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I appreciate fanfic for its lack of hesitation to introduce dramatic but uncompletely unimportant elements like alien invasions

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Just a totally normal birb.

Nothing wrong here.

Nope.

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Batman!

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this is the 2nd post I've seen on this topic (the 1st was how I learned about the game existing), and I have only just realized that - as consequence of reading approximately 75 tons of DPxDC and Batman fanfic on ao3 - I've been completely forgetting that the RPG class "rogue" exists at all, and until just now I've been interpreting "Danny is a rogue" solely as "Danny is a DC Comics/Gotham villain"

Danny is a Rogue class in the new Nicktoons game Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny! Wanted to doodle his rouge design!

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What would the fake department be? How did they not notice?

Honestly, I'm thinking something independent. He initially applied for a job opening in Research and Development in terms of building computers, but something went wrong and was placed in Development.

Since it was okayed by Bruce, who was suffering some kind of head injury from his night job, this placement passed through Lucius' fingers who thought Bruce had a big plan for a new department and gave his okay.

That means HR was in charge of setting up an entire department with the vague instructions to get Danny his own floor, his own office, his own budget, and to use Research and Development policies as a base for him to start off of.

He basically had an entire department built for him with a fill in the blanks kind of reason for it existing. Danny is allowed to hire a team or run it himself. He wasn't told what he was developing because Lucius thought it involved the bats in some way and needed to keep the obvious genius from asking too many questions.

So Danny winds up with a department head paycheck instead of entry level. Has to identify what Development does because it's not research and development, and it doesn't have a clear description. Has an entire floor - complete with lab space, kitchen, bathroom, changing rooms, and oddly a pool (they didn't know what he needed) and after orientation just got dumped there and told to get to it.

When he asked what "it" was, everyone just shrugged and said if Mr. Wayne personally sought him out then he would know what to do.

He choose not to hire anyone else until he knows what he needs a team for, at least at first. So for three years he is the only memeber of Development, and rumors of what he is up to in his private floor fly through the company that tries to figure out why everyone else needs to have such a high clearance level to get the elevator to even stop on his floor or the door to open from the stair way.

The cleaning crew can only send someone up there once a week after signing the NDA. No one knows what's going on in development, not Bruce, because he thinks Lucius is overseeing it. Not Lucius because he thinks Bruce is watching as Batman. And not Danny, who got way more than he was told he was getting in the interview.

He winds up just, turning in gadgets for household settings since he has nothing else to do and goofing off most of the time.

Unknown to Danny, his household gadgets are all but revelationary, and Wayne Stocks rocketed since he started. He was just using things his parents created for around the house chores cause they lazy.

Of course, he checked to see if they were okay with sharing their design and got them some funds with patent request through WE law that thought it was part of Development.

A rumor starts that Development is to take ideas that already exist but fail and develop them into successful inventions, thus giving the product creator a small fortune for all the revenue they earn. It's like selling your ideas to inventors.

Danny is doing such a good job he actually starts getting requests from outside his parents to futher failed designs and keeps making WE money that no one realizes what happened until five years later.

By that point, Danny is too much of a value employee to fire or disband his department. He also has a team by then, so they would lose like ten people if they try to go for Development.

But the rumors before that comes to light is crazy.

There were even people that whispered Danny was doing witchcraft under the request of Bruce to Danny be in charge of secretly tracking down illegitimate children that Bruce had around the world and keeping then under wraps. The department gets so much attention for its tight security it becomes a meme online that its actually a second area 51 location.

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I wish people would talk about banning individually/micro-targeted advertising in particular. Old-school newspaper ads, and TV ads targeted to particular channels? Annoying, but... Okay, whatever. But it's the individually targeted advertizing that's motivating all these companies to harvest and sell everyone's private information so insidiously. This is the reason Facebook and Twitter/X and so on designed their algorithms to favor rage, to keep people glued to their platform, to keep more eyeballs on the ads and for longer, and to get more money from advertisers. This is the reason Google was able to become king, of advertising and of search, even as it made its actual products worse.

This is the thing that killed the newspaper. This is the match that lit the misinformation crisis. This kind of targeted advertising has only existed for a relative minute, historically speaking. It doesn't have to exist. It only feels normal to us because it became so everpresent so fast. Ban it. Kill it with fire. It's not worth its costs.

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

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doodle of dod danny :>

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hairstyle inertia trope deserves to stay in Apollonian arts because I have nearly fallen asleep in a hairstyle unfit for lying down and it is unholy

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walked by a family in one of the exhibits and heard a child ask their adults to pet Little Bird and one of the adults said “you can’t, that dog’s working.” and the child sounded totally baffled and they said “for who?!”

love the child’s point of view in which they don’t know what a service animal is or that i’m her handler so they assumed my dog could possibly be actually employed and by someone who isn’t present. like maybe i’m just her coworker.

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I would like to point out that, depending on how you look at it, the sun itself arguably doesn't produce warm light; it just looks that way by the time it gets to our eyes, especially at sunrise and sunset when it has had to pass through more atmosphere (because it's hitting the atmosphere at an angle and traveling through more of it than if it were going straight down through it). The most blue wavelengths of light that the sun produces are higher frequency, and these are scattered more easily by the atmosphere, so warmer, lower wavelength colors are more likely to reach us on the surface. This also means light is often more slanty and warmer on average the closer you get to the poles, compared to at the equator. Also, the Sun is VERY VERY VERY VERY bright. When we see it in space photographs, it's very clearly yellow, but these photos are by necessity much darker than the actual sun, obviously. If you were actually there in person in orbit above the sun, and especially with no atmosphere to protect you (and Mercury has no atmosphere because atmosphere cannot survive the solar wind that close, or at least not for that tiny of a planet and without a staunch magnetic field (Mercury's is 1% as strong as Earth's), and probably the fact Mercury has a 3:2 spin-orbit resonance with the sun, rotating 3 times for ever 2 times that it travels all the way around the sun, doesn't help either), just because of its sheer radiance overwhelming your eyes, it'd look more white. And also you'd go blind very quickly, I guess. I've never actually thought about that before: how dangerous would it be to look at the sun if you were standing on the surface of Mercury? I would imagine very, but now I'm gonna have to look it up when I have time. (this is an archived NASA.gov page, since the live URLapparently started getting redirected to another page for no reason sometime after June 2025.)

From this NASA arcticle, with extra paragraph breaks added by me for tumblr reading:

"As with all matter, the sun emits a “black body spectrum” that is defined by its surface temperature. A black body spectrum is the continuum of radiation at many different wavelengths that is emitted by any body with a temperature above absolute zero. For our sun, this black body curve or “Plank Function” is a smooth almost bell shaped curve involving electromagnetic (EM) radiation at many different wavelengths from very long infrared to very short ultraviolet wavelengths.

During very hot, explosive, high energy solar flare events, the sun emits huge amounts of x-ray and gamma ray radiation as well, up to over 100 MeV energies and up to 1032 ergs of energy over only a few seconds or tens of seconds! These massive solar flares are huge explosions in the sun’s atmosphere caused by the sudden release of magnetic field energy and tend to occur near solar maximum. The flares also accelerate charged particle plasmas to high speeds resulting in radio emission.

So, the sun actually emits energy at all wavelengths from radio to gamma ray. But, as can be seen in the image above, it emits most of its energy around 500 nm, which is close to blue-green light. So one might say that the sun is blue-green!

This maximum radiation frequency is governed by the sun’s surface temperature, around 5,800K. A higher surface temperature would result in a shorter maximum wavelength and our sun might peak in the blue or violet part of the spectrum (or even the ultra violet!). A lower surface temperature, and our sun’s spectrum might peak in the yellow or orange or even red part of the spectrum.

But this is physics, not perception. I must note here another spectral signature from the sun, the photon flux. If we use the relationship found by Max Planck, E = hf (that is Energy = the Planck Constant times the Frequency) and convert the solar irradiance into photon counts, the spectral signature across visible wavelengths is much flatter and the sun is perceived as more yellow.

If we were above the atmosphere, say on the International Space Station and looked at the sun (through our filtered visor), the sun would appear white! Why? Because though the sun emits strongest in the green part of the spectrum, it also emits strongly in all the visible colors – red through blue (400nm to 600nm). Our eyes which have three color cone cell receptors, report to the brain that each color receptor is completely saturated with significant colors being received at all visible wavelengths. Our brains then integrate these signals into a perceived white color.

Here on Earth, the atmosphere plays a role in the color of the sun. Since shorter wavelength blue light is scattered more efficiently than longer wavelength red light, we lose some of the blue tint of the sun as sunlight passes through the atmosphere. In addition, all wavelengths of visible light passing through our atmosphere are attenuated so that the light that reaches our eyes does not immediately saturate the cone receptors.

This allows the brain to perceive color from the image with a little less blue – yellow. Though it does not affect what our eyes see, all x-ray and gamma ray radiation is filtered out before it comes close to the ground. Most UV is absorbed by stratospheric ozone (above 10km) and most IR is absorbed by water vapor and other molecules with non - zero dipole moments.

Of course, when sunlight passes through a lot of atmosphere as is the case with sunrises and sunsets, even more blue light is scattered and a much greater percentage of the longest wavelength (red) light makes it to our eyes.

So, you see, there is no simple answer to this question, but the good news is that you can defend almost any answer!"

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I see this headline:

As a former cakewrecks lover, I figured sure, I’ll bite. Let’s see this cake. Literally nothing could have prepared me for this cake. 

They paid $49 for this “frog-themed” cake and honestly no amount of money in the world could be put on this masterpiece:

Keep reading

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why does the usa have a city called corpus christi chuuni ass name you are not the body of christ you are a series of interconnected parking lots

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Yall should tell me what non-genre elements will make you pick up (or strongly consider) a book.

Los míos por ejemplo:

magic circus/carnival settings

mc that uses blood magic, especially if treated or revealed to be morally neutral in the end

disabled magic users or scientists (no cure mf)

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I think the "NASA knows the Earth is flat and have been falsifying evidence for the globe" (and ditto for mapmakers and airplane pilots and sailors and historians and-) is included in "the flat earth conspiracy theory". Sometimes people just call something a conspiracy theory as shorthand to indicate they think there's a coverup without having to use more words. Or other people call them conspiracy theorists because the only way their ideas could ever be true is a whole lot of people are liars, even if the conspiracy theorists never outright admit to thinking there's a coverup.

Pet peeve: When people call any weird theory a "conspiracy theory".

If the theory doesn't involve 2 or more people planning something illicit in secret it's not a conspiracy theory, it's just a theory.

The Earth being flat, for example, isn't a conspiracy theory in and of itself. Nobody conspired to flatten the Earth. Only the bit about "NASA knows the Earth is flat and have been falsifying evidence for the globe" is a conspiracy theory.

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Anyway how I got on the "words for Men" subject is thinking about whether it makes sense for elves to say "peredhel".

See, my inclination is to say that humans would say "half-elf" and elves would say "half-human". This feels obvious and intuitive to me. You highlight the weird thing. Not sure if it does to other people?

However you would want a "half-elf" category if not all half-elves are half-human, and technically there was at least one half-elf who was not half human, namely Lúthien. Hmm.

It would make sense for Sindarin-speaking Edain to call Elrond and Elros "peredhil". Did the elves adopt the term from that?

—As far as I can tell Dior, Elwing, Eluréd, Elurín, and Eärendil are not generally referred to as half-elves before Eärendil and Elwing get to Valinor. None of them had a lot of contact with Men in general. Eärendil had a little more maybe.

So I think I like the idea that "peredhil", despite being a Sindarin word, was coined by Edain in the late First/early Second Age, specifically referring to Elros and Elrond. Elrond kept on using it and he was the most prominent half-elf around, so it passed into common elven usage as well.