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someone posts a blurry photo of batman with robin captioned 'lets fight crime with mama' and bruce has to pretend it didnt make him cry

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I like to think that Clark's got his Superman persona down pretty well but he still takes cues from Bruce on how to hover more "menacingly" because he's a sunshine alien who flies and hovers like he's excited to be in the air and always constantly drifting toward the sun, and a gentle, bobbing kind of hover isn't what intimidates people. No. What intimidates people when it comes to floating/hovering is:

not moving at all - not even an inch, completely rigid 10-20 feet off the ground (terrifying)

hovering in a way that constantly ripples your cape behind you

moving up and down so slowly, it triggers the "danger" instinct in human brains but not fast enough for them to consciously realize it

quick up-and-down hovering, like a beating heart (bonus points if you time it to the person's heartbeat)

weird tilting/hovering where you slowly tilt forward so your face is closer and your legs start dangling behind you (emphasize height + eyes)

slowly getting farther and farther away (hovering up) so people have to crane their necks to look up at you

hovering just off the ground throughout a conversation + never fully touching down

#1 but from far away, in a spot visible from the person's window, i.e., hovering a block away from their apartment window so they know you're watching, they can see you there

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I sent you the post in a fit of hell shift induced mania but I will literally never be stopped (/j)

(unseen offscreen moment beforehand)

NO BUT IM CRYING BC SHE FUCKING WOULD, HELP??? PLS THATS SO FUNNY I LOVE IT, AND THEY'RE SO CUTE AND SQUISHY I WANNA SQUEEZE THEM LIKE STRESS TOYS TILL THEY POP IN AN EXPLOSION OF CONFETTI

Tobirama is so disappointed in them both for so many reasons, but he really shouldn't have expected much better. Lower your expectations, Tobirama.

(He's going to get yelled at by Kagami's mother when Kagami comes home talking about how he learned something new today— how to spell a whole list of curses. Because Tobirama can deal with child idiocy but refuses to stand for illiteracy.)

ANYWAYS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE ART, UR ACTUALLY INSANE FOR IT AND I LOVE U SO MUCH DJDBSIDJ THANK YOU !!!!!!!!

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You know what, I actually really miss those author's notes that consisted of the author talking to the characters and the characters being so done with the author's shit. Those were fun.

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istg youve awakened something in me w your jaykon agenda and im so here for it

Jaykon is an interesting pairing to me because if Jason had lived, he absolutely WOULD have been Kon's Robin, which, you know, could've gone either real bad or real WELL or real "oh god I regret ever even BREATHING near Metropolis" for Brucie Wayne, lbr. For one thing, Jason would've been . . . what, seventeen-ish when Kon dropped? Give or take. Which means he would likely NOT have been as "obedient" to his DAD as Tim was to his BOSS at FIFteen-ish, because from Jason's point of view that's his fucking DAD and his dad is just being goddamn paranoid and controlling and a total antisocial ASSHOLE again and ANYWAY he's like six months max from going to college and getting himself his own hero identity a la Dick getting Nightwing so fuck it, what's he care!!

( "I NEVER EVEN GOT TO BE A TITAN, B, YOU DON'T GET TO FUCK UP THIS YOUNG JUSTICE THING FOR ME, FUCK OFF. THEY'RE MINE NOW." )

And also, like, that's a very different Bruce, is the Bruce who didn't ever LOSE Jason. So hell, that version of Bruce literally might not've even TRIED to make Jason keep his name to himself in the same exclusively-just-on-HIS-terms "literally I will fucking NEVER let you tell them your name no matter WHAT" way he was acting with Tim, who he also would not let tell his LITERAL FUCKING GIRLFRIEND his name, but HE was totally fine telling her HIMSELF once it was convenient for him. Not even giving Tim PERMISSION to, just doing it HIMSELF without even telling Tim he was GOING to, Bruce Wayne you are the literal worrrrrst jfc--

ANYWAY OFF-TOPIC. Whatever that Bruce's opinion was, I can't help feeling that if JASON-Robin wasn't telling YJ his name or showing them his face at least after the first suicide pact or two, it'd be because HE didn't want to, and that is what he'd SAY to them. And I kinda think Kon would've taken that better than being told "we've been through all this shit together now and Batman is STILL more important than you" over and over and OVER every single time Tim found another excuse to hide his face or showed up in a new mask/disguise/set of glasses/goggles/whatever. Because like, that would be Jason choosing what he wants for himself, not Tim choosing Batman over literally every single member of Young Justice time and again and AGAIN and actually NEVER willingly telling them, they only found out in the end because of some dumb reality-getting-fucked shit selling his ID out accidentally.

I actually think Jason and Kon would have gotten along STUPID-well if they had met under those circumstances and it is SO rich an AU concept that I have literally never seen a single person even touch before. Though also in more canon-accurate land frankly the only understandable reason that I think Jason has Bizarro for his Super-buddy system is because Young Justice is just too insane about each other for Kon to have ever gotten put on a book like Outlaws, hah. Also, like, Kon is obviously not very murder-happy and Superboy has very different moral standards than Red Hood does, also that. But you absolutely COULD do some real interesting shit with Kon's character on a team like that, that's all imma say.

Like Kon is a dude who HAS and KNOWS that he has been convinced to be murder-happy a couple times/timelines before, is all--knows he's psychologically SUSPECTIBLE to being convinced of that--and THAT I think would be a much more interesting moral/ethical dilemma for his character development than "oh god I have Westfield/Luthor DNA so am I genetically DOOMED to be a bad guy??" No, you're not, and you are a grown-ass clone who KNOWS that!! But you are also a grown-ass clone who knows you have the CAPACITY to be a bad guy, and to actively CHOOSE to be a bad guy, to actively JUSTIFY being a bad guy to yourself, and who does NOT necessarily think Jason is wrong about dudes like the Joker never changing and the balance of that and the concept of fucking HARM reduction, if it comes down to it! Black Zero and future!Superman BOTH started out as good guys; that Superman in fact started out as HIS VERSION OF HIM EXACTLY, even! And then the two of them saw enough shit out in the world doing their superhero thing that they changed their minds ABOUT what being "good" even meant or entailed or if it was even possible at all, so if he's here and doing this, and doing this with someone like JASON who keeps KILLING people every time he takes his eyes off him, whether those people are unforgiveable bastards or not, is he gonna change his mind too? Is he gonna start thinking he's figured out what they "figured out"? Is this how "figuring out" that STARTS??

And Knockout saw SOMETHING in him, he knows, and he knows she wasn't wrong because he almost killed her. Because he WOULD'VE killed her, if she'd kept fighting when he'd held her under.

God I could do so, so much with Kon on the Outlaws and with JAYKON on the Outlaws. So, SO much.

But like, Tim Drake exists and I just cannot divorce Kon from his ride-or-die loyalty for his ride-or-die bestie so basically any time I wanna JayKon it up I gotta somehow make it Weird, hahaha.

. . . anyway, someone had something awakened in them or something??

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Gym buddies HashiMada btw. If you even care. Two extra™️ dudes desperately trying not to be creeps while they ogle their bro's ""form""".

They exchange nods at first when they notice each other in the gym around the same time every week in the rainy season. Hashirama usually ends his workout on a run and cooldown stretches; Madara has never been much of a runner and starts copying him on the treadmill in some gay AF attempt to get closer to him. Hashirama occasionally makes small talk with him as he sets up so Madara breaks convention and starts using the treadmill right next to him so he can listen to Hashirama's faint pants and watch the sweat bead on his face. While racing him.

Hashirama eventually notices this stranger trying to race him on the treadmill and is delighted by the whimsy of the world. They parry childish words and bets. He may or may not become distracted henceforth when Madara whips off his soaked shirt to run topless.

An employee darts over shortly after to politely remind Madara that this gym does not allow nudity in any form. Madara is baffled, despite rarely taking off his shirt in public, but ends his workout there to avoid putting his sopping shirt back on.

Hashirama joins him in solidarity and they take the most awkward showers of their life trying to chat while 1) studiously avoiding looking at one another and 2) fervently praying that their dicks behave.

Hashirama pretends to slip so he has an excuse to dive for the protection of his locker door, so his prayers were clearly ignored.

Insert awkward, heated, lingering eye contact as they block the front step of the gym chatting about absolutely nothing. Eventually Madara notices the time and has to book it. Hashirama catches his elbow—shit, he's strong—and brightly suggests running in the park on the weekend.

Somehow it is still a few long, long, long months before it hits them that. Duh. We are both clearly into this. And they do the gayest thing two men can do together to consummate:

They run a marathon.

They have a post-run sloppy makeout and Madara bans Hashirama from working out with anyone else.

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Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

Turn ON the sound

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literally how boring and dull do you have to be to dislike codependent relationships in fiction like where is the passion where is the devotion where is the worship that inevitably corrupts and destroys one if not both of them

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being doomed by the narrative is cool and all but i like when a character is doomed just by being a fucking idiot. sorry that happened to you but it is entirely your own fault and you could have just chosen to not do all that

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a necromancer who didn't want to get persucutated without giving up their abilities got an idea after watching their cities paladins so now they are an official paladin of the god of death and now every forbidden magic user is calling themselves paladins and the church is fuming.

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The Doctor Who fandom owes so much to Christopher Eccleston and I think a lot of people forget that 😞 I've been rewatching dw starting from the revival in 2005 and even though 9 had such a short season, it was *fantastic.* I honestly had so much fun painting this! 3 hr 30 min, done in Procreate

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:')

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A grand confrontation

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tobiizu maid au in which tobirama is a consummate professional and izuna finds that much sexier than any "clumsy oopsies my panties got flashed" sort of maid scenario possible. he pays tobirama far too much money just to come and sweep his house.

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Personally, I think one of the single cutest habits of fandom is to address authors (even fanfic authors!) with whatever honorific is common the original's native language.

In fandom spaces for anime and manga you'll see "author-sama," in fandom for Korean novels you'll see "author-nim," and I'm positive I've seen the same for Chinese media but the exact term is escaping me...and now I'm wondering how the Bollywood and other fandoms address their authors... (this is an open invitation to tell me about honorifics)

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Random thought, and you could chalk it up to lazy writing if you really want to, but isn't it fascinating how both Vlad and Jack went by "Plasmius" after getting blasted by the proto-portal? Almost like a ghost named Plasmius merged with them in those two realities, isn't it? I dunno, it's just a thought I had after I realized Jack also went by "Plasmius" when he became a half-ghost. There's coincidence, there's lazy writing, and then there's hints of something never actually touched on in canon.