#fuck y’all for gatekeeping this

[royalauggie]

This is the only parallel I care about. 🥰

[deadsetobsessions]

This is based off of that one tiktok from @sorruna where it’s the audio from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.

——

Dick Grayson was a sneaky, intelligent little shit.

He was also dumb. These things are not mutually exclusive.

To this day, one of his best kept secrets- one of the many, many that he had now- was something he’d take to his grave.

Or to Jason’s grave, at least.

Dick sat down and began telling the story to ears that would never truly hear it.

——

Batman’s voice rumbled behind him as Dick, in his Robin suit, stood blankly on top of a roof.

“I know you snuck out last night, Robin.”

Dick froze, train of thought about his dinner derailed. Holy busted, Batman! Quick! Play dumb!

“Who’s Robin?” He asked, the years of performing in front of a large crowd coming to save his ass.

Not that dumb!

Batman sent him a dry look, reprimand already poised on his lips. Dick, however, was nothing but a good performer. Nay, a dedicated performer.

Quick! Do something out of character! He shouted at himself, panicking visibly. He stepped backwards, an idea appearing in his head. In his defense, it sounded like an amazing idea at the time. He had no idea it would blow up into a Justice League issue. If he had known… Dick would have lied better, probably. There was no way he was going to let B bench him for weeks!

“Who the fuck are you?!” He yelped. Dick apologized mentally to Alfred and his parents. Batman paused, stunned.

“That’s my question. Who are you?!” Bruce asked, immediately hostile. His son doesn’t curse. Well, not in any normal way anyways. Dick quickly backpedaled by yelling at him with a heavy Vlax dialect, missing his parents terribly as he screamed stranger danger in rudimentary Romany. After this, he was going to have to convince Bruce to get him a language tutor. He refused to forget one of the only ties he had left to his parents.

“Wait, wait- you’re my son.” Bruce replied back, in perfect Romany. He looked more convinced but still skeptical.

“My dad is a circus performer! Not a flying rat!” Dick screeched back. He couldn’t help but feel touched about Bruce seeing him like a son.

“Oy! Keep it down out there, you assholes! Some of us like our sleep, damn!” A random Gothamite screamed out of their window.

“Yo, shut the fuck up! The vigilantes are helping to keep the rent low, motherfucker!” Another Gothamite shouted back.

….

Needless to say, Bruce quickly brought Dick back to the cave- with precautions to make sure he didn’t figure out where the Cave was if Dick was actually someone else.

——

“You would have loved it, Little Wing. B was running around like a headless chicken. The memory loss protocol was actually made because of me, you know.” Dick chuckled, sniffling as he talked to the carved gravestone.

It did not reply.

——

The blood tests came back. Yeppers, Dick sarcastically thought, who woulda thought I’m me?

Reinforcements were called in.

Meaning, Batgirl.

“Watch him while I contact Justice League Dark.”

“You think it’s magic?” Barbara asked.

“Yes. There was no one else near our vicinity that could affect Dick like this. He has no head wounds.”

“Eesh. Okay, go. I’ll watch him.”

Bruce disappeared in his zeta tube, looking harried. So, to everyone that’s not a Bat, he looked absolutely terrifying.

“What did you get yourself into now, Boy Wonder?” Barbara sighed. Dick was careful to keep any signs of recognition out of his face.

“Stop calling me that! Where are my parents?!” He asked back. Barbara coughed and looked uncomfortably away.

That’s right, Babs. I’m pulling out the orphan card. Feel bad. Dick hid his feral grin.

“They’re… uh, busy.” Busy being dead, Barbara thought, immediately wincing at her own thoughts. Apparently, Dick thought the excuse was lame too, and he sent her an incredulous look.

“Would you like refreshments, Master Dick?”

“What?”

Alfred held out some cookies on a platter, giving Babs a quelling look as she tried to reach for his share.

“Oh, wow, these are really good!” Dick said as he shoveled cookies into his mouth. He tried to replicate the reaction he had when he tried these for the first time, and from Alfred’s satisfied look, Dick nailed it.

——

“Robin doesn’t remember who he is.” Batman rumbled as he all but dragged Zatanna and Constantine by the scuff of their jackets towards the zeta tubes.

“Hey, wait-”

“We have no time.” Batman snarled, tossing the two magic users into the zeta. He punched in the destination.

When they got there, he glared at the two magic users until they got into the cave.

“Damn, Bats. Really living up to your name, huh?”

“Not bad,” Zatanna said as she looked around.

“Robin,” Batman- Bruce- reminded them. He did a quick glance over to check on his kids, and found them satisfactorily uninjured. Though, Barbara was looking worse for wear. Bruce quickly found out why as she stalked to him.

“You deal with him.” She muttered. “I’m going home.”

Bruce blinked and nodded. “Get home safe.”

Zatanna and Constantine followed Batman as he walked towards Robin. It was odd to see the normally laughing child frown.

“It’s you! The kidnapper! Where are my parents?!”

Bruce winced which, for him, was akin to a full body flinch and recoil. No wonder Barbara was so tired.

“Fix it.”

“Don’t get your knickers in a twist, Batsy.” Constantine grumbled.

“Well help, Batman. Though… I’m not sure if he should be doing that.”

Bruce sharply turned his head back to where Dick was. Emphasis on was. Because now, he’s halfway up the giant dinosaur the Robin had insisted they keep.

“Robin, get down from there!”

“Stranger Danger!” Dick hollered back.

Batman- Bruce Wayne- sighed.

“That’s high level magic,” Zatanna hummed. “I can’t feel anything, but I know for sure that he won’t die. Magic like that either dissipates naturally or…”

“Lasts forever,” Constantine finished.

Bruce groaned, shooting off a grappling line and swooping upwards to catch Dick as he fell from the giant dinosaur.

——

“I pretended to get my memories back later,” Dick chuckled. “And pretended to forget the whole thing. Bruce was so relieved that I stopped knocking things over and trying to do cartwheels in high places that he totally forgot I snuck out.”

Dick patted the headstone.

“But between you and me? I’m pretty sure Alfred knew. I think B pissed him off that week.”

[brother-u-stink]

Broooo incoming rant alert with caps ⬇️

Trying to sit in my local Whole Foods cafeteria, I buy a coffee and do some work on my computer and chill in the morning yk nothing wrong with that right? This SECURITY GAURD keeps HARASSING ME and being like “you only have 90 mins up here I see you here every day you CANNOT just stay up here” mind you the cafeteria is completely empty and I’m doing work and I’ve bought something. What is up with that comment btw “I’ve seen you here everyday…” can I not come here everyday? Are your profiling me bc I don’t have super fancy clothes on and you think I’m homeless? What tf is wrong with this world?? I’ve also been chilling for longer than 90 mins up here for weeks now and of course when it’s 35°f outside they are kicking people out 🤔🧐🤨 JUST SAY YOU HATE HOMELESS PEOPLE AND YOU WANT THEM TO FREEZE TO DEATH OUTSIDE. Fuck you dumbass mall cop GET A REAL FUCKING JOB and let me work in a PUBLIC SPACE in PEACE. Fuck.

I ain’t homeless btw I’m just trying to use a PUBLIC AREA AS A PAYING CUSTOMER. But it should fucking infuriate you that they put time limits and make public spaces hostile just for the sole purpose of threatening and making homeless peoples lives harder. This shit doesn’t just affect the homeless anymore it’s a war on all human beings.

Edit: I also live in a metropolitan city that has a high amount of homeless and black people so that’s why they are being like this.

[fluffypotatey]

i think i am obsessed with one specific WhatsApp work skin and will never do group chats the same way ever again

[hikikomoribunni]

ugh normies will have jobs and go to school and have partners and be conveniently attractive and claim to be hikkineets… kys lol

[violetwolfraven]

God I hate Pinterest and I really need to stop reading the comments on literally any post on there

I just saw someone straight up say they’re afraid that show fans who haven’t read the books are going to take over and dominate the fandom and they’re afraid that their memories of the books are going to get overridden by memories of the show because of new show fans, and that’s a good reason to gatekeep.

Like okay, just say you’re a party pooper and go home.

Yeah this is about Percy Jackson but I’m not gonna tag it as that cause I don’t wanna get hunted for sport

[lunannex]

Never in my life have I seen people more deranged than Genshin Impact fans

[softmelodiesss]

OK WOAH WOAH WOAH HOW THE HELL HAVE I BEEN APART OF THE CREEPYPASTA FANDOM FOR FUCKING YEARS AND I’M JUST NOW FIGURING OUT ABOUT THE DAMN MORGUE FILES

[iwatcheditbegin]

This discourse about gatekeeping is old.

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

wtf what the fuck WHAT THE FUCK… I’m speechless… HOW IS THAT HUMANLY POSSIBLE

Hi I’m also looking for local work around the area.

[asm5129]

I’m playing the new life is strange game and apparently people are pissed at how it handles following up the original because OF COURSE THEY ARE.

The first game has two endings, one where Chloe survives and one where she dies.

Officially, neither is the “canon” ending, that’s been made repeatedly clear since the original game released.

But a bunch of people keep demanding more of the Max and Chloe story. It doesn’t matter that they’ve gotten comics about it and a prequel, they still want more. They don’t want to let Life is Strange be an anthology series.

So here, Max is back as the protagonist. But guess what? Chloe isn’t a main character.

Because she fucking DIED in one of the endings, and both are canon.

So even if you choose to play in the timeline where she survived, they had to write her out or they would have had to develop two different games, one with Chloe and one without.

So instead they made it an interesting character issue. Max is stuck in the past, in the trauma of the events of the first game while Chloe wants to move forward.

It was never going to be Max and Chloe living happily ever after. It couldn’t be.

That’s not an interesting game, and it flies in the face of the ending of the original.

This game is in many ways rooted in Max dealing with that trauma and like…that’s an interesting story.

But you’re mad because the story you wanted isn’t the story they made, even though that was literally never going to happen.

The LiS fandom is shitty sometimes

Very gatekeep-y

There’s a sort of notion that there’s only one way for a Life is Strange game to be Life is Strange, but the people that buy into that don’t seem to realize that their criteria is literally just the game that already exists.

Maybe I’d give more credibility to the current criticisms if I hadn’t had to deal with YEARS of so-called “fans” harassing me for being a legitimate fan of every LiS entry, rather than just the ones it’s most popular to like. I have had to deal with this toxic gatekeeping and backlash for fucking EVER so it’s hard to give much of a shit about y’all not getting exactly what you want here.

[brightlotusmoon]

Overheard:

"God all of you are gatekeeping weirdos. If you don’t like the term don’t fucking use it. It’s really that simple. Some of y’all have serious main character syndrome when you’re giving annoying NPC at best."

"Don't tell me what to do unless I'm naked."

[malwarewolf404]

Anons once again policing what gay men get to be. Just because a large man doesn’t have body hair doesn’t automatically make him a “Chub”, what the fuck is wrong with you anon????

roadhog isn’t a bear, he’s a chub. bears have body hair. he does not. therefore, chub.

does he not have body hair in his ow1 artwork ??

[threelogsinatrenchcoat]

One of the beliefs I really hate in the autism community is that if you personally don’t think your autism disables you, you’re not autistic.

And before y’all jump me, I know that autism is a disability. It disables me. I am fully aware of that myself.

my point is that a lot of people who do genuinely have autism have a lot of internalised ableism around the label “disabled” that they just refuse to use it.

I’ve met people who fully have to work their life around their autism in order to get through a simple day and still say their autism doesn’t disable them. Because in their mind, disabled looks completely different than what they’re going through.

And for a lot of people, the word disabled can be incredibly uncomfortable if you’ve only seen it used through the media. Disabled carries a stigma around needing help, and if you’re dealing with a lot of internalised issues around your autism, you might not be able to admit that you need help.

but these people ARE autistic. They are disabled. They are struggling. And making dumb no nuance blanket statements like “if you think autism doesn’t disable you, you’re not autistic” doesn’t solve the underlying issue.

what would solve the issue is if you put more effort into removing the stigma around higher support need autistic people and the word disabled as a whole so people can realise that it’s not a dirty or bad thing to need help or struggle more than non disabled people. That would actually help a lot. Please put in more effort than whatever the fuck this gatekeeping type shit is that you’re doing now.

[lionzyon]

Why every time i ask for recs people like my post and never actually recommend anything😭

I’m starting to think yall are either too shy to interact or gatekeepers of the fucking year lmaoo

Do i have to beg?!??

(I will if i have to)

With that being said, can y’all give me some enhypen recs? It can be anything, i’m just specifically looking for Heeseung, Jake, Sunoo, & Sunghoon fics

[rollinouttahere-writes]

Does Lucky ever confuse people with her world slang? Like someone tells her something and she’s like “You being Deadass??” And they are forced to wonder what the FUCK Deadass means??? Because why would they be a dead donkey?? Or why would they want to be a dead butt???

Robin does something against an enemy:

Lucky: “Oh slay! You’re being the epitome of girlboss, gatekeep, and gaslight!”

Robin, who only knows what the words mean on their own/separated and they are NOT all a good thing:

One of the admirals saying something bad about pirates:

Lucky: “Ok boomer!”

The Admiral taking that as a bomb threat and that they are gonna explode:

The Straw Hats meeting someone new for the first time and them just being off:

Lucky: “Ok… highkey sus… y’all getting that vibe too?”

Everyone else trying to figure out if “sus” is a good thing or not:

Oh yeah this is going to be a running gag in Lucky Break

Between the use of modern slang and the references she makes, they have no idea what the hell she's talking about half the time. Nami questions if all of this is real or if she's making stuff up on the spot to mess with them. Robin takes it as a challenge and is constantly trying to decode what it all means. Luffy tries to repeat some stuff, but bless his heart he never uses it right.