#yap yapping

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Would probably be a hellish challenge though. I mean, we know how regularly Bruce gets attached to people he deems to be under his protection.

I think the right balance for angst potential is that he’s going to do his duty— everything you detailed above— but he can’t help feeling bitter about every bit of progress. Because he knows where it’s leading and he’s dreading it.

Another child Bruce has gotten to know, has earned some of their respect and trust. has guided and defended and supported. And it worked, they learned and grew, so they’re leaving him his home.

Kids all grow, and they move forward when it’s time to grow more, that’s just how it works. He’s had more than enough kids to know this. Supporting and encouraging that next step is a good, healthy thing, it’s the right thing, he understands it logically. But goddamn does it makes him… feel emotions.

Clark: Kon is not my child!

Bruce, seeing a black haired blue eyed kid: ...so he's available for adoption?

You’re joking but I’m pretty sure if the situation called for it, Bruce would absolutely hold onto Kon for a few weeks/months and facilitate supervised visits with Clark if he thought it would help. Not adopting Clark’s kid for him, but fostering until they’re ready to work out their relationship and how they interact. I know the trope is that Bruce would hold onto him but maybe the bigger mitzvah is him holding onto Kon just long enough — and then letting go when it’s healthy for everyone.

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Random thought:

I think Tyson would make gifts for Percy that are usually armor and weapons or other life-saving things because he cares the most about keeping Percy safe and alive. Tyson knows that Percy cares the most about surviving to keep his loved ones safe. So it’s swords and shields and daggers. But then Percy explains the notion of a gag gift, and Tyson loves it, so gifts from Tyson now have a 50% chance if being gag gifts. And of course, Tyson can’t make anything less than breathtaking, so the joke is never shoddy work.

Percy’s personal favorite is when a small handheld water gun that’s a perfect rendition of poseidons trident but itty bitty, and it shoots water out of all three prongs. Percy treasures it, and nicknames it Fork. When Estelle is old enough to appreciate it, he passes Fork down to her with Tyson’s blessing.

Tyson doesn’t make gifts for people outside his family as often, but when he does it’s always based on something he knows they like, and it needs to be useful above all else. Gifts are harder to be upset about when it’s tailored specifically to your interests and needs. It’s the best path to gift-giving success, and Tyson wants nothing but to make them happy.

When Tyson is hired to work as one of Poseidons blacksmiths, he grows closer to his dad, and would make gifts for him too. Statues and crowns and the like, because Poseidon doesn’t really need help to be strong, not that Tyson’s current skill level would be able to make a functional weapon for a god (one day, probably). Not only that, but because Poseidon is divinity, gifts don’t have to necessarily be useful. There’s more freedom to play around with the art of it considering it’s basically an offering.

Gifts for Sally Jackson are things like art and jewelry, because she’s a mixture of both. he knows that she’s divine too in her own unique way, but sometimes she doubts that she deserves to be decorated. Which is something he just can’t imagine, Sally Jackson being anything less than amazing? Not possible. He also knows that she doesn’t need to fight to be safe, because Percy will, but defensive items aren’t a bad idea at all. (Her favorite gift from Tyson is a beautiful locket that she has her family’s pictures in.)

When Percy goes missing, it’s the first time he gifts Sally something for offense rather than defense. It’s also when he decides that he needs to do some protecting of everyone else too: he makes Estelle an armored crib when she’s born (which is promptly baby proofed by her parents but still effectively protects her). He makes Paul a pocketknife that works in both humans and monsters, so if he’s being attacked he can fight back first and wonder if the assailant was monster or human later. Sally’s protective item is an improved version of Percy’s watch-to-shield thing but with an added detachable dagger that is, once again, effective for both humans and monsters.

For his lovely harpy girlfriend, he’ll make her anything and everything he can. She likes to hoard more than just words in her head once she has a permanent, structured living place. Not to mention tyson would build her the world if she wanted, so trinkets are fun and no trouble at all. Ella also likes to give him little gifts in the form of scavenged findings— pretty flowers, quirky metal parts, shiny rocks— so he’ll find a way to incorporate them into his crafts. A nice shell might become a pendant for necklace, a scrap of wood with a nice design might be shaped into a small sculpture, a uniquely shaped peice of metal could be put in the hilt of a sword. Ella doesn’t mind if these little bits she collected become gifts for her, but being a part of the process of someone else’s gift and knowing a part of her plus a part of Tyson made something so special makes her want to burst with joy. (Ella also recites him love poems/stories/etc as gifts. Rarely, she will go out of her comfort zone and purposefully mix up the words of stuff she remembers to make personalized romantic writings for him. It’s a high honor and Tyson absolutely melts every time she does it.)

[londoneh]

He’s yapping

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LESBIANS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

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she’s always going around doin QUEEN SHIT! criminally under-appreciated and underestimated by other characters (and fans), but that never stops her!!

I bet that the wizarding world gossips think that “The Chosen One” is way out of Ginny’s league… but people who know Ginny Weasley know that, actually, she’s out of Harry’s league.

Harry’s awesome and all, but he was a Mess (He tried, obviously, and everyone stumbles around with their first relationship. Not to mention the whole trying-not-to-die thing) She could have gone off and ruled the world instead of waiting if she wanted to and I feel like Harry knows that. That ball of half-suppressed insecurity probably thinks all the time about how lucky he got.

So YES. Ginny, in canon you deserve everything and more. Disrespecting her and her character’s contribution to the HP books is honestly batshit crazy.

ginny weasley did not

defend harry against malfoy in flourish and blots when he was picking on him (it’s the first time she ever speaks in front of him)

carry around a horcrux for the better half of a year and realise that something was wrong and try to dispose of it at age 11

get possessed, manipulated and controlled by one of the darkest wizards of all time and live to tell the tale

get forced to write her own farewell note on the wall in blood and walk to her own death

go on as normally as possible afterwards despite the trauma of her first year, because she didn’t want to be a nuisance

make harry a get well soon card after he fell off his broom because of the dementors in third year

tell harry and ron off when making fun of neville for not being able to get a yule ball date

refuse harry as a yule ball date despite having harboured a crush on him for years because she didn’t want to hurt neville

see harry was floundering after hermione & ron left him to do prefect duties and immediately take charge and invite him to come with her

defend luna against bullies, and encourage neville to believe in himself and know his self worth

decide to quit pining for harry because it was a waste of time, instead dating other boys and becoming a solid friend to him

join dumbledore’s army without a second thought, coining the name and even encouraging more ravenclaws to join

call harry out when he was in a downward spiral about being possessed, explained her own experience and remained gracious despite him forgetting her biggest trauma

fill in for harry as seeker in the quidditch team and help them win the quidditch cup that year

reassure harry that he will play quidditch again, when he was feeling low about umbridge’s life long ban

encourage harry to talk to cho if that’s what he’s upset about (putting her own complicated feelings for him aside)

get harry to admit what was actually upsetting him and helping him find a solution

immediately agree to help harry by standing guard outside umbridge’s office despite not knowing any details

call harry out whenever he was being snarky / impatient with her and not take any of his shit

disarm malfoy & the others and escape from umbridge’s office to rush to harry and hermione’s aid

refuse to stay behind at hogwarts stating that she cared for sirius too and wanted to help

go with the others to the DoM in an attempt to save sirius, risking her life and breaking her ankle in the process

refuse to tolerate her brother’s new girlfriend who was being snobbish about her family’s home and lifestyle (but then go on to love and respect her, as they mature)

get invited to join the slug club because of her skill with hexes and not nepotism (the only one who wasn’t invited for that reason)

tell off zabini for laughing at harry about what went down at the DoM

call ron the fuck out when he was borderline slut-shaming her

crash into the commentator’s podium to shut zacharias smith up from talking smack about the gryffindor team

immediately try to intervene when she thought harry was in danger of being possessed by the hbp potions book

tell off dean and seamus for laughing when harry got seriously hurt in quidditch

come to harry’s defence after he attacked malfoy (bc he had to defend himself against an unforgivable curse) and stand up to (one of her) closest friend(s) to do so

step up to play seeker in harry’s place (again) in the quidditch final and winning the cup in his absence (!!!!)

make harry feel “the happiest he had ever been” when they finally got together

make my boy LAUGH 24/7 and bring him (and many others) so much JOY

support harry after dumbledore’s death, knowing when to give him comfort and also space

show unwavering love and loyalty to harry when he was trying to break up with her, claiming she didn’t care about the danger

also ultimately not fight his decision, understanding his need to stop voldemort once and for all, despite her being completely heartbroken

respect harry’s wishes to stay broken up, but still give him the most INSANE kiss ever as a birthday present (and something for him to fight for!!)

return to hogwarts under the rule of deatheaters, despite the target on her back as a blood traitor (also as brother of ron AND ex girlfriend of harry)

take the place of younger students and try to protect them from being tortured by the carrows

start up dumbledore’s army again with neville and rebel against the system, to reek as much havoc as possible at hogwarts

try to steal the sword of gryffindor from snape’s office because they wanted to help the cause as much as possible despite understanding why they needed it and ultimately being punished for it

refuse to stay put in the room of requirement when her family were out risking their lives during the battle and given the chance, immediately joined the fray

comfort an injured younger student at the battle, and stay strong for them, despite having just found out her brother had been killed

duel with bellatrix in the battle and almost lose her life doing it

go through so much and have her trauma be overlooked and forgotten by so many

go on to play QUIDDITCH PROFESSIONALLY in the team she DREAMED of playing for

and then going back to a career in writing (sports correspondent) despite her traumatic experience with the diary

marry the love of her life and have three beautiful children and get the happy ending that she deserves after EVERYTHING????

all for you guys to shit on her the way you do. put some goddamn RESPECT on MISS GINEVRA MOLLY WEASLEY’S name. she’s NOT a mary sue, she’s NOT a bully, and she’s NOT boring. she’s an ICON.

[struck-by-the-rain]

me when someone complains about something that's been genuinely bothering me too but i just brushed it off because i was worried that i was just bitchy/callous/sensitive but now I feel Vindicated

edit: original post is back, given its blown up sm im also linking the vetted fundraisers from Palestinians who've reached out to me recently here, here, here, here, here, here and here! please read their stories, donate if you can, and share them around!

edit 2: terfs get the fuck off this post. guarantee that you're the ones that we're all complaining about behind your backs. im trans and I fucking love my trans siblings of all stripes with all of my heart, way more than your pathetic arses could ever hate them

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

assuming that people like you and want to spend time with you is crucial to making friends. unfortunately this is the hardest thing to do in the world

[angel-fruitcake]

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Would love to see the progression of being an only child to “wow holy shit I have so much family now” from the batkids more often in fics.

Dick goes from being to an only child, to having a brother, then another sibling, and ANOTHER— it just keeps going??? Jason starts off with one sibling, but he dies and comes back to life and now there’s more, What The Fuck Batman. Damian starts living and training with his father… plus a bonus handful of siblings he hadn’t accounted on actually interacting with so often. Etc etc etc. I just crave the “everything changed and now we’re trying to settle into this new normal; it’s different now, for better or for worse, but mostly better” dynamic being written out and ~characterized~ when a new family member is Acquired™️.

Also: “#bruce is freaked out by it bc he too is an only child”

YES. You think he took in all these scrappy homicidal children just to ignore and hate them? Nah, he’s sappy as fuck. he loves his big complicated family, he’s just TERRIBLE at expressing it. I think that it would take Bruce a long time to understand, really understand, the playful fighting and “I hate you”s and insults thrown around between siblings. Because it feels like they’re taking all this love and comfort for granted, or something.

It’s uncomfortably irritating, and it takes until he pulls his head out of his own ass to remember 1) he’s not the only one who’s had and lost family before this, 2) there doesn’t always have to be visible affection for there to be love, and there’s other ways to express it, 3) family is just fucking chaotic

Sometimes, love is when you’re fighting tooth and nail for the tv remote, but when you get it you just put on something random because it was mostly about winning, actually.

Bruce gets used to it, at some point, but damn does it take some work. And time. Especially when his family is, well, his family. (Just don’t think about the murder attempts… everything is fine…)

i love wholesome batfam fics where they're all loving siblings but honestly you can really tell when the writer is an only child. like yeah i love my siblings but also if they breathe wrong i will consider smacking them. i need more dick chasing jason around with a knife and more fistfights over the front seat in the batmobile

[pinkponygrl]

so when trump takes office on monday and “saves tiktok” with a 90 day extension on the tiktok ban decision, then during that period mark zuckerberg “suddenly” decided to buy tiktok and have meta absorb it, then what.

trump created this problem when he introduced the tiktok ban in his first term and he’s going to take credit for “solving” it now. the tiktok ceo made a video thanking trump for “understanding the app” then the error message says we are grateful to trump for working with us on this ?? AND he’s invited to sit front row at the inauguration??? oh also new facebook/tiktok integrations popping up today ???

trump’s dick is in the tiktok ceo’s mouth the deal is already done

[reeksandfumes]

actually getting pregnant? no. bad. awful. I do NOT want that!!

having them grunt in your ear how they're going to knock you the fuck up like the worthless breeding bitch you are while they pound you into the mattress before cumming deep inside of you? YES. YESYESYESYESYESYES. LITERALLY NOTHING BETTER. YESSSSS. THE BEST. YES PLEASE!!!

[midnight--sadness]

Hwang In-ho in season 2 of Squid Game

[sleeqymoon]

cutest sunshine in the entire universe, space, and beyond 🗣️ 🌺

[astystar]

2/7 winners designs :3