#because she would be scary as hell!

[candyheartedchy]

Ok I know this is not the f/o or s/i you are focusing on right now but I’ve been getting back into dreamlight valley and they recently added monsters inc and that made me wanna know more about your monsters inc sona!! Is she a scarer? If so how does she scare (like how sully uses his roar or how randal can camouflage)?? How did she and randal meet?? 👀👀👀🍿🍿🍿

So far since I been bouncing around ideas about this is that the one I like the most is having Lizzy (my monstersona) work in the Receiving Station of transporting the energy from the canisters at MI, where she accidentally runs into Randall one day when he was working at MI and the company was using scream energy. Due to the canisters leaking scream in the past a few times, she became hard of hearing, so she comes off as a ditz, with gave her the nickname “Dizzy Lizzy” in the company (and fun fact this is an actual nickname that my family gives me irl so I might as well use it here lol). At first her clumsiness and being absent minded annoyed Randall whenever they crossed paths, but he eventually warmed up to her since she tends to stroke his ego, mostly because she’s a people pleaser. Eventually they both meet again once Randall comes back from being banished and he starts to mess with the canisters, but not before tricking my sona into allowing him to do so (mostly by flirting).

#like I thought of her being either a scarer or becoming a jokester later in the past #hell I even thought about her working in the mail room! #but I think because she’s not really scary (or funny) that she would fit better in the other place #like the only ability she has is jumping REALLY HIGH and can kick really hard (like a kangaroo) #💌 letters 💌 #somethingscarlet13

[lloydfrontera]

the webtoon may have left out a lot of things but they did yassify the orcs which is the funniest thing to me right now

*sigh* they did yassify the orcs <3

now i want to see what they'll do with the sirens and whether i should be excited or worried lmao

#hey i got an ask #Anonymous #the greatest estate developer #tged #also. can we talk about the elephant on the room. #listen i may be totally be wrong about this and i would love to hear you guys' thoughts about this but. #doesn't it feel a little. weird. this thing the webtoon has about making muscular women look overly scary or rough? #like i feel it's gone under the radar because most of us just went 'oh hell yeah muscular women that shit rules let's go!' #but..... i think that wasn't... actually what the artists had in mind when they did. that. #like for example mellica. she's great i love her top tier character design. but look at her. and tell me the way they presented her #doesn't look like a set up for the audience to go 'oh super muscular woman is scary ha ha'. be honest. #now to be fair! all the elves look buff! like they actually look like people who train and fight and do archery constantly! they look great #so i can pass it off as a maybe a little clumsy attempt to give us more buff female characters it's fine whatever #but then we get to the lady ella bit. and uh. well. #how do say this.. it feels. mean-spirited? sorta?? a little mean?? #not even because i was really looking forward to this arc i'm a big girl i can swallow my disappointments like an adult and all that #but it feels like the joke there was 'ha ha man in a dress looks weird isn't that funny? ha ha men are attracted to him that's hilarious' #especially because they went out of their way to make javier look overly burly and buff while wearing the dress #i joked about it but doesn't it feel weird?? we know javier is a pretty guy he's muscular but he's also lean and almost... delicate looking #when wearing his normal clothes #he's a pretty guy! in the novel he could easily pass as girl with no issues! #and instead the webtoon decided to make him look so big and buff he was almost ripping the dress because of how burly he is? #like clearly the joke was 'this guy can't pass for a woman and it's funny that no one seems realize it and even think he's beautiful' #and they even went with the 'i respect your fetishes' joke which. oh boi. #so i'm worried about what kind of jokes they'll make when we get to the mermaids which are described as really big and muscular #even in the novel. in which there are some illustrations that i still haven't decided how much i like tbh #and maybe i'm exaggerating! maybe i'm being paranoid! maybe i'm making a big deal out of nothing and seeing mean jokes #out of a simple gag with no ill intentions behind it! #but i just. think it's weird. and not really all that funny. and i wanted to acknowledge it cause i felt uncomfortable not saying anything #so i'd like to know what you guys think. i think i need more perspectives on this before i say something dumb(er) lol

[mossflower]

ok while i’m ignoring the fact that i have a 9am lecture in six hours does anyone want to listen to me rant about nanowrimo

#so. last year i decided to do it very last minute with zero planning #it was not a good story but i had a lot of fun writing it and!! i actually finished it!! #this year i have planned a story. i have a plot. i have characters that i like. i have themes and settings and all that jazz #but i kinda just want to abandon it and work on an older project!! which is very annoying #the older project is part of a whole damn universe i’ve been developing the past few years. i am Obsessed obsessed with everything abt it #it’s very close to my heart and i really want to make something of it! and i don’t think i’m a competent enough writer to do it justice atm #also if i abandon my current nano project i highly doubt i will ever actually write it #which would be a shame because i like it! it’s a story i would have liked to read when i was like fourteen fifteenish #and tbh would still like to read now #i think actually writing it would be good practice! and i know i would enjoy it #when have i ever not enjoyed anything featuring magic time travel and lesbians. like honestly #i don’t think it’d take long for me to start writing the older project after nanowrimo either #i have a tendency to get stuck in brainstorming hell but i know how it ends. which makes everything much easier to sort #also if i don’t write something featuring the love of my life maria soon i think she will physically claw her way out of my brain #so there’s that <3 #morganposting #nano 2023 #now thats a scary tag to be using

[lovelyrotter]

yknow i love transmasc/tboy dirk always and forever but the way some ppl treat transmascness vs transfemmeness in HS's narrative........kinda sucks. like the whole thing about how being transfeminine is a literal transient experience and lets the character in question (any character) truly escape the oppression of HS's narrative-as-a-character which is patriarchal and toxic (lord english, hussie-the-character to an extent. i guess. idk ive seen a lotta ppl lump SI-hussie in w/ this), which is great and does hold weight as an analytical lens esp with how hussie irl is nonbinary. but where does this leave transmasc characters. why are we treating (headcanoned) transfemme HS characters like this and then tbh gleefully dooming (headcanoned) transmasc characters to eternal narrative suffering brought by LE and then mocking them for being ''gross tboys'' full of ''icky testorerone'' so its their fault theyre in this perpetual torment really? because they ''''chose to be a man''''? dunno man its starting to feel bad. especially since some bnf's who are really into this fan theory do actually kinda treat the general idea of transmasculinity like somthing to hold with tongs at arms length away from them. as if its alien or infectous or something and then get really mad when equally dysphoric transmascs do the same with feminity. why are we dooming dirk strider to eternal toxic-masculine suffering and what does that say about how we treat real life transmasc folks both in and outside of the fandom

#my t #basically you arent more or less special or deserving of celebration or joy depending on what pronouns you use #and idk yall gender is such a personal thing and your trans experience def does colour the way you look at the world. it def does mine/ours #and i wish ppl on this site would be more honest about that cause holy hell do some of yall treat eachother like dogshit #PURELY on the basis of identity. you are no better than a TERF if you do this. you ARE a TERF if you do this #but like...........can we all at least TRY not to demonize '''the other side''' here #in quotations because theres no '''other side''' in the trans community we're all just trans in different ways #theres just like. yknow #theres a reason why so many tboys and transmasc folks identify with the striders and dirk especially #and theres a reason why *so many* transmascs felt so much joy abt tboy roxy #so many of our lives pre-transition looked and felt like roxy lalondes. so many of us legit forcefully feminized ourselves #bc the alternative was so fucking scary. as you can probably imagine regardless of what flavour of trans you are #theres also a reason why there are so many transmasc fictives named dirk and dave and idk what to tell these ppl abt that #i remember rlly clearly this affectionate joke like a literal decade ago on this site that was like #daves intro dropped and 1mil tboys named dave materialized into existence #dirks intro dropped and 1mil MORE tboys named dirk materialized into existence #i try rlly rlly hard not to get sour at wlw/nblw focused memes that are like #''i made pepsicola better!!! theyre she/theys now :)'' for example #but its getting increasingly harder to ignore when the same ppl who make these memes treat #fans who prefer m/m *bc they themselves are gay* like shit #or like enjoying m/m because theyre mlm is mysogynistic. which it isnt ffs #that shit gives i am uncomfortable when is not about me and i aint here for that #if i were like these ppl maybe id turn all their fave girls into tboys just to spite them #but it wont be just to spite them bc 1) i aint abt that actually. im too fuckin grown for it and 2) #i genuinely just enjoy exploring m/m and masculinity more because i am a trans mlm. its very simple math

[crown-ov-horns]

I was looking through my notes for Good Omens fanfiction, and realized almost every damn story includes Crowley having a baby.

There's the one where Heaven and Hell decide to use an angel baby carried by a demon as a diplomatic tool, leading into Crowley being protected by Michael, and them falling in love.

There's the one where she leaves her baby with Anathema and disappears, which triggers all the following events - from the search, to Aziraphale's trial, and everything else.

There's the one where she has to supply the new Antichrist, which leads to her and Lucifer falling in love, and her being crowned the Queen of Hell. (Well, this one is really two stories set in different timelines, in the second one the "baby" is like 27)

In the one inspired by a dream, she does have a baby eventually, but that's far from the worst thing that happens to her. Gabriel's treatment of her after is... How the Hell will I write this damn thing if I can't even think about it.

There's no baby in the one where she gets tortured with diluted holy water.

I see I have no storyline with male Crowley just yet... Fine, that's not true. I do have some thoughts for Crowley x Fem!Lucifer... It could include a new Antichrist, too. And, Crowley wouldn't be the pregnant one for once. But, dealing with pregnant Lucifer would probably be even scarier.

#diary pages #writing journal #fanfiction writer #ao3 writer #good omens fanfiction #good omens fandom #crowley #good omens crowley #lady crowley #fem!crowley #writers on tumblr #writer life #ffs what's with me and torturing miss/mr. snake #she's either pregnant or she's in some horrible situation or actually it's both #yes i feel damn guilty for doing that but i can't help it #in first two bullet points the dad is aziraphale but he screws up (without even knowing it) so michael steps in... #in the first one and not immediately as a love interest at first just as a protector #don't worry she's in on using the kid for politics and crowley know's there's drama #the second i'd rather not spoil because of the detective/investigation plot #hey but she chose michael herself she was supposed to be with hastur #in the antichrist one all is obvious and honestly it's one of those “good for her” stories for crowley #but in the time jump she is kind of riddled with worry for maxine fearing she'll burn out and so on #grr the dream storyline... the dad is gabriel and don't worry in the end she ditches him i can spoil that this story is so heavy #this story is the ugly crowing jewel of my frustration with crowley saving aziraphale over and over again #what she does to protect him here almost ends up killing her or breaking her it's... seriously no idea how i'll write it #i'm also worried people will think i'm romanticising it when it's supposed to leave the reader sickened like i am #no comment on the holy water thing rn it's a simple hurtfic that develops into a survivor - the previous one is survivor in the end too #i haven't given too much thought for the crowley/f!lucifer but it should be good #fr hell would be so frustrated she chose this moron as her king consort but could do nothing about it #her pregnant would be SCARY - she's terrifying already... well terrifying and to die for

[rxttenfish]

i need to explain how translation spells/charms work in context of the redesign universe because! surprise! it annoys me greatly when people treat languages as just a given and set in stone as a given fact of the universe and not a highly specific cultural artifact that changes and varies wildly through time and context!

which is all to say that yeah translation spells exist but they're all designed specifically for a certain language at a certain time, and are massive and complex because you have to define out every single word and turn of phrase that might come up and isn't perfect anyways because they usually translate it to whats "intended" by that speaker. there's different studies and languages of magic that you work with, but all non-merfolk forms of magic are pretty vastly hampered by the needed complexity and fitting the associated magical "wiring" into a space that you can actually carry around.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #merfolk in general are just. doing wild ass things with magic. #mostly because theyve devised forms of magic that retain high detail despite being packed into increasingly small physical spaces #and also because they have more “mutable” languages of magic that can use the same space for multiple different things at once #theyre very good at compounding complexity #which is fun because you have situations where miri interacts with the coven and magic comes up #and they literally have no idea what the hell shes doing or how the hell it works #but on GOD does it work and does it work so well that its actually fucking scary for them #like. hey. hey you cant do that. thats illegal. #(it is not illegal but you get the gist) #(people would have to know about it for it to be illegal)

[softcryz]

"Off the string" aus are really fun to think about and I especially love seeing other people mess around with it with their own ocs (especially cause you get to explore their characterization! Putting them in scenarios they'd usually never be in!)

(BONUS POINTS if you acknowledge how different it'd be/how losing everything would/could fuck said oc up)

But I look over at my guys and I'm like okay . I think only one of them is actually dealing with this decently

#zoc scrambled #zoc shack #zoc artwork #LANDS_EDGE #I mean Spite IS the token “get me the hell out of here” character #He's in his element she's living her best life #Creativity would want to leave because he's so desperate for new stimuli but it'd backfire immediately and he would #I can't even get into what he would do #Times doesn't really have any big feelings towards being on/off the string. I think xey're happy being how they are #but if they were forced for any reason . The narcolepsy follows it #I included Twisted just because . He's not a part of this group I just thoug tbaout him for one second #He'd finally be dead #(who knows what the cycle would do with him) (That's a little scary to think about actually) #rain world #rw oc #rw iterator

[mars-ipan]

currently thinking abt the despair disease and the character analysis potential it brings

#literally the best motive in the whole franchise <3333 #i regularly think abt how it affected komaeda. he got the fucking Liar Disease #why? because he is completely and fully sincere in everything he does #he lies occasionally yes but overall he is honest and hides nothing #he’s an incredibly earnest person. that’s what makes him so scary #and it’s also why the liar disease would be the perfect source of despair for him. makes a lot of sense #personally i don’t believe that despair disease gives you the ‘opposite’ trait #just a trait you would hate to have or is very uncharacteristic of you #i mainly think that bc the opposite of ibuki isn’t ‘gullible.’ but she probably doesn’t like listening to others (punk and eccentric) #so the gullible disease that forces her to always believe what she’s told is despair inducing #and akane! obviously she’s very good at compartmentalizing #she never seems to show fear. ever! #as such the coward disease is Mortifying. she hates being anxious and she hates showing it even more. literal hell i’ve been there girlie #so overall. i think it’s a great way to analyze a character #obvi with komaeda it’s an EXCELLENT analysis tool bc it’s basically a roundabout truth serum #if everything you say is a lie then all you need to do is reverse it and that’s the full genuine truth #so we get confirmation of things with him. like his desire for companionship. and his genuine distress when he wants to tell everyone to be #hopeful but all he can say is ‘despair’- he gets so worked up about it that he collapses #i also like to imagine what it would have been like with other characters #what would hajime have? i’ve seen an honesty disease. i’ve also seen a happy disease #both are great. i think he has a good few options #personally though i think the thing that would stress him out a Ton would be an affectionate disease #not in like a silly friend ‘i hug everyone’ way #but in a ‘tells everyone specifically what qualities he admires about them and is vulnerable to others’ way #i think he’d be MORTIFIED. haji’s a very blunt snarky person #and he does have a lot of affection for his friends but it’s mostly shown in a teasing manner #he’s also quite closed off about his own insecurities. AND he finds komaeda incredibly offputting #to wake up one day and start both genuinely making himself vulnerable and praising everyone nagito-style would actualky be hell for him #maybe call it the admiration disease. or affectionate disease depends on ur perspective #other character have interesting possibilities too (even dr1 + v3) but I Care Hinata so. he gets spotlight for a sec

[musical-chick-13]

Eleven is so funny, because he makes this Thing™ about "Grr, I don't want to be beholden to my future with the Scary Charismatic Space Lady" and then reacts to every single instance of River roasting him with the most charmed and eager expression you've ever seen on a man.

#to be fair. if a Scary Charismatic Space Lady who was extremely intelligent and in prison for killing me kept dragging ME at every #conceivable opportunity I would ALSO react like this. I would just be intentionally upfront about it from the very beginning lmao. #(yeah yeah I know it's the whole 'she died in front of me and it was really traumatizing' thing. just let me joke about being gay.) #mel screams about The Weird Little Space Show again #okay I am. done. with today's spree of doc/river posting #but I need everyone to know that. I love them. #and to remember that they exist. because I sure as hell will never let any of you forget

[weather-cluddy]

I had a dream where Milgram actually was just a three-season TV show, but it was a sort of improv reality show where the actors got assigned characters but not a defined script, and it was all happening in a deserted island a la Survivor. But when the show bombs the director's control freak tendencies take over and they start forcing in increasingly weird and invasive gimmicks. By the end of the third season the cameras aren't even rolling anymore, the whole thing has been turned into some sort of cult slash dictatorship where the actors are desperate to please the director for the slim, slim possibility of getting to go home, while being forced to remain in character at all times or be harshly punished. If the actors au is Milgram minus angst, I think my brain just invented Milgram minus angst plus angst. Or perhaps it gazed into an alternative timeline and brought back the plot of STANFORD, an interactive dance series by Code*72.

#I feel like Muu's actress might have a slightly easier time bc she can use the always-IC clause #to turn down 'anything scary painful or embarassing' but it's not like that helped canon Muu all that much #By contrast Fuuta's actor is doubly in hell #if he talks back he's punished for it and if he doesn't he still gets punished because 'Fuuta would never take it lying down!' #Wouldn't this AU make Mikoto's 'this is just a TV show' into a fourth wall joke? #Milgram

[buck-yyyy]

sobs and sobs and sobs

i love her

#god #the last time i loved someone like this it…. was not good #i repressed it. she was my best friend. my friends kept joking that we should get together. it was a HOT MESS #and it hurt so. fucking. bad. #but this is so different and it’s just- #i can touch her and kiss her and hold her and be with her guilt-free and i can tell her that i love her more than anything in the world #instead of just whispering it to the sky late at night when i think no one can hear #and it’s just hitting really hard #i never thought that i would get to have this? #i thought i would have to choose- either i could repress being not a girl (and be miserable) but have someone who loves me #or i could embrace being not a girl and be alone for the rest of my life because who would want me like that #and i just- she kissed me and then called me theo and i just broke down in tears #and it was after that that she told me she loved me #and it made me cry so much harder #because i guess this is the beginning of realizing that i CAN have both #i can be theo and i can cut my hair short and i can hide my chest and i can wear whatever the hell i want #but i can also have the girl of my fucking dreams who loves me just as much as i love her #god i’m such a sappy bitch right now #and i wish i could work up the nerve to tell her all this #and i know i will eventually it’s just scary right now #but. yeah #in love for realsies i suppose #gayte

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

on one hand yes a fetus requires nutrients from the parent’s body but on the other hand. sometimes people calling it a parasite feels a little strange

#idk maybe it’s because i was raised by a midwife #abortions are an incredibly important part of healthcare but also if someone decides to keep their baby and you’re only thinking about it #as some sort of parasite instead of something the parent is choosing to do and excited about it seems very dehumanising #it just seems weird and off to me #plus i hope no one in healthcare has that view but if they did i would think it could potentially also affect the parent’s care #because yes carrying a child will absolutely strain the body more than it might be otherwise but if it’s something the parent wants to do #then calling it a parasite or something. idk ive just been thinking about this #because viewing a fetus or embryo as some sort of 100% viable life form from the moment of conception is completely wrong. but also if #someone wants their child and is excited about it don’t be weird? #OH it’s because it feels the same as those people who are like ‘i hate All Kids i love when kids cry i would punt a child’ #that’s it. yep. that’s why it feels weird #just thinkin out loud here bc people can be really strange about pregnancy #pregnancy is fucking wild though i remember having a conversation with my mum where she was like ‘yeah it can make a vagina change colours’ #like what the fuck is that about #i know more abt pregnancy than the average person and it is weird as hell and kinda scary

[fingertipsmp3]

Yesterday I was musing about how I haven’t really had a bad nightmare since I went on SSRIs and then I proceeded to have a full blown night terror

#it was so so bad on so many levels #in the first part of my dream i had ordered edibles and shroom powder to be sent to my house (not surprising; i would do this) #and they got delivered by a man who looked completely judgemental of me #but i didn’t care because there was a hot woman there who made me shroom tea #it tasted terrible but i drank it all anyway. and had a weed gummie. and she had a ‘weed patch’ as well that she was trying to get me to put #on my stomach. but i was worried it’d be too potent #since my actual body was sober; i didn’t feel any of the effects of this drug within the dream (obviously) but i was operating under the #assumption they were going to kick in so i was really anxious #then this woman was going through my stuff and she found dead bodies?? like dessicated bodies of multiple people #and i was like ‘i don’t know who the hell that is. i guess they belong to whoever lived here before’ #we weren’t in my actual house; we were in like a massive old four-storey house with an attic which i think was where the bodies were #in the dream this was MY house #then for whatever reason i went on a trip with this person i used to be friends with to her childhood home #which was suddenly in a really creepy neighbourhood #she suddenly had a sister who was maybe 11 years old and catatonic due to being demonically possessed. and this kid seemed to be the head #of a cult basically. she had something called the ‘angel guard’ under her thrall. and when i asked what the angel guard were #my friend was just casually like ‘oh they bury you alive’ WHAT????? #then someone unpeeled the weed patch and smacked it on me and i woke up just as i was about to be buried alive #i think there was more to it than this. there was also a creepy woman but i can’t remember the significance of her #it was just such an unnecessarily scary dream. i woke up at like 6am TERRIFIED #i haven’t had a nightmare in so long lol i’m unequipped to cope. especially since my dreams have gotten so much more vivid #now that i’m medicated. i feel like i’m fine with the vivid dreams most of the time but when they’re this bad.. no #personal

[arolesbianism]

If I ever do get properly into dst character modding I like have to make an oni character mod at some point, but the issue is Id want it to be an Olivia mod so bad but also Nails is as far as I'm aware the only legal character name wise and as such it feels like it has to be them, y'know for the bit. But also I have already written too much Olivia dst dialogue and I need an excuse to use it damnit

#rat rambles #oni posting #starve posting #also good ol dr winslow would be dead in seconds I think #not that most of the cast would fare much better but I believe in olivia to last longer #more importantly though it would simply be easier to justify olivia kit wise as while nails was involved in printing pod stuff they didnt #yknow. invent the damn thing. #idk we technically dont have olivia initials yet she Could have a w middle name if we believe hard enough #we have a jackie middle initial tho so shes off the table doubly because she also would have like 50 in each stat lol #also again olivia constant dialogue is just so much more fun to write #especially when it comes to mob examination quotes #also several jokes and bits that I could technically do with nails too but olivia is easier to craft a consistent voice for #as much as we get a surprisingly large amount of characterization for nails they still only have one log of dialogue at the end of the day #like I have hcs and stuff but they are fragile as hell #klei could come out swinging and recontectualize everything theyve ever said at any time if they wanted to it wouldnt be hard #again its one log with little context to most of the things they say #so while we have a glimpse of their character we don't rly see them in enough contexts to rly get a solid general characterisation I think #not that I want more per say my point is simply that any hcs I do have could easily be disproven by not a lot of new information #like itd be very easy for them all to crumble into dust the second klei adds more logs #technically many of my olivia hcs are equally fragile but those are mostly the ones that dont matter much in this context #like idk they could be like fun fact olivia actually loves kids and gets along great with them but I doubt thatll happen #oh that reminds me scariest thing abt oni actually is the idea that some of our lil scientist guys could have kids #like the email abt there not being a bring your kids to work day doesnt inherently mean any of the characters we know have kids but it #makes me remember the possibility and that scares me #like I dont wanna think abt devon potentially having a kid I dont wanna imagine them putting pictures of their baby with toast online #I mean I do but its still like wtf why do you have a life that existed thats scary and it also makes me sad but its also funny so its good #I still stand by my frankie and mason divorce hc frankie got custody of the baby devon got custody of the food blog #its a good think jackie and olivia dont have a kid thatd suck for the kid so bad #like imagine your moms being the worlds saddest wettest cats of women and just having to grow up with that #and theyd be terrible parents for sure jackie would be an absent father and olivia would become an alcoholic

[adreamfromnevermore]

AU Where the Justice League forms as usual except for one slight difference where Bruce just so happens to have been the one superheroing for the longest. (Excluding Diana, who got up to it in World War 1 and then mostly didn't while she learned about Man's World)

Bruce helps form the Justice League, ignoring all of the comments as they come to the sudden realization that Gotham's baby cryptid story is actually a man in a very intimidating armored suit who can and will break your arm if you cause problems for him. They are unaware that this is not the first team he's led, and actually he's used to teams full of mostly teenagers who also happen to be his children. This should be easier, this team is primarily adults.

He realizes rapidly that he doesn't understand these people.

His kids take bonding activities to mean learning a dozen different ways to break someones leg. That doesn't fly with these people. And that is most of Bruce's ideas, hell when he was a kid Alfred took every opportunity to get him out of his room and mostly that was with the agreement that Alfred would teach him how to defend himself. He's come by it honestly.

This team is not easier. They have more drama than when his house was actually full of kids. It's insane. He doesn't know what to do with it, usually he just sent the kids to their rooms or grounded them from patrol. That doesn't work here.

He comes to a strange crossroads. That falls apart when he forgets who he's working with and snaps at Hal with a full room of heroes that the next person to throw a punch or an insult without a reason too will be sparring with him.

A long standing rule in the batcave that worked two fold to prevent infighting between the kids and too ensure that they were well and truly trained.

It works wonders. No one says a word out of line for the rest of the debrief. Bruce becomes the unofficial mediator of the league over Clark because anytime he walked in on a fight it suddenly became 10 times more civil out of sheer terror of what he'd do to them in a sparring match.

Eventually they actually meet his kids. Well, one kid.

Half way through a mission (one of the rare ones in Gotham) the Bat comes to a complete stop at the edge of an alley. Every single league member on the team comes to a stop behind him. Slowly from the shadows of the alley a man in a red helmet stalks out to greet them.

"You don't call, you don't write"

"Red Hood."

"Don't Red Hood me! We've been worried sick!"

"I was at the cave last night."

"You didn't answer my texts B. You always answer my texts."

Somehow it ends with big and scary following them through the rest of the mission with a running commentary of how much Bats has let him down in his failure to respond in a timely manner to a text send less than an hour before he ran into them in the alley. It only ends when Red Robin shows up.

And even then it only ends because Hood can't keep himself from throwing a punch and Bruce has to snap at him that if he throws another one they're sparring when they get home.

And by god is Jason giving up the chance to punch his brothers.

#the psychic whiplash when the league realizes #that the pit fight tactic is from dealing with his children #also that he has children #batman #dc #bruce wayne #red hood #jason todd #red robin #tim drake #batfamily #clark kent #justice league #superman #nightwing #timothy drake #batfam #fic ideas #wonder woman #diana prince #diana of themyscira

[bohemiandeer]

You know what hits me hard? When 5 to 6 year old children, all the way in Southeast Asia, knows about what's happening in Palestine right now. That children their age is getting bombed, that they're starving to death, that they're getting shot at, and sniped in the head. Because, just this past 2 or so months, I heard some of the little ones in the Kindergarten classes I'm TAing in as an Intern talk about it. Hell, one of the little boys downright said he didn't like Israel, because Israel is bad, because they do scary things. Another was questioning whether Palestine was bad too, because, "why else would they shooting at them?". A little girl in one of my classes doesn't want to finish her food at all, because she wants to save at least half her meat and rice for kids in Palestine, because she heard that, they don't have food. And that's just the ones I remember. Namely the inciting cases before their classmates slowly follow suit. The littles are fricking SCARED. We had to sit these kids down, and tell them that the topic is too mature for them at the moment, that they shouldn't even be concerned because they're KINDERGARTNERS, they're not even old enough to properly understand. The one teacher I was TAing for had to make a class announcement saying that. What gets me is, these are 5 to 6 year olds, the youngest I've worked with in this specific age group is 4. 5 years old on average, and they've already been exposed to the worst horrors genocide has to offer through the news and snippets of conversation among adults and hell, considering how many of them say they like to play games on Mama's phone, or their IPad, even from fricking social media. And the fact that, these literal babies, from all the way in Cambodia, has more empathy in their entire body and soul, than full grown fricking adults have in the nail of their pinky finger, gets me. FFS we as adults could LEARN from them I feel sometimes. I honestly don't know what to feel about it anymore. On the one hand, this is the next generation I'm working with. And if the next generation's default response to a tragedy such as Palestine, is what I've seen come up on occasion so far? Perhaps there's some bloody hope for this world after all. At least in this country. Especially since a majority of them already come from families who survived a genocide. These are the 3rd - 4th generation descendants of those who survived the Khmer Rouge. They've got grandparents at home, who no doubt are more than intimately familiar with what Palestine is going through right now. And it shows.

But on the other, it makes my heart sink because these are CHILDREN, these are LITTLE KIDS, they should be playing with their toys and watching cartoons and talking to their friends about everything from Spiderman to Speakerman to Kuromi and her friends, and be worried about whether or not they can go to playground that day, guranteed they're well behaved, or if Mama remembered to pack in their costume for swimming lessons that week. NOT JUST MY KIDS. But the little ones in Palestine too. They deserve better. They all deserve, so much better. Hell, it's come to the point that whenever I look at my kiddos right now, whether they'd be working in class, playing, doing something as mundane as eating lunch or getting ready for their nap. I think of the children their age in Palestine that didn't even get the chance to survive. I think of the ones whose memories from this age, is nothing but absolute horror and pain, rather than what has slowly become my normal, who never got to experience what my littles do on a daily basis right now.

Children shouldn't even be concerned about "War", about a Genocide. The last thing that should be on a 5 year old's mind, is pain, and suffering, and the worst horrors imaginable ever to be inflicted on a human being. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S INFLICTED, ON OTHER CHILDREN THEIR AGE. And for that alone, the world has failed them. Especially the kids in Palestine who didn't ask for any of this. They just wanted to carry on with life as kids do, the same way as my littles do on a daily basis no doubt, learning, playing, chatting with friends over their favourite cartoons and characters, worrying about whether they'd get to go to the playground or not that day.

I apologize for talking about this on this blog. I know my blog tends to be lighter in feel, a lot more unhinged and light hearted typically. I mean, I'm just a fricking nerd who likes to draw and write, and lurk about her favourite fandoms to consume and support what is shared among other nerds who also like to draw and write. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. About contemplating it, especially since I'll be back on a roll tomorrow, working with my kiddos again after not seeing them for 5 days straight because of Holidays. And, I just had to talk about it. This is something I felt I couldn't keep to myself this time, I don't think my soul'd be able to carry it. I had to talk about it.

FREE PALESTINE. Our children deserve better.

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