#<- i have to start tagging. eh

[boyfridged]

this is perhaps completely obvious, but the comparison of pre-crisis vs post-crisis jason runs is such a poignant illustration of how the intentions of the writers make a world of difference.

pre-crisis jay was, ironically, at the beginning of his career much more of a thrill-seeker and much less serious about his motivations behind his desire to be a sidekick than post-crisis jay ever was. he was also much more reckless. he said, for instance, that studying crime was even worse than doing homework, and what interested him was going after "action." he didn't like the thought of not being credited for his actions. but he was still a character written with so much sympathy and enthusiasm – with so much open and continuous consideration for his youth, his past, his feelings. and the readers saw that! so many of them loved him! when you look at the back pages of these issues, issues in which jay often committed mistakes during patrols, in which he was at times petty and moody, you see with how much compassion they looked at him. there were letters that started with hate about the art or the storytelling, and ended with warm and attentive analyses of jay's character.

and the thing is, reactions to post-crisis might have been worse, but i don't think it was ever a matter of people disliking any iteration of jason todd from the start (even if some were certainly prejudiced as dick grayson fans. and as bigots); it's simply that post-crisis jay has never been written with a similar amount of care. o'neil saying that "people really hated jason" and that "he didn't know why" is absurd because (well, first of all, i don't think that he was ever that hated, and second of all) he was specifically written in a way that prevented a lot of casual readers to connect with him. pre-crisis, we see jay's perspective all the time, also beyond the patrols. he's much meaner than post-crisis jay a lot of times! for example, he tells julia (alfred's daughter), who is at the time staying at the manor, that he saw new flat listings, insinuating that she should move out because he is bothered by her presence. and that's rude. that's a reason why someone could think that he is a spoilt child (which imo pre-crisis jay actually very much is. i don't think it's a bad thing). but we also see him in his bed later, wondering "how could i have said something like that to her?" so naturally we see it from his side too.

on the contrary, when it comes to post-crisis jay, we have almost no insight into his head up until a death in the family. and of course, starlin admitted that he did want to make him unlikable; so suddenly everything jay does, including acting against orders, is written to make him seem like a difficult, unpleasant kid. but something you really have to understand is that the same attitude, when previously displayed by pre-crisis jay or even dick (!) was seen as endearing; a sign of bravery and an honest heart. in the first issues by collins, as well as barr's detective comics run, there's a semblance of recognition for that. beyond that, the whole narrative of his (very short) published history gets hostile. and starlin might not have written any of that outright, but you see that shift. all of a sudden a decision that would make you go "aww" if moench or barr wrote it, makes you displeased. i think one thing to take away from that is asking if it were depicted in the same tone if dick or tim did the same thing, for example. it's content that requires a much more critical attitude from the reader, that's for sure.

#i love saying things that are completely obvious for everyone. #pre-crisis #<- i have to start tagging. eh #i have not mentioned ntt because jay is written with much more love there which is quite obv because the titans office did care #about the mantle #and this was more about the batman office #also not mentioning the cult because frankly speaking while it has good plot #it doesn't really offer much in terms of jay's characterisation #anyway there's this one letter about pre-crisis jay that i adore #where the reader said that jay's “occasional brilliance” intertwined with horrible mistake can be explained by a sports analogy #where young talented players might have lower success rate than older mid players #bc they need to grow into their talent with experience #it was genuinely such a lovely comment. #and a piece of evidence showing that people were very much willing to sympathise with him #jay.zip #jay.txt #jason todd #core texts #robin days

[maskedchip]

I wanted to share this little comic I’ve had in my folder for a while, it was actually one of the first mini comics I planned right after finishing the game but I battled with the perfectionist demons so I never posted until now 😭

But yeah, I think Susato is really sweet and caring and deserves little breaks :’) 

#mine #dgs #i already know where i messed up but i wont point it out for my sanity #i just think about how all she wants to do is help people and putting others before her sniffle #it's so nice having her arc be about standing as her own and being a bit more SELFISH LIKE YARGHH #so young and yet has to burden so much...like a lot of the cast #before i start writing essays in the tags i will just say i care about the family a lot ok :] *starts crying* #i think i really struggle with 'finishing things' that i definitely want to redraw this or make it look proper but im also like eh #it's fine...clearly not done but it gets the message across thats what matters <3

[kiviniik]

curious bugs ready to be best friends

#kiv.draws #pokemon #golisopod #joltik #my art #theyre so funky i love it #i think the joltik is too big but eh #dont really care #its cute #i swear if this doesnt appear in the tags again #ill cry like the little baby i am #also first completed drawing since i started having acute arthritis! #im in so much pain rn #hey quesalupa #this is for you

[sentientstump]

if you're wondering where my entire brain has been before tc returned

#i started compiling this right before team canada came back 😭😭😭 #tbh i was stalling for time because i couldnt get myself to check the hylics tags on here “xD ridiculous problems i have #but yknow after checking it that day i got enough determination to get this post going #its a task thats for sure! alt text is important #...its been so long that i forgot what tags to put even when i had the entire research going 💀💀💀 #hylics #wayne hylics #dedusmuln #somsnosa #pongorma #hylics 2 #i think its enough eh?

[illdragyoudownwithme]

ehehe 4 arm raph,,, with glasses,,,

anyway hes made projections with 4 arms,,, so now he has 4 arms

The birth of a raphsona??? perhaps???

the first time i drew raph ,,,,,, and that was using a shit ton of refs. nice to see a lil improvement :] this uses no refs except for the pose cause I'm an obsessed sdfjkasgj this is my drug,,,, think I fucked up the legs tho,, wanted to crop em out but eh. made em too big lol

someone give me drawing ideas I'm on a fukin roll

ps I literally only draw raph like u see people who either don't draw raph or draw everyone

no

I don't know how to draw anyone but raph ok and im fine with that all I need is raph

#i swear i did not mean to make him pretty it just happened I swear #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #rottmnt raph #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #i was on smth when drawing this #got an ipad from the government and started drawing on ibis #and holy shit #ibis paint x #is top teir #its a great drawing program #i cant beleive i spent so much on csp ex #but eh ddint have enythign good to use ibis on #this is amazing im addicted ive been drawing nonstop since i got this help #i drew this shit from memory can u beleive that like wtfff #my art #need to make a tag system

[emily-prentits]

the way addison showed up randomly in an episode in s4, successfully delivered a baby that had complications, set in motion not only callie’s bi awakening (in regards to erica) BUT ALSO her relationship with erica, AND managed to have tension with meredith in the final scene at joe’s. literally who is doing it like her

#im normal. having thoughts #you know how it is #addie i love u with my whole heart but you should have talked to mer more WHAT ARE YOU DOING #i suppose the hug was a start..... hngh #addison montgomery #callie torres #erica hahn #meredith grey #meddison #callica #<< ship name? eh #tagging just bc #grey's anatomy #thea talks

[babacontainsmultitudes]

As some of you already know, I am disheartened- though certainly not surprised- by the recent backlash against one Sparrow Oak Garcia for his recent transgression of *checks notes* having a mixed-to-negative opinion on zoos.

Part of me honestly feels a bit silly responding to any of this, but what are any of us here to do if not have opinions on fictional podcast characters. Anyways, I will get to the more important stuff, as obviously (if you've seen any of the criticisms I'm talking about) this ties back to Hero at the end of the day, but seeing as the first wave of hate I saw after the episode was largely to the effect of: "what the fuck does Sparrow have against zoos?", I would like to start by addressing that point briefly (and only briefly, as it's really not the sort of topic I care to discuss online), by saying that zoos and animal captivity more generally have a long history of being contested and criticized by animal rights activists, and that instances of animal abuse and neglect within zoos and other animal-based theme parks are anything but obscure. Furthermore, it feels worth noting that as of present less than 10% of zoos in the US are AZA-accredited. I say absolutely none of this with the intention of making any definitive statements on the nature of zoos, nor to judge people who do enjoy zoos, nor even to provide my own feelings on the matter. Rather, I offer this information only to explain that someone like Sparrow taking issue with something like zoos really isn't strange at all? And whether you agree with such a stance or not, it undoubtedly comes from a place of empathy. Moreover, I don't think we can honestly divorce Sparrow's take and compulsion to voice it from the metacontext that Sparrow is a character being played by Anthony Burch, you know, a vegan, who probably has his own views on the matter that may or may not differ from yours and mine.

Okay, on to more important matters. At the forefront of things I suppose is the assertion that Sparrow's behavior regarding Normal and the zoo and all that is hypocritical and perhaps even nonsensical in light of what Hero was going through at the time with her training. "He wouldn't take Normal to the zoo but he forced Hero to kill a deer with her bare hands?" Certainly the sort of statement that will elicit a strong emotive reaction from the fandom, but one that ultimately relies on a pretty major assumption, namely, that Sparrow acted as the primary organizer and perpetrator of Hero's training, one who supposedly felt no internal conflict towards the situation whatsoever, rather than instead serving as an enabler of it, who ultimately intervened but only after far too much damage was already done. Neither is a great thing to be, but there is absolutely a difference between both of these roles, and I think that Lark and Sparrow's respective behaviors over the course of the season point almost unanimously towards Sparrow being the latter and Lark the former.

(The above being a non-exhaustive list, of course)

The funny part about the whole zoo thing is that it only further corroborates the notion that Sparrow is someone who is sensitive to the suffering of others, and by extension only serves as more evidence that he most likely was not the one actively making Hero undergo the worst of what she had to do. Does this make him guiltless in the matter? Absolutely not, but it does point to Sparrow having issues that are fundamentally different from Lark's, and means that the instance with the zoo is not only consistent with Sparrow's characterization, but frankly not actually all that hypocritical if you look at it for more than a second. That is, there is a very important but simple difference between the situation with Normal and the zoo and that of Hero and the deer that accounts for the variances in Sparrow's behavior between both cases: Lark. Sparrow isn't okay with either situation, based on all the evidence we have so far of who he is as a person there is absolutely no reason to think that Hero's training is not something that deeply upset him- I mean for fuck's sake everything about how Sparrow raised Normal down to his name stems from not wanting his kids to have to live that kind of life. So why doesn't he put a stop to things sooner? Why does he let any of Hero's training happen at all? Again, very simply, because Sparrow cannot say no to his brother. I mean, he does eventually, given Hero's current status, and that change is an important and still ongoing facet of Sparrow's growth and his arc, but at the start of things it is something he struggles with even more than he does now, to his own suffering and detriment and of course even more so to Hero's. But did Sparrow himself "force Hero to kill a deer with her bare hands"? Almost certainly not, and I have to admit that I find it quite frustrating how quickly Lark vanishes from the collective conscious of the fandom when the time comes to assign accountability for matters concerning Hero. But then, who is Sparrow if not someone who takes the fall for his brother, apparently even in the fandom-space.

[Not that there isn't any nuance to Lark's utilitarianism, either. In general I feel as though discussion of the twins' biggest mistakes too often omits the acknowledgement of the fact that all of it has been to stop an eldritch horror responsible for the death and torture of millions of people, but anyways. Not what this post is about.]

I think that's mostly it lol. Got some thoughts on the family's policy on pets (and how it relates to the Hero thing but also to Beanie actually), as well as some remarks on Rebecca and how we really shouldn't be leaving her out of this discussion (I say, leaving her out of this discussion) but eeehhhhhhh y'all I'm especially low energy as of late eheh and mostly just wanted to speak my peace on a couple major things so let's cut it here for now I think :b

#dndads #meant to post this a bit sooner but sleep and anxiety have been very bad lately :( -not related to this stuff lol #dungeons and daddies #sparrow oak #sparrow oak garcia #also posting this at an awful time as I am one to do but eh what can you do #long post #dndads s2 ep 41 #baba babbles #<- remember when I said I would start using that talking tag then didn't???? #hero oak #hero oak swallows garcia #normal oak #normal oak swallows garcia #names lmao gosh #lark oak #lark oak garcia #ask to tag #<- just in case given certain topics

[anothermonikan]

Ponee (It is half 3 in the morning)

#hey she didn't actually come out too bad! #I didn't show the last time I tried to draw Sunny but it didn't look great ehe ^^; #I think Ponies are gonna have to be a digital art only thing for now cause I had the select and drag so many elements of this #to make this look right sahsdhdshsdh #Yeah despite liking ponies since I've became a conscious thing I never drew them a bunch #and well. that's because I didn't start drawing properly until I was like. 11 years old. and I was super into something else then ehe ^^; #Sorry to get personal in the tags of an mlp art thing but I do think about how I always wanted to draw but like. #I was such a chronic perfectionist as a little little kid??? I HATED everything I tried to make XD #It makes me a little sad yknow? cause like. most kids don't give a shit they just draw whatever and it's beautiful and amazing #it makes me sad that I didn't allow myself to have that! I worked backwards IG lmao #little 6 year old hating everything she tried to make for not being perfect to me now where I love when my art is full of imperfections #that's the point of art!!! Have fun!!! It doesn't need to be perfect or even “good”! #because art is about expression yknow? and drawing stuff you like! #sorry this only took like an hour this should be on a more high-effort drawing sdhdhdshsd #Also um hi to the person who followed me for MLP G5 art?? I mostly post about puters and Ultrakill and Rain World here #But I do really love ponies I need to draw them more often XD #this is my whatever blog. I post whatever interests me here hehe #MLP #MLP G5 #Android Arts #Android.txt

[justcommander]

Oh Gary is so interested in me. Like, insanely interested. . . So can I join now?

I'd be careful if I were you Anonymous, don't pull bluffs, she is dead serious about this. she loves to play poker.

Also i can't believe this is still going

#faith the unholy trinity #john ward #tiffany robinson #lisa pearson #my art #i refuse to make this an AU i understand i'm commander au but no eh #this is a weird saga that started somehow #wonder if i should tag kidnapping because it's basically what's happening here yo #anonymous #they're not having fun ya know

[chiropteracupola]

just a couple of creepy 18th-century innkeepers talking shop!

[featuring @borisyvain's lazarus mcclure and my own james webster]

#em draws stuff #oc time again hehe #haunted by your hand #the gambler: james webster #really I should start having an 'other people's characters' tag again as well... #so yes I have thought about these two being Brothers In Homosexual Haunted Murderhotel for long enough that a drawing happened #I do not know Where they are in this image (esp. as I have aged james up by some 30ish years so as to be able to Interact with mr mcclure) #(which is why she's looking a bit mellower than usual and also wearing teal... Character Development which as of regular hbyh has not #yet come to pass.....) #eh who knows maybe james went to ireland. she can have a little a go to ireland hang out with other horrible people as a treat #she deserves a little treat for making it to the 1780s-1790s (no one thought she was making it of the 1760s alive I am sure) #surprisingly this was a delightful refresher as I have been in a state of artblock/only interested in drawing things I can't work on in #public spaces lately! but this came together in barely two hours (admittedly after four days of staring at pictures of mr mcclure) #anyway if you read this far you should all go look at jory's blog his characters are SO cool and well-researched #james will someday be more well-researched than she currently is but that will be after I get around to reading 'the english pub 1500-1830' #which I found in the library and was so brave and strong and Did Not check out so as to actually maybe get schoolwork done

[shevr]

#eh have this actually sure. whatever #shevr #i need to start using a separate tag for my own drawings maybe #my lines

[rexcaliburechoes]

silverash is exactly what edelgard wanted to be in a completely opposite yet frighteningly similar way with the only difference is that silverash is allowed to be an asshat because he's a male character while edelgard is chained by being a marketable waifu

#rex rambles #fire emblem #arknights #edelgard #silverash #rolling my dice here and putting this in the tags because I know I'm right #I actually like edelgard contrary to popular belief #I despise how she's written. I hate how she's written so much. it drives me so. insane #fire emblem's 33 y/o poor treatment of its female lords always drives me insane #the only ones that are more respected are mcs for the most part because they're written assuming a male audience #(there are a few hiccups; frobin's chrom support chain while funny is incredibly shallow and I wish we got the mrobin support instead) #(that's the first example that pops to mind at least. there are a handful of others that I know exist) #I wanted edelgard to be good dammit!!!! #(also is frobin technically a lord? eh.) #also this goes without saying: don't start shit on my blog. I don't have time or energy to deal with bullshit

[strange-creature-with-a-hat]

"I could drink your blood if you'd let my baby" no actually.

You can't. I won't let you.

if I did there's A chance that A. I might die and B. I might also become a vampire

And both of those would mean I have to give up garlic bread and other delicious things with garlic in them, and sorry man, I just can't

D

#yes to err is human so don't be one #wee woo #I've been thinking about how I don't wanna be a fucking vampire for a while now #Also the whole “living forever ” thing just sounds sad #And I like the sun thank you very much #Will wood #william woodiam #Creatures ted talks #creatures ted-talks #I'm glad I've started talking here more #even if it's just shit posts #I need to publish me own ideas #I don't have to a apologize for turning blue and cold because I'm not letting any vampires in my house/j #how do i tag original posts? #eh either this will get no notes #Or five months from now I'll look at my activity page and think “oh man when will this end/pos” #Ironically my theme is the vampire one #god fucking damn it #the tags are longer than the post #Oh well it's just me spewing bullshit

[herequeerexitentialfear]

Attept 2 [the first is not seeing the light of day] I need to make her a proper pallet. This will take a lot of colour picking bc lighting effects but it will save time. The old one is badddd and idk what each set of colours are for... anyway her<3

#thebirdarts #Uhh my wol? Idk if she has a tag #Eh I'll look in the art one #God same design since I started. Shit that was three years ago #Im too poor for fantasia abuse #I have some things I'm not 100% on bc it was years ago and I wasn't aware of some shit #Like is the dark gray skintone weird?? It's what one piece I did was green skin. Bc i was gonna change #I guess it's like drow tho. So fine? Idk it's late #And she has the galien or however it's spelt third eye I need to get rid of that and her other tattoo #Anyway sorry I'm tired I should delete these tags but I don't want something thinking I haven't thought about it? U know? #Anyway her<3 #This is just a quick one a collection will be posted on my art account eventually #When I'm awake enough to draw more #I need to shut tf up

[sleepy-stitches]

average friday night

#got multiple people asking me to sdv post. heres a start #i did this the first night because rye wasnt at his computer and i was like oh okay kind of funny if i leave like 30 notifs there #and bury a sholmes in the middle #but now i do this on a smaller scale every time. which i dont need to do. because now we have the farm started he doesnt need inviting #its funny though! im getting a kick out of it #man i should probably havw a tag for this if im gonna keep posting but our farm is named after fictional planet repiton from vast error? #so i cant really steal the farm farm format. not that id really want to anyway i gotta get a little distinct here #eh. whatever. ill think of something #original post placeholder tag

[ratstuckinamarble]

Someone was liking so many of my posts today and I find that incredibly endearing. Walk right into my house, look around, rummage through my things, leave as if I can't tell you were here. I'm glad you had fun <3

#that kinda stuff makes me glad I started tagging things a little better #there's still room for improvement but eh #love seeing people explore my blog~ #I'm always disappointed when people don't have a tag for their own posts cause then I can't go looking through them #rätposting