#'yes' (without hesitation)

[mossy-aro]

why do allos insist on viewing relationships in the most boring ways imaginable

[aingeal98]

I think there's a misconception among some fans who mostly get their characterisation from ao3, that the reason Cass and Jason wouldn't get along is that Jason kills people and Cass hates murderers. And like. You're 50% right but the key context being ignored is that Cass would literally fight to defend the right of a serial killer to live and change like she believes desperately in second chances no matter how far gone the killer is. She'll knock a man out and break his hand so that he can never shoot and kill someone again but if she sees someone feel bad about their kill or even like. Hesitate to hurt a child. She is all over that like she will fight the world just to save this one kind of shitty assassin and give them a second chance at life where they can do better.

Whereas Jason believes that sometimes there are bad people that are simply too far gone, too much of a force of evil hurting and draining actual innocents. And the best way to deal with scumbags like that is a bullet. He feels that some people don't deserve to live, and he's comfortable ending their lives. Judge, jury and executioner. Because no one else is going to kill these people and they deserve to die so that they can never hurt any victims again.

Of course all of this is kind of irrelevant in current canon since dc basically skipped over the reconciliation and development and went yeah Jason is a batfam member and he doesn't kill anymore. So currently in canon none of this conflict of ideals is likely to be addressed. But a lot of people are interested in writing fics that actually detail the steps of reconciliation which is great and I love those fics. I've just also noticed a trend of fumbling a little when it comes to Cass.

Because the root cause as to why they wouldn't get along is not just because Jason kills people. If Jason was a random crime lord Cass would probably try to help him get free of Gotham and start over somewhere else. Killing people and having conflicting emotions about it is the easiest way to get Cass willing to be your number one sponsor at murderer rehabilitation anonymous. It's Jason being someone personal to the family, and someone who believes that some deaths need to happen, as long as the person is sufficiently repulsive enough to Jason. Or even just as a means to an end to prove a larger point, if they're pathetic and evil enough. That's what would make Cass see red, because she projects herself on every single killer and Jason dismissing the possibility of redemption for them, writing them off as deserving of death, clashes fundamentally with not just everything Cass believes in, but also her whole sense of self. Of course it's not that deep for Jason like he's not going to believe Cass should die because she killed someone as a child. But for Cass is simply IS that deep and you throw in the fact that they're both Bruce's kids and yeah. They can maybe be civil in a room together with the family right up until one of them actually talks. Because like 99% of what they could say is guaranteed to touch a nerve for the other.

It's like: Damian says something hilarious and rude towards Jason and Jason jokes about that time he shot him and Cass immediately connects that with him not feeling bad about shooting Damian and starts grilling him as to why. Because Damian's Bruce's son? Or because he's a killer? Or just to get to the rest of the family? And Dick, Duke and Tim are so tired like Alfred cooked a nice meal can we all just eat pie for one night without having to listen to you two go at it.

Tim: I've literally shot you before do you think maybe we can cool it on fighting about Jason's personal ethics tonight. Because generally that ends with me in pain even if I do nothing but sit here.

Cass: You shot me with consent. Different.

Jason: How are you even more obnoxious than Bruce? Do you ever get tired of being so exhausting to be around with your bullshit righteousness?

Cass: If you're tired I can knock you out. Nice nap for you and fun for me.

Dick: And that's ten minutes in a room together before any threats of physical harm start flying around! Great job you two, a new personal record.

[brother-emperors]

the king and queen from aucassin and nicolette! french medieval texts have a lot of fun with gender. generally, medieval texts are having fun a lot of fun with gender, and I am having a lot of fun reading them! I did an illustration in the same vein about medieval priests and translation awhile back, and completely forgot I meant to follow it up with this lmao

edit: INCREDIBLE I used the signature for my other blog with this illustration. alas! I'm not going back into photoshop to format it a second time

Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing Differently, Blake Gutt

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[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

being catholic feels like an ethnicity to me at this point

[yrsonpurpose]

Does it annoy you that Lando Norris has more Instagram followers than you?

[astralhope]

Yuma's unshakable trust in Astral makes me cry every time

[simping-for-joe]

I just thought of something and like I need to share it.

Can you imagine Rose asking Leon to be a chaperone for a field trip? Usually, Mia or Ethan does it but they're too busy with something this time, so Rose is like what about Leon? Rose usually likes having someone chaperone so she isn't so lonely.

Leon is not prepared at all for this question cause like yeah he and Ethan are dating but he wasn't sure if Rose even liked him enough for something like that. However, he moves mountains to be able to go on that field trip man.

"Mr. President I can't, I have to take my boyfriend's daughter on a field trip."

Other kids would want his attention, but he would always make sure to stick close to Rose. Cause he knows the trouble she has, and it would just be a nice day. Leon is just exhausted cause he had no idea how much goes into just watching children, but he can't stop smiling as he's driving Rose home.

[danizmomota]

⋆˙⟡♡ Chocolate Chip Cookies! ⋆˙⟡♡

( Kaito’s Grandma taught him the recipe! )

Bonus:

They even made each other! ⋆˙⟡♡

<< requested by @charzoid >>

[boiwcndr]

i feel like dick's "no-kill rule" could have so many different interpretations because of contrasting characterisations upon his many years of comics where people could argue that he has taken in bruce's "no-kill rule" for himself due to his intense loyalty to bruce but when it comes down to his own thoughts and feelings, he can, will, and has killed or that he also has his own deep devotion to that "no-kill rule" (because of his own backstory or because of bruce) and he would never kill, and both would be correct.

[starstruck-thetraveler]

Reporter: So have you ever shoved a drumsticks inside someone?

Eric: The fuck kind of question is that?

[mayonnaise-is-a-drink]

MC: Would you still love me if I was a worm?

Belphie: What a stupid question.

Belphie: Of course I will.

[brother-emperors]

crassus & pompey (sometime during sulla's civil war, in spoletium)

it's uhhhhh about pompey and alexander the great and the cynic epistles bit about hephaestion's thighs altho in this case the thighs are how crassus could bring pompey to a political standstill when he wanted to. in a narrative, politics can be a dialogue adjacent to foreplay and sex or something. etc etc. the general 'you're the only motherfucker in this city who can handle me,' and odi et amo of it all.

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

(also many thanks @illegible-scribble for telling me about hephaestion's thighs and adding several new layers of Thoughts to All Of This)

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[insignificant457]

Huge L for me personally that we had an entire book of the Darrow-Cassius-Sevro trio and we didn’t get a single “kind of” “yeah actually” interaction.

[fox-guardian]

have you drawn tim or martin with that meme of someone with their bare chest and the tiktok comment “cover them up slut” above it? i just recently saw the meme and thought your art style would fit it perfectly if you haven’t done it already

akjshdlakjsdha i actually did draw martin with that meme a while ago but i was hesitant to post it because. titty. anyway fuck it we ball

[ID: A digital drawing of Martin Blackwood drawn as the "cover them up slut" meme. The drawing is framed as a cropped TikTok screenshot of Martin from the chest up, shirtless, with his chest on display and a large window behind him, lighting the room a dim yellow with blue shadow. He is a fat, white, non-op trans man with freckles, a scruffy goatee, body hair, round glasses, small gold earrings, and short, bright red hair streaked with white. He looks into the camera with contempt. The comment above him reads "Cover them up slut". His profile picture is a cropped image of him fully clothed holding a book to his chest, and the likes are at "69420". end ID]

[delusionaid]

Random Wriothesley thoughts because I think the Meropide is really lucky to have him specifically as a warden; particularly because he is a cryo user. He can

fix leaks quickly by freezing them shut temporarily until the issue is found or can be re-sealed properly (the door to the primordial sea was a special case, but look at the thick ice structures he created to hold it back)

he can technically make a whole door to seal off an entire area and maintain it for a while

he can make the floor icy slippery while pursuing someone and simply attacking them isn't an option, or lower the temperature to lure someone out of hiding (he's potentially a bit terrifying, actually)

he could use it to torture someone but he isn't doing that

Unlike e.g. Bobby Drake I don't think he can make smooth clean shapes or surfaces with his ice - his cryo powers manifest in a burst, always a bit rough. Not like an explosion; sometimes it's a small scale burst, but a burst nonetheless. He can do it (somewhat) slower, but what comes out is never a precise or mirror-like smooth surface. And I like the idea that this is not the same for every cryo user, but that the shape their abilities take (in this case the ice they summon) is somehow tied to their character/spirit.

[ratatatastic]

or alternatively dweeb meets other dweeb more news at 11

LIGHT. LIGHT IN HIS EYES. LOOK AT EM BIG OLE EYES. LOOK AT HIM TOUCH HIS JERSEY.

GLORY BE TO THE MIKKSY SIGNED JERSEY RAAAAAAAAA

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