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trainzelda:

I like how the mighty nein are just walking around with an incredibly powerful object sacred to the dark elves that was worth bombing a major city over. Like there’s probably international panic and strife over where the dodecahedron has gone and meanwhile the mighty nein are just off running errands, not even thinking about it, or planning to do anything with it, its just a neat little doohickey that they own now

gallusrostromegalus:

glumshoe:

I’m plotting a hostile takeover of DC Comics with @kuttithevangu and we’re going to start writing Batman ourselves. Here are some of our plans:

–The Joker Goes to Clown College. The Joker has become tediously overused, unfunny, and ludicrously dark and gritty. He’s so fucking boring that we’re putting a ban on stories in which he’s a major villain for several years. In the meantime, Dick Grayson starts visiting him in Arkham with very special visitors in tow: professional clowns from Haly’s Circus. They offer constructive criticism and then help him get accepted to a four-year clown college, where he can get a degree in clowning, improve his comedy potential, and learn to execute jokes with fewer executions. Clown college in this world is just like regular university so The Joker has to like… write essays on Buster Keaton and stuff. [Alternative: The Joker accidentally turns himself into a hamster (with a Joker face) and has to live in a cage in the Batcave while they research ways to turn him back.]

–New Original Character: Brad. Damian Wayne isn’t Bruce’s only illegitimate biological son! Brad is a perfectly normal, well-adjusted teenager whose mother had a one-night stand with Bruce at a party years ago. Brad decides to reach out to his biological playboy father after tabloids confirm a paternity test. Damian finds this very threatening but there’s nothing he can do about it because Brad is an oblivious civilian who only visits every few weeks and has no idea that his father and half-siblings are vigilantes. 

–Tim Drake Gets What He Deserves. Tim has been written darker and grittier with every passing year, a far cry from the fun dweeb he was when first introduced. As he becomes more and more like Bruce, he picks up another of his mentor’s traits: the ability to attract plucky youngsters who insist on cheering him up. Previous unsuccessful attempts to introduce Carrie Kelley to the main DC canon are scrapped; she’s BACK and she’s a 14 year old tacky gay genderfluid snoop who figures out his identity and passionately believes that Red Robin needs a Burger King, or something. She gets what she wants and she wants to play DnD. HOW THE TURNS HAVE TABLED, TIMOTHY.

–Batfamily camping trip. IDK, maybe Brad is responsible for this. It goes poorly because no one (except perhaps Babs) has any experience in legitimate outdoor recreation beyond hardcore wilderness survival. 

–#batmanchallenge. The Batman Challenge starts trending and young people start coming to Gotham in an attempt to get Batman to punch them on video. Jason Todd gets in on it. 

–The Secret Life of Alfred Pennyworth. Alfred has a whole secret social life that Bruce doesn’t know about because he has never once contemplated that Alfred is a sexual being with considerable game. He’s very popular among the ladies at the bridge club and Old People Who Love Shakespeare Club, which is for old people.

Ok but I’d read all of these and am legit intrigued by Brad, who has the potential to grow up to be like Bruce, if the whole incident in the alley hadn’t happened- well adjusted, charming, possibly with a strong sense of Justice anyway, and could be an example of how to go about heroing when you’re a normal dude.

Tell the EU what you think!

winterbythesea:

The EU is currently looking for responses/opinions about measures for tackling illegal content online. This is clearly related to the proposed law, which would instate a “link tax” and could end fan-created content as we know it. They’re including fandom content in their copyright policies, because the law makers don’t understand how fandom and the internet work. They need to be told that there’s a difference.

Here’s the survey. If you’re an EU citizen, please fill it out; if not, please help signal boost. The repercussions if this law goes through will affect all of us, regardless of where we live.

Some tips for filling it out:

  • If you tell them that you’ve come across illegal content, tell them it was resolved; we already have frameworks in place for this, and they’re not perfect, but they work
  • Every chance you get, tell them it’s important to preserve freedom of expression online
  • Every chance you get, tell them that algorithms are not a good solution for flagging inappropriate content
  • Include a comment about differentiating between copyright infringement for profit/piracy, and copyright infringement for fun/fan works
  • Tell them that copyright infringement, when done for fun and not for profit, can benefit creators more than hurt them, and a lot of creators actively encourage fan works
  • Tell them that yes, we should absolutely do what we can to prevent criminal and terrorist activity that hurts people, but copyright is a completely different issue (which often doesn’t even hurt people financially) and needs to be dealt with differently

I’ve written a “position paper” which explains it all a bit more and details my opinion on it, which you’re welcome to read if you want: here’s a link.

Please, please help signal boost this and fill it out if you can. Tell them what you think. Tell them that there need to be exceptions for fan content, and that relying on algorithms to identify copyrighted material is a terrible idea. Save the internet and fandom.