#WHY HAS NOBODY SAID ANYTHING

[deadlyroyalty]

!!!The Bad Batch S3 EP15 Spoilers!!!

“Tech’s goggles this.” & “Tech’s glasses that.”

WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE GOD DAMN BANDANNA!?

[starry-bi-sky]

Who is the more well-adjusted twin; Damian, or Danyal? Why, it's Damian, of course!

And I have an explanation for this! But first I wanna preface this that this is just me like, rambling about this thought I have and it's not an attack on the trope as a whole. I love the Danyal Al Ghul au which is why i'm so deeply passionate about it, because I think it has a lot of potential to be explored. It's no secret that I've mentioned before that I think Danny's psychological development tends to get overlooked and underutilized in DAG aus, and the impact that growing up in an assassin league often goes ignored. This is just me further expanding on that.

Now lets set the stage! This is specifically for Danny who is adopted by the Fentons later down in life. Lets go twin au. At 10 years old, Damian goes to the Wayne Family, Danny is adopted by the Fentons (regardless of their affiliation with the League). By 14 years old, who ends up the better adjusted, more socially aware, spiritually in-tune with themselves, sibling? Why, Damian is! Why is that?

Because he has the actual support he needs compared to Danny. And I'm not talking about good or bad parents Fentons, because either way my opinion doesn't change. Damian would end up the better off twin, because, frankly, his family knows his background. They know he grew up in the League, they know what the League's teachings are, and they know he's a born and raised assassin. Knowing this, they can then help tackle and dismantle the teachings and lessons he has been given and ingrained into by the League. They may be a dysfunctional family, but they're functional enough to at least actively help deprogram all of the League's teachings that have been ingrained in Damian throughout his childhood.

Can't say the same for Danny.

Lets say Fentons here don't know his background -- and even if they do, the results may just stay the same if they play their cards wrong, -- Danny's now just been thrown into the deep end of a pool and is essentially being told sink or swim. Regardless of how he got there -- undercover, faked death, etc -- he has no proper support. He knows the League is meant to be secret, he's not gonna speak on it for various reasons. Whether it be some still lingering loyalty, fear of harm, or whatever. Whatever the reason is, he does not have a proper support system in the Fentons, no matter how nice they are. They can only tackle the surface level stuff and whatever Danny allows them to see -- if Danny ever lets them see it at all. For what do assassins do when they don't want to be caught? They hide. Sometimes in plain sight.

"But Jazz--" Jazz is a child. She is 2 years older than Danyal and no better at giving him a proper support system than the two adult Fenton parents, even with parentification. We don't know when she got into psychology or how long she'd been studying it by the time Danny's 14. We just know she's really into it. Even then, Jazz is not a licensed or reliable therapist, or even an experienced or implied good therapist, and should not be used as one either. It's a disservice to her character to reduce her down to 'supporting female emotional crutch'. Besides, therapy only works on people who want to get better. Danny, who'd be hiding who he really is, has very little incentive to want to, or to even think something is wrong with his way of thinking, even with exposure to the outside world.

When people's beliefs are outright challenged, they tend to double down on them, and Jazz canonically has a habit of psychoanalyzing her family and declaring what she thinks is the problem -- regardless of whether or not she's right about it. Jazz would get into psychology, try and psychoanalyze Danny, and all it would do is cause him to clam up, shut into himself further, and throw up even more walls so that she can't figure out that he has been lying this whole time. It would do more harm than good, and would actively hinder any progress he'd make in trying to open up to them. Roads and good intentions and all that.

That being said, I think Danny's development and dismantling of the League's teachings would be slower than Damian's. Much slower. Because he would be the one having to pick apart everything and figure out what is right, what is wrong, what he wants to keep, and what he wants to toss. Everything he unlearns would be stuff he has to unlearn himself. If he even gets to that point at all -- depending on his experiences, he very well could not change at all, or change very little. The League acts as a purge for humanity, meant to reign in their hubris and retain balance, they just also happen to be assassins for hire. Danny's time spent in Amity Park could as well strengthen his belief in their teachings just as much as it could weaken it, especially if it goes as canon and he gets bullied.

Regardless, being tossed to a civilian family as someone who is very much not a civilian, without any support, would be actively detrimental to Danny's overall mental health and development. Especially to strangers like the Fentons. Damian was closed off and standoffish even with blood family, and it took him time to open up to them -- Danny, with the Fentons, would be even more so. He doesn't know them, he doesn't trust them, he has no rhyme or reason to open up to them, and since the Fentons don't actually know him, they can't help him the way he needs. Once "Danny Fenton" is made, he has even less reason to open up. So long as Danyal allows it, they will only ever know Danny, and they'll never know Danyal.

TL:DR the Fentons aren't the better family option just because they're civilians, and actually that makes them the worser option between the two because they can't give Danny the proper support he needs. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

[chill4234]

Things that I know.

1. Yaoi is the opposite of yuri

2. According to tumblr, yuri seems to be just about anything, but I have most commonly seen it take the form of two inanimate objects in close proximity to one another. Eg minecraft furnace and crafting table, trains crashing into each other, etc.

Therefore, we can conclude that Yaoi is two inanimate objects that are very far apart from each other. The sun and the earth are yaoi.

[storywestistrash]

watched mouthwashing finally. the fact that i saw people be more aggressive towards curly than jimmy is kinda strange. kinda real weird

[book-lover85]

Stay at home dad and artist on commission Keefe

[helluvahotmess]

'I want you to continue to be who you are.' what if i fucking died what then

[oceanwithouthermoon]

sometimes i think about how the people who hate on my takes on here would talk to each other and its always phrased like the twitter fandom drama i see but completely irrational and it makes me giggle

"calling kusuke abusive just because he shot his brother with a lethal weapon, plotted his murder, planned to use their grandparents to assist in hurting/killing him, and tried for years to expose his secret to the entire world against his will and through knowingly hurtful means in order to destroy everything he cared about is so stupid! what a stretch!"

"the saiki k fandom is so damn sensitive. i shoot my brother with massive guns all the time and its not abusive because he just blocks it!" HELPEKSJJSJSKSKKS

[moe-broey]

GOD I would HATE to be stuck at a family dinner with them 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I would NOT fucking survive, the vibes alone would do 1000 points poison damage to me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Also JUST. JUST.

THE VIBES. ARE RANCID. SHARENA DARLING YOU DESERVE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS (ALFPNSE TOO BUT DEAR LORD. Sharena LITERALLY was just told to Don't Speak Unless Spoken To RANCID. RANCID FUCKING FAMILY)

[strawberry-cowmilk]

oh no somebody I do not want to know about my online presence might have found this account luckily I didn't find anything suspicious in my follower list but oh my god

[nomairuins]

i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is

[dbphantom]

Hate having adhd went to go work on my fallout modpack, got distracted while going to disable the steam overlay, ended up in the points shop, went to go edit my profile, decided to change my pfp, found a buried folder I forgot existed, found some old Veneer art I forgot existed, spent 45 minutes looking at all the old photos, STILL HAVE NOT TOGGLED ONE SIMPLE OPTION THAT SHOULD'VE TAKEN 30 SECONDS AT MOST

[ducktollers]

got a sortof interview for a research assistant job tomorrow and sooooooooo scareds :D

[vounoura]

re: my previous complaining I'm just saying, playing as an SD rook it is really weird that nobody has an issue with Rook (or even Neve, who is a mage which in combination to the rest of the world has always translated as magister, and there could've been a really interesting plot point w/ that considering even as a mage Neve has no power in Tevinter bc she's 'just' a Laetan, and Red has even less being a Soporati) being from a place that's routinely demonized by everyone else around them, justified or otherwise. Red faces no roadblocks based on people's preconceptions abt who she is because she's from Tevinter, especially with the Veil Jumpers. You got a little bit of it w/ the First Warden, but that's abt it.

Like is it not strange that the VJs like Strife, Irelin, and Bellara, who are all Dalish and the faction itself is intrinsically tied to Dalish culture, just instantly accept it when someone from Tevinter (and I get they're not really accounting for race, but a Tevene human on top of it) comes to Arlathan claiming to be spearheading the fight against Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain? Not that fantasy racism is good or anything and I get it's the end of the world and there's bigger problems, but Tevinter's always had this evil boogeyman reputation (even if they often deserve it) and 'Vints have routinely in the past been demonized for like. happening to exist while minding their own business (see: Dorian, even Krem a little). Where's that sense that Red can't get anywhere bc she's a Scary Evil Vint? Emmrich faces more blowback for being a necromancer than Red does for being Tevene.

[evening-bat]

For years I have barely any appetite and have a real hard time eating food when im not high and ppl are like ??? Whats wrong w you, dont you like food ? I love food sometimes its like eating cotton though! Horrible, dry makes me gag. Not hungry. Putting any food in my mouth makes me nauseous. cant swallow it bc i chewed it too much and now its just a ball of nasty mush. even my favorite foods can be not appetizing. Now im reading about gastroparesis and im like. Well. Some things are tracking here..

[guinevereslancelot]

most fucked up thing at my new job is there's only zero calorie sweeteners at the coffee station in the break room. three different kinds of zero calorie sweetener but no regular sugar because the assumption is that literally everyone is on a diet?

[thatlittledandere]

I usually like being the only one in the Monday morning shift but it's a little inconvenient when the front door decides to jam and I don't have the strength to open it myself. The front entrance is actually two doors one of which is permanently locked and we don't use but this is a special case so I could open it except my key is stuck in the lock. We do, naturally, have spare keys, but they are. Naturally. Kept behind lock and key. The same key I can't detach from the lock.

And despite working here for three fucking years I somehow still don't know shit so I sent a message to the group chat asking who to contact, and since everyone in this tiny fuckass town knows each other all I was given was a first name, which, great, I don't know who that is. Had to scavenge for a number to call which I DID find but they said they'd be here "after coffee" like sweet I don't know when that is. But no biggie I sure appreciate my coffee break too take your time I'll. Figure something out in the meanwhile. Manhandle the door a bit more nope still nothing.

There's this regular customer who's always the first to come in the morning to read the paper, he knows to ring the doorbell if he gets here before we've opened the front doors. I hear him outside and pop out to guide him in through the staff entrance, he asks if he can see himself out through the same door once he's done and I say sure if the front door doesn't work by then. It doesn't. Someone has reserved the noise proofed working space we have, he calls at some point asking why the door is still locked aren't we open? I say yeah the door is jammed you can come in through the side entrance. The side entrance, he says. He's in front of a door right now can he get in that way? I don't know which door he means we have three but I say sure all the other doors are unlocked just come in. I put a sign on the front door saying "entrance to library through the back door ->" hoping people will see it and circle the building and have the courage to enter.

(The back door DOES look intimidating, definitely the type of door you know you are Not Supposed To Open without express permission, which it usually is. But the front door is jammed and we have technically been open for 45 minutes already. I see two more people stand outside looking lost and go ask them to come in through the staff entrance.)

((As if this wasn't enough. I start counting the cash - we do this in the morning to get home earlier in the evening - and the numbers don't make sense.))

My boss comes in for her shift and confirms the lower of the two locks is clearly open and the door is like. Halfway through. Just. Stuck? The guy I called comes in and starts looking into it. At some point I walk past and see he's on the phone and think ok that's not a good sign. I thought it just needed more physical force than my tiny body has in it but clearly this is more complicated. A guy who does like, everything around here, comes in and I think ooh ok he was called in for help, but the first guy is still on the phone so. MORE help is needed. But at least it's out of my hands. I inform my boss about the cash register and start shelving books.

The problem is eventually resolved. I get my key back. The diagnosis is "these doors suck." They are 30 years old and should have been replaced a good while ago. The town hall is a newer building than this and got new doors and windows a couple of years ago could we maybe be next? Please? This is known as a beautiful display of architecture it would be nice if people could see it from the inside too.

But the first customers to come in after this fiasco are a dad and his two toddlers who are delighted to be here, so my day is saved.