The Raven's pickings

Most of this is a reblog, but feel free to ask Badb, Nemain, and Macha anything at their ask blog, Asktheravenclan.tumblr.com.

[morganas3ravens]

Bye gang

Planning on deleting this blog, as I am rarely on here and the email address is deactivated. I'll probably delete it sometime this weekend, but I can still sometimes be found on my ask blog.

[mogifire]

Harley & Ivy

[spoonie-sone-deactivated2016101]

This is why I love them!

[kamdjdndknsssnsshs-deactivated2]

Harley is an abuse survivor of course she’d wreck this dude!!!

[wetwareproblem]

Can I just say how much I love the implications here? Harley and Ivy are known public figures. People know who they are, and recognize them. And this kid knows that, despite being violent criminals, they’re safe enough to go to for protection. Ivy is dead certain that the Batfamily will be okay with them intervening to protect a kid. That has some intersting implications - either she knows damn well where the lines lie and that this is overriding enough to get her a pass, or (more likely, given the first bit) this has come up before.

[seelcudoom]

one of my favorite tropes is villains acting heroically not because the other villain is a threat to them or because it benefits them, but because they have standards

[malicemismanager]

^^^ That’s the good shit right there

[real-jaune-isms]

Always reblog protector Harley and Ivy

[positively--speculative]

I think this illustrates that there is sometimes a separation between the types of villains. There are some villains who have little to no redeeming qualities like Joker and then you have what’s shown in this panel. Two of the most infamous villains with the mindset of, “Wait a minute! No, you don’t hurt children! They’re off limits!”

[cenobitic-anchorite]

This (official) story is in the anthology series Batman: Black and White. Fourth volume of the series, third issue, printed 2013. Written by Paul Dini himself and drawn by Stephane Roux.

and it has an even happier ending!

[positively--speculative]

I love this????

Thanks for adding the ending!

[valtharr]

fuck, now I’m crying

[grimmtidings]

Oh look. It’s MY Batman. The real Batman, not the hypermasculine ultraviolent for the sake of ultraviolence asshole that keeps popping up in popular media.

The Batman who held Ace’s hand. The Batman who keeps trying to get his rogue’s gallery treatment. The Batman who hands low-tier thugs a Wayne Enterprises business card and says “call them about a job.” The Batman who isn’t black and white, the Batman who recognizes even “bad” people can do “good” things. The Batman who genuinely cares about people, not just punishment.

[wildlifewednesdays]

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

[docwithtardisfez]

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

[11213372-deactivated20160412]

[nightonblogmountain]

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

[typhoidmeri]

Omgggg the sounds.

[gigi-tastic]

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

[bears-official]

WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS

[uesp]

“Many underestimate the Alfiq, seeing us as talking housecats. Or merely housecats if we choose not to speak around them. Sometimes we use this to our advantage, serving as information gatherers.”

–Mojzin, admitting that the Alfiq Khajiit pretend to be common housecats, to act as spies.

[ladyshinga]

I KNEW IT

[kglsudav]

[comtedemoney]

October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA.

[bandit1a]

It was 40 years ago today…

[madroxxordam-deactivated2018121]

Never gets old.

[yeahiwasintheshit]

40 years on and it still is gratifying

[howdoyoulikethemeggrolls]

Anita’s still alive and kicking and being anti-gay. Thom Higgins, who threw the pie when he was 27 – and was poetically from Beaver Dam – passed away 17 years later at 44. Info on his life is here. The pie throwing was a big deal. In an age before the internet let gays feel connected, and long before ACT UP, the pie showed small pockets of gays that we could fight back.

[brunhiddensmusings]

it showed that gays were human beings, who might be in the room with you, that you had been accepting as being equals and treating as people. you didnt suspect them as bieng gay, why should you treat them different after? do they become less human after finding out? i mean, its almost like you just found out they have an oppinion on your bullshit

[ontheavalanche]

Anita Bryant was also the spokeswoman of Florida Orange Juice! Getting pied in the face was iconic and a huge deal but what really made an impact was that the LGBT Community and its allies started a boycott against Florida Orange Juice. People stopped buying Florida Orange Juice and Florida Citrus as direct pushback against Anita Bryant and her “Save Our Children” anti-gay coalition. 

Harvey Milk was even in on it and told people to stop drinking the stuff at breakfast. Gay and lesbian bars refused to serve orange juice or any drink made with it. They would make screwdrivers and other cocktails that traditionally called for orange juice with other alternatives like grapefruit. The only way you could get something with orange juice in it was if you brought your own fresh oranges and squeezed them yourself (some bars had handheld citrus juicers on the bar top) but if you brought in something with Florida Citrus on the label, it would get poured down the drain.

This was the first organized boycott in support the LGBT community. People called it the Gaycott and it got national coverage. Anita Bryant and her homophobic propaganda (she was the one who famously would tout “Gays can’t reproduce so they have to recruit.” and spread fear towards parents about gays corrupting children) truly gave gays across the nation something to unite against and it inadvertently gave LGBT people a much larger stage to have their voices heard. Wherever she went, there were protests. There were magazine covers, tv reports, songs about the boycott, and a whole bunch of anti-Anita/anti-orange juice merch. 

[madseance]

ineffable husbands + text posts

[abolishice]

Don’t forget that:

[1dietcokeinacan]

I won’t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kaijuno]

Literally no one ever is gonna just give away their weed for free. Grow up

[worldoffizz]

[theouijagirl]

Reminder that nobody has ever, not ever, put drugs in Halloween candy and passed it out to kids. Religious extremists exaggerate false stories way out of proportion and started anti-Halloween propaganda with it, not because they don’t want their kids winding up with drugs, but that they believe Halloween is evil or Satanic or contrary to their belief. 

Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/halloween-non-poisonings/

[themanicnami]

The only truly known case of it was when a dad who poisoned his own children’s candy tried to blame the crime on people giving his kids laced candy. It was traced to being his doing.

There has never been any proof in the united states at least of this happening and all of the myths about it happening have mostly been ‘sparked’ by this crime.

[peterlewis]

frustrating trying to b goth when ur skin isnt pale

[garlicsaucewithdahomies-deactiv]

GOTH HAS NO COLOR. DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT. I BELIEVE IN YOU.

[etakeh]

FYI that first pic? Yes a photoshoot, not a one-off though.  Theresa. 

Every picture more stunning than the one before.

[decembersiris]

There’s more!!!!! Goth queens!

[vr-trakowski]

There was someone on LJ back in the day whose icon said “So Goth I was born black” and I always admired that.  

[louiecyphre]

[chepsi]

vibe check

[proxie-of-the-art]

FREE HONG KONG

Use w/ or w/o credit, just spread! This mouse will be the face whether Disney likes it or not

[sirianhewig]

[bitch-a-la-mode]

OP you left out the best part

[werewolf-cuddles]

Always reblog wholesome batdad

[j0jin-deactivated20210309]

Scotland is not boring

[redpinejo]

When I say I love bagpipes, this is what I mean

[amphata]

My fucking jam

[lasimo74allmyworld]

I freaking love Clanadonia 😍

[michaelburnnham]

I call this “tiktoks that would have been vines”

[xxaceofspacexx]

w h a t s a h a r d b o i l e d e g g

[jewishdragon]

I lost my MIND at the packing peanuts one holy FUCK

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

By Lee Gatlin

On Flagpole | Twitter | Site

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

[crowrelli]

the lexcorp halloween party was attacked dfhkdkf

[buttercreamfrostedmurdercake]

@textsfromsuperheroes had a bit like this set up where all the other villains were laughing at Lex for getting drunk at Halloween and going “I get the cape now!” before jumping off the building and trying to kiss Superman when he caught him.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Love it.

[forever-memes]

Hah

[official-lucifers-child]

THIS IS AMAZING HOLY HELL I LOVE THIS AND I WILL MAKE SURE EVERY CORNER OF TUMBLR SEES THIS