Most Beloved Child

just to remind myself of that time I somehow ended up recommending the fic op actually wrote about this in the comments to someone without realising op was, in fact, the author of that fic.

sometimes you follow someone for their skyfire/starscream comic and find out later they're the author of your fav starscream redemption fic

this hellsite is alright actually

Look my favourite 'Starscream joins the Autobots' concept involves him absolutely playing up his victimhood in a manipulative attempt to win sympathy. He's a Decepticon! He's Starscream. Of course he does! He will act however weak and vulnerable he needs to, in order to achieve his ends.

This gives him a fascinating duality. He's a Machiavellian selfish would-be-tyrant who fucking dares the Autobots to feel sorry for him; while at the same time, he's a wheedling, snivelling mess, making puppy-dog eyes as he cunningly reveals tailored scraps of his abusive relationship with Megatron to win over the 'soft-sparked' Autobots.

Everything he shares is true.

In fact, things with Megatron were probably even worse than he portrays, albeit more complex - i.e., with far more goading and violence on his side, but which in NO WAY justified the ghastly abuse he was subjected to.

This is a way for him to feel like he's in control of the shit that's been done to him. If he's using his victim status as a weapon, it feels like it's his. He's taken possession of it. He's made it into something more powerful, in his mind (even if this defence tactic kinda... prevents him from fully recognising that what happened to him was actually really really awful).

I wish more fics engaged with this aspect of his character, where he's PERFECTLY WILLING to go 'OH THE ABUSE. OH I HAVE SUFFERED' if it'll get him ahead in life, while perhaps not even fully understanding just how much trauma he's gone through.

Aaron Bushnell it's trending. His name is trending. His screams of Free Palestine weren't in vain. Because Tumblr can try and censore palestinian blogs, and keep palestine from trending, but we will always find a way to bring revolution to the world.

Fucking Free Palestine

this is a genuine question and not me being snarky or anything, but what's with the aversion to dick grayson's ass? when i was new to the fandom, i just sort of assumed it was a joke that he's got a great ass, but i've seen a few things lately that make it seem like it wasn't alright to say those things? i'm out of the loop and you seem to know what's up lol

So it’s like.... it’s complicated. 

Dick having a nice ass isn’t necessarily a bad thing to joke about as fans in moderation, but the problem is that in the actual comics there are multiple instances of other characters commenting on his ass and body in general with him very clearly expressing discomfort over it, and it usually gets treated like a joke.

(Trinity (2008) #10)

(New Teen Titans #56)

There’s so many more instances throughout his history but those are a few I had on hand. Not only that, but this paired with the fact that he has been raped twice in canon, just makes it very uncomfortable when DC oversexualizes him as some kind of marketing thing to try to appeal to a female audience, and usually when they do it’s by putting more ass focus/jokes/commentary into stuff. So it can just get kinda... tiring.

If they’re not going to treat the sexual harassment he’s faced in the comics they publish seriously, then they have no right to joke about him like that, ya know? But again, when fans comment/joke about it it’s... very different than when DC does it.

Like, there is nothing wrong with considering Dick Grayson to be a sexy character, or to have a nice ass or something like that, and it’s not even like it’s bad to talk about it! He is sexy! But we as fans should be critical of how this subject gets portrayed in the comics because it’s very often that he is being sexualized by others in ways he expresses discomfort over. Usually it feels like when people are saying to stop making jokes about Dick’s ass it comes more from a place of being frustrated by DC doing this rather than like... some other fan making a shitpost about it being the root of the problem 

This is a pretty good post talking about the Grayson comic specifically that kinda goes into some talk about the difference between a character being Sex-positive vs being Sexualized. 

I hope every health insurance exec dies from painful and preventable disease

Sci fi should bring back the sweaty tanky top muscle woman fighting for her life but give some fucking underarm hair

learning that I don’t actually like the Bad Batch I just like Tech and now that he’s missing I’ve lost my interest in season 3.

Sorvus meme compilation cause they are so funny to me

The first hug Tim’s gotten in a long time

Red Robin #6

I don't need therapy I need rabid gay people freaking out in my inbox