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not only is yu yu hakusho older than one piece, they started filming the live action yu yu hakusho before the one piece live action - so please stop comparing the two 🙏
#yu yu hakusho#they’re so different on every level#and acting like the yyh live action is the result of one piece is bonkers#anyways#chit chat#things i notice in every reaction video so far 😂
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School is going so great and also I am so exhausted and also I am having an existential crisis
#teaching tag#the kids are great and I think I’m doing a good job teaching them and also I miss the ones from last year so much 😭😭😭😭😭#even though I know I will miss these too once they’re gone like why does 😭😭😭 it gotta be 😭😭😭😭 this way#it’s just a totally different vibe every time#the school year has a new flavor!!! and I hate that!!!!!#change is so bad and disgusting 😭😭😭#but also I think it’s good and I’m doing a good job keeping them moving#one of the revelations/realizations that I’ve had. is that I’m just starting to shift my focus#from …. wanting them to be moved to just wanting them to be engaged?#and I think it’s better.#I’m not quite wholly there. but I mean learning how to actually construct a class so that they are busy and their minds are being stretched#and employed and learning on multiple levels without just saying what I want to happen at them#and it’s a good shift but also a shift that’s making me sad#for whatever reason#it feels like another sign of maturity#but sometimes I miss my own highs#mostly I’m just so unbelievably tired lol.#like the physical and mental stamina required that I just don’t have yet#is so much.#but some strong starts have been made#and also (dare I say this lol) the effects of my reputation being established are also working in my favor#they’re a little bit scared. they’re a little bit more ready to engage and they’re more on board than they used to be#like. it’s happening faster. in terms of getting the class under control#and that’s nice. cause I remember it used to take weeks and weeks. months really.#and of course it’s ongoing and unpredictable.#but it’s better this time#anyway just rambling
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Same anon from earlier who sent that ask about how Dutch would react to javieran. I finished the fic but uh it's porn lol. If you're still interested it's "steady beat" on ao3
anon i would like you to know that i spent the first 20 minutes of my shift sitting in the bathroom reading this and i do not regret a single moment
THAT WAS SOOOO GOOD ARE UOU INSANE !-?/!?:3! JAVIERAN CONTENT WAS EXCITING ENOUGH ALREADY BUT PORN ??? AND SOFT, FLUFFY, HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE PORN ???????? you wrote this for ME !!!!!!! and i am SO GRATEFUL !-!2!2!3 OMG !!!!!!!!!! it was sooo good i was literally giggling and kicking my feet the whole time, you nailed their dynamic sooo so perfectly imo 😭💔 reading that was such a pleasure thank you for the food !!!!!
#kieran being trans ☹️☹️☹️☹️#u writing them to have an exaggerated height difference like i do (when i dont think they actually have that big of one) ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️#u constantly referring back to javier having a metronome ticking in the back of his head is soooo beautiful to me he truly is an artist of#his own … like how a painter may see a scene out of any landscape they’re in or how a photographer may note the composition of the world aro#und them … javier taking note of kieran’s heartbeat as it is the song of his life is so beautiful. oh the artistry ….#so romantic …… you captured them sooo so well !!! i do so adore how you write them …#that was pure indulgence for me thank you for writing them exactly like i do i feel so fed#a few favourite lines that had me autisiming out:#‘how much further can they go until their veins join together and their blood flows freely between their bodies?#Until their stained souls tangle into binary stars and they are left as one person?#What would happen then?’#first of all; holy shit. oh my god. that’s so romantic.#second of all: SOO SOFFTTT UGGGHH i just KNOW they want to escape it all but more than that they would love to escape into each other. into#love in all it’s glory and in a gentility so rare in the world they live in FAWK GOD I LOVE WHEN LOVE IS SEEN ON A COSMIC LEVEL like it’s so#big that it’s small because it’s in every molecule every atom every breath every speck of stardust making them up#i’m gonna be sick#also#‘He’ll make a musician of his lover yet.’#had me going INSAAANNEEEEE !!!!! INSANE !!!!!!!!!!#SO GOOD I WISH I HAD THE TIME TO YELL ABOUT IT MORE BUT I HAVE TO GET ON THE FLOOR 💔💔💔#please know i loved it so much. truly made my entire day. thank you for sharing that with me. your writing is fantastic you are truly an art#ist#rdr2#(for the sake of my blog organization sorry tag)#javieran#text#ask#hero's yelling at folks again#anon
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Hi, I was just rereading today, and I still think it's hilarious how Tsumiki handles Megumi’s divine dogs😭😂
Nanami, highly experienced grade one sorcerer: *appropriately assessing the risks of shikigami in a highly aggressive attack mode whose sorcerer is not coherent enough to order them down properly, trying to find a solution that prevents injury without necessitating the destruction of the shikigami*
Tsumiki, has a decade of being secretly smug that her brother’s shikigami love her best under her belt, ready to bank it all on the fact that her brother’s dogs are Good Boys: nanami would you move your ass
#makis spent her entire life listening to her family never shut up about the ten shadows shikigami#had one try to rip her fucking throat out#only to have everything she thought she knew turned on her head by some rando high schooler who thinks of them as her baby brothers puppies#the Zenin: the divine dogs are ancient and deadly weapons revered by our clan#tsumiki comes home every day and asks her brother to summon them so she can give them belly rubs: they’re good boys is what they are#Shiro: *absolutely rabid levels of aggression against everyone*#tsumiki: :(#Shiro: *sad puppy mode*#sea glass gardens#next chapter still almost done just on brief hold due to work being crazy#when tsumiki was growing up kuro and Shiro was just megumis invisible puppies who walked them home from school and kept them safe#she has suchhh a different frame of reference for them#she remembers a time where she didn’t even know if they were real but she knew that they made her brother happy and that he loved them#so she loved them too#tsumiki was a scared little girl all on her own who’s brother was suddenly seeing horrible monsters but he also had his puppies to protect#them. she’s always adored kuro and Shiro because she views them as megumis protectors and companions
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Sometimes I wish I had more people interested in my creations, but then I get hit by thoughts like “Imagine the outrage you’d be faced with if your Avatar Suiren AU was more popular. This is the fandom that still cannot ‘forgive’ Korra for SOMETHING THAT WAS DONE TO HER, calling her the worst Avatar for losing the connection to her past lives (which came about because she HAD RAAVA LITERALLY RIPPED OUR OF HER) and acting like that is somehow a worse offence than, say, inaction leading to genocide. The hate you’d get for intentionally making Suiren the last Avatar would be IMMEASURABLE” and go “… actually, I’m glad that for the most part it’s just @katkastrofa and I–”
(Though then again… would it even be an AU by yours truly if it didn’t contain at least one cancellable offence? 😁)
#don’t even try to tell me I’m wrong#also Suiren is even less like Aang than Korra is. she wouldn’t stand a chance in this fandom#everyone knows most people in this fandom can’t handle angry brown girls#and Suiren is honestly on a whole different level#so yeah#I’m glad it’s not a well known thing#but her biggest offence would of course be letting go of Raava#and thus also losing the connection to her past lives and ending the Avatar cycle#her next incarnation will not be the Avatar. they’ll be just a normal EK kid#and that is the biggest crime an Avatar could ever commit#deciding to spare future generations of the burden#the Avatar should not exist. it is too much power and responsibility for one person#and every Avatar we know of was stuck in an endless cycle of fixing their predecessors’ mistakes#nobody deserves that. especially not a child. and the Avatars ARE discovered as children for the most part#even at 16 like Roku Kyoshi and Kuruk is still way too young for having the fate of the world on your shoulders#I’d argue any age is too young#the world can’t depend on one person to solve their problems#the avatar is ultimately human. they make mistakes. they’re biased. they can be corrupted#and not a single generation goes by without at least one world-scale threat. nothing any avatar does is every enough. it’s a thankless job#no era of peace has ever lasted long. that has to be something worked for by the world at large#ending the cycle is the correct move because then the world will not be looking to the Avatar for every issue#and will actually start sorting shit out themselves. that’s my (very correct) view of it. at least#but again. this fandom will not be able to handle that. because they care about a bunch of long dead ghosts more than living characters#I’m sorry but sparing at least one kid of the trauma that comes with being the Avatar makes losing the past lives connection worth it#to me at least. and it’s not like breaking the connection erases them from ever existing like Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. they’re remembered#just can’t be accessed anymore. and that’s okay. they deserve to rest#(forgive me for the Genshin Impact reference it was the only thing I could think of. it was a brief phase I don’t play it anymore)#anyway. idk where this rant/meta just came from. I apparently have A Lot of thoughts about this AU that aren’t limited to Kuviren smut lmao#Avatar Suiren AU#Kat and Nia and their multiverse of madness
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My ACNH island is VERY slowly coming together (been working on it since.. I think July? Maybe august?)
I’m really happy with the progress I’ve made except I’m now one of those people whose island lags because of the amount of stuff in some spots lmao 🧎🏻♀️ it’s a worthy sacrifice though imo because my orchard is the culprit and it looks banging!!
Either way. BEHOLD
#honest to god y’all. if you feel stressed about decorating or island and haven’t played/have restarted a ton bc of it#just do NOT terraform. or do it very minimally#bc that’s the only reason im making literally any progress lmao I really loved my last island too but#ultimately abandoned it bc the terraforming and water-forming(?) was stressing me out too much#anyway#I’ve been balls deep in trying to fix up the ~secret beach~ and campsite so I’ll maybe post pics of those too soon!!#they’re all in this area too!! campsite is to the left of the orchard and up a level and beach is to the left of the wheat#ALSO *cracks knuckles* I’ve had a land bridge on every island so far and this one will be no different#might start that today or tomorrow#that’s a whole thing bc. land bridge. HAVE to terraform.. and a lot too lol ugh#it’s just a strip though. I’m not doing anything too crazy with it#it’s gonna be perfect for my island’s autumn theme actually!! the bridges always looked best in autumn imo bc of the surrounding foliage#maybe it’ll lead to the museum?#sorry I’ll shut up#aspenposting#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#new horizons#animal crossing nh
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I’m just realizing that because I watched HOTD after s1 aired, I never actually got to see the amount of Alicent hate first-hand. Now that the fandom has sort of come alive again because of the trailer it makes me want to rip my hair out whenever I see certain alicent takes
#the world does not get that character#fully#and the funny thing is that like one of the main reactions I get from like the people in my life and like antis on social media is that#i view it from a totally different level that most people- the gay lense where alicent is human and there’s a romantic connotation with nyr#and at first I was like yeah they’re probably right it’s a game of thrones show and I’m probably seeing things#but non stop since then every single creator of that show has spoken again and again in validation of those interpretations#so like wtf why do people just cannot conceive the fact that she’s a three dimensional character#like I’m not saying like her or root for her#but some takes are just downright stupid#rhaenicent#alicent hightower#hotd#house of the dragon
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Hrm
#so like…… uh#I always feel scared? to post content I make be it fanart or cosplays of lore olympus anymore to tumblr bc like ppl bash it so much lately#when rlly it’s like super a matter of people conflating ‘media I just personally don’t like and am not into’ to being ‘problematic’#I’ve heard every reason why people think it’s evil but like. just say you don’t like the romance genre…#it’s just supposed to be a cute and fun romance novel in webcomic format#like every claim against it on why it’s ‘evil bad’ I can refute (obviously like not just little personal ‘I don’t like this thing’ but like#@ the people who get so heated over it)#I say this also as a Greek person who has literally done a lil bit of acedemic university level research on the Homeric hymn to demeter#the comic isn’t trying to be an ~aCcUrAtE iNtErPrEtAtiOn~ it’s trying to be a romance story riffing off the concept#(not to mention people blatantly misunderstanding LO!Persephone as a character#like to the point where they’re literally just being ironic since she’s so misunderstood by a lot of people in the comic too)#(like just say you hate height differences also. as someone who is short and looks younger than I am like these people r literally just sayi#saying things that make me feel like oh so then I should never be in love bc even though I’m an adult I might not look old enough to have a#parter who’s even the same age as me bc that’s the same thing as a child w an adult. which is like. that’s already something I have always#struggled with and internalized and been paranoid about and unfortunately since I track various mythology tags I constantly get stuff like#that spewed at me and hooo boy does it make me feel inadequate#not to mention the fact that now in the comic Persephone is literally thirty years old bc there was a time skip#I get it this might not be your favorite interpretation of Demeter but it works for the context of this story#it’s not trying to be the ~canon~ Demeter. it’s trying to be functional to the story lo is telling#anywho…. nyall just let me have my silly little romance story…. not everything has to be a fight over problematic or not….#just let me have a silly little romance story to sigh about pls….
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t h e trip awaits~~~~~~~~~~
#guess who managed to bribe the family onto a birthday trip to the cup noodle museum~? >this fool!!!!<#but my proposal to visit the cup noodle museum every day of the trip was rejected :( sads#but c’mon mans i’m paying for the flights and hotel i deserve my cup noods every day right~~~?#though my mother did say that she’d pay for d i s n e y l a n d and d i s n e y s e a for her trip contribution#and im just like. th. they’re different places????? (lives under a rock)#but anyways phase 1 of trapping my bro overseas so that he’ll have no choice but to wish me happy birthday this year is a g o!!!!!!!!#my bank account feels lighter but my excitement levels could n o t be any higher!!!!! heck yeaaaa mans let’s go to the cup noodle museum!!!!#though. when i told my coworkers that i was going to take a trip to visit the cup noodle museum… they all called me stupid in so many ways…#there’s no way that i like cup noodles too much right…?#i like cup noodles a normal amount i swear…………..#cup noodles are just. really rad yk~~~~? they come in so many different sizes and varieties!!!! and there’s a nood for every occasion!!!#there are fried nood varieties (yakisoba/mi goreng types) and there are ~fancy~ bowl noods too!!!!!!!#cup noodles are the best~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~#cup noodles the loml <333333333333333#they won’t betray you by boiling over either!!!!!!!!!!! just add hot water and it’ll do all the work!!!!!!#remind me to get my coworkers souvenirs from the cup noodle museum… and maybe d i s n e y l a nd too. maybe.#inedible blubbering
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#it’s so weird how u can just feel two extremes and both r just so real#like often ill feel so suicidal and angry and upset etc but then other times I just feel so hopeful for the future and happy w my group#of friends#n both can b true but I just kinda get scared of when I feel rlly depressed n stuff bc it just feels so unbearable#n I just feel so out of control#idk last week was a p good week while socially exhausted#it was acc good to socialise and have fun etc#but idk I get my ups and downs so frequent idk if it’s normal to feel this way#but while im ill I’ve got an interview for college on Friday#trying again idk if ill even get in tbh#and im probably gonna drop out lollllll lit dropped out 4 times already#n every year I try but I’ve been out of work/education since late last year n I just feel I need to do something#even tho I struggle w my mental health a lot n just functioning like going outside and socialising and loads of ppl and noises it’s just#v overwhelming so idk if im just making another mistake but I picked a different course this time and it’s lower than my last so I’m hoping#they’ll give me a shot ig im worried they’re gonna judge me for dropping out so much but tht was care#and I just don’t wanna work w children / care anymore#and ive done social sciences before just the foundation level so I wanna progress#journal
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You know there is one chapter in WBTL that I’m really excited to write and I have so many dialogue ideas/random phrases I find so good, I just decided to write them down because I’m worried I’ll forget them by the moment I’ll get to actually write the chapter. And you know what? This chapter is already 600+ words long.
#Was Born To Lead#THERE IS NO FREAKING DESCRIPTIONS IT’S LITERALLY JUST DIALOGUE LINES#IT LOOKS LIKE A FREAKING PLAY FOR NOW#And yet it’s so long already#Is it my curse I don’t understand it#Or do I just like writing characters talk hmm#I’m kinda taking this advice of writing stuff out of order#but if we’re being honest I’m actually just writing down phrases that have absolutely captured my mind recently#I replay them literally every day for like a week now#I think this is actually going to be one of the most emotional chapters in the entire fic#and for me possibly THE most emotional because it’s Valerio-centric and it’s really important to me on a personal level :P#Why else do you think I would constantly replay all those dialogues in my head slowly losing my mind :’D#Anyway I HOPE it’s going to be emotional or else I will burst into tears#But yeah I’m once again convinced I do love writing dialogues#and I think I even know the reason why#They’re just a lot easier than descriptions ajhdnfjjf#and I love conveying characters’ different personalities through speech#(and I have a fabulous sense of humor yeah#I’m just joking)#Anyway if this chapter ends up being longer than 10k words I’ll probably ignore the limit I set to myself XD#Yeah I have no writing mood at the moment#so instead of writing anything I’m just rambling about what’s going to happen like 10 chapters later#Ajhdndjfk but I hope I’ll come back to the writing mood someday because this story really gets more exciting with every next chapter#(this emotional Valerio chapter is called in my docs Chapter ? (becuase I don’t know the number yet XD) | The Last Choice#maybe I’ll give it a different title eventually though)#This is the updated concept of the history of the history man chapter :D#Oh my goodness it’s SO different from my original idea and I love it so much more#This is really a lot more emotional than it used to be#I love this man so much…
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The Internet: People with Turner’s Syndrome tend to not grow chests or menstruate. And they also tend to get very frequent ear infections. Or even seizures.
Me, a girl with Turner’s who has a chest and definitely menstruates every month, and also has only had one ear infection in her life and has also never had a seizure before (thank god): 👀
#personal#doodler’s daydreams#i guess i’m just built different#but for real i thought this was so funny. yeah I definitely have a chest and experience ~the cramps~ every month#actually being genderfluid as well is so funny because i remember not really having an issue with puberty/growing a chest#i remember being kind of excited. i looked at myself in the mirror one day and was just like “oh 😮 I have a chest. nice” shsjsjsjsjsjsj#still kind of wild that turner’s is sort of classified as intersex but only on a genetic level so not really??#like all of the patients still usually have all female attributes at least if they’re anything like me
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I’m thinking of an art thing that would really mischaracterize him but this would be self indulgent in a way that caters to me specifically which clearly makes it better
#What if the world was shaped around MY favorite character instead of the main protagonist . what then .#NO WAIT I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING#Hades -> Persephone . Thanatos -> Daphne . And then eventually Thetis is forced to become ‘friends’ with Leuce right ?#Every single person who left Minthe replaced her with a different pink bimbo . No that’s not true Persephone is really smart actually . But#Daphne and Leuce are and Persephone definitely did start out having that ‘pretty face little bit dumb’ shtick . only she was dumb in the#naive and innocent sort of way . I actually don’t know what to make of this . Why is this a pattern ?#Hello ?#I mean Thetis sure that’s her cousin they’re forced to live together . Thats only a thing on a meta level and it was probably just because#she was going to foil Persephone . But like ? With Thanatos and Hades is it just genetics that make them want a red haired baddie only to#abandon her for the first pink pretty face that looks their way ?#No that’s not fair Hades was 100% justified I feel . In leaving at least .#But Thanatos … I’m still annoyed at him about that but whatever I liked him before and his new characterization even though it feels kind of#forced and too quick a development - while Minthe is stuck in will she won’t she hell-#is still . kind of endearing I guess .#And Daphne is pretty cool too when she’s not . being annoying for the sake of propping HxP up but then I could say that about literally any#‘usually fun’ character#LO critical#discourse#(oh when I say bimbo that’s not an insult . Thats just the character archetype they fill . Hyper girly and a little bit air headed#ed. that’s how they’re written I feel . At least so far .)
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The life of Stanford Pines must be so bizarre from the perspective of a random townsperson who doesn’t know him. Imagine you live in a sleepy lumber town, where the most interesting thing you’ve heard this week is that a plot of land on the outskirts of the woods was sold and someone has started constructing a cabin on there.
You later learn by word of mouth that he’s a phd student doing some kind of long-term research project. You don’t see his face until one night he comes blasting down the street on a trail of destruction, eyes yellow and glazed over, trashing public property, inflicting gruesome injuries on himself, and laughing like he’s on an erratic, drug-fuelled bender. He then goes home and locks himself in his cabin again. This becomes a cycle; he stays isolated for weeks, then comes out once in a blue moon to wreak havoc and be a nuisance to the authorities.
Then one day it stops. He doesn’t come back out. The next time you see him he’s at a grocery store looking completely different to how you remember; his hair is grown out, he’s put on weight, his clothes are completely different and he’s stopped wearing glasses. Some townsfolk finally work up the nerve to talk to him and you learn that he invited them to his cabin on a tour. His home is apparently FULL of dangerous research equipment and the scientist, who had allegedly been very quiet and level-headed on the days he wasn’t having his “episodes,” has had a complete personality change, he’s loud and confident and less than honest and a little sleazy but a damn good salesman and entertainer.
He hosts tours out of his home for the next 30 years. Over time he’d changed it into a museum of sorts that sells overpriced knickknacks to unsuspecting tourists, but aside from his shady business practices he’s a well known member of his community. He changes up the exhibits every few months, brings his niece and nephew to stay one summer and they become town darlings, and even exposes a beloved public figure for running a spyware scheme.
One day you hear he got visited by the FBI. They start going round town asking about him. A week or so later he gets arrested. The town goes CRAZY theorising why but then there’s a massive earthquake and in the chaos of that you forget what happened to him. One minute you hear that the feds were surrounding his house and the next they’re all leaving like they forgot what they came for. Another week later he resurfaces and announces he’s going to run for Mayor, dominated the polls, wins the popular vote, but loses his position immediately due to an extensive criminal record.
Then there’s gossip that he completely changed his appearance again. He’s lost his fez and is walking around in a coat and cable knit turtleneck in the middle of the July heat. Then you hear from someone else that he looks the exact same and didn’t change anything. Then you see two identical men walking down the street, one matching the description you saw. People are BUZZING to know what happened and you eventually learn that the “new guy” was actually the same Scientist and the guy that had been running the museum was his twin brother who stole his identity after he went missing. Then the apocalypse happens
#his life would be like a soap opera#stanford pines#stanley pines#ford pines#stan pines#grunkle stan#grunkle ford#gravity falls#mystery shack
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Have enough mecha on my plate to watch and can’t keep up with weekly shit so I plan to watch grendizer u when it finishes airing which would be relatively soon now that I think about but there’s like one thing about it that’s not entirely related that’s been on my mind, that being the art style.
Now it’s not a bad art style by any means especially when it’s the Eva artist doing it-and yes have your opinions about that show, but his art style is undeniably good and it got better post Eva with this show proving that-and I think they translated the characters nicely, like Duke very different very twinked LOL but he could look way less then himself but you can still tell it’s Duke. (And Sayaka with purple hair weirdly works)
But this and infinity just shows mazinger likely going to have a more modern art style and possibly if we’re lucky enough to get non mazinger stuff, all dynapro mecha adaptions to come after are likely gonna be in a modern art style and I’m just thinking to myself: if we somehow get another getter anime we have to live with the fact the last show to have getter’s original art style was arc and I don’t hate arc but MAN I hate how instead of them trying to refine the art style by actually giving them budget their just likely gonna change what made getter getter.
#meg text#for mazingers case it’s not like controversial levels of other adaptations I. E. crybaby where the characters are barely recognizable#if getter goes with that it’ll be fine and if they get budget visually it’ll look so much better than arc#but I’m sad knowing also if we get a prettier getter anime it’s not gonna have the actual art style because they will probably modernize it#the different faces and distinct body types are going to be LOST#which is why mazinger doing it is less of a big deal cause they had one big guy but they also keep boss the way he is#and for getter they’d probably respect the look of the getter 3 pilot but man ryoma and hayato likely are gonna be too similar#they’re probably gonna make Ryoma a pretty boy fucking twink and yes that already happened with devo but MAN#I’m never gonna get a pretty ryoma again even if this’ll be a slightly better fate then arc ryoma#(and again I don’t hate arc hating it is stupid and I can forgive the bad animation with context but arc ryoma is ewww)#every day I ask how the fuck they messed up his hair
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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.
Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.
He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.
Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.
But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.
Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.
So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?
Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.
Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.
Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.
Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.
Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.
Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.
But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?
Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.
Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.
So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.
Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.
At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.
The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.
Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.
All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.
Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.
But by GOD is he trying.
#batman#bruce wayne#laws of this dc universe say Gotham is always a hellcity#and bruce wayne is always filthy rich#bruce wayne is fighting with everything he has against both those facts#he’s not going to win#but he’s not going to stop either#bruce crying with fistfuls of money in his hands: take it. PLEASE#the public: donate more???
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