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Sophia, the Boston woman from 1875 who haunts a lamp I got at Brimfield: what is a stay at home girlfriend, if you please?

me: well, it's a woman who's financially supported by the man she's dating, and she lives with him and usually keeps house and cooks for him

her: and they're not married?

me: well, no; hence "girlfriend" rather than "wife." I know that may alarm y-

her: oh calm down I know about Kept Women. he has no legal tie to her, though? she has no sort of standing with him in the eyes of the law? only his word that he'll follow through?

me: yes

her: and remind me again- you don't have to be financially dependent on a man anymore, right? there are more than like three careers open to women that will let you support yourself at a decent level now? and society isn't pressuring you 24/7 to get married and stop working outside the home?

me: yes

her: so these women. CHOOSE to be dependent on a man. who could leave them at any moment without legal consequence. because they don't like their jobs. the jobs, while imperfect, that let them live on their own, answerable to no-one

me: yes

her: that had better be some absolutely amazing jewelry they can pawn off if he leaves them, then

me: it's usually not

her: THERE'S NOT EVEN SECURITY JEWELRY?!

me: oh by the way they blame feminism for "having to work"

her:

her: I became fully dependent on my in-laws who hated me, after my husband died two years into our marriage, because I was a 23-year-old orphan with no marketable skills in any avenue besides Running A Household and the only men left unmarried in my social circle were widowers thirty years my senior. I also couldn't establish lines of credit as a widow because the merchants said my husband dying so soon meant that I didn't have stable enough income. and that was entirely legal

me: yeah

her: I'm going to go slam some doors please do not bother me

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Jason: *squinting at phone* Tim: are you. . . Okay?? Dude? Jason: *tears of frustration in his eyes* people, Timmy. People are FAILING AS A CONCEPT, HUMANITY’S DEPRAVITY HAS OUTGROWN ITS CONFINES WITHIN OUR MORALITY AND HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE HAS BEEN ECLIPSED BY FEAR OF EHAT WR HAVE BECOME Tim: Damian: he found out people have been getting ai to write fanfics Tim: Tim: honestly . . . that’s an under-reaction if anything Jason: *loudly sobbing* Tim: want me to wage war on ai? Jason: you’d do that for me? Tim: not for free of course, I was unlimited cookies for the next three years Jason: deal

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i think there’s actually nothing better than being randomly told “I love you” after doing something characteristically stupid. Like what do you mean I’m a lovable person and I just did something silly and you thought “of course you would do that. I love you.”. No better feeling

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im still losing it over the "how did high schoolers write 600 word essays before chatgpt" post. 600 words. that is nothing. that is so few words what do you mean you can't write 600 words. 600 words. this post right here is 45 words.

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There's this phenomenon in onepiece

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Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"

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How Smart is Dick Grayson?

Nightwing is highly intelligent. This is someone who learned and became an expert in forensics and criminology within 6 months when he was 8-12 years old. He’s a master detective, with a record to prove it.

And because it’s a feat people rate despite meaning nothing at all, in Nightwing #152 - Ra’s calls Dick detective.

Chemistry/Biology/Physics

Batman vol 1 # 18 -Dick knew his chemistry. He has an excellent report in school

Titans vol 1 # 17 - figuring out how to clone a human

Tales of Teen Titans #45 - Come up with a solution to fix the problem in Aqualad and Tula’s lungs after analysing the chemical compounds in their lungs

Language

Action Comics # 842 - Knowledge of Tamaranean

Detective Comics Vol 2 36 - Russian

Grayson 1 - Russian

Nightwing Vol 4 51 - Dick Speaks German

Nightwing Vol 4 54 - Dick Speaks 12 Languages

Nightwing Vol 2 72 - Italian

Titans Annual 001 - Japanese

Robin Vol 2 175 - Farsi

The Power Company: Manhunter Vol 1 1 - Kikuyu

Batman: Gotham Knights - French

Titans 16 - Some Romany

Nightwing Vol 2 91 - Some Romany

Legends of the Dark Knight 100-Page Super Spectacular Vol 1 2, Dick uses sign language to talk to a temporarily deaf Bruce.

Observation/Deduction

Teen Titans #12 - Deduces a coded message.

Teen Titans #46 - Notices that the number of footprints, and the weight behind them. Correctly deduces that the kidnapping was a ruse.

The New Titans #65 - Observes a Carousel for seven hours. Is able to recall everyone who went on the ride, with memory of their appearance, their clothing and who brought them to the park.

Nightwing #86 - While injured and watching TV, Dick solves four cases for “America’s Most Wanted” in a morning.

Star-Spangled Comics # 105 - Cracks a code and thinks of a way to foil radio controlled bombers.

The New Teen Titans #7 - Notices a trap on a door, saving Cyborg’s life

Batman: Dark Victory #12 - Solve a riddle before Batman himself even figured it out before becoming Robin

Flash Plus - Figured out how to escape a maze before the Flash could

Superman American Alien #4 - Showcasing his impressive deductive prowess even as a kid before he became Robin by reading Clark Kent very well (noticing that Clark’s hiding a lot of things about himself) who’s impressed by his observant talent

Justice League v2 #51- Thanks to his insight due to his deductive trained mind he starts to ask questions that give Cyborg and Green Lantern the idea to look for the source of the problem and how all the threats the League are fighting against all at once are actually connected somehow

New Teen Titans v1 #9 - Quickly deduces that he’s walking into a trap while alongside Beast Boy and that the man inside was actually a mechanical bomb about to go off

New Teen Titans v1 #30 - Detects a sniper through hearing and moves fast enough to save the target from being killed

Batman #697 - Showing great awareness/perception as he catches a reflection of someone else with Catwoman moving out the corner of his eye in the windows across the street

The Power Company Manhunter - Detects Manhunter’s presence as he’s creeping up behind him and is able to avoid his sneak attack using his speed and agility despite Manhunter’s super human reflexes 

The New Titans #86 - Detects Deathstroke’s presence nearby which impresses Slade since he mentions that not one man in a million would have heard him 

Nightwing #12 - His senses are so well honed that they’re able to pick up even Batman’s presence who’s hiding in the dark 

Grayson #1 - Showcasing his impressive level of perception (and reflex speed) by deflecting a projectile (tranq dart?) shot at him from a hidden enemy who turns out to be Midnighter who he’s also able to find very quickly as noted by Midnighter himself

Grayson #2 - Detects the presence and movement of the same speedster he encountered beforehand coming from behind him then avoids being ambushed by the speedster saving his unaware partner Helena Bertinelli in process

Batman #703 - Deduces that the getaway genius is actually a female despite the fact that she’s using a high tech holographic suit to disguise herself as a man having fooled everyone else  (It’s how she walks)

Batman & Robin #26 - Deduces Ray Man is using illusions against Nightrunner, Robin, and himself then comes up with a way to counter the illusions and subdues Ray Man 

Batman & Robin Eternal #11 - Quickly deduces Sculptor is a telepath after seeing her use her telepathy power against Harper Row (reading Harper’s mind to quickly find out her identity then putting her to sleep) impressing the telepath 

Grayson #17 - Not only is he able to deduce that Grifter is a telepath that can read his thoughts and moves ahead of time by the feeling in his head (having experienced the “bad touch” of telepathy before), he’s also able to break down Grifter’s preferred fighting style, personality, and motivation by reading his body language in mid combat 

Robin Year One #1 - Suspects the man (Mad Hatter) who’s giving away free headphones is not who he appears to be and tracks down his hideout by following his broadcast signal then gets the whereabouts of his current location from his henchmen 

Tales of Teen Titans #43 - Deduces how Donna Troy and Cyborg were captured

Nightwing #24 - Solves a homicide case that went unsolved for over 15 years

Batman Streets of Gotham #8 - Displaying his brilliant deductive mind as he tells Gordon exactly what happened when examining two crime scenes and some dead bodies

Nightwing #144 - Deduces who the mastermind was that created an army of winged men and Talia’s involvement in the project 

Azrael Death’s Dark Knight #3 - Deduces who the new Azrael is 

Vigilante v3 #10 - Deduces Vigilante’s secret identity

Batman #694 - Damian deduces Black Mask’s plan only to find out that Dick figured it all out yesterday morning. In addition, Dick finds out the identity of one of the masterminds behind Black Mask’s operation

Justice League of America v2 #57 - Deduces that the Shade is the person linking all the shadow energy together although everyone else believes its Jade given her connection to both Shadow and Starheart energy

New Teen Titans v1 #38 - figuring out Donna Troy’s identity & background displaying some of his scientific knowledge in the process

Preparation

The New Teen Titans #16 -Has dusting powder for fingerprints on him despite not being in uniform.

The New Teen Titans #38 - Donna had searched the house before without finding anything of note, Dick had researched the blueprints and had used them to find a secret room.

Batman #687 - In a flashback as Robin, he shows his creativity in planning when he passes Batman’s test by successfully launching a well planned non-lethal sneak attack on him within the Batcave 

Trinity #9 - His mask has a small explosive charge installed that can self destruct

Outsiders v3 #37 - Has a piece of kryptonite to deal with Superman if need be

Grayson #8 - Revealing that he’s not only fought alongside the Justice League but has trained to fight them if need be (very likely thanks to his training from Batman). In this battle, we see him take on a super powered android known as Paragon who has the powers of the JLA and defeats it by exploiting the Justice Leaguer’s weaknesses while leading his fellow Spyral agent known as Tiger/Agent 1.

Computers

Action Comics # 842 - he used his knowledge of Tamaranean to hack an alien data terminal

New Titans # 55 - Hooked up the Titans computer to the Batcave’s computer

Titans United #7 - Breaks into ‘Bat-Level Encrypted’ records in a cadmus facility

Tech

Nightwing vol 4 # 25 - Saved a shipful of criminals (and himself) by extending the time field of Clock King’s high-tech alien weapon. Clock King called this “Amazing”

Titans vol 1 # 47 - Trying to repair the comm system in Titan’s headquarters.

Nightwing vol 2 # 138 - He has hacked the override to the Justice League teleporter (which Tim later hacked from him)

Star-Spangled Comics # 70 - Dick thinks of a way to survive a bomb-blast.

Nightwing vol 2 #50 - Able to point out what a full colour spectrum flash pulse is and that the gun it’s fired from is alien origin

Nightwing vol 3 #3 - Turn the microwave transmissions back to Zane

Nightwing vol 2 # 16 - He custom-made his car when he first moved to Blüdhaven

Nightwing Vol 2 # 144 - Build and program a Tech Glider with a remote GPS device

Nightwing vol 4 # 44 - Modified Escrima batons

Future State: Nightwing # 2 - Built Nano-Swarm cameras

Nightwing vol 4 # 78 - Heavily modified Escrima batons

Grayson #1 - Turns an alarm clock into a transmitter 

Outsiders #48 - Co built a mini EMP weapon, the first electrorang

Arkham Reborn #3 - Designed a special stun grenade to neutralise Clayface

Strategy

Justice League #57 - Leads a mix of heroes and villains, utilising all their powers to fight Omega-Knight 

Robin Year One #3 - As a rookie Robin, he outsmarts and apprehends Mr. Freeze by luring him into a trap he sets up on the spot

Batman Streets of Gotham #2 - Takes down Firefly by clogging his jets using a foam gun and then stirs him through a billboard 

Nightwing #146 - Takes out a young & stronger Creighton Kendall (who’s turned himself into one his winged men) by cleverly turning him into a lightning rod

Robin Year One #2 - Defeats the original Blockbuster by luring him into a trap he thought of on the spot 

Nightwing #15 - Tricks Blockbuster into bringing down a building on himself

Nightwing v2 #5 - Defeats the powerful rhyming demon known as Acheron (similar to Etrigan The Demon) by luring the demon back into the place from where it came which binds the demon 

The Titans #25 - Commands Kid Flash to use his powers to direct a gas

Nightwing vol 3 #9 - Tricks William Cobb into entering a location where Dick can lower the temperature quickly, rendering Cobb unconscious

Justice League of America #53 - Formed a plan to defeat mega man and the crime syndicate

Outsiders #23 - Can fool a polygraph

New Teen Titans v1 #5 -Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Goronn

New Teen Titans v1 #6 - Leads the Teen Titans to victory over Trigon 

Return of Donna Troy #2 - Despite not being apart of either team at the time, he naturally takes command over the Outsiders and Teen Titans when they’re ambushed on Minosyss

Return of Donna Troy #3 - Quickly comes up with a plan for the team to subdue a brainwashed Donna Troy as we also see the others looking to him for his leadership in the situation

Return of Donna Troy #4 - Leading the Outsiders, Teen Titans, and native rebels in a war against the Titans of Myth 

JLA #69 - Chosen by his mentor (Batman) to lead the new JLA that the Dark Knight formed as a contingency plan just in case something happened. Batman refers to Nightwing as the best and only person able to lead the team

JLA #73 - Successfully leads the JLA in battle against the very powerful Gemamnae as they manage to take her down and trap her. However, their efforts prove to be only a temporary victory since she is much more powerful then they know 

Justice League of America v2 #42 - Takes command over a newly formed JLA as they bring down the powerful Atlas

Blackest Night Batman #3 - Trusting his judgement, Red Robin and Deadman follow Dick’s lead as he comes up with a very clever yet risky plan on the spot to save/hide Red Robin and himself from the Black Lanterns after deducing how they respond to emotion (He freezes himself and Tim)

Action Comics #842 - Immediately takes command over a group of meta humans which includes Superman once their group is attacked

Booster Gold v2 #22-23 - In an altered timeline Dick is killed in the past while he was still Robin and as a result the JLA was left without it’s greatest tactician (Batman/Dick Grayson) to come up with a plan to defeat Trigon who ends up conquering earth. This is due to the fact that Dick wasn’t around to replace Bruce Wayne/Batman when he was “killed” by Darkseid during the Final Crisis story

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Salesman Danny

My brain did that thing where it just says "Hey wouldn't this be funny?"

There was a knock on the door. The room fell silent, nobody knocked on this door. People either entered because they could, or were summoned and then let in.

Ra's, slightly more intrigued than annoyed, told the person to enter.

The door opened, in came a tall man with a rather big box pulled behind him.

"Hello, thank you for having me!" The man glanced at the lazarus pits and slightly crinkled his nose before turning back to Ra's.

"It's good I came now, before it's too late and your pool of ectoplasm gets more corrupted. In this spirit, may I present you the Fenton Ectoplasm Filter 5.0! For all your filtering needs! If you buy the Fenton Ectoplasm Filter 5.0 subscription we will even come by to change the filter container each quarter." He pulled out what looked like a big pool filter, with added boxes, the boxes had green lines and Fenton Ectoplasm Filter 5.0 was painted over the side above the highest line.

"I could give you a demonstration, however with how contaminated your ectoplasm pool is it will take a while to fully filter it." Ra's decided to just let the man talk, giving him a nod. He watched as the filter was placed to the edge of the lazarus pool, half submerged before a button was pressed and a low humm was heard.

Lazarus water was pulled into the filter and after a minute what appeared to be lighter colored lazarus water flowed out from the other side.

"The filter can be mounted to the side like it is now, or it can float around with the added floater. If children use your ectoplasm pool I would recomend the mounted version to protect both the filter and the child from accidental damage. We do give out a 20 year warranty with every Fenton Ectoplasm Filter 5.0, we would give out longer warranties but in case of a newer and improved filter being invented in the next ten years it is reccomended to upgrade rather then repair!"

The man stood up again, letting the filter push out the rest of the lazarus water before wiping it with a cloth that seemed to also be Fenton branded. He walked over to Ra's, opening one of the boxes on the filter to show a slime-like substance that had a dark, near black, green color.

"As you can see your ectoplasm pool is very contaminated, as such I would reccomend a monthly filter clear instead of quarterly, don't worry about the contamination itself, we have a contract with the Infinite Realms and the Far Frozen to fully recycle it!"

"Recycle?" Ra's eyed the man, maybe this filter would get rid of the problem of the less and less effective pits.

"Yes! A small part will be used for research for better filtration systems, a rather big part will be used to test new medicines against corruption in Ghosts and whatever can not be used will be put into the cleansing sprout in the Infinte Realms to make sure nobody gets corrupted by accident!" He clapped his hands after he put the filter back into his box.

"If you want I can leave a pamphlet with you for other inventions and services Fenton Works offers for Liminals and Ecto Entities! We do also have a website for better overview! I would reccomend you the Fenton Ecto Cleansing Shots to get rid of the contamination in your own ecto, it works wonders and can be injected if you would rather not drink it." He opened the pamphlet and showed a small vial with light green lazarus water, calm. Next to it were two injectors, one manual and one automatic.

Ra's took the pamphlet, calmly looking through it. Two older generations of Fenton Ectoplasm Filters were in it, as well as a few other things to cleanse ecto, some circle that advertises as a floating device, as well as three generations of Fenton Thermos at the end. Those were advertised as both an ecto holding device as well as a container for mean spirited Ecto Entities.

"You sell all of this?" He looked at the man again, aside from being even taller than Ra's himself he looked rather unassuming.

"Yes! There is an order label at the end as well, we deliver per Portal so there are transportation costs listed but we do always deliver on time! Our website had more services as well, now would you like to purchase the Fenton Ectoplasm Filter 5.0 with subscription?" Ra's looked back into the pamphlet, the filter was expensive, the subscription as well, but it wasn't money he couldn't easily spend.

And if it did turn out this filter would get rid of his problems it was money very well spend.

"I just have to fill out this little form here?" The man seemed to jump towards him with a wide smile, showing fangs and a bit too many teeth.

"Yes! If you would just cross off what you want to purchase I'll take the order with me now and you'll be guaranteed delivery and installation tomorrow! Please show proof of payment upon delivery for no delays."

Damian stared at the lazarus pool, it was calm and a lighter color than usual, the only difference in surroundings was the lowly humming filter at the edge. He looked towards his grandfather while holding his hurt arm.

"Do go on Damian." So he did, the lazarus pit he knew to be bubbling was now calm like a lake. He felt the difference when he stepped in, it wasn't like the water tried to pull him under. His arm healed faster than it ever did before. His mother smiled, his grandfather looked pleased.

"It was worth investing into Fenton Works, genius inventors, their son is around your age Talia."

"Mother already has father, grandfather!" Damian protested as he climbed out of the pool.

"Yes of course, Damian. How is your newest aquisition doing dear daughter?"

"Jason is doing fine, he seems to take well to the online therapist you found for him." Ra's looked content as he thought about the website he had visited after Danny had sold him the filter.

Truly a masterpiece of a business. The front and center their inventions, a side for cyber security and programs, a shop for plants and plantcare services, as well as a therapist. Fenton Works was a marvel he gladly invested in. And if that meant he would get early access to their inventions? Well, he did like the new shield around his bases.

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Dead on main writing prompt: Jason gets dosed by a rogue and accidentally exposes his and Danny's relationship......

“And this GIW kidnap ghosts?” Batman asks.

“Totally, Dad.” Jason nods. “But you can’t tell anyone I’m a ghost!” Jason claims.

“You don’t want them to get you?” Diana questions.

“Me?” Jason scoffs, “I don’t give a fuck about me. I just don’t want them to get Danny again.” He says in a duh kind of tone.

“Danny’s a ghost?” Dick asks in shock.

Jason smiles again, “He’s a Halfa; like me.”

“Two Halfas exist?” Zatanna asks sounding shocked.

Jason laughs, “Don’t be silly. There are four of us: Me, My husband, My husband’s clone, and that one asshole.”

“You and Danny are married!” Dick yells.

“Yes, Dickwing. My husband and I are in fact married.” Jason states.

“Why didn’t you invite me to your wedding?!” Dick doesn’t do a very good job hiding the hurt in his voice.

“I will invite you to the human one.”

“Wait, your wedding was a ghost one?” Dick asks.

“Duh.” Jason nods, “we’re only legally married in the Ghost Zone.” Jason then quickly adds, “Or Infinite Realms.” Jason shrugs, “Whatever you want to call it.”

“You’ve been to the infinite realms?” Constatine asks.

“Yeah.” Jason laughs. Then, stops as if realizing something, “Oh, My God.” He looks at his older brother, “Big Bird, Did I tell you that I met Jane Austin? Because I fucking met Jane Austin!”

“That’s- great, Little Wing.” Dick says in shock.

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"When they need to know, they'll know" 🙄

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Danny and Cujo.

I haven't really seen anyone talk much about Cujo's relationship with Danny. Granted we don't see Cujo but in a couple episodes, but from what we do see, Danny is the only one that Cujo interacts with that he isn't aggressive towards, and the only one Cujo is protective over.

So I've got this little scenario in my head in which one day Cujo randomly shows up with Danny's logo on his collar. But in order to keep everyone (especially Valerie) from seeing it and holding him responsible for the dog's collateral damage, he keeps ripping it off. Only for a new one to reappear every time he does.

Imagining Danny having his closet stuffed full of dog tags from all his attempts to get rid of them just tickles me. Like if some poor unsuspecting soul like Jazz one day decided to open the door, just to get completely buried under them.

idk, I thought it was funny.

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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Thinking about love triangle but it is not really.

Same Age AU where one of Vlad's schems ended up with Danny transferred to Gotham Academy, where he befriended Jon and Damian.

Jon, with his keen senses, comes to realization that Danny is not human but not guessing which race he is and also not wanting to reveal some's secret callously, trying to get to know Danny more. Always hinting that Danny can tell him anything.

Damian, meanwhile, is trying to keep Danny's existence under wraps because he does NOT want a new sibling, thank you very much.

The whole student body is thinking these three are trying to woo the other, without much success.