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welcometogrouchland · 4 months

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I miss them so bad (Dick and Damian)

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc comics #damian wayne #dick grayson #ITS JUST NOT THE SAME MAN #idk i was reading nightwing must die (again...) bc i was in a funk and saw another post saying how fans exaggerate the closeness btwn them #and on the one hand i get it. there is a very rosy portrayal of their relationship you'll come across in fanon #and they weren't very close at the beginning of their relationship #but man. reading Nightwing must die again was like #YES they fight. damian instigates it and while dick tries to exercise patience he does fight back/lash out on occasion #but despite all that it's still emphasized how important the two are to each other #when dick is forced to picture a future where he's lost his way he pictures damian being the one to bring him back #not necessarily bc damian is his favorite person on the planet but bc he gave damian robin. for a lot of practical reasons-#-but also bc how far damians come is (i think at least based on this arc) a testament to dick that hes doing Something right #both as a hero/person #damian is more than just a burden saddled on him (although there's an element of that in their batman and robin run)#he's also a last remaining connection to bruce when he's gone (remembering where he comes from) AND he's training damian+#-his own way! with a dash of tough love and workaholic spirit inherited but also a lot of patience and focus on being More than the darkness #idc what ppl say nightwing must die makes sense for these two. its a retcon but one that works imo #that dick buried his head in the sand about how much damian meant/the responsibility he had to him bc it was a commitment he was afraid of #and how damian ultimately was a point of maturation for dick even if he went back to being Nightwing #they were SO goddamn close and now they're still close but only in ways that are implied #and their bond is deemphasized in comparison to each others bond w/ say bruce. which i think is a shame #it was a wrinkle! a fun wrinkle that the batfamily had that in some ways dick understood damian better than Bruce-#-even if he didn't feel like he could handle the responsibility of raising him full time #it kills me that bc of the n52 we never got the handover of the batman mantle (and damian) from dick to bruce #next nightwing writer...include a flashback to that moment AND have damian appear in the book in present....AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!#anyway. dick is damians brother but also damian a little bit imprinted on him like a baby duck and its rubbed off on dick #they're partners they're mentor mentee but most importantly they were batman and robin. and they were the greatest #NOT bc it was all peaches and roses but bc they cared for each other exponentially despite all that

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cdroloisms · 2 months

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A hot take I have is that early c!Dream was acting more as a peacekeeper/server moderator and was slowly losing his mind because the server did not gaf about his authority at all. Like he’s the only mod online ever with 0 vacation days and he just loses his shit at the hotdog van before deciding he’s making his inability to herd cats everyone else’s problem

tbh 'authority' is a funny way of putting it like yeah he was the server owner but any explicit authority over what the actual people were doing is ... ehh not super obvious in character you know? c!Dream is a control freak that saw way too much as his responsibility and subsequently tried to manage shit that often blew up in his face--absolutely attempted at being a moderator/peacekeeper figure, but the dream smp kind of laughs in the face of peacekeepers, etc. while i think it's fair to argue that c!dream felt a level of responsibility over the server and its inhabitants that most people just Did Not Gaf, i would also say that his problem is less that people simply didn't listen to him when they should've (though that is ABSOLUTELY part of what pisses mr. control freak with no chill and a stick up his ass off!) and that things would go the extra step of actively fucking with him, consistently, while he was then pretty uniquely labeled as being Fucked Up if he fought back. it wasn't just that there was a hot dog van that was spouting literal nonsense about making a new server and disrupting shit by saying that any noneuropean isn't allowed in, it was that they then used this as a justification to Start Shit and created a bullshit narrative against him and his friends and looked like they were going to go to war over their nonsense. it wasn't just that sapnap and tommy were causing problems for literally everyone in the pet war, it was that he was getting dragged in and targeted for no good reason when he wasn't involved in the initial dispute and then getting blackmailed and having to fight alone for the right to keep his own items because god forbid he keep a memento of his dead pet. yknow ???

#dsmp hot takes #my asks !!#i get what u mean and c!dream definitely has an inflated sense of responsibility towards the server in some ways that are. less than optima #and the peacekeeper/discord mod mantle is something that he does kind of take on #that being said a lot of the pressure he eventually cracks under isn't necessarily just the state of a server that wont listen to him #but rather a lot of pretty directly targeting him for various reasons until he snaps

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cryptidanathema · 10 months

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Everyone who thinks people over the age of 25 that still have hobbies are inherently predatory creeps, enjoy the excruciating existential crisis you're gonna give yourself in 3-7 years 🎉

#Bitchpost #Fandom ageism #Fandom discourse #Pretty soon you realize that no great mantle of responsibility actually drops from on high and makes you love nothing but stocks and babies #You kinda just stay yourself forever

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hayaku14 · 5 months

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kuroba toichi you need to stay dead or im going to fucking kill you myself

#you sick son of a bitch #if you truly love your son you wouldnt be alive #it's bad enough that you basically left the mantle for your teenage son to take up but you actually being alive????????#you just out there living your life while your son is destroying his relationships chasing after something that you started????????#his very motivation is your death and it's not even real??? the utter fucking betrayal???#and maybe being kid has kade him a better magician and has helped him find out more about himself #but he shouldve been able to have a choice if he even wanted to be kid at all it shouldnt have been a responsibility pushed upon him #AND IF YOU ARE FUCKING ALIVE AND YOU'RE JUST WATCHING YOUR SON RUNNING AWAY FROM THE POLICE WITH PRIDE INSTEAD OF GUILT YHEN YOU CAN #GO FUCK YOURSELF #Honestly the worst #also that theory that maybe chikage is travelling the world because she KNOWS toichi is alive and she's with her elevates this fuckery into #a whole different level #anyway go read cuethesun's tomorrow and the next day #good fucking food and bad parent chikage and toichi enjoyers will be pleased ;>#lol #dc prattles #as much as i want happy everybody is alive kuroba family #i need touichi and chikage if she knows too to feel the repercussions of their horrible parenting and i need kaito to be able to let himself #feel the hurt and betrayal that he is justified to feel even if he is happy that his dad is alive #but i dont trust gosho to handle that nicely if anything i think hes gonna just handwave it and wont address it properly #anyway my point is i just need more hurt and angry kaito also if shinichi is there im happy #sorry i sneaked in a kaishin i cant stop the brainrot unfortunately theres no cure 🤚😔#ALSO DONT GET ME STARTED WITH BAD PARENT KUDOS OOOOOHHHH

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age-of-moonknight · 5 months

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“8-Ball,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #5.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight #Vengeance of the Moon Knight vol. 2 #Vengeance of the Moon Knight 2024 #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Moon Knight #The Shroud #Maximillian Coleridge #Tigra #Greer Grant #Hunter’s Moon #Yehya Badr #Did Mr. Cappuccio have fun with this issue (I hope he had fun this looks like it should have been fun to draw)#thank you Mr. Cappuccio #Also a Marlene mention (gosh I miss her) and an Age of Khonshu reference within a couple pages is wild to me #and just…there’s something here #about yes Max and Marc were incredibly similar with equally great capacities for hurting those closest to them and helping people #but it’s about what you do with that capacity and the need for a healthy basis on which to grow #as opposed to just trying to ignore the past and jump into someone else’s mold #because while there might be similarities not only must each person do the work for themselves but it’s also going to look different???#It’s not only that Max can’t take on the Moon Knight mantle in this way because it’s a way of dodging responsibility for his past #but also because he’s his own unique quantity who if he deals with things can provide unique insights and talents that only he can #he has an endlessly distinctive perspective that only he has and it would be a shame to lose that because he’s trying to be someone else #and I guess that’s just a theme I love so much about modern Moon Knight comics:#brain chemistry may make it so that others disparage someone as «crazy» but they do not dictate the totality of who one is #or what one does and can in fact provide a perspective that no one can replace

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saints-who-never-existed · 10 months

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"Seconds in command are a fascinating, if somewhat doleful, bunch: their labour is often as great, or greater, than those under whom they serve, and their character is less often blemished by egoism and hubris. After all, if it had been, they'd never have lasted very long in such a nearly commanding position. Sometimes, however, when the firsts are fallen, the story of the seconds takes on a grim and strange fascination: we yearn to see how they will perform when the mantle of responsibility is fitted to their shoulders."

Russell Potter reviewing Smith's 'Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing?'

#The Terror #The Terror AMC #Terror Script #This quote is referenced directly in the script #Of course with Crozier in mind specifically #But it's rattling around in my head now #Because I think it applies to Little just as much #And the parallels to be drawn between he and Silna are very similar in most respects to those drawn between she and Crozier #Both seconds in command #Both with the mantle of responsibility fitted unexpectedly to their shoulders #Both struggling and ultimately failing to fully grasp that responsibility #For Little I'm thinking in particular of when Crozier is 'fallen' as it were #Both when he's lost to alcoholism and when he's absent for the final and most desperately awful days of the Expedition limping south #Crozier only sees the terrible aftermath of it whereas Little had to live through the horror of it all as it happened #Mostly I'm thinking that I'm going to come back to this in the morning and add many more thoughts #Observations #Random Observations #Meta #Silna #Lady Silence #Edward Little #Francis Crozier #Coherence impending

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thedragonagelesbian · 1 year

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the orlesian grey wardens rolling up into denerim only to find that both the fereldan grey wardens survived killing the archdemon somehow and now one of them is king and the other is his 'court enchanter' which as far as anyone can tell just means sitting in his lap all day giggling: ...you know what maybe we'll bring in someone else to lead the rebuilding effort

#luc posting #i will play awakening with luc exactly long enough for alistair to visit me at the end of the prologue #like yes luc accepted and grew into the mantle of grey warden he is still 20 by the time the blight ends #what responsibility looks like for him afterwards involves a lot more civil work #liasoning with the circle with zathrian's clan with the denerim alienage #i think irving gives him special dispensation to mentor apprentices outside of the circle (with connor being the first among them)#he does a lot of work building up social services that arent tied to the chantry too like founding a crown-run orphanage #just. no more fighting. no more combat. no more blood magic.

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dougielombax · 2 days

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Yeah I do think that the Mantle of Responsibility is bullshit.

It’s god complex thinking on steroids.

And I’m glad that people are seeing that much.

Epitaph recently made that QUITE clear!

Anyway.

“FoReRunnErs wERe HuManS¡”

Away with that shite!

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #halo #microsoft #343 industries #forerunner #mantle of responsibility #retcon #god complex #arrogance #halo: epitaph #precursors #the flood #humanity