did nice guy’s power ever almost get him accidentally killed by one of his teammates while perceiving him as an innocent bystander

Teen titans inspired undersider pics for @lakesbian ! Theoretically these would be the poses they would make during the theme song :-)

“You gonna fight me?” He called out.

“I’m a good guy,” I said.

Stepping closer to me, he tilted his head, “You don’t look like one.”

Armsmaster to Skitter. Gestation 1.6

When you disagree with the authors, it's headcanon. When I disagree with the authors, it's because they told the story wrong.

wormgirl has been banned from the fighting games tournament for executing the illegal and extremely cosmologically unhealthy Universe Searing Emerald Butterfly Triumph against her opponent, reducing the competition venue and everything around it for 700 miles in all directions to smoldering ash. she kicks the fused wreck of her controller in irritation. a bad sport, surviving onlookers agree.

still watching teen titans for Reasons and the episode where starfire's shit older sister shows up and starts causing problems on purpose for her and also wearing her clothes like a little freak is also basically what happened to alec right

hey is it okay if i eat my nature valley oats and honey granola bar here. yeah its the kind that comes as a two pack and immediately disintegrates into millions of annoying crumbs. its okay my ants that follow me everywhere will eat them. youll have ants now though.

The beat that always stuck with me in regards to Uber and Leet was when Taylor mentions that they beat up sex workers on livestream while LARPing Grand Theft Auto. Uber and Leet get a lot of mentions before they actually show up, and the drumbeat is that they're pathetic, they're fodder, "as incompetent as supervillains can be while staying out of jail." Leet is the butt of a rom-com gag where Brian gives Taylor pointers on how to choke a man out more effectively. But they made money by beating up sex workers on livestream. That's a non-negligible number of potentially ruined lives! That's not softball fun-and-games! It's like textbook misogynistic violence against the marginalized! It's awful!

The narrative doesn't really dwell on this, because it's told almost exclusively from the perspective of people who have the firepower necessary to get away with treating Uber and Leet like jokes. But I think that it's a useful reminder that if you aren't one of the initiated, so to speak, then an encounter with the C-list, D-list, Z-list supervillain can be life-altering if not life-ending. The dumbest listicle-fodder DC or Marvel villain you've ever heard of has probably ruined at least one person's life over their handful of appearances, if not more. And it's an early indictment of the broad concept of the unwritten rules as advanced by Lisa, where she calls out Uber and Leet as the textbook example of villains kept in circulation because they're "amusing but harmless." This is within parameters? This doesn't merit heroes and villains putting aside their differences to clean house of problematic elements? Of course it doesn't. Both examples that Lisa gives of that dynamic in 3.6 involve a cape transgressing against another cape.