#I'm wildly aware

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC Phantom Punk: Rowdy 3

Back on my Punk Danny agenda

So, Danny is not like your typical ghost, and thus, Dan and Dani, aren't either. Most ghosts can coast by naturally and just exist outside the GZ despite the lack of ectoplasm, as long as they don't go overboard

The Phantoms?

They need more. It's not normal to need that much ectoplasm, but after a series of incidents where both the Fanton's and Vlad's portals no longer exist, they're a little screwed

So, what's a trio of Punk ghosts to do?

Luckly, there is a way to supplement their energy, and they learned it from a less than savory source... Spectra. Spectra feeds off of emotions, misery, anxiety and depression being her bread and butter. Now, technically any emotion will do, it just has to be heightened for them to get anything out of it. Joy and euphoria can work, but it's hard to consistently produce those emotions and feed. Things like fear and anger are easier to produce, but come with some... ethical issues

Their solution? Get it from people who deserve it

So, Dan, Danny, Dani, and [insert fourth character here, maybe Jazz? Sam would probably be down, remember to delete placeholder] hop into a heavily graffitied GAV and drive to Gotham. Living out of the GAV, Decked out in leather, spikes and denim, they roll into the most crime ridden city in the world and proceed to find random goons and criminals homes, bust the place up, make them nearly shit their pants and then feed off the fear and anger of these career criminals

Meanwhile, the Bats keep showing up at the scene just after they scram and keep having to deal with the aftermath

The inspiration is the rowdy 3 from Dirk Gently's Holistic Dectective Agency, if you are not familiar with my favorite punk energy vampires, allow me to educate you (only watch to the two minute mark if you want to avoid spoilers for the show)

[teatitty]

Asuma and Naruto fightin over who gets to hold the title of 'Iruka's (favourite) brother'. Iruka wants no part in this but is constantly getting pulled in the middle of their passive-aggressive spats

[calliopechild]

For the third-party voters arguing that they're pulling for a better candidate with a genuine chance of winning and not splitting the vote--okay. Let's suspend reality pretend that's true. In that case, please answer the following for me:

Why haven't I heard of your third-party candidate before now if they have such a good platform and they're clearly the better alternative? How good of a candidate can they be if they have no public support outside of your very vehement niche on tumblr and apparently no real skill at/infrastructure for getting their message out?

"Well, because they're a small campaign! They're not corporate shills! They aren't taking Dark Money!" Mkay, so are they taking in any money? If they don't have the finances to support their message, let alone their campaign, that doesn't exactly point to the kind of interest that substantiates your claim that they have A Real Chance, Guys, I Swear of winning the election.

For that matter, Insistent That You're Not Splitting The Vote blog, why is it that there is absolutely nothing on said blog about your candidate prior to this spring? Yeah, that's the time frame of most states' primaries, but like...you'd think that since [candidate] is your ideal political blorbo, you would have been boosting their message before then--you know, to support them and get people to vote for them in the primaries. Kinda weird that you weren't enthusiastic about them any earlier than 5 months before the election. Kinda convenient that you're insistent that this, Year Of The Most Fraught And Partisan Election Part 3: Fascism Boogaloo, is the year a third-party candidate totally has a chance.

On the heels of that, what have you been doing to work toward a future where a third-party candidate actually has a real chance? Because there's a whole lot of nothing on your blog about anything helpfully actionable, like how people can work to get ranked-choice voting on their state's ballot. Instead, your blog is mostly just how important it is to "show the Dems people are tired of choosing between two bad candidates by taking your ball and going home instead."

Does your candidate have any political support on the local, regional, or federal level from either party or independents? Because executive orders aside, they aren't getting shit done in their presidency if they don't have any political allies or a party allegiance to draw on.

For that matter, what has your candidate accomplished politically thus far? What can they point to as proof that they could be a successful president?

And the real question it all boils down to: do you really, full honesty, no bullshit believe your candidate can beat Trump?

"Well, if people just--" Nope. No "well, if these 18 extremely fortuitous and equally unlikely things happen" wish-fulfillment scenarios. As things stand right now, in the real world, can your candidate get the necessary votes? Do they have the kind of appeal that can get even lifelong Republicans to endorse them and the track record to back up their campaign promises? Do 270 Electoral College votes' worth of Americans know them and support their policies?

Because unless you're lying to yourself, I'm willing to bet the answer is no. And yeah, this applies to all of the third-party candidates. Look at this piece from Politico: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2024/where-are-third-party-candidates-ballots/ You'll notice that not one of them has managed to get on the ballot for every single state. Please make the extremely obvious conclusions about their chances.

('But calliope, there's another third-party candidate that isn't on there.' Yes, I'm aware. Politico is no doubt aware too. For some wacky reason they decided not to include the Unicorn Party on their list, idk.)

"I'm still not going to support a genocide--" Even if you don't "support a genocide" by voting, I'm sorry to inform you that you are green-lighting a genocide by not acting to prevent a second Trump presidency. Because the reality is that either Kamala or Trump will be winning the election, regardless of what you'd like to believe. If Kamala doesn't win, we get Trump--the guy who wants Netanyahu to "turn Gaza into a parking lot" and wants internment camps in the U.S. for immigrants. You don't want to support a genocide, so instead you're splitting the vote or talking people out of voting so that we end up with both a genocide abroad and one right here at home. Because if you don't think Trump will take the Supreme Court-ordained right to commit any crime he'd like and, backed by the Heritage Foundation, go after immigrants and the LGBT+ community--like he's explicitly said he'll do all throughout the Project 2025 manifesto--then you haven't been paying attention to anything in the last 8 years.

We can't afford a close election like 2020. The right has been tossing around the phrase "civil war" for the last couple years and is just waiting for an excuse. Unless they lose by an undeniable margin, it'll be "stop the steal" and fascist gun nuts storming state buildings and harassing governors and secretaries of state at their homes all over again. And to make sure that we have the margin we need to make it clear Trump has lost, splitting the vote cannot happen.

It's awesome that you're invested in the idea of eliminating the two-party system, because yeah, it's fucked. No arguments here. The two-party system, the Electoral College, the lack of automatic voter registration, the lack of ranked-choice voting...a lot of things are fucked about the U.S. electoral system. But we will be able to change approximately none of them under a Trump presidency, and no one has any chance of beating him in November other than Kamala Harris.

And full offense, but if you're still trying to insist otherwise, I'm genuinely unable to assume you are anything other than stubbornly naive at best and a bad faith actor/psyop at worst.

[rabbithaver]

every so often i will see a post from a leftist on this website that is so egregiously ableist that i remember that like. oh yeah the userbase of leftists on this website is violently anti-disabled people and will jump at any chance to demonize any of us for any reason. i just forget that fact because i'm extremely dedicated to curating my space

i'm paraphrasing here but i saw a post that said, "every time i see an American [disabled person] mention being scared about the election because they're afraid of losing their benefits i have to laugh. anybody who wants blood-soaked money from the US government deserves to starve" which. like. goodness that's a lot to unpack. i think we should burn the whole suitcase instead !

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that

[clownaboutofficial]

map of a fictionalised anglo-saxon britain for a project i'm working on.

decided to start putting everything on this blog so that it's out there, feel free to ignore.

[his-tamine]

always nervous ab using people's "they" pronouns when they have 'em, because I'm genuinely using the pronouns that most people just don't seem to use for them, to add a little gender euphoria to their day bc like I understand how great it feels when you use 2 or more diff pronouns & someone uses the others that aren't commonly used. but I don't want it to feel like an impersonal, "they" that you use to describe someone whose pronouns you either don't know or haven't checked lol

So then I'm like "ok I'll call them by their name AND their 'they' pronouns, so now they KNOW I've read their bio/byf/info in general and that it's on purpose! >:)" but then my stupid brain's like "NO, you've never spoken to this person before! Calling them by their name is too informal!!!" and I'm like "FUCK"

[dandyshucks]

apparently someone reported my pinterest account for self-harm/depression, what the hell 😭😭 got an email basically saying "hey if ur struggling pls reach out to someone xoxo"

I AM LITERALLY JUST CHILLIN. and I've got most (if not all) of my mentally ill boards hidden so ??? what are people reporting me for 😭

also its a little funny to me bc theres no option to say uhhh yeah I'm struggling but I've been in therapy since grade 9 or 10 and I'm still like this, so i dont think your help centre is going to have anything for me, trust me I Know I'm not well already LMAO

[oceanicpoetry]

i wish i was eloquent enough to need minimal words to communicate my thoughts. instead whenever i try to talk it gets wordier and wordier without ever hitting at the centre of it all and it makes me feel nauseous because i don't want to take up that much space. but i want to be understood. only when i talk i realise i don't actually seem to know what exactly is at the core myself either

[cephalog0d]

If each members of the batfam were to throw an object into the Lazarus Pit to see what happens, what object would they choose?

(I had to ask this after your comment about Dick and the rubber duckies)

Okay, I was waiting to answer this because I was trying to come up with a whole list, but instead my brain kind of went a different silly direction. (I got as far as "well all I can think for Dick now is rubber duckies and my first instinct for Steph is 'glitter'" and then, well.)

What I imagine happening is that as soon as someone throws something in and gets an effect (inanimate objects coming to life? things melting into component parts? who knows, the pits are basically just Deus Ex Acid Bath at this point) everybody immediately has to figure it out, because they're all a bunch of nerds.

So you end up with people scavenging items to sacrifice for the sake of science (probably Steph and Cass, maybe Jason), people observing results (Dick, because he doesn't trust any of them unattended, and Duke because a) he's got all the weird fancy vision and b) he's very curious about what happens), people cataloguing results (mostly Tim, I imagine Babs declares she has better shit to do and tells them not to push each other in (or film it if they do)), and people directing the experiment (all of them fighting each other but especially Damian because he's clearly an expert here). Does it matter what things are made of (organic material like wood or wool versus plastic or steel)? Does it matter what the object is, if it represents something organic (a stuffed animal) versus not (a toy car)?

They probably collect some decent preliminary data until Tim and Damian start fighting about what the logical next step is based on their current results, Jason threatens to drop them in, Damian gets indignant because as if you could, Tim gets that Mad Scientist Look and wonders what happens if you double dip someone, Dick is pulling out the Dad Leader Voice to tell them that no one is getting put in the Pit oh my god, Cass is "suggesting" new tests by throwing things at Tim's head (which is also just to watch him flail to catch them while he's in the middle of arguing, it's good training, and it's funny when he misses), and Steph is persuading Duke to use his powers on the Pit water to see what happens (I cannot imagine it's anything good).

I'm sure everyone makes it home in one piece and without accidentally activating any latent powers or anything.

[polarfarina]

Internet historian stealing his scripts directly from articles is hardly surprising... god damn though

[sidewalk-scrawls]

The Takes™ about whether writing fanfic makes you a better writer are wild to me because like... Intentional writing of *any* sort makes you a better writer, especially if you’re aiming to create the best possible work you can. That’s literally just how practice works.

Writing fic might not make you better at all aspects of writing, but there are transferrable skills no matter what you’re writing. Hell, a lot of my professional work involves technical writing, and that’s absolutely made me a better fiction writer – It’s given me numerous opportunities to improve my writing’s pacing, flow, and clarity. Consistent practice works! I think people just tend to underestimate how interconnected a lot of the skills are.

[siriusist]

Hello love! 5 and 20 for the ask game? <3

5. Favorite actor and actress.

Okay, it's been a while since I've thought this out, but I'm going to go with some unconventional choices I think, because I've been watching a lot of new shows lately.

I'm going to go for Sarah Paulson nowadays, despite not watching all of her filmography. I just saw her in Mrs. America, and she always brings something unique and different to a role. I'll also add Cate Blanchett to that and Saoirse Ronan for someone younger. I just tend to love all their projects they're in/ they choose.

In terms of favourite actor, I'm going to go for other people who I also haven't seen all of the filmographies, but every time they show up on screen I just enjoy them and feel like they're just wildly charismatic no matter what role they're in. I'll go for Andrew Garfield, and Paul Mescal, nowadays.

20. Pet Peeves?

I've got a few, and these are wildly specific and may be a thing for me, but I tend to be a little annoyed about manners:

People who are rude/ who you apologize to when something's clearly their fault, and they just continue on like nothing happened (I.E: You both walk towards the door in a grocery market, you kind of laugh and say excuse me when you meet the door at the same time, and they give you a look like you're a piece of poo on their shoe and walk past you without otherwise acknowledging you). Like, what was the reason? It actually took more effort to be an asshole than not to be one in that situation, lol.

Men who think covering up their body oder with cologne/ body spray is appealing to anyone, then move into enclosed spaces like metros/trains. It isn't. Please stop this.

People who are annoyed when people are don't bother to at least attempt to match someone's positive energy, or worse, are just like, "What do you want" when someone's trying to be nice and positive. I understand everyone has off days, but when someone's being really sincere and earnest and are happier people, I always am annoyed by people who are like "YEAH WHATEVER, UGH," especially when that person is being sweet out of the goodness of their heart (Think someone being an asshole to a Shifty Powers type. Again, like, what was the reason. He's the cutest thing since sliced bread and clearly doesn't mean any harm).

Cars/ vehicles that don't give the right of way to public transit even though buses should have the right of way, and then just try to beat them out. Like, dude, it's a multiple-ton vehicle full of people. And you're some asshole trying to speed up and beat them onto the highway- just give the right of way. You're only going to get twenty feet ahead in bad traffic- I promise you, lol.

Last one, I swear: Just because I like to go to the gym and weight lift, my pet peeve at the gym is dudes just staring because you're a girl in the gym, and acting like you're some weird anomaly there. I'm just lifting weights, bro, leave me alone, lol.

[italiantnea]

Hello! Are you planning on translating the second novel?

Hi! Sorry about the radio silence. I am, I've just been busy with midterms the past few weeks. I'll probably start soon but I honestly have no estimate for when it might get done😅 Sorry about the wildly unpredictable upload schedule.

[floralquafloral]

15 match win streak 😳