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El IMSS garantiza el pago de pensiones para el 3 de julio de 2023

El IMSS garantiza el pago de pensiones para el 3 de julio de 2023 #PeriodismoParaTi #SociedadNoticias #Pensión #UnidadMédica #IMSS @Tu_IMSS @zoerobledo

Garantiza IMSS pago de pensiones para el 3 de julio de 2023 Por Martín García | Reportero                                      El Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) informó a la población pensionada que, el pago de la mensualidad de julio, se realizará el próximo día lunes 3 de julio de 2023. Asimismo, las autoridades del IMSS recordó que las próximas fechas de pago para 2023…

[gravitysoda]

refusing an impossible wish and settling for one last game of chess.

[todayisafridaynight]

[silverwhittlingknife]

hi Silver! o/ because that fanart made me wonder - would you happen to know when/where Dick's stuffed elephant plush Zitka turns up in the comics?

GREETINGS CAM <3333 THAT ART WAS SO CUTE

Yeah, I think your instincts are right - it's a truly adorable bit of transformative fandom, but I'm 95% percent sure it's not comics canon. Barbara has canon plushies, but I don't think anyone else does.

I got kinda invested in the investigation (it's hard to prove a negative!) and I ended up typing out an entire History of Elinore/Zitka, so, uh, if you're curious, meet me below the cut for:

Where does Elinore / Zitka - the animal - appear in comics?

Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?

Where does Elinore / Zitka appear in comics?

We're gonna go in chronological order!

Dick's circus elephant friend was first created for practical reasons: in Batman 436, Marv Wolfman does a big expanded flashback to Dick's circus backstory as a way to subtly show us Tim before officially introducing him (so that we can have a technically-solvable mystery-of-Tim's-identity in LPoD). In this comic, there's an elephant named Elinore who loves Dick:

Aww. Such a cute elephant!

Batman 436 comes out in August 1989. New Titans 60 comes out a few months later, in November, and guess what? When Dick visits the circus, he is suddenly surprised by an unexpected blast from the past! It turns out that even though it's been years, Elinore still remembers him!

Here's the part where Elinore remembers Dick:

SUCH a cute elephant. I love her.

(Guess who else still remembers Dick even though it was so long ago. Guess which other character is about to be an unexpected blast from the past. Guess which character Elinore is directly paralleling guess guess guess sorry everything is about Dick and Tim in my mind but I can focus I swear)

Four years later, in 1993, Batman: The Animated Series retells Dick's origin story. They like and keep Wolfman's elephant, but they change her name to Zitka:

Wolfman doesn't return to the elephant beyond those two appearances, and a few years down the line, New Titans gets cancelled and Wolfman's not writing Dick anymore anyway. So the animal gets abandoned for a while, until Devin Grayson, a fan of both Wolfman and B:tAS, revives the Wolfman-era Titans team in JLA/Titans and then the ongoing series Titans 1999.

Grayson then brings back the elephant in a flashback to Dick's past in Titans 16 (Jun 2000), where she imports the B:tAS name. Sometimes I'm skeptical of TV-to-comics imports, but honestly, I endorse this one. You lose the alliteration, which is a shame, but IMO Zitka is a better elephant name than Elinore.

Here's Dick with the newly-christened Zitka in Titans 16:

Grayson also briefly references the elephant in Gotham Knights 20 and - in a final angsty callback - in Nightwing 88 (Feb 2004), where Zitka tries futilely to comfort Dick in the midst of his trauma conga line:

... And... honestly, I think that's it for comic appearances? The two Wolfman comics plus the three Grayson comics.

Both Wolfman and Grayson are writing multiple titles - Batman, New Titans, Titans, Gotham Knights, and Nightwing between the two of them, spanning a big chunk of Dick's post-Crisis canon - and both writers use the elephant for heartwarming moments of nostalgia, which means if you're doing a post-Crisis readthrough for Dick, Elinore/Zitka feels memorable. But I don't think she actually shows up that much.

For post-2011, I am not as well-informed - throwing this out to the dash? anyone know? - but I feel like Zitka the heartwarming symbol of Dick's heartwarming circus past is, uh, thematically very at odds with the Court of Owls evil!circus vibes, so my instinct is that this story element was almost certainly dropped in the reboot.

Did Dick ever have a stuffed elephant toy in comics?

In WFA, yes; in main comics continuity, no. Technically, I have not read every comic ever published, so I could be wrong!! But I don't think so.

Below, find my rambling reasoning on the tonal vibes of pre-Crisis, post-Crisis, and post-2011, and why this particular story element doesn't seem right to me for the first two.

Pre-Crisis (...okay, mostly the Silver Age): stuffed animal, yes or no?

tl;dr no, requires too much background knowledge on the part of the reader, plus the elephant wasn't a thing until later

Elinore doesn't get created until post-Crisis, but also just generally, pre-Crisis callbacks are more along the lines of this reference in Batman 129 (published in 1960), where, wow, Batman and Robin are hunting jewel thieves - and it turns out Robin recognized this strongman! BUT HOW?!

The comic goes on to recap Dick's entire origin story in flashback, on the assumption that you may not know it.

(BTW, if you'd like to know more about Haly's Circus throughout the years, nightwingology has a great post here summarizing a lot of fun plotlines and characters!)

Basically: Silver Age comics are very self-consciously episodic and kid-friendly; they're not generally gonna do overly-elaborate callbacks because they don't know what comics their kid readers may have randomly picked up or remember.

By the time of post-Crisis, comic books were being written for an adult audience buying from the direct market, i.e. readers who are collecting whole runs & don't need or want Dick's origin story to be recapped to us in full every time it's referenced. That's why in post-Crisis, we get stuff like "hey, neat, this particular soda brand is getting mentioned in several different books!!" or "in order to understand this story arc, buy SIXTEEN DIFFERENT COMICS in FIVE DIFFERENT RUNS and read them ALL ACCORDING TO A NUMBERED ORDER and also you better be following the individual plotlines and recognize these five minor characters who we don't bother to introduce!! Good luck!!" But the elaborate post-Crisis plotlines - and subtler worldbuilding like a stuffed animal callback to Dick's backstory - don't make a lot of story sense UNLESS you're imagining your readers as completionist adult fans.

So IMO a stuffed animal wouldn't be a pre-Crisis thing unless it was The Episodic Story Of the Week, and I don't think a stuffed animal is action-adventure-y enough for the fast-paced storytelling of the Silver Age. (Unless it, like, came to life and tried to eat you or something.)

Post-Crisis: stuffed animals, yes or no?

tl;dr: no, Dick's a manly tough guy, he's not gonna have a stuffed animal, that'd be lame, like something Tim might do

Part of the edgy grimdark adult vibes in 80s/90s comics is that some characters who used to be kinda silly & goofy & lighthearted - like Batman and Robin - get reimagined as Serious and Angsty and Edgy in a Tough Cool Manly Brooding Way. This massively affects characterization for Bruce, Dick, and Bruce and Dick's relationship.

(I obviously love this change & love the tense Bruce-and-Dick interactions, but plenty of fans of the earlier fluffy comics really disliked the edgy retcons of Miller / Wolfman / Starlin / et al.)

The upshot is that post-Crisis is a period when you could have a recurring reference like a stuffed elephant, but you wouldn't have a stuffed elephant, not for Dick. I think a toy like that would be too cutesy / childish / effeminate to give a male character in post-Crisis, unless you were poking fun at him.

Now, you could probably let Tim have a stuffed animal, because Tim is sometimes cool but also sometimes a tryhard loser who is faking being cool and not entirely pulling it off (see e.g. the Robin comic where he practices tough-guy faces in the mirror, or the Teen Titans comic where Conner discovers his cringy Enya CD, or when he's fanboying over Connor and it's awkward, etc etc.). A stuffed animal would be deeply embarrassing, and you'd have to be careful to compensate by having Tim do something cool afterward - but Tim's character concept allows for "he's kind of a loser sometimes."

But Dick isn't!! In post-Crisis, Dick's a tough / impressive / "cool guy" character, the kind of guy anyone would want to be, even in the flashbacks where he's Robin, and even in the stories where he's more lighthearted than angsty. It'd be kinda lame for Dick to have a stuffed elephant, so he wouldn't. I feel like Dick would be more likely to poke fun at it if someone had one, like when he's making fun of Wally for liking the Hardy Boys. Dick could have a Batman action figure, at most, and if he had one he would have it ironically.

Basically: in post-Crisis, a male character hugging a stuffed elephant feels more likely to be a punchline to me, not something poignant. (Even with Tim, Tim could have an embarrassing stuffed animal, but he couldn't hug it when sad - that's too far. Maybe Booster Gold might do this. Probably he wouldn't, but spiritually, he would. Sorry Booster ilu! <3)

Instead, Dick instinctively deals with his inner turmoil like the TORTURED ACTION HERO he is: by punching things and brooding and yelling and joining the mob and sleeping on rooftops and going on obsessive secret missions and acquiring Angsty Stubble!! Just like Batman!

(Technically I don't know if Bruce ever joined the mob but you know he would.)

Anyway as you know this is my favorite continuity and I am poking fun affectionately, but uh, yeah sdfsfdsfs. No stuffed animals.

Post-2011 / Infinite Frontier / Wayne Family Adventures: stuffed animals, yes or no?

tl;dr it's in WFA! Probably not anywhere else, but it could be.

Post-2011 stuff tends to be cutesier overall, most of all in the current Infinite Frontier era. So I don't feel like this would be tonally out-of-line with IF comics. Taylor tends to go for more meme-y references rather than fanfic references, though.

So the obvious best fit is WFA, which is aiming for a rough approximation of Silver Age family-friendly vibes - wholesome, episodic plots, Teaching Good Moral Lessons For The Youth, etc. - plus lots of Easter eggs for fanfic readers and some comic references.

And look, here we are:

Aww.

Whew - that's everything I could find!

Anyway as you can probably tell, I LOVE the elephant, so this was a very entertaining rabbit hole to go down, thank you <3

[daily-hanamura]

Aww bancho that's such a sweet sentiment! It's really

Oh.

[buckevantommy]

it's so wild to look at s1!buck compared to s7!buck

[doll-elvis]

the way the feminism would leave my body at lightning speed as soon as Elvis asked me to do something…

like cut your toenails? let me go get the clippers sir

[hand-painted-5tars]

"You are home awfully late" the post canon college AU (a kinder timeline, in which he got too caught in class. like any other guy his age. and forgot his own birthday. his boyfriend also kinda forgot because its finals but he had ordered something online which arrived the exact day) If he deserves it or not its irrelevant to him. If Fate put them together like this he will deal his own hand; And, his hands are incredibly tender when it comes to Goro Akechi.

[eliotbaum]

here's a little LydiaKasper how it started vs how they are now

[navarice]

stanning fengqing is so useless bc 100% of their interactions are them canonically trying to off one another, but the way i need to interpret them are borderline delusional. like yes, look, they briefly glanced at each other in absolute loathing and abhorrence of each other's existence, and they do indeed strike at each other's most mortifying moments with the intention to hurt deeply. BUT if you look CLOSELY at how their gazes LINGER then you can tell that they actually very slightly in a very teeny tiny way yearn for each other in a way that transcends distance and time...no no wait come back i swear it's true—

[wyrdle]

More of that au where Shuji never joins kirijo group, and takuto becomes his cognitive pscience research partner

[sociedadnoticias]

Cirugía cambia la vida de menores con labio paladar hendido: IMSS-Bienestar

Cirugía cambia la vida de menores con labio paladar hendido: IMSS-Bienestar #PeriodismoParaTi #SociedadNoticias #Noticia #LabioPaladarHendido #Ceniva #Popo #ceniza #IMSS @Tu_IMSS @zoerobledo

Cirugía plástica y reconstructiva cambia vida de niñas y niños con Labio Paladar Hendido, durante Jornadas IMSS-Bienestar en Yucatán Por Fausto Hernández | Reportero El Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) en Yucatán realizó una Jornada Quirúrgica Bienestar de cirugía plástica y reconstructiva en el Hospital IMSS-Bienestar Maxcanú, con la finalidad de mejorar la calidad de vida de…

[hella1975]

picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor reaching for the phone cause i can’t fight it anymore and i wonder if i ever cross your mind for me it happens all the time IT’S A QUARTER AFTER ONE I’M ALL ALONE AND I NEED YOU NOW SAID I WOULDN’T COME BUT I LOST ALL CONTROL AND I NEED YOU NOW AND I DONT KNOW HOW I CAN DO WITHOUT I JUST NEED YOU NOW another shot of whiskey can’t stop looking at the door wishing you’d come sweeping in the way you did before and i wonder if i ever cross your mind FOR ME IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIMEEEEE IT’S A QUARTER AFTER ONE I’M A LITTLE DRUNK AND I NEED YOU NOW SAID I WOULDN’T COME BUT I LOST ALL CONTROL AND I NEED YOU NOW AND I DON’T KNOW HOW I CAN DO WITHOUT I JUST NEED YOU NOWWWWWWW OHHHWOAHHH guess i’d rather hurt than feel nothing at alllllllllllllll IT’S A QUARTER AFTER ONE I’M ALL ALONE AND I NEED YOU NOW AND I SAID I WOULDN’T COME BUT I’M A LITTLE DRUNK AND I NEED YOU NOW AND I DON’T KNOW HOW I CAN DO WITHOUT I JUST NEED YOU NOOOWWWWWWWWWWW I JUST NEED YOU NOWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAOOOOOOOWWWW OH BABY I NEED YOU NOOWWWWWWWWWWW

[sparklepoint]

for @loveotomization and the art trade prompt silence/kiss/betrayal :3c

[3amdistress]

si, cuando soy una mala persona me doy cuenta y noto exactamente lo q hago mal. se donde y cuando me equivoque y ninguna excusa podria ser valida para semejante idiotez. no se como sea para las demas personas, si es la educacion o la sensibilidad q tiene uno hacia la gente de manera general. lo q si se es q un acto errado no tiene justificacion por mas q intentes buscar una… la logica independientemente de la q sea, hay mil y un maneras de actuar para hacerlo un poquito bien, y con la edad y la experiencia se va mejorando en eso. pero no me arrepiento. por mas q quiera hacerlo bien, no tiene caso. solo me queda seguir cagandola para poderle hacer entender q las cosas no pueden seguir asi y perdonar a alguien no es un juego de niños… no sere la gran cosa… es mas, probablemente soy de lo peor q existe en el mundo. impaciente y testaruda, el valor q le doy al tiempo y mi tan preciado razonamiento sobre hasta el mimimo detaille, me hacen ser terriblemente maniaca y perfeccionista por lo mas trivial, donde quiero ir y cuando debo desviarme o desaparecer para volver a comenzar. al final todo es absurdo y lo unico q cuenta es el camino. no es el comienzo ni el final de algo lo q vale la pena alcanzar, es el trayecto, pq es lo q mas dura, alli es donde uno debe sentir alegria y cuando no se disfruta ni un poco, hay q parar y cambiar de trayectoria. aun si puede parecer un error y q tu corazon no t va a seguir, en algun momento podras seguir viva aun sin el apoyo de tus emociones. pq nuevos sentimientos surgiran q t haran ver diferente a como estas acostumbrada. y estaras bien. no hay de q preocuparse. solo hay q tomar la puta decision de no morirte en mitad de un camino lleno de mierda. sal de alli, no importa q pierdas y piensa en ganar algo nuevo ahi afuera. algo q no conocias o se t paso. duele… duele mucho… pero no me voy a morir. no me voy a morir por el hombre q no le importaba ni lo q podria yo pensar de todas sus acciones. la daba igual y es lo q deberia ser normal. pero dejo de serlo en el instante en el q correspondio mi amor. el amor q tiro tan facilmente. perdon por no poder tirar esto mas q con lagrimas pero ni una pizca de desden. estoy saliendo del trayecto q me lleva a ti, no se si tome un atajo q me aleje mas o q me acerque a ti, pero q me hayas hecho tomar tal decision es como un toroteo del q apenas logre escapar. las balas siguen siguiendome a pesar de todo pero aunq me toquen, sobrevivire. las sacare de mi cuerpo una a una, y espero tener el coraje de no morirme primero. espero no me vaya a rendir con mi vida por alguien q en serio nunca me supo valorar. ojala seguir viva por mi.

[daily-hanamura]