I have not, but I’ve had it recommended to me and I’ve meant to watch it when it was on Netflix (not sure if it still is). Don’t know if Chris has seen it, but my educated guess is no.
—Benito
Batman ain’t in it.
Chris, didn’t you review Covenant by Liefeld?
This comment seems disingenuous. Wild Old Testament comics are totally your thing, you just require money to read them.
I’ll open this up to the blog because I’m a fluff/comedy/smut writer myself so I don’t have a lot of knowledge of what is and isn’t tagged.
A safe bet would be to tag anything relating to violence or abuse like you said, and probably things like drugs and alcohol.
Blog? Please reply/reblog with resources or suggestions. If you’re reblogging, please also tag of course 🙂
I looked through the tags and am summarizing them here. A lot of these are @acemindbreaker‘s, I’m just organizing differently so my brain understands better.
Now edited to include @weareagentsofnothing’s addition. And @biteswhenprovoked suggests that you can check out the Does The Dog Die topic table which is great. I’ll continue to edit as I see suggestions/think of things, but I probably won’t reblog every time.
Violence
Death – common tags are “main character death,” “minor character death,” “animal death,” and “child death” (the last one might not be common but I want it to be)
Suicide – also, never graphically describe a suicide, death note, etc. It can encourage copycat behaviour
Abuse – child abuse, domestic abuse (abuse of a partner), sexual abuse (only applies to children or other vulnerable persons, otherwise its rape/assault), neglect, emotional abuse, gaslighting (telling someone their feelings/opinions are wrong, questioning their memories, otherwise messing with their brains)
Rape/Sexual Assault
Harrassment
Assault, Torture, etc.
Kidnapping and Imprisonment
Stalking – most people need to get better at tagging this! Society romanticizes stalking REALLY BADLY. If a character is finding out things about another character, and/or following them, without their knowledge, you should probably tag. (One time research by professionals probably(?) an exception?)
Coersion and Blackmail – threatening or forcing someone to do something
Cruelty
Slurs, even if they’re being reclaimed by the target demographic (ie. even if it’s a black character saying the n-word)
Bigotry – homophobia, misgendering, racism, sexism, ableism, religion bashing. Tag the specific type
Sex
Noncon/Rape – anything where a character can’t or doesn’t consent
Dubcon/Dubious Consent – anything where consent wasn’t clearly and freely given.
Incest – sex between family members/relative, both adopted and biological. Include it even if in this universe they aren’t related. Include even if they were never part of the family at the same time and you think it doesn’t count. You don’t want to be the person who suggests to an incest survivor that what happened to them wasn’t ‘really’ wrong because of X.
Specific sex acts – bondage, oral sex, whatever. Kinky or not. Some people search for, others want to avoid.
“Whether or not any sex or kink activities are realistic and safe – it’s good to give a heads up that just because the characters are using their own spit as lube or something doesn’t mean you think it’s actually a good idea to do that in real life, especially since some readers may not know” – @acemindbreaker
“Not Safe Sane and Consensual“ is the BDSM tag if the kinky stuff is dangerous, drop the “Not“ for kinky stuff that follows safety guidelines
Pairings – A/B means it’s romantic and/or sexual. A&B means it is platonic (friendship, family, mentoring, etc.). Don’t use A&B if there is ANY romance/sex between the two, even if it’s mostly friendship.
Background and minor pairings go in the summary or end notes. Otherwise people who search by pairing are driven crazy. But please include because they may be someone’s NOTP/squick
“If they’re endgame or not (endgame means they’re still together by the end of the story)”
Drugs and/or Alcohol – especially important for people trying to fight addictions
Food – for people struggling with food disorders
Illnesses – Food Disorders, Colds, Cancer, Depression, Anxiety – anything mental, physical, magical, etc. Tag specific illness, or include a general tag and offer details in the end notes if you’re worried about spoilers
Miscarriage/Pregnancy Loss – thank you SO MUCH @weareagentsofnothing! This is an important one I completely forgot
Also, Pregnancy in general is a good thing to tag, and Mpreg/Male Pregnancy in specific
Suicidial Ideation – thinking about suicide, dying, no longer existing, how much better the world would be without you, etc.
Also Dissociation, Flashbacks, or any other medical thing that someone might not want to be reminded of
Phobias
Bugs
Spiders/Arachnophobia
Hospitals
Reptiles
Clowns
Anything that you’re writing AS a phobia, ie. if your character is afraid of heights and you describe that fear
Gross Content
Vomiting/Emetophobia (@thelaithlyworm)
Other bodily fluids if described graphically
Gore – graphic depictions of injuries, violence, and internal body parts
Characterization
OOC/Out Of Character – if you’re writing a character in a way that conflicts with canon
Switching Alignment – Good characters being written as evil, or evil ones as good
Changes to canon/implied race, sexuality, gender, religion, etc. Even if you’re using canon from one medium in a franchise with a lot of variation. @acemindbreaker mentions that Jughead fans might not want to read an allosexual Jughead, since he’s aroace in some of the comics. Some Avengers fans have problems with Christian Maximoff Twins, since they’re Jewish Romani in the comics (some retcons ignored). Changing the gender of one member of a slash ship so that it becomes heterosexual is another thing that you can get a lot of hate for. So tag!
Ending
No Happy Ending – some people are fine with dark content, as long as there’s relief at the ending. It’s nice to warn if there won’t be.
Final comments about tagging:
When you start tagging, this can seem overwhelming. It’s okay to miss things at first. It’s okay to be too general while you’re learning.
If you’re insecure, include a tag that you’re new to tagging! We appreciate the work you’re willing to do for us, and would love to thank you! We’ll offer support and ideas how to improve if you ask, but most of us are just aware that it’s hard and so, so grateful you’re protecting us.
Also, if you do get angry comments, try not to take them personally. Remind yourself that the person is hurting – they may have just had a panic attack, or relived trauma, or a variety of other responses. That isn’t your fault, unless you knowingly didn’t tag something. Even then, you aren’t the one who caused the trauma. Their anger is misdirected, but don’t hurt them for it. Don’t take it personally, ignore, and tag better next time if you think you can.
Captions (finally): Fourteen tweets from Jenny Bann @calluna_
I transcribed a collection of 18thC student disciplinary records once. Let me give a quick overview of the things that generation were doing…
Duelling with swords; getting loudly and raucously drunk and kicked out of taverns; going along to a dancing master’s classes to meet girls, being told not to dance with one of said girls, getting into a fight with the dancing master over it;
Making ‘obscene toasts’ when drunk; hassling the landlady’s daughter when drunk; taking a sedan chair home when drunk and trashing it (Glasgow sedan chairs could be hired like taxis in 18thC, there were even designated sedan-chair pickup ranks)
Getting drunk and damaging somebody else’s lodgings to the point where he was “expelled from his Habitation and deprived of his Body Cloaths and the poor Remainder of his furniture to Satisfy the Landlord for his Rent”;
“having too many Companions always in his room, disturbing the house wt noise & breaking the furniture, as an evidence of which the Chairs in his room have no lefs than three times broke […] the expense whereof he promised to pay but has never yet fulfilled his promise”
Not attending lectures, and claiming when told off for this that ther was a university regulation saying students on his particular bursary only needed to attend 1/3 to pass, leading to two professors combing through rules ofr nonexistant regulation,
Arguing at the university debating society that the university is a “dusty shop of logic and metaphysic” and students would be better off just going to the theater
Suggesting to the ex-military chemistry lecturer that the army only wear red because they are trying to make up for their lack of virility ; getting into a fight with said chemistry lecturer in the university quad that two academic staff had to wade into a d break up;
(the last three were all the same student; he eventually got expelled and went off to seek his fortune with the East India Company)
Something that was bad enough to get two students expelled but is only described (by them) as “having the Misfortune sometime agoe to fall into an unhappy afray with some People of teh Town”;
Trapping a servant girl in their rooms and scaring her; damaging their lodgings again, this time by “some indecent language being painted on the inside of the room door wt a brush & whitening”
Getting drunk and arguing with a lecturer, deciding later that he needed to be taught a lesson, marching out drunkenly into the night with the tavern fireplace poker, beating an innocent passer-by w/it until the Lord Provost arrived to wrench said poker out of student’s hand
A significant proportion of these students were planning to go into the Church, btw.
So while I agree it’s annoying when your undergrads don’t do the reading and plagiarize their essays from SparkNotes, I struggle to believe they’re the Worst Student Generation Ever.
“Crap.” Robin says, slowly getting up. Headache wasn’t helping
him. “O? You got the number of that truck that hit me?” he
muttered.
“I don’t think she can help you right now.”
Robin looked up to see a stranger before him. Stranger clad in
something resembling Dr Mid-Nite’s get-up, but looking way more
aggressive and annoyed than the nice doctor.
Double crap. Thought Robin and immediately took a fighting
stance, headache be damned.
They sized each other up. Stranger was tense, glaring at Robin
through his mask. And Robin–Tim–was enough times on receiving end
of similar glares to gain some kind of immunity to them. He gulped
but didn’t break his stance, answering with his own glare.
Their stand-of didn’t last long. The Dr Mid-Nite-Wannabe relaxed his
stance and sighed, resigned. “Just my darn luck.” He muttered and
raised one of his hands to the comm. “SB? Come here. Yeah,
everything alright, there’s just… situation.”
Awwww, a tragic little twist at the end there, but at various points, I was wheeze-laughing.
“No name? That’s ok–I’m just gonna call you Tim. You clearly look like a Tim, in my opinion.”
I totally cracked up. I hadn’t really thought about the prospect of older!Tim actively choosing to mess with his younger self for the hell of it, but that line just felt right and had me giggling. Because yeah, older Tim would look back on the super-strict code-name secrecy and find the pure extent of it a little stupid. Makes sense that he tries to shake it up a bit for his younger self.
And I loved that said younger self snapped back with short jokes.
The core four’s reactions were pretty fun, though Cassie’s was my favorite.
“Master it.” She said in her most authoritative voice. “Earth’s fate depends on it.”
A post was going around about Dick being happy and social-able when it comes to the batfamily but more serious when with others but I think he changes based on the people he’s around and the situation.
He is what they need him to be whether it be
a partner
[Under the Red Hood]
a brother
[Young Justice: Secret Origins 80-Page Giant #1]
a friend
[New Teen Titans #14]
a leader
[Teen Titans (2003) #22]
a mentor
[Batman and Robin (2009) #22]
a mediator
[Young Justice]
a shoulder to cry on
[Nightwing #147]
[Nightwing #139]
an open ear
[Robin (1993) #61]
[Year One: Batman/Scarecrow]
a supporter/encouragement
[Teen Titans (2003) #33]
a ‘fool’
[Nightwing #50]
a ‘bad guy’
[Nightwing #113]
or a sacrifice
[Forever Evil]
He changes his demeanor in order to best accommodate the people he’s working with/for and that’s why he gets along so well with so many different vigilantes. He’s very aware of their positions versus his own.
I’ve said this before as well but when Dick has an issue with one other vigilante he tries really hard to be a partner and if he needs to be then a mentor, when it’s a three person or more issue then many times he feels the need to lead. It all depends on who he’s with.
I would even argue that when he has conflict it’s mostly because he’s stretching himself too thin when trying to fulfill all of these roles at once, or when he has to pick one role over another.
[Teen Titans V3 #6]
When he was the leader of the Titans and it conflicted with his partnership with Bruce that was when they really started having problems, when Dick had to become Batman and watch Damian there became a rift between him and Tim, when Jason was killed he was angry at himself for being away with the Titans instead of with the batfamily, etc. All people do this to a certain extent but many superheroes actually don’t or don’t do it as well as Dick does. Dick has many, sometimes conflicting, roles to play in many peoples lives and he tries his best to accommodate for those roles.
I think he’s probably not very conscious about the way he acts too much but it’s just very ingrained in Dick’s personality that he assesses what the people around him need and his relationship to them and then he molds himself and his behavior to best suite the people around him in his own way, whether it be to balance out the dark grim outlook that some of the batfamily members have or to tone down the eccentrics of a young team when necessary.
Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery
where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art,
say archaeologists.
Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient
form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their early
efforts were given pride of place on the living room wall.
A Cambridge University conference on the archaeology of childhood on
Friday reveals a tantalising glimpse into life for children in the
palaeolithic age, an estimated 13,000 years ago.
“Some of the children’s flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone’s shoulders,”
There’s a ficlet under the cut! Will probably post to AO3 sometime soon, but… that means coming up with a title. Lol. (Warning for blood mention/s, and Jason being gross.)
This was so fun to think about, seriously you’re awesome and I love you anon ♥️
Damian:
• *looks in the mirror five seconds after the spell hit. gasps* “I’m HIDEOUS!!!”
• Wayne Enterprises employee, smiling brightly: “Good morning Mr. Drake-Wayne. How are you today?”
Damian: “I don’t know but you’re fired.”
• He gets so fed up with having to push Tim’s bangs from his eyes that he resorts to borrowing Cass’ sparkly butterfly hair clips to keep them up and out of his face.
• “Why am I only an inch taller than I used to be? I still can’t reach Pennyworth’s cookie jar even on my tiptoes. You need to grow more, Drake.”
• He finds out why Tim wears long sleeves so often, but he doesn’t say anything to Tim about it. He does file it away for future conversation, though, and he monitors Tim more closely even after the whole incident is over.
• “Damian, why are you chugging an entire carton of milk?”
“Because Drake is too small for me to tolerate any longer. I’m a beanpole. A toothpick. A runt amidst a litter of bats.”
• *goes outside for an hour* “HOW THE HELL AM I SO SUNBURNED??? WHAT ARE YOU, A VAMPIRE???”
• He’s sad when his pets don’t recognize him and run when he tries to pet them. As a solution, he douses his entire body in catnip. Turns out Tim never told him he was allergic to catnip, so that was an interesting discovery.
• He has to drink at least four cups of coffee a day or else he gets sick because at this point Tim is addicted to coffee.
Same goes for normal food. Eating ramen noodles with goldfish and butterscotch pudding is fine, but he ate one (1) apple and his body tried to reject it.
• Ives: “Hey Timbo, what’s up?”
Damian: “Uh….Hello, associate of mine. Feeling very fleek today. Everything is cool beans. Crackalackin.”
Tim:
• “Why are my pecs so huge.” *cups them* “They feel like rock hard muscle melons. Like a cantaloupe filled with pure power. What strong breasticles.”
• He’s amazed by the amount of muscle on Jason’s body and spends most of his time trying to see what stuff he can crush with his bare hands.
*breaks a stick in half* “I AM ALMIGHTY.”
• He braids Jason’s white streak and pins it back with some pink hair clips Steph gave him.
*poses in the mirror* “I’m a buff zombie princess.”
• *on the phone with Roy* “Hey Roy, so remember that secret I told you once and demanded you never to tell anyone else? Yeah, that one. Would you mind explaining it to me in explicit detail, slowly so I can write it all down.”
• *gentle gasp* “I’m allowed to drink alcoholic beverages in this body.”
*later that night after his fifth shot of appletini* “DO YOU EVER JUST THINK ABOUT THE MUPPETS AND CRY??? KERMIT THE FROG MAN, KERMIT THE FROG.”
• He has to wear sunglasses and a hat whenever he goes out because he has to make sure no one in Gotham recognizes the late Jason Todd.
• The first time he sees what Jason’s body really looks like under all the armor and layers, he’s shocked. Jason doesn’t take his shirt off in front of people much because he’s embarrassed by all the scars. Tim tries not to look at them because he knows Jason doesn’t like sharing this detail with anyone, but occasionally he finds himself absently tracing the autopsy scar under his shirt. He has a new respect for Jason after this whole ordeal.
Jason:
• “I feel like an overcooked noodle.”
• Adjusting to how flexible Dick is turns out to be quite the experience. He does the splits with no problem. He swings from a tree branch and lands on the ground as fluid as a leaf. He does four backflips in a row.
Jason, cartwheeling through the room: “Watch as he flips with the greatest of ease, the rad noodle man on the flying trapeze.”
Dick, in his tiny Damian voice: “That’s not even how the song goes!”
• “Why does my mouth taste like ketchup and ice cream 24/7. What do you eat, Dick.”
• At first he thinks it’ll be nice for once, being able to walk around Gotham without worrying about people recognizing him as being a dead man. Turns out, it’s almost worse when he can’t go to a McDonald’s without a bunch of paparazzi and fan girls following him around and begging to take a picture with the hottest Wayne boy.
• He goes to the police precinct for work and is on edge the whole time because this is the first time in years he’s been surrounded by cops who don’t want to arrest him.
• Catcaller: “Hey, nice ass!”
Jason: “Thanks, I got it from my brother!”
• Dick from the next room: “If you smoke in my body and give me cancer I’ll kill you!”
Jason, with a lit cigarette in his mouth: “It’s a metaphor, you see. I died once and I’ll die again because I’m not a fucking coward.”
• After he’s back in his own body: “Hey, I wonder if I can still do all that flipsy shit.”
Later: “So, Master Jason, tell me again how you shattered your collarbone?”
Dick:
• He eats one (1) cheeseburger, but unfortunately forgot about Damian being vegetarian so he winds up getting violently sick because the body he’s in doesn’t accept meat anymore. So that was a learning experience.
• “Why does it physically hurt to smile. Who hurt you, Damian.”
“A bunch of assassins and a psychopath for a grandfather.”
• Damian may be athletic, but he’s nowhere near as stretchy as Dick is used to. He tries putting his leg behind his head and nearly breaks his pelvis.
One upside is he’s far smaller and lighter in Damian’s body, which makes swinging around on the trapeze a breeze. He’s like an Acrobat Barbie doll.
• He has to call Tim for help when he can’t reach his cereal on the top shelf.
Tim, walking into the kitchen half asleep and confused: “Are you one of Santa’s elves?”
Dick, sobbing on the floor: “I CAN’T REACH MY FRUITY PEBBLES”
• He starts crying again later that afternoon because “THIS WEAK ASS BODY CAN’T EAT SRIRACHA WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW???”
• He stands in the middle of the room and watches all the adults bustle around: “I am a bean. A tiny chihuahua. A mere flea in a world of elephants and woosles.”
• “If there is one upside to all of this body-swapping, at least I can finally use the Dora the Explorer baby toothpaste without being ridiculed.”
• Jon: “Hi, Dami! What’s up?”
Dick: *to himself* “Hmmm what would Damian say…Oh, I know!”
To Jon: “Salutations, comrade. Photosynthesis. Lackadaisical. The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.”
Gotham: Quarantine… DICKIE BIRD!! With long hair! ❤️❤️❤️ one of my first digital drawings. #dickgrayson #hepullsitoff #harleywing #gothamquarantine #nightwing #longhair #ponytail #graysonandquinn #grayson #flyinggrayson
[Image shows Nightwing from the shoulders up, his head turned to the left. He has a high ponytail that reaches just past his shoulders.
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