#it's just like

[floating--goblin]

you know what hill i'll die on? terzo is not the sluttiest emeritus

I mean sure, he's the most dramatic and the most outspoken about sex, and he gave us Mummy Dust which is its own discussion-- but I sincerely don't see him, in his private life, being so promiscuous. Like out of all of them, I'm the most certain Terzo would be either monogamous or have a few regular partners at most, but I don't think he'd be big on casual flings. Frankly I don't even see him having sex that much at this point, he seems more attached to it as a concept than an actual activity he regularly engages in.

You know who's the inverse of that, though? The one Tobias himself calls a pervert? Secondo. There's your whore. I know he looks big and mean and authoritary but let's be honest, half of Infestissumam is about ritual sex and he's out in Vegas on the regular with more women than he can reliably satisfy. He says it himself that he became Papa because "he likes a sexy beat". THERE'S THE EMERITUS WHORE, AND I'M CERTAIN OF IT

#the band ghost #i'm not trying to be like. puritanical by saying this #far from it #it's just like #i feel terzo is often stereotyped as hypersexual #and i feel like that's because he's for lack of a better word the most queer-coded papa #i just don't think he should be THE slutty emeritus yknow? because when i think about him i think of other things #he's the greatest showman among all of them and the way he grew disillusioned with the world is tragic #he's the only one (so far) to have gotten a grammy #he's the first to treat his ghouls like proper friends #the only time we see sister imperator actually afraid is when he shows up #like there's SO MUCH and obviously i'm not saying or even thinking that a character's sexuality is less important than other features #all the papas encourage a celebration of sexuality #i'm just saying i feel like people stop at that. and don't look at terzo any deeper #and that's tragic because he's a HELL of a character #and when you look at the bigger picture i'm sorry but i just can't think he fucks as much as secondo. sorry #give mr worldwide the recognition he deserves ok #and also give terzo proper characterization!!

[yandere-daydreams]

With all the respect and love for your writing in the world, I would not count the neutral votes. The thought of you writing that fills me with horror and disgust, but I did vote neutral because it’s your blog and ultimately your choice. If, however, you’re going to count the neutrals as part of the yes group, I’m going in to change my vote to no. I love your writing, but that’s a level of depravity that makes me physically ill and I will not be part of its arrival. That is a slippery slope and I want off the sled.

girl it's just urine calm down.

#/j mostly #it's just like #i feel like i've written about worse things then piss y'know #this is at most a tangential level of depravity if not a considerable de-escalation #perhaps there will be piss yet #personal #anon ask

[bloobluebloo]

Also, ALSO- I find it very endearing that so many of the people that work with Ganondorf 's character in Nintendo speak of him so fondly even though he's the big bad villain. He's loveable guys, just in an unconventional way 🥰

#okay I'm done #it's just like #nice to hear when the people responsible for creating your fave #love him as much as you do #ANYWAYS #ganonthots

[the-gt-fairy]

When you're reading something that isn't specifically labeled as g/t but it's there for plot reasons and the author puts just a little too much focus on it....

#g/t #giant/tiny #sfw g/t #it's just like #I see you #I know what you are #even if you don't know it yet yourself

[bisolationist]

This isn't even that serious but I increasingly think this is a major role in how people operate. This is about conservatives and yeah def, but I think it operates just as much in all sorts of contexts, especially now with how social media has turned dogpiling into a moral art. Look at how both TRA and GC spaces are obsessed with their own groupthink. And yes I do think GC spaces are in pretty bad shape in that regard, for all their talk of calling TRA spaces a cult.

Hell, I think a significant number of bi AND gay people are afraid to actively oppose biphobia like they might oppose other forms of prejudice because they know it'd be seen as cringe and stupid. I think this is why people react with such hostility if you ever ever bring up statistics about bisexual people.

#I'm not saying anything smart here #it's just like #damn what we do about that...

[gamblegun]

Does anyone else have dysphoria STRONGLY tied to fashion?

#like #it feels materialistic to be like #I'm not me unless I have these specific outfits #but honestly that's kinda hoe I'm living #it's just like #I feel dysphoric if I'm just a guy in a T shirt idk #I know I'm a certain kind of guy who looks a certain way idk idk #I'm being too hard on myself I think #it's just MY masculinity #ya know?

[yuleshootureye]

I don't think it's fair to say that people only like WFA if they prefer the fanon, idealized versions of Batfam characters.

More rambling about comics and fandom under the cut, but the tldr version is that a) sometimes people want slice-of-life stuff for their favorite characters and b) if I have to put up with Dark and Gritty, unnaturally-prepared, child-slapping Batman, fans of that guy can put up with some light and fluffy manor hijinks like WFA.

Yes, there is an active and vocal portion of DC fandom that wants things from canon that will never happen. Partially that's because fandoms typically always want things from canon that would never happen. Teen Wolf and SPN fans want a coherent narrative that actually addresses the themes and character choices portrayed on the show. CA:TWS fans want to dig their claws into Steve and Bucky's relationship AND the US Military Industrial Complex in a way that the MCU never will. Stranger Things fans want some honest-to-God character development. And part of what I see in DC fandom is similar: what do fans of works where the characters are constantly emotionally and physically stressed want from their fanworks? Hurt/COMFORT and/or curtain!fic, in my experience.

And yes, partially that's because there seems to be a large portion of DC fandom that have not read a significant portion of the comics.* And/or watched the tv show(s). And/or watched the movie(s). And fanon builds on fanon until suddenly Tim Drake is crying because no one has ever hugged him, Cas/Steph/Duke are Sir Not Appearing in this Film, Jason is Gotham's #1 feminist, Dick is a golden retriever in human form, Damain is baby™, and Bruce would NEVER endanger his children by letting them go out and fight crime. But that happens in every fandom, to some extent.

I think it's perhaps more pronounced in DC because it's a comics fandom without any one unifying canon that most people are drawing from. For good or for ill, the Marvel fandom is typically able to circle the wagons around the MCU, with people incorporating various aspects of the 616 or Fraction's Hawkeye or whatever Spider-Man movie's come out most recently. DC doesn't have that. There's 80+ years of comics, including reboots that are supposed to make things less confusing (but YMMV on the effectiveness of that), and characterizations that change with the times; CW live-action TV shows; the Snyder-verse live-action movies; the NON-Snyder-verse live-action movies; the DCAU or Dini-verse/Timm-verse; the DC animated movies that are generally adaptations of comic storylines; the 2005 Teen Titans animated show; the 2010 Young Justice animated show; TITANS; The Batman (the animated show!); The Batman (R. Battinson!); Gotham; Smallville; Lois and Clark; etc, etc, etc.

I came to comics from the DCAU. I watched Smallville far past the point where any reasonable person would have quit. When I first watched 1978's Superman, I was confused that John Kent was dead, because he wasn't in the canons I was most familiar with. It's obviously not a 1:1 comparison, but I do think the question of "what do you want from canon" depends on what canon you're talking about.

And I don't mean to sound like I'm coming down on the side of people who are only familiar with fanon trying to argue they know the characters better than people who've actually consumed canon. But I do think DC being such a broad canon with no unifying property makes it a difficult discussion to have unless you start off by identifying the parameters.

ANYWAY, the point I've been dancing around is that there's enough canon that when someone says "MY Batman would never do that", they might be talking about their fanon or they might be talking about animated show #903 or the Tim Burton movies or whatever. Also, I had to put up with Nolan!Batman being the Batman du jour for like 10 years. It's WAFF WFA Batman's turn to be in the spotlight for a hot minute.

(Also, as greater minds than mine have pointed out, comics are, in general, a collective mythology of the modern era. And if you've ever tried to look up the One True Version of a myth, you'll know it's a frustrating exercise in futility)

*Of course, there's also a question of "what counts as a significant portion of the comics". Someone semi-recently ran a poll of "would you say you've read a lot of comics" and I was torn because I've read a lot, but in fits and spurts over the last 20 years, based on what was available at my local library or bookstore, and with nowhere near the focused attention that others have managed.

#tbh the thing I find most disconcerting about WFA is that I feel like I've read some of these comics as fics or tumblr posts before #and I don't like that #but anyway #wfa's not my favorite thing dc's ever done #but at least it's not more Court of Owls shit #meta #meta (batman) #meta (dc comics) #fandom #criticism of fandom #i guess #wayne family adventures #dc comics #dcu #dcau #smallville #one of the joys and pains of comics is that everyone has a different entry point #it's just like #how you came to the sherlock holmes fandom generally greatly affects how you interpret the character #waff = warm and fluffy feelings #btdubbs #i have so many things i should be doing instead of this #yuleshootureye.txt

[andiwriteordie]

someone more artistically talented than i am make an edit or a moodboard or something based on this incredibly will byers coded quote

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” - James Baldwin 

pretty pretty pretty please? 

#byler #will byers #it's just like #it's how will loves mike so much #how he sees the things in mike that mike can't see #and that's just soooo beautiful to me

[chipistrate]

If I made a small PSA about Cassie's hair texture do y'all think I'd be executed

#Chip Chatter #I have it in the drafts but I'm so nervous to post it lmao #it's just like #it's been 2 months since Ruin dropped and I still see people draw her with straight or wavy hair #I don't want to be rude but I just erujjahujdcferrghvjmrhczjieurdcxfg #yknow?

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

right. because 13 is not dealing with any sort of loss of course. no incredible heartbreak at all to deal with on her side. is not hiding any sort of guilt about recently-lost loved ones beneath her happy-go-lucky guise

#???? #if they know the skithra and tesla then this is set either between tesla and fugitive or praxeus and can you hear me #it's comic/book/tv aus it's fine iwas just like #the characterisations described there are so different #wihtout reason #i mean the reason is shes harder to deal with when shes all. retraumatised #would Complicate Matters to say the least #especially when 10s there #it's just like #okay au where shes fine i guess fhkjhgjghgkj

[yandere-daydreams]

absolutely adore the ability of twst fans to mentally recon Malleus into even a semi-functional love-interest. i'm not complaining, and i would not have him represented any other way, but his enduring method of just 'show up once every forty chapters, say something unnecessarily cryptic, and dissolve into a hundred or so glowing dots' does not exactly serve as an indication that this man would also be good at, i don't know, planning dates,,, or holding conversations.

#it's just like #the first time you meet him #when you ask for his name #he essentially goes 'oh my dick's way too big for that' and fucking disappears #he's not even like socially awkward or anything he was just raised by goths #personal #twisted wonderland

[bombshellsandbluebells]

speaking as someone who really enjoyed Barbie, I just don't think Barbie is deep enough to warrant all the dramatic takes and arguments on it

#like it's a fun movie! #the production design is amazing #i'm all here to gush about the filmmaking and art dept on that film #but I feel like it's getting hyped way beyond what it is #a fun movie that manages to say something and be entertaining despite being another big studio film only made bc it's based on popular IP #like Greta did make something entertaining and worth watching #she did manage to say something and give it personality when so many IP movies are soulless and meaningless #but it's not the big evil manipulative marketing people complain it is #becuase literally.....everything greenlit by studios nowadays is tied to some kind of IP or brand or intended to sell you something #i didn't see these complaints over the lego movies #it's not to blame for launching a big pointless ip franchise bc even if barbie had bombed you KNOW the other mattel movies would have #probably happened bc IP matters way more than what audiences are actually interested in #but it's also not like a revolutionary feminist masterpiece?? #it says something yeah but it's not really groundbreaking and it's pretty simple #and it's certainly not like....revolutionary enough for all the negative backlash though we all know something doesn't HAVE #to be truly revolutionary or progressive for that kind of crowd to get all up in arms over the Woke Agenda #it's just like #it is what it is #a movie that would have happened whether competent storytellers and filmmakers got on board or not and at least they made something #worth watching which I can't say of a LOT of IP greenlight decisions #it's jsut like #I enjoyed the movie and it was well made and I'm glad it's doing well but every time I see a new argument about it or take #I just want to be like #it's not that deep lol #that doesn't include just analysis and discussion of the movie #that's different #i mean more discussion like it's bad this movie did well bc it's just an overhyped commercial!!! #anyways got that off my chest lol #i still would have killed to work on set dec for that film

[the-gt-fairy]

It's so fun going on someone else's blog and getting jumpscared by your own art

#it's just like #HELLO???? #WHAT #I'm still not used to people like my stuff lol

[timetravellingkitty]

Still remember that one time Blaire White was like "JK Rowling isn't transphobic, she has a trans friend!!!"

#i cant be racist i have black and brown friends #she's one of the GOOD rational transpeople unlike those anti science freaks who deny biology #anti blaire white #anti jk rowling #fuck blaire white she is such a liar #it's just like #she's like the conservatives' token trans person #i am so done

[urfavnegronerd]

i strongly dislike having to walk with umbrellas

#like i hate it #it's just like #ik im staying dry #but still #i don't like holding things while i'm walking #but also when pockets do the thing