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[spacedace]

When I say I want a Broody Batman, I don't mean Broody as in "Byronic Hero" I mean Broody as in "Hen aggressively fluffed up over a clutch of eggs/chicks willing to fight god to protect them"

I want Batman to stand up and a dozen little legs to be spotted from beneath his hammer space logic of a cape.

I want someone to get to close to one of his little chicks and start making that demonic angry chicken noise.

I want him to sit in one spot and refuse to move come hell or high water because he's gotta make sure all his little ones are warm and safe from predators.

I want each bat-adoption to be there because Alfred slipped an orphaned child in need of a good home/parent under the cape like a farmer shoving day-old chicks under a hen that went Broody and is slowly starving herself to death trying to hatch unfertalized eggs.

No more of this standing on the ledge of a building with lowered head looking sad in the rain bad parent Brooding Batman. Only aggressively protective and good parent Batman.

[septembersghost]

listen, i know phandom notoriously romanticizes erik and christine, it's the nature of the thing and its allure, and i've no problem with that (even though i'm a raoul girlie at heart! lnd does not exist), but since i'm seeing some massively inaccurate bad faith takes on the bird app celebrating the show closing because it's "toxic/problematic/glamorizes stalking/is about stockholm syndrome" (lol not this again) "the phantom is a bad abusive murderer" (yeah! the story KNOWS this! have any of these people ever once understood gothic romance? or fiction? or, like, joy...?), allow me to dust off a quick and ineloquent commentary on our heroine, miss christine daae:

the phantom is not the protagonist. christine is. the emotional and psychological lens through which the story is told is christine's. the journey and character growth from innocent ingenue to more knowing woman? christine's. the character who radically transforms the narrative through her will, bravery, and compassion? christine! christine is the hero of her own story! christine overcomes extraordinary grief, trauma, gaslighting, manipulation, exploitation of her innate talents, an obsessive in pursuit of her, an entire company who doesn't believe her and thinks she's a mad child (even her beloved - the light romance contrasting the dark one - is guilty of this for a bit), and she does this with fortitude and reclamation of her self and her own voice, and by displaying extraordinary empathy. the phantom doesn't let her go because he suddenly becomes "good" himself, or is "redeemed," he lets her go because her goodness overwhelms him, her small act of tenderness even after she angrily and rightfully defies him forces him to realize she deserves her life. that to love someone does not mean you can treat them as a possession. (please note that in the book, he dies shortly afterwards. his is an immense and broken love, and he is a tragic figure.)

it is not a story about an abuser with the upper hand, it's a story about a young woman who survives, grows, and LEAVES. her courage and grace is the fueling engine of the entire machine. her agency is paramount in the ending. i frankly won't stand for erasure of that, and derivative takes about her as a hapless victim and the show as endorsing the phantom (it doesn't) have always made me want to drop a few chandeliers.

[winepresswrath]

MXTX MC conflicts go:

Yi City: my boyfriend thinks I am a prolific murderer and specifically murdered a bunch of people his bff loves to get back at him. also that I tricked him into doing murders with me, for enrichment. I did all those things but did not anticipate having a feeling about his feelings.

Scum Villain: my boyfriend thinks I want to kill him but I don't.

MDZS: my boyfriend thinks I hate him but I don't.

TGCF: my boyfriend doesn't know I exist but I'm worried that once he finds out he's going to find my eyepatch ugly and my cavern of effigies offputting.

[sotvtaughtmehowtofeel]

Wait are people really out here shipping Joel and Ellie??? Wtf

She is FOURTEEN.

She is HIS DAUGHTER.

She is GAY.

[kitether]

Highly cursed snippet from one of the Hatoful Drama CDs

[amongusbooby]

here's the original comic: https://twitter.com/01nuu/status/1474091635084566533?t=exdM6gBfJKKREWmV0H8MOw&s=19

[soup-mother]

"america doesn't really have a culture so i don't think they can have 'cultural hegemony" Mf's when you don't know what homecoming is (because it's a product of American culture)

[relmint]

Hate this guy smh 🙄

[henrystickminart]

Code Henry :3

It been awhile, but I thought of my boy for once.

He got a redesign as well >:3  He has more of his leader outfit but it faded.

My boy suffering but I love him. More below.

[fairytail-incorrectquotes]

Gajeel: ... --- .-. .-. -.--

Erza: What's that?

Gajeel: Remorse code.

Erza: I'm even angrier now.

[eelfuneral]

I know that this is likely an unpopular opinion on this side of the fandom, but I think that it’s really important to be empathetic to people who may not love the Jedi teachings regarding emotions that are coming from a place of trauma or neurodivergence. I understand that fanon frequently twists the Jedi code into this awful thing where Emotions Are Not Allowed and that is not true, but I also have seen people be outright dismissive of the fact that any “good” person may have difficulty reigning in their emotions, and that’s an ugly thing to say.

There is a difference between having a strong emotional reaction and using a strong emotional reaction as an excuse to harm others. Jedi teachings arguably push against using emotions as a catalyst to lash out at others, which is a good and thing to ask of its adherents, but fanon often makes it look like the Code just vilifies emotions in any capacity. Yes, this is an incorrect interpretation of Jedi teachings and I get that people misunderstanding your blorbos is a special kind of annoying, but if the person making this misinterpretation seems to have baggage surrounding emotions and the expression thereof, then it is probably kinder to walk away from the conversation and to let that person process whatever they are dealing with than it is to make comments about how they must be babies for not being able to control their emotions or that they must secretly just want to harm others.

A lot of people have disabilities that affect their ability to regulate their emotional response (autism, ADHD, and BPD are a few examples), and the interpretation that people with intense emotions cannot be Jedi, even if it is based in inaccurate fanon misinterpretation, is not going to be fun to read for a lot of these fans. This is especially true for people who were punished for showing emotions that were “inconvenient” to their caretakers, as some fanon Jedi Code variants can echo this trauma. A person who deals with an anxiety disorder may not love Yoda’s “fear is the path to the dark side” speech because it can be easily interpreted as “having any type of fear can make you a bad person”. Whether or not you think that these are correct interpretations of canon does not matter because these interpretations are still very much floating around in fanon spaces and reminding people of very real ableism and sanism that they have encountered IRL. Absolutely go ahead and defend the Jedi and explain your interpretations of their teachings in your own space, but please be empathetic and conscientious of fans who have been hurt be fanon interpretations of the Jedi code while you do so. No one wants to be accused of being a thoughtless baby for being upset by a depiction of something in fiction that reminds them of very real hurt and trauma, even if you do not feel like their interpretation is correct.

[paw-present]

Ducks Galore!

[thebluestbluewords]

Auradon Prep is not an ABC Party (yet)

please forgive my formatting on this, I’m copy pasting from my email and the formatting transfer is…not forgiving.

"There's a dress code," Evie says delicately, setting down  her copy of the stack of papers they've all been handed. "We don't have appropriate clothes. I'm going to need to make at least one or two new outfits for all of us, at least for the time being. We can work on getting more appropriate clothes later. If we need them."  If we stay here, she doesn't say. If there's still a school for us to attend once we're done with it.  Mal shoves down the unpleasant pang of guilt somewhere deep inside of her. She doesn't have time to feel bad about crushing Evie's princess school dreams. She's got more important things to do, like work on crushing the free world under the heel of her boot, and also figure out how to do it without ending up under her mother's own spiky little shoes.

"Ugh," Mal groans, "What's the problem with our clothes now?"  Carlos is flipping rapidly through his own packet.

"What page're you on?" he asks, "I don't see anything about clothes here. It's all about not cheating on tests and treating other people like you want to be treated and shit." 

Evie sighs. She's already got her little red notebook in her hand, a pencil in between her fingers, sketching something predictably perfect onto the recycled pages. "It starts on page fifteen. Dress code for Auradon Preparatory Academy Students, high school level. We're allowed to wear whatever we want, apparently! Just as long as it's clean, and doesn't have any rips. tears, stains, visible cleavage or buttocks showing, distressed elements, fishnet, spikes, excessive chains, or otherwise 'delinquent or sloppy elements'." 

"What do they want us to wear then?" 

"Princess clothes," Mal bites out. "Things to keep us weak and beautiful. It's bullshit. They want us dressed up like baby royalty so they don't have to look at who we really are." 

"This document was last updated three years ago," Carlos interrupts. "I don't think they created it three years ago just for you, so maybe get over yourself?" 

"They're trying to suppress us." Mal grumbles, but okay, three years ago is probably before they were even a thought in the crown prince's idle little mind, so maybe he's right and the dress code isn't a personal attack on their villainous liberties. "Jay's point still stands thought. If we can't wear rips and spikes, what are we gonna wear?" 

"Full body blankets." Carlos says immediately, like he's been thinking of this the whole time. 

Mal cannot imagine surviving the discomfort of going around tangled in a blanket all day.

"No." she says firmly. "Absolutely not." 

"Togas?" Jay suggests, snickering in a way that suggests that he's fully aware that he's not being helpful. "They'd be easy to make. Just steal some spare sheets, right?" 

[the-owl-tree]

If the dark forest trainees were exiled temporarily, imagine what that could mean Dovewing's Silence since she defended the trainees? I can see her following Tigerheart, Birchfall, and Ivypool into exile. I can see certain trainees friends or family joining them too, like Nightcloud and Heathertail following Breezepelt into exile. And imagine if it got out that Bramblestar and Lionblaze never got punished for training. Especially since one is leader and the other avoided punishment already? >:3c

stealing from @doritopaw101 whom i forgot to reply to my bad BUT

he's the one who had the idea for darktail to get involved and i absolutely love it, i think it would be a great way to make avos more of a compelling follow up to oots if darktail's rise to power was connected to the clans exiling a bunch of cats.

and ooohh absolutely loving the drama the last part has. Bramblestar exiles the cats and is a hypocrite himself meanwhile Lionblaze (an invincible kitty) trained and has knowingly been using Ivypool (a POWERLESS CAT) to spy on the Dark Forest. Dovewing would absolutely leverage this to try and get some leniency for her sister (even if the two have drifted apart, she still cares immensely for Ivy and isn't gonna let her get exiled) and when that fails welp time to go!

i can see the two actually having a convo with one another and Ivy has to come to terms with her issues with Dove and Tiger instead of *vaguely gestures to canon*

[aofikofi]

a silly lil idea that got me brainrotting for a Little Bit hahaha yep

[mustardyellowsunshine]

I really need to talk about Kagome’s emotional strength, because in my opinion it is extremely and consistently under-appreciated. And what a shame that is, because it's one of her defining characteristics. This scene beautifully demonstrates it.

First of all, can we please appreciate how Kagome sees right through the infant's supernatural gaslighting? He's taking kernels of Kagome's negative emotions and using them to spin a narrative about Kagome's "true feelings," and about who she is as a person. The infant tries to define Kagome by reducing her to the feelings of resentment and jealousy she's experiencing in the moment. He tries to convince her that she's nothing more than the the worst things she's ever felt. "You feel resentment, therefore you are a resentful person."

But Kagome understands that feelings—even negative, unsettling feelings like resentment and jealousy—are generally temporary and ultimately besides the point. Feelings, in and of themselves, don't define us. How we choose to act with those feelings—what we do with them, whether and how we cultivate them—defines us. And, what had Kagome done with her jealousy earlier in the same arc? She urged InuYasha to look for Kikyo when it became known that Kikyo could still be alive and in need of help. That's what she did. Kagome didn't allow her jealousy to influence her behavior when it counted, or keep her from acting in InuYasha's—and even Kikyo's—best interest. And so Kagome can rightly say, "They're just normal emotions that anyone could have... not hatred." She has the wisdom to discern between the two, and that wisdom stems from an emotional strength and rootedness (of which I am frankly envious).

In this scene, Kagome faces off with an enemy who literally weaponizes her own feelings against her, in an effort to deceive and manipulate her, spinning lies as truth. And Kagome has the strength and wisdom to say, "No, you're wrong. No, that's a lie. This is the truth."

Throughout the series, other people—both friends and foes alike—try to define who Kagome is, usually by comparing her to Kikyo in one way or another. And throughout the entire series, Kagome affirms her own identity again and again. "I'm Kagome, not anyone else. No, that's not who I am — this is who I am." And in this scene she's doing it again: the infant tries to tell her, "What you truly feel is hatred," and Kagome—alone, unaided, her very soul infiltrated by her enemy—has the strength to affirm the truth: "No, that's not what I feel — this is what I feel."

She is so 👏🏼 stinkin' 👏🏼 strong! 👏🏼