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why do we bother with I hate my partner jokes when your boss is right there

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young sam wilson having a crush on james “bucky” barnes of the howling commandos during his WWII unit in school vs adult sam wilson dating and eventually marrying bucky barnes wilson…

do you see my vision

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I loved when “Drift Compatible” entered pop lexicon cause we were in DESPERATE need for a way to platonically express “one of us to the other is as a limb to a body; we are a left and right feet of a dancer; we do not need to speak because any one word inspires an exchange of unspoken words that conveys a full conversation in which a mutual conclusion is determined in an instant”. Huge win for the QPRs out here

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"No metas in Gotham" is such a stupid trope/headcanon because it has literally nothing of value to offer beyond low effort jokes like "it's only applied to Superboy and the Green Lanterns because Batman thinks they're annoying!" And maybe those are funny for like five seconds but the moment that you play it straight, that's when all the problems begin.

Like first and foremost, it's straight up discrimination. Designating an entire group of people as Dangerous Undesirables? Enforcing a policy of forced exclusion even when they haven't actually done any harm? This is the kind of shit that you expect from X-Men villains that were made to be a heavy-handed metaphor for racism and xenophobia.

Second, what even is the definition of metahuman? DC kind of flip-flops on this. Sometimes it refers specifically to humans who have powers as a result of their DNA being different, like the mutants of Marvel. Sometimes, it also applies to aliens and Atlanteans and Amazons. Or anyone who can use magic regardless of whether that ability comes from their genetics. Or people who have learned techniques to enhance their bodies beyond what normal humans can achieve, or those who can wield advanced alien technology- which is especially bonkers since Bruce "I learned how to control my heartbeat from Tibetan monks and have used Green and Yellow Lantern rings" Wayne falls into both categories.

But even if we're not counting Bruce himself, it's still hypocritical as a policy because Duke Thomas aka The Signal exists and is canonically a metahuman, nebulous as the definition of that term may be. "But he's part of the Batfam-" So he gets a pass because he's "one of the good ones?" Is this really a road you want to go down? Especially when the Batfamily as a whole are being portrayed as the socioeconomic elite who control Gotham by force?

Third, what exactly is Batman hoping to achieve by enforcing a ban on metahumans that includes his fellow superheroes? i've seen some people try to justify it as "the presence of superpowered heroes will invite equally powerful villains." But Gotham already has metahuman villains. Killer Croc usually has enhanced strength, speed, and durability. There have been multiple Clayfaces with shapeshifting abilities. Ivy is basically an immortal plant elemental. And also not every supervillain is like Reverse Flash or Joker, who follow their respective heroes wherever they go in the hopes of tormenting them.

And to round it all off, there's no actual comic where the words "no metas in Gotham" have ever been said outright. The closest that canon Bruce ever gets to saying anything similar is an issue of 90s Superboy when he's telling Cass he doesn't want her around "his kind" while referring to Kon.

Which is certainly questionable wording at best, but hardly tantamount to a declaration that he's going to turn Gotham into a police state whose borders are permanently closed to all metahumans. Incidentally, there was a comic where this did happen, but it wasn't even Bruce who did it, it was Barbara in an Elseworlds AU

And I think it's important to point out that Babs' xenophobia and authoritarian control over Gotham is explicitly a Bad Thing fueled by her paranoia, and her character arc within the story is overcoming that character flaw.

To reiterate the thesis of this post, "no metas in Gotham" is a stupid trope that exists in the same category as "the contingency plans can take down anyone" or "the Justice League are shocked to learn that Batman has a secret family." It's a tired and overused joke that falls apart under even surface-level scrutiny and does nothing except mischaracterize Batman and his allies as the equivalent of superhero ICE.

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btw if you're on this site it is your duty to reblog any post that has been prophecied to reach 10k notes. let's all annoy op

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if i see a post tagged stephanie brown and i check and it involves only the male robins (+ bruce) youre immediately going on a blocklist and im creating a curse specifically meant to inconvenience you at every point of your life

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thanks for the tag @shoot-i-messed-up I voted for the third option

@gasps-inspanish @effietrinket1619 you've been tagged no pressure

thank you for @glitter-stained for the tag! i voted the third option

no pressure tags: @alightwood @napollya @speakncwtv @lifeceremony @rootbeerrex @house-on-sand @bonanana @plaidandwhiskey @raps-hellion @sednian05 @snowberriesromanoff @leechlets @whywhywhymoney @soulswordlesbian @616swanda @eahravinqueen @mistushipper + anybody who'd like to join! 🩵

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"It wasn't a conscious choice, but this Lois became a pen chewer. There's probably an unfortunate amount of pen-chewing in this movie." - Rachel Brosnahan

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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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LOOK HOW MANY FLYERS HAVE BEEN STUck on tHIS LAMPOST?? germans are crazy

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solidarity with california.

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Lately I've been thinking about community. There are a lot of [likely obvious] reasons why I might be doing this. In the end, those don't really matter to this conversation, tho it'll surely matter in others.

When I was little, my mother had Dumpling Parties.

Dumpling Parties were not potlucks. Although people were welcome to bring additional dishes for snacking on.

Dumpling Parties were when my mother would collect some funds from various arenas in life and buy just. Just an absolutely ruinous amount of dumpling ingredients. Truly unthinkable amounts.

And then we'd sit in the yard with three dozen other people making dumplings and laughing and talking and organizing and honestly I think my mother did more community innoculation work at her Dumpling Parties than I've ever managed with formal organizing campaigns. It's just easier when you feed people.

And "feed" here is literal, but it's also metaphorical. Shorthand for "meeting a need". It's easier when you're meeting people's needs.

So my garden is growing in much better than year than last. And I'm optimistic about the chances of my tomatoes, beans, peppers, and squash doing beautifully. These are, mercifully, also things that are very good at producing bumper crops. We already give away eggs and such when we have enough to spare. But being able to give away produce is a nice bonus. Especially if you can mix up lil pre-prepped stuff with ingredient and recipe cards for people to snack on without having to make something themselves. It's a nice treat you know? To eat something you didn't have to pay for and put your time and energy into making. It puts people in the mood to see you as being friendly, as long as you get to know how they need to hear the script of "this is for you"

Sometimes when you're trying to change the world, you have to start by changing one person's world one time. Meet a need. And then another. And over time you'll learn what it looks like to meet them at scale. And before you know it you have a community of people you can organize, advocate with, listen to, whatever facilitation pieces of change-making we all need outside perspective for.

There are a lot of needs in the world. Not all of them get treated like needs, but they still are. Maybe take some time today and think about a need you've met for yourself or someone else recently, and ask yourself some questions of whay it might look like to do that with an eye towards building community

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it's a weird emotion when somebody goes "doesn't this just shake you to your core and rewrite your dna and change who you are as a person" and your honest experience of it was that it was ok

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The Four Corpsmen! By Daydrea0415

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Happy Pride!