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13 y/o dick grayson, holding 9 y/o jason todd like a stray cat: bruce, i got a little brother!

bruce, doing paperwork for WE, not paying attention: that’s great, chum

. . .

bruce, several hours later: wait, what?!

dick: it’s okay, alfred said we can keep him!

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Growing up Mormon AND with long hair that I didn’t cut because of pressure from my mom, to me the metaphor here is pretty obvious… you can read it how you want though.

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Twitter has one thing still going for it and it's Chiitan, are y'all aware of Chiitan

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Tim: *tired sigh* I have to do everything in this fucking family myself

Bruce: I met you last week

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Damian: Drake, why on earth are you still here? Your worthlessness is distracting me from my work.

Tim, running on 7 coffees, 4 energy drinks, and a butt load of spite: If you insult me one more time, I will accept Ra's' advances just so you have to call me Grandfather too, you little shit.

Damian:

Tim:

Damian: Understandable, have a nice day-

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When you eat ice cream, do you ever find it hard to breathe afterwords? (I assume because of the cold)

Yes, i have some form of asthma

Yes, i do not have asthma

No, i have some form of asthma

No, i do not have asthma

I never eat ice cream

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

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*Dick trying to deal with his brothers from Blüdhaven*

Dick: It’s Tim, he wants to hang out with me tonight but he told me not to tell you.

Damian: Do not hang out with him.

Dick: Why?

Damian: You don’t want me to tell you.

Dick: Ugh, you can tell me, hold on… [thinks he's switched back to Tim]

Dick: Oh my God he’s so annoying.

Damian: Who is?

Dick: Who’s this?

Damian: Damian.

Dick: Right, hold on.. [switches over]

Dick: Oh my God, he’s so annoying.

Tim: I know, just get rid of him.

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girlbulge is such a choice look i really wish it was more normalized

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*conveniently ignoring the bnha manga* normal brothers ^-^

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Hc that Tim read a shit ton of parenting books before he became Robin specifically so he knew how to handle Bruce.

Absolutely. He read some books or looked online for things like "how to help your child through grief," "losing a parent," "help my child is a furry," "adoption trauma," "how to ground your child," "taking away your kid's car keys," and "how to add more color to your kid's closet." They've given Tim varying levels of success.

He even has a reddit account for parenting advice.

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I had a very interesting discussion about theater and film the other day. My parents and I were talking about Little Shop of Horrors and, specifically, about the ending of the musical versus the ending of the (1986) movie. In the musical, the story ends with the main characters getting eaten by the plant and everybody dying. The movie was originally going to end the same way, but audience reactions were so negative that they were forced to shoot a happy ending where the plant is destroyed and the main characters survive. Frank Oz, who directed the movie, later said something I think is very interesting:

I learned a lesson: in a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow — in a movie, they don’t come out for a bow, they’re dead. They’re gone and so the audience lost the people they loved, as opposed to the theater audience where they knew the two people who played Audrey and Seymour were still alive. They loved those people, and they hated us for it.

That’s a real gem of a thought in and of itself, a really interesting consequence of the fact that theater is alive in a way that film isn’t. A stage play always ends with a tangible reminder that it’s all just fiction, just a performance, and this serves to gently return the audience to the real world. Movies don’t have that, which really changes the way you’re affected by the story’s conclusion. Neat!

But here’s what’s really cool: I asked my dad (who is a dramaturge) what he had to say about it, and he pointed out that there is actually an equivalent technique in film: the blooper reel. When a movie plays bloopers while the credits are rolling, it’s accomplishing the exact same thing: it reminds you that the characters are actually just played by actors, who are alive and well and probably having a lot of fun, even if the fictional characters suffered. How cool is that!?

Now I’m really fascinated by the possibility of using bloopers to lessen the impact of a tragic ending in a tragicomedy…

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tim: i don’t know wether or not to be more disturbed by the fact that you managed to kidnap me, or that you’re stroking my pickled spleen like a bad austin powers villain

ra’s: your spleen is not pickled, i cherish it too much for that, it’s simply preserved

tim: yeah this is weird even for you

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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Bothering the beast