#first came first serve

[septemberlikestea]

converting to believing in academic supremacy. he is the best friend i do not deserve.

[wesavegotham]

"Damian shouldn't be Batman because he was told it's his birthright, so he doesn't deserve it"

...I mean, let's be real nobody is ever going to replace Bruce as Batman, DC will nuke their continuity before that happens so why do people keep asking who will replace him, but also, that is not quite true?

In some stories DAMIAN thinks he's entitled to the cowl, but except for two not main continuity stories by Tom Taylor where Bruce dies (DCeased and Batman One last day: Ra's al Ghul) I really don't recall Bruce ever saying to Damian that he wants or expects him to be Batman after him. Either because he believes he will doom them all (Morrison run), expects him to be a hero who knows how to take care of the stuff Bruce will leave to him, but never says he wants him to be Batman (Batman and Robin 2011), created a cloning machine so nobody but Bruce will need to be Batman (Snyder's Batman run) or because he pretty much forgot/ignored Damian existence (pretty much everything between 2018 and 2021).

And Ra's and (modern, not classic) Talia wanting him to be Batman makes little sense either because they want an heir for the league of assassins to take over because the lazarus pits might stop working for Ra's. Batman is mostly focused on Gotham, their plans are about the world. It wasn't their goal to raise the next protector of Gotham.

In Pre New 52 and then in New 52 continuity Damian wasn't even told who his father was until he was ten.

Thinking he should become the next Batman was Damian's own idea.

[nikkashidashipper]

it haunts me

[amazingspider-z]

potentially partially inspired by @wazzappp 's Mantis Blade au in terms of Khaji Da giving Jaime funky little extras (that make him suffer so much) i present the wing portion of the Reachling au!

Inspired by that time he fell from orbit without Khaji Da in issue #36 of the 2006 run.

Basically, my current working theory is that Khaji Da was prepping a bunch of. Ahem. extras that just needed to be triggered to cause the musculoskeletal change just in case, and while it was initializing the reboot they activated the wings along with the forcefield, which. Doing it all at once as they were shutting down definitely hurt like hell, but Jaime did get out of orbit without breaking (almost) every bone in his body so. A win is a win (until he decompresses enough for everything to sink in, anyway).

Like actual beetle wings, they fold up, although Jaime doesn't have elytra unless he is actually suited up, and if Khaji Da lends a hand they can even fold up beneath the skin. They're also the wings he has from this point on as the Blue Beetle, although like the rest of him they end up armored, and have that extra technological oomph.

[takaraphoenix]

HOLY SHIT the power Brennan Lee Mulligan's game play wields!!

He really just made eating a peacock feather romantic. Damn.

Not only does he keep creating these wildly weird characters that are inexplicably lovable, but oh that Hob/Rue hits hard for me.

[adreamingrevenant]

[lexalovesbooks]

This description of Queenie in the glossary of the eidolon is pretty funny, considering.

[rpfisfine]

cuntiest boxing entrance in history

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 3x07 The Debt (2)

You mean that I should serve someone who hates me. More than that, you need to serve someone you hate. I'd rather die. You've been a dead woman for a long time now Xena, I'm offering you the chance to live.

[cocopurplepompom]

You made your icon? Do you have a bigger picture of them?

Sure! I had to dig through my camera roll for these since I don't have them on hand right now, but here they are, before and after painting!

I made them in with my school's 3D printers, a matching pair for me and my friend.

Unfortunately, they are very small, about 5 cm tall, so the pictures might not help much.

Six's raincoat took so many layers of paint, but it was worth it in the end!

[tastyflowers]

black sails thoughts:

it's very funny watching this after watching ofmd. everyone so mean to each other. have you tried being niceys. maybe life would be easier if you tried being friends.

Flint is the most frustrating man I've ever known. like I really empathise as someone with Control Issues™ but god. make better choices man. try some breathing exercises perhaps

Jack is the luckiest man on earth. if Anne and Max offered me a threesome I'd fucking die

Charles Vane really does something to me. it's not lust exactly, I don't want to fuck him. but I do want to climb him.

music fucks severely. I think it's time for me to buy a hurdy gurdy

gender envy going hard for this show. everyone looks so good. I should have been a pirate. I need to update my wardrobe and buy a sword

[crypticmoth-art]

Even if they didn’t stay quite true to his character, at least they made him beautiful.

Bonus Fi because she’s gorgeous too. :3

[catherine-sketches]

I truly don’t get the people that are saying Helaena was helping Daemon

What she told him was not told in a vacuum (even if they were standing in the void). She comes after he sees all that is to come in the future

Like dude she appears on his weirwood induced acid trip and basically tells him

“Are you aware of the narrative yet?

That our lives are nothing but a play and our fate is already sealed? We have been dead from the moment we were born because a man with a beard and little hat said so in 2018.

Are you ready to shoulder the fact that you are but a single part on the history of an orphan girl 172 years ahead of us?

That our only job is to create the foundation for the conditions that would allow her to perform a miracle under the red comet so far away from her home?

*has a glimpse of the vision Daemon just had* oh so you are aware. Good.

Play your part.”

[cdroloisms]

NO BUT YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THE SBI/DTEAM VILLAIN/HEO THING. literally if ANYTHING c!dteam would be the misunderstood villain team, or like, probably more accurately just kind of morally complex. like. they dont even have to be secretly good or whatever you just have to take one look at c!dream who is like the poster boy of "has good intentions probably, makes lots of fucked up decisions" and i wish that fic took the angle they normally take with c!sbi (introduced as villains but then shown a softer/sympathetic side) with c!dteam. please. it'd be so interesting i'm BEGGING for it to be written

like. you know people can write whatever they want, but it's specifically amusing to me because "group of people get painted as the villains to justify + validate the actions of some other entity that involves a level of corruption" ...happens in canon. like literally explicitly happens in canon. like that was the platform Pog2020 was more or less running on? Pog2020 which had planned on you know, the whole one-party election thing?? that happened???

like there's a very real, in-universe "heroes and villains" narrative that quite honestly permeated just about everything post-lmanburg's conception...and people writing fic based on the dsmp. completely flipped it? genuinely fascinating to me every time

[theotherrichardpapen]

david levithan

[destinywillowleaf]

how to go from a one-shot/conversation spawned from thinking too much about an unseen father to more than a dozen fic ideas and an overarching narrative about family heritage (and the generational trauma that comes with it), the importance of communication, and how all lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive in one easy step