#i think fashion is very fun implicit characterization

[beybuniki]

ik this isn’t the topic at hand but. just wanted to say… i always felt the division of your art blog from your personal blog was so original content was easier to look through instead of wading through other misc posts (like the fashion and aesthetic posts you like to rb every now and then). not to, like, divide the art from the artist… i think you being silly and answering occasional random asks adds to your art. like knowing you see clothes as a love language??? now i understand your labelling deku’s shirt as ‘hamster’

i don't really get your point (my fault) but

yeah that's why i made this side blog kjdfnf, a bit ironic that I've been clogging it with asks sorryyyy

thank you for seeing it that way! <3 that's why i didn't want to separate my fan art from my main at first, i always felt like my sketches were just another part of my animanga blogging, like it's just another medium to communicate my thoughts and interpretations :D

the hamster label was added with loveeee

[abeautifulblog]

so I replayed ddadds after that one famous smut artist post a nude art he did of Robert and it reminded how hot he is 🙂 currently trying to find all random dadbook events that included him, so far I've got the time he pretended to be Ernest's dad to bail him out, the awkward dinner with him and Craig, and the poker night at Joseph's and I really wanna know what you think about Robert hanging and joking around with Joseph, like Damien and Hugo wasn't with them you'd figure Robert wouldn't too :/

You also pass the Robert-avatar smoking behind a tree in the running-with-Craig minigame, iirc! XD

(also plz send robert noods)

The poker night was an interesting one -- I went into the dadrector’s cut halfway expecting to get jossed, since my headcanon fits very tightly into the gaps in canon, without much wiggle room. But they managed to thread that needle yet again, adding more fun content without answering any of the questions that the original game had left outstanding.

Robert’s presence at the poker night is curious, since it’s implied that he goes regularly, but doesn’t seem to be enjoying himself much -- he’s not invested in the game itself, and tends to just fuck around on his phone instead of engaging with the other dads. (If you asked, he’d probably say he’s only there for the free food.)

That said, it’s also not out of character, because he does regularly make an effort to socialize (even if that effort sometimes ends at “I showed up, you’re welcome”). He goes to the barbecue at the start of the game; he drinks at a bar instead of drinking at home; he goes out on dates with the dadsona; he invites Craig over for dinner. I find it plausible that Robert, knowing he should get out more, took Mat up on an invitation to join them for poker, even if it’s being held at Joseph’s house, and they usually just do that thing where they talk past each other so seamlessly that no one ever notices.

...Which is the other thing that makes the poker night fascinating, because it’s damn near the only time in the entire game that you see Robert and Joseph interact with each other directly. (The one other time they talk happens only if you didn’t meet Robert at Jim-n-Kim’s, and so Joseph has to introduce him at the barbecue. It packs a lot into ten lines.)

I’m not sure I would characterize it as “joking around” with Joseph though -- as I recall, the dads are teasing Robert about his flip phone, and Joseph asks if he’s a drug dealer. Which, yes, is potentially kind of funny, except that this is Joseph and his dog-whistle knack for undermining Robert. So instead of trying to deflect, Robert pointedly doubles down on the joke, with the hard-edged intensity that he knows makes people uncomfortable, he is deliberately making Joseph uncomfortable until the conversation moves on. “Joking around” has to go two ways, and Robert doesn’t let Joseph get a word in edgewise after that initial dig. It’s kind of the only defense mechanism he has to keep Joseph from fucking with him in front of other people -- making the experience equally unpleasant for Joseph too.

(My lawyer also points out that a number of gay men also use their hookups to score drugs, and that could have been a reference to something that happened when Robert and Joseph were involved -- in which case, Joseph made a dig, and Robert responded with an implicit threat to blow it all open, you really want to keep going down this road?)

...But then he proceeds to make Craig uncomfortable in a very similar fashion (and risk losing everything he owns??) so it’s also possible that Robert was just in a wildly self-destructive mood that night. He’s obviously performing weird-Robert and keeping his walls squarely up during that interlude, but the performance felt more brittle than usual.

(And meanwhile I’m in the corner like, notice me sempai ;_;)

[bigskydreaming]

Please someone show me even just one panel of Dick dressed as a fashion disaster in his civilian persona. It doesn’t exist. He’s never ever ever been characterized that way in canon, people just make fun of his costumes in-universe, because the same characters who get defensive and territorial about their backgrounds can’t extend him the basic courtesy of recognizing that he designed them for sentimental reasons, with zero interest in adhering to the fashion standards of the very same elitist pricks he grew up with in Gotham while they all looked down on him for his circus origins.

LOL sorry to sound like a broken record but the fashion jokes are really not funny when his costumes are literally all they’re based on, and to me they’re an example of this implicit understanding in fandom and in canon where fans and writers and characters make a big deal about classism and the prejudices of the Gotham upper class with various characters - until they exempt themselves from that to giggle about the exact same things those characters mock Dick for in canon - his circus origins.

sfhafhlkfalhs I know its not that big a deal all things considered, even fandom related, but its like nails on a chalkboard to me, because it demonstrates such a basic flaw in half the meta or discussions raised in this fandom. “Its bad to be derisive or unsympathetic about the origins of this Batkid or that Batkid or that one.....except its okay when the jokes are ones I think are funny and I mean its not like people are really ever from the circus in real life, so when you think about it, Dick’s origins don’t really count as ‘real’ and there’s no reason for him to ever be sentimental about them or for other characters to give a shit when he is.”