#handy guide

[nnicknnelsonn]

kit connor cracking up: a handy guide

✔️ scrunched up eyes ✔️ curling into ball ✔️ naughty 10 year old

curling into ball demonstration:

kit doesn’t always have enough time or enough room to execute curling-into-ball with perfect form, but he nails it here with a score of 10s across the board

in motion:

gifs by @narliee

half-curl:

pro tip: arm placement is key if there’s no time to execute a full curl

in motion:

[lzrdprsn]

Tweets and tumblr posts are not reliable sources.

[preheville]

characters who have and havent had wisdom tooth removal

characters that have had a tooth pulled: merilance, everyone who's ever gone to see the witch of marrow-more

characters that have not had a tooth pulled: everyone else

[grungekitty-77]

"I'm sorry." means: This is my fault.

"I'm sorry to hear that." means: This is the universe's fault.

"I'm sorry you feel that way." means: This is your fault.

[anisperfumery]

Credit: rustledjimmies.net

[whoareyoueventhough]

A little stolen art guide I made, nicknamed "the bubblegum scale". (The watermark is my Pinterest handle, I didn't steal the stolen art guide lol)

Please reblog! Handwriting translation under cut

-Bubblegums guide to- NOT STEALIN' ART! Don't do it!

Lv 1: PLEASE DONT. GOD. (Nothing, not even a caption) I will kill you

Lv 2: HATE HATE HATE ("not my art!" "Credit to og artist!") that's...not how credit works. How am I supposed to find more of their art?

Lv 3: Still not great. Borderline acceptable. (Same as lv 1 or 2 but the artist's signature/watermark is there.) it's the bare minimum. I'd rather you did better.

Lv 4: good job! You have avoided my wrath. (Artist watermark, "credit to *artist* on *site*") Ok sure

Lv 5: yes. Good. (Lv 4 with link to artists page) Yeah!

Lv 6: YES YES YES (Lv 5 and you GOT permission FROM THE ARTIST TO POST!!) HORAY!!

"Bubblegum, why do you think YOU can speak for every artist on the internet? Maybe someone WANTS their art stolen!" 38 ARTISTS HAVE APPROVED THIS SCALE (and counting!)

[landscaping-your-mind]

If you feel overwhelmed with internet discourse tm:

Go on a walk

Find a park

Swing on the swings

Maybe get a chocolate or some other treat idk chocolate is fun

[see-arcane]

Spot the Difference: Thomas Hutter VS Jonathan Harker

It's very understandable (and intentional!) how one can see so much similarity between Thomas Hutter and Jonathan Harker. Especially prior to their awful adventures concerning certain undead Counts.

Case in point:

Hearts full of love. Heads full of wife. Want to do a good job. No idea what kind of gothic bullshit is about to hit them.

Practically twins! So, where is the difference?

Well:

Baby boy. Honey muffin. My sweet little lad who tried so hard and suffered so much and did everything he could and still lost all he loved anyway because his wife loved him enough to murder-suicide her demonic stalker about it. Cradling him so so gently.

And then there's Jonathan.

What if I sold my soul to make sure I could personally drag Dracula to Hell for what he did to my beloved? What if I spent a solid month sharpening my knife, mentally calculating what it would take to murder strangers and my own allies if it meant defending my not-quite-human wife? What if I was no longer quite human myself? What if I didn't care? What if I crawled walls like an animal and had a paralyzing hollow burning gaze that had people soiling themselves and running to get out of my path and my hands turned to ice and I gained spontaneous super strength to slam dunk Dracula and his dirt box into the ground and I lopped his head off in the bleeding light of sunset? What if?

[patrothestupid]

I'm in need for an advice. How would you proceed with kissing a big man that is three times taller than you? (Something like a werewolf man for example.) Can you provide a step-by-step instructions?

might have been influenced by AI step by step guide sorry

[smtown-tourist]

SHINee heard the ai Jonghyun voice allegations and were like

“Bitch, WHERE?????”

[sparklyeyedhimbo]

just something i did while @bunnakit explained the lore of these silly dudes to me and others.

because everyone went, WHERE IS [put name of one of them in here] ?????????

and i was like i can't keep posting the same screenshots asjhsajkd

so here have a handy dandy chart of each of them in their important for their lore mv's.

[mjdrawsalot]

Jon Kent (pretty much) Complete Reading Order

Compiled first for my personal use and tidied up for @jonkentweek ! Goes up to June 2024 and includes every appearance of this character that I could find. I used ComicVine's archive to track these down, which is both fallible and constantly being updated, so there might be some mistakes. Also, I did my best to highlight the occasions where Jon was a significant character in a story and to skip the ones that were just a non-speaking, one-panel cameo, but those were personal judgements and your mileage might vary.

Color key (and apologies for the eye strain): Red are issues in which Jon is a central character, not just a cameo, Blue are crossover events, Orange are stories that take place in alternate universes/are non canonical

Optional stuff you can read for historical context:

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (1997) a classic possible future story, which is, to my knowledge, the 1st time a character named Jon who is Superman’s kid appears

Son of Superman (1999) a self-contained, now AU, story about a teen Jon Kent, very classic 90s young adult comic with all the tropes that come with that, but enjoyable as the proto-iteration of Jon as an idea

Canon appearances start here

The Final Days of Superman crossover event: Superman (2011) 51-52, Batman/Superman (2013) 31-32, Action Comics (2011) 51-52, Superman/Wonder Woman (2013) 28-29 (This is the origin story of the Clark, Lois and Jon that the comics follow in Rebirth. Largely ignored by writers, as it was written to patch up New52 weirdness, but there are occasional references that might be confusing if you skip it completely.)

Convergence (2015) 5, 8

Superman: Lois and Clark (2015) 1-8 (Establishes Jon and his family in the DCU)

Superman (2016) 1-11, 13, 17-28, 30, 32-36, 38, 40-45, Special 1

Action Comics (2016) 957-972, 974-978, 980-983, 985, 987, 989-1000, 1002, 1005, 1016, 1022-1035, 1042, 1045-1048, 1050-1057, 1059-1060, Special 1, Annual 2023

Justice League (2016) 3-6, 15, 18-19, 22, 28

Trinity (2016) 1-6, 16

Super Sons (2017) 1-16

Dark Nights: Metal (2017) 3, 6

The Man of Steel (2018) 1-6 (central from issue 4 onwards)

Superman (2018) 1, 4-12, 14-16, 20, 29-32

Adventures of the Super Sons (2018) 1-12

Justice League (2018) 9, 23-25, 34, 52, 75, Annual 2022

Super Sons/Dynomutt Special (2018)

Super Sons: The Polarshield Project (AU trilogy of graphic novels)

Supergirl (2016) 8, 30-33

DCeased (2019) 1-6 (what if DC but zombies?)

Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission

Lois Lane (2019) 3-4, 6

Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium 2

Legion of Super-Heroes (2019) 1-12

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child

Green Lantern: Blackstars 2-3

The Terrifics (2018) 25

Teen Titans (2016) 15, 43, 45-46

DCeased: Hope at World’s End (2020) 1, 4-5, 9-15

Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular (in the short Super Sons story)

DCeased: Dead Planet (2020) 1-7

Super Sons: Escape to Landis

Batman/Superman (2019) Annual 1

Challenge of the Super Sons (2020) 1-14

Dark Knights: Death Metal The Last Stories of the DC Universe (2020) (in the Superman short story)

Dark Knights: Death Metal The Secret Origin (2021)

Dark Knights: Death Metal The Last 52 War of the Multiverses (2021) (in the Superman parts of the story)

DC Nation Presents Future State (2020) (intro, information and behind-the-scenes for Future State)

Future State: Superman of Metropolis (2021) 1-2 (Future State is another possible future, meaning that it’s not necessarily canon, but it takes place in the future of the main canon, not in a complete AU, like say, Dark Knights of Steel. Technically not necessary to understand main universe stories, but a few popular characters and characterizations were brought over to the main universe.)

Future State: Justice League (2021) 1-2

Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman (2021) 1-2

Future State: Kara Zor-el, Superwoman (2021) 1

Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes (2021) 2

Infinite Frontier (2021) 0 (establishes the main universe status quo from this point on, feat. a synopsis of Jon’s life up to here)

Challenge of the Super Sons (2021) 1-7

Superman: Son of Kal-el (2021) 1-18, Annual 1

Shazam! (2021) 1

Superman Red and Blue (2021) 6 (in the short story The Special, but this mini series in general is cute and I recommend it)

Justice League vs. The Legion of Super-Heroes (2022) 1-6

Superman & Robin Special (2022) 1

DC’s Round Robin (2021) 2 (in the short story Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow)

Nightwing (2016) 89, 91-92, 101-104, 110, 112-113

Earth-Prime (2022) 2 (story based on the CW show Superman and Lois)

DC Pride (2022) (in the short story Super Pride)

Justice League: Road to Dark Crisis (2022) (in the short story Team Up)

Dark Crisis (2022) 1-7

Dark Crisis: Young Justice (2022) 1

Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League: Superman (2022) 1

DCeased: War of the Undead Gods (2022) 1, 4-5, 7-8

DC’s Terrors Through Time (2022) (in the short story Trick or Treat)

Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green (2022) 1

The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (2023) (in The Life of Superman short story)

Dark Crisis: The Dark Army (2023)

Superman: Kal-El Returns Special (2023) (in the short story Distractions)

Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton (2023) (in the short story Electric)

Batman (2016) 131-132 (in the Tim Drake Robin chapters)

Superman (2023) 2-3, 9

Lazarus Planet: Omega (2023)

Power Girl Special (2023)

Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent (2023) 1-6

Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow (2023) 1 (edited version of the story in Round Robin)

DC Pride (2023) (in the short story My Best Bet)

Titans: Beast World (2024) 3-4, 6

Titans: Beast World Tour: Metropolis (2024)

Trinity Special (2024) (taken from the backups of Wonder Woman 2023 plus some extra)

[ahollowgrave]

Spent more hours than I'd like to admit playing with Renn Cosmetic's Build Your Own Makeup and I think I might make some edits in terms of colors! But for now she's looking pretty fricking cute! Thank you to @thefreelanceangel who showed off her own usage of this kit with Anna!

[toomanycharr]

A reminder that male and female charr have different horn/ear set ups!

(Of course, do what you want but- It seems a lot of newer charr people just don't know!)

[manicpixiedreamlestats]

Alright Dead Boy Detectives Fandom:

Some of you need to pause here before you get back on AO3. Here's the thing: not everyone writes with your exact ghost head canons, or dialogue preferences, or characterizations 100% of the time. Hell, some people even bend or throw canon out the window to tell a good story. (I have been moved by stories like that in my lifetime).

That is not an excuse to write rude little tumblr posts and comments about what you didn't like. It's just not. This makes for a really, really caustic fandom environment over time. It does not encourage people to write more of what you want. It causes people to walk on eggshells, and write less in general, because they don't want to be on the receiving end of that wank. They're so afraid of doing something wrong that they don't do anything at all because it's just insurmountable- then, slowly, things die down. I have seen great fandoms die this way.

You, as the reader, need to take some ownership over what you're seeking out (and no, rec lists are not a "search", but they are nice). Reading tags on a fic should the bare minimum that you are doing before diving in. If you aren't doing that, then start there.

Here's what else will help you find what you want and avoid what you don't:

1. Use the "Sort and Filter" sidebar to the right of the main search.

I know you have all seen this panel. Many of you discuss sorting by kudos (which, in all fairness, means you're missing some beautiful, heartbreaking works). So go to the Sort and Filter panel. Scroll to "Exclude". That trope you've been complaining about for a solid month? Find it in the "Additional Tags", or type it in "Other tags to exclude". This will even work for ships you are tired of seeing, mostly. Some ship tags will slip through. You will have to type those into "Other tags to exclude" or...

2. Mute and Block (If Step 1 Fails)

So there's an author you keep complaining about through the confessions blog, or just... outright name dropping them. This is rude. Stop it. Do this instead. Go to their page on AO3:

Block or mute them. You will never see their work in the tag again. You will never be tempted to read it again (and really, why are you doing that in the first place? What is your malady?)

Be kind to each other. Art is a window into someone's soul, and I think a ton of us have forgotten that in this post consumerist hellscape. Y'all need to stop acting like transformative fiction is in the same class as mass produced trinkets you ordered with two day shipping.

[teh-nos]

i just feel like aggressively attacking people for being poorly educated on a given topic, in a way that treats them as a bad person for a) not realising the things they 'know' are wrong and b) knowing how to correct this to be more in line with current thinking, is kind of a dick move.