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Duke Thomas gets added to the payroll
Bruce Wayne (seeing Duke walk past his office): Duke.
Duke backwards walked to Bruce’s office.
Duke: Sup?
Bruce: Did you check your bank account? The direct deposit should’ve hit.
Duke: The what? Oh you were serious about that?
Bruce: Of course, you’re not only my son, but you do work for me and you deserve an income.
Duke: Thanks dude, but I can’t take your money I work at the library.
Bruce: Duke, trust me. You deserve this. I do it for all my kids… except Tim.
Duke: Why not Tim?
Bruce: Long story… he owns part of my company, plus he- he definitely embezzled a lot of my funds before I noticed so him working at my company is his paycheck.
Duke (alarmed): That was him?!
Bruce: Yeah, but that’s not important currently. You enjoy your first payhcheck and I’m proud of you.
Duke: Thanks man.
Duke left the office, checking his phone as he walked to his room. He nearly dropped his phone seeing the four digits in his bank account that had five dollars in it three days ago.
Duke (shocked, happy): Three- Three thousand dollars?! Woooooooo! I’m eating good tonight! No wait, game stop here I come!
Duke ran out the house passing by Stephanie and Jason.
Duke: I can finally buy a PlayStation!
Jason: Wait until he finds out it’s a monthly payment.
Stephanie: I’ll tell him later. Want to go tell Tim about it first?
Jason: 100% yes.
#batfamily#duke thomas#jason todd#batman#bruce wayne#tim drake#stephanie brown#batfamily headcanons#batfamily shenanigans#batfamily funny#batfamily comedy#batfamily fanfiction#signal dc#tim doesn't get paid due to his past history of emblemizing#microfiction#batfamily chronicles#headcanon batfamily#batfamily microseries#script fic#part of my batfamily microseries#batfamily fic#batfamily fluff#batfamily microfiction#batfamily chronicles microseries#dc fanfiction#batfamily chronicles flash fiction#dc signal#part of my batfamily flash fiction#flash fiction#batfamily flash fiction
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nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens
#dickey why#this has actually been breaking me for the past several minutes#charles dickens#david copperfield#the personal history of david copperfield#the personal history and experience of David Copperfield#literature#victorian literature#classic lit
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I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.
The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.
The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)
The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.
The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.
I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.
How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.
...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.
#general malarkey#tumblr malarkey#leftist malarkey#can you tell there is a viral post that pissed me offf lmao#history#the past is another country#they do things differently there#Tragically#Most Of Those Things Are Bad#the earl speaks#the earl has an opinion#the long road to the stars
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I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.
#physical media#history#art history#anthropology#anthropocene#digital archives#digital media#books#books and libraries#support libraries#libraries#book banning#book burning#fahrenheit 451#Fahrenheit 194#late night thoughts#memories#memory#past vs present vs future#vent post#something to think about#writing#academia#academia aesthetic#dark academia#book community#in this essay i will#banned books
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I'm not going back to Gusu with you.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan wangji#wei wuxian#Those last two high effort comics where just a warm up for this masterpiece. My true magnum opus.#I was originally going to do this gag as a 'alternate version of comic 155'#Then I realized that they have the 'Come back to Gusu with me' conversation twice. So here we are!#I did consider having WWX say 'I'm not going back to gusu with you' in the comic for the better plot accuracy.#I'm invoking the rule of silly by having Wei Wuxian read between the lines of 'Come back to Gusu with me'.#Because it does feel like a confession! It is a confession of 'I care about your safety and I worry for what may happen.'#It is also poorly articulated. You can't really blame WWX for reading into it as 'LWJ is just another person trying to control me.'#The relationship between them is not good! It is two parties who genuinely want to be closer with each other but cannot communicate it.#You can't really have what makes these two work so well as a dynamic without the past history of:#“Back then I really wanted to be your friend.” They are a *missed connection*!#WWX reaches out and LWJ rejects him. And now when LWJ reaches out it is WWX who pushes them apart.#It is a tragedy about the consequences of being out of tandem and realizing what you want far too late.#The momentum of WWX's downfall is far to fast to reverse now. It's a 'When' not ''if' question.#Back to your normal style of PD-MDZS next update. Thank you for reading!
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*cough* i mightve uh.... i mightve gotten too obsessed with @the-b1ah's AU and needed to draw danny (AND HIS SUPER DUPER CUTE JACKET LIKE OMG???? i want it so bad) bc i couldn't think of anything else jaskjdflasdfks;af
#fanart#fanart of fanart#dp x dc#dpxdc#danny phantom#danny fenton#dp fandom#digital art#the last time i turned on my display tablet was in march ajkhdfjashgjg#i HAD to draw the little guy i fr couldn't focus on my super duper late paper ( ;;T0T)#gave him pointier ears bc personally i like his phantom form a little inhuman#this xover lives rent-free in my head#my entire ao3 history for the past month is just this hwhwahhwhahwhhwhssh#omg i just remembered i forgot to follow AAAA
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Césarée (Marguerite Duras, 1978)
#Cesarée#Marguerite Duras#Duras#Cesaree#1978#Césarée#short film#quote#history#nothing#art#sculpture#past#time
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“…the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded... Never forget them.”
#fanart#ffx#final fantasy x#yuna#I love the history of spira and the signs of past civilizations dabbled throughout#Such good world building by square ahh the good old days
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kneeling is a broad term for what ghost does with price
surrendering is slightly more accurate but even that doesn’t hope to touch the sheer desperation in the way he clutches at him; his body bowed low at his feet, his legs latched around one of his, hugging it so tightly to his chest his arms shake as he digs his face into his thigh
it’s only here that he can finally give in to the screaming; to the distant voice he strangles into silence every day of his life. the one who begs him to make himself as small as possible; do everything he can to hide from the ever encroaching demons growling and salivating at his heels
it’s only here, in the dark of price’s barracks, hidden by a bed at his back and a wall to his front, that he finally lets himself stop running; only between solid combat boots and worn fatigues does he let himself tremble and admit to the choking fear
he’d break open price’s chest if he could; crawl past his gushing viscera and curl up under his ribs, hidden in the warm dark
ghost clawed his way out of the grave with broken nails and gritted teeth but he wouldn’t mind being buried again if it meant being cradled in the safety of price’s insides. his warm blood and soft lungs would blanket him, mask the stench of his rotten flesh until he could even convince himself that, maybe, he too was still alive
he shifts, unnerved by his own longing, and price runs his hand over the crown of his mask the same way he’d card it through his hair until he settles once more
he grounds him over the long hours it takes for his white-knuckled grip to relax into a loose hold; for his face to stop grinding into the meat of his thigh and simply rest in his lap, his bracketing legs the only thing holding his lax body up as he floats, untethered by fear
#who up babygirling they ghost#ghost rejecting all vulnerability until he physically can’t suppress it any more#so he does the only thing he can#he goes to his captain#the one person who can make him feel small and protected#i nearly made this ghoap bc i know its more popular but i just write ghost so different when hes with price#he has a different kind of vulnerability with his than he does with soap at least in my canon#price gives him a different sense of safety; not only that hes watching his six but so much so that ghost doesnt need to be on guard at all#nothing will get past price#hes too stalwart; an unbroken pillar of strength#theres history there that he just doesnt have with soap#priceghost just hits different#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#priceghost#ghostprice#ghost cod#simon ghost riley#price cod#john price#captain john price#cod fic#cod mw2#cod mwii#cod modern warfare#save post
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ive done a piano drop joke before and by god ill do it again. piano crashers
#the stanley parable#the stanley parable ultra deluxe#tspud#tsp#crows art#the narrator#stanley#GOD FINALLY GOT MYSELF TO FINISH#AND IM HAPPY WITH THE RESULT THANK GOD AAGAHHHHH#realized halfway that ive already made a piano drop gag joke thing before but. again. history repeats itself /SILLY#nah fr tho i didnt wanna just abandon it x-P#waving to the future from the past (queueing this the night before lol :-P )
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I honestly still can't believe how openly and causally queer Agatha All Along is. Like there have been THREE actually hilarious gay jokes in the past two episodes. Everyone knows Agatha and Rio are exes and it's totally chill, except for when it's revealed that Rio is Death and they're all like "really, Agatha?" and she's just like "what can I say?". Billy has a boyfriend and that is also very much not a big deal. All the girls have a crush on Rio at the beginning. As someone who has been waiting YEARS for good queer rep in the MCU this is just so wild, I truly never thought we'd get here.
#like i've been annoyed at how little agathario content we've gotten in the past few episodes#but when i take a step back i'm like “wow this is still so amazing”#🕯️manifesting a lesbian kiss next week to really make history tho🕯️#agatha all along#agatha all along spoilers#agathario#marvel#mcu
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God he looked too good in this movie bro. Top 2 Logan looks truly. And then when he gets teleported back to the past…
I can’t do this lord…I CANT. The belt??? He’s fucking SICK!
#logan howlett#hugh jackman#dofp! logan#xmen days of future past#he looked tew fucking good bro#from the suit fitting him just right#to the gray streaks#to the physique#yeah…moment in history me thinks#I need it so bad I’m gonna cry#last three pics are giving 70s pornstar! logan fr
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happy lesbian week! ive nothing new to post so heres an assignment i did for college last term lol
#‘but you study history and politics’ i know isnt it great#my art#artists on tumblr#lesbian#lesbian visibility week#lesbian visibility day#orange has been my new best friend the past year or so#d slur#small but its there lmao
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Do you think Aziraphale is the literal origin of the damsel in distress trope or did he get the idea from reading books
#good omens#aziraphale#ineffable idiots#aziracrow#ineffable partners#I see it going one of two ways:#someone saw Aziraphale pretending to be in danger to get Crowley's attention waaaay back in human history and thought 'great fic idea'#or Aziraphale read a book about some princess locked in a tower waiting for a pretty knight to save her and thought 'this is perfect'#wouldnt put it past these two silly beings to be the ones who started a lot of tropes#fic idea?#ID in alt text
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THE RINGS OF POWER — 1.03: Adar (2022)
#how do u even take a record of his past employment history? maia of aule and lieutenant of morgoth? blacksmith of numenor :)#the rings of power#halbrand#ringsofpoweredit#ropedit#tropedit#rop#trop#charlie vickers#tolkienedit#tolkiensource#lotr#lotredit#tvedit#dailyflicks#silmedit#useranimusvox#userzil#useraurore#userhella#userines#usersavana#tuserlou#userfrodosam#userlolo#usersari#userrizz#underbetelgeuse#tusermelissa#usermali
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the book ice court heist has big group project involving people who don’t like each other vibes but the tv version is just going to be forced couples counseling via trying not to die together
#obviously some of the crows in the books have plenty of history#but the show version will be like. kanej who managed to break up without every dating#wesper who will have progressed past the honeymoon stage into some possible distrust due to the van eck thing#and helnik being helnik which is a Whole Issue on its own#shadow and bone#six of crows#kanej#wesper#helnik#i reeeally want to know how wylan concealing his past will affect things with jesper#and kaz and inej on a job together after she left…oh boyyyy#fingers crossed we get that renewal and spin off
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