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the privilege of being an adult artist is the opportunity to draw characters from your childhood the way you like)

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Jim meeting one of the Wayne kids for something and accidentally calling them by their hero name bc he’s so used to talking to them only as hero’s and is so tired of pretending he doesn’t know. It just SLIPS OUT because he’s so tired and a little hungover and he and the kid just. Freeze

Actually Jim Gordon reflexively pulling out the tired dad “ROBIN!” is hilarious. It’s even more hilarious when it gets Damian to stop whatever bullshit he was doing and stare at Jim like a deer in headlights because WHY did that work? (The secret is to be an exhausted dad, it really helps nail the tone)

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Mulan AU where she does get caught by the other fresh recruits while she's bathing but Mushu helps her spin it like the lake is cursed by an evil lizard demon and will turn men into women if they stay in it for too long.

From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.

Shang is... tentatively glad that the men are bonding and getting along, even if they continue to be deeply weird about it.

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Wonder Woman and Steven Universe because they would be BESTIES

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generative AI literally makes me feel like a boomer. people start talking about how it can be good to help you brainstorm ideas and i’m like oh you’re letting a computer do the hard work and thinking for you???

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tim and dami? or some damian medieval au?

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If to be loved is to be human, why do I crave it?

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This whole thing about scanning your face to prove tour age is making me remember, in 2018 while out in paris we got our wallet stolen during a particularly busy night at a lesbian bar. It was very late and with no money to buy metro tickets we were effectively stranded, but some people helped us and we ended up staying the night at a really sweet older man's place. His face was deeply scarred and he was missing an eye. We chatted on our way and he told me about his life, probably to help calm me down. He explained he had been stuck in a house fire 20 years ago and had had multiple rounds of facial reconstruction and a skin graft, but there's only so much surgery can do so he just learned to live with it. I remember he said he liked the queer bars because they're the only place people don't really stare at him.

At some point I took out my phone, and at the time I was using face unlock. This prompted him to tell me all the ways this technology doesn't work on him. How his phone selfie camera doesn't focus right because it's not detecting a face. How he had to update his ID the old fashioned way, because the website kept rejecting his photos. And how it was becoming more and more common, and how it was making his life way harder.

This was 7 years ago, and now whenever I see this sort of technology I think of how that guy can't use it. And how house fires are pretty common, and how anything from being born this way to a skin condition to heavy tattooing can probably cause the same issue. Can these people get age verified ? Will they just lose access to all social media, which are increasingly necessary in society, if this becomes the norm ? These are people who are already driven out of public spaces due to how they look, and they're getting pushed out online too all in the interest of companies wanting more money.

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Also worth noting it's my personal opinion that kids should be taught about farming in K-12 school. Not just gardening but actual farming. Irrigation and water systems, dairy and meat production, labor management. This all sounds very corpo. I don't mean it that way. Kids should know how to milk a cow

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I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.

He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he's going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we're all friends here... and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn't acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you're exempted from bowing and "Your Highness" will do. It's a really interesting lecture.

"Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won't be here next week, me and Aang are going to-" yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka's hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.

One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She's currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you're from the Southern Water Tribe, but it's just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don't think that every person from the South knows one another haha it's just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or...

Sokka looks at her blankly and goes "yeah, she's my sister. KATARA!" which is followed by a faint answering "fuck you!" from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.

Sokka does not teach or study history, but he does sometimes sit in on lectures about recent history. Whenever he does, several doctoral students flock in to sit near him (even if it's an intro course) so that they can eavesdrop on his grumbling. (No matter how they try, an "overheard utterance" is not a valid source according to their professors. No, we have no sources on the Avatar's bison taking part in combat - sky bison are not war animals and...)

He gets regular deliveries with the Beifong family crest on them, and he goes "sweet, Toph must have found some new minerals" and at this point nobody needs to ask which Toph. He seems to have friends everywhere, literally everywhere. Wang was headed out to this massive swamp to study if it's one big organism, and Sokka told him to find some guy named Hue and "don't mind the loincloth." One time the university gets shut down because the Earth King wants to visit. Oh, visit the University? What an honor- Of fucking course not, he wants to visit Professor Sokka, who yells at him and his royal guards for interrupting his day. The Earth King and his many, many royal guards then sheepishly say sorry and file out.

The last straw is when - not a week after he yelled at the Earth King - the assistant head of the Political Science dept walks in to the faculty lounge to find Sokka having tea with a nice normal man dressed in Earth greens for once, and can't resist a little joke. "Let me guess, you're having tea with the Fire Lord." And then she can instantly tell that she fucked up, because both of them go stock still.

So when the two men awkwardly stand up and proceed to introduce the Fire Lord whose portrait she has in her office because she is the assistant head of Political Science as Li, a server at the Jasmine Dragon, she just says "hello Li" and leaves to find a bottle of something strong.

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throwback to the milves <3

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The horror of being stuck in a place that’s becoming unstable.

And also actively hostile towards you. 👀

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recently came across some plates and bowls that would be perfect for a children's hospital

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There is a news article going around about a zoo in Denmark who has requested folks to donate privately-kept animals (and specifically chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs, and had previously asked for horses) who require euthanasia, as feed for their large carnivores. There are also a LOT of really incensed people getting their panties in a twist about this.

I want to share the original post, as it is being portrayed a LOT as something it was absolutely not:

Here is the link to their website page

So first of all, let's all have a bit of a breath and understand that this zoo is NOT asking for your pet dog/cat. They are asking for animals that are already considered livestock in many places, and animals that humans eat in various cultures.

I want to make it very clear that this is a really good idea. Whether or not you understand/believe it, zoos do a lot of conservation work, especially behind the scenes. They foot HUGE bills for fodder for all of their animals, herbivores included. If they can make use of some animals that individuals cannot keep or do not want anymore, then why shouldn't they open the door for it? Unlike PETA, they're not snatching anyone's puppies off their front porch like monsters. They're saying they have a way for animals who cannot continue on to instead give life to their animals. They're offering the option. Not a single person is being forced to take that option.

But it is GREAT to have it!! If someone is losing a small pet like a guinea pig, or has excess livestock from hobby farms, and that pet would just decompose underground otherwise, giving them a second life in another animal they can go and visit is actually really cool?? I don't know if they track this kind of thing, but I would be absolutely thrilled if I could go to a zoo and see the tiger one of my birds' bodies was fed to. I may have lost the bird, but look! This beautiful creature turned her into energy, turned her into continued life! Not only that, but in doing so, some other animal that would have taken her place does not need to, meaning she has given life twice! Is that not a good thing? Is that not a cause for joy in the face of grief?

And there are overpopulation concerns with a LOT of domestic animals all over the world. There are kill centers stocked full of horses that are already being processed for meat, and I can guarantee the horses are having a worse time than they would if taken to the zoo instead. Small animals that are already bred for food, like chickens, pigeons, quail, rats, mice, and even rabbits and guinea pigs, are all good sources of whole prey, and rescues for stuff like rabbits, guinea pigs, and rats are often overrun. And any animals that must be euthanized to make room for new animals are just going to waste afterward.

While ideally none of that would be the case, and every domestic animal from the largest to the smallest would have a lovely home forever and ever and no one would ever breed more than society can handle, that's... just not reality. And it's unlikely to become reality anytime soon. There's no wand anyone can wave to make that real. And even if you could get close to making that real.... carnivores still need to eat.

But there IS now the option for this zoo to take local small animals that would otherwise go to waste. There is a way to reduce the number of animals going to waste, and reuse their bodies after they have passed. It may not be for everyone, but I believe it's GREAT that the option exists for those who want to take it. I would take it, if I bred the animals they're looking for. I already am in the process of donating mouse and quail culls to a local nature center.

Anyway, I know that for a lot of people, their gut reaction is going to be revulsion and outrage, probably because when they hear "pet" they think "cats/dogs" and their brain shuts off. So, I'm making this post in the hopes of giving even one person pause, of getting even one person to examine why, exactly, they feel this way, and whether or not that reaction is justified.

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as much as i love super overworked guardsmen with no free time, i like i when they have tend to have a little bit of free time due to Fox's plotting and generally great management of the duties they have. there are several times where the Commanders use their sleeping periods or meal periods to sneak into random places in normal clothes, just to see what those places are like. there's a 30 or 40 percent chance you can catch a pair of guardsmen hanging out in a market just browsing on most days. don't call them out. Fox and Thorn have snuck into plays and operas at least three times (and didn't like any of them). this also ties into my "the Guard secretly tests things out before letting the GAR troopers get involved"

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i think there should be an episode of doctor who where the doctor returns to a time when police boxes were common and then forgets where he fucking parked