#but he was more up my alley

[lunaryhues]

Me: "Can I please use all this energy to draw on an actual project"

My brain: "You will draw the same character over and over and you will like it."

Me: "Okay."

#rayman #artists on tumblr #these were made over the course of like two months or so #you can see that i was messing with his design a bit #kind of adjusting the way i drew him as i went along #uhhh anyways yeah i just think he's neat #he's fun to draw #its because he doesn't have limbs #drawing limbs is my least favorite part of drawing any humanoid character #so him not having any takes away a lot of the frustration i often have in drawing certain dynamic poses #he's also very cartoony which is up my alley. very expressive and fun #he has helped me push drawing exaggerated expressions more #he has good shapes!! its good character design!!! #and drawing him is comforting #i'll draw something else eventually but for now i'm just having fun #i have no idea how i'm going to format this post on twitter without it getting cropped to hell #i will worry about that later

[humming-fly]

Happy to report I have finally started listening to Malevolent and to no one's surprise I am already obsessed (I'm almost done with s2 atm please don't send me spoilers yet sdlkfj)

I'll skip over my usual formality of having one normal art post before diving into shitposts let's not waste anyone's time here

#to no one's surprise the body-sharing eldrich horror buddy comedy is right up my alley #this one's been on my 'to listen' list for a long while but the stars finally aligned to make it happen #okay time to figure out how to tag this uhhh #malevolent #malevolent podcast #arthur lester #john doe #i will probably change how i draw arthur a Lot as this goes on lol but enjoy these early drafts #unlike him I had a good idea how I wanted to draw john from the get-go #though the scrawling chaotic scribbles are actually a bit tedious to do in cleaner art #the pencil comic at the end is about the easiest way to do it he's just a bit more formless there #which is only really confusing when I also want to draw the hand like in the first shitpost #if i draw anything for s2 i'll update him a wee bit though probably pretty easy to guess what #i'll be playin with it i'm sure #idfk what tags people use for these i'm not allowed to search the tag till i'm caught up #so for now these'll work! #shorthand i'll probs just use #mp #pretty sure i haven't used that before #probably #my art #doodles #comic

[mikaikaika]

Quackity : Chilling after unleashing his social experiment on the ccs

Meanwhile Cellbit :

#My man's is stacked bruh #He's got a Google doc‚ a twitter thread‚ tiktoks‚ stream clips‚ vods‚ audio editor and his own notes that he's been collecting #Man is absolutely down bad #It's amazing to see #Like he knows more than some people who have been around on the server #So funny #As a person who loves ciphers and codes and absolutely has spend 2 hours on solving a stupid code provided in a tv show #This is right up my alley #I'm picking up everything he's putting down #qsmp #Cellbit #Q! Meme #Island mystery #Theory #Lore #Lore-ing face

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Batman Annual #25

Before Talia took him in, before he was dunked in the pit to have his memories restored, even when operating purely on survival instinct, he always split a meal with the other homeless people. It may not have been essential to his survival, but caring about and helping other people when he couldn’t even help himself was just always such an intrinsic part of Jason’s core.

#so much so that it prevailed over basic self-preservation #my guy lost 90% of his cognitive function and he’s still out here helping people in any way he can #my post #new headcanon: that’s why he stole all 4 tires. because he wasn’t just feeding himself in crime alley. #or at least he was planning to expand his work now that he had more confidence in his ability to feed and care for himself #I mean he also isn’t the type to brag about his good deeds yk? we all know he was putting up a tough guy façade when Bruce found him #a mutual asked abt Jason’s white streak so I directed them to hush which ofc reminded me of this book #rather than it being exclusively a pit thing imo it makes more sense for it to be a combination of actual health related issues #like the chronic prolonged mental and physical stress he had to endure coupled with the fact that superboy’s punch kickstarted his body #in ways that are unknown to modern science #and then the pit also had a hand in it (probably??) #(imo). like Talia doesn’t have it. neither do Damian or Ra’s or anyone else who’s been in the pit. #jason todd #dc #batman annual 25 #comic panels

[kennimu]

I got bored and decided to mix my biggest hyper fixations together and created this

They're very much inspired by Young Justice '98. I was stuck between who in varigo would be Robin but then I realized that Hugo would never be a Super and that settled that. Also I feel like Hugo's Robin would be what Lonnie's Robin could've been.

#Nuru is my favourite out of everyone here #i love the way I drew her face I think she looks beautiful #also she deserves two suits #i didn't want to take the Impulse name for Yong #so I chose Bolt because I wached the movie recently and thought it'd be funny #already coming up for a traumatic past for Varian including Raps #Heavy inspiration from Kon for Varian also because he's the most interesting super fight me #it will also be interesting to see a super lead the team instead #this is such a self indulgent au but no one can stop me from making more of it #hugo 100% came from crime alley #idk what to do with his past yet though #i tried my best to add red to Hugo's suit but trustvme when I say it was not working #vat7k #hugo vat7k #varian tangled #tts varian #nuru vat7k #yong vat7k #varian and the 7 kingdoms #varian and the seven kingdoms #varigo #varian vat7k #vat7k au #vat7k fanart #vat7k hugo #vat7k nuru #vat7k yong #kenni art #kenni doodles

[salsae]

robin (2021) made ra's SUCH a gilf. this is a crack outtake from my wip fic where tim shows up on ra's lil secluded island to stop him from dying.

ofc, where tim goes core 4 shows up so, ra's can kiss his nice silent R&R retreat goodbye.

#batman #tim drake #ra's al ghul #bart allen #ra'stim #dc comics #in the actual fic ra's doesnt put up w bart for more than one second (he tranqs him asap and ignores tim till tim sends bart away) #but my brain wanted to see this #anyways jazz hands i rly hope i can write this fic its very up my alley #canon compliant role reversal w tim at his best and ra's at his worse #they fuck on the beach under the stars :) #'i l-word you bec ur the only person in my life i can trust to not die and leave me but now u tell me ur choosing to die? fuck u' #salsart #ALSO I NEED DC FRIENDS BADLY PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM

[sillyabtmusic]

Dopamine - Keonhee

#flashing #oneus #keonhee #lee keonhee #foroneus #kflops #malegroupsnet #* my gifs #nkd.gif #oneus.gif #oneus.kh #literally only watched this to try and find out where a xion screenshot in my files was from and forgottttt he looked like that . #i hate making gifs with so few frames but i would also do anything for keonhee i guess so here we are. i think the shortest ones are 13frms #i also have nothing better to do i might make more sets from this half of the video. the summery parts aren't too up my alley #idk!!! my brain is so heavy on oneus lockdown rn i feel insane

[nateriverswife]

Hi, so, I see that your analysis posts go pretty deep and I love how you explain and articulate things. I just wanted to ask for your opinion on L: Change the world. Is it...canon? Do you consider it to be canon? Or if not canon, then accurate for the way you see the Death Note universe?

Thank you!

Hi! Firstly, thank you so much! Secondly, this is going to be embarrassing for me and disappointing to you, but I've never read L: Change The World, and I don't plan to (in the near future, at least). I tend to be very loyal to manga L so anything that strives from that doesn't interest me and/or I don't consider it canon (shown also by my detest towards the two L one shots and HTR13 in many of its parts). For the same reason, I haven't watched any of the live actions or musicals. I have a weird belief around popular media that makes me not want to engage with them. Not even out of curiosity. The only exceptions are Another Note and the A-Kira and C-Kira one shots. Another Note got the same treatment as HTR13, while I like the Near one shots, because Near has never been as popular as L within and outside the fandom. And this is where my weird belief comes in: when a character reaches the popularity of L, anything said about them tends to influence the authors or anyone creating official interpretations of him, that often don't stay true to the character, but caters to the fandom.

Anyway, back to L: Change The World, I don't think I've heard enough about it to even give an opinion on those aspects, so sorry I can't write a detailed answer 🙇‍♀️

#I think I know only two details but I don't know if one of them is from it #like that he prevented a bomb from going off as a kid? and that's why he was brought at the Wammy's? #the other one is that he got more ''humanised'' but I'm afraid that might border into sentimentality. which isn't really my cup of tea #the premise that he has to inevitably die is cool though. I love that. being unable to change one's fate is right up my alley #but other than that idk #thanks for the ask and sorry again! #dn.inbox

[the-kipsabian]

important announcement

kip in the cutest frog shirt 🥺💜

#kip posting allowed only sorry not sorry this was too cute not to share right away #hes so real like god. fucking dammit. i love him #(this is also a great moment to say ive been on a positivity frog kick the past few months? now so this right up my alley oh my god #like he couldnt be more me coded if he fucking tried) #wrestling musing #box thoughts

[galwithalibrarycard]

When I say I never listen to music this is exactly what I mean: I was today years old when I listened to “Hozier” (self-titled, 2014) for the first time. It is 2023.

#why did no one TELL ME #this is exactly my shit the beautiful folksy sound the deep sadness the needing a literature degree to get the references #AND he’s IRISH #this is a tall dark haired hot Irish musician he could not be more up my alley if he tried #(I think the Brits or whoever says ‘up my street’ instead of ‘alley’ are correct about that one by the way) #his lyrics have BEEN fanfiction titles #i know you all knew about this #WHERE WAS I #why was I not TOLD #excuse me I need every album now thank you #hozier #it has been an AFTERNOON friends

[landfilloftrash]

the general consensus I feel like.

#Star Trek #Star Trek PIC #Star Madness (across the universe) #Q Star Trek #sorry I’ve been Extremely mentally ill about him for the past few days and got angry/sad about the way they treated him in S2 #*more than usual anyways #no explanation or assurance of what was happening to him or even plain old concern #or if the Q continuum itself was sick and he was the last one standing “I am dying alone’’ #just. nothing. #all these references in s3 and yet. #don’t get me wrong I love character death it is right up my angst goblin alley but.. explanations. they all have explanations. #and unless S3 episode 9 (Vox) or the 10th episode (somewhere I saw it called ‘The Last Generation’ and girl please *tired and sad*) does #ANYTHING regarding that i don’t think we’ll get one #and I got really achy in my chest about it (so much so I got my stress heart palpitations so I had to lie down) so have a lighthearted meme #sorry #rea rambles in the tags #shut up rea #rea’s trash

[weaverofink]

dragon's breath

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #atla zuko #atla fanart #prince zuko #i think they should have done the fire breath move more often that was so fun #i imagine when he gets really pissed he starts spitting sparks and breathing smoke #he loves to be dramatic this would be right up his alley #trying out using really saturated colors w this one. idk if they all go together that well but i think it looks pretty cool!! #art #my art #weaverofink #when i finished this the first time i leaned back and then immediately realized i had completely forgotten his scar #& felt like throwing myself into the sun #but i fixed it. everything turned out ok. i just couldn't believe i forgot it

[crumbleclub]

There's this weird and very gory French + Canadian film called Martyrs (exercise caution when looking it up in terms of images if that stuff freaks you out) and the basic concept is like. Some cult trying to understand what happens after death by bringing people to the brink of it in the most traumatic and agonizing ways possible. And I just realized that that's really some William Afton shit, both for the original motive and for remnant extraction.

(Accidentally wrote an essay in the tags so, ah. Read those I guess)

#i don't really write william as nearly that intense actually #for one because he is not at his peak of darkness most of the time i write him #two because i don't find gore itself inherently interesting #aside from eye scream and medical horror specifically #and 3 because i generally want my characters to SURVIVE so i can play with psychology and healing bc that's way more up my alley #but anyway. the comparison can still be made #i also don't think william would go for some of the stuff in that movie entirely because of cleanup. he has to hide his activities #and he doesn't have a cult to fall back on #but it would be interesting to see if he tried to maximize remnant extraction with some kind of psychological torture #that fits some of the things in the lonely children au by dire honey and freddles. in terms of the endless nightmare schtick #and i could honestly see some level of help wanted and the in universe fnaf games twisting that way too #harvesting the agony of players #hmm. maybe that could be why moon seems fucked up even presumably before kids start going missing again in sb #but anyway #he can only do so much murder before his. ah. resources. would dwindle #maybe he needs to harvest remnant other ways as well #and the continued murder is tied more to his obsession with death and immortality #fnaf #william afton #theorizing about william's weirdness

[boyfridged]

Do you agree that Jason, as written by Winnick in UTRH and Lost Days, acts out of character post-resurrection if we take into account his post-crisis robin days? If yes, how would you have him act/react to stuff after he comes back from the dead?

tldr: i definitely agree. moreover, classism plays a huge role in it, and i don’t think that at this point the storyline could lose these implications, which makes trying to conceive what an “in character” (for robin jay) version of these events would be quite difficult. 

let’s just start from saying that i don't think it's a secret that i don't really like winick in general. despite his work being mad interesting on a conceptual level (and style-wise, genuinely well written!), he has no love for the characters he writes about. 

imo utrh shouldn't even ever make it into the mainstream batman timeline. i am aware that this is a radical opinion, but my take is that it would do best as an elseworld story (and in this version too it would need some tweaks here and there), because it made damage both to the mythos of batman and jason's legacy that can never be undone. the very premise of the story is so deeply disconnected from jay's original place in the narrative, and so classist at its roots, that there's not much room to truly fix it. 

(i want to say, preemptively, that i am aware that there are people who read utrh as a story of a revolutionary and a victim – and they have the right to do so, but ngl, my view has always been that it was never written as that. utrh reinforces so many stereotypes that it overshadows the revenge tragedy spirit of it all.) 

another disclaimer is that, to be honest, jay doesn't have a very consistent characterization even in his 80s run, and it also has some classist implications that ideally should be either erased or addressed in the text (that winick instead exaggerated and put at the very front of his storytelling.) starlin's writing is, at the end of the day and very much ironically, more sympathetic and gentler in evaluating jay (simply because at the time he would not get away with changes too blatant) but details such as jay saying that "all life is game" and his random nonchalant behaviour that has its origin in the very beginning of starlin’s run are already signs of it. some readers will trace jason's arrogance prevalent in his red hood era to these issues and say that his actions post-res are therefore a logical extension of his robin days, but i don't buy it. even if you want to lean into starlin-esque characterisation, if you consider the core problem of the garzonas plotline – which is power, jay shouldn’t look into the solution of anything in climbing to the top. and if he did, it would have to be written as a “becoming what you feared/hated most” kind of story, which i can see a certain appeal in (and which would at least acknowledge that it was not his initial personality), but which would go back to its classist assumption of cycles of violence and doomed fates.

so – how to make his post-res era more accurate to his post-crisis robin days (and least classist in the process)?

if we were to follow my fav iterations of his characterisation (barr’s detective comics and the ntt appearances) tbh I don’t think a lot would happen, because his personality is quite mild, and just so hopeful there that i wouldn’t expect any extreme actions from him – but then again, the circumstances that he finds himself in post-res, the trauma, and his sensitivity do warrant grief that should become a driving force in his life from now on. the question is, what to do with this grief as a plot device?

i know that plenty of jason fans hate this take but I actually think the concept of jason trying to be detached and cruel but being bad at it might be one of the least offensive to his 80s characterisation. it’s def not accurate to pre-52 canon (apart from countdown perhaps) but imo for jay to be authentic and nuanced he should be conflicted about his own actions. his overconfident behaviour should be a pose – just as his frantic acts in his origin story as robin were. (again, something that many readers don't take notice of – but reading the rest of collins' writing wherein jay quickly settles into being easy-going and even a bit shy is proof of it.)

these two points lead to the “no good deed” narrative that I often talk about - the reading that jason saw his intuitive and self-sacrificial kind tendencies as something that brought him pain and that never was quite efficient, and that post-res he intentionally tried training himself out of. there are some flashes of it here and there throughout the years of the red hood publishing history, but it never got a true spotlight. and if i were to write lost days, jason flinching at his own violence would be a focal point of the story. 

moving on to utrh; i have spoken about it at length before but I think if he were written 1. with more political sensitivity 2. to have retained the same maturity re: the social order 3. to have the same idea of morality, he should have followed more of actual revolutionary tracks and the whole “drug lord” authoritarian figure schtick along with the idiotic idea of “controlling crime” would have to be thrown out of the window. 

and, later on, forgiveness should play a big role in his story. he's so quick to forgive and justify everyone in his robin run – this is also why i reckon his team up with harvey in tfz was a wasted opportunity.

so, in conclusion – perhaps not that much would have to change re: his actions but definitely a lot should change regarding his emotional journey and his position. i would def throw out a lot of mindless violence and power posturing out of it though. and perhaps make him a bit more polite just for the sake of more consistency (this is not me taking a moral stance btw nor tone policing a fictional character. i just think it would be more faithful to his 80s writing unless you want to make him explicitly scared. and it would be funnier tbh.)

#i think i have written some about it on my old blog #but i'm too lazy to look it up and also i got a lot of hate because of that #i also had a longer post talking about how it can be fixed *now* #anyway i want to say. #i do enjoy jason acting feral i do. #and i do want to allow people to enjoy whatever they do #but you simply can't look at jason's characterisation post-res and lie and say it's not a classist caricature #so maybe i am judging people who don't see any problem with it a bit <3 #and despite my love for cyclic narratives #i do want better for him. and i do want him softer and more mild-mannered #not because i am tone policing people nor because i think anger is not warranted #but because i think it's clear that the source of it in his writing #is not anything revolutionary. it's the opposite #like idk make helena more full of rage or whatever #this was not jay's original place in the narrative. #it was the opposite actually. and i miss him so bad dear god i do:( #anyway i think it's hard to think of him post-res in character also because when i think of what is in-character #i also consider what (as i said) the place in the wider narrative was #and jay's death already ruined it mostly #for it to be regained he would have to start anew as a civilian OR as better batman in crime alley i think #sorry for so many tags. #this is such a delightful ask thank you <3 #dc #jason todd #jay.zip #jay.txt #outbox

[girl-hwat]

DONT MIND ME CRYING OVER WILD BLUE YONDER

#AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM OBSESSED #NOT THAG I DIDNT LIKE THE STAR BEAST #BUT THIS IS SO MUCH MORE MY ALLEY #BRING THE WEIRD CORE HORROR #EMOTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE FLUX #HE SAID SHE SAID REMINDED ME OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE SCIFI HORROR MOVIES AND SHOWS #JUST THE PERFECT LENGTH AND BUILD UP #ILL WATCH AGAIN #RIGHT NOW #OMG #i really love doctor who guys #doctor who

[cissie-queen-jones]

You know, one of these days I’ll take a break from the X Men to read Bucky’s appearances and then it’ll be over for everyone

#sad traumatized man with dark hair whos died young and came back only to be more violent? #right up my alley #i know he’s going to be a Jason level blorbo