#i had to make this.......... so tiny for tumblr

[zahri-melitor]

Is Zdarksy’s Batman run actually bad, or is it just messy?

I actually like Zdarsky's current Batman run and don't think 'bad' or 'messy' are actually the right words to characterise it at all.

There's a tendency when a writer gets handed one of the Big Name Titles (Batman, Detective Comics, Superman, Action Comics, Tom King's currently attempting it over in Wonder Woman) to want to produce a Genre Defining, Intellectual Run on the the title. I don't entirely blame it on Jeph Loeb and Hush, but it's undoubtedly become a lot more common since Hush sold approximately one squillion copies and has never been out of print since 2003.

Writers want to make their mark on the title and so they get caught up in interrogating Bruce's psyche rather than focusing on writing entertaining stories based in Gotham characters.

(This is also why I suggest if you want a fun Scott Snyder Batman run you read Gates of Gotham or All Star Batman rather than his Batman run, because he's trying less hard to write his Great Batman Graphic Novels and more focused on telling a good story).

At the moment we have both Chip Zdarsky and Ram V focused on writing Great Defining Batman Runs, rather than what is more common to happen, which is one of the writers on Tec or Batman is trying this and the other is focused on writing entertaining Gotham stories. Ram V's is, from all accounts, probably the one of the two that is going to end up entering The Canon.

However I certainly see more people talking about Zdarsky's run, probably because it's the more accessible of the two to pick up casually for for a run.

What ALSO doesn't help is that Ram V. is currently writing a Barbatos-based run and Zdarsky is writing a Zur-En-Arrh-based run (extremely generalised), as they're two overlapping Basic Batman Plots about forces controlling Bruce.

Why I think people are currently complaining about Zdarsky's run:-

It's based around an interrogation of Zur-En-Arrh Batman. ZEA is probably one of the least liked 'Bruce has crossed the line and is trying to be All Batman, All the Time' plots around here, because it revolves around a concept essentially invented by Grant Morrison, and people on tumblr don't like Grant Morrison's Batman.

Zdarsky is writing about Joker. People on tumblr don't like Joker and think he's overused.

Zdarsky's run has leaned quite heavily into multiversal concepts so far, but what he's looking at is different depictions of Batman The Character across different media adaptions, particularly older adaptions, and what they have to say about the central truth of Batman The Character. He's picking blokey and reddit-popular sort of titles to reference, not tumblr-popular ones.

The primary character in the run is Bruce. The secondary character in the run is Tim. Every other Bat character who passes through the run is brought in to serve a purpose to the narrative, using an aspect of their personality, and if you're a fan of another character, the fact that they're appearing as a side character or an obstacle in the story can be annoying, as the story isn't focused on the thing you cherish most about your blorbo.

I think everyone is busy blaming every aspect of the plot of Gotham War they don't like on Zdarsky, despite the fact it was written by a trio: I don't see Tini Howard or Matthew Rosenberg catching nearly as much flack for Gotham War, even as aspects of the event were pretty clearly steered by them (The Selina parts of the plot were obviously Howard. The Jason parts of the plot including the conditioning look pretty clearly to be a Rosenberg requested part of the story, given he had been consistently writing most of the published Jason content for the last 3 years).

Really, I think at its base it's that Zdarsky is digging into an aspect of the Batman mythos that tumblr doesn't particularly like, and that Zdarsky's main focus in terms of characters are Bruce and Tim. It's fashionable to complain that Tim's getting love and support by a writer for a whole lot of fanon rather than canon related reasons, PLUS Zdarsky is using the wider Gotham cast sparingly and only when he specifically wants them to work within the narrative he's telling.

Plus, it's pretty clear to my eye that Zdarsky's favourite Batman eras are about 1995-2009, and that's shaping some of his choices of characterisation using long term aspects of characters. He's a Brubaker-Rucka and a Morrison-Nicieza fan, people. He likes O'Neil era events and Batfamily writing from Gotham Knights and Bruce Wayne: Murderer/Fugitive.

#the book titled 'Batman' is allowed to focus on Batman #to the exclusion of including other characters even #do I enjoy writing that handles a wider cast? of course #but if there is one title in the entirety of DC that can and should be obsessed with Bruce it's freaking Batman

[misschinablue]

welcome to the UK, where world leading healthcare is free at the point of use! hopefully you don't need it though. underfunding and shitty management of the public health sector by non clinicians mean you could wait up to six months for an urgent referral. hope all your organs are in good working order because you could die waiting if they're not :) and god forbid you should need to see a GP or a practice nurse for something more minor - the demand highly outweighs the supply and you'll be engaging in the hunger games to maybe get a 10 minute telephone appointment in September 2026 :) mental health suffering? well you are shit out of luck my friend - again, demand far outweighs supply - everything has been cut down to less than the absolute bare minimum - and the criteria for services is sky high now. make a cup of tea and take the crisis line number. you'll be fine right?

welcome to the UK, one of the richest economies in the world! how is it then that living standards are as low as they were in the 1970s, what with the old cossie lives and wages that were already laughably meagre now completely out of sync with how fucking expensive everything is?? i know you worked hard to get your education and onto your graduate scheme and did everything society asked of you to make it in life, but things are different now so here's your mouldy room in a shared house where the rent is a million pounds a month and lol what disposable income aren't you just happy to have a roof of your head?? stop going to Costa every morning for your soy triple shot vanilla latte you entitled little shit! it's not like we've had 14 years of complete mismanagement of the economy or anything! ps. aren't you so tired of hearing that it's all your fault?

welcome to the UK, where we have a welfare system designed to help people.in need, I.e. those out of work and those too sick to work! but good luck accessing that too. and if you want to try - LMFAO! oh honey no one LIKES working. but all this pretending to be too unwell to work ain't fooling anyone! come on mate drop that defeatist attitude and get on indeed.com. none of your conditions are even real. stop using your multiple sclerosis/depression/long covid/terminal cancer as an excuse. fucking sickness culture in this country. the high rates of mental illness especially have no obvious cause at all do they?

welcome to the UK, a tiny country that prides itself on tolerance and has historically seen great benefits to the economy and culturally from immigration! but god forbid we make this an easy place to live for trans people! this Woke has gone too far! and oh my GOD aren't all these refugees SO annoying?! they clearly just want to come here for the free healthcare (you know that non existent thing) and to get welfare benefits (you know asylum seekers aren't entitled to benefits apart from a pittance allowance from the home office right?) and they're absolutely not braving a life threatening journey to escape horrific conditions and persecution in their own country. but whatever. not our problem. off to Rwanda with you. human rights are stupid lmao. empathy? compassion? never heard of her.

welcome to the UK, where we support genocide and saying certain things in opposition of it is actually fucking illegal. i wish i was kidding.

welcome to the UK, where nothing works and everyone is sad.

welcome to the UK. god i fucking hate it here.

british tumblr - even if you don't think it will make a difference, even if you recognise there is just a lesser of two evils here, even if you don't trust any of them, even if you're fucked off and burnt out, i am BEGGING you to vote to get these absolute cretins out of power. we cannot have another five years under tory rule. there will be nothing left.

#UK #UK politics #UK general election 2024 #free Palestine #vote #i'm begging you fucking vote #things can only get better #tories out #nobody likes a tory

[brosif40]

Fnaf Help wanted 2 spoilers (warning incase someone didn't block that tag yet)

HOORAY YOU EARNED YOUR AUTISTIC LICENSE !!!!!!!!!!

#my art #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #help wanted 2 spoilers #fnaf help wanted 2 spoilers #fnaf spoilers #YAY #the moment i heard this on tiktok i had to make a video w it #tumblr killed its quality RIP but whatever #oh i see why now- its so tiny on desktop *sobs

[cozylittleartblog]

baby's first polymer clay creation

her name is Annette

#birds #chickens #art #sculpture #sculpey #miniature art #polymer clay #clay #crafts #homemade #i have no idea the tags i'm just stealing them from other peoplw dfbghjdhfsbg #she makes me want to CRy #artists on tumblr #a bird blog i follow rbed a bunch of tiny birds someone made. i wanted to try making a tiny bird #i bought clay over a year ago because i wanted to make harpy women with some old doll faces from the 80s #that my mom still had from her crafting days. but that was a really intimidating first project so i Didn't #a chickem i s easy :) (it took like 3 hours Just to sculpt.) #its 4am i want to cry its so fucking small oh my godd #the thir dimage sends me into hysterics #please look at this chicken im begging you

[makenna-made-this]

All aboard the International Sp-Ace Station

#international asexuality day #i didn't even know it was today so i didn't have much time to make something #but i had to contribute with a quick little doodle #ace chicken babeeeeey #leghorns for asexuality or something lol #chickens #tiny fluffy dinosaurs #the BEST animals #chickenblr #makenna made a thing #artists on tumblr #acespec #asexual

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

No. Please. A century I have known naught but sorrow; rage. A century have I been Ketheric's captive. Release me. I beg you.

A bit that I find really heartbreaking happens if you try to leave the dialogue with Aylin in her Shadowfell prison, after you've convinced her you're not a Sharran. This is mere seconds after she was smirking at you with:

She sounds genuinely afraid that you, the only person in over a hundred years who isn't there to ritualistically kill her or torment her in some unthinkable way, are about to abandon her. In sheer contrast to all the brave posturing and proud defiance she was demonstrating not moments before, all the blustering and insisting that she, immortal, will simply outlast all of you, that this affects her not a bit and is in fact nothing in the grand scope of her life (which we later see is actually rather painfully untrue).

#we've had a hundred years hurt now it's time for TEN THOUSAND YEARS COMFORT FOR DAME AYLIN #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dame aylin #bg3 spoilers #the notes say her “bravado melts for a moment” and that she really is desperate to get out of there and i just #the way her face softens and her eyes widen... #yeah #me making a resolution to be more active on tumblr in order to have a healthy outlet for all my fannish nonsense once again #(the font size is really tiny on so many of my screenshots it makes them look horrible when posted ugh)

[theobs3ssivepuppeteer]

TINY GHOST SUPREMACY LES GOOOOOOO🦅✨✨✨

TINY GHOSTS SCREAAHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅

#i am so normal about tiny ghosts i swear #had a mini panic attack when i saw you in my askbox #like holy shit i've loved your art since before i had tumblr #was like “okay be cool puppeteer just make the joke puppeteer” #fnaf

[eissaphir]

I thought of this with a carnival in mind but feel free to interpret this any way you want. Looking at you, Radioapple shippers

#Hazbin Hotel #Lucifer Morningstar #Lucifer Magne #Alastor #Fanart #I love their dynamic so much #There are still things I'm not completely happy with but this took embarrassingly long and if I look at this any longer I'll go insane #So yeah. I thought the idea was funny #I hope nobody has thought of this yet. And if somebody has don't tell me bfjsjsjw #Yeah I'm still frothing at the mouth #The songs and characters have been bouncing around in my head ever since the show came out #Oh btw I changed their outfits just a teeny tiny bit #Namely the buttons and Lucifer's collar #Can you tell I had no idea what to do with the background #And that I have zero idea how to draw hands #Yeah those were not fun to draw. So yeah. Started making it had a breakdown bon appetite #My posts #My art #Swearing #Okay yeah click on the pic for not fucked up quality. Thanks Tumblr

[pie-bean]

Grinny

#usually they run up and smile at their house guests but she had a moment i guess #also why does tumblr make the second image so tiny on mobile oh well #acnh #animal crossing new horizons #mine #animal crossing #acnh ruby #ac ruby #acnh hazel #ac hazel #acnh dialogue

[mossy-paws]

the absolute terror of wanting to attempt to try out using Twitter for a bit but also Twitter seems to be getting more and more horribly toxic by the day and I don’t know if my little emotional baby self could deal with it,,,,, euuugh I know it’s great for making connections n stuff + a lot of artists who aren’t on tumblr that I like are on it but EUUUUGH,,, the people on their are so mean and I don’t wanna get relentlessly bullied for some random thing,,,,

#Cro chatter #i may. Try it out in the future #But it just seems so scary #plus if my parents found out I had a Twitter account I would probably get crucified on the spot LMAO #Tumblr is fine because it’s wholesome and nice and the people are really nice here #But Twitter…… #Fear #I’m mainly looking to make connections on commissions n stuff because robux #And tumblr isn’t really the greatest place to get comms :’DD #Welp enjoy my tiny little ramble #if you guys have any tips for Twitter pls hand them over LMAO

[averlym]

HI I DIDNT KNOW YOU WERE INTO ADAMANDI HOLY SHIT. Can’t believe so few people know about this masterpiece of a musical

:OOOOO hai i agree it is criminally (haha yknow bc there are crimes..) underrated!! and really brilliant!!! discovered it literally midway through the week and akdfjgsjhdsjhjgdf

have a doodle of the saints :3

#this is kinda because on someone's insta i saw one of the saints doing a peace sign dksajh have smth silly #adamandi #ask me stuff??? #realising i have to put my tags at the beginning before rambles or tumblr won't catch it #i am into adamandi. now. this is terrible timing because exam season but hMM the academic grindset really resonates now huh #the moment i caught myself in the ao3 tag i was like ''oh.'' #i have so many thoughts. so many many thoughts. im so insane about this musical actually. also the fandom so far seems so nice #also yeah! the number of people who know about it is quite small huh.. it makes me kinda feel like im infiltrating the group... ? #late to the party as ever. but it's. so so good. such a musical ever the brainrot is real #also the way the creators themselves are active on tumblr :OO rly cool. ngl the tags they left under my posts had me #giggling screaming kicking my feet etcetera... and bc apparently i thrive off positive reinforcement that sparked the whole cut fruit art.. #i am itching to know about the track thing with portia. also portrix real the lesbians keep winning!! also also i may have spent half a day #internet stalking ><. secret pinterest boards where :O #anyway thank you for the ask anon idk how to answer concisely but yes. adamandi. oh my god. #miscellany: can we appreciate ambrose's high notes.. also i was on wiki reading about ''apollonian vs dionysian'' it's insane #on yet another note. im entering my lin era rn i think. what a time. where can i run so true + vincent's surname my beloved. forest imagery #side note? tiny little detail i'd love to do smth about in the future: in word to the wise there's smth about “appraising your rings” and i #the one who pulls the strings beatrix mentions “bought my classmates rings” like. kjdfhsgjkhd???? thinks. #.. but new fav musical unlocked is all #between this and watt i am maybe into my murder musical era. confession that i don't do horror much because i have an overactive imaginatio #but like those two hit the spot. and i think organic imagery.. blood visuals.. is very cool// and the moment you start looking at literal #life and death situations then the dramaticness especially comes in and that's fun!! // also i read smth today about tragedy making you #appreciate irl stuff more. like ''wow thats messed up im sure glad that isnt me i love life''. and lowkey?? yeah

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

#BEGONE!!! *wizard beam blast leaving a black smoking crater in the middle of the tumblr dashboard* #I think another downside to everyone doing everything on phone apps on shitty tiny screens nowadays is the inability to really see details #of an image and thus its easier to share BLATANTLY fake things like.. even 'good' ai art has pretty obvious tells at this point #but especially MOST of it is not even 'good' and will have details that are clearly off or lines that dont make sense/uneven (like the imag #of a house interior and in the corner there's a cabinet and it has handles as if it has doors that open but there #are no actual doors visible. or both handles are slightly different shapes. So much stuff that looks 'normal' at first glance #but then you can clearly tell it's just added details with no intention or thought behind it. a pattern that starts and then just abruptly #doesn't go anywhere. etc. etc. ) #the same thing with how YEARS ago when I followed more fashion type blogs on tumblr and 'colored hair' was a cool ''''New Thing''' instead #of being the norm now basically. and people would share photos of like ombre hair designs and stuff that were CLEARLY photoshop like #you could LITERally see the coloring outside of the lines. blurs of color that extend past the hair line to the rest of the image #or etc. But people would just share them regardless and comment like 'omg i wish I could do this to my hair!' or 'hair goallzzzz!! i #wonder what salon they went to !!' which would make me want to scream and correct them everytime ( i did not lol) #hhhhhhggh... literally view the image on anything close to a full sized screen and You Will SEe #I don't know why it's such a pet peeve of mine. I think just as always I'm obsessed with the reality and truth of things. most of the thing #that annoy me most about people are situations in which people are misinterpreting/misunderstanding how something works or having a misconc #eption about somehting thats easily provable as false or etc. etc. Even if it's harmless for some random woman on facebook to believe that #this AI generated image of a cat shaped coffee machine is actually a real product she could buy somewhere ... I still urgently #wish I could be like 'IT IS ALL AN ILLUSION. YOU SEE???? ITS NOT REALL!!!!! AAAAA' hjhjnj #Like those AI shoes that went around for a while with 1000000s of comments like 'omg LOVE these where can i get them!?' and it's like YOU #CANT!!! YOU CANT GET THEM!!! THEY DONT EXIST!!! THE EYELETS DONT EVEN LINE UP THE SHOES DONT EVEN #MATCH THE PATTERNS ARE GIBBERISH!! HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THEY ARE NOT REAL!??!!' *sobbing in the rain like in some drama movie* #Sorry I'm a pedantic hater who loves truth and accuracy of interpretation and collecting information lol #I think moreso the lacking of context? Like for example I find the enneagram interesting but I nearly ALWAYS preface any talking about it #with ''and I know this is not scientifically accurate it's just an interesting system humans invented to classify ourselve and our traits #and I find it sociologically fascinating the same way I find religion fascinating'. If someone presented personality typing information wit #out that sort of context or was purporting that enneagram types are like 100% solid scientific truth and people should be classified by the #unquestionaingly in daily life or something then.. yeah fuck that. If these images had like disclaimers BIG in the image description somewh #re like 'this is not a real thing it's just an AI generated image I made up' then fine. I still largely disagree with the ethics behind AI #art but at least it's informed. It's the fact that people just post images w/o context or beleive a falsehood about it.. then its aAAAAAA

[tj-crochets]

“Allergying myself multiple days in a row” reminds me of how I keep taking deep sniffs of my secondhand fabric (AFTER washing!) to see if it still smells and starting to sneeze a bunch right after. Surely the two are not related 🤔😂

That is an absolute mood lol

#ask away! #itsbumblebunnybee #I think I recognize your username! #unless there are multiple bumblebunnybees on tumblr #I saw your username years ago and was like oh I have to make a bunny bee #this was before I learned to sew back in my only crochet days #and I made a little prototype and was like oh it's too cute as just a bee I totally missed the bunny part #and then I had to add two more legs to the pattern because I'd originally made it with just four legs as a bunnybee #so your username inspired what became my tiny bee pattern! :D #(at least I think it was your username? it was several years ago) #idk if I ever actually mentioned that on tumblr since it ended up not being a bunny bee #it's also entirely unrelated to allergy-ing I just saw your username and was like hey!! bee!!!

[codecicle]

[walks through the wall calmly, not breaking it but just VREOEOOOPPPPing through it] one of these days my absolute worst post is going to fucking break containment and i don't know if I'm ever going to be ready for that. is this seat taken? great thanks yeah no it's weird man. this whole thing is weird to me like one day it's inevitable that I'll break containment outside of fandom and just see horrible horrible takes in my notes that I just have to block and move because hold on wait a second what was that.

he's busting it down 140p style. alright then

#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍 #my biggest post has about 2.5k and im never ready for something bigger than that #its not even funny. why was that the one to break it #AND MY OTHER 1k-ERS ARE BOTH CLIPS 😔 #i had the worlds best and funniest idea for a tumblr post in class a few days back and now ive completely forgot it. that felt like the one #but its lost to the void forever now i guess #this was also just an excuse to use this gif i tried so hard to resize it so it was just straight up tiny but tumble scales them back up #</3

[thalys-artcorner]

Finan x Eadith Wedding.

“Do you remember, we were sittin', there by the water? You put your arm around me for the first time You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter sister You are the best thing, that's ever been mine”

#The Last Kingdom #the last kingdom fanart #finan the last kingdom #eadith of mercia #eadith the last kingdom #finan the agile #finan #finan x eadith #my fanart #fanart #fan art #fanartist #seven kings must die #artists on tumblr #digital art #lol you see what i did there #taylor wrote this song for them without knowing so i had to make the tiny tiny adjustment #anyways you just know aethelstan carried the rings #he's their adoptive son #i saw it with my own eyes i remember this scene #of course it's canon

[killuaisaprincess]

I SOMETIMES THINK ANOUT THIS PERSON

#personal #I wonder if they’re out there somewhere #I hope they’re doing okie #I KNOW PEOPLE DONT THINK THEY MAKE MUCH A DIF BUT #when your someone like me who gets very little support and is very tiny #People who share the same opinions of me or even just support me will stick in my brain #if this person is out there even if they’re no longer in fandom or in fandom #but no longer thinks the same I still hope they’re okie #I appreciate your support back then #it was right after I remade so having someone like that really made all the dif #my tumblr notifications are mostly dead these days #my twitters somewhat less but #I honestly might’ve even had more support back then then I do now #but I appreciate the whole two souls who support me here #thank you it means a lot to be not be alone alone #even if it most the time I am just posting to the void