#and now for my regularly scheduled rambling

[bumfuzzled-bee]

!! Lil guys !!

[phoenixkaptain]

How… does Robin’s costume work?

A question long asked by everyone. But mostly by me.

Well. I’ll tell you.

First thing’s first, we’re talking about classic Robin, Dick Grayson Robin, this Robin:

There’s a common misconception that Robin’s shirt is one piece (as in a red shirt with green sleeves) and that his panties are separate. You see a lot of people refer to his outfit as having green panties. You, like me, may have heard it before many a time.

Unfortunately. Dick Grayson is not going out every night in a shirt, panties, and a cape.

He’s literally wearing a green leotard with a red vest over it.

Literally just a green leotard. He’s never been wearing panties at all. It’s been a leotard this whole time!

Also, just as a side note, I think it’s kind of funny that his mask is almost always portrayed as black, except in this panel where he isn’t wearing it and it becomes green. Is it double-sided, black and green? No, the colours in the 60’s Teen Titans comics are just funky sometimes. And, they needed the mask to stand out from the black background.

“What’s the point of all this, Kacie?” I hear you asking.

There is no point. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk-

[sircantus]

You must promise me you will gently love yourself. You must promise me you will try. Do you not adore the best of humanity? Do you not feel fond for the kindest of our people and the most compassionate of our friends? Do you care for me? Do you feel some sense of admiration or amusement for all my antics? Then you will promise me, and you will gently love yourself. Because you are capable of loving and so you must love yourself. You are love

[bberetd]

well

major takeaways:

Reclusa and Dimentio are (almost?) equally fucked villains

Concordia = Pangaea on a ship??

Luigi needs at least 100 hours of sleep

[mousy-nona]

I truly believe that Alastor is scarier than Lucifer? Like ofc Lucifer is stronger and all that power scaling-wise, considering he's literally the Biggest Bad Of All Time, but this version of Lucifer has expressed how disappointed he is in humans because they're bad. I don't think he's the type to kill or go all Machiavelli on someone unless he really, really needs to. He's shown as an optimistic, kind, generally good-hearted and goofy guy.

But on the other hand you have Alastor, who kinda makes up his own rules as he goes. Like you've seen him be super nice when he wants to, but that's not his default setting. He likes to eat people?? He's LITERALLY a serial killer?? He has no limits other than the ones he puts on himself, and that's an actual villain.

So yeah yeah Lucifer is strong enough to like cause a nuclear winter but it doesn't really matter because he'll never use it!!

Anyway what I'm saying is that if Alastor were ever to get into a radioapple-style thing with Lucifer I'm pretty sure he could play the king of hell like a fiddle and destroy all of hell if he wanted to. And that's terrifying, and that's why he's scarier than Lucifer.

okay rant over!!!

[cat-clawz]

*A song-based bang in this case is a type of fancrafts exchange. Essentially, people would join, they would give another person a song that they'd like a fancraft of Dan and Phil to, and that person would make a fancraft of it. It would be exchanged such that each person who is doing a fancraft also receives one in return, kind of like that white elephant thing people do for Christmas.

** Keep in mind that although I have been in a few zines and bangs, including a song-based bang, I have never actually run one, so this would be kind of a process lol xD it would likely be run mainly through Discord.

[revenantghost]

Man! I feel bad about being not as present for bookclub as I was last year, and also about how behind on messaging/responding to peeps between migraines and health stuff I am, but the community here and support and kindness has been amazing even as I feel like I'm letting everyone down, and I've just gotta say:

Thank you <3

[neromardorm]

Stopping by this blog to say we fuckin winning twst nation

[artistactorathens]

I will be back on the DBDA train shortly but uhhhhh just wanted to check in on the Umbrella Academy fandom…I don’t really go here anymore but are yall doing okay?

[bumfuzzled-bee]

Frens !!

[the-nwah-embassy]

>Morrowind remaster announced

>"Hey fellow 'Rimmers! It is I, Todd Howard! We've remastered Morrowind due to overwhelming community request!"

>"For starters, we've removed the 'fog' effects since they're no longer needed! Vvardenfell is now fog free and you can see all over the map!"

>"We realize hidden things may still be difficult to find in the foliage, so we added radar blips to points of interest! Both on your map and on your new radar system! No more looking around for that pesky tax man's body! You've got a pin point right to it!"

>"We also removed a lot of the 'alien' architecture to make the game more friendly and welcoming to prospective modern high fantasy RPG players! More castles and forts and roads like Skyrim™ has! Baldur's Gate 3, right fellas?"

>"Speaking of making the game more streamlined and friendly, we removed the table-top dice roll combat system and made it more in line with Skyrim™'s combat! Isn't that great? No more needing to actually think about what weapon you might want for a playthrough! Just pick it up and swing like a master from the first go! Want to use that esoteric Sixth House Bell hammer? No more need for the blunt skill to be remotely decent! You just know intrinsically how to use it!"

>"We've added quest markers too, since having a journal and needing to immerse yourself in the world isn't very user friendly. You can now fast travel to anywhere with the click of a button! Who wants to plan around those ash-storms and corprus beasts, am I right?"

>"NPCs are now far more friendly and less hostile! No one will refer to you as 'outlander,' and the culture is far more welcoming as a whole! We've retconned the Armistice! Dunmer love the Empire! Patrick Stewart! The Empire never wronged anyone! Dunmer are happy and hopeful and helpful to everyone! They also refer to you as 'My Lord Nerevarine' in Dialogue after you've done the quest! Everyone loves you!"

>"Speaking of dialogue, we've voice acted it now! Well, not all of it, obviously. We took out all that stuff that isn't important and used AI to voice the rest! Who needs all of that world building and extra immersion when you can have voices, amirite?"

>"No more birthsigns or silly shit like that! We have more stones! Stones! Pick your bonus whenever you want, no thought required! Who cares they don't make sense with the lore? Who gives a shit about the lore?"

>"Rather than having to plan out your playthrough and roleplay, you can now join and become the head of every single great house! Who cares if it doesn't make sense that you're the grandmaster of both Hlaalu and Redoran and Telvanni!"

>"We've removed level/skill limits from all factions! You can now become high level in the Morag Tong despite not knowing a single thing about swinging a blade or lead the Thieves Guild even if you can't sneak for shit! We've also removed where the quests conflicted so you can lead every faction too!"

>"No more reading! You're here to play, not read! You no longer have to seek out books in quests or read to understand what to do! Our friendly AI voiced NPCs will tell you exactly what needs to be done and you'll have a map marker straight to it! No thinking required! Who reads all those silly lore books for fun?"

>"There were too many complex spells in the original Morrowind, so we definitely needed to tone that down to make it easier! Now, you have 6 damage spells (two fire, two frost, and two lightning! Wow!), 2 healing spells, and even a conjuration spell that conjures a Draugur from Skyrim™! We thought about giving you more spells and the ability to craft spells as well, but that's way too complex and dangerous! Being a mage has never been simpler!"

>"You no longer have to levitate to meet any of the Telvannis! How irritating was that? Where before you had to have a potion of Float or the ability to levitate, now you can simply climb up a staircase! How immersive for the Telvanni clan quests is that? Telvannis now love non-mages and are very welcoming, just like Skyrim™! In fact, there are no specific requirements for anything! The entire game is open to you even if you have zero idea what you're doing and can't be assed to learn it! To hell with roleplay and other nerd shit! No more need to plan and buy certain potions or become adept in certain spells because of cultural barriers!"

>"We redid the entire main quest to be more user friendly! Don't know the lore? Who cares? Who the fuck is Sotha Sil? Who even is Dagoth Ur? Why does Almalexia want you dead? Who gives a shit! Who cares about Dunmeri culture or Resdayn or why Dagoth Ur has gone mad? What's a Sharmat? What are the tools of Kagrenac? What is a Kagrenac? Why is Yargrum Bargarn so significant? Why is it so funny when Archmage Trebonius asks you to solve the mystery of the dwarves? Why should you care? You shouldn't! Fuck engaging with media! Just go braindead and play!"

>"We have obliterated Snowy Granius with a ray gun! No more filter to ensure you're ready for the Dwemer ruin! Just go in there and fuck shit up! It's the same with the entire game! No need to understand mechanics! Just point and click!"

>"Morrowind multiplayer! Always online, even in single player! Can't afford always online? Get a new computer and a new job, you useless loser!"

>"More incredible changes upcoming after the break! I'm Todd Howard, and remember: Buy Skyrim! Give me your money, you inept fucking dorks! I ate Elder Scrolls Six with a side of beans and you're never getting it!" >Twitch commercial for Oblivion Remastered plays 4 times.

[dude-wheres-my-ankheg]

Surprised how rarely I see people shipping Gale and Wyll together to be honest. I dunno, I think they'd be cute. You can picture them cooking together, doing silly magic stuff together, both relatively hinged and share good morals. They want to do the right thing and make each other better. They'd be total bros plus hoes.

[bittcrsuite]

hi friends! i'll be working on drafts today <3 there's some info about where i was under the read more. it's nothing triggering or anything, just an excuse for me to yap (which u all know i loooove to do)

i stopped smoking weed about a week ago (yay! it's been hard but rewarding!) and it's forced me to recognize other addictive tendencies i have. whenever i have a lot of drafts, i have this mentality that i have to finish them before i can log off. which results in me spending my entire weekend glued to my laptop. SO, we're working on setting better boundaries.

if any of u have a system that works for u, please shoot me a message bc i'm absolutely looking for ideas! as of rn, i'm thinking i might do a few drafts a day and make myself log off, so if things take a little longer, pls bare with me while i work through everything <3

[hakusins]

okay i know i compare these two a lot but can i still pretty please with a pussy on top still get gilgamesh for the fate collab please please please please i need my fwAHAHAHAHAH zasshu wife to ride with me on my galactic little train throughout the cosmos please please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HOYO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[starfolk7]

I just finished writing almost 2000 words of a silly thing with Gabriel instead of working on actual fic I'm good at this-

[a-pale-azure-moon]

This isn't a politics blog, nor will it become one. This is my space for obsessing about my blorbos, sharing memes and fanworks, and occasionally talking a little about myself. As an introvert with way too much social anxiety, I'm often reluctant to do much of the latter, but I have some things I wish to shout into the void for my own sake if nothing else.

The shock of Tuesday has worn off and I'm currently bouncing between four primary emotions that shift minute by minute: rage, despair, fear, and numbness. I feel like I have knots everywhere inside my body, my appetite is shot, and I keep unconsciously clenching my jaw until I notice my teeth and head are starting to hurt. I did not sleep at all Tuesday night and have slept very little since. I told my mother that the last time I felt this way, the last time my emotions were so overwhelming that that they were manifesting in physical ways, was when my father was sick (and as it turned out, dying) in the hospital. It's the pain of knowing something terrible is happening and there's nothing I can do to change the outcome.

I am enraged by a world that says myself, my mother, my sister and my nieces are uteri before we are people. Our health, safety, happiness and autonomy don't matter. I'm one of those childless cat ladies that has no societal value. My mother apparently doesn't either because she's elderly, and my sister won't once her children are grown. My nieces are just now entering adulthood and I am so frightened for them, especially my younger niece since she's also gay. And I'm frightened for my nephew too. He's 12, so over the next four years, he will begin growing into a man. He's fortunate to have a positive male role model in his father, but is that enough of a bulwark against a rising tide of violent misogyny? He's big into Minecraft modding, so he's online a lot, and oh boy am I aware of how hostile gamer spaces are to women.

The finger pointing has already started on the political left, which gives me additional worry that the wrong 'lessons' will be learned. Kamala Harris was catapulted into an incredibly difficult position and did everything she reasonably could. This is not on her. Whether she ran too far to the left or right or too much to the center, whether she didn't talk enough about issue X, Y, or Z or court more people from this or that demographic...none of that would've changed this outcome. It's clear to me that the institutional and societal problems with the American people go much deeper than what is reflected in a single election. She would've been a great president; I feel like her story is emblematic of the best aspects of America, and America in its current form doesn't deserve her when it would rather pick the physical manifestation of all the worst aspects of America as its leader.

Make no mistake, the real winners of this election are Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They are going to continue to enrich themselves and exploit the most vulnerable among us, and they will continue to foment violence and drive existing cultural schisms even deeper. People around the world are going to suffer. My heart aches for Ukraine and Gaza (and Sudan). I'm so sorry.

So yeah, things are bad and they are pretty much assured to get worse. That's a terrible thing to know and a terrible thing to feel so acutely, and I have no answers about how to make it better (or less bad). I wish I did. However, at my core I am an idealist, and I truly believe most people are kind and good, and just because things are bad now does not mean they will be bad forever. (Do not conflate idealism with naivety, because they are not the same thing.) Cynicism and hopelessness are the tools of tyranny. But contrary to what Emily Dickinson wrote, hope is not a thing with feathers. Hope is a warrior. It is scarred and bruised, bloody and wounded. It clutches a bent sword in one hand as it drags itself across the scorched wasteland of the battlefield with the other. It never stops fighting, never stops clawing its way forward, because it can see the tiny sprouts pushing up through the soil and the verdant trees standing tall in the distance.

I take comfort in knowing that there are millions of people not just in America but the world over who share in my feelings. I am not alone. We are not alone. You are not alone. Cherish what you love in this world, hold onto it, and search for small joys where you can find them. I'm almost finished with Echoes of Wisdom and my copy of Mario & Luigi: Brothership arrived yesterday. I'm planning to make fajitas for dinner tonight. My senior cat had a healthy checkup at the vet this week. It's cold out today but the sun is shining. Living your life is its own quiet act of resistance, so keep living it one day at a time.