BRO THEY LITERALLY DID IT AGAIN
I was talking this morning about how the og Titans were so off balance that they had to keep removing Donna and Wally from the narrative just to make it work because those two were WAY too overpowered for the typical Titan mission.
And do you wanna know what they did in today's Nightwing? Huh? Do ya? They, you guessed it, removed Wally and Donna from the narrative. But that's not all folks! Nope! Starfire got removed as well!
Honestly, I'm surprised Raven managed to still be in this thing. Cause it'd go Wally, Raven, Kori, Donna in terms of firepower.
Man... They weren't even clever about it. Wally was gone the entire issue with no explanation. He checked the perimeter of a jail once. That was it.
Donna and Kori got relegated to babysitting duty while the other Titans (sans Wally for no explainable reason) did the actual plot and went on a Heist in Hell.
This is concerning because this man is writing the new Titans series. The og series suffered because Donna and Wally were on a different level and the writers didn't know how to compensate for that so they kept knocking them out at the start of every issue. And now the same thing is happening.
Taylor doesn't know how to power balance. The best Justice League runs deal with assorted power levels by having different roles for the heroes to play. Ollie isn't on the front lines fighting General Zod with Clark and Diana. Hal doesn't tag along on stealth missions with Dinah and Bruce. Different heroes have different power levels and different abilities. Narratively, you have to juggle that.
And it's hard! I get that. It isn't easy. But I'm going to be honest, if a writer can't power balance then I don't want them writing the Titans series.
Because having half the cast drop out of the plot for no reason other than 'they would solve the plot too fast' is not good writing.
And I'm sorry. I'm going to say it. It's because Taylor is power scaling everything back for Nightwing. It doesn't take the entire goddamn Titans team to take out Blockbuster or to take out a single shape shifter. For some reason Taylor has this fascination with Grayson being the best and smartest Titan who can be the only one who solves issues, so every bad guy is difficult but doable for Nightwing to defeat.
It's incredibly annoying and it makes Nightwing seem super unlikable which is... I'm flabbergasted at that because it's Nightwing. How the hell do you make him unlikable?? But this is it. I've found it. This is the limit . Mary Sue Nightwing has no place in my heart.
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Okay I'm supposed to be studying but like I'm having thoughts about the song that's playing right now.
But Eight by Sleeping At Last? Major Legend vibes
"I was just a kid who grew up strong enough
To pick this armor up
And suddenly it fit
God, that was so long ago, long ago, long ago"
He was a child and has been doing this for (in my hc) a decade now. He did not choose this life, but the moment Fable called out to him and he found his Uncle dying? No going back.
"Now you won't see all that I have to lose
And all that I've lost in the fight to protect it
I won't let you in, I swore never again
I can't afford, no, I refuse to be rejected"
This is especially perfect for anyone who wants to go into Legend learning to love again with the Chain, be it after Marin or anyone else he's loved and lost. He won't let himself do it, and if you (like me) subscribe to the idea that he's a sweetheart at his core, he can't afford to keep losing people because at some point he's going to break.
"I'm just a kid who grew up scared enough
To hold the door shut
And bury my innocence
But here's a map, here's a shovel"
He's hidden himself under the mask of a gruff, harsh, grizzled veteran, but the kid who was buried since he took up that sword and shield is still there... and if you want, if you like, he's given the Chain the map (glimpses of his true self) and the shovel (his trust) to find it and help him... I don't know, be a kid again? Be himself again?
"For the innocent, for the vulnerable
And I'll show up on the front lines with a purpose
And I'll give all I have, I'll give my blood, give my sweat
An ocean of tears will spill for what is broken"
Though this part is actually more like two different stanzas, which individually are still great, these together describe him as a hero so well. Again and again, he's gone to the front lines and he's given everything he has to protect the innocent and the vulnerable. At least in the Oracles manga, we see his determination to protect those who can't fight their battles and he gladly fights beside those who can.
Really I just have thoughts about this song and how well it fits Legend.
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Finally listened to the new dndads episode (might do some art for it later) here are my thoughts:
-you guys were right about those close family feels i am indeed sad now,
-did not expect Terry to be the one to shot Nick's arm off (thought it would be Grant) also i get the ship now, i do
-kinda glad that stampler thing was brief cause i think we tackled Scarys and Robs and Tjs relashonship before and it was nice for them to just be soft
-does Hermie age?
-the Wilson boys need to learn how to use the bathroom like normal people (its wilsons with their piss and the oaks with their stink and retainers i swear)
-Taylor had feelings?
-I love Glenn i really do, and i understand getting better isn't linear but god did he fuck up, i dont have personal experience with absent parents but god did it hurt
-Taylor and Norm gonna have to fight now i guess, its very funny
-yay i get an excuse to draw norm ugly crying and its canon now
-Scary is so so fun, i missed her, and Link,
-oh also, the Closes are so so ADHD (i mean id Jodie its canon, and honestly i headcanon most of the cast as autistic/adhd but the closes are the most adhd ones to me)
-do i have time to draw? Yes i think, will i? Hopefully
-i think that's it, this episode was fun, ended sooner than i thought, very good, stabbed me in the chest and took it
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asdfsdf I apologies for the low activity the past few days/weeks, I've been struggling mentally quite a lot due to my neighbor situation, my computer breaking down once + failing several exams in a row so uhm…. yeah
dw tho I will be back to complete art once I feel better, I just have A LOT going on atm and need to figure out how to solve all of it 😔
Regarding commission slots I might need to wait with opening them until summer instead since life has decided that throwing shit at me is it's new favorite hobby lmao 💀
but I will let you all know for sure once I'm available, I just don't want to take on anything and then have ppl wait bc I have to prioritize other things irl 😔
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ALHSLAHSBSL IMPULSE FINANCIAL DECISIONS ASIDE I FINALLY HAVE YOU😭😭😭
No because Ortho's story in fairy gala cheered me up sm I got so determined to get him I spent way too much money🥲
But he's so pretty🥺💕
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ok so this is another thing I’ve never done a lore deep dive on bc I try not to spoil too much for myself so all I know is what I’ve seen onscreen, and other people have definitely talked about this concept way more and whatever, but like. i have to believe after some amount of time of people taking the kobayashi maru it becomes pretty common consensus that it’s a no-win kind of deal. i feel like they kinda try to imply that people go in not knowing but there’s no fucking way everyone keeps their mouth shut about that. and i think to keep trying at that point even knowing this requires a certain amount of...“rip to everyone before me but im different” energy, to the point where the legacy best of the best (kirk) will alter the test to make that possible. like yes I think it’s ultimately a humbling experience for a lot of people to find out that they (who have probably been exemplary their whole lives) cannot win, but the conditions of the test still require you to have the type of confidence that will allow you to go into a scenario you know is supposed to be unbeatable and still think that maybe you’ll be the one to handle it right.
so this energy is, to a degree, encouraged among cadets. if you are going to command, you need to learn to make challenging decisions even in the face of impossible scenarios without losing your crew’s faith in you, so that kind of confidence and belief in oneself is necessary, but then we also see how easy it is for it to tip over that line. surprise surprise im talking about the first duty again but the nova squadron crash is such a front and center examination of that determination turning into hubris. they LITERALLY go “rip to them but we’re different” about the five people who died doing the kolvoord starburst last time, and they pay for that dearly, even if it’s not on the exact same level of catastrophe. and it’s easy to judge them more harshly because this was a demonstration and one of them died because they wanted to show off, but when your organization operates to some degree off your commitment to believing you can be the person to succeed where everyone before you fails, i think you’re inevitably gonna get things like this sometimes. in the grand scheme of things it’s a small example, but I still think it’s a really interesting examination of how one of starfleet’s greatest strengths that’s encouraged in its trainees is also so easily capable of being ruinous the second you step over a line that’s NOT always clearly defined, and in fact is often defined in retrospect by the outcome.
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