#fun and jests

[fervi-g]

David Foster Wallace.

[toastysol]

Just remembered the first time i played Cyberpunk and how I was prepared for Johnny to be an asshole, but I honestly was not prepared for how pathetic he was. Like he's actually so pathetic in his memories. Everyone wants to punch him in the balls, no one wants to talk to him, he's so desperate for more drugs he comes crawling back to the woman who just broke up with him, minutes after telling her to fuck off cause he doesn't give a shit about her. He immediately then gets stabbed through the back by some goon. His ripper confirms he never takes care of himself and never listens to anyone. Idk what my point is. He's pathetic.

[candycatfalls]

Instead of theraprism bill day i shouldve decreed it was Ford Gets Held Down Day and we all sjouldve drawn that man slutting it up in various restrictive positions

[1000dactyls]

my huge gripe w modern httyd aus is that it’s always set in the suburban midwest in podunk nothing town without taking it to its natural conclusion. As if berk would not be a steel mill town on the rust belt with the gas prices jacked sky high for tourists driving through the middle of nowhere. As if the barbaric archipelago would be the suburbs of a big city rather than rural towns in the Deep South. as if hiccup would not somehow end up hiking in the appalachias or turn up half dead after missing for 6months in the oregon wilderness. Cowards. Fools. if you’re setting it in america then you should take it to its natural conclusion 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[iamnmbr3]

Harry: I don't think about Draco that much. Just because I happen to remember every single thing I saw him look at in Borgin & Burkes four years ago and coincidentally noticed the second he got a new traveling cloak because I have his whole wardrobe memorized doesn't mean I'm obsessed with him or anything. I'm just generally observant like that. It doesn't mean I care about him.

Ginny: You forgot about the time a piece of Voldemort came out of a diary and possessed me.

Ron: You didn't notice I was eating spiked chocolates right in front of you because you were staring at Draco's dot on the map...AGAIN.

Hermione: Do you even know my parents' names?

Harry: ... Huh. I was right. Draco's skin is definitely a slightly different color than it usually is.

[madbard]

In Stars and Time: What if the Universe and the concept of Change formed the basis for religious beliefs which shaped the characters inhabiting this world, crafting important questions about identity and autonomy influenced by their perception of their own capacity for meaningful action and change within the context of a belief system that either values transformation and condemns stagnancy until characters are pressured into changing even the aspects of themselves that they are happy with, or proposes that self-determination cannot truly exist in a world where one’s actions are made part of and partially determined by forces far outside their control that cannot or will not comprehend human suffering?

Slay the Princess: What if the Universe and the concept of Change were FREAKY?

[cloudinal]

Happy birthday, Math Man!

[pantestudines]

Americans. We cant concede any ground here. We cant give them "chicken burger". Thats a nonsense statement. Weve already given too much if thats on the table. Thats a god damn chicken sandwich. A Burger uses Hamburger Meat. If its not at least trying to feel like hamburger meat, its not a burger. Black Beans and Ground Turkey are on thin ice, but a bonafide Chicken Fillet? White meat? Certainly you know this isnt a burger, in your heart. Would you accept a mcchicken as a burger? Of course not! This is nonsense! We call ground beef Hamburger for a reason! Dont give them an inch!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

BY 换谁不迷糊呀 (fyi, don't try chinese daoism 手印shouyin/指诀zhijue in a bold manner because↓

[puppyboyfranco]

me: I don’t like to speculate abt the drivers sexuality, it’s nothing to do with me

also me: the bisexual vibes from max are STAGGERING

[carnivalwizard]

wizards in the workplace

[playendroll]

MGS Creatures Part TWO!!!

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ITS REEEEALLY FUN TO SHARE RHESE ALL AT ONCE.. so wonderful Ok.. IM STILL ON MGS4 BUT I DID FINISH 5! HOW FUN!!!!!!!!! I HOPEYOU HAVE A NICE DAY.. ALSO , AGAINN, IF YOU WANT TO SEE ME MORE IM ON TWT @ rpgmakerenjoyer … I post these there too!! Just not In little bundles like this :3 AHH!!!

[staliamazing]

Bet On You

@into-the-jeggyverse | prompt: white | wc: 951

James Potter loved Regulus Black. That much was clear. The general consensus in the dorm room that evening however, was that it would be nice if he could love him a little quieter.

"When the sun's out, his curls glisten in the light. Honestly, they glisten."

"Congratulations," Remus responded sarcastically, having already bared witness to James' speech about his skin, his voice, his smell.

"His eyes. Even those little white bits are beautiful."

"Jesus wept," Remus groaned, putting a pillow over his head.

"Mate, are you sure you didn't drink a love potion?" Peter asked once again as he walked over to James and ripped the glasses of his face to get a better look at his friend. "Pupils are a normal size, still ugly as a Moonkuckles's backside though." He returned the glasses to James' face as the latter feigned offence.

With a hand to his heart, James cried out. "You wound me, Wormy. Sirius will be back shortly, I need to get it all out. Remember what happened last time I dared mention anything vaguely positive about Regulus? I still have the bloody bruises to prove it!"

As if on cue, Sirius Black strolled into their dormitory and made a beeline for his boyfriend, who was still lying in his bed with a pillow where his face should be.

"Boys, boys, you're supposed to tell me when Moony over here tries to end his suffering via silky down!" Sirius threw the comment to the rest of the room as he mounts Remus, swiping the pillow off the bed and peppering his lover's face with kisses.

James sternly watched the interaction from where he was sitting, irritation bubbling inside him. He fiddled with a spare piece of parchment, squeezing it so tight it ended up as a crumpled ball in his hand. If Sirius and Remus were allowed to openly defile each other in their shared dorm room, a place which was supposed to represent the sacred bond of the four young men's friendship, why was the smallest hint of James' affections for Regulus rejected? By Sirius, at least.

Refusing to watch Sirius slobber over Remus' face any longer, James yanked Pete by the robe and led them both down the stairs.

"Fancy a game of chess, Prongs?" Pete asked as he settled into a chair by the fire.

"Hmph, maybe later, Pete. Seeing as those two have made the dorm an utterly foul affair I think I'm gonna take a walk, see if I can find-"

"Regulus?"

James smiled at him sheepishly. "Back in an hour?"

As promised, the tall Gryffindor returned in an hours time, accompanied by a particularly infamous Slytherin.

"Reckon we could find something three-player, Pete? Reg here will be joining us."

With a quick glance to the stairs that led up to the boys sleeping chambers, Peter nodded and walked over to the games cupboard, cautiously yanking at a box about halfway down until it broke free.

After a couple of rounds, Regulus had the two Gryffindors in a chokehold. He had won every single time and was much too nonchalant about his success in a game which Peter had called "easily one of the toughest to beat". Growing more comfortable in the unfamiliar territory of the rival common room, he now had a single leg draped over his boyfriend's thick thigh and was biting his lip in concentration as he prepared to make his next move on the board.

"Game night without us? I'm heartbroken." A voice called from the stairwell at Sirius and Remus appeared at the base. Peter stood instantly, face scrunched in preparation for Sirius' lecture on betrayal. "At ease, Wormtail. Nothing wrong with a friendly game or two. Mind if we join?"

Remus followed as Sirius took a seat at the table, but diverted at the last second to fold onto the couch, grabbing a small book out of his back pocket.

"Regulus," he nodded across the table to his brother, who silently returned the gesture. "Mighty comfy there I see," Sirius motioned to where James and Regulus' legs made contact.

"Alright, enough. You need to quit being so dramatic." Regulus snapped, then paused. "So, I have a proposition." He added, keeping his leg firmly attached to his boyfriend's. Tighter now, even.

"A proposition, he says", Sirius replied, leaning in.

"If I win, you stop giving James a hard time about us being together. If you win-"

"You break up?"

"No. If you win, I'll wear red to the next Quidditch match."

Both James and Sirius gasped.

"Reg, are you sure about this?" James whispered in his ear.

"Peter, deal us in." Regulus announced to the table.

"You're on, little bro. Someone grab the tissues because this emotionally stunted Black is about to cry like a baby."

Approximately ten minutes later, there was outrage.

"You little fucker! He's cheated, he must have!" Sirius cried, pushing his pieces away from his side of the table in protest.

Regulus merely smiled, folding up the game board and dumping it back in the box along with the pieces. He leaned over to kiss a very obliging James on the cheek and stood to leave.

"Come on, boyfriend. Let's go snog in the astronomy tower. Remus and Peter both stifled a laugh, while Sirius mouth dangled open in shock. James practically jumped across the table to join Regulus as he began to walk out the portrait hole, grabbing his hand as they went.

"No way you would've actually done your end of the deal." James said as they made their way to the tower.

Regulus shrugged. "Maybe. Could I wear yours?"

James blushed, pulling Regulus hand until their arms touched. "Whatever you want, love."

[eyejest]

Put your fish into a computer, do it now

tried to go for a more painting inspired style with this one, been doing a ton of traditional painting recently and that has been opening my third eye

[necrotic-nephilim]

@profandomhopper i was going to reblog the original post this comment was left on but i felt it divorced itself from the original topic so much, you get your own post for giving me delightful permission to ramble about this. buckle in people this is long.

so, DC is a big fandom that expanses a lot of different types of content, and like anything, is subject to crossovers. the obvious ones like Marvel are for the reason of being a similar and equally popular superhero world, so it's easy to transpose the worlds onto each other and overlap the characters. both of these worlds deal with multiverses and endless, endless heroes. it makes sense and there's no real stretch to think Batman and Spider-Man could co-exist. i mean, there have been canon crossover comics. and even some more random crossovers like White Collar have pretty easy to trace origins, being an actor in WC was a popular Dick fancast back in the day so there was some bleeding over that led to a well-loved niche crossover space.

but Danny Phantom and Miraculous Ladybug are where it gets interesting. because at a surface, MLB sort of makes sense. it's a superhero world, you're following a teen girl superhero and sure the mechanics are pretty contained, but the crossover should make sense. but when you compare it to the crossover numbers of other superhero media like say My Hero Academia, Ladybug takes the *crown* with such a bizarre popularity. and of course, DP feels like it makes even less sense. sure, you *could* lump it into at the very least, superhero-adjacent media, but it's not a true hero world like MLB or DC is.

but, the thing to always understand about DC, *especially* the Batfamily (which is where the crossover content propagates the most) is this: a *very* good chunk of fans don't interact with the comics. i would venture to say even most Batfamily fans don't read the comics and actively talk about it. we've all read a very fandom big Batfam fanfic where the author's note mentions the writer has never touched a comic in their life. typically, these fans are either cobbling together their understanding from fandom content, or by frankensteining unrelated DC adaptations to understand each character. you take Bruce from Batman: TAS, you take Dick from the animated Young Justice, you take Jason from Batman: Under The Red Hood animated movie, you take Damian from the DCAMU Batman vs Robin, and you read some fandom metas to fill in the rest and well, you've got some sort of an understanding of these characters. read enough incorrect quotes, some genfic, a couple of character metas, and boom, you understand the Batfamily fandom enough to start creating your own content. and of course now. now you have Wayne Family Adventures so it's even *easier*. a pretty easy to pick up webtoon that's filling in all the gaps for you. but i've been in this fandom long enough to remember before we had WFA and even then, this was still a common, if not the most popular way, to ween yourself into the DC fandom space. you cherry-picked the canon you liked and then plunged into the depths of fanon.

i'm not here to make in depth commentary on if i think this is a good or bad thing. trust me i have that commentary in my head, but that would need it's own post. i'm very split on it and my feelings are complicated. my feelings on WFA are even *more* complicated. because oftentimes, the attitude expressed by these fans who are frankensteining this version of the Batfamily/DC world they have in their head is they don't *want* to read the comics. the comics don't contain the content they're after. and to an extent, i understand that. if you're looking for light-hearted vibes of the Batfamily all getting along and having the occasional hurt/comfort moments but in the end, they hug and make up, you're right. largely, you won't find that in canon. of course there are so many comics to recommend for Batfamily interactions, but you have to get specific. you'll find them interacting in small groups, Tim and Dick bonding here, Duke and Cass bonding there, but largely, the comics don't care to balance the ridiculously large cast they've given themselves. but fandom does. it's easy to toss them all in a blender and ignore the parts you don't like. the default argument to ignoring the comics or writing something OOC is always "well the comics are OOC and inconsistent too" which, while a flawed argument that massively misunderstand how comics work as a medium, isn't an entirely incorrect one. you could serve on a silver platter to these fans, an easy and accessible way to get into comics and they wouldn't be interested. it's not what they're here for. fandom is always character-driven above all else. it's driven by character relationships and dynamics. if someone wants to consume content where Tim idolized and stalked Jason as 'his Robin' and now is trying to help him rehabilitate and they're super complicated but have this long epic forgiveness arc, why *would* they read the comics? because they're sure as shit not going to find that dynamic in the comics. it's laughably OOC and not canon at all, but that doesn't matter. what matters is the sandbox. most Batfamily fans care *far* more about the sandbox canon gives them than the actual canon itself. feel how you feel about that, this really isn't being negative toward that attitude, but it is a common attitude.

so, you have Batfamily fans playing in the sandbox and building their own narrative. common fandom headcanons are so common, you could practically write a guide on how the fanon Batfamily works with how consistent people are about it. or you could just read WFA, which is practically the new manifesto of it. even now, with this sudden spike in people talking about canon accuracy and "actually this happening in the comics", they don't actually care about the comics, just what they can cherry-pick for fodder. (even if they rob it of so much context they're just as OOC as they were before. see specifically: the recent phenomena with Tim Drake going from the woobified weakest member of the Batfam who everyone needs to save constantly and he's the smart boy but he's also the one with a sad tragic neglectful past who gets overlooked being the way Batfamily fandom played with Tim for years. but recently, people seem to be pushing this idea of a ridiculously badass Tim, Tim who *totally* has a kill count because of his actions in RR (2009) if you take them completely out of context, Tim who bested Ra's and is even more badass than Jason and he's the 17 yr old CEO of Wayne Industries being cool and flawless it becoming the new fandom zeitgeist. neither of these versions of Tim are canon, and the second fundamentally misunderstands his arc in RR (2009) but the shift has undeniably happened and it's been fascinating to watch. the same thing happened with people suddenly deciding Jason isn't the "angry violent Robin", he was a sunshine sweet boy who was perfect as Robin. neither of these are true, but the second feels more transgressive and new to fandom from cherry-picked panels.) the point is largely, Batfamily fans would rather build their own canon than play with the actual canon.

and then, you have Danny Phantom. i'm not into DP and have no interest to get into it, but what i know about it via fandom osmosis is this: DP fans sort of also don't give a fuck about canon. once again, the canon of DP is a sandbox, not a rulebook. the concepts and the characters are the draw, not the plot itself. i've seen DP posts explaining characters who are essentially OCs, but have become so dominant in the fandom via fandom osmosis. there are concepts and ideas about how Danny's powers work and potential concepts with his ghost nature that either aren't in canon or only happened once in canon and fans decided to expand on that and doesn't care about it's own in-universe logic. i've seen a lot of DP fans also express they haven't seen the show and they don't have plans to see the show. because the show is just some children's cartoon with some inconsistencies and a simple plot, as you'd expect from CN. the show isn't the point. no one cares about it's plot, they care about it's characters. they care about pushing the concept of half ghost boy to a logical extreme and seeing what you can get out of that. can you make it weird and fucked up. how much can you highlight on his trauma and body horror. what identity crisis can you give him and how can you build his interactions with other characters in his world around that and also make those characters fun and unique on their own. sure, the skeleton of canon is there, but the meat lies all in the fanon.

Miraculous Ladybug also exists in this similar vein. the characters, the concepts, those hold intrigue. and not even mentioning the fact the original concept for this show was supposed to be aimed to an older audience, so you can see the bones of something a bit more mature and nuanced under this typical, villain of the week magical girl transformation show. the show itself is a bit shallow and that's not a *bad* thing, it's just the medium it exists within being aimed towards children. but the concepts of a teen girl who's basically a sort of chosen one, a boy who doesn't know his father is the big bad of the show, and their weird identity porn love... square thing. those dynamics are *so* complicated and such a fun sandbox to play in with character-driven fandom.

so, at the core, you have three fandoms that care more about the culturally accepted fanon than the canon, with a good chunk of people often not even consuming the original canon content. and well, DC is an *easy* world to transpose just about anything onto. a boy who's half ghost and fighting supernatural threats? that makes sense, DC has ghost heroes like Deadman already. a girl who has this magical item that gives her animal themed superpowers? i mean that's practically the same thing as Vixen's Totem so that one makes sense too. they fit in pretty easy, no needing to change the world to accommodate them. and of course, if you're a fan of *one* fandom where you don't care for the canon content and only like the fandom sandbox, chances are, you'll get drawn in pretty easily to another fandom with similar mechanics. if you can teach yourself the DP fandom rules/concepts, you can teach yourself the Batfamily fandom rules/concepts. and well, since there's so much crossover in fandom members, why not write the fanfiction? crossover fics will always exist, but with such a shared member base, you have a really big boom.

it's why the characters you see DP interact with in DC are *always* characters who are far more driven by fanon than canon. Danny and John Constantine is a *massive* concept. for people who don't read Hellblazer comics. my poor partner, @divine-dominion has lamented to me pretty often about finding DP content in the Hellblazer tag that is essentially turning Constantine into an OC. because whatever version of Constantine is being written about isn't one bit comics accurate, and really, isn't trying to be. and the same thing happens with Shazam. you watch Young Justice and understand him well enough, you get drawn in by the character concept that you just run with it. people put their favorite blorbos in the same place because hey, wouldn't ghost boy be pretty cool in a city like *Gotham*. how would Batman even react to him. and then, the shipping. because ages for the Batfamily can be easily hand-waved and moved around based on where you plop Danny into the timeline, you have your pick of the litter with him, and same with Ladybug. of course there are the most popular ships but largely, the world is your oyster.

i don't think this is the worst thing in the world for either fandom. it's not hard to filter out the crossover tags and scroll past content i don't like. and sure, i see the appeal of making your blorbos from two different places meet. i've got my drafts *full* of DC/MHA crossover ideas because well, i like them both and think that would be cool. i think my only gripe with it is when DP or MLB crossover content seeps it's way into the wrong tags. using the above example, if you're writing about Danny and Constantine but there's zero content of the actual Hellblazer comics, i don't think you need the Hellblazer tag, just the Constantine character tag. tbh i wish this extended onto Ao3 and people utilized fandom tags better. if you're writing Batfamily fanfiction that is very clearly and obviously WFA driven in characterization and concepts, i would far prefer those fics be tagged with the WFA fandom tag rather than the Batman (comics) fandom tag. because well, you're not writing about the Batman comics. and there's nothing wrong with that, but it helps if you don't confuse yourself for content striving to interact with canon more. (this especially extends to Young Justice, by the way. if you're writing for the Young Justice tv show please, please stop using the Young Justice (comics) fandom tag. i'm at my wit's end- /lh)

the whole thing is fascinating. i've got zero interest in entering DP or MLB as fandoms because that's not my speed, but witnessing it as an outsider is my favorite pastime. i see a *lot* of posts going around the DC x DP space that are helping explain to people who's who, what's what, and understanding the canon/fanon of both of these properties so others can better enter the space. which is not something you'd need in a fandom driven only by it's canon content, but it is sweet watching others try to help newbies enter the space. it's a very inviting fandom space, i think, whether you lament it's existence or not. they're just sitting in their corner with their blorbos, and i gotta respect that. the posts explaining the Batfamily to DP fans are always fun for me to read, even if i disagree with some of the characterizations in them because it helps shine a light on what the fans of this crossover regard as "important" enough about each fandom to be worth including those sorts of primers. very fascinating stuff.

[saphira-approves]

Got new markers the other day, decided to try them out on our resident beloved girlboss