Hidden Away
“My dear sweet nephew, You foolish boy, You disgrace. Do not disappoint me again or I will make you regret it. I do not need to remind you of the consequences.”
Such things could never be spoken in public but behind closed doors well that was an entirely different story. The need to keep up a perfect image for the public.
To be the perfect poster family, the charming Gleefuls. They’ll work their way right into your heart with their sweet charm.
How sickening. I never liked the public. I prefer to hide away from those monsters within my study. For they too would likely see me as a monster. Humanity is the real monster. Not I, The one they see as a freak. One to lock away within a tall tower deep in the woods.
Foolish
In the end they all disappoint me. It’s just another broken record on the gramophone at the end of the day.
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Prescription diets shouldn’t be part of the general conversation. But also some people are like, really good at generalizing it as “all food by x company bad” instead of just “x company doesn’t make great general food but they do have prescriptions vets trust to work”.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for vetblr to experience people stopping prescription diets just because someone said the brand in general is bad and to get some boutique brand instead
You know what? Since I’ve had people try to feed a wounded peregrine bird seed because “the bag had a picture of a bird on it” I see your point. I forgot that common sense isn’t always very common.
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Rex *exasperated, having told off Hardcase for the 264th time: You know that voice in you're head telling you not to do something? Think of it as me
Hardcase *very concerned*: Sir? You're in my head?? How?
Rex *doesn't want to explain what a conscious is*: Yes (does not elaborate)
Waxer *overhearing, also now very concerned*: I think Commander Cody is in my head. He keeps calling me a di'kut.
Boil *sighing tiredly, but wanting to mess with his vod*: No it's me. I never thought you would figure it out though.
A rumour begins to spread that your commanding officer can speak to you telepathically
It spread to many different battalions
It freaked a lot of shinies out
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Okay as someone who only tangentially knows about nightwing, I enjoyed the grayson series. I'm a whole-ass lesbian but watching him walk shirtless through a desert carrying a baby? I suddenly understood the whole "being straight" thing. Grayson cured my heterophobia lololol.
ANYWAYS it seems like you've actually read other nightwing comics so I was wondering what your take on the grayson series is? Is it OOC? If not, do you have any other comic recs where I can 👀 that 🍑?
Lol I actually haven’t read Grayson! Because…lol, okay, THIS IS STUPID I AM FULLY AWARE OF THAT, but because I resent the idea that Dick Grayson needed a series where he’s ALSO a super cool hot spy who’s a badass hot spy. ~~~OOOOH GOOD FOR YOOOOOU!!!!~~~
(Yes this is one of my personal foibles, sometimes I resent things for existing because I am odd and petty.)
I’ve thought about reading it for The Pretty, but I know certain fandom circles are, uh…less than enthusiastic about it, and certain other character fans are less than enthusiastic about it (*cough* Midnighter), so I just haven’t decided that I’m open to potentially being grumpified in favor of The Pretty yet.
Basically, I absolutely cannot speak on how IC or not it is. 🙃 I do know that I’ve read two things by Tim Seeley—one I like that a lot of people don’t (Robins) and one that was ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS LIKE TERRIBLE ON EVERY POSSIBLE LEVEL GAG VOMIT UGGGHHHH (Countdown to the Wedding: Red Hood vs Anarky—do not punish yourself with this it is so bad).
Sooooo I have no idea what that says about whether or not I’d appreciate Grayson!
Honestly, though, my Dick Grayson absorption is all over the map, so I’m not so much a great person to give recs I think.
Like, my foundational Dick run (hm) was Devin Grayson’s Nightwing run and, uh, that run is CONTROVERSIAL (to put it mildly), for some reasons that I agree with and some that I don’t. It also left me with a…very particular set of preferences when it comes to Dick Grayson In Comics.
(You know how 1984 starts with “imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever”? Yeeeeeahhhh.)
If you’re in just for the pretty, the current Nightwing run—Leaping Into the Light (kind of a soft-reboot of the premise starting with #78 of the 2016 run)—is REALLY gorgeous. Like…wow. Not so much on a beefcake level necessarily, but like…gorgeous man f-i-n-g-e-r-s-t-r-i-p-e-s acrobatics long legs strong back mmmmmmmm. (I cannot be more coherent than that, just…guh.)
(I do NOT keep up with this book for the plot. The plot is…sigh. Lackluster. And the characterization is…kind of generic. AND IT TOOK NIGHTWING #93—A CONTROVERSIAL YET IMO GROUNDBREAKING ISSUE—AND BASICALLY RE-DID IT IN A WAY I FIND FRANKLY PRETTY OFFENSIVE BOTH TO STORYTELLING IN GENERAL AND THE WAY IT TREATED THE ISSUES ORIGINALLY HANDLED IN THE COMIC. ANYWAY like I said, I’m shallow and into it for the pretty pictures. Also it’s DC, and my evergreen tag “comics are bad and I hate them” is evergreen for a reason.)
I’m certain that other people who follow me have better recs/suggestions, so if anyone who follows me has insight on Grayson or feelings about good Nightwing runs for (*cough*) 🍑-purposes and wants to chime in, feel free! Reblog, reply, whatevs!
(Just, you know…if you have STRONG feelings, try to remember the “don’t yuck someone’s yum” principle. Criticism/analysis+discussion is great, but I try to keep things not suuuuper OTT negative. I don’t want anyone to feel bad about liking things.)
(No yucking anyone’s yum unless it’s Tim Seeley writing Red Hood vs. Anarky. I will never be nice about that comic and nobody can make me.)
Hopefully you’ll get some better info, anon!
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i'd recommend motu rev but i don't like that they changed orko's backstory, and also the pacing in general is very rushed. It's pretty good if you like Cool Moments, though, since that seemed to be the main priority. It didn't make me angry, moreso it made me wish it was more like 26 episodes so that we could get some actual. character exploration and so the quest could be an actual quest instead of just being done after like an episode and a half lmao
That's interesting to know! I'll still watch it regardless, though it will be a while before I ever get to it since I wanna watch every show in chronological order ( in terms of release dates anyways ). However, I was initially on the fence bc orko's character is like REALLY important to me and it doesn't make me too optimistic if the people who are responsible for his character writing have a mostly flat* way of viewing his character so to speak.
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