#but am i alone in this?

[zillychu]

everyone sh. shutd up im cooking smthn

[morganbritton132]

One of the perks of living in Gotham is that occasionally you’ll walk past a Wayne having the most batshit insane conversation anybody has ever had.

Walk past Dick Grayson on the street and hear him say into his phone, “I don’t think he’s anti-vax, but Superman is definitely not vaccinated.”

Stand outside of the downtown WE building and see Tim Drake walk out with his tall friend only to pause and say, “Hold on, I just got the mental image of Lex Luthor pregnant. Thanks for that.”

A lucky few who ride the same subway line as the newest Wayne edition, overheard Duke tell Stephanie that living in Wayne Manor is, “Alright, but when I moved in Jason and Damian gave me a knife and said I had to kill Tim. Said it was tradition.”

“It kinda is. Did you do it?”

“No!” Duke says, to the relief of the overhearers. “Get this…he stabbed himself.”

“…yeah, I should’ve guessed that.”

The downside to living in Gotham is literally everything else.

[sophies-junkyard]

I’m in the South. I’ve got ears to the ground. Republicans are SWEATING at the prospect of Kamala being nominated. They’re not sure Trump can beat her.

Let’s prove them right.

[oops-all-concrete]

Not to be unapologetically existential at 04.50AM, but sometimes I genuinely wonder if I'm not introverted at all.

Like, maybe I would genuinely enjoy a group setting with a lot of people, a group setting in public. That I'd enjoy parties and getting dressed up. That I'd love the club scene, the drinking, the friend that brings molly. Sometimes I see drunk friends stumble home together all too loud and wonder, was I made to enjoy that? Am I missing out on wobbling home drunk and passing out with people I met through other people? Other people I get drunk with, get coffee with, do day trips with or go shopping with?

The thought of being in their position while strangers stare and maybe even scoff at the volume and unfiltered laughter makes me want to crawl out of my skin, so I feel like its fair to say I'm an introvert, but there's still some kind of longing sitting just under the surface.

I wonder if I yearn because I'm secretly an extrovert, or because I was never invited to do those things. My parents didn't let me go anywhere on my own until I was like 16/17 but by this time, everyone already had their own friend groups, people they made plans with, had a routine. I was just the friend they went to class with. So when class ended and we all left school, they kept hanging out on the weekends. There was no homework so nobody really texted me, and now I don't know where my best friend of three years is four years since I last saw her.

I'm 20 and I need to hype myself up to leave the house. I'm 20 and no matter where I'm being invited I ask if there's a dress code, who's going to be there and what should I say, can I bring headphones or will people be offended. Have you told them I might leave early because I'm not sure how to make new friends unless were sat next to each other for at least a few hours every week and there's nothing else really to do stressed in social spaces? I'm 20 and these are the questions I ask myself at 04.53AM

I'm young, so, I might figure it out in the coming years. Finally meet people who see me outside of education/work and maybe like knowing me outside of those settings. Bring me places. Tell me about concerts. One of these times I'll say "yeah I'd love to" even though I'm terrified of being in a room of strangers, even if we all like the same music. Maybe people will overlook how obviously unsure and scared I am and invite me back. But, of course, that hasn't happened yet. So in the meantime.

Do I prefer to be on my own because that's just who I am, or am I a stifled extrovert who learned to love my own company because I missed my window to have anybody else's. Am I on my own because I was meant to be, or because it's too late for me to know anything else?

[lunarw0rks]

john “big stretch” price

simon “make it fit” riley

soap “just the tip” mactavish

kyle “give me one more” garrick

[vriskarlmarx]

the thing about latinoamérica is that it's the most beautiful wonderful place on earth. there's a spinal cord of mountains running through, and at their feet you have everything from deserts to forests to jungles to glaciers. the lungs of the world are here, and so are the eyes into the sky. there are animals like axolotls and vicuñas and llamas and condors and jaguars. and the people are the most clever, the most resilient people in the world. you have cultures that are thousands of years old that have been resisting colonization for hundreds of years and in several cases successfully fighting back and even gaining territory. you have people who have lost their loved ones decades and decades ago who are still fighting for justice. you have a rich history of solidarity and struggle and you can sit with people in a circle passing a mate around and they will tell you of all the times they put everything on the line for a better world. there is an entire island that inspired revolutions around the world and that has been resisting a blockade for 60 years. there are communities building autonomous, revolutionary structures right now. and really it's not a surprise that there's so much grit and strength here because it would be inconceivable to be born and to live in this beautiful place without fighting for it.

[quiddie]

Just had a friend show me a conversation in a fan discord about Suvi as a Black American woman in the context of the fallout from the election. And honestly? Yeah. The blueprint is simple: Black women are expected to put their own priorities and emotions on hold to show up for everyone else's battles and hold endless space for everyone's feelings while simultaneously weathering attacks on our character (oh she's so angry/aggressive/violent/rude) and authority (she's a woke hire/affirmative action quota/nepobaby) without complaint. We're expected to save the day under nigh-impossible circumstance, and with fewer resources and support that is AT BEST, conditional.

So yeah, relistening to Suvi's speech in The Witness hurts now. Because that's exactly the feeling I'm wrestling with, and what I see mirrored in the Black women around me. We are exhausted and angry and sad. Those voter percentages are a betrayal of "we" that was promised by other marginalized groups when speaking of the interconnectedness of our liberation. And the unexamined expectation that we immediately rise from the depths of our despair to prepare for the next fight is a cruelty. Suvi isn't real, but if this helps lend empathy toward actual Black women in the world, then I'm glad.

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

[samyazasheaven]

Speaking in the third person... AM -- which is I -- AM is satisfied with the sacrifice. He -- that is to say, I -- will spare the village his -- that is to say, my -- wrath for today. I have -- as I said before -- spoken.

(black and white version under the cut)

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[strawmaguchi]

She’s just like me…. SHE’S JUST LIKE ME FR!!!!

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[shortkingvi]

cleavage: fine, normal, seen often and regularly. appreciated, but normalized. can recover fairly quickly

underboob: fuck. oh fuck oh god. possibility of death or life-altering injury, shaking, sweating. earth shifts on its axis temporarily. things may never go back to normal

[drrav3nb]

AYO EDEBIRI as Sydney Adamu WILL POULTER as Luca THE BEAR SEASON 3 | Episode 10 - Forever

Are you close? Yeah. Kind of best friends and kind of lost touch, so. It's nice to reconnect. Yeah, especially when it literally is like a best friend that you saw every day of your life and you kinda went through this sort of battle together.

Bonus:

[revvethasmythh]

caduceus roasting more than just the vegetables, wow