the grunts & poetry of life

jake (he/him); 20s; plural system/schizophrenic; here to scream about my hyperfixations (mostly batman & misc. toxic yaoi); @wakeupjake on ao3

[wakeywakeyjakey]

tadc spoilers actually can’t stop screaming

I CANT BEIEVE WE GOT TRANS FEMME JAX HOLY SHITTTT!! Maybe it’s just because I grew up with the insane queerbaiting of the 2010s but when trans femme Jax became a popular headcanon I neverrrrr imagined it would be actualized. All the bits and pieces of evidence felt like the crumbs, all were pretty vague, and it didn’t feel like there was a way to tie it into the main storyline enough to justify it being mentioned even so but HO.LY.SHIT. It happened and I’ve never been so happy to be wrong!!!

Because of that same extensive experience with queerbaiting, usually I’m annoyed when they don’t explicitly say it but tbh—it was SO blatant and so obvious that I don’t mind they didn’t name it outright. If anything it only added to the character that Jax refused to say it out loud and UGHHHH! When I say I teared up and have never been as happy as that reveal, I mean that shit!!! There are ways I wish it had gone a step further, but this felt like a fucking feast

ALSO YURI ON MAIN?? Anyway. Stoked

[wakeywakeyjakey]

vague tadc finale review

HOLY FUCK I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT TO EVER EXTENDED BEYOND HEAD CANON/FANON BUT IT FUCKING HAPPENED?!?!? ITS ACTUALLY FUCKING CANON?????

[punbun4fun]

i dont know what spamtenna does to me i have never rendered like this in my life

[sinizade]

The Cool Kids 😎

[jojdrawsthings]

im sooo normal about him fr

[nivalartist]

I wanted to draw corrupted Caine

[bloominflowers]

My faves from Dispatch 💗

[wakeywakeyjakey]

anyway i know i'm deep in the trenches of toxic yaoi (i.e. fucked up) because i watched heated rivalry and i was sooo booored by it. like it had some "aww" moments but was otherwise unremarkable from a narrative standpoint. i didn't find any of the characters compelling or any of the buildup/catharsis rewarding. it felt pretty 2d to me.

that said. major points for getting an mlm romance huge widespread recognition! and the same year as bbm's 20yr anniversary! which feels significant bc it just goes to show how much mlm romance has evolved in the public eye. also--while i don't care for the characters, i've watched interviews and omg the actors! charming, hilarious, navigating overnight fame with such grace. hudson in particular! excited to see what he does next (on my knees begging for nightwing plsplspls)

[need-him-pregnant-poll]

The initial submission count is done. I will begin trimming down our 590 eligible men on Thursday (tomorrow I have a late doctor's appointment after work, so I won't be able to get to it sooner).

To tide you over until then, here are our official top ten candidates (per submissions numbers):

1. Shane Hollander (Heated Rivalry) - 26 submissions

2. Robert Robertson III (Dispatch) - 17 submissions

3. Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls) - 16 submissions

4. Wei Wuxian (Mo Dao Zu Shi) - 12 submissions

5. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce (M*A*S*H) - 11 submissions

6. Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune) - 10 submissions

7. Vincent "Vox" Whittman (Hazbin Hotel) - 10 submissions

8. Alastor (Hazbin Hotel) - 9 submissions

9. Bruce Wayne/Batman (DC) - 9 submissions

10. Arthur Lester (Malevolent) - 8 submissions

[sleepy-onigiri]

Val only fucks 10‘s… and Vox🩷

[taffsartz]

I like to imagine vincent has absolutely *no* sense of personal space

[thatdamntv]

Noooo dont kill yourself youre so sexy aha

[stringofpearlzz]

i’d laugh at how you look so small.

[hell-fm]

The girlies are having a karaoke night.

… and Vox is there, too I guess.

[ygoandchill]

human alastor and his domesticated big tv demon please

[meybees-draw]

[tailofalastor]

Gonna go out on a limb here.

Alastor did not think that this would go THIS far. Fighting was essentially their go-to. Their comfort zone. Their love language.

So for him to actually try to kill him AND himself is a new level of obsession that Alastor was not prepared for.