#technical workshop

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

[were--ralph]

here comes probably my last oc for a while

[leenfiend]

noticing the quiet (and maybe wishing you weren’t)

[somnus-in-law]

Jason: *ranting about how Batman should just kill the Joker*

Bruce, internally: He doesn't know our life force is connected, so if he dies I die.

[prismbearer]

Do you think the idea of severance came from Harmony's own desire to be free of the grief and ties to the labor they endured at that Factory?

[mamawasatesttube]

hi im lost in the kon & clark + kon & the kents sauce today.

thinkin about how clark takes him to live with ma and pa shortly after "our worlds at war" - after kon has lost guardian, and now mickey and dubbilex and everyone he knew at cadmus has vanished and left him on his own. after he's been used and discarded by knockout, tana, and rex leech. he's not even two years old and there is a whole list of adults who he relied on and who he's already lost because, as he believes, of his own inability to be what they needed him to be. he wasn't savvy enough to realize rex was using him for money, he wasn't heroic enough to save knockout from herself, he wasn't mature enough for tana to love him, he wasn't good enough of a superhero to prevent guardian from being killed in the leadup to everything with apokolips...

anyway, what i'm getting at is that he's used to nearly all of his relationships with adults having a time limit, and to being left alone to fend for himself when that time limit runs out. so, uh, the first time he has any sort of argument with clark, or clark expresses any frustration with him...

which, imo, is extremely possible because, like. kon's an impulsive kid who doesn't always listen to others or ask for help when he needs it (partly because he's so used to fending for himself!) and clark definitely has a protective streak, and i think it'd frustrate clark that kon didn't even tell him he had nowhere to go after cadmus went underground. like he gets that kon's got issues but also Please For The Love Of God. People Who Love You Want To Help You But You Have To Tell Them You Need Help. he wants to help and protect kon but kon doesn't even realize the things he's gone through are fucked up and that he shouldn't have had to deal with them, let alone on his own. suggesting that he should lean on others would make him bristle. and he definitely doesn't want to be a bother or a burden on superman.

so it's a point of contention but like, the love is there. it's a point of contention BECAUSE the love is there.

anyway i'm just thinking of the first time clark tries to talk to kon about opening up and asking for help and telling him or ma or pa or lois when something is up, and kon getting mad at him because he can handle himself and he's not incompetent, and clark being like that's not what i'm trying to say at all, i'm plenty competent and i lean on people when i need to and so should you. but kon's a traumatized and headstrong teenager who doesn't want to hear it, even (especially) from his idol, and clark gets a little frustrated, and then kon ??? stops arguing and just gets really disproportionately upset out of the blue??? and shuts down and then runs off??? and clark doesn't understand what happened exactly but clearly SOMETHING is wrong. figures he'll give kon some space and talk to him again in the evening when he's had a chance to cool off.

instead not even an hour later martha kent hollers for clark to get over to kansas and explain his side of things because she KNOWS the boy she and jonathan raised would Never have told kon he's sick of cleaning up his messes and wants him out of his parents' house and might even be planning to take his name back from him. (clark, hearing this: HE THINKS I WHAT???????? D: D: D:)

(ma sent pa to check on kon when he didn't come down for dinner and pa found him sniffling and stuffing clothes into a suitcase. he said clark hadn't told him to get out yet but it was only a matter of time. they are gonna have a nice long family heart-to-heart and at the end of it pa is going to have to talk ma down from hunting down rex leech with a shotgun.)

anyway kon gets a Really good family group hug that he TOTALLY doesn't cry about (he's cool as a cucumber about it!! really!!) and gets whacked across the head with a boatload of affirmations and reassurances that even if any of them ever argue, his place here and his name and status as part of the family are never going to be in question. (ma wants the shotgun again when he seems genuinely surprised by this.) it might even be the origin of them coming up with "conner kent". a second name just for him, as part of clark's family on earth too.

i am just. so not immune to stories about a little guy who's not used to having a family Getting A Family you know?????

[ghostinthegallery]

Ask game? Ask bingo! What does our cherished little sopping wet rat in a crown Szarekh look like on the bingo board?

Hell yeah my beautiful tall tragic dumbass monarch.

He needs more attention from fanon.

He needs more attention from canon but asking for that feels like a monkeys paw...James I am sorry I do not trust you. You can't even give Szarekh his own book, he's gotta be part of the goddamn Imperium series.

Nobody understands him but us weirdos. Because we're probably the only people in existence who've thought about him for more than 10 minutes. I have thought about him more than any healthy person should. I own that choice.

[devoutjunk]

did you guys know if you cold email people like “hey can i interview you on my blog” sometimes they say YES

[fldx]

good morning friends! it's a beautiful day, i'm feeling 90% better* and i woke up to a bunch of lovely messages from my family and friends and a snoopy birthday card from my bf 💞

[akkivee]

sniped this meme from the tl lmao

[doubledyke]

i start my cdl classes today 🫣

[gosteon]

No energy for the drawing tablet today and i forgot her eyebrows but have a Mira doodle I did at work. I now have a Pocket Mira to keep me company at work!

[puppppppppy]

if escape rooms as team building exercises became popular im not sure if id be more excited or terrified

[bookinit02]

a series of events: wrote a piece for open mic night. talked to my favorite professor in class. he says “are you reading tonight?” i say yes. he says “do you know when?” i say girl i have no fucking clue. he says “ok can u read after intermission. bc i’m gonna be there by then and i really want to hear it.” i say okay! then i die.

[rnaeborowski]

4 non-selfies tagged by @sexyleon 💗🐩

tagging everyone (pls show me cute pics u took recently 💛)

[synthesis-music]

Go in thinking: "Okay, just quickly tweak the alignment so the trigger action is smoother," and end up disassembling and reassembling the whole tuning slide.

Twice.

Just been one of those days.

Fuck you, slide.