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I'll tell my dad you approve of his methods (this is exactly what he did with our pit bull when we were babies and he was right)
Diego spent a long time figuring out how things were going to work between the kids and his dogs. He wants the kids to meet the dogs and it's not like he can keep the dogs away from the kids unless the kids just never stay at him house, so he's created an action plan to make all interactions between the kids and the dogs as calm as possible. He knows his dogs are good dogs, but they're also dogs first, his pets second. If the kids pester the dogs, the dogs run the risk of snapping. And because his dogs are generally all big and strong, he knows that if they snap at the babies then the babies will probably get very badly hurt.
So before the boys were even born, he taught all of his dogs the "Go lay down" command, which is their command to leave the room. While the kids are little, all interactions between them and the dogs are going to be closely monitored. If one of the babies is on the floor and a dog is in the room, Diego is always within six inches of the baby and watching the dog for signs of upset. When the babies pet one of the dogs, he'll have the baby in his lap so the dog can approach at its own pace to avoid the dog getting stressed or defensive. Holding the babies means that if they accidentally pull on the dog's ear or something, the dog has a very easy escape and the baby can't pursue it. Diego taught them to respond to his commands above all else, even if someone else (he trained them on this with his partners and the other de Vils) gives them a contradicting order. The dogs will obey him- if he calls one of the dogs and someone else calls the dog in a different direction, the dogs are trained to go to him and ignore the other person. The kids won't be able to interact with the dogs unsupervised until he knows for a fact the kids will respect the dogs. Even then, he's going to put rules in place to avoid the kids accidentally stressing, harassing, cornering, or otherwise scaring the dogs, and he's going to make sure he can either call the dogs away if he hears something that sounds wrong or get to the kids as quickly as possible if something does go wrong. The dogs are also being trained to play roughly with only him, never anyone else, and taught them the "settle" command in case they get riled up and need to calm down.
He is putting a lot of effort into making sure there are no conflicts between the babies and the dogs
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Me, episode 1: Oh, a relatable protag! And a relatable female protag, at that. Sweet! That never happens.
Me, a few episodes in: Wait, the protag really is going to be my character? The one I identify with the most? Seriously? It's not going to be a strange, at least somewhat sinister, seemingly hostile male side character? It's gonna be a female character and the protagonist? That's insane, that literally never happens... what's the catch??
Me, more than halfway through the season: ... huh, I guess Maomao really is it. Okay, then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me to myself, after episodes 22/23:
#i let my guard down#i should have known#like really i should know better by now lmao#that's probably the best depiction of prosopagnosia i've seen in fiction ngl#also luo//men's suggestion re: using other attributes to tell people apart??#A++ approach what a guy#mine isn't nearly as severe but i totally use footsteps/gait/mannerisms as my primary means of distinguishing people#the very few people i care about i can definitely recognize by facial features#and people i see frequently; though i do have trouble recognizing them if they appear in a context i'm not used to#like. if i were to see one of my sword classmates at my workplace for instance i would have trouble recognizing them#but anyone else? forget it#the most difficult part of working veterinary front desk was returning animals to their owners#bc even though i could have /just/ spoken with the owners like. ten minutes ago#i couldn't tell you which animal belonged to which owner#faces just don't register with me#dogs were easier in that i'd just let them lead me to their owners#but if it was a cat in a carrier i was fucked lmaooo#it's why if there was another receptionist working i'd let them handle any hand offs XDD#i don't remember most of my childhood but i have some very vivid impressions of moments like#my mother asking me to go give a cash tip to the hairdresser who did her hair and me being unable to pick who it was out#of everyone that was working even though i'd been there with them for two plus hours.#or like. taking the school bus home and being unable to recognize my bus monitor and so getting on the wrong bus#and also getting ridiculed about this by my parents lol. ah good times.#on the other hand i can easily recognize a dog i've met once or twice even years later. and remember their name.#i think it all mostly comes down to disinterest for me. i've tried to change this but it's just how i am#so. he's very relatable. painfully so#also the pragmatism and rationality and hyperfixating on things.#i've never hyperfixated on another person tho and i am so grateful for that every single day#i know in my bones it would be an absolute disaster XD#withoutwords
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FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES
(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)
In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.
Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).
The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).
Brakul’s full title is:
“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”
Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.
"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"
The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.
“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.
All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.
"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"
The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.
‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.
The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.
‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).
"AN BICT-URBINNAS"
‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.
The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).
’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.
The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.
‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.
#Just dropping this randomly because it's a pretty complete lore dump in my notes app#Family names are a big fucking deal in the Wardi cultural sphere and not having one is associated with being a bastard or otherwise#displaced or unwanted. If pressed Brakul either fully lies and says 'ne-Dainh' (which will just come off as 'oh it's some foreign name')#Or lists his actual title (not a family name but equally important). Sometimes listing all 24 generations if he's particularly annoyed.#It's only strictly necessary to memorize 12 ancestors in each line but it's considered good practice to be able#to cite associated non-direct ancestor husbands/wives/siblings/etc. That's where the tattoos as a mnemonic device comes in#It's easy to memorize 24 ancestors but very difficult to memorize 24 ancestors and at least some of their family members#And remembering and honoring the dead by name is of great importance- both puts you under the protection of more#ancestors (including non-direct ones) and ensures the dead's status in the afterlife is secure (it's believed that fully forgotten#dead leave the celestial fields and can no longer directly intercede with the living- though with some additional nuances to what#constitutes being fully forgotten)#Venerating and remembering the dead is a huge focus of cultural practice and additional methods are used to safeguard#ancestors (and other honored dead without descendants) whose names have been forgotten. There's one yearly holiday focused entirely on#the nameless dead where they are invoked and honored via little straw dolls that are burnt in bonfires high in the mountains so the#smoke is sent up to the Fields. It takes weeks of preparation and tens (maybe hundreds idk I'm bad with scale) of thousands of#dolls will be made each year across the Highlands for this purpose. Honoring them with effigy even without name is usually#considered enough to safeguard their afterlife for at least another year.#Also yeah kinship systems among the Hill Tribes (and very similarly among the Finns) follow a male line/female line system#Only father's father's fathers (...) and mother's mother's mothers (...) are considered direct ancestors (though all four grandparents#are sometimes honored as ancestors even if only two are considered DIRECT ancestral kin- this tradition varies)#Inheritance systems are somewhat matrilineal given that a wife is considered the owner and arbiter of property and a husband is#its protector and active manager. If a man and woman from different clans (or tribes) marry any children will be considered to be of#the clan/tribe of whichever spouse does NOT relocate in marriage.#Whether the husband moves in with the wife or the wife moves in with the husband is dependent on an arbitration process#and the husband (and his family) being able to provide a bride price (which is somewhat of a payment for the land/property#the wife's mother will be passing down to the new husband's management should he move in- and displays his ability to care#for and provide valued assets. A man who can provide a bride price tends to receive greater respect)#This is most commonly going to be livestock (and almost ubiquitously includes a single cattle to be butchered for the wedding feast)#But can include other valuables or assets like land or grain/seeds or etc. There is no intra-Highlands monetary system and the internal#economy is built on trade. So Imperial Wardi currency is mostly useless but is sometimes given in marriages between clans with strong
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like i think it is baffling to me how ive only seen one person ever discussing the immense amount of racism in this book because this is like. shes been powering up her racism in her writing to blast out with this bullshit. like this is so fucking gross.
#twist rambles#vc posting#antiblackness#on WHAT earth do u not consider the fact that these white bird ppl r owning these Black people and created them for their purpose. solely t#reproduce. like she cant help herself w the good slave owner adjacent shit even if its supposed to be parental#it is still referred to these bird ppl owning htem and using them for their purposes. this is so vile i need her to die again#i just. jesus christ. jesus. i can see why the fandom is so racist now bc the source material is chock full of this shit and no one examine#it ever bc haha just toxic gothic romance books ^-^ dont ask about louis owning slaves or the amt of slurs lol ^-^#sorry i just. im not trying to fill the dash with how bad this is but oh my fucking god. and how do none of the top goodreads reviews#mention ANY of this shit. i just. in 2016. she was ELDERLY. she should have died before writing this.
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friday could be a very wonderful day but nooo i have to deal with the freaking paperwork x.x
#a very personal post#niki is venting on trivial things#the only good thing is that said paperwork is for adding me permanently to the voters' list in this city#so I can save some monies from traveling only for the purpose of vote but ughhh I hate dealing with all this paperwork#especially after last elections when they had to call to the city hall's department because they had problems to find the right list x.x#also fun fact after living there for the past 20 years I literally couldn't find any proof of my residence here XD#so the statement from the owner is needed -.-#I just... ignore me I probably should get off the internet with my anxiety x.x
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I've been thinking about my Zelda au again, and it's really difficult to navigate how i want to portray Hyrule as this imperialist (and catholic. but that's my personal hc im projecting here) empire thats got a bit of a dark past (something ive always found interesting ever since oot even slightly hinted at it. and now its come up again in totk even though disappointingly they didnt really bring it into question) but at the same time... i love princess zelda shes also one of my favorites from my own au and i feel like I'm getting into apologist territory by how much i favor her 😭 help
#IGNORE my previous depressing posts we're talking about zelda now#i feel like... (as a catholic. and the owner of this au) its my moral obligation to have her abolish the monarchy by the end of the story.#i just want to do so naturally without making it seem like. really childish kids story with extremely black and white lesson#and idk. im not a good writer still. LOL.#wait should i be posting this on my actual zelda blog#well whatever I'm still on hiatus there and idk if I'm even ready to come back any time soon
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shoutout to that person who told my friends and I we should cull the "oops" rat litter they wound up having due to a mistake from someone else. My girls Latula and Porrim are having a great time being alive and getting cheerios <3
#ratblr#I will never understand that mindset#if they're sickly sure fine but they're healthy (besides an URI that I'm getting treated tomorrow but that was from a mistake on my part as#a first time rat owner)#Other than this VERY COMMON ILLNESS they're totally happy#Also rats will breed no matter what like....people even adopt feeders sometimes#just because a rat wasnt HandBred By The Finest Breeders doesnt mean it wont be a good happy rat#Like accidents happen and the animals should have a chance#imo if they seem healthy and there arent any obvious problems then they should be allowed to live#maybe not BRED again#but allowed to live
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I think being autistic does actually make me inherently better at animal handling because I, too, have been yelled at for growling and biting when everyone ignored my previous warnings and didn’t set clear boundaries
#my roommate’s always like Wow my dog responds so well to you!#yeah bitch I set clear expectations and consistent rules and I don’t yell at him#and I pay attention to his body language and the rituals he creates#literally it’s not that hard#ya she got him to train as a service dog LMAO#she doesn’t have the money to send him to a trainer and the time to do it herself#when I recommended she pull from the emergency fund (because his reactivity is getting BAD to the point of borderline aggression)#she was like ‘who has an emergency fund for their pet :P’#BITCH IDK IM NOT MAKING $30+ AN HOUR WITH A 401K AND FULL INSURANCE PACKAGE#THATS WHY I DONT HAVE A DOG??#just an in-the-works shrimp tank that I do in fact have a small emergency fund for#it’s your job as a responsible pet owner to attend to your animal’s needs. if you can’t do that you shouldn’t have a pet#and she fucking undermines the training /I/ give#like I was teaching him to find a toy when someone knocks at the door to redirect his energy and prevent barking#but now whenever he barks at the door she YELLS at him to find his toy#so I had to stop training that area because like. what the fuck am I gonna do???#notably I am the only person who can consistently get him to stop barking at the door#completely unrelated to the fact that I’m calm and give him treats when he stops barking#and comes over to me and chills out#goddddd I hate her she shouldn’t have any animals ever#anyways what was I saying.#oh yeah I’m the only person in this apartment who should ever be allowed to have a dog#this is also why I dont plan to get one! I recognize that the college life is simply incompatible with responsible dog ownership#(unless EVERYONE is REALLY onboard which. lmao good luck.)
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i also headcanon pk to be the runt of his litter (the smallest and weakest member of the litter, if you didn't know) to the point his mother genuinely considered just rejecting him and booting him out to die bc yeah, thats what animal mothers do to runts in the wild - 👹
🤝 SAME HEADCANON!!
#asks#She didn't go through with it in mine and eventually he caught up with his siblings at least a little bit#So. A good decision in the long run. But he was very tiny for a long time after he was born so#Though not every mother will abandon her runt children. One of my cats is a runt like. Half the size she should have been at her age#She looked like a 2-3 months old kitten at 6 months when they should be pretty much almost the size of an adult cat at that point#Just very flea ridden and sickly to the point that she barely had any fur on her. But her mum still didn't abandon her#They were being fed by their owners at the time though so I guess that completely depends on the circumstances. If her mum didn't have a#constant stable source of food then I think she'd be more inclined to abandon her
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#sent money by mistake to a wrong account number and called up the owner of said wrong number#(after contemplating a bit if i should still call since i sent them multiple texts and got no response but also i hate calls in general)#but also i was so anxious if i was going to get any response at all based on what happened to the others with similar experiences..#who didn't have their money sent back :(( and didnt respond to both calls and texts...#THANKFULLY the dude who answered was brief & chill abt it when i told him abt the accident and told me he'd check his bank account#few minutes later asked me to verify what my acc name was#then sent back the money after i confirmed#his last message to me was it's okay now just be careful next time#there really are still good ppl in this world HUHU IM SO RELIEVED#having your phone number be the same as your account number under a bank account is both a blessing and a curse lol#SIGH#*ri
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anthropomorphizes angel blade anthropomorphizes the tablet anthropomorphizes the bunker anthro-
#they are OLD. they are ALIVE. they have FEELINGS.#angel blades are a given because they are Part Of The Angel. they want to be with their angel. they're loyal. to turn one against the owner#is to break it. kill it too. you know? this is me saying gabriel's blade never works right again after its used to kill him.#the bunker is alive because it is full of dead tortured things. most of them didn't want to die there. sam and dean should be glad that the#men of letters were so good at magic. keeps the bunker docile. under control. but beyond that its just Old.#my personal hc that the bunker wasnt build by the MoL. they just found it and controlled it. shaped it to be a hideout for their war.#but its a lot older than them. than anything. (<- this is v inspired by the oldest house in control yes i love that game.)#that part of the bunker. that old part. it might come to love its inhabitants. not as legacies but as people who need a home.#the tablets are alive because they are angry and abandoned and full of knowledge that Must Be Read.#they were buried they were locked away. they dont appreciate being forgotten. they dont even appreciate being read. but they have to be.#its their purpose. its their only purpose. of course they hurt the prophets that read them. they resent this state of being.#that they will be read. used. and put away again.#none of this makes any sense does it askldjalkjdkl i just think more things should be Alive in spn.#(the impala being included should go without saying of course she's alive. she's baby.)
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Oh yeah so they are! I was mostly thinking about exotic pet care guides, which (due to reptile YouTubers) I suspect may be the primary way people find out about snakes and other less-appreciated species. They do have a tendency to blur the lines between “common, not endangered, native to [local region]” and “uncommon, at risk from poaching, native to [far away region]”? At least, the guides I’ve seen usually only mention foods other than rodents if the snake might have difficulty recognizing frozen/thawed rodents as food.
The conflict between “reptile YouTube spreads awareness and appreciation for species people typically consider to be distasteful” and “yeah but their information is often inaccurate and the husbandry is poor 90% of the time so is the appreciation worth it”, I guess
….though now I’m wondering if my ball python would like an egg as a treat, they eat a lot of birds in the wild and I’d be surprised if they didn’t eat the eggs too. guess I’ll do some research lol, chicken eggs *are* pretty big so they might not be safe, but maybe quail…
This is a gentle reminder to those who keep poultry to PLEASE keep in mind wild snakes if you are using fake eggs in your chicken coop. Snakes are incapable of digesting the wooden/plastic/ceramic fake eggs that are commonly placed in chicken coops to train hens. Snakes (like this little ratsnake here) can and often do eat these fake eggs and suffer life-threatening obstruction as a result!
If you need to use fake eggs in your coop please strive to ensure that the enclosure is snake-proof (difficult) or superglue 3 or more eggs together so that snakes cannot consume them and become obstructed.
#snakes are really cool you guys#but also maybe double check the regions#and also animals in the wild invariably have behaviour a thousand times more varied than those in captivity#imo it’s the responsibility of any pet owner to provide an environment where the animal can do as many of those behaviours as possible#and also make sure the animal is being sourced in a way that doesn’t hurt the wild population#bc like. I actually think many good things come out of the exotic pet trade?#having thousands of eyes on a species means we’re going to learn things that would never have been possible to discover otherwise#and also let’s be real here habitat loss and climate change hurts the wild populations a thousand times more than the pet trade#so live capturing is more the icing on the cake/another small stressor on top of all the ones they’re already having a hard time with#rather than THE one danger to wild species#(live capture for the pet trade that is)#but still like. pets should be a two way street.#trade offer: you get [enjoyment of animal]: animal receives [safe environment with no predators and consistent access to food]#if the animal is gonna be stuck in a drawer and doesn’t have opportunity to perform natural behaviours and not all of it’s daily needs met#then it isn’t getting anything from the bargain and that’s just like. unfair.#which is why I generally advocate for keeping species that (in the wild) are already frequently found around human habitation#(like my mourning geckos which have a really wide range and are frequently just straight-up found in houses)#or that you can be absolutely positive you’re able to keep in a situation that’s a close enough facsimile to wild#that they can perform the vast majority of their natural behaviours#(which should also be a goal for the common species)#….and like. I’m including cats/Guinea pigs/rabbits/dogs in this#bc they ALSO have a lot of care requirements that are often not met even though they’re domesticated#….and for that matter humans too actually#humans in ‘the wild’ are highly social tenacious semi-arboreal problem solvers that alter their landscapes heavily to suit their needs#the current trend of keeping them in 10x10x8 boxes and making them interact with hundreds of strangers every day#and not letting them manipulate their environment unless they ‘own it’#is just straight-up inhumane! they should have everyday climbing opportunities and more predictable social structures and more enrichment#how do you know they wouldn’t use it if you don’t give them the OPPORTUNITY to use it#…..anyway yeah#……I may have opinions on this
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I love the hc that Tim never really stopped taking pictures of heroes and vigilantes even after he became Robin. Not even out of hero worship or anything-- he just found it fun. In fact, being Robin just made this hobby easier to do. He has them separated in folders and definitely has blackmail photos included.
The first time Tim met the Justice League one of his first reactions was to sneakily take at least one picture of each of them. Clark vaguely heard a camera shutter but he could never find any cameras or camera owners.
Sometimes Bruce comes to him and asks for specific pictures of members of the JL doing things they shouldn't be doing i.e Barry ditching a meeting cause he was eating Chipotle in the Watchtower kitchen. No one knows how Bruce gets the pictures except for the other Batfam members.
Tim is the god of blackmail right behind Babs. You need older blackmail or videos? Go to Babs. But Good quality blackmail photos? Tim is your guy.
He has at least 4 folders full of pictures of Dick specifically. One for his time as Robin, one for Nightwing, one for Discowing and one for just Dick.
He also manages to have pictures he definitely should not have because how did you get into the cave before you were Robin, Tim, but he refuses to elaborate on those. i.e Robin Jason out of costume, cozily reading at the batcomputer ("seriously, Tim, that's creepy"), Dick when he first adopted Haley ("were you there when I rescued her?!"), Damian training with the League of Assassins ("how the hell did you get that"), Duke back during the We Are Robin movement ("I do not remember you pulling out any cameras what the hell")
#tim drake#batfam#batman#red robin#hes a little stalker#let him be one#creepy kid#i love him#jason todd#dick grayson#duke thomas#if you hear a camera shutter in the corner of your room ignore it its just tim#-bruce#jl: what is that in the corner#bruce: red robin just ignore him he likes his pictures
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This year’s Super Bowl was a weapon of mass distraction. If there’s any justice, future generations will remember the game not for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, or Taylor Swift but for the US-funded attacks on Palestinian civilians that occurred while so many Americans were glued to their TVs. During the game, watched by well over 100 million people in the United States, Israel launched a bombing raid of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated area on earth. More than 1 million people had fled now-leveled Gaza City to the refugee camps in Rafah and surrounding areas. Palestinians who have survived previous Israeli strikes are now staving off disease, destitution, and fear.
Meanwhile, CBS granted the Israeli government space for an ad about the 130 hostages left in Gaza. This ad, meant to build public support and justify the slaughter of nearly 30,000 civilians in Gaza, spurred 10,000 people to register complaints with the FCC, because the commercial did not disclose that a foreign government had paid for it. Coupled with the Rafah raid, this looks more like military synergy than happenstance. 
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft also spent $7 million on an ad from his organization Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism. It features Clarence Jones, a 93-year-old former speech writer for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Kraft and other pro-war billionaires use the memory of King so much, they should be paying his family indulgences for slandering his name. The ad failed to mention that Kraft has given $1 million to pro-war AIPAC and donated $1 million in 2016 to Donald Trump’s inauguration. Given that Kraft says that the Nazi march in Charlottesville was his motivation to start his foundation (Charlottesville was the one with “good people on both sides,” according to Trump), his hypocrisy is insidious.
Kraft and Israel want the same thing: a blank check to uproot Palestinians from Gaza and build settlements. One can also only imagine if a peace organization tried to buy an ad asking Israel and the United States the question: “How many dead children will be enough?” I suspect it would be denied faster than a public-service announcement about concussions.
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#politics#palestine#gaza#rafah#israel#robert kraft#super bowl massacre#super bowl#stop jewish hate#all eyes on rafah#hasbara#aipac
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#IM SAD#just closed another show#i dont know if i can keep doing this#maybe its the fact that i dont have the next thing lined up?#i dont know if i SHOULD do this anymore either#wish a lot of things were differnt!!!!#becuase today was actually good! we had the show and i didnt miss any cues and during strike i talked to a lot of people#and then some cast and crew went out for mexican food and the owner of the theatre that had our show bought our diner#and then we went to a drag show which was fun! like fuck i actually was enjoying myself#the sad thing is that i dont have many days like this#like if i constantly had show days and people to talk to id be happy maybe?#but like its sad ill probably never see most of these people again#and i dont have anything lined up next like i have to edit this stupid fucking short film but after that nothing#and im not happy here i wasnt happy in California but at least i was a lot less bothered#and i definitely was not happy when i was in college but high school was worse#i just literally dont know what to do with myself#this is more than post show depression i think#i dont know if i have the heart to keep working with people and never see them again#and like i cant fucking make friends with them i literally dont know how i can barely get 3 sentences out in any conversation#nobody actually wants to be my friend#like sure work friend or someone who will do favors but not a deeper connection#why is it so hard what the fuck am i missing#like definitely there is something wrong with me social skills wise but i should have figured it out by now
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i complain about this a lot but not having a car or people that can drive me (that arent unpleasant to be around) and not speaking the country's language is making dog shows both hard to get to and difficult to enjoy when i do get to them
#mine#and other events could be interesting but feel even less.. accessible? as someone without a dog#and unfamiliar with any local communities or clubs or whatever#the last show i went to was ... disappointing. i cant describe it any other way#there was some nice dogs. i wouldve liked to chat with some of the people there. i didnt get to do that#and now ive gone from excited about dog shows to bitter and disillusioned#which is just sad and i hope i get over that at some point#but whats the point of getting to see the breeds you love when u dont even get to engage with the owners or interact with the dogs much#and i hate to say it but my partner being able to simply chat for a while with them while i couldnt understand made and makes me jealous#its just how things are atm and it wont be like this forever but. arrgh#i should contact this breeder ... meeting their dogs could be nice and ik they speak fluent english. but its so intimidating frankly#and it would give us an idea of how bad the allergies are which would be a good thing but also. a scary thing potentially. sigh.#well. weekly rant over lol#ill make more positive posts someday o7
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