Me: grows up reading fairy tales(kindness is always the answer) and Terry Pratchett(Well is anyone gonna fix this? No? Fine, guess I'll do it then) and Diane Duane(Entropy is the Enemy, you can stall Entropy, be kind, be understanding, treat all things with respect), Gail Carson Levine(you are never alone, you can break the curse, you are more powerful and brave than you could ever dream)
Me: grows up watching Star Trek(Explore, never lose your Wonder, do the best thing you can even in awful circumstances, never give up on what you believe in) Doctor Who(Hope is a helping hand, Hope is the man who lost everything making sure you don't, everything is a miracle, nobody is unimportant) Leverage(we're all different, that's what makes the world work, there are always people you can lean on, even if you're weird you belong somewhere, always fight for the underdog, sometimes the right thing ignores the rules)
Me: grows up listening to my Christian family and church constantly talking about being christ-like(feed the poor, yes even him, do not be afraid of the ones in pain, do not judge others for their work, do not blame a man when his life falls apart, help him, always reach out your hand, we are all connected)
Me:*internalizes all of that, working very hard to follow the examples that have been set for me, struggle for a bit with letting people walk all over me but eventually find balance that lets me care for myself too*
Guy I've been talking to: you're far more kind and sweet than most people I've met
Me: I don't see how I do anything special, I just followed the guidebook???
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People ask me sometimes how I'm so confident that we can beat climate change.
There are a lot of reasons, but here's a major one: it would take a really, really long time for Earth to genuinely become uninhabitable for humans.
Humans have, throughout history, carved out a living for themselves in some of the most harsh, uninhabitable corners of the world. The Arctic Circle. The Sahara. The peaks of the Himalayas. The densest, most tropical regions of the Amazon Rainforest. The Australian Outback. etc. etc.
Frankly, if there had been a land bridge to Antarctica, I'm pretty sure we would have been living there for thousands of years, too. And in fact, there are humans living in Antarctica now, albeit not permanently.
And now, we're not even facing down apocalypse, anymore. Here's a 2022 quote from the author of The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells, a leader on climate change and the furthest thing from a climate optimist:
"The most terrifying predictions [have been] made improbable by decarbonization and the most hopeful ones practically foreclosed by tragic delay. The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse.
Over the last several months, I’ve had dozens of conversations — with climate scientists and economists and policymakers, advocates and activists and novelists and philosophers — about that new world and the ways we might conceptualize it. Perhaps the most capacious and galvanizing account is one I heard from Kate Marvel of NASA, a lead chapter author on the fifth National Climate Assessment: “The world will be what we make it.”"
-David Wallace-Wells for the New York Times, October 26, 2022
If we can adapt to some of the harshest climates on the planet - if we could adapt to them thousands of years ago, without any hint of modern technology - then I have every faith that we can adjust to the world that is coming.
What matters now is how fast we can change, because there is a wide, wide gap between "climate apocalypse" and "no harm done." We've already passed no harm done; the climate disasters are here, and they've been here. People have died from climate disasters already, especially in the Global South, and that will keep happening.
But as long as we stay alive - as long as we keep each other alive - we will have centuries to fix the effects of climate change, as much as we possibly can.
And looking at how far we've come in the past two decades alone - in the past five years alone - I genuinely think it is inevitable that we will overcome climate change.
So, we're going to survive climate change, as a species.
What matters now is making sure that every possible individual human survives climate change as well.
What matters now is cutting emissions and reinventing the world as quickly as we possibly can.
What matters now is saving every life and livelihood and way of life that we possibly can.
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Damian Wayne: Interests and Hobbies
note: this post refers exclusively to new earth (post-crisis, pre-flashpoint) damian!
for starters, we can talk about the weapons he prefers to use. his most iconic weapon of choice is a blade - usually described as a katana, but he's not so discriminatory. he enjoys using plenty of different kinds of blades.
(batman v1 #656, by grant morrison)
(batgirl v3 #17, by bryan q miller)
(robin vol 2 annual #7, by keith champagne)
he's also a fan of bows, actually.
(batman v1 #675, by morrison)
(batman v1 #680, by morrison)
(batman and robin v1 #16, by morrison)
and while he hasn't used them much, he's not against using knuckle dusters (which really only adds to the cuteness factor of his friendship with colin wilkes).
(batman v1 #657, by morrison)
another weapon he likes to use is the crowbar, ironically. it's ironic, because he ends up beating the joker with one.
(batman and robin v1 #2, by morrison)
(batman and robin v1 #13, by morrison)
damian has been known to fight unarmed, too, of course - he's partial to martial arts, actually.
(robin vol 2 annual #7, by champagne)
he even has a black belt.
(red robin v1 #13, by fabian nicieza)
now, i'm not an expert when it comes to martial artists, but... i'm actually quite sure this is a poster of bruce lee hanging in damian's bedroom!
(batgirl v3 #17, by miller)
fun fact: damian even keeps martial arts equipment at his bedside table, as well as spy equipment.
(batman v1 #689, by judd winick)
damian has a notable interest in cars.
(batman v1 #680, by morrison)
(batman v1 #681, by morrison)
(don't worry about the fact he hit an ambulance - the joker was driving it, so it's fine.)
he's not only interested in driving them, though, he also enjoys tinkering with them and fixing them up. he even made the batmobile fly! it was actually pretty easy for him, since he already had blueprints.
(batman and robin v1 #1, by morrison)
besides cars, he's also interested in motorbikes.
(batman and robin v1 #2, by morrison)
he even gifts a motorbike (with garage included) to his new friend, colin wilkes!
(batman: streets of gotham v1 #12, by paul dini & dustin nguyen & derek fridolfs)
of course, one could say that he has a vested interest in the batman and robin dynamic itself. he always did wonder - once his father came back, what would happen to batman and robin? what about this life he chose for himself?
(batman and robin v1 #10, by morrison)
he's not only worried about what will happen to his dynamic with dick - they did build up quite a friendship through being batman and robin, after all, and it makes sense it would worry him that they might lose their connection if they stopped working together so closely - but he's also worried about himself, and whether or not he will be allowed to continue on as robin. it's a role he grew to cherish, a job that he grew to enjoy a lot. it became a part of himself, a sort of hobby of its own.
(batman and robin v1 #16, by morrison)
(batman: the return v1 #1, by morrison)
okay, back to the lighthearted stuff...
damian is also into real estate! it's one of his... higher class interests, let's say.
(batman: streets of gotham v1 #4, by paul dini)
equally as high class is his interest in designer fashion. (okay, he doesn't *have* to be very interested in it to merely have the knowledge necessary to distinguish an original from a knock-off, but... let's just say it's a point in favor of him being into fashion.)
(superman/batman v1 #44, by joshua williamson)
but hey, he does dunk on the green undies that dick wore as robin. (that's another point in our favor! huzzah!)
(teen titans v3 #88, by j.t. krul)
he even enjoys many aspects of business. for one thing, he's not against dressing up to attend a boardroom meeting and accusing everybody there of being incompetent and irresponsible with his father's company.
(batman and robin v1 #10, by morrison)
another cute one: damian prefers tea over coffee.
(batman and robin v1 #17, by paul cornell)
(batgirl v3 #17, by bryan q miller)
when damian was younger, he enjoyed playing with matches.
(batgirl v3 #5, by miller)
damian also enjoys a good race, as shown in his presence for the charity race between kon-el and bart allen. (it could also mean, though, that he just really cares about supporting charity. or both!) note, too, that he had no obligation to attend - he had already ended his brief stint with the titans. (the wayne foundation did make a donation to the charity, but damian wouldn't appear as robin if he felt an obligation in that sense, he would just appear as himself.)
(superboy v5 #5, by jeff lemire)
...okay, that will have to be all for now! i've reached the limit of 30 images per post. i hope it gave you a fair bit of insight into what damian is interested in and what he likes to do with his free time. thank you for reading!
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