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Do you think Clark Kent had to be formula fed.

And do you think, for a moment, Martha Kent realized she was in over her head.

An alien baby, a canister of formula from the closest shop that she’s not even sure he can eat.

She’s just holding him in front of her with the bottle in one hand and his neck propped up in the other. He’s screaming his head off and she knows he’s hungry but she can’t bring herself to give it to him. She doesn’t know what he is, what will kill him. She may have met this baby maybe a couple hours ago but she’s already decided to protect him with her life.

Jonathan’s out in the shed trying to find any of the old baby clothes and pacifiers they were gifted while they were trying at least half a decade ago; Martha’s pretty sure she threw them all away the second the doctor broke the news.

She realizes that if they do actually do this it’s not going to be easy, and it’s actually going to be quite terrifying. They will always be waiting for that phone call, that knock on the door. From this point forward strangers and outsiders who come sniffin’ for one reason or another will terrify them.

She wonders if they’ll tell him how they actually came to be his parents, or let him live in blissful ignorance.

She counts down to three in her head. And gives him the bottle.

He drinks it happily; perfectly fine.

She can’t remember when she started holding her breath.

A loose curl of his blacker than black hair falls onto his forehead and covers his bluer than blue eyes. She brushes it away and he grabs her fingers with a grip stronger than she thought it’d be. It makes her bark out a laugh.

Something with those pudgy cheeks and that gummy smile can’t be all that terrifying.

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not to sound like a weak, morally impure centrist over here, but i think online leftist communities need to be a little more accepting of the concept that most people are just. not that well informed. we live in a society that provides access to an overwhelming amount of information and yet which discourages actually diving into much beyond the surface level. Most of the people you meet out in the world are just not gonna know much about a lot of what you care about, but that's not the same as being against those things, or being unwilling to learn, or being unnamenable to those ideas. Our modern society is an unending cascade of information and misinformation and disinformation and filtering through that shit enough to actually have a solid grasp of a subject, let alone a nuanced antiestablishment political take, is a skill that takes time and effort to develop, time and effort that is in very short supply. It really bothers me when I see leftists talk about how capitalism keeps us down by taking up all our time and energy and making recovery, both physical and emotional, cost what little we can afford, and then turn around and get upset that people are politically uninformed. On some level, you gotta meet some people where they are, and have a little faith in them to be open to new ideas and information. Ignorance is not inherently intentional, and it's not the same as antipathy.

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Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

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we need to invent a way to explain how deep running and pervasive and subliminal racism and antiblackness is without immediately sounding like an insane conspiracy theorist

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wasn't going to post this one bc its not polished but i think its comically obvious how comfortable i am drawing each of them

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New York Times, The One Who Got Away

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u heard him ladies

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Some of my favorite stickers I've designed in Sticky Business so far

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IMAX????

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So I've got this friend whose nervous because she's trans and dating this guy who she hasn't told yet because they've only been on a two dates. For this story let's call the friend Jane and the guy she was dating Jason. Happy ending don't worry. So I tell Jane to bring her boy over to a bbq I'm having and she can tell him she's trans at my place surrounded by queer and trans people who love her and will support her if he ends up being awful. She waits till the end of the bbq to tell him the news, by which point the rest of us have learned that Jason is a kind, friendly, empathetic, hard working, dummy. So we sit down, all of us a little worried about this gym bro's reaction when she tells him she's trans, and that she understands if he doesn't want to keep dating her it's no big deal. He's baffled, so we explain what trans is, and after the disclosure that she hasn't had bottom surgery yet... "Oh you have a dick?" "... yeah." He look's around at the room full of people with baited breath, his clearly a little afraid girl friend says "Oooohhhh! I get it! You think- don't worry Babe! Watch this!"

And ya'll this man jumps up, runs into the kitchen and returns with one of the bratwurst we had for grilling and proceeds to tilt his head back, put it down his throat, hold it in his mouth for a moment, and spit it up without even a whisper of a gag and then looks around at the group absolutely beaming with pride. My mans saw his worried girlfriend and her support network and thought to him self "Oh they don't think I can please my girl but I'll show them!"

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It should be illegal to have a bus stop without a bench I am 1000% serious rn

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friends! for once in my life i have something to share AND it's a wednesday. thanks to everyone who tags me, i love you all <3

so, on monday i saw the new superman movie, fell in love with it, and immediately drafted a snowbaz au. it needs much work but it is at least fully drafted, so there's hope it'll be ready soon—i even already have a banner and all.

here are some random sentences:

“You didn't read my article?”

“Not for a lack of effort.” I turn back to my computer, type a couple of fake sentences to give myself more of an aloof air. Then I kick the floor and let my chair spin closer to him. Very elegant. “Every minute you spend looking at a Thesaurus should be taken off your paycheck.”

He scoffs. “At least I didn't get stuck writing about rat infestations for the third time in a week.”

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“You’d let me interview you as Superman?”

“Why not?” he shrugs.

“Because you know it's gonna end up in flames.”

Thirty minutes later, we're shouting.

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“And I definitely don't want a harem of wives to spread my perfect alien genes.”

He lets out a half-laugh, and it makes me smile. Maybe this is not a good time to tell him that I've definitely thought he should be the father of our genetically superior children.

i also have a poll. i wrote this fic with simon as superman but it doesn't feel completely right, and i'm wondering if he shouldn't have a more carry on related superhero name.

i may not respect your wishes but maybe i will.

under the cut, something from the second chapter of my indiana jones au cobb, which will maybe motivate me to continue it, and a million tags

Not that I should be doing this, but a shipment of dubiously obtained objects was delivered to the museum in the middle of the night, courtesy of some old lady whose father bought land, a parliamentary seat, and crates of things from a country he'd barely know where to place on a map, using the money he got through trade with people whose language he’d refused to learn, and Bunce — the father — handed me a letter opener, a duster, and the lack of knowledge to deal with it.

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On my way!! 💐

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I said something embarrassing they are going to kick me off earth

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

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jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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hey artists who's gonna make art for my new superman au