#and that shouldn't be the goal

[wesavegotham]

Of course the "why doesn't Batman use his money to fix the system instead of punching the mentally ill" twitter argument is dumb and missing the point (Bruce is not a real person, he did invest a lot of money into helping people in need when he was still rich, it's an action comic, which means violence is going to happen and Gotham is not meant to be fixed, if it was fixed there would be no story), but these past few runs have deconstructed Bruce so much that the people of Gotham or public figures like mayor Nakano thinking Batman is a menace do actually have a point.

I mean, who has Bruce been fighting this entire run? Failsafe and Zur, two evil Batmen of Bruce's own creation. And even in the runs before Zdarsky it was kind of a running theme that Bruce wasn't fighting to save the city from an strange threat, he was fighting someone who had a bone to pick with him for one reason or another. I get that this is supposed to make the story feel more personal, but if you're also constantly asking the question "is Batman doing more harm than good?" then the answer might eventually be "more harm" if you had to be honest. A lot of the many recent takeovers of Gotham had nothing to do with Gotham, they were all about Bruce.

Superhero comics kind of need to have what their protagonists are doing to be helpful though. Of course Batman is not ever going to stop crime in Gotham. But if things don't improve at all or get even worse? Then what did Bruce and his family members sacrifice so much for? And if you seriously think their struggles should have been for nothing because the idea of heroes saving the day is stupid then why are you even writing superhero comics?

#I remember an issue of Tomasi's Tec run in which Bruce told Damian about crime statistics that showed that what they were doing was helping #Of course the idea of Batman helping crime rates go down in real life is ridiculous #just like the idea of the death note reducing crime is dumb #as if committing a crime was driven by logic #a lot of the times people are desperate #mentally ill #or not in their right state of mind #but for the story to work you need Batman to have some positive impact #If not he's really just a lunatic who endangers himself and others to pursue a childish take on justice #and that shouldn't be the goal

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He's the biggest kid here. Large and In Charge.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #su she #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #jing ling #Who are the other juniors? Who ever you'd like them to be. I will probably have to retroactively tag them #(Hello! It's Fer from the Future. Here to retroactively add character tags!) #ouyang zizhen #nameless red disciple #The camp councilor energy continues! WWX's secret power/talent isn't demonic cultivation #its herding teenagers. One of the hardest entities to rally #I adore the uncle energy he has with Jin ling here. Oh you're gonna start banging at doors? No no don't stop #you're sooooo good at it why don't you keep going? Yell some more. Use your talents #If he keeps yelling he *might* summon the purple uncle so its a fine line to walk #The goal with jin ling in that last panel was the same energy as when you catch your dog eating something they shouldn't #and instead of running you enter a staring contest. Does this make any sense. #EDIT: I went to check my notes for this post last night and went “oh geez y'all hated this one huh” only to realize that I uh #saved it as a draft and didn't actually put it into the queue. MASSIVE head empty moment. #So sorry for ppl who got worried or were looking forwards to the comic update. I wish this one was funnier to make up for it.

[orange-orchard-system]

I want plurality to become so well-known and accepted that having a period of questioning if you're a system or a singlet is considered a normal thing to go through

#I also want to go beyond that but I feel like this is a good goal to have too #questioning p.lurality shouldn't be a fringe thing it should just be a thing that happens #plurality #pluralgang #actuallyplural #plural system #actuallymultiple #front soup.txt

[natelia-aldelliz]

more ghost!Roach with accidental necromancer Soap, their first interaction !

(please ignore the fact that i can't draw the same character twice lmao)

#cod mw2 #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #gary roach sanderson #ghostroach #soapghost #ghostsoap #soaproach #ghostsoaproach #accidental necromancer soap and ghost roach au #i'm gonna keep pushing welsh roach i don't know why but i really like it #ooh do you think he spoke welsh to ghost when he was annoyed and ghost told him to speak english #and so when soap speaks scots and he says the same thing for the first time he has a huge internal breakdown #meanwhile roach floating above his head like 'bahahah ur never gonna rest again english man - wait fuck no pls don't cry i didn't mean it' #and soap who can also hear him on the coms being like ._. #he feels bad for ghost but also that is a life goal he can get behind #if ghost didn't want this life he shouldn't have been english #of course he also has no idea what roach is saying when he speaks welsh and roach doesn't know either when he speaks scots #but if it's against ghost it's fiiiine #they're not above pretending to have a full conversation in their respective language to mess with people #anything to have ghost sigh at them it's the funniest thing ever for them

[another-clive-blog]

Why are we as a fandom not talking more about this scene ??

Clive is literally asking the professor to come back and stop him. Like this isn't him pretending to be Future Luke : he looks genuinely upset/displeased even after the professor promises to come back. He only goes back to smiling after the professor says, and I quote "I wouldn't dream of leaving things here in that state" before talking about stopping his future self. Clive wants confirmation that Layton is actually going to confront the bad guys, that he won't just solve the mystery but fix it too.

And this is literally so important. Clive's speech at the end, about getting saved. This is concrete proof that he had truly meant it from the start, because he's asking for Layton to stop him and thus save everyone here. Which, hey- he didn't just hope and wait to get saved, he tried to save himself too.

Yep, that's right. The game talks about how dangerous it was for Clive to bring Layton underground : it doesn't talk about how even more dangerous it was to let him leave. He could have brought back cops (he did). He could have gathered precious knowledge out there (he did). He could have never come back (and yet he did !!). Clive letting Layton leave is the biggest threat to his plan, and yet HE DID. And you know what else he did ? Make Layton promise to stop him. You can't make a clearer call for help, you just can't.

"Oh but it doesn't make his crimes more forgivable, now does it-" of course not. This isn't about Clive's redemption, it's about Clive trying to avoid needing a redemption : his efforts are vain the moment he started using the fortress. But. There were efforts.

#Damn Syl ! Back at it again with the nonsense/stating the obvious !! <3 #Actually nope I don't care. I know how it feels when your self is working to achieve a goal your essence is actively against. #You just feel TERRIBLE. Shouldn't I give in ? I want to give in. It feels wrong but fighting it feels even worse. I'm tired #This exchange is so important. The despair. Asking for help when he knows at that point he's not getting saved it's too late #Like he's been working on the mecha he knows it's done he knows he's starting it. He knows Layton will be his enemy #And yet he still asks him to fix things. He still lets him go when Layton would have understood if it wasn't possible #It's about Clive asking/trusting Layton to keep the fight going and win even when Clive himself knows he can't keep fighting #I feel like I'm repeating myself. It's 2am and I'm sleepy ahah but I needed to get this one out <3 #clive dove #professor layton and the unwound future #professor layton and the lost future #unwound future spoilers #lost future spoilers #My analysis #(Scheduling this one to post when I'm sleeping. I wonder how this one will go lol)

[noirandchocolate]

A judge just called me because she's working on the opinion for a case I did the research memo on. And she asked me. If I could heavily edit what she'd written because. She's read my memos before as well as this one and finds my writing excellent. And because. Her presiding judge told her to rely on me. Because he's done so in the past and I am 'brilliant' apparently. And also because. Other judges she's worked with have raved about me. And she knows they have copy-pasted my work to make their opinions. And she doesn't want to do that, because she's new to the job and wants to improve her own writing style before she starts using shortcuts. But she hopes I will help her out. With that.

Because my writing is just so good and she wishes she could write like me.

=')

My heart is so full of niceness now.

#kidk says stuff #work #like i told her our memos are essentially there to BE copypasted and we love to see it so she shouldn't worry about that #and she said no no she wants to get better at writing herself though because for most cases she won't HAVE one of our memos #so she wants to like use my work as a roadmap but make it her own #i'm like. a judge? is looking up to ME? she says SEVERAL judges? look up to me? as a writer? #i'm going to die help i'm rolling on the floor squealing this is so good to hear this is like hashtag CAREER GOALS

[redysetdare]

every time i see a post that is like "ughh why cant we have aspec characters who aren't aroace for once" I have to do a double take like "is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?" because genuinely....where is all this aroace rep y'all are complaining about? Why cant i find it yet it's apparently the only aspec rep we get?? You admit that TV never says the word aromantic so where is the aroace rep. So far I've pretty much only seen canonically asexual characters and not much else buddy.

#text #half the time i think these ppl see other aspec ppl saying that x character feels aroace and then they take it as canon rep #instead of an interpretation of the character which likely was never meant to be written as aspec at all #because majority of people don't even know what that is #this isn't me saying that we shouldn't have aroallo or alloace rep btw #this is me complaining about people throwing aroace ppl under the bus because apparently we are 'hogging' all the representation in media #and it just reads as people being aphobic towards aroace people specifically and it drives me insane #you can ask for more aroallo and alloace characters without complaining and shitting on aroace characters???? #like bro we are all on the same fucking team. we are all trying to get seen and understood. we all want to see ourselves in media #stop fighting like one of us is somehow way more privileged than the other because 'you have x rep' #we all have crumbs my guy. just because someone else is getting crumbs doesn't mean that its your crumbs being taken. #idk i see so many posts like this and it makes me feel so unwelcome in the aro and ace communities #im tired of aroace people being used as a scapegoat that you can target to pretend like you're punching up #when in reality you're just committing friendly fire against people who are on your team #i miss when the aro and ace communities used to like... work together as a big aspec community #now ppl r way too focused on separating them and acting like they have nothing in common and don't have the same goals #and both communities now tend to put a lot of blame onto aroace people because of stereotypes we never had control over in the first place #it's exhausting #like the aphobia is coming from inside the house #i didn't go through the ace discourse on tumblr to deal with this shit.

[camgoloud]

one small detail that stood out to me about this latest episode that i haven’t seen anyone else talking about yet is that when the commentators are calling colin “inspiring” and the “man of the match,” they are celebrating him not for actually scoring the goals himself, but for providing the crucial assists to make both of them happen. and i really love that because for me it’s the absolute perfect wrap to his character arc across all three seasons!

like, we know that colin’s job on this team has never been to score goals. in fact i’m pretty sure we’ve never heard about a single goal that he has scored. colin is and always has been a team player, not a star—and we’ve seen that crop up over and over. notably, we’ve seen the fact that he’s not entirely at peace with that crop up over and over: see the way he was affected by nate’s entire holidy-inn-painting monologue, being benched to make room for zava, etc.—like, this is the thing he’s sensitive about! this is where all of his insecurities come from!

but at the SAME TIME it’s also tied very intimately with all his struggles re: hiding his sexuality— “colin’s a chameleon,” etc. it’s fascinating because there’s SO much tension there between colin 1. feeling bad about the fact that he never stands out on the pitch the way some of his teammates do, because of who he is on the team, and 2. feeling like he CAN’T stand out, ever, because of Who He Is As A Person. etc. it’s like. he’s filling this role in the background. he’s afraid he’s not doing it well enough. he’s afraid that what and who he is isn’t good enough and isn’t worthy of recognition. he wishes he were someone different. trying to be someone different in the locker room is clearly making him so unhappy and stressed out. it is All Connected and my thoughts have been doing laps around it at an ever-increasing rate since i watched episode 2.07 ‘headspace’ if not before!

and all of this is why it’s so incredible to me that in the end, colin’s big moment comes from making assists and not goals! because on the one hand i understand the fandom desire for the colin post-coming out glowup that we all knew was coming—to see him, like, ~prove everybody wrong about him~ and inspire people by suddenly becoming a standout player and scoring goals left and right, even though that never used to be his role on the team before. and don’t get me wrong, i was 100% on board that train, and would have loved it for him if that was how it went down in the end, also. i think he should get to score here and there! as a treat! especially now that richmond are playing total football and there’s been so much emphasis placed on how it’s not just jamie/dani/occasionally sam who are making all the goals anymore!

but i don’t know! especially after the events of the last few episodes, there’s something very special to me about getting to see a colin who, rather than becoming someone entirely new in the moments right after coming out, just feels free to become, and be at peace with, the best version of the same self he’s always been. he’s still a team player first and foremost, but now that he’s not as weighed down by the need to chameleon/hide/pretend to be someone he’s not, he’s so much better at it. and everyone sees this! he gets to be celebrated for his contributions within the role he’s always played! he (and everybody else!) finally recognizes the value that he adds to the team just by being himself—fully himself! it resolves all the tension and insecurity that we’ve seen him struggling with this whole time, on every level. and so this moment was genuinely the perfect ending for his journey in my opinion—i’m so so happy that we were tall enough to join him on the ride here, and so excited to see what he does going forward these last few episodes now that some of that pressure is off him <3

#it's like. he doesn't want to be a spokesperson! he shouldn't have to End Homophobia by becoming zava 2.0! in fact it would not be possible #for him to do this even if he DID come out publicly and then became the best goal-scorer the league has ever seen because the people who are #the problem will ALWAYS manage to find something to attack him for no matter what he does #what's important to me and i think to him as well is that he has the confidence in himself that he needs to perform at his own personal best #and that his teammates recognize this and support him the same way he has always supported them both on and off the pitch #and while a part of me would have liked to see a public coming-out arc i completely get why they're not going there. it would be a lot to #tackle and this season is already getting justified criticism for spreading itself too thin #i think it would have been POSSIBLE to do and do well but. it would place a LOT of constraints on the entire rest of the plot #and i do recognize somewhere in the back of my brain that colin is not ACTUALLY the protagonist of this show for most people #so them choosing to take the character in the ‘i don’t want to be a spokesperson’ direction instead makes sense and was handled very well #anyway. one other reason i’m pleased about all of this is that while most of my recent tl fic is no longer canon-compliant as of this week. #i sure did NAIL the happy ending being an assist and not a scored goal. have been thinking these thoughts for WEEKS and i feel so vindicated #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #colin hughes

[strrwbrrryjam]

i don't expect adaptations to be carbon copies of the original, because then what would be the point of the adaptation when we already have the original. i don't expect adaptations to be better than the original, sure, there are a few cases of that happening, but it's rare.

what i do expect adaptations is to be faithful to the source material, keeping to the same themes that were integral to the original, and i do expect adaptations to maintain the integrity of the characters, especially in a show like avatar the last airbender, where much of its appeal and depth come from the growth, development and the relationships of the characters and that's where natla fails.

#changes to characters can be good sometimes. but the changes the creators of natla made are not good. #if you believe that the changes they have made are for the better? im not listening to you. argue with the wall. #i dont really care if you like it. if you like it. good for you! #i didnt. it sucks ass. its... so flat and completely assassinated so many characters. katara. bumi. iroh. hakoda. #there are few positives. it isnt all bad. most of it is though. #its not worse than the movie. ill give them that. some of the scenes were great. but... ugh. #side note - i see a lot of people complimenting the outfits and... sure. they look pretty. but the thing is they shouldn't look pretty. #aang is 12 years old. he's reckless and messy and loves to goof off. his clothes are not going to look pristine and brand new. #sokka teaches children to be warriors. you cannot tell me his clothes wouldn't be dirty and torn. #same with katara. but she's an amateur waterbender who messes up. a lot. #ZUKO HAS BEEN ON A RUN DOWN SHIP FOR THREE YEARS. his armour would be OLD. AND SCRATCHED UP. #especially with how careless zuko is. he is a person who will strive to achieve his goal even at his own expense. #his armour and clothes would be beat up and worn. #its got a cosplay feel to me. like these are just people cosplay characters that they only have a shallow knowledge of. #its. just. ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i hate it #natla #netflix avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar the last airbender #strawberry speaks

[susansontag]

it makes me go crazy sometimes just how incorrect some of these GC academics are about things. why not just say bodily differences will lead to some differences but ultimately the way all dance disciplines are organised is a product of socialised gender to a certain extent. women’s dancing is often designed to be decorative or else highly sexualised, men’s emphasises their strength and dynamic movement. these are not natural differences and it’s so stupid, absurd even, to suggest they are. kathleen stock already threw out gender abolitionism (via huge misrepresentation of it) and perhaps joyce will follow her lead. I hate how people are agreeing with this totally uncritically.

#it's not even like I disagree. she's actually just provably wrong about this laughably wrong #feminists shouldn't stand by about this LOL this will actively make our goals more misunderstood #if they engaged honestly with them it'd be different but at least stock did not #gender abolition #moth.txt

[toskarin]

I actually thought the English performance on AC6 was overall great. Every character's unique personality came through pretty strongly, even though it was just voice.

it's definitely got a lot of high points! honest brute's, for example, is a genius casting. I always have to take a second when I hear clips of it to identify which language is being spoken

honestly most of my performance nitpicks are some variation of how "video game soldier voice" is the bane of my existence, especially when it's coupled with fake-yelling

#I maintain that weebvoice and soldiervoice are the same thing taking different forms #where a line is being delivered with too much intensity for the performance that the director is trying to get #and instead of adjusting their goals or explaining that the line shouldn't be delivered that way #they accept the take with the overacting and underemoting

[sunfoxfic]

I'm gonna be real. "No one has an excuse for being ignorant right now" is not actually the take you think it is. In a world as controlled by propaganda and shitty politicians as our own, there are a million reasons why someone may be misinformed - because they grew up in a family with strong convictions based on shitty morals, because they were taught one version of history in school that was written by the victor, because they stumbled onto the wrong news sources first.

No one has an excuse for being ignorant ever - we don't excuse it, we don't forget it. But there are lots of reasons. And for the average person, someone who is approaching the topic in good faith and genuinely wants to help people (which I would argue, most people are) coming at them with accusations of willful ignorance is only going to push them into that ignorance further.

"No one has an excuse for being ignorant right now" but that doesn't give you blanket permission to attack anyone who isn't in full agreement with you. Don't approach your liberal Aunt Cathy who isn't very good at keeping up with politics but volunteers at a dog shelter on the weekends in the same way you'd approach writing a letter to a local politician.

#sorry just #i understand the frustration. and sometimes the frustration is warranted!! believe that! #sometimes people approach the topic in bad faith or by masking a certain end goal with a false ideology!!!! #but the average person is just trying to help. and that shouldn't radically change the way you approach talking to them. #it isn't the failing of an individual when propaganda works #don't approach the ones susceptible to propaganda and the ones creating the propaganda in the same way

[djs-horny-blog-lmao]

-whines softly like a desperate puppy-

What kind of triggers will Logan be giving hero!Remus???

tbh i am so sorry for giving u a denying answer but like... i genuinely feel all that out While i'm writing... im so bad at planning

so the answer is i don't know fully know until i start the fic! <- unhelpful

i will say that like. i think memory play will be huge. Logan will be Subtle and it'll probably take a few encounters before Remus is ready enough to let Logan any closer, and then... like. subliminals. Logan will 'leave behind' a usb or something that Remus is like oooh the villain left behind data i should analyse this and. it subtly and slowly brainwashes him more. yknow?

#he's gonna start walking around in his everyday life and maybe even heroing plugged. shouldn't he be ready for stalker? #logan's probably gonna leave lots of little things for him... some are files with buried subliminals... #some r toys he's quietly encouraging remus to use #the goal is probably to get him needy and reliant #dj monologues #asks #nsfs superhero au #i dont know if this is what you meant but like #yeah i started very slowly rotating them... i can't really explain it well yet

[aimeramie]

I've seen discussions about why Ochako's face is covered on page 7 of chapter 394 when she says that she fell in love with Izuku, and I don't think it's because there should be any doubt about how she feels.

I think she is in love with Izuku, but her eyes are not shown because she is simply not declaring her love to the person she is in love with. She is talking to Toga right now, not Izuku. I think Ochako's full face will be shown when she finally tells Izuku how she feels about him.

( As the panel at the bottom of page 13, chapter 393 suggests she wants to do. )

Ochako is jealous of the smile Toga wears when she declares her love. I think we will see Ochako's smile when she ultimately does the same. When the time comes for Ochako to actually confess her love ( and she most likely will before the manga ends ), it is more satisfying if her whole face—smile and all—is shown to the person she is actually in love with, and that person is Izuku.

edit: I kind of went off in the tags. I am not going to move the tags into the actual post, so if you are interested in more thoughts ↓

#boku no hero academia #midoriya izuku #uraraka ochako #toga himiko #izuocha #i think toga will be happy for ochako when she confesses. if toga lives of course. #it would be silly to have a big moment about ochako's love for izuku here in her fight with toga. #it is important for ochako as a character to reach the conclusion that she shouldn't hold her feelings back because they are part of her. #understanding of self through the other: literally why toga was created for ochako and they were developed to match each other. #basic narrative foil business. #but there is more to this confrontation than ochako loving izuku. #ochako is facing toga because she wants to save her and talking at length about how she loves izuku would never accomplish that goal. #her love for him is a point of connection between her and toga yes. #a starting point really since it leads to a realization that ochako is jealous of toga. #*insert page 14 of chapter 393* #see how that gets a whole page of its own? #see how ochako's whole face is shown? #ochako expressing her jealousy of toga's candid nature when it comes to love is more significant here... #because that feeling is something between her and toga. #it is reciprocated. #jealousy is more significant here because toga is jealous too. of ochako. of other people being able to love and smile while she could not. #she says this on page 10 of chapter 394 and page 13 of chapter 395. #ochako becomes toga's hero by doing more than confirm she is in love with izuku. #she goes to extreme lengths to save toga and everyone around her and that is given greater importance in this moment than a confession. #as it should. #an emotional moment about ochako's love for izuku would happen between her and izuku. #not between her and toga. #basically ochako's full face is shown when her thoughts and feelings are about toga. #when she extends her hand to help her. when she tries to connect with her heart. #i am barely in the bnha fandom at this point 😂 but i do still enjoy thinking about my faves.

[just-kateblr]

I spend the majority of my time in boy mode, so each time I dress and do my makeup, I end up having a bit of a surprise with the results. I've done it enough so that I probably shouldn't be surprised, but it still happens.

Of course, this goes with decades of negative self talk. Over and over, the voice in my head would remind me that I would "never make a credible woman." Then I get made up, see my reflection and think "holy shit, that's ME! And I really don't just look like a guy in a dress."

It ends up being a very grounding experience for me. There is something very calming about it and it gives me some hope. Then, of course, I go back and look at the pictures over the next few days, happy with the results and telling myself I really should get unstuck and start HRT.

#and yes i know i shouldn't care about passing #it's not exactly the goal #but it would make life a wee bit easier

[reanimatedgh0ul]

imo danny would start experimenting w and trying to develop a sense of style towards junior and/or senior year of highschool if not post highschool actually

speaking as trans guy myself it doesn't make sense to give him like a cool and distinct style from the start like if anything that kid would be wearing nothing but hoodies plain tees and pants that's it

like to me danny is more concerned w actually passing atp then actually dressing how he wants to and in way that makes him feel euphoric yk

but i think once he starts to be more comfortable and/or confident in his identity THEN he starts playing around w his wardrobe

#basically danny has to grow into himself and realize that there isn't actually anything stopping from dressing how he wants to #realizing that the goal of passing shouldn't stop you from dressing how you want to just bc you think you can't do it #you can you just have to believe that you can #danny phantom #robi hcs #robi rambles