#I am considering an ask blog maybe..

[blueberrythefrog]

USB!Kinito, what is your favorite types of food?

"Anything that you like, Friend!.. though.. I don't think I can physically eat!.. but.. if it makes you happy.. I can pretend to like food, just for you!, if that helps!"

Ahh, I love responding as my AU characters, they are just so silly!!..

[danieyells]

Do you think methods of exorcism and laying spirits to rest would have to differ depending on the spirit's origin? Or would it depend more on where the act is taking place than where the spirit is from?

Like Zenji covers his face around purifying incense and covers his ears when Haku plays his flute to lay the childrens' spirits to rest, but would non-Japanese methods still be a threat to him?

Knowing him he wouldn't wanna risk it, but I'm imagining Hotarubi going on a mission thinking they're dealing with a Japanese spirit and Haku's like okay I'll put it to rest and it doesn't work. . .because the spirit is from another culture entirely. At most it's put off for a bit but it comes back because it hasn't been given proper peace or something.

[averlym]

,,, little lemmings in line...

[maybemeursault]

look okay it's bad to erase marvin's canonical sexuality and the fact that She Likes Men but i literally genuinely with all my heart think that she is a trans woman

[chris-mc-dirty]

C:

"If they won't color the world, I'll color it myself."

[aratakatism]

yo the tumblrsiders (outsiders😛😛) fandom is lowkey dying😔 like idk if im sped or smt but alot of ppl have kinda left... Like sum have deleted their accs or moved to other media(honorary mention @sodapop-pepsicola that rp acc was fire) I guess we just have to wait for newcomers in next outsiders season in school😭😭

i fear this may be me as well because i am like this 🤏 close to leaving the fandom because ive lately been feeling very sour towards it 😭 at least the tumblr side. the private corner i have elsewhere is chill but ive also been getting into other stuff so … we’ll see where my mind takes me

[creaturefeaster]

Hi! I have some questions for you, how many chapters does cq have so far? Or is the one you posted the only official chapter?

I hope you can answer me 😺

(I'm using a translator, so I hope it wasn't mistranslated XD)

Hello!

CQ is a project of mine that I am constantly working on, and I've made half-hearted attempts at making it into a comic over the years. Each attempt has left me unsatisfied thus far >_<... The latest attempt would be the few pages I put up on the Colorquest blog, which is what I assume you're referring to.

Those pages would be the only pages up at the moment, but the blog is locked right now as I am trying to attempt a better approach at sharing the story.

[boyfridged]

Do you agree that Jason, as written by Winnick in UTRH and Lost Days, acts out of character post-resurrection if we take into account his post-crisis robin days? If yes, how would you have him act/react to stuff after he comes back from the dead?

tldr: i definitely agree. moreover, classism plays a huge role in it, and i don’t think that at this point the storyline could lose these implications, which makes trying to conceive what an “in character” (for robin jay) version of these events would be quite difficult. 

let’s just start from saying that i don't think it's a secret that i don't really like winick in general. despite his work being mad interesting on a conceptual level (and style-wise, genuinely well written!), he has no love for the characters he writes about. 

imo utrh shouldn't even ever make it into the mainstream batman timeline. i am aware that this is a radical opinion, but my take is that it would do best as an elseworld story (and in this version too it would need some tweaks here and there), because it made damage both to the mythos of batman and jason's legacy that can never be undone. the very premise of the story is so deeply disconnected from jay's original place in the narrative, and so classist at its roots, that there's not much room to truly fix it. 

(i want to say, preemptively, that i am aware that there are people who read utrh as a story of a revolutionary and a victim – and they have the right to do so, but ngl, my view has always been that it was never written as that. utrh reinforces so many stereotypes that it overshadows the revenge tragedy spirit of it all.) 

another disclaimer is that, to be honest, jay doesn't have a very consistent characterization even in his 80s run, and it also has some classist implications that ideally should be either erased or addressed in the text (that winick instead exaggerated and put at the very front of his storytelling.) starlin's writing is, at the end of the day and very much ironically, more sympathetic and gentler in evaluating jay (simply because at the time he would not get away with changes too blatant) but details such as jay saying that "all life is game" and his random nonchalant behaviour that has its origin in the very beginning of starlin’s run are already signs of it. some readers will trace jason's arrogance prevalent in his red hood era to these issues and say that his actions post-res are therefore a logical extension of his robin days, but i don't buy it. even if you want to lean into starlin-esque characterisation, if you consider the core problem of the garzonas plotline – which is power, jay shouldn’t look into the solution of anything in climbing to the top. and if he did, it would have to be written as a “becoming what you feared/hated most” kind of story, which i can see a certain appeal in (and which would at least acknowledge that it was not his initial personality), but which would go back to its classist assumption of cycles of violence and doomed fates.

so – how to make his post-res era more accurate to his post-crisis robin days (and least classist in the process)?

if we were to follow my fav iterations of his characterisation (barr’s detective comics and the ntt appearances) tbh I don’t think a lot would happen, because his personality is quite mild, and just so hopeful there that i wouldn’t expect any extreme actions from him – but then again, the circumstances that he finds himself in post-res, the trauma, and his sensitivity do warrant grief that should become a driving force in his life from now on. the question is, what to do with this grief as a plot device?

i know that plenty of jason fans hate this take but I actually think the concept of jason trying to be detached and cruel but being bad at it might be one of the least offensive to his 80s characterisation. it’s def not accurate to pre-52 canon (apart from countdown perhaps) but imo for jay to be authentic and nuanced he should be conflicted about his own actions. his overconfident behaviour should be a pose – just as his frantic acts in his origin story as robin were. (again, something that many readers don't take notice of – but reading the rest of collins' writing wherein jay quickly settles into being easy-going and even a bit shy is proof of it.)

these two points lead to the “no good deed” narrative that I often talk about - the reading that jason saw his intuitive and self-sacrificial kind tendencies as something that brought him pain and that never was quite efficient, and that post-res he intentionally tried training himself out of. there are some flashes of it here and there throughout the years of the red hood publishing history, but it never got a true spotlight. and if i were to write lost days, jason flinching at his own violence would be a focal point of the story. 

moving on to utrh; i have spoken about it at length before but I think if he were written 1. with more political sensitivity 2. to have retained the same maturity re: the social order 3. to have the same idea of morality, he should have followed more of actual revolutionary tracks and the whole “drug lord” authoritarian figure schtick along with the idiotic idea of “controlling crime” would have to be thrown out of the window. 

and, later on, forgiveness should play a big role in his story. he's so quick to forgive and justify everyone in his robin run – this is also why i reckon his team up with harvey in tfz was a wasted opportunity.

so, in conclusion – perhaps not that much would have to change re: his actions but definitely a lot should change regarding his emotional journey and his position. i would def throw out a lot of mindless violence and power posturing out of it though. and perhaps make him a bit more polite just for the sake of more consistency (this is not me taking a moral stance btw nor tone policing a fictional character. i just think it would be more faithful to his 80s writing unless you want to make him explicitly scared. and it would be funnier tbh.)

[whenisitenoughtrees]

heyyy

it’s been a hot minute since i checked in over here, anybody around?

[violetjedisylveon]

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[kellystar321]

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[arionawrites]

good news i saved a url a few years ago

bad news i can’t seem to access that account in order to make it my main url, which is why my url is arionawrites and not the same username that i have on literally every other website and account i have

this upsets me greatly and i hate having to reach out to staff and shit but i might do it because i really want all of my usernames to match so uhhh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[is-gabenath-confirmt-yet]

Final? Is the show ending? confirmed? is this the last season? I'm confused i haven't seen it since beginning of season 4 (or something, i don't remember)

The Final of season 5 got leaked. There are more seasons confirmed, I think up to 8 seasons. So, it is not the end of the series. Just the end of another season. Yet, it was the last season Thomas will be the main writer. He is still on the writer's team ( I think ) but the story he wanted to tell ends with season 5.

[daydadahlias]

I'd say you're popular! You're one of the few blogs i see getting asks on the reg and i always assumed you were considered The ashton blog around here

aww I just think that’s cuz I like to blabber sm haha

I will absolutely take the title of Ashton blog even though I think Anna @ashtcnirwin and Crystal @kindahoping4forever both beat me out for it

[kenobster]

theres a pattern every time I try to use Tumblr... no matter how many times I have left/come back, how differently I try to do things, no matter how much fun I've been having, etc... The first several months are great, honeymoon phase, amazing. Then around this time frame, something upsetting happens (maybe this time, it was being stuck with a kidney stone and languishing around in bed for 2 weeks, idk) and this site starts negatively affecting my mental health ... to the point where I'm stuck in this self-pitying feedback look where everything suddenly feels bleak, bitter, insincere, and super lonely (for literally no reason as far as I can tell).

I don't understand why, and it's extremely frustrating because I have been (and am!) enjoying myself otherwise. :(

Does anyone else get like this? Or have thoughts? I'm gonna talk to my therapist, but historically this has remained an unsolved subject and so anything might be useful to me at this point T.T

[bileroom]

we're going to have our own safe home again and then we can process the. aughh