it turns out i have weirdly strong opinions about logan’s vaguely-cowboy aesthetic as a nod to westerns as a genre and his role as a wandering lone hero doing bad things to worse people, and its ties to the concept of a ronin in japanese cinema, and wolverine’s relationship to japan having parallels to the relationship of the western to samurai/kurosawa films
but the tl;dr of it is that logan’s fangy cowboy hat is v important (i’m having a weirdly hard time finding pictures but i know exactly the hat you mean because it was iconic)
Okay my friends.
I need recs to Tim fic where Tim was neglected and/or moderately abused as a kid and the Batfamily are relating to him, then or later. Or where preboot Tim and Dick hang out together and care about each other.
I need authours that read the 90s Robin series, and knew the two from before Damian showed up. Even if the fic is written after – people write their relationship so differently these days.
And I need LOTS of recs, because I’ve already read them all.
I know I’m asking a lot, but I just NEED them today. I just had to pause writing to pull on my hair and express excess emotion. I need fic with real Tim and people caring.
I’ve been rewatching DD and reading fic and just thought I’d point out some helpful law/law school stuff for fic writers.
Most law schools have term-length courses where your final is 80-100% of your grade. Some, but not all, will also have a midterm worth about 10%. Usually, there are no other assignments. All the finals are in one week. That week is hell.
Law students drink and study. Sleep is not a listed activity.
Every law student, at some point, makes a “Help! I’m being battered! This is legally battery!” or similar assault joke when their friend whaps them for being an idiot or somebody bumps into them. It is a fact.
Most classes are taught in the Socratic method, where professors will call on students at random to recite cases. “Recite” doesn’t mean from memory; you’re expected to read the cases and write briefs of them in your notes before class.
Moot Court and Law Review are the two law school extracurricular most employers look for on the resumes of students. They’re usually highly very hard to get into.
Law students don’t live in dorms, but frequently they do cluster in the same apartment buildings.
If you’re objecting to something in court, you have to stand, and you have to say why. So it’s not just “Objection, Your Honor!” It’s “Objection, Your Honor, hearsay!”
Canonically, the same chemical spill that blinded Matt Murdock is also the spill that made the teenage mutant ninja turtles. Splinter’s name is a riff off Stick. That’s not legal info, I just feel like it’s a fact that’s not being properly utilized by fic writers.
Same, erato. Though I didn’t need this thing to come at me for my entire life like it did.
DON’T ASK ME TO CHOOSE, I CAN’T DO IT
Wait wait wait don’t tell me you’ve gift wrapped literary features for me to analyze Hunger Pangs with
Of course I have. It was a writing experiment where I tried to fit all my favorite tropes into it. There’s even comic grave diggers.
I got Calliope. I’m in it for the drama and plot twists and devastating secrets. … Yeah ok fair.
You got: Thalia
The Muse of Comedy – When it comes
to romance novels, your taste runs to biting dialogue, witty remarks and
ridiculous plots. The more over the top it is, the more cutting the
criticisms characters make, the more helplessly everything goes wrong,
the better.
[Images of a child, maybe 8-10, in various poses. In one she is smiling widely. In another, she is kneeling and sweating, her eyes swirling unnaturally, looking exhausted. In the final one, a man is rubbing his hands through her hair, his face cut off by the top of the image. She’s looking up at him, face blank.
Relationships: tag the main ship(s). Use / if the ship is romantic or sexual in nature, use & if the ship is platonic or non-romantic
Characters: tag the central characters for this fic
Additional tags: this is where you can tag ships or characters that are mentioned in the fic but are tangential/minor
This is another one of those things that doesn’t get talked about very much and so not everyone knows. In fact, I’m not 100% sure I’m right here so please correct me if I’m wrong 🙂
While on duty as Officer Grayson, Dick has a confrontation with the Joker in a hostage situation. Or, the fic where Dick kills the Joker. 3,575 words.
Gotham Police Department issues straight-from-the-factory Glocks, .40 caliber G22s, with a magazine capacity of fifteen rounds, plus one in the chamber, semi-automatic, with a trigger pull of 5 pounds, according to the specs. Dick was issued a used piece from a recently “retired” police officer, someone who had been even more corrupt than the standard Gotham cop and had been forced out during one of Gordon’s periodic house-cleaning exercises. Wear and tear and regular use had softened the trigger up, so Dick estimates that his gun only requires about three pounds of pressure.
Dick surreptitiously rubs his right hand against the fabric of his pants. It’s been at least an hour, and yet he can still feel those three pounds of pressure against his finger, as if it is still pulling that weight.
Bruce gave all of his proteges basic archery training, and Dick has shot Roy’s bow a few times. Roy’s current bow is a beast with a 105 pound draw weight. Dick allows himself a small smile, remembering how delighted Roy had been when he got it, deliberately two pounds heavier than Oliver’s. (“Suck it, old man!” Roy had crowed.) Dick had been able to use it, but at that weight his accuracy had been terrible.
Still, those 105 pounds now seem lighter than a feather pillow, compared to the pull of his trigger.
“Officer Grayson, please wait here. Your union rep will be here soon, and she has requested that we don’t start without her.”
This is another one of those things that it’s presumed “everyone knows” that not everyone does.
Character A & Character B = friendship
Character A / Character B = romantic pairing
I have to admit I use both for my OTP (FitzSimmons on Agents of SHIELD) because they’re also best friends and I write a lot of that friendship into the romance. I haven’t had anyone ask me to stop but I’ll put that out to my readers for their opinions.
And don’t worry about piling on. What’s one more thread? 🙂
The way I see it, / is for romantic and pre-romantic. If romance is the end-goal, no matter what the start is like, please use /.
& is for forever-platonic relationships to me. My brotps, who I don’t want to see date. If I’m looking through &, I’m looking for platonic relationships exclusively (except my otp where I want everything, romantic, platonic, what-have-you).
If it’s a bit ambiguous what the relationship in the story falls under, I go with whatever’s closest and also tag “Ambiguous Relationships” because that’s apparently the tag for “could be romantic could be platonic who knows not me”. (My otp is… complicated.)
(And if I’m feeling particularly Homestuck that day I’ll use quadrant symbols instead and let the wranglers at it. I mean I haven’t yet but it’s sure to happen someday.)
I have one (1) “fic” tagged with both… and it’s the dreaded Oneshot Collection “fic” >.> But I mark the individual type on each chapter so peeps know before reading.
tv shows with time travel organizations/bureaus/police/agencies/whatever should have a department with instead of a tech genius eating candy, it’s a harried seamstress or fashion designer who is like
“1450 italy? does it look like I have the time to dye you wool? nO. YOU’RE GOING TO THE 1980s”
and throws shoulder pads at the hapless time agent
“I literally made three- THREE- 18th century corsets last week. You can wait until one of them gets back, or you can go sometime post-1920s, because if I have to sew one more god damn channel I will literally lose my mind.”
“Upper middle class?!?!? You told me upper class! FUCK YEAH THERE’S A DIFFERENCE!!!”
“How about kimoNO.”
“Look me in the eyes. I do not care what you want. This is the 1500s. You absolutely cannot wear trousers.”
“Another court gown?? Here’s a novel idea: go as a peasant for once in your life. Why do you do this to me? You’re fucking sadists that’s why.”
“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be up all night hand painting silk.”
“THE POLICY IS ONE MONTH’S ADVANCE NOTICE ON PRE-1900s WOMEN’S FASHION FOR A REASON, DEBRA.”
Not just the fashion either. Imagine the poor LINGUISTS. Trying to correct accents and pronunciations and slang terms we might not even have anymore, or trying to work with dead languages just so their people aren’t noticed. and occasionally a time agent with a really strong accent they can’t do anything to change, and going ‘NO! You’re mute this mission! forget it! I am not letting you go to 1100′s England sounding like that. You’ll be a dead giveaway!
and the Historians and cultural anthropologists: ‘I am NOT sending a protestant Baptist woman into the heart of 1480′s Spain. ARE YOU MAD?! They’ll be charged with heresy or witchcraft and executed within the week! Find me a damn Catholic man who knows their Mass and is passably decent in Latin! NOW!’
“No Frank, I don’t give a SHIT how much you want to be Francois the nobleman, this is 1794 FRANCE. The Reign Of Terror? Ring any bells? No? Well unless you wish to be gruesomely beheaded by a guillotine, then you are going to be Francois the candle and lamp oil seller and stop raising a damn fuss about it! I swear a doctorates in History should be standard requirements for any agent to have this job…
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