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Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:

The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.

You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?

Don't be a hero.

Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.

Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.

It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.

(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)

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AU where some new villain made a truth serum formula and captures Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Robin. This villain somehow knows they’ve all been Robin at one point and decides to use the truth serum to try and drive a wedge between them all so that they stop working together. He starts with Robin, asking him who he thinks was the best Robin (Nightwing), who he thinks is the worst (Red Robin) and why he thinks that (Red Robin is annoying and arrogant). He does the same with Red Robin and Red Hood and gets varying answers that, while somewhat mean, are not enough to break the dynamic between them. Then he gets to Nightwing, who claims (truthfully) that he doesn’t have a favorite or least favorite Robin. The villain is displeased with this so they start to come up different questions to try and start an argument between the boys.

Eventually the villain asks “Which Robin is closest to the original? Closest to your Robin? Which one reminds you the most of yourself?”. Dick tries to fight the serum for a while, before finally biting out “The fourth one.” They all turn to look at Damian, and the villain scrunches up his brows, asking “Him? Really?” It was somewhat of a rhetorical question but Dick is forced to answer anyways. “No, not him. He’s the fifth Robin.” It takes a second before it clicks into place. “The girl Robin? Seriously?? I heard she didn’t even last a week!” Before anything else can be said, Batman busts into the villain’s lair and manages to take him down.

When they get back to the cave, the boys try to question Dick about it, slightly offended by the fact that he considered Stephanie’s Robin to be the most accurate to his. Dick, however, manages to evade them until the serum wears off. Dick himself isn’t quite sure how he can explain it to them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he’s proud of all the work they’ve done as Robin, he never shared their reasoning for becoming Robin. He’s not sure how to point out the fact that the main reason they got into the vigilante game was for Bruce, not for themselves. He’s not sure how to explain that Robin might’ve been given to them for them to find light and happiness in, but that initially Robin was born from his darkness.

He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce told him about Steph, about Spoiler, about how she designed her own suit and went out to stop the man she has a vendetta against, he was so violently reminded of himself that he hung up immediately and didn’t speak to anyone for two days. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Bruce came calling a little while later, telling him about Steph being in-over her head, about him firing her, about her going off on her own only to end up tortured and dead, it was like staring in a mirror of his own relationship with Bruce, and that he’d punched Bruce so hard he’d nearly broken a finger. He’s not sure how to tell them about the quiet nights he stayed up talking with Steph, when Bruce was lost in time and it was just her, Damian, and Alfred around. He’s not sure how to tell them about how when Steph had told him about her relationship with Dean, he’d been reminded of his relationship with Liu so much he’d nearly thrown up. He’s not sure how to tell them that when Dick had opened up about his guilt about what happened in Blüd, Steph hadn’t given him any false placations, and talked about the guilt she felt over her role in the gang wars instead.

He’s not sure how to tell them that while all of them have felt like failures to Bruce, none of them had felt the harsh sting of Bruce ripping Robin away from them, the pain of Bruce telling them how incompetent and unworthy they were as Bruce fires them. He’s not sure how to tell them that while he may their older brother, he was only ever Bruce’s ward. Bruce never adopted him, and despite how far they’ve all come to work as a family, Dick still feels like an outsider sometimes. He knows Steph gets it. She feels like an outsider too.

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I'm not upset discussions of Sally Ride these days don't leave out the fact that she was a lesbian and therefore the first known queer person in space (albeit a fact only known after her death), but I hate that the fact that what is left out is that she, while part of the Roger's Commission after Challenger exploded, was the whistleblower who made sure the information for the defects of the O-rings made its way to Richard Feynman, who then famously, publicly, and on camera demonstrated how icy coldness (such as the cold and icy weather the morning before Challenger launched) could critically deform the O-rings used and keep them from forming a seal. This was also only revealed after she died. (x)

Whenever Sally Ride comes up these days among my (overwhelmingly queer) friends, we all acknowledge that she was a lesbian and celebrate what a role model she was not just for girls but for queer kids (and adults) too, but everyone is always surprised when I bring up the whistleblowing thing, which I think is damn shame and a disservice to her legacy.

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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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Joker got hit by lust!

Here's a translation for a wonderful piece of fanart by Ageha! Read L←R.

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The fact that Fountain is pissing off trads over a 100 years later is so fucking funny

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Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. TUMBLR RULE. When you see it, REBLOG IT.

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I laughed so fucking hard at this

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Nurse: “Alright, if you don’t get a call by Friday give us a call on Monday! Or if anything big happens—not that it will.”

Me: “Like if it bursts open and an alien baby skitters out?”

Nurse: “Yeah definitely give us a call if that happens. Though I’m not sure we’re equipped to deal with alien cyst babies.”

Me: “In your professional opinion, if something does burst out, should I try to exterminate it or should I attempt raise it up and teach it the difference between right and wrong?”

Nurse: “I believe that is your right to decide what happens to it. If you want to teach it to live peacefully alongside humanity, more power to you.”

Me: “Any suggestions for names if that happens?”

Nurse: “I will message you on MyChart if I have any ideas.”

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If the Phantom Thieves had gotten a jail reading from somewhere Tatsumi Port Island, where do you think it would be and what would it look like? And who would the monarch and Lock Keeper be?

Because there's 3 options for the location: the school (Tartarus), the dorms (Abyss of Time and the Dark Hour), or technically an argument could probably be made for the Moonlight Bridge as a third location even though it could easily be used as a Trauma Room too.

Would it affect the city or just the localized area since the Dark Hour itself affected the whole island? Would it look like a distorted Dark Hour? Does the school turn into Tartarus or is it a distorted version of the tower? Or in the case of the dorms, would it be the Abyss of Time or shift to the Dark Hour?

Hell, would them being activated tip off the old S.E.E.S. gang? Would the rules of the Jail mean that only Evokers work or could both variations of summoning (mask and Evoker) work here?

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I've been playing Persona 3 Reload (again) and maybe this is the 3 am obsession brain talking but the biggest difference between any version of Persona 3 and Persona 4/Persona 5 is the inherent tragedy. Because for Minato/Makoto/Minako, their story was always going to end up this way.

It was set in stone long before they knew what consent was. They were chosen in some way (or maybe sacrificed) to be the Great Seal when they were 6 years old that night on the Moonlight Bridge. If it wasn't for Aigis, they would have died and become the Seal then. Minato-Makoto-Minako was always doomed. Persona 3 is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way.

Personas 4 and 5 are, in a looser definition, tragic because their stories didn't have to even start, but they did between a mix of their own actions and outside forces. Ultimately, they succeeded because their story wasn't concrete. It wasn't set in stone. They always had a chance to change course. It's only a tragedy if you fail in Persona 4 and Persona 5, and the tragedy is that it didn't have to end up that way but it did.

Persona 3 is the definition of doomed by the narrative and that's why I love it.

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I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

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About that 5k....

Might have to use a sword to open my treatsies again