I personally think it would be extremely funny if The Hunger Games and Mad Max took place in the same universe and America and Australia just dealt with this apocalypse very differently.

#sure. I'll incorporate that into my belief system. (via @gallifreyburning)

When Tim Drake was a child and trying to earn his parents love, he taught himself how to read/speak multiple dead languages. He thought maybe if he could prove to be useful his parents would bring him with them to dog sites.

They did not, but Tim had caught the language bug so he kept learning more languages both regular and dead.

It shows up every now and then. Some hint shows up somewhere and the bats are like “are there any professors in the city who might be able to decipher this,” and Tim’s like “no need, also this is literally just the societies version of loss.” He shrugs and doesn’t notice the way his family is staring at him because how the fuck does Timmy know this.

It comes out in more fun ways of course. Tim uses languages to avoid the swear Jar. This man goes into long winded rants in ancient Sumarian assuming no one can understand him. He’s been doing it for years.

Then Ra's Al Ghul kidnaps him and he break into a rant in an earlier dialect of Armaic and sends Ra's literally reeling like how do you know that??? It was clear that Tim wasn't a native speaker, but he was fluent, and Ra's hasn't heard those words being spoken for hundreds of years.

Tim refuses to elaborate on why Ra's suddenly decided to let him go, along with the new found respect the demon head suddenly has for him. The Batfamily still wonders to this day.

Ra’s in the background minding his own business

Red Robin: yelling inaccuracies about his sparing partners form and abilities in a lost Dialect of Armaic

Ra’s: gets whiplash from how quickly his head turns to look at Tim.

Denying a trans reading of Scott Pilgrim not because I don't see it but because if Scott was an egg and Ramona was a trans woman then there'd be no fucking way she'd be adhering to the prime directive this fucking hard whenever he says some egg shit. Scott would talk about his hair or go on about how he wishes he was a lesbian and her face would contort like a deflating basketball from the relatable cringe of it all

Kim: you can't say anything. you know how this works, she has to figure it out herself.

Ramona: you don't understand, she's been so bad lately. I don't know if I can take this any longer.

Scott, entering the room: hey have you girls seen my big jacket, the one that doesn't make me hate myself so much? wonder why it does that. anyway, I'm gonna go play DND with Roxie, she said it was girls only so Wallace couldn't come but for some reason she invited me anyway, lol. I'm thinking about playing a cool knight lady, just for variety. anyway bye!

Ramona: *looks at Kim*

Kim: dear god

The thing is that this is a setting where the Vegan Police is real, so chances are that the Prime Directive is probably being enforced by a high council of trans girls

The moment Ramona tries to tell Scott she gets interrupted by a cat girl speedrunner no clipping into the room and sucker punching her

Okay you know what that's actually a solid argument that's consistent with the series' internal logic

Initially I was on team “why would a pair of celestial beings have any interest in the human legal concept of marriage”

But then S2 came along and established Aziraphale’s penchant for license collecting, and, you know what, who am I to argue with that

@hinekosama you cannot hide this in the tags

I love Lilo And Stitch bc even though it makes me sad David just goes and blames what he thinks is a normal dog for making things worse for Nani and Lilo and it’s constantly funny to me

YOU DID THIS

Just so we know just exactly David was dealing with. 

It honestly never occurred to me that Stitch could have been mistaken for a French Bulldog by everyone

I really have been just accepting that Lilo’s cover story “Stitch used to be a collie ‘til he got run over” as the story everyone accepted.

yeah in David’s defense, “Nani’s chaotic little sister brought a dog home and then immediately dyed the poor thing bright blue” is not an unreasonable assumption

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

marine scientist: what’s your gender?

merperson: what’s a gender

marine scientist: like, are you a man or a woman?

merperson: i’m merfolk

marine scientist: no, like, what’s in your pants?

merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)

Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*

Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK

OH MY GOD

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

I know everyone’s talking about how the cast of Danny Phantom is full of gay and trans characters exclusively to piss of Butch Hartman but let us not forget, Butch’s bread and butter, Fairly Odd Parents…

Timmy’s parents were 100% sure that Timmy was going to be a girl before he was born, as seen in the episode Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker.

Cosmo seems to be the only other one in the know about this, and has baby pictures of Timmy in a dress on hand

Then, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen…

When Wanda does, inevitably, transform Timmy into a girl to teach him a lesson…

Cosmo immediately panics.

AND in the episode “It’s a Wishful LIfe” when Timmy wishes he never existed…

The Turners have a daughter instead.

In conclusion:

Timmy Turner is trans and used the power of one of his fairy godparents to wish that everyone in his life completely forget that he was born and raised female for a portion of his life, including his parents and his other fairy godparent.

Share to make butch hartman mad he accidentally keeps making characters trans

Gotham has so many rogues and most of them don’t actually cause that much trouble in the grand scheme of things, so other than the really big ones, like joker, news about Gotham rogues can get pretty muddled outside the city which leads the JL to believing that Batman and Manbat are the same person and that their colleague sometimes turns into a giant bat monster but they don’t bring it up bc they think it’s a sensitive topic

Which eventually leads to a scenario like this mid combat when they’re getting pretty desperate:

Green Lantern: I know we’re not supposed to talk about it or whatever, but it would be really helpful if you could turn into a giant bat right now, spooky

Batman, having zero context for this comment, pausing mid fight to look at Hal like he just grew a second head: What the fuck are you talking about, Jordan?

Green Lantern, suddenly much less confident: Um…you know how you…turn into a giant bat?

Batman, utterly bewildered, turning to the other members but finding that he is clearly the only one out of the loop: what is happening right now

hiding this in the tags????

the hadron collider is like an angel to me

>large >unbelievably powerful >hurts to look at for too long

^ this is an angel

-wheels within wheels (look at it (and this picture doesn't even really convey the scale of interconnected circular structures))

-covered in eyes (sensors)

-too large to see the whole thing at once

-too intricate for one mortal mind to grasp the whole thing at once

-brings cryptic messages about the nature of reality

-benevolent, but will kill you with invisible rays if you try to fuck with it while it's on the job

This makes scientists and technicians priests, which also tracks in some ways.

Annabeth as Odysseus. Both too smart, too cunning, with eyes that have seen to much and dreams too big for this world.

She dreams, sometimes, of the raging sea, of bloodied fields and weary soldiers. Of the warm sun and sand of an island that feels like home. When she wakes up, the memories tug at her mind, tantalisingly out of her reach. (When storms hit the shores of the camp, she hears the roar of waves against the beach echoing in the cabin and she hides under her covers, trembling and gasping in a fear she doesn’t understand).

The first time she meets Clarisse, a new camper with wild eyes and an angry scowl she nearly calls her Achilles. (The only one to notice her hesitation is Mr D. He looks pitying for a second before retreating behind his disdainful apathy).

Percy as Penelope. Both fiercely loyal, resilient and strong. To have them as friends, as lovers, is like having a home.

Percy who flinches at smelly Gabe’s voice, who sees other men superimposed with him, stronger, taller, familiar men. He feels dread and determination rise within him. He lifts his chin. Royalty never bows to anyone. (People forget Penelope came from Sparta after all. She has smiles full of teeth and a sword in her closet).

Bilbo barely passed Old Took's record lifespan after having a supernaturally-life-extending ring for 60 years. which begs a question. what the hell did Old Took do

I have a theory that somewhere back up the line gandalf fucked a took. This sounds like complete crack but hear me out. The tooks are rumored to have “fairy blood” which in LOTR terms means either elves or maia. There is an ancestor who’s unusually tall and many of them are noted to live unusually long lives unless they meet with illness or injury, same as the numenorians did. They don’t hve extra pointy ears and elves don’t have a special interest in the line. But who DOES have a special interest in looking after tooks (and bilbo who is a took on his mother’s side/his adopted son frodo)? Gandalf. That dude is ALWAYS fussing over some silly little guy. He regularly brought the old took birthday presents.

Back in the day some bold hobbitess decided to climb that old man and ever since then gandalf has been looking after his line of tiny crazy bastards and no one will convince me otherwise.

a helpful tutorial

I was taking with my friend about good omens and we were wondering how the hell aziraphale-as-crowley managed to get into that bath without getting his socks wet and so I drew this ‘helpful’ guide.

I like to imagine that all the demons had to just awkwardly stand around watching him clamber around getting into this bathtub… @neil-gaiman can you confirm?

This is even better than the people trying to get Good Omens cancelled on Netflix. I might confirm it when I stop laughing.

I have been thinking about this scene a lot and while I appreciate the OP’s version as well as the very fine illustration, I can’t help but slightly disagree.  I have always seen Crowley stand at the foot edge of the tub, raise his arms dramatically, falling backward in slow motion with an evil grin on his face, making a massive splash like the dramatic bitch that he is.  It took a minor miracle to not get his socks wet, but it was worth it.  Now I need an illustration of the entry I described for comparison…. for science of course.

a comparison! (for science, of course)

…okay, but can we consider this option? for arguments sake?

ignore that i ordered it backwards

I imagined a lot of things while we were making Good Omens. I never ever once imagined this thread.

This. Is. Pure. Fucking. GOLD.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHH Love.

Oh this fandom. I do love us lol.

Good Omens Heritage Post

Still legendary 🤣

Reblogging because people need it.

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

a comic i made is being sold on a shelf at my favorite cb store as of today and this post is still my biggest accomplishment of the day

Bill being turned into a cyberman is about coming out as trans actually. btw. because the very act of coming out is followed by people trying to force you back into the closet (into the conformity of a cyberman shell). people perceiving you as a monster when you look in the mirror and all you see is yourself. being told you are so strong for surviving this with yourself intact when you never wanted it to happen and just want to be you and you have to fight off everything put in your head trying to convince you not to fight to stay yourself. wanting to live but not if you can’t be you and you know you are trapped in someone, something, that isn’t you. and also because all trans people have a secret puddle girlfriend who will pull them out of the cyberman shell and offer to remake them into whoever they want to be. (she is called hrt and she can find in little bottles at the pharmacy. btw.)

and best bit is you can take the trans reading any which way. on the one hand, cyberman is. well. cyberman, and that lends itself very easily to a reading with transfem bill. OR you could point out in the other direction that despite being labelled cybermen, they’re inherently genderless in a rigid, conforming way, and so very easily you could take this sort of degendering of a masculine term and talk about how it applies to bill being transmasc instead. and the violent and strict degendering aspect obviously is relatable across the trans experience, so really, bill could be any flavor of trans and it works.

Starting to think a cooler headcanon for Clark’s upbringing might just be that the entire town of Smallville collectively decided to just go with it and accept that Martha and John's kid has superpowers, but we don't talk about it.

Someone's tractor gets stuck and nothing can get it out? "Be a dear and run down to the Kents, would you? Ask for Clark?"

"Why Clark, we need a machine--"

"Run along now."

Or if he kicks too hard and the football vanishes into the upper stratosphere, no it didn't, we all collectively saw it land over there *vague hand movements*

Clark: *does anything beyond human limits*

Smallville citizen:

The Kent's found an abandoned baby in a cornfield? Well good for them they've been longing for a child for years

I swear that Kent boy was running faster than that train...welp none of my business

Jonathan! Your witch child busted my tractor!

these are small town Midwest farmers they ain't saying shit to FEDS

I was gonna say, Midwestern rules says as long as that boy is polite and respectful (of course he is), there's no reason to ask any questions.

Imagine the nosy bitch (there's always a nosy bitch) going, "Oh, he's their ADOPTED son" and the OUTRAGE. "Oh, is your daddy your step-daddy, Lauren?"

"How could you say that???"

"Because everyone knows you don't look a thing like your daddy, but you sure look like his cousin."

I also like how this can mirror Bruce; Batman only lets a small handful of people in on his hero identity, but most of Gotham has no idea who he is... meanwhile, more than half of Smallville knows about the Kent boy, and they just keep quiet around a few folks they don't trust

When Superman starts showing up on the news all of smallville collectively smile and go and congratulate the Kent’s “you know Martha I just knew that boy of your’s would grow ta some good,” they have a potluck whenever he wins some big fight and are all holding their breath when he get hurt, also every single person in smallville will curse out Lex Luther on a whim,

Look, despite what some people might think, country folk aint stupid. Simple sometimes, sure, but not stupid. So when three events happened in quick succession, it wasn't hard to connect the dots.

First, there was the shooting star. Meteor. Meteorite. "That green blaze of light that went cross the sky screaming like a banshee's flute". Whatever you're going to call it. Anyone who was up at the time saw it. But nobody heard any sound of it hitting ground. And with all the fuss it was making, you'd figured you would. Everyone would've just figured it burnt itself up while stretching through the sky. Except.

You know, our natural assumption is that Peter Parker is just SO genius and crafty that at age 16 he developed a web formula in his high school chem class that even twenty years later teams of scientists can’t replicate with millions of dollars in supplies and equipment but like. No offense to Peter but no 16 year old in a high school chem lab could outsmart 20 years worth of technological process+the greatest chemists of their generation+millions of dollars in funding. My theory is that Peter’s formula is so basic (but ingenious!), using such shitty supplies and equipment, that no scientist worth their degree would even consider trying to replicate the formula with his methods. He accidentally took the Glass Onion route to outsmarting these guys which was “just go dumber” and it’s worked for literal decades

he IS that smart but he is also THAT broke someone should put that in every Spider-Man internal memo for the next ten movies

thasmin alternative funny ending where the end of sea devils is the same but at the start of potd it's immediately incredibly obvious they did Not stick with that "lets just be pining" deal

like sea devils flirting times ten, absolute honeymoon phase, bring back the Mattress Suggestions but #confirmed this time, dan leaves because he has a date to get to ahem ahem

crucially this remains Entirely unacknowledged by Everyone. but like in a trying to give someone a kiss and headbutting them bc you forgot youre both wearing space helmets kinda way. the first person to almost mention it is the master, who wants to point out to yaz the things they have in common, but before the doctor can bite his head off yaz has already kicked him. they both dont mention it. the master also doesnt again.

the episode functionally stays the same. the master being the doctor becomes even more poignant in his dynamic with yaz. nothing else would change. they both would prioritise the fate of the planet and the people theyre trying to help over anything theyve got going on and even more importantly i can not stress this enough this is a folie-à-deux of hardcore denial. they did this exact same thing apart for years theyve just combined forces now. it's obvious, but it can Not be acknowledged by Anyone. and it wont be. and nothing changes. the entire episode plays the exact same way if theyre deeply in love because they are. just add like three words of dialogue and an eyeroll from dan in the first third and youre done