#LISTEN. listen.

[scintillyyy]

tim drake high school friendships, ranked by closeness to tim at the end of post-crisis:

sebastian ives. ives, ives, NOBODY out here is doing it like ives. ives was the FIRST civilian friend ever introduced to tim & the first friend tim made upon entering public school for the very first time. ives has been there since tim's second mini-series. ives as tim's friend is so important he is one of the only high school friends to be brought back into tim's story by others after his creator, dixon, left: he makes an appearance/is referenced as a long term friend with lewis (robin), yost (red robin), & fabnic (red robin). he has at least two major health scares & a fakeout health scare. let's make one thing absolutely clear here: ives *is* tim's best civilian friendship, which has endured as a friendship through *multiple* high school transfers away from him. absolutely no contest.

danny temple. listen. danny & tim don't interact, like at all, post danny leaving brentwood but that's just because the whole kid kobra thing never took off. i'm sure if it did, tim & danny would have interacted a lot more post separation. and listen, danny is the "civilian" friend who *knows* tim is robin. they went on basically two vacations together. they're far closer than your standard high school friend.

zoanne. listen, she may have been a love interest who didn't work out, but that didn't stop them from also being friends. her friendship to tim is also referenced in yost's run in red robin. as far as tim & high school friends, since tim tends to drift apart from people once they're no longer at the same school, zo ekes through with a recency bias for tim. in an end of robin/red robin era she'd be on his current list of civilians he felt close to. she's shown to be extremely worried about him in red robin #10 indicating ongoing friendship.

kevin "hudmeister" hudman, hudson, callie evans: these lovelies were part of tim's core group and have the benefit of length of friendship going for them. hudman & hudson were a core part of tim's W&W group that made several recurring appearances through tim's initial high school years & had a significant part in his miniseries ii. only lower because ostensibly tim did lose contact with them upon going to brentwood, still higher because they played a decently important secondary/tertiary role through many years of tim's publication

darla: darla is the person at louis grieves tim actually likes, okay? he's devastated when she dies and he can't save her and she's brought back to interact with tim again as warlock's daughter & has a small but significant storyline with her friendship with tim as a result.

buzz & kip: when tim is at brentwood, he spends most of his free non-danny time hanging with buzz and kip. they both have a couple issue storylines that tim is involved in & he seems to like them pretty well. once tim leaves brentwood, however, the friendship dies away and is not mentioned again.

ali ben khadir: tim's first roommate, gets a significant storyline and then vanishes, so is below the other brentwood kids. tim likes him though, so that puts him above-

wesley: tim's second brentwood roommate is next, because they spent a significant amount of time together & again had multiple issues to showcase the development of their relationship. wes is under kip & buzz & ali though, because tim doesn't actually like him all that much despite the fact that they're nominally friends. he grows to he okayish with him. i guess.

bernard: listen *if we're talking post-crisis only* (which we are), bernard falls *solidly* at the bottom of the list as tim's least important/significant civilian friend. there's no significant story focused on tim's friendship to bernard specifically, tim is barely tolerating him most of the time & is friends with him basically only because bernard is pushy about being friends with tim & after tim leaves louis grieves he doesn't bother to keep in touch to the point where bernard doesn't even know where tim ended up, only that he's heard *from other people* tim might be in bludhaven (who apparently are in the know as to tim's location). now obviously we can't ignore the trauma that led tim to ghost him, but since bernard after this is never brought up again in post-crisis, he's a pretty solid 'that friendship definitely died once they were no longer in each other's immediate vicinity & were basically only friends with each othet due to circumstances of going to school together only'

#listen. listen. #i'm sorry to bernard but. #there was no long lasting friendship there. friends only cause they went to the same school.

[its-your-mind]

thinkin bout how orv starts with kim dokja actively working to ensure that kim namwoon dies during the first scenario

thinkin bout how kim namwoon was a teenager at the start of the scenarios, dealing with the apocalypse using the mental paths that came easiest, jumping into the new world with both feet

thinkin bout kim dokja as a teenager. tired. hurt. alone. his internal and external struggles ignored by the adults around him. choosing to throw himself off a rooftop because there wasn’t anything in his life worth living for

thinkin bout how kim dokja woke up again, even though he had planned not to

thinkin bout a teenage boy. lost, alone, broken, scared, angry, in need of someone to come and show him how to keep moving forward

thinkin bout a protagonist in a webnovel who is an example to you of how to survive against all odds. a mantra to repeat when living life as yourself is too hard

thinkin bout a hardened and powerful hero who knows exactly how this world works, who holds out a hand offers you a place with him

thinkin bout teenage kim namwoon, looking to yoo joonghyuk as captain, teacher, and protector

thinkin bout teenage kim dokja, looking to yoo joonghyuk as role-model, hero, and refuge

thinkin bout teenage kim dokja, who saw himself more as kim namwoon than any of yoo joonghyuk’s other companions

thinkin bout adult kim dokja, reclusive and unsocial, hiding his phone from his coworker so she doesn’t see what he’s reading. convinced that yoo joonghyuk would look down on him if he learns who he “really” is. ashamed of any details kimcom learns about his past

thinkin bout what happens to a life when the person living it has never seen in it any redeeming qualities or objects of value. how someone feels about life when they tried and failed to give up that life a decade ago, and every day since has felt almost accidental

thinkin bout the lesser fire dragon. the disaster of floods. the strongest in seoul dome. the devourer of dreams. the 73rd demon king. the industrial complex. the war between good and evil. the wager with secretive plotter.

thinkin bout the most ancient dream. an empty station. a cold and hard bench. bandages and a notebook and a too-loose uniform. smaller than he should be for his age and more broken than any child should ever become. alone.

thinkin bout an unbreakable faith, shattered. a family frantically throwing themselves at their heart to save him from himself. desperate hands prying a blade out of shaking ones, moments before the jagged edge pierced deep into vulnerable flesh

thinkin bout how the younger kim dokja, recently released from the hospital, does not watch. instead, he instinctively curls up to protect the parts of himself already hurting the most. he begins to repeat his mantra

thinkin bout how kim namwoon kicked and fought and screamed and stabbed. and then, when he realized there wasn’t anything he could do, he got down on his knees and begged kim dokja for his life

thinkin bout how kim dokja just stood over him, held him in place, and looked at him in silence as the clock ran out

thinkin bout kim dokja at the beginning of his story and at the end of his story. in a subway. looking down at a teenage boy.

making a choice. the same choice, both times.

the first time: an explosion, a blood splatter on his reflection, and a confused and wary protagonist who has lost one asset and gained another

the last time: arms holding him back, a family hugging him tight, and another protagonist who steps in front of him. holds the child close. forgives him everything. offers up anything more he could need. and kim dokja watches as the person with the strongest claim to vengeance upon this younger facsimile of himself instead gently gathers up the most ancient dream, tucks him close against his chest, and walks away with him safe and sound in his arms.

#orv #omniscent reader #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omniscient reader novel #orv spoilers #omniscient reader spoilers #kim dokja #kim namwoon #most ancient dream #secretive plotter #LISTEN. listen. #I JUST THINK ABOUT KIM NAMWOON A LOT OKAY #literally there was like #one line in the 1863 arc where kdj was like #lol yeah I used to imagine replacing kim namwoon in the squad bc I thought I could do him but better #and then my brain short circuited #literally changed everything I felt about kim namwoon in like .02 seconds #cuz like yes kdj unreliable narrator #but I had not unlocked the kim namwoon mystery until that moment #anyway justice for kim namwoon my bby boy deserves better #he was a C H I L D #lee jihye also killed someone day one and kdj doesn’t hate her for it #anyway I’m just sayin that everything we see is through kdj’s eyes and if he thought Kim namwoon was cringe af #BUT ONLY BC teen kdj thought the edgelord thing was kinda badass #obvs we only get the bad vibes #I mean also there was an attempted stabbing #but only after kdj stopped him from doing old lady crimes specifically with the intent to make sure he didn’t make it thru scenario 1 #no old lady saving desire present

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

listen... we didn't get "my ugly one" or the actual "dear friend" letters (the fucking episode title and "this is my... dear friend" from geralt in s2 don't count) brought over from the books to the show until s3 even though we expected them way sooner... but we still fucking got them... and geralt is finally at a point where he's being openly soft and caring about jaskier so my point is here's how "you must be insane with fear if you could think I'd leave you" can still w

#LISTEN. LISTEN. #[insert the audio of the opening of the star spangled banner w/ 'get up its all over. listen we had a rough couple of months-'] #mine #geraskier #the witcher s3 spoilers #jaskier #geralt #geralt of rivia #the witcher #joey batey

[ladysqueakinpip]

have some leo and splinter memes in these trying times

the last 4 pics are based on [this video] where this news reporter's supposed son kisses him on air

do not tag as ship ~ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt splinter #leo rottmnt #splinter rottmnt #save rottmnt #unpause rottmnt #squeaky art #listen. listen. #if i see. even ONE of yall. tag this as leo/splinter. its over for yall #i will INSTA-block you. i will block you faster than you can say pizza supreme. #this is WHOLESOME FAMILY CONTENT. WHOLESOME FATHER SON BONDING. #I WILL BE CHECKING TAGS!!! #I DONT TRUST ANY OF YALL FREAKS!! SMH!!

[a-drama-addict]

me dragging this drawing along with me: THIS TOO IS YURI

#listen. listen. #i am unwell about them. they're freaks and im dragging this out of my wips SOON #RAAAA LESBIANS RAAAA #theyre colour coded #my art #wip #karlach #oc: sigrid

[sci-the-superb]

its almost 3am

#tf2 #tf2 engineer #tf2 pyro #texas toast #listen. listen. #listen to me i just #(<- engineer main w a crush on pyro)

[starheirxero]

Multiverse's most mentally stable Sun

He's fine 😁 (lie)

#xero creations #LISTEN. listen. #i know that the canon lord Eclipse dimension had sun be wildly fearful of eclipse #BUT IDK. smth about sunvant being so devoted that he gets intense and self destructive about it is important 2 me HAJSBAJS #like. no he isn't being monitored. no he isn't being directly influenced. #he is just soooo lost in the sauce 😭 #sun and moon show #the sun and moon show #tsams #lord eclipse au #servant sun #sams moon #sunvant

[rayar32]

I know I don't go here for a while but have you considered Zeon!Suletta and her unholy Kshatriya Silver Bullet?

because I have so here's some funny Sleeves Suletta committing funnel murder

#gundam #gundam the witch from mercury #the witch from mercury #wfm #g witch #suletta mercury #my art #whoops there goes ray creating yet Another AU #listen. listen. #i know okay #DOESN'T MEAN I'LL STOP IT'S AU CENTRAL BABY

[idliketochill]

GEGOR HAND IN MARRIAGE REAL?? (WIP)

#limbus company #limbussy #lcb #project moon #lcb gregor #gregor lcb #gregor limbus company #gregor samsa #listen. LISTEN. #I know he’s supposed to be jesus #but.

[xehabraigs]

i will always be the number one kairi kh4 relevance advocate bc you cant tell me that having a girl who 1. has connections to radiant garden and the apprentinort+variations gang that STILL haven't been explored much and 2. has been shafted by the plot for so long that they accidentally made her a direct parallel to luxu, the constantly watching and waiting new main antagonist of the games ISNT the most interesting concept waiting to be explored

#txt #kairi #kh #kingdom hearts #LISTEN. LISTEN. #if they actually agknowledged shes been treated like garbage and let that BE her arc. if they let that be smth she can have feelings abr #it could be so good

[dykeblade]

Men will ask if anyone is about to threaten suicide and then not wait for an answer

#my art #wilbur soot #tommyinnit #dsmp spoilers #LISTEN. LISTEN. #I KNOW THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SERIOUS MOMENT BUT YOU GOTTA ADMIT ITS KIND OF FUNNY #like during the silence after he said this i was audibly losing my shit #revivebur my pretty pretty princess you are deranged in the silliest of ways #God #crimeboys #mcyt #dream smp #update: someone called me a tumblr noob for censoring the word suicide and theyre not correct (ive been on tumblr for four years) #but i did deserve to be called that. i dont know why i censored it #xoxo #1k

[scintillyyy]

also. currently obsessing how tim's reveal of his return to robin & his secret life & his inability to be a normal kid anymore to jack is marked by physical distance--they can't look at each other, they barely touch each other. they sit next to each other. but there's distance there.

robin #130, #131

meanwhile, when tim gets a chance to tell alternate universe janet everything, the body language is completely different. they face each other, they look at each other, they hold hands, they hug.

batman #134

coincidence? yes completely i think not.

#jack drake #janet drake #tim drake #listen. listen.

[vittoriaisfuckingpathetic]

john marston is just like me (has autism and loves abigail roberts)

#listen. listen. #john marston has autism #autism be damned that boy can bark #john marston #john marston x abigail roberts #abigail roberts marston #red dead fandom #rdr fandom #rdr headcanon #red dead redemption 2 #read dead redemption #marstongail #johnigail #(me not remembering which one is their ship name)

[etapereine]

"On Loving" by Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. Sholeh Wolpé

"On Loving" from Sin: Selected Poems | 2021 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2021 Tour de France, Stage 17 | 'He can be a Tour de France winner pretty soon': Tadej Pogačar leads praise of Jonas Vingegaard | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 7 | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 12 | Tadej Pogačar Says Jonas Vingegaard Rivalry Could Go Down 'In History' | 2022 Tour de France, Stage 14 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 1 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 15 | 2023 Tour de France, Stage 20

#listen. LISTEN. #tadej just. he just never stops talking about jonas and how much he enjoys that rivalry and how much he wants it to continue #and it makes me a bit emotional every. single. time. #not pictured: tadej saying that he and jonas have “a bright future” and how that makes them “sound like a couple” #cycling poetry #tadej pogacar #jonas vingegaard #tadejonas

[presidentofthelipglossclub]

quickshadow should've had a girlfriend

or a non-binary partner. idk she gives wlw vibes. doesn't matter what her sexuality is honestly she might like masc bots too but she should have a girlfriend. i think her and windblade would be a lesbian power couple because they're both used to being solo agents and they're very sassy girlbosses. so they're a deadly team y'know. windy is the badass femme fatale and quickshadow is the tomboy with daddy issues. you agree with me.

#listen. listen. #listen. hear me out #they both have so much sapphic/wlw energy it's unreal #windblade was way more impressed with strongarm standing up to her than she ever was with sideswipe. #quickshadow i don't have evidence but i mean c'mon. #look at her #shes not straight #no rescue bot is but her especially #she's so unbothered by the others i mean she barely wants to be friends with them. #she just exudes “tired queer done with heteronormativity” vibes. also i think she and windblade would be really cute #they'd kick ass so hard #tfrb #tfrb quickshadow #rescue bots #transformers rescue bots #transformers aligned #rid2015 #rid15 #tf rid 2015 #transformers rid2015 #tf rid15 #windblade #rid15 windblade #rid2015 windblade #aligned continuity

[avianii]

okokok guys

hear me out

Top Gun. But WW2.

#anii's random thoughts #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun 1986 #listen. LISTEN. #MAYBE I JUST NEED AN EXCUSE TO DRAW BOMBER JACKETS??? #sooooo #yea lmk ur thoughts lmao