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[misspepita]

oh! nothing exciting to update about except i got another tattoo

#useless text posts #its a death heads moth and its on my thigh and i love it

[thenightisland]

people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist

#measuring the size of fandoms based on their goncharov index #this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming #rote has a goncharov index of 0.63 #for perspective ofmd has an index of 26.5 #spn's is 360.8 #the cosmere is 2.26 for a fantasy book comparison #i am very normal #post

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

okay so hear me out. actually reading Moby Dick made me realize how fucking hard Oda went calling Whitebead's ship that.

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[ash-and-starlight]

modern au and esen’s honkers are haunting the instagram feed

#id in alt text #yea this was inspired by That watermelon smashing vid #if u don’t know what i’m talking about you’re living a more peaceful life than i am #at first I was like hm maybe this is a bit too ooc for ouyang #then I remembered the 'doEs GeNerAL Xu pLAY thE FLuTE???' and I was like nah ok it checks out #no filter & accidentally revealing how much of a gayass he is is how he rolls #also rip Ma she's just trying to hang out with her boygf and that hideous Pest that Wretched Thang that useless twink #just manifests wherever zhu is and ruins the mood #she deserves to hatecrime him as much as possible #also I don't think esen is 100% aware he's posting blatant thirst traps. his insta is mostly pics of his horses and his beautiful eagle #then one vid of him doing mounted archery that breaks the internet for 3 weeks #rinse and repeat #also yeah wang's special skill is starting shit in the comments section #he would absolutely thrive in the toxic waste that is social media fights #ty for reading this far. more unhinged takes at 5 #esen-temur #zhu yuanzhang #ma xiuying #general ouyang #the radiant emperor #she who became the sun #he who drowned the world #my art

[theletterwsarseflap]

me reporting and blocking the bots in my followers

#useless text post #half life full life consequences

[bruciemilf]

Jason's never seen Bruce cry before.

He often admires the sharp cut of his jaw flexing, clenching tight when he's yelled at. By Gordon, by the mayor, by an unhappy civilian displeased with the justice they're handed.

He sees Bruce's lips pressed together, his brown eyes polished by a sad sheen when Dickface won't answer his phone. The birthday cake glares on the table like a bad omen.

When Jason asks for extra homework (no, he's not a nerd, Steph) and lecture, he requests Bruce read to him; He does like his voice. Soft, satiny, almost calming. If they weren't putrid rich, he'd make a goldmine in audiobooks.

They read The Mask Of Zorro, and he doesn't see Bruce for a few days.

A part of Jason doesn't like it; He's Robin. He's supposed to be magic. It works on everyone else, so why not on Bruce? Why not on someone Jason wants to be happy?

"I am happy, Jaylad. "

" Nice effort. Put more soul into it. You're almost making me believe you."

They've been driving a while. He knows what Bruce is trying to do. He's trying to lull him to sleep, like Jason's some baby.

" You are a baby,"

" I'm 9! I'm gonna be 10 soon! That's a full adult in the Narrows," Bruce's face, -- Batman's, -- betrays no reaction, but it's clear he wants to say something. But chooses not to. For some reason, that makes Jason fume quietly.

There's fingers tickling him.

He screeches, trying to push Bruce away, nevermind his tiny hands. Giggles and snorts and boisterous laughter fills the Batmobile, flooded by Jason's screams. " STOP! I DON'T CONSENT TO THIS!"

"Say you're a baby,"

" I'm-- I'm a baby, okay, I'm a baby,"

Satisfied , Bruce mercifully retreats, leaving Jason to wheeze and pant. It's really important, to capture these moments of joy. Gotham gives quick and takes quicker.

He wishes he wasn't so right.

It's clear on Bruce's face he didn't plan to come across any preps. "I know those guys," Jason hisses, watching a familiar clown gang lurk around the batmobile like a murder. "Joker's boys."

"Stay here."

"No! You don't have to do this alone!"

Bruce doesn't listen. Maybe that'll be their fate forever. Jason, screaming and reaching for him, and Bruce pushing him away to spare him.

And he doesn't know how they got him; That green stuff doesn't burn, not from what Jason sees over his spiking panic, but it does something, because Bruce falls like rain.

"No!"

His fists pound on the window, maybe to escape, maybe to get their attention. But if you get the Bat down, keep him there. Till he bleeds. And no one makes Batman bleed.

Bruce doesn't cry; He doesn't cry when they punch him, when they kick him, when they stab him, when they stomp his head, when they break his jaw with a crowbar,

Jason does, thought.

Tears of the father are wept by the son.

That laughter haunts him for years.

#BABY JAY :( WANTS TO HELP HIS PAPA DAMN IT #you ever think about robins watching their dad get beat tf up and feeling useless cause bruce wont let them help. yeah. same #bruce wayne #jason todd #dc #dcu #dc comics #batdad #batman #battinson #text #text post #my writing

[the-littlest-wing]

I’ve seen a couple of posts calling Jason a leash kid and I’m not sure I agree.

Jason wasn’t a leash kid. He was pretty well behaved: respected his mama, was always home before dark, could be entertained at doctors offices and parties with a book. He and Catherine had a good relationship and there would have been no reason to leash him.

Jason is a leash adult. When he died, he (rightfully) became a Problem TM.

Bruce would never leash Robin Jason, but man does he wish he could leash Red Hood Jason.

#useless squaks #Jason Todd #text post #mine

[yardsards]

thinking of the Implications of the blight parents signing their 14 year old daughter up for emperor's coven tryouts

because

1: the emperor's coven takes their recruits away from their friends and family

2: they do not wait until you are an adult to do this

(like, even assuming the process from getting accepted into the coven to actually joining it and moving to the castle aren't as fast as hunter makes it sound here it's like.

we do see lilith having dinner at home after eda's been cursed. so it wasn't immediate (at least back then it wasn't)

but they weren't waiting til she was an adult either. cuz eda was 2 years younger than lilith (thus at least 2 years younger than whatever the boiling isles considers an adult, cuz we know lilith was still a student then too) and she and lilith planned on joining at the same time. there wasn't a "well, eda can't actually *join* join for two more years, so she might as well wait for next tryout anyway"

which, tryouts might not be *yearly*, perhaps it's more efficient to not have to run the training camp every year, but i don't imagine they'd be less often than every couple of years)

so this?

the blight parents are 100% willing to send their FOURTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD away *forever*

14 years old. not even done with puberty yet. half a head shorter than her siblings and a whole head shorter than her parents. face still covered in baby fat.

this is a child who is called *mittens* by not only her siblings but by the very parents who were willing to send her away

and they weren't just sending her off to live far-ish away and rarely see them again; they were sending her off to have a Real Grownup Job. even if exactly how bad working for the emperor is isn't a well-known fact, it's still obviously a full-time job.

odalia has wanted amity to join the emperor's coven for a long time. after all, having a daughter in the emperor's coven would bring a lot of prestige to the family, and she could maybe try to leverage amity's position to gain more power

and odalia can be an impatient woman, so it makes sense that she'd want this to happen as soon as possible. not to mention, she's canonically not averse to child labour

(i briefly considered that maybe odalia wanted amity out of her life but i don't think that's the case. odalia doesn't outright hate amity; odalia's cruelty comes from seeing her family as tools (and seeing amity as very useful but flawed) rather than malice)

meanwhile, alador explains his choice by saying he thought it was what amity wanted

and it's addressed that that's not really her dream (at least, it DEFINITELY isn't anymore. they way she used to "want" to join the emperor's coven is worthy of its own post tbh). and that if he paid attention to her, talked to her, listened to her, and made himself a person that she could comfortably admit these kinds of things to, then he'd know that.

but he also ignores her when she says she doesn't want to go to tryouts that night (even if she didn't admit that she never wants to join the emperor's coven at all) and wants to go to the bonesborough brawl instead.

doesn't stop to question why his daughter -who has previously shown herself to be rather studious, responsible, and goal-oriented- would suddenly want to "goof off". he just... assumes she's being irresponsible and thoughtlessly not pursuing "her dream" or "a bright future" for no reason, and just needs to be pushed into doing the supposedly responsible thing

but that doesn't quite explain why he's convinced that she needs to do this at *age fourteen*, why her future can't wait a few more years, why her dream needs to happen as soon as possible before her childhood's even over. (and i'm not gonna take "because odalia said so" as an answer here; he's clearly convinced that what he's doing is right and is not just mindlessly following orders)

well, first possibility: i think maybe, while he's not as bad or blatant about it as his wife, he might also think material success is the key to happiness (and the emperor's coven is considered one of the most successful positions in the world, next to being a covenhead)

and with that kind of mindset, a lot of the things that would bring the children actual happiness just get forgotten. their needs for attention and affection, for friendship and leisure, for the freedom to express themselves, for the chance to just be kids, all get thrown by the wayside -sacrificed in the name of "success"

by that line of thinking: joining the emperor's coven = material success and material success = happiness. and if joining the emperor's coven = happiness, then joining sooner = being happy sooner. and why wouldn't a parent want their child to find happiness as soon as possible? unfortunately her age and specific needs are not in that equation at all, even though they're obviously actually very important factors

(you could also honestly apply this reasoning to odalia herself as well, if you want to be charitable. cuz i've seen good arguments that she does actually care about her family's wellbeing, but in a twisted sort of way, wherein her priorities are extremely skewed AND it gets obscured by her own selfishness. idk, the show's characterization of her is weird, even compared to her husband (i blame the s3 shortening rushing their development, tbh). so i waited to bring this up til after i started talking about alador.)

there's also a second possibility: maybe he realizes that their home environment is bad for amity (which, it is), and thinks getting her out of there early by any means would be good for her (which, not quite the case)

maybe not even by noticing her actual misery, but by projecting his own misery onto her. like, he's in an abusive marriage and severely overworked. when he says amity has a bright future, he's kind of contrasting her with himself, and -consciously or not- implying that his life is not what a bright future looks like (which kind of goes against the first possibility, because he is rather financially successful). and he's very afraid of his children having to take his place: probably especially amity, because she's the abomination witch and would be more likely to have to take on his exact job

(ironically, though he doesn't know it, emperor's coven members are just as overworked and controlled as he is)

except, y'know, leaving a toxic home environment to become fully self sufficient is not the kind of upgrade for a kid that it would be for an adult. it'd just be throwing her from one bad situation to another

and also it's your responsibility as a parent to provide an environment for your child that they don't need to escape from. and while some concessions can be made due to the whole abusive wife situation, that doesn't absolve him of all responsibility.

like, the whole point of his role in reaching out was that the WERE things that he COULD do better. like, he became a better father at the end of that episode than he was at the beginning. and none of that change was due to "my wife changed, so i now have the ability to be a better father"; odalia wasn't involved in that growth at all

#eliot posts #toh #the owl house #toh meta #amity blight #odalia blight #alador blight #i love analyzing this family's deeply messed up dynamics if that fact weren't obvious already #*lifts up the blight family* every last one of yinz need therapy #sidenote most of these screenshots are basically useless in making my point #the adhd just likes pictures to break up text blocks #long post #anyway. *puts the blight parents into a blender*

[bubbipond]

I don't understand the criticism behind Jeff looking "fine" in episode 10. Considering his character, he seemed pretty Jeff-ish to me. He looked sad and frozen in fear. The thing is, I think he IS sad and scared regardless of what happens. He has constantly seen a future where they all die and it seemingly comes down to the only family he has ever had, Charlie. Regardless of the crash, funeral, and other's reactions, he looks completely overwhelmed by everything. He hates his senses and has always had a hard time being around people with the knowledge of their futures. His flirting with Alan could easily be seen to the other characters as "seizing the moment cause you never know when your last day on earth is" after the death of Charlie. But I would not say that he seemed fine with everything. He is just far more calm than Babe in every sense of the word. Also, keep in mind the scene where Alan leaves his apartment (in episode 9), he sees another future. Multiple parts of which we have seen come to fruition. Like Dean attacking Babe (ep 10), Charlie on a stretcher(presumably ep 11), and the ambulance truck from a preview of episode 11. But that's just my feelings and I will protect Pon/Jeff with my life, lmao.

#pit babe the series #pit babe spoilers #pitbabe the series ep 10 #alan x jeff #babe x charlie #charlie x babe #thai bl #useless text post #pitbabe

[philtstone]

more ponniyin selvan + text posts for @foolgobi65

#once again in my useless meme era #ponniyin selvan #i needed better text posts for poonguzhali and vanathi and arunmozhi tbh #the greatest bangers are always aditha and nandini. bc they are the craziest and thus the funniest #text post meme #aditha karikalan #vandiyadevan #arunmozhi varman #poonguzhali #kundavai #nandini #aditha x nandini #also SEMBANNNN! my beloved bastard horse.

[asukachii]

July 2023 || Animage Magazine Cover [cleaned]

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post this edit somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use it in graphic edits/videos. Thanks~)

#jujutsu kaisen #jjk #gojou satoru #getou suguru #jjk edit #animage #my edit #asukachii #they're so prettyy #at first i thought getou was holding gojou's waist. #edit: i think someone has posted a scan of this poster (so already without text) somewhere? me cleaning this has been useless but it's ok #it's been some good old practice #i didn't know this magazine would include a poster of the front cover... i want it on my wall ; v ;

[misspepita]

got piercing number 9 today ٩(✿∂‿∂✿)۶

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[decamarks]

I hate to talk about other people's Tumblr posts, but,

Please learn what words mean. [1]

#They put machine learning into spellcheck‚ which made it useless exactly 25 years later. I guess. #I'm not a big fan of how LLMs are being used for text-editing software either but come on... #Though it is funny to imagine that the real reason Google Docs screws up is because it's having a nervous breakdown‚ #due to being forced to read thousands of pages of kin drama callout posts.

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

an attempt to explain something about context i guess.

#useless text post #poetry

[thenightisland]

i have been joking with @tragediegh for some time about the word count on her (pun absolutely intended) beloved fic of cats and closed doors and that for many months i have had it on what i dubbed "Les Mis Watch" as i kept track of what classic novels she had outpaced in sheer number of words. well......

congrats my friend. you are now officially on "War and Peace Watch" instead

#tragediegh #this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming #@everyone who reads this: congrats you have read something longer than les miserables

[britneyshakespeare]

one thing that i think sounds petty, but isn’t, concerning the reputation of britney spears post-conservatorship, is reevaluating the art she has produced and the talents she has always had. i don’t think people who never really appreciated her work before understand that britney spears’ legacy does not deserve to be “a beautiful woman abused and tortured by the media and culture of her time” as this flat, tragipornographic figure. we do that to enough women in history. britney spears is still alive. britney spears is still not even old! listen to her music. talk about her as an artist. stop reducing her to only her personal sufferings, which she never asked to be known for.

#text post #britney #britney spears #it's hard to explain this bc she was and still is of course a monumental popstar. so influential so impactful. unparalleled in her prime #but at the same time her music while being beloved was not 'respected'... it was lowbrow #it was easy to see the woman who made it as dumb and frivolous and disposable despite how much ppl consumed it #and still do!!! ppl reference britney's music and imagery across her discography all the time #but it's almost like ppl reference britney as if she's... spongebob. like a fictional thing that somebody made up. #when we do talk about her art #it feels like except from her dedicated fans she doesn't get due credit for her talents or ownership over her image #it's easy to degrade someone if you just see them as a stupid useless popstar who makes stupid useless pop music #anyway anyway anyway leave britney alone #but also do uphold her music and credit her as an artist pls. thank you.