i love this boy so much

“You let him have it cause he’s real cute” yes, yes he is

Knives Out Q&A, 14/11/2019

Also there’s a part where the interviewer says he should do a full version of that Sondheim song he sings in the car and he goes “nobody wants to hear that” and i would just like to say that everybody very much wants to hear that

Pov : Your annoying boss asks you and your colleagues to promote the studio you work at, which you hate more than anything in the world and which has prevented you from touching grass for 3 weeks, at a fancy event

Also, diversity wins ! The murderous, neurodivergent composer you’re in love with since 2017 says ‘Trans rights’ !

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

scrap immortal

tfw you let your boyfriend's kid finally braid your hair, but it's been 3 whole hours and she keeps repeating step 2. you don't blame the undead child, however.

you blame that damn snake.

a little (implied) Dottozhu piece that got away from me!

Percy's date outfit!

Don't be mean guys, he spent half a day picking it out

Leonardo Hamato aka the Clueless Science Partner of Donatello Hamato who has absolutely no idea what he's doing but Donnie likes it so damnit he's gonna try even if it kills him-

Leonardo Hamato aka the Clueless Science Partner of Donatello Hamato who studies the stuff Donnie's interested in and makes himself feel like an idiot lowkey, the sequel-

Three episodes into Beyond Paradise and I would absolutely die for Kelby

Vash totally slaughtering a bit of Bon Jovi at karaoke night on Gunsmoke.

Them: Zuko was abused, but Azula was Ozai's favorite.

Me:

You hate how much it tempts you

Uncle Nina, that NSFW meme was so Iconic. Odd request, but: do you have any more of those dialogue thingies? I really like them <3

awwww!!!! this is so sweet!!! thank you, my love. you are so, so kind!!

( seriously, you guys have been so kind to me about the nsfw ask i was nervous AF to post. i have a bunch of sweet anons in the box just like this one...ilysm. srry i held my fics at keyboard gunpoint. xo )

also, i am glad you like those because i love writing little dialogue blurbs! tbh, filling them in is the bane of my existence but writing them is probably my fave part of the planning stage of writing stuff!!

but...hm. i'm not sure. hold on.

edit: okay, i found something in my drafts. it's not filled in at all and it's not like that nsfw, its mostly just silly and goofy, but because you were so lovely in your ask and you've all been so lovely to me. here <3

okay, situation is ravenstan gets back to the apartment after playing a long show in the hot boy raven outfit and jersey kyle is essentially like give me a kiss dummy and ravenstan just to be annoying is like ~No~ shdlkshdshdsl and its so fkn funny help...i'm laughing...kyle is laughing...but welcome 2 Ravenstan Attempts Dominance ( plz help )

IM FUCKSJDNSHSKJSS HE SAID! WOOPS! <3

anyways im sorry this is probably not what u wanted but it’s what i had so im sorry or ur welcome

-uncle nina

"I don't want anyone to know I'm related to Drizzt, I need an alias. I know! I'll call myself Dininae. No one will suspect a thing."

Chapters 36 and 37 of Great Expectations are so vital for keeping Pip likable at this point of the story, I think. His behaviour towards Joe and Biddy is pretty terrible, but in these two chapters we see him trying so hard to help Herbert, and being so happy when he manages to, that it reminds me that there's a lot of sweetness underneath it all.

My favorite version of Mulian is pre-ascension/post first ascension because like. There is so much there to cover and imagine!!!! Mu Qing loving and resenting Xie Lian for everything he has and feeling like his charity project but ALSO always being in awe of his kindness. Xie Lian being terribly attracted to his pretty servant who is so meticulous in his work both in serving Xie Lian but also in cultivating to an impressive degree. The fact that they both favor swords gOSH imagine them sparring. Imagine Xie Lian pulling Mu Qing aside perhaps late at night to request a spar…….