This Now My Favorite Dick Grayson Quote

Just one of those little things you don't notice until someone points it out.

New Year Do You: Just Take The Damn Compliment Already

Give a man a compliment, on anything from his hair to his drink choice, and the assumption is usually that you’re looking to get horizontal with him. Give a woman a compliment, and she’s more likely to deflect it, for fear of being thought vain or full of herself.

Images: Claire Boniface and Gweneth Bateman

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This is so beautiful, oh god, I'm crying, thank you for this.

Jason Todd and Roy Harper in their apartment

Batbrothers' Never Have I Ever, Round 2

Tim: Never have I ever had superpowers.

Damian: -tt- Well, Drake. Never have I ever had to fake an injury to get the press off my back.

Tim: *scowls*

Dick: Never have I ever had a big brother!

Tim: That's not even fair.

Damian: For once, I agree with Drake.

Jason: Wow. Whatever. Never have I ever staged an elaborate play, my friends as pawns whose trust I break in the process, in order to bring down a supervillain society and an alien invasion.

Dick: Okay. Well. That was one time.

Tim: Never have I ever intentionally destroyed shrubbery because I was a petulant brat.

Damian: Neither have I.

Tim: Never have I ever intentionally destroyed shrubbery, period. *narrows eyes.

Damian: And never have I ever been adopted.

Jason: Wow. Woww.

Tim: Rude.

Dick: Never have I ever taken up an identity that belonged to a previous Robin, the Robin mantel included.

Jason: Oh, come on!

Tim: Hey.

Damian: Grayson, you are being underhanded.

Jason: Whatever. Never has my sibling slept with my mom.

Damian: ... why must you say such things.

The Three Laws of Fandom

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

Like vaccination, fandom only works if everyone respects these rules. Creators need to be free to make their fanart, fanfics and all other content without fear of being harassed or concern-trolled for their creative choices, no matter whether you happen to like that content or not.

The First Law of Fandom

Don’t Like; Don’t Read (DL;DR)

It is up to you what you see online. It is not anyone else’s place to tell you what you should or should not consume in terms of content; it is not up to anyone else to police the internet so that you do not see things you do not like. At the same time, it is not up to YOU to police fandom to protect yourself or anyone else, real or hypothetical.

There are tools out there to help protect you if you have triggers or squicks. Learn to use them, and to take care of your own mental health. If you are consuming fan-made content and you find that you are disliking it - STOP.

The Second Law of Fandom

Your Kink Is Not My Kink (YKINMK)

Simply put, this means that everyone likes different things. It’s not up to you to determine what creators are allowed to create. It’s not up to you to police fandom. 

If you don’t like something, you can post meta about it or create contrarian content yourself, seek to convert other fans to your way of thinking.  

But you have no right to say to any creator “I do not like this, therefore you should not create it. Nobody should like this. It should not exist.”

It’s not up to you to decide what other people are allowed to like or not like, to create or not to create. That’s censorship. Don’t do it.

The Third Law of Fandom

Ship And Let Ship (SALS)

Much (though not all) fandom is about shipping. There are as many possible ships as there are fans, maybe more. You may have an OTP (One True Pairing), you may have a NOTP, that pairing that makes you want to barf at the very thought of its existence.

It’s not up to you to police ships or to determine what other people are allowed to ship. Just because you find that one particular ship problematic or disgusting, does not mean that other people are not allowed to explore its possibilities in their fanworks.

You are free to create contrarian content, to write meta about why a particular ship is repulsive, to discuss it endlessly on your private blog with like-minded persons.

It is not appropriate to harass creators about their ships, it is not appropriate to demand they do not create any more fanworks about those ships, or that they create fanwork only in a manner that you deem appropriate.

These three laws add up to the following:

You are not paying for fanworks content, and you have no rights to it other than to choose to consume it, or not consume it. If you do choose to consume it, do not then attack the creator if it wasn’t to your taste. That’s the height of bad manners.

Be courteous in fandom. It makes the whole experience better for all of us.

Finals Week Mood

Me: *has crippling anxiety about a test tomorrow*

Also me: *plays solataire for an hour straight*

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Jensen and Jared are my spirit animals and the idea of them and Batfam together brings great joy, but nah, Jared is way too tall, it's not happening, though I could totally go for Jensen as Jason.

I mean, Jensen does have a lot of experiance playing resurrected characters.

So there's this thing with people casting Jensen ackles as Jason Todd?? As much as I stay in the Jason Todd tags I've never heard of or seen that

Jensen voiced Jason in Under the Red Hood, and some people want him to play Jason in live action.

I THINK I PEED MYSELF

date a girl who treats you the same way she treats books

i havent shaved my legs in a really long time and while i was babysitting my skirt edged up a bit and the seven year old i was watching said “ew you should shave that hairs not supposed to be there” and i said “well if its not supposed to be there then why does it grow there?” and he was really silent for a long time and then finally said “lets watch sonic the hedgehog”