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Maybe this is the wrong platform to pose this question given the average tumblr user but

Is it just me or did our generation (those of is who are currently 20-30 ish) just not get the opportunity to be young in the 'standard' sense?

Like, everyone I talk to who's over 40 has all their wild stories about their teens and 20s, being young and dumb, and then I talk to my friends and coworkers and classmates, and we just... dont.

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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

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I love (and am actively ill over) the fact that ace canonically will not shut up about his lil guy. when jinbe found out ace’s brother was in impel down he was like OHHHHH LUFFY the kid in the strawhats you’re ALWAYS talking about. to luffy’s face he’s like “punk ass” but to everyone else he’s handing out school pictures from his wallet

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there’s a pattern of behaviour in emergency services wrt police — meaning if emts or firefighters report police misdemeanours or unlawful actions against civilians then police might retaliate by not answering emergency calls from said teams that reported them. this is an established thing, at least among people i know.

reworking nightwing 96’s cop plotline (beloathed) to be dick grayson taking on the role as an emt to investigate a number of suspiciously timed murders and the police who are trying to cover up is a lot more interesting to me than just…. him being a cop. he’s still doing tangible good in bludhaven. he’s able to directly witness how the system has failed the people it’s supposed to protect. it adds an actual, proper investigative element as dick is forced to tactically gather evidence and build alliances. his ability to lead and think rationally during a crisis is a lot more valuable when performing life saving medical care vs kicking down a door with an assault rifle. let him drive an ambulance!!!!

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I really dislike Kawaii Future Bass or whatever this genre is called so I made it sound shitty with a bunch of random samples.

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to me the year of a movie belongs in the title. it’s not fargo it’s fargo 1996. it’s not whiplash it’s whiplash 2014. dog day afternoon 1975. are you guys catching my cold here

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overanalyzing the cover of batman annual #25 in comparison to Michaelangelo's pieta LET'S GO!

so in Michaelangelo's pieta jesus's head is cradled on viewer's left and his legs on right, it's the same for the death in the family panel. but in annual #25 jason's position is REVERSED—his head is cradled on RIGHT and he's in red hood garb

the reversal could either speak to a perverted second "death" (death of the son) and/or "birth" instead of death (resurrection & birth of the red hood) I'm actually inclined towards both.

in a sense bruce kills his own son or at least helps it along when he throws that batarang, and the wrongness of that killing echoes in the perversion of the pieta pose. moreover jason is helmeted which means bruce cannot even see his eyes this time, or perhaps a metaphor for how bruce cannot stand eyes on him in the wake of his grave sin

we can also say it's birth because the reverse of a dead/dying jesus would thus be a birth, and both birth and death have the body covered in blood. in this case bruce's perceived inaction/ineffectual action toward the joker + hush confrontation is what gives birth to the red hood, and the blood on his hands is not just that of a newborn's but also that of all the blood they have shed between them, all the blood jason has shed in the aftermath of that "birth"

another difference: jesus's face is turned up towards God and heaven—salvation—while jason's head lolls down, facing hell—damnation

and while jesus is nearly naked, jason is still fully clothed. no inch of skin shows; even his hands are encased in gloves. jesus is with his mother at his most vulnerable, most bare—jason is cradled in the arms of his father, and yet he still uncovers no part of himself; still keeps up every single inch of fabric armor.

i also like the way bruce's cape is drawn here. in conjunction with the light, it looks like blood spreading outwards from him. he's kneeling in it. and he looks like he's lifting up, offering up jason to the same light that shone down on him in crime alley, that which claimed him and set him on the journey to becoming batman

and wrt bruce as mary, in a sense bruce is also a virgin mother in that until now all his kids have not been his own, they were sent to him via extraordinary circumstances. i will not outright say that jason is a Jesus figure, however he did die and come back to life so they have that in common.

i know the artist probably didn't put all of that on purpose but i just need to gnaw on them and this cover forever. thanks for actually reading this post <3

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are u ever sick w longing. and i don't just mean romantic longing. i mean longing for a place you barely get to see, longing for friends you no longer have, longing for feelings you might have left behind in your childhood, longing for creativity, longing for a rich and more expansive life, longing for less inhibition. longing for more passion. longing for ur life to be so incandescent w something it thaws all the frost in ur bones. are u ever so consumed w it it rends ur heart in two. do u understand me

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an unmatched feeling actually

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the plight of the siren.

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I find it kind of funny that Shane is labelled the "i can fix him" romance of sdv but...he really isn't. You, the player, actually do very little in terms of "fixing" him. You watch him have a few breakdowns, and you intervene when he's drunk on the cliffs, but...he's the one who decides to start going to therapy. He's the one who decides to quit drinking. These are not things that you ever encourage him to do. You can headcanon certain interactions all you want, but this isn't like "the player chooses the genre of Elliott's future book." You have no impact on whether or not Shane cleans up his life. You support him at a few key moments, but the desire to change and be better comes from Shane, not the player.

You don't fix him. He fixes himself.

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we as a society need to do something about the fact that frozen pizza doesn't taste good

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Rice Krispies smartest decision is by far their Treat. Turning their cereal into a strange brick relies on the natural fact that all children are hopelessly dependent upon the ingot.

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Phenomenon I feel happens a lot

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this grave keeper edible aint shit