#tt talk tag

[anissapierce]

Vic looking down on roy for sleeping w dick when they were both teenagers despite the age difference not realizing tht neither of them had the normal high school socialization he did where it was social suicide if you even talked to a freshman as a junior....

Roy trying to convince tht vic tht he's not like a predator for growing feelings for a teammate over time esp when they had their youngness in common. But vic needs dick to assuage his guilt bc like lol vic doesnt rlly Know roy like tht. Also vic is sublimating any gay thoughts hes ever had Bad. Like he asks malcom to teach him how to play the horn and karen wont stop giving him shit abt it for years bc of how bad he was. Btw karen finds the whole thing dumb but respects vics prudence bc fucking around w a rich white kid even if youre only two years older is not sth to b done lightly. Vic had not fully considered how Steve incorporated into the whole situation n tht makes him even more hang wringy

Meanwhile gar at the age of sixteen with sixteen year old hormone emotionality wondering why his buddy tht he had ust with is giving him the cold shoulder at random intervals (that happens until gar is like 21 by the way ....vics git a lot of hang ups). The rest of the titans probably call it the great schism or sth dumb

#tt talk tag

[silverwhittlingknife]

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

[alexandriaellisart]

are there any canon ships in your comics? Sorry if I missed it

no, not really! i kinda try to make the tt comics less shippy so that everybody can enjoy them! Robstar is canon, but like, mildly, and I think raven and robin are like, platonic best friends. but really the main ship is just all the titans being a weird family ^-^

#also i headcannon that raven has a crush on starfire but that's beside the point #teen titans 2003 #teen titans #teen titans comics #asks #thank u for the ask! #if anybody has any other questions send them to meee i love talking about the tt ^-^ #sketchbook tag

[taylor-titmouse]

kink that doesn't say it's kink

i never thought id have a full blog post in me about writing but ive been rotating this in my head for days and finally think i can put my thoughts down. obv this is all subjective and only relative to me, it's not a screed about how you should write. it's more a look into my thinking.

for the past like, two weeks, i've been trying to come up with a story that fit the title "bred and breakfast" and coming up miserably blank. because hard as i try i couldn't find my way into a story that was a) about a bed and breakfast b) involved breeding kink in the way i want to do it and c) did not look at the camera and go "today we're writing about someone engaging in breeding kink!"* and issue C is what i'm gonna talk about.

for me, the purpose of writing smut, particularly genre smut that isn't just two people in the regular world having sex, is to present a reader with a fantasy situation where their kink is a natural consequence of the narrative. a situation where the fantasy is not an imagined fantasy for the characters, but a lived reality. obviously there are exceptions and ways to work a character having a relevant kink into the narrative (ex: the xenosexuality conference, brilliant's explicit kink for being an object of curiosity feeding into her situation as an object of curiosity to a bunch of horny aliens), but generally i want my stories to be about sexy things happening without premeditation or the characters pointing out that the situation is constructed.

it's the difference between a story about a bdsm couple tying the sub to a wall and pretending he's a prisoner in a dungeon getting whipped and getting off on it, and a story about a sexy criminal being tied to a dungeon wall and getting whipped and getting off on it. they are ultimately the same thing. guy gets whipped and gets a boner. the latter just does away with the tools of constructing the fantasy (negotiating, safewords, aftercare) and serves you the fantasy direct as part of a larger narrative you can care about. why is the prisoner there? what is his relationship to the whipper that makes this erotic? what happens to him after they fuck? his answers to those questions are more interesting to me than the bdsm sub's.

but as i said, this is all highly subjective. maybe the bdsm couple is more your speed and that's fine. but nothing pulls me out of a narrative like a story going "we're going to do bdsm now!" if bdsm and the fact it Is bdsm are not vital to the narrative. i do not want the strapping stablehand to explain safewords to his master he's about to spank in a barn. just spank him without asking, because he doesn't respect you. spank him til he bleats like a sheep and understands how hard you work to take care of his lordship's horses. spank him because it's what he deserves, not because we're engaging in spanking kink.

and the challenge for me now is figuring out a convincing way to get a character on a breeding bench at a bed and breakfast without them going "i would like french toast and to be put on a breeding bench for big cow men to fuck please" because while that might be funny, and might be sexy, it doesn't make for a very compelling narrative.

*and i don't want help figuring it out. i'll get there on my own

#tt talks writing #idk i need some sort of tag if i ever do this again

[crying-over-cartoons]

#toontown #talking tag #how do you tag memes. #corporate clash #ttcc #tt

[thisisadecisionimayregret]

Declan's Corrective: Um. Alright, uh. This one doesn't have a name, yet. [clears throat]

When I was young I saw my father on Tuesday afternoons

A tray of fruit and a cup of juice, and little else between us

In search of more one week I thought I'd bring some questions to him

Because I knew so little but I knew he answered questions

My head was filled with textbook descriptions and encyclopedic depictions

Of places I'd hoped he'd seen in ways that go beyond curt summaries, white indices, quick glossaries

And dreamed he'd have some deeper knowledge, real knowledge,

Dirt under fingernails, the smells they don't write about

And people with names and ugly faces

And places not like the ones I saw on broadcast news

So I put my juice down, and I asked him what the world was like,

The real world, far away from the one out my window, on my wall, in my mind

The world I didn't have words for yet

Tell me what it's like

And my father said I knew all the places worth knowing

But I decided he was wrong

Tell me anyway, I said

And he said there was only here and there and here was all I needed

Tell me about a place you loved

And he said the house he grew up in always had dried flowers

Tell me about a place I haven't been

And he said there is a place

A terrible place

Where they worship gods

Have no place for laws, even the law of gravity

And there are no real people there and there are no real names and the flowers never really dry

And he looked me in the eye and said,

The Twilight Mirage is a place of blue bread and white strawberries.

Blue bread, and white strawberries,

Blue bread, and white strawberries,

And I didn't understand,

Not because I hadn't seen mold,

But because I hadn't yet learned

To make a meal of the world

#fatt #road to palisade #f@tt #orbital #declan's corrective #fatt palisade #poetry #samantha talks #this. this poem made me Feral and i needed to cut it so i can play it on repeat #god. mr austin underscore walker has No chill and I love it #grace tag

[sambrosiac]

not now sweetie, mommy's defending sam winchester in the tiktok comments

#everyday i open tt and twt and am subjected to the most braindead takes and opinions #istg you have to do the thing where in order to explain sexism to men you have to relate it to women in their own family #“hey remember when the same bad thing happened to dean and how bad it was??? yeah” #that “i need to talk to a gay person” meme but i internally go “i need to talk to a proshipper” and come here #tumblr my beloved you never show me sam hate <33 #yday i casually saw a tweet of someone saying sam deserves to die cause dean couldn't have a happy life???? #when i tell you i was genuinely shocked #how many ppl do i need to block for the algo to get it im so tired #oh my days i just found out you can rearrange tags??????? #sam winchester #anti sam hate #fandom wank #kinda

[theetwinkleboy]

scrolling through post after post of ‘my poor baby how could they do that to my boy’ and I’m glad we’re all, at heart, inko midoriya

#that’s my son don’t DO that!!!!! #tt talks #bnha spoilers #I turned off the spoilers tag filter

[michelle4eve]

Holy fuck

My social anxiety-

Please why do i have to have this??

@zehina @writingforstraykids and fucking everyone here

#i wanna reblog and compliment and say i lovè it #and you know #confess my love #but IM TOO SHYYYYYYYY #UGHHHHHH #4everambles #4evetalks #I'm getting jelĺy watching other ppl interact and them getting a reply back #WHY #I shouldn't be jelly #It's me who's at fault #im the problem #im in the wrong.. #its just me #haha #.. #ha #I'M SORRT #IF YOU SEE THIS AND UHM YOU WRITE AND UHM I FOLLOW YOU #I AM PROB TALKING ABOUT YOU #YEAH #YOU #I'M SSOOOOORRRYYYYYYYYYYY #I APOLOGIZE #I CANNOT #I FEEL JELLY YOU NOTICE OTHA PPL #WHEN I'M NOT EVEN INTERACTING LOL #I DO WANT TO DONT GET ME WRONG. BUT I CAN'T GET MYSELF TO TAG YOU OR REBLOG BEVAUSE WHAT IF SOME1 ELSE SEES? WHAT IF IT'S EMBARRASSING? WHAT #IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT OR IT'S CRINGE?? WHAT IF. I'M SORRY AGAIN TT I'M SO SORRY

[noizo1d]

if ultrakill came out in the mid 2010s there would've been dirty confessions blogs for it and "i want gabriel to run" would be a constant on all of them

#they would have youtube videos with tts reading out each confession while the smb2 overworld theme plays #nobody will understand what i'm talking about except for me #new text post tag (wow!) #utkl #ultrakill #feeling ballsy today i'm gonna maintag it

[anissapierce]

My personal hc is tht despite the vibes tht vic is a Gentleman n hes still kinda locked into high school mentality so if someone asks abt gar he acts affronted n says hes not a cradle robber. but like to everyone else on the team n outside finds that protest silly bc they are Not sixteen n dont see that big of a difference btwn sixteen n thirteen. But when ur sixteen that distinction is important so even if it was a thing vic isnt admitting to it bc again.. sixteen.

Flashforward years later n Vic's still holding onto the cradle robbing denial which looks even weirder but thts wht happens when youre development gets arrested. Roy has to talk vic thru how hes Not a creep bc he had a crush on a thirteen year old at sixteen n continued to have feelings. Vic doesnt take roy as a good standard for when its not ok to oogle someone three years your jnr so he has to have Star weigh in. Anyway i imagine hes asked upward to no less than fiveteen heroes abt their advice until he finally asks gar on a date

He also tried to sniff shit out from doom patrol but tht was a kinda no dice situation bc they got too nosy when he started sniffing around

#meanwhile gar is entirely unaware has his own shit going on Always #btw the thing w roy wasnt a reference to how kinda weird he was in the 2000s abt hot young women ...ut was more a comment on dick #but it can b abt both #honestly they gave gar tht trait too... bonkers time the 2000s #w gar i think itwas only when he guest appeared in supergirl #so tht mightbe just been tht books sense of humor n not a trait they were trying to establish w gar #tt talk tag

[mukuberry]

I know when talking about fiction ur passionate about it's easy to get carried away but i wish ppl would be more considerate when talking about extreme topics;; the characters wont care what u say and neither will most ppl but reading ppl carelessly talk about certain stuff ive been through is rlly uncomfy

#chernikocore #not 'dont talk about topics' just 'think a little more when u do' yeahg #atleast tag it properly TT #defend ur blorbos but make sure ur not like. victim blaming or minimising traumatic shit. plsssss

[moe-broey]

I also want to say this main screen dialogue makes me so soft............. doing things to me. Emotionally.

#fire emblem #feh #like all of this is extremely half baked very first impression thoughts but i need someone to hear me LMFAOOO #and i'm putting this half baked thought in the tags bc idk if i'm gonna sound insane for it #but like. being loved... being cherished and valued as a friend.... even if you have a chronic condition and/or disability #and also recognizing yourself in the other and becoming a family about it. to me all of the fairies feel like one big family. #ESPPP in the recent TT event and ESPPPP in triandra's fbs w plumeria #and plumeria just. SO MUCH. feels like an older sister. who has a lot going on. but still loves and protects despite that. #and ofc triandra literally is an older sister to peony. but SO much plumeria and triandra feel like sisters to me too #AND LIKE........ tbh the fucking sweet dream/nightmare split. freyja and freyr aside. #literally actually peony and triandra almost feel like half sisters (despite canonically being full blood) #it's the circumstances i'm talking about though. like plumeria and triandra live in one household #and peony and mirabilis live in another. they might see each other on weekends. do you get me??? #also i am just still SO fascinated by where sharena's placement in it all could be. #like..... this may be a wildly different tangent already that could be its own post #but also don't get your hopes up for analysis again all of this is half-baked and purely headcanon. as well. #fe peony

[poltergeist-coffee]

*stares longingly out my window* I’ve gotten attached to yet another duo/pairing that has zero crumbs

#💬 one new message #…alright to be fair Insaneduo isn’t that bad but there aren’t enough people on here who talk about them #so I make up majority of that tag AMNFHJABFHJ I’m sorry I’m unwell #slimeriana… I don’t want to talk about it #uh….. yeah those are my two (2) main ones #the newest addition is pactoiles / pacmanduo if you couldn’t tell from like the past two nights lmao #AAAGH WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF TT #SOBBING AND WAILING WHY CANT I BE NORMAL !! #I ALMOST FORGOT PHILEVER #GRANTED THEY DO GET CONTENT OCASSIONALLY… MORE SO THEN THE OTHERS SO ITS OKAY…. BUT IM ALSO SILLY ABOUT THEM

[taylor-titmouse]

I'm asking this because you seemed particularly interested on giving advice about it in the past; do you have any quick advice on someone starting out as a porn artist today? It seems like such a harsh environment rn with tumblr baning porn and Twitter becoming X. It can be really intimidating. Things like how to establish connections with other creators, what platforms are best, how to know when you should start monetizing some stuff, or just anything you're interested in sharing with beginners.

you gotta post a lot, and you gotta post well. that's the long and short of it. everything comes down to how often you post and how appealing your work is.

what platform is best changes with the damn wind these days, but cohost has a thriving porn artist community, and twitter hasn't put the boot down yet. bluesky is fine, it's just twitter 2, there's not any real trick to it. whether you'd want to set up on patreon or substar to start with depends on how vanilla your work is. at this point it's probably not worth getting a patreon if you intend to do anything spicier than loving sex between two humans.

but also don't go getting into porn art with the intention of monetizing it. do it for the love of it first, and if it's something you sincerely think you can stick with doing, then you can monetize it. you're always better off starting with something just because you Like doing it. going in with a money mindset will make you resent it way faster and you'll make work you don't actually care about. and people can always tell!

and you connect to other creators by treating them like people. don't go into relationships to network, because that's nonsense in porn. there's no real networking in drawing porn. if people like your work they'll come to you themselves. you just have to post it. and you have to post it a lot.

#tt talks drawing #tt talks writing #i probably should've made a tag for general advice but alas

[lost-in-azalea-forest]

guysss i am not thriving;; my throat is sore and this world has no mercy;; if only i was in fictional world, my f/os would take care of me 🥺🥺🥺

#vent in the tags cause ye #paperwork and talking to people overwhelms me #i dont want to call my doctor so muchhh but i need to get a prescription cause im running out of meds #and i have so many places to be at for some basic paperwork but my head is spinning TT #i honestly just wish i could stay at home and have someone cook (or try to cook) a meal for me and cuddle w me 🥺 #but everyone around me has hectic life these days so i need to do my share too #cw vent