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Timebomb-Jayvik dynamic is so funny bc we have:

Begrudgingly acknowledge each other despite that one time Ekko haggle the fuck out Jayce and Jayce accidentally polluted the underground

Two strikes and they started throwing slurs at each other

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Damian Wayne comes across a classic christmas carol known well among the children of gotham… pt [1/?]

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Nah this is funny as hell 😂

If your husband actually signs the divorce papers you gave him you might just need to start an apocalypse about it…

Divorce Era Jayvik, my beloved, my dearest…

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No one in Gotham City is inherently good everyone in Gotham is morally grey each and every single one of them is bad or toxic in some way shape or form not even batman/Bruce Wayne with his rigid morals is 100 percent good...

Bruce Wayne is a terrible father

Batman runs around Gotham beating up criminals and at times putting them in the ICU presumably(yes I know they're criminals and he's a crime fighter but there's one instance specifically id like to point out) that time Harley was giving free therapy sessions to her fellow criminals and it actively was working and preventing crime and batman/Bruce stopped her because she wasn't licensed and no other reason other then he had no criminals to fight

Like the list goes on I'm convinced no one within Gotham is 100 percent right in what they believe but that's why I love it so much it proves not everything is black and white and while people believe what they're doing is right regardless of the convictions and feelings behind those actions it doesn't necessarily mean it really is right or good because from another perspective it could be considered another great evil

Like when Bruce never told dick that Jason died because dick was off world and Bruce's explanation was that the mission comes first and then he punched Dick in the face and disowned him Bruce felt like that was the right thing to do but to dick that was a disservice and deeply fucked up thing that Bruce did...

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Books to read if you liked avatar the last Airbender

If you enjoyed elemental elements of avatar and how it was all about balance and strong independent female main characters with azulas intelligence might I suggest

1. The poppy wars trilogy written by R.F kuang (check trigger warnings for this series as it's an incredibly heavy book and not recommended for children)

If you enjoyed uncle irohs love of tea and wisdom and just genuinely enjoy stories revolving around healers and a unique magic system as well fighting a corrupt spirits might I suggest

2. A magic steeped in poison duology by Judy I Lin

If you enjoyed the more combative elements of avatar where it included the elements and bending with them and the martial arts portion and want a story more akin to zuko with his twin blades and his alter ego the blue spirit or the scenes with ba sing se where the earth king has no idea about the 100 year war and when he finds out his whole world is turned upside down might I suggest

3. The sword of kaigan by M.L Wang

Only in this one it doesn't center on adults but children of prominent powerful families..

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Now if you simply want more stories within the world of avatar I suggest

4. The rise of kyoshi by F.C Yee

5. The shadow of kyoshi by F.C Yee

6. The dawn of yangchen by F.C Yee

7. The legacy of Yangchen by F.C Yee

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Okay so I'm not going back to Spotify then

In case you were wondering why Spotify Wrapped sucks balls this year, and more importantly doesn't have any genre data:

Can you hear the sound of bells? That's because they're clowns. 🤡 🛎

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I just imagine a young Jason todd like first time he's adopted by Bruce I feel like one day he'd ve wondering around a big retail store or some fancy store Bruce takes him too and Jason who grew up in poverty living in the streets isn't used to seeing plants at least not real ones anyways and he comes across one that to him must be fake so he picks it up in it's little pot feels the leaves and it feels so wacky and weird that he decides yup this must be one of those weird potted fake plants with Styrofoam insides that stays in place but to be sure he flips it upside down only for the poor plant to plop onto the floor and unknown to him ivy is in the vicinity and saw this whole thing happen but before she can lash out at Jason Jason's frantically trying to pick up the plant and get it back into it's pot and the poor plant just looks so wilted and rn Jason is panicking he doesn't want Bruce to know he ruined this plant and omg Bruce won't want him anymore after this, and as Jason's about to meltdown ivy takes pity on him and walks over plucks the plant out of his hand and gently tells the boy that he must handle plants with more dare even if he thinks they may be fake ones and she uses her power over plants to make the flowers bloom and easily puts new soil in the pot and turns around and walks away but before she can Jason just rubs up hugs her and goes thank u and then runs away to put the plant back and hide any evidence of the plant falling to the floor by sweeping the mess under a rug forgetting his hands are now covered in dirt..

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Apparently my director went to see a production of West Side Story a few years ago, and the guy playing Chino forgot his gun before coming out for his final scene. Once it got to the big scene where he is supposed to shoot Tony, he screeched “Poison Boots” and kicked the actor playing Tony until he went down. The girl playing Maria then had to jerk the shoe off of Chino’s foot, and had to do the gunshot scene asking “How many kicks Chino? How many kicks, and one kick left for me”. 

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Do you think staying a virgin until marriage is necessarily unfeminist? I've been going back and forth about this idea for a long time and I've come to terms with the fact that I don't think I'll be able to have sex with someone without this level of commitment, plus it'd take a huuuuuge weight off my shoulders when it comes to dating

the way a woman does or does not have sex is not ever going to be feminist. you should not have sex because you don't want to have sex, the alternative would be making yourself have sex when you don't want to have sex and this is categorically bad for you and obviously not any form of praxis.

If no one has given you permission to never have sex if you don't want to have sex, and to only have sex if you're absolutely sure you want to have sex, please let me be the first and please let me be convincing enough. Sex should only be an enjoyable, pleasurable, fulfilling experience of the highest order. You absolutely get to decide when to say no, and you don't need a reason, not even a political one. You just get to, always anytime for any reason.

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It never fails to amuse me when I get “hello influencer” emails wanting me to push questionable products to my followers.

Like worstie, I can barely promote my own published book without wanting to curl up and die.

The fuck makes you think I’ll shill your discount wish shit?

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Jason being like a stray cat is my favorite fucking thing omg

obsessed with like, Jason who absolutely refuses to reconcile with the bats. he wants no part in that family and will not talk to them under any circumstances. but he's legally dead with no friends and sometimes he gets sick of being completely by himself and wants to have company. so.

Bruce: hey Alfred have you seen my-

*comes into kitchen to see Alfred calmly preparing dinner while Jason Todd, Killer Red Hood, silently does paperwork while sat on the corner of the kitchen counter*

Bruce:

Bruce: uh-

Tim, doing homework at the table: don't mention it. if you acknowledge him he'll leave. he just likes being around people sometimes.

the bats have to start treating him like a stray cat, letting him go to them and acting completely unbothered by his presence because if they even make eye contact with Jason he'll jump out the window and they 1. won't see him for a month and 2. will start to see a lot more murders cropping up around gotham.

eventually it gets to the point where Dick will come to dinner to see the rest of the family wordlessly ignoring the brick shithouse of a man who is just sat on the floor of the dining area reading a book and he has to just. take a breath and pretend Jason isn't there. calmly stepping around him without acknowledging him. Alfred will silently place a plate of food by the guys elbow while speaking to Damian about school. When they decide to move from the table to the tv room for a movie night none of them can even look around when they hear him eventually follow just to sit in the corner of this room instead.

Bruce: I'm concerned, this is abnormal for Jason. what if he's been drugged with something? or he's trying to gain sensitive information?

Damian: actually he used to do this a lot after he came out of the Lazarus pit. he liked to sit in and watch me train, and occasionally we'd find him sat by grandfathers feet while he ran meetings. Mother says it's important to let him settle, because it's likely that he's simply craving human intimacy on his own terms for once.

Bruce, crying: oh

Jason still refuses to say a word to any of them unless it's in costume, and even then it's the same old 'i'm not your son! i'm not one of you! fuck off!' shtick like normal. they just have to accept him sneaking into the house every now and then too.

one time Tim needs Red Hoods info on a case he's working and since Jason's been sat on the floor against the wall of the bat cave for the past 45 minutes just. staring into space and vibing. he risks sliding the file across the floor towards him before pointedly turning back to the batcomputer, the info he needs marked clearly. five minutes later it's wordlessly slid back, info filled out and Jason refusing to acknowledge Tim's existence again. it's the only way he'll communicate with them.

after a while it gets to the point where Jason will straight up go to bludhaven and break into Dicks apartment just to silently sit in the corner of the room and Be Around A Familiar Person. Tim comes back from his lunch brake at WE to find him sat on the edge of his desk, working through a case. They work in silence for the rest of the day and when Tim leaves Jason just follows. They get a batburger together but the second Tim slips up and asks how his day was he's off like a shot. Damian regularly eats lunch at school on the roof while Jason plays mario kart on a DSI next to him. Batman will be 4 hours into a solo stake out when civilian Jason will silently slide up next to him with a crossword. they never talk. Jason still makes it clear that he's pissed at Bruce. Bruce doesn't know what else to do but let him be and hope eventually, with enough time, things will progress even further.

Dick, whispering so Jason won't pick up on the fact that he's being perceived: are you sure this is normal

Damian: is anything about any of us normal

Tim: he's got a point. at least we know Jason's watching us. I did this shit all the time before I was Robin, and none of you ever noticed me.

Dick:

Tim: sometimes its comforting to be in the same room as people you're familiar with, even if you can't handle interacting with them.

Dick, crying: ok

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A couple of Slayer doodles and references

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Jason’s soft spot for kids

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Please tell me there will be a part two please please please I'm begging

I cannot resist Papa Wolf Silco. So here is a comic I made over break.

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Lmao but we love them for that 😂

I enjoy a joke about fucked up German fairy tales as much as the next nerd, but it's genuinely striking how often the source for the really fucked up stuff turns out to be "yeah, this is only in the Brothers Grimm version and doesn't appear in any extant oral tradition, and we're like 80% sure they added it themselves". To a large extent it's not German fairy tales that are fucked up, it's two specific German dudes.