#sorry if I got stuff wrong lol

[violent138]

"#hey I have a serious headcanon that multiple of Gotham's elite were worried about or invested in Bruce's future#not even for court of owl reasons#but because he had the power and wealth to the alter the city the same way his parents did#falcone even tried killing him a bunch"

PLEASE talk more about this i'm begging. I want to hear all about this!!! Go into as much detail as you want but i'd absolutely read a 5k essay on this if you feel up to it

Though this isn't quite a 5K essay, you may come to regret asking lol. But I'm delighted to answer the question (thanks for asking):

Firstly, I guess to set up some Gotham lore, Gotham's a city of seemingly endless opportunity and is subject to constant power grabs. I think Black Mask once listed all the different factions that squabble over Gotham (street gangs, crime families et cetera). One of these groups is the Court of Owls (the society that secretly controls Gotham), made up of Gotham's oldest and wealthiest families.

And Batman comics make a point of repeatedly drawing attention to its key families, Kanes, Waynes, Elliots, Cobblepots (and the Arkhams too should you like to include them). There's an undue influence and importance they wield over the city.

But despite all the different forces that are competing to reshape Gotham in their image, it's the spectre of the Waynes that looms over it all.

This actually makes a lot of sense, since as some of the founders of the city, they were literally involved in creating the city's skyline and appearance. And then past that, there are so many instances and references to how Thomas and Martha (Kane or Arkham) were set on changing the city entirely (possibly a deviation from their more traditional ancestors).

This is the beginning of the loss of control for many others over the city (such as Gotham's wealthy and elite). Even smaller decisions, like Thomas' choice to save Carmine Falcone's life have major repercussions for the city.

The Waynes had a ton of power, buildings and institutions around Gotham hold their name. They were untouched by their potential criminal ties as they reconstructed the city, but it was clear that they were earning the hatred of a lot of powerful players. This includes the Court of Owls (historians still argue)/others, and if you're a fan of the TellTale game, it's clear that Bruce's family may have actually destroyed and usurped power from some of these other powerful families.

Regardless, Thomas and Martha's shocking deaths created a massive power vacuum that everyone would have jumped to take advantage of. And aside from gaining control over the city, all the old-money families would have wanted control over Bruce Wayne.

Because of the deaths of his parents, Bruce becomes a wildcard; he's the sole inheritor of Wayne Enterprises, all the money, power, and prestige his parents wielded. And in a way, it's almost like all the Waynes have some divine right/eldtrichy power over Gotham, by virtue of their fascinating blood line (or just their money).

So everyone would have been trying to control him/adopt him/use his access in the wake of trauma and exploit his age. When it didn't work, they likely all just settled into a stalemate of waiting for him to make moves so they could decide how much of a threat/ally he was.

In a comic I read (I'm sure there are other examples too, can't recall as I answer this), Carmine Falcone tries to kill Bruce Wayne via hired assassin, well after it's been established that nobody's even seen Bruce for a while. Carmine hears that Bruce could be at a party and sends an assassin with both a potent neurotoxin and a sword to ensure the job is done. So long after the deaths of his parents, these concerns of Gotham's warring factions continue.

And once Bruce starts acting on his vision for the city, one that aligns so well with Martha and Thomas' plans for Gotham, he likely cements himself as a threat yet again, and one that hasn't been schooled by his old-money parents in the games and underlying politics of Gotham.

So to continue on the line of thought that the tags came from: Regardless of what choices Bruce eventually makes -> I doubt that the Gotham elite wanted him making them without their influence

As a side note, because I'm kind of obsessed with the lineages that rule Gotham, if you look at Oswald Cobblepot, even as a crime lord descended from the Cobblepots, he's not just a street-level crook, but he also shapes the city.

[crushedsweets]

your mention of sally face in your mask post got me thinking of just how rare it is to see people talk about sally face and creepypasta at the same time! its kinda surprising given how both have very similar vibes / themes and seem like they would make a great crossover, lots of cool character interactions!

MORE ASKS … I’m in my comma professors shed while drawing this so it’s kinda rushed LOL also @ this specific anon UR SO RIGHT but it’s been so long since I’ve watched. A sallyface play thru I can’t remember a thing </3

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hey, I think I missed a bit of lore or something, what’s the pit? And what’s the goop™️?

oh yeah no i haven't really talked about those Important Things yet! mostly because i'm still solidifying how they work in my mind... i try my best to adhere to canon, since to me aus are an exploration of the source / characters, so... its still tenuous. i have to think and consider and run parallel - there's a balance i'm still trying to find

like The Pit™️ (the spiral/eye void under Home) in Lights Out is gonna be different from the canon one since i started thinking about the au before the update. and the update changed my perception / theories on what the void is! but the au Pit™️ needs to remain mostly the way it originally was, or a lot of "plot" points fall apart

[pizzaqueen]

Kind of want to write something about the 1987 stock market crash affecting the Harringtons tbh

[mokutone]

hi what do you think abt t4t kakayama (it's canon to me tbh)

:) hi ty for the question. i will do two sweet pictures of them being intimate and then under the cut there's going to be a longer very unsweet and more technical response

so i'm usually not a very shippy person! but that said i am also on the record as an occasional kakayama + kakayamagai enjoyer

i do hc them both as trans and in different ways w/ different experiences of transition and identity! i have no interest in proving my view as canon, but i do regard my reading of the text (text here including the anime) as a valid interpretation of yamato's experience of identity

yamato, for example, imo, doesnt have any real lived experience of being raised as a child of any gender. he was an experimental subject, and then he was Danzō's weapon/vessel for the mokuton, and then he was in anbu.

in a fun little word game which should not be taken seriously: it'd almost be more fitting to describe him as "adgender" rather than "transgender" since the prefix "trans" implies moving across where the prefix "cis" means to stand still, but the prefix "ad" means "to move towards" and i headcanon him as somebody who was degendered as a child, not in a cool nonbinary way, but instead in a dehumanizing, objectifying way, so his experience of creating his identity and his gender along with it is one of moving toward the concept of gender this word doesn't and wont exist, but bc of the way english works it would probably be simplified to be spelled precisely the same as "agender" in the same way that "aggression" came from latin "aggredi" which came from "ad" (meaning to/toward) and and latin "gradus" (meaning step) (essentially the combination means "to step to" [in a threatening manner]) the only diferences is where agender (meaning no gender) is pronounced ay-gender, the agender that comes from adgender would be prounounced more like "uhgender" in the same way that agressive isnt pronounced like "ay-gressive" but instead like "uhgressive"

and then...as for kakashi? i just decided on vibes. i didn't think hard about it.

i guess i should also say that, while i draw kakayama very infrequently, when i do draw it i usually try to be very apparent about the transness in the artwork if i can? especially if i'm drawing anything more intimate than a peck on the cheek. it's no secret that shipping is often times the most energized part of fandom, and i kind of don't want to produce romantic or sexual artwork which will be enjoyed by people who don't think trans people can be attractive? or who find that trans headcanons make a character uninteresting to them? or worse, "ruin" a depiction of a character to them?

often i think about in terms of. IF there are people that follow me that love my work (usually) and think that kakashi or yamato are hot (usually) and love kakayama (usually) but get frustrated or even uncomfortable out when i draw them as explicitly trans? then i'm drawing all intimate artwork of them as explicitly trans.

it's a little like...nobody gets to love my work if transgender characters are a turnoff for them. that's the bar for entry, is the way i think of it, but really its more like putting onions in a dish. if you want to eat the dish you have to eat the onions. if you don't want to eat the onions, don't eat the dish. all the meals i make contain onions. i'll never compromise on my intention to put onions in every dish i make. that's my ninja way, as the kids say.

especially in the climate we're in right now.

i don't know. i have a lot of feelings about how most fandoms tend to view trans men, especially in terms of romantic and sexual relationships. I'm doing a bad job of expressing the depth of how much seeing how fandom treats trans male identity and transmasculine bodies impacts the way that i draw + write kakayama, but genuinely it's something i think about every single time i create content about them.

[askepitheterased]

Lorelai, can you please tell us more about your lacrosse sonic au?

What ships does it have? Which characters are playing lacrosse? Do they still have their powers, and how does it affect how they play? Have you made art for it? Do you accept fanart?

P.S. do you have it uploaded or plan to upload it onto ao3?

Lorelai : I can't tell you too much cause that just ruins the story. but basically, everyone is kinda humanised, like they have their animal's ears so like sonic has hedgehog ears. The teams are Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Silver, Espio, Charmy, Vector, Blaze and my OC who is Cream's older sister called Brulee. Then on the enemy team is Shadow, Rouge, Metal Sonic, Omega, Sage, Chaos, Infinite, Jet, Wave, Storm. The characters don't really have any powers but like Sonic is pretty fast and stuff like that. The only ship so far is Brulee and Shadow because he's so cool, so basically it's like a rivals to lovers because we're both the best players on our teams!! And I've only made art of them together but if someone made art for it i would be so happy!!! But I don't know where I'll upload it to cause I want to finish more of it first.

[presdestigatto]

hello guys, could yall help me with something 👀

some context for non-tennis people under the cut!

grand slams are the most prestigious tennis tournaments (award the most points, most watched etc). winning a slam is a huge career accomplishment

The Aus Open (which just ended) and US Open are played on hard courts, which are basically what you first think of re: tennis court:

They’re both quite standard, the main difference is the location

Then you have the French Open or RG, which is played on clay:

When you’re playing on clay, you can slide around a lot, which looks very cool. Here you can see current world no1 and clay court queen Iga Swiatek sliding on clay:

You also get clay everywhere on yourself with this surface, and it’s really physically demanding to play on

And lastly Wimbledon. Grass courts:

The ball travels the fastest on grass, and the crowd is really posh, usually. It’s held in London and a ton of celebrities attend 🤷‍♀️ (This year Seb, Charles and Pierre were there). This and the other most important bit in the fic writing realm is that there’s an all white dress code, from cap to shoes to bag.

So! a tldr

AUS Open: Held in Melbourne. Crowd is cool, event is quite informal. Hard court which favours an aggressive style of play

RG: Held in Paris. Clay courts! You need to be able to move well and you’ll be really grimey at the end

Wimbledon: Held in London. Somewhat a formal event. All white attire is a must, and the courts are grass. You need to get to the ball fast.

US Open: Held in NYC. Rowdiest crowd, with hard courts like the AO.

[tequatls-favorite-spoon]

my art from the na vs art party!! took me a lil bit cuz i wanted to color it and that meant cleaning up the sketches and then i wanted to shade them and hajsksldhaflk

the characters from left to right:

Quinn Teeling - @sunsrefuge

Ambrose Wolfsbane - @commander-gloryforge

Finnegän - @pinecone-enthusiast

Astrëllä - @ohpollenpowder

[twpsyn-who]

Talking a little bit about 'boycotting Eurovision' under Keep Reading, feel free to scroll down if is not what you want to see.

The most used argument on the matter of banning Israel from Eurovision is the fact that Russia got banned from Eurovision, which is the worst argument anyone could bring.

Kindly reminder that Russia didn't get banned because of the war with Ukraine. Russia got banned because many countries has threatened to withdraw from the competition. Sadly, that's a big difference.

Yes, the countries has threatened to withdraw because they support Ukraine and see Russia as the party in the wrong. That was their reason. EBU's reason for banning Russian was because those countries threatened to withdraw, not because the war was bad and Russia must be stopped.

This situation isn't the same. Why? Because many countries support Israel in their genocide. Because this time around Palestine is the party in the wrong. Because we're taught to believe that Israel isn't in the wrong here.**

Boycotting Eurovision won't work. There are people out there who don't know the truth and want to watch Eurovision. There are people out there who don't care and will watch Eurovision regardless of the situation. There are people out there who, despite having the facts, still don't see Israel as the bad guy in this situation and will watch Eurovision. Sadly, boycotting won't work unless everyone does it.

The only way Israel will get banned, in my opinion, is by going through the same thing as Russia. If other countries threatened to withdraw- and not any countries, but the ones investing the most in Eurovision, then yes. That will get Israel banned.

Otherwise? The only thing we do is hurt artists that don't deserve it. Artists who use Eurovision as a way to get more exposure and experience. Artists who deserve to be heard.

Don't vote for Israel's entry. Don't stream their song either. Heck, turn off the TV when is their turn to perform.

**This whole situation (the war, not Eurovision) isn't only black and white. Civilians die daily because of this, all of them from both sides. Innocent people who has no fault. Let's not forget that

[vilwil-brr]

You tug at Pac’s bottom lip, and his hand shoots up to grip at your shoulder as he whines. You soak in the little noises he lets out, biting down harder, then sucking, soothing it with your tongue.

He pants, breathless, when you pull away. His forehead presses against yours as you catch your breath, his hands clenching into fists, tugging at your shirt. He looks at you through his long lashes, eyes watery and pupils blown wide.

He’s pretty like this. Debauched and desperate from your touch, from your kiss, from your teeth digging into his lips and biting them raw. They’re already swollen and red, and they work to drive you absolutely mad as he pouts.

“You’re so pretty,” you murmur, cupping his jaw with your hand and dragging your thumb over his bottom lip. He lets you tug it down without resistance, mailable like clay in your steady hands.

Then he opens his mouth and dips down enough to suck your thumb into his mouth, closing his lips around it and sucking.

“Que lindo,” you praise. He opens his lips up to bite, just enough to leave indents of his teeth above your knuckle, before closing his lips and hollowing out his cheeks.

You pull your thumb out of his mouth to kiss him again, bringing your other hand up to clutch at his hair. He moans when you nip at his bottom lip again, pressing himself against you, a pressure against your lips and your chest as he tries to get impossibly closer.

You want to squeeze him, to crush him in your embrace. You want to dig in with your claws and teeth and take everything he has to give, desperate, as if he’ll be taken away at any moment.

He whimpers, and your fist tightens in his hair, and he moans again, and god - you want him to keep making those noises for forever. You want to be the one to pull them out of him, again and again, until his throat aches.

You pull back and look at him again, long enough to take in his flushed cheeks, his lips, his glazed eyes that look up to you like he’s begging. Sweet and pleading and slightly unfocused in his pleasure.

You want to devour him, and all that he is. You want to bring him to ruin. With the look he gives you, pupils blown wide, desperate and already impatient for more, you think he just might let you. Demand it of you, really, with the way his hand grips your wrist and squeezes, prompting you to tug at his hair again.

You gladly comply, pulling his head back by his hair, hardly bothering to be gentle as you press kisses along his exposed throat. He gasps when you nip underneath his jawline, barely able to sit still as you suck a mark into his skin, and then proceed lower.

He‘s far more desperate at the thought of you ruining him than you are.

[ananinidraws]

Various RTumblr characters! Might draw more in the future, just wanted to do a warm up on them, they all have such fun designs~ ^v^

Tags and an extra c!ani doodle under the cut

First row: @fluffydancer618; @copperexception; @snake-bastard; @perplexing-news

Second row: @justtrashperson; @kieshartzishere; @dragonwolf3416; @aamitmorthos

Third row: @dweebodoodle; @pleafyistired; @formal-frog-shoes; @jasperakalucy

So many of these characters have suits, so i made an alt outfit for Ani. They're looking very dapper!~

[mistilteinn-magolor]

bugs bunny meme format i wish every trans person a very i hope you wake up one day as the sex you identify as

[fennthetalkingdog]

You know, when I was first researching neurodivergence (and autism and ADHD in particular) and wondering if I was, in fact, neurodivergent, I brought my conclusions to my mom and she said:

"I mean, you're gifted, right? So you already are neurodivergent???"

So here's to her (kinda) and her words. Giftedness is a neurodivergence, in my opinion. From what I've seen, a lot of the traits overlap with common autistic and/or ADHD traits too, especially regarding overexcitabilities, and a lot of researchers talking about the topic describe giftedness with the same kind of "your brain is just made differently" and "you're just wired differently" language as they use for other neurodivergent conditions. But I also say this because I've seen some gifted people who, while struggling with some "autistic/ADHD traits," don't have all the traits necessary for an autism or ADHD diagnosis. Giftedness is a label for them that encompasses the struggles they have without saying that they don't struggle enough or forcing them to try to fit into a mold that isn't them. And I get that; when I was first questioning, I didn't think I had enough autistic traits to count for a diagnosis either, so I took comfort in a "gifted" label. (Not to say that all gifted people are just autistic people and/or people with ADHD that don't realize, or that all gifted people are just people who don't have enough traits for a diagnosis! That was just the case for me and the folks I've been around, but I've also heard the case of it not being that.)

But if I am gifted, then I also have autism. A lot of my struggles are, honestly, just better described by autism than just by a byproduct of giftedness. My struggles with people and with "being too much," my sensory differences (and yes, sometimes issues), my stimming, and some of my executive dysfunction all sound like autistic traits to me more than a mix of psychomotor and sensual overexcitabilities and a whole bunch of coincidental byproducts of my being gifted and hanging out with nongifted peers. Don't get me wrong; based on my family history, background, and traits, I honestly probably am gifted lol. But it's not just that.

So this is me saying that if the people around you are saying that you're just gifted, you're free to look for other, perhaps better explanations for your feelings and experiences. But if you are just gifted, you're still free to call yourself neurodivergent! My gifted traits lead to me feeling just as ostracized sometimes as my autistic ones, so who am I to police that label?

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

returning to my latino roots for 2023′s first talkloid shitpost 😎😎

rough english transcript under the cut for my non-hispanohablantes (with some translation notes)

piko: you drugged me!

fukase: with love~

piko: with PILLS.

fukase: of love~ ₁

piko: DRUGS.

fukase: look, i know i haven’t been the best alpha male—

piko: honestly, there’s nothing “male”₂ about you.

fukase: —but you have to admit that we had something beautiful...

piko: YOU ARE COMPLETELY INSANE!

fukase: piko, please don’t talk to me like that in front of your son!

piko: WHAT???

kazehiki: hi, daddy

piko: you’ve got to be fucking₃ with me.

fukase: of course, now you don’t recognize your own son—

piko: okay that’s enough i’m going to call the police

fukase: NO! okay, okay... it’s not necessary. i get it now, come on, little hiki, your dad’s being a bitch₄

kazehiki: goodbye, daddy

extra translation notes:

₁ - “de” usually means “of” but it can mean other things like “with”, “out of” or “for” in certain cases (such as the phrase “lo hice de amor” which can translate to “i did it out of/for/with love”, which is similar to the situation going on here). changed it so it hopefully makes more sense in english this way?

₂ - here, “macho” technically would more be “masculine” rather than literal male, and the whole phrase would more accurately be translated as “honestly, you have nothing masculine” but kept the use of the word male to align better with the previous statement so it makes more sense (in english??)

₃ - “no me chingues,” in its roughest form, can sorta be translated like this. basically it’s an expression of disbelief, like “no way” or “you’re kidding me, right?” but a bit more... vulgar lol since ‘chingues’ does sort of literally mean ‘fuck’

₄ - “anda de apretado/a,” when literally translated, essentially means “going around tightened” (or something like that) but it’s an idiom to refer to someone who’s acting very selfishly with no consideration for others. so essentially, acting like a bitch lmao. this is also just taken from the official translation of where the original audio is even from. also, while “ahora entiendo” can also be translated as “i understand now,” i felt like a more casual “i get it” fit this particular context a bit better.

[orcelito]

Bought the memorial plush for Cassy. It's gonna be here on Thursday

It looks pretty similar to Sammy's in style, just with a different pose. I'll see how they look when placed together.

[forgettin-my-legos]

@spotsupstuff 's short story took my money and left me crying on the floor - I had to do a quick sketchy comic for it

--Full image under the cut cuz i spliced it up all weird