Assorted Mess of Overthinking

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[dinottosaurs]

if you work with kids 80% of your job is just this

[brionysea]

I refuse to let you leave this in the tags. fly. be free

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[roach-works]

speculative fiction writers i am going to give you a really urgent piece of advice: don't say numbers. don't give your readers any numbers. how heavy is the sword? lots. how old is that city? plenty. how big is the fort? massive. how fast is the spaceship? not very, it's secondhand.

the minute you say a number your readers can check your math and you cannot do math better than your most autistic critic. i guarantee. don't let your readers do any math. when did something happen? awhile ago. how many bullets can that gun fire? trick question, it shoots lasers, and it shoots em HARD.

you are lying to people for fun. if you let them do math at you the lie collapses and it's no fun anymore.

[roach-works]

YOU GET IT

[bastionofbibliophiles]

One of my favorite sci-fi writers put numbers on the mass and dimensions of his story's space-warships but got mixed up and wound up making them canonically less dense than smoke. After someone pointed that out, he stopped mentioning dimensions (since mass is more important to spaceships than size, anyway). Then some fans consulted with him and built a spreadsheet that calculates ship dimensions based on mass and hull-shape and he retconned the old dimensions in an event known in the fandom as "The Great Resizing".

[ghanjrho]

These fans (specifically Joe Buckley, yes, that Joe Buckley) also gifted him a program that automatically calculates intercepts.

Okay, that might need clarification. In Honor Harrington, we routinely hear characters calling out time to intercept. A ship at point X, with initial velocity A, acceleration of B, and top speed of C, all on the way to point Y. They’ll call out both a least-time intercept (lay on the gas and don’t stop) and the zero-zero intercept (ending stationary and adjacent to Point Y).

Weber was calculating these by hand.

[astercontrol]

So we all know that the thing about how "bees shouldn't aerodynamically be able to fly" (dating back at least to the 1990s, although I remember it being only specifically about bumblebees then) was a misunderstanding

(iirc, some people questioned how bumblebee flight could work within the laws of aerodynamics; turns out they were making some really wrong assumptions about how bumblebee wings worked; no one ever had to revise the laws of aerodynamics or anything, it was just a matter of understanding bumblebees better)

BUT. fast forward to Bee Movie (2007), which begins with a reference to that long-debunked factoid

EXCEPT. It does not say "laws of aerodynamics." It says "laws of aviation."

Which suggests the MUCH more hilarious idea

that since there is nothing in the law books addressing the specific method of flight that bees use

it's therefore illegal for them to fly

...and they do it anyway.

Of course.

<3

[coupleofdays]

Bee Movie/Air Bud crossover. Air Bud learns to fly from a swarm of bees, because "there ain't no rule says a dog can't fly."

[ghanjrho]

Alright, so about the bee thing.

The problem was that we assumed that bee wings worked like bird wings. And we did some math, math which seemed to indicate that bumblebee wings just weren’t big enough. Huh.

The solution was the air itself. At the scale of a bumblebee, air is much more viscous than it is to us. That means that fluid currents are felt more strongly. Including the vortex.

A vortex is the technical term for when you make air start spiraling. And in aviation, a vortex is a zone of very low pressure. This can be very useful if you can generate them on command.

Guess what bumblebees do! By holding their wings at a precise steep angle, their wing beats produce powerful vortices that magnify their lift.

Hilariously, that’s also how the Concorde took off. The double-delta wing on the Concorde was designed for low drag in supersonic flight, and did not technically have enough lift to get the plane off the ground. Instead, during takeoff the plane would pull back once it got up to speed, and the flow of air over the delta wing caused a pair of massive vortices to form over the wings. These greatly increased lift, enough to get off the ground and get up to cruising speed, where the wing would work like a normal aircraft wing.

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[reasonsforhope]

Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026

[sodium-ion]

THERE IS HOPE YET

[ghanjrho]

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

Alright, let me explain (this in particular).

Public figures in the US are covered under the Sullivan standard, aka the doctrine of “actual malice”. No, actual malicious intent is not required.

If I, a private citizen, sue for defamation, the defendant has a few defenses. They can argue I didn’t suffer harm, they argue they didn’t say that, or they can argue that what they said was true. That last one is a fairly high bar to clear; they must have pretty conclusive evidence.

Under actual malice, the burden of truth is much lower. Instead, I can’t have knowingly lied or displayed “reckless disregard for the truth” i.e. demonstrated that I don’t care whether it’s true or not.

[unusual]

Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if you’ve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the “silly” reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an “impossible task” for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone I’ve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me

[unusual]

You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer

1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.

2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if you’re willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).

This is the deck you’re going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!

3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible

4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do

5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you don’t already know by reading in Japanese.

Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. There’s also this document. There’s also this document. Hey look this website is cool too

For visual novels: download LunaHook. It “hooks” to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you don’t know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn

For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.

You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but it’s a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.

For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I don’t recommend this right out the gate because when you’re first learning sentence structure you’ll want something with complete sentences.

Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didn’t do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).

Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if you’re interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.

Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, that’s what it’s there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend

[kokoruu]

this is true, ive been trying to learn japanese on and off for over 10 years, and the past year is the only time ive been able to actually stick with it every day and actually interact with the language meaningfully! here's some more resources: 1. the moe way i cannot overstate how essential this site was for me to change how i approach learning japanese. it not only has a plethora of resources to get you to start learning but also HOW to learn and why people tend to fail. i recommend reading their "japanese guide" and "30 day Japanese" to get you started. they also have a discord server with lots of extra resources. there's a lot of people there fluent or near fluent and native speakers too, so they can have some great insights for you

2. this is gonna age me severely but i recommend for learning the kana trying out this book too: Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each. it's only like 8 bucks for the digital version but it's so old the pdf has been circling around forever if you can't pay. they are not kidding, over 10 years ago when i first used this i really did memorize it in a few hours, and it took like 3 days total of using flash cards to completely solidify it and ive never forgotten them even when i went years without studying. it uses mnemonics, and i think it can be a good alternative if the brute force method isn't working for you.

3. for other grammar resources, esp if you prefer reading to watching videos, you can try yokubi or the classic tae kim's guide. there's also japanese ammo by lisa for an alternative video series. i don't recommend trying to absorb every grammar point possible before reading- you really just need the absolute basics, and the rest will come naturally as you see them in context while reading hundreds and hundreds of times.

4. for me personally, starting off reading manga for a month or two helped me dip my toes into reading without feeling overwhelmed with literary prose or long dialogue with vns and novels, but it is important to try and graduate to the latter as fast as you can. when i finally stopped being scared to try reading novels i can't tell you how much of a difference it was to enhancing my reading skills- reading actual books, and visual novels too, just blows comics out the water. but! they're still very good for stepping stones. remember your first vn and ESPECIALLY your first novel is going to suck, it's gonna feel like beating your head against the wall. it took me over 30 hours to read my first novel and it was for children lmao. but, every time you finish one it gets easier and easier. anyway, for manga, i recommend the mokuro app there's hundreds of premade ocr'd manga and all you have to do is install them and start reading. it also tracks how many characters you read.

5. game sentence miner + agent agent text hooks games and gsm allows you to use yomitan on the hooked text, it also acts as a repository that tracks your vns and game progress, how many characters you read, and lets you set goals. it even has an overlay you can put directly over your game window so you can use yomitan directly there instead of having to go to your text hook page. gsm also works with lunatranslator. generally you wanna use luna for pc visual novels, and agent for games on consoles. i recommend agent over luna generally, as luna in my experience can be fussy, and agent loads text near instantly to gsm. the switch especially has a treasure trove of visual novels to read.

6. random but do you like tsukihime? there is a 100% browser based version of it with some qol features, and selectable text so you can use yomitan directly in browser with no other resources necessary. you just gotta change the language to japanese in the settings.

it's not necessary to read per say, but i recommend listening as well as reading, even if you don't care about being able to understand verbal japanese in media or never want to speak it irl, it can help reinforce your reading, and figure out the proper pronunciation. you can start with watching shows with subtitles and moving up to pure raw listening.

also yes to op's point it's so important to just read. 99% of any problems you have can be solved with just read more. keep forgetting grammar and vocab? read more. reading is hard and frustrating? read more. consistency is key, and you also wanna try and stick with things that you're interested in, esp things youve already read or watched. i feel like stuff labeled as shoujo or shounen is the sweet spot- complex enough to not be boring, but not so much that it becomes overwhelming.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[ekjohnston]

OKAY OKAY OKAY so when I realized I was going to have to write a lot of space battles, I did two things. The first was put a sticky note on my laptop that said THE ENEMY'S GATE IS DOWN (which, ugh, fuck OSC into the SUN), to remind myself that direction is both 1. important, and 2. relative, and then I watched approximately a billion hours of bait ball footage in David Attenborough documentaries, which helped me write battles in which all directions are possible.

(A bait ball, btw, is when teams of predators work together to eat small fish like anchovies, sardines, or lantern fish. Tuna, seals, sharks, dolphins, etc corral the fish into a ball at the surface, and then pick them off. Sometimes rays get involved. It's like a toothy, toothy dance. Gannets and boobies dive down from above. They can go 20m down! And then sometimes a whale comes up from the deep and swallows the whole thing. It is my favourite part of any nature documentary.)

[maryellencarter]

I consistently get compliments on the clarity of my space battles and my number one trick is just to stay in close third person, as tight as I can get it. I may know all or most of what's going on, but what I'm telling you is very much just what this one person is seeing and thinking -- I'm going there, I'm shooting this guy, I'm noticing that my squadmate said or did this.

(My number two trick is that I think of a lot of the action in terms of hockey games: this character is always three steps ahead of the action, that one hangs behind ready to cover an opening, and so forth. Probably any sportsball that ranges all over a field would work: basketball, soccer, etc. The point is to differentiate out how each character relates to the battlefield, which gives me a lot more ways to be specific instead of just "he's evading their shots and shooting back".)

[ghanjrho]

#prev tags #writing battle strategists pov #how close can I get to the art of war before people notice (on mobile, can’t copy)

Honestly? Pretty damn close.

Sun Tzu’s great big book of “here’s all the things about war that weren’t in grandpa’s stories” holds up remarkably well because it’s all about the basics. Now, not everything still holds up (its a lot harder to live off the land when bullets don’t grow on trees), but the philosophy is like 95% sound as long as you apply brain.

For extra credit, read Clausewitz. Clausewitzian philosophy is the higher level study, and he gave a lot of vocabulary to the field. My go to example is friction. In On War, friction is defined as the countless unplannable things that happen in real life, as opposed to the map table. No map table exercise will say that your artillery was late because a gun carriage broke and the resulting traffic jam took 3 hours to solve. But that kind of thing has been the deciding factor in battles. Friction is all things that separate their from practice.

And then know that you put more thought into it than 99% of screenwriters. Like Star Trek:Beyond, where the writers thought Vice Admiral was a position, not a rank.

[oxyintelligent]

I can’t get over how unfair it is from a narrative perspective that Katara has to give birth to an “adequate” child—by her husband’s standards— or else an entire race of people goes extinct. And then she has to grin and bear her husband’s shit parenting because “he has trauma” and “has to focus on bringing his culture back”. How unfair is that? Why is the weight of the world on her shoulders (and womb)?

And this is why I can’t accept the claim that Katara’s arc is about how “she was adultified and Aаng reminded her how to be a kid again”. Does this sound like a happy and child-like adulthood?

[sokkastyles]

Yep. People also tend to defend it with "welp, that's just how the story is" as if atla is a nonfiction book and the story is set in stone and was beamed into the writers' heads via divine intervention.

I am begging people to think about WHY this story was written the way it was.

On that topic, I think people need to analyze why they're so resistant to the idea that there could be other airbenders out there. Why the show romanticizes the idea of Aang as the last. And the new movie with the one other surviving airbender being evil makes this even worse.

[ghanjrho]

People also tend to defend it “welp, that’s just the way the story is”

This is the Thermian Argument in a nutshell. Things are in stories because the author wanted to put them there.

We, as an audience, should be interrogating why these elements are present.

The idea that Aang is The One Good Airbender who must Get The Girl so he can avoid The Death Of His People is gross. The idea that Katara has to grin and bear it while picking up the slack from Aang’s ten thousand other priorities is insulting.

Ironically enough, if Aang’s goal is the preservation of the Air Nomad culture and bloodline, then turning his fan club into his harem and raising the children communally is what he should be doing. But then Bryke couldn’t tell their “how I got my babysitter” story.

[silvaurum]

"i would kill a pedophile to protect my child" ok but would you teach your child how to say no? even to adults? even to adults you like? would you teach your child the words "penis" and "vulva" and then use them? would you let them ask questions about their body? would you answer them honestly? would you learn how to cope with your feelings when you talk about human bodies, so they don't feel ashamed? would you set a positive example for how you talk about your body? would you tell your child they don't have to hug or kiss anyone? would you tell your family the same? would you stand by them when they refuse to hug someone? even someone you know has never done anything to hurt them? would you let your child avoid food they don't like? would you let you child avoid people they don't like? would you believe them? would you sit in the discomfort of not knowing all the answers and not take it out on them? would you love your child the same if someone did hurt them? would you make them feel valued just as they are? would you let them talk to doctors or nurses in private? would you let them express their feelings? would you show interest in their life? would you let your child say no to you? would you help your child feel safe coming to you when they make a mistake? would you apologize to your child? would you believe them? would you put aside your anger to focus on what would make your child feel safe and loved? would you put your ego aside for your child? would you take your child's concerns seriously? would you listen to your child? would you believe them?

[mikkeneko]

that one thread about going back into a burning building to save your beloved pet gives me a lot of the same energy as this -- yeah, it's fun to fantasize about the Heroic Deed that you would commit on behalf of your loved one, while side-eyeing or outright sneering at people who aren't willing to make such grand declarations. but the odds that you're going to be called on to perform the Grand Heroic Deed is pretty low; in the meanwhile, are you performing the mundane, tedious, and sometimes unpleasant day-to-day work of preparing your loved one for this scenario? have you tested your smoke alarm batteries in the last six months? have you trained your pets to go to the door in case of an alarm? do you have a fire extinguisher in your house?

[ghanjrho]

During the pandemic, Karl Kasarda of InRangeTV talked about it was exposing the lie of the “sheepdog” mythology. For those who don’t know, the sheepdog ethos is basically a dressed up form of “good guy with a gun”; they’re the ones protecting the sheep from the wolves.

Karl pointed out that for all that these mall ninja were boasting about their willingness and ability to suffer and strive for their family and community, as soon as they were asked to do so by wearing a piece of cloth on their face they screamed.

And sure, masks were uncomfortable, but if you won’t wear a mask, why should we believe you when you say you’ll take a bullet?

[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[secondlina]

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

[sinksanksockie2]

w-what if potato is actually lucky

[dontsteponthe-momeraths]

i need a lucky potato

[bigandlong]

If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

[jae-felidae]

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

[robs-your-robins]

Forgive me but I always assign credit where it's due. It's Dr Harley Quinn, it's Dr Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, it's ADA Harvey Dent/Two Face, it's Dr Victor Fries, Dr. Thomas Elliot/Hush, Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat, Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy. These upstanding educated people, no matter what they are currently doing, are doctors, scientists, lawyers. They earned those titles. Put respect on their names, their professions. Bruce Wayne, college drop out and Gotham's favourite bike however-

[ghanjrho]

The only one of these I’ll object to is Harvey Dent. ADA stands for Assistant District Attorney; a specific position Dent was fired from. In order to properly address him, you would need to know whether he was disbarred.

If he was disbarred, the correct form is Harvey Dent J.D.

If he was not disbarred, the correct form is Harvey Dent Esq.

[frankendykes-monster]

I think of this Tweet every single time I am forced to type out "Xbox Series S/X". The death of this console line can't come soon enough.

[your-local-fem-enby]

So the order is...

Xbox

Xbox 360

Xbox One

Xbox S

Xbox X

[maxfact]

Correction: it's Xbox One X and Xbox Series X

[ghanjrho]

The full range:

Xbox: the original. Competed with PlayStation 2/Gamecube.

Xbox 360: next generation, competed with PlayStation 3

Xbox One: released against PS4.

Xbox One S: a budget version of the Xbox One with lower performance.

Xbox One X: a more expensive Xbox One with 4K compatibility. Competed with PS4 Pro

Xbox Series S/X: released against PS5, these are the low-end/high-end versions.

[and-the-spiders-from-mars]

I have no context on how big a big army is in LOTR standards. My vague understanding is that 10,000 is around average for one group?

[ghanjrho]

So the simple answer is: it depends.

Tolkien was a big-c Classical scholar; he professionally translated works from Greek and Latin, as well as Old and Middle English. Everything from the Iliad and Aeneid to Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales was fair game, and then some. His main area of focus was English history however.

In short, the books show us two wars, each a representative of different times and paradigms. First is the more medieval war of Saruman vs Rohan, then the more Classical war of Sauron vs Gondor. States were larger and more centralized during the Classical period, so armies were larger as well.

But some numbers I can recall:

Saruman had a force of roughly 10,000 Uruk-Hai

Rohan had 1,000 cavalry and roughly that much infantry at Helm’s Deep. They brought 3,000 cavalry to the Pelennor Fields.

The army of Mordor at the siege of Minas Tirith numbered roughly 100,000 to 120,000.

[slyandthefamilybook]

[aridotdash]

[hannigramislife]

Dick: If I'm Batman, Tim can't be my Robin because this boy could probably go toe to toe with all of Bruce's villains and maybe even Bruce himself and he's a better detective than me. He should be his own hero, we could be equals like I always wanted to be with Bruce, we could go through this together, and Damian can be Robin.

Tim: So you hate me is what I'm hearing. You don't trust me and you don't want me around and you don't even see me as your brother, I really was just a placeholder until someone better came along. Got it. See you never.

[soleminisanction]

All jokes aside, it is actually very interesting how much of the conflict in this particular point of canon (that being the early chapters of Red Robin going into the Batman Reborn era, to be clear) essentially stem from Dick (at the time) and Tim subscribing to the two major different interpretations of what Robin is supposed to be.

Because Dick does very much come at it from the position of both "Tim deserves to be treated as my equal" and "I really need Tim to act as my equal" with both leading to the conclusion of "therefore, it's time for Tim to graduate from being Robin, like I did," and it makes perfect sense that he'd feel that way because at that point he had decades of stories about how he felt like being Robin made him lesser, like it wasn't an equal partnership and it was something he'd needed to move on from. That was the entire justification for making him Nightwing.

But Tim, on the other hand, tended (and still tends) to get more stories where he viewed Robin in the classic Golden/Silver Age sense, as Batman's partner. In his perspective, he didn't need to change to be Batman's equal because they were already equal partners, and that should've been even more true with Dick, whom he'd always had such an easy comradry with, than with Bruce, who is complicated because he's constantly being written by half a dozen different people at the same time. So Dick choosing someone else to be his Robin felt like a betrayal, no matter how he tried to explain it, especially when it happens while Tim is already passively suicidal on a few different emotional vectors and also he's just convinced himself of something that he knows makes him sound completely unhinged.

It really is an explosive bit of emotional drama that's so good when it's paid off well (which it actually is in Red Robin, just not in the rest of canon, unfortunately dammit Morrison)

[catilinas]

gandalf palaeography moment

[fluentisonus]

^ tolkien's illustrations of this btw

[mikkeneko]

Seeing these, for the first time I realize that in writing this chapter Tolkien was probably channeling some of his own frustrations from having to decode manuscripts this beat up in his actual real life career

[slitherpunk]

elf yuri except one of them is high fantasy and the other is one of santa's

[jsketch12]

9'6" forest guardian and her 4'5" toymaker gf

[jsketch12]

sorry for hijacking your post again op but after posting the initial elves i had ideas for more doodles i wanted to do so. elf yuri (but i elaborate)