Catch Fish Alive 🎣

A03: CatchFishAlive More than 20, less than 30 | Gemini | My favourite comic book character is Tim Drake's mum.

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved

[caspercryptid]

I would actually go as far as to say that MOST abuse is unintentional. I think most people will go through their lives without ever experiencing intentional abuse. People are abusive because they're selfish, because they're stressed, because they care more about what society thinks they should do than the impacts of their actions on their children and partners, because they think what they're doing is correct, because they've made it make sense in their own heads, because they think they can fix their victims, they think they can fix their relationships, they think they can stop you from leaving, they think they can make you a better partner to them, they think that means you need to do what they want. We've sort of constructed mental illness in a way that doing this shit to other people counts as a form of mental illness because it is anti social behavior in the literal sense— it is behavior that causes social harm.

I don't say any of this to excuse it. I think everyone needs to be more aware of this because if you think abuse has to be intentional you will never realize you are capable of abusive behavior. You will never realize you are being shitty to the people you love, because YOU know what you mean, YOU know you don't mean any harm. But you're doing harm. You need to pay attention to the impact you have on other people, and you need to do it all the time, Especially when you feel least capable of doing so. Sorry! You live in a society. Get your head out of your ass.

[fellaorg]

[one-step-at-a-time25]

Superman said, “all immigrants are people and deserve respect and love they aren’t aliens they are humans and the people who disagree should die” and supergirl said, “A women’s purity shouldn’t be defined by the man who has caused them harm and the exploitation of young women is disgusting and the men who do such things should die” and they are right

[swingsetindecember]

in supergirl, i love the fact that zor-el thinks jor-el's plan to make baby clark a supreme overlord messiah is bullshit.

like zor-el is like, jor-el is so fuckin' weird.

and meanwhile zor-el invented a giant forcefield to save a chunk of krypton. like zor-el is definitely the normal sibling in the house of el

[dr-lizortecho]

they addressed the whole stupid schtick people do about super “girl” once and for all when they said supergirl isn’t because she’s a girl who is a hero, it’s because she is a hero for girls

it’s about a movie that says to be a girl is to be treated as an object, a commodity, goods, and also says that girlhood is something that is murdered not grown out of, something stolen not softly kissed farewell at a beautiful coming of age, it’s something that can be gone at the age of thirteen while someone’s full grown adult cousin can still be “young”, Supergirl is a film about the grief thats held inside and the anguish at losing that girl, at her being ripped away by the cruelties of reality and the desperate ways we cling to the preservation of others, to protecting those who come next, because it’s a generational story across planets, across histories, across cultures

[swingsetindecember]

clark being too midwestern polite to ever tell kara he hates dog sitting krypto and then is like, i still can't stand krypto but we both hate lex luthor so we are now sympatico but also, clark never wants krypto in his sleek metropolis apartment again

meanwhile, kara does not understand midwestern passive aggressiveness so always assumes clark likes dog sitting

[helen-was-here]

Me when Supergirl convinces the 13 year old not to kill the irredeemable villain because it would retraumatize her: yeah ok fair enough :/

Me when Supergirl kills the irredeemable villain herself the second Ruthye’s back is turned, thus ending the cycle of abuse without involving the terrified grieving child: YEAH OK FAIR ENOUGH :D

[justslightlyconfused]

That ‘comment on your a03 work’ email hits like a line of cocaine every time. unmatched dopamine increase. shoutout to everyone who leaves a comment on fics. you deserve the world

[clingyduoapologist]

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

[dazzling-galaxy]

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

[liarsblade]

Ugly Duckling sequel where the swan is like hey it's nobody's fault and I don't think anyone did anything wrong per se but nonetheless I did feel really alienated and depressed for most of my youth and those years do continue to affect me in the present day and their mom is like, so what you're saying is that you think I'm a failure and a bad duck.

[crimeronan]

sometimes i have strong opinions but they're also so inane that halfway through writing a post i'll be like "yeah, this is Absolutely not worth the energy it's taking" and delete everything. but then the opinion is still in my head. and i still want to share it. so within five minutes i go "you know, i bet i can phrase it more succinctly this time" and anyway. you all see where this is going. sometimes i do this four times in a row before i give up on the specific inane opinion and instead write a vague post about the concept of opinions as if that'll satisfy the urge to post the entirety of my inner monologue online. may or may not be relevant to what you're reading right now. and now all our lives have been enriched. you're welcome

[three-semicolons]

The pipeline of “is this guy Dick?”

-> Dick making some lame ass quip with the joke being that Bruce isn’t expressive and doesn’t thank him enough

-> “oh okay that’s Dick”

It’s sending me.

Even in an alternate world, the dynamics of Dick and Bruce as silly helpful guy and guy who refuses to be outwardly affectionate or affected by said silliness (but would kill himself if anything happened to silly helpful guy) is eternal.

[painedpanels]

Red Robin (2009) #17

[tbcanary]

Edit Requests: Helena Bertinelli and Tim Drake for @gretaghostgirl

"The mood you're in tonight? Let's just go right down their throats." "I like it."

[three-semicolons]

The drippy dialogue. Oh my lord. Dick is so miffed.

Not ordering, but asking for help. How Bruce could even comprehend such a thing, really.

I love it when they get all passive aggressive and bicker-y. They have been together so long that they have, at this point, completely given up on the notion of the other changing, but are nonetheless still irritated by it.

[artemisaa87]

relatable king

batman #469 (1991)