#goddamn menace

[deathlywounded]

All my AU’s men gonna have long hair or they’re not mine. Period. (This is my tailor Astarion HC)

[thatswhatsushesaid]

this whole sequence from start to finish is just billy flynn's desperate tap-dance routine from chicago

[uncharted-constellations]

Deranged about them❤️‍🔥

[jaxtoys]

I’m working through my thoughts and theories and I’ll have so much more to say but I will for now say I LOVE BEING RIGHT THAT JAX IS LIKE THAT FOR A REASON.

He is a jerk for self preservation. His last real and close friend abstracted and he doesn’t want the same fate, which is probably why he’s not only been so emotionally detached but actively trying to push everyone away by irritating them and instigating problems. Attachment can cause so much suffering and in a place like the circus, where everyone can succumb to abstraction, it hurts too much. He doesn’t wanna care about anyone else again just to lose them again because it HURTS and he’s ONLY 22 he’s a BABY.

And he’s TRIED to be actual friends with Pomni throughout the whole show and particularly this new episode. So her “Do you have any actual friends?” question when he’s tried so hard and WAS actively trying to open up to her seconds before was so hurtful. And Ragatha did not help. At all.

He’s the youngest out of all of them and I wish everyone would give him a little more grace and kindness, then maybe he wouldn’t be so much Like That.

[fionnaskyborn]

Sho Minazuki concept artworks

Art by Shigenori Soejima, as seen in Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold: Official Design Works

(Extracted from The Fighters Generation website, as seen here. Internet Archive page provided here.)

[ktlsyrtis]

middle-aged woman joins tiktok - 84 dead, 244 injured

[beifong-brainrot]

As much as this may be a writing flaw I love how Bolin has seemingly no moral consistency lol

He's against rigging sport matches and animal cruelty. He is used to stealing and has literally robbed an old lady. He has scammed people. He has been scammed and manipulated. He is fine with working for a criminal triad despite Mako having told him not to. He is shocked and horrified when Mako burns parking tickets. He attampts to bribe a judge. He helps create a propagand a movie and proceeds to sexually harrass his costar. He saves the president. He forgives the woman who abused and terrorised him. He helps rescue people from a collapsing building. He advocates for taking in a lying thieveing child and cares for Kai tremendously despite Kai manipulating and robbing him multiple times. He gleefuly proposes stealing from a fruit vendor. Despite his care and kindness towards Kai he yells at at least two children for lesser offences. He puts his sock in a man's mouth. He joins a totalitarian dictatorship and ignores the blatant red flags. He reluctantly leaves a village to starve after they reject the Earth Empire. He later happily helps unload supplies for the same village. He leaves the totalitarian government and tries to help a city under siege. He slaps his friend. He refuses to not help a bunch of refugees amd goes out of his way to save them. He fakes an injury to get an ex partner to talk to him. He goes on a secret mission to rescue the people who he'd wronged. He goes out of his way to rescue a woman who he has every right to believe has betrayed him and also tries to set her up with the guy she likes. He briefly wamts to become a politician. He comes up with the most diabolical prank I can imagine and he want to play it on an old lady and 3 kids.

[littlexdeaths]

i’m having so much fun writing this part two for this abby x plus size reader fic hehehe

[aechlys]

Yes that's right tumblr, everything with Sakurai's face on it is automatically XXXXX rated lololololol 😼

[elliss-stuff]

He is a dork... I love him so much ❤️

[navree]

this is dc twitter discourse at the moment so i thought i'd ask your thoughts on it do you think red hood jason hurting children is ooc/a bad writing choice???

And this ladies and gents is why I avoid DC Twitter because I don't think I've seen any good takes there ever, no matter where you are. Sometimes people post panel compilations that hurt my heart, that's the like the only good thing to come out of it, I don't even click on the MAWS hashtag if it trends while the show is airing because last time I did it was people bitching that 25 year old Slade did not look or act the same way that current in his forties Slade does (not to mention, how can you complain about MAWS Slade? he's the best part about the show how did anyone not just fall over laughing with delight the second he showed up and proclaimed himself to be literal Slade Wilson?).

With that said, yeah I would consider that to be a bad writing choice. Talking about characterization for comics is hard because, as I've mentioned, comics is an incredibly decentralized creative medium in a way none others are. Movies, TV shows, novels, they all tend to have a main core group of people or even just one solitary person in charge of the creative direction, and for a lot of them, a very finite "this is where we start and this is where we end" mentality that comics do not. These characters have had constantly changing creative heads, with new directions and ideas for characterization attached, since their inception, and they've all been around for a very long time. This is why comics are kind of the only medium where you can, in fact, really pick and choose your canon, because the canon has changed so much depending on who is in charge at a giant company. Like, canonical eighties Batman characterization would be considered super OOC for someone writing canonical modern Batman, and vice versa. So talking about characterization is hard, especially with Jason when nobody has had any idea what to fucking do with him for decades at this point. But, when it comes to Red Hood Jason, there is something I consider gospel canon, which is the Under the Red Hood arc, since that is what nearly all subsequent canon imaginings of Jason take from. That is our gold standard here. And based on UTRH, yeah, Jason harming children is out of character and it is bad writing.

When Jason comes back, he has two very clear goals. Goal one: the Joker's gotta die, preferably Batman kills him so Jason gets concrete proof that he was loved and mourned (Jason is not mentally healthy so his thought process doesn't make sense just roll with it), but Jason is fine killing the man himself, so long as he dies. Goal two: essentially fulfill Batman's mission in a way where it actually accomplishes his goals. Jason outlines this pretty specifically in Batman #641, he tells Bruce "You. I'll be you. The you you're supposed to be." Jason's goal as the Red Hood is to make Gotham better (in his head), safer, and cleaner, but unlike Batman he is willing to take that goal as far as he can and will kill if necessary. What he wants is to just take Batman's mission to its logical extreme. Eradicate the various elements that have caused suffering in Gotham throughout the years, just with more permanence than Batman does, and less of a focus on rehabilitation, because you can't rehabilitate a dead person. And as part of this, Jason does not act unnecessarily. When he kills, it is people who (arguably) deserve it, and it is never innocents. It is always the criminal element, and people he believes are past the point of no return, as well as those who might be trying to stop him in that. His mission statement is literally "Death will come to those who deserve death, and death may come to those who stand in my way of doing what's right." and he means that. This is not a character you've created to then go out and harm children, because kids have not done anything to deserve it, and they are not the cause of the issues that he is trying to eliminate.

There's also the fact that Jason, even in his early Red Hood days where editorial just decided that he's a straight villain now, was never someone who went after kids, but in fact actively tried to help them. He makes it a point to tell his people that they do not sell drugs to kids and that if they do, he'll kill them (along with telling them not to get previously clean people hooked and only sell to repeats, which also paints him as someone who isn't just hurting others willy-nilly). The first person Jason ever kills, as seen in Red Hood: Lost Days, is a man who was involved in child trafficking, and he does it specifically because he wants to save those kids and future victims from him, and considers him scum of the Earth as a result (I think his name was Egan? Egon? idfk I don't reread Lost Days because I find their whole "look at fully adult Talia fucking the mentally ill sixteen year old under her care who is reliant on her for everything, how sexy" shtick abhorrent, and using Talia as their child rapist doubly so). So Jason, even at his most villainous, at his most "this is a bad dude" characterized, is someone who deliberately avoids harming innocents because it's not compatible with his mission or his personal code, and includes children very specifically in that.

It is also out of character and a bad writing choice because of Jason's own childhood. You might think a rebuttal to this is "Jason wants to kill/hurt criminals, what if kids are criminals" well guess what Jason was a kid criminal! It is actually illegal to steal parts off of people's cars, even if that person can afford it because he's Batman (to say nothing of the multiple very heavy handed hints dropped that Jason solicited as a prostitute during his time being homeless, which is also a crime, it is illegal and he would have been picked up by the cops for it if found out). Unless you want to argue that Jason thinks he himself should have been taken out with a Glock at the big of age of eleven for doing illegal things in the name of survival, you can't say that Jason's philosophy would allow him to harm children and remain in character or decently written, you just can't. Like, your other gospel for Jason's characterization should be his original Robin run from the 80s, since that's literally what introduced him to this world in the first fucking place, so duh. And there's nothing in that characterization to suggest that he would harm anyone unnecessarily, especially kids. Like, Robin Jason spares Two-Face's life, after having found out days ago that Two-Face murdered Willis Todd in cold blood; he tries to save Sheila Haywood's life after she straight up helps murder him; this isn't someone whose characterization allows for him to hurt children later in life. Especially once you factor in his struggles as a child, and how that most likely just breeds empathy for other children, especially children who are having a hard time.

Now, I can guess that some of this comes up in discussions of one of my most loathed subjects, the stupid bad stupid dumb stupid attack on fucking Titan's Tower. Now, even beyond the fact that the stupid attack on stupid Titan's Tower is less about Jason wanting to beat up children and more his specific issues with Bruce and the concept of Robin that can't be transplanted to other people, the attack itself is bad writing. It is out of character for Jason. It does not jive at all with his stated characterization and motivations that he himself outlined (also the only other closest thing to that is his fight with Mia Dearden, where he's pretty tame in just warning her to leave vigilantism and straight up beats her twice before letting her go relatively unscathed of his own free will, just saying) and it makes no sense. His issues are that the Joker is alive and Batman didn't do anything about it. Why the fuck would he care about Tim? Tim means nothing to him, he never even met the little dude, he doesn't have an issue with him. He doesn't even have an issue with the idea of Robin being passed down because Jason literally said he was perfectly content to not be Robin and just be Jason, and his problems don't arise from Robin! The issues at the heart of Jason's conflict with Bruce hinge on the Bruce and Jason relationship of father and son, not Batman and Robin! And not fucking Tim! Tim means nothing, he is a nonentity. The only reason this fuckass plot exists is because DC didn't know what to do with Jason and threw shit at the wall to see what would stick, similar to what we saw with that dumb plot with Nightwing from this time that also has similar issues, in that why would Jason care enough to cause problems for Dick, he doesn't have an issue with Dick, he legit interacts with Dick in UTRH and he's fine! (a better writing decision would have been post-UTRH Jason immediately writing the entire Batfam off and treating them as hostiles whenever they wander into Crime Alley and them having to regain his trust back/him agreeing to let down more and more barriers as time goes on and they all reconnect, but I was like seven when all this was being written so DC didn't seek my input) The fucking dumb Titan's Tower thing that people are gonna use to prove that Jason hurting kids isn't bad writing isn't even about Jason, the only reason this shit gets trotted out again and again is because Tim Drake has a lot of fans who are absolutely convinced their poor uwu baby has suffered more than Jesus when the only person in the Batfam who's suffered less than him is, like, Alfred (although I can make the argument that Alfred has still suffered more by having had to put up with Bruce Wayne almost singlehandedly for most of his adult life). It exists in people's minds even tho it is objectively bad writing and out of character for one of the main players because fanon Tim has to be the most special boy ever (and also because these people wanna use it to make Tim interesting which is impossible because nothing can make Tim interesting).

Jason hurting children deliberately is, indeed, bad writing. It is, in fact, incredibly out of character. It does not compute to his explicit motivations and how he was characterized in the stories that have since been used as a jumping off point for his characterization ever since. And ultimately, the thing is this: if Red Hood Jason is just trying to do Batman's job better than Batman, who is he doing it for if not children? Who is he trying to clean up Gotham for, make Gotham a better place for, if not her children? And if that's the case, as it obviously is, why on Earth would him then harming her children be any kind of good character writing or coherent characterization?

TL;DR, yes it is.

[atsadi-shenanigans]

All I Want for Solstice

Chapter one of my holiday smutfic! Posted on AO3 because I'm not sure how much tumblr allows and this one's explicit.

Eleanor is trying to spread holiday cheer. Astarion is trying to spread Eleanor's legs. Loosely tied to Feeding Alligators, but not totally canon to it, since I haven't finished the game.

Rated E for explicit sexual content, semi-public sex, fingering, orgasm denial, blow jobs, Astarion being a shit, Eleanor also being a shit.

He’s been teasing you all night. It starts innocently enough (as he’s wont to do, these days). A kiss to your cheek that lingers a moment longer than usual. You’d been judging yourself in front of the mirror, frowning at your outfit. Baldur’s Gate did not, it turns out, get snow often. But now and then it did very much Snow. The morning had seen that storm roll in. It cleared out by sundown, and you and Astarion woke to crystalline white outside your windows, glowing gold in the city’s lamplight. You’d been planning tonight for three days, and you did not intend to back out due to the weather.

You don’t seen him, of course. Didn’t even know the man was in the room until his cool hands drape over your front.

“You look delectable,” he says right into your ear, his breath curling against your neck.

Read the rest on AO3.

[deathontheroad]

More of them :3

[violet-moonstone]

putting so many of my headcanons into my fic right now. I few months ago I made a post about how Hiccup would react if Valka said Dagur with long hair looked like Stoick (and this does happen in the fic). This is the aftermath when Dagur and Hiccup are alone:

“So,” he started.

Uh oh, Hiccup thought, already sensing something ridiculous.

“I look like Stoick, huh?”

Hiccup rolled his eyes and scoffed. “I have no idea why my mom said that.”

Dagur leaned in. “You gonna start calling me Daddy now?”

Hiccup raised an elbow to Dagur’s chest and barked out a laugh. “Fat chance!” Dagur had in fact tried to get Hiccup to call him Daddy before. Hiccup just found it too embarrassing and weird. It didn’t help that Dagur did somewhat resemble Hiccup’s late father once he’d grown his hair out.

Dagur chuckled. “Heh. Maybe that’s why Valka likes me so much.”

“Dagur!”

[leoleolovesdc]

Thinking about tiny Steph jumping in Jason’s shoulders and just sticking around like a little bat. She moves around a little trying to find the best position and ends up sitting there on his right shoulder. He doesn’t question it, he’s strong enough to carry her so why should it matter? They start doing this every mission they have together. The batfam blinks and now Stephanie and Jason are Stephanie&Jason. They’re two in one deal, if you want Red Hood you have to take the little blondie, if you want Spoiler you have to take her tank.

[littleforeignaffairs]

HOW IS IT THAT WITH EVERY EPISODE, MING INCREASES THE LEVEL OF AUDACITY HE HAS