[but-a-humble-goon]

I never really thought about it before but the whole Tim and Damian rivalry in popular fanon is yet another example of the fandom stealing traits from the girls and giving them to the boys to make them seem more interesting. Guess what, there's already someone in Damian Wayne's life with whom he's locked in an eternal battle of wits (childish catty bishfight) underscored by a begrudging respect and genuine caring even if neither of them would ever say it to the other's face... and it ain't Tim Drake.

[remi-bythesea]

what if we were both full of self loathing and self blame and looked at each other and thought "I can do something good" and we just end up hurting each other dc let's bring back steph and bruce being the best duo ever please please please please please please-

[vodoro]

Dalinar may deny it, but Renarin's autism is inherited from him.

bro is really always in the clouds + read the book a hundred times + learned it almost all by heart + in the middle of the dialogue inserts quotes from it endlessly associating what is happening with the events in it + does not fuck in interpersonal relations che kavo + so smart but such a fool

they HAVE this in common

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

A compilation of some of my personal favourite tags I've stumbled across at 2am:

singing and dancing as metaphors for psionic abilities

brick is anthropomorphised but also just a brick

no hermione granger. knuckles is the new granger

i promise no one is going to date their therapist

its unrealistic but so is having a will to live

chronic but still iconic

y/n dies

very characterised and oddly detailed retail workers

pussy eating manipulation style in the evil wizard tower. you know how it goes

cpr but not in a sexy way

how to turn your ten-year situationship into uhaul lesbianism

rivals to lovers to possibly manslaughter

sonic the furry dick restaurant

mention of penis-fencing (important to the plot)

push-ups as foreplay

unrealistic standards of casual intimacy between two adult men in the mid 2010s

author has a complicated relationship with the city of los angeles

author continues to have strong and conflicting feelings about the city of los angeles

accidental spooning

stick shift (not a euphemism)

the inherent mental illness of a white man

the esoteric russian mineral sample info dump this fandom was crying out for

ye olde fantasy medical weed stash

scrimblo the christmas kobold

i know nothing about meningitis clinically

bilbo baggins is cher

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

They would be absolute menaces together actually

[stephexmachina]

when people complain about damian being evil or abusive to tim or w/e i get so mad bc u know what i wish he did all that i wish bad things did happen to tim drake i would be defending damian anyway bc his life was a total nightmare & he deserved to lash out even more but he literally didn't do all that u are swinging at ghosts

[emotionalcorn]

As a lover of buff women, a trope I haaaate in fantasy is magically strong woman is still delicate and Not Buff At All. Sometimes it's explained away with magic and I kind of thought that was the deal with Vin. She's always burning pewter so maybe she can't build muscle? (dumb reasoning so I imagine her at least super toned)

BUT THEN in hero of ages it's explicitly stated that Elend now has a warrior's body and had to get his clothes refitted because he's buff now. But at every turn Sanderson has to comment on how TINY and SLIM and PETITE Vin is and I won't stand for it

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

I feel like we need a moment of appreciation for Kelsier's instinctive reaction to meeting gods in secret history being to deck them in the face

[doechiimp3]

Shane flirting w Carter Vaughn really is such a juicy little subplot of the whole show.. he loves a charisma magnet w curly hair and 1 Stanley cup that's his gay kryptonite

Like no he really does light up every time Carter talks to him or squeezes him except for that one time when Carter emotionally shot him w a gun in sochi but even then he still makes sure to sit next to him in the stands (NOT dinosaur Scott hunter) and yk there's even a part of Shane that's like "omg he likes gay people😍😍😍😍" and ALSO that part of Shane really was 25 and flirty and thriving in tampa

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

‘But he’s Batman, so of course he’ll hold us.’

She had so much faith in him forever.

[livingasaghost]

genuinely i do think it's crazy how this show hit every single mark for no reason other than pure love of the game. like this wasn't a money grab and it didn't think it would be a big success, jacob just read a book he enjoyed and thought huh i think that would be a cool thing to make into a tv show. and then he brought on hudson and connor and they're fresh and passionate and not bogged down by the industry yet and they instantly became best friends and wanted to just have fun bringing these characters to life. and they didn't have a huge budget but they did the most with what they had and everybody took the show seriously and everybody took the book seriously. the cinematographer worked his magic. the music supervisor managed to snag a well-known queer hit and an up and coming new release and old school gems that have been around since the 2000s. it's canadian to the core, built from the ground up. it takes russians and the russian language seriously. it uses sex in such a specific, meaningful way that almost no other show has done thus far, and especially not in a queer context like this. they interlaced every episode with callbacks and parallelism and self-references. they didn't take themselves too seriously. they took everything so seriously. there is love and care baked into the core of this show and it's deeply queer and it doesn't shy away from the horrors of toxic masculinity and hockey culture but it is also, always, a story of joy and love and happiness. and on top of everything, it's almost word for word, the original source material from the book.

like damn it's no wonder this thing has made us all insufferable and become a huge fucking success! so few productions in hollywood are doing it like this!!!

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

Please I need Dutch hr fans to agree with me on this: Shane as Wacht Op Mij door Acda en De Munnik

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

In this essay I will

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

ft. honourable mention for their respective partners

[stephdefenderuntilidie]

In this essay I will

[lauravian]

Someone suggested Arthur with this hairstyle

[stephexmachina]

i keep learning about men's daddy issues against my will it's just not right

[stephexmachina]

"dick grayson's daddy issues" this "jason todd's daddy issues" that well what about women's daddy issues #bringbackdavidcain

[casscainmainly]

I cannot get over how absolutely perfect Absolute Duke being search & rescue is. Like if you think about it his reason for becoming Robin in the first place was search and rescue, specifically searching for and rescuing his parents.

We Are Robin #1

It's not just Duke wanting to find his parents, it's that he knows the importance of being searched for, of being sought after. So many of Duke's themes - visibility, light, truth - center around the idea that nobody deserves to be unknown or invisible. In Batman (2011) #44, Batman learns the hard way that kids - particularly Black kids - often fall through the cracks. Duke acts to fill the gap that Batman cannot. He's obviously a great fighter, but a lot of his best stories don't focus on the fight, they focus on Duke catching the people that fall.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #10 // Gotham Nights #8

At the end of the day Duke shows up for the people of Gotham. As Scott Snyder himself once said, the sight of Duke Thomas is meant to feel like a new morning. No matter how alone someone feels, no matter how shrouded by the darkness they are, Duke is the dawn that finds them. He will search and he will rescue. AND THAT'S OUR DUKE ❤️❤️❤️