#adoption rates

[techdriveplay]

How Many People Own Smartwatches in 2024?

Smartwatches have become an integral part of our daily lives, blending technology with convenience. As we delve into 2024, the adoption of smartwatches has seen significant growth. Let’s take a closer look at the statistics and fully understand how many people own smartwatches in 2024. 1. In 2024, it is estimated that over 1.2 billion people globally own smartwatches.2. This marks a 15% increase…

[frownyalfred]

slightly toxic enemies to lovers superbat where Clark grows tired of Bruce denying the tension between them and starts listing off all the physiological reactions he can sense in Bruce’s body out loud

[ybkitten]

My first four adopts over on flight rising! For not my own dragon, that is. In order:

Razatharia's Sersan

Pudgykookaburra's King

BlackStatic's Skydancer

Frostkin's Illuminae

Anybody else want to put an Everlux in a box? My shop is right over HERE!

[sherrymagic]

Copper Phuriwat as JIN in Episode 9 DEAD FRIEND FOREVER (2023-2024)

[greyswarm]

The true victim in the sonic movies is actually the Wachowski’s homeowners insurance company

[flygefisk]

pokemon adopts!!

for the low low price of 500g (or 500kt or 2 eggs), you can get your very own pokemon oc! you get rights to the character design & a fullsize, non-watermarked image once you claim your critter. you're free to change any aspect of the design and use my art on toyhouse etc, just credit me anywhere you post my art!

punk sylveon: sold!

bookworm wooloo: OPEN

fashionista oinkologne: sold!

[calypsolemon]

the kitty/puss/perrito friends with relatable but contrasting trauma triad is like:

puss and perrito are both orphans but puss was adopted by a loving supportive mother while perrito was completely abandoned

kitty and perrito were both abused by their families but perrito was openly an attempt to get rid of him while kitty's mistreatment was a way of controlling her/ forcing her to fit into their expectations better

kitty and puss were both betrayed by family but puss still had good family waiting for him on the other side of it. kitty did not.

idk I think their experiences being similar but different leading to completely different reactions and character flaws of each is... interesting.

[science-lings]

Happy Father’s Day to Phoenix Wright and Herlock Sholmes and Yujin Mikotoba and no one else bc every other dad in AA sucks or dies

[mashmouths]

so i started this show and it just gets worse and worseeeee not only did it lift the romance subplot directly from twilight (and not well) but they also are trying to play the forbidden love angle hard in the fantasy racism vein except it's a "cross-species" relationship between the two whitest people i've ever seen in my life and there are three people of color in the whole (first season of the) show who aren't villains and it seems that every other episode (and sometimes ebery episode and sometimes twice an episode!) there is a man physically or magically subjugating a woman and i keep waiting for the big reveal at the end to be stolen from fucking rainbow rowell

[skepticalpigeon]

Daily reminder that the bodies of individuals are not public resources! There is no obligation to do something major with your body, money or life for the supposed "betterment of society". This applies to abortion, birth rates, consent to sex, companionship, marriage, adoption etc. Everyone should have complete control over their body and what they do or don't do with it.

[hp-fanfic-archive]

Living Will by Here4Ships Pairing: Gen, Severitus, Harry & Lily Rating: G Word Count: 11k When Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon Alley, Harry spots something intriguing in Gringotts. Or, my take on the 'Gringotts to the rescue' trope.

[charmallows]

a bit flowy for her tastes but anything to make cream happy :)

[liquidpaperfoundation]

Just read the one-shot death note manga where Watari talks about what it's like to live with L and the amount of autism mom vibes I get from this are truly staggering

[vonehrenfest]

DCxDP: Dead guys stick together

(A Batman 138 fix-it)

After Bizarro becomes King of Hell he watches the mortal world and is distraught to find that his brother/best friend/sorta father-figure has been hurt very badly and is calling out for help.

Distraught, he goes to another lord of the netherworld who he's heard has access to a portal (and subjects a bit more compatible with the act of helping someone). He asks King Phantom would he please please help him protect his brother/friend, and if he does Bizarro will owe him a favor and leave his realm alone.

When the inferno had initially breached the Ghost Zone Danny had thought he was going to have to deal with f*cking Trigon again, but as it turns out that guy's been replaced and the new guy is pretty nice. After a brief cosmic battle and a clearing of misunderstandings, Danny agrees to Bizarro’s request.

While Gotham's vigilante civil war continues on its rooftops, Jason is in a cell. He is trembling, practically catatonic again, and losing his mind. He’s seeing the flaming figure of a knight on horseback appear from the shadowy far wall of his room, like some kind of fairytale nightmare version of Batman. It takes a while for Jason to realize he’s talking. 

“... part of the treaty between the King of Ghosts and King of Demons, Jason Todd: Prince of Demons has been granted special status and is henceforth a protected and honorary citizen of the Infinite Realms.” 

Nightmare-Bruce touches his flaming sword on Jason’s shoulder and the unearthly fire instantly engulfs him. Relief washes through Jason, and it’s so strong he nearly drops asleep.

Bruce is apologetic when everything’s over and he realizes the mistakes he’s made... but nothing really changes. (It is a relief to Bruce that no one died or was permanently injured, Jason's condition resolved itself somehow, and Bruce is normal now so really everything is fixed or at least it will be fixed.)

Just like when Jason first came back from the dead, Bruce's response makes him hurt deeper than the physical torture itself. Jason is the one who died but Bruce acts like the ghost. Singleminded, possessive, stuck in time and blind to it; bound to repeat the same cycles again and again. Jason is the ghost but he's died multiple times now, and maybe that's kind of like living and maybe that means he can move on. 

Dani and Bizarro become friends, and she gets Danny's friend Tucker to somehow set up a working Wi-Fi connection in hell so they can all play games together. (He’s not going to question it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal. They helped him and they’re good to Bizarro, that’s all that matters.) 

Jason forges a fake identity for Dani. He might ask Babs to make a better one for her if she ever needs it but he doubts that's likely. He hasn’t had a living identity for years now after all, he’s an old hand at fake identities. Dani is delighted and starts attending school soon after. 

Danny has good friends, and as far as Jason can tell plenty of reliable mentors in the ghost world. You wouldn’t think it, but Jason’s less worried about Danny in his role as a little godling than in his civilian life. He’s got too much on his plate- too much power yet not enough to actually resolve his real issues. Not enough to protect himself where he’s vulnerable. 

The “Guys in White” that Danny likes to complain about are concerning. So is the fact that Danny’s lives with mad-scientist parents who are trying to hunt down his alternate identity. So is his ever grinding cold-war with the mayor of his town… And something else too that had been niggling at the back of Jason’s mind ever since he’d first gotten to talk to these kids. 

One day Danny’s sister, Jazz asks to talk to him. He’s an adult she says. That’s true he replies. He’s capable of protecting himself and other people, she says. Well, he has the training and experience for it, he agrees. If things go wrong, would Jason let Danny or Dani stay with him- just until she becomes a legal adult? She asks. Jason’s... not the sort of person who should be taking kids in. Danny saved his life though. He won’t say no. He says of course.

Jason knew it. Everything about Amity Park is abnormal.

The town doesn’t technically exist- there are no maps that include it and even satellite imaging is corrupted where Danny describes his hometown is supposed to be. There are no references to it on the internet that couldn’t be referring to a totally different Amity Park elsewhere, and judging by the problems they occasionally had on gaming nights and the odd offhand remarks Danny and his friends sometimes made, it was looking extremely likely that all communications between Amity Park and the outside were being heavily censored. Before Jason knew it he had started a full-on investigation on the GIW, Mayor Vlad Masters, former Mayor Montez, and Axion Labs.

Hope and fear lodges itself in Danny’s chest. Jason’s an adult and he’s actually going to help.

[edgyleans]

heartbroken katsuki adopts a cat that’s a total asshole to everyone but him

[buddie2024]

I've seen a decent amount of (valid) critique about the episode yesterday regarding the fact that they're using mara's trauma for drama. I still have beef with tim re: the dog (because firstly you shouldn't be comparing a little black girl to a dog and secondly my hen wilson would never). However, my major problem with yesterday's episode didn't exactly stem from the fact that theyre awakening mara's trauma for the plot or making her get taken away from the wilsons.

The thing about it is, as heartbreaking and upsetting as it may be to see this little black girl experience even more trauma than she's already been through, none of the things that have happened to mara are uniquely as a result of her blackness. What happened with her parents could have happened to anyone - even though she was probably uniquely disadvantaged due to her race after the incidents.

My major gripe with this episode (and the reason why Tim is gonna catch my hands) is his wider treatment of people of color throughout this season. It would have been one problem if councilwoman ortiz was a one off latino villain, but this episode came right on the heels of a cartel episode, in a season where i've seen many latino people critique the treatment of treatment of the shows main latino character and his plot lines.

I'm basically saying all this to say that when the day of reckoning comes and we all meet tim minear in the abc studios parking lot, black and latino people should lead the charge and everybody else can start whooping him after we get our licks in FIRST.