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BABA is GET JOB?

BABA IS FUCKING WISH

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i feel like a lot of discourse around identities could just be boiled down to “you could not pay me to care about this”

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a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

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i could add a few more stages to grief if they let me

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*Spoilers for Mistborn and The Way of Kings*

Ok so I was complaining to my boyfriend about a thing I noticed in the Brandon Sanderson books I've read. I personally really have enjoyed a lot of his characters, plots, magic, and just his yapping centric writing style overall... but after finishing Mistborn I was thrown for a loop by some things and found out he's a Mormon. Now I can still enjoy his books and he really doesn't seem like a bad guy (supporting LGBTQ people so much helps) but knowing his background in a religious cult has always put me on edge.

Now I was explaining to my boyfriend my frustration at a habit he seems to have so far (this would be referring to mistborn era 1 and just The Way of Kings which I just finished). In Mistborn we saw Elend with a string desire to change tge kingdom to democracy and give the common people power. His ideals are presented as strong and ethical but then his plans fail and he has no recourse but to break with those ideals, take over in basically a dictatorship, and then he planned to eventually found a democracy after the crisis. We see a very similar situation play out with Dalinar by the end, deciding that instead of getting people to follow the codes by proving them better he will just force them to follow the codes, and Taravangian seems to be hinted at playing a similar role, killing innocents to potentially find the information he needs to save the world, albiet a bit more exaggerated in its evil nature.

In each of these cases, I found their reasoning to more or less make sense for their characters, especially Elend. But my issue is that they only really make sense within the specific contexts of the story... the context wholly thought up and written by Brandon. So the big issue for me is that Sanderson is indirectly (pretty directly actually) implying through both of these stories, that even the most ethical ideals should be ignored if you feel like its what is needed right now. And I noticed that in both situations, the main important part of context pushing this abandoning of their ideals, to some extent, is the quickly approaching end if the world. We see a crazy case of this in Dalinar who specifically argues for the importance of achieving your means the right way, but then gives up on what he sees as the right way because he doesn't think it will be fast enough. And its not like Dalinar has been shown to have made some horrible mistake (I guess I'll see more in the next book), but Elend certainly wasnt shown to have made the wrong choice.

And this is all important because I remembered that this felt very familiar. Because Mormons very heavily use their coming apocalypse to justify many of the things that they do to their own people and others. This is a huge thing in many religions, like guilting chritians into proseltizing by telling them that anyone they dont convert will die in the second coming or just cant make it to heaven.

I just think this is a very good reason to keep in mind the background and even unconsious messages authors may be sending because of their background, as stuff like this goes unseen quite a lot but the medicare for all king being the bad guy was really hammering it home for me that I needed to explore this a bit more 😂. And the interesting thing to me is that I still think that these characters are brilliant and well written (for the most part... looking at you end of mistborn Sazed 😑) but these stories arent being told in a vacuum and I just don't appreciate convincing people of how ethical stuff like democracy is but then being like, "even though its clearly the best option, sometimes we might just want to completely ignore that and do the really bad authoritarian option instead"

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💜🖤🦇✨ (he/they)

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*criticism of christianity*

"but OP that's not REAL christianity not the PURE AND TRUE christianity that i was raised with, in my sect of christianity we just look for our neighbor's cat in the alps, clearly you've never heard of my beloved Church of the No True Scotsman, it's actually so hurtful when people generalize about real christians like me based on the actions of billions of people over thousands of years including every other christian on the earth"

let me try put this in terms you can understand: climb off the fucking cross already, we need the wood

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Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn't expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn't expecting please let me rest

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best part of princess bride is that inigo loudly and openly states to anybody who will listen that he's going to kill a guy for revenge and has been chasing this for a while and instead of anybody saying "but revenge wont bring ur father back are u really sure that killing this guy will make anything better arent u scared of regretting the one thing uve spent ur entire life chasing" they're all just like "yea dude sounds cool hope you find him" and then he does and inigo kills him and is just "aw cool my dads avenged now i can go ride off into the sunset with my friends" and i think thats actually really great. yea maybe revenge isnt always the answer but it sure does make you feel better

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BABIEST!!! NICO DI ANGELO!!!

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Death will not free you of your duties, Jason Grace

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Stephanie: You know what? When you think about it…. Tim just dipping and randomly popping up with another blonde was fucked up. I deserve better than that shit man.

Cassandra: Yeah, me personally, I could never do that to someone I love… you deserve someone that would never do that to you

Cassandra internally: please take the hint please take the hint please take the fucking hint

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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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@jedijune 02 The Force

✨🌙  ART LOG ->  @404ama  

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post-crisis batkid canonical ages

“It’s impossible to figure out comic book timelines” - people who are not me and who I cannot relate to. I have crafted this, a coherent, canon-compliant timeline. A quick preface:

This is all for the Post-Crisis (i.e. New Earth/1986-2011/Pre-Flashpoint/pre-reboot/“preboot”/best) continuity.

My main principle here is diegetic evidence from comics >>>> evidence from supplemental materiel (like calendars, timelines from secret files & origins, character encyclopedias, etc)

Second principle is that mentions of ages, birthdays > mentions of time passed > non-birthday month placements (e.g. the start of school years).

We’re going to go youngest to oldest, because it actually makes more sense that way.

Damian is 10-11 at the end of preboot.

Damian’s birthday is not given in Post-Crisis.

Damian is 10 when he becomes Robin, per Batman and Robin vol 1 #1. He is still 10 in Batgirl vol 3 #17. That is the last time I am aware of where his age is said, so he may or may not have turned 11 in the short remaining time before Flashpoint.

Tim is about 7 years older than Damian. He is 17 at the end of preboot.

Tim’s birthday is July 19th (Robin #116).

Tim turned 16 in R#116, before the One Year Later event (where, as you may guess, a year passed), meaning he is at least 17 after OYL. Tim is still 17 in Red Robin #25. Damian becomes Robins between these events, meaning Tim is 17 when Damian is 10, and they are ~7 years apart.

RR#25 is the penultimate issue of Red Robin. Coupled with the significance of an 18th birthday and the fact that we never see one, there is virtually no chance that Tim turned 18 before Flashpoint. He’s 17.

Stephanie is <1 year older than Tim. Steph is 18 at the end of preboot.

Stephanie’s birthday is not given in Post-Crisis.

Stephanie was 15 when she first became Spoiler, per her recounting the story in Secret Origins 80-Page Giant. She is still 15 in Robin #59. In between these events, Tim is stated as 14 in Robin #43. Therefore, Stephanie is older. Stephanie “died” when she is 16, per the last story in Batman Allies Secret Files and Origins, between R#116 and OYL, meaning Tim was also 16. That makes her less than a year older.

She is also one grade above Tim, starting college in Batgirl vol 3 #1, shortly before it’s confirmed by Red Robin #17 that Tim (had he not dropped out) should be a senior in high school.

Stephanie starts college in Batgirl vol 3 #1, and we have every reason to believe she is starting at the "normal” time, making her 18. Since Tim is 17 at the end of Post-Crisis, and Steph is less than a year older, she can’t be any older than 18.

Jason is 1 year, 11 months, 3 days older than Tim. Jason is 19 at the end of preboot.

Jason’s birthday is on August 16th (Detective Comics #790).

No ambiguity here! Tim and Jason are exactly 702 days apart, unless Tim was born on or right after a leap year, making it 703. We know this because Jason’s 18th birthday is on August 16th in DC#790, which occurs after R#116 and Tim’s 16th birthday, but before OYL where Tim turns 17. This means Jason must have turned 18 when Tim was 16.

Jason’s age is never explicitly said after his return. But because his birthday comes after Tim’s, and Tim is still 17 at the end of preboot, we can be completely confident that Jason is still 19.

Cass is 6 months, 21 days older than Jason. Cass is 19-20 at the end of preboot.

Cassandra’s birthday is on January 26th (Batgirl vol 1 #33).

Cass turned 18 in Batgirl #37, shortly before both R#116 and DC#790, meaning before Tim turned 16 and Jason 18. This is well after No Man’s Land, so we can be certain Tim is long-since 15 (see below cut), and since her birthday is in January, we can also be certain Jason is long-since 17. This means Cass is less than a year older than Jason.

Cass’s age is also never said towards the end of preboot, but can be estimated via Jason (via Tim). Knowing Jason is 19 and Cass is 7 months older, we know she must be 19-20 at the end of preboot. However, since her birthday is before Tim’s, we cannot say if it’s passed to be more specific than that.

Dick is probably 6 years, 4 months, 26 days older than Jason (5 years, 10 months, 6 days older than Cass). He is 25-26 at the end of preboot.

Dick’s birthday is complicated, but imo the best bet for Post-Crisis is March 20th (see below cut).

Dick’s age is extremely messy, but here goes. Dick is 19 when Bruce fires him (Batman #419) and Jason is at most 12 when Bruce finds him shortly after (see below). Dick turns 20 while Jason is Robin (Secret Origins vol 2 #13 and New Teen Titans vol 2 #18). Dick is at most 21 in Deathstroke vol 1 Annual #1, after Tim is introduced. This means Dick is 20-21 when Tim is introduced at 13. The ONLY possible way to make all those ages work is for Dick to be ~6.5 years older than Jason, ~8.5 years older than Tim.

Dick’s age is not really said after that, except the vague mention in Nightwing vol 2 #134 that the time around his 17th birthday was “almost ten years” ago. This fits with what his age should logically be based on the difference to Tim, and we can confidently put him at 25-26 at the end of preboot.

A detailed timeline, references, and explanations of what was included or had to be ignored under the cut:

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Every time i purchase a moderately expensive item the Karl Marx on my shoulder is like "For shame... you purchase yet another pair of jeans when you have 5 already at home, you despicable commodity fetishist? In my time, a man with five outfits would consider himself blessed beyond measure, and yet you want for more, while there are children starving in the world??" to which the second Karl Marx on my other shoulder says "Objection! Those 5 pairs of jeans all wildly uncomfortable or have holes in the ass, due to the decline of clothing quality driven by the fast fashion industry, unfortunately making this purchase a necessity... Plus, by purchasing a slightly more expensive pair of jeans from an independent brand, seeking quality over 'brand recognition', they are deliberately trying to avoid engaging in conspicuous consumption!" to which the third Karl Marx clinging to my back like that beetle from Doctor Who says "Remember, my friend; the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt — your capital. Buy the jeans," to which I say "I don't know if any of you have actually read Karl Marx"

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i cannot stand the “let men be friends” thing anymore. no it’s gay now. really gay. Sorry