The Digitonic Groove

Bet you thought you’d seen the last of me. Well surprise, bitch. I’m back.

[b1tchcup]

hack your debilitating self doubt by also believing everyone else is an idiot and you’re better than them

[minekuramerchupdates]

Saiyuki AND Wild Adapter have had a bunch of merch announced. These are from Pop up shops and lotteries, I believe.

[cure-icy-writes]

the human mind is prone to catastrophizing when left unoccupied. And that’s why it’s important to always have a little Blorbo to rotate in your head. It acts as a protective charm of sorts to redirect your imagination away from harmful spirals

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that

thoughts with Blorbo: I haven’t considered the interactions with bleebus; I must rectify this immediately

[morgan-squeezy]

DATE EVERYTHING POSTER!!!

[stimboardboy]

nostalgia shaker charms

[hybridtheories]

CHIIKAWA X THE VENTURE BROTHERS!

based off my stupid twitter thread i did

+transparents under the cut :) feel free to use to your hearts content

[abisalli]

TIM DRAKE NATION HOW ARE WE FEELING????

[voidwingz-deactivated20251007]

OMG

[digitonicelectronic]

Gaston asked us what we were and we just said ‘Italian’

[digitonicelectronic]

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Part 5 Alternate Route: The Gang Goes to Disney World

Cal just gave me the best flashback to the 2014 Disney trip and one of the best pt 5 crews an Abba could hope for with these photos and I’m dying.

[digitonicelectronic]

Remember that ancient part 5 trip to Disney world,,,

[twospice]

ahahahahah

fear

[pechaghtlecha]

Holy sh1t it’s me again 🥴🥴

[blujayonthewing]

So it occurred to me that ‘grawlix’ is sort of an obscure and specialized word, but what I didn’t know until I was googling around just now is that it was actually invented by cartoonist Mort Walker in his 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, in which he categorizes (and invents terminology for) all kinds of visual cues and shorthand commonly used in comics

In other news, this is now right up there with The Meaning of Liff as ‘books of made up words I desperately need to own”

[knitpool]

Important

[boweldisruptions]

heck yeah

[themetalhiro]

New favs

[upswings]

behind the mask // costume criticism

(adventure comics #3 // batgirl #9)

I'm not entirely sure what this means? But it probably means something.

[upswings]

Like, on one level these conversations are really different, and I don't actually think Geoff Johns and Bryan Q. Miller conferred on the subject of Red Robin Cowl Symbolism. But also:

Kon harasses Tim about the grimdarkness of his current sartorial choices and how they aren't "him" -- i.e. Tim is trying to be something he's not. Tim is standoffish at first, but eventually takes off the cowl and lets himself be vulnerable in front of Kon.

Tim confronts Steph about continuing to fight crime as Batgirl and is kind of high-handed and condescending about it. He accuses her of "playing dress-up"; she hits back by mocking his costume choices. He protests this at first but eventually pulls off the cowl -- implicitly conceding the point -- and although it's not an immediate transformation, is more genuine and honest with her thereafter. (cf. "I need your help." and also the extended hand bit from RR, among others.)

The Yost Red Robin era -- to which both of these issues sort of belong* -- also places a lot of emphasis on the symbolism of small gestures: Tim not helping Steph up in RR 2 / apologizing and extending a hand later; "You trust me?" "Of course." / "Batman ... trust me."; and of course Dick catching Tim at the end. So this kind of parallelism feels like it should have a meaning even though it probably wasn't intended to.

(* I cut a whole tangent about how these are different books and not really part of the same story -- but also, they are, because if you're reading this era primarily for Tim you will probably read all of these together. And Yost references Tim's other appearances scrupulously! What I'm saying is, comics are so weird.)

[digitonicelectronic]

Sometimes I remember this is a thing that actually happened and I am glad

[cavriuola]

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