“My Cat Realizing I Am Watching Him Do What I Have Repeatedly Told Him Not To Do”

After birds and dogs get ready for the Kitten!LiTs:

Eve Baird - Bengal

Flynn Carsen - Turkish Angora

Jacob Stone - Selkirk Rex

Ezekiel Jones - Siamese

Cassandra Cillian - Somali

Jenkins - Persian

villager: oh those two? the kids who are really interested in alchemy and seem to have latched onto you, barnacle-like? the ones who are the same age your child would have been by now? yeah they dont have any parents

izumi:

Things Batman Taught

I finally read the The Target. For anyone not familiar with this title, it heralds back to the Officer Grayson days. Dick is setup to take the fall for some dirty cops of the Blüdhaven PD and adopts the identity The Target to clear his name name for Reasons.

I came across this gem:

That’s right. They practiced throwing guns. As confirmed by Nightwing (1996) #33:

It called to mind another gun-throwing identity of Dick Grayson’s.

Flash forward to the New 52.

That’s right, Agent 37. Was is pure coincidence Agent 8 mentioned guns and targets? Or was it an Easter Egg?

Who could forget his iconic theme song?

His fellow agents may have given him grief over his choice of gun handling, but apparently Dick had lots of practice hurling those bad boys.

Finding these references is like undercovering buried treasure to me. I get way to much pleasure from it. Has anyone else found any good links from the old to the new like this?

Something I like about Stretch Armstrong & the Flex Fighters is that it features semi-realistic depictions of unhealthy, or at least worrying, family situations for teenage boys and how that impacts emotions/behavior.

For example, Mr. Armstrong aggressively pushes Jake to overachieve, all while being physically & emotionally unavailable to his son and ignoring their mutual pain over the loss of Mrs. Armstrong. Jake RECOGNIZES this as incorrect, but is unable to confront his dad. 

Ricardo’s parents are nearly always working, often breaking promises to spend time with their child. Again, Ricardo knows this is wrong, but seems unable to address or alter the dynamic. Moreover, this lack of permanence & attention has taken a SERIOUS toll on Ricardo’s self image & social skills. 

Both Jake & Ricardo have clean, well maintained living conditions. They go to school, are physically fit and eat well. Their parents are gainfully employed and wish the best for their children… yet it is evident that something is WRONG in these households and it is hurting these kids.

So, you have 2 heroic teenage-boy characters in a BOY’S ACTION SHOW who are written to experience and express sadness & anxiety over their parent’s lack of positive input in their lives. They are allowed to be upset that they are being emotionally neglected. 

Neglect/abuse is not presented as something that happens in “bad” homes, and it doesn’t create “bad” kids. Jake & Ricardo are our heroes! Nevertheless, it is happens and has an impact.

I would die for romantic iron husbands, but platonic rhodeytony?? Fuck. They literally destroy toxic masculinity.

Snuggling? They do that. Hugging? They invented that. Kissing each other’s cheeks? They made that. Being close and comfortable with one another without the cursed “no homo” exchange? They own that!!!

Credit: @ThinkAnneThink

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Reading about abusive men and the way they think. Very unsettling and an incredible book so far. Here are my very professional notes.

Could you draw someone being affectionate with Damian and him being grumpy about it (but secretly enjoying it)? Love your artwork! <3

Dick never got that scarf back

Al: How to leave a table without being rude?

Roy: Eat the table

Maes: Good advice