#pretty good issue imo

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc prompt #man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two #bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives #or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another #this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b #i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode #danny is the first son #tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand #Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it #Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to #them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad. #oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores #out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant #distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for #safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a #fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap #most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than #sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said #'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you' #danny doesn't know he's batman btw #starry rambles. #was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if #anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it #and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta

[crehador]

ok now that i've loved on all the good bits of reverse 1999 (and there's plenty of good) i gotta touch on the elephant in the room too

the english tl is... iffy at best, but to put it plainly it's not good

i would say the story is largely readable, though there were a few parts i genuinely couldn't parse. main issues are in grammar (particularly tenses) and flow, the writing just doesn't sound organic

but it isn't every line that's a problem, some are fine and some are genuinely good. and the overall story/setting are pretty good (well, decent enough) for a gacha so really the english text just needs a polish

like... a major polish, but i really hope it gets it because the battle system and character art are pretty appealing and i'd hate to see this one tanked by its translation

#crab plays #reverse 1999 #there are a lot of little issues that are just distracting and detract from the overall quality of the game #makes it look a lot less professional #but i think for me the most egregious part was druvis iii's introduction #like it was a good scene! pretty and dramatic #but when her shoe fell and hit vertin in the head #in english she says ''no offense'' #like that's the first thing she says lmao #the jp dub had it as shitsurei which fits just fine imo #don't know what it is in cn sadly unable to get a cn version here :( #but i feel like in english that should've been ''pardon me'' or something #instead it was just ''no offense'' like a;sdkfj;kdfj #ANYWAY this wouldn't be the first gacha to be criticized for its shoddy en tl #hopefully it can make improvements going forward and not lose out on a wider player base

[coachbeards]

brendan saying beard could never be head coach because of personal reasons/having a chaotic mental health/self destructive nature etc bc like. Have you SEEN the other coaches 💀

#beard being too unstable to be head coach like he is the only one who never becomes head coach lmao #have you seen ted. or Nate. or Roy. #beard has issues im not saying he doesn’t but #beard definitely was pulling his weight esp in s2 imo. #we never saw it but like I KNOW. ted wasn’t really focused #nate was spiraling. roy joined halfway through and also wouldn’t coach jamie #beard was the one trying to correct Nate’s behavior and he was going through emotional abuse and still did his job #given by the coaching staff’s concern about him being late to work in bah that like. kinda implies that beard is Never late #like no matter what his night was or what he did like he shows up to work #and he’s actually pretty decent at keeping his work personal life separate #HE EVEN COACHED WHILE HIGH and did a good enough job nobody noticed

[kideternity]

They don’t even know that it’s canon Max like right before he became Electro met Magneto and literally told him to his face that he should go fuck himself

#max dillon #electro #spider man #spiderman #marvel #dinu yells into the void #dinu yells in the void #btw when i say right before he became electro i mean before be donned the identity #he had his lightning powers when he met magneto #that entire issue is literally one of the most nauseatingly funny things ive read in spiderman #magneto knows Max isnt a mutant and yet asks him anyways if he wants to join the brotherhood. Max basically tells him to kill himself #in response. They have like a bitch off. Max accidentally almost killed Pietro. whose here with Wanda for some fucking reason #its like overall a pretty good origin add on imo but the magneto thing just drives me into hysterics every time

[locklylemybeloved]

i honestly couldnt be happier with @wearewatcher rn seeing how they handled pride

like most companies just slap a rainbow flag on everything and go HERE GAYS HEY WE’RE JUST LIKE YOU YEAH GIVE US MONEY

but not only did they have their queer employees be the ones to design the pride merch, THEYRE ACTUALLY DONATING THE PROCEEDS TO IMPORTANT CHARITIES AND CAUSES!!! aND the pride merch isnt ugly and isnt just. normal merch but with a rainbow on it.

idk i just feel like you dont actually see stuff like that from companies all the time and it makes me feel happy :)

#in general theyve always been good at addressing the current issues and stuff and making all viewers feel loved and safed #and thats pretty awesome imo 🤷‍♀️ #mae-rants #watcher #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #ghost files #mystery files #pride #pride month #pride month 2023 #lgbtq+

[tate-lin]

Rant incoming concerning fatphobia:

I find it superrrr vexing and distasteful whenever someone threatens me with the 'do you want to become fat' thing. I understand that since my natural body frame is being thin, it'd indicate bad things for my health if I do become fat (if you're naturally born big, then getting bigger probably won't mean anything too bad) but I just deeply resent the underlying implication of it all. Like ofc it's better for me in a societal sense to be thin, especially since I don't have a thick skin to negative comments at all, but like?? If you want to scold me in order to make me eat more healthily, just cite health reasons! There's literally no reason to bring up fatness!! What's everyone's deal?? Is it a crime to be fat?? Smh 💀

Some ppl act as if ppl automatically become ugly when they're fat which is just blatantly untrue. And in the first place I'm not even particularly good-looking so it's not gonna be the end of my world if I get bigger. Ofc if being fat negatively affects me physically and/or mentally then I think those are good causes for concern but at least lead with that if you're truly concerned about me for god's sake

#tate lin posts #fatphobia #body neutrality #btw i'm on the camp of believing that it's not necessary to love or even like your body #but it is necessary to be comfortable in it and have it be a good body that can last you to elderly-hood without causing too much #or if any problems #at any rate i just hate the feeling of being bullied into sth by society #i'm aware that i have some self-esteem issues but my confidence isn't that low either!! #i have pride too!! #SIGH #anyway don't mind me i'm just really irritated rn #btw this vent is brought to you cause of my mother who considers herself fat #but if you ask me she doesn't look like an atypical woman at all #a lot of ppl are around her size #and she's my mother so obviously to me she's really pretty #most ppl who think they're fat actually aren't imo #comparison to media just makes them feel fatter than they actually are #and it's not that i don't have flab i absolutely do cause i'm the most physically unfit in this household #both my sisters go to the gym and they're twice my size does that make their 'fatness' their fault?? no.

[set-wingedwarrior]

I have this feeling that I am going to hide in my university much more and much longer just to avoid my roomate because she's really stressing me out

#at least i got an excuse to study more #which i should totally do #but still #i'd also like to be able to relax and rest properly when i am home #instead of dreading every message or when she's home just because she might start complaining about something again #she has a fucking isterics personality disorder i can't fucking unsee it #like i get everything you say about social justice and feminism and whatever because HELL I DO share these beliefs #but there's a problem when you are completely blind to the accomplishments we did get #and when you ONLY see the bad stuff #to the point that even in everyday life all you can do is find and see problems and yell and kick and scream and complain #and never see when something good is happeniing #this isn't healthy #she's going to die of heart attack or something if she keeps going like this imo #i am pretty pessimist but even i can see when something nice is going on #i actively TRY to look for the good! because i know it's there! #it doesn't mean i don't see the issues and the bad! #this turned out in a rant i wasn't planning on that #of well #rant #even in awareness of dire situations it is important to look for the good #or else we have no reason to go on

[anomiidae]

listen I could make this a literal essay but I won't. tl;dr: I don't get why people get so angry about the concepts of demons or monsters being nice. for starters, if you read mythology, demons are pretty fucking chill; it's not all about fucking with humans. plus it's so boring to see the same plot regurgitated in movies and whatnot about evil demons wanting to ruin humans lives or some crap like that.

#look i'll admit i'm a nerd i love mythology and i love things based off or inspired by mythology! #but like...i'll be real. i've got some issues with religion from how i was raised. i don't like mainstream religion #i was raised with the idea of a god who doesn't seem very kind. at least if they're anything like the followers - i'm not interested! #but demonic and pagan deities seem so human. they do good and bad things. they love and they hate. that feels more real to me #of course this is super watered down sparknotes version of this train of thought and everyone's entitled to their own opinions! #but i'm so tired of 'why are the demons nice' or 'i wanted them to be mean' well i don't. even if fictional versions! #the world is cruel already man maybe i want to believe in kind gods. don't care where they come from (though i am pretty biased to be fair) #like...real demons have nuance. they're not all what you'd consider evil. most teach things! i think they're pretty cool imo #anyway. no bothering me with spam messages about proselytizing or 'you're going to hell' don't care didn't ask go away #speech bubbles #ask me to tag

[kingdomoftyto]

October this year has felt kind of vague and adrift for me, no real festive spirit to speak of--or at least nowhere near how last year felt, when it was Year of the Vampire and all.

BUT I am remedying that now with a combined pincer attack of 1) relistening to Night Vale from the beginning on my commute to work and 2) rereading Warm Bodies on my breaks/in my spare time. Things are getting increasingly spooky up in here

#consider this a heartfelt rec for both of the series mentioned #for anyone who might not know: Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast in the form of a community radio show #the host of the show gives news and commentary on the happenings in a small desert town #... a small town that's regularly besieged by cosmic horrors and shadowy government agencies and various other monsters and phenomena #it's extremely chill and relaxing! which is funny to say because it sounds like a joke but it's actually true. #the residents of the town are used to all of this strangeness so it's described in the same tone as the results of the schoolboard election #seriously even ten years later this podcast has me giggling like a maniac every few minutes #it's very funny and heartfelt despite ostensibly being horror themed #and as for the other series--Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion is SUUUUCH an underrated book series #the tl;dr is it's a zombie-human love story #there was a movie based on the first book several years back and it was pretty good imo #it plays up the romcom aspect a lot. which is fair but not EXACTLY accurate to the book. as you might imagine lol #the actual book though??? god I'm only two chapters in on my re-read and I had underestimated how much I love the way this protag thinks #it is HEAVY on philosophical discussion and even digs into some societal/political issues later on #and the supernatural/sci-fi worldbuilding is so incredible that tbh I can barely take any other type of zombies seriously after reading thi #it's just. it's good. check it out if you're not afraid of a little gore in your star-crossed romance #(I'd say more but I don't want to spoil the end of the first book! it's a fairly predictable twist but it still feels so good)

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

I wish studios were more willing to give us different forms of superhero media. Like, the Into the Spider-verse series has been so good at taking a well known IP and giving us a different approach to it, such that the movies have been doing really well despite other current superhero flicks underperforming and people screaming about “superhero fatigue” every two seconds (though I guess it also helps that Spider-Man is one of the most profitable comic book IPs out there).

It sucks that studios aren’t really thinking out of the box - especially Warner Brothers. The Flash would’ve been the perfect DC guinea pig for this imo, especially the flashpoint paradox which is tailor made for a multiverse type animated picture. Just thinking of how we could get the different people who have carried the mantle of the Flash (Barry, Wally, Jay) and also introduce key supers from the JL. Maybe even make Wally the protag of the animated feature because the general public already has the cw show in their conscious, so a different Flash in a different style might have been interesting (also people - rightfully - prefer Grant over Ezra so…). Idk there’s been a real missed opportunity here and it sucks.

#the new flash movie is actually not bad at all! #I mean ok if we discount the very very humongous elephant in the room that is ezra miller #but the idea is there and it’s not bad #we already have an animated flashpoint movie that was really good imo #but it doesn’t have the blockbuster budget that was needed #I think with the right team an animated flash that took a few leaves out of the ITSV series would’ve been amazing #as it would’ve given us something refreshing in the dceu - which has so far been a mixed bag of mostly misses #I’m not saying that an animated feature would’ve fixed all the issues dc is having rn #and the difference is that into the spiderverse can also tie into the goodwill that the mceu has built over the last decade or so #but it just would’ve been something different in the almost saturated superhero market #and it’s easier to separate an animated feature from the live action movie catalogue - which again had been pretty bad for dc in general #I’m just saying that if we’re going to do flashpoint make it an animated feature #and love action flash just kinda sucks imo #ezra is NOT a good barry allen- like at all #grant gustin is light years away better but I also don’t think he’s that great #the best flash has always been the animated one #and dcau has always been really really solid #we could’ve had a winning combo…if only wb didn’t fk up #le sigh #the flash #dc #dceu

[altruistic-meme]

ive successfully gotten most of my family to watch good omens (s1), including everyone who I thought i COULD convince and 1 who i DIDN'T

#i also didn't even actually TRY to get my dad to watch it #we just happened to choose to watch it on my parents room so we could lay on the bed #and he happened to be in the room and didn't leave #i didn't think anything of it until episode 5 when he laughed at 'you wouldn't get that kind of performance from a modern car' #and in ep6 he asked of we'd be good 'GOOD tennant' in s2 cus his theory #on why they survived the hellfire/holy water #was ig that they switched places as angel and demon ???? which is a FASCINATING theory imo #anyway I'm going back to their house AGAIN next week to watch all of s2 :) #have to let my sister know so she can join us if she wants #she's already seen episodes 1-3 but will my mom has always been better at binging than my sisters gjkskvksjf #I'm slightly nervous about s2 just bc of how very very queer it is amd my oldest sister and dad are...... not exactly the easiest??? #to show these things?????? #bc i have no idea how to predict their reactions #my mom will be pretty fine with it probably... my sister has been known to make comments about how the 'sjws' push stuff so much #and my dad is....... pretty old fashioned to say it nicely. he knows that me and my sisters are queer (sexuality) #and doesn't really have any issues #and his favorite actor is cary grant who is ??? controversially bi????? but like i said; hard to predict #anywho I'm still excited anyway #good omens #shh ac

[nomaishuttle]

perhaps a lot of my b*tw issues are actually due to my own expectations for the game and by extension my dislike for botw fans

#b*tw fans will sct like its the sinoge best zelda hame and like its leagues above and its like #its fine to like it its fine to not like the other zelda games (through gritted teeth) #it is a totally different genre. to me. yk. it feels like a new game which is fine thats what they were going for i surpose #its a huge rebrand for the series n i cn appreciate the aspects of it if i dont try to force it into my personal mold of what A zelda game #is. #also this doesnt include the orientalism with the gerudo. that shits fucked up no matter what #ir is NOT a botw specific issue #but yk. b*tw ws a very. disappointing game 4 me #bc i love older zelda games n botws whole thing is that it. breaks the format entirely andis different from every other game #which is fineee its allowed to do that and im allowed to not like it and other ppl r allowed to like it.. i just have trouble #and also it annoys me that a lot of botw fans r like. Just botw fans. and not loz in general fans.. But still use the loz tags #not that like. idk i dont wanna sound gatekeepy obv th main loz tag is like. botw is a zelda game (even if imo thats in name alone) #but ppl will cross tag botw specific posrs with every other zelda game like. it annoys me #and also i think the fanon portrayl of botw is so fucking annoying i want all of you to jus to bee hornets #and i blame fucking l*nked *niverse that racist fucking cunt. GDDDD #whatever though #its like. its very well done. it can be pretty (personally the art style doesnt appeal to me a ton) the music is very original while also #being a good callback to former games. the sound design is Actually phenomenol #it just isnt for me i think. n yk. it sucks bc like #idk. there will be zelda games after totk #and i hope theyll be. different. and a return to formula #idk... #i do also appreciate like. as much as i say that botw doesnt feel like a zelda game to me #zelda is deeply personal to me.. n i recognize that it Is a zelda game #and i like all of the small references to other games.. i appreciate that #i cn tell the team rly love the world of zelda n im glad for that.. just personally i love the like mechanics and gameplay of former zelda #games. yk.... thats all #n ik. i literally am just going I want more tp. but i do wish we could have more like that...sigh #its ok. i will just rewrite oot in my brain #and botw too i accidentally said oot. i do need tl rewrite oot though bc .. um anyways

[honks-n-stonks]

i have come to say that Magnamalo is very easy for me to beat i had other monsters that more a pain to beat like Barioth and Mizutsune are the one that cause the most pain for me they move very fast and dont stay in place very long

bad internet connection ate up my last response to this GRAH

Yeah, those two just. Keep zip zooming EVERYWHERE and it's agony, but at least with Barioth you can break the wing spikes (genuinely wonder how they help with its movement in the snow/on ice or whatever) and then they just kinda stumble all over the place

With silly Mizu it's. Good Luck 😭

I love their armor, but I am not in for a fun time when the bubbleblight kicks in

At least with insect glaive I can ignore most of their attacks, but there are still a new Funny Hitbox™️ moments

Example:

#sobbing #magnamalo is just entirely a skill issue on my end #i would rather fight shagaru magala #and I've only hunted him twice #pretty good fight imo #!! #fowl rambling #who out here huntin they monster #straight from the box- the ask box!

[luciddreamslikeelectricity]

he's going to be fighting a bunch of these things on his own, huh?

#wednesday spoilers #I don't think anyone really likes the im2-ish plot regarding h*ward but then duggan did warn us that he wanted to expand on whatever #happened in hickman's shield run so that's a thing that's happening now I guess.... I just hope he wraps it up quickly #emma was pretty annoying in this issue imo like idk if she's genuinely underestimating feilong or just not letting some things on due to #her being on the council etc. but it's probably going to backfire badly. I liked that tony & sunfire interacted though it's been a while I #think. I don't really know what to say about the h*ward stuff except that I liked that tony didn't become emotional or lose his head when #he was mentioned & he also didn't say anything nice about him so that's fine I guess... #I like that while he won pretty easily in the last issue the sentinel is clearly extremely powerful & tony was outgunned & retreated and I #like that there was no mention of his ego or whatever even though having to run would mess with anyone's ego a bit. I'm sure he would've #fought it anyway if it endangered anyone else but since it didn't he didn't fight a losing battle for whatever reason which shouldn't be #surprising but considering the quality of a lot of his previous runs it's nice #this issue wasn't as strong as the last one imo & I wish the stark employees resigned in protest the way they always did in the past #although it hasn't been his company for a while & usually when they resigned it was about tony and that one dude was clearly unhappy about #what was happening so maybe we'll see something in later issues? idk #I could've used a lot less h*ward but then I was expecting him to come up plus I'm glad it's happening now & not during cantwell's run #I'm pretty excited for the next issue since it's a flashback to the wca/silver centurion era... overall I think the characterisation is #still pretty good so I'll just hold on to that #iron man #marvel 616 #tony stark

[army-of-bee-assassins]

i feel like this season of h/dm has gotten considerably worse but also i'm not 100% sure i'm remembering the previous seasons correctly. i remember mostly liking them and just finding some things weird. but maybe it was just as bad as this season and the amount of time that's passed since i watched them has simply made me forget how much stuff i didn't like

#i think i'm pretty fucking easy to please with tv shows too like i don't have a very critical eye for this kinda stuff #but maybe it's because it's a book adaptation and as always we gotta feel strongly about those #i just feel like the dialogue is absolute shit like who is even writing this - did it change? maybe it was always shit idk #and just random plot changes that i hate #some big some small but like #why was lyra the only fucking one experiencing pain on the boat!!!! that's straight up not canon and literally makes no sense w/in canon #and we got our first glimpse of atal and there was zero indication that she uses a wheel #it didn't even look like she could i mean she had four normal hooves #the seeds are so important to the story what are they doing with this!!!! #maybe we'll see them using wheels next episode but idk how #idk the acting is still mostly good imo #i feel like the actors are doing their best with very fucking stupid scenes #anyway all of this is just sorta making me feel like maybe this just isn't an adaptable book series #at least not as a tv show where you have to stretch things out so much so they're just inventing bullshit to fill the gaps #hdm lb #i hadn't really wanted to make a tag for this but #there have already been so many things i've wanted to complain about here and i'm sure it will only continue #so ya know blacklist as needed (esp if you're enjoying the show - i'm so sorry i don't want to ruin ur experience) #edit: OH i forgot to complain about costuming/makeup too!!! #shouldn't be a big issue but god it's also (imo) just hot fucking garbage in this season #did they get the non-unionized people??? overworked and underpaid?? #did they have zero budget for this fucking hbo show??? #i feel like they didn't even fucking try #those ugly orange jumpsuits and the horrible makeup for the angels #okay sorry i will stop complaining now (until there's more episodes next week lmao)

[corvidaedream]

I consistently forget that town meetings and select boards are, like, not a common form of government outside of the region I live in/grew up in and it surprises me every time.

like im researching the brown family once again, trying to figure out Lucy's father's responsibilities on the board of selectmen from 1765-1767, and seeing Wikipedia be like "yes this is a form of government specific to rural New England" was like. oh yeah I guess no one else does this huh.

#messages from the ouija board #its like. a pretty good form of democracy imo #get everyone in a room. like perhaps a church or a school gymnasium. and bring up every issue to be voted on. let people argue about it. #and then you vote! right there! on the issue! #thats what i grew up with and i understand that it doesnt scale up but im surprised small towns outside new england dont do it #its something we've been doing literally for centuries and nowadays theres always a few girl scouts who can sell u cookies on ur way in