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one of the most enlightening realizations ive had was finding out that non-24 hour circadian rhythm people were a pretty large group and most of us have oddly similar cycles of usually around 28hr internal "days" and this masquerades as "insomnia" but if allowed to sleep and wake naturally we will just advance forward through time an extra 2-4 hours a day at a relatively stable pace. we can't go to school or jobs or even run errands on normal schedules without massive pharmacological and behavioral intervention. most of the people who have been diagnosed or figured it out themselves will report horrific, life-ruining disruption in their professional lives and terrible health from accrued lack of sleep. this disorder is most common in vision-impaired people which seems to suggest it's related to light cues. anyway just thinking about this as extremely loud yard work woke me up at 8am for the second day in a row

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internet safety we were taught as kids: don't share ANY personal information with ANYONE EVER the british government: you don't want to give these random third parties your photo or driving licence showing your name, birthday, address and signature? are you perhaps a nonce?

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the category is drawing the best brother duo of all time and Dan mora CLEARS every time. Dick and Jason’s brotherisms you are so dear to me LOOK HOW TINY THEY ARE MY SHAYLAS

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big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing that’s going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.

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movie night with the squad 👌

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Oh my god we actually did it.

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okay I wanna do meta about the ig controversial cass & bruce panel because i did not find it either OOC or surprising for babs to think this

so fundamentally I think this is another stitch in a long pattern of babs oversexualizing cass. babs frequently pushes being a romantic and sexual object on cass

including when it’s obvious cass does not want that. she’s uncomfortable and doesn’t want to be sexualized. but babs pushes for it regardless. and babs does at one point acknowledge that she’s going too far with it, that this isn’t what cass wants

but them she still falls into the same habits after, showing that while she’s less directly aggressive after this, she hasn’t really changed her mindset much. BUT pin in that —

cass is being pushed by a mentor figure, one who is helping her define what being a woman means, to explore her sexuality. cass views babs as someone so focused on pushing (let’s be clear; STRAIGHT relationships) that when she’s hallucinating everyone after being drugged, her idea of babs basically can’t talk or be talked about without bringing up romance with men.

and imo it’s ambiguous whether cass does have an interest in exploring her sexuality, post-tai’darshan, or whether she’s just exploring expectations of her but she does wear babs’ old costume which is way more catered to the male gaze than cass’ batgirl outfit. whether it’s explicitly for the purpose of finding out her own feelings on it or not, she is experimenting with being sexy on purpose and of her own free will. to her, babs is her only example of female sexuality, so she tries to recreate babs’ experience

i think cass’ key takeaways from this interaction were: wearing this costume, babs ensnared the attention of her Robin and delighted in it

so cass puts on the same costume and ensnares the attentions of her Robin with it

but has no interest in it in reality. she does not engage with it. she immediately gives the costume back because she did not find any fulfillment or delight in the experience it gave her

and then babs immediately sexualizes her again. PIN BACK OUT.

this is not pressuring cass to do anything, nor is it really pushing anything on her, its engaging with cass sexuality on cass' level when she expresses interest. however, its clear cass did not like the experience. she shows no interest in discussing it. babs lamenting not being able to see it is a marked improvement from forcing things on cass, but i do think it shows that she hasnt changed how she thinks about cass. just the actions she takes in regards to how she thinks about cass

so, now we turn to cass and bruce at this time.

cass' entire existence is one of abuse. we get constant parallels between batman and david cain, even bruce acknowledges he may be continuing cass' abuse and chooses to bench her to try and force healing and peace in her life (prompted by babs, so babs is definitely not out of the phase entirely of trying to make cass' decisions for her but i digress)

cass wants to be batgirl. she is loyal to what batman stands for. the misunderstanding between bruce and cass is what is causing cass' continued suffering; bruce thinks it is batman forcing her to be apart of violence by being a vigilante. it is, in fact, batman not engaging with cass with tenderness.

cass craves touch from her new father figure that is not violence. she has no issue with violence, but she wants more than just that. she clarifies that it hurt when batman benched her, it did not help heal her. she curls up on batman and says this is what she was missing. holding and affectionate touches. this is a HUGE turning point in their relationship because up until now there's been tons of instances of bruce trying to help cass and just failing, but this is a success.

so yes, during this entire fight she had with bruce she was actively craving affectionate touch. she was not trying to hurt him, she was going for being held and touched with tenderness.

she relaxes into it immediately, even though they're in the middle of maybe drowning in the middle of a fight. she takes the first opportunity for tenderness she is presented. its what she's been wanting the whole time. its the thing that will confirm to her the abuse is over

so back to the panel

yes, babs can undoubtedly tell that cass does not want to be fighting batman. look at this pose -- she's going for a hold, she looks like she is seeking out affection. her expression (and she pulled off her own mask during this fight) is not angry or violent, it is longing.

and of course babs views that in a romantic context. she views cass as a being of repressed heterosexuality. all men are ways for cass to become "a real person" by interacting with them romantically. so when babs sees cass go to a man all on her own, actively wanting and craving affection, i think its extremely in character for babs to assume that cass has romantic feelings towards him despite cass wanting something completely different

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thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy's

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I think about Robin's "I want to live" scene so much. She is up there as one of my favs. I drew this one awhile ago but still really love the idea of it.

So why wouldn't she reassure her younger self? I think she always believed it but just needed that one little push to be proven.

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OPLA Cast: Characters Oufits

For SEASON 2

Taz Skylar (SANJI) and Mackenyu’s (ZORO) outfits are BOTH from a ONE PIECE Manga Color Spread

From ONE PIECE Manga Chapter 107 Color Spread

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Books on Libby have started disappearing.

My friend pointed it out first, and then I started noticing too. Why would books that multiple libraries definitely, 100% had digital access to a couple of months/weeks/days ago disappear?

Amazon is invoking exclusive rights to them.*

Ebooks that the public library once had digital copies of are now only available through Amazon. Audible boasts on their covers about Audible-exclusive audiobooks that did not used to be Audible-exclusive. Entire series and collections are disappearing overnight.

Keep your eyes on the privatization of media and your libraries.

*earlier versions said "getting"; Amazon has likely always had these rights, but in the face of boycotts they're tightening the leash, so to say

**librarians in the notes have also noted that, in addition to Amazon often refusing to sell to libraries/increasing their number of exclusive/privatized titles, libraries have to repurchase eBooks/audiobooks every eight uses, so cuts to library funding have reduced their access to media as well

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Huntrix doing a concept album where they model themselves after boyband archetypes. Zoey is the "boy next door," Rumi is the "dreamboat," and Mira is the "bad boy." The fans absolutely lose their minds at how hot they are.