Anyways I keep thinking that group chats totally must be a Thing in the star wars universe, and how (in the Clone Wars era) there probably is definitely a:
Jedi Council group chat (and they definitely gossip about everyone, from Initiates to Masters. They are also running at least 20 bets about Jedi in the Temple.)
Lineage group chat (ie. Yoda, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka all have a group chat but they don’t really use it much because Anakin and Ahsoka have trouble figuring out what is appropriate for them to talk about with Yoda)
The group chat with Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka is pretty lit though. Most of the time it’s funny arguments between Obi-Wan and Anakin, and Ahsoka just LOL-ing the whole time.
group chats with all the clone commanders/leaders, complaining about their Jedi and comparing notes (Cody being like “Do you guys also need to force your Jedi to eat and sleep, or is it just me?”, or Rex asking “How the hell do I say no to Skywalker, the man never listens!”, etc.)
A group from the 501st and Ahsoka have a group chat where they make fun of Anakin. They keep a running tally of the number of times he had crashed a ship, just for giggles.
The batclan has been exposed to so many toxins over the years that their blood is toxic to anyone else but each other.
Ahsoka *in the council room*: …So why are we here?
Mace Windu: I need to ask you - both of you - a favor.
Anakin: What? You need someone hurt?
Mace: No-
Anakin: Do you need someone to disappear? Because I can-
Mace: NO!
most annoying man vs. world's strongest idgafker!! who will win!!
Ok but… in 2018 you KNOW forks high would have a meme page and all the cliques would have running jokes in their group chats… 28139 of the memes would be about the Cullens and how fucking weird they are… someone would be like “I saw Rosalie hale take a bite of an apple today” and another person would be like #soundsfakebutok, people would constantly be making jokes about Cullen family incest, there would be a running gag of What Diet Are The Cullens On This Week, people coming up with increasingly wild theories about what they do on their “camping trips”, sneaking picture of them making bizarre expressions and captioning them with shit like “tfw ur a genius supermodel but u got (5) raindrops on ur shirt&ruined ur aesthetic so now u want to die”, creating Cullen bingo cards with stuff like “growling during class” “magically knowing the right answer even when they weren’t paying attention” “not blinking for 5 minutes straight” “looking like they want to murder everyone for no reason at all” etc etc etc
Just imagine the Cullens being half cryptid, half meme at forks high
when lizzo said "self love is survival" and when hannah gadsby said "do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? it’s not humility. it’s humiliation" and when mitski said "i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation"
GOD star wars: the clone wars (2008-2014) was the absolute fucking BEST. u do absolutely not get anymore buckwild than the insane range of emotions that these seven seasons can put u thru. obi-wan commits a war crime in the first episode. anakin drinks a space martini. a sixteen-year-old decapitates four men in a single second and it is literally never mentioned again. anakin, obi-wan, and mace windu find SPACE GODZILLA and the entire jedi order collectively drinks We Love Peta™ juice, decide not to kill it, bring it to the capital city, and it breaks out (ofc) and kills, like, a half million people. sheev just hangs out in padme’s office for six whole seasons being, i dunno, evil and absolutely not a single person catches on. there’s a blue guy in a dope-ass big hat who beats every single jedi’s ass and they still only call him, “that guy in the hat.” darth maul’s been living in a literal garbage dump with eight legs for the past ten years. anakin endorses state-sponsored terrorism. padme once contracted the black death. the jedi order tries to prosecute a twelve-year-old for war crimes. maul is forcibly murdered two (2) times over and still lives for some bananas fucking reason. whenever anakin does something mildly risky the darth vader theme plays. yoda asks anakin if they’re friends. the jedi order tries to prosecute a sixteen-year-old for war crimes. a cartoon made for twelve-year-olds has a four-episode arc about government oversight of international banking. this all happens in the range of three years. this show is absolutely fucking nuts.
If you were offered a chance to write a single issue batman story, what would you write?
Okay, presuming this is in a main book like Detective Comics itself, rather than any particular character’s solo?
I mean, obviously the instinct is to say a story about Steph, or about Cass, but honestly? What I’d really love to write?
I’d love to write a down-to-Earth ordinary people of Gotham story. Some ordinary person; I’d probably go with a single mom, poor, working some menial job, living in some crappy apartment, constantly stressed out.
I’d follow her around and show Gotham from her perspective. Look at how, despite the money being poured into it by Bruce Wayne and other wealthy individuals, the system itself isn’t working, she can’t trust the police, and things are hard. See the rough situation she’s finding herself in.
She gets mugged, or something similar, and she’s angry and bitter, and she ends up breaking down. And then her daughter comes out. Wearing some sort of shirt with a Robin logo on it, and she tells her mom that it’s going to be okay.
And then there’s a knock at the window, and it’s one of the Batkids. I’d probably make it Spoiler!Steph because I’m me, but it could easily be Cass or Duke or any of the others. They’re bringing back her wallet because they caught the mugger who robbed her, and ask if she’s hurt. She’s not, and they’re gone before she can say thank you.
She checks the wallet.
That money wasn’t there when she got robbed. It’s stuffed full of cash.
And we see her next day. And we see things are just a little better. We see her help out someone who’s in a pinch. We see her smile, just a little more. We see her get the mail and her building is being bought by Wayne Enterprises, who’re going to be remodeling, but they promise her rent won’t go up.
We see, bit by bit, how the Bats are making things better. Because I think we lose that a lot, in superhero stories. We joke about how Bruce Wayne should be able to solve all of Gotham’s problems just by paying his taxes, and superheroes themselves question if they help a lot.
And I’d want to show a story where the answer is a clear and definitive yes. I’d want to tell a story where we see the good that Bruce and all of the Bats are doing, both in and out of costume, and how that positive effect is spreading, even though it’s not fixing everything right away.
And at the end of the story, we see her reading a book to her daughter, and through the window, we can see the Bat Symbol, and the hint of a cape, as if someone’s checking in on them.
Also I’d love it to be illustrated by Mitch Gerads, because I really liked his style on Mister Miracle. Or like, David Aja from Fraction’s Hawkeye. Something like that.
1. Hitoshi Shinsou
1. a fun headcanon
I feel like after joining the hero course, Hitoshi kind of gradually makes his way into the Bakusquad. Except, he doesn't realize it at first.
He is, of course, very close to Denki. And Mina, Sero, and Kirishima are always nice to him, but like. They don't really think of him as a friend of theirs, right? Just a friend of Denki's who hangs out with them sometimes. And he's convinced that Bakugou hates him (he doesn't realize that Bakugou is just Like That™).
But then one day, while the students are out on another fun shopping trip or something like that, someone outside of the school makes the unfortunate decision to talk about Shinsou. Specifically, about how he's destined for evil because of his quirk, how U.A. has lowered their standards, how he's probably planning to sell the others out to the L.O.V., ect.
Before Shinsou even has time to reply, Bakugou is going fucking berserk on these people. And just take a moment to imagine...
Kirishima, who stepped away with the rest of the squad for 2 minutes to get drinks: Oh, come on, man- what set him off this time?
Shinsou: Well, they called me a villain, but I'm used to that; it's really not worth-
Kirishima, Sero, Mina, and Denki, together: Oh, fuck no-
Long story short, the squad is asked to leave the premises because at this point the strangers who insulted Shinsou were outnumbered and the fight was getting a bit out of hand. Anyway-
Shinsou: Not that I don't appreciate it, but what was that about? It's not that big of a deal, I'm used to people-
Sero: You shouldn't be used to that.
Denki: Get used to having friends who care about you.
Kirishima: We've got your back, dude!
Mina: We may jokingly insult each other, but no one is allowed to bully you like that.
Bakugou: And if anyone has anything to say about it, I'll kick their ass!
I love the idea that Shinsou forms strong bonds with people in the hero course and makes real friends who will encourage him and believe in him, because he's never really had that before, and I feel like the somewhat aggressive but very loving support of the Bakusquad is exactly what Shinsou needs.
my mom, turning up “we will rock you”: football babey!
me, internally: straight people think they understand queen which is cute