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rabidnationalist

1 month ago

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i'm hysterical

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rabidnationalist

1 year ago

Damn, every hc I've seen has hum as the only good cook except of Alfred..

everyone has their own headcanons and that's okay, but it's kinda crazy to imply that Jason ( who quite literally has licensed DC media showing him as a good cook) doesn't know how to cook because of his poor upbringing, and in the same breath also imply that the character who didn't even learn how to speak until recently was one of the best cooks in the family, but to each of your own.

idk it just sounded kinda classicist to me

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red hood dc comics batfamily jason todd alfred pennyworth

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rabidnationalist

9 months ago

I am multiple of theese. Also, damn a cishet person here. How?

REBLOG THIS IF YOU ARE LGBT+, SUPPORT LGBT+, OR WANT TO VIOLENTLY FLING YOURSELF INTO THE SUN

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rabidnationalist

2 months ago

Disaster two

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OH MY GOD?? star wars the clone wars LOOK AT THEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fandom stuff this is the fanart of all time and the perspective!!

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rabidnationalist

3 weeks ago

re: prev ask and tim's foot-in-mouth syndrome — i think people make too much out of tim's "it was terrible for me to see your parents die" monologue in alpod because like, yeah it was objectively a little tactless, but the scene is written so bluntly and gravely because marv wolfman was trying to impress upon the reader just how profound an impact the graysons' death made on tim, and how this defines his character; he did this by way of having tim try to impress upon dick how much of an impression the event made on him.

and the thing is, tim isn't just saying this unprompted. he is very much thinking about how even discussing the story will cause dick pain! he literally tells dick he doesn't want to tell him the story because it will hurt him. dick is the one who insists that tim tell him the entire story, and tim still apologizes to dick both before and after he does so:

Two panels from the comic arc "A Lonely Place of Dying" depicting Tim Drake and Dick Grayson in Wayne Manor. Tim is sitting in a chair, and Dick is taking a seat in another chair next to him. Alfred stands nearby.

PANEL 1:
TIM: Okay, you won't take me seriously until I tell you everything. Dick, I don't want this to hurt you. And I'm really afraid it might.
DICK: Tim, just tell your story, please.

PANEL 2:
TIM: All right, all right. Well, first, my name's TIM DRAKE...and though you won't remember it, we've met before.

Two panels from the comic arc "A Lonely Place of Dying" depicting Tim Drake and Dick Grayson in Wayne Manor. Dick is facing away from Tim, looking at a window.

PANEL 1:
TIM: I'm sorry, Dick. I really am. I told you I didn't want to HURT you by telling you all this.

PANEL 2:
TIM: Dick...
DICK: It's all right, Tim.

a lot of people also seem to believe that tim said something along the lines of ''watching your parents die was the worst thing that ever happened to me'' which. is absolutely not what he said. he never centres his own feelings on the event, and he never implies that it was worse for him than for dick. he only said that — understandably — it was frightening and he had nightmares about it:

A screenshot of a page from the comic arc "A Lonely Place of Dying" which has been cropped to focus on specific speech bubbles. Tim Drake says, "I was only a kid, but I don't think I'll EVER forget what happened. I had nightmares about it for YEARS. First about your parents, then about Batman." Other visible speech bubbles have been whited out.

and also like. what was tim supposed to say instead of "it gave me nightmares"? what do you want him to say here. "oh yeah my first memory was watching your beloved parents fall to their brutal deaths. but it didn't affect me at all and i actually never cared" ???? come on now

Four panels from the comic arc "A Lonely Place of Dying":

In the FIRST PANEL, Tim Drake speaks to Dick Grayson and Alfred stands behind Dick. Half of this panel depicts a flashback, coloured in shades of red, showing a very young Tim having a nightmare in bed with drawings of Batman on the wall behind him. Tim says, "My parents sent a copy of the picture they took to you and then they forgot all about it. Trouble was, I didn't forget. I never told them, but for years I kept having the SAME NIGHTMARE over and over again."

The SECOND PANEL and THIRD PANEL are a flashback-slash-dream sequence, drawn in shades of red and black. They depict John and Mary Grayson doing acrobatics, then falling from the broken trapeze. The panels are overlaid with a white outline of Tim's eyes and eyebrows, looking afraid. Boxes with Tim's dialogue read, "First, I'd watch you do your quadruple somersault, then your parents would fall, and fall. ...But they'd never land."

In the FOURTH PANEL, Tim stands behind Dick, who looks away from him out a window. Tim looks urgent, and says, "Then Batman appeared and just as I'd start crying, he'd SAVE me. First alone, then after he met you, with ROBIN."

the most objectively tactless or foot-in-mouth line tim has in this entire scene is "my parents [...] forgot all about it [...] but for years i kept having having the same nightmare over and over again." and of course we can argue that it was tasteless for tim to essentially be saying he had imagined himself, somewhat positively, in dick's shoes — but again, this was really wolfman using the medium of character dialogue to emphasize that tim idolizes dick! this entire arc is tim's character introduction; there are multiple instances where the "logical" line is altered in favour of exposition and backstory. wolfman is balancing dialogue with the need to introduce tim drake instead of just having it blandly written out in one long block of third-person text.

all this to say, tim drake absolutely Does have an issue with putting his foot directly into his mouth as a kid, but his backstory scene in a lonely place of dying is not at all a good example of this. luckily there are many others. always remember to be accurate with your tim drake hate

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rabidnationalist

2 months ago

a meme

an iceberg, and the tip above water is labelled "the writing i publicly share"

beneath the surface underwater, the larger chunk of the iceberg is labelled as "the unfinished stories in my my folders"

at the bottom is the balrog labelled as "the writing that exists only as disconnected climactic scenes i imagine while falling asleep"

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this is painfuly real whole AUs have been made in my dreams and daydreams

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rabidnationalist

2 months ago

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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rb for archival reasons

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rabidnationalist

1 month ago