#canonical Christmas special

[phoenixkaptain]

Reading the novelization of A New Hope already changed how I saw Luke as a character but Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is going one step further and making me question the very fundamentals thought to be obvious about Luke.

Like, Luke is, for lack of a better term, a nerd. He studied languages and cultures -

“”Yes,” Luke admitted modestly. “I used to study a lot about certain worlds, back on my uncle’s farm on Tatooine. It was my only escape, and educational as well. This,” and he indicated the creature resting a massive long arm on his head and shaking him in a friendly fashion, “is a Yuzzem.””

-he wants to study more languages and cultures-

“Empty doorways beckoned to him and he was tempted, very tempted, to enter one of the ruined structures to find out if its interior was as well preserved as the outside.

This was not, he reminded himself firmly, the time for playful exploration. Their first concern was to find a way out, not to go poking around this ancient metropolis. However wonderful it was.”

Luke wants to know about people. He wants to know about cultures and creatures and he wants to be able to communicate and…

He really just. Is a great Jedi. He jumps between Leia and danger and he befriends the Yuzzem the prison guards thought would kill him and he wants to explore the creepy abandoned ruins of a civilization long past and he uses Anakin’s lightsaber underwater to cut the stem of a lilypad they use as a boat and he comments that the rock formations are almost too beautiful to cut down and he knows how to work Imperial explosives and

He’s a Jedi, man. He’s a Jedi. He’s been a Jedi this whole time, before any of us even knew what that actually meant.

[ollyolyoxenfree]

horse 3: horse fast horse furious part two || part four

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

It's Christmas Eve, Oscar!

Shouldn't you be in church with the...

...

church.

[lucifer-kane]

just saw a twitter post saying malevolent tumblr is media illiterate because of the way they critique malevolent/harlan. HUH.

[grape-eating-vampire]

so I kinda forgot about this but um. christmas special seems more and less silly after intermezzo, too

[zahri-melitor]

The Many Post-Crisis Christmases of Tim Drake

Yes, everyone gets a few Holiday issues over the years, but Tim’s got his own special levels of trauma associated with the holiday.

A round up of every time Tim appears in comics about Christmas, sorted by year:

1990: Identity Crisis - Batman #455-457 aka Janet Drake’s funeral. Janet is buried on Christmas Eve. Jack’s still in a coma. Tim is living with Bruce at this point. Tim spends a lot of this storyline having nightmares and worrying by Jason’s memorial case. At the very end, Bruce and Alfred give Tim his personal Robin costume and Tim goes out officially as Robin for the first time.

1996: Holiday Bash I – “Just Another Night” it’s just a small mention here, but given future events it’s worth noting. Tim leaves a Christmas card for Alfred, and Jack takes Tim to the Caribbean for the holidays. Very in line with Tim’s behaviour during this period, where he’s noted for giving Babs thank you notes.

1998: Holiday Bash III – “Alone for the Holidays” aka the single point in canon that supports Neglected Sad Boi Tim Drake. Tim is, as the title implies, alone for the holidays and moping about it. Jack and Dana are trapped in Chicago because the airport is closed due to snow (Why Jack and Dana are in Chicago is left to the reader). Babs and Dick call Tim over to the Clock Tower for a Loners Christmas Party. It will never not be funny to me that Alfred and Harold are at this Loners Party, but Bruce isn’t. Only a TRUE committed loner misses the family loners Christmas party.

1999: Endgame, No Man’s Land (LotDK #126, Batman #574, ‘Tec #741). If you are unfamiliar with this classic story, Joker kidnaps 36 babies on Christmas Eve in No Man’s Land and threatens to blow them all up. Tim gets called away from Christmas dinner with Jack (as a note, Tim’s outside NML at the dinner, then immediately dives inside for this. Never bother trying to make sense of how often Tim got in and out of Gotham during NML) and is helping track down the babies. It’s…traumatic for everyone involved.

2001: Young Justice #40. The Night Before Doomsday. This is the story where Santa dies and Young Justice find themselves having to deliver all the presents on his behalf.

2006: Slayride, ‘Tec #826. Tim is running away from a group of drug dealers and is offered a ride by a passing car. The car is driven by Joker. Tim gets tied up with Christmas lights and eventually distracts him via an argument with Joker about the Marx Brothers.

2008: “It’s a Wonderful Night” and “The Night Before Christmas”, DCU Holiday Special #1 2008. Two reminders that Tim has a hard time at Christmas in one!

“It’s a Wonderful Night” is a tear jerker where Dick goes looking for Tim to deliver a Christmas present. He finds him at a cinema watching a showing of It’s a Wonderful Life. Captain Boomerang Jnr is also there. Tim and Owen bond over their dead dads both liking the movie (which…given their dads killed each other, is a thing) and Dick gives Tim his old Robin costume. You WILL cry.

“The Night Before Christmas” is a Titans story, particularly notable as far as Tim goes in that Tim and Cassie talk about how the holidays remind Tim of the people he’s lost (and look, for perfectly good reasons, given the above).

[danny-chase]

crying, when will people understand that Dick didn’t fail Jason, there was literally just 12 issues from Jason’s reintroduction to his death and they dedicated a whole issue of that precious little space to Dick and Jason become friends. And before that they’d been in a few crossovers together, in one of which Dick had intended to adopt him before Bruce beat him to the punch

like yeah Dick had more crossovers with Tim! Because there were more comics running! Jason was in 2 comics that were running at the time, and Dick was in 1 comic that was ongoing! Of course they had fewer interactions!

[sewercassowary]

Sitcom!Arthur wouldn't last an hour in the Dreamlands. He'd see a giant cliff roach emerge from its pod and go "Heheh... Nice kitty😅"

[spencerwatchestoons]

one of my favorite tropes in media is two old men whose only friends are each other and one is mean and doesn’t acknowledge how important they are to the other until something big happens between them and the mean one finds out that the other really cares about them and appreciates how hard they work so the mean one is like “shit” and apologizes and also they’re heavily implied to be in love with each other

[sideblogdotjpeg]

i am not immune to launchpad sol and albin thoughts

[kaynes-secret-blog]

Private Eyes is Kayne's NOTP

[starrynight29]

Ted comes back to Richmond for the holidays and they go out to share a drink 🎄✨

[gods-graveyard]

Harrys First Christmas in the Den

(Lighting gets a little wonky but its my first time doing that and also backgrounds so honestly I give myself props for not just crying-)

Cassius and Marcus are digging their own grave, but honestly how can you say no to that face. Aka Harry has the upmost adorable privilage.

This scene is from my fic BUT hasnt been updated to this chapter yet, though I got impatient and now im posting ahead of time. Plz check it out if you havent already otherwise enjoy the lil sneak peak!!

(Also for that ONE bookmark that says "Good snape tag but not there yet" YOUR FINALLY GETTING GOOD SNAPE CONTENT-)

Edit- By Galaxy Trio I mean Percy x Oliver x Marcus (aka my favorite poly background slowburn :))

[looking-for-a-sword]

I mean yeah sure it's unlikely that Rebecca and Ted had sex with Beard and Jane being in the house too, but still... nobody knows for sure!

And if you go back now and watch the finale again it would actually make sense if the did sleep together.. 🤷‍♀️

Them not being able to really talk (at all!) afterwards, also no biscuits with the boss.. (makes you wonder if they made a pact to never talk about that night.) Also Rebecca having even more difficulties to accept the fact that Ted will leave, Ted not really reacting/saying much because it would make everything so much harder. And:

Them not being able to say I love you.

- because holy shit that would have turned things around

[mikeluciraphgabe]

“I liked this fic but everyone was so out of character :(“

… THATS BECAUSE ITS A HALLMARK AU?

[retroactivepixels]

Artificial and natural festive lighting. Eastern European style 🙂