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ghost hunting

timelapse...! It was really fun experimenting!

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All good children's fiction says you are going to have to shoulder responsibility even if you don't want it.

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glad to see the new detective conan dub keeps all the important lines

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What

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Crazy thing about #healing #recovery Small Victories is when you'll have some shit going on that's like, saying this would involve admitting how you used to be doing. You know? Like hey guys good news I'm gonna change my bedsheets this year

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hm

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

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they crack me up

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The world if Bruce had stayed dead and dickie had raised Damian and Damian had been his son

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sheepish is a really funny word. fuck im so nervous (turns into this)

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thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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side note, teaching myself to pronounce that last one felt like learning a new fucking language

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gotham is convinced bruce is a sugar daddy. batman’s sugar daddy.

sure, brucie wayne and batman are so intrinsically different that there’s no way they could be the same person, but not everyone’s so convinced that bruce doesn’t throw money at batman.

the gen public have witnessed brucie wayne in his natural state many times. examples include, but aren’t limited to: a) stripping down to his underwear in a strip tease at the iceberg lounge for charity b) buying a franchise of bowling alleys for his first ward (and buying out the ceo of bar burger because they don’t want to offer anything vegetarian) c) slip 4 $100 bills in the front of a certain reporters slacks and another 6 around the back and d) commissioned a whole fleet of lambos (6) each costing upwards of 15 million with the upgrades alone just to crash all but one within a month. basically, he’s kinda weird and has a lot of money he doesn’t seem to care about.

so when batman comes out one day with like idk a fuckin bat rocket or a bat amphibious mobile, the people of gotham just come to the natural assumption he’s bruce wayne’s sugar baby.

unfortunately for bruce, this has its upsides. sure, being linked to batman so much is /not/ a good thing, but it is a good cover. and people seem believe it.

the first time someone asks about it, bruce nearly choked on his kale-wrapped shrimp (hors doeuvres, you know how it is)

reporter: bruce, is it true you’ve been supplying batman with money for his gadgets?

bruce: what? ha ha no why would you even say such a thing?

reporter: harley quinn said he was your sugar baby

bruce:

bruce:

bruce: 0.0

#batwaynetrends for 3 weeks after.

dick insists he leans into it, so the next time he’s asked, bruce just goes

bruce: yeah, i mean these charities are really great for giving back to the community. helping people—coming together—is a big part of why i came back.

bruce, walking away, glancing over his shoulder: leaves more in the bank for my extra curriculars, too.

eventually, people sorta forget about it all and #bruceman falls out of the top 100 on ao3. until people start assuming batman’s identity again and tim is asked to wipe all potential evidence online and he comes across #bruceman and nearly throws up. bruce rushes over with a gentle hand, warm on his shoulder and the other rubbing his back.

he’s asking if tim’s okay, pulling out a granola bar from the desk drawer and his own water bottle to offer him, but all tim can do is utter out (visibly shaken) “hashtag…bruce…bruceman?”.

bruce pales and considers all his options, everything he could possibly say to tim (and dick, who’s cackling in the background somewhere distantly in the cave) but nothing comes to mind. how does he explain to tim, robin, red robin, smartest boy he’s ever known, his middle son that he used to pretend to be batman’s sugar daddy.

it’s a conversation they just don’t end up having.

tim and dick definitely show damian when he turns 18.

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bruce storming into the manor because with WE in the news there’s been an influx of rumors and scandals and it’s fine if you make up lies about him that’s what he does for a living. but coming after his kids?

they’re all used to sly remarks being made about their backgrounds, things alluding to stereotypes and the such. but to outright claim that dick isn’t even an american citizen? too far.

he confronts dick, tells him he’s sorry about all this and he’ll have this rumor taken care of asap. he’s halfway done dialing the daily planet when dick is just nonchalantly like.

“rumor? b in their defense, i’m not a us citizen. i mean at least i don’t think i am?? i mean i never took the test.”

and bruce pauses and is like. what are you talking about of course you are you were born her- ohhhhhh. ohhhh yeah. oh yeah so actually i did in fact take you in on a whim cause the night your parents died the world traveling circus just so happened to be in gotham. and now he’s spiraling about how he could’ve let something like that slip.

he thinks to himself - did i just. never do that paper work? was there even paper work? how did he graduate high school- (it’s cuz ur rich bruce) and then he’s deleting clark’s number and starts dialing harvey’s instead.

jason listening in the back is like dude you voted this year and dick is like i think i’ve run for office ???

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There's a tiktok meme about adding "sexy back" every time a character is on screen so. Here's "sexy back" every time Neal Caffrey is on screen

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mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately