#defense exercises

[tartppola]

silver♀ dump + fairy gala sil/prefect sillies..........

[science-lings]

I feel like ppl focus on Bruce training the robins to kick ass from a young age when that’s definitely not all that was. He had to teach them field medicine and how to pick locks and sneak around silently and how to notice things, sure he taught them how to hit things with sticks of multiple sizes, but he also taught them how to grapple around and land from a fall.

They probably had intimidation lessons and interrogation lessons and sessions where they just meditated for hours straight. They’re taught how to calm down civilians and to train their voices to sound different in costume and so many things that would make them the most terrifying children to live with.

Bruce is actively training them to be good at bothering him because they like trying out their new espionage skills at Galas and trying to sneak around him while he’s asleep to prank him.

When we think of training to be Robin it’s easy to think of sparring and gymnastics equipment when it’s fun to remember the other parts of it. Some days Bruce would probably just give the kids a Hunt a Killer box and a time limit.

[rocketbirdie]

i feel like i failed you.

[the-state-of-georgia-official]

if I die, I bequeath my blog to one of my children ( @irishfry , @atlanta-city-official , @thatoneacerobot , or @beadoesthings ) /SILLYYY

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Play fighting with Moth baby, but he let's us win every time <3

he just wants you to have fun, and if you're happy, he's happy!!

as revenge for Childe's impromptu sparring sessions, you've started suddenly tackling Foul Legacy, carefully of course. he doesn't fall- he usually doesn't even stumble- but he always chirps in surprise, catching and allowing you to clamber up his shoulders, wings fluttering all the while with amusement and delight. you gnaw on his shoulder, teeth lightly clacking against the armor, and Legacy gasps and pretends to swoon, lowering you both to the ground. you promptly lunge, rolling around on the soft grass and laughing so hard your stomach starts to hurt. Legacy pokes and prods you gingerly, not wanting to actually hurt you, playfully scratching your back with the tips of his claws

Legacy flops over with a dramatic chitter, pressing a hand to his forehead. you win, you win! he feigns fainting, cracking his crystalline eye back open as he listens to your stifled chuckling and lifting his arm, urging you to curl up beside him. his talons fiddle with the tips of your hair, purring and crooning softly in a language you don't understand. there's nothing and no one more precious than you, he's decided, running his claws gently up and down your arm to help you catch your breath. you're both a bit dusty from playfighting, your clothes mussed and his armor with a few smudges. but you just laugh again, bumping your head against his and earning a joyful chirp as he promptly nuzzles you back in his absolute favorite way, with his absolute favorite person ever

[anghraine]

Okay, breaking my principles hiatus again for another fanfic rant despite my profound frustration w/ Tumblr currently:

I have another post and conversation on DW about this, but while pretty much my entire dash has zero patience with the overtly contemptuous Hot Fanfic Takes, I do pretty often see takes on Fanfiction's Limitations As A Form that are phrased more gently and/or academically but which rely on the same assumptions and make the same mistakes.

IMO even the gentlest, and/or most earnest, and/or most eruditely theorized takes on fanfiction as a form still suffer from one basic problem: the formal argument does not work.

I have never once seen a take on fanfiction as a form that could provide a coherent formal definition of what fanfiction is and what it is not (formal as in "related to its form" not as in "proper" or "stuffy"). Every argument I have ever seen on the strengths/weaknesses of fanfiction as a form vs original fiction relies to some extent on this lack of clarity.

Hence the inevitable "what about Shakespeare/Ovid/Wide Sargasso Sea/modern takes on ancient religious narratives/retold fairy tales/adaptation/expanded universes/etc" responses. The assumptions and assertions about fanfiction as a form in these arguments pretty much always should apply to other things based on the defining formal qualities of fanfic in these arguments ("fanfiction is fundamentally X because it re-purposes pre-existing characters and stories rather than inventing new ones" "fanfiction is fundamentally Y because it's often serialized" etc).

Yet the framing of the argument virtually always makes it clear that the generalizations about fanfic are not being applied to Real Literature. Nor can this argument account for original fics produced within a fandom context such as AO3 that are basically indistinguishable from fanfic in every way apart from lacking a canon source.

At the end of the day, I do not think fanfic is "the way it is" because of any fundamental formal qualities—after all, it shares these qualities with vast swaths of other human literature and art over thousands of years that most people would never consider fanfic. My view is that an argument about fanfic based purely on form must also apply to "non-fanfic" works that share the formal qualities brought up in the argument (these arguments never actually apply their theories to anything other than fanfic, though).

Alternately, the formal argument could provide a definition of fanfic (a formal one, not one based on judgment of merit or morality) that excludes these other kinds of works and genres. In that case, the argument would actually apply only to fanfic (as defined). But I have never seen this happen, either.

So ultimately, I think the whole formal argument about fanfic is unsalvageably flawed in practice.

Realistically, fanfiction is not the way it is because of something fundamentally derived from writing characters/settings etc you didn't originate (or serialization as some new-fangled form, lmao). Fanfiction as a category is an intrinsically modern concept resulting largely from similarly modern concepts of intellectual property and auteurship (legally and culturally) that have been so extremely normalized in many English-language media spaces (at the least) that many people do not realize these concepts are context-dependent and not universal truths.

Fanfic does not look like it does (or exist as a discrete category at all) without specifically modern legal practices (and assumptions about law that may or may not be true, like with many authorial & corporate attempts to use the possibility of legal threats to dictate terms of engagement w/ media to fandom, the Marion Zimmer Bradley myth, etc).

Fanfic does not look like it does without the broader fandom cultures and trends around it. It does not look like it does without the massive popularity of various romance genres and some very popular SF/F. It does not look like it does without any number of other social and cultural forces that are also extremely modern in the grand scheme of things.

The formal argument is just so completely ahistorical and obliviously presentist in its assumptions about art and generally incoherent that, sure, it's nicer when people present it politely, but it's still wrong.

[cawareyoudoin]

Ok, the Internet search is useless, even with Reddit, so here goes, for anyone who has any experience with any martial arts or self defense:

Why is breaking your back preferable to breaking a hand?

I understand that you shouldn't fall on straight hands because it can break your arm, surface area and so on, blah blah blah. But the way they're teaching us, we fall on our back, and it hurt my spine several times. I like my hands, but if I had the choice between breaking them vs my back, I would choose the hands.

Also, I feel like we have the instinct to fall on our hands for a reason? Sure, in martial arts it makes sense to do something else, but in everyday life, shouldn't we be aiming to protect the more vital organs?

Is my back just too damaged to fall? Am I doing it wrong? What the hell.

[chicagognosis]

Learn to defend yourself in spiritual warfare. New video with transcription and accompanying podcast!

[remembertheplunge]

March 20, 1996 Wednesday 10:40am Deva’s.

The above entry was written at Deva’s Restaurant while I was on a break from court. I was a deputy Public Defender in Modesto California. The 3 strikes law had been effect since March 1994. With the right prior convictions, a person could get life for a minor current offense. I handled many of the office's 3 strikes cases It was a continual horror show.

I learned as a volunteer when working with men with aids helping them through their illness and death to keep one foot outside of the story so as not to fall in. The same rule applys to criminal law practice. If you are consumed by their story, you lose your perspective.

Life was tough and tried hard to make me feel wrong about myself. That’s the nature of criminal law practice.

But now, as then, I work out, write, and now also swim in the ocean to turn those arrows out for even for a brief time. (I still practice criminal law)

[loving-jack-kelly]

Jack started smoking very young and did his best to quit when he was in his twenties and was mostly successful (sometimes when he's really stressed he lets himself bum a cig off of somebody) but a side effect is that now he has to have something in his mouth all the time so he carries around little cinnamon flavored toothpicks to chew on. Davey, unfortunately, thinks this is very hot.

[mummer]

this article is one of the craziest things ive ever read on wikipedia you can literally see every word of holocaust denial and handwashing in it so clearly. bringing up bile lol

[awoooniper]

if you were a weapon, (and you are one now. i’ve made you into one just by reading this) what kind of weapon would you be?

[lucky-clover-gazette]

coleydoesthings made a video that answered some questions i had about like online selfshipping culture. very interesting