#pendulum asks

[xpupslxtx]

a moment of appreciation for when they’re so hard their t dick starts twitching

[knifearo]

ultimately when it comes to shipping and fandom space treatment of aspec characters i just don't accept "aro/ace people can still date/have sex" as an answer from nonaspecs. like yeah. mhm. okay. now i think we both know that you're not saying that out of real interest in the diversity of aspec experiences. so you can turn in your seventeen-page essay on why and how you plan to examine this character's aspec identity within the context of a romantic or sexual relationship complete with evidence from canon and peer reviews from multiple aspec people within the next week or i'm putting you in the pit from the edgar allen poe story

[notdysfunk]

ok wait PLEASE share your shadowmilk art if you have any bc I would absolutely eat it up (DCA enjoyers and crk go hand in hand imo)

AAA OK!! Here you gooo... here's a bunch + some magma doodles I probably wouldn't have shared otherwise HEHE

(sorry in advance for repeats)

Most of these are in chronological order, so you can kind of see the evolution of the insanity as it unfolds in real time

[vee-dmsr]

Vee have you read Pendulum Sun. The incest screams for you

i love that people keep recommending this book to me, ur like the sixth person to tell me about it. anon i haven't read it yet but i do own it:

i will read it as soon as i finish my current book (cuckoo by gretchen felker-martin)

[k-tarotz]

Pendulum - Yes or no Game!

We are back with a game everyone! This time, as the title says, we will be using a pendulum instead of tarot cards or intuition. Anyone can participate just like usually, regardless of gender, religion, sexuality, skintone etc. Just make sure to follow the rules! <3

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Status: Closed!

[silverwhittlingknife]

the reason why nu52 Dick is so simultaneously messy and yet boring is because they don't let him be bitchy enough whilst simultaneously making him a little bitch

sdfsdfdsfs I don't totally understand what this means and yet I feel like I agree with the spirit, anon <3

Outsiders 21 - preboot Dick yelling at Bruce my beloved

Yeah, caveat that there's plenty of nu52 Dick stuff that I haven't read and I don't think it's all bad, but also... man, he is not for me. As far I'm concerned, the main good thing that came out of n52/Rebirth is some setups for sad!Dick fanfic. And yeah, "Dick is not bitchy enough" is actually a pretty good summary of my complaints sdfdsfs

The thing is, nu52 Dick has some similarities to preboot Tim, in that he'll sometimes be insincerely fake-cheerful even when actually upset, plus he periodically seems uncomfortable with direct confrontation so instead he lies to avoid confrontation. And mmm I mean, I like these qualities in preboot Tim, so it's not like I think these are terrible traits to have!!

BUT :

1) Preboot Tim has no authority. But preboot Dick does, and it's frustrating to take it away from him in nu52.

There's some post-2011 panel where Dick lies to Batman and is cheery about it, a la Tim bragging to his friends about lying to Batman in Teen Titans, and I had to stare at it for ages trying to figure out why it felt like such a record scratch moment to me.

But it's because there is a huge difference between a presumably independent superhero lying to another superhero vs. a sidekick and his sidekick friends secretly joyriding in Batman's car.

Like, Tim lies to authority figures more-or-less constantly, because he doesn't want to be told what to do, but also because - importantly!! - those authority figures reasonably assume they have authority over him that he has to evade. Of course he tries to avoid direct confrontation with the JLA / Batman / Red Tornado / Starfire - they're not his equals and a direct confrontation would end badly!

Whereas Nightwing lying to Batman feels like putting him in a subordinate position in a way that preboot Dick never is. Preboot Dick always tells Batman off to his face, because preboot Dick cares about being equals and refuses to accept being subordinate. He doesn't sneak around behind Bruce's back - he fights back! If he doesn't agree with Bruce's position, he tries to argue Bruce into his own. He'll do stuff without asking Bruce's permission, but he won't conceal it; he'll make a point of making sure Bruce knows what he did and also that he isn't sorry.

2) Preboot Tim's lying / tendency to be fake with people is a consistent personality trait that's also consistently problematized. nu52 Dick's characterization is wildly all over the map.

In preboot, Tim is a liar and obsessive compartmentalizer, which is both a strength (disguises, sneaking around authority) and a problem (loved ones who are hurt by it). He's self-aware about his lies, periodically resolves to lie less, and generally fails at it.

Tim's consistent enough that you can track this character trait in all his relationships: he lies to his dad. He lies to Batman. He lies to his girlfriends. He refuses to tell Babs his real name for ages for basically no reason. He stalks Dick and then tries to run away from him in his origin story and then tries to avoid telling Dick his name. And this evasiveness consistently causes him problems!! Dick's suspicious of him. Ariana's suspicious of him. His dad is suspicious of him. Young Justice and Steph get annoyed with his secret-keeping. Young Justice want him to take off the mask. Steph wants to know his real name. When she finds out and calls him by his real name, he has a panic attack and literally runs away. When upset, he insists he's fine and fake-smiles at people. In Teen Titans, when Tim's busy being fake-cheerful and Conner is startled to see him there right after his dad died, Tim gets upset and angry at Conner and demands that he not tell anyone about Jack. Fine, Conner says, I guess it's another secret. In AC 3, he's lying to Conner again and Conner accuses him of having an insincere "Starfire voice," which is a hilarious callback to Tim being fake-agreeable-yet-secretly-bitchy at Kory when he first meets her. I feel like I get that the lying is a Tim Character Trait which is sometimes endearing and sometimes less so and which all the people who love him are gonna have different feelings about.

By contrast, nu52 Dick spends a ton of time lying but it's hard for me to model his characterization in the same way? He's sometimes fake and ... sometimes that's totally cool and sometimes people punch him! also, does it say something about him? ehhhhh maybe? no? who can say!! At the end of nu52 Nightwing, he doesn't want to go undercover and Bruce beats him up, but then in Grayson he seems totally on board with his mission and willing to actively lie to everyone, and then in Batman and Robin Eternal he carries out a whole secret mission behind nuTim's back because he thinks nuTim is maybe a spy and is scared (?) of confronting him directly, but also he's so sloppy about it that he gets followed and the bad guys find nuTim's parents. Oopsie! He represents The Heart and is super-caring but also somewhat ditzy with a tendency to leap before he looks, and also he's very very very goodlooking and Grayson would really like you to know that.

You can try to make sense of this character's internal motivations and I have read various enjoyable fanfics that do, but in the comics I don't feel like he's clearly characterized.

3) Dick should be a convincing team leader

I know I kind of talked about this earlier but it bothers me SO MUCH that I have to talk about it again dsfdsfds

Preboot Dick is a natural leader: he seizes control of the feuding personalities in the Fab Five; he does the same thing in the NTT; he stands up to Bruce. He can overrule strong personalities like Pantha and Roy; he can hold his ground against the Outsiders. He doesn't back down and he doesn't quit. He's got instinctive authority, and he's a forceful and aggressive enough leader that he can lead teams even when his teammates are feuding or difficult or arguing with each other. Sometimes he's a little too forceful and it backfires on him, but for the most part, it works!

By contrast, nu52 Dick often comes off as kinda... hapless? He's definitely not a force to be reckoned with.

Like, just to take one small example, in post-Crisis's Red Robin 14, Tim and Damian are fighting and Dick wants them to cut it out, so he throws a batarang at Tim's staff and snaps at him, and the fight stops immediately. By contrast, in nu52's Batman and Robin 10, Tim and Damian are arguing and Dick wants them to cut it out, but nuDick is incapable of confronting anyone over anything so he just sighs about it, passive-aggressive and ineffectual.

And "ineffectual" is too often the vibe I get from n52 Dick in general. You put that man with Pantha, and he'll probably be bemused, but he won't be able to make Pantha do anything, and he wouldn't be able to make Danny Chase do anything, and he can't or won't stand up to Bruce so he has to lie the way Tim does, and he would never have a fistfight with Roy over the proper way to lead a team.

And in a lot of ways this makes sense, because n52 Dick isn't a team leader, because they've deleted the Titans. He's just a guy. He's nice, I guess.

But even though he gets all kinds of excellent woobie plotlines that I'd normally enjoy (an evil organization is stalking him personally! his dad is beating him up and forcing him into becoming a spy! he's losing his memory!) his personality is usually so far off from the character I like that I struggle to get invested.

Because the thing is, Dick's leadership instincts aren't incidental to what I like about him. They're all wrapped up in his outsized sense of personal responsibility and instinctive belief that if anything is going wrong anywhere near him then it is his obligation to handle it and if anything goes wrong then it's his fault if he was involved and also his fault if he wasn't involved and actually if you have ever gotten within five feet of him and unrelatedly something bad happened to you then it's probably his fault and he FAILED. This belief gives Dick a lot of control issues and makes him bitchy sometimes and is not great for his mental health, but it's also very endearing and an outgrowth of how much Dick cares!

Anyway, re:bitchiness, I have similar feelings about various choices in Batgirls and in Tim Drake: Robin and in current Nightwing; like, I don't think any of these stories are bad ipso facto, I don't begrudge anyone who likes them, and I certainly enjoy fluffy fanfic sometimes - I don't always want the same things in transformative fandom that I want in canon.

But in comics, I often want the characters to have a bit of edge, to be cranky and difficult and just... y'know, clearly the kind of people who would choose to be vigilantes. I want them to care enough to be bitchy about it. And I often feel like I'm missing that, post-2011.

[uhohbestie]

I am loving the fact that you guys think that Grians genderfluid! As someone who identifies as one, this makes me so happy 😊 I feel like genderfluids don't get represented as often so having a character who does is amazing! And I can't lie the "he's not dysphoric about his body but is dysphoric about his presentation and others percieption of him" is actually so relatable to me. I feel this way so often and you described that perfectly!

Anyway, I'm excited for whenever this part of the story gets explored and whatever else you guys have planned for the future!

~•☆🐉🌕☆• Anon

!!! :D Thank you for this ask! I'm so glad genderfluid TAMN!Grian resonated with you. It's a part of his journey that's very near and dear to me on a personal level as well, so I totally hear you :")

Genuinely, the more Key and I have thought about the rest of Scar and Grian's life together, the more it becomes clear that not having the pressure of people looking at him (and, he assumes: judging him) gives Grian soooo much room to experiment and explore and figure himself out. It gives me comfort to know that even with allllll the hardship that goes along with the end of the end of the world, there's still silver linings and things Grian gets to enjoy, with the safety to know he has all the time and space he needs to explore them <3 -🔒

[bloodyquillz]

NERVES ARE SHAKING FROM THE DECADENT LIGHT

[rocketbirdie]

Sorry if you've answered before but whats ur fave yugioh monster?

well it's GOT to be the qliphort homosexuwheel for me

[dykewithbenefits]

switch4switch pairing locked in an eternal forcefem/detrans cycle

It'd be the ultimate queer relationship, actually! You've got a craving for boycock? Just forcibly detrans your girlfriend and have him fuck you straight! You've got a craving for girlcock? Force-feminize your boyfriend and have her fuck you gay! In return, he/she just wants to be able to do the exact same thing to you!

You can go from being faggots, to straight, to lesbians in the same fuck session, constantly oscillating between c4c, t4c and t4t! What else is there to want?

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

Dearest friend,

I have a humble request or two for you:

1) What irl decks would you recommend for someone whos just getting into Yu-Gi-Oh, because its all expensive and confusing.

2) Why is there like 381 million different ways of summoning cards, its so complicated I get a migraine when i see the word summon now.

1) no fucking idea because i don 't play the irl card game </3

2) nahhh there 's only like . 7 main ones you gotta know everything else is you can learn later/never but also have this video if you haven 't watched it already , it 's a biiig summary

[lamoree-rody]

and you waaannnt to interact with me so i don't feel like i'm shouting into the voiiiiiddd.... oooooo....

[vee-dmsr]

miss vee please let us know what you think when you finish under the pendulum sun... I've hardly ever encountered anyone else who's read it and people who have are always whining about the incest that should have been obvious ten miles away to anyone with any idea how gothic literature works

will do!! idk how anyone could not see the incest... i can already tell catherine wants to fuck her brother so bad it makes her look stupid 😭 her reaction to miss davenport here was very telling:

[fxirybun]

🍓 01 yes or no ask game !

STATUS : CLOSE

hello there mystic babes ! i just finished my exams and would love to interact with you all through means of hosting my very first ask game :D i would simply answer in a yes , could be , unlikely , and no only by using my pendulum as a way for me to save up my energy.

RULES

𐙚 one person = 1 ask.

𐙚 maximum of 3 close-ended questions only.

𐙚 sending me a feedback is optional.

𐙚 read my ask rules first to see my do's & don'ts before sending me an ask !

𐙚 be patient with me ^^ i have a life outside of tumblr.

ASK FORMAT

𐙚 send me your initials / nickname / first name.

𐙚 your zodiac sign ( either your sun sign only or your big 3 ).

𐙚 your most used emoji.

𐙚 if there's a person you want to ask about , include their initials / nickname / first name and their zodiac sign.

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[akkivee]

there’s evidence suggesting kuukou did, in fact, get to go out with ichiro to the theme park but i hope whenever we get any of the manga runs back, we get to see it 🥺🥺🥺 (bc i have a mighty need to see kuukou with the tea cups i think kuukou would love the tea cups ride and would be abnormally obsessed with it much to ichiro’s chagrin LOL)

[hellofromthehallowoods]

Is the Pendulum Nightclub a reference to I am in Eskew? I'm really sorry if this has been answered before or if having the same name as the nightclub in Eskew is just a coincidence. I only just noticed it. I hope you have a good day though! I haven't caught up with the current episodes yet so I have no malice, just admiration and expectation for the episodes that make people scream

@thesiltverses you and me, two Edgar Allen Poe aficionados caught red-handed stealing references out of the fridge at night