#5. that is not his fucking backstory

[gayrogues]

there is no fucking way that tom king's shitty oneshot, featuring the most out-of-character riddler known to man and a batman who breaks his no kill rule and waterboards people, got nominated for an eisner award...

#i hate the riddler issue of one bad day so much it's unreal #1. why write a riddler comic if you're gonna be like 'actually he HATES riddles and puzzles and won't be using them anymore' #now he's just some guy who kills people #2. i don't think i need to explain why i hate the concept of batman breaking the no kill rule or waterboarding people #3. trying to make the killing joke relevant again after 30 years? to say that ed was the mastermind behind it? #4. the plot is just. incredibly silly and not in a good way like you're telling me once the riddler stops using riddles he #becomes powerful enough to take over the entire city and batman can't do anything about it except kill him? #and i'm not talking taking over the city like in zero year where there was an actual plan #in one bad day everyone just gets sooo scared of him and his massive brain that they fall in line #5. that is not his fucking backstory #that's like. the complete opposite of it. keeping only the part about him having a shitty dad #he was never a prestigious prep school kid under immense pressure to be the smartest #he was just some kid who went unnoticed by everyone and that's why winning that puzzle contest was so important to him #and then his dad refused to believe he was smart enough to win the contest without cheating and you know the rest #he has a very ordinary backstory that explains a lot about him #meanwhile i feel like tom king was like 'oh shit this series is called one bad day' #'i need to give ed a pivotal moment in his life that made him fucked up and evil' #'how bout i write all this stuff leading up to him brutally killing his teacher at the age of like 15' #and it just sucked ass #i feel like there was more stuff i hated that i'm forgetting but i am not gonna re-read this comic to remember! at least the art was good #oopsie daisy these tags turned out to be much longer than i was expecting - i don't even care about the eisner awards i just saw the #category pop up on the library app that i use and i was like Why is This in here #ransom.txt

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

When a character has the most intriguing backstory and piques your interest but you haven't even gotten to see the character fight

#legends of avantris #finally found a DnD podcast that absolutely delights me and isn't tarnished by my ex #on episode 5 rn and only just saw this backstory blurb and I had to pause cause that's so fucking interesting to me #and yeah in five episodes there hasn't been any combat but honestly hadn't even noticed until the blurb mentioned him fighting with chains #pretty sure there's like 50+ episodes out already so i have a lot to catch up on lmao #I'm very excited to see some fighting #kee speaks #BUT LIKE #Fire genasi forced to power a train?? He uses the chains that bound him to the chain to fight?? #I want to read some backstory about how that captivity happened and how he got out #(also the guy that plays him has the best character voice for him and his laughter is the best)

[welcometogrouchland]

Stephanie Brown and Dick Grayson: I Am Going To Be A Good Parent To Pass On The Good Parts Of My Tumultuous Childhood/Give Someone Else What I Didn't Have Growing Up

Vs

Damian Wayne and Cassandra Cain: You Could Not Pay Me To Be A Parent For Fear I Would Continue The Cycle Of Violence

#dc comics #stephanie brown #dick grayson #damian wayne #cassandra cain #ramblings of a lunatic #don't ask me about tim jason or duke idk what's going on there #Tim can't even make it to college unimpeded his ass is NOT entering fatherhood #you could do something really interesting with Jason as a father but it'd either have to go hard into the 'jason healing' route- #-or the complete opposite direction and go full on 'repeating the cycle of violence' fucked up #and either way it's gonna be divisive #i recently found out (bc i skipped batman and the outsiders) that duke's dad is some kind of immortal entity???? what in the fresh hell #I'm not saying it can't be cool I'm saying I'm. so goddman surprised it's never brought up by ANYONE #i know duke doesn't get his flowers in fandom but SERIOUSLY. WHAT? #ngl i can't say for sure that i don't like it bc i haven't seen the execution but. instinctually i prefer his og backstory #it just felt more grounded and linked to his setting? his whole thing is being the light and pushing batmans message further- #which is already hard for some writers to work w bc depending on interpretation that's the territory of like. 5 other guys in batfam #but duke does it in his own way with the whole working the dayshift angle. idk am i the only one hung up on the eldritch daddy thing? #bc i simply can't imagine the thought process behind that #anyway I've been thinking about the bit in robin 2021 where damian says he's never having kids. he's so real for that #he loves both his parents deeply and that series made that clear but MAN he is not passing on all this mental illness to anyone #and then i thought about how badly steph wanted to be a mom even as a teenager despite her own shitty parents #how she wanted to give someone else more than she had growing up (HOPE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A THEME FOR STEPH LISTEN TO ME) #and she ultimately gave her kid up bc she knew she couldn't give that to them at the time #oouughhhh. then i just figured that dick and cass are roughly the same in their estimation of parenthood #cass had a horrifically abusive upbringing and insanely isolated life til recent- #-all of which was due to/contributed by the parental figures in her life minus maybe barbara #i think I'd love to watch cass act as a mentor (she was a bit of a peer mentor to Steph and got along well w maps in Batgirls) #but it's hard to picture her as maternal. big sister yes. mother no. #dick is soooo dad shaped it's unreal. just as much as he is brother shaped. especially after everything with damian

[violetgarlends]

tgcf au where nothing bad happens and they’re just playing an increasingly weird game of DnD

#hua cheng is the dm and he plays favourites #he’s only doing this because xie lian thought it would be fun #xie lian doesn’t know any rules and somehow never rolls above a 10. and yet #mu qing does know all the rules and made the most min maxed monk possible #feng xin spent a very long time making his paladin and begging Xie Lian to convince Hua Cheng to let him smite on ranged attacks #and then forgets to actually name his character until the first session #they all made their backstories connect #even though xie lian’s is the only one that hua cheng uses for plot #san lang is hua cheng’s overpowered self insert dm npc that feng xin and mu qing hate and xie lian loves #shi qingxuan joins late with a storm sorcerer and an incredibly fucked up backstory #he xuan plays because hua cheng makes him #he spends more time eating snacks than actually role playing #mu qing dies like 5 times in the bbeg fight and has to keep getting revivfied #feng xin gets knocked unconscious in round one and is so mad about it #uhhhhh xl and hc just make out in real life and then hc gives him advantage or inspiration #this is not good dnd. they are not good at this. but they’re having fun

[lucifer-kane]

The idea of seeing like. Lloydven on the streets just walking around and you look at Raven and you're like. Oh that's a campy weird guy. You look at Lloyd Allen and you're like. That's the most Normal man to ever exist. When in reality yeah Raven is weird as hell he has his quirks. Lloyd, honestly, I would say is objectively more of weird motherfucker

#shaperaverse #like they're both weird but lloyd has and partially puts off this air of. everything is all right #like even before going to level 5 and even FLOWERING. he was weird as hell and fucked up #after all that? what the fuck man #raven is weird and has some freaky stuff about him but he's mostly just super tragic backstory along with his fucked up stuff

[intertexts]

HELLOOOO I COME BEARING GIFTS

EPISODE 11 TRIVIA:

- ashe being there surprised dakota so much it broke him somewhat out of his bad mood! in grizzlys words "if he wouldnt have met ashe right then, dakota would have been so much more angry and miserable at the beginning of this episode. he mightve just straight up left. got up and walked away."

- he didnt want to talk to william or vyncent at all, so ashe being there (however unwillingly) as a third party made things easier and almost softened the blow of vyncent yelling at him in the moment

- "why did i dream about william and vyncent being villains in the beginnign and killing summer" ".... i dunno" *cue entire party suspicious WHAT DOES THAT MEAN*

- "i dont trust your characters now" "you have ONE bad dream and our campaign turns into a game of among us"

- william: "hey ashe do you want to run away and write poetry with me?" emo/goth kid solidarity

- this is yakko's (ashes player) first time ever playing a ttrpg !!! fucking wild!! he feels like he needs more practice describing things

- FUN CHARACTER FACTS. I LOVE THESE MORE THAN ANYTHING. BIZLY ASKED EACH OF THEM WHAT KINDS OF MUSIC THEIR CHARACTERS WOULD LISTEN TO.

dakota: breakbeat, old school rap, 90s punk rock. also for shows he would watch it was "cartoons like atla, tmnt and codename kids next door"

william: "indie rock. and on a bad day, evanescence" (god hes just like me fr)

vyncent: "my character doesnt know what music is"

ashe: MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE . also apparently yakko made an ashe winters playlist on spotify and thats actually what they were playing in the episode. i have not found this yet and i desperately want to

- for the spirit world, bizly asked charlie to find him just random pieces of music that he could envision places for and thats how they came up with carnival of souls! there are a handful more places like that that youll see eventually :]

- yakko: "im glad i was able to bring wavelengths threat level down an entire tier just by calling him mark"

- charlie wants william and ashe to hang out in character more because theyre so similar and he thinks they would have a lot to bond over! i love this

- theyre all really excited that they get to go to the spirit world together and it wasnt just an excuse to split the party because they dont want to do that :] (<< i just rlly like this energy)

- grizzly is specifically playing dakota as "not being able to process emotions very well"

ALSO!!!!!!! i dojt know what site or whatever youre using to watch/listen so im hoping they have this on there BUT. the tide backstory oneshot was posted between episodes 12 and 13 so if u wanted to listen to that one now would be a good time !!! its called The Elementals :]

HIII YAYAYAYAYYY!!!! ohh fuck yes a little bowl of seeds for me :333

the dakota & ashe stuff is so goodddd u can rlly tell. it's like yeah you cant be mad and miserable and sulky in front of someone u don't know!! & ashe is just.... so unbothered... i loaf him... he truly did bring the threat level down so fast. went from terrifying supervillain in charge of the Evil Facility to an exhausted pissed off single dad in 1 minute.

+ALL THE MUSIC STUFF IS SO GOOD..... ITS SO GOOD. yelling. vyncent is going 2 end up having the weirdest music taste from hanging out with them. augh... awesome trivia thabk. the energy they have is so fun always....

#thinking ab dakota cole for 1 million years he's so everything 2 mee... auauauaauaaua #+ i DID end up subbing 2 their 5 dolar tier it's a good show id give em more if i wasn't making minimum wage!!! so i DO have the oneshots.. #this is so exciting 2 me. tide backstory fuck yeah #anyway HI hope ur having a good nighttttt <33333 #mac tag! #pd lb

[dl6incident]

he was subjected to the opinions of ace attorney fans online

#i think these people are just being contrarian for the sake of it #because there is no way a single person on planet earth genuinely thinks that clay was the best apollo backstory #“capcom didn't know what to do with him after 4” well they very easily could have not made him the main fucking character for an additional #2 games #“by the end he was nothing but an empty shell” that is because his story was over. like phoenix's. but capcom brought them both back. #there should have only been 5 games and dd should have been athena's

[hauntingblue]

YAMATO NEW NAKAMA PLEASE 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️🧎🏻‍♀️LUFFY PLEASE!!!!

#do kaido and big mom end up in the same hole??? lmaoo yamato get luffy!!! hell yes!!! #now a military trial for all the beast pirates come on!!! everyone to udon jail #APOO IS STILL ALIVE???. FUCK OFF!!!!!!! #i understand law is not on a state to be a medic but marco.... pick up some slack.... #toko :((( no fucking way they are coming out of the hole..... they aren't.... the better not.... #HIYORI!!!! no reunion??? :(( #tama first girl to adopt a mother... also why do they have the same eyes... also is nami not enough for you.... or luffy.... your uncle... #hiyori girl dont kneel.... thats your 8 year old brother.... tama backstory omg.... tama dont cry omg.... she's gonna make me cry too... #izo is dead for real.... he was shown on the dead people highlight reel.... omg.... kinemon looking like a proud dad... #that hiyori and momo reunion.... i need more... what was that.... #episode 1078 #talking tag #watching one piece #who tf is that talking to the cp0... #hawkins is alive.... oh now he regrets it.... now he is dead... well..... #can't believe izo is dead... marco saying he cant believe he is alive... WELL YOU FOUGHT TWO TIMES AND THEM DID FUCK ALL WHILE IZO DIED???? #i am so mad at this man you dont understand. HIYORI DROPKICKED MOMO AJSHAJA YEAHHH!!! #luffy and zoro waking up at the same time... it started with them too... oof #in my bliss of luffy winning and gear 5 and all i hadn't realised my pink haired samurai hasn't appeared in a while... i fear the worst.... #i love how luffy having a meal is animated like a fight... omg zoro too... using his three head technique... #nami being the first to hit momo akdjaks. well deserved also #yamato not bathing or eating for zoro and luffy and hiyori bathing zoro ajdhskjs. omg this looks like sanji is jealous FA- #nami having to think hard about who bathes where lmao sanji and brook need an execution #OTAMA WHAT ARE YOU DOING AJDHSJSHSJ ME ASF ALSO SORRY. also where tf is robin. DID THEY TAKE HER??? oh nvm there is another group... #kid you are so right he is annoying. kill him. come on!!! SAKAZUKI DIE!!!! they just wanna make me mad atp... ALSO WHERE IS ROBIN?? #episode 1079 #why is there a country with a giant picture of sabo in their clock tower lmaoo #luffy looks so little beside yamato omg.... omg soul king brook ft kozuki hiyori rock version.... AND I DONT GET TO HEAR IT???? #robin with her poneglyphs of course.... AND BROOK OWES HER TWO MORE!!!! #MOMOS GRANDFATHER???? AND HE TOOK CARE OF TAMA WHO HAS ORICHIS LAST NAME!!!

[kristiliqua]

pov i get a fic idea for my taz au and it causes me to Literally (and im so serious so genuine rn) tear up and choke like i have been punched in the gut (which did happen , emotionally) like oh jesus christ oh God

but yeah no its nothing to worry about :D haha yep dont even sweat it , smile

#anyway . ummm the idea was one of those 5 + 1 fic things #but make it abt taz!wilbur #and his friends and pals and family and also his isolation in the silly magical umbrella hahaaaaaa #yeah yep im normal #i say as i literally went into immediate ‘AAAAA’ mode when i saw a tma sbi au fic #bc it reminded me of the taz au and for some reason i lost my fucking marbles #i had to say ‘im so normal’ over and over again so i wouldnt fucking Explode #but yeah no im completely normal and okay #this au will be the death of me istg i love taz so much #mcyt taz au #taz wilbur talvo #sigh . big sigh . and btw taz!tallulah also exists now and i plan on making a little side story one shot of her and wil’s backstory #just a little tidbit . a little piece of totally unimportant information . mhm yep haha #and also i made puffy be like sloan in pttm bc niki falling under the gaia sash’s control doesnt make any fuckin sense #like she was literally one of the creators of the grand relics . she fucking Made the gaia sash specifically too SO LIKE #yeah i changed it #jsyk . one will only know if they read all of these tags #so congratulations or whatever 🎉

[chodoyodes]

i swear to god if they have maia forgive her (abusive) ex and go back to him to make way for simon/izzy i’m going to come to cassie clare’s house and [PERSONAL THREAT REDACTED]

#TMI posting #i wish city of glass was the end of this series im in hell #the worst part is i KNOW she’s gonna do it #she’s already reintroduced this boy as a woobifed artsy bad boy #completely negating the way he fucked up maia’s life #this is so fucked up #cassandra clare think for 5 seconds about implications challenge #doing this to your ONLY main black woman character #looks so so bad #JUST KEEP THE ABUSIVE EX IN TBE BACKSTORY #i do not want to see him #and his name is KYLE #cassie clare i am in your walls

[pierswife]

Off to bed, but do you think I could get Piers to do a Pokemon Contest with me for fun?

#he'd be the cool or tough contests to my beauty contests /lh #listen I love pokemon contests they're so much fun... when I do them casually and for fun fjuquduqi #they are stressful when I Want To Win #and a big part of pokemanda's backstory is that she did contests in sinnoh for like... 4 or 5 years before doing a super fucking depressing #performance (on purpose) and just fucking disappearing from the contest scene without a word #cause the shit started to drain her so mentally #and that's when she becomes Just Somre Guy who will maybe go do a contest for fun once in a while #cause she still enjoys the performance aspect of it and thinks it's fun to coordinate with her pokemon!!! but the constant pressure to win #and keep climbing at stay at master rank or higher kills her cause Failure Is Not An Option Ever #amanda moving back to Unova like: hi moooooom I kinda sorta... quit? I made enough money to get the ranch out of debt tho right? #listen I know in game there's no cash prizes but fuck it I make the rules: once you get high enough up there you start making bank #Jdauduq7w anyway #data log: personal #s/i: amanda (pkmn) #punk king of spikemuth

[uraniumglassgirl]

will say one piece is by no means the best story in the world but it definitely holds the record for the amount of times any kind of art has made me cry. that shit has had me bawling easily 20 times in like 350 something episodes

EDIT: i counted it was 33 times in about 350 episodes so like. once every 10 episodes on average

#second place goes to last words of a shooting star by mitski :muscle: #sigh. dog from orange town usopps moms death kuinas monologue kuinas death. donkriegs first mate starving to death sanjis backstory. #zoros defeat from mihawk. nojikos death nami getting the courage to ask luffy for help. i am on like episode 30 at this point in these tags #i have cried easily like 4 seperate times at the zoro backstory just thinking abt it and rewatching it #labboons self harm and then his resolution to meet with luffy again. #like 3 seperate times in drum island. when chopper got all beaten up trying to fetch the mushroom. #dr hiriluks speech/death. then whenever chopper runs down the mountain to join the strawhats #alabasta really didnt make me cry but i like zoros littl emoment to shine in his fight a lot #the blackbeard speech about dreams. #the flashback with noland and like twice regarding that little girl who just wanted to have a couple of handfuls of dirt. #and fucking water 7/enies lobby #i do not know how many times i cried that arc. #usopp getting beaten up. frankys backstory. usopp/luffys fight. cried at least like 5-6 times thinking about usopp leaving crew. #robins backstory twice both when her mom died and when she set out to sea and kept doing that silly little laugh. #the 'i want to live' moment. the going merrys death montage thingy. #at this point im lik pretty early into fuckin. thriller bark and no tearful moments yet #im gonna go back through these tags and count. #33 #jeez louise! #idk if its a very emotionally poignant show or if i have just been more tearful as of late. idk.

[qualityrain]

i feel like at this point in the entire honky story in the entire one (1) arc and 1/3 parts of a chapter the entire screentime owl has and 60% of it is just him crying being a wet sopping piece of cardboard and it would be ok if it amounted to anything but it’s like hes just a punching bag that serves to introduce useless concepts that never get used well. and its like,,,,mhy literally finds a way to bring this guy back from the dead and completely disregard everything from his established backstory and make it another shit arc like mhy can u just let this guy die and forget abt him so my attachment to him can fade and the owl brainworms can finally lose their hold on my brain its been two years i want rest

#liking a side honky character is like going yas girl give us nothing!! #and i eat it right up like can i get some standards #oh to be those girlies who can think abt an entire elaborate backstory for the side character because theres nothing in my brain #there’s nothing so i dont think of anything its just me my brain and rotating this guy in my head like a microwave for two fucking years #i have bad taste ik #im honestlt rllt tired of just watchinf owl just suffer and cry like girl i am so sick of it #and its like hes trying to do things its just urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #it never works out his brain is always fucked somewhere like #mhy dont bring owl back unless he has gone through intense therapy for 5 years #rhis includes fake owl and tianwu like #god.i hate it here. #i think his reaction and feelings r believable its just. The things he does never amount to anything #and its like. he coukd try in other ways mhy just doesnt let him and its so #can mhy stip trying to make him the emotional core like god mhy #did u not get the memo for coral arc nobody likes thatvfucking birch its just me #if ur gonna bring back owl as a fake honkai creature like….. #do smth w it…….. #and not just. kill him off again. #like what is it fORRRRR #i say rhis but i probablt have to read the entire chapter or arc ro get it but just. #i dont like the way mhyvtreats my blorbo!!!!! #just let him fucking die dude im #im not asking for like a whole arc ant him or anything just stop. #at most just 4 pixels in another characters arc or smrh not a whole story thing againnn #heres me complaining abt honky for the 8838383883th time

[inrainbowscd]

so im finally watching stranger things s4 and good god. the whole "hopper in a gulag" storyline is so fucking boring nd stupid help 😭

#im on ep 5 #really tempted to just skip all of the gulag scenes lmao #edit: okay hopper is giving us his backstory yes that's fine but he's still in the fucking gulag ffs #ele.txt

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

Ok which fucking youtuber said Marc being Jewish never comes up in the comics because its such a common thing people say Im convinced some youtube idiot said it in a “EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MOONKNIGHT!!” video like two years ago and now everyone thinks its fact

#Even ignoring that the Jed MacKay run like officially destroyed the idea that 'Marc being Jewish isnt important to his character' like #if you actually read the fucking comics it comes up alot. #Like I guess it doesnt come up in the most popular runs which might be where this misconception comes from #Obviously Marc being Jewish is Obvious in Lemire but #Lemire did cutout the 'Marc's dad didnt want him to be violent and Marc punched him out in a boxing ring' bit of Marc's backstory which #I still think was a bad choice even though it wasnt a actual Cut. Thats just the Moonknight comic most people #have read now so alot of people dont know about that #but my point is ok MAYBE thats the problem. Ellis Huston Lemire and even Moench are everyones top reccs and it doesnt come up in those- #-really. though if you just read the last like 5 issues of the 1980 run Youll Immediately Get To How Marc Being Jewish Is Important #But I think just because it wasnt big in the most popular runs doesnt mean its not important because it is! #Theres alot of Moonknight besides just those runs! Read more Moonknight !!!!!!!!! Its good !!! #Also I saw somebody saying Jake would decorate his cab for christmas when Jake is probably actually the one of the boys #most openly and proudly Jewish. He brings it up alot

[bloominstorm]

I knew Wakui was gonna do some shit like this

#i knew he was gonna have it be some light vs darkness shit with takemichi and Kisaki #we get it Kisaki brought out the worst in Mikey but I’m glad we see that he was encouraged by Mikey to do so #like MIKEY IS THE PROBLEM 😭 #like Kisaki deadass said to his face that he knew his bestfriend was gonna be his enemy #why would you fuck with tht person after tht especially when you talked to your gang and only two out of the 5 other captains said yes to #him joining??? #i just need his backstory to be more fleshed out bc WHY TF DOES HE HAVE DARK IMPULSES #he was already on tht dark shit before his mom died and his father died when he was too young so his death didn’t have much impact on him??? #literally what is wrong with Mikey what made him like this #can wakui simply just say Mikey has a mental illness and it wasn’t brought on by any traumatic event #but was exacerbated from all the bad shit tht happened to him such as his mom and brother dying #bc trying to pinpoint a reason as to why he’s like this is exhausting and it’s clear hes not trying to give readers a clear understanding of #why hes the way he is #sidenote it was good to see tht Baji (and the others) did try to talk to Mikey about not trusting Kisaki #bc for the longest I always assumed Baji didn’t immediately go to talk to Mikey about his suspicions about Kisaki bc their relationship was #strained over Shinichiro’s death but nope Mikey just simply didn’t care and knew Kisaki would be the only one to really #facilitate his dark shit #also sidenote again it was cute how Mikey brought up Takemichi when talking to Kisaki like yes unknowingly throw dirt in his face by #mentioning his ‘rival’ 💀 but tht brings me to my next point #like why is wakui doing this after showing tht Mikey in fact did NOT get swayed by Takemichi trying to stop him from shit #he literally didn’t stop beating the shit outta kazutora because Takemichi jumped in #he only stopped bc bajis charm fell outta Takemichis pocket he never acknowledged him besides beating tf outta him #like why are you rewriting shit we’ve literally seen just to make Takemichi saving him darkness make sense #it won’t bc Mikey is a completely contradictory character and it has been shown having his loved ones isn’t enough for him to stop his dark #thoughts like I’m not understanding where this is going #but we’ll see with the next chapter .. 🤨 #tokyo revengers spoilers #Tokyo revengers 265