#stupid gremlin

[ribbonbots]

The reason I pretended to be the mastermind...

....WAS TO END THIS BORING KILLING GAME!

[lune-redd]

I find the contrast of how I depict the adult and child versions of PPG characters funny tbh

[transgwender616]

"Why don't they make scary kids movies anymore?" Probably because they were usually critical and finical failures that only became more well liked latter on (Return to Oz and Labyrinth) or weren't even intended for kids in the first place (Beetlejuice and Ghostbusters)

On a side note it's annoying when people are like "How is this for kids it's too scary?" I feel like every child should watch at least 1 movie that scares them.

[elkinboots]

pick on someone your own size :(

[mxmarsbars]

“beautiful face”

[meowmeowmeowmeow4x]

Demo’s DPxDC prompt #2

danny has been tims babysitter since forever

tim loves danny hes always there for him

tim finds out danny is a turbo powerful ghost hero

asks danny to train him

dannys like “no and also i dont know how to train someone who doesnt have ghost powers”

tim: *hatches plan to gain ghost powers*

[orch1daceae-angel]

pushing my writer!guy n artist!honey agenda. Will much of this make sense to anybody other than me? Probably not!

Guy has always found words easier to use as his media, especially considering how many of them he can fit in a sentence.

^Has a chronic case of having far too many run-on sentences. Somebody take away the em dash from him PLEASE.

Its also one of the many, many ways he loves to express his total, complete and utter adoration for his Honey. Leaving sticky notes around the house with sweet (and horny) messages for them to find, writing love letters upon love letters— some of which stay hidden in a box under their bed, from a time before they got together— and the likes.

Honey, however, prefers actions over words. I imagine that they think for more,, visually? In pictures and scenes rather than in words. Can you hear the projection?

As for their preferred media, Honey definitely strikes me as someone who definitely sticks to charcoal and occasionally colored pencils when the mood strikes.

They have. So Many drawings of Guy in their sketchbook(s). Too many, if you ask them— from before they were dating as well. Most are from memory— partially because trying to get him to sit still for long enough would be a nightmare, and mostly out of embarrassment. Sometimes it's little details, too. His toothy grin when he tells a particularly horrid joke, the way his eyes look in the sunlight, his calloused hands, etc.

They've only shown him them a very select few times, whenever they simply couldn't find the right words and got too frustrated to even try, so they would draw it out instead.

Guy & Honey, who're each other's muses.

[lady-griffin]

I’m actually crying over how Jinx is in Silco’s office because it’s probably time to give him his medicine for the day, except he not there. She knows that. But whether to reminiscent, mourn, or simply out of sheer habit, she still came to his office.

She did that every day for so many years and now...

He’s not there for her to give him his medicine.

And I just...

[verite-writer]

My favorite thing about Verso is like 90% of the time he is having the worst day of his life and you can tell by the look on his face, but 10% of the time he is legitimately smiling and the widest grins are when he’s being the biggest little shit in the world.

[ikemengoessbrrrrr]

Legoharu in a nutshell

[blueberry-blast]

may I offer you some silly cookie ocs

[punchesyou]

Uhmmm the 7 dummies or whatever

[kayooreh]

I'm either not gonna be active at all or post 24/7 just to process the fact that the rapist 34-count felon won.

[ineffably-human]

We're going to scream about Nandermo all week, but right now I need to talk about Baron Afanas. Because the Baron's arc, so to speak, always felt like a big part of the series DNA for me - and oh fuck did this episode deliver on why.

I think we can agree: in the show, vampire society is fucked up, right?

Vampires on their own have plenty to deal with that can make them crazy. They have to live by killing. They lose everyone from their old lives. They have to find new reasons to keep going on, forever, so shit can get decadent really fast.

But holy shit, what that's turned into in vampire society? Where you actively put cruelty over mercy, and violence over solving your problems? Death cults and scam artists roam free, but if someone has depression the best thing to do is ignore them. Someone can get their mind wiped or be locked up for centuries, and that's just what you do to your species.

--

So: the Baron's arrival is the first conflict of the whole show. The joke is about an ancient powerful creature of pants-shitting terror, vs three lesser vampires who just want to live their lives and not get murdered for being too lazy to conquer humanity. There's a lot of talk about how to please him: do you keep to the old ways, or pick up some new traditions? Decorate with flayed skin, or with glitter? And the Baron says: who cares, you're all soft and useless. All that matters is getting more control over this world, until people are cattle and we have no reason to hide anymore.

But later he confesses: that shit stopped mattering ages ago. He's not even real nobility, he's literally impotent, and he talks about doing horrible things because he doesn't know what else to say. He's angry and half-crazy from boredom. And admitting that, owning those feelings, means suddenly he has three new friends and a whole new world of things to enjoy.

There's the Baron the rest of the vampire world knows, but for one night we see the ancient, unknowable terror was just a guy. Maybe he's always been just some guy.

That fun puts him in a vulnerable position, and he's killed by the most unwitting vampire slayer in fiction. But Baron Afanas is changed. He sucks dirt for a year and still comes out of it with a new lightness and joy to him. He saves the Sire, another ancient terrifying monster everyone was eager to kill or send away. They adopt the hellhound. They get cozy and give advice. They make popsicle stick houses and go on walks. They live.

And that seemed like the end of the story until last night - when the Baron suddenly felt like the butt of a joke everyone knew but him. Spurred on by someone else who feels lonely and ignored, the Baron felt vulnerable. And he snapped back to how he lived for centuries.

'What the hell are you all doing, enjoying yourselves? We're supposed to be unhappy. We're supposed to live centuries of unhappiness, bringing pain to everyone in our path, and we're definitely not supposed to cheer up our friend who's sad.'

--

Nobody liked the Baron before Guillermo killed him, not even other powerful vampires we meet; they saw the Baron as a crazy far beyond their own crazy. But this is also how vampire society values you. It's how they measure Nandor's worth when they think he's dead, too: how old and powerful you are, how much you've been able to conquer and kill.

Vampire pods are both cliquish and aren't expected to last in the first place. If someone dies, you literally paint them out of your lives and forget. Everything we see discourages feelings, sincerity, or even basic companionship. The only way to earn respect is to be cruel. The more cruel you are, the more powerful you are. The more powerful you are, the more feared you are - the lonelier you are, the crazier you are. It's practically designed to create the Baron, or worse.

But new vampires don't behave that way. And the vampires we follow in the show don't behave that way - because they have each other, because they've been encouraged to have each other, often by Guillermo. (Holy shit, Nadja saying maybe she'd be fine dying, and Nandor immediately asking if she's okay? Nothing changes in this house, except everything does. They're not going to almost lose one of their own ever again.)

The vampires in the heart of vampire culture never seem happy to be like this. It doesn't have to be like this.

--

The Baron doesn't become a tyrannical monster for long. Because he never actually was one - and because he spends two evenings and a fireball to the face, watching Nandor and Nadja fight for Guillermo. Watching them plead and cling and defy, seeing Guillermo's earnest feelings in spite of his bloodline and the mistakes he's made. Seeing Nandor's perfect trust, and then his grief, the way he insists that Guillermo was never 'just' anything. The Baron can't find real fulfillment in hurting someone (because that ship sailed ages ago). He can't deride them for caring, because he's cared for a long time now.

And when the Baron admits that's who he is, when he says it out loud, he only gains more in his life. He finds new depth in the happiness he'd felt for a while now, because he's admitted and allowed himself to be happy. And now he has the children he's always wanted. Living together, the Baron and the Sire are still ancient and powerful - and they're also family, finding real joy together in a world that was ready to dispose of them.

"I suppose with the right company, it can be beautiful, this eternal existence."

--

There's an inherent selfishness to being a vampire, taking from someone else in order to live. But there doesn't have to be inherent cruelty, or lack of love.

They're all ready to admit they care. The Staten vampires have all cared for Guillermo or each other in their own ways this season. And Guillermo doesn't lack for flaws, but loving his monster family has never been one of them. (When he and Nandor work their shit out, they're gonna be insufferable.)

Now they just have to let the Guide in. Because she's absolutely starved for love, and vampires get pretty fucked up when they're on their own.

[tarwis]

Tim Drake is adopted by the fandom, fight me!

DC stands for Disregard Canon, this post is about fanfiction! I read only ao3 and I do not condone Bat-cest!

I’ve read almost every even remotely fluffy Titans Tower AU, the non-demonic Cryptid Tim Drake, I’ve dabbled quite a bit in Tim Drake Joins the Batfamily Early and even the ones where he avoids the bats like the plague for whatever self-sacrificial reason while helping them (often at the cost of his own well-being) under the guise of an unknown name which has zero connections with Timothy Jackson Drake. I like hyper-competent Tim, "bratty" Tim who’s actually an unappreciated hero, wet blanket Tim (caretaker trigger), chaotic gremlin Tim, cryptid Tim, there was even this story with a DID Tim I really liked. The authors are amazing, especially Lulu_Rhythm, destiny919 and envysparkler (also iselsis with DaisyBirb, but theirs are a little heavy for me, and Nation_Ustria whose updates are slow but writing is *chef’s kiss*).

We love Jason and Tim brothering, but hear me out…where. Are. The Damian and Tim fics? Not the Damian-centric ones where Tim is just a support character to Damian’s growth story, but the relationship-centric ones without Tim being a punching bag for everyone physically and emotionally. Where are Damian’s apologies? Where is Damian’s respect, his guilt, his regret? And after that, where’s the bonding, the gentle sparring, the skateboarding lessons, the interpretative art sessions, secret photography runs through Gotham without worrying about gunshots, only about beautiful city shots. Where are the hard moral talks between two logicians in an emotionally constipated family? Where is the click in Damian’s mind about why he shouldn’t kill? (And on that note, why are half the fics in favour of murder? In favour of Tim going batshit crazy and calling it character development?) And in honour of two posts in pinterest from tumblr, where is Damian’s realisation that Tim is his own greatest enemy and where are the friendship bracelets?

And then, does anyone know what kind of dynamic Dick and Tim have? Here’s a whole post about that, please and thank you:

I have nothing to say about Steph because their fights are too complicated and I don’t think they can be together in a fic without ignoring half their history, cramming too much angst or inserting some therapy and for some reason Gothamites are allergic to therapy (considering what happens with therapists and what they have to deal with, it’s understandable).

Last thing! Tim has non-hero/vigilante friends and I think they are relevant. The Fox family and maybe those assassins he befriended? His family is so caught up in their own drama that seeing him being normal with a bunch of unknowns should be enough of a shock. Also the League. That would be a fun conversation, especially with Damian.

Edit 16.06.2025: The assassins’ names, if I wasn’t misled in my five seconds of research, are Pru, Z and Owens (full names? I don’t know him). And here’s a post with Tim’s civilian friends:

Alright bye

[sole-e-acqua]

The footage of the faketivists throwing out their iPhones and MacBooks into the water is just the cherry on the icing...

They are literally throwing toxic waste into the Mediterranean sea for absolutely no reason (unless they dont want their communications with a terror org to be discovered)...

Don't u care about the environment anymore, Gretush?

How dare you, Greta?!?!?!? 😂😂😂