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And then danny will realise that Damian does not know how to properly make friends and this things is his normal go to

Mini Prompt: Fight Me

Damian didn’t have high hopes when he saw that the new kid, Danny Fenton, at school would be joining fencing club.

Which is why it angered him so much when he lost three times in row to Danny. Worst of all he did it with a smile, and words of encouragement after each match.

At the same time though this was the most excitable moment he’s had while in this club. No one else has ever been near his skill level before, and he was frankly ready to get quit because of the boredom.

There was no way Damian could leave now though, not after such an embarrassing loss. He vowed then and there that Danny was his enemy, and he would defeat him.

It was when Damian was observing Danny during another fight that he noticed it. Danny wasn’t just a skilled fencing player, he was trained to fight with an actual blade.

Was Danny also trained to be an assassin from a young age? He had to know more.

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... Alfred is British

I think it’d be ridiculously funny if Duke went full Candace Flynn mode to prove Bruce is a metahuman.

Picture him, in the middle of their living room, one of Jason’s unlit cigarette in hand, pointing to insanely blurry Polaroids of Batman fighting actual fuck yous’ from God.

“Who the fuck gets a headbutt from BANE and just WALKS IT OFF. I sure can’t, can YOU?”

“Yep,” Steph confirms, merciless in her casualty.

“Small head,” Cass shrugs.

“Sounds like a skill issue.”

“Shut up Dick, you almost outed yourself as Nightwing on Rupaul’s Drag Race for doing a produnova in heels.”

“HEY!”

“THE MAN,” Duke gesticulates wildly, like a Mormon solicitor trying to convince you that cults are cool, actually. “Is immune. To FEAR TOXIN.“

“And he can also eat Alfred’s cooking without intoxication,” Damian scoffs, “Your point?”

“HE THREW HANDS WITH SUPERMAN. AND WON.”

“I fought Clark for the last popsicle and I won. “

Duke keeps trying to get a DNA sample from Bruce so he can run some tests.

Bruce thinks they’re just playing because that’s exactly what Tim did when he was little.

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I raise you that damian never actually says he is his guardian angel. Just that he was his guardian( in the league), but also in all his stories jason seems like someone who cannot directly interfere with the mortal realm ( Jason just could not accomplish damians missions for him so his help was very subtle).

I really like to think of Damien trying to hide Jason from the family, but he can't hide the obvious similarities. He also moves, has small habits, and even speaks with a Gothom accent during arguments. Because of this, the family members begin to suspect something, and Demi, as a messenger of chaos and a good younger brother, lies that Jason is his guardian angel with whom he communicates.

HAHHHAHAHAA HOW HAS THIS NOT ALREADY BEEN A FIC omg I love this idea, really. Someone needs to write this ASAP. Hell, I’d write it if I weren’t in the middle of fifteen other things.

I feel like the first thing you’d have to address is the non-believers. Not in a serious way, but in a

Tim: I don’t believe in god but if this tiny child tells me that one of my heroes is an angel following him around, I will believe it just in case I get a chance to meet Jason Todd

way

and I want Bruce and Dick to be disbelieving at first, of course, but then Dami tells them things he couldn’t possibly know, and suddenly theyre walking around talking as if Jason can hear them when near Dami

I especially want

Dami: . . . Akhi? Jason: yeah? Dami: I may have led the Wayne family to believe something regarding you Jason: Jason: that’s vague as fuck, little bro Dami: there is a slight chance I led them to believe youre a guardian angel jason: Jason: *holds up the gun he was cleaning, disbelief in his face* ME???

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Why are we acting as if a gay man never had children with a woman?

It's horrible to say but laenor failed in doing the only obligation he had, to put a child in Rhaenyra.

Rhaenyra also was really dumb in not choosing a baby daddy at least similar to her husband.

Why are we faulting the maester that had a genuinely good idea? It would unity both dynasties and pacified the family with large dragons with being passed over twice. It's nor his fault both laenor and rhaenyra choose to be irresponsible

Grand Maester Mellos was definitely corrupt - man partly engineered a succession crisis by speeding up a king's illness.

YAS KING YOU'RE A SLAY - literally, I mean - down to the fact that you played Otto Hightower's catspaw perfectly. Man's didn't need to think, just followed Daddy Otto's lead.

Bruv was proto-Pycelling before Pycelle was even a twinkle in his daddy's eye.

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Why did they do tim so dirt with that ugly as mask is something I ask myself every time I see a red robin comic

Red Robin #11

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AU, where Jason returns to Gotham, but in between of his evil mastermind plans and managing the criminal empire, he starts working in this anonymous psychological hotline services.

And gets a call from Bruce-fucking-Wayne.

Well. It is not like Bruce announces that he is Bruce Wayne — it is anonymous, after all — but Jason knows his father's voice, alright?

'I don't need a physiological help,' his father tells him the minute he picks up the phone.

Jason... Snorts.

'Of course,' he nods, making his voice nicer. 'How can I help you?'

Bruce pauses, his breath hitching for a second; almost as if he recognized Jason's voice.

'My... my son thinks I need it, but I am fine,' Bruce insists. 'Still... I want to, well, fulfil a promise I gave... for once.'

Jason rolls his eyes, a familiar irritation flaring up in green flames before his eyes. He wonders who is this lucky son that gets to have such a diligent, responsible father - Dickhead? Tim? Damian?

'I see,' he breathes out, trying to follow a protocol of the calls. 'I am sure he will appreciate your loyalty. Will you tell him about it?'

'If he appears,' something screeches in the background, and if Jason closes his eyes, he can easily imagine Bruce leaning back on the armchair, in the Batcave. 'I... He only ever appears in my dreams, my boy.'

Jason freezes.

'Excuse me?'

'I... He is dead, my son.'

Had someone else died? Jason frowns, reaching for his phone, typing anxiously Nightwing and Robin in the search bar, trying to see if there is something serious happened; because he can't be talking about the second Robin, can he-

'I am sorry,' he blurts out, eyes drifting back to notes on the table, with some common phrases that can be used in this situation. 'I... Do you want to talk about, sir?'

Bruce is silent for a while. Jason thinks he is about to drop the call, but then, he sighs heavily on the line:

'His name was Jason. And he was the brightest boy.'

Jason mutes the microphone. He thinks he is going to vomit.

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There is something so vile about Caitlyn going on a killing spree because of her mother but Mel's interaction with Ambessa or Vi getting a badge being just an extension of Caitlyn's story.

Cassandra was a bad person but she was still Caitlyn's mother and Ambessa was a bad person but she was still Mel's mother.

Caitlyn screaming at Mel to "finish the job" or screaming "Yes, I do" to shut Vi up when she was talking about her parents.

Caitlyn is allowed to grieve and hurt others, but Mel is just supposed to take the same pain of losing a mother by her own hands so casually.

Caitlyn is allowed to grieve and hurt others, but Vi and Jinx are just supposed to take the same pain of losing their parents so casually.

Just thinking about losing a parent is so incredibly painfull, let alone witness it first hand. But she doesn't care, because the bad thing is not happening to her.

She expects everyone else to feel her pain, but she refuses to do the same for others.

She has no empathy.

Losing a parent should have made her empathize with Vi even more. But it didn't.

She has multiple episodes about her pain but other characters just have to take their pain casually through some dialogue or just one scene.

Everything revolves around her.

She is god's (the writers) favourite. It's not just a "Caitlyn doesn't care about Vi" problem, it's a "Caitlyn doesn't care about anything but herself" problem.

She is a bad person through and through.

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That you thing such a thing so horrendous show your privilege

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I think one of the reasons so many people struggle with the way the “revolution” was handled in Arcane Season 2 is because they truly believe that with enough violence change for the better can be made. “If Jinx just united the undercity against Piltover, they could’ve fought for their rights and won! That’s why they show Jinx with the revolutionary flag in the opening, isn’t it?”

Except this is exactly the mentality Arcane is CRITICIZING.

As Vander says “this isn’t going to solve your problems, it just makes more of them.”

What people need to understand is that revolution ALWAYS involves horrific loss and sacrifice.

As Vander says: “nobody wins in war.”

There is no ONE act of violence to solve all your problems. Everyone in Arcane thinks they know how to solve the issues between their cities. And every time it results in just more and more extreme violence until it ends up with Viktor’s “Glorious Evolution” which just basically strips every one of free will and power.

But TRUE progress can only be made when we work together despite our differences. Look at America. When we fought against ourselves in the Civil War we still ended up creating a rift in our culture that to this day has not healed. But when we unite together to take down a common foe like in WWII we can achieve remarkable things. United we stand, divided we fall. The revolution of Zaun where they fight Piltover was never going to end with Zaun in a good place. We already saw that with Vader’s revolution, why the FUCK do you think Jinx doing the exact same thing would end up better?

This is WHY Jinx only unites the Zaunites in the end. Teaming up to take down Ambessa and the Machine Herald was an act of violence, but it was also an act of UNITY. Of progress!

This is why Sevika joining the counsel is SO important. Because Zaun and Piltover worked together instead of against each other, TRUE healing can begin.

True REVOLUTION can begin.

It bugs me that so much of the criticism of Season 2 is wishing there was more violence or endorsing the violence of Zaun over Piltover. That’s such a black and white non-nuanced take on the struggles going on. Arcane is challenging you to critique these ideas, and people are refusing to because they truly believe that with the right kind of violence all their problems will be solved.

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No you are not challenging the notion. Because it's two completely different situations, with different political systems. No, you should not go and attack your party political opposition.

See that ending word "opposition"? It shows that your country is a democratic society where people's opinions matter. It sucks that your people choose to elect an idiot but if you want to live in a society where your decisions matter, then you just gonna suck.

See, this is completely different from arcane, where the ruling class is an oligarchy, and the people opinion on terms politics does not matter in the overall decision. And one of those decisions is to oppress, abuse, and commit war crimes against a vulnerable population they already committed the murderer of thousands in the past to make mineration faster, and when their actions backfired did nothing to protect the population they hurt.

So no, I do not agree that you should go kill the idiot that VOTED against their own rights. But I do agree that if you are being made into a subhuman condition, than maybe, just maybe you should not be waiting for your abuser, that does not see you as equal, think "maybe I should start to think of him as someone deserving of humans rights".

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I think one of the reasons so many people struggle with the way the “revolution” was handled in Arcane Season 2 is because they truly believe that with enough violence change for the better can be made. “If Jinx just united the undercity against Piltover, they could’ve fought for their rights and won! That’s why they show Jinx with the revolutionary flag in the opening, isn’t it?”

Except this is exactly the mentality Arcane is CRITICIZING.

As Vander says “this isn’t going to solve your problems, it just makes more of them.”

What people need to understand is that revolution ALWAYS involves horrific loss and sacrifice.

As Vander says: “nobody wins in war.”

There is no ONE act of violence to solve all your problems. Everyone in Arcane thinks they know how to solve the issues between their cities. And every time it results in just more and more extreme violence until it ends up with Viktor’s “Glorious Evolution” which just basically strips every one of free will and power.

But TRUE progress can only be made when we work together despite our differences. Look at America. When we fought against ourselves in the Civil War we still ended up creating a rift in our culture that to this day has not healed. But when we unite together to take down a common foe like in WWII we can achieve remarkable things. United we stand, divided we fall. The revolution of Zaun where they fight Piltover was never going to end with Zaun in a good place. We already saw that with Vader’s revolution, why the FUCK do you think Jinx doing the exact same thing would end up better?

This is WHY Jinx only unites the Zaunites in the end. Teaming up to take down Ambessa and the Machine Herald was an act of violence, but it was also an act of UNITY. Of progress!

This is why Sevika joining the counsel is SO important. Because Zaun and Piltover worked together instead of against each other, TRUE healing can begin.

True REVOLUTION can begin.

It bugs me that so much of the criticism of Season 2 is wishing there was more violence or endorsing the violence of Zaun over Piltover. That’s such a black and white non-nuanced take on the struggles going on. Arcane is challenging you to critique these ideas, and people are refusing to because they truly believe that with the right kind of violence all their problems will be solved.

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The USA situation has no relation to the arcane situation. Zaun is not simply a poor neighborhood. In the lore, it actually has a whole culture and identity separated from piltover. In the game timeline, is it considered an independent city. So basically, piltover is not Republicans and Zaun is democrats. But piltover would be England and Zaun Ireland.

So it's a completely different situation

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I think one of the reasons so many people struggle with the way the “revolution” was handled in Arcane Season 2 is because they truly believe that with enough violence change for the better can be made. “If Jinx just united the undercity against Piltover, they could’ve fought for their rights and won! That’s why they show Jinx with the revolutionary flag in the opening, isn’t it?”

Except this is exactly the mentality Arcane is CRITICIZING.

As Vander says “this isn’t going to solve your problems, it just makes more of them.”

What people need to understand is that revolution ALWAYS involves horrific loss and sacrifice.

As Vander says: “nobody wins in war.”

There is no ONE act of violence to solve all your problems. Everyone in Arcane thinks they know how to solve the issues between their cities. And every time it results in just more and more extreme violence until it ends up with Viktor’s “Glorious Evolution” which just basically strips every one of free will and power.

But TRUE progress can only be made when we work together despite our differences. Look at America. When we fought against ourselves in the Civil War we still ended up creating a rift in our culture that to this day has not healed. But when we unite together to take down a common foe like in WWII we can achieve remarkable things. United we stand, divided we fall. The revolution of Zaun where they fight Piltover was never going to end with Zaun in a good place. We already saw that with Vader’s revolution, why the FUCK do you think Jinx doing the exact same thing would end up better?

This is WHY Jinx only unites the Zaunites in the end. Teaming up to take down Ambessa and the Machine Herald was an act of violence, but it was also an act of UNITY. Of progress!

This is why Sevika joining the counsel is SO important. Because Zaun and Piltover worked together instead of against each other, TRUE healing can begin.

True REVOLUTION can begin.

It bugs me that so much of the criticism of Season 2 is wishing there was more violence or endorsing the violence of Zaun over Piltover. That’s such a black and white non-nuanced take on the struggles going on. Arcane is challenging you to critique these ideas, and people are refusing to because they truly believe that with the right kind of violence all their problems will be solved.

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I deleted the message because I wanted to repost it all in the reblog, but I lost the first part of the message. It had nothing to with you, actually your question did not even loaded in my phone before o deleted the message.

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I think one of the reasons so many people struggle with the way the “revolution” was handled in Arcane Season 2 is because they truly believe that with enough violence change for the better can be made. “If Jinx just united the undercity against Piltover, they could’ve fought for their rights and won! That’s why they show Jinx with the revolutionary flag in the opening, isn’t it?”

Except this is exactly the mentality Arcane is CRITICIZING.

As Vander says “this isn’t going to solve your problems, it just makes more of them.”

What people need to understand is that revolution ALWAYS involves horrific loss and sacrifice.

As Vander says: “nobody wins in war.”

There is no ONE act of violence to solve all your problems. Everyone in Arcane thinks they know how to solve the issues between their cities. And every time it results in just more and more extreme violence until it ends up with Viktor’s “Glorious Evolution” which just basically strips every one of free will and power.

But TRUE progress can only be made when we work together despite our differences. Look at America. When we fought against ourselves in the Civil War we still ended up creating a rift in our culture that to this day has not healed. But when we unite together to take down a common foe like in WWII we can achieve remarkable things. United we stand, divided we fall. The revolution of Zaun where they fight Piltover was never going to end with Zaun in a good place. We already saw that with Vader’s revolution, why the FUCK do you think Jinx doing the exact same thing would end up better?

This is WHY Jinx only unites the Zaunites in the end. Teaming up to take down Ambessa and the Machine Herald was an act of violence, but it was also an act of UNITY. Of progress!

This is why Sevika joining the counsel is SO important. Because Zaun and Piltover worked together instead of against each other, TRUE healing can begin.

True REVOLUTION can begin.

It bugs me that so much of the criticism of Season 2 is wishing there was more violence or endorsing the violence of Zaun over Piltover. That’s such a black and white non-nuanced take on the struggles going on. Arcane is challenging you to critique these ideas, and people are refusing to because they truly believe that with the right kind of violence all their problems will be solved.

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Because the end of Arcane resolved no problem. They gave a seat to zaun, but it is voted by the majority. So zaun is always in the losing situation. Also, do you really think that piltover will allow Zaun to trade with other cities without paying due to Piltover? Or that the RICH merchants that are in the council will allow for their revenue to fall by giving proper salary to the works?

The problem is not that people are angry that it does not have a violent solution, but that the creaters want us to believe that by making friends with your oppressors they will one day have mercy on you and give you rights. Because this is what the end showed us, that a piltover abusive enforcer had a change of heart and started the change for good in piltover treatment to zaun.

Basically, they are saying that yours abusers are allowed to oppress you all they want, but the moment you go against them, then you are the one responsible for continuing the cycle of violence.

Also, let's be realistic that there is not one major world change that was not gained by violence.

Pick any country in Central and South America and see if their independence was conquered by becoming friends with their colonizers. Pick South Africa and see if their apartheid state was ended by making peace with England.

Violence is needed when there is an overwhelming power imbalance. It's not because in modern days democracy exist that it means it was not conquered by fighting for it. And that Arcane tried to make it so was such a white privileged ideology.

You can never truly understand the reactions of zaunites and the deception fans felt when they gave such an ending if your culture was not one shaped by being oppressed by others.

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I think one of the reasons so many people struggle with the way the “revolution” was handled in Arcane Season 2 is because they truly believe that with enough violence change for the better can be made. “If Jinx just united the undercity against Piltover, they could’ve fought for their rights and won! That’s why they show Jinx with the revolutionary flag in the opening, isn’t it?”

Except this is exactly the mentality Arcane is CRITICIZING.

As Vander says “this isn’t going to solve your problems, it just makes more of them.”

What people need to understand is that revolution ALWAYS involves horrific loss and sacrifice.

As Vander says: “nobody wins in war.”

There is no ONE act of violence to solve all your problems. Everyone in Arcane thinks they know how to solve the issues between their cities. And every time it results in just more and more extreme violence until it ends up with Viktor’s “Glorious Evolution” which just basically strips every one of free will and power.

But TRUE progress can only be made when we work together despite our differences. Look at America. When we fought against ourselves in the Civil War we still ended up creating a rift in our culture that to this day has not healed. But when we unite together to take down a common foe like in WWII we can achieve remarkable things. United we stand, divided we fall. The revolution of Zaun where they fight Piltover was never going to end with Zaun in a good place. We already saw that with Vader’s revolution, why the FUCK do you think Jinx doing the exact same thing would end up better?

This is WHY Jinx only unites the Zaunites in the end. Teaming up to take down Ambessa and the Machine Herald was an act of violence, but it was also an act of UNITY. Of progress!

This is why Sevika joining the counsel is SO important. Because Zaun and Piltover worked together instead of against each other, TRUE healing can begin.

True REVOLUTION can begin.

It bugs me that so much of the criticism of Season 2 is wishing there was more violence or endorsing the violence of Zaun over Piltover. That’s such a black and white non-nuanced take on the struggles going on. Arcane is challenging you to critique these ideas, and people are refusing to because they truly believe that with the right kind of violence all their problems will be solved.

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"The people of Zaun deserve to breath"

Fuck you Cassandra, deserve? Deserve?

To be able to breathe non poisonous gas caused in part by your family is not something that one has achieve to be able to earn it. It's their fucking human rights! They do not "deserve" the ability to breathe it's their most BASIC right. It's not something you can give and that, depending on ones actions.

Sincerely I cannot see how someone hears this phrase and feels anything less then disgust for that fucking family. It makes sense KkCaitlyn and her false moralism comes from someone like her.

Classicist pig

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It was not getting robin and made Dick angry at him. It was this, the ultimate betrayal.

as someone who once had a single parent who was dating i kind of imagine dick having some interactions with clark after he starts dating bruce that go something like this

bruce: so dick, as you know clark and i are dating

dick: *silent glare*

bruce: we wanted to talk to you today becaues we wanted to see if you would be okay with clark staying here sometimes *bruce & clark are sweating bullets*

dick: no.

bruce: no? *clark looks like he's going to cry*

dick: no. last time he was here he ate the stash of animal crackers i had in the cave.

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*bruce & clark coming back from a date but the batcave entrance won't open. tries to go into the manor entrance but the door is locked and the key won't work. no overrides work. alfred isn't answering. finally dick answers the phone.*

dick: what.

bruce: can you let us in chum? it's getting kind of cold out here.

dick: only if he leaves.

bruce: come on dick, it's late and clark is supposed to spend the weekend here with us.

dick: no. he's not allowed.

*clark flies them up and gets in through the window of bruce's bedroom*

dick: i told you he wasn't allowed.

*cue shrieking from bruce & clark who were not expecting dick to be sitting on the bed*

(based on an interaction i had with my dad's gf when i was like nine, i would try to lock her out of the house...)

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dick: hey, i'm home! look what i did at school tod---

*bruce & clark kissing in the kitchen, pull apart so fast clark hits his head on a cabinet*

dick: you desrved that, you're so gross and i hate you.

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@rightwheretheyleftme Said list of monarchs> Rhaenyra is not in it. She was officially not a Queen, she is a claimant

Following the deaths of her parents, brothers, uncles, and dragon in the Dance, and the victory of the blacks, Jaehaera was married to her cousin King Aegon III Targaryen as part of the peace agreement.

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That's why the "humans" have shown to be able to have children and date pokemons... in the lore

Seriously, though, what I love most about Pokémon is that the official explanation for why it’s okay that a bunch of children are running animal cage fights for money is because:

a. All living creatures in the Pokémon universe have a natural inclination to set up tournament brackets and engage in a series of staged one-on-one duels where nobody actually gets seriously hurt; and

b. Humans symbiotically contribute to this phenomenon by furnishing the infrastructure for Pokémon to organise themselves into stables and more effectively pursue martial glory.

Like, we are describing a universe where not only is a knowledge of and propensity toward the principles of professional wrestling genetically encoded in all beings, but humanity’s natural ecological niche is “wrestling promoter”.

It’s a beautiful thing.

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While you are right about the erasuee of women in history, Frankenstein is from the horror genre, not sci-fi