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Some five thousand years ago, a 27-foot high granite standing stone was erected by the Neolithic people of future Dartmoor. In the 12th century, a monastery was built on the spot, incorporating the stone into its foundations. The monastery became a manor house in the 14th century, then an inn in the 15th, which it remains to this day as The Oxenham Arms.

The standing stone remains in its place, unceremoniously part of the sitting room wall next to the radiator.

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I do love watching the constant ongoing war Dc has with itself as they understand Jason Todd sells comics but at the same time they have a deep hate for him so they hate that Jason todd sells comics

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Where do you stand on cats?

do not stand on cats they don’t like it

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I sometimes feel like Smallville was simultaneously brilliant for making Smallville littered with Kryptonite and also super super dumb by using that as an excuse to create metahumans instead of using it as a reason for Clark not to discover his powers until adulthood when he leaves Smallville to go to college.

Like imagine: Clark Kent spends his first 18 years of life a sickly kid who needs glasses and has chronic headaches because of Kryptonite poisoning, completely unaware he's an alien. Then he wakes up on his first day in college, rips the door off its hinges, has 20/20 vision and laser eyes and is not only completely healthy to the point he can save a kid from being hit by a bus with surprising speed but also where did these abs come from HELLO???!?!?!????!?!!

Like I have an AU in my mind where Clark becomes Superman in college and still fully believes he's human because he doesn't know about Krypton and then when he tries to fly back to Smallville for Thanksgiving he slowly falls out of the sky because Kryptonite and why is my head hurting again? I thought I was past these when I developed superpowers HELLO!?!?!?! WHAT IS GOING ON?!!!

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Okay, I’m gonna ask that nobody try and track this person down and harass them because sometimes we gotta be wrong in public before we can learn something important.

First off, I’m gonna explain this in terms that emphasize qualities valued by white culture in order to communicate a point to you specifically, but things don’t have to be valued by white culture in order to have value. The idea that things that don’t have worth to white people are worthless contributes to all manner of racial injustices, including attitudes towards Black music as you’ve expressed above. So maybe that’s something you can chew on for a bit, figure out if that’s something colouring your opinion.

Second off, I have to ask what kind of rap you’re describing. Gangsta Rap? Boom-Bap? Jazz Rap? ‘Mumble’ Rap? What about Crunk? Emo Rap? Drill? How about UK Drill? Metal Rap? Horrorcore? Can you tell the difference, or is this all the same to you? Are all these genres nothing but slightly different beats and imagery to “sing swear words fast” to? That’s weird, since Country and Bubblegum Pop and Opera aren’t all just about wanting to fuck. Which I COULD say, if I was feeling uncharitable. Do you see the parallels?

Thirdly, I’m not convinced you’ve spend any time at all actually listening to rap. Kind of hard to form an educated and meaningful opinion on something you haven’t actually spend any time studying, isn’t it? I’ve never read The Great Gatsby, but I’m pretty sure it’s just about some dumb rich kid and his girlfriend, so it’s probably just some shallow faffy crap anyways. Fuck off if you’re the kind of person to waste your time on that.

Fourthly, and hopefully lastly- this one is just between you and me. You can keep it a secret if you like, nobody has to know. You don’t even have to do it if you don’t like, I’ll never find out anyways, but I think it’d be interesting for you: why don’t you write a few bars?

It shouldn’t be that difficult for you. I’m not even asking you to compose music, or a beat, or anything at all. Just a few lines. Maybe for a diss track. I happen to enjoy rap, so why not “sing swear words fast” at me? I’m a 5’3” single dork in a polyester polo shirt, I don’t fuck and I’ve got daddy issues from here to Poland. I’m a bad dancer, I don’t pull hoes, and I get really sweaty when I’m nervous. Can you work with that? I also have a really bad haircut right now, and my new glasses look like Clark Kent had no cool alter-ego to fall back on.

Rap is poetry. It’s wordplay. It incorporates simile and metaphor and figurative language, rhythm and beat and double entendre and onomatopoeia and idiom, connotation and denotation and implied meaning, symbolism and rhyme and the basic mouth-sounds within the syllables of individual words in a way that communicates with an audience, in a way that no other art form I know of does.

And good rap- like, REALLY good rap, the stuff you either haven’t heard or didn’t understand because if you had then you wouldn’t be writing it off like this- makes you play it on repeat, listen to it over and over again, look up the lyrics and study them the way you study classic lit in school because the layers and nuance and craftsmanship need to be disassembled to be appreciated fully- like notes in a fine wine, or individual instruments in an orchestra.

And frankly, that kind of skill- even if it WAS all just people shooting insults back and forth for the hell of it- it’d still be impressive.

You ever look at a Caravaggio or a Matisse and go “fuck that boring shit, it’s just dudes and flowers”? Or do you study the history, the symbolism, the craftsmanship? Do you admire the technique? The artist’s unique style, the texture, the way it elicits an emotional response?

Are you the kind of person who walks into the Louvre and see nothing but worthless smears, meaningless portraits and a hundred different ways of drawing fruit?

Or do you take it all in as a meaningful, cultural experience, a product of history and human emotion and passion?

If you do, why can’t you do that for Rap? What’s stopping you? What’s the difference?

And if you don’t, perhaps it’s not the art that lacks depth.

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the world gets a lot easier when you learn to be wrong without getting pissed or doubling down. saying, ‘you’re right, that makes sense, I was misinformed, thanks for telling me’ instead of going to war over something your ego’s latched onto will save you time, energy, and the embarrassment of sounding like a whiny little bitch

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the thing that’s really cool about dungeon meshi’s representation of autism is that Laios isn’t some savant. He’s just a guy with a strong interest. And he gets things wrong because that interest leads him to uncritically consuming biased sources

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There is no greater bond than the one between a person and the fictional character they’ve written 50k+ words about

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rr! Tim thinking that there's something so wrong with Bruce because there's this boy who smiles so bright & calls him dad so affectionately (Damian didn't do that! Tim surely didn't!) & clearly needs love more than guidance(he does everything he's asked without any real fuss! He knows what's best for himself and can reflect on his feelings!) but still is "forced" into Robin's mantle hihihi...

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yes yes yes! i have a wip that is. meant to be a somewhat darker, more obsessive tim dfghjk but anyway, one of the central things in it, the reason he's obsessed with jason, is because seeing jason as robin gave him hope again

and i just REALLY like tim viewing robin!jason with those kind of like. rose colored glasses in an rr au.

tim coming back and swearing he's not going to get involved with bruce again but doing so for jason, because he feels like someone needs to be looking out for him... bruce not knowing how to interact with tim (did he ever know how to interact with tim? their relationship was always based so much more on *professionalism* because both of them thought that was what the other needed) and neither does damian, really; things are better between them now, but only because they just treat each other as coworkers instead of arguing constantly. (mostly).

steph and jason are the only ones who treat him like. normally.

i like the idea of tim arguing with bruce about jason a lot too

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rr! Tim thinking that there's something so wrong with Bruce because there's this boy who smiles so bright & calls him dad so affectionately (Damian didn't do that! Tim surely didn't!) & clearly needs love more than guidance(he does everything he's asked without any real fuss! He knows what's best for himself and can reflect on his feelings!) but still is "forced" into Robin's mantle hihihi...

sob

yes yes yes! i have a wip that is. meant to be a somewhat darker, more obsessive tim dfghjk but anyway, one of the central things in it, the reason he's obsessed with jason, is because seeing jason as robin gave him hope again

and i just REALLY like tim viewing robin!jason with those kind of like. rose colored glasses in an rr au.

tim coming back and swearing he's not going to get involved with bruce again but doing so for jason, because he feels like someone needs to be looking out for him... bruce not knowing how to interact with tim (did he ever know how to interact with tim? their relationship was always based so much more on *professionalism* because both of them thought that was what the other needed) and neither does damian, really; things are better between them now, but only because they just treat each other as coworkers instead of arguing constantly. (mostly).

steph and jason are the only ones who treat him like. normally.

i like the idea of tim arguing with bruce about jason a lot too

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positively blushing

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ur Tim is so fun. he looked at Jason n Damian and thought "my subs, yeah".

lmao yeah, and can you blame him? xD

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