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immediately showering and furiously washing the blood off my hands after stabbing someone, not because i feel any guilt or remorse for what i did but because i have sensory issues

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I used to think Word World was the perfect place to live because it's insanely easy to fix stuff or even make stuff. Like you want the Empire State Building? Fuck money, get some letters and ya got it. Recently I realized murder is impossible because somebo can dig up the remains and resurrect the body

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i started thinking about what my dream comic run would be and now im just daydreaming about the pre flashpoint timkon that could've been again …. sighs wistfully. hear me out.

my dream comic run = a pren52 superboy/red robin teamup book, ft. tim moving to metropolis for university and becoming roommates with kon (not instantly, though), and both of them winding up investigating two different ends of an interconnected intergang scheme involving the smuggling of apokoliptian weapons (as a sorta callback to moxie mannheim's stuff in early postcrisis superman).

side plots would include retconning the lex retcon and also flipping the bird to john byrne at the same time, i.e. confirming kon as a clone of superman, kon coming out as gay in a very emotional superfam issue, krypto's constant destruction of every single vacuum cleaner tim buys, etc. the first arc has tim living in the dorms at metropolis university and struggling with secret identity shenanigans at the same time as maintaining classes, and also wanting to clobber the guitar guy in the common room with his own guitar.

there would also be a constant and a rotating cast of guest star teamups (connorkyle! supergirl! steel!) because the superfam love kon and tim is The Teamup Guy. nightwing drops by at some point to give tim entirely unasked-for pointers on his case (intentionally being annoying until tim snaps and starts swinging at him, at which point he backflips out the window and cackles the whole way down). wonder girl comes by to bemoan her love life to kon and ends up fighting an alien mech with him, then turns to him and immediately goes right back into her lesbian agonies. there's a running gag across issues that impulse keeps showing up just to eat the leftovers out of their fridge.

at least one issue would include kon taking tim to visit ma on the weekend and teaching him to milk a cow (in a callback to superman 155). tim would be bad at it and so mad that he's bad at it. kon would be glowing in the morning sunlight, unfairly beautiful, and giggling at his expense. tim gets even more frustrated because not only is he bad at milking a cow, but also kon is ethereal in a pair of old patched overalls and the bisexual crisis he's trying to outrun is catching up Real Fast.

and it would play very intentionally with genre conventions!!! the tim-led parts would have a real noir/detective vibe, and the kon-led parts would be a scifi story and then surprise! they actually are the same story and meet in the middle. you think it's two mostly unrelated stories bc tim is tracking a mysterious smuggling operation (he doesn't know what the weapons are that they're smuggling) (it's apokoliptian and other alien weapons) and kon's trying to figure out what happened to a group of aliens gone missing on earth (they are the very illegal merchants selling these weapons to intergang and related buyers). and then when tim and kon come together and realize they've both been investigating the same grand scheme, it becomes the marriage of both themes, some kind of scifi noir story.

the climax of this arc would include kon taking a [really big] hit for tim (bc it 1000% would've obliterated tim down to the atomic level), and tim freaking the fuck out bc kon goes down and doesn't immediately get up. tim has to process his "kon getting hurt and possibly killed" anxiety disorder, kon has to process "oh shit i think getting killed might actually have traumatized me," and then they end up having a very emotional first kiss about it.

also it's a run that leads into them eventually rebranding as a couple and debuting as supernova and rook (or cardinal or blackbird or what have you for tim), which would be their new teamup book name, replacing superboy/red robin. <3

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The most human thing a character can do is contradict themselves.

The cynic who still carries a childhood stuffed animal.

The liar who craves honesty.

The overthinker who makes reckless decisions.

The heartbreaker who believes in soulmates.

The pacifist who holds lifelong grudges.

The tough guy who cries during old movies.

The thrill-seeker who's terrified of commitment.

The grump who’s unfailingly polite to waitstaff.

People aren’t consistent. Your characters shouldn’t be either.

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The Avengers, West Coast Avengers and Young Avengers by Mark Brooks

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10 Traits That Make a Character Secretly Dangerous

❥ Disarming Humor. They’re the life of the party. Everyone’s laughing. No one’s noticing how much they aren’tsaying.

❥ Laser-Sharp Observation. They see everything. Who’s nervous. Who’s lying. Who would be easiest to break. And they don’t miss.

❥ Unsettling Calm. Even in chaos, they stay still. Smiling. Thinking. Calculating.

❥ Weaponized Empathy. They know how to make people trust them. Because they know exactly what people want to hear.

❥ Compartmentalization. They can do something brutal, then eat lunch like nothing happened.

❥ Controlling Niceness. The kind of kindness that’s sharp-edged. You feel guilty for not loving them.

❥ Mirroring Behavior. They become whatever the person in front of them needs. It's not flattery. It’s survival—or manipulation.

❥ Selective Vulnerability. They know how to spill just enough pain to make you drop your guard.

❥ History of “Bad Luck”. Ex-friends, ex-lovers, ex-colleagues… they all left under “unfortunate” circumstances. But the pattern says otherwise.

❥ Unshakeable Confidence in Their Morality. They don’t think they’re the villain. That makes them scarier.

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Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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Tumblr, I propose a battle of wits!

I have put Iocaine powder in one of these two goblets. You choose, then we both drink.

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a lot of media assumes robots would be immortal but i think its a lot more interesting to explore robots dealing with their parts wearing down and battery life shortening and all the horrible little failings that come with being a complicated machine. sure they can replace parts but you'd assume you cant completely ship of theseus them, or it'd have pretty big rammifications on their sense of identity. idk. give me robots with distinct, unique signs of aging. as a treat.

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I love hijab Mohawks

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I'm sorry Kamala, but the blood feud between NY and NJ is a blood feud

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So, today was my first day as a volunteer Docent, and it was really fun!! Below are some of my favorite interactions of the day;

Mom, trying to get her toddler to remember 'fossil': "what's this one? *Fo-*..."

Precocious toddler: "fuck!"

Explaining rocks to two old ladies. They were very sweet, and kept encouraging me to explain more about the gems; gems are my hyperfixation.

The random lady 15 minutes before I left who asked, "out of all of the gem cases, hypothetically speaking, which would cost the most if I were to break into the case and steal it?" While talking about quartz(famously a VERY common and really cheap stone. With quartz, it's really the size that matters, not the actual shape, because quartz is so abundant in varied forms)

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In honor of my brother's girlfriend,

Port o' Rico

The lovely port owned by good old Rico... Or something, I guess.🙍🤦🫩

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It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

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I should not actually be crying about this, but I will tell you, a tear fell.

This is beautiful

they went off with this

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i bet count von count has killer fuckin music taste