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“You know, Damian’s half convinced you let it happen.” Tim scoffs. “Sounds like him.” “Not like that. He’s different now, he wouldn’t say that.” “What the hell else am I supposed to think?” “You confronted Azrael alone, in civvies, after he’d already beaten you up once just for getting in his way. Is it that much of a stretch for Damian to think you might have had a death wish?” “I didn’t have a death wish.” Steph gives him a long look. "Sure."
missed posting my annual november reverse robins timsteph angst so to make up for it here's an even angstier than usual painting from this AU <3 more coming soon hopefully!!
#tim drake#reverse robins#ev sketches#tw implied suicide#(in the knowingly putting yourself in a very very dangerous situation but not consciously or personally killing yourself kind of way)#if i had the skill and the motivation this was gonna be two panels bc this is what damian discovers when he books it to the cave#he and tim bond for the first time when tim is like all of my friends and family are dead you are literally my last choice.#but can you help me with this azrael thing. do NOT tell bruce he wants to retire and i can't take that from him.#trying to shield him from this has nothing to do with my dad very recently dying because of me being a vigilante btw.#and damian's like this is a bad idea and he's very obviously unwell and injured and we do hate each other but like. yeah. fuck bruce rn.#he literally hired this insane person to be interrim batman over me so yeah sure let's team up.#and then they hang out for a while and having a common enemy is awesome and bitching about bruce to someone who gets it is kind of. great?#and damian's like wow maybe it's not too late to have a relationship with this kid (my future brother????)#so they make plans to stop azrael and fix everything without even calling bruce once and they're like wow we make a good team!#like a day before they put that plan in action azbats kills someone very publicly#and damian is like oh god tim (very mentally ill) is about to do something so stupid.#and he is! but damian is in bludhaven when he hears the news so. too late. :(#when tim gets resurrected he's blind in one eye (azrael's sword) and can't always breathe right (died from blood in lungs)#he does not get the jason lazarus pit dunk 😔#at least not right away 😈#rr tag
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Leviticus, Chapter 22
1. Lo, for That I cannot prosecute my thoughts; I needst here cultivate caution- Then put a hold unto my options, That I cannot challenge him. Any source of information, That be of an admixture truth, And of an admixture untruth, is of a danger, Did you know that? Humbly needst I move toward diamonds and gold's Otherwise-useless demarkation on worth; My face must stay its specter in clay, For it is my career; That I can say: It is mine.
2. Thus, to Aaron, gold and diamonds Bringeth ignominy and unwarranted power; Strewth, they are only much use for The rings of your finger; So let alone the past, Which you mark As a messed up place, How then, is this the valid Strategy for the future? Lo, let us divide and game.
3. Increase the paywall; Holy things are ringing in changes; You are the visitor here- I'd like to take the time To consciously consider you so, for We have reached besmircher's cutoff. It's me, mark it; and Either I am a negative nebulae Of unimaginable everything, And you are a little golden bull, Or you are a negative nebulae Of unimaginable everything, And I am a little golden bull;
4. But know that I shall not give you the word For the thought-track down which You might draw the line Of asymetry, such, That you wouldst know How to rend a perfect opposition To go between. And whosoever soweth dead seeds Among young female researchers Hath faileth the épreuve- It shalln’t do for thy running issue, Moreover, those women who are of Quite senior position and are doing it Unto the coercive nature of such a power's New destruction of ability to focus, As unto the camp's commander, With how Peleg begat Reu; Well, it might be enough to get you pregnant, But wait, where am I going with this?
5. Worm touchers, Creepy pressers, Come, come, observers, Keep from that strange creature; Don't be giving unto me None of thy screaming abdabs; I think on you, Pig dressed as a clown, Eructing unto, then drawing forth A near-entire white, plastic fork; And know you not how this came to me- Lo, it came up with a sequence of items that appeared Not unlike balls of meat, Furred, wistfully, in a grey cowl of reactionary mucus; A kind of veil, a barrier, in effect, Penetratable, at any point, But equally real as a barrier, Gainst our otherwise passive environs, Such as be the diffusion of inert thoughts, or spores, murky, and maintaining of a human resource, I liked to thrill it- The direct and immediate livid relationship Between a font of funding and a media event, O, harmless dalliance of the stationary cupboard- You are knowingly walking, As against your will, A wrong into the carpet, Within the tent of meaning.
6. Looking up to see God's face in the moon, Or whatever it was That can't be drawn, And I won't be drawn; His hands he filled with moisture and His own was sent for ablution Into the improvised basin. So denieth all such allegation Through the washing of thy soule, Clean off; so sloughed away, Away with the diminishing liquid.
7. Sundown with the unseen Woman's leverage on the situation- if you should find a way to redress balance, So she gaineth a bit more power in some manner, Then so what? it was no loss. A new deal, And the bill shall embolden survivors.
8. Positions of power shall have of a hard time In recognizing the coercive nature of that power Within an unbridled relationship; Things that die 'Of themselves', Or are yet rent by nature's horn, Are defiled; while I, a malign influence, lie with my soul distracted; Oh lord, but I've been swallowed by narrative, And tried to keep it communal, Inside and outside; As you are.
9. Pit stop- The horror is the fact; The horror it unfolds Through legions of would-bes Without a meter, like me, Who have applied, Will apply, in perpetuity; Just do it, Or die; if then, As I am still.
10. The individual is always Hedging toward A private business model. Attention-seeking shalln't be of sin, no! Tis sensible, keep with a forward optioning- That's why i tell you, Soujerners and servents, Who art sent to the concession to collect me my messages- My tutu is a Fendi, And my codpiece is a Bosch. We live unto a roaring attention economy. But you're not up to it. I've given them a tomato one, And also I gave them a spaghetti- We struggle to attune to where I'm compelled- Ourselves, as groups, who feel of themselves As blunted against their lack in deserved attention, Because it is a powerful, a dangerous feeling.
11. So eat souls As paid for with a priest's money, On escrow, attention Has always been currency Though rendered unimaginable Since the falling-away of the gold-standard, As was borne unto the tent of meaning, Where every page has a piece carved out, To house an advert's grab For égards; No space is secure, For security hath put an advert thither.
12. Jade lock, To knock the donald offline, So unto a stranger, Gone off to scavenge, The framers that frame themselves As refuges for free-expression Shall be rent at the fringes, forcing A redirection, away from my personal kingdom.
13. But should she go prodigal, Whosoever you are, Howeverso you might express thyself, You may now have a crack at a global audience, With incentives and disproportionate benefits Offered unto the most shameless, The demand of each to pay what scarce attention Might be rendered unto others, To get some fraction of this nominally limited resource, As unto yourself alone. Such are these poor weapons, An oversharing, That, essayed to the personal, Stretcheth my nancy stories To breaking.
O Marigold, I was bad At that, in the territories of fandom, As forced to return Unto the track over and again- Such was my leaky comprehension; Only apparent to me in the afterward, And now, I cannot say I am better.
14. Whence, Enroute from the concession Shouldst be eaten of the item Without, thence, So anguished in the relish, Thou giveth a fifth Of the holy thing; So that the leg shall grow A starfish, whole . Then let us bend our dark tubers towards, And look the knot, as in at an eye-
15. What's gold and glitter, But to mock a toom, And maketh of myself A symbolic same, Wrought as an aesthetic echt; Where diplomacy is weak, The aesthetic be yet The sole portal unto The conveyance of meaning; Verily, here, that I keep within The aesthetic of thought Whereby action is always y, You are i, and The antagonist be markated x; Where holy might only Fall down to one's discretion, You should've known That I wouldst be so solid.
16. Or suffer them to bear the enquiry of trespass, Felt as an information glut, Whilst eating of their holy orders, Found relishing within the anguish, And those who want it, Want it as much as they can get it, And there is more access than can be vaunted, For, in an attention economy, one is never not on. Yes, me. O the guilt.
17. Attention is akin to the spirit; That it be vital but conventionally invisible, And thus, think not very much upon it, But unto whom, being unable to share A simple encounter with it, Wouldst soon become an artifice of torture.
18. Tell Aaron et al ensundry, To take up of stock with sarcastic markets, Sarcastic markets and I, impunity; The sacrifice of your own will I hand you freely; or no; T'was never yours to oblate, But sacrifice thy quasi-will, As will thee, Which is mine, against The short hedge, Thus maketh me of a currency exchange.
19. And an haut stud dost thou, unto me, weasels? By your whimsically free-will sacrificing? How charmingly lame. I sense Actors at play, in a very long game Of grooming the disaffected- Call me my boys in- then Send a lie to the long deceiver, To use the ruse, in turn, like poison, For to wish you that which upon may be Enabling unto the benefit of thine enemy.
20. It's no hambone, No hobbling billy- If he tells or interferes I'll fill the well in; its Prophets in stocks and neck-irons time, Else tolerate such increasingly radical agendas Of such gleefully uninhibited platforms as Where followers might laugh At biblical memes and opine such as- 'I'd rather do drama than a play, where, You can't say, really, What you want to say.' Go long, my cowhands, go long.
21. And peace is a sacrifice Of the streaming platform, while Attention has always been currency, Same. Our abilities to pay heed are limited; Not so our abilities to theoretically receive of it; No need to adequately substantiate If you can bamboozle With all the time in the world, Ka-pow-ka, ching-ching, da-da, Badoo-daboo-baday; Trust-modesty, yay, verily. Humility is hard to sustain In an attention economy. I only see me accelerating.
22. Blind, broken, maimed; Cankered, scurvied, wan with the wen, Thus, by my lights, The fault shall be displaced, Be it cleaned or weeping, Tis a no-no, get me another. Such was The schism that fractured the donald, Sent out to extend a tortured metaphor, Became too much of a liability To be held in high office- But if the stranger doesn't come, After all the things I’ve done for him,
23. Well, it's alright for a free-will offering Which you feel compelled to go along with, But it's not good enough for a vow offering As be brought unto online-influencer culture, And it might be enough to get you pregnant But it shan't be enough to stir my interest- I require an extreme case of humility, Whereby a person giveth his all to a presence so completely selfish As to serveth no other purpose. It's me.
24. But the reality is far less complicated than Moses, Hiding his damage behind a veil of linked-up back-channels, Recoiling at what his fellow hardcore moderators attempt to oblate; Too engrossed within the tents to consider anything outwith While hoping the whole doesn’t spin out of control.
25. Corruption is in them, strangers, Bethinks, flooding an affiliated image board So thoroughly that it becometh abomination. Here increaseth the shamelessness of wanton Allegation, terror co-option of a social platform, which struck with the rise of a reality magik-vision, Alike as came unto a mid-80s index of abundance, Shewn running away whilst attempting to make focus On the ever-deterioratingly indistinct Object of the distancing, that It’s only when, at stopping to think about it, That the understand can be ascertained as to quite how rife it is.
26. Here, he left a passing message for Those who might collectively commandeer: Abide by life; that, if, then, I wouldn't be here.
27. Debates about amplification And attention-hijacking form a Siege mentality Of the corrupted Federal Apparatus- For seven days beneath the dam, As then a fire spiralled further Toward a more outlandish means Of unconstitutional civic theatre,
28. Whereby a calfling must be made to last The night and know it's mother As having died before slaughter; So the community Moved in after it went dark, Enjoining, then modulating, then killing off, And now Your complexes are all cooked in, Deeply infringing upon the weirds of others.
29. So must you make sacrifice To your very free will, As to common patriotic causes, Or else be sieged Within the corrupt Federal Apparatus.
30. The fundamental thing is: You cant escape my attention economy; Eat everything now, For nothing shall be saved, And this same day shall be Until tomorrow; when again, it's me.
31. Lo, and you must; it's me, remember? But by now all this blood and all this law Was affecting them, as had long been within their dream, Where they have their own rules, quirks and cultures, Which they ignore at your peril; Where environments play out upon a knife-edge, And attention might simply be a lens Through which to read the events of the moment While running away.
32. Herein, power shall not be trusted To recognize affiliated abuses of power; Yet, check, however, before Redirecting such missives from my personal kingdom, For lo, there shall be nonesuch insubordination, As might mitigate against, for I shall be hallowed; Me me me me, So you;
33. Thus, I lay my notional claim Unto my servant-leadership- as bang, That brought you out of the land, Didn't it? Akhenaten to me. So Leviticus stood at The simply-inflated Size of Capitalism, To whom, hereto, On a bench they'd built Between themselves, Be here, thisway, is addressing- 'Imagine; You have been wrong For a long long time now.'
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Quick Tip – Teaching Your Dog to Like Children
Quick Tip – Teaching Your Dog to Like Children
This is one of those common questions that sometimes sends chills up my spine.
Everyone wants a dog that loves kids; but unfortunately, not all dogs do love nor will even safely accept children.
The Child
The child, in my opinion, is the most crucial element in this kind of training.
Children need to be calm and respectful of dogs.
Children should not be left alone with dogs, not once, not for a second.
I remember being a very small child and trying to ride our neighbor’s Chesapeake Bay Retriever, “Max” whenever my parents or his owners weren’t directly in sight.
Even as a tiny kid, I knew that neither my mother nor his owners would probably appreciate my behavior. Yet, I didn’t realize it was because I could have been mauled or killed if the dog didn’t accept my small frame on his back.
Face it, kids do things they know they shouldn’t.
Kids don’t realize the danger they often put themselves in on a regular basis.
Good parenting and being super diligent is the safest way to deal with children and dogs. If I can’t be with them both, one or the other is coming with me wherever I am going.
For instance, if I have a new dog around my young step kids and I have to use the bathroom, the puppy is coming with me or going in his crate or outside behind a locked door.
I once saw an article saying there is no way a parent could be around all of the time… but I have to tell you, I disagree. As a parent it is my job to make sure that my child is safe.
If a dog is hurt or scared it’s bite threshold is much lower.
And it is important to understand that all dogs will bite under the right circumstances or the perfect storm.
Children should be taught to respect dogs and not hug them, bother them while they are eating or play rough with them!
The Dog
Typically the best way to teach your puppy to like children is to start young.
It is much more likely that you can socialize a young dog or puppy to and with GOOD children than expecting an adult dog to change its behavior with children.
Again, remember that a bad experience with children at a young age can lead a puppy to dislike all children.
So it is imperative that children and puppies be monitored and that appropriate behavior is rewarded.
No chasing, biting, or rough behavior should be tolerated.
And, rewards can be used often to reward the dog for being calm and mindful of children in the environment.
The two must be consciously taught how to appropriately interact.
Remember, they both want to play too rough with each other and this may be cute at first but can lead to behaviors that can be dangerous with a full grown adult dog.
For instance: playing chase and letting the puppy bite the running child may be cute when the puppy is 8 weeks. This exact scenario may lead to the dog’s euthanasia when the dog is 100 + pounds.
If it wouldn’t be cute for a 100 pound Rottweiler to do; don’t allow your puppy or child to engage in the behavior.
Please, please, please reward the dog for being calm or even ignoring the children and following you around the home.
If I get up, at my house, my dogs follow. My dogs are always with me and prefer my company, which makes living with children a lot easier for me.
Young Dogs or Dogs Who Grew up Successfully with Kids
I believe that the best situation when trying to find a dog who will fit in a family with young kids is finding a puppy or taking on an older dog who knowingly had and loved children.
Although it is possible to take an adult dog with unknown history with children, it is a bit dangerous.
Tolerance
There are dogs out there that simply don’t like children.
Children move too fast (often like prey).
They scream (often like prey).
They are too rough.
And, their general behaviors are nothing like adult humans.
And, whereas I would like to tell you that you can take an adult dog and successfully train it to love children, the truth is that you often can’t or it is not safe to try.
In these situations, it is important to teach the dog some form of tolerance and obedience socialization with children.
I Would Never
I would never suggest you adopt a dog from a local shelter and then run down to the nearest elementary school to socialize your dog and hope for the best.
Instead, I would suggest that you work on a firm foundation of obedience and teach the dog respectful behavior around children.
Sitting or lying down and even ignoring children can be appropriate behavior.
And, if you have a dog that has aggressive tendencies toward children. I would recommend our aggression course and a basket muzzle to ensure that the dog and children are safe when they are within the same vicinity of one another.
Remember, sociability doesn’t mean the dog has to play with the subject, it simply means that he has to be under control when he is near the subject or trigger.
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observation #6
There are some big problems with 21st century revolution One of them is the lack of real meaningful coordinated action By this I don't mean nothing is being done, or the things being done are wrong or bad But more that the way they are done not really achieving the objectives that need to be achieved Giving specific examples defeats the point I'm trying to make which is that, despite all the talk and all the acknowledgment of the problems we have, we rarely ever see any real and significant change It's just a cycle of 'raise awareness', 'give people knowledge', 'raise more awareness', 'give people more knowledge' Everyone wants the same thing, we know what the finish line looks like, but we talk about getting to it, without actually making any big strides towards it, or putting ourselves in a position to make those strides Linked to this is social media: one of the best and worst things we've ever invented We have a pretty amazing way to talk and connect with people, and access to more knowledge than we can read even in 3 lifetimes But amazing as it is, at the end of the day it is just an artificial reality, with superficial connections (I mean that in the nicest way possible) Better yet, it is a hyper reality And the problem with hyperrealities is twofold: one that, as beautiful as it can be, it is not the real world, and two, this escapist beauty is what not only makes it dangerous but also leads people to, consciously and subconsciously, mistake it for the real world It's a world where recognition, in the form of posting and getting likes or retweets, equates in some people's minds to action And while it has some big ripple effect in that world, and even to an extent, in the minds of people who read it, in the real world it is much less likely to have as huge an impact on the external situations And it is in this emphasis on a reality that, even though it is linked to the real one, has a limited impact (sometimes but not always) on what actually happens in this world Social media also, which has such a big part to play in our lives, has also distorted, on a narrow level, many people's sense of self, and on a wider level, how different actors in the context of a revolution would react to certain events On a narrow level, you, as a person, may be introverted and prefer to not speak at all, or only when you have to But now, when you are in an environment where 'silence' doesn't exist and conversations are always happening, you feel the pressure to go against that core nature and join the conversation (like I said, there are two sides to the coin: it has helped people who suffer in silence have the courage to share too) However, although this distortion on the small scale, is bad, on that wider scale I mentioned it is even worse In the past, as I found out in true believer, revolutions had three main actors: men of words, 'fanatics' and men of action The men of words would point out to the population the injustices of society, then from the population would rise the fanatics who would, in their own way, attack the system through both their own words and actions and finally were the men of action who would put structure to the chaos caused by the fanatics There were not strict archetypes and someone could play multiple parts However, now those distinctions, which were so important in producing change, no longer exist, (or exist in a very diluted form) People who would have been fanatics or men of action have been transformed into men of words in part by social media They live out their archetypes in the hyper reality Fanatics are now 'militant men of words', who talk about dramatic action from behind their computer screens And men of action either don't know that they have a role to play, have no way to play their role in a meaningful way or know they role but have very little to gain from playing it The result being a situation where, even though every now and then there is change from their words, that can also inspire some kind of action, there is very little order behind it the frustration that the words generate is aimless and undirected and any disorder can be 'carefully managed and easily suppressed' In other words, no matter how many words are said, and how many promises for change are made, because they are just words, written on sand, the mindset and the literal+metaphorical frameworks behind the undesirable situation never really changes In the past, it's these three actors working in sync, whether knowingly and unknowingly, that brought change But because of the day and age we live in, the two other keys to evolution and revolution have been diluted to the max The English revolution, just one of many examples of real revolution, where the king, who was acting unreasonably, ended up losing his head, shows this synergistic relationship with fanatics, men of words and men of action all playing their equally important parts However, the modern day equivalent of that, with rogue politicians having their own agendas which are dangerously misguided, has not led to revolution like that in the past There's now an uneasy calm behind the discontent In the past, people who were unhappy with the situation would look for ways to have an impact on it, in the real world, in the best way they knew how a way that they were subconsciously aware to be suited to whatever 'talent' they had, whether that was being a leader, books, poetry and art or simply being part of the mob Now, people who are frustrated with the current situations sit on their desk, (sorry for the generalisations, it's to make a point) or even just open up apps on their phones, and say how they feel, voicing their anger or sadness It's a sort of appeasing power to be given/have, or content powerlessness, that allow people to impact the hyperreality but does almost nothing in the real world Again just to make it clear, this is no disrespect to people who do that, I do it too And I am not saying that we need to return to the times where for a change to happen blood had to be spilled Violence, in the 21st century, isn't the way But neither is social media venting (which is ironic because that's just what I'm doing😂) We need to find new ways to shift the paradigm The roles I mentioned are still relevant, but they need to be relevant to the max and not watered down The way they operate needs to adapt and evolve to this new world we live in In the past, they operated in the spheres of religion and rhetoric But maybe now, they should operate (in the best way possible) in the spheres of power and money A lot of us want the same thing without being consciously aware that we do We all tend to subconsciously operate in our own space, forgetting or ignoring that we exist in a network where every action has an impact on things and people around you When you follow your Good, what I define as what's meant to be done by you, in/for the bigger picture at that point in time, you create a ripple effect, that spreads to all those around you Like a conductor in a circuit, you being yourself sets off a spark that allows energy to go through you and spreads around you-keeping the light of the world going/glowing But that spark needs to be set off and made use of in the real world You (we)(I) need to ask, how can I, in my own way, make a visible or deep (through e.g. art, music etc etc) change on the situation my society is in, that will have a practical impact in the real world and follows my core, uninfluenced beliefs and nature (I could probably have phrased this better, but I hope you get me) The goal being to find that balance between the 'light' of society not being too dark or too bright, with the first being purposeless 'destruction' and the last being excessive 'creation' And to find this balance you have to find that spark, that only you have, and use it to synergise with those people around you and make an impact in your own way Social media is one way of doing this, but should not and cannot be the only way It's a useful tool, but no substitute for real world actions For the web we all operate in to work to the best of its abilities, we have to all find and fulfil our roles, whatever they are It'll be important now, and even more so in the future Not being caught up in hyperrealities But also having a very clear conception of self Knowing your-self deeply, and how that links with what you (know you) should be doing, in your heart of hearts Smashing the mirrors society holds up in front of you, that shows a distorted image of who you really are There I'm done Rant over
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