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two sides of a coin,,

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the great orion pax disaster...

bakingformers au

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The connection between Ivorycello fans and Squiddo fans need to be studied in a lab. The daily question on Ivorycord was "who's your favorite lifesteal member?" And the first 23 answers were just "Squiddo"

I love you transgender people🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧🏳️‍⚧

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I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

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Im sorry ur gonna look me in the eye and tell me reki and langa are platonic after they piggyback carried each other in the rain (sharing an umbrella btw) and then lovingly blush at each other and stare up into the sky which pans to a RAINBOW ???

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On Cassandra Cain and "Good Damage": A reaction and a reflection of the character and the concept.

Good damage is a term coined in an episode of Bojack Horseman and with the same title [Good Damage] and is a term referring to damage or trauma suffered which results in a positive outcome for the one who suffered said trauma. In the said episode of Bojack Horseman, Diane was trying to write a book based on the trauma she suffered. She was attempting to channel the pain and the bleakness of her life into a grim yet meaningful work of literature [her essays]. However, whenever she tries, it ends up terrible. The words are not right the atmosphere is not there and the pain isn't yielding any good. On the other hand, whenever she writes in a cheerful and upbeat manner, she makes a killing as the work is genuinely good. This confuses and hurts her. She feels like pain and suffering should amount to something and that there should be a pay-off to all the bullshit; however, she couldn't do it. The pain brought her nothing positive - it was not "Good Damage" - it was just damage. In the end, she realizes that damage is pain, damage is trauma, and while they COULD be sources of inspiration; they are, first and foremost, DAMAGE. She then writes in the bubbly and colorful manner she is good at and succeeds in it.

Cassandra Cain can be described as the poster child of this concept as the skills and the physique she has were all a product of abusive and outsight violent acts done upon her and her mother, Lady Shiva. Her damage is that she was abused as a kid by being deprived of verbal language, being shot and stabbed, and being made to kill. Her creation, and in turn, Shiva's damage was the trauma of being forced to bear the child of the man who murdered your sister after being ganged up and beaten yourself. The outcomes or fruits that make them "Good Damage" are the prodigious skill and foresight via body language reading of Cassandra Cain as well as a "freeing" of Shiva and her unmatched drive to be the strongest.

However, what if her damage wasn't "Good Damage". If stories are constantly going to have her lose then so be it, but acknowledge that all the pain, blood, and abuse David Cain put Cassandra and, in extension, Shiva through were ultimately worthless and amounted to nothing. There was no "Good Damage" if all of that was only to produce an above-average ninja girl whose powers of observation and prediction can be learned, copied, and/or easily countered by other members of the Batfamily. If it can be learned some other way, then putting your own daughter through all of that was pointless. He did not make the perfect fighter, he made a broken girl. She chose to be a hero.

Show us her struggle with getting to terms with that. Maybe explore Cassandra's sick and possibly naive notion that her father did make her the greatest weapon, her falling back to that idea whenever she remembers the pain and the pride she derives from that idea and the subsequent humility and shame in realizing that she was wrong both in her assumptions and her pride. Give us a thesis on why she shouldn't be hurt or disparaged because of this realization. Give her the spotlight and show her growth. Show buckling after realizing she wasn't even his success he was her father's failure, that all that trauma, all that blood, and all that pain, was useless in the grand scheme of things. It happened to her, it hurt her, and it made her believe she was an object - a weapon - but there was no light or success or breakthrough at the end of the said process - she just made one for herself. Not every story has a happy ending so you make a different story for yourself. A MISTAKE was inflicted upon her, that's it. Her heroism and her prowess did not stem from that, they came to be despite it. There is even some precedent to this as after Cassandra lost her edge and her body reading skills, it was Shiva who helped her regain them despite not suffering her lack of language skills [ at the cost of a deathmatch 1 year hence]. This means that her ability can be learned although it could be argued that it is limited to mother and daughter.

Exploring "Good Damage" and the utter stupidity of it all through the lens of Cassandra Cain's character and lore would suffice. I'd never question her losses, her failures, and her seemingly inconsistent abilities. It would be pointless as she isn't the strongest or the most skilled or the most anything really; rather, she's just a person trying to do right to the world that didn't do the same to her. Her father failed, that's his flaw, and it doesn't apply to her. Her story stops being about the weapon that chose to be a hero or about how being the strongest doesn't mean winning; rather, it turns into being about moving forward despite being broken. The character would still be interesting albeit in a diminished manner as the mystique and allure of her being the best fighter is removed and her story becomes more mundane in the superhero world. Either that or it could conclude her career as a hero fulfilled and without guilt; close her story if it is not going anywhere. God knows she deserves it.

I'll write a better essay soon, one that is more concise and with more sources. After some reflection, my problem isn't that she gets dogged every other fight when the book is not about her, but that the losses feel pointless. I get that the winner will always be the one the writer chooses and what the story demands; hence, if the story needs her to get out of the way, she's getting out of the way. But if ever the Gotham War progresses in a manner I'd like to read I'd want it to progress in a way that treats the character as a character and not as a set-piece. Even as a side character, I want to hear her thoughts, even by a bit. Her doubts, her fears, her concerns, anything. However, at this point, that might be asking too much though.

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unfinished… but i will post anyway…

lyrics from adrianne lenkers dragon eyes. grian puts his shawl over scars face… riveting stuff

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

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i like the genre of animal photos where you can tell they just dipped their face into a carcass and they dont even care (artistic interpretation)

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my favourite genre of cass + jason dynamic is onesided arguing over morality while she ignores him. fake nonchalance because cass is also vague-posting their beef all the time on twitter like this:

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i hate when people are like “i really understand what it’s like to be Prey… to look up into the jaws of a predator and know it’s my purpose to be Consumed…” like bitch no, prey runs away, you’re some other shit

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Cassandra Cain is hands down my favorite comic book character of all time. So I decided to recreate the poster for The Batman with my Cassandra Cain action figure. I’m really proud of the results. I also made a version with Riley Lai Nelet as Cass since she’s my fan cast for her.

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People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.

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Why would you call pro-censorship people fascists? /genq I mean, fuck censorship and fuck puritanism, but there are many other ideologies and movements that may include those things that may not be fascist, like religious cults and authoritarianism. Just to be clear, I don't have any problem with you or that post, I just needed to ask somebody who reblogged that post about art. Because I don't think that a queer 16 yo left-leaning tumblr user who just happened to support antis because of lack of education, experience and proper academic sources can be considered a fascist.

Never called anyone fascist. The censorship is always has a fascist ideological undertone, because that's the direct Tool of any fascist. I am going to talk probably too primitive to explain this, because I am not a historical or social studies expert. Fascism puts forward something that they see as "right", whatever it is, it fits a certain righteous image of a "perfect x", "perfect religion", "perfect race", "perfect nation", "perfect human", however they would like to spin it. From there they operate like this "if something doesn't belong it should be either destroyed or controlled to keep the ideal world in order under control of superior x". So, censorship. The thing is, fascism never starts with "lets eliminate entire population of people we don't like". It's starts with "these people are immoral and should not have a voice because they translate the immoral ideas into masses", so their works are destroyed. And it's fine, because "what if our kids see it and become immoral?" or something like this. It's starts with something that can seem reasonable to people in a promise of a false protection of their ideals. "Let's ban pornography from social media", "let's bully this person of the platform", "let's forbid drag around kids". And then it slowly evolves into more radical changes, but the people who supported first ones already will probably support the latter. "We forbid the use of "inappropriate" language", "we are going to make your private information public and stalk you", "we will forbid queer books for kids". This way people get eased into fascist ideology.

However, I never called anyone fascist. Maybe I formulated it too vague, but I made a call to people to analyse the way they think, to take their radical opinions on why something "shouldn't exist" critically. Because young people can be very easily manipulated and dragged into some insane fascistic groups and belief systems if they aren't careful.

Also art in general is like the first thing that is always attacked by fascists that are trying to establish the influence. Especially visual art, because it's the easiest one to understand. Again, look at the wiki article about "degenerative art" and I do VERY recommend to watch the video by Jacob Geller titled Who Is Afraid of Modern Art: Vandalism, Video Games and Fascism. It's very informative. Especially the whole segment about painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue.