#memory testing

[watchingthecameras]

intro~

okay so basically, the entire point of this is to test my memory, mindfulness, and observation skills. I'm using security cameras because they are almost everywhere!

please DONT expect daily posts but that is my goalllll :)

[choochooboss]

”Perhaps a Pokémon battle with you would jog this memory loose… Would you honor me with a battle, <player>?”

[annqennel]

In the woods a little

[wyvernity]

been thinking about the sinnohtrio lately......plus misc other stuff

also, casual ko-fi drop!! get something in this sketchy style starting at $10 woop woop

[aingeal98]

More Jason and Cass thoughts (sorry but also not sorry) but if I was magically given full control over DC and could write what I'd want obviously I'd make Cass Batman but I've been thinking of what sort of reaction and role Jason would have in response. I think I'd write his version of "Congrats on the new job!" as a test, involving the Joker and civilians and gangs and Red Hood and a ton of explosives. Bruce failed me, and now he's given up. You're his successor, let's see how you handle this dilemma that freaked him out so badly he threw a batarang into my throat rather than let me avenge my own death in front of him.

So obviously Cass will overcome the traps and the puzzles. That's the fun part to show how competent both of them are and sprinkle in little character moments as we go. But then we reach the emotional crux of the matter, probably laid out as some sort of saw trap because it's Jason. Here I am, a victim of murder. You say nobody dies tonight but I did, and I want the man who did it dead. Not only did Batman fail to avenge me but he failed to stop the Joker from going on to create even more victims. What right do you have to stop me from getting justice for myself? What right does this man have to life after what he's taken from me and from countless others? I'm not trying to kill a random stranger, I'm specifically demanding justice for my own death that I never got while I was gone.

There are two ways this could go. The straightforward route if I knew my time on this run was limited would probably be a pyrrhic victory like the ones Cass's og series was so fond of. Just like Bruce in utrh, she acts on instinct and saves the Joker (and Jason this time) . A win technically, but she fails the test. Jason is once again vindicated but with nothing to show for it. The story ends with Cass sending the Joker back to jail and going back to the batcave, where the old Robin costume looms judgementally, highlighting her failure. It would be the most fitting end given their character molds, all tragedy and conviction and unstoppable force meets immovable object etc.

However... I think the option I prefer would be a little different. Cass levelling with Jason, a killer talking to a murder victim. She has no right to stop Jason from getting justice, she has no love for the Joker but she knows any death she allows to happen like this would devastate her, just like that death row inmate long ago she tried to break out but ended up letting go once the family of the victim talked to her and demanded justice. I think... In this specific situation, she'd just be honest. Morally she has no right sure. Personally she just really really doesn't want anyone to die. Give her one chance, please. Let her try it her way. Not demanding, not lecturing or insisting, just... Please. Don't do this. Let me try another way.

And then what? Jason asks.

In the end a deal is struck. Cass will take the Joker and lock him up, ensuring he never harms anyone again while also trying to rehabilitate him. But the second she fails and he gets free, Jason kills him and she won't stand in his way. It's the kind of deal that leaves both of them mildly disgusted and dissatisfied with themselves, neither of them naturally creatures of compromise when it comes to this specific topic. But Cass is willing to do anything to avoid death and Jason did not expect the new Bat to be so... Flexible? Kind of? Of course maybe she won't actually hold up her end of the deal and when the Joker gets loose she'll try and stop Jason from killing him and he'll get his miserable vindication, but right now this is something strange and new and he's mildly confused and curious about where it will go. He doesn't believe in her ability to contain the Joker forever but he's willing to let her try because her reaction to that future failure interests him. She's given him a sword of damocles to hang above her head and he didn't ask for it or expect it. It's the type of power he never thought the Bat would just... Hand to him.

The conflict ends with neither of them fully winning or losing. They both don't really know what to feel about this.

The thing is, the second Cass let's Jason kill the Joker she's hanging up the mantle. She's staking the Bat on this, because it's always go big or go home with her when it comes to saving others, even someone like the Joker. In this magical universe where I have unlimited power, Cass would lock the Joker in a secret bunker and have Leslie Thompkins talk to him daily, mostly because I think her pacifism speeches and debates in the comics would make a fun contrast to the Joker's evil sadism. (But what about his rights? Doesn't he deserve a trial and to be held in a regular prison? I'm going to be honest I think Cass would be very comfortable bending the rules on this specific situation. Morally questionable but I'd have fun with it. She's going to let Leslie treat Joker like her personal pet project to save his soul because yes she wants him to change but also she's got a city to save every night so go crazy Leslie, have fun.)

And the Batman series would continue with Cass as the lead, new challenges and new antagonists and every twenty issues or so for the first hundred we'll cut back to the Joker briefly if his chats with Leslie can help highlight some thematic element of the current arc. But bit by bit he'd slowly fade away onto oblivion, maybe getting referenced every hundred issues or so until eventually no one remembers or cares about him because there's so much else going on. Meanwhile Jason's got a good thing going as Red Hood, primarily based in Park Row and a tentative ally on the occasion when their vigilante work aligns. Unlike Joker he's a much more frequent character in the comics, and after say 10 years (this is my magical fantasy universe Cass's batman run is going to last for a very long time alright) when people think of DC characters they think of Red Hood long before they think of the Joker.

Is any of this realistic? Right now of course not. It's why I'd go with the pyrrhic victory if I actually got the chance, because it would be the best way to tell the story in the larger context of the Bat narrative. But it's my fantasy DC editor and writer daydream and I'm going to dream big. They're never going to be normal happy siblings, their personal demons will never fully let them be free and the looming possibility of losing everything they currently have narrative wise if Bruce comes back as Batman will always be there. But it's maybe the closest to peace they'll ever get. Unsatisfying and tame compromise that probably violates several laws and ethical codes but whatever. Cass has never read the Geneva convention and Jason's not going to shed tears over the Joker. Let him die relevancy wise if not physically.

[cinnamelle]

adrift amongst the chain of memories ✏️˙✧˖°

[somerandomdudelmao]

If you ever want more, or would like some for friends or whatever, then I'm more than happy to make some and send them.

I saved the orca mold, although I have lots of others should you want something different.

Very glad you liked them. I hope Hoddi liked her stuff too.

Oh, my God, wait I REMEMBER I remember you! I was confused because the name on the letter didn't match anyone I know. Oh, my God Come here let me give you a hugthankyousomuch

Hoddy loved it. She smiled and giggled with me and I'm sure her apartment is full of bunnies now ehehjfkgkh

[canisalbus]

first time sending fanart but, uhm... i was having a bit of a hard time with a test so i ripped the paper off of my eraser and started drawing Machete (and a tiny Vasco) on it from memory for emotional support

i don't know a lot about the lore but i really, really like these boys...

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[fadedkat]

can’t look him in the eye

[blueskittlesart]

hey has anyone tried to buy a covid test lately. because i just had to buy one for a friend at my local walgreens and the cashier very seriously asked me if i was sure i wanted it because. a 2-pack of tests currently costs $23.99. do we not think that it's a little insane that the only reliable diagnostic tool for a very much ongoing pandemic costs over $20 for a single package. what if I didn't have that kind of money to burn??? Especially if you're already facing potentially losing at least a weeks worth of pay if you DO test positive and can't work. How many people are going to see that price point and decide they can't justify the expense??? literally insane. remember that brief moment of sanity this country had when we all got these for free

[anxsity]

yes it's the night before game 1 but yknow better late then never- and here it is!! the 24-25 Washington capitals primer! with as much info as I could cram in! (shout-out to @legobrickcow with the apple <3)

i probably (definitely) left out some info here or there but I tried to remember everything I could <3 ALLCAPS BABYYY

[chaiichait]

Jude's list of near death experiences:

1. Force fed faerie fruit (basically saved by Cardan pricking her finger with salt and Locke)

2. Valerian trying to kill her

3. Valerian trying to kill her part two electric boogaloo

4. Almost getting trampled by courtiers and the gentry

5. The Undersea survival show

6. Getting married

7. Getting exiled

8. Being the in the court despite her exile (even though she could just go back, as per Cardan's words)

9. Madoc stabby stab stab

10. Falling off the roof AFTER SHE GOT HEALED

11. Cardan turning into a snake

12. Cardan when he turned back into a fae

13. Oak getting held hostage

[xylo-art]

Woah Void is so cool I wish robots existed

[some-mari-thoughts]

Wake up.

You ran away.

[yamada-ryo]

watching gundam is great because although you may fall in the gunpla sinkhole you get to hear the worst takes imaginable on the internet that get you questioning if they even watched the same show you did

[barrel-of-bones-and-brain-worms]

It's been a while since I've actually drawn Turbo so here's the ugly freak in colored pencil