#very well done dick

[faeriekit]

"Okay." Danny slowly laid the already cold body back onto the table, ready to slide back it into the refuge of cold storage. "Okay. Dead guy. Stay there."

The body didn't move.

"Fantastic. Now. Hang out while I pour the embalming fluid into the pump, alright? It should only be a minute."

And it usually did; working in a funeral home wasn't extremely glamorous, but it paid the bills, and Danny had already been used to the rhyme and rhythm of negotiating death with the public by the time he sent in his mortuary school application. It had been a transition that made sense. And in the end, the degree had only cost him a few extra years post-graduation and a little dig into student loans, and now Danny had a stable 12-8 job and health insurance valid in the state of new jersey.

Today, though, the pump had that decided enough was enough. With a bang and a boom, the pump spat out a cloud of smoke and clunked uncomfortably.

The dead body sat up.

Danny scrambled over to push it back down. "No. We talked about this. Dead people don't move. If you want to stay here and have me put you back together all the time, you have to stay put. Got it?"

Whatever the weird gold-eye corpses were on in Gotham, they at least listened to him on occasion. They weren't ghosts, per se— they never pinged on any of the ghost detection devices Mom and Dad had packed in his going-away-to-college bag— but they were, despite being occasionally animate, perfectly deceased.

Weird. Danny had never gotten used to it. Still, they came in droves, too eager to sit on the top of the basement stairwell and lurk in the corners and stare endlessly at them with their weird, avian eyes, and sometimes they heralded the arrival similarly weird-ass bodies that had lost their heads or their arms or their limbs through the more conventional channels.

"I'm losing too much thread to all y'all coming in all the time," Danny complained to the dead body, who, at the moment, was the only person present to blame. "Stop getting your limbs cut off. This stuff is expensive, you know. It's a specialty order."

The body didn't even have the courtesy to blink. Rude.

"At least let them bury you this time. Every time one of you darts off when my back's turned, my boss thinks I'm stealing corpses. My coworkers think I'm building my own Frankenstein or something."

The corpse neither verbalized nor blinked, but Danny hadn't expected it to; with a sigh, he rolled the corpse back into cold storage, locked its little door (not that locking it in had ever stopped it) and called it quits for the night.

It's not like anyone was paying him for the extra hours anyway.

#I'm very pro Danny accidentally adopts a whole bunch of Talons #people have definitely done it before but this scene came to me in a vision #a horrible caffeinated vision #could absolutely be an excuse for #talon!dick #talons #dp x dc #faer fic #dpxdc #dcxdp #talon!au #dcu crossover #death tw #well. the funeral industry anyway #medical tw #just in case #corpse tw #¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #free to a good home

[danny-chase]

Dick "watch this" Grayson

Teen Titans (1966) #10

#this is genuinely very unnecessary too he's just going to go hit a guy he could have rode one #Dick: wait i can use my circus training here #Donna: but like do you need to? #Dick: ...well... no... #Dick: but it's more fun this way #*proceeds to pull a stunt that could kill him if he so much as sneezes at the wrong time* #I'm now thinking about the time he ziplined while on a motorcycle sjdjdjsnsk #a compilation of stupid shit Dick's done on motorcycles would be so funny shshshdj #the vibe change from *I'm doing my best* Dick Grayson to standing on two motorcycles Dick Grayson is top tier #dick grayson #robin #teen titans #id in alt

[yaboisnelf]

im so tired. have dickroy sketches cus i havent posted in 2 months. i wont post again ❤️ when i do itll have duke prommy

#digital art #sketch #dc #procreate #dick grayson #roy harper #they are the worst couple ever. i hope they die happy together. #dg pussy is an illness ☹️☹️☹️ that roy is happy to have 😏😏 its terminal ‼️‼️‼️ #'jason isnt the angry robin' ok well. have you considered hes a 12 year old boy. with evil older brother. yeah. #hes still not yk but also all of them aee because thats (imo) the point of robin. childrens rightous anger at a world that harms them yk #i have a timeline. theyre very on and off couple core. they argue on vacations. theyre never not touching eachother #how many jokes can i fit in here #one time dg was sobbing at the kitchen table and roy was like 'omg r u ok :(' and dg went 'LOOK AT HIM :((((' and sticks his arm out #and shows the ugliest fucking action figure roy has ever seen of himself and roys like 'hes really ugly' and dgs like 'IK I LOVE HIM SMMM' #sometimes when that happens roy asks if dicks on his period #when dg is mad at roy he'll whine to people about him w roy right beside him. roy is normal and just whines to any animal or child he finds #ok im done ❤️

[lord-squiggletits]

NGL I think one of my least favorite "gotchas" that I see/get while critiquing stories is "so how would you fix it? oh so you don't have an idea of how to rewrite the story to make it better? oh so basically you're just complaining that you don't like it and don't have actual critique."

Buddy.

Sometimes the reason I don't have a "solution" to how the author should've rewritten their story to be better, is because I'm not privy to the author's thought process, what their alternate story ideas were, what they talked about with their editor, what they might've been forced to do by deadlines, or even what they might've thought they were writing towards at first but then later changed the trajectory of their story to be about something else.

It's all well and good for me to say something like, idk, "I think Character A should've gotten more narrative focus because their story could have helped fix XYZ Plot Hole," but it could very well be that the author never intended for Character A to be a prominent character (just a secondary or tertiary character). Maybe using Character A to solve one Plot Hole would've gone against the writer's plans because then it would open up a different plot hole for something else they had planned later in the story. If it's an ongoing story, maybe something I see as a "plot hole" is actually a deliberate mystery that the creator left open to write about later-- or maybe the plot hole is because there was a deadline crunch and the author had to drop a certain character/plot point/etc because they couldn't fit it into the story any more. Maybe having Character A be a more prominent part of the story is just based on MY personal tastes and what I would want to write in MY version of the story, but completely clashes with the characters/conflicts the author wanted to focus on.

Because yes, there are some story critiques that are as simple as "part A doesn't make sense, you could just fix it by doing B", but there are also some story critiques where suggesting a viable "solution" would require BEING the author or someone involved in the production of the story to understand what limitations or plans were involved in the selection of that flawed plot point. There are also some story critiques where even if there is a "problem" and my critique offers a "solution," there could be another "solution" or even dozens that do just as good of a job fixing the issue, but involve vastly different characters, plot ideas, so on and so forth.

Being a good critic isn't (just) about going "the story would've been better if X happened" because the story is ultimately in control of the author and their vision, and without knowing what the author's vision was (something that you almost exclusively know if you're 1. the author or 2. their beta reader), it's impossible to definitively say "this plot point should've been cut/[completely different thing] should've happened instead" because THAT is the point at which you're complaining, not critiquing. I would argue that in some cases, trying to "fix" a story yourself actually makes your critique worse, not better, because it ends up being a case of you simply imposing your artistic vision over the author's to say "I think it would've been better this way."

At least if you just say "this part of the story was flawed because XYZ" without saying "it should have been ABC instead", then you're stating your grievances with the story without being presumptuous enough to assume that YOUR version of the story would fit the author's original vision, or the constraints they were working under, or the other versions of the story that they were debating over at the time before ultimately settling on one version (even if flawed).

There's a point at which "this plot is flawed, that should've happened instead" is just fix-it fan fiction and not actual critique that could help the writer write their story in a way that fits their vision.

#squiggposting #discourse #i think the closest you can get to definitively saying 'the author should've done X instead' #would be something like JRO and the handbooks he recently released where he actually revealed alternate plot ideas #or like what the reasoning was behind different plot points. as well as what he did and didn't include and why #because THEN with a more clear understanding of the behind the scenes/what the author wanted to achieve #THEN you would have more information to be able to say 'this alternative storyline would've solved this plot hole' #or to even say 'actually those alternate ideas weren't as good and picking the canon flawed plot made a better story' #like for god's sake ppl apparently don't understand that art and storytelling and creativity are subjective #sometimes if i don't have a solution it's not bc my critique is invalid. it's bc there's multiple ways to fix it #and i'm not the author so idk which way of fixing the story would best suit their intentions/purposes/limitations #despite what snobs seem to think it's very possible for you to say 'this is flawed' and not know what the fix for it is #it's like how you can eat restaurant food and go 'something about this tastes bland' #w/o having to know what ingredients went into the recipe or how it's supposed to taste #and in that case unless you literally know the recipe or are a chef you would come off as a dick #if you tried to dictate to the kitchen what they did wrong and how to fix it #for some reason story critics are terrified of ambiguity and uncertainty and subjectivity and idk why #it is very easy and not intellectually wrong for a person to say 'this is flawed' and not have a solution for how to fix it

[voltrons]

there is something sooo eerie about reading for pre-crisis jason. readers then knew how it would end. you in the present know how it ends. you know he gets a second chance. you know how that ends.

but he doesn’t! he’s always looking up at dick.

it’s the most heavy handed foreshadowing To Ever Exist and dick is still painted as the optimist.

#dick has a few interesting complexes about the past and his experiences but #i think a very interesting one is that he seems to take pride in the uniqueness of his situation #i don’t know if i can explain this well #but the phenomenon of knowing something that happened to you was a fluke #dick is very very angry for a very long time #but where bruce feels the injustice done to him is functionally so different from any other injustice and stays stagnant in that #NO DIFFERENT** #dick is able to separate himself from that moment and move beyond it #he operates out of the hope of preventing future injustices #but not in the name of His Particular Injustice #to have His Particular Injustice lining up in front of him and still operate out of that hope???? #or naivety???? #hmmmmmm #INCH RESTING #flynn.txt #dick grayson #jason todd #bruce wayne #text

[beevean]

I love when the Writing is so Peak that it pretty much gaslights you <3

anyway N!Lisa may be a classist dick but not even she deserves to be married to a man she sees as a devil. what's with this show and trying to paint obviously unhealthy abusive relationships as the cutest thing just because there's some mild banter between them

#anti netflixvania #as i said on discord but it didn't make the cut #i would say “i hope the dick was good” but no i very much doubt it #all jokes aside an italian movie that recently came out on netflix sparked once again the topic of romanticized abusive relationships #especially of the format “bad boy/girl who can fix him” #(where the bad boy is a violent piece of shit and the girl has no other personality other than wanting to selflessly fix others) #and ngl i'm sick and tired of this trope #brooding boy/gentle girl is something else. that can be done either well or in a very boring way #but the fantasy of outright *fixing* a violent man with the power of puss-- i mean kindness? sorry that only leads to disaster #the boy (or rarely girl) needs to *want* to change. there has to be a mutual effort. otherwise he's not a bf he's a project #and n!draculisa is this to a t #there is genuinely more proof that game dracula was a nicer person before lisa's death #either you make a terrible abusive dracula or you commit to the idea that he has good traits obscured by his rage #and maybe if lisa didn't outright call her hubby “worse than satan” i could be convinced

[notmoreflippingelves]

If any of the krisnix fans following me are already DCU fans, I would be very, very curious to pick some of your brains and mine your existing comics knowledge (as my own is very new and somewhat lacking) about a krisnix-centric, Batman-inspired AU.

#ace attorney #krisnix #kristoph gavin #phoenix wright #krisnix batman au #the kris in my head is mainly a blend of jean-paul valley and jason todd with a bit of harvey dent in there #phoenix is mainly dick grayson (altho he's flamebird rather than nightwing) specifically have to reluctantly take up the bat-mantle #cause kris while well-intentioned is not suited to it #the main plot i am imagining is a combo of knightfall and battle for the cowl #despite not yet having read bftc #(it's on my very long tbr list) #so far apollo is tim and trucy has elements of cassandra cain and zatanna as well as dick's role in the court of owls plot #maybe some stephanie too? idk i haven't read much of her either; just the little bits in knightfall and cataclysm #but this is complicated by the fact that i still need to read court of owls too and more of all 3 ladies #and plz don't come at me we with 'why krisnix? a n@rumitsu batman au would be so much better' / b/c #1. i disagree ; 2. i'm sure it's already been done and 3. not everything in this fandom has to be about them

[compacflt]

i'm so curious: what's your favorite thing you've written? something that makes you nod and go, "yeah, that's it right there. i did that." just the best combination of words you've ever churned out in your personal opinion. it makes you proud just Thinking about it. could be a sentence, a paragraph, etc.

very cute ask anon, thank you. im going to assume for your benefit that you mean specifically my icemav writing—obviously I write outside of top gun and am very proud of that stuff but it wouldn’t make sense out of context.

There’s a lot of more recent stuff that I’m extremely extremely proud of on a technical level, but I’m prouder of this paragraph below on a deeper more existential level.

This paragraph was one of the first parts of WWGATTAI i ever wrote—august 12, i think, well before I had fully realized the characters’ voices or their attitudes towards life/each other; I only had about 5k written of what is now a 300k+ project (at the time of writing this paragraph i wanted it to be 10k max) and had no real outline, didn’t know who or what I was dealing with, hadnt seen TGM in two months, had done no research (so it’s not at all politically/militarily accurate or anything, why the FUCK is ice going to fucking GUAM)—and STILL this wound up being my favorite paragraph in the entire fucking series. not to suck my own dick or anything. I’m STILL so proud of this paragraph, 9 months and 275k+ words later, even though i Absolutely Would Not write it this way now.

#narrative distance both incredibly close and incredibly far #he’s trying to rationalize this whole situation and by extent the whole plot of his life #we’re inside his head as he tries to convince both Pete and himself of this huge huge lie #which is that leaving (right after he fucked their relationship and their best friend just died) is worth it for the navy’s sake #and it will make him a good man #in the masculine strong man leadership sense #and Pete (first name instead of last name; über vulnerable in the worst way because he’s crying yet doesn’t want to be seen crying) #counters all of this lie with—does it? does it really mean you’re a good man? it means you’re the weakest most subservient man i know #bending over backwards for the navy instead of your FAMILY #yeah i would absolutely not write this paragraph this way NOW but i am still so proud of what it represents in the story #& the very experimental 2nd person without quotation marks is i think done very well #at least for august 2022 me #some wording/phrasing/detail issues but other than that—a great paragraph! #again not to suck my own dick but you asked! #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #edts notes #asks #this is a terrible chapter in aggregate but it has some of the best diamond-in-the-rough moments in the whole series #ughhh the Pete this has nothing to do with Afghanistan; pete this has nothing to do with iraq etc line…. SOO good omg i love it sorry

[cosmicwar]

The New Titans #55

no but like I’m such a fierce defender of the narrative choice of bruce punching dick after jason’s death. it’s extremely fucked up, the things he says to dick are horrible and devasting, the final panel of dick curled in on himself is heartbreaking. it’s not a pretty scene, it’s not a “good look” for bruce. he’s not portrayed as being in control, he’s trying to push away his loved ones who care about him so that he doesn’t have to go through loss over and over again. grief is ugly, it can be disgusting and unhealthy and harmful. it can bring out people’s lowest moments and worst, inexcusable reactions, and I like it when those ugly aspects are shown appropriately.

#sometimes…. bruce hitting his kids…. is good…… #*when done well #the ‘when done well’ is very very important #i like nuance #pls don’t cancel me #dc #dc comics #bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #batfamily #death in the family

[craycraybluejay]

I really really want to be a cis guy in an action comic who gets to beat up bullies in HS or go on a revenge quest or try to become the best fighter or something T.T

#action comics #action genre #gender envy of this random korean dude kicking mega amounts of ass all over #i dont even need to be a protagonist i just want to be a character that fights T.T #broke: trans person who gets gender envy for cute characters/magical characters #woke: trans person who gets gender envy of just regular real people #bespoke: trans person who gets gender envy from action and horror/thriller characters #(this is a joke all gender envy is valid and i hope you all can reach your goals in gender presentation :3) #yk what would be kind of sick #me an action gender envy trans man meeting a horror gender envy trans woman and we become besties and rant at each other #about the latest horror/thriller and action comics and shows and books and movies #and i try (and fail) to help her do some freaky makeup and she tries (and fails) to help me with arm wraps for boxing practice #i just want trans friends with cool hobbies and gender vibes similar to mine DX #and i rly rly want to get into martial arts again-- hoping when i get a good stable job i can take a class #there is nothing in the world quite as simple and fun as 2 people beating the shit out of each other and then patting each other on the back #for a job well done #honestly sporty guys in general are also just hella chill to be around and at least where i am wont be a dick especially if ur new #and im cis passing i think but even when i wasnt not a single guy out of the group singled me out or was weird to me #i just got to play with the group that had a small height advantage bc i was younger and therefore shorter than most of them #idk broh im not very athletic but sports are kind of the shit

[stellarcollison]

Imagine if DC didn’t make the Titans show and instead gave us live action movies of the Teen Titans that are on par with the Marvel cinematic universe? All the characters would have their own movies(although maybe two of them could be combined into one like how Black Widow didn’t get a solo film until years later). Then the official Titans movie would be when they all come together and it would probably be when Kory comes to Earth to escape slavers.

And a big bad of the universe would be of course Trigon that could be spilt into two like how Thanos was, and Raven could be corrupted by him at the end of the first movie??

My juices are just running and I can’t stop thinking about it, I went on a one hour walk just so I could think about plots and dialogue for it.

#teen titans #titans #Raven and beast boy would of course be a thing but slow burn #cyborg would be part of it #very young justice as well #time to hyperfixate #dcau #dc comcis #make this happen #hire me #i know trigon has been done to death but i love it #kory anders #koriand'r #dick grayson #robin #nightwing #rachel roth #raven #beast boy #garfield logan #victor stone #cyborg #young justice #I know it’s called Teen Titans but if we were to get a movie universe I’d probably age them up to be in their early 20s. #darkseid

[curiosity-killed]

This fucking dude: well [my name] says she has some background in writing in a certain voice and I don’t disbelieve her but I haven’t seen it

Me: my last job was literally purely writing In Voice for a huge-ass org with global publication but Ok.

#ohhh man #my sister and I were talking abt him last night #bc he’s just #such a fucking egoistic dick #and like TO BE CLEAR #the brand writing I’ve already done (very quickly) for this initiative #had the ceo like ‘’I have chills. I’m in love with this. I can’t stop thinking about it.’’ #so YEAH DUDE I THINK I CAN WRITE SOME FUCKING COPY #personal #oh man. I try not to have too much ego at work but like fuck #I was so close to being like ‘’I can send you my resume mike :)’’ #Jfc #this is up there with the consultant who was like #‘’well :) things are A Bit More formal than your nonprofit background :))’’ #and I was like: flashbacks to liaising directly with UN/world bank/govt senior officials #LIKE BRO IVE PRESENTED TO THE OFFICE OF THE US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE #IM NOT ACTUALLY A HILLBILLY AT WORK #(I am a hillbilly at heart and home but like. I know how to put on a suit) #I’m so #this shouldn’t bother me this much but I’m rlly riled up now orz

[dirtbra1n]

like a physical weight off my chest, jesus christ. anyway pictures I took with my actual for real camera yesterday under the cut

they’re blurry for artistic license this time. not because of the iphone 8.

#there’s one i really like #of me taking a picture of the selfie my family and i were taking #like. it’s meta photo taking. but that one can stay just for me #aaaaauuuuuuuu…… yeah. btw someone remind me to rb a dick grayson post later i’m not going to try in earnest to drag any of you into dc #with me because. well i can have a new thing in my mind palace for just myself every once in a while #but THIS PARTICULAR POST. has a two lines that ruin me no matter what. and it’s become something of a thing to say to myself in the morning #and i think it’s. i know it’s very good #okay now i’m done. it’s nice to just talk directionlessly for a while though. now and then

[voltrons]

you definitely already knew how the pre-crisis todd’s were going to end up but trina accidentally discovering bruce is batman being the thing to really seal her fate is sending me into a spiral. later on bruce asks dick if she can be trusted and it further drives a wedge between the two of them.

dick is routinely optimistic about others and bruce is the unconscious executioner over and over and over. each time he tries to push back against someone- he’s uncovered against his will, he benches an ally to force, he deliberately leaves someone in the dark- they pay the price in the name of seeing his grief and furthering of his cause onscreen. auGH

#the TRAGEDY! #there’s this panel in coates’ black panther that i need to make a whole post about sometime but #it talks about tchalla saying hes given everything to his country because he has no more to lose #and his mother tells him how none of that was given willingly #he feels the weight and burden of the crown but never the inverse #and the thing he’s yet to give is the hope and inspiration #and sometimes we get into this cyclical thing especially post jason’s death where that feels so true of bruce as well #and of course there’s a lot to say about wakanda as a character in that run and how tchalla comes to coexist with it and his body #and what that means #chefs kiss coates writing is so sincere #but the sentiment is Very Strong #i havent read a Ton of precrisis stuff but i know enough to know that dick was that inverse for bruce #so this is Intriguing #okay i’m done saying words #i’ll say them better some other time #flynn.txt #dick grayson #bruce wayne #dc #text

[will-you-pick-me]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CREATOR OF WEATHERING FEELINGS IS HERE TOO

#mun talks #i think i need a designated fan freakout tag at this point #ive sent you ASKS i have stared at those mens DICK BULGES (theyre very good) and now i am being watched as i flounder #i can only hope that all of you feel just the same as i do about not knowing what the hell you're doing #but for real the imposter syndrome is kicing my ass lmao this used to be only like 6 people big and now there's OVER 50 OF YOU ALL #this is blowing up so quickly and i'm equally honored and stoked as i am afraid tbh i hope this turns out well #and that you all have fun once its finally released #also i promise i am poking the one other person working on this to get those custom emotes done for the server before it's pre-launched #once they're done i will do that semi-release you all voted for aaaaaa---

[strixhaven]

red flag characters to a certain degree don’t exist and the entire concept is pretty dumb and nuanceless because what it means to like and appreciate a character varies so much from person to person and fandom to fandom and thus is basically impossible to generalize. that being said if there ever was one though it’s definitely anders dragon age

#i’ve said it before but truly he is an incredibly accurate depiction of a shitty ancom ex boyfriend who’s deeply jealous #highly codependent and absolutely will wreck your mental and emotional well-being if you stay with him for too long #he’s incredibly manipulative and has little respect for your boundaries but you’re also to a certain degree Stuck with him #which is a very interesting character and i’m amazed at how real and relatable he feels despite the da setting and the more fantastical #elements to his character. the whole da2 cast really does feel like a bunch of people you know and can see existing irl to a certain degree #but it just so happens that anders is so well-done in this regard that i know too many guys like him and thus don’t like him at all #and as a result he attracts this Exact kind of person fan-wise and truly. they suck so bad #fortunately like a poisonous bug they let you know Immediately that you’re not going to get along n will regret trying to get close to them #like he absolutely is right in the grand scheme of things don’t get me wrong and if it hadn’t been anders doing something #somebody else would’ve inevitably sparked what would become the mage templar war #it’s just that he’s a dick while also being right #and that kind of character can attract some Odious fans who want to scrub away their flaws yet simultaneously idolize their worst traits #dragon age 2 has some good writing and great characters but sometimes some tumblr fans bother me is all i’m saying