a kite above a graveyard gray @spiritsglade - Tumblr Blog

hello! i'm spiritsglade, and you can find all my names and pronouns here. mix 'em up, or stick to one, i don't mind!

i write fic on ao3. occasionally i post sneak peeks here.

i also draw things sometimes, and you can find all my ask answers under this tag. my ask box is pretty much always open, and i love talking about my interests + my fics but it may take me a while to respond.

current relevant interests are primarily dc comics, moon knight, and wings of fire.

i am never making a fandom sideblog, i do not queue posts, and my tagging system is shoddy at best. if you follow me you are signing up for wherever my whims take me.

dogpuppy

paper-mario-wiki

one of my favorite things that's happened during my playthrough of Subnautica 2 so far:

this fish, the Marrowbreach, is labelled to be (and upon basic observation, appears to be) very dangerous and aggressive and scary, so a lot of the time spent interacting them is specifically spent avoiding, or trying to escape them. they have a very specific, telegraphed attack where they launch towards the player in a super scary way.

however. i noticed that despite their scary appearance and loud growling noise, they don't actually do much damage when they attack you. and so i thought to myself "am i categorizing this unfamiliar social activity as aggression? am i being reductive towards how this creature actually operates? am i sure it's not just playing with me?"

and i was right.

cologona

“Genealogy” of Jason Todd

I’ve said before that post-crisis Jason Todd writing is interesting because it’s a live conversation about who he is. Here is how I visualize that. Black arrows are a continuation of the previous characterization and red arrows indicate a rebuttal or reframing.

Batman & Robin 23-25 is in a weird spot because it’s a rebuttal to Batman & Robin 1-6 but isn’t a continuation of any other line.

peach-pot

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.

peach-pot

(this post is about putting all your time, energy, and care into one relationship, about staking all your happiness on a romantic relationship, effectively making the entirety of your joy and stability dependent on one person who could exit your life for any number of reasons no matter how great the relationship seems. it’s about the societal expectation to build your entire social life around one long term relationship, putting all your eggs in that basket, so to speak, instead of tending to larger social network and maintaining a variety of strong connections so that even if one very important relationship comes to an end, you won’t be losing your whole social life in one fell swoop.)

ladyloveandjustice

Looking through green arrow #5 for the wiki, and I know this comment is here because Kevin Smith either forgot or didn't know of the absurd state of things of Bruce not telling Steph who he really was despite her being one of the gang and knowing Tim's real name etc....

but it's so funny to imagine that one of the only things Steph knew about who Batman really was during this time was that his Dad was a doctor, because he forgot for a second she doesn't know he's Bruce and said this

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crowboy-bebop

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

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aetherograph

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

mangled-by-disuse

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

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Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

rolameny

riding the trolley out of omelas because i'm a little too shaken to walk rn and i just heard this weird thump from the tracks. probably nothing

rolameny

#they arrested the trolley driver and the guy in charge of track switching #and i hear they're both being offered some kind of plea deal if they agree to testify against the other person

awarding this the first good riff on this post award. thank you tumblr user anyagobsin. this is the first good riff anyone's had on this post.

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"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

whatbigotspost

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

throwingmenthols-deactivated202

“denied the catharsis of punishment” is an underappreciated but hugely effective narrative consequence imo

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Willis

Jason looks very similar to him - same eyes, same nose, similar facial structure & jawline, Jason has more freckles but those also come from Willis

Willis has naturally curly hair, but tends to slick it back. There's always one stubborn bit that won't lie flat, though

Only has the Jaybin bangs on one side

Clean-shaven whenever he needs to be, but if left to his own devices prefers a slightly scruffy look. Catherine likes it too

RHATO (2016) gives him two piercings and I liked the look but I didn't feel like drawing them both today but rest assured he does have them. Probably got them fresh out of high school, he thought they looked cool. Favors gold to match his wedding ring

Jason got his fashion sense from him (Willis wears a lot of sweaters)

RHATO (2016) also says that Jason is named after his grandfather, and I headcanon that grandpa Jason is Willis's dad

Catherine

It is so easy to believe that Jason is her son - dark, curly hair, wide blue eyes - that their differences are easy to overlook. Jason has a red tint to his hair while Catherine has blue undertones, her eyes are a bit darker and greener, she has rounder eyes as well.

She prefers to have her hair down and loose, but frequently puts it up to do housework or, before she got sick, at her job

It is a dearly held headcanon of mine that Catherine was Catholic, and she took Jason to church when he was little. Willis was not religious, and Jason eventually lost faith (whether that was after losing his parents, as Robin, or when he died is up for interpretation, but it did happen) but Catherine held onto her faith until the day she died

I also enjoy my headcanon that she's an Irish immigrant who moved to Gotham for school & stayed because she fell in love with & married Willis. Legally, her name is Siobhan, but her middle name is Catherine, and she goes by that because assimilation. It's a very niche hc of mine, but it's a whole thing.

Also her dad's name is Peter, that's where Jason's middle name came from. Another headcanon of mine, mostly for AUs where she is his birth mom

Shiva

Jason knew from the start she was a long shot - blue eyes are a recessive trait, he looks nothing like her - but he lowkey wanted it to be her if only because she was the single coolest option. I mean, she's Lady fricken Shiva, she's awesome

Cass is her spitting image though. Cassandra looks just like her mother.

I love her long trench coat, it's so cool <3

I genuinely don't have a lot to say about her, she was really fun to draw though :)

Sheila

FAKE BLONDE. She bleaches her hair, I'm sorry, it's the truth.

The curls are real, as are the freckles

Conman smile

Her natural hair is black

Looks very different from Jason, but we already knew that boy was mostly Willis

#sheila fake blonde real & true!!!!#i love this yay for jason parents!!!

zestylemonpeels

Just some Nat (and Jaybin) doodles. The first being a panel redraw with the idea to give her a more modern less bathing suit(?) style costume (to match Jason's better recent Jaybin design, seen here too). The second is that idea - cause the little capelet is cute AF.

The third? I just wanted to draw some Goth Mommy Milkers tbh. (Also what if Charles Knight had Nat learn Ballet, like Bruce/Dick taught Jason Acrobatics?)