#context at the more tab!

[naegashutyoassup]

i just saw the teaser for 2 baddies (NCT 127) and istg this is the FIRST time in nearly 2 YEARS that i got excited over a comeback since the Blue Hour (TOMORROW X TOGETHER) release. maybe it’s because i forgot how sick the teasers are and so i never really saw them until way later on. but seriously, i’ve been so excited over kpop in so long that i tend to feel like liking kpop was a chore i had to do just to find friends, making me forget that it can be fun if i just did what i used to do when i was new and just went offline and danced in my own bedroom.

cw // mentions of d-18, cyber bullying, implied dep and sui

sometimes, it’s better to have fun and appreciate being alone. that’s what everyone says, right? i already know that because i’ve been through it for years. it’s not that i’m worried about, i’m just worried about being lonely and not having anyone if i needed it. i didn’t really have a lot of people to comfort me during the d-18 stuff and me getting harassed online which almost took me life until my great friends came back to me and helped me out during my bad days. i know i should be happy that i’m no longer in this space, right? but that again, it’s not a space, but a mindset that i cannot get out of due to the amount of mental abuse i went through. i now suddenly feel worthless, loveless and even unworthy of anyone’s attention. but with these moments, i could finally have a least a glimmer of hope that there’ll always be someone for everyone, even me.

anyone reading this, you are not alone. i really wanted to hear this, and so do you.

(for context: i’ve been diagnosed with autism at a young age, preventing me from going to school like everyone else and feeling alienated even if i go to school because i either go to a special needs class or i’d get bullied. at one point my parents dropped me out of school to go to a different country for my education but it caused me to get bullied even more and it got worse since i was exploring my sexuality and gender identity at the time. since nobody around me were supportive (that includes the students, teachers, parents, aunties and uncles, cousins and even my sisters at one point), i felt alone and wanted to end my life at the age of 14. however, what stopped me was that i got into kpop which was a big distraction for me since i would listen to their music when i go home and would dance with a dog my aunty got as a replacement for my other dog who passed away shortly before i got into kpop. but as soon as everything was starting to look bright for me, i started going on online apps such as amino, discord, etc and it has tremendously ruined my mental health due to all the harassment i would receive. at this point, it made me think that nobody would like me which made my depression worse and i tried to end my life again multiple times this year involving march, may, july and august. don’t worry, i’m recovering now which is why i post stuff like this to show my process.)

#context at the more tab! #cw // mentions of dec 18th #mentions of depression #sui #cyber bullying #a bit of venting #please do NOT send hate #maintaining a healthy relationship with kpop again #having fun on my own #i’m gonna enjoy this comeback #fandom bullying #recovery #bullying #going offline #positive emotions #celebration post #mental health #kpop #k pop #nct #nct 127

[orkowhereheshouldntbe]

[ID in ALT!]

Orko in Strangerville from The Sims 4. The Mother watches.

#orkowhereheshouldntbe #the sims 4 #strangerville #ts4 scenery #ok context: this sims expansion pack has a story where some scientists unearthed/created a big plant that's possessing people all over town #as you progress through the mystery of finding out why people are getting possessed the town becomes more and more...like this? #like. the sky turns green/purple. more plants start appearing. vines come out of the tap/toilet #it's pretty cool honestly #in one of my latest games i've been going around in 1st person to capture how different everything looks in each phase #definitely recommend #btw if you don't know: shift-tab puts you in first-person mode

[eijiroukiriot]

bakugou katsuki king of keeping his cool around kirishima 

#idk if this is too little context but yeah bkg is really good at keeping it together when kirishima shows up unannounced #writing...is so hard.... #which probably isn't the attitude i should be having right now because i'm finally getting some writing spirit again #it seriously took me so long to figure out some of the scenes in this next part of pjo au #i can't even tell if it's gonna be 1 or 2 more chapters #and. that's probably all i should say abt it or else i'll just wanna talk abt it and not write it #idk what the demand even is for previews of a fic i posted 1 chapter of last august and then dipped on for almost a year #i swear it's been in my heart just not my open google tabs #thoughts #i hope you guys are all having a lovely day btw

[gilfrespecter]

ok i got this panel to come out REALLY cute actually

#minus adam's shoe but we'll ignore that #if that color is wonky bc of my screen its purple im partially posting this to keep tabs on how that color shows up #doodles #he love his daughter so much #alas she has stupid idiot disease not even related to 0 sharp in this context #i also need to remember to go back and put her backpack in scenes but if i dont im not gonna kms over it #if i ignore that i thiiinnnkkk i have 2/6 pages done with color and about 75% lined counting that #im making this like. solely for myself. i privated the breakup one actually bc i forgot her tattoo in the gag strip #and then i want to do one more showing like. leading up to her dying the first time #and then i can probably hopefully rest #(i mean focus on theros. i need to go honk that bobo so i can write for that actually) #have to make dinner first #its gonna b soooooo good

[aquilamage]

current transcript site thoughts

-don’t think I’m gonna have much patience for formatting, so it’ll probably be extremely plain

-and by that I mean every page gets the basic top navigational bar to get to the pages of the big organizational categories (geographical, character, quests, everything, misc). maybe something else if I’m feeling fancy

-probably gonna steal the wiki’s idea for organizing quests (in order of when you first get them) and characters (geographically, although I might do something separate for ones that move around a lot)

#geographical npcs for sure though because that makes dealing with the unnamed ones /slightly/ less of a hassle #probably just do unnamed [species] or any significant appearance descriptor and a picture of them #was already thinking of doing an image for each char because I sure wouldn't know most of them otherwise #as usual if anyone has thoughts or input feel free to chime in #or if you have priority npcs for when I get to trying to figure out that layout. lol. #thinking of doing all their dialogue with context and then a tab for any spies associated with the #at first i was thinking any dialogue referring to them but that's much more abstract and complicated so maybe a future project but not now #also realizing I'm definitely going to overtake the letsplay I've been using for my initial sweep through :/ #(again) #oh well it was convenient while it lasts #an aquila original #more like aquila makes an easily readable textdump transcript of the bug game

[theladyfae]

fucking love fanfiction. clicked on a work simply cause it seemed fun and now it's almost 3am and i'm losing my fucking mind cause it was so much more well thought out and a hell of a lot more layered than i expected it to be. the details added by the obvious research, the writing style, the character development, the dedication to the slowburn, it ticked all my boxes and yet going solely off the summary it wasn't even something i'd usually have tried to read in the first place. how the fuck.

#lets just say hanaa is gonna have a hell of a time when she checks her dms in the morning #i managed to hold back til i got to a certain chapter (which i later found out was the second to last one) and then i just. #went completely insane. and sent her a ton of excerpts without much context. #but its also like??? what happened to the original plot of the movie yk #i went in for some fun shenanigans and instead fell slowly down this madness involving magic and manipulation and anti-aging #and i dont regret it one bit i feel changed literally how can i go to sleep after the plot twist that shook me to my core #what's even better is i opened this tab yesterday morning but only read a little through the first chapter (theyre all really long too) #cause i was preparing for the rukhsati. and then i was there. and when i came back i carried on reading but #it was on the entire work format and i had no clue how many chapters there were or the word count #so i had no idea how much more there was to read i just got more and more engrossed and it just went on and on and on #later i went back and saw it had the perfect wordcount too.... 69420 #its absolutely going in the faves #feeling a lot of emotions tonight as u can tell #wait did i seriously say anti aging i meant near perfect immortality 😭 #faera's

[swiftthecardinal]

I only call the funny OG JSR blue man Tab or Cone

bc yk

C O R N I S A F U C K I N G E N G R I S H

Calling future flavour version corn tho is acceptable.

#jet set radio #jsr #sega #tab jsr #corn jsr #this is formatted silly but #this is literally why I don't call tab corn unless referring to future ver #i would call him cone more but fewer people would recognise the name #also cone in jsrm's context is reserved specifically for his pre-tab form #and ofc not talked about that yet so #why you never see me call him cone even if I'm willing to do so

[faroresson]

Objectively I know it's usually because of fan questioning on socmed or con panels or interviews but any time I'm reading about a video game or show or something and in the like trivia section it mentions an actor/VA having an opinion on their character's like. sexuality or niche personal preferences or some other Classic Headcanon Stuff I always instinctually picture it as coming up unprompted. In a "That's great Mr Mercer but we asked about your upcoming projects, not your opinion on if the two characters you played in the persona series were into men, thanks though" kinda way.

I just assume everyone is Hideo Kojima's twitter I guess

#faron speaks #kojima just goes on the internet to be like 'btw my special little war guys like men' between posts about spaghetti and logs off and I gues #that is just how i assume all the people that comment on headcanon stuff is like #like my example of matt mercer. who apparently specifically commented on Yusuke Kitagawa being bi and also #more famously Cassidy and Hanzo having a hellishly decorated Cowboy/Trad Japanese fusion apartment. like sir. what #for context Iam literally just going through various video games trivia tabs on the wikis and tvtropes pages n stuff cause i cant sleep #a lot of ymmv stuff too cause that shit is inchresting #ngl though if i was a voice actor I'd also have a lot of stupid headcanons and I would absolutely abuse my platform to spread them

[dreastmilk]

can you stop calling dream straight jesus fucking

#ended up opening one more fic of theirs before I'm muting their ass #context i was looking through their fics to see if they were all like that (they are) and one seemed decent so I opened it in a new tab #and yeah I fucking hate this #akiracomplaining

[notquitehuman-creations]

FUCK APPLE I HATE THEM SO FUCKING MUCH

#nqh brain noises #/neg #if that wasnt obvious #so context #i woke up with a pounding migrain #but hey that was fine bc my new ipad got delivered. exciting right #i already traded in the old one by this point so #i go to set the new tab up #and oh no i cant log into my appleid because the code pops up ON THE OTHER TABLET THAT I DONT FUCKING HAVE ANYMORE #but hey thats fine ill just use my phone number oh its still my old one that doesnt fucking work #ok thats fine ill just change it NOPE CANT DO THAT EITHER #“NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION TO RECOVER YOUR APPLEID” FUCK OFF WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME #and ON TOP OF ALL THAT MY GEN1 APPLE PENCIL DOESN'T FUCKING WORK EITHER BECAUSE THEY CHANGED #THE FUCKING CHARGING PORT FOR WHATEVER REASON #NOW THATS ANOTHER 200 DOLLARS I HAVE TO SPEND AND EVEN MORE TIME AWAY FROM ART #well ill still draw with my finger ofc but you get the point #fuck apple #cw caps #i hate it here

[sunsrefuge]

o(-< i FORGOT i havent finished some of these profiles because i have no idea if I connect them to Saoirse or Phoenix ......

#/rambling #CONTEXT: Phoenix and Saoirse are essentially the same character! Phoenix is just her Commander AU bascially #so. i might connect them to Saoirse maybe...? idk :( #Cmdr AU stuff doesn't always hold in non-Cmdr AU because relationships are different .... maybe #maybe Phoenix's page is full Cmdr AU and everyone else's are just generalized for RP purposes ....? or i can make .... more tabs #no i dont want more tabs actually FKJSD

[nohoperadio]

That cool bee book I was talking about a while ago mostly refrains from philosophical digressions (which I think is a strength, I appreciated how the author had total confidence that just clearly presenting the facts about his subject would be enough to make a fascinating book without the need for any "...and here's why that should blow your mind" editorializing, and he's totally right), but there was one towards the end I've found myself thinking about a lot, which is: he wants people to stop using "self-consciousness" (i.e. the concept exemplified by the mirror test but used implicitly or explicitly in tons of other contexts) as a criterion for which animals can be considered sentient/morally relevant/having significant inner lives/however you want to describe it. Not, as you might expect, because he thinks it's an unreasonably high bar to meet, but because it's such a low bar that it produces no distinctions: he argues that basically any animal with any kind of developed central nervous system has to have some kind of self-consciousness almost by definition.

The example I remember best is: imagine you can see an object in your visual field getting closer to you. No matter the specifics, it's obviously always going to make a huge difference to how you evaluate this situation whether the cause of the object getting closer is a] the object is moving towards you, or b] you are moving towards the object. If a, then something might be pursuing you or falling on you or a thousand other things that are just not even worth considering in the case of b. But visually the two cases are indistinguishable; if you're going to be able to track the difference, your brain has to be putting at least some work into keeping tabs on what your own intentions are and what choices you're making as you move through the world, predicting the expected consequences of those choices, and maintaining a fairly tidy mental separation between stuff in the world that you're making happen and stuff in the world that's just happening of its own volition. Otherwise, every time you walk towards a rock you'll freak out and think the rock is rolling into you, or vice versa.

And it's not hard to see how this applies to your entire sensory world right, it applies to sounds and tactile sensations and even feelings internal to your body to some extent, if you're going to both perceive the world and take actions in the world then it's mandatory to mentally separate yourself and the world before that's going to yield even an ounce of helpful information, you just can't function successfully on the most basic level if you're processing stuff that you're doing on the same level as stuff that's happening, if you're in that state then you simply don't have a usable model of the world at all, you just have chaos.

So you can very easily eliminate a certain seductive narrative about the evolution of consciousness, which starts with very primitive animals who are mentally processing nothing but basic sensory inputs, then as you rise up the chain more complex animals are forming concepts of objects and building up a more nuanced understanding of the world, until finally you approach humans and the mind becomes so subtle and sophisticated that it gains access to this special advanced meta-level of thought where it can even understand itself! No, the self is precisely the one idea that has to be in place from the very beginning, before any of it has even the most rudimentary practical value. Self-consciousness isn't the pinnacle of the mind's evolution, it's one of the lowest, most basic foundations that everything else builds off of.

I think this is really cool stuff! I don't know enough about the relevant academic philosophy of mind debates to say how far all this does or doesn't speak to that, maybe someone will tell me the "self-consciousness" concept being attacked here is a strawman somehow, I don't know. But it's definitely impacted the way I (just a dumb guy who likes creatures) think about our small small cousins and what their lives might be like and I think it's super interesting. If you think it's interesting too then maybe you wanna buy The Mind of a Bee by Lars Chittka and read it. It's mostly not about this stuff, as I say it's light on philosophy and heavy on bee-life immersion, but if you actually read this whole post then you're probably in the market for that I feel like.

#creatures: they've got a lot going on #I think we'd better just let them get on with it #nohopereadio #uninteresting

[sanguinarysanguinity]

To the authors who are unhappy about their hits-to-kudos ratio on AO3: as a kindness to yourselves, please stop. That hit counter doesn’t mean what you think it means.

First, not all those hits are people. A substantial chunk of those hits, as I understand it, are machines, looking to see what the page is. The hits-to-kudos is whack from the hour a story is posted, because a bunch of those hits are machines.

Second, multiple hits can be the same person on their first read of the story. If I open a story in a browser tab to read later, my browser sometimes/often unloads that tab in the interim, resulting in it reloading that tab and creating a new hit when I finally go to read it. If reading it requires multiple sessions, that’s multiple new hits. If I then leave it open for a while to remind myself to leave a comment, my browser will reload it again, generating another new hit, before it lets me write a comment. Altogether, my first read of a story, plus leaving a comment, can easily turn into five or more hits, depending on how hard I’m finding it to find reading and commenting time.

Third, if your story has been up for a while, the people who adore your story are driving up your hit counter with their re-reads. They go away, they come back, they re-read, and they do it again, and they do it again. It’s probably only a small subset of your total readers, but if one of your stories becomes someone’s go-to comfort read for times when they are stressed out (or, if it’s an explicit story, if it becomes their favorite jack-off material), that one person’s devoted re-reading might easily hit your story dozens of times. But most readers feel hella shy about admitting that they treat your story like a fuzzy blanket (or a vibrator); either way, it’s pretty rare for them to tell you about it. (Which I’m sympathetic to! Fuzzy blankets are a very personal thing, and no one wants to feel stared at by the author while they’re having a vulnerable moment.)

Fourth, stories get read by people outside of fandom, people who don’t think of themselves as your friends/neighbors/community-members, and who just... never think to hit kudos, at all, because their social context is so far removed from ours. I’ve got a couple of stories that were linked on TVTropes once upon a time, and their hit-to-kudos ratios are fucking absurd. If your story got linked outside of fandom somewhere, odds are that most of the people coming in from that link will never think to hit kudos, no matter how much they liked it, because they never quite connect that there’s a real live author, breathlessly hoping to be liked and appreciated, standing just behind the screen, and that maybe readers should be polite and say ‘thank you’ to them when they finish the story and leave.

tl;dr Do not assume every hit is new human reader who didn’t like your story and clicked out. Your hit counts will often be ten times greater than your kudos, just for stupid ordinary internet-traffic reasons, and the older a story becomes (and the more times bots and re-readers hit it), the wider the hits-to-kudos gulf will become. Do yourself a kindness and stop calculating that ratio -- and if you can’t stop making yourself crazy about it, go into settings and turn off your hit counter displays. Please be tender to yourselves; being an author is hard enough as it is.

#ao3 #hits #kudos

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Hey you 308k(!!!) people who have watched Nerdy Prudes in less than three days:

First of all I love you! I love you, I love your excitement for this show, I love all of the love going around. I'm so proud and excited by how well this show our little fandom's been obsessed with for months is doing.

ANYWAYS.

Did you love it? Do you want more? Do you wanna maybe watch Steph and Pete fall for each other again, or see Grace be unhinged in a completely different context? Do you want to know who the hell most of those random people in "Hatchet Town" even were, or learn about the Lords in Black (why was the yellow one so excited about Pete being a Spankoffski?), the Black Book, and the Cult of the Starry Children? Do you want to meet two of the coolest people in all of Hatchetfield (who, believe it or not, haven't been in a stage show yet)? Do you want MORE BOPS written by Jeff and MORE KILLER STORIES AND BRILLIANT DIALOGUE written by the Langs, all of it delivered by the Hatchetfield musicals cast you know and love?

Then the (roughly) 230k of you who haven't watched all of Nightmare Time should check it out!

"But Brooke," you might say, "I tried to start with Episode 1 (available under the livestream tab on Starkid's youtube account) but the low quality of a zoom-call video really put me off!"

Okay, understandable. It didn't personally bother me, but I totally get it not being other people's jam. But I will say that the episodes get better in production quality as they go along, and I would try each one before giving up and moving onto the next. Nightmare Time 2, especially, is a completely different viewing experience from Hatchetfield Ape Man.

And here's the kicker: IF ENOUGH PEOPLE WATCH NIGHTMARE TIME 2, WE GET MORE OF THE NERDY PRUDES CHARACTERS!! We get more of Grace, Ruth, Richie, the Lords in Black, and the Black Book. And that's just the stuff that's been confirmed (the planned Grace episode of NMT 3 sounds like the completion of the teen slasher trilogy, so I imagine Steph and Pete will probably be in it as well).

So please, 230k Nerdy Prudes fans who have not watched Nightmare Time, do yourself and all of us a favor and get your Nightmare Time on!!

#yeah I know some of those 307k views are repeats #but I figured that the people rewatching NPMD this early will also be the people already rewatching Nightmare Time so it should even out? #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #hatchetfield #starkid

[celaenaeiln]

Okay but you can’t just say “I'm not going to get into their brother relationship because that involves how Alfred treats Dick as a son rather than a grandson and is opening a whole new mansion of stuff so I'm going to wrap this up here” and not follow up with another post because that’s just cruel 😔😞 (aka this is me saying I really like & enjoy reading your interpretations and I need more of them HEHE)

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thank you!!!! <3333

I love thinking about how Alfred treats Dick more of a son than a grandson because their relationship is different from Alfred's relationship with the other kids. Furthermore, it also explains a bunch of his actions.

First of, I know when everyone saw that Alfred had left Dick his entire inheritance they went "What the fuck." There were a bunch of jokes and questioning about why Alfred would do that and a lot of people have wrote it off as Tom Taylor's writing. But here's the thing. Tom Taylor has done a lot of stupid stuff in terms of characterization but he's done quite a few things right and one of them was adequately explaining Dick and Alfred's relationship.

I don't know how many people can read cursive but it says, "I invested much of this wisely and ethically...In fact, I planned to come to you for advice. Like Bruce, your mind is astonishing. You are a problem-solver and the world is full of problems." (There's actually panel during one of Dick and Slade's fight I have saved so lemme know if you or anyone is interested in Dick's innovativeness and how it makes his a terrifying opponent.)

Let me pause right there. This is Alfred's life savings. It's every piece of penny he's saved and every minute of his life is in that money. On top of what he says about Dick's intellect-and I agree and can prove it-he must've loved and trusted Dick an extraordinary amount to do this.

Alfred goes on to say, "I couldn't think of better hands to leave this fortune in. I believe you will see this, not as a personal gain, but as an opportunity. Because I believe in Dick Grayson."

He continues praising him and- HERE IT IS- "I am so very proud to call you my son."

DICK IS ALFRED'S SON.

This is the cleanest, clearest panel where he explicitly says it.

Hold on-this is the cleanest panel that says it? Wait a minute, let me retract that:

"Master Bruce was my son for a while. And then there was you."

THIS MOMENT HAS BEEN BUILDING UP ON US FOR YEARS. Tom Taylor wasn't doing lip service, he was just writing the inevitable!

I swear there's a panel where Dick refers to Alfred as his dad...

*Record scratch* WHAT DID ALFRED CALL DICK? WHAT DID DICK CALL ALFRED?

THIS IS WHY I LOVE THEM!!! THEY ARE GLORIOUS, BRILLIANT, UNDERRATED, AND NO ONE UNDERSTANDS THE FULL EXTENT OF EITHER OF THEIR ABILITIES, LOVE, OR DEPTH OF EMOTIONS.

THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS ON A DIFFERENT LEVEL.

Take the Ric Grayson arc for another example.

Background context: Dick-Ric-was sleeping on the counter and all of a sudden he was startled out of a nightmare thus accidentally ending up bumping into the guy next to him who was drinking. Of course the guy doesn't mind only because it's Dick but anyways, here Alfred makes his entrance. Another thing I love about about this interaction is this is one of the few times Alfred has ever admitted to being in the military. The only other time I can think of him openly saying that is when he's slapping Bruce around.

The worry in the man's eyes for his wayward son...when Bea is snarking with Dick about his tab Alfred decides to pay for him instead.

LOOK AT HIS EYES AS HE SAYS GOOD NIGHT! THE AMOUNT OF EMOTION HE HAS IN THEM IS PURE PERFECTION. THE MAN JUST WANTS HIS SON TO COME BACK.

Not to mention, Alfred adores Dick in a way he didn't even with Bruce.

"For a long time I would dread coming down to this dark hellhole. But the advent of young Grayson has forced an alteration in my attitude. The masters have made much progress in these few short months. I was opposed initially to the recruitment of the lad in Master Bruce's self-appointed 'War on Crime.' But I am prepared to admit my error. Master Richard has mad a difference for the better to our lives."

This is HUGE. Coming from Alfred, this is massive because Alfred LOATHES Bruce's "War on Crime." How much?

So much that he slapped Bruce bloody for it.

The pseudo-father and son beat each other to pieces over it. So after years of Alfred hating Bruce for what he's done, for him to say he only accepts it because of Dick-because of Dick's personality-is enormous praise and accomplishment.

Alfred loves Dick in a way he doesn't love anyone else. And before I get flamed by people for suggesting Alfred loves Dick more than Bruce, I want to say he loves Dick as much as Bruce but in a different manner. He doesn't see Dick as a grandchild who needs to be coddled and softened, he sees Dick as a son he can spoil and cherish.

Him paying off the tab was not only an act of kindness, but it mimicks the way a rich father gives everything to his youngest son. Bruce was the first born he raised but Dick was the baby of their family. This also ties in with how Bruce doesn't see Dick as just him son like he does with the others. To Bruce, they are just as much brothers as anything else.

When Bruce fires Dick from Robin after two-face, Alfred couldn't take it lightly. Dick wasn't just the light of Bruce's life, he was the fucking sun to Alfred's.

I started crying when I read this because the emotions and the pain he's feeling is so visceral. A man who has been MI5 and SAS (Special Airforce Service), who has fought wars, who has fought his son, lost his best friends, is breaking down alone at the top of the stairs over not having Dick as Robin.

You might think that's not all that sad. Worse things have happened. You're overreacting.

Tears are literally streaming down my face as I'm writing this review. Rudolph nose and ugly bloodstained eyes complete with it.

Can you ever imagine loving someone so much?

Crying in silence with a steady voice to never let them know your sorrow?

But sure, sure, he's cried when others were killed like this so I'll go into other special things.

Some of his best moments are with Dick:

The pure adoration in his eyes as he watches his young son go 'flap' 'flap' 'flap' with his older brother's too big cloathes.

He's laughing! Do you know the only times he laughs or grins like that?

That's right-with Bruce! With his other son.

With Dick, he laughs, gets angry, and actually shows interest in things not related to people's health. Dick humanizes Alfred.

Who is the only other person Alfred has gotten mad at? Oh yeah. Bruce.

There's another panel where Alfred just sits by his bedside holding his hand.

It's the little things that matter is a lie. When it comes to Dick, Alfred does things in fighter jet air shows level of affection which he learned just for this during his SAS days.

Their shared interests & mutual understanding

People always think Dick and Alfred have nothing in common between them. Dick is excitable, bouncy, and some other adjective while Alfred is calming, stoic, and butler-y. They actually forget that Dick and Alfred canonically bond of plays. Dick, as I said before, is a massive theater nerd. He loves plays. He really wanted to see that shakespeare play and Alfred said he would take him because he knows people there and then went on to complain about how his brother didn't even drop by to see him. I love their interactions because Dick brings out a different side to Alfred.

Das Rheingold was a German musical drama that was performed as a single opera at the National Theatre Munich. This is the link if you're interested in reading a short synopsis of this complicated play by the Metropolitan Opera. It's like a mix of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Rings of Power."

Also the fact that Alfred is tying his tie like a father would tie his son's.

I know they make a crack out of it by using Bugs Bunny (Bugs Bunny is a fantastic cartoon! I grew up on it!) but Alfred knows that Dick loves opera and theater and is only asking if this particular play will suit his interests. Okay, great, we know Dick likes theater. You've said that and posted about it before. But how do we know Alfred likes it too and not just because he's British and posh and whatnot?

He has preformed at the London Theater, and this is another way he connects to Dick emotionally. When Dick complains about being Batman, Alfred is the one that tells him:

This is something Alfred understands about Dick that absolutely no one in the family does.

The two of them are show people. They know how to play the role they were given, and they know how to play it well. No one suspects Alfred the Butler of ruthlessly using firearms and no one suspects Dick the Light of the Universe to ruthlessly to manipulate allies.

Dick knows this about Alfred too and never presses for any answers. When Alfred's pulling out a bullet from Dick and performing high level medical techniques he should know nothing about, Dick asks him, "Where did you learn all this, Alfred." To which Alfred responds, "You would be amazed at what you can pick up by watching the Discovery Channel." Dick just gives a pained laugh retorts about his wonderful bedside manners.

They know.

What Alfred sees in Dick is a pure goodness that can't be emulated. He loves his son for how absolutely good he is and is devastated when Dick can't be with him. Of everyone, Dick is the one Alfred is closest to. Other members have their moments with him but no one continually seeks out his presence just for the fact they like him aside from Dick. The rest treat him as an important side character, not a parent. And Alfred responds to that devotion with overwhelming love of his own.

Alfred and Bruce's optimism comes bundled up in the form of Dick. It's stunning how it's always Alfred of all people who admits this. Alfred who isn't supposed to show favoritism or bias is the one that consistently acknowledges how important Dick is to the family and him. This solidifies the fact that Dick is Alfred's favorite.

Other moments that differentiate Dick and Alfred's relationship:

We're pretty familiar with this and many of us have laughed it off when Alfred scolded Dick (also Dick looks hot af here). But can you imagine even anyone else playfully mocking Alfred? THIS. BOY. IS. SPECIAL. Alfred doesn't even blink twice at the address, indicating how typical it is for Dick to act that way with him. You only do that to people you're best friends with.

Casual comfort, the two of them.

Dick and Bruce were brothers and how that ties into Alfred:

Adding to my "Light of Bruce's life" Robin Dick canon, Alfred told Dick that Bruce "would have self-distructed if he hadn't met me and learned responsibility. I made him laugh, and he was like the greatest big brother you could ever imagine...it was our town."

Bruce and Dick are so damn codependent.

Bruce would not have survived without Dick. That's all there is to it.

Robin Dick was the light shining through rain clouds, the glitter in the air, the angel with golden wings, the giggling sweetheart to Alfred and Bruce. He was sunshine, love, and joy and the men both adored, thrived, and cherished him for it.

And if Dick and Bruce were brothers then Alfred was Dick's father and he was Alfred's son.

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[bluegiragi]

Gira I need your help. I am trying to learn to draw NSFW, as you have inspired me to do so, but every time I try to draw a, well, a dick, I squeal, get flustered and backtrack (for further context I was raised Catholic). How do I overcome this/

hi anon! I actually have a good way around this since I’m also icked out by real life images (that’s more me being very asexual than being religious though) so here’s what I do.

icognito tab > google images > dildo. Either that or read like truly a shit ton of uncensored yaoi doujinshi.

#funniest ask I’ve gotten in a while #I mean that in like. a companionly kind of way btw #anon I’m in the same boat #may we get through this together #askbox #anon