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Tim watching them fight with a thousand yard stare like "we could be having a threesome right now. I could be getting railed within an inch of my life by my childhood heroes but nooooo-"

dicktim, jaytim - the girls are fightinggg

Dick: look I just think, what with your history with Tim, it would be better if you backed off a little

Jason:

Dick: or like, all the way

Jason:

Dick: to Siberia maybe

Jason: oh, to make it easier for you to slide in with your 'come sit on big brother's lap' routine?

Dick: wh- I don't have a- fuck you, Jay, that's not what this is about

Jason: right, right, you're circling Timbit like you want to piss on him because you just care so much

Dick: classy, Jay. I don't need to have some kind of ulterior motive to think you and Tim are a bad idea.

Dick: You beat him up, cut his throat, stabbed him-

Jason: you think I've forgotten? or that he has? hell, he gave as good as he got.

Jason: and fuck you, at least I know he can make his own damn decisions about who to fucking flirt with-

Dick: that's rich when you're chasing him around, pressuring him-

Jason: oh please, if he didn't like it, he'd kick me in the balls. he's done it before - you were there.

Dick (gritting his teeth): you're not good for him

Jason:

Jason (dangerous): not good enough for him, you mean

Dick: don't put words in my mouth-

Jason: at least I'm practically his age!

Dick: fucking excuse me?

Jason: you heard me. go pant after your gaggle of redheads and stop sniffing around a kid 8 years younger than you-

Dick: right. okay.

Dick: I'm gonna knock you off this fucking rooftop.

Dick and Jay: *BRAWL*

Tim (literally standing on the next rooftop over): *buries his face in his hands and sighhhhhs*

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There are very few ""headcanons"" out there that get a bigger side-eye from me than people who try to make Stephanie Brown into a Black girl.

Firstly because that is not a headcanon. That's just a whole-ass retcon created out of thin air. A headcanon would be saying she's a natural redhead like how Morgan Kohan played her on Batwoman, or that she's mixed-race because of the curly way some artist draw her hair. There's definitely flexibility in race interpretations for comics but looking at the blue-eyed blonde-hair white girl and declaring her "actually Black" is not one of them.

Secondly, because I have seen (and sometimes gotten) a lot of harassment from Steph fans aimed specifically at Tim's actual, canon Black love interests and teammates. I still seethe at the memory of this one CBR interview I read back when YJ2019 was running, where Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker were clearly there to talk up Naomi and Teen Lantern, and in the middle of their heart-felt conversation about the importance of representation for young Black girls, the interviewer butted in to interject, "But you know who I want to see more of?? Stephanie!!!" This going on while Steph fans on Twitter were going on racist tirades because the book dared to highlight the history of Teen Lantern, a character who was actually advertised to be a part of the book and a new member of the team, instead of giving them more of their white-blonde fav who had never been affiliated with YJ and was never part of the advertising.

Thirdly, she was created and so often written by Chuck Dixon, a blatant racist, and as a result there are so many little scenes of her that have uncomfortable racial elements to them. Like the one where he created a pair of Black girls just so Stephanie could call them "raging morons" to their faces and then later talk about how stupid and immature they are compared to her. (Which I am still convinced was Dixon directly criticizing the much better teen pregnancy subplot from Icon & Rocket). Or the borderline-blackface white savior ""demon"" where she wears a dead gnu and maybe accidentally calls herself a bitch in Swahili. (Disclaimer: I do not speak Swahili, and thus do not know how a sentence structure that should read "I am thorn" turns into "I'm a bitch" or "I'm crazy," but I checked that translation with three different robo-translators and got the same results so, shrug.)

And finally -- god, Steph is just, such a walking avatar of white women's privilege. Her entire thing is demanding that she get her way, never letting anyone tell her no, and still being treated by the narrative as a pure-hearted ""beacon of hope"" that everybody needs to protect and nurture at all times.

The inciting incident of War Games can be boiled down to, "A white girl got told no, and made it everybody else's problem." The first attempted Black member of the Batfamly fucking died during that event and got almost entirely forgotten because people only went to bat for the white girl who caused the whole mess and the white woman who got character assassinated to kill her off.

If Stephanie were Black, she wouldn't exist anymore. Fuck, if she were a brunette or just as butch as Carrie Kelly, she probably wouldn't exist anymore. She certainly wouldn't be Batgirl, I can't imagine Dan Didio replacing Cass with another woman of color.

And it's not even just her? Her father is also a very white character. It is incredibly easy to summarize Arthur Brown as a mediocre white man lashing out at the world for not handing him the success he felt entitled to. Take that petulant entitlement away from him and you lose his entire character.

I'm ranting about it on my own blog instead of picking a fight because everybody's entitled to their own fandom experience and blah blah, but this is just. Yeah. Ugh.

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The leaders of the three most populated countries in the world are either authoritarians or wannabe authoritarians and I live in one of those countries and everyday I still have to unload the dishwasher

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Please take my white ass to anor londo

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I'm starting to go the opposite direction of all the "you're a literal baby infant until 25 bc your bwain is a baby bwain :(" shit

We should be treating teens as more adult than we do. I don't mean some lowering the age of consent creep shit, I mean presuming competence. Get a job, learn life skills, learn to cook, be fully responsible for a pet, walk places alone (in daylight) or with a friend, have intergenerational friendships, teach skills to littler kids, be someone people can trust with more than wiping their own ass. Be someone they themselves can trust to do stuff and go places. We're stealing children's confidence by treating them like they can't do anything. Treat them like they can and should do many adult things and more will find the confidence to practice at them.

Yes, the brain isn't finished growing when you're like 15. No, you shouldn't get treated like a preschooler till it is. The general experience of adulthood is like 90% practice 10% maturity I think. The maturity is needed but it doesn't account for much if you just do nothing.

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According to Tim nothing out of the ordinary, why do you ask?

Bruce, gripping Wonder Woman’s lasso, the other end of which is around his former sidekick’s waist: Tim. Tell the truth.

Tim: Okay, sure. So what happened that morning was -

Dick: Yeah, that’s not gonna work. Try this one.

Bruce, gripping Donna’s Lasso of Persuasion, the other end of which is around Tim’s waist: Tell the whole truth.

Tim, rolling his eyes: Fine. As I was saying, you need some context, but -

Bruce: Tell nothing but the truth.

Tim: Hmm. Yeah, okay. So… The night before, we ran into the Scarecrow, and -

Bruce, eye twitching: Do not imply anything other than the truth.

Tim: Jeez, fine. Well, Kon was pretty injured, but we -

Bruce: Do not present emotional interpretations that do not align with the truth! Or any other kind of misleading interpretation!

Tim, visibly thinking: Don’t… present… Yeah, I can do that. Anyway, as I keep trying to tell you…

Dick: Oh my GOD. How the hell are you even planning to get around that one?

Tim, shrugging: I was gonna go with focusing your attention on the wrong parts of the story, and some poorly presented statistics and graphs as backup. Manipulate the axes, the zero-point, the units, the p-values. You know. The works.

Bruce and Dick, blinking:

Tim: What, did you expect me not to answer that question? I’m under a truth compulsion. Look. [gesturing with his hand] Lassoes.

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The Fish Jacket in all its glory!

I don't know what to say.. I started the jacket 10 months ago. What a journey! I'm so proud and happy!

Thanks for your lovely and kind words and the overwhelming interest! Happy stitching everyone.

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that tiktok of the kid watching the guy jump off the cliff like "doesnt he have a wife & kids at home" & pulled a rainbow parachute & just saying "doesnt he have a husband & kids at home" but HUNTR/X when rumi gets on the ring without a safety harness & someone is watching the livestream like "doesnt she have a boyfriend backstage" & it switches to mira & zoey watching her w hearteyes & theyre like "doesnt she have two girlfriends backstage"

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I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

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Asked for some notebook paper at the library and they didn’t have any but the lady did hand me a stack of missprints and OMG IS THIS NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING YOUVE EVER SEEN?

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@ambisweetiepie never fails to impress~ Doily is soooooo soft and cute!!!!

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Tim has a magnet in his foot and a magnet in his mouth, and over the years he's learned to keep them very carefully separated and be deliberate about what he says.

But also he's human and not perfect 100% of the time so sometimes he's tired/not thinking/off his game/thrown by something/vaguely annoyed and the foot goes STRAIGHT back into the mouth

i understand the tim hate for meta reasons but 90s tim is so enjoyable and fun and his chronic foot in mouth disease has so much potential for great comedy

is tim telling dick that the death of the flying graysons was one of his worst memories a good thing? no. is it deeply fucking funny? yes.

is tim saying "and robin! :D" after bruce says "don't you know you can't kill batman and nightwing?" a good thing? no. is his complete inability to read the room about this so fucking funny? yes.

bruce and dick both having an internal ping-pong match between "he's such a good kid" and "trying not to throw hands with a 13 year old" because he's so earnest and wants to do what he thinks is right but he is such a little shit and so tone deaf, it's a gorgeous train wreck

tim is SO funny especially in the late 80s–⁠early 90s comics and i think a lot of it is because writers really were having so much fun writing him being A Teenage Boy. and ofc that involves him being kind of shit at reading the room and thinking before he speaks. like yeah of course he's a little tactless, he's a 9th grader and he's new to all of this!!!! if he always said the most respectful, tactful line possible and was never annoying or accidentally rude then 1) he would not be an accurate teenage boy and 2) he would suck as a character. how boring!!!!!

of course his chronic foot in mouth syndrome often ends up being worse than the average teenage boy's might because. you know. he's robin, and also he's spending all his free time with two guys who are notably Tragic Orphans and who have (recently!) lost a young family member. and he really is just so well-meaning and devoted and he dedicates himself to knowing about people, and it all comes together to make him a massive accidental asshole. and they can't even be mad at him about it because he has those big wet earnest eyes. it's so fucking funny

all that said, i think people (not you just like. people in general) tend to miss or ignore that it's Very Much part of tim's long-term character development that we see him go from being just. utterly incapable of thinking before he speaks or pulling his foot out of his mouth in the early 90s to being very methodical in his words and actions and recognizing the power and weight of what he says, as we see by the end of new earth canon in the late 2000s–2011. so you get people being like "wow tim is an asshole who has no tact ever" instead of realizing that while he's tactless as a kid (as all kids are), he is well removed from that by the time he's 18. (but he doesn't take his foot out of his mouth entirely. and i never want him to)

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Here’s the thing: imagine if we fixed the housing market, so that the price of housing only increased to match inflation. That would be great, right? Except, homeowners typically spend $2000-$10000 per year on maintenance. So homeownership would go from an investment to an endless money pit, just like renting. The idea of a house as an investment, a house as a way to build wealth, requires that housing prices increase faster than inflation forever, which means that the burden of housing costs on working people must keep increasing forever, and the number of homeless people must keep increasing forever.

The housing crisis isn’t just a result of greedy landlords and investors. It’s an inevitable result of social policies that encourage people to treat their houses as in investment. Because once a homeowner internalizes the idea that their financial future depends on housing prices going up, they start favoring policies (such as NIMBYism) that make housing prices go up.

Conversely, if we want to end homelessness for good, we need to accept that housing is someone we’ll all have to continuously pour resources into, because buildings are complex physical objects that break a lot.

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Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

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THE GIRLIES 🌈✨

it was a bit tricky choosing which animal each one would be,,