#i would say i support this cat but

[batgirlx3]

keep switching between joyous whimsy and going catatonic over jason in the boy wonder. like on one hand he is so wet cat in this. like i need to pick him up by the scruff of his neck and put him in direct sunlight. he's adorable i love him. on the other hand... he looks like he's fucking drowning in that helmet, it looks like the world is baring down on him, he looks so so tired, this man is the physical embodiment of depression idk how to describe it.

the boy wonder #2 (2024)

i feel like his helmet is going to literally tip him over. like it looks like it's too big and heavy for him, like it doesn't fit, like it's a weight on his shoulders (both physically and metaphorically. most normal well adjusted man in the world decides to name his vigilante identity after the bitch who killed him)

the boy wonder #2 (2024)

he just looks really sad and scared and tired, his body language is not confident at all (he's often leaning forward and his hands are frequently in his pockets) compared to what we see in the imagined version of him from issue 1. i haven't read a lot of jason stuff, but just compared to the UTRH film and the lost days this is a very different jason even just in terms of body language. it almost reminds me of how he was before the pit in lost days

red hood: the lost days #1 (2010)

and not at all like he is in issue #1 of the boy wonder or from issue #2 and onward of the lost days or from the utrh film

the boy wonder #1 (2024), batman: under the red hood (2011), red hood: the lost days #2 (2010)

he does have instances where he looks confident such as the image below, but these all seem to occur when around damian, not when he's by himself.

the boy wonder #2 (2024)

last thing is that i think it's really interesting that his response to the joker is so different here than it was in utrh (if anyone has suggestions for a comic where jason faces off against the joker or otherwise interacts with him PLEASE let me know i would love to read it and see how it compares). in utrh he's kicking him around, and responds mostly with rage, whereas here he's completely paralyzed by fear at the sight of the hallucination, i love how the nature of comic franchises lets us see various different interpretations of characters.

the boy wonder #2 (2024)

i don't really have much else to say... as i mentioned i'm not really a jason guy so i have no grand conclusions, but i am interested to see where this goes (if he shows up again idk). this seems like a significantly more subdued version of jason, and i think thats a fascinating interpretation. usually when i see jason as hood he looks very confident in it and like it fits him, he's big and strong and the helmet is also big and strong, whereas here it feels like he's hiding behind it or like it's dragging him down.

[mllenugget]

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[warriors-ideas]

An AU where Yellowfang confides in Lizardstripe about her pregnancy, who is in a similar situation of not wanting children. Despite never having a very good relationship before, the two end up forming a closer relationship and are able to raise their kits with the support of each other.

[laniemae]

I am going to take a break from milgramblr

[important please read]

ok now how do I start. Im going to take a break from tumblr for about a week. Things have been absolutely awful for me here since the very beginning of 2024, even if it may not look that way at times.

to retell the situation it happened with the new years gartic phone game, where someone made a prompt about a ship that made me heavily uncomfortable. To put it loosely it reminded me of an extremely bad experience with a fandom a few years ago when I called out a ship for being creepy and having a huge age gap but I was constantly dogpiled and harassed. It was probably the worst experience I’ve had on the internet and to this day I get really scared of people hating on me and I apologise for everything likely stemming back from the situation.

I tried to persist with the game but I got really upset and left. I expressed on my blog how uncomfortable I felt about the whole situation. Then this one person, who’s a prominent figure in the Milgramblr community, I won’t name them but I think you’ll know who, replied on my post saying that “it’s ok because…” in such an awful tone. It’s hard to explain but basically it felt really bad as they completely dismissed my feelings about the situation just to justify their creepy ship. And even worse, they way they responded was EXACTLY the same way that everyone else responded back in to at old fandom. At the point to I’d much prefer hate and harassment over that false positive attitude.

I freaked out and immediately blocked them and basically went into a panic attack. I was freaking out on my blog and just to make things worse I saw a post praising them and things got so bad. It was the start of the new year and I was on holiday and was supposed to do a bunch of things but because of that situation I was bedridden and couldn’t stop crying. I had so many nightmares about everyone here turning on me and the original incident and I still have them.

the way the person reacted to my situation was absolutely awful. After my breakdown they immediately went to their blog and started posting about how the ships good and you should praise it completely disregarding everything that happened. I’ve always been uncomfortable with them but this pushed me over the edge. And later on I got in contact with someone who was (presumably) trying to help me and we decided to see if that person could make an apology. But they took way to long to even think they gave any attention to the situation and the apology itself didn’t feel that genuine.

This person was still posting about it and didn’t change their pfp and title despite how bad it was to me and they did not do anything at all. Again I’m not naming anyone but I highly recommend you do not support them anymore. I said I’m going to be leaving for a while but if you want clarification on who it is you can just ask, I’ll check my stuff tomorrow morning before I completely shut off for the week.

I don’t know who it was but there was even a throwaway account hating on me and saying awful things. I didn’t care that much as things had already gotten so bad for me that I didn’t care about the opinion of an anon. But like I said, the sickly positive response that person gave was way worse than actual hate.

and that’s only one part of the story. Another thing happened much more recently with the person I mentioned who was trying to help me. They were the first person I followed on Milgramblr and the person who inspired me to join and make all these theories, so with this and them helping me I really looked up to them. It was a few days ago I think but they posted something on their account about that person and wanting attention to them. I expressed my uncomfortable feelings about the situation and they didn’t do anything about it. Instead they decided to KEEP POSTING about it, like constantly and me getting more upset at the situation and how they responded made it clear that they didn’t care at all. I blocked them and we were mutuals for a while.

It’s been a month and I’m still suffering very badly. I’m not constantly crying as I was when it first happened but it still pains me. I’ve been feeling incredibly distressed on this sight knowing that the original person hasn’t done anything about it and they’re still very close. No matter how much I block them or blog tags I still see them in reblogs or bought up. I had to exclude anything relating to the earbuds collab from my milgram archives as it gives me back really bad memories to the pfps involved. I just can’t feel safe in this place anymore and especially that no matter how I feel, nothing has changed since when it happened and no one’s even actually trying to help me or change things.

I’ve just been feeling so bad that I’ve been going days without eating. Just because I can’t be bothered to get out of bed. The only solace for me is sleep but even that’s not good enough as I might have nightmares and I often feel much more tired afterwards. Things are changing for me as I actually have to get up and do something now and it’s surprisingly going kinda well, but that has nothing to do with this situation.

just to note I will be continuing my milgram archives series, I’ve scheduled quite a few posts for this week so they’ll keep going. For me I’ll completely cut off all activity for this week, and may return on Wednesday.

it’s just. I hate how nothings changed. I want something to happen but no one’s helping

[isa-ah]

been following you since PRE bubblegum karkat days and it’s been really nice watching you grow and heal and whenever i see you on my dash and think of your growth it reminds me of my own healing journey. i find that really nice

HAHA that was AGES ago dude. my god. i cant believe youre still around, that was like, the worst of it LOLOL weve both probably come a looong way since then, yeah. life used to be abysmal but now ive got my hubby and mother in law and were moving to nola next month so theres nothing to fear =')

[miscellaneous--bones]

HIGHLY doubt i will be drawing her again from here on out, i just wanted a visual refrence for a reader insert character. shes cute, regardless

[randomnameless]

I’m surprised at the amount of billy asks you get. Does it mean that they’re popular? All i know for sure is that they certainly seem to interest a lot of people. And i agree that they really do have the bones for a fascinating character, but the developers couldn’t be bothered to build something from those bones because 1) sim shenanigans, you can’t have your self insert react strongly if you’re meant to project 100% onto them, but billy does have traits that keep getting mentioned by more than one person plus the few actions they do choose and a backstory, which doesn’t seem like cardboard to me imho, but also 2) earl gray, and what invader added is the most damning detail of them all. Or rather, not a detail, but the anchor that sank billy. I know we’re meant to keep flamey and edelgard separate in our minds because edelgard is marketed as a poor sad waifu you must feel compelled to rescue, but it doesn’t erase her actions or flamey. When we have evidence saying that silver snow is meant to be the primary marketed canon route and so much of the conflicts across two games come down to the actions of one person plus a poorly thought out loptous stand in, all it tells me is that the main character was doomed to fail because the developers could not decide how to write a school mystery + romance of the three kingdoms sympathetic to cao cao so they tried to “fix” that or make it “gray” by turning it into a dating sim to artificially raise the emotional stakes. At least to me it says they didn’t have confidence in billy as a main character at all because so much of it hinges on centering edelgard and the players picking faves out of the rest of the cast, and to make it more insulting the compensation is being able to kill billy in the spin off? I myself don’t really have any big faves in the games because i only play them casually and read your blog, but what i do know is that it makes me hate edelgard for essentially being the gravitational center of the games like a narrative black hole and the developers being too cowardly to really cement her as a villain, and it doesn’t make me like warriors either because it doubles down on trying to explain her position instead of telling a story and because shez fans are extremely annoying and rude online, no surprise that many are also edelgard fans.

I'd say it's a cumulation of everything!

I think the fandom (myself included!) might have been a bit harsh on Billy because of their avatar status, even if I still think Rhea's S-support "aloneb4u" is shit and Seteth not giving any fucks about her and centering his support and convos on "we must find her so she will reveal da truth 2 u" is bonkers and both of those instances can't be only attributed to Hresvelg Grey but to "only the player is important", like the theory i came up with the self-insert scissors.

But yeah, I feel like at one point, Supreme Leader hijacked the "main character" or "character at the center of the plot we want to tell" spot, all gravitas went to "can u kill the student who loves u and bear with the sad uwus for the rest of your run ??" instead of, you know, the greater plot Nopes teased us with a Larva vs Sothis that never happened?

I compared FE16's story to many things earlier on, but the general thing is "why are we talking and following the least interesting parts of Fodlan", Supreme Leader's war of unification is meh, bias or no bias, I would have loved to see a War of Heroes game, or even a game set during the Sothis vs Agartha era (or the two why not) - but here we just have Ashnard lite with an uwu glazing, without even tackling a traditional or underlaying issue from the FE series about coexistence between people and acceptance and whatnot.

(the reason why AM is still, imo, a letdown because it ignores the dragon in the room)

What was Billy supposed to be? Supreme Leader's luf interest? A character that can conceptually fall (if they pick Tru Piss) thus can ascend in other routes? A self insert? The character you're supposed to navigate the world with?

I think Billy being a silent protag was a disservice to them - despite all of its faults, Nopes at least gives more light to Billy and it's refreshing, even if the game will never add 1+1 because Hresvelg Grey.

TBH I think Fodlan has its own share of fans being annoying regardless of the character they support - and while Barney is pretty chatty, ultimately Barney is the deviant art OC with two swords because why not, a sekrit past that is never explained and somehow stronger than everyone who is actually as empty as an oyster shell. We don't know what Barney wants, to be a merc? Yeah, but why? Is it because Barney is searching for somewhere to belong - just like Billy in a way - ?

As for the cardboard mention, it's most likely again in relation to Hresvelg Grey and Fe Fodlan's writing - the games don't spend enough time to build a sense of friendship and camaraderie between the cast to make the "betrayal" hurt or even the "y must we kill people we knew :'( " meaningful, so we only have the "wah sensei why didn't you pick me :(" or the general "i'm sad to fight against you" but like, mate, who are you? Why are you lamenting having to fight against Billy - someone who is opposing/invading your country and everything you stand for - like Billy and 12 months in Rhea's rocky mansion meant so much to you, much more than the 17 years of life (with acquaintances, friends, family, etc) you had?

But it's also in relation to Hresvelg Grey and the silent protag - why no one can give a reason - save for Supreme Leader "lizards BaD + MAGA" - to join this route, heck, not even Billy can say why they joined this route...

In French we have a saying that goes "comparaison n'est pas raison" more or less meaning you can't always compare things bcs context and all, but after TS's protag Serenor - who also has Gary Stu moments! - Billy not saying a thing about Supreme Leader's nonsense, frowning at Dimitri and being silent during Claude's monologues is... annoying.

But when Billy isn't in Fodlan games, they can talk and there's still the forbidden rule of not adding numbers - never ! - but they shine more.

[beechicory]

Oh my Godddddddd, another day, another confirmation that, in terms of parent quality in terms of my young relative it goes:

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our cat (look, she thinks she's responsible for us, and she does a good job!)

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Just...fucking absolute ghouls. Levels of selfishness that go beyond comprehension. Sickening cruelty. I want to tar and feather them. Jesus Christ.

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt spiraling upwards side characters again. Charredpelt my absolute beloved

[vaugarde]

havent read tbc but i think its so funny how shadowsight seems to be popular to the people i follow just because “the narrative treats him like all the female characters do so hes an honorary girlie”

[generationa1trauma]

flatmate has a girl over i am suddenly extremely uncomfortable

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Also about the Genshin and Twst crossover, Riddle as an Electro catalyst with a familiar like Oz.

Story time, he got his vision while playing with Trey and Chen'ya, so his familiar took the form of a cheshire cat because purple and easy to hide from mother (it didn't have a form at the beggining, it took this appearance after the tart incident because Riddle missed his friends, although it can also turn into a hedgehog).

Before his overblot, Riddle always hid the familiar, so his attacks are as generic as they can get, with electro projectiles, a shockwave for the elemental skill and a thunderbolt as his burst.

However, if you hold the elemental skill, then the cat is summoned. It mostly just prances around on the field, dealing damage, healing the characters and taunting the enemy. It even boosts electro attacks.

The main difference is Riddle's attacks, however. Instead of electro projectiles, his attacks now take the form of cards, teacups and other items related to Wonderland (he throws a tree as his charged attack), with his burst featuring an assortment of items crushing the enemy, as if he opened a rabbit hole and threw all of the furniture, cards and clocks that were floating around there.

The funny thing is that his mother wanted him to get an hydro or cryo vision. Also that he can only be considered a healer like she wants when he summons the familiar representing his friends and the childhood he never had. The electro healer class is also a nice nod to Kuki Shinobu and how her parents want her to be a shrine maiden while she studied law.

The cat actually helps in the fight against Riddle's overblot, but only shows up during emergencies or with people Riddle trusts in later chapters.

Which means most people only find out about it during Chapter 6. Poor S.T.Y.X. soldiers.

The team in chapter 6: Why is this the first time we ever see this familiar of yours, Riddle?

Cat: Because trauma! Also I don't like you guys.

Chen'ya teases Trey over how the familiar is a cat like him.

[fatcowboys]

[image description: two photos of a black cat. in the first, she sits in a still cat wheel, staring at someone. in the second she is laying down, also staring. in both, she has a similar expression of looking annoyed and tired of your bullshit. end id]

its official im adopting a second cat her name is cayenne and she comes home tomorrow 💕 shes very shy with people so will probably hate me for a while but thats ok she loves other cats and oregano and i are a great time for helping shy cats im very excited 💕

[unforgivingchorus]

I can’t read wings au fics very often despite loving them because the adhd/autism hits and I inevitably find myself reading about birds instead

[inkpooled]

Hey, Feverface! How are you, uh, holding up? 😥

Feverface?

The big red monarch— normally so keen to offer his attention to others— doesn’t seem to hear your question. He stays where he is, his posture unchanging, his head unturned, and he speaks to himself in a continuous, unbroken stream. The words are hard to define, like an old imprint of a paw on a shoreline, made hazy and vague by the sands of time.

… What could he be saying?

[arthur-r]

i also did that picrew a couple hours ago!!