"She Is A Lot Like Him, Talia: She Hates Those People Like Nothing Else, Though He Doesnt (cannot) Ask,

"She is a lot like him, Talia: she hates those people like nothing else, though he doesn’t (cannot) ask, just as she doesn’t ask. But she’s also very loving, in an intense, all-encompassing way beneath the controlled elegance of her traits; like him, she latches onto love with all her heart, no matter how it bleeds and she bleeds like scalding tea, red hot flooding through the cracks, like lava under rocks."

(From Chapter 11 of The Protector: The Victim)

Steal my style! It's really easy:

> character driven to the point I'm no longer in charge of the plot, these people just do what they want and don't pay their taxes.

> long sentences with lots of 3 verbs rythms. All the three verbs rythm. Life is a dissertation and by god am I getting an A.

> where are we at in terms of plot and dramatic tension? Easy, just check out the weather. I just realised it's in all my stories, all the time. I'm writing glorified weather forecasts at this point.

>Imagine characters speaking in themost dramatic way possible. You got it? Good, now double it, here's your dialogue.

> Married to the comma, cheating on her with the em-dash, sexting with the parenthesis. Sometimes if we're lucky I remember periods exist.

> Colours, comparisons and metaphors, all the time. If I can't create an efficient image of the scene in your mind (and you don't have aphantasia) then I have failed as a writer. My dream is to write stories that imprint themselves into the reader's eyelids after they close their eyes.

> A small but statistically significant amount of monkey references.

> angst. This one isn't specific at all but it's a core component always.

> complicated relationships with love that can be twisted and damage and codependency and projecting issues on eachother and such a mess but it's still good. It's still there and it matters and it's good.

> gore/corpse imagery.

> literature/movie references. That's why I love writing Jason, he lets me get away with being as obnoxious with them as possible. It's so much fun!

Do you ever think about the fact you very much have a particular writing quirk/style/habit that even if you were to post anonymously someone could very easily tell It's your work?

I wonder what mine is. I could guess probably

PSA:

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.

Red Hood and Signal Vibing

Imma post all of them together tomorrow/later

Holy shit I would wear that shirt so bad

I'm not a nice person, I'm putting this on a shirt.

Character design ideas for Tim, you know the drill

-black fingerless gloves. His hands may be cold but by god is he gonna show that black nail polish

-on that note: black nail polish. Tbf I'd give like half of the batfam black nail polish, and Tim is one of them for sure.

-sleep apnea. Idc that making that fit with canon is impractical, I saw that image of Tim falling asleep on a rollercoaster on a date and my brain decided he has sleep apnea.

-active noise-reduction earphones so he can hear himself think.

-I already ranted about this but that man doesn't drink coffee: he drinks energy drinks and these yfood bottled meals that got a meal's worth of nutrients in them, and he takes vitamin pills and protein supplements when necessary. My man knows the importance of a balance alimentation, but he's on a schedule.

-intense fixed blank stare. Oh, he's looking you in the eyes alright; and then he's not looking away.

-sensory issues around food; another reason why my Tim likes liquid food is that he doesn't have to handle and process all the different and weird textures. This isn't developed enough or associated with an emotional state of mind enough to classify as ARFID, but it's still important. (I describe it a little in The Protector).

-he has an elbow scar from a really stupid skateboard accident where he fell and then the skateboard fell on top of him snapped in half. He lies and blames the injury on Ra's.

- We know that Tim plays off-brand dnd, but what are his favourite builds? Easy: he's tried to recreate his perception of all of his teammates and family members as dnd characters, even the ones he doesn't like, and circles through them depended on his state of mind. (one day I might make a "batfam dnd build but according to tim drake" post idk). One time, his Nightwing insert dropped to 0 (didn't even perma die and got healed immediately) and he screamed like someone was getting murdered irl. Sometimes when he's in a particularly petty mood and upset at someone he'll get into a game playing that person's character and try his best to perma-die. One time he was so pissed at Jason he joined the party as Jaybin, got himself killed (by jumping into the dragon's mouth to stab it from inside), pulled out a backup character that was Red Hood and got himself killed again. He has a mini for each and everyone of his close ones' vigilante personas, which he has hand-painted himself.

-his right eyebrow tilts upwards when he is stressed.

-Sometimes my Tim is half-vietnamese (from Janet's side). That's because one of my favourite Tim fanartist draws him as vietnamese and their art and headcanons have imprinted in my brain.) so, no reasoning here, just a big shout-out to @axiliern for being cool af

-somehow he always has a human bone available when you need it. This is unrelated to any question about the no-kill-rule, he will not explain whose bones they are or where they came from but you need a femur? If he's at the nest or any of his safehouses, he'll just hand it over to you no question asked. He's the embodiment of that meme.