#In an ideal world

[machveil]

hate to complain (lies), but it’s criminal I don’t own these

I love green so, so much and want to have a bedspread and pillows and rug that looks like moss :(

[e-payne]

dbda season 2 ending sequence where charles does something stupid and reckless for edwin with the love is blindness jack white cover playing in the background and into the credits

im. having a vision

[peachtealeaves]

The Space Between Them

Room of Swords Prompt Day 5: Space ! Had a lot of fun coloring this one ! I imagine Gyrus had a crush on "CoPilot Kodya" if this was canon

[transformersbrainrot]

[stewy]

no kunt has been served this hard and fast and tight as this... spiritual main characters.

[darkcreamz95]

Joker Out new album in a month but you're going to be working in another state on that weekend

[ashleys-c0ffin]

If someone ever writes Julia both me and Ashley will start foaming at the mouth

[argetcross]

I love the idea of wearing deep plunging necklines and making people faint when I walk into the room.

There is one problem with this dream, though.

My sternum and ribs get cold.

[anothersarcasticdolphin]

Alright. So I think this weekend the Second Conquest update is going to be tomorrow instead of Sunday, but it isn't going to be a double update weekend.

Next weekend I'm tentatively penciling in a double update for Second Conquest (those chapters are paired and I want them going up the same weekend), and then the weekend after that I should be starting the new Aemond 5+1 series. I think.

Mixed in with all of this is I have a fest fic (thankfully a shorter one) for another fandom due on the 30th and I don't like leaving those to the last minute.

[sing-me-under]

Bruce Wayne is more important than Batman.

I feel like this should be more obvious, but no, it’s Batman. Bruce Wayne is the one who can genuinely change the system, who is able to provide and aid the people of Gotham. He is old money. As much as I despise capitalism and the power of the 1%, Bruce Wayne has the ability to change people’s lives on a systematic level. He is rich and influential but most of all, kind. He can fund charities, establish nonprofits, create jobs, better the prison system/mental asylum, etc etc etc. Yes, Gotham is probably genuinely cursed to always suck, but that doesn’t mean any efforts to help do nothing at all. Just some relief, another chance, a little bit of hope, is still better than being abandoned.

Empathy is supposed to be Bruce’s key personality trait. It’s why an old money socialite who has never wanted for anything (other than his parents) is able to look at Gotham and think “I want to help them”. It’s the whole point of his existence: someone with plenty of resources to help people actually does instead of sitting around, hoarding their wealth, and being condescending. And the whole “dead parents” thing motivated him to help people more directly beyond just writing checks and make speeches. Batman is the method that helps where the system has failed. He stops crimes (organized, petty, terrorism) that corrupted law enforcement ignore, perpetuate, or simply aren’t capable of handling.

Then there’s the whole “judge, jury, executioner” shit and the running theme of empathetic villains whose methods are terrible but their motivations stem from a flawed system. There are so many eco-terrorists, so many “teachers” and scientists, so many victims of circumstances who lashed out at a world that hurt them just as much. The exact degree of maliciousness varies from rogue to rogue, but none of them are innately evil (cue the criticism of the vilification of the mentally ill and minorities). The best Batman is the one who is empathetic to his rogues, who calls them by their actual names instead of their monikers, who is willing to agree to their demands within reason, who cares about their well-being and treatment once they got beat to shit for their acts of terrorism and probably murder. The best vigilantes in Gotham punch a guy in the face then offer them a chance to turn their life around. They would stop a robbery, but they’d look away when someone swipes food from a grocery store. Any hero could sit beside a scared kid and cheer them up, but a Gotham vigilante needs to be kind to the adults too (it’s why I think the WFA kidnapper trio is so funny, like they’re clearly not evil or malicious, but they are committing potentially violent crimes). Say what you will about the flaws in Batman’s principles, but you can’t deny that redeemed rogues are capable of so much good.

(As far as I know, the Joker is the only exception to this, and he doesn’t even have a backstory like at all. I actually blame the current state of Batman on the popularity of the Joker because the Joker is essentially pure evil and his very existence undermines the messages of the other rogues. But he’s more popular and produces more sales and honestly isn’t it just the funniest thing ever that DC pushes most for a villain that preaches about the flaws in human goodness? Isn’t it fucking hilarious that they’re blaming individual people for their problems (one bad day) rather than societal injustice??)

Yet for some reason, Batman is often written as if his entire mission revolves around the one moment where his parents died. “No more victims,” he says, then proceeds to brutalize anyone who remotely disagrees with his methods. He doesn’t discriminate between victims, except he’s not fixing or preventing anything. He’s just punching people one by one, and they’re not a victim if he’s the one punching them. It’s as though he believes the only way to victimize someone is by physically harming them. Without “Bruce Wayne,” Batman never interacts with those in power who are the root of the problems. As such, it ends with a Batman who only beats up people who are just trying to survive in the hellscape that is Gotham, so really he’s even worse than cops at the point. It’s why the current “edgy” Batman’s “no kill rule” is so stupid because his mission is entirely egocentric, a projection that lacks any nuance, and blames the symptoms, not the cause.

Stopping crime is police shit. Helping people is heroism. The former is dictated by the legal system. The latter is intention. You can help people by stopping crime, but stopping crime without helping people is just being hostile.

[punkrockisafulltimejob]

Sitting in the wheelie chair in the office is making me realize how nice it would be if I could sit down and work. Like, it's making me think even more about getting a wheelchair. And I guess like, I don't really need need it, but it also seems like it'll help on days where I'm really low energy and everything hurts

[sunscreenstudies]

is it too much to ask to find a flexible, remote job that i can work on from my pretty little cottage with my pet dog, surrounded by colourful wildflowers and fresh air and a vegetable patch?

[xianzhoualliance]

can shen jiu and liu qingge work it out on the remix

[thelittlestpika]

Every parent should have to do the same training as foster parents. I know this would be impossible to enforce in reality but, if everyone had to learn the same things as foster/adoptive parents, there would be so many kids better off with parents who understand mental health and such.

[technikki]

being a mario rpgs fan is such a wonderful experience its like man what do you mean youre drawing soul-crushing angst of the funny mustache guys that say wahoo yippee. you are having a joke on me

[suntails]

love will truly live