#I could go on about this for days

[heybatterbats]

Any piece of media that doesn’t give Batman a Robin has misunderstood the character to a shocking degree. And not because Robin keeps Batman from going too dark or anything like that, but because Batman is fundamentally about parenthood. It started with an orphan, with the loss of parents. It’s always always always been about that.

I think at some level, Batman is trying to protect Gotham City in the same way a parent protects their child, and Robin is the physical embodiment of that. Batman is the kind of parent that says I will defend you, I will save you from danger, I will hurt whatever hurts you. Batman isn’t about a fear of bats. Batman is about the loss of parents. Bruce lost his parents to a violent criminal, so he will protect his city from criminals of the same nature, and when he sees a little boy with no one, he will step into the gap because he can’t bear not to. He knows that pain, and he will be damned if he lets this child feel it too.

Batman is a guardian and a father and a scared little boy all wrapped up in a black cape and a growl, and by his side there is another scared little boy who isn’t so scared with the Bat next to him, and together they’re going to make all of Gotham a little less scared too. That’s the core of Batman- he was an orphan once, and he will not let his city be left alone in the dark. And sometimes that’s planting a fist in the face of a mugger, and sometimes it’s holding the hand of a little boy in traffic light colors, but either way it’s Batman saying don’t be scared, I will protect you, I’m here.

Batman is a father. And I wish more media understood that.

[warnadudenexttime]

Been thinking about these with Analogical I’m gonna explode I miss them so much

[gardenerian]

Tumblr just ate my ask ... It's mad I haven't been here forever. I was stalking scrolling your blog and saw an OC gif set. I've just finished watching the show—I watched the first season when it originally aired (it was the most perfect thing to watch at age 17), but never finished the series until now. I'm in my hyperfixation stage, including binging the Welcome to the OC, Bitches podcast, so sorry about the questions.

1. Who was your favorite character/ship?

2. Who's more obsessed with their location, everyone in The OC or Fiona "Southside!" Gallagher?

3. Why does the Gallagher home have more bedrooms than the Cohen McMansion?

oh HELLO liz my darling! don't worry, i have been neglecting my tumble bubble for far too long as well. i resolve to do better 😤 maybe by immediately rebranding as an oc blog?? mmmmm??? seth cohen was one of small mel's OG blorbos 😇 hence the icon 😇

also god, yeah, it was such an insane thing to watch as it was airing. peak of the early 2000s tbh. i hate when people overuse iconic but...... iconic. ANYWAYS. answerin your lovely q's:

listen. LISTEN. i know his character did not age well. but seth is my son and i will defend him to the death only not really bc my guy was A MESS. i would like to pluck out ryan's white knight complex and throw it in the garbage. and i kinda loved summer's trajectory like yes girl randomly a genius let's goooo 🥳 marissa made me insane as a kid but now she just makes me Big Sad - julie cooper too! jimmy cooper can choke tho. sandy and kirsten.... they confuse me. when the show was airing they were ✨ perfect ✨ but watching as an adult... these relationships all need WORK lmao skdjfh but i will say that seth and summer had me in a chokehold as a kid. but GODDD what i really loved were the family relationships! kirsten and ryan always made me emotional, same with sandy and seth! their kids! do not get my started on seth/ryan brotherhood. BROTHERS. i would not fight the idea of them as a ship however who said that?

lmao this is the best question. okay so most of the oc kids go on and on about their location but in a ~*~I GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS TOWN WHERE NO ONE UNDERSTANDS ME ~*~ kinda way? like every other 2000s emo song, ya know? but the gallaghers are obsessed with where they're from to like. a pathological degree. those people need help.

THIS HAUNTS ME. where are all the rooms in that house???? i would also live in the pool house, fuck that somehow cramped mansion.

[girl-in-the-chairs-void]

💌💌🩷🩷

Now, Mai,y beautiful wife, I love your sense of humour. The way we connect over the silliest thing Glen Powell or Lewis Pullman or any other tgm man does. Also, I love you for your support, you make me laugh in the times when I’m feeling like I wanna just give it all up. I love you soo so much for that 💕💕💕

Send me a 💌 and I’ll tell you something I love about you

[egophiliac]

ENG PLAYERS I BESEECH YOU

I have been informed that you guys are getting part 4 of episode 7 tomorrow, which means we are FINALLY going to get the official romanization of Revaan's name, somebody please tell me because I need to know what it is.

like, yes, it's probably just Revan/Levan, but look, I'm sitting here with my finger over the button of all these Laverne and Shirley jokes and just waiting for the opportunity to deploy them --

[vaguely-concerned]

are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[fictionadventurer]

I love libraries.

I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.

Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.

This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.

Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.

Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.

Excuse me while I go weep.

[countess-of-edessa]

the world is so fucked up and i can't help but think the damage is irreparable when i see people talking about how unusual and prudish it is to wait six to ten dates before having sex with someone. ten dates??? roughly like twenty five hours of interaction????? ten old timer burgers and mango iced teas from chilis equals sex?????? the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, emotional devastation, lifelong consequences, not to mention just straight up the possibility of getting murdered, with a STRANGER you have hung out with for maybe like two months???? and that's a LONG TIME???? and if you feel weird about that and don't want to do that that makes you NOT HETEROSEXUAL????? THATS AN ORIENTATION???? BECAUSE ITS SO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR ????? i hate all of you i hate you i hate you i hate you every day i hate and I hate and I hate you

[meirimerens]

youtube shorts is just tiktok without being on the app the amount of "i'm a [qualification] and [misinformation]" could make one turn their skin inside-out in protest. "i'm a board-certified OB-GYN & it's only been about the last hundred years that women have actually experienced menopause. We didn't live long enough to experience it" how can you be so incredibly wrong about something so integral to your practice. King of the Hittites Hattusilis III was told in 1250 BCE that his sister was too old to reproduce at age 50+. Aristotle wrote in the 4th century BCE that women stopped menstruating between ages 40 to 50, common menopause ages today still. i cannot begin to tell you how 4th century & 1250 BCE don't really count as "the last hundred years" unless that -s is doing a lot of heavy lifting. waiter waiter more misinformation laws.

[iamjackstylerdurden]

imagine being lawrence gordon. you spent 6 hours in a dirty bathroom with a dead guy and a twink. you then had to cut your foot off and shoot and abandon said twink (that you spent the last 6 hours falling in love with). you make it down the hallway when the (not) dead guy grabs you and said ‘you work for me now’ (does being an apprentice even pay?). the next day you go to your apartment, take a big sigh of relaxation and turn on the tv. and 9/11 is happening

[bunnieswithknives]

Dev this is serious stop beatboxing.

[hellenhighwater]

wait, you're a lawyer? for real?

I got an associates in stage tech, a double BFA in Graphic Design and 3D Design, and then went to law school on full academic scholarship, booked twelve classes, fell asleep during the Bar Exam three times (but passed with flying colors before the curve), and the motion for my admission to practice (put forward by my brother, also a lawyer), started, "My sister has many issues, but the one before the Court today is that of her admission to the State Bar of Michigan."

And somehow yes, they do let me practice law.

[mabbbish]

wonderful day to remember ninjago has a canon highschool au

[rendevok]

“Take my hand” pages 5-11

1 - day 2 - truth - 3