#and then blew everything up

[xolaanii]

#i don't know Lara, what would you do without him?? SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER [2018]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[c6jpg]

starlit letter ⟡ part 2

[eddens-the-reporter]

The one thing I never see get brought up is that by the time Jason Todd confronts Tim at Titans Tower, Tim is on his second go-round at being Robin.

Tim’s dad made him give up Robin. At this point, the Robin that came before Tim - the Robin that most recently died - is Stephanie, not Jason. (As an aside, I don’t think Jason knows this because I don’t think Jason cares about any tragedies that happened after him - as in I don’t think he can wrap his head around life really truly carrying on without him.)

And so Jason challenges Tim on whether he deserves Robin as though it’s something Tim has never had to consider. Jason thinks he’s playing mind games; he hopes Tim will come out of this with self-doubt and mistrust in Batman. Tim, meanwhile, very recently watched someone else take over as Robin - directly as a result of him stepping away - fuck up massively, and get herself killed. Tim had to have considered not only whether he wants to be Robin, independently of what Jack Drake and Batman seem to need, but whether he’s good enough to do the job. You could make the argument that Tim didn’t fully know what he was getting into when he first started; you can’t say that anymore at this point. Jason is interesting because surprise! he’s alive! but none of what he says or does is remotely new territory for Tim at this point.

It’s also important to me to note that Tim really loved and mourned Steph, much more than he cared about Jason. I don’t think this does anything to Tim’s belief that he’s better at being Robin than Steph was, but in my heart it does mean that he wouldn’t accept Jason claiming any special authority because he died as Robin; Steph did too.

(And on the subject of Titans Tower timing, in-universe we are maybe a couple months after Jack Drake’s dying words to his son being that he was proud of him for being Robin, so do with that what you will)

Idk, I think there’s some interesting stuff to consider in the way that this comic makes Jason seem stuck in a time period when tragedies were more shocking and faith in heroes was more groundbreaking. He doesn’t know how to challenge the Robin of the present, who’s so familiar with grief and uncertainty that it doesn’t faze him in the same way it would - did? - faze Jason. Like, would it have shaken Tim more if Jason had known to bring up Stephanie? If Jason had questioned whether Tim is honouring Steph and his father by being Robin, and whether Tim thinks it would get someone killed (again) if he stopped? Would it have thrown Jason if Tim brought up Stephanie?

[violent138]

I do not envy Batman at all. Imagine an entire League of superheroes-- aliens, gods, part gods, metas, verifiable geniuses-- all turning to you for the answers or the plans or even how to keep this delicate yet vital alliance going (not all the time, but it happens a lot).

He's the master of faking it till they make it and convincing himself that if one of his plans was really that bad one of the others would point it out.

But that does nothing about the stress that keeps him up all night, devising all kinds of contingencies because he has nightmares about suddenly being asked about any number of catastrophes.

[sapphixxx]

I've become such an extremely specific type of pervert after doing so much woodworking that I'm catching myself zooming in to see what type of hinges are on the cabinets in this Yuri manga

[navree]

girl penelope straight up called her a "beast" in her gossip rag before they'd ever even exchanged a word in person why would kate give her anything other than a punch in the teeth? like if my brother-in-law brings home a lady who insulted me and my mom and my sister for no fucking reason trust that i'm not paying that lady compliments or saying it's nice to have her in my house

[birdricks]

honestly beth and jerry have maybe my second favourite relationship in the entire show just for how interesting and tragic it is. like its brushed aside a lot in favour of other stuff but they were really both just kids... and the saddest part about them is that they maybe do love each other but its always in some way artificial

[forestgreenlesbian]

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[rui-drawsbox]

I muted the tweet a few days ago but oh I'm absolutely getting killed in quotes arent i

[catboyazem]

VOW OF THE DISCIPLE

A shattered sky. A planet convulsing. Tearing apart. —-What do you feel, my child?—- "Relief."

[yin-yanglulu]

Hugo in SSA be like

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i feel like there's something so beautifully, terribly, ironically unfair about the contrast between prism and solaris.

incredibly talented women, both swayed by the power and resources zoraxis could provide for them. both so desperate to develop their separate technologies they were willing to be swayed to the side of a backstabbing corporate overlord- despite not even liking them. undoubtedly risking their lives for the sake of their technology- knowingly or otherwise.

having the project they loved so much ripped out of their hands. watching sheets of metal and bolts and rivets so lovingly fastened come undone in the blink of a flaming, volatile second. watching a little piece of you get torn apart and die, and knowing good and well that you should have died with it.

prism wanted a legacy. something that could surpass her- live on for a lifetime after her... and even after the robot agent project failed, she still got that, in the end. because she had it all along, and she just failed to realize it.

but solaris' dream was to propagate laser technology. it was a goal she could not reach without zoraxis' assistance. she wanted to push the boundaries of the potential of her craft. and she did. the death engine was- according to the agency- one of zoraxis' most lethal inventions. it was solaris' crowning achievement. decades- or perhaps even centuries ahead of the current scientific standard.

and phoenix destroyed it in under ten minutes. and she will never get that back. her ties with zoraxis- as far as we know- are cut. her reputation is probably badly damaged after her public association with the company. she will probably never be exposed to the proper conditions to build anything even technologically close to the death engine ever again.

the culmination of her life's work was ripped away from her, and where prism was left with introspection, solaris was left with nothing.

[raisedbythetv89]

Putting them in a jar and shaking really hard (affectionate)

[highfunctioningfleshrule63]

“i thought you were gonna say i sounded…very….virile…”

[sbnkalny]

Together, we're going to nasty NASA. get our THOT selves shot to divert it here when it surfaces