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ughh i have so many feelings about characters that are backed into a corner, snarling and bleeding and dying but instead of letting themselves die and fade into obscurity they get up and keep fighting. they don’t just let themselves get swept into the wings of the heavens—instead they grit their teeth and make their death mean something. if they’re going down, if there’s no other option—their death is going to mean something. if they’re dying, they’ll take another dozen, hundred, thousand of their enemies with them. even if it’s meaningless in the end, even if they won’t survive to see the happy ending the bloodshed won them. they’d rather plunge a knife into their heart and make the world watch than pass away in a hospital bedside, they’d rather bleed themselves dry out of spite to cover up the sight of their foes celebrating.

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weird thought but all my favourite ships are the ones where they’d be happy even if they did nothing but braid each other’s hair for eternity. like the quote “in another life, i would have really like doing laundry and taxes with you” or whatever it was, i just really like the idea of making the mundane special. like it’s not the candles or the lanterns or the roses that make them romantic, it’s the people sitting there with them. you could put them in a room with other people, playing all the right music and all the right pick up lines but they still couldn’t care less. i mean they won’t even think about looking at other people kind of love, like they literally can’t comprehend not loving them. i just think thats really beautiful. (this post is technically targeted to hualian from tgcf, but applies to other couples too)

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I saw your Taylor Swift/Daisy Jones post and I've just gotta ask you: have you heard of Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins? It's a fictional biography/oral history ala Daisy Jones abt the 1st woman president and her secret sapphic relationship/bearded marriage with her mlm best friend and has massive Taylor Swift vibes (especially anti hero, last great American dynasty, gold rush, I Did Something Bad, and champagne problems) It also ft. An entirely queer main cast and really fleshed out characters!

ok so i didn't know how to access my inbox until today 😭 but that sounds rlly nice actually! i'll check it out soon <3

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azula’s character is just so fascinating to me— her and katara are essentially two sides of the same coin. both of them are the younger prodigy sister, with two brothers that are considerably less prodigious. they have elements that directly oppose each other, especially since they both learned a dangerous subset of bending from a manipulative authority/familial figure in their life who wanted to benefit from it.

the differences between their characters (other than the obvious) are their upbringings and their personalities that were shaped from them. azula had a very very abusive and dangerous childhood, meaning mainly emotional and mental manipulation (and depending on how u view it, physical too).

she grew up being “perfect”, to the point where she would have rather stabbed someone than be seen as weak to her father. this, and how other people reacted to this (her father encouraged it and her mother was scared of it) shaped her character into the blade it was in the show. her father encouraging her cruelty, the one type of kindness she recieved was definitely not helped when her mother called her a “monster” and chose zuko over her everytime. (seriously, while i understand that she saw ozai in her, she really didn’t have to make it that obvious that she was scared/hated her. it’s not her fault that azula didn’t wake up in the night and thought that her mother only visited zuko before leaving though, that’s just the miscommunication trope) we see her have a mental breakdown, seeing her mother in the mirror when there was no one, sending away loyal staff after being so paranoid it hurt her. ultimately, this leads to her downfall, where she meets her counterpart and her brother.

on the other hand, katara was raised as an equal to sokka, knowing that she was special but never better she didn’t suppress her powers or boast about them, but just saw them as a part of herself and not a weapon. her waterbending at the very start was introduced by sokka saying “weird water stuff” or something similar, and her arguing that it was “waterbending”, something that she was proud of as a part of her culture.

her tribe appreciates her, she’s needed a lot in ways that azula wasn’t. she acts as a mother to a lot of people, and is essentially the “last hope” for the water tribe where azula is the “new hope” for the fire nation’s expansionist beliefs. they both represented completely different things to their people, and this is especially evident in their parents

ozai and ursa either praise or scorn azula for being cruel, liking either her or zuko more, which made azula choose a side early on, whereas hakoda and kya seemed to have loved both sokka and katara equally.

katara grows at such a rate that she rivals the avatar—she beats a master with barely any training, she manages to win against soldiers with far more experience on their belt. this level of growth isn’t just because she was gifted or had a motivation to learn, it was also because she was pushed to be aang’s waterbending master. (pirate scroll episode especially showed her desperation to be better than aang, to not be outstripped by her own student)

even though she was talented and very motivated to win against the fire nation, she shouldn’t have won against a girl who was trained from birth to be the best of the best, a ruthless weapon who took down a city by herself. so basically, the question of the day is why did katara win?

one, her friends. this isn’t to say some friendship is magic bs, because she had friends who taught her. she had an open mind and learned from different cultures, she wasn’t rigid and didn’t stick to just one nation’s discipline. without any formal training other than those weeks with pakku, she had to adapt and make her own style, which allowed for more fast thinking and adaptability.

two, she had a reason to win. while you can certainly argue that azula had a reason to win too, meaning becoming fire lord, azula also thought that her father would definitely win, meaning that it wouldn’t have technically been the end of the world for her to fight against two people that she thought she could win against. (this is kinda handwavey, since azula wasn’t really in her right mind to think that up but humor me) either way, katara had a LOT on her plate that day. her job was to get azula to give zuko the throne, or else the invasion would fail. and when zuko went down? well, any illusion that azula didn’t want to kill her own brother went up in a poof. she basically thought: hmm, well, zuko’s my friend, and azula just nearly killed him. so no holding back or honor agni kai things THAT I SAID NO TO IN THE FIRST PLACE, i need to get back and heal him, so i need to get azula down fast. and she did, whereas azula didn’t have as much of the drive that katara had that day.

three, katara had a stable emotional base. her friends didn’t abandon her or anything, she had a loving family (albeit with an absent dad and dead mom) and while she was under constant stress from the war, she still had friends and people she could talk to. her qi wasn’t as unstable as azula’s, who was basically having a qi deviation (probably didn’t help that ty lee blocked them too) her clear mind helped her think of a way to subdue her, but azula didn’t really think at all. i think honestly azula’s schizophrenia was either realllyyy prominent in the last agni kai, or she had a deviation in her energy (if those exist in the show).

basically, katara is a nicer azula who didn’t grow up traumatised asf and that’s very interesting to me :)

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AU where Damian shows up two years after Bruce got back from the time stream and is half convinced Tim isn't real because there's no way a person can be THIS perfect.

The other Batkids play hot potato with him on weekends because Dick loves the kid but he WILL lose his mind if Damian’s in his apartment for more than one weekend a month. He doesn't have the codependency due to the time they were Batman and Robin and more father and son than brothers canon him has with Damian, so he's much more an older brother than anything parental.

Tim's AWARE of Damian, got a phone call to ask whether the kid could wear his old colors (Robin) and said yes, but he was barely listening & is based in another city and has been too busy to come for weekends home. He had no proper idea until two months later when he broke into Dick's apartment for a favor and he wasn't there and he finally decides to visit the Manor.

"What the fuck why's there a mini-Bruce here."

Damian squints at him.

"Are you Timothy?"

"Why do you know my NAME-"

Damian knew OF Tim, but was half convinced he was a myth because he'd never met him and Tim seems to have fought everyone and their international organization.

A sigh. "If Tim were here, he'd be able to to get us out of this. He's working on dismantling this trafficking ring."

"Grayson. We are in BOLIVIA."

Another sigh. "Yeah."

Even after he met Tim, he's still half convinced he's an urban legend. Tim has the respect of RA'S and LADY SHIVA and is smarter than Batman yet still burnt his hand trying to make toast.

Tim's vaguely amused by Damian despite the murder attempts—it helps that he doesn't live in the Manor and is nineteen now, with a good support system—and accepts his weekends at the Tower or with YJ with grace.

Damian still snipes at him but Tim doesn't take much to heart. He's still irritated and snaps back sometimes, but it's definitely milder because "little brother or not, I refuse to have beef with a ten year old."

"I am not a child."

"Oh yeah, I see the Talia in you."

Kon's sort of concerned, but hey his little brother is indestructible and doesn't have that many friends, Damian could do with the socialization and Kon could do with some more time with Tim, so...

Weekly playdates.

Tim drops by the Manor more and Bruce is glad, though he's too emotionally constipated to directly say so.

Tim knows though.

Bruce, happy to have his second-youngest (third youngest now??) at home more: You're. Back.

Tim, fluent in Bruce™️: Yeah I'll stay the weekend

Tim runs WE and Damian believes it's his birthright.

Damian also happens to be the only one that actually HELPS with WE, and at twelve ends up being better than their other siblings or even BRUCE at it, so Tim fully plans to hand it over to Damian as a twenty-first birthday present because it's not like the kid has friends or hopes and dreams or anything.

Tim actually has fought everyone and their mother btw. He got AROUND during his Robin and early Red Robin days, and still busts international smuggling rings for his own amusement. Sometimes he lets Damian help him when he's been nicer than usual

They're BROTHERS

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I F I N A L L Y F O U N D I T (it’s from @coffinbirds )

does anyone know where the post/fic of an au of the events of red robin happening earlier in canon, and damian actually looks up to tim? i’ve been trying to look for ages istg

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does anyone know where the post/fic of an au of the events of red robin happening earlier in canon, and damian actually looks up to tim? i’ve been trying to look for ages istg

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tory and darcy vega are scarlet and ivy-coded. that’s it that’s the post.

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Nothing is as funny to me as seeing new users go "How do I get famous on this platform" only to be met with a bunch of people sitting on a metaphorical wasteland of different flavours of trash made out of content that's been circulating here since 2007 while adding some new and fresh things on top of it, eating something that vaguely resembles food and staring at them blankly.

And it always makes me imagine the actual conversation go like this if it was in a story or comic:

N: How do I become famous on tumblr?

O: Why would you want to become famous anywhere? Its exhausting.

N: So I'll be popular and people will want to befriend me

O: Honey... What you want isn't fame or popularity, what you want are loyal friends who understand and listen to you. And for that you'll need to step out of your own head and talk to people. Or alternatively you can attempt to create a connection via reblogging something from someone else and gushing on that thread, that sometimes does the thing.

N: But that's so much work!

O: Making and maintaining friendships is a full time job.

N: But I want a lot of people as my friends and I want them now! I want to be famous and cool! I want everyone to love me!

O:

O: Cult. You're thinking about a cult. And those are not good, they radicalise too easily, they go south even faster, not worth it.

N: What? No? I want to be popular and famous!

O: What for? What benefits would fame give you? Nothing. You'd have no space to move nor breathe in, all the eyes would be always on you, you'd be unable to act like you normally do, there would be no moment of rest for you, you'd have to be perfect, become the golden standard, and stay perfect forever. There would be no room for error of any kind no matter how minor, the second you slip it's all over and you'll be left in the dust as humans would find someone else to worship and idolise until that person, too, breaks.

N:

O: By the way you don't get famous on tumblr from anything. Everyone here just goes on with their lives, talks about things they like, dislike, shows, things that happened, funny things, sad things, art, music, videos, memes, writings, if something blows up, it's never the thing the person wanted to blow up. Like something they wrote while high that they'd rather forget having ever happened. Because people find these things to be funny or relatable. You gain nothing from trying to act opposed to who you are and you gain even less from attempting to fish attention in hopes of it boosting your ego and giving you some perks. Because this is the website where people come to get away from the rest of the social media.

Then again... What does it really even mean when people become famous on tumblr? What do these people mean when they say that they wish to become tumblr famous, really?

Do they mean that they want people to talk about them on tumblr? In that case, they should become a content creator that makes something that people enjoy, use interesting concepts in their works, be passionate about the said work, post it on webtoon or YouTube or some other media where it can be found. But then again, the people will then talk about your work and not you necessarily, which can be a good thing. If they want to specifically be talked about... Well... I am afraid that you'll either have to become an actor, a politician or a living example of how to not be like.

Do they mean it as... Having all of their posts blow up..? If so then... Honey... Darling... Sweetheart... You won't really get famous from that either and you will never get the posts you want to blow up to do that. If you are part of a dedicated fandom, sure, your posts will gather up notes, but that is only as long as they are related to the fandom. If not... Then you'll just need to make sure that you're consistent with your posts I guess.

Look, I flee at the first notion of a post getting traction because I get anxious if there's too many notifications, and especially if it ends up derailing one of my blogs from their main reason for existing (I've had two of my study blogs get taken over by two different fandoms, first one because people thought that I was role-playing as a character because I used a childhood nickname as URL without knowing that the character's name in English was exactly that, second because I analysed outfits in a series to find the approximate time it took place in while also dropping info on when stuff like pocket watches and cameras were first created and popular. It was a nightmare. Truly).

By the way you won't learn any rhyme or reason for why and how certain blogs here get a huge following. Some provide information about stuff like animals (especially the less conventional ones), some are just shitposts and memes (then again people do like to laugh), others are literally related to helpful stuff like art/study/life tips (that actually are helpful), few are educational on some level while using certain media as a way to help explain things like languages (think of it as Game Theory but as a blog), couple are literally just sharing weird/funny/cute/confusing/food/animal/building/fashion/art images without any caption safe for the source.

That's literally it.

You can't become an influencer on this website because people here just... Want to have a good time, relax and soak in their respective ponds made out of niche content and vibes. And more over you cannot become an influencer on this site deliberately. You can't plan it. Also using thousand very specific tags won't help you, maybe 4-5 first ones are the thing that helps the system to archive it but that's it.

We have some actual celebrities and influencers here, like Neil Gaiman, Markiplier, Thomas Sanders, etc but they aren't here to get any fame or anything, they're just vibing, taking part in the fandom experience (or in Mr Gaiman's case, answering sometimes questions in rather delightful way and learning how to meme).

So relax kid. Relax and stop chasing for popularity for a bit, you'll just stretch yourself thin and forget how to enjoy yourself and things you like if you keep running in that wheel endlessly. It's okay to not be well known blogger/content creator/influencer on every site you stumble upon.

Sometimes, you just need your own little corner and piles of things that you enjoy, take a deep breath, and concentrate on those for a while. To rest, take it easy.

It's okay.

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My thing with the whole Rhys did what he had to to survive under the mountain thing is that he didn’t actually have to do anything as bad as he did and Crown of Midnight proves it. Celaena was at the mercy of a much more powerful and cruel ruler but she still managed to falsify all the tasks he set her without her magic and got away with it when she was 18 years old. In contrast Rhys is 500+ and the most powerful high lord ever supposedly and sure he would not have been able to fake everything obviously Amarantha was always gonna abuse him and force him to torment people in front of her but those winter children should not have been killed.

He’s daemati and as far as we know Amarantha wasn’t. He could’ve just as easily gave all the kids some cuts to spill a little blood then either hid them in Velaris or the Spring Court and given Amarantha a fake memory where he got “too excited” and now there’s nothing left of the kids with the spilled blood there for the Attor to verify and then returned the kids after the mountain. He didn’t need to SA or drug Feyre, he didn’t even need to twist her broken arm because she was so desperate she would’ve agreed anyway and I doubt Amarantha actually wanted to be reminded of her existence outside of the tasks. He could’ve just as easily left her alone or again used his daemati abilities to make one of the other sympathetic high lords, say Tarquin or Helion, help her.

I’m not saying he could’ve come out of the mountain with his hands clean and trauma free, I’m just saying he could’ve easily mitigated some of the worse orders out of Amarantha’s sight but he chose not to. And if he was worried about Velaris then he’s said that Mor will inherit the power probably and that she’s super powerful with ‘truth’ or whatever. Mor should’ve been able to protect Velaris- so long as she maintained the wards Amarantha would never have found the city.

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the great war by t. swift but it’s roma and juliette

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Dick: I have the best idea.

Tim: I already don’t like where this is going.

Dick: Just hear me out. So we kidnap Bruce and send him on a vacation, and then-

Tim: Nope. Won’t work.

Dick: Of course it will.

Tim: How are you going to kidnap Bruce, Dick? Make up an emergency on a beautiful yet relatively inaccessible tropical island?

Dick: *opens mouth*

Tim: No, no, please don’t.

Dick: Fine. So AFTER we get him there, we-

Jason: Break into Arkham.

Dick: What? No! Why would we do that?

Jason, shrugging: I don’t know. Seemed to fit.

Dick: Look, Bruce just needs a vacation, okay?

Damian, entering the room: What are we covering up?

Dick: Nothing!

Damian: Don’t worry, I won’t judge.

Dick: *throws hands in the air*

Dick: *leaves*

Tim: You know, I think Dick could use a vacation.

Jason and Damian: *nod*

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*before Robin is introduced to the JLA*

Batman: *does some complex gymnastics move*

Superman: oh that was amazing move who taught you that? A master from the mountains? A ancient teacher? Someone that trained for hundreds of years?

Batman: *knowing damn well he got yelled at by an 9year old for 6hs to perfect that move* yeah...something like that

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superbat vibes are like golden retriever x gloomy goth, but also farm boy x old money but also himbo x himbo but also smart x smart but also jock x emo but also-

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prompt: aliens can’t read tone or any sort of body language.

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People protect a woman who is burning her scarf

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"a bag of dicks" but it's just a bag full of Robin!Dick and Disco!Dick and Fingerstripes!Dick and Vampire!Dick and—

I have never wanted to badly to be able to draw…All of the Dicks in a brown paper bag. Maybe a Batblob toting them along in a beach bag?? Oh, the possibilities!