#Stand-up performance

[blxphotos]

[superbat-lmao]

Give me a Jason Todd who thinks Dick doesn’t like him. Who sees all the fighting with Bruce and the uncertain/cold shoulder he’s offered by someone who he’d always wanted to meet, who could be his literal brother and he doesn’t think Dick likes him. He’s not exactly wrong, but it’s more complicated and Dick is still pretty young so he doesn’t handle it well.

Until Bruce and Alfred are out of town on business and Dick has to watch him for a week.

Trips to and from school are pretty normal if silent and they eat take out until Jason can’t handle it and makes them food himself.

Dick is frustrated with Bruce and feels antsy about being back in the manor and all the ways he and Jason are different.

Until he gets a call from the school that Jason had attacked 6 kids at lunch.

Jason is doing a pretty good job of invoking his right to remain silent no matter what the admin tries saying before Dick gets there.

He’s suspended for 2 days and Jason says nothing to defend himself and basically lets Dick yell at him about it.

Dick sends him to his room.

When venting about it to Barbara, she mentions the school cameras have audio and pulls the feed, saying when Bruce gets back he’ll do it anyways.

It starts off with digs at Jason’s background in the alley and then the accusations about Bruce start. Dick is used to some of this kind of thing and apparently Jason is too because he doesn’t rise to the bait.

Then the kids say something the camera doesn’t catch and Jason stills.

“Say that again.”

“You heard me! That brother of yours is a g-“

That’s when Jason decks the first kid.

[instarsanddyke]

all you ever need is to be nice and friendly

[virfujiwara]

Any The Book Of Life (2014) enjoyers here? Ramble in the tags lol Reminder that commissions are open and I'm making art for your donations and we are raising money for an AAPI charity through this zine, if you or someone you know likes Watcher, check it out!

[chucklepea-hotpot]

if captain's first reaction to hearing the phrase "money money money" is saying "abba!" that must mean the ghosts have had music listening sessions and listened to particularly much abba

[thinwhitedoc]

SHERLOCK | Martin Freeman as John Watson

[omegalerc]

THE WAY BOTH PIERRE AND JACK GO TO TOUCH CHARLES WAIST!!?!!!! OMEGA PHEROMONES ARE REAL AND STRONG TODAY

https://x.com/leclercsstreet/status/1913575984378290355?t=sHi3V4kU3MJWn07qBZQEEg&s=19

this video is actually killing me bc like what. is that just the necessary means to greet Charles.. you have to grab him by his waist

[vaguely-concerned]

I have so many thoughts I (ironically) can't put into words yet about the use of heightened and ritualized poetic language and phrases in connection to magic in Nevarra (or possibly within the mourn watch?). they don't default to an ancient language for it like tevinter predictably seem to, and while they do have a whole scholarly language for the academic side of it -- when they're actually casting it and interacting with the dead, they speak in common but through poetry and metaphor in ways we haven't seen any other culture do. maybe the avvar, as the closest, just in a different literary tradition. they speak to the dead, but in a living language. ingellvar rook gets a bit defensive and even reproachful during emmrich's recruitment quest when the other companion makes some sort of comment to question it. 'it's watcher tradition! >:('

'Open your hearts to the final day, companion of all the ages'. even a rook who doesn't take the almost religious element of the role of watcher as seriously knows that one by heart no matter what you make them say during walking the graves. when myrna in so many words says that the necropolis is still rook's home, the way they agree with her is simply to quote 'A home in life, a berth in death...' and her smoothly finishing the thought with 'a house of many mansions'. there are several times with emmrich where rook answers something he says just by quoting from some watcher text they both clearly know well. (if you do this to weasel out of answering when he asks if you're afraid of dying, he is understandably peeved you're quoting watcher 101 stuff at him, and rook clearly knows exactly what they're doing.) this shared base of literature -- and more than that a kind of oral tradition, it sounds like? it's just What You Say when you do certain things, do you think half of this is even written down anywhere? this shared inheritance of language making for a feeling of belonging and continuity is beautiful and moving in a way but also. a bit cold and distant, all mind and no body connection. which I feel might be a running theme around the necropolis haha they mainly seem to have interest in bodies once life has vacated them, they don't give that much thought to what makes it feel good to be in one while you're here. we can only imagine the psychological effects of growing up a crypt baby in this particular cultural milieu.

you know what it reminds me of a little bit in places, actually? the way the qun uses language and set phrases to convey layers of meaning. the qunari are an oddly poetic bunch. and I think there's also something here about like... cultures whose religious side are more about philosophy and the language used than an idea of the divine as such. yeah nevarra is technically andrastian, at least on the surface, probably largely for reasons of 'ugh it would be SO inconvenient to have an exalted march called on us :/ some of us have real shit to get on with you know this body isn't going to mummify itself. sure tell orlais we'll join their dumb club or whatever'. but within and beneath that the syncretism with and survival of much older traditions are still so obviously (and double ironically!) alive. how much does your average watcher believe in god, and how much and how immediately do they believe in the grand necropolis, and in their duty to what has been, what is and what will come after them -- the quest for knowledge? memento mori ass culture to the point of absent-mindedly forgetting about everything else including god (affectionate). maybe the maker exists, but he's just not that relevant down here. he may take the souls, but we still tend the graves. render unto the chantry what's the chantry's, and unto the watcher what is theirs!!! really is the whole thing huh

[backjustforberena]

Princess Rhaenys + the positions of power that were never hers and yet...

[emergingghost]

sorry this is genuinely so otherworldly what in the siren song is even going on??? [via evenablessing on twitter!]

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance Link Attack - Paw Groove

[dovewingkinnie]

just a funny thing i wanted to mention: i feel like plum and mr meow meow’s dynamic would be something like that one image where it goes “can i rizz you up” “sure” “PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE” . To me . Ok anyway (flutters off into the woods never to be seen again

mr meow meow would have a reaction like: HA!! HAHA!!! Wowza! i should make my performers entertain me with jokes like this more!!!!

[joshuamj]

In Time and Stars

[qilingxiong]

Zheng Qiyuan & Xu Junshuo - 《榮耀為我臣服 | Glory Submits for Me》 [La Gloire à mes genoux from Le Rouge et le Noir] (Super Vocal S2)

• If I recall correctly, XJS translated this song into Mandarin himself. He very, very badly wanted to sing this with ZQY during the singing partner selection process • Towards the end of the song, XJS's mic pack falls out, and he takes out one of his in-ears to try and hear properly shortly before hitting that last High D without wavering. XJS has always been one of my favourites from this season for a reason

[rev0lverluvr]

[ewtoxic]

Haven’t watched the season finale of white lotus, but people on Reddit dickriding Saxon and his actor it’s giving conservative dog whistle. Saxon has been the worst kind of republican misogynist dbag all season and the subreddits are obsessed with babygirling him. Calling him a victim and a secretly good person so you can justify wanting to fuck him it’s giving internalized pick me girl misogyny. And calling Patrick the breakout of the season is CRAZY behavior when Aimee Lou brought all that charisma on screen. He wasn’t even the most talented nepo baby.