i think too many people think the problem with “fandom adults” is that they’re “too old to be watching cartoons/playing nintendo games/writing fanfiction/etc” and not the actual issue of “a loud minority of them really fucking hate kids for no reason.

there are plenty of fandom content creators that are in their 40′s and still play nintendo games or draw fanart of cartoon characters, and they’re pretty chill and nice people. but if you base you’re view on adults in fandoms  on those who hate “snot nosed minors” and puriteens than yeah you’re gonna think all adults in fandoms are weirdos

in my experience it’s less about age and more attitude. i know twitter artists who bitch and moan about how much they hate minors and how “their ruining fandom spaces” and the twitter artist in question is like. 19. like that was you 2 years ago.

i’m going to be honest i’m kind of annoyed how people are turning this post into a “isn’t it annoying how adults take *children’s media franchise so seriously*” post and not  “isn’t it annoying how adults are really mean towards children who are fans of the same media property as them” 

because i don’t care if adults are like. heavily critical towards pokemon that’s fine it’s the highest grossing franchise in the world it’s fine, i’m more talking about people who get mad at children who play pokemon because “they’re ruining the fandom” when pokemon is  still aimed primarily at children so of course children are gonna be in the fandom. that doesn’t mean pokemon itself is immune to criticism but to act like children shouldn’t be fans of it because it annoys you personally is really obnoxious.

Medusa and her gargoyle gf

Everyone’s assuming her petrifying gaze would have NO effect here and that’s clearly wrong. It would be a healing stat buff actually. She can regenerate and strengthen her girlfriend by looking at her.

Just like girlfriends in real life

Just like girlfriends in real life.

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i’ve been thinking about this video nonstop since the first time i saw it

the jaunty walk perfectly in time with the music. the tip of the hat the unaware or uncaring bystanders. the shaky camera with random zooming. the fact that this is seemingly happening in a park. this is peak media i can’t get over it

Paracelsus walking into the university of Wurtenberg to tell the other doctors stop treating gunshot wounds with poultices made of feathers and cow manure.

Dick: Hey guys! I brought everyone’s favorite archer with me!

Tim: you brought Cissie?

Dick: No

Damian: Conner?

Dick: no

Tim: …Mia?

Damian: …Emiko

Dick: No, guys, I brought Roy

Tim: oh, my fourth favorite archer

Damian: at least it isn’t Queen

Jason: oh hey! It’s my favorite archer!

Batman is 1000% overshadowed by his kids.

Dick Grayson is better at acrobatics and flexibility. Duh.

Jason Todd is better at brute strength hand-to-hand combat (also he has a fucking gun, so ranged attacks +1, another +1 for not being a pussy and killing people. [PS DC stop nerfing my boy.])

Tim Drake stole the title of World’s Greatest Detective right out from under Bruce, and he would probably be unstoppable if he still had his spleen.

Stephanie Brown is superior at actually being a functioning human being- objectively the most important trait of everyone here.

Cassandra Cain is just better. At what? Everything.

Damian Wayne is better at channeling his trauma and autism into things that aren’t punching mentally ill people (like seriously the kid had to unlearn his LoA brainwashing and look at him go adopting animals instead of traumatized orphans.)

Duke Thomas cAN FUCKING FLY.

Headcanon that the real reason all the other Justice Leaguer's avoid Gotham is because there is a running joke with the Gotham press that every hero in Gotham is either Batman, or a Robin.

Superman stops an attack drone from burning down a city block?

NOPE! News headlines read "Is Robin's new ability to fly proof he's really a vampire??"

Black Canary busts a smuggling ring?

"Batman's second female Robin. Will she last longer than the first?

Green Arrow catches a bank robber?

"Green Robin's facial hair and exactly what citizens think about it, page 3."

Bruce still does the tooth fairy thing for the kids.

The bats are constantly losing and having to replace their teeth. Because you don't get hit, kicked, and thrown on your face almost every other night and keep all your teeth.

So imagine early on when Duke first stays at the manor. He comes in saying how he was thrown into a car and lost a tooth on patrol.

They tell him to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy. He laughs it off like , "OkaY, the tOotH fAirY."

The next morning at breakfast

Dick: "How much did you get?"

Duke: "Get what?"

Dick: "From the tooth fairy?"

Duke: "Oh, haha, right."

Steph: "?...Wait...Bruce?!"

Jason: "Why didn't he get anything??"

Bruce: "Don't ask me. The tooth fairy probably couldn't find it."

Duke: "You're not joking? You were serious about leaving my tooth?"

Tim: "Yeah, B always leaves money."

Bruce: "Untrue. The tooth fairy leaves money to children who lose a tooth. Not me."

Jason: "Yeah, whatever, anyway, make sure you let him or Alfred know when you lose a tooth and leave it out when you go to bed.

Bruce: "Alfred and I have no say in the tooth fairy's actions."

Tim: "We've caught him on camera, but he insists to deny."

Bruce: "Or perhaps you caught a clever disguse made to trick you?"

Dick: "... Just leave it out tonight, Duke."

Duke: "Okay, I guess I'll leave it out then?"

Bruce: "Somewhere the tooth fairy can find it easily, Is what I assume they would want."

Steph: "Smooth."

Damian *walking in*: "Father, thank you for the extra cash. This will go to the new treats I wanted to try for Batcow."

Bruce: "It wasn't me, thank the tooth fairy."

Damian: "... Yes, the tooth fairy. Thank you tooth fairy."

Bruce: "I think the tooth fairy appreciates that, Damian."

Everyone: *sigh*

(Cass is there the whole time casually eating because only Bruce knows that she sometimes will sneak in the rooms first to wait for him.)

Cass when Bruce finds her in the darkness of her sibling's rooms: "😃"

Batman, dividing everyone up for patrol- Jason, you're with Steph, Damian, you're coming with me, Dick, you're with Cass. Tim, are you fine going solo?

Tim- Yup

Jason- Oh, come on! Why does he get to go solo?

Batman- Your brother gets to go solo because he doesn't have a kill count.

Jason- Oh, he SO does

Tim, whispering- It doesn't count if he doesn't find the bodies

Bruce Wayne’s son privilege.

To dull the pain of DC’s treatment of Damian as of late, I compiled virtually every Damian hug I could find. Serotonin abound.

Bahahaha

Adult Damian and jon are definitely a vibe with a younger tagalong kid lol

Spider-Woman! Loved how she utilises the bike in her web swinging! 🏍️ 🕷️🕸️

www.louiejoyce.com

‘Don’t mess with the ground staff!’

“Hey mister! Watch where you’re blowing that thing!”

At this point Katara is so done with them.

This is now the first part of an ongoing series that I'm calling the "Sokka's stamps series". Based on this text post by @aboutiroh, @nothing-more-than-hot-leaf-juice , @wildshadowtamer and @waterbenderkat.

You can find the second part here.

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Toph and Zuko meet for the first time: 

Toph: You must think I’m fragile and weak. 

Zuko: ...You just yeeted me 10 feet into the air. Why would I think that? 

Zuko: So, how do you see? 

Toph: I don’t, I’m blind. 

Zuko: Yes, but- I- you seem to know where everything is. 

Toph: Lucky guesses

Toph: Why are you hiding in my cave?

Zuko: Why do you have a cave?

*mutual silence*

Toph: I could really use a valet, you know.

Zuko: A v- Do you have any idea who I am?!

Toph: I know you’re not a valet who doesn’t live off of just berries and nuts.

Zuko:

This doesn’t change anything, but @whats-a-reading pointed out they’d be 11 and 7. I stand corrected.

It changes things

They are even less competent now. Comedy

7 year old Toph appearing at lunch one day with 11 year old Zuko stuffed into the first set of adult livery they could find: This is my new seeing eye valet

Poppy Beifong:

Lao Beifong:

Zuko with his sleeves flopping a foot past his hands:

Toph: Can I go into town unsupervised now

All the people in the notes saying they would deliberately fuck there as if they somehow don’t recognize exactly the kind of habitat where 1000 ticks will find their way into every crevice of your human flesh

I’m taking pottery lessons right now… and my teacher said “the kiln gods are being kind to me right now.” And that made me stop and think. Is there a god of pottery? I tried to look it up but it’s hazy.

In Ancient Greece, Athena was apparently the goddess of crafts, which is a bit vague. Hephaestus was the god of sculpting, but that’s not right either.

In Ancient Egypt, I found Khnum who made the other gods and humankind on his potter’s wheel.

I found two gods of pottery in Southeast Asian cultures, Lianaotabi and Panthoibi.

But I wasn’t able to find anyone else. Pottery being such an important part of daily life all around the world, it seems like there would be more. Does anyone know of any other gods of pottery?

kiln gods are also A Thing!

they're little sculptural critters that potters make and leave on or around their kiln for good luck. a lot of them have to do with fire or are holding pottery (Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle is one I've seen multiple times) but a kiln god can be anything

I share a kiln so I don't want to take up space on or near the kiln, so I just put a kiln god through with every batch of pottery

here's a selection of mine (all holding pottery)

the head of the ceramics dept learned his wood fire techniques in Japan, including a Shinto take on the kiln gods.

wadding is a material glaze doesn't stick too, and it's used to prop up pieces in a wood fire kiln because otherwise the wood ash would weld them to the shelves.

everyone has to make a little wood fire idol out of wadding and place them on top of the kiln

and unlike a gas or electric kiln that can be programmed and then left alone aside from a few checks, a wood fire kiln needs to be babysat for the full 2-3 day fire (for our size kiln anyway).

cool thing is there's an external pit where we burn thin pieces of wood to get a good ash layer on the pieces, and you can cook in said pit while you're watching. but our prof required us to throw a little bit of whatever we cooked into the main fire as ordering

he also opened the firing by sharing some sake with the kiln before lighting it

See the chap with glasses and an incredible moustache in the bottom right? that's Magnus Hirschfeld, the gay Jewish doctor who ran the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin. It was largely his books, his research that the Nazis burned.

Everyone else in this photo is a trans person that Dr Hirschfeld worked with. This photo was taken at their christmas party.