#my-life-as-the-nerd

[trashmakerarticle]

Everyone thinks that dick was the golden child when in reality it was Jason.

Clark: Bruce who was your favourite robin?

Dick: obviously it’s me?

Tim: it’s dick

Damian: I am superior robin, it will be me.

Bruce: it’s Jason

Everyone: WHAT?!?!???

Bruce: why are you so surprised? He didn’t jump on too my chandeliers which I had to replace each week

*everyone looks at dick*

Bruce: he didn’t drop out of school

*everyone looks at tim*

Bruce: I didn’t have to stop him from killing everyone who annoyed him

*everyone looks at Damian*

Bruce: in fact, he enjoyed school and handed all his homework in on time, we would spend hours in the library reading his favourite classics. He even helped Alfred with most of the cooking, He was my little boy

Jason: stop spreading lies, I hate you go away

Bruce: my precious little boy

[thehauntedmarionnette]

He is fighting a war. Just got his arms back. Has been fighting for his life so intensely that even we as the audience are unaware of the passage of time. And still has time to fanboy.

[ooliecat]

mr squarepants, in the flesh.

[cursedcola]

Yuu: “It’s time I told you guys about my lore” *whips out powerpoint*

Riddle:….lore?

Azul: Oh - so you’re a gamer.

Idia: Oh - so you’re traumatized

[champagnecoastcigs]

[blackmotionsoup]

Letting this go is going to genuinely be so hard

[risibledeer]

happy christmas or merry holidays <3

i threw symbolism on this thing like glitter on a school diorama.

[adventuringartist]

“oh gale talks too much” “oh gales pedantic” YOU FOOLS. Are you so weak you cannot appreciate a true yapper? Do you not know the love and joy of listening to someone close to you infodump on their favorite topics? have you never felt the inherit trust that comes with someone sharing their interests to you? Pathetic. You will not survive the winter.

[marzghost]

As a starving MumMan shipper, I really said, "Fine, I'll do it myself", lmao hope you guys enjoyed the art!

Their song should be Uptown Girl by Billy Joel 👀

[saturdaysky]

a smooch for a new spell learned. one adoring, love-filled smackaroonie, right to the forehead. devastating

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Mayhew is not good at wizardry.

In fact, he is very bad; he flamed out spectacularly the first time he tried to be a wizard and talked his way into warlock powers instead. But he has a wizardly soul (passionate, hubris-filled) so over the course of the game, he claws his way back into wizard levels. It takes a little help, a lot of secret mental rivalry, dozens of terrible decisions...

...and maybe a few smooches of encouragement from Gale.

[pharaoh-ferrous]

Listen.

If Kris didn't want to go to the festival with the Berdly, maybe they should've thought about that before beating the shit out of me with a hockey stick.

[dollysilena]

I LOVE YOU, IT'S RUINING MY LIFE! ⭑

you’re the apple of everyone’s eye. kageyama sees right past it, and you.

PAIRING: pro-athlete!kageyama x celebrity!reader

NOTES: okok hi everyone i’m alive we won’t talk abt how i disappeared and came back AHAHA pls accept these humble crumbs while i try to ease back onto this blog. i’m hoping the vibes are noticeable to readers ?!?! i’m hoping y’all are getting what i’m putting down, if not!! walk w me here!! kageyama sees right past reader’s facade and he’s intrigued bc readers real persona is so much more interesting to him than her squeaky clean celeb appearance for the cameras but reader is like. bro is my no.1 hater bc she’s so blinded w hate and is truly convinced kageyama is praying on her downfall and maybe he is!!LMAO she does not see that kageyama is intrigued by her!! kageyama is just amused by her diff personas and likes to stoke the flames?? yk the vibes??? maybe he is out to get her. maybe he wants to solve the puzzle that is reader. maybe i’m crazy

[souvlakic]

some mcl memes i made bc i have insomnia !!!!

[ant-niyah]

More art for my beloved favorite fic and author!!

@luciaintheskyainthi and her fic, “Existential Crisis Mode”!!!!

This one isnt so good but I was trying a new style and didn’t have the time to redo it in a different style 😞😞

AND A MEME!!! Featuring a random Crime Alley Kid™️!!!

I lowkey just found it funny that RH would call Spidey that on patrol one day when Spidey is helping a C-A Kid™️!!

She has already put these ones in her most recent chapter bc I posted them in a community! But I had realized that I never posted it outside the community for SpideyHood 😓😓

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ EXISTENTIAL CRISIS MODE!!!

[claudemirror]

SpongeBob reading his little book

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother