#is a little bit less great

[imperatoralicia]

In Fae Farm, I married the person I walked by almost every day on my way to the mines whose regular schedule consistently included blowing bubbles on the beach for several hours.

They've been an interesting spouse.

#fae farm #fae farm argyle #they really like frogs #which is great #frying a pan on the trilliums #is a little bit less great #your lady needs new wings dear

[dedusmuln]

yeah you support trans people but are you normal about trans men who choose to get pregnant

#i'm not a trans guy who evr wants to get pregnant but #the amount of queer ppl and other trans people i see joke around about like #how weird mpreg or men getting pregnant is #and use it as shock value shit #is really disheartening #like damn dude! it's almost like men CAN get pregnant and there IS a lot of men who choose to get pregnant ! #they don't deserve any less respect for that #and their existence shouldn't be made into a joke #ik mpreg doesn't have a great history but like #it just weirds me out to see people treat the idea of men getting pregnant as something baffling #idk normalize it. stop treating it as some weird alien thing #my textbox #a little bit upset. sorry #discourse #pregnancy #<- for filtering

[keepin-it-on-the-d-l]

What a silly family, I sure hope nothing bad happens to them!

#rare footage of good parenting on this podcast #i kinda stand by the fact that sparrow would’ve been a great dad had it not been for the apocalypse #why don’t we just pretend this was Hero’s training for a little bit #it would make me less sad #my art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #dndads quest #sparrow oak #sparrow oak swallows garcia #hero oak #hero oak swallows garcia #normal oak #normal oak swallows garcia #lark oak #lark oak garcia

[skitskatdacat63]

2023 Dutch Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso

#today is a grand day i intend to make the most out of it #fernando is back from the war what can i say #babygirl looks radiant today!!!!! #he looks so kitty cat in these....i think its the tufts of hair sticking out from under his cap #WHAT A GUY!!!!!! #idec about spamming today #i get self consious about posting too much but god i really could not care less today #the tune of these gifs is Waltz of The Flowers as I mentioned before hehehe flower padre #omg yeah someone pointed it out in the tags of my other post but wow what a great gift for mark's bday!!!! #maybe one day we'll get a podium interview of them together one can only hope #fernando alonso #fa14 #2023 dutch gp #2023 dutch grand prix #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1

[petite-phthora]

It's a date :)

[DP x DC fic]

[Love at first... murder? - part 9]

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Part 1

Ao3

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Private chat nicknames:

RedHood = Jason

Danny = Danny

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The next day, Jason wakes up with a yawn. He stretches, letting out a relieved exhale. That was one of the best nights of sleep he’s had in a long time.

Usually, the Pit’s bothering him, combined with hours of patrolling and fighting crime, usually getting injured as well, he usually wakes up sore and almost just as exhausted as he goes to sleep.

But now…

It was calm. He felt calm.

He didn’t quite dream, though that was fine, as he hadn’t had any nightmares either.

It was… refreshing.

Though, all of it is also kind of… unnerving…

All these good things happening?

The Joker finally dying, meeting a cute guy who doesn’t seem intimidated by him as Red Hood and taking him out on a date, the Pit barely bothering him, sleeping better than he had in years…

With all of that happening, Jason can’t help but wonder…

When is the other shoe gonna drop?

His good mood slightly dampened with disconcertion, Jason gets out of bed with a small grunt. He doesn’t bother to get changed yet, instead moving along to the kitchen to start on breakfast.

After taking in the groceries he has left, Jason starts making some simple bacon and eggs. He catches himself humming while cooking and abruptly stops, continuing his cooking with a small frown on his face.

Why is he feeling this… this… good?

Just what is happening with the Pit?

He’s not enchanted or drugged or anything, is he?

It’s all the unknowns that are making Jason slightly worried.

Are his emotions still his own?

He feels like most of his worries have been stripped from his body. He feels way more comfortable in his skin. He feels happy, content, tranquil…

He just feels so much.

…

But still no rage.

He eats his breakfast while he ponders over his newfound emotional state. It’s as he eats that his eyes land on his phone.

The Bats have probably blown up his phone with calls and messages in the meantime.

And the fact that he doesn’t feel as irritated or mad as he should about it is another point of slight concern.

Either way. Ugh, Jason still doesn’t really want to deal with it.

However…

After he has put his plate away, he picks up his phone anyway and turns it back on. Sure enough, he has too many missed calls and unread messages. And it seems that with his ‘online’ status, some are encouraged again and start sending him more texts.

Jason ignores it all in favor of doing what he had planned to do when turning his phone back on anyway, messaging Danny.

Just so that he has Jason’s number as well

…

And perhaps to plan another date meetup, he thinks with an involuntary soft smile on his face.

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Private chat

RedHood: Hey, it's Red Hood. Just checking in and making sure you also have my number.

RedHood: In case of emergency, of course.

Danny: hi!! 👋😊

Danny: it’s Danny!! 😁                                     

Danny: which you already knew..

Danny: obviously 😅 😅

RedHood: I do now.

RedHood: Who knows, you could’ve given me the wrong number.

RedHood: It’s good to have the confirmation that it’s you :)

Danny: ahh yes!

Danny: good point 👉

RedHood: So, I was wondering if you had the time to meet again sometime this week?

RedHood: I can show you around the city, y’know? Like I mentioned yesterday? :)

Danny: !!!

Danny: yes!! 😁

Danny: that sounds like fun! ☺️ 🙃

Danny: and very useful 🤔

Danny: it’s good to know where not to go 😌

Danny: so I don’t kill another clown 🤡

Danny: haha

Danny: not that I’m like planning on killing another clown! 😰

Danny: no sir, there is no murder on this agenda!! 🙅 🙅

Danny: clowns or otherwise

RedHood: Haha, I didn’t think so.

RedHood: It was pretty clear to me it was self-defense anyway, don’t worry :)

RedHood: Even if it wasn’t, it was the Joker. So who, other than the Bat, cares?

RedHood: And it’s not like I can judge.

Danny: ah, good good

Danny: didn’t want my first impression to be being a murderer 😅 😅

Danny: that’d be bad 😓

RedHood: You don’t need to worry.

RedHood: You made a pretty good first impression in my opinion :)

RedHood: So, when are you free? For the meetup?

RedHood: I can come pick you up at your apartment again, if you want?

Danny: oh yeah that’d be nice!! 😊

Danny: and uhh, lemme check my school schedule real quick brb

Danny: alright, so I have classes till like 12.30 today

Danny: but I’m free from then on 🙃

Danny: minus like, time I need to eat lunch and stuff 😅 😅  

Danny: does that work for you?

Danny: I mean else I could probably do like thursday or something 🤔

Danny: if that works better??

RedHood: Today works just fine. And we can pick up some lunch on the way if need be. My treat :)

RedHood: I’ll come pick you up around 1 pm then?

Danny: it’s a date!! 😁

Danny: I mean sure, totally! it’s not a date!! 🙅 🙅

Danny: unless you want it to be a date?.. 👀

Danny: I mean did you mean for it to be a date?

Danny: is it a date? 🤔 🤔

Danny: I mean I don’t wanna assume 😅

Danny: and like

Danny: I wouldn’t mind if it was a date.. 👀

Danny: or if it wasn’t a date!!

Danny: wouldn’t mind that either, of course 😅  

Danny: I just wasn’t quite sure where we stood 😓 🥺

Danny: and what the context of the meetup was

Danny: ..?

Danny: Red Hood??

RedHood: It’s a date.

RedHood: ;)

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Jason goes offline and turns his phone back off, still pointedly ignoring all the unread messages and missed calls from the Bats. He slides it onto and across the table in front of him and proceeds to put his arms down in front of him, resting his face on them.

Soft smile still on his face and cheeks colored faintly pink, Jason closes his eyes.

It’s a date…

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Taglist:

@i-always-say-yea   @uraniumwizard    @why-must-i-be-like-this   @griffinthing

#dp x dc #dp x dc fic #dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp #dp x dc crossover #dead on main #dead on main ship #jason having no more worries and feeling genuinely happy and in love: are these drugs? am i drugged? #jason who never uses smileys unless to flip someone off: *uses smileys to hopefully put danny a bit at ease/make him a little less nervous* #oh and for those who are confused #Jason put Danny in his contacts as 'Nova'. In-chat nicknames will not be the same as contact names #also i love how it doesnt occur to jason that it might be strange for the ppl of gotham to see red hood going out during the day #like he planned the date as red hood and thats what danny knows him as and stuff #but still going about as red hood when going on an actual date + during the day and stuff doesn't seem like a great idea tbh #oh well

[sapphorror]

Okay but my favorite GIR moments are ALWAYS the ones that imply he's just aware enough of what's going on to know that the thing he's doing will fuck up Zim's day, and he still does it anyway, possibly specifically for that purpose.

#invader zim #gir #iz posting #natterings #most times its not even malicious #or not like SPECIFICALLY malicious beyond gir being a gremlin who enjoys chaos in general #i think a lot of the time he just wants to secure zims attention and making him mad is the easiest way to do it #(+ i mean zim kind of models this strategy all the time so can he really be surprised girs learned it—) #or sometimes the terrible thing will eventually end up leading into accomplishing something useful #and its easy to say this is just fools luck and totally inadvertent on girs part #but there are rare moments that suggest he mightve a little bit done the thing on purpose and im obsessed with that #that one comics issue where he impersonates dib torments zim for days on end and then wheedles zim into praising him for it #lives rent free in my mind #BUT ANYWAY I ALSO THINK THAT MAYBE SOMETIMES IT COULD BE A LITTLE MALICIOUS #given that gir in his natural state isnt really CAPABLE of resentment or anger or even dislike #and the one time he was able to feel those things he turned on zim in less than 24 hrs #in a way that was clearly very personally motivated (note to self write meta about gir goes crazy and stuff i have so much shit to say) #which suggests to me those emotions probably are there festering on some inaccessible level and yknow #imo a little healthy sadism is a GREAT outlet for that #zim absolutely deserves it

[brittlebutch]

Tell me a fun Bill and Ted fact? I know nothing about them really

Bill and Ted is such a fascinating franchise to me bc it's Super Obvious that a majority of people's awareness of it begins and ends with the first movie - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure - and yet there is so much to uncover about these dudes. There are three films, one novelization, like 7 comic series, a cartoon that ran for 2 seasons, a musical, a live action show that ran for 7 (bad) episodes, like 3 video games, and a pretty longstanding run as a Halloween Horror Nights show.

They're also extremely fun characters because there's like, such a prevalent tendency to generalize their character types, but they're actually Super specific personalities. Like, Bill and Ted don't ever use the words 'rad' or 'bro' nor any 'surfer lingo' or 'valley speak', they're not ever sarcastic/ironic they're like Painfully earnest constantly (the writers even specified that Bill and Ted are "these innocents who would wander wide-eyed into any situation and treat everyone exactly the same - completely open, completely friendly" and the Director also refers to the 'Puppy Factor' wrt Bill and Ted, meaning they should both "Be like big Labrador Retrievers who just bounce along and love life",) they Do use the word 'dude' nigh constantly BUT people always underestimate how often they'll use each other's names equally as often, and also they're really not slackers or deliberately dismissive of schooling/education - they are trying really hard, they just genuinely struggle/can't learn things right (you can tell they even kind of Value it because they do make an effort to use like, Expanded Vocabulary, it's just that they don't always fully understand the words so they'll use them wrong on accident) - i just love them so much

#'fun' in a way that's like ogh i could talk about it for forever but also the mischaracterization is SO prevalent that i'm like #any time i venture into the tag i'm like losing my mind just a little bit ack #one of my Favorite moments of characterization for them tho is in the third movie when the great leader is like basically #'20 yrs ago you performed this Huge concert at this really fancy venue. and then 2 months ago you performed at some shitty open mic' #and bill and ted are like 'yeah we did!!' and are equally excited about both mentions bc they make NO distinction between the two #and don't consider one to be more or less important than the other bc they just Genuinely like performing music and it doesn't #matter at all to them the context of that performance OR the audience reception to it bc they love music so much that all the rest #is just noise to them - aughhh i love them so much #also AUGH thank you for asking <3 #bnt

[egginfroggin]

Escape.

I was going to do something angsty for this one, but ended up not feeling like it because I was having trouble figuring out how to go about it.

So, instead, have this quick little happy thing. Babymas, a shockingly well-behaved baby Archeops, and an escaping baby Excadrill.

Version without the blur below the cut.

Have a good day!

<Previous, first, next>

(Program used: Krita; time taken: about 1 hour, 10 minutes)

#pokemon #pokemon fanart #submas #babymas #subway boss emmet #subway boss ingo #monthofemmet #eggin creatin' #this one is a bit rough because I wanted to do something quick #but I like it honestly #cute little things #archen pokemon #drilbur #can't forget those tags #drilbur's little feets were fun to draw #and that thing sticking out of emmet's pocket is a flashlight #also emmet's shirt is partially untucked #he's a little less tidy than his brother #drilbur is the great equalizer in their messiness though #look at her go. she wants to be free #original idea involved iced tracks; I might get it down at a later date

[skyward-floored]

AHHH I totally understand that I actually struggled with that when playing HW!

It made me so uncomfortable, I wouldn’t play it on the tv just the handheld way bc I had so much anxiety about it

My older brother (who hasn’t played HW just a few other Zelda games) kept referring to her as the ‘shirtless sorcerer’ bc he’d get glimpses of Cia when I would play on the TV (before we play as Cia lol)

AH I'M NOT ALONE thank you, yep. it's soooo uncomfortable :(

The biggest problem for me is that whenever I play video game I always have an audience; my younger siblings and my dad always like to watch me play stuff. Which makes it a lot of fun but also I'd like my younger siblings to retain at least a little innocence for a while, plus... it's just awkward when my dad is watching abdhbkfhdg

There should be like, a modesty mode or something XD

#i mean i was literally playing it and Cia came on screen and my little brother was like 'ohhh THAT'S why it's rated T' i just about died #answers from the floor #anon #hyrule warriors #and a few of the other outfits aren't... great. either #but they're less obvious at least #like i think zelda could use a bit more up there but its not tooooo bad #but Cia? oog #just... really unnecesary

[moderntimeadventure]

The main guys minus Jake bc I didn't have room

Wheehoo :))

#i guess this au is more centered around the teenagers and because i made jake be older he's a little less there?? #which is a bit sad bc he's a great character and quite literally the second main character but its ok ok?? #i want things to make sense and also im giving him other roles #adventure time #modern time adventure au #fanart #mta doodles #mta finn #mta au #mta phoebe #flame princess #mta fern #mta bonnie #mta marceline #finn the human #marceline the vampire queen #princess bubblegum #fern mertens #misp draws

[hailqiqi]

Sometimes it annoys me that Show!Lucy is so...afraid, compared to Book!Lucy.

She runs from that Cold Maiden, where Book!Lucy would have stood and fought. She panics and simply thumps at the trap door in the Bickerstaff Mansion, where Book!Lucy would have used the flares at her workbelt and her rapier to buy herself some time. She shuts the iron doors at the mill, where Book!Lucy drew her rapier and ran towards the screams.

But then again...

Show!Lucy is 16, and has only been an agent for 3 years. Book!Lucy might be only 13 or 14 at the start, but she'd been an agent for at least 5 years when the incident at the Mill happened. Book!Lucy had pride in her identity as an agent - instilled in her back when Jacobs was sober and a good supervisor - and a good 6-7 years of experience before the Bone Glass case, whereas Show!Lucy is still scraping by on her 3 years of experience, and hasn't had a real opportunity to find pride in being an agent yet.

They're different characters. And honestly, I like it -- the characters were aged up for the show, but it wasn't just their ages but the world around them and all the background and growth that goes with that. Book!Lucy would have been a very different girl if she had become an agent at 13 instead of 8, I'm sure, and it's nice that we get to see that What-If played out on screen.

#lockwood and co #lucy carlyle #just rewatching the bickerstaff episode got me thinking #how small changes to our lives can create big changes to our persons #i like how none of the main trio are as prickly as they are at the beginning of the books #because they're all a little bit more emotionally mature because age #but they're also not as good at being agents as they are in the books #because they've all got much less experience #in the books all three are pretty damn good at being agents but not so great at being people at the start #and in the show it's the other way round #and it's believable and fascinating and a lot of fun!

[heartsyncproductions]

Future Game Jam Idea I want to make happen

Putting this on my Tumblr instead of just my Twitter because I never pay attention to Twitter so I forgot about this idea BUT

During my Year in Review it made me realize part of the reason why I don't interact with the community as much as I'd like is that it doesn't really feel easy to break in, in a way that feels comfortable with interacting with others. I think the rise of so many communities being so heavily focused around Discord makes it super unfriendly to some people as well (I'm in the Indie Otome Discord now, however it took since 2022 to take that step to join any type of server due to my Schizoeffective Disorder/paranoia making Discord really scary asfjdlkafjl) and it just made me think.

What if there was a game jam whose whole point was to help with the anxiety of making a game/interacting with the community? Rambling thoughts below:

Placeholder name and subtitle: The No Stakes Game Jam (The jam to help you find friends and community)

One of the things I learned through doing three game jams last year, is that it's so much less daunting to comment on a game when it's expected of me vs commenting on a game when it isn't. It's so silly I know, as a game dev I love when people comment idc if I know them or not. But I think since I'm /also/ a developer it makes me overthinking it really bad. But you know. Life hack: you can't overthink commenting when it's expected of you-

Like there could be a requirement of like "You have to comment on at least one other game or else your entry will be removed" or something, and then there could be like a Bingo card with extra challenges if participants wanted to.

I was also thinking of using the discussion board to share resources to manage anxiety/mental health (since game jams can be stressful even for people who don't struggle with the community/socializing part) as well as posting maybe a check in or two throughout the jam depending on how long I run it.

There could also be two version of it:

Non-ranked for those that just want to try engaging more with other game devs and

And a ranked version specifically made for those anxious about critiques/reviews/etc both in giving and receiving and would have posts and resources to help manage anxiety around the topic, as well as general advice on how to learn to critique and how to manage getting feedback as well

The Non ranked version would happen first so that way people could transition from there to the ranked version after (obviously people can just do one or the other).

Anyway, this is just coming from someone with severe paranoia around internet spaces and is trying to think of ways to make it easier for others. If you've read through all this, thank you! And if you like the idea/have thoughts feel free to add on or share! I actually really want to make this happen at some point if I'm able to!

#game jam #indie games #game development #visual novel #idk this might be a weird idea since it's a little less about the game and more about forming a community around making a game #in a way that might be easier for people but there will still be a bit of focus on just the nerves of making a game as well #and it should hopefully feel super beginner friendly #like I remember posting my first game I wanted to perish asfljkda #and sometimes Determination or something isn't enough to beat the Mental Illness ya know? #anyways I'm rambling thanks for tuning in #also the indie otome discord is great my brain is just on fire #very much a me problem

[permanentreverie]

.

#ok so mini rant session #i am doing a bit better today - little less distraught over getting fired from a job i thought i was doing pretty good at and i was trying #really hard and genuinely enjoying #and just more baffled because truly i had no warning and i was completely blindsided #i was in the middle of a 3 month trial and i would have a review at the end in which i would be offered a permanent position if it went well #and i thought i was making my way towards that! granted i was still making mistakes but genuinely not of such a great scale i thought it #called for my immediate dismissal #that being said i was still VERY MUCH IN TRAINING. i had only been there A MONTH AND A HALF learning COMPLETELY NEW SYSTEMS #and i was told that i had been there a few weeks already and that i wasn’t catching on quick enough. that there were some areas i was #understanding and others i just simply wasn’t #and i asked what areas specifically so that i could learn more and try harder #and they didn’t give me a specific answer. #ok and so. so. i have this insecurity. #that at first impression people will like me. that they may think i’m pretty or kind or funny or whatever #but then they spend time with me or get to know me and realize that that’s all bullshit. #that i’m actually not pretty and im mean and loud and selfish and lazy and rude and etc etc etc #MASSIVE fucking insecurity in that like that’s why i genuinely don’t have friends or a significant other #and that genuinely i’m just a Bad Person #and when i was fired? i was told ‘a persons true colours show after a few weeks’ #so that’s MAJORLY fucking me up. #when i was hired i was boasted to about my boss’s hiring process and how she’s ’only been fooled twice’ #and the morning before i was fired in a meeting my supervisor told everyone that i was doing quite well. #so yeah i truly had no fucking warning. at fucking all. #hurt and confused and angry and baffled and did i mention hurt #anyways if you’re still here i’m sorry i know this is not a good look for me

[irregularbillcipher]

also found a doodle of kryptos’ “suspiciously unmarried uncle” who i mentioned in my post yesterday. dont think he’s ever gonna show up in my fic proper, but he has been mentioned twice so far, and a few times in future chapters— he’s the one who sends andy birthday money

#rene is a character i think about a lot tbh even though he will never make a physical appearance in my fic #he's the only positive famliy figure andy has but he also like... never comes over and (understandably) spends as little time as possible #around his horrible father and horrible brother in law and less awful but still not very kind sister so he just avoids the entire family #so he also just... doesn't spend time with his nephew and doesn't realize just how much kryptos needs like. a nice family figure #he sends birthday money and is actually genuinely affectionate on the very rare instances andy sees him #but he's not even close to being a constant enough figure in his life for him to be an actual trusted adult #he's also a doctor who deals with irregularity so there's that distance because andy doesn't... particularly trust irregularity doctors! #rene himself is like... more compassionate than the average doctor who 'treats' irregulars and attempts to be as 'decent' as he can be #but that only really goes so far y'know. especially when you're still working within a horrible system #which rene very much is #and it's genuinely great for the occasional patient whose life he improves but he is also complicit in SO many horrible things #and kryptos is just.. aware of that so there's always been that bit of distance especially since he befriended bill #my art

[cephalog0d]

I appreciate that something that has been preserved across multiple reboots/retellings (aside from Dick not understanding how couches work and having terrible taste in lounge clothes) is Dick finding the idea of Jason stealing Batman's tires hilarious.

Because it is, he's correct, it's extremely funny.

(Sources: Nightwing (1996) and Nightwing (2016))

#comics #comic panels #comics out of context #dick grayson #jason todd #nightwing #robin #I also love what dramatic little brats they both are in the 96 version #Tbh that's generally the energy I use to write them in stuff because I find it extremely funny and fun to write #like they're both a little bit assholes to each other but they're pretty good at the teamwork thing #ALMOST LIKE SIBLINGS AMIRITE #Also that deeply suspicious side eye from Jay in the 2016 one is great just wait buddy he does not get less ridiculous

[tragedykery]

​getting tired of the amount of elaboration on fire nation citizens/culture in comparison to the other nations (especially the water tribes and air nomads) tbh.

#atla #I like the kyoshi novels and they did quite a bit of worldbuilding for the ek & fn which is great! #but the dawn of yangchen did. not have the same energy #I mean it did have worldbuilding for the water tribes & air nomads but it just felt. less #korra is the main character and from the southern water tribe yet there was very little elaboration on wt culture in tlok #even in season two #the only thing I can remember is seaweed noodles which. couldn’t they have chosen food that is actually from the culture they’re trying to #portray? I wonder if they actually did any research at all #(not that it’s better if they did but just decided ‘no that’s not good enough we’ll go with seaweed noodles’ obviously) #and now that princess zeisan thing? #I wonder if there are many air nomads characters in the thing she’s from #elli rambles #I guess this can be about fanfic too #I don’t read a whole lot of it but just from browsing & ao3’s stats it’s. not looking good