#mostly work related

[watcher0033]

Y’all, the Archive admins are made up of VOLUNTEERS. And they have been working for 12-13 HOURS STRAIGHT.

I better not hear any complaints when donation period comes around. OR ELSE.

cosplay by @woahchriswoah on Twitter

EDIT: How do we show appreciation to the volunteers? For me reading these deep dives on OTW issues u guys apparently it's been said multiple times that one of their objective statements is to have paid staff for ao3 and there's a surplus of donations they haven't used up or the other community solutions that needs to address. For those more financially literate feel free to analyze, snipe me or add to the discussion etc. linked here by deepa. They’re cool and these yearly analysis they did aint no joke.

But Seriously what can we do for these volunteers? The probable burn out from this entire fiasco would be no joke. @ao3org

[too-many-rooks]

Generally I try to not be bothered by minor historical inaccuracies in KCD fic bc like, who cares! But one that has really stuck out a few times is the hard truth that; Henry of Skalitz has never and will never eat a potato.

It’s a tragedy, I know. This man would love potatoes. But he doesn’t even know they exist 😢

[theimpurelily]

It's Finished!

Inspired by @grubus amazing fic Shen Yuan of No Relation

below are just my fav bits, so enjoy!

[wandixx]

GIW made a lot of mistakes and the biggest one was going against Young Justice part 2

part one is here

@whimsicalchaosgarden you asked to be tagged, sorry it took so long

Trigger warnings: mentions of experimentation and dehumanization (tell me if there is more appropriate way of phrasing it)

“So,” Robin started, taking the voice recorder out of his utility belt. “It'll probably be best if we get an explanation while making an accident report. This way we get it all over sooner”

Everyone agreed with this idea, standing in the loose circle in the debriefing area to make it all feel more serious. They had limited time before the next batch of cookies needed to be taken out of the oven and there was no way they all wouldn't devolve into chaos when it happened. M’gann knew from experience. 

To make sure they wouldn't take too long and cookies wouldn't turn on the fire alarm (again) both she and Danny set a timer.

In the meantime they had to learn who actually attacked them earlier.

“Phantom do the honors”

Danny froze for a moment, looking like deer caught in the headlight before he asked in a bit squeaky voice:

“How do I make an accident report?”

“Just say what happened but make it sound fancy,” Artemis explained. 

“Make a mission report and we'll fix it along the way,” Kaldur proposed.

“Answer ‘When? Where? Who was involved? What happened? What have you done about it?’ without excessive use of puns to avoid Bat-lecture” Robin helped, already in handstand.

“Bat-lecture? Really Rob?”

“So it's like lab report lite” Danny said before Robin did anything more than squawk indignantly “Alright, I can do it. Do you have any set phrase to start? And which accident report is it, in the database?"

“44th… How about ‘[Hero name], report’? Sounds serious enough.”

Everyone agreed, so after a moment of silence Kaldur did the honors.

“Phantom, report”

Danny straightened, rolling his shoulders back and locked his eyes in the middle distance. It was a bit eerie how fast he went from relaxed and goofy to almost emotionless statue. M’gann wished to never encounter it again, thank you very much.

“Incident report no. 45 made by Young Justice member Phantom, regarding an attack from earlier today, 26th April 20XX. The Young Justice Team, later referred to as the Team, went on a trip to an amusement park staying currently in the city of Happy Harbour. It was an activity meant to strengthen interpersonal relationships within the Team, previously green-lit by Red Tornado. Every member was in civilian attire as per protocol. Around 3:15 PM, after two and a half hours, the Team were disturbed by a group of ten armed people, recognized by member Phantom as belonging to Ghost Investigation Ward, colloquially known as GIW or Guys In White because of their uniforms. Later in the report the organization will be referred to as the GIW. Two shots were fired by the assailants, targeting but not reaching member Phantom. Members of the GIW were hostile but with use of humor and threat of legal actions, the Team managed to diffuse the situation before it endangered passerbys. Despite direct attack, none of the Team members’ identities were compromised. Assailants left the confrontation with belief that Phantom left his ectoplasmic signature on an unrelated civilian. Agents refused to admit they were working for the GIW since its operations break a couple of laws of the state Rhode Island. Because of that, their appearance was reported to local law enforcement and taken care of. No injuries or damage to the city infrastructure were sustained other than two burns in the asphalt in the place of confrontation. Required follow-up with local law enforcement in civilian attire as victims of assault. End of report” Danny sighed, easing back into a more natural position. “This good?” he asked, with a sheepish smile.

“Perfect”

“How are you so good at reporting? You didn’t even know what to do a second ago? That’s just unfair”

“I used to write my parent’s lab reports. It’s pretty similar in form”

“Lab-”

“Follow-up to the report only, Kid-Flash,” Robin interrupted “Phantom. elaborate on who were the assailants”

Danny stepped back from himself again.

“GIW is a ghost hunting organization supported and accredited by the state government in Illinois, legally operating also in states Wisconsin and Ohio. Their goal is to catch and examine ecto-entities to learn more about their biology and ways to obliterate them. Obviously their plans for experimentation don’t include consideration of ghosts’ well-being”

“Damn, that’s messed up”

“They wouldn't catch a blob ghost if they tried,” Danny shrugged, though something was wrong with the gesture. She wasn't sure though, so she moved on.

“Then why were you scared?” M’gann pressed on instead.

“My parents… are, you know, prominent ghost hunters so when GIW opened we all got a tour around the whole building. The lab was… it made me imagine things I wished I had never thought about”

“They have labs? Like evil labs?” Robin perked up like a kid who just heard that Christmas came early. “How could you hide it from us?!” he added, falling to hang on Danny's shoulder. He twirled a bit to catch the left one even though before he stood on halfa’s right side. Dramatic as always “Conner, we have a birthday gift for you!”

“What does GIW’s lab have to do with my birthday?”

“The potential!” Robin yelled, straightening for a better effect.

Everyone started laughing. Well, everyone other than Conner who just looked at them confused.

“He probably wants to storm another lab, bring up nostalgia of our first meeting,” Kaldur calmed down just enough to explain.

“Tell me you wouldn't like to punch an evil scientist,” Wally added, almost dropping to the floor. 

“This does sound nice”

“And THIS is exactly the reason why I haven't told you all. Thanks for spoiling my surprise Rob,” Danny lied, though he did his best to sound truthful. He even projected some false mirth.

It would take much more to trick M’gann though. She abruptly stopped laughing.

“You're lying. Why actually haven't you told us?” she demanded maybe a little too harshly, but she was worried. Everyone froze for a moment, before turning to look at Danny.

“They're all bark no bite, and aim worse than Stormtroopers’, so I haven't considered them important enough to report”

Other's didn’t know, of course, but M’gann knew just how terrified Danny was during the confrontation and how echoes of that fear soured air around him even hours later.

Everyone did realize this explanation was a tone of bullshit though. 

Apparently incredulous stares were enough of the response.

“You and the Justice League have more important things to deal with than some shitty local laws”

“Bullshit again,” Artemis burst her lips “This is exactly what Justice League is for”

“I already found people to help me lobby against them”

“And why aren't we on the list?” 

Danny fell silent, not looking anyone in the eyes, which was quite a feat considering they had him in a half circle. M’gann considered moving to his side to show her support. Stare down like that had to be quite stressful.

Why not actually. She stepped closer, and drew him in the loose side hug. Danny tensed, which wasn't abnormal for him. He usually relaxed in about thirty seconds, if he didn't, she'd let go.

“I didn't expect them to breach the containment…”

“Each of these lies is worse, you know? Like, insulting our intelligence level of worse,” Artemis interrupted once more, pinning him with her eyes alone “Give us truth or stop talking”

Danny raised his head to look back at Artemis and mimed zipping his mouth shut and throwing the key away. 

“Really?”

Boy just shrugged, not breaking eye contact.

“Alright, let's move on to the next question, how did it get approved in the first place?” Wally interrupted, waving his hand between them. They both shook off like dogs fresh out of water.

“Couldn't you wait five more seconds until I won?” 

“Ha! You wish Artemis. Though you could give us a moment”

“I gave you literal ages”

Danny snorted “Sorry, I keep forgetting how impatient you are”

“Oh shut up, my brain is just faster than yours, you slowpokes”

“Sure, sure”

“He made a good point,” Kaldur said “This shouldn’t even pass. And even if, you’re legally a Meta”

“Normal ghosts aren’t and halfas being a thing is not exactly common knowledge among the living”

“I’ll never get used to this distinction”

“I believe in you, Rob”

“What about ‘Extraterrestrial, extradimensional and otherwise previously unincluded’ Optional Protocol to the ‘International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’?”

“Oh my god Conner, you’re the only person to say the whole name ever”

“Hey!”

“It all comes down to the definition of the ghost and the fact that Alien addition uses sentience and sapience as a ground to give anyone said rights. And also, US signed it but didn’t ratify it so…”

“Isn’t it same thing?”

“Nope. I thought so too, but apparently signing anything means nothing unless it’s also ratified, so I’m kinda fucked. Can’t even get the UN to frown at them disapprovingly, because officially, nothing was agreed to. And you know, even if they ratified it, ecto-scientists conducted enough research to prove we aren’t sapient enough to have these rights anyway. Just most of the states didn’t need to make a law out of it”

“That’s rough buddy”

“Are you really quoting Avatar at me right now? Really Artemis?”

“Yes”

“Wasn’t Avatar this movie with blue people? I don’t think they said that there”

M’gann wasn’t quite sure why human members seemed to be appalled by the question.

“We’re going to fix that later-”

“What exactly is there to be fixed, because I feel like we’re talking about to different things”

“- but for now can we go back to the whole ‘ghosts have no rights in Illinois’ thing” Robin continued, completely ignoring Conner’s questions.

“Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio. There are portals to the Zone in two of these states. GIW already tried to send nuke through one of them”

“How Americana of them,” Kaldur muttered.

“If you have another insane tidbit about them, please share it all now. My mind can’t utilize any more revelations like that”

“I handled it, don’t worry”

“Someone tried to nuke literal Afterlife…”

“Yup, get on the schedule Kid Flash. You’re supposed to be fast”

M’gann knocked her arm into his, kinda as a ‘don’t be mean’ message. Danny kinda tensed, but soon relaxed back and moved his head as if he wanted to lay it on her shoulder. Excitement of the day was clearly catching up to him.

M’gann wouldn’t be mad if he did laid his head there.

“Why do we learn about it just now?”

“I wrote the report, not my fault you haven’t read it”

“Can’t fault us for assuming we’d know every important thing from your endless bitching!”

Danny straightened and laughed, in this horrible humorless way that made M’gann want to claw at her brain until she couldn’t hear or sense any of it.

Instead, she brought her other hand up and just held him tighter.

Thankfully the whole spectacle didn’t last long.

“It’s cute that you think I bitch about anything important”

“Phantom…”

“Don’t Phantom me right now. Even if by some miracle they managed to send the missile to the Zone, it most likely wouldn’t have worked. They’re mostly just a joke.”

“They managed to shot you. Right upper arm or shoulder”

“Don’t deny it, we’ve seen you wince when I leaned on you and when M’gann hugged you”

Martian tried to let go hearing that, but Danny held her in place. She stayed where she was but carefully moved her hand away from the slightly damp area on his shirt. She suddenly caught on everything that was wrong with him, now that she knew to look for it.

“I got worse from the hand of my house’s security system”

“You… understand that it’s… like… way worse, right?”

“You don’t know life until you hear threats of dissection against your alter ego after stopping death ray with bowl of cereal,” he said, relaxing more into her side again. He sounded absolutely exhausted.

“Do you want to move in here? Until we deal with this whole GIW and assorted mess?” she said instead. Conner nodded, surprisingly eager to share the space that he considered somewhat sacred.

“Nope, I’m good, I’m needed there”

“You could Zeta- yeah, no, nevermind, it wasn’t good idea. But we could make it work”

“You still should-”

“It’s fine. I mean, I have it handled and it doesn’t affect that many people. And we’re working on it. It’s fine”

“It really is not,” Conner growled.

“You need your arm patched up” M’gann demanded, ignoring previous conversation, with eyes still fixed on the blood that stained her forearm. She should’ve destroyed at least Operative K.

“I bandaged it up”

“It soaked through then. Let’s go to med–”

Loud shrill interrupted her, because of course it did.

“Oh, look, convenient distraction! Let’s take the cookies out before they get burned!”

“We’ll talk about it tomorrow,” M’gann stated in a way that allowed no argument “You’re getting away for now only because I’m holding most of your weight right now”

“Sure we will. And I can stand on my own, thank you very much”

“I’ve heard many lies today and this might be the worst of them. We’re going to Medbay as soon as the cookies are out”

“You’ve got it boss”

[troubldteenz]

if the spotlight was big enough for just the both of us

extra

[psychopomp-namine]

the way everyone has a dislike in their profile that actually says something integral about their character. lu guang doesn't like plans getting messed up, cheng xiaoshi dislikes loneliness, xia fei with owing favors, vein with lying...

and then you have liu xiao, who dislikes... cilantro. and fish mint.

(shakes fist) (putting him in a glass jar and shaking vigorously) learn to be vulnerable!! tell me something about yourself!! I guess him liking movies lines up with the theater metaphors, and there's him liking chess, but that. doesn't count methinks

[markscherz]

a person who named a genus, on tumblr

Actually, three genera, but Anilany and Nanohyla are not as catchy as Mini. A full list of the taxa I have described is available on my website. :)

[orions-aether]

me planning my adaine fic : so ik I said my favourite thing about adaine is her rage, her refusal to become the person her parents want her to be, her constant biting back and how brave it is, but like what if I took it away in the interest of angst and self-projection. I'll give it back I swear

[reynaruina]

They grow up so fast Bonus hug

[moeblob]

So there was going to be a lot more but consider this a part 1? For OC Lore Drops.

(none of this was drawn today but because it was storming earlier and I got some rest, I feel like I really want to knock out commission work and do not have time to draw something to post today without messing that rhythm up.)

Also a little bit more: Simeon is a romance novel writer and his hobby is people-watching. His ability to sense the supernatural entities is so exciting to the hellhound who just adores /trying/ to get the jump on him but always ends up 'sniffed out' before she can.

[porcelain-rob0t]

i haven't explained my funger au very well outside of just posting the fic and out of context drawings but it takes place over 2 years after escaping the dungeon and it involves an ego death and forced self-care. thats why Enki is seemingly kinder and idk more normal looking?? he had a parasitic infection that nearly killed him (pregnancy parallels in the au story) in the dungeon and faced his god self, that would cause a complete ego death and total break of ones sense of self in anyone but it hit him especially hard. so Ragnvaldr took care of him, made him gradually accustomed to eating more than one meal a day, going outside at least once a week, and maintaining a healthier life style. he isnt actively dying of malnutrition so yeah he's been a bit more tempered. like taking a mostly feral stray cat and showing it love and it settles down. yeah its going to be mean and try to fight you but it just needs some patience. comfort is uncomfortable.

im not trying to "fanonize" the characters, im trying to tell a story about change

(also taking skinny miserable characters and making them fatter and happier is incredibly fun. you see an emaciated character and you yerk it to their visible bones. i see an emaciated character and i see a great opportunity. im putting them in eating disorder recovery.)

[xiomeebo]

theres an interestin thing about makin art (music, cosplay drawin, writin etc) an postin it online where like. you make it for yourself, but the only way you can actually get feedback is for other ppl to see it. an comment on it. so you wanna get it out there more an have more ppl see it, but when you talk about that to ppl they kinda assume youre only doin it to see the number go up an they just tell you shit like "oh make art for yourself !!" an 's like yea. thas what 'm doin. i just wanna see if 'm actually improvin or not because if you just keep your shit to yourself 's hard to actually see if youve improved or not.

[arthur-lesters-glabella]

Yapping, closeups and reference below

After a little over a month, it's finally done!!! This was such a wonderful piece to work on and it has been delightful to see fellow "the Last Unicorn" fans in my life to be as excited about this piece as I am. While it certainly isn't perfect (if you think I work with coloured pencils more than once a year you are wrong my friend), I tried my damn best and finished it up while sick so here it is. Ignore the purple tinge to the blues, the consequences of trying to adjust the unsaturated trash that is produced by my camera are showing, lol. Then again, I really couldn't get the colours right on the unicorn unfortunately, though I think it still comes across decently. Anyway, finally I will be free of thinking of this every time I look at my piece:

Alright, finally some closeups and my reference

[crashoutsofrobinproportions]

I read what you said about the guys on introversion vs extroversion, and I have to say that I think the unfortunate misunderstanding that Tim is an introvert is an essential point to people that want to delude themselves into thinking that Tim actually enjoyed being Red Robin.

Either because they don't like Tim and want him to be okay with being gone, or because they do like Tim but don't like the rest of the bats and want him to be okay with cutting them out of his life. But the fact is that it's just not true.

The other, kinder, reason is people that see themselves in Tim who happen to be introverts and they project that quality onto him even though he does not actually possess it.

I myself am an introvert despite relating to him a lot, but personally I just know enough about him that it cannot be clearer to me that he receives energy from social interaction rather than being drained by it.

Being isolated is literally this guy's supervillain origin story. Dude needs people.

Yes!!! Exactly.

I personally actually relate most to Dick, and to an extent Damian with certain things and my earliest memories but… mostly Dick.

In interpersonal relationships with my family and friends, the way things are between me and my siblings, and especially my relationship with my primary parent growing up especially during my teens and the tension that’s caused into early adulthood.

I wasn’t ever really able to be a kid to my parent once other children were in the picture because their needs came first and I had to make sure they were met every time our parent could not or would not. I was the emotionally and physically present one to fix everything and the one to stand up to our parent and keep their issues focused on me and not the kids. When they spent a few years absent I basically raised the children until they were back and ready to parent again.

But the one big area I don’t relate quite as much with Dick, is socializing outside of my immediate circle with the world and community as a whole. I’m awkward. I don’t just *get* people. I overshare. People overshare to me. It’s a mess. The only times I do fare well on my own are strict rigid settings with specific expected conversation flows (i.e. retail environments, formal social occasions where there’s a strict hierarchy, etc.), or it’s with closer friend groups or family and such that I’m really familiar with anyways. This leads to me preferring not to attend big parties unless I have to and being a homebody unless I’m with friends. But also I go INSANE and get super depressed if I don’t have enough conversation with people. My poor therapist……… anyways!!

That said.

I can see how especially for introverted fans of Tim who see themselves in him it would be easy to look at him and assume he’s an introvert, especially if they maybe don’t have a frame of reference to consider how not all extroverts are at the most extreme end of social and outgoing, and how being reserved or keeping to closer circles doesn’t necessarily equate to being an introvert.

I do wish that was something that was explored more though in the fandom. Especially when looking at all of his biggest negative defining moments come from loss.

Like. Red Robin (and all the cloning in that one timeline) and everything going on around that time for him was a result of losing Bruce, feeling like he was losing the rest of his family and his place with them, and losing not one, but two!! Of his closest friends all within a very very short time frame. He was isolated and alone and desperate to fix that and find his dad.

Yes he went off and isolated himself from everyone but even then he found people to work with and he only isolated in the first place because he was extremely depressed and felt rejected by what remained of his family. So.

Anyways yeah. I think I’m getting rather long-winded in circling back on myself now so I’m gonna stop 😅

(Also I have been loving reading your posts!! They’re so insightful and I agree wholeheartedly with all of the ones I’ve seen.)

[churchyaoi]

been playing ODST and couldnt resist making my own guy

[a-neru-neru]

A quick drawing of Six from @dancesonblades' fic Infiltration AU