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silverwhittlingknife · 4 months

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the reason why nu52 Dick is so simultaneously messy and yet boring is because they don't let him be bitchy enough whilst simultaneously making him a little bitch

sdfsdfdsfs I don't totally understand what this means and yet I feel like I agree with the spirit, anon <3

Outsiders 21 - preboot Dick yelling at Bruce my beloved

Yeah, caveat that there's plenty of nu52 Dick stuff that I haven't read and I don't think it's all bad, but also... man, he is not for me. As far I'm concerned, the main good thing that came out of n52/Rebirth is some setups for sad!Dick fanfic. And yeah, "Dick is not bitchy enough" is actually a pretty good summary of my complaints sdfdsfs

The thing is, nu52 Dick has some similarities to preboot Tim, in that he'll sometimes be insincerely fake-cheerful even when actually upset, plus he periodically seems uncomfortable with direct confrontation so instead he lies to avoid confrontation. And mmm I mean, I like these qualities in preboot Tim, so it's not like I think these are terrible traits to have!!

BUT :

1) Preboot Tim has no authority. But preboot Dick does, and it's frustrating to take it away from him in nu52.

There's some post-2011 panel where Dick lies to Batman and is cheery about it, a la Tim bragging to his friends about lying to Batman in Teen Titans, and I had to stare at it for ages trying to figure out why it felt like such a record scratch moment to me.

But it's because there is a huge difference between a presumably independent superhero lying to another superhero vs. a sidekick and his sidekick friends secretly joyriding in Batman's car.

Like, Tim lies to authority figures more-or-less constantly, because he doesn't want to be told what to do, but also because - importantly!! - those authority figures reasonably assume they have authority over him that he has to evade. Of course he tries to avoid direct confrontation with the JLA / Batman / Red Tornado / Starfire - they're not his equals and a direct confrontation would end badly!

Whereas Nightwing lying to Batman feels like putting him in a subordinate position in a way that preboot Dick never is. Preboot Dick always tells Batman off to his face, because preboot Dick cares about being equals and refuses to accept being subordinate. He doesn't sneak around behind Bruce's back - he fights back! If he doesn't agree with Bruce's position, he tries to argue Bruce into his own. He'll do stuff without asking Bruce's permission, but he won't conceal it; he'll make a point of making sure Bruce knows what he did and also that he isn't sorry.

2) Preboot Tim's lying / tendency to be fake with people is a consistent personality trait that's also consistently problematized. nu52 Dick's characterization is wildly all over the map.

In preboot, Tim is a liar and obsessive compartmentalizer, which is both a strength (disguises, sneaking around authority) and a problem (loved ones who are hurt by it). He's self-aware about his lies, periodically resolves to lie less, and generally fails at it.

Tim's consistent enough that you can track this character trait in all his relationships: he lies to his dad. He lies to Batman. He lies to his girlfriends. He refuses to tell Babs his real name for ages for basically no reason. He stalks Dick and then tries to run away from him in his origin story and then tries to avoid telling Dick his name. And this evasiveness consistently causes him problems!! Dick's suspicious of him. Ariana's suspicious of him. His dad is suspicious of him. Young Justice and Steph get annoyed with his secret-keeping. Young Justice want him to take off the mask. Steph wants to know his real name. When she finds out and calls him by his real name, he has a panic attack and literally runs away. When upset, he insists he's fine and fake-smiles at people. In Teen Titans, when Tim's busy being fake-cheerful and Conner is startled to see him there right after his dad died, Tim gets upset and angry at Conner and demands that he not tell anyone about Jack. Fine, Conner says, I guess it's another secret. In AC 3, he's lying to Conner again and Conner accuses him of having an insincere "Starfire voice," which is a hilarious callback to Tim being fake-agreeable-yet-secretly-bitchy at Kory when he first meets her. I feel like I get that the lying is a Tim Character Trait which is sometimes endearing and sometimes less so and which all the people who love him are gonna have different feelings about.

By contrast, nu52 Dick spends a ton of time lying but it's hard for me to model his characterization in the same way? He's sometimes fake and ... sometimes that's totally cool and sometimes people punch him! also, does it say something about him? ehhhhh maybe? no? who can say!! At the end of nu52 Nightwing, he doesn't want to go undercover and Bruce beats him up, but then in Grayson he seems totally on board with his mission and willing to actively lie to everyone, and then in Batman and Robin Eternal he carries out a whole secret mission behind nuTim's back because he thinks nuTim is maybe a spy and is scared (?) of confronting him directly, but also he's so sloppy about it that he gets followed and the bad guys find nuTim's parents. Oopsie! He represents The Heart and is super-caring but also somewhat ditzy with a tendency to leap before he looks, and also he's very very very goodlooking and Grayson would really like you to know that.

You can try to make sense of this character's internal motivations and I have read various enjoyable fanfics that do, but in the comics I don't feel like he's clearly characterized.

3) Dick should be a convincing team leader

I know I kind of talked about this earlier but it bothers me SO MUCH that I have to talk about it again dsfdsfds

Preboot Dick is a natural leader: he seizes control of the feuding personalities in the Fab Five; he does the same thing in the NTT; he stands up to Bruce. He can overrule strong personalities like Pantha and Roy; he can hold his ground against the Outsiders. He doesn't back down and he doesn't quit. He's got instinctive authority, and he's a forceful and aggressive enough leader that he can lead teams even when his teammates are feuding or difficult or arguing with each other. Sometimes he's a little too forceful and it backfires on him, but for the most part, it works!

By contrast, nu52 Dick often comes off as kinda... hapless? He's definitely not a force to be reckoned with.

Like, just to take one small example, in post-Crisis's Red Robin 14, Tim and Damian are fighting and Dick wants them to cut it out, so he throws a batarang at Tim's staff and snaps at him, and the fight stops immediately. By contrast, in nu52's Batman and Robin 10, Tim and Damian are arguing and Dick wants them to cut it out, but nuDick is incapable of confronting anyone over anything so he just sighs about it, passive-aggressive and ineffectual.

And "ineffectual" is too often the vibe I get from n52 Dick in general. You put that man with Pantha, and he'll probably be bemused, but he won't be able to make Pantha do anything, and he wouldn't be able to make Danny Chase do anything, and he can't or won't stand up to Bruce so he has to lie the way Tim does, and he would never have a fistfight with Roy over the proper way to lead a team.

And in a lot of ways this makes sense, because n52 Dick isn't a team leader, because they've deleted the Titans. He's just a guy. He's nice, I guess.

But even though he gets all kinds of excellent woobie plotlines that I'd normally enjoy (an evil organization is stalking him personally! his dad is beating him up and forcing him into becoming a spy! he's losing his memory!) his personality is usually so far off from the character I like that I struggle to get invested.

Because the thing is, Dick's leadership instincts aren't incidental to what I like about him. They're all wrapped up in his outsized sense of personal responsibility and instinctive belief that if anything is going wrong anywhere near him then it is his obligation to handle it and if anything goes wrong then it's his fault if he was involved and also his fault if he wasn't involved and actually if you have ever gotten within five feet of him and unrelatedly something bad happened to you then it's probably his fault and he FAILED. This belief gives Dick a lot of control issues and makes him bitchy sometimes and is not great for his mental health, but it's also very endearing and an outgrowth of how much Dick cares!

Anyway, re:bitchiness, I have similar feelings about various choices in Batgirls and in Tim Drake: Robin and in current Nightwing; like, I don't think any of these stories are bad ipso facto, I don't begrudge anyone who likes them, and I certainly enjoy fluffy fanfic sometimes - I don't always want the same things in transformative fandom that I want in canon.

But in comics, I often want the characters to have a bit of edge, to be cranky and difficult and just... y'know, clearly the kind of people who would choose to be vigilantes. I want them to care enough to be bitchy about it. And I often feel like I'm missing that, post-2011.

#long post #going through my old drafts and this one is SO OLD but i still stand by it #i think i was going to revise it so that it was less rambling & long #but i'm too lazy so here you are #dick grayson #tim drake #it's more about dick but i talked about tim enough i think it makes sense to tag him #I do think that the pendulum in e.g. Waid's Teen Titans is slowly swinging back to the kind of Dick characterization that I like #so this is happily not as true as it was back whenever I started writing the answer to this ask #but it's still my feelings about tt's nightwing so. sdfdsfdsfs

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hellofromthehallowoods · 7 months

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Is the Pendulum Nightclub a reference to I am in Eskew? I'm really sorry if this has been answered before or if having the same name as the nightclub in Eskew is just a coincidence. I only just noticed it. I hope you have a good day though! I haven't caught up with the current episodes yet so I have no malice, just admiration and expectation for the episodes that make people scream

@thesiltverses you and me, two Edgar Allen Poe aficionados caught red-handed stealing references out of the fridge at night

#hfth asks #the silt verses #the pit and the pendulum

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sleepingbeautybabygirl · 1 year

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~Try not to drop~

Im just a Doll~

#eye fixation #i’m back #just a doll #doll #stare #blank #hypnotic #ask and you shall receive #corruption kink #pendulums #so mesmerizing #mesmerized

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thatsbelievable · 14 days

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Is the pendulum in that one Poe story attracted to a giant clock?

POE: You’d have to ask the pendulum.

#asks #Edgar Allan Poe #Conversations I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe #The Pit and the Pendulum #Oh Edgar

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jeffrey-combs-smash-or-pass · 2 months

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Francisco...he's so cute in that dress!

#jeffrey combs #The Pit and the Pendulum 1991 #Francisco The Pit and the Pendulum #Ask

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mrghostrat · 2 months

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Hi, can I ask something?

I hope this makes any sense, but: Since you're exceptionally good at both writing and drawing, how do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a writer or an artist or both?

Does this thinking in labels even make any sense?

Did you get into writing or into drawing first?

Sorry if this seems like pointless questions but I'm genuinely curious. I hope you have a great weekend!

oo this is interesting! but kinda hard. i think, for the most part, i think of myself as an artist who also writes.

my novels + fics have become so integral to me in recent years, but even though i've self published and long to be a financially stable full time author, it's just that i've been focused on art so much longer that it comes first in my head. from 2015-2021 did almost nothing but make comics, which is def a form of writing in itself, but i only seem to think of myself as a writer when i'm working on prose. i'm so so glad i finally got back into it in 2021!!! (and honestly i've felt so rusty at it that every single thing i made was 10x better than the last, and it's only since mon cheri that i finally feel like i've peaked to a steady level of quality. i'll probably change my mind about that in a year when i look back at my current fics lmao)

but fun fact! i've been writing and drawing just as long as each other. my dream job in kindergarten was to write novels and illustrate pictures for them. i've drawn since as long as i could hold a pen, but i also remember pencil writing a fan fic about my world of warcraft character when i was 9 or 10, sending in "how does this story end?" submissions to Goosebumps competitions, and prose roleplaying on my own proboards forums with primary school friends.

#ask a rat #ghost scribbles #aaaAHH immediately contradicting myself after hitting post bc i sit here like #yeah. im a writer.#it pendulum swings honestly idfk

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konniesreality · 11 months

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Thank you all for making this possible 💗 I’m so happy we have helped everyone with their lives! I’m also gonna be posting subliminals on this channel so stay tuned and subscribe to not only my channel but the other ones channel as well! 💗

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dailyhatsune · 2 years

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would you do something inspired by corpse dance — kikuo? I’ve had it on the brain for a week now (head in my hands)

you have very good taste, my friend

#hatsune miku #vocaloid #piapro studio #doodle #ask #candydos #(imitates someone with a hypnosis pendulum) oooohh you wanna listen to kikuo’s new works so bad #anyway it was hard trying to simulate kikuo and si_ku’s artsyle #but anything for them honestly the artstyle and music is so nice #welcome to the kikuo brainrot while you’re here you might as well listen to hole dwelling too

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icanseethefuture333 · 7 months

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What are the nationalities of Stray Kids' future spouses?:

Han:

Brazilian 🇧🇷

Bang Chan:

American 🇺🇲

Changbin:

Zimbabwean 🇿🇼

Lee Know:

Swedish 🇸🇪

Hyunjin:

Korean 🇰🇷

Felix:

American 🇺🇲

Seungmin:

Australian 🇦🇺

I.N:

They have a dual-citizenship, British-Korean 🇬🇧 🇰🇷

#ask #stray kids #kpop reading #kpop readings #celebrity readings #pendulum reading #pendulum readings #stray kids tarot

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apollons-laurel · 4 months

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I have a question regarding pendulum divination

I don’t have a very steady hand, and I had a pendulum that I bonded with and put on Lord Apollon’s altar. I attached it to the top (ceiling) of the altar, and it didn’t move. Any advice?

Thanks You!

Hello! I’d just like to say that I’m not a big fan of pendulums personally so someone who uses them more may be able to give you some more insight. But I want to start off with this:

How do you think pendulums work? What do you think causes their movement? Some people believe that the gods/deities cause the movement itself, others think they move your hands so that you move the pendulum the way they want, some people think it’s something else.

Once you understand how you think they work (and there is not correct answer, it’s a form of divination and thus personal and up to interpretation) then you might be able to identify why it’s not moving (e.g. if you think the gods guide your hands then if you’re not holding it they are unable to communicate with you)

But then I suppose you need to ask yourself some basic questions before doing anything else.

Did you ask a yes/no question or something similar (I find that I’ll sometimes ask too broad questions that can’t be answered through a pendulum and it just won’t move)

Do you have an understanding of how you would get answers (do you know what the pendulum needs to do for you to get the answer ‘yes’ and if you’re deciding what the pendulum needs to do have you communicated this)

Are you able to see if it’s moving? (I know this sounds silly but if you’ve hung it a bit high or can only see it from one angle you might not be seeing all the movement)

Have you tried multiple times to communicate (have you been unable to get any movement for multiple days or if you previously had a ritual you would do before using your pendulum is it still not moving even when you do it)

If you’ve answered all these and are still worried or unsure then here are some things you could do

Try multiple forms of divination and ask the same question (do you get similar answers? Is your pendulum the only one not working)

Use another form of divination (I prefer tarot just because there’s more cards to interpret and understand) to ask Lord Apollon why he doesn’t want to communicate with you through your pendulum

Try moving it elsewhere, is there still no movement? (If your pendulum answers in a certain way, having it attached to something that’s slanted may cause it to not have any movement/what you deem an answer so moving it to a flatter surface may resolve this)

Think of where you usually do divination, if you do all other forms of divination away from your altar then he may not appreciate you having it directly above his altar

Are you only communicating with Lord Apollon with your pendulum? Or are you communicating with others as well? He may not like you talking to other gods/deities directly above his altar

I hope this helps (and I apologise if it doesn’t) and that you’re able to use your pendulum again! I also hope your relationship/worship with Lord Apollon continues to flourish!

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pendulumstarway · 3 months

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Hi! I wanted to drop by and say that your designs are really cool! Can I ask what MFRP stands for and what the AU is about?

You fool. You’ve let me infodump about something I’m insanely passionate about! Everything will be put under the cut, so I don’t bombard you all with a wall of text gklsdlakj

OKAY SO! MFRP stands for MultiFandom RolePlay. Mine’s a private discord server between me and my buddies, where we all sit and RP because writing together’s fun! Been doin RP since I was a wee little lad. I’ve been running this server for 3 years now- just turned 3 on Dec 15th. Me and my buddies take characters we’re passionate about, and write as if we are them. Jack and Yuya specifically are muses I’ve had for around.. 5? 6 years now? It’s the reason why Yuya’s so old compared to canon, actually. But I digress.

The AU designs themselves aren’t from a solid AU plot point, it’s a culmination of stuff that’s happened in the server! Some of these designs me and my friends have originally come into the server like that- and we have extensive backstory/au written beforehand- or it’s a normal guy who gets messed up later on. With the latter, it’s usually because of some magical force of fuckery that we call Transmagica Monstrum Disease. It’s a plot-point that started many years ago, and there's still no known cure for the ailment. TMD is highly contagious, and its only goal is to spread to everything and anything organic.

TMD, 9 out of 10 times, will alter the users body in some way, shape, or form. Via giving them some sort of physical alteration, a power alteration, or both. The initial ‘transformation’ stage is painful, and lasting side effects are present. Those afflicted may enter a “feral/berserk” state that’s uncontrollable and difficult to quell. Initial harnessing of the powers can also be difficult, and many end up hurting themselves before learning to harness them. It’s beneficial, but also has its downsides.

By the RPers/muns choice, a character/muse can get infected with TMD.

Hi. That’s me! I love fusing silly guys with their ace monsters or whatever my mind comes up with. The design practice is fun, and it’s a great way to also explore their characters! Each character deals with it in a different way and it’s awesome. :]

#asks #pendulum sways #nebula!au #you let me infodump you fool you BUFFOON #now my cringe is out to the public #long post

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