#look i would rather see all them as dc roles

[mattzerella-sticks]

Okay Marvel, hear me out... you want to do more media about mutants, right?

#marvel #marvel comics #mcu #x-men dazzler #x-men longshot #x-men Rictor #x-men shatterstar #ricstar #julio richter #alison blaire #meg donnelly #drake rodger #jensen ackles #pedro pascal #look i would rather see all them as dc roles #jensen is batman and meg is supergirl no cap #and pedro deserves a second chance he was too good for 1984's script im sorry i love ww but it was... mid #however if there was ever a marvel opportunity... especially since they want to do mutants #have it be a love story between dazzler and longshot and the rebellion on mojoworld and they get help from mysterious strangers ricstar #and it ends with the reveal that shatterstar has to take himself away from the couple after he's born #did i just learn dazzler and longshot are shatterstar's parents? yes. #is this similar (but not exactly like) the winchesters? yes. but just different enough lol

[dollwritesarchive]

(Coming through with yet another HC request) but for the bird brains event — the boys and their love language? 😩

these are just extremely quick thoughts!

fandom dc / masterlist coming soon / @dollsdc-library

featuring dick grayson x implied!reader ; jason todd x implied!reader ; tim drake x implied!reader ; damian wayne x implied!reader [ all characters are 18+ ]

rating none of my work is meant to be viewed by minors (anyone under the age of eighteen), and i will happily block any that interact with my posts or my blog.

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bird brains writing event !!

𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐬𝐨𝐧 — 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 !

falls asleep with his head on your lap/when you play with his hair.

he picks you up for no reason other than the fact that he can.

backhugs you in line at the grocery store, sways back and forth, grinning like an idiot with his eyes closed.

so. many. kisses. this man can and will kiss you for hours if you let him. you don’t know how his mouth doesn’t get tired, because your lips were swollen for the first month of being together.

don’t even think about showering alone, because he will most certainly invite himself. every time. he’ll wash your hair for you just so he can rub his fingers through it.

in bed, he’s mostly big spoon. he does love when you sleep on top of him or wrap your arms and legs around him, though. you will never wake up on the opposite side of the bed.

he gets anxious when he’s away from you, and if he can’t hold you in public he’ll settle for grasping your hand, but he won’t be satisfied until he can carry you around like a backpack again.

𝐉𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐝 — 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 !

Jason needs to hear that he’s not all of the nasty things he’s been made to believe he is, but he won’t ask for it. you’ll have to initiate.

if you catch him cleaning his guns, you slide up behind him, delve your fingers into his hair, and croon, “I love you so much baby.”

he wants you to straddle his lap, look into his eyes, and whisper, “You’re a good man.” because he tends to forget.

you have to tell him how much you need him, how much you want him, and how much you love him often.

even when he scoffs or brushes it off with a playful shrug, he knows he’s lucky to have you.

he does reciprocate with admissions of love and adoration.

“I would be so lost without you.” is a sentiment he expresses often. along with, “You’re everything to me.” and “I’ve never truly belonged anywhere but in your arms. You are my home.”

𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐤𝐞 — 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 !

as long as he’s near you, he doesn’t care about much else.

he will creep into the room while you’re working/bring any new gadgets he needs to work on and sit quietly in the corner just to be in the same vicinity as you.

Tim likes to read to you / have you read to him in the middle of the night.

he practiced your skincare routine to be able to do it with you every night.

he wants to know every one of your hobbies so you two can do them together.

will call you while he’s on a mission just to hear your voice, even though you know Bruce looks down on that.

cafe dates every time he gets the chance.

he doesn’t want to catch an uber, and would rather walk you wherever you’re going for that extra time together.

Tim sees his future when he looks in your eyes.

𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 — 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 !

Damian wants a mommy to take care of him but won’t admit it.

there are set roles to play. you, the dutiful housewife and lover. him, the protector.

he loves when you tend to his injuries.

he will sit quietly and simply watch you cook for him instead of offering to help or taking initiative, but he’s grateful, even if he doesn’t say it.

luckily for him, you like to baby him.

Damian is extremely protective over you, and considers it his duty as your man to be your personal guard dog. he also gets jealous extremely easily, but that’s another story entirely.

“Stay close to me at all times.”

“I don’t want you out of my sight.”

sometimes it’s a little annoying, but mostly it’s endearing, and shows how much he cares considering his awkwardness when expressing himself outright.

#dick grayson x reader #dick grayson #dick grayson x you #dick grayson imagine #nightwing x you #nightwing x reader #nightwing #jason todd imagine #jason todd x you #jason todd x reader #jason todd #red hood imagine #red hood x you #red hood x reader #red hood #tim drake #tim drake x you #tim drake x reader #tim drake imagine #red robin #red robin x you #red robin x reader #damian wayne x reader #damian wayne x you #damian wayne #Robin #robin x you #robin x reader #birdbrains writing event

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Even if we pretend as if 'more stories by and about poc should be adapted rather than just relying on racebending white characters from majority white casts' was the point you were originally making (and, to be clear, it isn't; if that's what you wanted to say at the start, you really need to get better at communicating ideas), that doesn't change the fact that this relies on Hollywood being remarkably less racist than it is right now.

Because, you see, while some strides have been made, overwhelmingly the stories that are chosen for adaptations--especially big budget movies and television--are ones from white creators and/or with all- or majority-white casts. Bridgerton. Shadow and Bone. Percy Jackson. The MCU and DCEU and other Marvel and DC properties. Good Omens. Sandman. Rings of Power and other LoTR adaptations. Wheel of Time. Etc etc etc.

It would be great if Hollywood just miraculously got less racist overnight and started choosing poc created/driven stories to adapt for the big and small screens in anywhere close to equal numbers. But that's just not the reality of the world we live in. And the reality is that if you insist on only ever allowing characters of color on screen if the source material being adapted depicted them as such, then mass media is going to be even more overwhelmingly white than it is.

It's actually great to look at stories where skin color does not actually matter (like in The Witcher or Percy Jackson) and think 'hm, why do these characters have to be white when we can provide opportunities to actors of color to play these roles?', while also thinking 'it'd be great to get more spotlight on stories that are by and/or heavily feature poc so that we move away from "white as the default"'.

These two ideas can coexist--and, in fact, they must in order for any real progress to be made. So people are probably going to continue to assume that you're racist if you bitch about the inclusion of poc in The Witcher, a story where absolutely zero part of it requires that the entire cast be white. Especially if you start in with that 'it's based in polish folklore!!!!' bullshit line despite not caring one whit about all the non-polish white people that are also in the cast.

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Yup.

Actually, I have seen Witcher complaints that just focused on the Polish aspect, and I think they make an interesting point. This adaptation could have kept that more visible. But that's irrelevant to having some nonwhite characters or not.

[mintacle]

Jason Todd being girl-coded, you've opened my eyes! You are so right and suddenly a lot of things about him make sense (including why I like him so much), especially with how the narrative treats him (right down to turning a morally complex character into a straight-up card-carrying villain who eats puppies, ironically right around the time they did that to another female character, Talia). Jason is even written how I (a girl) tend to write angry victim power fantasy female characters. Like yes babygirl, scream and rage against the heavens about how unfair it all is!

I remember a post calling Jason "the Punisher for girls" except... yeah he kinda is. The Punisher is a male power fantasy with all that implies, while Jason is such a girl power fantasy and written with a lot of the usual negative narrative bias female characters usually get.

Except if we're honest and look past the superficial similarities of lethal force and guns, the narrative role of Batman is far more like the Punisher than Jason. Jason's role is the Punisher's daughter. Jason is if Lisa came back and was angry after what happened and big parent man Frank had to try to keep his (hysterical emotional angry-like-a-girl) daughter from crossing his arbitrary lines because she was going "too far" and tragically, he's unable to "save" her from herself and he must Move On while his child gets locked up or lies dying behind him (I can seriously imagine exactly how a proper Lisa-is-back plot would go down it's crazy how similar it'd be to Jason's return).

And another way Jason is girl-coded is that he's mentored by Talia, a woman. In comics you don't see male characters mentored by female ones often. Sometimes they can be taught specific skills by them for a brief time (like Tim and Shiva) but Talia's role as Jason's primary mentor and caretaker for several years is pretty unusual in comics.

True!! I'm glad my posts resonated with you so much. :)

I don't really know anything about the Punisher so I can't add my opinion to the mix, but other people will probably recognize your point.

But! On the subject of female characters mentoring male characters @benbamboozled made a great post actually about how women are seen as Having A Specific Skill or Expertise to teach whereas men are mentors For All, or For Life. And yeah Jason does break the rule absolutely! But we also don't get to see to much of that on page. He is in Talia's care for years, but other than Lost Days and utrh we just don't get to see these two interact. I either made a post or drafted and forgot about it, how DC won't publish Talia and Jason working together because it is vital to DC's agenda of keeping them marginalized that they each be alone nomatter how much reason and history they have to be in more frequent and meaningful contact.

At the same time, we really only see Talia caring for Jason in a motherly context, she isn't cast quite in the role of a mentor, rather sending him around to teachers than teaching him herself. It's a step in the right direction, but the fact of any mentoring and most interactions occuring off-screen, as well as their relationship being ignored later, or ret-conned like in the utrh movie where Talia was kind of replaced with Ra's.

For me a lot of Jason's girl-coded aspect arises from his opposition to Bruce who embodies patriarchal ideals. To some extent Jason is in the role of every person who has been let down by the patriarchy. The system we were told is for our benefit as well and which has let us down. It's about how we were let down by this world we thought was fair when we were smaller and trusted to be protected. It's about how our own father's have let us down, even if the time we last thought of them as protectors might have been many, many years ago.

None of these experiences are exclusionary to women either. I am not a woman, but I am queer. And I have been let down both by the idea that my father could ever be my protector instead of the one I needed protection from. And I have been let down by the idea I used to have of a world that would give me a voice without me having to prove myself every step of the way.

The need I have for more interaction between Talia and Jason is so much about two people villainized and victimized by the same patriarch-favoring narrative bonding and rising to challenge and upset the status quo. While I am aware that it will never happen and that DC already left Winnick a lot of leeway to have made Talia play such a type of role at all, logically it should be what follows.

Jason is girl-coded, but he also drinks his respect-women juices.

#jason todd #ask answered #I held back bc I could have gone on and on and on #thank you anon for sharing your thoughts!!

[gffa]

Oh. Oh no. For the first time in my life pretty much ever I think I'm vaguely interested in a Batman vs Joker comic. This is a humiliating turn of events for me. It's never a good idea to get pre-invested in the potential of a DC comics storyline, that way only ever lies disappointment and "I don't know what I expected" because I should know better. But I can't help it! I took ten years off and came back to a DC that's better than when I left it! I have hope in my heart! And, for all that Gotham War ended with a whimper rather than a bang, I still can see so much potential. Imagine what a real shakeup of the dynamics in the Batfam would look like! I don't believe for a second that they'd do it, but imagine if they actually had Dick in the role of being the family leader, except as Nightwing this time instead of stepping into Batman's boots. He wouldn't want to be the patriarch in the same way Bruce was, but he's about the same age as Bruce was when Bruce adopted him, so imagine the tasty tasty parallels they could do with Dick suddenly in charge of a feral gremlin charge of his own (Damian), some actual support both emotionally and on the streets (Tim and Barbara), a team he actually would be able to call on for help when he needed it (Jason, Steph, Cass, Duke), that in some ways he has it easier than Bruce did, he's not as wrapped up in his own pain in the same way, but in other ways it's harder, he doesn't have Alfred, he has so many moving pieces that are all clashing and aren't necessarily going to listen to him (Steph and Cass and Duke aren't loyal to him the way he was loyal to Bruce)(and then there would be Jason's *waves hands* everything) and it would be out of his control that he'd feel responsible for and it would be a conflict between setting himself up in Bludhaven versus how Gotham still needs the team, not just Bruce being an asshole out there on his own--and god, running into Bruce, always wondering if he approves of Dick's style of leadership versus "You don't get a vote on whether to approve or not." There is SO MUCH that could be done with it! I can't help kind of being fond of the Gotham War set-up, because I like drama and I like Bruce's up and down character arc, and I like a complicated, sharp-edged Bruce who does inexcusable things because his brain is fucked up and lying to him, even when I know it'll disappoint me. But also. I was reading Batman #139 and oh, oh no, oh noooo, I'm interested in "Mindbomb" as a story--as a Joker story!--because it really is the perfect time for it, isn't it? Bruce has been overwhelmed for months now, he's in such a bad place mentally and emotionally that he's letting his fears of loss win and pushing his entire family away, he's doing horrible things to them because he can't handle loving them like he does, so he's separated himself from them, all while he thinks he's in control, but he's not, his brain is absolutely lying to him, and it's hissing in his ear to strip everything that Bruce loves away from himself and so that only Batman is left. Zur-En-Arrh is right there. "I'm in control!" Bruce screams in his own mind, all while Zur just rips through him and so easily takes over. Bruce has no control, he is so, so wrong about all of this, and oh boy the Joker is getting exactly what he wants, isn't he? No more annoying riff raff to get in the way or for Batman to care more about than him. No more Selina, no more kids, no more friends, no more loved ones--just Zur-En-Arrh, the most "pure" Batman in the Joker's eyes, now it's just the two of them. And that's everything Joker has ever wanted. And I don't want to find that to be an interesting extension of everything that led up to and during Gotham War, but crap yeah okay that's kind of a well-timed story when I look at it through that lens. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, I'm going to be disappointed in wherever this goes, but dammit. The story kind of got me.

#lumi.txt #dc #batfam #bruce wayne #joker #batman 2016 #tuesday spoilers

[alternis]

several days ago my brain did some calculations and beamed into my conscious thought "if third eye au tim is parallel to both cass and red hood Jason maybe he should have cotard's syndrome after shiva saves his life. he's self aware that it's an irrational delusion, but other than compartmentalisation and meditative techniques there isn't a lot he can do bc mental health care in the dcu is Real Bad"

(cotard's syndrome is a set of related delusions that the sufferer is dead/missing body parts/etc, sometimes called 'walking corpse syndrome')

its a thematically a blending of cass's death wish and Jason's "I died and came back" thing (since Jason doesn't die in this au so tim fulfills a symbolic parallel of his role as a ghost from batman past reminding him of how he failed them),

except rather than seeking death or revenge it turns inward (since Tim tends to live in his own head when stressed. a withdrawn tim is a struggling tim). like, he isn't seeking death. because on a subconscious level he's convinced he already died and is somehow still functioning. anf he's not going to put himself in dangerous situations because he thinks he deserves it, like cass, or seek revenge for his death like Jason. he's very high functioning. but it means he's also weirdly chill about the concept of dying and accepts that shiva is going to kill him some day and doesn't do a lot to avoid that future since internally it doesn't feel like a big deal.

but he definitely doesn't want to kill anybody ever again, consciously because a) his personal moral compass and b) to him his death and the act of killing zsasz are intrinsically linked. but also, on a subconscious level, being dead is terrible and he doesn't want to inflict it on another person.

it starts immediately after he wakes up from surviving the Very Traumatic Exsanguination where he absolutely would have died if it weren't for shiva's healing techniques and getting him a backalley blood transfusion (and possibly his heart gave out/had to be manually restarted for Symbolic Purposes), and is just. unobtrusively laying beneath every decision he makes going forward. it really doesn't help that death isn't a permanent condition in dc, and the more public resurrections there are the more he's like. well shit maybe this isn't such a Weird Situation.

this idea slowly permeated from the back of my head out into third eye canon

potentially, and I'm still trying to figure this one out, a version of the evil future titans plot happens but tim figures out in a private conversation with one of the evil future titans (via deduction from how they treat him as neither a potential threat nor potential ally) that in their future he's dead, and is just very chill about that concept even when he asks for more details and finds out that it'll be three months from now but none of them will be able to prevent it because none of them know the details. he just vanished, and later shiva admitted to having killed him.

so of course rather than start preparing a daring counter move (he already used up the poison gambit) he just gets his affairs in order and waits for shiva to contact him, and when she does vanishes into the night

except at this point in the timeline danny temple/krait is a reluctant teen titan member, tracks Tim down and interrupts the fight (a very bad idea! that is shivas least favourite thing!) but, unlike Tim, he has actually planned for how to prevent shiva killing his bestie/long time crush ever since he found out that she trains people in order to Duel with Them to The Death when they're at their peak prowess. so he manages to take a wounded Tim back to a secret kobra bunker and after some Dramatic Talk tim reveals the whole. 'doesn't really care about dying because he's felt dead since the day she saved him and every time he looks in the mirror all he sees is his own corpse staring back at him' thing. yes he knows it's irrational and delusional. of course he won't tell the other titans. he figured out the secret identities of half the justice league as a teenager and was trained by the world's deadliest martial artist, he cant let anybody know he's got Flaws or Instabilities bc then he'd become a potential threat (somewhere, batman feels a moment of strange validation over his paranoia towards his allies on the justice league. he shrugs and goes back to spying on green lanterns text messages)

after he finally accepts his condition may benefit from actual treatment he can go ~mad scientist~ and seemingly start secretly researching mind control/brainwashing technology but when the team confronts him it turns out he's just trying to treat his own mental health condition diy style bc he justifiably does not trust the psychiatric professionals of the dc universe. he gets a secret villain lab setup as a treat. as an enrichment activity. he and krait take apart stolen kobra technology to reverse engineer it together instead of going on normal dates

#one time I had an experience where i was convinced i was secretly an ai in an android body and it affected me greatly #and also still currently have ocd. dealing with delusional thinking whilst aware it's delusional thinking. yeah I'll project that onto Tim #third eye au #does this makes sense? maybe not. compels me though

[hood-ex]

Did you read dark crisis? What are your takes on it, did you like it?

I just watched a YouTube video telling the whole story and I haven't seen you comment on it besides the amazing 'the more things change the more they stay the same' post

I honestly just found the whole thing discombobulating with all the talk of darkness and how it would better or worsen the multiverse. Like ooo the darkness is sentient... or not. It's just created from Pariah's own insanity... or something? (Dude, idk, they talked about it back and forth so much that I couldn't remember what the truth was by the end of it.)

Slade's motivation throughout the story (when he wasn't being mindfucked by the darkness) was ehhh. He wanted everything to end so that people wouldn't have to feel pain like he did when his children died or were hurt. Which, idk, is pretty weird to me since he didn't used to like endangering innocent people and would sometimes protect innocents even if no one paid him. (EDIT: I totally forgot about Slade's involvement with the destruction of Bludhaven when writing this ALKDA. Slade's willingness to protect the innocent depends on who's writing him.) It just seemed a bit out there for him is all. An overreaction, if you will.

Hal and Barry had pretty solid interactions throughout the story. They were getting shit done for sure.

Loved Roy and Dinah's reunion hug.

Black Adam was kind of annoying being all Mr. Doom and Gloom. I understand it was meant to juxtapose the whole theme of light/darkness and hope/despair but whatever. It was also weird af that they made him look like The Rock in one panel.

Gar got an eye patch after getting his eye shot out, and I thought it was interesting how his eye looked perfectly fine when he transformed into a tiger but then a scar appeared across his eye when he transformed into some werewolf looking beast.

Jon's solo fight against the dark army (or whatever the fuck they were called idr) was one of my favorite parts. Mostly because it reminded me of Ponyboy getting his shit rocked during the Greaser vs. Socs rumble.

I like that Clark jumped in to save him from Doomsday at the last second.

Let's see... there were definitely some Titans that could've gotten some more lines in. Some of them didn't really have a major part in the story. They were mostly background fighters.

Dick was not one of those Titans. He had a pretty big role in this story as the "light" in the darkness. Honestly pretty insane that his willpower was so strong that he was able to unpossess himself (he was a candidate to be a Green Lantern at one point though sooo). I thought it was hilarious as fuck when Dick gave his speech to Bruce about his little candle and how he wanted to keep candles lit to bring hope to other people, and then Bruce wordlessly took the candle out of Dick's hand and snapped it with his thumb ASLDKJA, and Dick was all *shocked Pikachu face.*

I mentioned it before but I personally feel a little iffy about how much DC is pushing Dick as the new leader of the future. Mostly because when Bruce previously wanted Dick to become a member of the Justice League, Dick declined. And now Bruce isn't even really giving Dick the option. He's just like, "So anyway the world needs a leader while the JL is on recess annnd that leader is going to be you." Y'know. Despite the fact that being the leader is stressful as fuck and Dick had to step away from two different teams because he was mentally and emotionally worn down from them.

Also, I hate that they didn't keep all the events of this story contained to one book. At one point Damian was like, "Brb," and then later he randomly showed up with some more heroes to join the fight. Like bruh. I'd rather read his little adventure in this story rather than have to hunt down whatever the hell he was doing in some other book.

And the veeery ending with Waller and her idea to get rid of metahumans just made me think of Nightwing: New Order. I'm doubtful that idea is going to feel new or fresh in any capacity, but we shall see.

All in all, the event was kind of just... meh. The art was probably my favorite part. It gave us some good whump shots of Dick and Jon. It also made Dick look more intense and serious which made him feel like his old self. That I appreciated.

#Dark Crisis #thoughts #anon

[thecreaturecodex]

Modron, Octon

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[Those of you who are familiar with the modrons of 1e may notice that I am leaving out a big bit of modron flavor text. The idea that there are a set number of modron hierarchs of each tier. This I am intentionally leaving out, because I think it is stupid. Namely, the numbers of each tier are way too low. They’re the square of the modron’s number (so 100 decatons, 81 nonatons, 64 octons, etc). And in 1e, Mechanus is infinite. So you have an infinite plane, with just 100 supervisors, 81 sheriffs, 64 governors? D&D in general has difficulty with population sizes (cities always are underpopulated compared to real world medieval cities), but comparing these numbers to literal infinity just makes the problem even more noticeable. So I am leaving the numbers of each rank of hierarch intentionally blank. Do with them what you, as a GM, will.]

Modron, Octon CR 12 LN Outsider (extraplanar) This stoutly build creature has a single large eye set in its head, which is surrounded with an ornate collar. It has eight arms, and appears to be wearing a metallic set of robes.

Octons are bureaucrats and middle managers par excellence. They act as regional governors in Regulus, overseeing the tasks of lesser modrons, coordinating large scale construction or expansion projects and keeping tabs on law and order in their province. Their collars give them enormous magical mobility, and they are sometimes seen floating at the tops of buildings or swimming through waterworks in order to properly inspect them. They are rarely found in each other’s company, although by no means are most octons alone—they usually travel with a decaton to delegate to, and a large staff of drones to follow orders. When multiple octons come together, it is usually to discuss a project that would affect all of their districts or to share intelligence about visitors to be aware of (such as mortal adventurers).

Octons may look rather unassuming compared to decatons and nonatons, but they are even more dangerous combatants than those ranks. Octons are trained in the martial arts, and each octon has a specific fighting style that they use—these fighting styles are about the only individuality given to octons, and so they are proud of their skills. The octon statistics presented here show specialization in defensive techniques. Although octons are proud, they are not foolish; their first move when confronted with interlopers from another plane is typically to send them back where they came from with magic.

An octon is fastidious and precise in its movements, mannerisms and speech. They are sticklers for following all of the rules, even those of spelling and grammar, and get irritated with anyone who does not consider such proprieties. On the rare occasions they are found outside of Regulus, octons often serve as ambassadors. In these roles, they are usually granted authority to make some decisions, but usually defer major treaties or declarations to the tertians.

Octon     CR 12 XP 19,200 LN Medium outsider (extraplanar, law, modron) Init 23 (fixed); Senses darkvision 60 ft., detect chaos, Perception +22 Defense AC 26, touch 17, flat-footed 26 (+6 Dex, +1 dodge, +9 natural) hp 156 (13d10+65 plus 20) Fort +9, Ref +14, Will +13 DR 10/chaotic; Resist acid 10, cold 10, fire 10; SR 21 Defensive Abilities constructed, freedom of movement, uncanny dodge Offense Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (good), swim 60 ft. Melee unarmed strike +19/+14/+9 or +17/+17/+12/+12/+7 (2d6+4) Special Attacks monastic training Spell-like Abilities CL 13th, concentration +17 Constant—detect chaos, freedom of movement, tongues At will—calm emotions (DC 16), clairaudience/clairvoyance, dimension door, haste, order’s wrath (DC 18), protection from chaos (DC 15), telekinesis (DC 19) 3/day—dismissal (DC 19), greater command (DC 19), greater teleport 1/day—dictum (DC 21), true seeing, wall of force Statistics Str 18, Dex 22, Con 20, Int 19, Wis 21, Cha 19 Base Atk +13; CMB +17 (+19 grapple); CMD 34 (36 vs. grapple) Feats Alertness, Combat Expertise, Deflect Arrows, Dodge, Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike (B), Stunning Fist, Weapon Finesse Skills Diplomacy +17, Fly +27, Knowledge (arcana, engineering, history, local) +14, Knowledge (planes, religion) +17, Perception +24, Sense Motive +22, Spellcraft +14, Swim +26, Use Magic Device +14; Racial Modifiers +4 Fly, +2 Perception, +4 Swim Languages Celestial, Infernal, Modron, telepathy 100 ft. (9 miles with modrons), tongues SQ coordinated ally, fixed initiative, motility collar Ecology Environment any (Regulus) Organization solitary or conference (2-5) Treasure standard Special Abilities Monastic Training (Ex) An octon gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat as well as the unarmed strike damage bonus and flurry of blows of a monk equal to its Hit Dice. Octon hit dice stack with monk levels for these class abilities. Motility Collar (Su) An octon’s collar gives it a fly speed of 60 feet and a swim speed of 60 feet as a supernatural ability. It also grants it a +4 racial bonus to Fly and Swim checks.

#modron #octon #planescape #D&D #pathfinder 1e #tredlocity

[wild-karrde]

Congrats on the follower milestone!

I’m not sure if this falls under Director’s Cut or OC Asks, but I’d love to know some headcanons (both SFW and NSFW (if you’re up for it)) for both Chuckles and Crater!

ALLI I AM SO SORRY I MISSED THIS ASK. It got buried in FF asks, and I just now found it, but I WILL ANSWER IT NOW AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING IT IN. Some of these may be redundant from posts I've put out in the past, but maybe they'll be neat for any new kids. I'll put the SFW HCs above a divider:

SFW Chuckles HCs: 1. Loves chocolate, but especially dark chocolate. Often makes bets for chocolate bars. 2. Is all about physical comedy. The man will throw himself down any flight of stairs if it will garner a laugh from his brothers. Chuck's not the best pilot in his squadron, but he feels that making his brothers smile is one way he can contribute. 3. He lets his brothers pick what color his mohawk gets dyed. 4. He and Howzer are good friends. He met Howzer right after he got the scars on his face, and joked with him about it. Eventually accused him of stealing his idea to attract women by having facial scars. Howzer acts like he barely can tolerate him, but really likes him. 5. Chuckles wasn't always supposed to be a pilot; he proved he had an aptitude for flying when he and his batchmate Two-Pint (who belongs to @teletraan-meets-jarvis) got drunk on TP's homebrew. He wound up stealing a fighter out of the hangar and actually flying it well enough to get moved into the pilot training program (he couldn't hit the broadside of a barn with the DC-15S the trainers originally issued him).

SFW Crater HCs: 1. Is quiet and observant, picking up on how people function. This is how he leads - by figuring out the personalities of his men and adjusting to them. During training, he quickly decided he didn't want to be like some of the trainers that just shouted their subordinates into submission. 2. Crater's not afraid of much, but one thing he is afraid of is leaving people behind that he cares about. That's one reason he doesn't actively seek out romantic relationships. 3. Drink of choice is good whiskey (do they have scotch in Star Wars? If so, it's that) 4. The tattoos on his arms are meant to look like air streams like the ones he sees curling over the wings of his fighter when he's entering/exiting atmo. 5. He chose the colors for the 28th - magenta for the occasional sunsets on Kamino, and grey for the rain clouds that normally covered their home.

And now for the NSFW HCs...

NSFW Chuckles HCs: 1. Chuckles doesn't mind being the dominant personality, but he gets VERY aroused by a partner that takes the dominant role. He wants to be told exactly what his lover wants and how to please them. 2. There's absolutely a slut AU where Ry pegs him. 3. He's a talker. LOOOOVES to praise his partner and tell them everything he's feeling and thinking. In fact, it's almost like he can't stop talking. 4. Bed are fine and all, but Chuckles would rather fuck just about anywhere else. There's something thrilling for him about not doing things the conventional way, so he'd much rather bend you over a crate in a supply closet. But his favorite place is the cockpit of his fighter. 5. Additionally, he loves the kind of sex where it's so hurried and needed that clothes don't even get all the way off. Guaranteed Bolts knows what plastoid feels like pressed against her skin.

NSFW Crater HCs: 1. Trust is honestly the number one thing for Crater when it comes to sex. He's not really much into casual hook-ups. He wants to know and understand the person he's sleeping with. 2. And with that, someone putting their trust in him probably arouses him more than anything else. Bolts putting that trust in him in The Pillar is his favorite moment, not because of the anal, but because he knows she trusts him more than she's trusted anyone else, and that's why she's asking for that to happen. 3. He of course prefers the dominant role (as we see in the Blitz series), but he's open to trying other dynamics out if his partner wants it. 4. He loves hearing the noises his partner makes, but his favorite is honestly the way they pant in his ear when they're pressed close, the quiet whines and whispered pleas. He doesn't need a lot of screaming and moaning, just enough to let him know he's doing exactly what his partner needs. 5. There aren't many things that'll make his knees buckle, but a good blowjob will make him lose his composure. Part of it is how much trust is involved, but also, just something about his partner wanting to do that to him, get on their knees and focus on his pleasure? Gets him every time.

#karrde asks #800 follower celebration #follower celebration #OC Crater #OC Chuckles #NSFT #lemon #lemony lemon

[batsycave]

My Casting for a Batman Movie, but make it ✨Old Hollywood✨

(I’m aware the timeline wouldn’t really work but I’m mostly going off vibes, and this is just for fun because I love OH)

…

Batman/Bruce Wayne:

First up, the man himself. I’ve casted Gregory Peck as Batman / Bruce Wayne. I could potentially see Gregory being cast as Clark Kent as well, but I prefer the idea of him as Batman. I think he would give a wonderfully nuanced performance. Don’t get me wrong, he’d be a charming Superman, but I’d rather see him tackle the particular complexities that come with portraying Batman. I could see him doing something similar to his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, but with a darker spin to it. Tortured soul and all that. And actually, in his character studies for BATMAN: YEAR ONE, artist David Mazzucchelli used Gregory Peck as inspiration for his sketches of Bruce Wayne (shown below)!

Alfred Pennyworth:

Next, we have John Williams as Alfred Pennyworth (top two photos). He’s English and he just has that certain presence. Refined, but like he could absolutely knock the shit out of you if need be.

…I’ve also cast Errol Flynn (the remaining five photos) as a younger Alfred Pennyworth. I don’t really know when it would be needed, but I just like the idea, and once I got the idea in my head I couldn’t get rid of it. I mean, just look at him.

Catwoman/Selina Kyle:

One of my favorites, I’ve casted Audrey Hepburn as Catwoman/Selina Kyle. I love, love the idea of Audrey’s look combined with the persona of Catwoman, and I’d be so excited to see her play a more mysterious female lead. We already know she has great chemistry with Gregory Peck (they were in Roman Holiday 1953 together) so it’s perfect.

When Darwyn Cooke redesigned Catwoman, he listed “Ava Gardner in Mogambo, Grace Kelly in Rear Window, and Audrey Hepburn in anything” as inspiration on his Catwoman/Selina Kyle style guide.

Commissioner Gordon:

I’ve casted Sidney Poitier as Jim Gordon. I’m citing every single role I’ve ever seen Sidney in as evidence that he’d be perfect for this. He embodies everything that makes Batman trust Gordon so much.

The Joker:

I decided on Peter O’Toole as The Joker. This one was more difficult than the others, and I struggled in the beginning. I chose O’Toole because while he has a certain charm about him, his presence can admittedly come across as a bit unnerving at times. His stare is relentless and his voice can be both eerily soft and startlingly intimidating. I’d like to think he’d lend that to a portrayal of the Joker in an ingenious way. I think he’d give a surprisingly haunting performance, and I’d love to see him go all out, face paint and all. For anyone who isn’t familiar with O’Toole, he provided the voice for Anton Ego in Ratatouille (2007).

The Penguin:

I’ve chosen Orson Welles as The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot. I’m not 100% set on this one, but I think Orson would give a similarly comical but imposing performance to The Batman (2022).

Harvey Dent:

Robert Redford or Cary Grant as Harvey Dent/Two-Face. I don’t know about this one. I like either of these potential castings, but like with Penguin I don’t feel super strongly about it. I could see both of them as Harvey Dent, but when it comes to Two-Face I think Grant would be a bit more interesting.

FINALLY,

This one…probably wouldn’t be necessary in most Batman movies, but it’s still DC and I feel strongly about it. Ava Gardner as Lois Lane is exactly how I imagine her in my mind, visually and personality wise.

Thanks for staying this long! Hope you enjoyed at least a couple of my choices! I’m tired and I refuse to proofread this so it is what it is! :)

#batman #the batman #bruce wayne #commissioner gordon #jim gordon #batjokes #batman and joker #batman x joker #joker #lois lane #harvey dent #two face #the penguin #oswald cobblepot #catwoman #Selina Kyle #batcat #alfred pennyworth

[thevindicativevordan]

If you were in charge of the new Ultimate line and had to assign creative teams to five books, which books would you make and who would you put on them?

Obviously Hickman needs a book but generally I would like to see:

Ultimates - Written by Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Bryan Hitch. The flagship title that drives the line. Whatever Hickman wants to do with them works for me, I doubt I could come up with a better pitch than he can.

Ultimate X-Men - Written by James Tynion IV and drawn by Alvaro Martinez Bueno. Look Tynion would never do it, he's making bank with his creator owned work, and I'd rather have him do a DC cape book, but he's who I would pick to write this. Mutants coming together in a world that hates and fears them, but with a twist: they're not out to win over humanity. This version of the X-Men is primarily focused on protecting mutants from humans, and part of the change is because who is on the founding team this go around. My choices, restricting it to five like the original X-Men team, would be Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Forge, and Emma Frost. Emma taking the position you would usually see Jean in helps justify this team being more militant. She's pushing Cyclops and the rest towards going on the offense. Senator Kelly wants to pass an act aimed at forcing humans to register and build Sentinels to kill those who won't? The X-Men frame him in a way that destroys his political and personal life. Hellfire Club is trying to assert control over mutants? Blackmail them into backing off. It's an X-Men team that is more morally gray than we're used to seeing, and is primarily focusing on countering human bigotry at first. Later we would see Magneto show up and the X-Men react to him.

Ultimate Fantastic Four - Written by Christopher Cantwell and drawn by Federico Vicentini. Cantwell has written both Doom and Reed before, and I think he would kill it on a F4 with a villainous Reed and a Doom that could be heroic. Two pitches come to mind like I mentioned in my previous Ultimate Universe post. Either this team is a traditional Fantastic Four with Maker back in the role of "Mr. Fantastic", but concealing that he remembers the old timeline and is biding his time while he studies this new universe, or it's Dr. Doom taking Reed's position as leader of the F4 while Maker serves as their primary antagonist. Reed back with the FF would make for great tension, you have this guy that everyone thinks of as a great hero - which Reed deliberately goes along with - all the while the other three don't yet realize that he's a monster. Maybe Reed is aiming to kill off Ben and Johnny (Ben for "betraying" him when Reed first turned and "stealing" Sue, Johnny for burning his face and being annoying in general), but keep Sue this time. So the tension is that Reed wants to get Ben and Johnny killed off but doesn't want Sue to blame him, so he's trying to maneuver the two into getting killed by one of their villains in a way Sue won't blame him for, all the while he's also wooing Sue to embrace his outlook on life. Alternatively you go with Doom as leader of the F4, with the new Ultimate Universe being a timeline where Reed is the one who gets fucked up by the events that give them their powers this time. Maker still remembers the old timeline and is pissed that he somehow has ended up even worse off this time around, with Sue, Johnny, and Ben pitying him and chafing under the leadership of Doom who is just barely a hero.

Ultimate Spider-Man - Written by Donny Cates and drawn by Ryan Stegman. This is who I would put on a Peter book. Would be a standard Spider-Man book just like the Bendis one was, only I would have it set in Peter's college years because I'm sick of high school Peter.

Ultimate Black Panther - Written by Geoffrey Thorne and drawn by Sanford Greene. Thorne has wanted the gig for ages, and I liked his post Hickman Secret Wars pitch for the character, from what I remember it was T'Challa patrolling economic zones Wakanda had established internationally to share some of their tech and improve life on Earth elsewhere. Doing that with a "Year 2" T'Challa is my pitch. He's established himself at home and is trying to turn Wakanda into a superpower via sharing it's tech with the world through certain economic zones. He's allowed ordinary Wakandans to leave the country and travel abroad. Wakandan conservatives are pissed at him for doing that, while the liberals are angry T'Challa still has left the strict immigration laws for outsiders intact. Other global powers are eyeing this new player warily, particularly the United States and China. T'Challa has plenty of enemies at home and abroad who are aiming to bring him down, and he has to use his brains, tech, and the power of the heart-shaped herb to stay on top.

#marvel #ultimate universe

[wh33zy]

Why I'm Writing NO GOOD DEED: Series 2 RANT!

Look, I thought series 2 was fun and I liked it but HOT DAMN am I the only one left all kinds of unsatisfied??? Like it's cool they gave us an ending to the story (of sorts) BUT I found it kinda disappointing, the grit from the first series missing, and there were quite a few loose ends that weren't tied up (especially concerning Ouroboros).

Maybe it's because of ALL the other hero media I consume (mainly DC, The Boys, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Moon Knight) that I found it lacking and rushed in some parts, story and action wise. Instead of a meaningful backstory for Wild Tiger, where we got to see old villains, childhood/teenage years, and early hero accomplishments - we got a season of friendship episodes, confusing Yuri/Jake look-alike twins with a rushed and random-feeling Golden Ryan backstory.

Nothing against Ryan here, the new season actually made me LOVE him, but I would have MUCH RATHER seen old Wild Tiger villains want revenge and see Kotetsu rise to the top again, or something akin to the Batman: Arkham Knight storyline where some villain is like 'you're old, you're predictable, and I KNOW how to beat you!'. I would have liked to see the roles between Kotetsu and Barnaby switch, where now Barnaby is in the support/advisory role to help his partner put his old villains back in prison.

I also think L.L. Audun would not have felt like such a random obstacle if he was an old Wild Tiger villain. Like, he could have been THE arrest that got Wild Tiger a King of Heroes crown, as just five minutes was all he needed to take this limitless Hundred Power vigilante out. So then we get to see: can he do it again with just ONE minute this time? The face off would have made more sense and been edge-of-your-seat cooler all around. We also would have actually gotten to know L.L. Audun so much more, and he would have been the antithesis of Mr. Legend (who also had Hundred Power) for Kotetsu as well.

With Lunatic, I honestly wanted his identity to remain secret or at least revealed in a much more meaningful way, see what happened after Yuri killed his father, see his vigilante job become more complicated the closer he is to Wild Tiger, and not make himself well-done and crispy. But also, you're gonna tell me this guy WOULDN'T have a gang of supporters?? The same with L.L.A! There are A LOT of people who believe horrible criminals should just be put to death to stop tragedies from ever happening again!

Not to mention ALL the baiting of Barnaby promising to make Kotetsu fried rice, the two going out for drinks, and NEVER getting to see either! LIKE COME ON! If the second series was about Wild Tiger as much as it was about Barnaby in the first series, it would have been so cool to see them get closer as Barnaby learns more about his partner's past, and in the process, learn more about heroism that wasn't academy produced.

And the fact that Kotetsu being almost forty and having no powers being the reason he ends up retiring is just SO FRUSTRATING TO ME!! I also know he was passing the mantle to Barnaby, but jfc can Barnaby (and the blond characters in general) STOP being the writers' favourite character(s) for one goddamn minute? Like I KNEW from MILES AWAY that he was gonna somehow still be a great hero, continue to have the most 'cool' moments, continue to have more positive attention, and Kotetsu was going to end up having to leave AGAIN.

Dude doesn't NEED powers or be 20-something to be a hero (COUGH BATMAN, WILDCAT (he's OLDER THAN KOTETSU), CATWOMAN, ROBIN, NIGHTWING, REDHOOD, GREEN ARROW, BATGIRL COUGH). I mean, you know how POWERFUL it could have been if Kotetsu was the first powerless hero? Who, now that he was back on the saddle, is kicking ass REGARDLESS?

But NO, we get: no skeletons in his closet, no villains of his own who want revenge, not nearly as much backstory as Barnaby, no backstory on his friendship with Antonio, nothing on how he met/rescued his wife in high school, nothing on how he got to be on HeroTV, nothing about his first KOH crown, he ends up retiring AGAIN, his daughter will most likely not even make it on HeroTV since she's powerless for the most part because she can only copy people's powers ONCE, and we got baited with a possible serum to bring Kotetsu's powers back but got NOTHING!

this is what experts and peer reviewed studies call:

A LOAD OF BARNACLES!

SO, I am writing NO GOOD DEED: OLD FRIENDS AND FOES to provide literally everything I wanted out of the new season above that we didn't get (and dare I say SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN) because instead they gave us: random new hero kids no one asked for, Oprah Winfrey Yelling 'AND YOU GET A PARTNER AND YOU GET A PARTNER', Creepy The Shining Twins, and Booster Gold Knock-Off VS Space Dandy's Creepy Uncle.

If you're interested in Wild Tiger facing off against old villains, Barnaby making him fried rice, Lunatic gaining a following and blurring the line of being Kotetsu's opposition, future hero plans for Kaede, Kotetsu getting back on top, first series loose end ties/callbacks, and some BACKSTORY HOLY MOLY: then I hope you'll give my story a shot! Each chapter is about 10K-15K words and so far there are 15 out of 20 chapters!

Read Chapter 1 HERE!

(while there are OC's, they are DEF not the main focus, the story is Kotetsu-centric written in 3rd person, and there's some canon divergence that is coming more towards the end because MAYBE Kotetsu and Kaede don't need HeroTV to be a hero!)

Once the story is fully written, there will also be an audio version for it since I'm all for making art and media accessible (honestly, if I was fluent in any other language than English, I'd also have this in other languages)! This story will also have some later visual art too along with a Spotify playlist!

If you read this far, thank you! Would love to hear your thoughts!

#tiger & bunny #tiger & bunny 2 #kotetsu t. kaburagi #barnaby brooks jr #FIC - NGD #I AM SALTY

[pumpkinstrawbrew]

how do you feel about nolan’s batman/scarecrow?

i’m not fully sure what you mean here. like, as in how i feel about the characters in that movie or that version of the pairing? 

but either way, i don’t hate it! i don’t hate any of batman movies tbh. no matter, how different or hella campy they are compared to source material, i still can see smth redeeming in them. i’m generally somewhat lax n’ chill with superhero movies/games. in most cases, i’d be more nitpicky toward cartoons/newer comics, than i’ll ever be toward cinema or video games. nolan’s batman falls into that category too. it’s not my fav batman movie by any means, but it has its moments.

besides, i believe that it was the first dc’s newer *2000 era* cinematic project back then, n’ i happen to watch it as a kid, so i have somewhat nostalgic memories about it as well. i also must say, that the tone of nolan's dark knight was very different compared to more campy, playful batman movies till that point. so it was nice change too. very unexpected turn in a way.

personally, for me it was hit in some places n' a fairly big miss in the others. for one, i get why a lot of people were annoyed with who nolan chose to play the scarecrow, since yes, it is strange to see a character, who canonically was considered to be far from pretty *to put it mildly* suddenly becoming basically an opposite of it. but tbh, i usually not very sold on who they pick to play characters in those movies. so it’s not like i tend to be 100% pleased in that aspect. n’ i do find it somewhat amusing, that for once, jonathan can be a real ‘princess’, both in manners n’ looks. it took some getting used to for sure, but i’m not super-duper upset about that change! i feel like i would have more inner dissonance if that batman movie, where nicolas cage was about to play crane had actually happened lol. i mean, it could have been interesting tbh, bc i cannot imagine cage being tame in his performance, esp back then. so maybe it's actually too bad that it didn't happened, bc we might have gotten the most over the top jonathan crane, who ever existed. like, you see jim carrey's riddler n' there is still no riddler to this day to top his exaggerated, campy performance lol. n' i have this vibe here too. i can bet 10$, that nick would have improvised in some scenes, n' like licked batman's face or smth. .... ah man, now i kinda wish that it had happened, dang.

but uh err, back to nolan's movies. if i’m being completely honest here, my main pet-peeve with nolan’s scarecrow wasn’t his looks per say, but rather how little he was presented in those movies in itself, and how nothing was really going on there for him. it really rubs me the wrong way, that he wasn’t even his own thing, just a pawn for another batman villain to use. he was never allowed to play a major role in anything, despite *might be wrong here tho* how nolan said that he considers the scarecrow to be batman’s real arch-nemesis not the joker, so this is why he used the scarecrow first. the scarecrow being batman's real fuel is smth i’m 100% sold on, and it all considering, that i actually love the joker as character. but like, the clown gimmick is basically antipod to literally everything lol. him being batman's 'fuel' always felt kinda idk, a bit lazy to me. at least, make the black mask or two-face his arch-enemy, this would be way more nuanced vs the clown, who's just hella insane n' have zero morals. so if nolan was also one of those people, who felt that the joker can be put aside for a moment or two, n' let another old batman's rogue shine, welp, he didn't implemented said sentiment very well in his movies.

there was a lot of room to do smth with crane’s character. to flash him out in newer ways or craft him more specifically for the setting, that they had going on. batman 2022 actually got this bit right. their edward was still very riddler-like, while also possessing enough ‘original’ elements to make him exist within the movie’s narrative/tone perfectly. he felt like that movie's main villain specifically n’ he played the part. n’ it all considering how he also was on the screen for idk, 20 minutes at max. but his presence was important n’ left an impact. not hannibal lector from silence of the lamb level, of course, *you cannot beat a suspense masterpiece after all* but still, it was smth. n' it was one of those things, that made me like the movie way more, than i expected.

with this in mind, now compare it to how we had to sit through a long ass movie, where we were teased with the scarecrow being the main antagonist. only for it to turn out to be a lie. instead, crane was taking the back seat to ra al ghul. just degist this sentence. he wasn't even bested by the joker or bane. but by ra flipping al ghul. like out of curiosity, i asked a couple of people, who have very limited n' slight knowlege of batman's media as whole, but who watched nolan's movies, n' i asked them who was the villain in the first movie. and they all were like 'the scarecrow'. no one even remembers ghul. an' it's not bc crane did smth big in the movie, but it's bc no one really cares about that past lore, where ghul was bruce's teacher. everyone only remember, that he kinda died or smth, when the cave/building collapsed lol. granted, i’m also bias here, bc ra al ghul is one of those batman’s villains, who personally bore me. and naturally, him stealing the spotlight from crane doesn’t win him any brownie points with me. but like, idk. this is just so unfair to the scarecrow. i mean, his iconic fear toxin wasn’t even released by him or on purpuse, which had me like ??? as a kid. bc it just made zero sense. it would have been the same, if i dunno, a clock king in btas had released joker’s laughing gas, all while the joker himself was just sorta/kinda there. just idling in the background without any proper input, aside from being the one who created the said gas lol. this is what had happened there. so yeah, it was a very awkward way to make bruce's old asshole teacher revelant again. also jonathan being a drug dealer *kind of* an' having a 'business plan' is so hiliriously opposite of what he usually did in the comics/btas. maybe, he could have shared his knowlege of how to make money with other cranes, who are usually broke as hell lol.

n’ well, if i had to be nitpicky here, i also was disappointed with how little thought they put into crane’s scarecrow costume. the excuse of ‘they tried to make it more realistic’ doesn’t work on me, bc catwoman in burton’s batman was designed with the same idea in mind, n’ her costume was freaking awesome n’ creative. but oh well…it is what it is.

as for nolan’s scarebat version, well, i don’t mind it. i love comic/btas crane n’ bruce the most. love jon as that socially inept, unsightly, closeted gremlin, n’ bruce as a low-key emotionally stunted, but still sympathetic hero. but aside from that, i can see an appeal in a good-looking scarecrow, who might have the power to sway batman with one smokey look. granted, jonathan already acted all whorish around the bat in the movie, so it’s not hard to picture him trying to seduce his way out of an encounter with batman just bc he feels that he can do it. so just this one time, crane can have it ‘easy’, when it comes to wooing the big bad bat. there is also smth funny about people expecting the fearsome scarecrow to look literally anything, but how nolan’s one looks. an' i also must add, that i've read a few of nolanverse scarebat fics an' usually the authors doing a better job at flashing out crane, than the movie did lol. so props to them for that!

#❓ #nolanverse #batman movies

[tinseltine]

I realized this is JLaw‘s first official comedy – “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Joy” are each a dramedy. “Don’t Look Up” is funny, but its genre would be cautionary/Scifi. Lawrence was the comic relief in “American Hustle”, but again, a satire, not a broad comedy.  I’m glad she finally found herself here. 

The Blackening’s got the feel of Bodies Bodies Bodies, just not as clever.  You can see the twist ending coming from a mile away. But as someone whose black card is always in threat of being revoked, due to having grown up on a constant diet of corny, white fare; I liked the irony of a board game of actual black cards, where each character has to answer culturally black trivia in order to stay alive!  And yup, if I were playing, my black card would once again have been in jeopardy, cause for a number of the questions, I’d have been about as much help as I’d be in an escape room requiring math. 

Overall I enjoyed the film and thought this fresh take on the Flashpoint event was creative. Just not as creative as the 2013 film, which still had meta-humans and heroes, with each of them in different roles than what they are in the traditional DC’s Earth-Prime version. For instance, Bruce Wayne was killed in the alley that famous night instead of his parents; turning his father into Batman and his mother into the Joker. Superman is captured and nowhere to be found. Cyborg is a resistance leader, giving America a fighting chance within a war between Aquaman’s Atlanteans and Wonder Woman’s Amazonians. Aquaman cheated on his wife Mera with Diana and it led to this major war.

Vibrant all the way around, story, visuals, characters! Although, I’ll admit, I got a little sleepy a few moments before we meet the super cool Spider-man named Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk voiced by Daniel Kaluuya, but that could have been due to the heaping portion of Chinese food I ate at the beginning of the movie. This Spider-Punk was my favorite spidey. Kauuya says he: put a lot of emphasis on what matters to the fans when it came to finding his superhero’s voice, so much so that when he first took on the role of Spider-Punk he listened to fan-made playlists dedicated to the character to understand how they saw him rather than choose to base him on any punk rock icons of the past.

Me and my sister came out of Disney’s Live Action The Little Mermaid smiling from ear to ear feeling as though it managed to capture and hold true to everything we loved about the animated original and at the same time, embracing the world of today with beautiful diversity. But then I read The New York Times review by Wesley Morris and he just makes me feel stupid for enjoying the movie. I suppose he has some salient points like “This new flesh-and-blood version is about a girl who’d like to withdraw her color from the family rainbow and sail off into “uncharted waters” with her white prince.” Also, although I loved Halle Bailey’s interpretation of Ariel, his review now makes me question, does she imbue varied enough facial expressions while mute?

The Mother explores themes of family, redemption and identity, as Lopez’s character (with no name) struggles to reconcile her past and present. It’s not a groundbreaking or original movie by any means. It borrows heavily from other action movies like “Taken”, “Salt” and “Atomic Blonde”. The plot is predictable, the villains are one-dimensional and the moments of warmth aren’t very moving. But it’s entertaining, and it’s JLo, so stream it!

I definitely feel GOTG3 has stronger beats than Ant-man Quantumania, but it’s still a little long and lacking a certain spark had by the prior 2 movies of this MCU franchise. I think we need to go back to keeping the films just under 2 hours. Infinity War and End Game each needed to be nearly 3 hours because of so many characters and major story arcs, but with these sequels, no matter how beloved the characters, there’s not enough to fill them. I love superhero movies and particularly the MCU, but lately I can always feel the point in which they should be wrapping up, yet there’s 40-45 minutes still to go. 

THIS WAS TINSEL & TINE'S #MINIMOVIEREVIEW EXTRAVAGANZA #14 for complete content - https://tinseltine.com/minimoviereviewextravaganza14/

#movie reviews #superheroes #movie site #red carpet #guardians 3 #jennifer lopez #the blackening #the flash #disney #the little mermaid #film talk #movie lover #spider punk #no hard feelings #jennifer lawrence #MCU #DCEU

[prowerprojects]

(Modern Tails anon) Considering there's apparently financial troubles going on with IDW, one has to wonder if the comic lives long enough to see that story one day.

Heh, the funny thing is, he could technically do those things too. Maybe not as well, but a kid fox genius running around with a flamethrower he built being alongside Blaze has to invoke some type of interesting imagery. Same with a stealth mission with Rouge.

I figured, especially with Sonic is one the earliest examples of seeing a video game character having a clear personality. (At least those Origins cutscenes added something more upfront; albeit very late for this decades-long series. But something to refer back to nonetheless.)

I think I've seen that somewhere. The most I know of Tails himself in that continuity is that he and other foxes are from some secret zone and he has grown the title of hero in that village through rather clumsy, but well-meaning antics. Albeit through lying at first.

(Yup, AOSTH Tails even turned an entire truck into a mechanical dragon and handled himself while Sonic was frozen in stone. The most SatAM did was that one episode near the end. I still wonder if the plans for season 3 had gone through, would Tails be looked at a bit differently depending on how it went since his role was supposed to expand greatly.)

Hmm, it's going to depend on how these next set of episodes go. Seeing the other Tailses will likely strike a chord in Nine; but that doesn't fully mean villain arc. Existential crisis, maybe. I expect him more to tap into something hidden within him he didn't notice before. (Probably doesn't help that outside of Sonic and Shadow, we don't know the Prime versions of the characters that well; not great if you don't have at least basic knowledge on Sonic. If Tails did show some "Nine" traits during his early days with Sonic; specifically the trusting and friends part, I think there'd be a fairer grasp of why Tails didn't end up like Nine and why Nine is slowly resembling the original Tails. This applies to the other counterparts too, not just his alone.) Heh, never doubt the power of a fandom has when they catch the slightest bit of angst fuel from any character. And missing the nuances that come with grey/neutral characters. (Trust me, I'd love to see Tails let loose some raw, unbridled emotion that could have you think about his morality or sense of justice, but in the right context. Something I don't see Prime fully committing to, whether they DO go through with it.)

Two intelligent scientific minds, separated by different upbringings and how they apply their emotions to their logic, but still learning about how the world works and defy said logic through personal experience. All while seeking approval and praise. Lots of potential there.

There was another Sonic Channel story last year that basically said the same thing about their bond. One being "they have something that goes beyond trust", that "they know what the other needs without having to speak". (Also, their dynamic breaks some the typical tropes you see with 'hero-sidekick'. Like, the latter has the base of operations, not the former. Also, it is not funny and wholesome that Sonic considers this baby fox that attached himself to a younger him the biggest source help he could have ever hope for?)

Honestly I'm not very knowledgeable on how this whole deal works, so I won't say anything on the matter. I wonder if we could get a Sonic webtoon? I know DC comics and Archie both have at least one. Of course, both of them are of questionable quality, but who knows, maybe we'll luck out!

Haha, that's true! Personally I don't really care for him being a kitsune spirit, but I've been thinking of an idea where he replicates their abilities with his tech to make someone else believe he is one.

Yep, Fleetway Tails is from the Nameless Zone which is kind of like old-timey alternative dimension with magic and goblins and stuff. He was kind of loser there, so he moved to Mobius hoping he'd make a name for himself, but he was still a loser there too. But he was too embarrassed and wrote to his family that he became a hero. In the early StC, the writers weren't kind to Tails. He usually just messed things up or got captured (you could kinda understand Sonic's frustration with him, though he could stand to be nicer), and if he did manage to save the day, it was due to sheer luck. He got better though, especially after Sonic got stuck in another dimension. (After he came back, the Freedom Fighters kind of went their separate ways, but S&T often had adventures together as a duo. They both kinda grew up, Tails became more competent and stopped caring as much about impressing people (including Sonic), and Sonic mellowed out and stopped being as harsh on him. They became a better team! I have a soft spot for the stc!Unbreakable Bond, you just kind of have to take into account the specifics of the writing of stc as a whole, I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea.)

(I... have mixed feelings on satam, but mostly I just can't finish watching it. It feels like a drag. Not something I would be watching if it wasn't Sonic-related. Not gonna comment on the quality of it, because there are some other shows I felt similarly about and they're super critically acclaimed, like atla. (If Tails was more prominent I mind have at least been watching for his sake) I promised a friend I would read Archie and I wanted to watch satam first, but it looks like at this point I'll just have to skip to the comics.)

I really want to see different counterparts interacting. I'm kind of with Shadow on this situation, try as I may I don't really see them as separate people, I'm more interested in what they could say about the Prime versions of the characters. But it would be more effective if we spent more time with the Prime versions in the first place. I'm hoping for more flashbacks tbh. (Plus I just love how the og models for the characters look without the Shatterverse clothes)

Oh yeah I remember that one! Man I love how Sonic Channel hypes up their bond. I hope we'll get to see more of this in the next games. Sonic really lucked out (and so did Tails of course!)

#i also feel like (though I have a bit of a trouble articulating it) that tails is more of a traditional hero-type than sonic #but I always feel goofy trying to explain this #(this is on your comment about subverting hero/sidekick stereotypes) #tails #blue blur #sonic & tails #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #project.txt

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Dark Crisis is just Zero Hour meets Infinite Crisis. Some of the people even play the same roles, like Deathstroke leading a villain team with ties to some eldritch threat. (Here, eldritch meaning "your multiverse has been invalid this whole time".)

We're only one issue in (excluding the prologue), so I would rather wait to see how things are going to be, but so far it's really kinda whatever.

Williamson's writing in general can be summarized as "great moments here and there.......but overall is just meh" and I feel like this is the case here. I do like the idea of Black Adam forcing himself mentor a new unorthodox Justice League that are a complete helpless mess to replace the old one that died, all while investigating what happened/will happen from this point on, but all of that was ruined by how awful the line-up is, If you want a dysfunctional Justice League then go all the way and actually have dysfunctional characters that look like a complete mess to make it interesting.

But instead we got Damian, who already got plenty of things going on at the moment and is only in the team because Jon is in it and DC want to treat them like a package deal, Supergirl, an experienced Kryptonian who realistically should be the leader instead of Jon (also I think they're replacing her with Mary Marvel?), Harley the-mother-of-all-Cash-Cows Quinn who literally has no business being here and we will probably never get an in-universe explanation to why she's here because there's simply no reason to begin with except that DC want to shove her over-exposed ass everywhere and we're getting not one, but two Blue Beatles in the same team? And I'm not knowledgable about the other characters, but again I don't see the appeal of having them in the Justice League either.

All around it just has such bland vibes, we might get a couple of fun moments, but I don't think fans of these characters are gonna enjoy their favorite character being in this half-assed event.