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hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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"Tim/Bernard came out of nowhere"

Bitch, Tim/Bernard showed up to canon 15 years late with Starbucks

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Today I'll talk about Cullen Row's involvement in The Trial of Alexis Kaye because I think it's interesting. If you don't know who Cullen is, he's Harper Row's brother. Harper Row being the vigilante known as Bluebird.

When the trial is about to begin, Alexis makes a viral video where she acts like she's really sorry and wants to apologize. Cullen only watches it because it's viral but at this time has no personal interest in Alexis.

One of his gaming buddies, Bluff (subtlest DC character name), introduces him to the podcast Alexis made about the Joker, and he starts listening to it.

It must be a REALLY good podcast. I wish I could listen to it too.

This is where a moral disagreement emerges between Harper and Cullen. Cullen believes Alexis when she says she wasn't personally involved in the Joker War and just stood by the Joker as he committed his assorted atrocities.

He also fundamentally disagrees with the idea you can fix Gotham by being a vigilante. He calls out the fact that it's absurd to put a woman on trial because she was manipulated by the Joker and she helped him. Of course, we all know that Alexis did what she did mostly on her own free will, but she managed to craft a compelling public narrative and it's not hard to see why people are sympathetic towards her.

Cullen ends up hanging out more and more with the aforementioned "Bluff" (actually a member of the Royal Flush Gang), as they enter a romantic relationship. I never thought about it before, but he ends up being manipulated by a supervillain the same way he thought Alexis was.

But, crucially, Cullen ends up resisting Punchline's manipulation when it really matters. Take Harper as a comparison: she never believes Punchline even for a second, and throughout the book she fights tooth and nail to put her in jail. The result? She gets important evidence burned down instead of managing to salvage it, she beats up Alexis in prison making her seem like a victim, and her attempts to find a witness to testify against Alexis end up distracting the prosecutors from the already flimsy case they were building against her.

But Cullen? He realizes he was manipulated, and he resists. He ends up lying on the stand to protect his sister, before revealing he was asked to lie on the stand by his boyfriend's gang.

He's a good argument for following your heart and having integrity. Not that every character needs to be like that, but it works for him and makes him very endearing.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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mareep before I go to school

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Happy Pride Month!!!!

Annual pride art! <3 Love these lil guys. Also a bonus this year - the not explicit but queer-coded gang:

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once i figure out how to do anatomy and facial expressions and proportion and foreshortening and basic perspective and color theory and composition then youll all be sorry

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Lazy afternoon.

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I love the very idea of the paris catacombs like. yeah sure the real-life city of paris has a straight-up megadungeon sprawling under it. Why not.

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i forgot to post this doodle here omg..... im figuring out how to draw the them. happy solangelo month or pride month or whatever its called these days

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Cat Raikou by tele.telo on Instagram

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I like to think Fortnite is real in DC and Bernard plays but doesn't play as Robin and Tim is kind of offended by Bernard default dancing on downed Robins as Sabrina Carpenter while saying "You're not, let's go tell them you're not"

but Bernard kisses him on the head and is like "Don't worry babe. I'm working on ripping the model so I can make blender porn of you" because he does care.

while Tim stands there like

while bernard's singing chugjug with you

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It was cocky and overconfident to call the Titanic "unsinkable" but one thing that's overlooked is that she was genuinely really, unusually solid. She could float even with 4 compartments fully flooded, which even a lot of modern day ships can't do.

And it's not like they were wrong about her being solid! Olympic, her identical sister ship, survived being torpedoed and then running over the U-Boat that fired that torpedo. Those ships were solid.

It's very clear that absolutely no other ship in 1912 would have been able to survive that collision, and it's a testament to the quality of the ship that she didn't sink in a few minutes Empress of Ireland style. Part of what makes the Titanic such a tragic story is that it isn't a group of rich idiots locking themselves in a shoddy iron barrel to go 4km underwater. It was 2200 people, most of whom were poor immigrants, on a reliable ship on a commonly-made journey, and then something went horribly, unpredictably wrong.