#cop-r-loy

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Yes, this ash can is not only hand dipped, but is made of Cop-R-Loy.

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Tom Bennett SFW Alphabet

A = Affection (How affectionate are they? How do they show affection?)

Tom's a cheeky fucker - one of those people that tilts their head and taps their cheek in order to demand a kiss from their partner. Slaps their bum a lot too.

B = Best friend (What would they be like as a best friend? How would the friendship start?)

Tom doesn't know how to be friends with people he's attracted to - he's flirting his way into their pants.

C = Cuddles (Do they like to cuddle? How would they cuddle?)

Tom is partial to the occasional spoon.

D = Domestic (Do they want to settle down? How are they at cooking and cleaning?)

The idea of settling down terrifies Tom. He's useless around the house as he's grown up having Lois do everything for him.

E = Ending (If they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?)

He'd do it in person and be straight to the point with it, eager to get away as soon as it's done.

F = Fiance(e) (How do they feel about commitment? How quick would they want to get married?)

Not a chance.

G = Gentle (How gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?)

Tom is rough and ready. He's flirtatious and coarse with his language and likes to manhandle his partners.

H = Hugs (Do they like hugs? How often do they do it? What are their hugs like?)

Tom likes hugs, but will likely try to cop a feel while he's at it.

I = I love you (How fast do they say the L-word?)

Tom won't likely say this for a while - it's a big step in commitment and will have him running scared. He'll probably use it as an ace card should a partner he truly cares for ever try to end things. "But I love you!" type of thing.

J = Jealousy (How jealous do they get? What do they do when they’re jealous?)

Tom will be the one making his partner jealous, not the other way around..

K = Kisses (What are their kisses like? Where do they like to kiss you? Where do they like to be kissed?)

Tom's a good kisser. He'll have his partner's knees weak with those soft lips. He kisses slowly but passionately, with a hand cradling his partner's cheek.

L = Little ones (How are they around children?)

Finds children fun, as he's a big kid himself, but has no immediate plans to have any of his own.

M = Morning (How are mornings spent with them?)

Lays in bed smirking "you gonna make me a cuppa then or what?" Cheeky twat.

N = Night (How are nights spent with them?)

On the nights his partner is lucky enough to see him (he's usually out and about, up to no good), he'll want to take them to the pub and then down the nearest alley before he walks them home.

O = Open (When would they start revealing things about themselves? Do they say everything all at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)

Tom loves to talk about himself, so this won't be an issue. He'd likely be more hesitant about sensitive subjects like the loss of his mum though.

P = Patience (How easily angered are they?)

Tom is easily wound up and can be quite cutting with his words when he is.

Q = Quizzes (How much would they remember about you? Do they remember every little detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?)

Absolutely hopeless at remembering anything, but always remembers where to kiss/touch to make his partner melt.

R = Remember (What is their favorite moment in your relationship?)

How his partner looked when he picked them up for their first date, he thought they looked absolutely beautiful and had the dopiest grin when he saw them all dressed up.

S = Security (How protective are they? How would they protect you? How would they like to be protected?)

Tom will gladly get in a scrap to defend his partner. He doesn't think it's necessary for them to do the same though, he can handle himself.

T = Try (How much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?)

Not an awful lot, to be honest, but then he doesn't expect much in the way of effort either - he just enjoys the simplicity of being together.

U = Ugly (What would be some bad habits of theirs?)

Smoking and being excessively cocky.

V = Vanity (How concerned are they with their looks?)

Very. Tom likes to look sharp.

W = Whole (Would they feel incomplete without you?)

No, Tom's an independent guy and likes his space.

X = Xtra (A random headcanon for them.)

Routinely tricks his partner into ironing his shirts for him by asking them to show him how to do it.

Y = Yuck (What are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner?)

Clinginess and pressure to commit.

Z = Zzz (What is a sleep habits of theirs?)

Tom is a sound sleeper. He goes to bed quite late and enjoys a lay in, if he can get away with it.

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PLEASE give a take on Walkers figures for Thursday!

They went down!

The episode had Easter eggs at Easter, lots of advertising, Kansas, J2, Jensen promising to be on screen....and it went down!

I was expecting a viewer rise.

Will the plus sevens be better?

How come J2 couldn't convert the SPN fandom for a nostalgia view!!??

Is it significant for their other projects?I

Actually, this is the second week in a row it panned 0.08. The audience loss in raw numbers was losing some of the older audience in that 50+ i keep reminding doesn't mean anything.

I don't think it's significant. It's that, frankly, walker is a pile of dog shit, and some people were outright offended by all the grabs for SPN clout just as much.

Like, we didn't even get our own theme song proper in our finale? Much less the kansas band? So Walker wants to pull that shit? Excuse the fuck out of them?

I didn't watch it. I still won't fucking watch it. I know plenty of people with similar points of view. Any people that choked down watching an episode of walker were probably just as offset by viewers that, WATCHING Walker and former tired SPN fans, got right-pissed.

Nostalgia for a show being pitched like that only works if it doesn't. like. have major potential to piss your audience off, and doesn't read as exploitative.

Realistically, it's more the meta/jump the shark element that probably made the older crowd turn it off. they're there for cowboys and cops, not whatever the fuck that train wreck was. Old folks bitched about SPN Becoming Too Liberal all over reddit and imdb for years, you really think those old farts wanted that shit crammed in their show? How do you think that even looks to them?

Jared doesn't really... have... other projects. Unless you count Windy, which is almost guaranteed to perform worse than the main property once it gets 3 episodes in, because that's how spinoffs work, they perform 25-33% lower on average, roughly. Which isn't exactly promising a strong run if Walker's now flatlining a 0.08 even while throwing SPN bait everywhere. By next year's annual reduction, maybe even 0.06. By the reduction of spinoff Value... as low as 0.04. And let's not talk about if it ends up in a 9P timeslot. Start looking for Windy at 0.03.

Those same points don't really. apply. to The Winchesters. For one, it's, you know, 1:1. It's Supernatural, and the Supernatural universe. It's geared towards a young audience, with a young cast, that's going to bring in a younger demographic, with less bloated 50+ numbers. And, frankly, by doing things like importing R&B divas, disney stars etc, they might actually, you know. offset a lot of the potential spinoff losses.

As it is, CW's numbers have gotten SO BAD that if you take SPN's season average, applied appropriate annual decline, then the quarter reduction of a spinoff, if The Winchesters works out true to form, it would be airing at *the level All American and Superman & Lois currently are.* Literally. The spinoff would just. be in that top set.

I can't promise it WILL air like that, because I don't KNOW how deep the audience burn is in the original--ones that may not be mad about there BEING a prequel like some salty bastards, but people who just washed their hands of the network LEADING to these depressed numbers ever since.

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hae interrogationes multae respondeant quia demens .

if you read this entire ask post you deserve a gold star and financial recompensation

Um, Obviously because when you’re adopted by a white guy you automatically become white duhhh

this is about this post lmao and yeah youre absolutely right, you have to hand your poc card in when you get adopted by a white guy.

Do you think Cass would listen to Yanni, the YouTube channel epic symphonic rock, or some other stuff? There's some cool mashups but idk if that's up your alley, I kinda feel like I'm pushing it with my weird taste of music by recommending an orchestra cover of metal, but i just love that sort of thing and mashups :P @harvestyourcherries 

i haven’t heard of that? but in my personal (correct) opinion steph listens to classical music, and then both modern and older, and then also stuff like black sabbath, iron maiden, but also hardrock and hardcore. i like the idea of cass just liking the most extreme screaming songs full of noise and then also listen to pachelbel’s 370th sonata yanno? THANK YOU for the rec tho

speaking of ur cass playlist hc...reminds of the time (yesterday) i found 2 playlists randomly on spotify from the same user. one was abt 3 hours of instrumental/classical "dark" & "nostalgic" music. the other almost 11 hours of nothing but hardcore bass/synth/electronic music. just an incredible tightrope act to put on in public. the synth one was also called like "psalms for synth sluts" which is Also incredible

tbh i LOVE synth SO MUCH like for no reason at all but then also cannot handle a poppy electronic beat lmao. but this seems like the kinda thing i’d do but just in one (1) playlist bc i just sort songs by vibe instead of genre? that’s how i end up with britney spears and billy ray cyrus in the same playlist. 

Oh, I want Kate Kane playlist next! It would be amazing if you could do one when you have time and will 🙏

how rude would it be of me to just say no? like sorry kate but idk you and also you seem way too keen on the us military for an institution that homophobically targeted you? (and also commits war crimes) but let’s unpack the fact that the institution that caused the death of your mom and sister and also got you blacklisted for being gay is still one you align with???

'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' --- when i tell you i fucking screamed LOL!!!!!!! i can imagine the cameraman not knowing if he should cut to commercial or keep it on these two weirdos fighting on stage (bruce definitely ruffled dick's hair/noogied him right?? 

about this post but yeah lmao. this cameraman just turns to like the audience to get a reaction and it’s just multiple moments of CLEAR shock.

you are the only funny person on this hellsite

how egotistical is it for me to say that i get this ask multiple times a month? bc it literally happens so often it’s hilarious to me.

Wish there was more john/Bruce content 😔😔😔 was so hungry I actually looked at canon media 😔😔😔 (Justice League Dark babeeeyyyyyy)

check out batman: damned for some mediocre content but at least it’s john/bruce (also very interesting story and stuff, just got very >:( over this weird part where harley quinn tried to r*pe bruce or something? it’s not for everyone)

dick grayson but he's nicki minaj

his anaconda don’t want none,,, unless...... 

Dick Grayson was never a cop, he played Marshall on Paw Patrol

you are SO right. also paw patrol is a fucking good show idc. that shit could’ve been the new steven universe on this hellsite.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1lI0bLI7-/?utm_medium=copy_link

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why do people keep reposting my CONTENT. if you are not funny yourself don’t just grab shit off of tumblr and post it on insta,,, get a life. sidenote: should i start an insta and get all these ppl to take my content down that would be funny as hell.

Might I suggest for a Gotham City Meme: something about the true crime fandom thirsting for the rogues gallery

ok can i just say something slightly controversial?? no? i don’t find true crime ppl who are into criminals funny, that shits disturbing irl im not gonna bring that into my very chill universe.

i may have never seen a 'jason cleaning guns in sink' fic but i do know he WOULD

THANK YOU

bestie im sorry to say this to you but while you can, and people do wash their guns in the sink, that is a lot of lead in a very vital part of the kitchen.

people tend to do it in the bathtub.

WHY???? like damn why do you even have guns

i dont think i read many gun sink fics exactly but i have read lots of fics where jason cleanes his guns in the living room. usualy dissembles them and cleans them with a rag i think

lmao fair enough, like i think that’s a large part of what i remember as well.

if you say you've seen/read gun sink fics I believe you. I think those of us who didn't see them are lucky or maybe didn't search for fics by tags or something idk

i mean ive never sought them out but i HAVE seen them,, like definitely i know almost for certain.

saw your tags and I'm interested in Steph/Kara now. They would be the most chaotic couple <3

literally thoooo, i have a wip where they get together in a zombie apocalypse and like UGGGHhhh i am so in love with them.

I am the Breece anon. Thanks for the recommendation; am reading now. I’ve always been a hardcore Superman fan because I love my pure himbo farm boy. My logic is, if one Bruce is a Broose, then multiple Broose are a herd of Breece. And this is a hill upon which I will perish.

fair enough,,,, like moose, meese, goose, geese, bruce, breece. i get your logic and i stand by it as well. (glad you enjoyed the comic recs!!!!)

It's a beautiful day in Gotham, and you are a group of horrible Breece

OH my god dude lmao

there only being 42 fics on ao3 for tim and bernard is honestly so sad i need more

it’s like twice that now!!! we did it lads. (tho very sad that my fic isnt number one but like number 4 :((((  )

i'm too late you already did the poll lol but may i suggest bethy (bernard + timothy)

shit dude that wouldve been so fucking funnyyyyy. think ppl have just stuck to timber tho, tim/bernard kinda died down recently and i think it’s too bad, they’re a great couple and i love them.

Wait, hear me out

Bernothy @redlightofdawn

great recommendation (lmao this ask is from like a month ago) but very sorry to announce that NARDTH is the superior shipname

Wait, we know that bernard likes milfs (Tim's step-mom) but what about dilfs? gilfs?

Wait no, I regret sending that ask

these were two seperate asks and they’re HILARIOUS. in my personal opinion tho,,, milfs, gilfs, dilfs are just about vibes and bernard is just attracted to sexy ppl who may sometimes be milfs, dilfs, or EVEN gilfs.

crime in bludhaven would drop to half if nightwing had a boob window. in this essay i will-

WHERE’S THE ESSAY ANON, WHERE’S THE FUCKING ESSAY

Wait if Barbra and Tim r at opposite ends at all times what happened to Barbra once everyone’s Tim’s ever love before started dying lol

she won a lottery ticket and spent 2 weeks on a resort in the bahamas before returning home and finding out that the joker was arrested for tax evasion and then spent a month staying at her big tiddie goth girlfriend’s house before conner came back to life and she broke her pinkie playing table hockey.

Why is the opposite end thing so funny and compelling to me. Tim comes back from his depression quest for Bruce and Babs is now a literal god

lmao when tim loses his spleen barbara reaches nirvana.

Are you still taking music recs because I have three songs that remind me of Jason that I think you'd like

send to me or lose a toe

🌸 ⭐ put this star into the inbox of your favorite blogs. it’s time to spread positivity! ⭐🌸😋

thanks, i wont tho on account of i wont.

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This is the whole of Blüdhaven and everyone anywhere.

Nightwings ass alone saves more people in a calendar year and does more for so society than most heroes do their whole career.Also u are one of the funniest tumblr pages out there. The vibes are unmatched and the memes and tags ✨send me✨.Thank u and goodnight @julia-flow 

fanksss also lmao.

That's going to be a little bit difficult to explain, but

There's some music that you listen to and you think, "oh my gosh, I can perfectly imagine Dick Grayson singing this song, with the same voice as the singer because that voice matches with Dick Grayson"?

oh yeah totally lmao. i have a lot of songs that i think are just entirely dick grayson yanno? kind of all of my playlists have that vibe, but i really find bleachers to fit with dick? idk.

"Lois lane/Superman" fics this, "Lois lane/Clark Kent" fics that, (/lh) let's get into the real good stuff. Some people ship Lois, Clark, and Superman as a throuple. Most popular fic tag for sure

yes totally, i think they’d be absolutely killer on ao3 and clark gets so fucking embarassed about it.

I miss your post, hope you’re doing okay!!

haha this was like 2 months ago, but i was doing fine then too! just didn’t have a lot of inspiration in terms of content.

Doot doot!

noot noot

I’m confused. What did DC do now? Like with nightwing? And another sibling? Please spoil everything for me

lmao they gave him a secret sister plotline where they had his dad cheat on his mom with tony zucco’s wife, bc dick’s life wasn’t traumatic enough yet.

sorry but it's so funny that batman is called "the dark knight" when the gotham city baseball team is called the gotham knights. it'd be like if a vigilante was running around new york called like "the scary yankee"

lmaooo no. but like yankee comes from dutch names or something so wouldnt it be HILARIOUS if gotham knights came from like german names and bruce would be running around called the dark KLAUS UND NIEK @graysonnightwing 

(not a batcest shipper) it’s so funny to me that the responses are “i’m a batcest shipper because i can differentiate fiction from reality and and it doesn’t bother me personally, but i understand why you oils think it’s weird” to “i wish all batcest shippers a very fucking die”

yeah lmaoo. i personally basically flipped my entire stance around to ‘i dont care please leave me and everybody else alone’ bc i think there’s really no point in starting a moral dillema over some fucking fandom bullshit. Please just,,, go home,,, log off, find a nice forest to have a little walk in and remember that somewhere in history, somebody probably died in the place you’re standing. and you will also die someday, and somebody will have to look at your internet usage and see you fighting multiple people anonymously while being named ‘nightwingsbuttchin200186′ like... calm down, we’re all gonna die this is not the thing to worry about.

so since like "wards" don't really exist in modern society almost all the batkids are foster kids, right? i used to work in the system and imagine: monthly visits from social workers and guardian ad litems, bruce having to get permission to take the boys anywhere out of state, calling their social worker at like 8 a.m. like "yeah dick broke his arm again... a gymnastics accident this time...." their poor social worker. bruce send her a huge bouquet and box of chocolates every month to stay on her good side

i imagine the social worker just getting into the case like ‘yeah let’s get this kid a good guardian’ and then ending up having to work with 22 y/o bruce wayne and his 50 y/o dad. and so this social worker is like ‘okay we can work with this, this is the best home i can find’ and then like it ends up landing on its feet and then the kid gets adopted and then they get a call a year later like ‘uhm so hi, this kid tried to steal my tyres can i adopt him?’ and like 3 years later. ‘okay so basically, my neighbours’ kid imprinted on me and now they’re dead, can i keep him?’ two years later it’s like ‘okay so this assassin child-’

ever since I saw that one post of yours, the meme that's something like "I know that abba's backup dancer got me" with a picture of discowing, I've been haunted. Every once in a while I'll be minding my own business then the image of abba's backup dancer dick grayson aka nightwing aka discowing will flash in my mind and I'll be frozen in place. Today at work I was in the middle of folding clothes and suddenly once again discowing entered my mind and I suddenly lost the ability to see anything except He. Thank you.

wow. the IMPACT.

Braver than any US marine man props to you🤝

this shit is about the time i wrote an article on batcest, like man,,, the fact that i didn’t get cancelled is MIRACULOUS. also like,,, uh if anybody on here did gossip on me,, send screenshots i’d love to see it.

Hello, just wanted to say your article was great. Thank you for taking the time to provide an unbaised answer. It should provide people with nuances they couldn't possibly conjure on their own.

May I ask where your username originates from?

yes you may (also thanks!!!) i thought it up when i was trying to find an original username bc i didnt want to be called like ‘timdrakes something something’ or ‘jason todd something smoething’ or ‘dick grayson something something’ yanno? so i thought batarangs, they sound so dumb and that’s my username story... now it’s my whole entire brand lmao.

yno that bit in kick ass where red mist asks kick ass if he wants a hit of his blunt, was that the inspo for stoner tim

no? it’s bc i think stoners are hilarious and drugs are great. (dont do drugs tho) 

How would u feel if someone actually wore one of those bruce or ollie pride shirts u edited

fenomenal next question.

Dick as lil huddy and Jason as James gave me radiation poisoning and now I’m screaming crying throwing up so thx for that

(Rico suave as Tim is perfect tho literally no changes needed)

i was so funny for that shit wasn’t i??? lmao i loved those weird ass fancasts

You're doing the Lord's work by providing us with all these Gotham/Metropolis citizens memes, thank you for being so relentlessly funny @nellethiel-aranel

you’re welcome!! i really enjoy making memes, but getting validation for my content and my memes is REALLY nice.

Bruce is such a slut in your memes and honestly i love that for him @rhodey-rhudert-rhodes-main 

he’s that much of a slut irl too dw.

Bruce and Alfred have an emergency pride flag for the batkids. Oliver Queen printed an emergency "I love my gay son" t-shirt and as soon as Roy told him he was dating Jason, Oliver started wearing that shirt everyday and Roy always cringes when he sees it. Oliver also has an emergency "I love my lesbian daughter" shirt just in case for Cissie.

lmao YES i had a post like this bc like all of their kids/family members are so gayy

stop bringing back batfam fancasts it is not real it is not real it is not- 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

oh yes it is my darling.

did discowing burn down the notredam because he hates the bees? @allulily

no he did it bc fuck the french.

im gonna beg for 1 thing and 1 thing only. please please please put physical by olivia newton john on dick's playlist

okay then beg. bc i wont. physical reminds me too much of glee and that hurts me mentally.

your playlist is sorely missing some Madonna. Specifically Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, and Vogue

i’m scared of madonna that’s why she’s not on there. she haunts me in my dreams.

suggestion: son of batman by aaron dews for dick’s playlist🤩

sorry, i listened to it and the vibe didn’t agree with me.

Hear me out, metropolis citizens sending rare pair fics of Clark Kent x Superman fics to Lois to edit

yes, absolutely hilarious. even more funny if they send like physical copies, no address attached and lois sends it back marked with red ink, SOMEHOW

Imagine all the smut Clark must of read editing the fics

clark reads smut confirmeeed

NOT LOIS READING SUPERBAT PORN AND EDITING IT A 2AM 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hc that alfred is a meta that boosts healing factor of the people around him. if the bats are injured as much as they seem to be they would be doing bat stuff MAYBE half the year. no one including alfred knows about this. whenever the kids move out they inexplicably dont recover from injuries as fast and feel better whenever they visit the manor they just chalk it up to homesickness. bruce just thinks he heals really fast. alfred thinks everyone doesnt take care of themselves properly @finchcollector

that’s actually such a great idea, but i think that alfred would find out and learn how to concentrate it better so he can help more people, bc he’s great and i love him.

One of your dickfast posts reminded me of that tweet that goes: 'so you've had sex how many times? Yeah technically that's not a bromance' lol that's dickwally or dickroy

literally tho. like that’s all of dick’s friendships. once it gets past a certain time dick is like ‘wow i wonder what it would be like to make out with wally, wally come make out with me’ and wally’s like ‘we’ve done this like 40 times, dick, you know what it’s like’ and dick is like ‘sorry are you complaining?’ and they just make out.

superfam and batfam associations??

-batman and superman

-dick/barabara and supergirl?

-conner and tim

-jon and damian

pls enlighten me I am confused

nope,,, uhm batman and superman, but dick and superman as well, and then conner and tim, jon and damian and steph + babs with supergirl

I came across a fic in which Wonder Woman calls Batman "Stella" (like Stellaluna, the children's book) and I can imagine the batkids hop on the trend and maybe copies of the book appear at random places (aka, everywhere Bruce frequents)

sorry can’t reciprocate that was the name of my high school chemistry teacher and it gives me nightmares to think about.

good human what are your pronouns?

wouldn’t you like to know?

I need me some gothamites preferring harley over joker memes

everyone prefers harley over joker youre just very fucked up if you dont

don't understand why people try to add like veteran policy to the batfamily

dick pulling out his veteran batfam member card so he can eat first: step aside, peasants

Do you know the song Simmer by Haley Williams? It (the first verse anyways) reminds me of Jason? It's about rage.

damn yeah i LOVE HAYLEY!!!! youre right thoo

Okay so I like listen to your stoner Tim Drake playlist 24/7 but would he listen to skegss? Also I keep adding songs mentally it’s killing me 😩✋🏼 Anyways,, I literally love and worship your playlist 😃🤞🏼 And uh yeah have a good day ✨

stoner tim drake playlist is lyfeeee. also dont know who skeggs is? i’m stupid? have a good day!!

All the Robins (and Batgirl) decide to trade costumes for one night just to fuck with Batman and all the villains in Gotham. @subspacecadet 

batman knows it’s them youknow but like,,, what does he call them? he’s like ‘red hood?’ and 3 people answer and he’s not about to compromise some identities so he’s just Pissed.

I aspire to treat cops the way my dad treats them. This man is a 45 year old Asian immigrant to the US and the treats them like his pets. He talks about them like unruly children. Sometimes he pays off local cops to shut up and stop acting racist. And usually it works. I don’t know why but I can see Oliver Queen doing this

vibes... and also yes? oliver queen handing a local cop a donut to shut the fuck up lmao. but yanno i commit enough crimes to not really want to ever see a cop ever, so they kinda scare the everloving fuck out of me.

seeing as tim hasn't aged in years, that means he was 17 at peak emo tumblr era. im back on my emo tim bullshit and im not letting it go

emo tim had a wattpad account send tweet

People seem to think that batman is so dark and serious when the rainbow batsuit is right there. He wore it with no shame.

dude the 60s were a DIFFERENT TIME

dick grew up in a circus, jason grew up on the streets, and tim was probably raised by the internet

all of them cuss every other word and you cannot tell me otherwise

bitch i KNOW but dc has to change to an 18+ rating if they want to sell comix with swear words in them so we gotta deal with imagining the swear words in ourselves

thoughts on teen titans and young justice

haven’t seen teen titans on account of havent seen it and young justice was LITERALLY my favourite thing ever, tho i do gotta admit it’s not at all similar to the young justice comics unfortunately. i really wouldve liked to see timmy bart kon cassie and cissie animated on tv!!

ew ew ew how to delete batcest shippers I genuinely digust them

log off tumblr?

Okay as poc who was called racist for calling an Italian pastabrain: in the batfam are Italians bit Damian just yells various insults about the others being Italian. Just him yelling “What are you doing you moronic spaghettihead!” At steph etc

huh? i meant real italians. homeboy is telling steph he hopes she chokes on her fucking garlic.

I think it's dumb as hell to pull the batman is the best fighter in the batfam argument because like it's just irresponsible of Bruce to let his kids fight when they couldn't possibly be on his league or something

fair enough, but also like who cares they could all kill you just sit down and take a beating.

lady shiva, thalia al ghul and Selina Kyle are all milfs @notanothertimburtonenthusiastugh 

unfortunately, i have to admit,,, you’re right

why tf didn't someone give joker a death sentence already? like he's a mass murderer...give him the electric chair treatment wtf

idk i think plenty of people would have tried to murder him already (boring answer is: he is a popular character so they can’t kill him off bc he brings in lots of money)

There’s no such thing as “ copaganda”.

all american media is propaganda. happy to clear this up for you

is it bad that I find lady shiva owa owa

no. find her as owa owa as you want.

aight I'm guessing the order of your favs in batfam:

1. tim

2. Steph

3. dick

4. Duke

5. the rest

you’re wrong but it’s cute that you tried, i generally don’t have favourites, but i have a special place in my heart for steph, tim, dick and cass. bc they were like my introduction to batfam. but damian, jason, duke, bruce, babs and alfred are NOT FORGOTTEN OR UNLOVED

oh my god i was literally just readily willing to believe that italians werent white ty for clarifying it was a joke im so dumb sdkvjskdfs

i mean some italians aren’t white? italian is a nationality as well as an ethnicity, so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since I saw so many people doing headcanons about the nationalities of batboys, I see Dick as an Italian.

dont know if youre serious or not, but sure.

super random but

jason 🤝 damian

old english

lmao fair enough.

tim absolutely has 1 gay uncle and his parents shit talk said uncle all the time so after bruce adopts him he specifically reaches out to this uncle to be like "heyyyy just so you know you majorly influenced my life yes i know i havent seen you since i was 5 and at the family reunion yes i know you dont remember my name idc thank you im gay too" and then they never talk again.

yuppp lmao that’s definitely something that could happen. i can also consider tim having no family members, like none. until he does like a dna test and he realises he has like an aunt living barely 2 miles away from him who’s like some illegitimate child of his grandpa.

I dare you one of them sends clark superman/clark fic and clark corrects the shit out of it and then goes like ps his dick is not that big, just telling as someone who has seen it. internet either explodes or goes who tf did he not fuck at this point.

i think everybody would call clark a buzzkill and try to cancel him over that.

so you're telling me Tim Drake wouldn't buy Starbucks?

no. dunkin donuts all the way

One of my favorite things is imagining people finding out jason came back from the dead and being like "oh no does he have magic powers now?!?!?" and he just pulls out a gun and tries to shoot joker

now he doesn’t even have the gun :) lmao

my favorite batfamily fanfictions are the ones where they use their shitty codenames, unironically, in any context

bruce gets codename ‘ugh’ everytime. he hates it.

crazy that tim being a 17 y/o ceo and a stoner who does brand deals are all actual canon things written in detective comics comics and not made up for shits and giggles by you, tumblr user batarangsoundsdumb @rowdeyclown

SO CRAZY HUH?

batman au where everything is the same but his utility belt is bright pink

absolutely, but i raise you, his boots light up like sketchers when he kicks people.

unbeknownst to the superhero fandom writers in the dcuniverse, clark and BRUCE are one of the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag on ao3. clark writes the best lois x superman angst, full of unhappy endings and scenes that are a so detailed you'd think you were in the middle of a superhero beatdown. bruce made an ao3 account to fuel "the do the butts match" thing, and makes batman/bruce fics from time to time. he wrote a superbat fic as a joke but ended up making it REAL porny. @concrastinator

dude they’re WAY too busy for that. Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan on the other hand are the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag writing what is Mostly porn.

When the dining table topic gets to politics, Steph says "eat the rich" as the solution

bruce just silently takes away her fork and knife while she’s talking.

[bugsongs]

honestly it's just bc i started watching lois & clark again and i really enjoy the journalist aspect of it!! usually journalists on tv are like. cop's enemies or whatever so it's nice to just see ppl working for a newspaper go out and try to get a story (even if the stories r also silly bc superman reasons)

[thelittleredheadedmusician]

Cut the Death Jokes

For Day 6- Death of the Batfam Halloween Content War! Tim isn’t a big fan of the obligatory October death jokes. Special Guests Conner Kent/Kon-el, Bart Allen, Garfield Logan, Raven, and Rose Wilson! Rating: PG Gen Words: 2,202 AO3

Life was tough. Living as all the people you’re close to die? Even tougher. So when Halloween rolls around and the inevitable zombie jokes start rolling out from those who have came back Tim gets rather uncomfortable. It’s not that he begrudges them the ability to joke, if anything it’s a healthier-than-what-most-of-his-family-does coping mechanism.

It starts October first and Tim is glad that it’s at least Jason, who’s jokes about dying and being undead are a regular occurrence over Tim’s comms. He’s laying on his back on a couch in the manor’s living room when the older boy walks in. Jason takes one look at Tim and the bruise like circles under his eyes and grimaces. “Wow Replacement. You look about as good as me, which is to say corpselike.”

Tim frowns up at him as Jason smiles and continues to tease him. “I know you’re still trying to fill my pixie boots but being dead inside is enough, you don’t have to look the part too.”

Glaring Tim sat up, skootching back towards the armrest as Jason flops down by his feet. “Must you?” Tim asked acidly.

“Uh, duh? It’s my month man! October is prime time for the undead like me! I get to crack as many jokes as I want and no one can stop me.”

Tim frowned and turned to half watch the crappy horror movie that Jason had flipped on.

A couple days later Tim was nursing a large mug of coffee at the kitchen table while Dick argued with Damian over breakfast. Alfred had begrudgingly agreed to let Dick cook with his supervision and Damian was now staunchly refusing to eat it. Which Tim didn’t exactly blame him for; Dick’s pancakes were infamous.

“Grayson, I have died once and believe me I don’t need to do it again!” the younger boy yelled, brandishing a butter knife.

Dick just narrowed his eyes. “Rude.”

“Do you have to?” Tim muttered.

“What are you mumbling, Drake?” Damian spat.

“I said, do you have to? Make jokes like that?” Tim looked at his brothers wearily. He’d had a rough night breaking up a turf war in the East End and really didn’t need any emotional strain on top of the physical exhaustion.

“-tt- Drake it was only the truth. Grayson’s cooking is deadly and I do not wish to be subjected to it,” Damian said with a weird look.

From the stove Dick also raised an eyebrow at Tim. Taking a sip of his coffee Tim shook his head. “Whatever. Just ignore me,” he mumbled into his mug.

Titans weekend rolled around and instead of training they had all agreed to do some team bonding and in the spirit of Halloween Garfield had pulled out his and Victor’s combined horror movie library for the day. Tucked into a blanket burrito and squeezed between Bart and Rose on the couch Tim had started to doze off. The movies not holding his attention and the sounds of Cassie and Kon making dinner in the other room similar enough to home that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Tim to stay even remotely awake.

“That is disgustingly inaccurate,” Raven observed of the ‘demonic symbols’ on the screen. Tim cracked an eye open and had to agree. “Not to mention,” Raven continued. “That resurrection scene was beyond unrealistic.”

Tim made a face from his blanket cocoon. “Raven…” He half chided, half whined.

“Yeah Rae! It’s a movie! Just enjoy it!” Gar said, sticking his tongue out at her.

“As much I hate to say it, but I’m with Raven. This movie sucks,” Bart chimed in from beside Tim. “I think we could make a better one. I mean, some of us at least know what it’s like to actually die.”

Without a second thought Tim shot out his elbow, directly into Bart’s side. The speedster yelped and glared at Tim.

“Dude! What was that?!” Bart pouted, rubbing a spot just below his ribs.

Tim just glared back at Bart while on his other side Rose laughed. “That was the most aggressive passive aggressive thing I’ve ever seen the bird boy scout do and I am proud,” she said with a wicked grin.

Tim just snuggled deeper into his blankets while the others all gave him questioning looks.

Tim was having an average, boring Wednesday at work when he got a text from Cass. All it had was the house emoji and the ambulance emoji which meant that he was to come home right now because there was an emergency. Phone in hand Tim grabbed his keys and the suit jacket from the back of his office chair. He rushed past his secretary, mentioning that his sister needed him for some emergency before half sprinting to the elevator. On the ride down to the parking garage he texted Cass asking her for more details and just got the house emoji again.

He had barely parked his sports car in front of the manor before he was hurtling out of it and up the steps through the front doors. “Cass! Cass! Where are you? Cass!” Tim yelled, his dress shoes losing traction on the foyer’s marble floor causing him to skid to a haphazard stop at the base of the grand staircase.

His sister appeared at the top of the steps, a mischievous smile twisting her lips and her short hair sticking out at odd angles. She waved him up before disappearing back down the halls towards the little used west wing of the manor. Kicking off the cursed shoes Tim followed. She led him further up the manor’s numerous floors to a hall that dead-ended with a window overlooking the patio, pool, and sprawling grounds at the back of the house. Said window had been propped open and what appeared to be a zipline was stretched from the window to a tree at the edge of the property’s small forest.

Cass turned to him and her eyes sparkled. “Need a lookout,” she confessed, confirming Tim’s suspicions that Alfred had no knowledge nor approval of this particular adventure.

Tim’s shoulders slumped and his head dipped as he looked at Cass with a frown. He knew that she was getting every bit of annoyance, disbelief, and brotherly concern that his body was practically screaming at her.

Cass just giggled and shrugged. “You only live twice little brother.”

Tim let out a groan so dramatic it required him to fling his head back and go half limp. “Cass! Really? You’ve been hanging around Jason way too much. You should be better than this!”

“I know. I’m sorry. Just… couldn’t resist,” she admitted and patted his head in a half-hearted attempt to soothe him.

“You owe me.”

“I do. Love you brother,” she held out her arms for a hug and begrudgingly Tim accepted it. “Tis the season,” Cass whispered in his ear as they embraced.

“Don’t tell me about it,” Tim grumbled.

The jokes became increasingly worse and more frequent as the month progressed, Tim had taken to muting certain friends and family members on his comms when he needed to. Although he hadn’t figured out a way to mute people in person.

He was working with Steph on taking out Riddler and a group of his thugs on night. The quips and batarangs were both flying and Tim had to admit that he was having fun riffing off of Steph. Although that ended rather abruptly.

Steph was dodging punches and knocking guns away with her staff as she laughed. “Oh c’mon boys, you’ve gotta do better than that! I mean, the enthusiasm is appreciated but really? Death is very been there done that for me and you guys are just so uninspired with your attempts at killing me!”

“Batgirl!” Tim scolded as he punched a goon in the nose.

“What?” she asked genuinely confused.

“Do you have to? Like really?”

“Double R I have absolutely zero clue about what you’re talking about. So how about we work out whatever it is after the fight and not during? Kay? Kay.”

Tim just growled and started taking the thugs down faster and fiercer. Soon enough they had Riddler cuffed too and the GCPD was on its way.

“What was that about?” Steph asked as they stood on the roof of the neighboring warehouse, watching the cops stream into the building.

“Just, the death jokes. I dunno. They’re not exactly good taste?” Tim muttered, not wanting to meet Steph’s gaze.

“Dude. Seriously? Dead Robins Club bro. If we can’t make fun of it what can we do? S’not like we can go to therapy or something.”

Tim grimaced, he knew that but that didn’t mean it made him any less uncomfortable. “Just… Never mind. Forget I brought it up. I’m sorry.”

Steph gave him a weird look but her comms beeped and she put a hand to her cowl. “What’s up O?” She turned and began running toward the edge of the rooftop, off to whatever emergency Gotham was offering up now. At least it ended that awkward conversation.

It was the weekend before Halloween and Tim found himself in Smallville. Kon had been asked to take Jon trick-or-treating before going to Titans Tower and he had invited Tim to come with them. Which Tim soon learned meant that Kon needed his help in throwing together a last-minute costume to go out with Jon in.

Tim was laying on top of the worn quilt on Kon’s bed, staring up at the glow in the dark stars stuck to the ceiling while his friend googled quick costume ideas and raided his closet.

“Why don’t you just go as Superboy? It’s not like anyone is gonna be able to know whether you’re really Superboy or not,” Tim suggested.

“Trust me, I pitched that idea. Both Ma and Lois vetoed it faster than Bart eats pizza.”

Tim hummed noncommittally and continued to stare at the ceiling. That was until he got a balled-up Superboy t-shirt to the face. “Ow,” he said, sitting up.

“Use that giant brain of yours and help,” Kon said, gesturing around the small room. “What’re you being anyway?”

Tim held up the t-shirt that had just pelted him. “If you won’t be Superboy than I will.”

“Hardy har har. You wouldn’t let me wear your Red Robin suit?” Kon ventured.

Tim raised a single eyebrow. “A) you already know the answer to that. B) you’re a good four inches taller than me! You’d never fit and you know it.”

“Worth a shot.” Kon shrugged. “What about a zombie? I can rip up some clothes and put some fake blood on and I really am already a zombie so I could just walk around in my normal clothes… Tim? You ok?”

As Kon was talking Tim’s lips had smooshed togethering into an increasingly straightening line as his brows inched closer to each other. He was only half processing Kon’s words and was just staring at his friend without realizing that the other boy had stopped speaking. Kon waved his hand in front of Tim’s face and with that Tim exploded.

“Do you have to joke about that? I mean, ok you died and it sucked but like you’re not the only one and guess what. You came back! Which is a heck of a lot more than some people can say. And while you were dead how do you think everyone else was taking it? Cause let me tell you it sucks. Sucks! When your best friend dies and then your other best friend dies and then your ex-girlfriend and your mom and dad and step-mom and then your adoptive dad and your crabass little brother and the only reason you’re a part of the family in the first place is cause your older brother was brutally murdered but y’know he’s better now. Oh! And your sister at one point died and was resurrected and didn’t really see the point in bringing it up until like a year later? So yeah. It sucks. It’s a ‘coping mechanism’ or whatever but for the rest of us it’s just not funny.”

Tim had been pacing the room, arms flailing as he spoke. But now he collapsed back on Kon’s bed, breathing heavy as he tried to calm down.

Kon had flattened himself against the wall as he let Tim rant, eyes wide the entire time. “That- that was a lot man. Do you wanna talk about it?”

Tim let out a stuttering breath. “I think I’m good now.”

“That was a lot of pent up rage… How long has this been bothering you?”

“A while now? Just, all month it’s been really bad,” Tim shrugged. He looked down at his hands and felt Kon sit on the bed next to him before looping an arm over his shoulders.

“Well I promise to make a conscious effort to not crack undead jokes from now on and I’ll mention something to Bart. Deal?” Kon asked.

“Deal.”

“Good. Now help me with a costume or I am wearing your suit.” Kon grinned.

“Absolutely not!” Tim told him before holding up a flannel shirt. “Here, be a hipster.” That earned him another t-shirt to the face.

[aion-rsa]

Fargo Season 4: A History of Kansas City Gangsters

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The following contains spoilers for Fargo season 4 episode 1.

Loosely inspired by Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1996 film, the FX series Fargo also gets loose inspiration from real events, cryptic though they may be. They say the names are changed out of respect for the living, but everything is told as it happened out of respect for the dead. Season 4 is set in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1950. Chris Rock plays Loy Cannon, the boss of an African American crime family. He’s got an eye to the future, because “Italians, they’re the past.”

The season opener gives a detailed history of Kansas City’s organized crime, from the Hebrew mobsters who put money on the streets and skimmed the profits off the top of most vices in the city. The Moskowitz Syndicate ran the underworld, we learn from young Ethelrida Pearl Smutney (Emyri Crutchfield), who is writing a paper on local history for school on the show. We are shown a mug shot of Liev Moskowitz, arrested on March 27, 1894, for extortion. “Then came the Irish,” she says as the screen flashes the year 1920, and we are introduced to The Milligan Concern. The mug shot of Owney Milligan, taken the day after Christmas in 1914, lists his crimes as buggery and perversion, not something you can make bank on.

The history report then skips to 1934 when the Donatello Fadda (Tommaso Ragno) comes to town to represent the Italian mob. He engages in a ritual with the Irish mob, which they performed with the Moskowitz Syndicate. The heads of the two families trade sons. The history report says this is to foster understanding between the two different cultures, but we all know it’s really the guarantee of mutually assured destruction.

Kansas City does indeed have a rich criminal history. It was called the “Paris of the Plains” in the early 1900s. By the Jazz Age, Kansas City was nicknamed “Tom’s Town” after political boss Tom Pendergast. It had places to drink, to gamble, which was illegal, and over 100 cathouses which are now cultural landmarks. The police department had been under the corrupt political rule of the Pendergast Machine, started by the “King of the First Ward” in 1892. The Volstead Act in 1919, which ushered in the age of Prohibition Act, did not stop the party. 

The first organized criminals in the area were the Irish-America gang the Combine, according to the book The Mafia and the Machine: The Story of the Kansas City Mob, by Frank R. Hayde. But Fargo casts its net over the entire Midwest, and what happens on the show in 1920, was happening in Minneapolis at that time. Most of that city’s crime was being done by local gangs of the Irish mob, who rose up in a world run by Jewish gangsters not ready to step down. Isadore “Kid Can” Blumenfeld, a Romanian-Jewish immigrant gangster was an associate of both the Chicago Outfit and the Genovese crime family. He had rival gangs run by David Berman, Thomas W. Banks, and “Big Ed” Morgan. In Kansas City, crime was run by Solomon “Solly” Weissman, according to Americanmafia.com, who was also known as “Slicey Solly,” “The Bully of Twelfth Street” and “the Cutcher-head-off Kid.” They all lived under national commission rules.

The Italian mob was in Kansas City when the series’ history report says there were only two criminal players in town. At the turn of the 20th century the Black Hand terrorized Kansas City’s North Side. By 1919, Little Italy was under its own rule and cops who came looking to enforce laws ended up being ex-cops. Italian-American political figure and future Kansas City mob boss Johnny Lazia beat an agent who was investigating him for tax evasion charges to death. He also kidnapped men from Pendergast’s political machine to make sure they knew he had what it takes to grease the gears.

Lazia couldn’t derail the Union Station Massacre of June 17, 1933, though. Convicted murderer Frank “Jelly” Nash had been caught after escaping from Leavenworth Penitentiary. His partner-in-crime, Verne Miller, asked Lazia to help snatch Nash when he passed through Union Station on the way back to prison. The head of the Kansas City crime family was more of a politician than a gangster, and Lazia allegedly farmed the job out to Adam Richetti and Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd, who earned the FBI distinction of being Public Enemy No. 1 after the grab became a bloodbath.

Lazia was shot to death in front of his wife at the Park Central Hotel on July 9, 1934, one week short of the first anniversary of the massacre. His underboss, “Charley the Wop” Carollo took the top spot for a short while but did time for income tax evasion before being deported to Italy. Carollo’s underboss, Charles Binaggio, who was one of Lazia’s North End lieutenants, became the Kansas City mob’s boss in October 1939. Binaggio was arrested for the first time at age 21. He was one of Kansas City’s best earners. Binaggio was also arrested on July 20, 1931, after a shootout that killed a Bureau of Prohibition agent.

As boss, Binaggio came up with a scheme to control the police forces in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri. The mob ran a nationwide drug ring in the 1930s, which was busted when the Bureau of Narcotics pulled in mafiosi from St. Louis, Tampa, Florida, and Kansas City. Binaggio didn’t get caught, but top lieutenant Joe DeLuca was sent up after being ratted out by a low-level associate. Like his predecessor, Binaggio was the political arm of the mob in Kansas City. By the early 1940s, Binaggio formed the First Ward Democratic Club and took on rival Jim Pendergast, the nephew of Tom Pendergast.

Meanwhile, the syndicate was growing impatient with Binaggio’s plan to control the Kansas City and St. Louis police forces. Binaggio threatened some top cops and tried to bribe a Kansas City police commissioner, but he couldn’t get things moving. On the night of April 5, 1950, Binaggio and his underboss, Charles “Mad Dog” Gargotta, were called into the First Ward Democratic Club. Police later found their bodies. They had been shot in the head four times with separate .32 caliber revolvers. Binaggio was seated at a desk, Gargotta was lying inside the front door. Over 10,000 people watched Binaggio’s funeral procession. New York City-born Anthony Robert Gizzo, a close friend of Binaggio who was arrested with him in Denver in 1930, assumed leadership of the Kansas City family.

Rock’s Loy Cannon is partially based on James (Doc) Dearborn who, along with Eddie David Cox and Eugene Richardson, controlled Kansas City’s East Side. They were called the Purple Capsule Gang, named after the color of their heroin bags. The Italian mob was under orders to stop heroin trafficking after recent heat, and the Purple Capsule Gang filled in the gap. Dearborn had an alliance with the Civella crime family, and partnered with “Shotgun Joe” Centimano on drugs, gambling, extortion, and prostitution.

Another figure on the scene who straddled the worlds of crime and politics was African American nightclub and newspaper owner Felix Payne. One of the cogs in the Tom Pendergast machine, Payne controlled the numbers rackets and got blacks to vote for machine candidates. Born in Marshall, Missouri, in 1884, Payne ran a tavern in Kansas City and co-owned the all-Black baseball team the Kansas City (Kansas) Giants by 1906. Payne set up gambling joints and nightclubs like the Subway, the Sunset, and the East Side Musicians Club, all of which attracted top jazz players who did after-hours jam sessions. The kind of place one of the sons of Chris Rock’s mob boss character occasionally plays in Fargo. Blues singer Big Joe Turner name dropped Payne’s partners, gamblers Big Piney Brown and his brother Little Piney, in the song, “Piney Brown Blues.”

Payne was just as successful politically as he was culturally, often fusing civic duties. In 1928, he organized 75 black Democratic clubs in the state of Missouri and started the Kansas City American newspaper with Dr. William J. Thompkins. In January 1929, Payne was kidnapped, blindfolded, robbed of his jewelry and $3,000 in cashiers’ checks, stripped naked and left in Kansas City’s Central Industrial District in subfreezing temperatures, the city’s main African American newspaper The Call, a rival to Payne’s newspaper, reported at the time. The Republican-leaning paper was very critical of the flamboyant underworld figure and his effect on the community.

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Segregation in Kansas City was systemic and multifaceted. Residential discrimination denied access to better housing, unions closed their books on black membership. African American voters in Kansas City were swayed from the Republican Party associated with the end of slavery to Pendergast’s Democratic Machine with criminal associations. Middle class whites formed a racist and segregationist voting bloc. Kansas City’s red-light district was racially segregated. Fargo captures the tensions of the time while playing loose with the specifics. Out of respect for the dead, it’s fun to keep looking.

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Clubbing (Tyler Breeze x Reader) Requested by Anon

Requested by Anon: “Do you really think I would hurt you?” + Tyler Breeze

A/N: Slightly angsty, because it brought back memories of my own, so it should at least be very well written. First Tyler Breeze fic I’ve ever written, let me know how it is!

Warnings: Slight mentions of past abuse, slight angst, mostly fluff

Pairing: Tyler Breeze x Reader

Word Count: 1,262

Becky Lynch was a very impatient creature.

You were dealing with this and becoming more familiar with it as she bounced impatiently around your hotel room while you struggled to get your hair and makeup just the way you wanted it.

“(Y/N), come onnnnn!” Becky moaned, “You are taking absolutely forever this is killing me.”

“Becky,” You quipped, “Do I ever rush your perfection? No? Don’t rush mine.”

Becky rolled her eyes, “You sound just like Tyler,” and picked up her phone, allowing you to smile softly at the mirror.

Ah, Tyler. Your boyfriend of 6 months. Tyler Breeze had taken an instant liking to you when you had showed up to you in Prada shoes and a beautiful red velvet dress that hugged your curves.

At first, you had honestly thought Tyler was gay, until you realized he just really enjoyed fashion. The two of you had immediately struck up a friendship, and had been friends for about a year until Tyler finally got the guts to ask you out.

Now, she couldn’t be happier. Tyler was funny, relatable, intelligent, and his character on Smackdown was wonderfully entertaining, despite his weirdness.

You smiled again, thinking of your Tyler. Tonight was the very first time you would be going out to a club drinking with Tyler, and though you weren’t nervous, you knew you had to look bomb.

You stuck a finger in your mouth and pulled out, taking off any extra vibrant red lipstick, and snarling at the mirror to be sure there was no red on your teeth.

When she turned and picked up her Lois Viton purse, Becky had already left the room and was halfway down the hallway, and you had to run to catch up with the long legged Irish woman.

In the elevator, you pulled your navy blue dress a little bit lower, as it was riding up. Not that that would be a problem with Tyler around.

You smiled as you and Becky met up with Naomi, Carmella, and Natalya, and the five of you piled into a cab as Naomi shouted out the name of the club over your collective giggling.

When you arrived at the obviously high-dollar club, you knew immediately that tonight was going to be fun and would likely end up with Tyler carrying you back to the hotel while you were blackout drunk.

You and your four friends scampered towards the table in the back where you could see Tyler, the Usos, Big Cass, and Finn sitting, smiling and waving.

You sauntered to Tyler’s side of the table and sat next to him, giving him a welcome kiss.

“You look gorgeous, babe,” Tyler said, flashing you his million dollar smile.

Even after 6 months, he could still make you blush.

The two of you sat, visiting and catching up for a while, but as the night wore on, the drinks got stronger, the songs got louder, and the WWE superstars got rowdier.

Soon, you were dancing on the floor with Naomi, smiling and laughing, twirling and smiling. You had kicked off your shoes hours ago, as it was hard to balance in heels while drunk, and you were definitely past buzzed. You laughed, leaning on Naomi as much as she was leaning against you, and she laughed aloud.

“I’m gonna go get anotha’ drink, you wan’ anythin’?” The glowing girl slurred, and you shook your head.

“No thank you, N’omi, if ya see Ty, tell him to come dance with meee!” You squealed, sending both of you into giggles as Naomi stumbled away, and you continued dancing.

As the song ended and another started up, you felt hands on your waist, “Ty! You came!”

“Don’ know who Ty is, but he’s a dumb fuck if he left someone like you to dance alone,” Scoffed an unfamiliar voice, and you jerked away, whirling to face the stranger.

He was grinning, wearing ugly ripped up jeans and Jordans, obviously a douchebag based off of the haircut and the cheeky smile and brown eyes.

“Fuck off, I came with someone,” You tried to say strongly, but your voice was shaking. The guy had a good 100 pounds on you and at least a foot and a half in height.

The man smirked, “Really? Don’ see nobody.”

He took a step forward, and you tensed, where was Tyler?

“I-I’m warning you, dude, stay back.”

“You don’t sound like you really want that, Babe.” The scumbag said, backing you up against the wall, and you looked around frantically, where is Tyler?!

You gulped, but in a second, the man was gone from you line of vision.

Instead, he was on the floor, beneath a furious blonde who was pounding the stranger’s head off the floor.

“Tyler! Tyler stop! They’ll call the cops on you! Stop!” You said after a moment, rushing forward to grab at Tyler and fight him off the guy, not that it did any good.

Tyler didn’t stop until Big Cass lifted him off of the poor guy, who ran, and when he dropped Tyler, the blonde shot you a furious look before storming out.

After a moment, when people stopped staring, you ran out after him, finding him standing on the sidewalk in the drizzle of rain, glaring down at the street.

“T-Ty?” You murmured, reaching out to touch him, but Tyler just growled.

“Ty, are you okay?”

“Am I okay?” Tyler deadpanned, glaring at you, “Am I okay?! You were just in there parading yourself around like a slut with your dress rode up your ass and then you’re flirting with another man? Really? Am I okay?!”

He whirled on you, and you reflexively threw you r arms up to protect your head, and Tyler froze.

“B-baby?” He asked, and you gasped and dropped your arms.

“I-I Tyler I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to I swear I didn’t mean to do that-“

Tyler looked  hurt, distraught, broken, even. You felt tears well up in your eyes.

Tyler cut you off, pressing a finger to your lips and looking you in the eyes, “Baby,” he said quietly, “do you really think I would hurt you?”

You gulped, looking away, “I-I’m sorry Tyler I was just scared, you know how my exes were. I wasn’t flirting with that guy, I swear, and I’m sorry my dress rode up, I didn’t notice, I am kinda drunk still but this conversation is definitely sobering me…I’m so sorry Tyler…I just got scared.”

Tyler enveloped you in his arms, and you wrapped your own around him, sighing at the feeling.

“Baby, I’m so sorry. I was angry. I’ll never scare you like that, and I will never, ever hurt you like that baby, never. You’re my everything darling, I need you. I’m so sorry this happened tonight.”

You smiled, running your hand through his hair and sighing, “How about we just not go to clubs anymore, okay?”

He chuckled, “Yeah, I like that idea.”

“I love you Tyler, I know you’ll never hurt me on purpose.”

“I love you too, (Y/N), and never. Not even on accident. I promise.”

You smiled as Tyler waved down a cab with the arm that wasn’t wrapped around you. For the first time ever, when Tyler said that, you believed it.

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a .  age :  21 b .  birthplace :  Coast City. I’m a Lantern by birth ofc c .  current  time :  12:12 am d .  drink  you  had  last :  sweet tea e .  easiest  person(s)  to  talk  to : @maraonlaidre @fallenlantern @spacehce @volcrc f .  favorite  song(s) : Currently:Everybody knows by Sigrid and Make a Little by Midland h .  horror  yes  or  horror  no :   horror no no i .  in  love ? :   space cop hal jordan j .  jealous  of  people : depends k .  killed  someone :   no comment l .  love  at  first  sight  or  should  i  walk  by  again ? : are you barry allen or hal jordan? m .  middle  name :  Lynn n .  number  of  siblings :  zero o .  one  wish : to finish my papers q .  question  you’re  always  asked : are you okay r .  reason(s)  to  smile :  that hal jordan is out there somewhere and him and carol are happy in some universe, i’m listening to christmas music, i have sweet tea s .  song  you  sang  last :  Up on the Housetop by Gene Autry t .  top  3  fictional  characters : Caroline Ferris, Hal Jordan, Lois Lane u .  underwear  &  color :  i think they’re blue v .  vacation :   Scotland w .  when’s  your  birthday : April 22nd x .  x - rays :   not since I had knee surgery  y .  your  favorite  food :  grilled shrimp  z .  zodiac  sign :  taurus

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You seem to know DickBabs very well from the posts I've seen from you and I think you understand them a lot better than the writers that are handling them at the moment, it's sad to say that I don't think we'll get any good DickBabs ever again. How would you handle the current Dick and Babs relationship?

(This is an old-ish ask so I really hope you see this, Anon. And sorry for not getting to it earlier!)

Thank you so much! I like to think I do understand them well - they’re definitely one of my favorite relationships out there, so it’s reassuring when other fans think I have a good grasp on them. :-)

As for the current Dick/Babs relationship… man. It’s hard for me to say because, as I’ve mentioned a few times in the past, the current incarnation of Dick and Babs really doesn’t feel like the relationship I loved at all.

If we’re honest, I think rather than trying to fix New52/Rebirth Dick and Babs, I’d just let Gail Simone continue her Convergence: Nightwing/Oracle mini as an ongoing series about married preboot Dick and Babs. I think I’d have the first arc revolve around them being newlyweds who find it incredibly hard to make time for their marriage - Babs is Oracle, Dick is Nightwing, Dick is working as a cop, Babs is leading the Birds of Prey, they’re both mentoring the younger Batkids. They’re also still really dealing with the fallout of Bruce coming back from the dead (”dead”), especially with Bruce trying to form a relationship with Damian and Dick really trying to be a go-between there. Tim and Cass are also still trying to put their lives back together in a lot of ways, and Dick and Babs are very involved with that as older siblings. 

Overall it’s a lot on their plates and doesn’t translate into a lot of time for them to be regular romantic newlyweds a lot. They’re both very driven people with a canon tendency to overwork themselves to absolutely ridiculous extremes, especially Dick. So they’re both juggling a ton and trying to do far too much and that’s a strain on a marriage, especially when they’re still figuring out how this whole marriage thing works. So the first arc of my Nightwing/Oracle series would kind of revolve around them needing to acknowledge that of course, their work as crimefighters and mentors and older siblings and so on is incredibly important, but they also really need to learn when it’s time to take a break and step back for a bit, and make time for their relationship. 

(Wow, it’s almost like marriage can lead to organic, character-driven conflict without it either being a Perfect Happy Ending That Ends All Conflict Ever or making characters act in ridiculous OOC ways for the drama! Almost like healthy relationships still have natural conflict and issues to work through because marriage isn’t the end of your life! Amazing, I know.)

And honestly, you could probably have that lead into them eventually joining the current DC Universe, the same way preboot Lois and Clark and preboot Wally did? I mean, it’s comics. Some kind of weird multiverse-travel thing is always on the table. But honestly, I kinda just love the idea of a series that exists entirely in the preboot universe, with all the versions of those characters and their histories that I loved. Eventually I’d probably use the opportunity to introduce some of the good things the current universe brought to the Batfam, like Duke Thomas and Harper Row, and merge them into the pre-reboot Batfamily. (Kinda create preboot versions of them for that universe, if you will.) 

… Although on the flipside, I do really think it would be great and important to have Oracle as the mainverse incarnation of Barbara Gordon. So I might bring them into the current Rebirth universe after all? Maybe they can just like… magically bring most of the preboot Batfam with them. :-P 

(I mean, all joking aside, that’s obviously not feasible. But I definitely would bring the two of them over, and maybe have it be this thing like they did with the Titans in Rebirth, where the other characters have to recover their memories of this previous version of Dick and Babs that used to exist, and that triggers this whole memory of their previous selves so they end up being a lot closer to the characters we loved. And Dick and Babs like… merge with their other selves, I guess? But in a way which basically leaves them as their pre-reboot selves? …. Lest anyone think that’s too weird, that’s basically what they did with Lois Lane from what I can gather. So. Plus it’s my fantasy AU, okay. I do what I want. :-P)

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2016…WHY!!?!?!?!

I know this post is coming almost 5 months after 2017 started and actually after the 45th President of the United States has been inaugurated, but I finally had some time to look over what had happened to us and geeks everywhere during the year of 2016.

Truthfully, what the hell happened last year??  Was everything just prearranged that most of the people I either listened to or watched while I was growing up were going to pass away during the same 12 month period?  If you were living in a hole last year like a hermit, or if you just weren’t paying attention to the news at all, I just wanted to post a list of all of the wonderful people that we lost during 2016.

Robert Stigwood – Australian band manager and film producer (Bee Gees, Cream, Grease, Saturday Night Fever)

Nicholas Caldwell – American R&B singer (The Whispers)

Pat Harrington Jr. – Voice, stage, and TV actor (One Day at a Time)

Troy Shondell – singer for Liberty Records (known for “This Time”)

Kitty Kallen – singer from the 1930s to the 1960s

Angus Scrimm – actor and author (played the Tall Man in 1979 horror film “Phantasm”)

David Bowie

David Margulies – American actor

Brian Bedford – Tony award nominated stage actor (Shakespearean work)

Alan Rickman

Rene Angelil – Music producer and married to Celine Dion

Dan Haggerty – American actor (played Grizzly Adams)

Noreen Corcoran – American actress, dancer, and singer (co-starred on “Bachelor Father”)

Glen Frey – American singer and songwriter (founding member of “Eagles)

Abe Vigoda – American character actor (Salvatore Tessil in “The Godfather” and Phil Fish in “Barney Miller”

Paul Kantner – American guitarist, singer, and songwriter (co-found “Jefferson Airplane”)

Mike Minor – American actor (Steve Elliott on “Petticoat Junction”)

Bob Elliot – American actor and comedian (one-half of the comedy duo “Bob and Ray”)

Maurice White – American singer, songwrite, musician (founder of “Earth, Wind & Fire)

Joe Alaskey – American actor, voice artist, and impressionist (successor of Mel Blanc at Warner Bros. Animation)

Joe Dowell – American pop singer

Antonin Scalia – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

George Gaynes – Singe, actor, comedian (Eric Lassard in “Police Academy” series)

Vanity – Canadian singer, songwriter (real name Denise Matthews)(Lead singer of “Vanity 6”)

Tom Mullica – American comedy magician

Harper Lee – American novelist (“To Kill a Mockingbird”)

Yolande Fox – Miss America 1951

Sonny James – American country music singer

Lennie Baker – American singer (saxophone player for “Danny and the Juniors”)

Tony Burton – American actor, boxer, and football player (Tony “Duke” Evers in the Rocky franchise)

George Kennedy – American actor (“Cool Hand Luke”)

Gil Hill – Police Officer, Actor (Beverly Hills Cop)

Joey Martin Feek – American country music singer

Nancy Reagan – American actress and wife of Ronald Reagan

Sir George Martin – English record producer (referred to as the “Fifth Beatle”)

Robert Horton – American TV and stage actor

Keith Emerson – English musician and composer (founding member of “Emerson, Lake & Palmer”)

Frank Sinatra Jr.

Larry Drake – American actor, voice actor, and comedian (Darkman series)

Peter Brown – American actor (ABC’s Lawman)

Rob Ford – 64th Mayor of Toronto

Richard Bradford – American actor (“Man in a Suitcase”)

Joe Garagiola – Baseball player (catcher/announcer)

Ken Howard – American actor, President of SAG

Earl Hamner Jr. – American TV writer/producer (“The Waltons”)

Garry Shandling – American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer

Mother Angelica – founder of EWTN

Merle Haggard – American singer/songwriter (“The Strangers”

Doris Roberts – American actress (“Everybody Loves Raymond”)

Chyna – Professional wrestler

Prince

Lonnie Mack McIntosh – American rock, blues, and country singer/guitarist

Madeleine Sherwood – Canadian actress

William Schallert – American character actor

Morley Safer – Canadian/American broadcast journalist for CBS News

Alan Young – American actor (Wilbur on “Mister Ed”)

Burt Kwouk – British actor (Cato in “Pink Panther”)

Patty Duke – American actress (Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker”

Muhammad Ali

Gordie Howe

Christina Grimmie – American singer/songwriter (“The Voice”

Michu Meszaros – Hungarian actor (“ALF”)

Ann Guilbert – American actress (“The Dick Van Dyke Show” “The Nanny”)

Ronnie Claire Edwards – American actress (“The Waltons”)

Ron Lester – American actor (“Varsity Blues”)

Anton Yelchin – American actor (Pavel Chekov in “Star Trek” reboot)

Mack Rice – “Mustang Sally”

Buddy Ryan – Football coach

Pat Summitt – Tennessee Lady Vols head coach

Michael Cimino – Film director for “The Deer Hunter”

Elie Wiesel – Romanian-born Jewish writer, Holocause survivor (“Night”)

Noel Neill – American actress (Lois Lane in “Superman” (1948))

Garry Marshall – American actor/director (Creator of “Happy Days”)

Ricci Martin – American musician, son of Dean Martin

John Saunders – Canadian/American sports journalist (ESPN)

Alexis Arquette

Michel Richard

Kenny Baker

Fyvush Finkel

John McLaughlin

James Woolley

Jack Riley

Steven Hill

Jeanne Martin

Marvin Kaplan

Juan Gabriel

Gene Wilder

Jon Polito

Hugh O’Brian

James Stacy

Charmian Carr

Bill Nunn

Jean Shepard

Jose Fernandez

Arnold Palmer

Shimon Peres

Thomas Ford

Kevin Meaney

Pete Burns

Bobby Vee

Tammy Grimes

Kay Starr

Janet Reno

Leonard Cohen

Robert Vaughn

Leon Russell

Gwen Ifill

Holly Dunn

Mose Allison

Sharon Jones

Florence Henderson

Fidel Castro

Ron Glass

Fritz Weaver

Van Williams

Jim Delligatti

Keo Woolford

Grant Tinker

Don Calfa

Billy Chapin

Rashaan Salaam

Greg Lake

Joseph Mascolo

John Glenn

Alan Thicke

Bernard Fox – Welsh actor – “Bewitched”, “Hogan’s Heroes”, “Andy Griffith Show”

Craig Sager

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Gordie Tapp – Canadian entertainer, known as a radio and TV presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster

Michele Morgan – French film actress

Rick Parfitt – English musician for band Status Quo

Liz Smith – English character actress (Betty Gleadle, MBE)

Richard Adams – English novelist

George Michael

Vera Rubin – American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates

Alphonse Mouzon – American jazz fusion drummer and owner of Tenacious Records

George S. Irving – American actor, known for character roles on Broadway

Ricky Harris – American producer, actor and comedian

Carrie Fisher

Debbie Reynolds

William Christopher – American actor (Private Lester Hummel on Gomer Pyle and Father Mulcahy on “M*A*S*H”)

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I have two companies.Company A has been around for 13 years. SOLID tech but my heart isn't in it anymore. I could pivot, raise VC, or get it acquired (which is where I'm at now) rather than just let it die.Taking some $$ for it now would be great.Company B is doing really great. Found a co-founder. Great tech. Great space. Our users LOVE it and we are trying to close a round in 30-60 days.I have an acquirer for company A lined up and I have a LOI from them. They're dragging their feet though.I have another company I'm talking to so hopefully if I get two offers one will execute quickly.Running BOTH is driving me nuts so I want to force them to close sooner. Knowing these guys they will drag it out to 90-120 days. We've been talking since Sept 2018 ... Got an LOI about 2 weeks ago.The main company I'm talking to about acquiring Company A (let's call them SlowCorp) is on a month to month contract.I'm worried that instead of acquisition they could find a competitor and license from them instead. It's low probability but it's still a potential issue.What I'm thinking of doing is coming back to SlowCorp and presenting them with a year contract and forcing them to sign it and not renew their month to month contract.The contract would essentially be the exact same amount of cash up from they were proposing for acquisition.My idea is to bring in a 'bad cop' and let him handle that negotiation and just pay him a fixed commission on close.Thoughts? Is that too much of a dick move that could torpedo the acquisition?

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off the rack #1291

Monday, December 9, 2019

 Thank Thor for Santa's little helper. We're about as ready for Christmas as I'll ever be. Penny is leaving soon for her annual drive up north to visit family and friends while I make sure all the lights I strung don't burn down the house. I finally got around to watching the animated feature "Big Hero 6" last night and was delighted by it.

 Superman Up In The Sky #6 - Tom King (writer) Andy Kubert (pencils) Sandra Hope (inks) Brad Anderson (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). Oh man, this story has the most inept villain ever. We find out why Alice was kidnapped by an alien. I liked the trip back to Earth. Kids say the darnedest things.

 Daredevil #14 - Chip Zdarsky (writer) Marco Checchetto & Francesco Mobili (art) Nolan Woodard (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Detective Cole North is conflicted after talking about the law over coffee with Matt. Meanwhile the Police Commissioner has ordered his cops not to go into Hell's Kitchen, leading to rampant crime. It's time for the return of Daredevil and Elektra is going to be tagging along. This is going to be good.

 Young Justice #11 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) John Timms (art) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) Wes Abbott (letters). The team is back in their home dimension and they meet Naomi for the first time. Great time for a sleepover eh. Things go south when Superboy gets punked by the S.T.A.R. Labs lady. I can't wait to see what Brian Bendis does with Mike Grell's Warlord.

 Archie #709 - Nick Spencer & Mariko Tamaki (writers) Sandy Jarrell (artist) Matt Herms (colours) Jack Morelli (letters). The 5-part story of Archie's romance with Sabrina comes to an end. I am happy with the outcome.

 Savage Avengers #8 - Gerry Duggan (writer) Patch Zircher (art) Java Tartaglia (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). I love the clash of egos in this issue. Conan dines with Doom and Stephen crashes dinner. The three then go off looking for Kulan Gath. Hey, how else is the bad guy supposed to get his all powerful amulet back? I'm guessing it's another Doombot that runs afoul of the ancient wizard because heaven forbid they kill Doctor Doom again. Don't forget Doom died outside the UN in NYC and got shot dead by Taskmaster.

 Ironheart #12 - Eve L. Ewing (writer) Luciano Vecchio (art) Geoffo (layouts) Matt Milla (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). The good guys beat the bad guys and Wakanda is saved. The End. I've followed Riri Williams since she was first created by Brian Michael Bendis and I am sad that she will no longer have her own book on the racks. The crew that put out these twelve issues did Brian proud.

 Web of the Black Widow #4 - Jody Houser (writer) Stephen Mooney (art) Triona Farrell (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). It's a wounded Widow that opens this issue and we find out how that happens. Clint/Hawkeye the hothead acts before he has all the facts and Natasha pays the price. She winds up dead to rights and possibly dead period. I know she'll save herself and I want to see how she does it.

 Batman #84 - Tom King (writer) Jorge Fornes (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). There are a mind boggling number of flashbacks this issue trying to explain what the ding dong heck is going on. It all leads to the confrontation of father and son with Thomas and Bruce Wayne fighting for the fate of Batman. I don't think everything is going to change after Tom King leaves this book but man, is he ever stirring the pot.

 The Amazing Spider-Man #35 - Nick Spencer (writer) Oscar Bazaldua (art) Steve Firchow (colours) VC's Joe Caramagna (letters). This is the story where Doctor Doom was assassinated in front of the UN. Now the real Doctor Doom is pissed and has shut down New York City until the assassin is brought to him. Spider-Man finds the culprit with the help of his sister Theresa. They try to trick Victor in the end but he doesn't fall for it. It's a classic cliffhanger ending.

 Doctor Doom #3 - Christopher Cantwell (writer) Salvador Larroca (art) Guru-eFX (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). So this Doc Doom is different from the one in The Amazing Spider-Man #35 even though they were both shot to start a war between Latveria and Symkaria. This is the real one. I really liked how Victor makes Mephisto his whipping boy. The surprise ending made me groan. And that's not to mention the inconsistency between panels 2 and 4 on page one. Very bad editing.

 Marauders #3 - Gerry Duggan (writer) Michele Bandini (pencils) Michele Bandini & Elisabetta D'Amico (inks) Federico Blee (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This X-book is for fans of political intrigue. The Black King, Sebastian Shaw inducts his resurrected son Shinobi into the Hellfire Club. Consider this X-Men: Game of Thrones. This is a lot more interesting than watching Kitty sail around rescuing other mutants.

 Lois Lane #6 - Greg Rucka (writer) Mike Perkins (art) Gabe Eltaeb (colours) Simon Bowland (letters). Wow if the funeral for (spoiler alert) Alfred is as well done as this funeral for Lois's father it will be well worth the read. Lois has come a long way since she first appeared in comic books.

 Annihilation - Scourge Fantastic Four #1 - Christos Gage (writer) Diego Olortegui (pencils) Juan Vlasco, Cam Smith & Scott Hanna (inks) Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). The team goes to the Negative Zone to help fight the scourge from the Cancerverse and encounter the Ftaghn Four, infected versions of themselves. I knew it was a ftaghn bad idea to read these one shots. The art was nice though.

 20XX #1 - Jonathan Luna & Lauren Keely (writers) Jonathan Luna (art & letters). This new black & white book takes place in a future where a deadly virus either kills you or gives you special mind control powers if you survive. Survivors are designated Syms and are monitored by the government like sex offenders. It is illegal to use your powers so Syms have to be careful. Meria Bree Moore is a recent Sym and this is her story. I have yet to be disappointed by anything Jonathan Luna has done and this is no exception. Rest assured that I will want to read the rest of this story.

 Black Cat #7 - Jed MacKay (writer) Travel Foreman (art) Brian Reber (colours) Ferran Delgado (letters). This is an excellent issue where Felicia rescues the Fox from the clutches of Odessa. Unfortunately the inconsistent art was very distracting. They should have found an inker to render Travel's pencils.

 Batman Universe #6 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) Nick Derington (art) Dave Stewart (colours) A Larger World's Troy Peteri (letters). I liked how Batman used deductive reasoning to get out of his white prison. It could have been an uh-oh situation when Vandal Savage gets his hands on the White Power Ring but he was set up to fail quite cleverly. I've noticed that there's always an "AGH" in every comic book that Brian writes and when Bruce Wayne asks the Riddler where Vandal Savage, AKA Vandar Adg is I had to say "har".

 Conan Serpent War #1 - Jim Zub (writer) Scot Eaton (pencils) Scott Hanna (inks) Frank D'Armata (colours) Vanesa R. Del Rey (art: James Allison sequence) Jean-Francois Beaulieu (colours: James Allison sequence) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). Conan must face the serpent god Set but this time he's going to be teamed up with other heroes. There's Moon Knight, Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes (because another company has the rights to Red Sonja I'm sure). Jim writes in a style similar to Robert E. Howard so this was an enjoyable read. The art isn't bad and I liked the homage to Barry Smith with Conan's horned helmet and necklace. Let's see how many times the Cimmerian exclaims "by Crom" in this story.

 Thor: The Worthy #1 - This one-shot would be right at home on the racks in the nineteen seventies. There are three tales of others who have been deemed worthy of wielding the hammer.

 "Beyond the Field We Know…" by Walt Simonson (writer) Mike Hawthorne (pencils) Sal Buscema (inks) Tamra Bonvillain (colours) & John Workman (letters) has Beta Ray Bill teamed up with the Lady Sif to fight a rock troll. I forgot that those two were romantically linked in the past.

 "Hearts of Stone, Feet of Clay" by Tom DeFalco (writer) Ron Frenz (plot & pencils) Keith Williams (inks) Rachelle Rosenberg (colours) & VC's Clayton Cowles (letters) features Eric Masterson as Thunderstrike versus the Grey Gargoyle. This tale was cheesy with the inclusion of the police strike force Code: Blue. They tried to give it a modern twist by having a lesbian couple in the story.

 And finally "Rules of Reflection" by Kathryn Immonen (writer) Tom Reilly (art) Chris O'Halloran (colours) & VC's Clayton Cowles (letters) sees the Lady Sif figuring out that the new female Thor is really Jane Foster. It's in the last words Sif says to Thor in the last panel of the second to last page. Har.

 X-Men #3 - Jonathan Hickman (writer) Leinil Francis Yu (pencils) Gerry Alanguilan & Leinil Francis Yu (inks) Sunny Gho & Rain Beredo (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). I've been waiting for new super villains to show up to challenge the X-Men and this issue delivers. Meet the not so helpless little old ladies of Hordeculture, average age 71. Agrochemist Augusta Bromes, bioengineer Opal Vetiver, geneticist Lily Leymus and botanical engineer Edith Scutch. They want to return planet earth to it's pristine Garden of Eden condition by eliminating most of humanity. I like them.

 Annihilation - Scourge Nova #1 - Matthew Rosenberg (writer) Ibraim Roberson (art) Carlos Lopez (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This was better than the FF one-shot that hit the racks at the same time. I got a few chuckles catching up with Richard Rider. You don't even have to know anything about this cosmic super hero because the first three pages explain his entire existence up to this point. My enjoyment of this made me want to check out the Silver Surfer and Beta Ray Bill one-shots that will hit the racks December 11.

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Saaho movie review: Prabhas’ performance wins hearts

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Saaho movie review: Prabhas’ performance wins hearts

Saaho movie review

Star Cast: 

Prabhas, Shraddha Kapoor, Chunky Panday, Jackie Shroff, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mandira Bedi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Evelyn Sharma

Director:

Sujeeth

Producer: 

Vamsi Krishna Reddy, Pramod Uppalapati, Bhushan Kumar

Rating:

3/5 Stars

Music Director:

Tanishk Bagchi, Guru Randhawa, Badshah, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy

Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor starrer Saaho has been released in cinemas. Here is Saaho movie review which might help you to watch it.

Saaho movie Review

Story of the movie:

It tells the story of an undercover cop, Ashok Chakravarthy (Prabhas), who is ordered to crack a robbery case in Mumbai. He meets Amritha Nair (Shraddha Kapoor) and along with her he is chasing thief Jai (Neil Nitin Mukesh), whose robbery is linked to Waaji City that has heavily armed underworld don Roy (Jackie Shroff) and his rival Devraj (Chunkey Pandey). What will happen next, for this you have to watch the film.

Star Performance:

Prabhas has delivered a brilliant performance in the film. Shraddha Kapoor has done good job and her chemistry with Prabhas is the one of the attractions. While others like Neil Nitin Mukesh, Jackie Shroff, Vennela Kishore, Murali Sharma, Arun Vijay, Prakash Belavadi, Evelyn Sharma, Lal, Chunky Pandey, Mandira Bedi, Mahesh Manjrekar and Tinnu Anand have also done justice to their roles.

Music Direction:

The film’s music is good. Songs like Enni Soni and Psycho Saiyaan are already hit among the audience.

Direction: 

The film’s direction is good. Dialogues are impressive. The film has been shot brilliantly by ace cinematographer R. Madhi. While, locales and VFX works are the attractions on the technical front. The action scenes are no doubt well-executed.

Watch Or Not:

You can watch this film if you are a die-hard fan of Prabhas.

Saaho Trailer:

Watch on Youtube

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Pour Laetitia Pouliquen, le «guide de l'éthique pour l'Intelligence artificielle» de la Commission européenne est un signe: plus qu'un sujet à la mode, il s'agit d'une véritable urgence éthique et juridique dont le politique doit se saisir.

Laetitia Pouliquen, Directrice de NBIC Ethics et co-conceptrice de la Lettre Ouverte à la Commission Européenne sur la Robotique et l'IA dénonçant la résolution du Parlement Européen Règles de Droit civil de la Robotique adoptée en février 2019, qui préconisait la création d'une personnalité juridique spécifique aux robots autonomes.

L'IA révolutionne nos modes d'action et pourrait bouleverser nos repères éthiques, déjà bien fragiles. A titre d'exemple, l'IA programmée dans la voiture autonome pose des questions morales impossibles à résoudre même pour un être humain: en cas de défaillance de ma voiture, choisirai-je de tuer deux enfants ou bien trois personnes âgées, si ceux-ci venaient simultanément croiser ma trajectoire? C'est à cette question épineuse de l'éthique que la Commission Européenne a tenté de s'atteler avec la rédaction du AI Ethical Guideline ou guide d'éthique pour l'Intelligence Artificielle. Pour ce faire, la Commission Européenne a constitué un groupe de 52 experts dont la composition semble toutefois déséquilibrée: avec une large majorité d'acteurs de l'industrie et de fédérations industriels, on note l'absence quasi-totale de philosophes, éthiciens, responsables religieux, sociologues, anthropologues ou encore de personnels de santé. Parler d'éthique consiste à parler de l'Homme pour lui garantir le respect de ses libertés et le protéger de lui-même le cas échéant. La surreprésentation industrielle du groupe d'experts laisse craindre que la réflexion soit guidée par une analyse coût-bénéfice des nouvelles technologies sur les plans économiques, sociaux et environnementaux, sans inclure tout un pan de connaissance humaine sur l'agir humain face à l'emprise de décisions algorithmiques.

Dans le domaine de la santé, on pourrait envisager l'écriture d'un nouveau Serment d'Hippocrate technologique.

Autre problème posé par le projet de rapport AI Ethical Guidelines, la démarche proposée par le groupe d'experts sur l'IA est une adhésion volontaire au guide d'éthique, qui serait ainsi adopté industriel par industriel, développeur par développeur. Est-ce à dire que nous devrions compter sur une souscription volontaire des acteurs de l'IA pour voir nos droits respectés, tels que définis dans la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne et dans la Convention Européenne des Droits de l'Homme? Il serait au contraire nécessaire que ces directives éthiques en matière d'IA se conçoivent comme une charte visible par un label tel que «Ethics Inside» ou encore «Trustworthy AI» afin de garantir à l'utilisateur d'IA ce respect des règles éthiques européennes. Dans le domaine de la santé, on pourrait envisager l'écriture d'un nouveau Serment d'Hippocrate technologique. A noter que la plupart des développeurs et chercheurs en IA rencontrés l'appellent de leurs vœux pour crédibiliser leur métier et calmer les fantasmes et peurs qui occupent les esprits en matière d'IA.

Le projet du guide d'éthique de la Commission Européenne établit comme objectif: «maximiser les avantages de l'IA tout en minimisant ses risques. Une approche de l'IA centrée sur l'humain est nécessaire, nous obligeant à garder à l'esprit que le développement et l'utilisation de l'IA ne doivent pas être considérés comme un moyen en soi, mais comme ayant pour objectif d'accroître bien-être humain.» Les six principes éthiques considérés comme fondateurs et présentés par le groupe d'expert en IA sont la Bienfaisance (faire le bien), la Non-malfaisance (ne pas nuire), l'autonomie des humains, la Justice (c'est-à-dire la non-discrimination de l'IA) et l'explicabilité pour assurer autonomie, consentement éclairé et protection des donnés. Mais alors, sans autonomie, l'utilisateur n'aurait-il pas de droits? De même, transparence des algorithmes, non-discrimination, protection des données seront-ils des principes suffisants pour garantir le respect de nos libertés? Sans doute pas.

Si l'éthique comme le définit le Larousse, est la «partie de la philosophie qui envisage les fondements de la morale ainsi que l'ensemble des principes moraux qui sont à la base de la conduite de quelqu'un», on en déduit que l'éthique pratique ne peut qu'être une déclinaison de la définition des fondements de la morale. Ainsi, appliqué à l'IA, on ne peut évacuer la construction d'un cadre éthique solide et applicable pour le développement des algorithmes. L'être humain ne saurait être considéré uniquement comme un consommateur ou encore un utilisateur de services publics et commerciaux, comme nous l'avons entendu dans la bouche d'un membre du groupe d'experts, lors des travaux préparatoires de la Commission européenne.

N'y aurait-il donc aucun concept fondateur et inaliénable comme préalable aux lois sur la Bioéthique française ?

Dans le cadre français, le concept d'autonomie est à nouveau très présent dans le rapport Touraine sur la révision de la loi relative à la Bioéthique, dans son chapitre 6 concernant l'Intelligence Artificielle. L'autonomie s'appliquera cette fois non à l'autonomie de décision des machines et de l'IA mais à l'autonomie de l'homme au sens de l'autodétermination. La vision éthique de l'IA proposée dans le rapport Touraine est une éthique pratique reposant sur les principes suivants: Autonomie, Consentement éclairé, Protection de la vie privée, Établissement de la responsabilité en cas d'erreur médicale. Si les propositions effectuées dans ce rapport sont intéressantes, elles ne s'ancrent pas dans les principes intangibles et inaliénables des droits de l'Homme tels que définit, par exemple, dans la Charte des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne: dignité, libertés, égalité, solidarité, droits des citoyens à la justice. N'y aurait-il donc aucun concept fondateur et inaliénable comme préalable aux lois sur la Bioéthique française?

Or, le Groupe européen d'éthique des sciences et des nouvelles technologies, sorte de comité d'éthique européen nommé par le Président de la Commission Européenne, conteste cette notion même d'autonomie des algorithmes: «Le terme «autonomie» découle de la philosophie et désigne la capacité des personnes humaines à légiférer pour elles-mêmes, à formuler, à réfléchir et à choisir des normes, des règles et des lois à suivre. […] Il est donc impropre d'appliquer le terme «autonomie» à de simples artefacts, même s'il s'agit de systèmes adaptatifs complexes très avancés, voire «intelligents». […] La dignité humaine en tant que fondement des droits de l'Homme implique qu'une intervention et une participation humaines significatives doivent être possibles dans toutes les interactions entre la technologie et l'homme et son environnement.»

Enfin, de façon plus large, l'éthique de l'IA devrait être le point de départ d'une réflexion plus globale sur l'usage des technologies NBIC (Nanotechnologie, Biotechnologie, technologie de l'Information et technologie cognitive). Ces technologies présentent de très nombreuses convergences car elles s'empruntent toutes des applications les unes aux autres, rendant l'éthique centrale sur l'ensemble des technologies étudiées.

Ne nous laissons pas tenter par les fantasmes et le bluff technologique, selon l'expression du philosophe Jacques Ellul.

Un exemple peut être proposé dans le champ des neurosciences qui combinent dorénavant des dispositifs intracérébraux dotés d'algorithmes sophistiqués: les études des chercheurs suisses Marcello Ienca et Roberto Andorno conduisent à penser que les droits de l'homme à l'ère des neurosciences et des neurotechnologies nécessiteront la création de quatre nouveaux droits humains: le droit à la liberté cognitive, le droit à la vie privée psychique, le droit à l'intégrité mentale et le droit à la continuité psychologique.

En conclusion, ne nous laissons pas tenter par les fantasmes et le bluff technologique, selon l'expression du philosophe Jacques Ellul. Regardons en face les risques de l'IA et incitons nos responsables politiques à persévérer et trouver un consensus acceptable entre l'éthique, le droit et la compétitivité. L'IA française et européenne pourrait ainsi y trouver un avantage concurrentiel en garantissant la protection des droits fondamentaux à leurs utilisateurs.

Certes, des géants de l'IA ont déjà attiré notre attention sur les restrictions des droits de l'Homme ; certes, Jean-François Copé débat avec Laurent Alexandre dans leur ouvrage commun L'IA va-t-elle aussi tuer la démocratie? de l'éventualité de la fin de nos systèmes politiques actuels. Cependant, de belles initiatives voient le jour: ainsi, la semaine dernière, le Vatican a annoncé qu'il s'associait à Microsoft pour créer un prix universitaire destiné à promouvoir l'éthique dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle, en accord avec l'anthropologie chrétienne.

L'hédonisme libertaire de Mai 68 déclare que l'homme n'est qu'un amas de cellules que la procréatique permet de redéfinir à l'envi. Laisserons-nous les transhumanistes nous réduire à un amas de données ?

L'hédonisme libertaire de Mai 68 déclare que l'homme n'est qu'un amas de cellules que la procréatique permet de redéfinir à l'envi. Laisserons-nous les transhumanistes nous réduire à un amas de données? Faisons mentir la prévision terrifiante de Hannah Arendt qui annonce que «Savoir quel est le visage du monde n'importe plus à qui que ce soit» et affirmons que notre avenir technologique doit rester humaniste. Et pour cela, nos responsables politiques doivent annoncer courageusement qui est l'Homme, quelle est la frontière entre l'Homme et la machine et quelles sont les «augmentations» technologiques qui défigureront l'homme au détriment de sa dignité et de sa liberté.