#WTF AM I RAMBLING ABOUT

[sieluzul]

As much as I love The Folk of the Air, i wish the uwu-fication of Cardan and Jude 'wears the pants in the relationship' Duarte just STOPS in this fandom 😭

On another note, I wish more people would yuri them instead 😔

Can you guys stop mischaracterising them???? Also, some of you guys need to stop acting like Jude and Cardan are written by sarah j maas (derogatory). Every time i see Jude in certain fanarts potrayed as a skinny white woman that looks like she got plastic surgery done, an angel dies 💔

Don't even get me STARTED on Cardan fanarts. He just looks like an average booktok guy. Y'all will never appreciate non-human love interests 💔 give my man back his tail and make him actually look ethereal and uncanny compared to Jude.

Also. I want Jude to STAND OUT if she's in a fanart with other faeries. I want her to distinctively look human. I want her to look like she doesn't belong with them and make it look so glaringly obvious.

[marieegumcyberx]

No but seriously, Nimh with Kagerou Daze. (currently drawing it) Like fuckass, just how many times do we restart the game just for those speed up? This guy probably at least tried to stop us because he actually love us but he can't really do anything so he just stuck with being an animal and falling in love with you and basically doing it on loop, forever.

[violetisderp]

How many people do you think go onto my blog and run away because of my banner but actually have no idea that I don't ship/simp anyone?

. . . I'm probably gonna change it soon.

[pup-pee]

also ive decided that ppl dont move enough in public its embarrassing

like im over there bouncing up n down & ur just standing there? JOIN ME???

ever talk rlly fast in public then look up & realize u have no fucking clue how loud uve been talking??

[kamal-nayan]

The way vedic literature describes dark skin is my favorite thing ever<3

[littlefankingdom]

~ Batman: Knightfall

WHAT IN THE A/B/O SHIT IS GOING ON??? WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?! HEAT PHEROMONES?! STERILE?! SHE'S NOT EVEN PART CAT, SHE'S A HUMAN DRESSING AS A CAT! SHE'S A FURRY! SHE'S A FREAK!

This is so crazy, I love it, but PLEASE, never say those words in front of me again.

Wait... DID SHE CALLED BRUCE AN OMEGA?!(in A/B/O terms, omega don't exist irl even in animals)

[hivemuthur]

Question: just how far are you willing to go with plots, kinkiness and freakiness? Lots of love <3

Hi Anon!

I honestly don't know, I guess I've been gross enough here for you guys to feel safe enough to not be judged.

From themes I've noticed I don't feel comfortable in: Viktor being heavily insecure without context (and I see a difference between just having an insecure yearning crush like all of us had at some point in life and those big doubts that make him throw away love -> I need a board with a lot of faces connected with red lines for that ok, it's called a slow burn), or dumbified. I think academic rivals is a tired theme. I'm not a fan of pregnancy kink (again, not because it irks me, I'm just at a point in my life where the topic brings me a lot of stress), professor kink (I had nasty professors, but ProfessorxProfessor I find cool), big glaring power imbalances. With age gap I'm not seeing it with Viktor but I would (probably will) write it for Silco for example, so here I'm flexible -> this is mainly because I love Viktor in his 30s and to incorporate big age gap here this would have to be slightly irky. And just a disclaimer, an age gap of 6-7 years is usually nothing to me, of course with the younger person being a fully fleshed adult. I'm also not a fan of JayvikxReader smut, fluff is ok! Not a fan of a specific Reader descriptions in terms of physicality, they are super vague as it is.

From plots: if I don't respond to something you guys sent it usually means I have no idea how to write it or it would have to be a multichapter work to make sense. I know I've done that in the past where I got a request and it got out of hand, so I'm not claiming it won't happen again, but right now I have two fics going with no end in sight and I want to write something for Silco after that :> If you send me an ask with a massive plot outline I probably won't write it though, I do like to come up with things.

Things I love: apparently marriage. Divorce is also hot (have you guys seen Kramer vs. Kramer? UGH). Obviously slow burns and AUs (Anon with princess!AU I love it, thank you for sending, it's gonna happen!), d/s dynamics, and I guess it's not a big come out and you guys can tell by now but blow jobs and when people are drooling :v

From purely sexual kinks? Look, I would've never come up with pegging on my own, but here we are, so just send me stuff and don't worry. I've done crazy things in my life, just keep it within legal bounds. A little hint: if you send me things off anon I can reply to you privately or drop you a dm if I have doubts. You can include it in the ask whether you want the request to be out in the open or if you want me to keep your identity secret when publishing a fic, I will respect it.

Omg sorry for an overly long and just terribly vague answer. All I'm saying is: I listen and I don't judge and if I get a chance I will let you know what doesn't sit right with me, which is totally okay because we are all different people. I'm sure rimming grossed some of you guys out. We have a saying in Poland: if something fits for everything it's shit :v So, follow your filthy heart's desires and let's see if we match freaks.

[bluberimufim]

Nemesis Sudou is so very The Character Of All Time to me. She's God. She's her own mother. She was in a gang. She sank the Titanic. She literally cannot function without someone telling her what to do but somehow became a dictator. Her best friend is an octopus. She is death, destroyer of worlds. She's unbelievably touchstarved. She has the vaguest, most confusing political stance I have ever seen. She's immortal. Truly, no one is doing it like her.

[flaming-toads]

So what if I go back to s1e10 of 911 and I enjoy Bobby's little dating profile and think about silly cute ideas about it hmm?! HMMM?!

[lynaferns]

Haven't looked at any DCA tag in... months now

I don't like the current fanon Sun with the sassyness people give him. It brings me into a depressive state lmao.

(not shaming, I'm just sad that I can't go in the tags anymore without finding most of the art being mean/threatening sun. And all I can do is not go in there anymore)

Well, idk if it toned down by now or if that's the norm now. I don't feel like finding out.

[crowleys-bentley-and-plants]

9.1k words for my thesis is so satisfying i kinda dont want to change anything anymore......

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

Hello and good day!

I was wondering if you had a favourite scene/quote from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? If so, which one?

Hi!!

Ohhh, what an excellent question. I don't have my edition with me right now, but I'd have to say right off the bat, it's probably the very end and/or on the boat, when Guildenstern tries to kill the player.

Guildenstern finally snapping, and acting outside of his fixed role, outside of the rational thinking he's clung to the entire time (self-appointed coping mechanism), outside of his insistence to just go along with the plot because "it's the only thing they can do" and surely it'll end up fine (also pushed by the narrative itself, imho) is just. Beautiful. I am, fundamentally, someone who values freedom and independence above all else and I looove characters breaking their fixed mindset and growing beyond the narrative.

BUT THEN. The way it's reset? The narrative reasserts itself as the mousetrap that it is. As one might guess, I'm definitely an existentialist myself, and there are very few things I loathe as much as determinism. I loathe it, in many parts because I refuse to believe in it because having no control over my own life whatsoever is terrifying. And this is such a beautifully awful reassertion of a pre-determined reality.

You finally, finally cross all lines and boundaries to escape the oppressive force you've just accepted the entire time, social boundaries, personal, moral, narrative, you've done the worst thing you could possibly imagine, and a murder weighs heavy on the mind, but then the guy gets back up and talks about how none of this is real, and if none of this is real, all your choices truly have been made for you.

You have become a murderer, you have accepted to become the worst, but even that is denied, even that is not enough to break that outside force. There really is nothing you could possibly do, nothing so unpredictable and horrible that it might finally free you.

(You could still try to murder a friend, for whom the narrative plans the same things as you, or try to commit suicide. But both are the exact same, because really it's impossible to only kill one of you two, and it would be futile, it might not even cross your mind. The worst has happened and passed without anything you can do; all you can do is wait passively for a death you can't control but that is coming. How wonderfully terrifying.)

.... and I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm having fun, but you're getting another ramble about the end.

The thing is, I do love the film ending, because I love the relationship between Ros and Guil deeply, and the way Ros looks at Guil, copying his expression of fear as they're on the brink of death, still without fully grasping that they're dying and what that means, is.... ough.

But the original end gets me every time. Their relationship is so much clearer. For the first time in text, they are really apart - one goes where the other does not follow. Everything is obscured, including each other. Death/darkness/full obscurity and thus helplessness is upon them. I do also fucking LOVE blacks in theatre, so the visual image is one I cherish deeply. Nothing better than a lone character in a tiny spotlight, looking so fragile and alone on their last moments, be it a last action, a freeze frame, a last lime of dialogue, before the black swallows them.

Before the plot demands its dues.

Guil finally facing the very thing haunting each of their steps from the beginning, the end that's the only possible one, in what I read as almost apathy that replaced his outburst, in the same confusion that settled around Ros all this time. "Ros–? Guil–?"

That line fucking breaks me like a dry twig. He's spent so long being rational, being the one who thinks, surrendered to the narrative but at least keeping the overview. Maybe it's the confusion that comes once you try to disobey what has been determined for you. There truly is no difference between the two of them, they're Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and one of them is missing. One of them is missing and the other must follow, eventually, because that's how it is, but for a second he's utterly alone and halved.

"Now you see me, and now you–"

UNFINISHED SENTENCE AS THE VERY LAST THING BEFORE A BLACK I need to chew on furniture. The absolute finality. The fact that this end, that has been haunting them from the very first second, takes all but a second and no visible force—it really is just the blink of an eye. It's what has alawys been coming. It's natural. It's over before you realise it has begun—and isn't that just a description of the entire plot?

The visualising of death as a concept that's unavoidable, and through forces that are truly outside any character's abilities, is so impressively effective. A noose gives you a feeling one might be able to slip away, an execution can fail, an executioner can be defeated. But not so death itself as the natural outcome. The light is managed a fair bit away from the stage and the light technicians are some of the people your average theatre goer thinks about the least, while making a huge impact on the production. And this total darkness, it's not only inevitable, it is total. It envelopes the stage and the audience room. The audience knew the entire time, more so than anyone besides perhaps the player, and they, too, are directly plunged into the finality of nothing, of obscurity, of, well, the end. Finis.

I can imagine it so clearly on a stage, and granted, I've been spending A Lot of time at the theatre, but this is a play truly best suited for the stage. The film is nice and all, but the stage version.... I NEED to see it live so badly.

..... I'm getting sidetracked.

So, that's my answer. The attempted murder and the end (stage edition) are probably my favourite scenes. I am so deeply sorry about this monstrosity of an answer, this play has that immediate effect on me And I've been really getting into existentialism and talking to too many people about it, my brain fuckin. Ran away.

Anyway! Do you have a favourite scene or quote? I'd loove to hear your thoughts andjajd, and I hope you have a nice day hehe :3

[thetorturedlovergirl]

Yesterday, a coworker was going through all my lock screen pics and suddenly stopped on this one

slowly turned to look at me and said "oh my god you are SO gay”

[morangoowada]

How can people say they're anti-racism and then act like this 😭 like sorry to tell you that generalizing an entire group of people based only on their ethnicity is bigoted asf

[necrotic-nephilim]

Give me your most controversial dc opinions!!!

HA YES GLADLY I WOULD LOVE TO (added a read more because i had a lot of words oopsie)

The Titans Tower Incident was in character for Jason Todd. at worst, it's a *bit* over-dramatic and a little cringey, but if you consider his actions, his motivations, and what he *actually* does, i honestly don't think it's OOC for him. he's just kind of a dramatic asshole in that era and i stand by that comic. the issue isn't the comic itself, it's how people interpret it.

i think the DC fandom, specifically the Batfamily fandom, really likes to claim to be progressive for brownie points, but then will have the one token woman that everyone decides is acceptable to hate. like, it's one thing if you dislike Carrie Kelley, i get it. Frank Miller isn't a great writer of women and she can be a lack of a character in the original Dark Knight Returns. but if you go out of your way making constant edits and posts shitting on her, it's *weird*. especially when most of the people shitting on her haven't even consumed her source, and their reasons for disliking her can apply to any other Robin, especially Tim. but as long as you put say, Steph or Cass on a pedestal, you can talk on and on about how you want to kill Carrie for the crime of existing. it feels like acceptable misogyny. i also think this extends to writers. if you put say, Gail Simone on a pedestal, you're free to blame everything under the sun on Devin Grayson. (to be clear i think you can and should hate Devin Grayson for a lot of things, but most rumors about her are untrue and if you look at every badly written comic and go "sounds like something Devin Grayson would write" that's really weird bc everything she's done, men like Chuck Dixon, Tom King, Tom Taylor, Marv Wolfman, etc have done in tenfold.) like, misogyny = bad unless it's That One Woman We've All Agreed To Hate. it's weird and i keep noticing it. and no one seems to unpack it. (i mostly see this on TikTok, not Tumblr tbf)

i don't care if you ship BruDick or not, but it's not weird for canon content to imply or state Dick had a crush on Bruce when he was first taken in. even in canon where Dick sees Bruce as a "father figure" in the most generous sense, that bond took years to build and when Dick was freshly orphaned, he *had* the memory of loving parents and didn't want Bruce to fill that role. you don't have to ship BruDick, you don't even have to like batcest, but if you're vitriolic toward just the idea that "hey maybe a young kid on the cusp of puberty might have some weird feelings to work out about the canonically very attractive mysterious playboy who took him in before seeing him as family because that bond took years to build" is nasty and terrible and wrong to you, you don't like the Batfamily, you just like the nuclear "neat" version of it in your head

the Batfamily characters are *all* too hypercompetent. like all of them are just *too* good at what they do that in order to write them in interesting arcs together, you have to willingly make some of them OOC in order to not immediately have the Problem wrapped up. i get it, Bruce is the greatest detective, Tim is wicked smart, Jason's a heavy hitting brawler, but we've reached a point where all of these characters have so many buffs they're not *fun* anymore. especially not in a group setting where you need to justify them needing each other's help. and even worse-so when they interact outside of the Gotham, you end up making every non-Batfam character seem useless just to make the Batfamily look cool. it's exhausting. i want to see these characters lose fights, look stupid, and not be the best for once. they're all getting so good they're just kind of. boring. which is the worst sin for a character, IMO.

i think we should go like. a good year of all Justice League-related teams not having a single Bat on the roster. just as a cleanse so *someone else* can shine. i get why non-Batfam DC fans are sick of the Batfamily bc jesus. it's oversaturation of the market.

power scaling "who would win" fights are fucking boring and i don't care. that's the least interesting thing about the fandom. you're missing the point of all of these characters if you only care about who could win a brawl. also it's just a stupid debate because the answer will *always* be: whoever the author of the comic wants to win.

the Batfamily is too damn big. i love every single one of them do not get me wrong. i'd die for the little niche characters who are likely never going to be relevant again like Julia Pennyworth or Kate Spencer. but it's too fucking big at this point. it's insisted to us that these characters are family but like. half of them have barely existed on the same page together more than once. it's ridiculous and it cannot sustain itself. none of these characters are allowed proper shine because they'll just get dropped for the next new shiny character. i think Maps Mizoguchi is a cool lil lady, but i know in my soul in like. three years she will fade into comics limbo and we'll have a new shiny character to fawn over. it's a brutal cycle bc DC doesn't know how to give any of these characters follow through, just wants to wave around cool new concepts.

both Under The Red Hood and Death In The Family are mediocre adaptations and strip the most important emotional elements of Jason's story from the plot. you can't properly adapt Jason's death if you leave his mother out of it. like they're phenomenal movies as their own pieces of media, but they lack the necessary emotional weight for Jason.

on the note of adaptations: the Young Justice cartoon is i think the best case study of "how do you react to a piece of media that's amazing on it's own, but is a fucking horrible adaptation?" because like, i can't discredit it. it's a good show. but it's a bad adaptation and i think people using it as an entry point for DC can make their views of certain characters and teams *very* warped. the Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey movie falls into a similar vein for me. if that movie was it's own thing with original characters, it'd likely be a top five movie for me. but because it's *such a fucking bad adaptation* i can't help but hate it for brutalizing the characters and the general concept of the BoP. it should've been a Gotham Sirens movie, and Young Justice should've been a Teen Titans show. and sure, adaptations don't owe us accuracy, but they have negative effects on the comics when they gain popularity. so i struggle to like Young Justice bc of how badly it's affected certain characters.

also on the note of adaptations: the best adaptation of how comic media operates is the Sandman tv show. adapting comics to tv shows or movies is difficult bc comic arcs don't operate the way show/movie arcs do, but the Sandman show proves it's absolutely doable to adapt the storytelling style while still making the typical adjustments you need for an adaptation.

DC needs more Deaf representation. in most areas, DC either matches Marvel or outperforms Marvel with representation of marginalized identities, but it's fucking tragic we have no deal Deaf rep in DC whereas Marvel has quite a few to pick from. this one is personal bc i'm Deaf but it does fuck me up the only option we have is a side character from Tim Drake: Robin who doesn't appear anywhere else and isn't a great character overall. DC i'm in your walls.

on the note of representation, if i see one more person say Titans had "perfect casting" while in the same breath admitting Dick was whitewashed, you are weird and i dislike you. it's really fucking weird that whitewashing is permissable to this fandom if the actor cast/fancast is hot. Dick should've been a Roma actor. Damian should not be fancast as a white actor. it's the bare minimum.

i have so many more but i will end with this especially controversial one: Dan Mora's art is overhyped. that man has the worst same face syndrome i've ever seen and i will not lie half the time i can't tell which Robin he's drawing. his art is technically gorgeous and it's so pretty to look at, but begging for every comic series to be drawn by him is boring and terrible. the art style of a comic reflects it's genre. wanting all comic art to look like Dan Mora's art is sucking the style out of comics. i miss art styles like Todd Nauck's that clearly reflected the genre of the comic.

i lied i have one more i'm REALLY passionate about: Tim's vigilante name after Red Robin should not be bird-themed. naming him Sparrow or Cardinal is *just* as bad as naming him Red Robin longterm. they're *just* as derivative and they *sound* cool but don't hold any real unique identity for Tim outside of Robin. like it baffles me we all agree he needs to move on from Robin and then decided "let's name him Robin Lite". if he has a bird name, it should be Jackdaw so at the very least, he's not red anymore. and Jackdaw could be a fun callback to Drake, in that it uses part of Tim's real name (his middle name, Jackson) while standing out a bit. but if i really had creative control i'd give him a completely unique name. if it has to be Batfamily related, Gray Ghost. but in my head, his name should be Conspiracy. i could write a lengthy meta on why and tbh it is based in my love for the Question and wanting Tim to have a similar detective noir-esque gritty solo, but i genuinely don't think he should be Cardinal or Sparrow. those names only continue his identity issues of being trapped as either Robin or a Robin knockoff.

[kahootqueen69]

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