#the me decade universe

[blackbatcass]

the first thing every dick grayson writer has to keep in mind is that he is defined by his kindness. second thing is that he’s an asshole. third thing is that he’s so, so angry. fourth thing is that he loves donna hinckley stacy troy more than life itself.

#dick grayson #batman #batfam #dc #donna troy #wonder twins #some writers lately (PAST DECADE) haven’t kept these things in mind. and it. SHOWS. #like. i do believe that if you write a dick grayson story and it’s a version where #he DOESNT love and trust donna troy more than anyone in the universe. it’s fundamentally out of character. you feel? #sorry reading who is donna troy issue has made me emotional #he loves her!! SO much!!!!! he would do anything for her!!!!!!

[uncanny-tranny]

I know other adults like to joke about how much pain they're in, but genuinely, please try to get your pain checked out if you're an adult experiencing it, or at least adapt your life in whatever way lessens your pain.

Your pain deserves to be addressed. Please don't "let" it get worse because you've been told that to grow older is to suffer. No, you aren't being needy or selfish or annoying. Ultimately, you are the one who suffers the most from the state of your health, and it's entirely reasonable to want your health to be up to your standards.

#disability #chronic pain #it's actually not normal to feel scared to sneeze for fear of making your pain worse (calling myself out) #i dunno i guess maybe i'm just ~too young~ an adult but i'm already tired of the jokes about pain 😮‍💨 #i've been at this pain going on decades now so i guess that's what's gotten me kind of sensitive lol #like... it's just shitty to be told that 'its gonna get SO much worse so don't even TRY' as an adult with pain #basically when you're a kid you're too young but if you're an adult well... that's just what you get so suck it tf up #i'm going back to playing video games so that i may live in the comforting realm of fantasy (Much Less Pain Universe) #(trying to be grateful that my body is Very invested in telling me that it needs to be handled gently but it's hard) #talking so much about this just to continuously make sure that people don't do what i did in the past

[babygirlgiles]

Peeta Mellark is just so Disney princess coded to me. Damsel in distress. Awoken by Finnick’s kiss of life. Brought back to himself from the brink of a murderous rampage by Katniss’s kiss. Do you see my vision. Do you see it.

#peeta mellark #the hunger games peeta #thg #the hunger games #very glad the universe decided to wait until the hunger games rennaisance to drag me into it #instead of in the 2010s #love to come into this series with an additional decade of memes and also a liberal arts degree #and most importantly an additional decade of Florence and the machine songs to put on my katnisspeeta playlist

[swervesfirstblaster]

THEY ARE SO IN LOVEEE LOOK AT TEELAS HAND ON HIS FACE AND STAYING ON HER TIP TOES TO KISS ADAM OHHH HIS FACE LOOKING AT HER

#making me giggle and kick me feet #WE DID IT FEELAS AFTER DECADES WE WON #adam was melting in teelas hands damn #prince adam #teela #adam x teela #motu r spoilers #motu revolution spoilers #masters of the universe revolution spoilers #he man netflix spoilers #he man

[aregebidan]

Always thinking about a genre aware Maglor kidnapping the twins as a particularly self-destructive way of escaping the story he’s trapped in. I think he’d absolutely be the type of person to appreciate the supposed “poetic justice” of his “foster sons” eventually killing him—it would strike a nice balance between satisfying the “audience,” aka whatever part of him that believes it would be appropriate for him to have such a cruel end, and establishing that he wasn’t pure evil despite everything (the children he raised destroyed him = he had enough decency to raise them to be capable of striking him down).

Even if the twins’ own ideas about the concept of kinslaying would inhibit them from giving him a “clean end,” an absolute exit from the story, he spends his days during and after the War of Wrath secretly hoping for some kind of recompense from them. A singer views the world in terms of linear stories, requiring endings to give it meaning. He orphaned the twins and raised them to stand up for themselves, he taught them everything he knew, surely they will repay him by making him into a defeated villain and thus finally introducing some degree of fairness into his life-narrative? 

(But Elros could never confine himself to rules and conventions, and Elrond hasn’t spent years teaching himself to be a healer only to be trapped in the avenging-angel role that his captor/mentor has ascribed to him. The next time they meet, a sizeable part of his initial kindness stems from spite. Maglor took the twins because he was looking for a sufficiently poetic end. Elrond feels sorry for him, but he also adamantly refuses to give him any of the satisfaction.)

#might turn this into a fic in a decade or so but i’m incapable of really committing to a Reading yet #silmarillion #elrond #elros #maglor #i just think it’s neat that of all the feanorians the one with the most awareness of how stories and songs work is the narrative loose end #maglor’s job is to sing not to be sung of! he is cursed to narrate rather than be narrated! #no one else will finish his story for him! if he wants fairness he will have to change himself to make it! #he’s just. his silm ending is so fixed (he wandered ever upon the shores he never came back) but also has so much potential for More To Come #(inherent in-universe historical unreliability + he never came among the elves again but where does that leave other groups?) #it makes no damn sense! compels me though.

[cheaploafs]

late night cuddles

#coffee talk #hyde #gala #galahyde #hyde coffee talk #gala coffee talk #coffee talk game #art tag #you all are coming with me on the journey of learning how to draw them <3 enjoy #also did i go overboard with thr chest hair? maybe. i don’t regret it though he’s a werewolf let him be hairy #anyway i love that vampires in this universe dont have pointy ears yet here i am. because i cant control myself #i already hc’d that hyde was a cuddler when it comes to sleeping so it was nice of gala to confirm kt by compairing him to a cat thank you #they are just.. you give me a game with a vampire/werewolf bond im going to go bonkers over them .. chefs kiss #i like to think hyde is like a heavy sleeper because how else do vampires sleep for liek decades in coffins you know #i mean they probably dont in this game obviously but listen man shsjdkfk #and for gala i think he’s more of the opposite #because werewolves tend to be restless so just very light sleeper maybe even has insomnia too #overall i am rotating them so much in my brain .. like i just think theyre neat #also saw in the little pixle arts for the game that hyde has piercings as well ive never bene more happier in my life like YES.. YESSSSS

[buttercupart]

* there seems to have been a miscommunication

#deltarune #utdr #the human vessel #goner maker #chara dreemurr #dess holiday #void crew #my art #There seems to be this pervasive thought in the UTDR fanspace #where everyone thinks it takes place in the aughts #but we know it takes place in the 2020s bc of Ralsei's handbook saying 202X #also the fact that Asriel is college-aged and Kris is in late highschool #anyways all that just to say DR is in the 2020s so it means it is COMPLETELY possible for the void crew to have mandatory barbenheimer time #however the other implications of the DECADE difference btwn UT and DRs universes are CRAZY #imagine being from DR and almost being an independent adult and also knowing about the human pandemic and stuff #and then in UT youre in 2nd grade again and your dad is dead and you cant warn anyone &$^&*%@^*@$(* #i used to have nightmares about my mind being transported back into the body of myself in kindergarten and being burdened with the knowledg #of what the next 15 years were to hold for me and everyone else with no way to stop it or make anyone believe me #it messed me up so bad. imagine going thru that. crikey on a croissant #gaster #dr gaster #dr wd gaster #w.d. gaster

[bulkhummus]

do you understand how this rewired my fucking brain ….. they were grad students together…….carlos cant remember decades…we were both trying to prove ourselves… lubelle will march over anything and anyone…… cecils swiss cheese brain ….

#everyone worried about carlos……. enough to go looking for him #im was trying to find connections between dr. kayali in 55 and janet #kayali knew carlos as a professor who disappeared on sabbitical #lubelle knew carlos as a fellow grad student #dr blake knows carlos as someone who made an impact long enough at the university that his portrsit was both hung and taken down #he also took over carlos’ role as lubelles right hand man (implied by cecil stating it ) #which means either carlos was not telling the full truth and extent of his relationship to lubelle (highly likely) #or its a time and memory weirdness #but i keep thinking about the line we were young and trying to prove ourselves…….. #it sounds so unnecessarily foreboding to me like whatd they get up to what did they do #that made carlos question her ethics #i bet they were rewarded for it #i bet it ate him up inside sitting atop of an achievement that was ethically shakey for years #until he has a break down and dips #also so egotisical that she sets up a campus in town lol and makes herself the dean #on top of sacred ground #kayali said he was gone for decades…… so funny how decades keep haunting carlos what does it mean what DOES IT MEAN #wtnv #welcome to night vale

[introspectivememories]

i feel like im going crazy i just saw a fun little tiktok about bnha and it was animated and the art style was cute and it was about the dekusquad except bakugo was a part of it???? and it wasn't like an au video or anything bakugo was just a part of the dekusquad??? and so i go to the comments thinking "oh someone's gonna call this out right? like in what world is bakugo part of the dekusquad" but!!! everyone in the comments was just agreeing with the poster??? top comment: i'm glad we all agree that bakugo is part of both squads.... no he isn't????? second comment: bakugo is the founding member of the dekusquad IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD????

#does everyone in this fandom have collective amnesia??? #in what world is bakugo -- bullied izuku for a /decade/ bakugo -- part of the dekusquad???? #like however you feel about bakugo aside to say that he's the founding??? member of the dekusquad? #are we watching the same show??? #'oh but he apologized!!!' i see that but you have to admit it was a high stress situation #apologize again when all this is over #in a better universe #horikoshi is a better writer and we get a better redemption arc for bakugo #anyway to me #izuku's thoughts on bakugo's redemption is: i'm truly happy that you're becoming a better person but i don't really want any part of it #to me they are really good coworkers who know a little too much about each other #bnha #anti bakugo katsuki #ig? #dekusquad

[goldkirk]

I DON'T HAVE TO LIE ANYMORE!

#I DON'T HAVE TO LIE ANYMORE ABOUT ANYTHING #IT DOESN'T HAVE TO OVERRIDE ALL OTHER PROGRAMMING EVER AGAIN #HA #MY GOD THAT FEELS LIKE TWO DECADES OF RELIEF #and I found out yesterday. that this year. next winter. it IS two decades. exactly. this is the year. every day i am shown new reminders #that keep me going in my mission to relearn to fully and instinctually trust my self #ever since [redacted therapist] asked me point blank and my IMMEDIATE response was complete disbelief #a firm 'you think there's any universe where i'd feel like i could trust myself? after my nonstop history of failures and being horrible?' #tone “No!” of disbelief #and a horrible way-too-harsh laugh that bolted out before I could strangle it off and stop it. #that woman never coddled my feelings any time I spoke something alarming or bullshit and that was so helpful to me #and the tone she let exist in her voice when she responded to me with a very uncharacteristic “Oh Katie.” #was so. so much more agonizing for me. than her responding with an immediate logical slam-dunk of the truth about healthy behavior and stuf #anyway ramble over i'm so tired. i've done so much trauma work this week i am Drained emotionally #now i see what the past several months but especially especially #the baffling (to me) infuriating out-of-control-speedrun-somatic-processing + every-health-condition-flaring slog that December and January #were for me when I hadn't expected anything to be wrong #...and the extremely specific way this certain zone and particular incident kept coming up over and over and over and over and OVER was not #a bug. it was a feature. thank goodness i trust myself for little things now bc that's the only way i was able to get to this other side #and look back and suddenly realize that my subconscious and body knew what they needed and had a plan in progress the whole time. just like #i rationally say I trust them to have and do. #and that perhaps maybe. for real for real instead of just TELLING myself hard enough a lie that i trust my self and i trust my body and tha #they always know their own needs and timing if really slow down and listen to them f u l l y #anyway. yeah. bye haha i need to stop oversharing on the internet #trauma evolution #shh katie #personal #my god. i wished for this day more than i wished for anything else my whole life. all these many many many many years. what magic. #add to journal #abuse

[looseinthecatroom]

"Out for Love" 🤝 "Do it for Her

#hazbin hotel #steven universe #the sheer joy this song brought me though #truly they are the same picture #separated by a decade or so and a genre #is ''do it for her'' a decade old? god it probably is. makes me feel old as hell.

[itsmissing]

i'm so sick of this guy

#kamen rider #kamen rider wizard #kamen rider decade #but i'm glad Masahiro Inoue's always down to keep playing Decade #him and Momotaros' VA pretty much carry this special #the rest of the 'soundalikes' they used for the other previous riders are really not doing it for me #i guess it's pretty fitting since those two are universal constants within the loosey goosey continuity of Rider

[doolallymagpie]

been trying to come up with a BattleTech “pitch” for fans of The Expanse, but honestly?

this is probably enough, plus the official “primer” document if you want actual information rather than just a bunch of pretty images and a banging soundtrack by Jon Everist (who I’m fairly sure admitted he wanted this piece to sound kind of Expanse-y)

or if you don’t want to click links or watch videos:

politics-heavy hard-SF space opera, thrilling heroics, (almost) zero easy answers to the dilemma of the day, main themes are “people are always going to be people” and “the end justifies the means, but there is no end”. obviously this describes both settings nicely.

one just uses that to explain why people are hopping into big war robots and slapping the shit out of each other.

#not really sure what possessed me to wanna make this post but here it is after percolating a bit #there’s several centuries of in-universe history and three decades of real history to go through #you don’t need to know who Amanda Cameron is to know Bobbie is one ‘Mech away from being the average BT novel protagonist #battletech #the expanse #actually you could enjoy BattleTech thoroughly never knowing who Amanda Cameron is. she’s a largely extraneous detail. #basically the setting’s Anastasia Romanova. right down to the conspiracy theories. #although House Cameron is a bit more Atreides than uh the Tsar. #so like any good ‘classic flavor’ space opera there’s also a lot of Dune #but again. there is too much. let me sum up. #i will also warn you that that primer doc though official is SLIGHTLY out of date but you really don't need to know what an ilkhan is yet

[mindshelter]

“you go blank inside” babygirl. you are dissociating

the abuse that hal suffered at martin jordan’s hands (and words) are. pretty indispensable to understanding hal’s time as a GL leading up to becoming parallax... hal became part of the corps pre-conditioned and primed for easy indoctrination. despite recognizing martin’s behaviour as abusive, and hoping to never become like him, compliance at one’s own expense was all hal knew. it was what felt safe, what felt familiar, and made up that last tendril of sanity—the universe couldn’t be that cruel, and a parent wouldn’t be so hateful for no reason. there must be something hal can fix—can compromise—to be accepted. if only hal could have given martin what he wanted, whatever that may have been. if, if, if. 

fealty won’t earn you happiness—only survival. 

when that illusion finally crumbles—when the realization that decades of loyalty to the corps and to the long-deceased father has reaped zero reward—so does the remainder of hal’s belief system. 

captions below: 

1. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

Willpower. Absolute concentration. Split second timing. Where does that come from?

Instead it’s all feed in more trim and if you’re still nose-down, put your feet in the stirrups and blow the canopy before you red out. You do what you do. You go blank inside.

2. back issue #80, on Green Lantern

Fearless people tend to be cocksure of their actions and tend not to question anything, including authority. I recall a number of John Broome[-written] stories where Hal was totally (and happily) subservient to the Guardians of the Universe. 

3. zero hour: crisis in time (1994) #0

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job. I knew that. I had never asked for anything. 

The one time I did, I was denied. It dawned on my just how unfair the universe really was…

4. green lantern (1990) #63

Your rules. Your rules kept me from any happiness. I served the corps more faithfully than anyone, and my loyalty got me nothing. 

5. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

Like what you learn at the end of someone’s arm. You learn to go blank. 

Like maybe things with him would change if could just give him what he wants. If you would just take it like a man. But nothing ever did change. He just kept calling you a loser. And if he ever had a warmer opinion, you never heard about it. You took that like a man, too. 

6. back issue #80, on Green Lantern

I always believe it is very hard for people to actually change their personalities. So the best Hal could do was reach a happy medium, intellectually realizing he should be feeling differently about a situation, but emotionally having trouble doing so.

7. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

I don’t think I can do this anymore. “Fearless.” It’s all a crock.

8. green lantern (1990) #50

9. dc comics presents: green lantern (2004)

You go blank inside. 

Maybe sometimes that’s all that stands between this thing on my finger and the hot green end of everything. 

#i have NO idea if this makes any sense at all but. yeah. hal's character arc makes me crazy actually #hal jordan #martin jordan #dc #green lantern #comic blogging #another day of pretending the parallax parasite retcon doesn't exist because this is infinitely more compelling #and a perfect conduit to provide commentary on anti-authoritarianism through characters like kyle #instead of. you know. the green lantern corps as space cops #anyway. yeah. hal is extremely traumatized and evidently got zero support for it for decades. tfw you're in your forties and #your inner child believes that there was something wrong with YOU and that if you just behaved RIGHT and became what your dad wanted #he wouldn't have hated your guts #resentment was already brewing but emerald twilight was really all about the realization that all that self-hatred and blame #was being misdirected #and now it has nowhere to go except everywhere. it's spilling out. overflowing. the world is wrong and hal can fix it! #i'll make everything better! everyone gets to be happy but not in this SHITSTAIN universe #just you guys wait and see #you'll understand eventually. you all will. just like i did.

[one-winged-dreams]

I feel so fucking dead inside over this recent WoW fuckery but I have to say, going from the WoW mutual to the Squeenix mutual is not the direction I expected things to go

#like square is hardly flawless itself but at least i get some variety #and stuff that's easier to revisit without having new lore shoved in your face as the new absolute canon #because it's all relatively self contained #we don't talk about KH3 focus #the point is there's no linear yet ever shifting universe like the garbage fire that's been burning in the Blizzard launcher #for WELL over a decade #i can go play any which game i like and just leave it at that #WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE VII REMAKES I SAID FOCUS #i don't even know where I'm going with this i guess square has several games i enjoy and they make me happy #as opposed to getting hurt with every little development in the piece of shit blizzard MMO #HUUUUGHHJHJJJJ #vent

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

pls reblog

#polls #hyperspecific poll #kai rambles #personal #doing this i realised how much if my weird experiences were either too depressing or violent to put as an option #or would need a lot more words to explain #i decided to skip out on ''had a local drug dealer try to groom you into being a mule'' #i find it funny because he tried it while my mom was in the room? #but im aware its a sensitive topic #i also did not know how to casually word the times my dad would randomly drive us to like some ruins in the english countryside #and like say ill be back in an hour #and then leave us there #because what the fuck even was that? #also how to explain that my maternal uncle and maternal grandad were in opposing local gangs that folded before i was born #but like in an alternate universe id probably be raised in a gang? #and also anything about my aunt meryl i dont know how to phrase any of that in limited words because she is just the most bizzare lady #i maybe could get the neck brace thing in where she accused me and my mom of stealing her neckbrace and handcream #and told us to never speak to her until we were ready to admit it except we didnt take it #and its probably coming up to a decade now