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reality-detective · 2 months ago

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Your thoughts on this folks?

Americans have been watching a massive, controlled Military Operation who strategically and critically planned and successfully trapped the Washington Establishment… Made them all confess their crimes and play a role in this operation piece by piece… as Americans have had to visually see and witness a ‘Continuation of Government’ in the form of a “Presidential Administration” where these corrupt and evil people will, have, and will continue to destroy their system from within, spend all of their dirty money doing so, until it’s time for the Military to visually step in.

The timelines all add up and prove the Military Operation and Occupancy:

1. Snake Poem read by candidate Donald Trump – January 2016

2. 2016 Presidential Election – November 2016

3. President Elect Trump and Putin on Fox News = “ready for ‘reset’… I will work with Trump” – November 9, 2016

4. Law of War Manual (Military Occupancy and Negotiations etc.) – December 2016

5. Military Justice Act (Supreme Court clarifying Military Law is separate than Civil Law; heavy emphasis on Military Tribunal terms) – 2016

6. Military stands behind CIC Trump (Military Intelligence and JAG head bands; Optics) at Inauguration – January 2017

7. Saudi Arabia crowns Trump King – May 2017

8. Declares Jerusalem Capitol of Israel – December 2017

9. Executive Order 13818 – Declares National Emergency to deal with Human Rights Abuse – December 2017

10. CIC Trump walks in front of Queen – July 14, 2018

11. Putin hands CIC Trump soccer ball (“the ball is in your court”; did not participate in 2022 World Cup) – July 16, 2018

12. Executive Order 13848 – September 2018

13. CIC Trump makes history; walks into North Korea – June 2019

14. National Quantum Initiative – Executive Order 13885 – August 2019

15. Space Force established as Military Branch – December 2019

16. Corona Sars Virus first mentioned to American Public as a Threat from China – February 2020

17. Two more National Emergencies Declared – March 13 and 27, 2020

18. Executive Order 13912 Federalizing 1,000,000 National Guard to Active-Duty Status – March 27, 2020

19. CIC Trump quote on attack worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined – May 2020

20. National Guard Troops place fence around Capitol Building (47 US Code 606) – January 2021

21. CIC Trump receives full grade Constitutional by Law and Military Grade Inauguration ceremony – January 20, 2021

22. “Joe Biden” breaks 20th Amendment amongst many other violations – January 20, 2021

23. Aircrafts constantly over and through 33 mile no fly zone radius D.C. – January 2021 to present day

24. “Biden” extends Executive Order 13848 (first time) – September 2021

25. Quantum.gov launched – September 2021

26. New York Times reports Military Tribunals coming mid-2023 – December 2021

27. Army and branches transfer all communications to Space Force under ONE command (Biden’s never mentioned the Space Force not once; zero News Articles with his name tied to Space Force) – August 2022

28. Major Optics and Comms in CIC Trump speech – November 15 2022

29. More News Articles establishing Space Force Command Centers with zero mention of Biden – December 2022

Those few timelines and timestamps do nothing but prove a Military Operation and Occupancy along with many more Laws, Codes, Orders, Statutes, Acts, Optics,

The National Guard has been out of their state militia status and operating as Active-Duty Status every day since they were Federalized in March 2020.

There’s MORE than enough documentation and ‘proof’ to show not only the National Guard, but also thousands of World Alliance Aircrafts in and out of the United States and National Guard bases.

There’s United States Coast Guards with United States Navy at their stations. USCG is Department of Homeland Security during Peacetime and transferred to the Department of the Navy during Wartime.

The Brunson vs. Adams case simply states the obvious… Congress violated the Constitution.

- Benjamin Fulford

I will add; everyone thinks they know what's going on but very few have done any research on Trump's executive orders. Everyone has discarded Q because they have seen dates come and go without seeing any results. Fact is they weren't dates but rather chapters and paragraphs from the law of war manual.

We're going by the Book. Why? Because it has to be done by the rule of law, if not, it's just more crimes being committed.

Sun Tzu - The Art of War... Know your enemy, löök weak when you're strong, infiltrate and use disinformation to confuse the enemy. 🤔

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tomorrowusa · 4 months ago

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It was a record shattering week at ActBlue – the site which raises money for Democratic candidates, causes, and charities.

Since autumn of 2020 Ryan Murphy at GitHub has been tracking donations to ActBlue. The most money previously given to ActBlue had previously been during the seven days starting 27 September 2020. Last week ActBlue raised $252,517,168. All but the first 13 hours and 46 minutes of that was after Joe Biden stepped aside and Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Not ALL of the money raised at ActBlue was specifically for the Harris campaign. But comparison with the previous week (beginning 14 July 2024) shows that Kamala-Mania was a HŪGE factor.

July 14th - July 20th: $61,349,601

July 21th - July 27th: $252,517,168

US: Kamala Harris campaign raises $200 million in one week

The presumptive nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris to run for the Democratic Party in November's presidential election continues to make waves in US politics. The Harris campaign team said on Sunday that in her first week since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, and the party coalesced around her, the candidate raised over $200 million (€184 million) in donations. "In the week since we got started, Kamala Harris has raised $200 million dollars. 66% of that is from new donors. We've signed up 170,000 new volunteers," Harris' deputy campaign manager, Rob Flaherty, posted on X, formerly Twitter.

^^^ emphasis added

Keep in mind that Elon Putz has pledged $45 million a month to pro-MAGA PACs – i.e. $225 million. Trump is soliciting $1 billion from oil execs. Far right Silicon Valley tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel are also getting involved financially with Trump.

So there's no time to rest on our accomplishments. Freedom is not free and we need to continue to offer our own volunteer and financial support to pro-democracy candidates like Kamala Harris.

In 2020 there was a stretch when ActBlue took in over $100 million for eight weeks in a row. That's part of what it took to evict Trump from the White House. A similar effort will be needed this year to keep him out.

BTW, visit Ryan Murphy's ActBlue tracker. It's updated every 10 minutes.

ActBlue Ticker Tracker / Ryan Murphy | Observable

#kamala harris #harris for president #kamala harris 2024 #fundraising #democrats #actblue #ryan murphy #actblue ticker #elon musk #donald trump #the far right #tech oligarchs #volunteer to save democracy #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

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heroesriseandfall · 9 months ago

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Canonical Batfamily Birthdays

Here are all the birthdates I know of that are canon somewhere in DC, with a preference for the main comics continuities. I have included exact sources and image references when possible. I am not including character introduction dates, just actual birthdays.

If you find any other sources for Batfamily birthdays, please do share!

A moment of silence for Batfamily characters who don’t have canonical birthdays yet, so far as I know. This includes Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Duke Thomas, and more. :(

Summary

Source images will be further down, but here’s an overview in roughly age order (I’m not sure of Kate vs Selina’s ages) with the dates the birthdays were introduced and used:

Tim Drake: July 19th (from 2003)

Jason Todd: August 16th (from 2004)

Cassandra Cain: January 26th (from 2002)

Helena Bertinelli: February 14th (in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold universe, from 2010)

Helena Wayne: September 7th (from 1984), potentially October 20th or the 22nd of unknown month or maybe October 22 or maybe Feb 28th (all the New 52 on passports from 2011-2012). These could also be New 52 Helena Bertinelli’s birthdays or nobody’s birthdays. who even knows.

Dick Grayson: March 20th (from 1995), October ~24th ish (from 1990), November 11th (from 1976), December 1st (on Earth-16 in animated Young Justice universe, from 2012)

Barbara Gordon: September 23rd (from 1976), sometime in fall (from 1987)

Selina Kyle: March 14th (from 1976)

Kate Kane: January 26th (in Batwoman TV series from 2020), March 21st? (word-of-god by J.H. Williams III from 2012)

Bruce Wayne: October 7th (from 2021), February 19th (from 1970s various to more recently), April ~7th (from the late 1940s)

Jim Gordon: January 5th (from 1976)

Alfred Pennyworth: April 8th (from 1976), August 16th (in the Injustice: Gods Among Us universe, from 2016)

Note: in this post when I say “main comics continuity(s)/universe” I’m referring to anything that’s been a “home” continuity for the comics at some point. For example, pre-Crisis Earth-2, Earth-1/New Earth, and Earth-0/Prime Earth, as opposed to Elseworlds or DCEU earths that are still part of the broader DC multiverse but have never been the primary continuity of the comics.

Below are further details and source panels.

Details and Sources

Tim Drake

Tim has only been given one canon birthday. He turned 16 on July 19th in Robin Vol. 2 #116 (cover date Sep 2003).

Robin Vol. 2 #116 (Sep 2003)

Jason Todd

Jason turned 18 on August 16th in Detective Comics #790 (March 2004). This is his only canon birthday.

Detective Comics #790 (Mar 2004)

In post-Crisis/preboot (1986-2011) continuity, there was a gap of six months between when Jason died and when he was resurrected (Batman Annual 25). Jason died April 27th according to his death certificates in Batman Annual 25 and Batman Files 2011, so he would’ve resurrected near late October.

Batman Annual 25 (May 2006)

So, it could be that post-resurrection Jason is biologically 6 months younger than he chronologically should be. But honestly, do we even really know what multiverse-breaking resurrection punches and then a Lazarus Pit on top of that do to someone’s body??? Either way it’s just much more simple to just use his chronological age.

Cassandra Cain

Much like Tim and Jason, Cass has only ever been given one birthdate: January 26th from Batgirl Vol. 1 #33. With that birthday, she turned 18 in Batgirl Vol. 1 #37.

Batgirl Vol. 1 #33 (Dec 2002)

When Jan 26th actually comes, Bruce suggests David Cain could’ve lied about it, but Cass denies that idea and continues to treat the day as her birthday.

Batgirl Vol. 1 #37 (Apr 2003)

Why it's likely her real birthday: Bruce initially believes Cain must’ve lied because he doesn’t think Cain could’ve known her birthday. However, we later learn Cain had lied about her origins and was actually her biological father. Batgirl v1 #62 and #73 show he was there for her birth and could absolutely know the date.

On top of that, in Batgirl #37 Cass remembers celebrating her birthday with him as a child, so he did seem to actually keep track of it. I honestly don’t see any reason to believe he’d lie (Bruce is just a jealous spoilsport).

Helena Bertinelli + Wayne

I’m combining them here because the New 52 gives me a headache.

Helena Bertinelli celebrated her birthday on February 14th in a spin-off comic from the animated Batman: The Brave and the Bold series. This is obviously not part of regular comics continuity and the characters differ from the usual comics in many ways. And yet, for reasons that will soon be clear, it’s my favorite for actually being about Helena Bertinelli the Huntress and for not being an utter mess.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #14 (Apr 2010)

In a character profile at the end of Infinity Inc. #7 (Oct 1984), Helena Wayne’s birthday was September 7th, 1959. Calculating back from October 1984, that would make her 25 at the time.

During the New 52, Helena Bertinelli was initially portrayed as a long-dead (secretly alive but don’t worry about it) mobster’s daughter and replaced by Earth-2’s Helena Wayne who got stranded on Prime Earth. This H. Wayne stole H. Bertinelli’s identity in the form of several forged passports and IDs, which had hints toward birthdates. The question is, can we take any of those birthdates seriously, and if so, which birthdates and for which character? (Cue my headache.)

Skip ahead to Dick if overthinking fake passports sounds boring.

When comparing to a real Italian passport, the date on H. Wayne’s fake Italian passport appears to be a birthdate. Note that the fake name is Carol Bertinelli, not Helena. H. Wayne said her IDs were inspired by H. Bertinelli but clearly she’s taking liberties for the IDs so that’s a point toward these being useless for H. Bertinelli birthdays.

Huntress Vol. 3 #1 (Dec 2011)

I don’t recognize the month abbreviation as a real abbreviation, but from the visible letter O I’m going to assume it means October. If it is, then the date is 20 October 1985. Sidenote: a 1985 birthdate during 2011 could put her age at about 26, which is actually quite close to how old she could’ve been based on pre-Flashpoint! 1985 has been given as Helena Wayne’s death year before, so it’s an interesting choice of a birth year for her. (Thanks to DC’s sliding timescale, though, birth years don’t actually mean anything in the comics.)

They don’t show her complete US passport, but I can see a “22” in line where the day of the month should be for her birthdate. This already contradicts the previous passport. This one uses Helena Bertinelli’s actual name, though–does that make it more relevant than the Carol one or this all still ridiculous because of the discrepancies?

Worlds’ Finest Vol. 1 #1 (Jul 2012)

We can try to glean the US passport birth month from the passport number at the bottom. The first two digits (“12” here) indicate the agency that issued the passport. 12 means the Honolulu agency. Right after “USA” is supposed to be the birthdate plus an extra number, in the order of year/month/day with the year being the last two digits of a year. Here we encounter another problem. It says 810228. This would imply her birthdate is 1981/02/28. That’s February 28, 1981. Since the earlier line indicated her birthday fell on a 22nd, this already contradicts itself.

Interpreting a Machine Readable Zone (MZR) on a Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD)

However, I’d bet comic writers and artists aren’t always well versed in passport numbers (it’s already a stretch for me to bother checking it…). If they put the extra digit before the birthdate instead after, and the date is formatted month/day/year (the most common format in American English, so probably their first instinct), then we can drop the first 8 and it’s 10/22/8[?] with the last digit unknown. This would put her birthday as October 22, sometime in the 1980s. The 22 matches the earlier line, the October might match the previous passport if that really did say October (but contradicts the 20th), and the 1980s year could be 1985 to match the Italian passport.

At the end of the day I’m personally just going to let Helena Bertinelli be a Valentine’s born baby and call it a day, unless/until she gets a better one in the comics. For Helena Wayne I’d easily pick September 7th.

(My question is: did they give the crossbow vigilante a Valentine’s birthday as a Cupid joke??)

Dick Grayson

Dick has probably had the most birthdays of everyone (unless Bruce has more I don’t know about). All of them have their drawbacks.

In a main comics continuity, his most popular and most recent is “the first day of spring” so probably March 20th. This comes from Robin Annual 4 when his mom says she calls him Robin because he was born on the first day of spring. That presents some problems since there are other explanations given for the origin of “Robin,” including that his mom said he was “always bobbin’ along” (Dark Victory #12, page 17) or the original inspiration of Robin Hood (Detective Comics #38, p3).

Robin Annual 4 (Jun 1995)

Before that, in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #50 (Aug 1990), Marv Wolfman wrote a version of Dick’s origins where Dick turned 10 a week before his parents died on Halloween. That would make his birthday October ~24th (presuming that “a week” before Halloween literally means 7 days here).

Secret Origins Vol. 2 #50 (Aug 1990)

The first drawback of the October birthday is that it’s tied to Dick being 10 when his parents die on Halloween. Dick’s age and the date his parents die change a lot depending on the writer (Nightwing Vol. 1 #1 says his parents died June 27th, Dark Victory #8-9 says May, etc.). The second drawback is that few people remember this version of his birthday even exists.

Dick’s birthday is November 11th in Super DC Calendar 1976. Note: Despite being a non-diegetic calendar from almost 50 years ago, this source remains well known and used among comic enthusiasts (including those working at DC). Generally, I would say it should mainly apply just to pre-Crisis continuity, but it is also useful for characters that haven’t gotten updated birthdays ever since (like Roy Harper, Barbara Gordon, or Selina Kyle, for example).

Super DC Calendar 1976

Sidenote: Since Damian doesn’t have a canon birthday, November 11th is favorite to steal for my own fan canon Damian birthday. Dick has plenty birthdays to share and I think it’s cute. @ DC, give Damian and Steph birthdays, they’ve been birthday-less for decades!

Indeed, DC writer Tim Sheridan and editor Mike Cotton debated whether Dick’s birthday was in March or November. They favored March 20th and wrote a birthday scene in Teen Titans Academy #1 (published March 23rd, 2021). The publishing time near Dick’s birthday was intentional, though the date isn’t mentioned within the comic itself.

Link to tweet

The above birthdays were all meant to apply to a main comics continuity at some point. However, Earth-16, better known as the animated Young Justice universe (therefore outside of main comics continuity), says YJ Dick’s birthday is December 1st.

Young Justice Vol. 2 #20 (Nov 2012)

Unlike Helena Bertinelli, Dick has plenty of comics birthdays to choose from, so personally I’ll only count Dec 1st as being the birthday for YJ animated/Earth-16 Dick Grayson until or unless it’s ever mentioned to apply to main comics continuity.

Barbara Gordon

Super DC Calendar 1976 says Barbara’s birthday is September 23rd.

Super DC Calendar 1976

Since then, the only time I recall her birthdate hinted at is in Secret Origins #20 when her adoptive mom says her birthday is in the fall. This could support her birthday being September 23rd.

Secret Origins Vol. 2 #20 (Nov 1987)

Although she has celebrated her birthday on panel since then (the end of Nightwing Vol. 2 #153), she hasn’t been given any other actual birthdate. So I’ll keep September 23rd and call it a day.

Selina Kyle

Super DC Calendar 1976 says Selina’s birthday is March 14th. Once again, although it hasn’t been mentioned within a comic, it’s stuck around in popular consciousness (see: Catwoman actress Zoë Kravitz wishing Selina a happy birthday on March 14th).

Super DC Calendar 1976

Selina celebrated a birthday on panel in Catwoman (2002) #37 but the date was never mentioned. I don’t know of any other reference to her birthday, but my reading of Selina is thus far more sparse than my reading of the others.

Kate Kane

Kate’s birthday options all come from outside of the comics themselves.

In “An Un-Birthday Present,” season 1 episode 11 of Batwoman, a parallel version of her twin Beth had a driver’s license showing her date of birth as January 26, 1990. She and Kate later celebrated their birthdays on an episode aired Jan 26th, 2020. I don’t keep up with live action DC shows so I unfortunately can’t offer a screenshot (if anyone has one or the timestamp, please let me know!).

(I kinda wonder if somebody looked up Batwoman’s birthday for these episodes, saw Batgirl’s (Cass’s) birthday, and just ran with it. Batwoman and a Batgirl sharing a birthday is just. Ughhh.)

In 2012, one of her comic writers tweeted to choose a random date for her birthday and picked March 21st, which so far as I know has never been used as her birthday in comics.

Link to tweet

Bruce Wayne

Bruce’s most popular birthday is February 19th, but his most recent one is October 7th from the digital-only comic Legends of the Dark Knight. I believe that’s the only time October 7th has been referenced, but I’ve heard the animated show The Batman said his birthday was in October (can’t confirm, haven’t watched it recently).

Legends of the Dark Knight #10 (Jun 2021) - Note: two pages have been combined into one for this post

Still, even associates of DC seem to remember his February 19th birthday better. In February 2023, Warner Bro’s Gotham Knights game did a sale for Bruce’s birthday. I’ve also heard the birthday was used in the Gotham TV show, but again, I don’t watch much live action DC shows.

The February 19th birthday appears to come from the 70s and 80s. It’s his birthday in the Super DC Calendar 1976, and in Batman Family Vol. 1 #11: “Suprise, Suprise!” (May 1977). Bob Rozakis (known as DC’s “Answer Man”) said Feb 19th was Bruce’s birthday in the letter column of Detective Comics #494 (Sep 1980).

Letter column of Detective Comics #494 (Sep 1980)

Batman Family Vol. 1 #11: “Suprise, Suprise!” (Jun 1977)

Super DC Calendar 1976

Way back in the 40s, his birthday was in April, possibly April 7th. During a birthstone murder mystery, Bruce says his birthstone is a diamond, which is traditionally the April birthstone.

World’s Finest Comics #33/6 (Mar-Apr 1948): “The 5 Jewels of Doom!”

Star Spangled Comics #91 (Apr 1949) might imply the exact date was April 7th but we’d have to assume the party is on his birthday and that “this month” refers to the publishing month of April. I believe this is where people get the April 7th birthday when they bring it up.

Star Spangled Comics #91 (Apr 1949)

Early April also shines in Batman: Year One where it shows Bruce’s first night out as Batman being either the night of April 6th or the early morning of April 7th (Batman #405). So although the April Bruce birthday hasn’t been used in decades, it’s still a Batman birthday in a way.

I have also heard people say Frank Miller considered Bruce’s birthday to be in November. However, I have yet to find an original source of him saying that, and honestly (just like the “March 21st” birthday for Kate) if he never used it in any canon material I don’t put much weight in that.

Jim Gordon

The only birthday I’ve ever seen for Jim is January 5th from Super DC Calendar 1976.

Super DC Calendar 1976

Alfred Pennyworth

Alfred’s birthday in Super DC Calendar 1976 is April 8th.

Super DC Calendar 1976

In the Injustice: Gods Among Us universe (an alternate reality where the video game of the same name is set in), they show Alfred’s birth certificate, where it says his birthday is August 16th, 1943.

Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Five #26 (Jun 2016)

Maybe you’ll notice that August 16th is Jason’s birthday. A little funny considering the issue features Alfred refusing to share his birthday only for us to learn it’s the same date as Jason’s. Still, annoying. There are so many days in the year! Stop choosing the same ones!

This Alfred birthdate runs into a similar problem Helena’s birthdates did: it’s not part of main comics canon, it’s an alternate universe, so it may not be applicable to the main comics universe.

Note: if we calculate that 1943 birth year from Jun 2016 when the comic was published, that’d make Alfred 72 soon to be 73. Does that mean anything in canon? Probably not, but oh well. Also...token British character born by Windsor Castle? …of course.

Personally, I would rather go with the April 8th birthday than the Injustice one, since Injustice is an alternate universe. Also, outside of the humor of it, the idea of Alfred and Jason sharing a birthday is a bit too much for me. Still, it’s up to people’s own cherry picking.

Chronology

The birthdays in publishing order alongside notable reboots. A soft-reboot refers to reboots that only changed a few details with minor consequences, keeping the overall continuity mostly intact. A major reboot has significant effects on continuity (too many to list).

1935-1986: Pre-Crisis era (Golden Age begins ~1946, Silver Age runs from late 50s--early 70s)

Mar-Apr 1948: Bruce’s birthday is in April

Apr 1949: Bruce has a birthday party on the 7th of “this month”

Skipping a good three decades because I barely even know what’s in there. Sorry lol

Mid 70s to early 90s: Bronze Age era

1976: the super dc calendar says Bruce’s birthday is February 19th, Alfred’s is April 8th, Dick’s is November 11th, Babs is September 23rd, Selina’s is March 14th, Jim’s is Jan 5th

Jun 1977: Bruce celebrates his birthday on February 19th

Sep 1980: letter collumnist says Bruce’s birthday is February 19th

Oct 1984: Helena Wayne’s birthday is on September 7th, 1959

Mar 1986: the major Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot (begins post-Crisis/New Earth era, many previous comics are now considered Earth-2 instead)

Nov 1987: Babs birthday is in fall

Aug 1990: Dick turns 10 a week before Halloween (probably October ~24th)

Sep 1994: Zero Hour soft reboot (Batman and Robin become urban legends so Robin is not allowed on video, Bruce’s parents’ murderer is changed to unknown instead of Joe Chill, Selina is no longer a once-prostitute)

Apr 1995: Dick’s birthday is the first day of spring (probably March 20th)

Oct 2002: Cass learns her birthday is January 26th

April 2003: Cass turns 18 on January 26th

Sep 2003: Tim turns 16 on July 19th

Mar 2004: Jason turns 18 on August 16th

Jun 2006: Infinite Crisis soft reboot (Joe Chill is restored as the arrested Wayne family murderer, Superboy-Prime's punch retroactively resurrects Jason)

Apr 2010: In the Batman: Brave and the Bold universe, Helena Bertinelli celebrates her birthday February 14th

Oct 2011: the major Flashpoint reboot (end of post-Crisis/preboot, begins the New 52 and changes the primary universe to Prime Earth; significant character/timeline changes and erasures)

Dec 2011: Helena Wayne’s fake Carol Bertinelli passport seems to list October 20th as a birthdate

Jul 2012: Helena Wayne’s fake Helena Bertinelli passport lists some 22nd unknown month, Oct 22nd, or Feb 28th birthday

Sep 2012: Batwoman writer J.H. Williams III randomly picks Kate’s birthday as March 21st on Twitter

Nov 2012: Earth-16/YJ animated Dick Grayson celebrates his birthday on December 1st

Jun 2016: In the Injustice: Gods Among Us universe, Alfred’s birth certificate says his birthday is August 16th

Jul 2016: Rebirth reboot (restores some pre-Flashpoint continuity, some characters regain previous histories but now semi-synchronized with the New 52 era)

Jan 2020: Batwoman TV show Kate celebrates her birthday on January 26th

Mar 2021: Writer Tim Sheridan says he & his editor chose March 20th as Dick’s birthday over the November option

May 2021: Infinite Frontier holds all previous continuities as potential canon, restoring more of pre-Flashpoint

Jun 2021: Bruce says his birthday is October 7th in a digital-only comic

Feb 2023: Gotham Knights game has a sale for Bruce’s birthday

#batfamily #batfam #tim drake #dick grayson #bruce wayne #dc continuity #heroesriseandfall #cassandra cain #dc comics #jason todd #helena bertinelli #selina kyle #barbara gordon #jim gordon #alfred pennyworth

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pridequest64 · 2 months ago

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Anarky Reading Order

This is, based of my research the complete reading list in release order for all Anarly Comics as of October 1st 2024. Release dates were used when available but compromises were made with cover date when necessary. If you see anything that is wrong or needs new additions feel free to let me know!

(Comic Vine was a massive help in this Project!)

1. Detective Comics #608 November 1989

2. Detective Comics #609 December 1989

3. Detective Comics #620 August 1990

4. Batman #456 September 18th 1990

5. Detective Comics #627 March 1991

6. Batman Annual #15 April 18th 1991

7. Robin Annual #1 July 23rd 1992

8. Superman & Batman Magazine #1 Q3 1993

9. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #16

10. September 1993

11. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #17 September 1993

12. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #18 October 1993

13. Green Arrow #89 August 1994

14. Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #2 September 1994

15. The Batman Adventures #31 April 1995

16. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #40 May 16th 1995

17. The Batman Chronicles #1 May 30th 1995

18. The Batman Adventures #36 October 1st 1995

19. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #41 June 20th 1996

20. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #50 May 1st 1996

21. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #66 September 1st 1997

22. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #67 October 1st 1997

23. Batman: Shadow of the Bat #73 April 1998

24. DCU Heroes Secret Files February 1999

25. Anarky #1 May 1999

26. Anarky #2 June 1999

27. Anarky #3 July 1999

28. Anarky #4 August 1999

29. Anarky #5 September 1999

30. Anarky #6 October 1999

31. Anarky #7 November 1999

32. Anarky #8 December 1999

33. Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. May 2000

34. Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1 May 2000

35. Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2 May 2000

36. Green Arrow #51 August 2005

37. Robin #181 December 17th 2008

38. Robin #182 January 21st 2009

39. Robin #183 April 1st 2009

40. Red Robin #3 August 12th 2009

41. Red Robin #13 June 3rd 2010

42. Red Robin #15 August 4th 2010

43. Red Robin #16 September 9th 2010

44. Red Robin #17 November 10th 2010

45. Red Robin #18 December 8th 2010

46. Red Robin #19 January 12th 2011

47. Red Robin #20 February 9th 2011

48. Red Robin #21 March 16th 2011

49. Red Robin #22 April 13th 2011

50. Red Robin #23 May 11th 2011

51. Red Robin #24 June 8th 2011

52. Beware the Batman #1 October 23rd 2013

53. Green Lantern Corps #25 November 13th 2013

54. Detective Comics #38 Janurary 7th 2015

55. Detective Comics #39 February 4th 2015

56. Detective Comics #40 March 4th 2015

57. Detective Comics: Endgame March 11th 2015

58. Detective Comics #957 May 24th 2017

59. Detective Comics #963 August 23rd 2017

60. Detective Comics #964 September 13th 2017

61. Detective Comics #966 October 11th 2017

62. Detective Comics #968 November 22nd 2017

63. Detective Comics #970 December 13th 2017

64. Detective Comics #971 December 27th 2017

65. Detective Comics #972 January 10th 2018

66. Detective Comics #973 January 24th 2018

67. Batman: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky June 20th 2018

68. Harley Quinn #61 May 1st 2019

69. Harley Quinn #62 June 5th 2019

70. The Imfected: The Commissioner December 18th 2019

71. DC Nation Presents DC Future State November 24th 2020

72. Future State: The Next Batman #1 Janurary 5th 2021

73. I Am Batman #1 September 14th 2021

74. I Am Batman #2 October 12th 2021

75. Robins #4 February 15th 2022

76. Detective Comics #1054 February 22nd 2022

77. Batman: Urban Legends #22 December 20th 2022

#dc comics #dcu #dc universe #anarky #lonnie machin #comic books #comics

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theworkshopmann · 9 months ago

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The Booze Runner

Please, administrator, I ask for just a drop…

Type: Cosmetic/misc

Class: Demoman

Paintable: Yes

Accepted in game: no

This cosmetic was made by Steam users Diva Dan and Square. Posted on September 20th 2020, you can vote for this here!

#The Booze Runner #cosmetic #tf2 workshop #the workshop mann #tf2 #team fortress 2 #The Demoman #tf2 demoman #tf2 demo #red demoman #blu demoman #red demo #blu demo

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thelibraryghost · 10 months ago

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A Young Person's Introduction to Early 20th-Century Western Fashion

am i hip with the kids yet

General information Dotschkal, Janna. "1920's." FOUND. October 21, 2016. English Heritage. "Fashion Through History: Episode 3 – 1930s." YouTube. April 16, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Standardized Sizes in Womens Fashion and Why They FAILED." YouTube. May 16, 2021. Vintagebursche. "100 Years of Classic Menswear - and what we can learn from each decade." YouTube. February 29, 2020. Zebrowska, Karolina. "1920s Fashion Is Not What You Think It Is." YouTube. May 20, 2018.

Accessories Cox, Abby. "Flappers, Y2K, & Capitalism are Why Women "Don't" Have Pockets." YouTube. January 12, 2023. Cox, Abby. "The Disappointing Truth On Why We Don't Wear Hats Anymore..." YouTube. December 18, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of the Iconic Cloche Hat: Making 1920s Fashion." YouTube. September 18, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "When Hats were Illegal: Sewing a Goth Edwardian Hat." YouTube. February 21, 2021. Sheehan, Sarah. "Neo-Egyptomania." PatternVault. December 31, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Why Did We Stop Wearing Hats?" YouTube. April 28, 2020.

Cosmetics Banner, Bernadette. "Making and Testing a Victorian Skincare Routine." YouTube. April 8, 2023. English Heritage. "1930s Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth." YouTube. December 18, 2018. Holland, Evangeline. "On How to Be Lovely." Edwardian Promenade. April 15, 2010. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Controversial History of Color Season Analysis." YouTube. November 4, 2023.

Fabrics Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Elastic." YouTube. July 4, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "Wearing Overalls to Boycott Fashion Greedflation? Weird History of 1920." YouTube. March 16, 2024.

Gowns and formal wear Banner, Bernadette. "I Redesigned Mary Poppins' Jolly Holiday Dress Based on REAL Edwardian Lingerie Gowns." YouTube. February 20, 2021. Banner, Bernadette. "I Remade Mary Poppins’ Dress to be Actually Edwardian." YouTube. July 9, 2022. Cox, Abby. "Alexander McQueen & the Patriarchy Problem in Modern Fashion." YouTube. October 20, 2023. Cox, Abby. "What Makes a Gown Haute Couture (like House of Worth) in Victorian and Edwardian Eras?" YouTube. September 19, 2021. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "An Edwardian Woman's Fashion Evolution." YouTube. June 4, 2022. Oakes, Leimomi. "Terminology: what is a lingerie dress or lingerie frock? (and blouse, and skirt)." The Dreamstress. July 21, 2018. Rudolph, Nicole. "Stop Idolizing Coco Chanel: a shocking history of theft." YouTube. January 13, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Truth about the Fringed Flapper: Making 1920s Evening Dresses." YouTube. November 6, 2022. Vintagebursche. "1920s Theme Party - How to dress." YouTube. December 9, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "1920s Fashion Encyclopedia, Pt 1: Daywear." YouTube. November 27, 2019.

Hair care and styling Banner, Bernadette. "I Tried Following a Real Edwardian Hair Care Routine." YouTube. May 12, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Getting Dressed in the Edwardian Era / Gibson Girl Hairstyle Tutorial." YouTube. June 12, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "Titanic-era Hair Tutorial // Getting Dressed in the 1910's." YouTube.September 4, 2020. SnappyDragon. "Historical hair myths debunked : How often should you wash your hair—daily shampoo or no shampoo?" YouTube. August 12, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Weird Edwardian Beauty Tips." YouTube. February 11, 2017.

Laundry and starching Banner, Bernadette. "Ok but how did the Edwardians WASH these dresses?" YouTube. August 3, 2022.

Outerwear Cox, Abby. "Athleisure: Destroying Fashion & the Environment." YouTube. January 18, 2024. Rudolph, Nicole. "150 years of Masc Women causing a Moral Panic." YouTube. June 17, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The History of Jeans, T-shirts, and Hoodies: Time Travel 101." YouTube. March 20, 2022. Zebrowska, Karolina. "SPRING/SUMMER FASHION TRENDS REVIEW but it's 1936 (ft. original fabric samples!)." YouTube. April 22, 2022.

Shoes Rudolph, Nicole. "I Made Witchy Edwardian Shoes by Hand!" YouTube. March 14, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "Making 100 year old Comfy Slippers: Free Pattern!" YouTube. December 30, 2023. Rudolph, Nicole. "The Myth of Tiny Feet "Back Then"." YouTube. September 26, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "The True History of Stiletto Heels : the battle between Ferragamo and Dior." YouTube. August 26, 2023. Zebrowska, Karolina. "Why Is No One Talking About 1930s Shoes?" YouTube. September 15, 2020.

Undergarments Banner, Bernadette. "1903 Patented Bustle Pad Reconstruction." YouTube. June 8, 2019. Banner, Bernadette. "Achieving That Classic Edwardian Shape: Reconstructing a 1902 Bust Bodice." YouTube. April 16, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "So What are Guimpes Anyway? // Examining Antique Edwardian Guimpes." YouTube. August 21, 2020. Lady Rebecca Fashions. "They Wore Corsets in the 1920's?!" YouTube. January 29, 2022. Rudolph, Nicole. "Did Brassieres End the Corset?" YouTube. February 28, 2021. Rudolph, Nicole. "Dressing in Edwardian Clothing: Undergarments and Layers of 1907." YouTube. November 1, 2020. Rudolph, Nicole. "How Flappers got their Figure: the 1920s Silhouette." YouTube. July 10, 2022. SnappyDragon. "How pin-up photos fooled dress history : the making and marketing of lingerie pictures." YouTube. April 1, 2023.

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eloquentornot · 1 year ago

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Three years...

Three years ago today, on the 17th of June, 2020...

Welsknight's Hermitcraft season 7, episode 7, Helsknight!

(On the 25th of March 2021,

a cameo in the song Dark Roast.)

Very nearly two years ago, on the 19th of June, 2021:

Hermitcraft season 8 episode 1, A Whole New World and a promise of more appearances...

On the 7th of September, 2021, his only other appearance that season,

Xisuma's episode 1021, A Trip To Hels Kitchen!

Just over a year after that, on the 20th of September, 2022...

Welsknight's Vault Hunters episode 18, Making a MINION!

This may be too few data points to generalise from, however, I would like to wildly guess that either very soon, or in September, we are due an annual Helsknight appearance of some kind!

Happy third birthday, Helsknight!

#helsknight #hermitcraft #welsknight

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richwall101 · 2 months ago

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Bristol's New Concert Hall - The Bristol Beacon - Nov 2023

Formerly 'The Colston Hall' the building has been completely renovated and redesigned with an auditorium as acoustically perfect as possible. The rebuild was by architects & developers Levitt & Bernstein cost £130m

The original hall was opened in 1867 and has undergone several refits since and had suffered from a devastating fire.

Bristol merchant Edward Colston purchased a house on this site in 1707 and founded a boy's school there that was named after him, the school however moved out of the building in 1857 and a Company called the Colston Hall Company bought the site in 1861. Subsequently the first Colston Hall was opened to the public on the 20th of September 1867, being built in the Neo-Byzantine style

The bronze statue of Edward Colston (Atlantic Slave Trader) in the center of Bristol, was pulled down by protesters and thrown into Bristol's harbour on 11th June 2020. The statue was recovered and is now on display in Bristol's M-Shed Museum on the harbour side, still covered with graffiti and lying on its side...Many of the building and institutions in Bristol that carried the Colston name have since been renamed. However "Colston Street" in the city center retains its name.

#Bristol #Concert Hall #Beacon #Edward Colston #Architecture #Building #Auditorium

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dennydraws · 3 months ago

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I'm thinking to do anniversary reprint of FanFyria in September!

Hello friends! Time sure is flying and my plans and goals along with it lol I've been meaning to reprint FanFyria since like... ... 2020 apparently lol and now that it's 2024, maybe it's good time to make that 10 year anniversary print ... before it becomes 20th anniversary!! :D;; It comes with brand new cover and cleaned dialogue here and there for better understanding! I got one test print and there are a few things I do want to adjust before I print more copies!

It was my first personal comic that I started in around 2010 and finished in 2014. It was traditionally drawn and digitally edited and I did learn a lot through the making of it :D However it was also tied to some turbulent times in my life so I've always had a bit of mixed emotions over it. However, this year I want to celebrate that I actually finished a thing once upon a time and it was pretty big thing for me! About 230 pages long big thing!! \o/

So, for my personal enjoyment, I wanted to do an anniversary print and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in purchasing a copy? I have fond memories of shipping copies of Mirage Crown and adding the little bonus watercolor pieces - it was such good times! Of course I don't expect to get same number of sales but it's ok ! It's for fun :D

What's FanFyria? It's a story of ye self insert/avatar here Denny who goes into her own world at the best possible age of adventuring - 15 ! And she finds out about muses, creativity, big bad void and other things on the way! The comic is PG13 (as someone somewhere has likely said a bad word and that may spook children.)

I know some friends who would want to purchase copies but if any friends on tumblr would want too, please give me a vote in the poll so I will keep in mind before I place an order! :D;;

But also please don't feel pressured to. Your support means everything to me but I also know times are tough even if I do my best to have reasonable prices + shipping included ...and if my math is correct it should be about same price as Mirage Crown! \o/

#my art #signal boost #Good Morning #FanFyria #Its important to me :D;;;

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lixies-favorite-cookie · 4 months ago

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i. while you were looking at him ◦ b.c

Part 1

-chan has only ever wanted to be yours, but what is he going to do when he finds out you might not be as much of his as he might think? And what hurts the most isn't seeing somebody else's eyes glitter the way his does; it's seeing the glitter in yours slowly fade away.

❝Secrets I have held in my heart❞- arctic monkeys

Warning ◦ reader is kind of a bitch but she gets better trust me, and shes also described as having a fish allergy, forced dieting Masterlist ◦ while you were looking at him ◦ I was looking at you ◦ maybe I just wanna be yours a/n ◦ I highly suggest that you dont just click the image and scroll through if you read the dates and times it will make more sense and this chapter is kinda like the prologue it just gives you some insight into y/n and chans relationship with Brandon before they break up

❝Are harder to hide than I thought❞- arctic monkeys

Before

❝ i wanna be your vacuum cleaner❞

June 19th, 2020. 2:34 pm

❝Breathing in your dust❞

June 21st, 2020. 7:58pm

❝I wanna be your Ford Cortina❞

June 21st, 2020. 10:05pm

❝I will never rust❞

June 23rd, 2020. 3:45pm

❝if you like your coffee hot ❞

June 26th, 2020. 6:54pm

❝ let me be your coffee pot ❞

July 8th, 2020. 2:29pm

❝ you call the shots babe ❞

July 29th, 2020. 4:05pm

❝ i just wanna be yours ❞

August 8th, 2020. 3:35 am

❝ secrets i have held in my heart ❞

August 9th, 2020. 11:06 am

❝ are harder to hide then i thought ❞

September 20th, 2020. 12:59 pm

❝ maybe i just wanna be yours ❞

October 2nd, 2020. 2:45 pm

❝ i wanna be yours, i wanna be yours ❞

November 19th, 2020. 9:45 pm

❝ wanna be yours ❞

December 23rd, 2020. 1:43 am

❝ wanna be yours ❞

January 1st, 2021. 12:00 pm

©CookieCreates (posted: July, 4th 2024) All rights reserved. Do not translate, copy, or claim my works as yours! I only post on this platform so if any of my works are elsewhere, report and notify me immediately.

~cookiecreates 🍪

#stray kids fake texts #bangchan x reader #bang chan x reader #bang chan fake texts #bangchan fake texts #skz fake texts

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tacoma-narrows · 2 months ago

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Twenty (Three!) Years of Humanistic!

Abandoned Pools' first album, Humanistic was released 23 years ago today, on September 25th, 2001! For anyone who doesn't know, Abandoned Pools is my all time favorite band! I found them through Clone High in September of 2020 and immediately connected with a LOT of their songs, and in that time, Humanistic became my all time favorite album! A spot that it still retains to this day hehe.

So when I found out that the following year, almost a year to the day from when I started listening to Abandoned Pools, was Humanistic's 20th anniversary, I knew I wanted to make something big for that occasion! I ended up making a drawing based on each song in the album! This is similar to what I did for Owl City's album Cinematic later on, which I posted last year.

This is also sort of a look at proto Let's Get Back! in a way! I made this when LGB! was still just a duo act with PB and Shep, since Rye and Pumpernickel didn't join the lineup until I was about halfway through the project, and the band wasn't officially named Let's Get Back! until February of 2022 lol. The cover image here is based on the actual album cover for Humanistic, and I edited later to say "Covers by Let's Get Back!" to make it consistent with the rest of my LGB! art :3

Each piece in the series is below the cut along with the song they're connected to and some explanation about each one. Again, these pieces are three years old at this point, so some of the art is a bit wonky looking and some of these piece I'd do differently if I were to do them today, but most of them still hold up pretty well I think! :D

1: The Remedy

I based this one on the line “save your breath, your soul is hollow” and wanted to do something simplistic but still interesting! According to my friend who also likes the song, this is “exactly how that song feels” lol. It was fun working with silhouettes here, which is something I've done here and there in the time since.

2: Mercy Kiss

I decided to not actually draw them kissing bc the song says “I don’t need your mercy kiss” haha. Wanted to capture sort of a defiant attitude for this one. Posing is a little off here, and I've tweaked some minor things abt their design but overall one that I'm still pretty happy with :]

3: Start Over

I was SUPER happy with the posing on this one, I love the sense of motion it has. Basically, I wanted to express being stuck in a cycle and just wanting to go back to the way things were, which was something I was REALLY feeling at the time, but is still sort of applicable today.

4: Monster

Another one I REALLY like, with this one, I wanted to show that I can be a force to be reckoned with when standing up for myself. Or at least that’s how the song makes me feel. It’s a good rampage song too. This is another case where I really like how the pose came out. As you can also see, this is the only piece without PB since I wasn't sure how to incorporate him into this idea, but I’m sure he’s still involved somehow lol. Also this is the best song called Monster, I do not take criticism at this time.

5: Blood

Blood always feels like a sort of gloomy, spiral-y type song, so that’s what I went for. The line “we watch it burn, and we never learn, this can’t be what you’re waiting for” was really the focus for this one. A neat vibe with this one overall I think that I'm pretty happy with.

6: Suburban Muse

Suburban Muse makes me think of like, a fake sitcom town where things look normal, but things aren’t as great as they seem if you look a little closer. It even says “cue the canned applause” at one point. Also, those sort of, weird reality dreamscape neighborhood liminal space images like this where you can see where it's coming from but they just feel, off y'know

7: Sunny Day

This one is kinda weird because Sunny Day is kinda weird (though in like the best possible way, I love it). I couldn’t quite come up with a solid idea for both my OCs here, so I based them on two separate lines: “my head is inside a cloud” for PB, and “get off the bathroom floor” for Shep. In hindsight, I don't think the two separate lines approach really worked here since it feels more disjointed and not really representative of the full song, but I still like it well enough.

8: L.V.B.D.

This one was hard to come up with something for. I’ve never been super crazy abt L.V.B.D. since it feels, Very Hetero™ and I’m not about that. But it’s still sounds great and I’m definitely super glad it’s part of the album. Went for drawing Shep and PB here as little stuffed dolls, which is related to the acronym in the song’s title (which stands for Little Virgin Baby Doll) and I couldn’t think of anything better aha. I should draw plushies more often though

9: Ruin Your Life

Important: Shep and PB are only upset with upset with each other for the sake of this drawing, as I refuse to let anything bad happen between them for real. Anyways, the expressions were really fun in this one, and oh boy does this song feel very relatable over the last year or so.

10: Never

This one is very similar to Ruin Your Life for me, where it’s a sort of comforting during a dark time kind of way. Just crossing the days off hoping that things will get better soon, that’s what I went for here. The calendar is listed as 10/12 since this is the 10th song out of the 12 on the album, and the image is a reference to a previous drawing I had done of PB and Shep together :3

11: Seed

Personally, Seed is my least favorite song from the album as a whole, for similar reasons to L.V.B.D. but in a, more gross kinda way that conflicts with my ace side. The song still sounds great musically for sure. Even tho I’m not super crazy abt the song, I actually really like how this drawing came out, in fact it might be my favorite out of the whole batch, ironically enough lol. The boys are looking down into a hole from the line “there’s no more grace to fall from, there’s nowhere left to go but down” and I'm really happy with how the perspective turned out!

12: Fluorescein

Finally, Fluorescein is my favorite song of the entire album, and my favorite song in general! It’s so aggressive and loud, I love it. I decided to draw PB confronting a giant Shep bc the song makes me feel like I can take on a huge adversary and win >:] Although I do like what I chose to do here, I kinda wish I had come up with something better to represent my all time favorite song lol

So in conclusion, like I said, Humanistic is my all time favorite album and it means so much to me. Really all of AP’s work really means a lot to me, but Humanistic in particular. I found the band through watching Clone High and I am all the better for it. So thank you to Abandoned Pools for making something that I’ve gotten so much out of and I absolutely cannot wait for the sixth album coming at the end of next year!! :D

So I hope you guys liked this little trip down memory lane with me, and if you're also an enjoyer of Abandoned Pools, please let me know what you think of these and what your favorite AP songs are! I'd love to know! And if you don't listen to Abandoned Pools, I highly recommend their music if you can't tell lol. If you enjoy early 2000s alt rock sort of stuff, there's a solid chance you'll enjoy Abandoned Pools :3

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starhvney · 5 months ago

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hey! 🔮 anon here, again lmfao i came up with a time period (with specific dates): phoenix drop high | 2008 — 2012 falcon claw university | 2012 — 2016 "the big move" | may 10th, 2018 — may 14th, 2019 mystreet | may 20th, 2018 — april 4th, 2019 love~love paradise | june 30, 2019 — july 7th, 2019 lover’s lane | september 8th, 2019 — november 2nd, 2019 holiday special | december 23rd, 2019 — december 25th, 2019 new years party | december 31st, 2019 — january 1st, 2020 post-lover’s lane | january 2nd, 2020 — january 20th, 2020 emerald secret | january 20th, 2020 — january 27, 2020 aphmau’s year | march 4th, 2020 — june 28th, 2021 starlight | july 29th, 2021 — july 19th, 2021 when angels fall | august 2nd, 2021 — august 5th, 2021 you helped a lot, of course, with the years you gave me! these are just headcanons and until jess actually reveals the dates, so i'm just going to go with these when i do decide to write. they might not make sense?? it's only been two hours of me spiralling lol

ooh, i really like this! it makes sense to me! i think putting dates to everything helps me personally with remembering the order of the lore and everything,, otherwise it gets all muddled in my head >.<

#☆ star's inbox!#aphblr #aphmau #mystreet #🔮 anon

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jmagnabo92 · 14 days ago

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Sailing To Freedom Ch 8 - The Discovery

@aroyallybigbangrwrb

Alex and Henry discover what the White House chose to do against their wishes and they're pissed!

AO3

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September 20th, 2020

“Isn’t this perfect?” Alex teases as he walks along the streets of Istanbul, hand laced with Henry’s as they take in the history and beauty of the city.

“Every day with you is perfect, but I do love this city.”

“You’re such a Prince Charming – seriously.”

“You keep saying that like it’s bad thing,” Henry nearly pouts.

“Aw, baby, it’s not a bad thing. I used to pretend it was, but…” he stops and smiles at his boyfriend. “Now you’re my Prince Charming and that’s –” he stops again, this time because he spotted People magazine behind Henry in a window of a store.

The cover had three pictures, one of him and Nora dancing together at the Royal Wedding (she’d pestered him to dance just once), the one of Henry and June that never made the light of day thanks to cakegate, and a third of him and Henry together in Athens, dancing in a night club.

***

Dancing? A Key to Love? From Weddings to Nightclubs – which pair looks more in love? FDOTUS/Prince Henry, FSOTUS/Prince Henry or FSOTUS/VP Granddaughter?

***

“Alex? What’s wrong? Why’d you stop talking?” Henry asks, concerned, but Alex is too busy pulling out his phone.

They’d both put their phones on airplane mode after the fight with the White House determined that they would be able to live their somewhat fantasy life of a vacation without interruptions.

Maybe they shouldn’t have done that.

Regardless, Alex immediately starts searching their names, determined to find out what else they’ve been missing. He’s inundated with other articles all about his supposed relationship with Nora, Henry’s with June, and rumors and suspicions about the truth – that he’s with Henry. Many of them don’t show him in a great light from talking about his seemingly abandonment of the campaign to thinking he is cheating on Nora and helping Henry cheat on his sister.

He’s got like a billion tweets most of which are as terrible as the ones he got after cakegate, many of those seem to think that he was corrupting Henry and being disloyal to his sister and girlfriend. Thankfully as the articles started to suggest that the White House was lying, the tides are starting to turn, and he has a bunch of more recent tweets that are in support of him (and Henry), but none of that matters because his sister and best friend betrayed him.

He snaps screenshots of some of the articles and tweets and sends them to June.

wtf, June? i thought we were a team. i thought it was us against the world. i thought i could trust you. guess i cant, thanks for nothing.

Then, he shuts his phone off entirely. By the time he looks back at Henry, he realizes that he never answered Henry’s question because Henry’s looking at him extremely concerned.

“I – we – need to get out of here,” Alex states. “I just – not here.”

Despite not knowing what’s wrong, Henry trusts Alex and doesn’t hesitate to say, “Let’s go home, then.”

***

At first, June stares at the snapshots and the text that Alex has sent not quite believing that he would ever question that he could trust her. She’s completely confused and half-asleep, and she just doesn’t understand what the hell happened that would cause him to question her. He should know that he can trust her, but as she looks through the articles and tweets, she can see why he’d be angry.

His reputation has been shot and everything that they were trying to do to help him (well, the campaign more than him) had blown up in his face rather than theirs.

As soon as she realizes everything, she immediately calls him, but his phone goes straight to voicemail. Clearly, he doesn’t want to talk about it (which considering that he’s clearly feeling betrayed, that makes sense).

June takes her phone and makes her way to the Oval Office where she knows her mother should be meeting with Zahra this early in the morning.

“…I’m just saying that this wasn’t supposed to cause him grief –”

She doesn’t bother to knock, which causes her mother to cut herself off and redirect her attention to June.

“June, sugar, you can’t just burst into meetings –”

“WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?” June demands throwing her phone at Ellen. “You told me that he was okay with this. Have you been paying attention to the series of terrible articles making him out to be the bad guy and the tweets he’s been receiving? Everyone’s blaming him, claiming he’s corrupting Henry and betraying me and Nora – even though it’s the other way around. Did you know about this?!”

“We were just talking about this, actually,” Ellen states, referring to her and Zahra. “I have not been paying close attention to what this has done to Alex’s numbers –”

“This isn’t about his fucking numbers – he’s a person – YOUR SON and you’re letting the media trash him all because you didn’t want him to come out!”

“June, you have to calm down.”

“I don’t have to do shit,” June states, just as angry, although not as loudly. “It’s one thing to decide to ruin your own relationship with him, but to ruin mine – and Nora’s – because now he thinks I’ve been a party to ignoring his wishes and letting him get trashed in the media. He’s the youngest here, we’re supposed to be protecting him, not throwing him to the wolves.”

“We’re going to fix it,” Ellen says when June finally takes a breath.

“By admitting that it was all a lie and he’s done nothing wrong?” June asks, hopefully. She knows that’s probably too hopeful considering that her mother had clearly gone against Alex’s wishes in the first place.

“No, that would only ruin your mother’s campaign,” Zahra states, entering the conversation for the first time. “Which is priority right now.”

“And I should care about that right now?”

“Now, hold on, you should care about the campaign –”

“Not when it’s clearly come at the expense of her kids and their lives,” June states. “The media has ruined his reputation, and that’s going to stick for a long time. Well passed my mother’s time in office and that’s bullshit.”

“We’re going to fix it with articles about all of the good things he’s done over the years,” Ellen states. “Damage control.”

June crosses her arms and stares at Ellen, unbelievably. “You know that the only way to truly fix this is to admit the truth and you don’t care enough to do it.”

“We can admit something or work something out after the election. He can start doing other First Son things, and maybe some charity work will come up after this mess, but for now… we’ll just do things more subtly.”

June scoffs and rolls her eyes.

“Now, why don’t you sit down, and we can talk about your upcoming appearances,” Ellen asks in a tone that suggests it’s not a question.

Well, too bad.

“Cancel them,” June states. “Because I’m not going.”

“June, you can’t –”

“I can and I will. I should’ve done it the second you fired Alex instead of helping you cover for him.” She’s honestly mad at herself for helping to keep Alex hidden away like he did something wrong by falling for Henry. “Maybe then, you would’ve considered what you could do to help your kid and control the narrative before he became a target for Richards and the conservative movement, who are using this photo and Alex’s appearing to cheat with my boyfriend on his girlfriend in the press to tear you a new one.”

“June, you have to understand…”

“I don’t have to understand shit, I’m done. You want my support? Fix this shit.”

With that, she storms off, taking her phone and trying to reach Alex again. She needs to fix this.

***

“I believed in them,” Alex states, the second they’re in the privacy of the little living room on the boat.

Henry had sent everyone away, so that Alex has the privacy to speak his mind and the room to pace (which their room does not have) and it’s the one time that reminds Alex that everyone else on this boat is technically Henry’s employee.

He’ll put a pin in that for later.

“I believed that they would never do this to me. Hell, I said maybe Zahra would because I’m starting to think that she doesn’t give a damn about me, but my mom? Nora? JUNE? After everything we’ve been through together, and how we’ve always supported each other… I just – how could she do this?”

There’s a part of Alex that’s begun to realize that his mother has been so wrapped up in being the president that she’s completely disregarded how she’s still a mother to her kids. He should’ve realized it sooner, particularly when she forced him to befriend Henry and not care about the tweets from hell he’d been receiving for the week between the wedding and the fake press about their friendship, but somehow, he still believed that she was better than that.

What hurts the most, though, isn’t his mother once again putting the presidency above Alex’s desires or needs – it has happened before, even if he thought she was better than that – it’s not Nora, his best friend and ex-girlfriend, because he knows that she would put logic and numbers first, it’s June.

June, his sister. June, his first best friend. June, his rock when the divorce happened. It was June that told him that she would always put him first. It was June that constantly commented that he needed to do less and stop giving himself away just for their mom. It was June that made it clear that she didn’t want to even be a party to their mom’s re-election and being the ‘first daughter’ and only did it because Alex convinced her that their mom was doing great work.

June had always told him not to sacrifice himself for his mother, and yet, here she is … a party to exactly that.

He’s not sure if he wants to cry or punch something – he’s not sure which –, but after nearly an hour of letting his stream of terrible thoughts and pacing around the tiny area spill forth, he finally takes a breath and moves to Henry’s waiting arms and buries his face into his neck.

Henry, for his part, hasn’t said a word. All he does is hold him tight and rub one hand on his back with the other in his hair.

Alex can feel him trying to show his support and comfort with his actions rather than words because he probably doesn’t know what to say at this point – he doesn’t know any of them well enough to offer anything of solace – like maybe she didn’t know, maybe she was convinced to do it, maybe she believed that Alex agreed for some asinine reason. He doesn’t know if that would help, honestly, because she did know one thing – that he wanted to come out with Henry and now his reputation is shot and he’s the one dealing with the fallout.

And he’ll continue to deal with it. Even if they come out now, he’s the one that will be torn apart, people may even believe that he stole Henry from her or some such nonsense. It’ll be exactly as they feared when he said ‘hell no’ to the damn fake dating in the first place.

He shakes his head and leans back. “I can’t deal with this, right now.”

“Tell me what you need,” Henry states. “What can I do?”

“You’re not the problem, baby, but I can’t – I can’t talk to them about fixing this or think about it anymore.” He shakes his head. “I need to run.”

Henry nods. “Do you want me to go with you?”

Alex shakes his head. “I’ll take Cash. Don’t know when I’ll be back.”

“Take all the time you need; I’ll be here when you’re ready.”

“God, I love you.”

He gives Henry a kiss and listens to Henry assure him that he loves him, too, before disappearing to get his running clothes and shoes.

He’s not surprised when Cash is waiting in one of the seats by the wheels, dressed for running, too. Of course Cash knows what he needs.

“Let’s go.”

***

June has spent hours going through the stories, comments and tweets trying to figure out how bad this mess is and alternating between trying to get ahold of Alex and Henry. She hadn’t gone so far as to call Cash, although she heard from Amy that Cash checked in – and is just as furious, something about how he should’ve been told so that Alex wasn’t suddenly blindsided by this shit – but that aside from anger, rightfully so, Alex is physically fine.

She couldn’t help noting the physical emphasis. He’s probably a hot mess when it comes to his emotions and knowing him is on a very long run. He’s probably running until his feet bleed, and he forgets that he’s been betrayed by the people he trusts the most.

June hates that she’s one of those people causing him pain at the moment. She knew something was off with the situation, and she should have insisted that she talk to him first. No wonder Zahra said he just wanted to be left alone and that they didn’t need to bother him.

Now, it all made sense.

Still, she wants to talk to Alex, herself. Apologize, tell him what happened, and hope that he forgives her. In the meantime, she’s got a mission.

Leaning back a second after reading a dozen tweets ripping Alex apart, she dials Alex again – straight to voicemail.

Deciding that maybe Henry’s the better answer, she dials his number.

“Hello, June, I expected we’d be hearing from you,” Henry states. Unlike his usual polite tone, his voice like ice as he sounds angry and frustrated. “Finally decided to check in?”

“Henry – I – is Alex there?”

“No.”

“Please, I need to talk to him.”

“That’s funny because you apparently did not desire to speak to either of us when you went on interviews and lied about being in a relationship with your brother’s boyfriend.”

She winces. She knew the interviews were a terrible idea. She knew that photos were one thing, but the interviews were an entirely different animal.

“You have to understand, Zahra told us that she convinced Alex that the photos and interviews were fine. I – we tried to call – just in case, but his phone was off –”

“Should that not have told you everything that you wanted to know? Alex (and I) made it plainly clear that there were two options: one, tell the truth, two, ignore it. You deliberately made the third option that we vetoed as this is our lives and our decision to make without confirming that we changed our minds.”

He's right, of course.

She should’ve known. She did know, deep down. She knew it in her heart, and she did it anyway.

“You’re right.”

“I am not angry with you on my behalf even though I should be,” Henry states, tonelessly. “It was bad enough that you suggested it, but to follow through with it… I cannot ignore how you betrayed him and broke his heart. He deserves better than that from you. The way he talks about you – you’re his hero. He looks up to you and he would never have broken your heart the way that you’ve broken his heart.”

“I know,” June says, trying not to cry. “If the roles were reversed, he never would’ve done this to me.” She knows that she screwed up, that she was the one person in their family not to let him down and now she has. “And I know that I should’ve known that I should’ve realized that none of it made any sense and refused to do it, but I didn’t. I let my trust in my mother and Zahra erode my instincts that it was wrong and that it was a mistake, and I don’t know what I can do to make this better.”

“That’s the problem, isn’t it? The damage is done. No matter what happens now, we tell the truth, or we just disappear, there’s always going to be people out there that believe the worst in him. That believe that he stole me from you and will not support him because of it. Do you realize that he’s the youngest of us all and they’re all believing that he’s the one that is at fault for everything? He did nothing wrong, June! I pursued him, not the other way around! And yet, everyone thinks the worst of him because his sister and his best friend decided to lie on him! How could you possibly think this was okay?”

He takes a deep breath as if trying to keep control of his anger.

“The fact is, there really isn’t anything that can be done to make this any better, but you can start with trying to correct the narrative. Remind people that things aren’t always what they appear to be, that Alex is currently with me which should suggest something about the lies, and that Alex is one of the most insanely loyal people we’ve ever known. Tell them the truth!”

“I can’t – do you know what that would do to the election?”

Henry scoffs. “You wanted a way to fix your mistake. That’s the answer. You’ve got until we reach Casablanca to make the right decision and fix this. Five days. Or we’re going to have to take matters into our own hands.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“I don’t know, yet, but that’s certainly something that Alex and I will make together since it is our lives and our relationship being affected by this. Goodbye.”

Henry hangs up before she can even consider discussing alternative ways or anything else. Effectively dismissing her and she honestly deserves it.

She has to find a way to fix this mess without compromising her mother’s re-election.

***

Just when Alex couldn’t love Henry any more than he already does, he stands in the doorway of their room listening to Henry defend him and his right to make his own choices and honestly making June understand how terrible this is for him and it’s exactly what he needs.

He’s not in this alone. Henry’s here, too, and no matter what happens – he’s always going to have him. Now and forever.

He couldn’t be more in love.

He moves to wrap his arms around Henry’s waist. He has to stretch a bit to put his chin on Henry’s shoulder and kiss his cheek.

“You really are my Prince Charming.”

Henry turns his head to him look into Alex’s eyes. “I thought you would be upset with me – talking to your sister that way.”

Alex shrugs as he kisses his cheek again before letting go and moving to the bed. “If it was for any other reason or anyone else, I’d probably punch them for talking to June like that, but you… you were saying what I probably couldn’t to help get June to fix this.”

“Sometimes even those we love hurt us, and I just – I keep thinking about what we were worried about,” Henry admits as he sits beside Alex on the bed. “I read some of the articles and comments and tweets while you were gone…”

Alex nods. “I saw enough of the articles and tweets to know how the world is looking at the situation. It doesn’t help that people are using my time locked away against me as well. It makes sense – to them, it looks like I quit randomly on my mom probably because we got caught, that maybe she was punishing me for breaking June’s heart or something (honestly who knows), and then decided I had enough and abandoned my family entirely to be with my lover at the detriment to my own sister and best friend.”

Henry nods because he, too, had obviously gotten that sense.

“I – I obviously don’t know how bad it is, and I am not ready to see how bad it is, but I asked Cash and Schmitty to download every article, all of the comments, and the tweets so that we can review it and see how bad it really is,” Alex admits as he takes off his socks and shoes, his feet are bloody and in pain. “So, we can –”

“What did you do to your feet?” Henry asks, cutting him off. He’d been nodding along until he spotted the blood.

“Oh, uh, it’s okay… it’s not as bad as it looks.”

“Not as bad as it looks? Alex, your feet are bleeding.” Henry stands up and goes to the bathroom to get some things to take care of Alex’s feet. “Is this what happens when you go for a run?”

“Sometimes,” Alex admits. “Just when I’m upset. It’s just a terrible coping mechanism.”

“That’s one way to put it.” Henry scoffs as he kneels before Alex. “You are staying off your feet for at least a day if I have to carry you everywhere on this ship. And you’re not looking at those articles or anything else for at least a day or until you can look at them and not do this to your feet.”

“To be fair, we have five days until I would even be able to run –”

“Alex.”

Alex swallows, there’s that tone – the voice of authority that unfortunately, at least in this moment, turns him on and makes him want to obey. “Okay. I promise to be better.”

“Good,” Henry says.

He then focuses on cleaning up Alex’s feet, it feels a bit strange to have Henry taking care of him like this.

“You know, I can take care of –”

“No. I’m taking care of you and you’re going to let me and then, we aren’t talking about this stupid media situation for at least a day. We’re just going to spend the night cuddling and together.”

“But –”

“No buts, Alex.”

Alex feels like he should continue fighting, but he’s honestly tired, and he sighs. “Alright, baby. Your wish is my command.”

Henry gives him a smile and a little kiss before returning to taking care of Alex. “Good boy.”

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