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I want to read a fic where Bruce returns from his training and doesn’t tell Alfred what he was doing — or what he plans to do. And he attempts (keyword there is attempts) to keep Batman a secret from the only person who knows him well.

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how would his goons would react if Red Hood randomly de-aged and kept asking for “dad” (Batman)?”

Goon #1: I guess we're dad now.

Goon #2: We?

Goon #1: Yes, we. I'm taking you down with me.

Baby Jason: I'm hungry.

Goon #1: You got any food?

Goon #2: Just an energy bar.

Goon #1: That works. Feed him while I figure a way outta here.

Goon #2:

Jason:

Goon #2: *shoves the energy bar in Jason's mouth like a pacifier*

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such a cheerful lad

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So happy this man and his husband are safe now but good God he experienced some horrific shit.

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do any other artists draw something theyre proud of and get really excited to post the next day and show their followers? like a kid giving their parents something to hang on the fridge

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“Imagine what it would look like if ChatGPT were a lossless algorithm. If that were the case, it would always answer questions by providing a verbatim quote from a relevant Web page. We would probably regard the software as only a slight improvement over a conventional search engine, and be less impressed by it. The fact that ChatGPT rephrases material from the Web instead of quoting it word for word makes it seem like a student expressing ideas in her own words, rather than simply regurgitating what she’s read; it creates the illusion that ChatGPT understands the material. In human students, rote memorization isn’t an indicator of genuine learning, so ChatGPT’s inability to produce exact quotes from Web pages is precisely what makes us think that it has learned something. When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”

— Ted Chiang’s essay about ChatGPT is required reading

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why do people put you under so much pressure to like “pick one” of your disabilities to be open about and get mad if you are a physically disabled person talking about mental health because they assume you’re neurotypical for no reason . why is that

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Sometimes I think about the fact most other countries probably don’t have active shooter training videos for retail workers.

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Tell me about a turn of phrase that introduced you to the power of language, especially if it comes from a source that most people disregard.

I'll start: one of the first times I really fell in love with a line from a song was when I heard "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" on the radio.

The chorus goes:

I'm not talking about moving in

And I don't want to change your life

But there's a warm wind blowing the stars around

And I'd really love to see you tonight

I have been obsessed with the line "there's a warm wind blowing the stars around" since I was something like 6 years old. It's so beautifully economic in its word use, isn't it? You know that the night is clear and beautiful, it's windy but warm, it's a perfect night for being outside and looking at the sky. In eight words, even as a small child, I had a perfect mental image of what that night looks like.

The other one that always comes to mind is the Muppet Christmas Carol song "It Feels Like Christmas," for one line only:

It is the summer of the soul in December

The "s" sound in summer, soul, and December all fall on the beat. It is a perfect example of using consonance (as opposed to alliteration, which would require those sounds to all be at the start of the word) in lyrics or poetry, and is one of the first times I really remember that concept sticking in my mind. (I use consonance very heavily in my poetry, so that's, like, formative.)

Tell me about the language that showed you what language can do - and for my sanity, please make it cool stuff and not like "and that's how I learned how shitty propaganda works," bc while that is in fact part of how language works, this is Tunglr dot com and I'd prefer to have a nice time today. Thanks.

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So Fox News ran a story about how they think libraries are turning into drug-infested sex dens and I am shocked, shocked that I was never offered any drugs during my 15+ years working in libraries.

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I always assumed Hiccup was 15-16 in Riders of Berk/Defenders of Berk and 17-19 in RTTE

So it was really funny to me that he changed SO much in a span of one year

Puberty really did hit him like a truck, huh

I like the idea so much that that's what basically happens in my College AU™️

He gest a ✨️glow up✨️ over one summer break and gets back to school looking like someone who could be on the front cover of a fashion magazine 💀

Bonus points if he doesn't realize it. He's just confused and doesn't know why everybody's staring

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God Hiccup would be such an annoying cat owner. Buys fucking like not even gourmet cat food, he gets real fish (only the best for Toothless). He's constantly sending you pictures of his stupid cat Astrid receives a minimum of 7 pictures of Toothless that look almost exactly the same daily. There's more framed photos in the house of that cat than the people that live there. 0 pictures of Hiccup on any of his socials all of it is Toothless. Can't take Hiccup anywhere bc the cat has to come too (so many plans have been canceled bc the meet up spot isn't animal friendly). He takes his stupid cat everywhere has one of those goddamn backpacks and it's leash trained too. See him in a hardware store, ask him what he's buying and he goes "oh I'm building a new tree for my cat." and he has like an ungodly amount of wood beams and twine in the cart. You just know that cat is so fucking spoiled.