#prob a realistic one :(

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

I think fans want Jason to be a good person or be becoming one. To have a character that is well meaning and compassionate but decided murder is ok and to stand against main heroes who’s beliefs and actions go against the people he cares about and wants in his life. It’s confusing for people. People want their fav characters to be happy. But Jason can’t have his family’s support and follow his moral code. He’s cares about people and Gotham, and he’s an asshole who kills. It’s messy. It’s not black and white. I don’t even think Jason cares about being a good person or in the right anymore. I think he cares about what will save the most people instead.

Oh my goodness gracious I’ve been bamboozled

Batman’s definition of Good is not synonymous with absolute good/right no matter how much dc insists it is. Torture, battery/assault, surveillance, those are all condemnable actions too. I won’t get into the exhausting and frankly dumb debate of comic book morality wrt killing because I’ve already reblogged plenty of posts from other people who explained my thoughts on the matter far better than I ever have the patience to sit down and articulate. I also just think the notion that there’s something to be done about fictional characters who kill nazis and senseless murderers is stupid. Jason’s point is that the “main” heroes’ sanitized definition of right has its unaddressed holes and flaws which ultimately result in more preventable fatalities, and that he’ll work to correct those missing spots.

He doesn’t not care about doing what’s right. What he doesn’t care about (at least during his Winick characterization) is whether Batman thinks he’s right or wrong, because he sees the flaws in Batman’s methodology (and since he has a mind of his own). Batman’s methods alone cannot address Arkham’s revolving door and the rogues that come and go through those doors who have no intention (or capability from the doylist pov) of ever changing or undergoing redemption. Jason knows that he’s minimizing the number of preventable deaths by killing his targets, typically Characters Who Simply Do Fucked Up Shit Just Because, Why The Fuck Not?

Secondly, Jason is compassionate … to a fault. That was his fatal flaw. If he wasn’t so hell-bent on saving his potential birth mother he just met from that bomb despite everything she did to him prior, he could have protected himself instead, however slim his odds of survival were. What about his relationship with his other parents? He was a caregiver during his early childhood years for Catherine, until her death. Even mature adults who are financially stable find being a caregiver to a dying parent to be extremely burdensome on their bodies and minds, but he never complained about it or resented Catherine for being unable to care for him. Despite how none of his parents have really been what he needed them to be, he doesn’t blame them for their failings, and even continues to think highly of them (Bruce included).

And post-death? Enter Lost Days. Despite being dead set on plotting his revenge on Bruce, he constantly sidelines this in order to save other victims who are helpless like he once was. His own anger, trauma, and mission don’t remain his priority. (Sound familiar? Something something my own trauma above my son’s, mission above all else, etc.). Why would he waste precious time and risk his own life to do this if he wasn’t empathetic towards these victims or didn’t care about doing the right thing. He is simultaneously horribly traumatized and full of rage, and also incapable of ignoring what’s happening to victims around him (even as he claims that it’s indeed not his priority). And in that same vein, the entire premise of his rebirth outlaws run was that he doesn’t care if the public views him as a villain, an outlaw, so long as he can protect Gotham. And anyway where is this portrayal of him not caring about being in the right anymore. Almost every modern Jason story is about him grappling with where he stands with Bruce/Batman. During the early 2000s was probably the last time he did not care (hello, tentatodd??).

Jason has very evidently been portrayed as a kind and compassionate character. He is also simultaneously a calculated killer who doesn’t hesitate to kill when he deems necessary, and does so without remorse. It’s called being a Complex Character With An Edge™ that as you said, people so often claim to love. However when he fulfills that latter part, that seems to upset people because “killing bad”, and they then try to shave off and round out all his edges and claim he shouldn’t be that angry. In that case I guess you should just stick to liking traditional one-dimensional characters instead of claiming to like Jason but then encouraging his character assassination attempt by dc. Lol.

Lastly, who said anything about the batfam making Jason happy? Just because he’s written nowadays to want acceptance from Bruce (a shoddy attempt at forcing a non-existent nuclear batfamily), doesn’t mean that it’s a sound decision or that it does his character justice. I certainly don’t empathize with the idea that Jason needs the family’s approval or acceptance to be happy. (And anyway he has enough outlets for angst and pain aside from the batfam hello explore his other sources of trauma and do more deep dives into how he thinks when he’s alone). I don’t want them to magically make up and become one big happy family. This is not disney Lol. Besides, there are plenty of stories from dc that have that type of “wholesome” (hate that word utilization) characterization for Jason (Li’l Gotham, Tiny Titans, wfa, and even new stuff like the brave and the bold mini) and that is sufficient imo. Jason fans who are invested in the character deserve accurate, nuanced characterization and well-written stories, whether they be from his robin days (e.g., Batman: The Cult) or as red hood.

#fellas. ya know what else is wholesome? avenging your own death #you can have moments of ‘reconciliation’ or peace but still maintain a strained relationship which is far more realistic #‘he’s an asshole that kills’ and Bruce is an asshole who doesn’t kill. lol. #you can’t claim Jason’s conflicted and disturbed but go on to say Bruce is perfectly sane those two are mutually exclusive #also please realize that a character acting out of anger does not mean they lack compassion. #implying that he doesn’t care about doing the right thing is saying the same thing that person said; #that he doesn’t actually know what he’s doing. that he hasn’t thought through his moral stance. #‘Jason didn’t put any thought into anything he did in utrh he’s just a poor mentally ill lost soul who needs the batfam’s love to heal 💔’ #🤝 #‘jokers just a poor victim of society 😔 he just needs someone to understand him and maybe one day he’ll heal and realize he’s wrong’ #what they both have in common is that they’re misunderstood in opposite directions #the joker doesn’t have a point to prove. there’s no deeper meaning behind what he does. everything is a joke to him. #he isn’t unaware of right vs wrong lmfao #jason todd #dc #asks #my post #and I think you’re implying that he’s utilitarian based on that last part but I don’t think he is #user mintacle posted a few metas regarding that and again they explain it much better than I prob could #anyway it isn’t difficult to understand his character if you know why you like him and you actually read his stories #that post specifically was from someone who clearly said they did not read the comic so. technically they’re on their own wavelength #edit: grammar

[stealingpotatoes]

I was thinking about the Ahsoka show and do you know what would be really fun? If they found Thrawn just chilling in a cozy house with Eli and a couple of skywalker daughters

PLEASE DEAR GOD YES

#thanks for the ask! #realistically i know we're probs not getting any eli sob #but like!!! #WAIT SPOILERS FROM HERE ON DONT LOOK IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILERS BLA BLA BLA DO NOT READ FROM HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #if they said hes in a diff galaxy. then. just sayin the chiss r in a diff one. lieutenant ivant coulda found his ass already #theyre pure vibing back in the ascendancy

[fisheito]

edmond olivine......... farm sounds edition tiny tsun obsessed with girlfriend 4x his (cup_ ) Size....

#they're friends ur honour. maybe they can even boop snoots. let's give em some privacy #i wanted edmond horse to have a fancy braided ponytail (hah)-esque mane but the ref images all came up stuff like cornrows #and uh. no. no thank u. maybe i should start looking at cartoon horses instead #MASSIVE bunny olivine. bigger than a child. as big as a horse. capable of crushing kuya in his massive fur radius #when i think of hoof buddies edoli... i cannot decide on their sizes #yes horse is typically bigger than cow (at least taller) #but i want olivine to be a giant tank. and edmond to not look like a pubescent gangly mule next to him. #scratches chin #another part of me wanted to make em more . decorated. like design em with jewellery and whatnot #but if they are just animals in a boring ol zoo sanctuary #then they . . look like boring ol animals without all the cool decor? #actually what happens when they transform into their animal forms. #do all their clothes drop on the ground. free loot? #or do the clothes stay the same size and get all messed up and morphed on the new animal form #imagining poor oli transforming while still clothed and his clothes just rip from his Volume #and he's like aw man that's the 6th shirt this month :( #realistically(?) aster would prob provide magical clothing that appropriately shifts with the form or disappears somehow. conveniently. #idk. let's have inconvenient clothes only during the transformation sequences. #for the comedy aspect #edmond allows NO ONE to ride him. NO ONE! except olivine 🥰 eiden indeed gets kicked for even approaching and now he's in a coma #actually in the scenario where edmond is a horse he would probably allow anyone (small) on provided they are civil. #no foxes. no bears. no lions. maybe a hat. #guess i'm gonna have to start tagging this if i'm gonna keep posting about it. unbeliebabvle. it's become an actual tag #zookeeper au #olivine #edmond

[flufflecat]

Can someone explain what the narrative stakes are even supposed to be anymore in jjk. All the characters are essentially guaranteed to die, the current cast is comprised almost entirely of characters who showed up 2/3rds into the story and we're supposed to care about them for some reason, and I do not even know what the threat is supposed to be anymore. The apocalypse? Destruction of an amorphous innocent society? Like has ANYTHING been shown of "here's the regular world that apparently needs to be saved" or are we just supposed to assume "this society is just Real Life+, so you're REQUIRED to care if some guy threatens to kill all humanity, because one of those humanities may be... a child" or something. Can you spare two seconds to show anything other than some magic randos fighting, or is it just a superhero story all the time now, minus the fun. Remember when yuuji had friends.

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk crit #sorry for like being salty in what will prob be the main tag #I simply do not vibe at ALL with the direction this series has gone in and would love someone to complain about it with ahfkaj #I'd write an entire meta on the narrative flaws but I do not feel like it #seriously though it's chill if people like the story and I'm not trying to cause shit by tagging it #well I'm sort of trying to cause shit #but that shit is 'blease will someone complain with me because I love complaining' #I just don't get it #like oh wow you killed characters off and established stakes! that sets a tone and shows that this is a serious conflict! #oh nvm you've killed everyone just to be gratuitous about it and prove how tooootally realistic your story is #and now there's no reason to care bc why get invested when there's an 80% chance the characters will all die #like. you're just alienating people from caring about the story you're trying to make them care about #idek what kenjaku is supposed to be up to anymore #for all I care he could explode the world and I'd be like whatever there was probably no one interesting left anyway #everything that happens anymore in jjk feels like someone said 'but what if all the nonsense in DBZ... was edgy' #and then thought they did something interesting #wooooahhhh someone did a fight for 70 chapters! so innovative and unique! #someone transformed! what a twist!! #woooahhh you did a nonsense rug-pull and are now lying to us acting like it was intended the whole time! sacre bleu!!! #anyway see my previous complainy post to see why gojos plot specifically is harmful bullshit #but it's a shoooooneeennnnnn #it doesn't neeeeeeeed to be written well or responsibly amiright?! #it just needs to make straight guys on twitter think they're unique for saying 'the real issue with jjk is that some women like it ' #ok I'm done complaining. FOR NOW. #I'm sure I'll think of something else to complain about in two seconds. #fluffle talks

[yoshilisk]

hate when art makes ryo look all long and wiry. that boy is SHORT!!!

#yoshiposts #they're both short tbh #i mean i don't mind when adaptations make akira taller after he becomes devilman but realistically he should probs stay short #people would Notice if he was just. suddenly multiple inches taller one day

[silenthillbunni]

🤧🐀🌧️🌊

#need to clear my head; #im in such a bad mood. my face is in a perpetual angry state. im just so so bitter nd pessimistic rn #trying not to get stuck in negative chaos thought spirals nd to just take it as it come #nd be patient bc recovery takes time i know. but i havent been able to feel healthy or functional for 7 months nd i am so tired #i cant help but worry abt my health nd what kinda diet i can have nd how to work all of that out. #like the removal of the gallbladder dont ensure a good digestive system. they remove it bc it can irrepairably hurt u #also im so so stressed out abt school nd my courses. i already had to drop one last week. nd it isnt looking like i'll be able to pass my #eng class.. it just isnt looking like it's realistic at all :/ i personally dont mind if i fail. but i can get issues w my wellfare hmm #bc like im still feeling rough nd u only get sick leave for one week after surgery.. so i have to go on thursday nd friday but im gnna #be in pain plus be so hungry nd be unable to concentrate idk #idk idk!! im already willing to take out loans to finish my upper secondary school.. but i have to make it work w timing nd stuff so im not #sitting here unable to pay rent or the bills or food lmao. so idk have to fix it somehow #nd the pressure of this country rapidly declining state is stressing me tf out!! having nazi conservative rightists in the ruling is just #dreadful!!!! for many reasons but atm idek if i can do distance classes like i wanted to :// #i just.. wanna be able to go for my long walks. go to the gym. eat normally. have coffee. study nd finish highschool. #then apply for whatever program i can nd move to another calmer city. prob eventually find a path to move to another country. like norway.. #im thinking too much but my thoughts are spinning nd killing me like i cant stop it im so scared nd anxious lmao 💀 #im also trying to be brave and write to the psych clinic for personality disorders nd be upset nd 'beg' them for help ksksksks. #but like... the thing abt having avpd is that i kinda dont wanna bc im scared of the possibility of them helping me lol #im just in a low place nd bad headspace and it's just getring worse nd im getting more nd more tired #i dont have much more energy to keep it together nd pretend like im ok or like i have hope lmaoooo idk what to do #anyway... idk idk guess i just gotta .. keep crawling forward anyway i can

[infintyonhigh]

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer // Baby Annihilation - Fall Out Boy

#dont know if im pulling this out of my ass but i cannot hear baby annihilation and not think of one of my fave books of all time #realistically if he were to pete would prob pull inspiration from the movie but im pretending i do not see it bc i dont like it #fall out boy #annihilation #smfs

[crazysnor1ax]

Working on some au things, here's some adult Mono and Six designs! I think it's pretty clear what they're based off of :3

#when I sent the mono one to a friend their response was a very surprised “oh my god!” and thats how i knew it was a successful horror #design LMAO #probs the scariest thing I've made arguably #realistically these wouldnt pass for ln since the adult designs are more subtle but. this is an au #my art #sketches #the thin man #mono ln #monster six #six ln #little nightmares #ln 2 #little nightmares 2 #ln ii #body horror #eye contact #teeth

[ace-with--a-mace]

idc yall could never make me hate richard cameron

#yes throwing keating under the bus was shitty but like?? hes a kid bro #got put into this expensive ass 1-way-ticket to the top 1% school. prob was told by his parents ab the sacrifices they made to get him there #theyre almost done with school and are being cracked down by the principal ab their club like what was he supposed to do #i feel its easy to say “i wouldve stood with keating i wouldve told the truth i wouldve blamed mr perry” when ur watching and not partaking #but in the moment its either the guy who can teach somewhere else or facing your parents #and even so yall act like hes the only one to sign. everyone signed the letter (idk ab charlie i know he was expelled) but like #only 1 out of the group actually stood out dont act like youre the same?? idk #and then i do gen believe that the school was looking for a reason to fire keating cuz his teachings are non-traditional so #idk. they all had their flaws none of them are perfect theyre all human i feel that cameron was just being a realist #the dead poets society #dead poets society #richard cameron #even todd who speaks out in the end signed the letter like 😭 it was a shitty thing to do but theyre teens and its real #l speaks #shut up l

[mishkakagehishka]

I'm gonna install mystic messenger again

#i'm missing ONE yoosung ending . no idea which one. it's gonna be an adventure #realistically it's probably a bad relationship ending #and probably the last one #bc i already got all the bad story endings and the good story ending and the normal ending #so i was probs ending it with a bad relationship run and it's so much likelier that i left the #longest route for the last like. it's just mathematically likelier <- sobbing

[wall-e-gorl]

My style Is very bubble and bean and cartoon but the thing about that is that to be effective and look good and nice is that that you have to know like the proper proportions and anatomy of real people. You don't *have* to be able to draw every single muscle perfectly but if you generally know where they are its easier to know how to squish and squash, if you know face proportions and how faces move and why you can make faces that make the emotion you want and don't immediately pull people out of their immersion by the eyes being weird in comparison to the face. And sometimes. You gotta draw things in the realistic style to better understand how to make it cartoony

#realistic ande i just did is both a different brush and more realistic than i usually do #ive been using that brush more and i like it again and i know how to mesh it with my main brush now (fucking sick ive had that brush for #prob a year now gathering digital dust) and i wanted to figure out facial form more #so. more realistic ande. with his face at an angle ive done before but w a brush i can do as much detail as i want with #this ande is much more true to form than the other pencil drawing one i did of him. w jambo on the couch #i still like it i just captured him better in this newst one

[ooklet]

i'm still annoyed we never got the full rainbows line. i'm not generally a fan of the color orange and this one is particularly underwhelming, but the green doll is very cute. i've seen her body pop up on aliexpress from time to time but never the head. vexing.

#boxy girls #dolls #my cursed little daughters :( #vibe girls suck bring back the square monstrosities #tho it looks like vibe girls is also probs canceled at this point - there haven't been any new ones past the first core 6 line #still not sure why the fuck the blue doll up there is also green. why was that creative decision made presumably on purpose. #she's a near-perfect match for g1 frankie so like. what. why??? #it would've been nice to get the orange doll's shoes tho. closed-toed shoes are so rare on boxys. #which in combination with their hyper realistic feet is a Choice. #i love this doll line it's completely insane i have so much to say about fucking boxy girls.

[vamprnce]

is the only responsible and mature person to wield a gun safely: Kaitlyn

is okay/safe w a gun but still give them supervision: Ryan, Laura and Nick

never ever hand them a gun: Jacob, Dylan and Emma

would never hold a gun in their life: Abi and Max

#text #the quarry #after seeing how everyone handles a gun i can safely say kaitlyn should only be the one to hold one #ryans close but some options he'll fight ppl abt the gun and you can shoot your friends w/o knowing so lol #laura WOULD be responsible too but she is gun crazy cmon #and emmas on the the never give a gun is bc how she handles it in a goofy way lol i dont think she'd shoot it actually but y'know thats why #shes there #nick couldve been on the responsible spot but he did fight jacob abt the gun stuff but he is a good shot so #realistically he'd be in the middle of those two #abi and max are babies and i can never imagine them w a gun lmao #jacob and dylan are explanatory sjfkdkf dylan would be w the baby crew but hes really annoying abt wanting the gun even tho hed prob #wouldn't be good at shooting in general (he only shoots once in the whole game in one possible scene but overall he doesn't)

[lottieurl]

is there even going to be a bonus episode(10)? i thought that was just rumors and not confirmed

apparently people who have even minor industry connections have been basically told yeah and apparently it’s like 95% certain that they have an entire cabin guy episode filmed with jason ritter. we'll see i guess but that's my current level of knowledge

#do not quote me on this #do your own research if you're curious enough or wait two weeks i guess #but yeah seems like thats it #so im just hoping its vaguely interesting at least #cause realistically? #eps that are entirely abt a random character not the main ones are universally least liked eps everytime #cause you have no attachment to that character and they're there for an ep and it's just like. very disconnected from the rest #so i dont have high expectations whatsoever #not sure if i will watch? #im watching for the characters not for like. whatever lore they're trying to build up #ill probs watch but yea meh #i hope they surprise me but i think its a bad choice #yellowjackets spoilers #yellowjackets blogging

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#for some reason it never occured to me that i could just like. take an art class if i wanted? #idk if id enjoy it. i probably would bc i like prompts so much but idk ive just not had much formal art training #i mean i took a lot of art classes in hs but my art teacher just made us paint realistically and i HATED that #so idk. i think i just wanna b better at framing/composition idk #idk y that never occured to me. i prob wont do it bc like with what fucking time. it would distract from my narut0 drawing lol #but its a nice thought. i just really need to memorize the cloud species bc im very Normal than u v much #while im being a slacker. i say on my day off where i spent 8-1.30 in the lab. sigh... #ugh but i wanna finish drawing a thing. ugh. also i need to work on a paper. ugh. im tired #maybe i could find tutorials online or something. ugh no i would need a class to hold me to actually trying what they recommend lol #unrelated #one of my lab mates took an art class. she does art stuff too. from what ive seen i think im better than her #i say bc im a competitive bitch. but she has way more confidence in her stuff bc she sells it and stuff #i tend to be more. oh u like want to buy my stuff? uh thanks but cringe. like come back in a month and i could do the same thing better #u just dont understand how bad this is in comparison to what i could do in the future. which is slightly baffling lmao #not only am i competitive. im self competitive

[upsidedowngrass]

what i love SO much abt stones ability to see the future is that the way theyre written implies that there is No One Future, but that there are hundreds and thousands, but only they know what leads to what, so subsequently, they are the only one that can put bunches of diff possibilities into action

#hfjone #hfjone stone #realistically stone can prob see quite literally infinite futures #but i think they prob focus in on more realistic ones #but like. when theyre tryna take amelias notes? they look like they genuinely think theres a possibility that she may let them have them #but infinite possibilities still has to account for the fact that people can do anything anytime #like. when they run between teams? theyre checking for stuff. and 'i know everything' would mean they have to already know #unless! they are weighing options #focusing their foresight on specific possibilities #maybe this is common knowledge and unremarkable #but i LOVE this kind of seeing the future #and it adds a lot of complexity to stone! #yeah they put MANY events into motion with almost 100% precision #but thats prob WHY they had to be so vague. there were so many ways things couldv gone wrong #so they had to center it on options that made rverything less likely to end horribly #(or as horribly) #i dont think they predicted everything exactly when they wrote the notes. but i think they knew #as they were writing the notes #what possibile outcomes their actions could lead to #and they had to lead liam in the most all encompassing way possible #since they knew it was highly likely that theyd be eliminated before theyd ever be able to fully explain #anyway #hfjone spoilers #fun fact liam and amelia are favorites but also i REALLY really like stone #they dont have much screentime but they have SO much personality