#licensing protects

[starry-bi-sky]

this just in: danny fenton is just as much of a mask as Brucie Wayne? - another danyal al ghul au

Turns out, being placed in a civilian family who have no knowledge of your background is actually detrimental to the health and development of a child assassin due to lack of proper support! Surrounded by strangers in a foreign city, Danyal Al Ghul does as assassins do best. He hides. Espionage is one of many teachings one learns in the League, and it only takes half a day for Danyal to construct a new persona to hide behind: Daniel Fenton.

By the time dinner rolls around, Danyal al Ghul is safely and securely tucked behind the face of Danny Fenton; brand new adoptive child of the Fenton family who came from overseas. A shy, quiet little boy with a thick accent and curly hair, with brown skin and blue eyes, and an avid interest in the stars. The best fictions are always cobbled together in a little bit of truth, it's some of the only truth he ever lets through. He apologizes in a meek voice for his behavior early, he didn't mean to be rude, and he watches the three of them eat it up with coos.

Lies roll like silk against his lips, he struggles to meet their eyes and offers them his weakest, shyest smile. It's too easy. It's easy to go from there.

Danny Fenton, adoptive son, shy and awkward and unconfident but friendly. Who struggles in his classes and isn't the brightest, but tries his hardest. He makes bad jokes and has a quick tongue and a sarcastic mouth. He wants to be an astronaut. He's got the best aim in school, and is a terrifying dodgeball player. He's one of the least athletic kids in his grade.

It's like playing two truths and a lie, but there's only one truth, and the rest are lies. It's easy to pretend when he knows it's insincere.

Danyal Al Ghul, grandson to the Demon Head. Deadly, trained assassin. Has spilled blood, has had blood spilt from. Environmentalist, animal activist. He loves the stars. He owns a calligraphy set. A sharp tongue, an even sharper blade. He's clever, quick-witted, he would be top of his grade if he tried harder. He purposely doesn't.

He misses his family. He misses his mother, and he misses his brother. Mother visits a few times a year, so few times that he can count it on both hands. He cherishes every visit, as brief as they are. It helps remind him who he is.

Sam and Tucker are Danny's best friends. They've never met Danyal, but Danyal's met them.

It becomes routine to become Danny Fenton. As familiar and as easy as pulling on a shirt in the morning. Danyal wakes up and is always first to the bathroom in the mornings; stares at himself in the mirror until he can finally see Danny staring back at him. At night, he locks his door and sheds the mask.

Dying throws a wrench in his mask; splits a crack straight through the porcelain. He's able to smooth it over with sandpaper and liquid gold, but it's a little hard keeping his ghost form under wraps. It instinctively wants to shift to show his true self. Danyal can't have that, he's spent four years as Danny Fenton, he'll spend another four as him as well. Even if the feeling of the hazmat suit in his ghost form feels restrictive, like a too-small shirt suctioned to his skin that needs to be peeled off.

He'll live. Er-- well, you know what he means. It's frustrating however, trying to keep his Danny Fenton mask up even as Phantom - fighting in the air is something he needs to get used to, and the sudden propping of powers throws him off. But he is nothing if not adaptive, and he hates that he needs to slow his own skills down in order to keep pretenses up in front of Sam and Tucker.

The first time Danyal summons a sword when he's alone, is one of the few times Danyal gets to grin instead of Danny. He's fighting Skulker, and from an invisible hilt he draws a katana from thin air. It startles them both. Skulker takes a step back at the smile that spreads across his face.

They're both silent as Danyal examines his new sword.

"Do you know what people like me do to people like you, poacher?" Danyal finally asks him, the accent he began to hide a few months in slipping through. He drops all pretense, dragging the flat end of the blade slow and appreciatively against his palm. It's a good make, and when he cuts it through the air, it slices through like butter. He looks up at Skulker with a smile; "are you ready to find out?"

When Sam and Tucker ask about why Skulker seems so skittish around Danny now, Danny shrugs at them and says with a playful smile; "I don't know, I guess I kicked his butt too hard after our last fight." and he watches as Sam rolls her eyes exasperatedly, and Tucker snickers with his own joke.

By the time he reunites with Damian before their 15th birthday, Danyal is buried beneath so many layers of Danny Fenton that his brother will need a shovel to dig him out. He's not sure what he'll find.

[jay-wasstuff]

Some of you ship tedbecca, tedtrent, and/or roykeeleyjamie and was extremely disappointed that none of them set sail in the finale but none of you will ever understand the pain of my otp not happening,

Dr Jacob X Being Reported/Losing License

[jjarvelous]

hand drawn map of tatooine, comprising of most locations on the tatooine wookiepedia

unpainted and title close up below cut

title closeup bc it sparkles ✨

[thepoisonroom]

hate when i see a post about lesbianism and i search 'trans' and 'gender' on op's blog and there's no results which could mean nothing. but could also mean what i think it means.

[bonefall]

the "strange place" could be a private wildlife collector? i know the buying and selling of wild animals as pets can be pretty bad in the uk (or at least it is w/ birds of prey? that's abt what i know)

OH that's a good idea, that's going to be one of my top choices for if I DO end up needing to change the "twoleg den" in the upcoming super edition. Private wildlife collectors are a HUGE problem because the laws on simply owning exotic animals (as long as they're not covered by the Dangerous Wild Animals Act) are suuuuper lax in the UK, and the Zoo Licensing Act only applies if you accept general admission.

(and even then, specifically, you can take admission a limited amount of times a year. James Wellington's Animal Welfare Nightmare Extravaganza, beloved winter tradition, £25 each, kiddies of edible height get in free)

Birds in particular are a huuuge issue because there's big oversights in the laws surrounding the keeping of birds of prey. You don't actually need a license to own any birds except ostriches and cassowaries, or one of the five destructive invasive birds. Your pet eagle just needs to be registered so they know you didn't snatch it from the wild. Licenses will only apply if you're breeding, selling, or using it for falconry.

Maybe I could even tie this hypothetical antagonist guy to Sharptooth/One Eye/The God of Summer's previous human incarnation, on some off-chance the series ends up using this villain again. That could be kinda neat.

[tea-and-secrets]

i think there should be a license to have kids. like theres already so much paperwork involved and it might benefit people. basically you have to fill out this form that says you're not addicted to recreational substances (phrased like that bc things like Adderall are used recreationally but also to genuinely help people), and that your finances are solid enough to support children, and you have solid housing, etc, etc. This idea is probably really stupid and it would bring a lot of issues (accidental pregnancies for example) but in a perfect world it would be so useful. I genuinely believe that people who are already in poverty, or addicts, or have severe mental instability (ie psychosis) shouldn't have children. Even if they really, really want to. It just puts unnecessary strain on already struggling people and in the best case leaves the child mildly traumatized, in the worst case severely traumatized, disabled and/or dead.

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[thebookworm0001]

anyway hi stop fucking saying voting doesn’t matter because as a public school English teacher in Texas it absolutely fucking does

[bartholomew-junior]

they would’ve mourned luke leaving at least a little bit i think

[boopsloop363]

Why don't you think women should be allowed to vote? One of the first things women voted for was raising the age of consent (Delaware iirc)

Same reason they shouldn't serve in the military or be cops. It is shameful of men to let women engage in acts that debase them or put them in harms way. They shouldn't have to worry about stuff like politics or 9-5's because their jobs are far more important than anything men could ever do

[abaikgirl]

Saw this guy on my way to the gym. I would like to study him.

[zzztaylorzzz]

me: oh man, i really need to get this assignment done

also me: i wonder what dead by daylight terror radius would be the most fitting for some of the popular SCPs if they were added to the game. let me go through every single theme and make a list

the aformentioned list, by the way:

SCP-939 "With Many Voices/Dog": The Dredge

SCP-049 "Plague Doctor": The Nurse

SCP-096 "Shy Guy": The Twins

SCP-076 "Able": The Oni

SCP-035 "Posessive Mask": The Good Guy (Chucky)

SCP-106 "Old Man": The Cenobite (Pinhead)

SCP-079 "Old AI": The Singularity

SCP-173 "The Sculpture": The Xenomorph (Alien)

[lilaccatholic]

(Less 2A happy mutuals look away)

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GUESS WHO'S GETTING HER CONCEALED CARRY LICENSE

[koishua]

pissed and want to complain so why do i have to pay 3000€ for a driver's license??

[electoons]

pray for me I'm gonna have to call either tomorrow or Monday to fight with TotalAV to give me a refund on the antivirus that they renewed over a week early (purchased a 1-yr license on Sept 28th for $29.99, was charged on Sept 19th for 159.99 DOLLARS like a year means *a year* not 356 days) without any kind of heads up email or anything, and the receipt email went directly to my spam folder so I didn't even know I had been charged until I just checked my bank account now and saw the charge. if I can't get a refund I might do something drastic. for legal reasons I cannot say what

[area51-escapee]

Trying to be excited to start HRT this November while the looming threat of it being ripped away by next year hangs over me