"light Yagami Is A Misogynist" I Say Into The Mic.

pov: you are a kaminoan. you have fucked around. you are about to find out.

here are some fics that i've read in the last few months that broke my brain a little:

usher down the sky by mintchocochips dick and cass centric, set in the batman reborn era. stellar writing that captures their core truths so, so well: their shared ghosts of bruce and blüdhaven are always present and always aching

bleeding-heart doves by wraithwings cass and rose centric, set at a canon-divergent point in batgirl '08. fantastically evocative writing, amazing voices for both of them with some really visceral imagery. cass will actually break your heart unless rose does it first

objects in a mirror by clytemnestras short but gutting character study for babs, cass, helena and steph. each vignette is beautifully written and is so authentic to canon

door, opening by cowboysorceror multi-chapter case fic from jason's pov with a wonderful emphasis on his brotherhood with dick. amazing world-building and research seem to have gone into this fic and it's just so deliciously full of hauntings (still a wip but it's closing in on the conclusion)

abide the son by tnevmucric cass and dick centric vignette. the writing is so gorgeous and it's a very wonderful depiction of a less fraught dynamic between them

north star by starlingsinwinter desert baby arc from grayson '14 my absolute beloved. wonderfully poignant examination of the dick & bruce dynamic and a gorgeous insight into some core dick grayson-isms

incomplete/thoughts of total defeat by karples roy centric with a focus on donna and dick. absolutely adore the author's voice for roy and a gutting snapshot of the kind of demons that plagued roy in this era

Birdcage by nighhtwing (divineauthor) dick centric one-shot examining some of the spyral aftermath wrt bruce. this one will actually leave you physically sick because... he's really never going to recover from that kind of devotion, is he?

last light in a darkened room by bigdamnher0 tim and dick centric. case fic. the way tim and dick watch and see each other. tim's near palpable hunger for brotherhood versus dick's staticky performance buckling under the weight of tim drake's little brotherism. absolutely wonderful (warning for csa)

Some nights. by run_and_coke cass centric one-shot set in the current batgirl run, focusing on the civilian cast. absolutely wonderful voice for cass with a very authentic and snappy internal narration. gorgeous understanding of her character motivations

BDSM mask inspiration

I can't stop thinking about historically accurate european armor helmets

how did this happen

in my euphoria over everything else i almost FORGOT how well for the future jived with my FAVORITE stupid headcanon/future prediction. which is that hunter names himself hunter o'bailey and belos gets incandescently furious about it because he hates the irish.

Imagine you're in high-school and you have a huge crush on a teacher and you realize you're gay and you ask "do you think all gay people are terrible..?" And he smiles and says "there's bad straight people and good straight people, so why would I think all gay people are bad?"

Then you're outed against your will and he tells you you're disgusting. You go "but you said you didn't hate them!" And he says but it's different for YOU and kicks you out of school

Then you return to your high-school after graduating from college to show him see I ended up being a good educated person! You hate him for being so cruel but also want him to give you another chance... then you realize the trophy case has your picture and everyone says "you didn't know?? When you left he was so sad he fell into depression and he'd come stand in the hallway and stare at this pathetic shrine he made for you"

You try to talk to him but he runs away from you. Clearly he doesn't want to associate with a gay person like you - is what you'd think, except he's hanging out with your FLAMING father!!!!?

Anyway that's svsss from binghes pov but instead of gay it's his demon heritage

Obikin Time Travel AU where Anakin ends up meeting Obi-Wan, who is the same age as him.

And, because there's no Secrets and Impropriety and Guilt and Age Gap and whatnot, AND he's gone so far back in the timeline that Palpatine isn't even the Chancellor yet, Anakin just gets sidetracked by having an affair with Obi-Wan basically immediately and ends up messing up the timeline even more -- this time not because he falls to the Dark Side, but because he completely forgets what he was traveling back in time for in the first place for like, multiple years.

Obi-Wan: [reading the news on his phone in bed] Huh, looks like Palpatine became the new Chancellor. Anakin: [half asleep next to him, naked with wild bedhead, suddenly bolting out of bed and trying to put his pants on as fast as possible] Oh FUCK, I knew there was something I was forgetting about!

One of my favourite things about canon compliant codywan is how it makes anakin comparatively SO high strung. Like Obi-Wan is just chillin with his low-key lover, having tea, meanwhile Anakin is CONSTANTLY fretting and resentful and angsting over his wife. O66 happens, and Obi-Wan's partner gets mind controlled and he just gets on with things and tries to save Anakin. Anakin meanwhile is self-fulfilling-prophecy-ing his way to a dead wife and the dark side.

They are not the same.

yknow out of every show/movie/whatever thats tried to do the whole ‘girl power’ subplot, ATLA is the the only one I’ve seen stick the landing. cause like, they didn’t try and condense it down to a one episode problem then never speak of it again, but they also didn’t subject us to constant misogyny during the entire series. and they were also realistic about it! the point they wanted to make was that gender has nothing to do with a persons capabilities, and that is the point they wound up making every time!

probably the best example is the katara vs pakku fight, cause like. any other show would probably have katara kick his ass, and that would convince him to teach her and also drive home the girl power theme. the conflict of the story is katara not being allowed to fight bcause girls are considered too weak; if she loses a fight to a man, then it just proves him right, she has to win. but that’s why the message always falls flat in other stories, because it wouldn’t make any sense for katara to beat pakku in that fight. she’s a teenager with literally no training, and has spent all season struggling to teach herself the basics, while pakku has decades of experience and is one of the most skilled waterbending masters in the world. if katara won the fight, it would be contrived bullshit, and make the intended feminist themes painfully heavy handed, and a blatant token effort. but instead, we get a hardcore two minute smackdown of katara trying to murder the everloving shit out of pakku, and making him work to kick her ass. like yeah she loses, but it’s a vicious fight, she manages to hold her own despite all the odds stacked against her, and it’s the first real display of intense combat waterbending in the show. and despite losing the fight, she still wins the overall argument, because she successfully gets through to pakku about the patriarchal system being damaging to everyone - up to and including him.

my point is katara going absolutely fucking feral against pakku is the best fight scene ever, and atla is a really good show

Writing period dramas in the discord, lads

Man, if disciple Bunhe had tried to come out to Shen Qingqiu it would've gone so poorly.

SQQ: Binghe really shouldn't spend so much time with this old man! Shouldn't he be off charming some women disciples?

LBH: Shizun, this disciple does not like women.

SQQ: …

SQQ, internally: Oh no, I raised a misogynist.