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so few people understand the art of the pseudo nap

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a child came into the nature center and saw tadpoles for the first time and when i told him they're baby frogs he thought i was lying and i suddenly realized that if you're 3 and don't know that tadpoles become frogs it does sound pretty fake. this kid will not fall for made up shit online he is a born skeptic.

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This might be unpopular but I’m not going to use simpler vocabulary in my writing if it’s out of character for the narrator. If my POV character is a botanist, he’s going to call a plant by its name. If you don’t know what it is you can either Google it or move on just knowing it’s a plant of some sort.

I don’t like this trend of readers being angry that not everything is 100% understandable for them. I want my characters to be believable as people and sometimes people use words people outside of their field will not understand. That’s not a bad thing.

You don’t have to understand every word to get the gist of what’s happening. I’m not going to slow down an action scene to describe every weapon because someone might not know them by name. They can just assume it’s a weapon because that makes sense in the context of the scene.

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Okay, so... Blüdhaven residents caught having Nightwing photobombs on their phones?

Imagine being a resident of Blüdhaven, one brave enough to take photos or even record videos at night for your social media... And when you check a tiktok that you just recorded on a rooftop with the rear camera of your cell phone, you realize that Nightwing was behind you, sometimes he even has fun dancing with you without you realizing it.

Nightwing never shows up when everyone tries to record him, but suddenly, some citizens discover they have a picture of him on their phones.

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So wait are livestock guardian dogs to their flocks like… Clark Kent among the residents of Smallville? He’s been here since he was a baby, we all know him, and he’s… generally one-of-us shaped, uh, approximately. And then when something goes wrong he suddenly leaps into action and does some terrifying impossible shit none of us could do. And then comes back home and settles in like nothing happened and he’s one of us again.

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closest thing to a lawlu you'll ever get from me

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They’re fighting over custody 😔

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bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry

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tbh my take on the whole “should batman kill the joker” thing is that batman is a volunteer gig, and bruce is allowed to have boundaries

should *someone* kill the joker? maybe, idk. that’s above my pay grade. but just bc bruce wayne is willing to shoulder the weight of the world (whether anyone actually wants him to or not) doesn’t mean we should all just accept that it belongs to him. he chooses to help in what ways he is able, the ways he can live with, and if killing is the one line he won’t cross no matter what, well, it could be worse. but he has no actual moral obligation to do any of what he’s doing, actually, and if having this one boundary firmly in place is what keeps him from having a mental breakdown and becoming the thing he swore to stop, then i say more power to him and we could honestly all stand to learn from his example

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dick: i do NOT want to be batman i do NOT want to be dragged back to gotham if you ask me to do that you HATE ME!!! and i will HATE IT!!!

bruce: [doesn't ask dick to be batman or come back to gotham]

dick: i cannot believe this HE HATES ME!!! he wants me to KILL MYSELF!!!! [punches the ground]

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Not taking any of Crayola’s shit today.

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people don't lean into the "bruce was raised by a british guy" thing enough. sure he calls people lad and perhaps drinks tea when alfred brings it to him but when is he going to slap his thighs and stand up and say "right then" or put an instant end to some nonsense by going "OI!" or eat a sad gruel-esque brick of weetabix alone in his cave? lock in guys

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character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead

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joke i'll never get tired of: "they died doing what they loved, [something no one would ever do on purpose]"

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If you see someone with a really bad fandom take, I’m begging you to open your emails and write a strongly worded missive to your local government official about something bad happening in your community or country.

If you’re in Canada you could email a rep about concerns about Elon musk interfering in our next federal election.

If you’re in the US the list is endless.

If you’re in the UK you could email about trans health care.

If you’re in Australia, what about dental care in Medicare?

If you’re in Europe, look into some EU initiatives of particular concern. Perhaps something to do with nature and biodiversity? Idk

Just today I emailed my local mla about coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and tomorrow I’m going to pick something else and do it again