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Sentient Gotham, who has always loved Bruce as her special-est boy, also loved Robin, but was kinda neutral with Tim.

"Is that why?! Because I wasn't born here?!!" Red Robin screams off the side of a building. "Dick wasn't either!!!"

Nothing explicitly happens, but Tim can feel the city shrugging. He kicks an air conditioning unit. (It fucking hurts.)

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When I am appointed to represent a child, my first action is to separate them from their parents and tell them the following things:

1. I am their attorney. I do not work for their parent or the judge or the cops. I don’t care what any of those people want.

2. My job is to listen to them and try and make what they want happen in court. (At this point I make a joke about how most people want me to get them out of trouble but if someone wanted to be in trouble I would do my best.)

3. What they tell me is confidential. It goes nowhere unless they agree to it. (If old enough, I talk to them about mandatory reporters, and how I’m a mandatory non reporter.)

4. I will give them lots of advice because I’ve been doing court for a while and I know a lot about it, and they don’t. It’s all really complicated, and if they don’t understand what’s happening it’s my job to help them figure it out.

5. They will make the decisions. (At this point I usually have to reassure them that I’ll help, I’ll speak for them in front of the judge, and I’ve got their back. It’s scary to have an adult say you’re in charge, most of the time.)

6. I tell them I know it’s absolutely wild to have some stranger come in here and say “hey, you can trust me!” and that I get if they don’t believe everything right away, because I plan to show them through my actions and my words that I’ll fight for them.

7. But nonetheless, I will treat them like a person who can make decisions, because they are living their life and I am not.

I do not:

Pretend to be cool.

Try to be their BFF.

Overwhelm them with detail.

Let their parents in the room until the kid asks for them. (I provide openings for this, and ask if the kid wants their parent to help them remember and understand.)

I want to emphasize I went into this job knowing nothing about how to interact with vulnerable populations, especially children. The training was minimal, and my role means that I can literally walk into a facility and get an unmonitored visit with a minor client one on one.

In my years of practice I have never felt threatened by a child, even one that was “violent” and “unstable.” It turns out just saying “hi, I think you’re a person with thoughts” is wildly successful? Now people treat me like I have special Child Whisperer powers. My powers are that I ask the child what’s up and I’m not scared to say things that are objectively awkward. I know nothing about anything.

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I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?

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“Do you want to make a stop for Batburger?”

[Incoherent concussed Jason noises]

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i had a vision please use these for good or evil or whatever

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fascinated by this screenshot where they took out the poster's username and replaced it with a very small picture of alex the lion

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the is he hot, or just in charge? challenge but make it Justice League:

-Hal Jordan (hot, definitely not in charge)

-Clark Kent (hot, also usually in charge; sometimes hot because he’s in charge)

-Oliver Queen (arguably hot but NEVER in charge; hotness decreases to near-zero if he attempts to be in charge)

-J’onn (hot when he’s in charge; minor additional hotness points for wardrobe)

-Dinah (in charge. hot anyway, but extra points for being in charge)

-Barry/Wally (hot despite not being in charge)

-Arthur Curry (hot BECAUSE he’s not in charge)

-Diana (hot and in charge; in charge and hot)

-Bruce (Batman is a near-perfect example of “hot because he’s in charge” but this is subverted by Bruce Wayne’s “oh no he’s hot all the time” score)

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82 YEARS AGO - BATMAN DEBUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME Eighty-two years ago on March 30, 1939, Detective Comics #27 hit newsstands, introducing the Caped Crusader for the very first time in a featured story called “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.”

“And for all that fierce exterior, I’ve never met anyone who cared as deeply about his fellow man as Bruce Wayne.”  - Amanda Waller, Justice League Unlimited, Season 2 Episode 13 (2005)

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btw I am doing it afraid

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Hair gel 😅

I got the idea from twitter 🕺

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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116

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Need to stop making OC concepts because I'm never gonna do anything with them LMAO. current idea is two friends, one of them's gay with a homophobic mom. The other friends suggest they matchmake her homophobic mom with his single mom, and surely they will fall in love and she'll accept her lesbian daughter

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