I’m Sorry Op - Blog Posts
Like I love an AU right so if you wanna write about if war games never happened and Gotham didn’t try to ruin itself once a week cool fine slay (keep Dick self destructing for years it’s good content idm)
But for the whole tarantula thing to HAVE an impact I feel like you have to acknowledge that he it never would have happed to a character as weathered as Dick (even at the time when a solo nightwing was supposedly more new to the scene)
But like no it only works when you see how many people died bc of blockbuster and how that weighed down on him as a person.
Blockbuster didn’t just ‘discover his identity’ Maxine Micheal’s was a big reason it happened and when Nightwing confronted her she got shot in the head in front of him
Dick figures out that they know his identity Like 4 issues before the blockbuster confrontation
When Firefly makes his first reappearance since no mans land to burn his circus down
This was after Babs, Tim and Cass had all been targeted
And then 1 issue later
Dick leaves earlier (and makes a bad daywing pun no im serious i love him) for patrol and then watches his apartment blow up. Which would be angsty by itself if you ignore the fact that
1) the dude (yoska- and they have like a weird relationship bc of ras al ghul and like he firmly believed he was dicks grandfather biologically and even when that was proven false he moved to bludhaven and admits he still considered them family) teaching dick his own language was in there
2) dick found his dead body in the rubble
3) dick actually bought the apartment building to keep it from being demolished and indirectly kept all those people in the building
Anyway you don’t NEED to read the comics imo as long as you engage with the other content like yeah you’re a dc fan if you like any of the animated properties but like why write about a plot point without knowing the surrounding moments doesn’t that take away from the premium angst content?
+ I didn’t really like or finish war games or his whole like let’s join the mob thing featuring the unironic name “crutches” after but come on the deathstroke and rose shit was so interesting!
Today in challenges for Nightwing fanfic writers - writing fic that makes it obvious the person has:
Actually read Nightwing #92-95 (1996)
Knows the context in which this story happens (what events precede this and which immediately follows it?)
Is aware what Batman characters have met Tarantula
Can outline the occasions when Dick and Catalina are in contact AFTER Nightwing #95
Heck can name literally any appearance for Tarantula after Nightwing #93 (1996)
Can explain the discussion Bruce and Dick have in Nightwing #117 (1996) and how that discussion relates to everything above, and what is not mentioned in that discussion
It shouldn’t be this hard.
“Save me, from the arrow in-between my ribs, Captain Perpetua.”
A very personal ranking of each song on Skeletá
This is only after one day of listening on repeat, it is subject to change
I SAID DATANIZED ????? SATANIZED GUYS 😭
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after a few months, a broken arm, several ocd crisis and getting used to new medication guess who's posting again!! it’s something simple but hopefully i'll start posting more often :)
that post is really upsetting me.
i loved my wife when she was identifying as trans, and i also love her now that she isn’t. some of my closest friends are butch lesbians who went through with some degree of medical transition and then made the choice to pull back for various reasons. they detransitioned and every single one of them is still gender non conforming and still cares deeply about their trans friends.
the idea that all detrans women are reactionary grifters is so misogynistic, homophobic, and insidious. yet another way the trans movement ostracizes ftm people and silences their voices. by fucking villainizing them. all while refusing to hold any mtf abuser or grifter accountable. unreal.
and the messages my wife and my detrans friends on here have to deal with every week … people fetishizing their detransition, speculating “you’re probably balding now” (because the worst thing a woman can be is ugly, of course), telling them “you’ll go back” and saying “death before detransition”. it hurts me so bad to see lesbian women being treated like criminals for the “crime” of trying to cope with their sexuality and their dysphoria in a lesbophobic society. why is it impossible to show these women empathy? they’re not the fucking enemy! remember who the real enemy is!
Still churning away on polishing these models for release. How about some Rags for now?