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every night I think “wow this might be the night I go to bed early” and every time without fail I fuck it up

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Batman (1940) #624

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this is such a fun way to examine this arc

Something that has been on my mind for a few days is Batman's contingency plans, I love Batman but...

If we go to the world of ships, they all fall and it seems like a double standard, why?Batzee, Batcanary, Batcat, Superbat, Batlanter, and so on with all of them (just one exception) Bruce has plans to KILL ALL OF THEM, and the shippers ignore JUST THAT FACT 😶

As far as I remember, Batman doesn't have a plan against Talia and many times he was about to leave everything for Talia.

Recently DC took away Wonder Woman's contingency plan, Batman no longer has anything to kill her with. I find it very double standard, knowing that Bruce has plans to kill everyone, except for two women,

I'm not one of those who pair everyone up but I hate it when they discredit other ships with a false double standard like: Brutalia 🖤💚 and Johnzee 💜💛 (which are my FAV DC ships)

but it makes me laugh because they would NOT kill each other 🤭 like the other ships 🥴

it was just an observation that I had to tell someone

Yeah... about this...

let's break this down. Morrison Talia vs OG Talia.

Bruce still forgave Morrison Talia even after everything she did. This is showed in the Batman animated movies in which she tells Bruce that not everything was bad and he agrees. Which is... terrible because supposedly that's DC portrayal of male sa you know?

And Bruce never... seemed to hate Talia the same way he hated the Joker and almost killed him.

Now as for OG Talia...

There's a comic... where Bruce shot Talia and supposedly killed her. But it was Ra's plan. The gun was modified so that even if Bruce didn't pull the trigger, the gun on Bruce's hand would shoot Talia. So he didn't kill her, but everyone and he thought he did.

I mean, look at the man he looks destroyed. He probably thought himself as Joe Chill in that moment.

Batman says it himself. He would not kill Talia because he cares for her.

So yes Bruce is traumatized because of this 😅 The man will never kill Talia.

Bonus:

Ra's is so cold, he left Talia with Bruce

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ollie: dinah, i cant find my shoes!!

dinah, who just got this picture texted to her by mia: maybe youre not looking hard enough

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would love to see talia from u!!

hiiii tauria im so happy you asked for talia haha

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🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

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The taboo around discussing sex in Christian circles is a great way to discourage young people from knowing:

what healthy physical boundaries look like in relationships and why;

signs to look for regarding reproductive health;

physically and emotionally healthy approaches to sex in marriage;

how to seek help when struggling with porn or masturbation;

human sexuality is not a curse and having sexual desires does not make one "impure";

virginity isn't the bottom line of chastity;

It needs to be talked about.

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everything in this life is temporary. except that fandom hyperfixation from when you were 14. that thang will be with you forever there's no escaping.

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a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

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‪im not like a superhero comic fan or anything but seeing that batman is involved in like regular high stakes superhero shit is sooooo funny. like dude why do you care that green lanterns dad is gonna crash the moon into earth what are you gonna do about that. its handled. but the riddlers gonna blow up the pier if you dont solve his boat riddle dude you gotta stop him. the penguin is robbing the ice factory at midnight‬ he cant get away with this

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ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

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My mom is currently on a call with someone who is having an abortion. Why is she having an abortion?

Not because she wants one. In fact, she's devastated and scared because she knows that she's going to kill the baby.

But her boyfriend isn't giving her a choice. He's making her choose between him and the baby. He's promising that he loves her, but also assuring her that he'll leave her the minute the baby is born.

A while ago, she told him that she was putting her foot down.

So he pretended to comply, later called her, and then tricked her into getting on a facetime with a Planned Parenthood member. Both of them began drilling into her all the reasons that she cannot keep this baby (finances, mentally/physically draining, etc) and basically coerced her into scheduling an appointment to kill the baby. And her boyfriend is determined to make sure that she attends it.

She's talking to my mom because she doesn't know where to turn.

Everything's been finalized. She feels like it's far out of her hands.

She's not a Catholic or a Christian. She's surrounded by Abortion activists. By people who keep telling her that this is for the best. She's not in a good place to care for the baby anyway. It's not even a baby yet. No one is being harmed. She'll be fine.

She's scared and stuck in grief for something that hasn't happened yet. She doesn't want to lose her baby. She doesn't want to lose him.

My mom is trying to help her through it. She's giving her options and ideas, places to get cheap furniture and charities who will assist her. She has asked me not to be present because it's a private matter between them, so I don't know more than clips of brief discussion.

But I know my mom is doing more for her than anyone else.

Do not tell me that abortions are all about Women's Rights.

It's her right to keep this baby.

So why is my mom the only one who's respecting that?

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if you keep liking my posts we’re gonna end up like this

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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if you were at your worst, if you’re a villain or a screwup or whatever, there is a goth man dressed as a giant bat who keeps coming after you, bothering you. he sabotages your journey of self destruction over and over. ur ready to give up but he won’t let you. you think, today he won’t come. today he will give up on me too. he never does.

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Give a man a horse he’ll eat for a day teach a man to horse and make him drinks water