The Gotham Club Crawl

Splits Dave Miller and William Afton into two separate characters for my nefarious purposes like I’m tearing a piece of string cheese.

Absolutely baffled by William Afton’s business decisions. Exactly how long did he expect Circus Baby’s Pizza World* to realistically last when its intended function was a roach motel for kids?

Like, at most he’s getting two, maybe a very generous three stomach-snatched for his little murder alchemy experiments before he’s getting shut down and probably arrested AGAIN. This is not sustainable, Billy.

*Do not even get me started on that name. Did you even try to focus group that one, Billiam? I cannot make those first three words make any kind of sense together. Pizza Circus was right there, but you just had to make it needlessly specific and complicated, you furry moron. This is why you’ve died at least three times already, and that’s just in the main continuity.

Giggling and kicking my feet as I brainstorm a ficlet about a broken man sobbing over the body of a child he just killed.

@johnvenus replied to your text post:

Not this time. What I’ve done is taken the characters of Shiera Sanders-Hall, Shayera Hol, Shayera Thal, and Kendra Saunders and made them into three.

Kendra Thal is the original Hawkwoman and wife of Katar Hol, the original Hawkman.

Shayera Hol is their daughter and the first Hawgirl and second Hawkwoman. She uses Shiera Hall as an alias on Earth.

There is also a Kendra Saunders, who Shayera befriends on Earth. She becomes a superhero as well though I’m still figuring out the how and what name she’d use.

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@johnvenus replied to your text post:

Very specific! But no.

Hawk continuity is pretty gnarly, and I’m still trying to patchwork a backstory for Shayera’s parents from it. The current story is that they worked together (still unsure what they’re actual jobs were, but it’s not military-related), fell in love, married, and were on the Thanagarian equivalent of their honeymoon when they were transported to Earth via a rogue zeta beam. They were approached and assisted by the Justice Society, who they joined in protecting the Earth while trying to figure out a way back home. Though once they did, they’d grown to love Earth and their new team so much that they decided to stay.

They remained on Earth until the Justice Society disbanded (still determining the when and why), at which point they returned to Thanagar and eventually had their first (and only?) child, Shayera. Thanagar had grown increasingly militaristic and expansionist in their absence, and they grew concerned for their daughter’s future and discouraged her from joining the military, though longtime family friend, Hro Talak, attempted to undermine them. When Shayera was a young adult, she set off to study abroad at her parents’ urging but impulsively altered course to Earth, having grown up with the stories of her parents’ hero days and wanting to live them herself. Once there, she was found and taken in by her parents’ former teammate and close friend, Dr. Fate. She lived in the Tower of Fate, learning about Earth history and culture in its massive library, until an Apokoliptian invasion of the planet spurred the meeting and founding of the Justice League, after which she took up residence in their first base, Mount Justice.

i am a firm believer in the sicko4sicko relationship. characters who are obsessed with one another not in spite of, but because of, whatever bizzare or offputting or unusual things they've got going on. guys who look at each other and go "you're the only motherfucker in this city that can handle me" and they're probably right too. rivalries romances obsessions built on mutual hate undefined Close Companions. any sort of Thing. sicko4sicko.

How to post NSFW here, but not really, but yeah!

As other platforms send refugees our way, I wanted to point out that there’s a pretty easy way to skirt the so-called “porn ban” on tumblr, especially for fanart purposes. Check it out:

3. Make another separate post. Make your Modest Version the image, and then indicate that there’s a clickthrough to the Smutty Lil Version, and link in “64.media.tumblr.com/letternumbersalad”

4. Ta da! Now your viewers can choose to click into the smut. I’m not saying its gonna work every time forever, YMMV, but as someone who posts like... 5% smut, it’s always worked for me.

Click here for QUESTIONABLE CONTENT

anyways at what point in time do we get to revisit the "con might've said that izzy isn't homophobic but that's because con is an ignorant straight man who doesn't know any better" line of thought from before because idk after over a year of telling people "you can't just assume he's straight we don't know his sexuality" and the demeaning way he was talked about it's a little....... like saying "i was wrong" is a free action that doesn't cost any money!

we have this thread every week, comrades! we are constantly going back to the same exact point of "stop assuming people's sexualities, stop assigning straightness to others as a default, stop assuming bad intentions behind acts that suggest queerness"

you can say you disagree with con's interpretation of his character without saying he's an ignorant straight man who doesn't know any better!

you might not have "known any better" before, but that's the point. you didn't know his sexuality. you didn't know anything about him and you still talked out of your ass and assigned straightness to him in an effort to be dismissive of his acting choices. this isn't a neutral act, it's one based in queerphobia and an entitlement to celebrities' personal lives.

via @krakenera

Some context cuz I know there's a lot of folks who weren't around for The Events of ofmd fandom conflict around con and Izzy of 2022… but what TJ is describing is an honest-to-god position that a couple influential accounts argued in ways that are incredibly dismissive and disrespectful about Con’s understanding of the character he is playing.

So when you talk about 'Izzy stans' being 'inappropriate' for feeling vindicated or relieved about Con coming out, know that a lot of those ‘inappropriate’ feelings are in response to those talking points and how they were used to put down con AND other fans.

Not to mention that as early as last month I saw ppl being treated like fucking garbage for pushing back against insipidly using ‘con is probably not queer’ to support the ‘Izzy’s behavior is meant to be read as homophobic' meta.

okay like no for fucking real though people trying to turn this shit on izzy stans like "it's weird to say you're vindicated" are annoying af because it's not about the character. it's so frustrating how izzy haters are incapable of understanding that sometimes things aren't about the character in the same exact way that when we're talking about izzy likers getting anon hate, it's not about the show, it's about the people being harm.

nobody expects izzy haters to turn around and go "yeah and now i understand that he's not homophobic!" like that would require critical thinking skills and an ability to humble yourself enough to consider being incorrect.

it's not about the character. which is what we were trying to express from the jump when people would make dismissive comments about con's sexuality and saying he was straight and queerbaiting and too heteronormative to recognize homophobia. that it's a fucked up thing to say about a real person you do not know just because you dislike a character. you can hate a character and not be needlessly cruel to the actor as well.

and now we're back here again i guess with people looking stupid for the way they talked about con, the homophobia they perpetuated by forcing a straight label on him even when called on it, and their continued unwillingness to examine their own behaviors regarding how they dehumanize closeted queer celebrities in an ongoing pattern repeated every few months online.

people are trying to turn it onto the izzy canyon and suggest that they're the ones that are inappropriate or whatever, and like? the community con felt comfortable enough to come out to is the one the izzy fandom cultivated. they're the ones that have shown him love and kindness, talked to him about how his character made them comfortable in their queerness, never pushed him for more details about his personal life even when there were things that could've potentially outed him (which y'all never heard about for a reason!) and let him know that he is welcomed in the community whenever he is ready.

we keep telling people over and over and over again, izzy is just a character, our flag means death is just a show, but these are real people being hurt and you keep doing it anyways.

Yes, yes, yes, yes to all this. And as someone who was in the room when Con made his statement, I want to underline this:

the community con felt comfortable enough to come out to is the one the izzy fandom cultivated.

More under the cut cuz I went off

anyway im really tired of pretending that voting matters or does anything when all evidence is that the only thing y'all say it does is "slow the fascism down" rather than "stops the fascism". perhaps this is because the system itself encourages fascism and stratification of power and wealth and anyone who works in that system is obligated to perpetuate the system at all cost and above all else.

there is no such thing as a good american politician. there are well-meaning american politicians. but they are all proponents and advocates of the american systems which oppress us and, at the end of the day, AOC and Ron DeSantis are merely fighting over who gets to run the same system. isnt it just so weird btw how things constantly get nonstop worse even during democratic majorities? and how you keep having to settle with ceding partially to Republican fascist demands?

surely, you keep saying, voting blue no matter who THIS election cycle will do something

surely, i keep saying, you'll have to figure out it won't do anything at some point

Okay come on.

I know you know better than this.

When not being obstructed by Republicans, IT DOES A LOT.

Or, in case you missed it, Democrats at varying levels of government have brought us this HIGHLY incomplete list:

—a ban on book bans (Illinois, 2023)

—reproductive rights enshrined in the state constitution (several, 2022-2023)

—student loan relief (federal, pending)

—legal ban on racial segregation (federal, 1964)

—minimum wage (federal, 1947)

—mandatory accessibility minimums for disabled people (federal, 1992)

—paid sick days for railway employees (federal, 2023)

All of that is off the top of my head before I’m fully awake for the day. If I actually sat here and looked shit up I could max out the character count on this post.

If voting didn’t matter, REPUBLICANS WOULDN’T BE TRYING TO TAKE YOUR VOTE.

Voting can stop fascism. The issue is one of inertia. Think about turning a car around when it’s been zipping at 80mph. You can’t just stop the car. It doesn’t work that way. It’s got to slow a bit, then stop, THEN turn. Right now we’re in the slowing phase and we can get to stopping if we don’t give the fuck up. And then we start pushing the Overton window back to the left.

“Both sides are the same”/“your vote doesn’t matter” is how we got Trump, and it was proven to be a Russian psyop. You are falling for their shit all over again.

Democracy is an active verb requiring continuous engagement. Voting is just but one required action.

PRECISELY. If you think we’re saying “vote and don’t do anything else,” you are at best being willfully ignorant and/or looking for an excuse for slacktivism.

Shop updates. I realized I should probably do this since - things are crazy. I've had to move shops - plan social media back-ups - and various other maddening admin things. Okay - as of right now. My redbubble shop is closed. It's still there - I can open it - if somehow the stars align and things get better. But due to fee raising - ranking - and general bullshit and chicanery, it's probably not happening. They did a lot of policy changes which shrunk my cut of sales there from small to insulting. So nah. Not hanging around. It WAS my biggest shop front - I had a lot of odds and ends on there that didn't fit anywhere else. So I miss it. But alas it's dead. So if you are interested in buying a design from me - please turn your attention to the Society 6 shop. If there's something you've seen around my accounts that isn't on there - lemme know and I can probably resolve that quickly. If you want a higher quality of print or card we also have INPRNT - they have less items on offer but the prints are supposed to be a higher quality so - for collectors or if you want something that's going to hold together past the collapse of civilization as we know. I'll try to update and add more pieces to it as it occurs to me. If you need something signed that has no doubt been handled by my grubby hands - I have The Etsy shop. This ensures I get the biggest cut of sales - but I have less pieces on there. Thanks for your time and patience. I leave you with your regularly scheduled bullshit.

Go buy some good stuff!

Hey.

Hey.

Go buy art from Lissa.

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

THE BOY

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

Gentleman, if I might add:

yes you may add this

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

time for scarebat brainrot coz I reread fear state this week

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