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very busy. i have to pace in circles for 6 hours. you understand

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M E R R Y  C H R I S T M A S 

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hate it when pets learn words, my dog flips out when he hears "greenie" so we had to start saying "G word" but now he knows G word so we have to say shit like "are we out of emerald indulgences"

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koncass friendship on the brain again. you know how cass started picking up slang from watching tv? i think hanging out with kon should infect her with konisms. consider the konsibilities (kon possibilties):

she hands babs a coffee refill and babs says "thanks cass!" and cass replies, "ain't no thing but a chicken wing, baby!" and babs is just . . .. ... . .okay. okay. sure. alright. sure. this may as well happen. alright .

cass, ominously holding a baseball bat and staring at some henchman, who slowly lowers his gun: "that's right. be afraid. be very afraid." tim, pinching the bridge of his nose over his mask: "kon told you that's a good line, didn't he."

cass, taunting the riddler, who is facedown on the ground: "who's your daddy! who's your daddy! say it! say it! CHUMP!!!" steph: (WHEEZING)

or cass is on a mission with bruce later, and bruce tells her that some guy they're after? he's all hers. and cass, dressed like a certified freak of nature in her scary-ass batgirl costume, nods seriously and says, "hot diggity swag," and then jumps the guy. bruce is left standing in the rafters like Excuse Me ?

many other such cases. you get it.

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anyone else think it's kinda fucked up that the wise men went to little baby jesus and brought him a frankenstein. really scary

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U good?

the beasts are here

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Polycule but it’s just two people in a romantic relationship with each other and their third who’s pretty obviously aroace but also somehow so deeply intertwined in their lives that it’d just be wrong to not count them as involved. Is this anything.

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do people who live in countries that don't have snow know about the snow silence? When you get a nice big dumping of fresh snow and you step outside into an infinitely harshly contrasted world and there's no sound because the snow absorbs it all? I believe it fits the traditional use of terrific both wonderful and incredible but also causing a great terror.

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Someone said something incorrect online

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they call me byecurious yhe way im always a little interested in leaving👋

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The real tragedy of the whole “Batman contingency plans” thing escaping containment into the wider cultural zeitgeist is that it’s become completely divorced from the original context of, you know, the Tower of Babel story-line happening after a beloved member of the Justice League did in fact go mad, become all-powerful, and destroy all of reality.

Which is devastating because it loses so much when you take Hal Jordan out of it! In both adaptations and fan discussions!

Despite only being mentioned by name once in the story, Hal haunts the whole narrative in how unspoken he is. The whole theme of the story is the failure to communicate and how it destroys trust, and an essential part of that is how the whole League won't (and can't) talk about Hal.

When Kyle finally tries to bring him up, Wally shoots him down. He is the forbidden topic at the heart of the League's breakdown of trust!

When the contingency plans plot is removed from the context of Hal's fall from grace, isn't proceeded by a JLA founding member doing what was supposed to be unthinkable, Bruce's actions lose their emotional core. It becomes just "Batman is the coolest and smartest and also a huge untrusting asshole" instead of "Bruce was already on the knife-edge of crippling paranoia regarding his powerful allies, and then one of those same allies started slaughtering people and he couldn't do a thing to stop it, confirming all his worst fears and sending him right over the edge"

You take Bruce's feelings of very personal betrayal out of the equation. He's not operating on just hypotheticals, but fears that were heartrendingly justified!

Bruce claims the reason for his plans on some past mind-control incident, but Clark calls Bruce out on it being an excuse.

Maybe that's how it started, but there's a reason the fail-safes aren't against mind-control and possession. The fail-safes are ways to permanently stop your friends should they willingly or unwillingly become a threat.

And they both know it. They've argued about Hal several times before.

Bruce has a lot of unresolved feelings about Hal. He's still hurting.

The contingency plans are not some cold, clinical necessity. They are the product of pain.

I think all readings and tellings of the Tower of Babel should be followed by the JLA/Spectre story.

It provides the necessary emotional conclusion to the unspoken conflict! Because they finally have to talk about it! They heal the broken trust! Bruce admits how much Hal's betrayal hurt him and his faith in heroes, and gets past it! Instead of letting a former and potential future threat be eliminated as his fail-safes say he should, he invites the threat back, even if he can't guarantee it won't happen again, because he chooses to believe in his friend!

The contingency plans are a cool and interesting concept, but again, you can't just...take Hal out of it. You can't make it about some evil alternate versions, or about Clark. By doing that, you lose the most heartbreaking part of the story. Batman isn't in the right or the wrong, but he's not heartless. He's brokenhearted.

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sorry for finding it hot when people's hair goes grey. as if im wrong

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the key to surviving grad school (also maybe life but definitely grad school) is to pick a side quest every few months or so. something that brings you joy and that you can get better at over time, independent of whether or not your research or classes are going well. put your need for academic validation to use in a non-academic setting and everything will feel less dire and you will learn you are more than your work

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you ever have situations that make you want to take people by the shoulders and go "you are not 15 any longer. this behavior is no longer quirky and cute. it is exhausting for you and everyone else to act like a teenager you haven't been in a decade or longer. knock it the fuck off"

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We as a society, as an entire world, need less stories about forgiving your parents

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nothing beats the intimacy of being silly together