#Which frankly needed it

[this-magic-blue-box]

I'll admit that I found this episode chaotic AF but in true RTD era fashion I don't give a damn because of the feels

Also Ncuti my beloved telling pathologically-angsty-Tennant-Doctor that self-care is important and that depression is actually a thing, instantly becoming my fave

Because yes right now the world needs more hugs! and sunshine! and rainbows! And generally more wholesome content.

This new doctor who seems to check all the boxes so far... I'm in. Allons-y!

#doctor who #dw #14th doctor #david tennant #The giggle #dw spoilers #ncuti gatwa #15th doctor #Donna Noble #Also I dislike happy endings that don't feel earned but come on have you seen the Doctor's character development since 2005 #This Time Lord/Lady deserves the rest #Also very clever way to reboot the series btw #Which frankly needed it

[l0ganberry]

Since I did Barnaby, why not do all the rest of the neighbors? (Including home)

All of this started because of one simple and funny thing I did with Barnaby

#Yippee!! #they have such cute and adorable faces. #look at them!!! #I need them as charms now!! #I bet you can even tell on which ones are my favorite characters #Right off the bat with how much detail I put in #But yeah! #I hope you all like these as much as I do #Little goobers #anyways #rambles #welcome home #artists on tumblr #cute #digital art #frank frankly #wally darling #julie joyful #poppy partridge #howdy pillar #home #sally starlet #eddie dear #poor eddie #barnaby b beagle

[mumblesplash]

pov you’re the wither and you have about 30 seconds to live

(the marks under his eye just say ‘RIP’ in sga/enchantment table language if anyone was curious)

#my art #witchcraft smp #smajor95 #i just thought it was funny seeing as his whole deal is not letting people do that #the idea was actually that he was *about* to summon the wither which is why the sword’s in his off hand you know what nobody cares topsy #the witchcraft smp kinda got me tho ngl i literally have like 4 things i want to draw from this episode alone #i keep saying this but i really need to start just posting stuff and not letting myself finish it bc i want to draw so many #and frankly almost none of it needs to be polished but i keep getting carried away and not having time for other drawings >:[ #i even do this fully aware that people in general like sketches *more* than finished stuff! my brain doesn’t care! #anyway enough about me how about those block game witches

[kedreeva]

Eddie Munson's message as a character should never have been that he needed to stop running and fight to be a hero. It should have been that heroism can look a lot of different ways. It should have been you don't have to be a hero to have worth.

#eddie munson #stranger things #yes I am still mad #no I will not be stopping soon #but you're going to get meta tomorrow about something else #no it will not make anything better #yes it will make you mad too hopefully #also not for nothing but #Literally El's whole arc was the same thing #they tried to play it like it wasn't #but after spending a frankly bullshit amount of time #showing us how she was floundering without her powers #they dropped Mike going you're a superhero and El going Not Anymore #and then she has to get her powers back to save everyone #which like yeah okay she's literally the only one who can do that #but listen‚ look me in my eyes #she really could have used someone like eddie #to teach her that she doesn't need to be a hero to have worth #she's not listening to anyone else because they've all experienced her with superpowers #But Eddie didn't even see her defeat vecna at all #idk I'm just. the possibilities!!!!! the character development!!! #they could have had narrative parallels!!! #ugh

[cluescorner]

I cannot imagine being a Damian stan right now. You've got both Zdarsky's bullshit (where he clearly doesn't give a shit about your boy) and The Boy Wonder (where Juni Ba clearly gives so many shits about your boy) coming out on the same day. The whiplash must be insane. I hope y'all get some nice warm soup for your efforts jfc

#damian wayne #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #batman #batfamily #for all of the issues that come with having Steph as your fave having too much wild shit happening at once is never one of them #btw I quite like The Boy Wonder Issue 1. wow shocker an artist and writer who I have liked everything they've ever done #has once again written something that I am enjoying with art that makes me want to be part of its world. #it's almost like Juni Ba is really freaking talented or something #like I have some problems with it but it seems like many of those are part of the point. Damian is learning that his siblings are more #three-dimensional than he realized and that is part of this 'coming of age' story merged with fairytale #so I can't be mad at the oversimplistic defining of Dick and Jason and Tim until the conclusion of the series. that might be the point. #I hope that the series will address Steph as a Robin but if not then frankly it's not an issue unique to this series. #I'll be annoyed and disappointed but ultimately roll with it like I am with Babsgirl being here. There's too much good stuff here to get #hung up on shit that seems to be almost an editorial mandate at this point. at least that's where I'm at. #I am also very sorry that Chip Zdarsky is massacring your boy. he has 'X (Tim for him) is the best Robin so everyone else must suck' diseas #where a writer really likes one specific Robin and in trying to uplift them demeans all of the other Robins. instead of like...just writing #for that one character only or alternatively not demeaning the other characters in order to make his blorbo look good #it's wild because I actually think his writing for Tim is pretty solid. but he's not writing a Tim series. he's writing a Batman series. #and if you are going to write a Batman series and include other Batfamily members you need to actually write them well. #instead of assigning them like 2 personality traits while Tim gets to be a whole character #I accept that behavior in fanfic where I have lesser standards because it's fucking free. not a comic run that wants me to pay #tens of dollars in order to understand what the fuck is going on. he's been going for a while now it's gotta be a lot of money. #I can buy Steelworks with that money. I can see John Henry and Natasha Irons in a trade. Fuck you Chip. #it's why it takes such a special person to write a good ensemble story/a good Batfamily story. you have to be good at writing a LOT #of different characters. which I don't think most people are. I sure as hell am not. I can write maybe 3 at a time confidently well. #and you also have to give all of them at least SOME love or else people will be upset that you aren't focusing on their fave #and also the writing as a whole will suffer. Chip Zdarsky is a pretty good Tim writer. I'd maybe read a Tim solo written by him. #I would not read a story focusing on multiple characters that I like written by Chip Zdarsky. because every character who isn't Tim #is at least a bit weak/inconsistent/out of character INCLUDING FUCKING BATMAN. THE NO. 1 GUY MOST ARE HERE FOR

[uncanny-tranny]

Whenever people say something along the lines of "hormones are useless if [reason]!" I just think about what testosterone has done just to my mental well-being. If testosterone had done nothing to my physical appearance or the way my body functions, I would still take it because there is so much more to it than if somebody looks or "functions" a certain way. Do you know what it's like to truly fucking smile - without outside stimulus? Do you know how fucking soul-wrenching the realization that I can smile now was? Because I have gone my entire life until these past few years, being unable to smile without outside stimulus and it destroyed me.

The idea that hormones are useless after a certain age, or for a certain "type" of appearance, or for people who are outside of the "standard" is, to my mind, no less than a psy-op. So if you are worried that hormones aren't "right" for you because you were told you were "too far gone," I am so sorry. Take the hormones if you still want to see how it helps you or how it changes you. You have nothing to lose but your chains.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #(just in case) #i quite literally cannot UNDERSTATE how testosterone saved my life <3 #if you're truly somebody who seeks the best for humans then it includes a world in which people can access hormones of their need #frankly i would rather have a trans person on hormones than a miserable trans person or a fucking dead trans person #hormones are healthcare <3 #also obviously i have to be marxist on sideblog #oh hey going to include the full quote: proletariats of all countries; unite! you have nothing to lose but your chains!!!!!

[laufire]

batman and catwoman have a primal kink thing going on so when she commits a crime and he chases her it's fine, it goes against his supposed motivation (stopping things like what happened to his parents) but I forgive him, it's CLEARLY a sex thing. but when any other superhero of that calibre troubles themselves with her it's just like. seriously?? a JEWEL thief?? aren't earthquakes happening right now, somewhere, at this very second, superman? is this really the best target for your brainwashing powers, zatanna? how about we leave that shit to actual law enforcement and focus on supervillains beyond their scope, natural disaster relief, minimising systemic issues, and preventable violence?

#(sorry to shed a light on ''conceits of the genre'' sometimes i like to take things seriously do u still think i'm sexy etc.) #comic books be BUT CRIME!!!! CRIMMINALSSSS ALL THE SAAAAME #(and look realistically catwoman-type crimes *can* branch out into something that's actually damaging #when you involve fences and money laundering -and the people who'd need it- and so on #but that's... rarely the point whenever a superhero goes after this type of crime #there's little examination it's just -as i said- ''it's bad because it's ILLEGAL''!! #and frankly i just think superheroes-are-actually-law-enforcers stories are like. the lowest form of entertainment in the genre. to me #i just happen to prefer other set-ups. which makes some of these stories a bit irksome to me lol) #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc comics #batcat #catwoman #selina kyle #dc thoughts #tropes

[ladamedusoif]

Absolutely my last straw

(Narrator: it was not, in fact, her last straw.)

#he needs to stop #never stop #i woke up to these which was both delightful and frankly rude #also would like to know the skincare routine babe because whewwwww #pedro pascal

[mincedpeaches]

grimmons commission from @blueskittlesart, inspired by this video.

#grimmons #red vs blue #rvb #dick simmons #dexter grif #fuckin OTP man #the video is SO grimmons and i needed someone to depict it visually. so I took matters into my own hands #i was saving this on the off chance that grimmons had any trouble in that rvb ship poll 5million years ago. which frankly was so dumb of me #but its time. to do some rvb posting. we need to be rvb posting again. #paid for with my own legal tender #thank you again @blueskittlesart for doing this commission theyre soooo cute. i love them.

[turtletoria]

curious if anyone else has this problem: being articulate but incomprehensible? like for example, im very good at articulating certain things, and people say im good at writing; however it seems that nobody is understanding what im truly trying to say, and trying to come up with a way to explain my true (but also ever-shifting and indecisive) thoughts is arduous and agonizing

#just curious bc yesterday my roommates were essentially telling me it was my fault that nobody helped me when i was having a bad moment bc i #shouldve communicated. the issue is that i did. i tried multiple times and ending in so many tears each time (which i feel is pretty good #evidence that i wasnt ok and may need support). so u can see the issue of communication being difficult. and their response was just #communicate better. and im just gobsmacked quite frankly

[sesamenom]

no living man may hinder me: The Gilded Wraith of Numenor

from the Reverse Gondolin AU, based on @who-needs-words's idea for Ar-Pharazon's fate! (they also wrote a ficlet for it, check it out here!)

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #witch king #witch king of numenor #ar pharazon #eowyn #reverse gondolin au #ooh i need to do this pose for fingolfin and morgoth #the parallels though! eowyn facing pretty much certain death #but being brought back by hope in the Halls #while fingolfin faced morgoth because he lost all hope #also: in the au sauron & pharazon took a bunch of numenorean tech with them before the Downfall #bc nobody attacked valinor so all the airships and engines and stuff were still on the island #so we get Steampunk Tech Numenor #(perfect symbolism w industrialization too!) #which means of course the witch king of numenor gets a Gun Sword #which is frankly terrifying #his face is still visible here bc the tiny bit of maia/peredhel ancestry (still like 20x more than aragorn tho) protects him from the rings #enough that his fea & hroa haven't faded; just been corrupted #also in the au bc of Prince Elrond's involvement in numenorean politics ar pharazon is way more aware of potential loopholes #in the 'no living man' thing #aka arwen and galadriel #and honestly he expected to be slain by arwen #so he still overlooked eowyn (and merry) #just for very different reasons #less hubris in a 'i am invincible' way #and more hubris in a 'you arent nearly important enough to bother paying attention to' way

[boyfridged]

this is perhaps completely obvious, but the comparison of pre-crisis vs post-crisis jason runs is such a poignant illustration of how the intentions of the writers make a world of difference.

pre-crisis jay was, ironically, at the beginning of his career much more of a thrill-seeker and much less serious about his motivations behind his desire to be a sidekick than post-crisis jay ever was. he was also much more reckless. he said, for instance, that studying crime was even worse than doing homework, and what interested him was going after "action." he didn't like the thought of not being credited for his actions. but he was still a character written with so much sympathy and enthusiasm – with so much open and continuous consideration for his youth, his past, his feelings. and the readers saw that! so many of them loved him! when you look at the back pages of these issues, issues in which jay often committed mistakes during patrols, in which he was at times petty and moody, you see with how much compassion they looked at him. there were letters that started with hate about the art or the storytelling, and ended with warm and attentive analyses of jay's character.

and the thing is, reactions to post-crisis might have been worse, but i don't think it was ever a matter of people disliking any iteration of jason todd from the start (even if some were certainly prejudiced as dick grayson fans. and as bigots); it's simply that post-crisis jay has never been written with a similar amount of care. o'neil saying that "people really hated jason" and that "he didn't know why" is absurd because (well, first of all, i don't think that he was ever that hated, and second of all) he was specifically written in a way that prevented a lot of casual readers to connect with him. pre-crisis, we see jay's perspective all the time, also beyond the patrols. he's much meaner than post-crisis jay a lot of times! for example, he tells julia (alfred's daughter), who is at the time staying at the manor, that he saw new flat listings, insinuating that she should move out because he is bothered by her presence. and that's rude. that's a reason why someone could think that he is a spoilt child (which imo pre-crisis jay actually very much is. i don't think it's a bad thing). but we also see him in his bed later, wondering "how could i have said something like that to her?" so naturally we see it from his side too.

on the contrary, when it comes to post-crisis jay, we have almost no insight into his head up until a death in the family. and of course, starlin admitted that he did want to make him unlikable; so suddenly everything jay does, including acting against orders, is written to make him seem like a difficult, unpleasant kid. but something you really have to understand is that the same attitude, when previously displayed by pre-crisis jay or even dick (!) was seen as endearing; a sign of bravery and an honest heart. in the first issues by collins, as well as barr's detective comics run, there's a semblance of recognition for that. beyond that, the whole narrative of his (very short) published history gets hostile. and starlin might not have written any of that outright, but you see that shift. all of a sudden a decision that would make you go "aww" if moench or barr wrote it, makes you displeased. i think one thing to take away from that is asking if it were depicted in the same tone if dick or tim did the same thing, for example. it's content that requires a much more critical attitude from the reader, that's for sure.

#i love saying things that are completely obvious for everyone. #pre-crisis #<- i have to start tagging. eh #i have not mentioned ntt because jay is written with much more love there which is quite obv because the titans office did care #about the mantle #and this was more about the batman office #also not mentioning the cult because frankly speaking while it has good plot #it doesn't really offer much in terms of jay's characterisation #anyway there's this one letter about pre-crisis jay that i adore #where the reader said that jay's “occasional brilliance” intertwined with horrible mistake can be explained by a sports analogy #where young talented players might have lower success rate than older mid players #bc they need to grow into their talent with experience #it was genuinely such a lovely comment. #and a piece of evidence showing that people were very much willing to sympathise with him #jay.zip #jay.txt #jason todd #core texts #robin days

[lylahammar]

yall ever hear a song that's really romantic or hot but it doesn't apply to your own relationship or any of your current ships so ur like damn it I need to get into a new ship that has this dynamic so I can apply this song to them

#that's me w my kink is karma rn #I can't apply that one to my own relationship bc it's about toxic exes which is the exact opposite of me and my gf #so I need a good toxic exes ship the song is too hot #frankly it's wild that I don't have any good toxic exes ships that I'm into bc it's like one of my fave ship dynamics #lyla's talking again

[yonpote]

actually i AM gonna talk abt dan's fashion expenses outside of tags fuck it and im gonna be 100% forreal about this and idc if the bants about his $300 pants are mostly jokes

yall know about what happens with fast fashion right. it's all cheaply made by people trapped in sweatshops and factories all day for little to no pay, and when a fashion cycle or season is over, all of the unsold clothes get dumped onto the shores of a country that has been cast as lesser by societies that continue to benefit from colonization and slavery despite acting like we're somehow above it. and of course thats not even accounting for clothes that end up in trash landfills, just all this fuckin waste that goes into letting a t shirt be $15USD.

and like okay. no, dan buying $300 parachute pants isn't singlehandedly saving the world, and no, phil buying $10 graphic tees isn't singlehandedly killing it. but still it bugs me AND I KNOW ITS A JOKE HAHA SO FUNNY BUT LIKE IT BUGS MEEEE when ppl are like "xD dan howell participating in capitalism by buying expensive clothes" when its like, ok he's buying from brands that nobody's heard of, who probably make clothes by order, and tbf i'm not 100% confident that the working conditions of the people who made dan's $300 pants are all super safe and sound and all of the workers are well-paid, but they're at the very least being paid. being paid more than a USD cent. and you're probably not going to see thousands of parachute pants piling up on a madagascan beach.

#myrambles #this is something thats bothered me for fucking ever like whatever his taste in fashion is silly sometimes #but frankly as a person who is privileged to have money to buy clothes from companies that pay their workers better #that is unironically dan being responsible with his money #bc yeah most of us have no choice but to buy fast fashion bc its all we can afford #but things like buying clothes from fair trade brands #OR thrifting or NOT BUYING NEW CLOTHES AT ALL CUZ U DONT NEED ANY #(which both of those are way better so im not like fully giving dan credit or something im just saying) #like theyre little things that will add up its not gonna change the world overnight but it adds up #something something the whole point of we're all doomed etc #idk sometimes ppl got me turning into a dannie just cuz im like i gotta defend bro

[leupagus]

Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point. In fact, there is recognition within the administration that that moment may arrive quickly: Some of the president’s close advisers believe that there are only weeks, not months, until rebuffing the pressure on the US government to publicly call for a ceasefire becomes untenable, sources told CNN.

A lot of this pressure — the majority, I would wager — that Biden and US national leaders are getting is the result of people calling their reps, attending protests, writing to their newspapers and generally making themselves heard on this issue. People make a difference, and it's always worth reaching out to your legislators and telling them what you think.

Senators' info is pretty easy to find, since you've got two for every state (even DC and other non-state people have someone they can call!) but sometimes it's a little tricky remembering who your representative is, especially now with the district lines having changed up. So check your address here and then call their office — I've found more luck getting hold of an actual person at their local offices rather than the DC one, fwiw.

#deleted my previous reblog of someone else's post #because someone in the replies said 'maybe hitler had the right idea' and I just...don't need that today #plus frankly if you say 'israel is committing genocide' and then allow comments like 'jews should've gotten genocided harder' #then you terrify me and I cannot trust you on... pretty much anything #but I think this article will show people that their voices matter! #please reblog if you feel like this is something you can support—I'd love for more people to call their politicians #YOU CAN DO THIS GO GIVE PEOPLE A CALL #politics! #eta: also note the headline of this article—specifically calling it 'carnage'—reflects a more accurate depiction of the violence #that the Israeli army is inflicting on Gaza #I think a LOT of newsmedia has done a bad job of using terminology in this and other issues #(remember when nobody would write that Trump was lying despite clear proof that he was in fact lying) #but this indicates that there's more desire in the media to describe things in clearer terms #which again is progress!

[ultfreakme]

The ATLA RPG characters Nyn Chei and Massak. They invented the fire nation cruiser and had an abysmal divorce. I made the designs.....I'm not good at designs I will be honest.

#atla #avatar the last airbender #avatar the legend of korra #lok #tlok #atla rpg #avatar fanart #ultfreakme art #i wrote about them in my fic and i am frankly obsessed #divorced zukka people need to get on them #sokka and massak- innovated in new forms of travel which was eventually exploited by the fire nation for the war #they're both from SWT #zuko and nyn chei afaik have nothing in common other than being fire nation #BUT #zukka and nynchei and massak are same ship different fonts