How Aaravos Is Gonna Get Defeated (maybe)

details in the ekko page of the official art book is making me incredibly ill as it is confirmed that the words and doodles all over the book are in fact, jinx’s thoughts and feelings

best boy. a crown over his head. the aggressive scribbling over their held hands. hearts drawn all around him. discreetly writing her own name on his arm. making his hair partially blue to match hers. and do not even get me started on the “would you dance with me?” GOOD FUCKING BYE

then, she laid before me her scales,

her sword,

and her blindfold

and told me to choose.

Bonus sketch:

Sketches while relistening to tma with a friend lol

Remember when the dragon prince gave us canonically gay married elves, an interspecies interrracial lesbian couple involving a disabled character, non-binary characters of colour, martyred lesbain queens and mothers, and a transmasc elf in a happy relationship whose transness isn't at the center of his relationship; all while never depicting queerness as something other than completely normal and accepted within that universe and still constructing relevant and important arcs for each of these queer characters that are essential in furthering the story. Because I do.

touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

Wow, now there's a bot going around on Ao3 telling people that the "moderators" will delete works from "deprecated" fandoms and impose bans.

Fearmongering bullshit, but it's fearmongering bullshit that seems to be taking advantage of the recent spotlight series in order to trick authors into deleting their fics.

Just. Why.

What the hell does anyone get out of making these bots.

Fuck, man. It's past my bedtime I do not have the time or energy to unpack any of that.

I can't iterate precisely how yet, but this did change something in me. There's a sort of... hopeful determination that definitely wasn't there 4 hours ago.

"The best and most important thing is doing the little things consistently, deliberately, and with love" is something I really, really needed to hear right now.

Masterlist of Comic Knowledge Posts

(To be expanded upon as new posts are made, but for now, here’s a place you can find any big questions I’ve answered or comic info I’ve dug up)

DC Timeline Powerpoint

Batkid Nicknames Powerpoint

Batkid Hero Names/Undercover Aliases Powerpoint

A Crash Course in the CW Arrowverse

What Was Jason Like As Robin?

The Significance of Jason’s Bat Symbol

Damian’s First Canon Interactions With Each Batfam Member

The Brady Bunch

What Instruments Do the Batkids Play?

How Tim Lost His Spleen

When and Why Tim Changed His Color Scheme to Red and Black

Batkids + Major Injuries

The History of Damian’s Skin Tone in Comics

Is Dick White?

Crash Course on Bart Allens’ Death

The Batkids + Swearing

Duke Thomas’ Personality and How to Write It

My Cringey Old Tim Drake + Depression Masterpost

“I Don’t Hit My Kids” Yeah Okay Old Man

If You Were Wondering Whether Dick and Tim Like Pineapple On Pizza, the Answer is Yes

Remember the Time N52 Bart Was a Psychopath

Batkids + Their Last Words When They Died

Every Panel of the Batkids Referring to Each Other As Siblings That I Could Find

Damian and Selina’s Current Relationship

Tim is a Health Nut

The Aftermath of Bart’s Death

Every Panel of Bruce and Dick Being Referred to As Father and Son That I Could Find

Every Panel of Bruce and Jason Being Referred to As Father and Son That I Could Find

Every Panel of Bruce and Tim Being Referred to As Father and Son That I Could Find

Every Panel of Duke and Cass Being Referred to As Bruce’s Children That I Could Find

Bruce’s “Death” and Battle For the Cowl Explained

The Confusing History of Ra’s and Talia’s Eye Colors

Jason Suffers From Chronic Pain, Y’all

Damian Nicknames

Wally West’s Dating History

That Time Dick Was in the Mob

What the Public Knows About Jason’s Death

Why Does No One Remember That Dick Was Raped When He Was 16

The Dark Origin of Jerry the Turkey

The Batkids + Mourning Each Other’s Deaths

Jason is a Canon Book Nerd

No, Dick Did Not Try to Throw Tim in Arkham

Dead Robins Club Members

Bruce + Calling the Batkids His Children

Which Batkids Have Been Raped/Assaulted?

Talia al Ghul Before and After Grant Morrison Got Their Hands On Her

All the Times Tim Was Down With Murder

Tim Not Sleeping is a Canon Thing

FOR THE LAST TIME, JASON WAS INDEED THERE DURING BATMAN: HUSH!! IT WASN’T CLAYFACE THE ENTIRE TIME!!!

Batfam Deaths and Resurrections: A Timeline

All the Barbara Gordon (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Bruce Wayne (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Cassandra Cain (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Damian Wayne (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Dick Grayson (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Duke Thomas (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Jason Todd (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Stephanie Brown (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

All the Tim Drake (w/ Batfamily) Hugs I Could Find

Dick and Damian’s Relationship

The Timeline of Jason’s Death and Resurrection

The Timeline of Jason’s Return to Gotham

Tim + His Parents: One Big All-Encompassing Post Covering Tim’s Relationships With Jack and Janet Drake

Tim and Jason’s Pre-52 Relationship + Jason’s Winning At “How Many Times Can We Try to Kill Tim” Bingo

Jason is Good With Kids

Dick and Cass: Canon Interactions

Is Tim Really Into Photography?

Tim Being Depressed/Suicidal

Dick Grayson and Tarantula: A Hella Toxic Relationship

Ok so for a moment I was disappointed because I didn’t think Corvus initiated the hug when that was something I was counting on in the first episode. But actually.

He does.

Sure, he might not be the one to pull Soren into his arms first.

But.

When Corvus runs up to Soren, he’s got his arms out. He is ready.

Soren immediately follows in kind, arms opening and ready for the hug.

But Corvus is so overjoyed (his little laugh as he’s running up kills me) just by the fact that Soren is alive, he pauses. Maybe he’s taking Soren in, reassuring himself he’s okay. Evaluating him for injury, hesitant to touch him in case he’s hurt.

Yet Corvus’s arms remain extended in a pre-hug position.

“When I heard about the attack - ”

As soon as Corvus says the word “attack,” Soren goes for it. He moves forward. He meets Corvus halfway and reaches out to pull Corvus in and complete the hug. Soren needs his rock at the reminder of the attack. He needs the thing that keeps him grounded to reality: Corvus.

“ - I was afraid you were dead!”

On the word “dead,” they come together.

Soren is Corvus’s reason for staying in Katolis, he is Corvus’s home. And Corvus needs the physical reminder that Soren is here, he is alive, even if everything else is falling apart around them.

Their eyes are shut. Just soaking each other in.

Then Soren starts talking and patting Corvus on the back, which might be one of my favorite details.

As we all have noticed, our boy Soren definitely has ADHD. He is never still.

So him patting Corvus but not letting go?

He’s starting to get antsy, but he’s not ready for the hug to end.

Honestly, the only reason I think the hug ended when it did is because Soren has his “realization” about how he wouldn’t be able to tell Corvus he was dead if he was dead that encourages him to have a big, Soren sized reaction.

So basically, not only does Corvus technically initiate the hug: he’s not even the one to end it. In fact, his hands never even leave Soren.

His hands go from hug position (see above) to hand on upper back (see lower left) to hand on lower back (see lower right).

All this to say: Corvus has fallen so hard for Soren.

And to whoever animated this: I owe you my life🫡