interpretation. obviously. bc cas was not even mentioned in the winchesters. bobbby and jack, dean's bobby and jack were in the show. and sam was mentioned (dean explaining to bobby and jack why he had to meddle in the multiverse was to stop the akrida bc he didnt want them to hurt their universe's sam and the life he is building). when i watched the winchester's finale, i was waiting for just ONE cas mention but... none. of course. which like... crazy. like SO funny. bc of course. of course cas' son can be in the show. but cas cant even be mentioned.

i choose to believe (bc i am destiel forever) that dean was looking for a way to get cas out of the empty. that there is some spell, some ingredient he is searching for. and then he ended up finding the akrida and had to stop them from destroying the multiverse..

anyways back to the winchesters' finale. (from spn wiki) "Jack reprimands Dean for his actions, reminding Dean that when Jack restored everything, he wanted mankind to make their own fate which means no interference from on high anywhere with no exceptions. Dean insists that he couldn't let their world get destroyed, especially since Sam is still alive and he deserves a good long life as does the Monster Club. Dean tells a visibly conflicted Jack that he can cast Dean out of Heaven for his actions if he wants to while Bobby votes that Jack gives Dean another chance. Conceding the point, Jack notes that there's always another case for hunters, even in death. Handing Dean something, Jack tells him to finish what he started if Dean's going to meddle in things and that 'after this… it's time to get around to the "there'll be peace when you are done" part of the song.'"

in MY opinion, this jack is corrupted by chuck. in this scene, jack is wearing this all white outfit and is acting not like jack at all. i have no clue if the show meant for him to come across that way, but corrupted by chuck!jack is SO interesting to me. like dean escaped heaven once he realized jack DIDNT bring cas back, so he found some sort of spell to bring cas back/defeat chuck!jack. but he needs ingredients from other universes. dean is on the run from chuck!jack. meanwhile, bobby is scared of jack's power, he thinks dean needs to be careful bc it isnt the jack dean remembers. dean KNOWS that. he knows HIS jack would never leave cas in the empty. thats why dean HAS to find a way to stop chuck!jack and bring cas back.

so my ideal future revival plot based on that concept from the winchesters' finale. dean is back in heaven and on heavier lock down from chuck!jack and his new angels. dean is at least grateful he stopped the akrida and sam is safe on earth, but he still needs to take down chuck!jack and get cas back. so the main plot is dean sneaking around heaven trying to find places to get ingredients in heaven. chuck!jack makes appearances and is still pretending to be jack, but it is established in the pilot that it isnt jack but chuck pretending to be jack. so each episode would be dean finding more ingredients and running into past characters in heaven aka charlie, jo, ash, kevin, and more and telling them about whats happening and they get on board with helping in their own ways.. and for #destiel, every time dean explains the chuck!jack situation and getting cas back.. the drama, the pining, the lovesickness from dean wanting cas back. that cas, the stupid idiot, didnt let dean respond. that the asshole cant tell dean that cas cant have dean, when he has had dean the whole time.. basically lots of dean mentioning lines from the confession but never quite saying i love cas... but yes he does. dean to charlie: and then he says "the one thing i cant have." what a fucking asshole, i hate him so much. charlie voice: so you love him back? dean: i am going to punch him in the face

and near the climax of this plot, dean would have to confront john. and therefore mary too... very interesting juicy stuff to go into there but i feel my post is too long.

BUT WAIT, the cas of it all. cas sideplot of course. he is in the empty and trying to get out bc he heard rumors that jack is being possessed by chuck, and dean is dead. so billie and a lot of other demons and angel characters have their episodes too. mirroring dean and dead friends of his in heaven... bobby is one of the main characters in the heaven plot and billie/crowley are the main characters of the empty plot.

also, i havent really thought too much of sams part in this, but he would have a hell subplot with rowena. and eileen is there. (no blurry wife or kid for sam. thats just deleted from canon).

i just think it would be interesting to have the leads in heaven, earth/hell, and the empty all trying to take down chuck, but they arent working together due to restrictions between the places. heaven is on lockdown after the winchesters finale. the empty is well... the empty. earth and hell are the only ones that are free travel (thanks rowena). also, i feel like it would be soo awesome if Sam (with rowena and eileen) is the one to help free cas and crew from empty. bc 1. dean would feel guilty it wasnt him. (dean would save cas in another way near the finale so we still get the parallel of how they met). 2. rowena and crowley reunite. 3. billie and rowena <3 and so much more that is coming to me just while writing this down.. i think... trying to write a fic of this would be so fun. so i am going to save all my other thoughts of this story.

SO tldr i guess; if you are choosing to have a positive interpretation of the ending of the winchesters. it can be very interesting, and i like to think about future revival plots based on the winchesters' finale bc i think its fun to speculate with the concepts that show introduced. i dont think it would ever happen the way i imagine it would. so this is all for fun. and even if the basics of the plot were in the unconfirmed spn revival, i knowit would NOT be close to what i want... but thats what fanfic is for, and also spn revival truthing is so enriching...

i have never written my thoughts about this down even though i think about it a lot. writing it all down just made more and more ideas come to me about the plot, so maybe i should just start to write my own fic of it ... confirmed destielgaysex fanfic instead of just keeping his ideas in his head forever? confirmed ro writing something down instead of thinking about them? maybe coming soon... who knows. i have so many fic ideas in my head.. like the season 6 au.. the s8 au... the s12 au... literally so many ... maybe one day...

[delzinrowe]

you just know I had to gif this moment...

[floor-mac-n-cheese]

(tw eyestrain) I had sm fun drawing this :33

[salty-we-never-got-mergana]

So rewatching "The Fires of Idirsholes", I realized the reason why it seems Merlin was out of character in killing Morgana was that when I first watched it I assumed Merlin felt he had no choice and had done the deed reluctantly justifying it as the greater good while still caring about Morgana.

Rewatching it the second time, I realized that in Merlin's point of view based on what the Dragon had said, Morgana had willingly been involved in the sleeping curse, at least according to the Dragon. Merlin does not have the knowledge that we, the audience, have that Morgana is ignorant and innocent in what is happening to those around her, but you can tell based on her expressions she seems to have an inkling that it might have to do with her. Much of her expressions throughout the sleeping crisis when she is with Arthur and Merlin is not only full of fear and horror, but also guilt. Horror that she might have unwittingly agreed to be part of a plot to help destroy her home due to her admission to Morgause that she would do anything to take Uther down, and guilt because this was her fault.

Whether Merlin recognizes her expressions or not, I'm unsure, but the moment the Dragon reveals Morgana's part, he automatically believes her guilty. The next scene has him looking at her with both anger, disdain, and suspicion. He responds to Morgana's genuine words of gratefulness for his friendship with coldness. I think she can feel his coldness, hence why she opens up to him in order to win back his trust that she must have sensed she lost without recognizing why. Perhaps due to the belief that her magic is protecting her or the fact that she's the magical person in the room in her own eyes, she felt Merlin was blaming her? Idk. Though deep down Morgana probably agrees since it seems to me she was having suspicions that the reason she wasn't affected like the others was due to Morgause and the fact she agreed to help Morgause take down Uther which she seemed to be regretting.

Merlin also notably abandons her when a knight almost tries to kill her, possibly hoping the knight would do the deed instead of he.

All of this points out that Merlin killing Morgana wasn't out of character. The moment he heard she was the source of the sleeping curse, that she was involved, was the moment he decided she was his enemy and that she had to die. And he was willing to let that happen. Their prior friendship didn't matter anymore. She was now the deceitful wicked and dangerous witch Kilgarrah claimed her to be and a danger to his destiny.

The only thing about Morgana he seems to feel is regret. In the end, when he was holding her as she was choking, he looked grief-stricken but also angry. I think he felt betrayed by Morgana for her actions and what she forced him to do but also sad and regretful that he had to kill someone he felt was similar to him. Someone who was once his friend.

Anyway, I guess that's why he never apologizes. In his mind, it was never his fault. She forced him to do it. He had no choice.

[gothicrepetitions]

I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2

[napping-sapphic]

Living is crazy because sometimes you know someone and feel absolutely completely normal about them and then you look back and just KNOW that if you spoke to them now you’d fall like crazy in love in a split second

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Knightriders. There are five different objects on the page, drawn across a diagonal. At the bottom right of the piece, there's a motorcycle which has a front modelled after a Medieval shield. Above this, there's a similarly styled helmet, which has a visor and a plume on the top. Below this, there's a sword which is pointed downwards. Above the two items, there's a mace with its chain leading off of the view of the page. Further above, there's an exaggeratedly big ornate crowd. These elements are drawn with a dark green and all coloured with a flat blue-grey. There's a red outline around the objects, although it is not flush to them. The background is a bright orange.]

Inktober - Day 10 (Nomadic)

Film - Knightriders (George A. Romero, 1981)

[jalluzas-ferney]

Until I see Cole actually doing smth in the trailer (other than speaking to Lloyd in what seems to be at the beggining of the season) I’m gonna assume smth rlly bad happens to him and he’s unable to come to the missions. Hell I’d even say coma or some shit or maybe he’s fallen very very very ill (the same illness as his mo- GETS SHOT FORTY TIMES)

Ok but to be serious. I do know this sounds like a stretch but-first, In my eyes Cole’s just the type of guy in the series to fall into a coma brah. Just look at him. Second, it rlly is weird to me that he’s barely appeared in all the teasers, trailers, etc. we do see him speaking to Lloyd in the trailer but again, like I said before, that seems to be at the very beggining- which leaves room for smth right after to happen and cause whatever would make Cole be unable to go on the mission. I mean. Even in group shots with most of the ninja standing there or fights scenes, you don’t see him ANYWHERE. not even faintly in the back. Nothing. I dunno tho!! It’s just a theory but yeah lol

[wackywatchdotcom]

falls to the ground. my favorite song is one that i looked at back in early march and went oh, this works well for ragatha... and im listening to it again and i DO still think it fits ragatha a lot. but it ALSO fits gangle. but i dont wanna put the same song on two character playlists from the same series, so im just gonna keep it on ragathas. either way it mainly fits manager gangle specifically but not the entirety of her. i think it fits ragatha more generally

[delzinrowe]

The sound of the Gion Shoja Bells… …echoes the impermanence of all things. The color of the Sala flowers… …reveals the truth that the prosperous must decline. However! We are the exception!