Just a Squid

squiddlin'

[dduane]

The final trailer.

I want to see this get an Oscar nomination and make A GAZILLION BUCKS.

[bat-in-the-machine]

"I don't pay you to tink you taw. I pay you to tee."

"I did! I did taw!"

"What did you tee? What did you taw?"

[seabeck]

Cannonball fungi

[violentbat]

WATCH SOMETHING! what was the first video/movie/show/etc that came to your mind upon reading that

The diabetes lectures I'm behind on for class 😭 so thanks for that

[maul-of-shame]

I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I hate that certain types of reality tv are entertaining to me. Turns out I'm a human who finds the same kind of bullshit compelling as other humans. I'll be ike "ha, I would never watch The Bachelor or Love At First Sight, they hold no interest to me" but that's just because I don't care about romantic relationships. Give me a show about revamping failing restaurants and I'm hooked. I've spent the last 3 days watching a guy help people in debt budget and learned nothing because the show is not about accounting, it's about a fed up man swearing at people for booking too many Disney trips. This is trash and I'm watching hours of it. I Am Not Immune.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Me: I should enjoy something with depth

Media: We put some petty drama in front of a camera and exaggerated the mistakes of strangers so you can be amazed at their behaviour

Me: Fuck it I'm in

[palis-delon]

Me: the wedding ceremony is only the start of a marriage. Yes, it's important but not worth all that ::waves hand at the wedding industry::

Media: here's a video of a woman whose mother was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Watch them dress shop, even though there's no partner, just so they can have that memory.

Me: her mom thinks she's so beautiful in that dress 😭😭😭

[prismatic-bell]

Me, eating box soup and looking at commercials for Love Island: this is so stupid

Me, same soup, watching Chopped: every single one of you dumbasses thinks the only use for cornmeal is polenta?! IF I WAS THERE--

[maxxie-or-smth]

goddddd and i just UGH but also UGHHHHH and aughhhh.... oughhhhhhhhh...... ACK !!! and.... aghhhhhhhh. ughhhhh ! UGH !!!!! and i can't even because AGHHHHHHH. UGHHH

[alphabetizing-posts]

ACK !!! AGHHHHHHH. aghhhhhhhh. also and and and.... and aughhhh.... because but can't even goddddd i i just oughhhhhhhhh...... UGH UGH !!!!! UGHHH UGHHHHH ughhhhh !

[maxxie-or-smth]

this works too yeah

[nyanletnest]

bwaow

[littleguysdaily]

Yeah

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

was reading a story online and... circ*mstances

im really really really hoping this was some stupid censorship bot and not on purpose.

holy fucking shit

I had a couple of story chapters auto-blocked on either ko-fi or patreon (I forget which). They were chapters of a science fiction story and they were about alien genetics and population migration.

The site was cagey about why they'd been incorrectly blocked, but by process of elimination I found that their system was auto-blocking the chapters that included the word 'incest'. Kind of hard to talk about large scale genetics without it.

[random-brushstrokes]

Florent Willems (Belgian, 1823 - 1905) - Interior with a mother playing the lute for her child

[aro-geo-turtle]

juno steel and hyperion city. bloody, broken, violent, uncouth, hopeless. so dearly loved. and trying hard to be better every single day.

juno loves hyperion, and he hates hyperion. it is his home and it is slowly crushing the life out of him. he stubbornly refuses to leave it because he needs to believe he can change it for the better, and because he believes he doesn't deserve anywhere better. to reinvent himself as a better, healthier person he must leave it behind, with no real hope of returning, without looking back; and at the very end of the story it is the place he at last returns to, both still messy and damaged, but filled with new certainty and hope of a better future.

a detective and his city.

[violentbat]

I think times are dire in Gotham city.

Penguin: "Is this the best Gotham has to offer? These shitty excuses for goons--"

Goon Rep 1: "We prefer thugs. Or hired help, or gang-- literally anything else works these days."

Penguin: "I don't have a single fucking good goon out there gooning for me. How hard is it to find one--"

Goon Rep 1, grimacing: "I just need you to hear yourself. You'll understand how bad it sounds--"

Penguin: "It's a goddamn Goon-pocalypse!"

Goon Rep 1:

[thememedaddy]

[seabeck]

Fall, around the bend

[sreppub]

(Dick voice) so do you guys see him too or just me?

[sreppub]

1 little robin for each of your shoulders

[seabeck]

Showy phlox

[tb-png]

look at babian sleeping so soundly for his mommy <3

[tb-png]

So sleepy….

[lost-my-gender-in-the-war]

It’s really funny to me that the League of Assassins doesn’t want anything to do with Dick. Like, Bruce, Jason, Tim, and Damian have all been heavily involved with varying degrees of willingness (the league is sexist but hey it prevents Cass from getting more traumatized) but the league doesn’t want Dick. He’s got multiple other assassins/assassin cults wanting him to join them, but the League just doesn’t want anything to do with him. Combine this with any and all headcanons of Dickbin and Talia being petty and hating each other

[iconuk01]

When we first met the Ra's Al Ghul, leader of the League of Assasins, it was when he ordered them to kidnap Robin (Dick) from his college dorm room and keep him prisoner in their Himalayan lair for days, as part of a plan to see if Batman was worthy of Talia's hand in marriage.

I imagine several days of being stuck with a pissed off Dick Grayson, AND being told that they can't kill him, or even torture him a little (as Ra's needs him intact to keep Batman on side) is likely to have even the most dedicated cultists decide that if they never see this kid again it will be too soon.

He's even less likely to kill someone than Batman, so they cannot recruit him, and HE WILL NOT SHUT UP!! The complaining about his cell, the food, his bonds, the cold and oh GOD the puns!

So no, they will NOT be attempting to recruit this Robin kid, thank you very much.

His mutual dislike of Talia was actually one of the few reasons they even thought about it, because she and her dad may be their bosses, but they are not kindly ones. So watching Dick and Talia tear into each other was like free therapy.

[titans-thoughts]

He is less likely to kill than Batman? Mind, he has to be pushed, but he has killed before. It just happens that "reduce the world's population to half a billion" (Yeah, Ra's al Ghul fanboys, your boy is just like Thanos, only worse.) is not on his agenda, and he's very open about this.

During the DickBats era, Ra's did call him Detective.

[iconuk01]

Fair. :) Honestly DickBatss becoming "Detective" in Ra's eyes never worked for me. That was Bruce's honorific, plus it suggested Ra's viewed Dick as just a plug-and-play stand in for Bruce, which seems reductive.

Bruce was the greatest detective so that made sense, but whilst I love Dick deeply, I don't immediately think of him as the second best detective.

I'm not sure what he would refer to him as. It has to be something slightly respectiful, so "The pretender" doesn't work, and "Acrobat" seems dismissive.

He did used to refer to Robin as the Detective's "Squire", so him graduating to the cowl might make him "the Knight", or "the Knight Errant", which has the nice homophonic callback to Nightwing.