she/her | chronic overthinker the fact that I'm having a minor existential crisis trying to write this bio probably tells you everything you need to know about me. spacecapes on AO3 icon by my favourite enabler and partner-in-crime, the wonderful @mlim8 ♡
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So Part Six and Seven are kind of two-parters, I didn't have the energy to do all in one go because it'd be really long lmao...
I'm recovering from COVID and the FOMO of not being able to table at a con I was really looking forward to last weekend because I didn't want to drive while sick and get others sick lmao 😷 So please enjoy this that I worked on instead.
Yes, Clark took inspiration from THAT movie. 🧜♀️
No, I will not explain why the Kents let a 6 year old wander around a city on his own LMAO - IT WAS FIIINEEEEEE, HE'S FIIIIIIINEEEEE 🤣
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My contribution to @jaydick-week's NightHood Fanzine!
I did a collab with @allthatsentimentalcandyfloss - this was an idea I had two years ago during JayDick Week in 2022 and only had enough energy to draw a couple of gifs lol... BUT HERE'S THE WHOLE THING, FINALLY!!
Elle's post!
Thank you if you made it to the bottom of this comic!! I was trying to upload the audio that I clipped down to go along with your viewing here but it was having problems so... 🙃
Things to Note + Easter Eggs:
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So this idea came about the whole "What must it be like to grow up that beautiful?" and the whole notion of Jason pining after Dick for YEARS and not thinking Dick could ever feel the same way ~
The idea of Bludhaven pier being their "Is this or isn't this a date?"-spot was designed after Coney Island that Elle and I went to with @the-man-moth two years ago ;w;
Jason's date outfit consists of a jacket with an 'RH' emblem on the sleeve and a worn out Eagles 'Hotel California' t-shirt underneath to go along with the "With my Eagles T-Shirt hanging from the door" lyric in the song that I cut out for this comic. Elle looked it up and Eagles apparently referred to the football team, but we cheated and made it the band instead LOL
I've said this for years, but the 'small-wing' collar with a bowtie is one of my favourite things to see ever, so I drew that on Dick instantly in the Gala Flashback scene lol
I don't know if I pulled it off well, but Dick was trying to be just as unsure about this being a date or not as Jason was ;w;
In the 'Coastal Town' (Bludhaven) flashback, Dick is eating cotton candy and Jason's eating a hot dog lol this was suppose to represent aving gone to the Bludhaven Fair/pier in the past where Jason won Dick a Robin Elephant plush uwu I bet the carny there was shocked to see Discowing and Robin pull up to their booth lol
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
tadaa, here’s my contribution to the nighthood zine, inspired by my forever muse @mlim8 who drew a beautiful, beautiful comic that she kindly let me write the story for ♡
thanks so much to the mods over @jaydick-week for their hard work in putting together the zine. truly in awe of all of you! if you haven’t gotten yourself a copy yet, head over to our leftover sale: https://jaydickzine.bigcartel.com/ !
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relationship: dick grayson/jason todd
words: 3,303
rating: teen and up audiences
warnings: no archive warnings apply
tags: first dates, getting together, pining, handholding, idiots in love except spoiler alert it’s mostly jason who’s the idiot this time
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He knows where it leads, this road not taken, knows that what awaits him at its end isn’t worth a fleeting brush with happiness, the contact high of almost having it all—only the water’s so blue, so inviting, Jason almost—
He jumps awake at the touch of a hand on his shoulder.
Jason groans. He swats at the intruder’s hand, his movements sluggish and uncoordinated with the heaviness of sleep still clinging to them. It earns him a bark of laughter that wafts over the scent of peppermint toothpaste, but the touch of calloused fingers on Jason’s skin lingers. He takes a deep breath, counts to ten, and blinks his eyes open to glare at Dick’s grinning face; his chapped lips a little too close, crinkly eyes a little too—
Blue.
—in which dick takes jason to bludhaven fair on what’s very obviously a date to anyone except jason, but he gets there in the end.
I've been working on this TImKon video for a while - had to put it aside - came back to it - put it aside again... for like a year and a half lmao --- but I'm finally able to post it! I hope you all enjoy uwu
Big thanks to @allthatsentimentalcandyfloss and @nerd-by-definition for their support and putting up with my WIPs spamming our group chat lol ;w; IT'S FINALLY DONE!!
look, kendrick just announced his juneteenth concert (the pop out! omg, he is ridiculous!), pulling me right back into the beef. thank you. seriously, thank you, I am not over this AT ALL!
I'm putting all this here so when I finally apply for that doctorate and need to publish, I'll have my notes in a safe place.
also, and most importantly, i did NOT think the year of the dragon was going to bring all of this out, but here we are. beefing.
shout to k for going back and forth about this with me.
the background
i don't have certified hip hop credentials or anything, but i am a pop culture sponge and a trained historian with a vault like mind for random things.
aubrey
yes, i bought dudes first album. i liked it fine. during that time, i was more into the kid cudi, chiddy bang, childish gambino side of rap, coupled with little brother/the foreign exchange and other acts that carried some of the tale ends of the neo soul sound.
it was the blog era. the backpack era. it was post 808s and heatbreak, emo was deeply entrenched in rock, and there was space for some of the introspective kids who didn't quite fit into the traditional rap scene. drake was making moves, but i remember that one blog which had nothing but drake jokes. it was all, "drake is the softest in the game. drake so soft...." it preceeded all the "drake the kind of guy" jokes, right? i listened to marvin's room, and liked it too, but i wasn't checking for him much after. like, the more i listened, the more i was like, okay, i'm not his audience anymore. i remember being in brooklyn and telling one of my roommates to come out and listen to this song, and we both agreed hotline bling was going to be a smash. and i remember going out on a date and telling dude i thought drake was the bravest man in the planet because they were gonna KILL HIM for that video. but after hearing about dram and how hotline bling came to be, i was turned off. cash machine is still my payday song.
tldr: i stopped checking for drake a while ago and over the years, the sense of "this isn't for me anymore" because a side eye became a "he's collaborating with who? her ex that...? and he mentioned whose husband? and he waited until that girl was 18 to da...? and he is."
there's something wrong with that guy, right? why is everyone still listening to this guy? and then he drops god's plan and i'm rolling my eyes all over again.
kendrick
didn't hear about kendrick until i stumbled across good kid, mad city . the album floored me. it was something you could so clearly visualize, and despite never living in la, never setting foot in compton, being far too young to truly understand the westcoast movement of the 90s (but loving it in my own way), i had my own experiences that were relatable. like, you didn't need to be in a fan you lifted off your momma and freestyling in the backseat to recall driving around with your friends singing at the top of your lungs. or sneaking someone into or sneaking out off someone's window and praying no one wakes up, you know?
anyway. i've never gone back to listen to section 80, and it took me a while to get through to pimp a butterfly and mr morale, but each successive album reminds me of how kendrick lamar is an actual artist and how precious little artistry we get in music anymore. oh, and he's a fantastic writer who specializes in creating and taking audiences through a narrative music scape. you see all of these things displayed in the 2024 beef
beef notes
like that turned me into gimli, y'all. it was the first future song i ever listened too. that's the power of hate. we were all drinking it. but i couldn't help but wonder what exactly did drake do to receive this kind of retribution?
drake's intital entries
i didn't listen to drake's songs directly, and i certainly didn't listen to taylor made at ALL. it was another reminder of why i just stopped listening to that guy. it wasn’t funny, it wasn't trolling, it was so disrespectful to a man that died due to real circumstances surrounding a "beef". i lost all objectivity here, ngl.
euphoria
6:16 in la
family matter
aubrey went all out on this one. it's really reflective of him as an artist as well. consistent, flashy, visually appealing. wasteful, too catchy. but my yobro said it was the best drake has sounded in a while. maybe kendrick became his latest, greatest too.
meet the grams
not like us
or we could talk about rhetoric and rhetorical conventions. and how this might be the closest we've been to the roman senate in its heyday. kendrick was using it all to create a form, label it "drake," and then say, "they not like us." y'all. YALLLLLLL!!!!
i do think i'm onto some about the warning song, though. do not steal as i'm reseving it for my future papers.
i imagine kendrick being all, "he called us WHAT! again!"
then turned right on back around and went into the booth muttering, "i'll teach him some mf slave shit," and went back to whooping feet.
other thoughts
i will likely revisit this post with more thoughts. i didn't even touch on bbl drizzy (this cake will make you glow up, i know you see this glow up). or the reactors who were cashing in and saying the "benjamin and the jackson and i'm joe okay" were referencing FUCKING PRESIDENTS (they not like us, frfr). or how i hadn't heard mustard on the beat since roddy riche's banger 702 flip. or the funeral bells tolling. or why it's not questioning aubrey's blackness, but his decision as someone who was not raised to say it decided as a 20 something yo adult to start saying it. or why i get it, it was a victory lap and he's leaning on 'em like another line but i don't want to dance to the p-word kendrick! or drake's propensity to sneak on other men's women. or the whole xxx thing. or how i just want to know what that boy from compton was going to say next!
or how kendrick painted aubrey as a liar from the very beginning of euphoria, and continued to weave that thread through every track so the audience however biased understands that guy drake? he lies. he lies to you. he's going to lie about me. don't believe him. how can you believe him. he's so inauthentic as a person and a man that he's given you nothing to believe in. nothing to count on. whoooo!
looking back
like others, i've been back in the kendrick cuts listening to songs with new ears. i only listened to mr moral once, but damn. but also, he's been warning us and him about authenticity for a long, long time.
count me out might be my favorite song on the album for replay (it sits with smino's i deserve as a mood stabilize for me) but listen to this song. and also, did i mention relatability? because damn if that was not me during the height and subsequent aftermath of the pandemic. spooked at phone calls and door knocks to this day.
also, wow. thank you for this. this is very thorough. i Love™ kendrick. i do think i'm too grown for drake now (but i'm not beyond a fun "song of the summer" or whatever...)
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Finishing off Mermay 2024 with another installment of this Merman AU... I have ideas for Part 6 and 7 but that depends on how busy I am lol... I hope you enjoy this part that has not a lot of mers in it considering it's Mermay 🤣
I also didn't have room to add this - but Clark and Lois are divorced and Jon spends half his time with both of his parents, Kon doesn't LIVE with Clark or Lois but he does visit occasionally or more than occasionally when there's a cute mer that's closeby...
Also the Bonus was a part that I originally wanted Kon to flashback to when he thought of how to bring up mers to Clark, but @allthatsentimentalcandyfloss suggested him just thinking of the Time They Spend Together instead uwu
This came about when @allthatsentimentalcandyfloss and I were discussing whether or not Kinder Surprise eggs could be mailed to the US ejoifjelksfjlkelse - Then it came down to Kon who would definitely sneak in contraband for Tim, trying to impress him lmaooooo
kinder surprise eggs are forbidden in the usa. importing them into the usa can lead to fines of up to $2,500. every year, tens of thousands [of eggs] are confiscated.
the idea of TENS OF THOUSANDS of kinder surprise eggs being confiscated every year is the funniest thing to me.
"sir, is that a kinder surprise egg in your bag? ... i'm gonna have to ask you to come with me."
I've had this ready for a while lmao just really wanted to draw mers 😌🧜♂️ - Enjoy a widdle Jon that decided to go snorkeling and made eye contact with something... a little bigger than a fish lol
Babe you’re everything, the sun the moon and the stars, and I can’t imagine life without you! May your 2024 be as out of this world as you are, my love 🥺💕 thank you for being such a good friend to me.
i hope 2024 brings you all the wonderful things you deserve in life for being the kindest, smartest, and most creative soul. your brain continues to amaze me, and i don't know whether this is a promise or a threat but there's no getting rid of me now ;) ♡
