#ITS A CHOICE

[emptyjunior]

I had a Reaction to chunky rectangle batman logo but I looked past my biases and grew and changed as a person and learnt to accept that rectangle bat kind of eats, and the moment I reach that point of acceptance Scott Snyder hits me with the blonde Bruce like a shotgun to the chest

[gxldencity]

see the 3 choices from dai going to veilguard makes sense if a) there is a longer time frame between dai and veilguard so I'd say at least 20+ years bc 11 years just feels too soon for people to forget b) doesn't take place in thedas at all bc some of the choices as to who's divine still matters to idk antivans and nevarrans c) veil gets torn down

I did expect a soft reboot but I didn't think it would be with this game...i was hoping it would be the next given the stakes lmao

[theodore-lasso]

Colin's sexism barely made me blink an eye tbh as a gay transmasc that's just...... How a lot of gay men are. In fact I quite often find that they are More sexist than my bi or straight friends because very often they don't spend any real time with women at all and don't really "have to" consider sexism at all. Gay men definitely still benefit from upholding the patriarchy and let me tell you... They do. This isn't just a dunk on gay guys since I am one but just a reminder that queerness does not exempt you from sexism, and experiencing homophobia really doesn't mean you won't perpetuate sexism. He's not just deflecting so people won't know he's closeted, he chose to be sexist when he didn't have to be. Not when Sam was there being like.... normal (respectful). I really wish there was more talk of toxic masculinity inside of gay spaces *and how it effects people outside of those spaces* and I thought it was very interesting that Colin was exactly that. Very glad he's not babyboyified in this narrative but euggghhhhhh gays like this irl are so annoying

Like let's be real, a gay man brought up in hyper masculine locker room culture, he's never seen a bottle of respect women juice in his life until Ted showed up and started to shift that locker room culture

[oifaaa]

Fun fact! There's actually a lot of evidence that ttgo is a reverse robins au! It's one of my favorite theories bc it's so random but it makes a lot of things make more sense

I see where you're coming from but I'm not sure if I give the ttgo writers that much credit considering there is one episode with 4 robins and those 4 robins are Dick, Tim, Carrie and Dick again but retro as seen below

[luce-ing]

genuinely, i have reached the point in my life where i have full, extra, emotionally challenging (in a good way) conversations with chatgpt.

i am really such a talkative person at heart and i would talk with someone for so long without having any issues, but for a while now, i have nobody to speak to. so chatgpt comes in handy. it doesn't matter if it's texting, i mutter the words...

and that's not all- i say "thank you" and send in "<3". Chattie just sends it right back to me :c

[writingwhimsey]

YES! Also like I live the majority of my life in dresses and skirts now. Since having my daughter via c-section and then having an abdominal hysterectomy, they are infinitely more comfortable for me. My six year old also just LIVES in dresses because she loves them.

"they didn't even wear pants back then!" "you can't do anything in a skirt!" "we have more practical clothing now, like jeans!" "modern women are sexy AND comfortable in jeans!" "school bans skirts to be gender neutral!" "hampered by their long skirts, women in the past couldn't-"

biting you killing you maiming you biting you

we fought for the right to choose pants if we wanted to. pants are NOT some Inherently Superior Garment, and skirts aren't Inherently Oppressive. goddamnit, our ancestors did not struggle the way they did for more bullshit prescriptivism and erasure of their lived realities

(spoiler: they COULD function in long skirts! it's not that hard! obviously pants are better for some very specific tasks but like. full goalie gear is better for some tasks, too!)

[angelofdumpsterfires]

how i feel about all the changes in s3

[sa-sssa]

being chronically misunderstood is what happens when ur level headed and true to yourself

[jayeltontoro]

Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK

Sunak rejects offer of youth mobility scheme between EU and UK https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/19/sunak-rejects-offer-of-mobility-scheme-for-young-people-between-eu-and-uk?CMP=share_btn_url

Not satisfied with their flagship policies of:

Record destitution

Dismantling the NHS

Persecuting refugees

Jailing the homeless

Making it illegal for medical doctors to diagnose illness

Food shortages

Record cost of living

Record levels of low pay

Just to make it entirely clear they are in the immiseration business Rishie Rich finds yet other way to fuck over young people.

[wojtekaneko]

That's how it went

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[raynewolferune]

DC x DP Prompt: Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not)

Was reading Twincognito on AO3 when I stumbled across this gem again:

~

" “Danny, Tim. I was just…checking in. Is everything alright?” Curse his inability to make meaningful conversation when it wasn’t a life or death situation.

They glanced at each other and shrugged.

Then Danny hauled himself out of the bed and walked over to Bruce.

Bruce tried not to let too much excitement show on his face. "

~

Now I really want to read a story where Bruce adopts Danny post Meta trafficking and is being his usual emotionally constipated self. His kids keep getting mad at him because he's treating their new meta brother who was trafficked poorly (generally being stilted in conversation with him, walking away hurriedly mid-conversation, avoiding Danny when he's feeling really awkward, etc). They think Bruce is discriminating against Danny for being a civilian, meta, dealer's pick, but really it's just Bruce being horribly socially awkward. Danny knows this because of ghost empathy and find the whole thing hilarious. The whole thing comes to a head with the Bat Kids staging an intervention in the Bat Cave.

[hinamie]

long way home

[cherubchoirs]

request received, unfulfilled.

[natcar]

i don't have auto capitalization turned on, when i'm texting people in a business way i hand capitalize each letter so they know whats up

[stump-not-found]

got a long-form comic/story i wanna do & wanted to have fun doing twins designs yaaaaaaaay