#I'm honestly flabbergasted

[purplesaline]

Just saw a post that made the comment "I'm sure you've all seen Barbie by now"

You mean the movie that is still only in theaters and hasn't been released for streaming or download anywhere yet?

Bro (gender neutral), some of us are still hiding from covid!

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

…

There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

[msue0027]

In bbc merlin you hear all the time about the Old Religion - which implies existence of the New Religion. Only recently i worked out what it's ought to be.

It's Christianity.

[youleavethetardisbrakeson]

"We didn't take the proper consideration for how this cost would affect you."

NO SHIT, TESLA BOY

[spite-and-waffles]

I get so infuriated when people reduce Jason's ultimatum to "trying to force Bruce to kill someone to prove his love". The dishonesty of it. Remove all context from the situation and make it sound like an insane inhumane choice. I can do that too actually. Batman is a rich kid who whales on poor and mentally ill people instead of going to therapy. He colludes with cops to bypass due process and collect evidence illegally. He creates child soldiers and makes them into canon fodder for his obsession. It sounds pretty indefensible when you remove every single context and convention that makes a story work doesn't it? Almost like you're only willing to extend the in-universe rules to the rich white manbaby and not the child whose death he was responsible for, huh?

Also? Moral absolutism is harmful and egoistic. You shouldn't kill people, not even criminals, of course not. But that doesn't mean refusing to kill in any situation whatsoever is the moral choice. There's a difference between killing to protect and killing to avenge. Between killing an active threat who will definitely escape and slaughter a family and killing one who is safely contained. Any rule that's taken purely prescriptively and without regard to the individual context of the choice is simply dogma. Especially if the role you have voluntarily taken on requires the willingness to do whatever it takes to do your fucking job. That's why morality isn't fucking black and white.

That's the crux of it for me; why I take this defense of Batman's choices so personally. I don't trust people who see the world in such a black and white way (this includes Jason, who is exactly as myopic as Bruce, but happens to be right about the Joker imo. Fortunately he's a fictional character and also a kid who has not yet had the opportunity to grow, unlike Bruce). I don't trust people who think morality is about a set of correct judgements rather than the process by which you arrive at said judgements. I don't trust people who won't fucking choose. Inaction is complicity, bitch. The consequences of your choices exist and fall on other people regardless of your refusal to take responsibility for them. Bottomline – if your version of "mercy" results in the death and suffering of other people, maybe consider that you're the villain of the story.

[the-spoopy-pretzel]

"I'M the one with the affinity!" will forever be a mood 🧜‍♀️

[thewalesot5]

How convenient that you leaked in April that you and Charles wrote letters after the Oprah interview. How convenient the Telegraph at the time said the letters talked about who said the comment. How convenient that this mysterious translation error names the person.

And now you're trying to cover your ass but also not deny it.

[best-fictional-cat]

People should vote for Baron not just because he is the best cat (he is) but also because if he gets through this round he'll probably go against the catbus, who he lost previously to in the catgirl (gender neutral) polls, and he needs a rematch!

To me, he just needs to win the whole thing because he is my blorbo and the only crush ever (also how the HELL did he lose to CATBUS in CATGIRL POLLS)

But really, to me The Cat Returns is the best ghibli movie, although I can understand why people might not really like it... It doesn't really fit the usually chill ghibli style and is more adventure/action packed, and as far as I remember they don't even have the traditional Let's Just Sit Here In Silence For Ten Minutes moments... Which is all that ghibli is about, and I love this particular movie exactly because it doesn't have all that, and it's fun, and it's packed with cats, and Baron is the ultimate badass (and we also share the mbti type so he just like me if I were a sword-wielding gentleman cat)

LOOK ME IN THE EYE AND TELL ME HE'S NOT THE COOLEST CAT EVEN he would take Catbus in a fight and win c'mon what

VOTE BARON

[dropthedemiurge]

What the hell, tumblr?

How is this based on my likes?

I don't remember liking any post like this, I'm ace and repulsed, I'm sure I have never liked anything related to these kinks on tumblr in my life or at least the last month, in fact I will go and check my recent likes – see, pixel art, character writing tips, angsty gifsets from thai series, and–

Oh.

...I probably shouldn't have liked Dan and Phil announcing the release of their 2024 furry/cat themed calendar and merch titled "legalise catboys".

Goddamn it, once again it's you british fuckers with kinky fandom (affectionately)

[uncanny-tranny]

just an fyi, image IDs are often much more useful in the text post, and small text like you used in the post is inaccessible! i think it's also not accessible to screenreaders (the small text)

but i cant access alt text whatsoever and i sometimes need the alt text, so i was just letting you know!

(usual format is [Image ID: <description, with maybe some breaks in between to make it easier to read>. End ID] from my experience)

I was under the impression that the ALT feature was actually functional for those using screen readers when it was rolling out (maybe I am naïve for having that much faith in staff)

I'm exclusively a non-screenreader and on mobile, so I have had no issues with accessing ALT text, which is why I used it

[noridal]

I will never ever shut up about being Italian and an ex-mo because telling all your very Catholic peers that aliens are a thing and that your ultimate goal is becoming a god yourself truly is an experience

[drhu0806]

Someone teach me how to kit wizards because Gale is my least used companion atm which is astounding to me given that his competition in that department was Wyll, the warlock who on paper can technically only do two things

[abstinencesymbol]

they’re... they’re just handing out 10 min misconducts like candies??? for the littlest, pettiest, stupidest things?? not even bother trying to hide that they’re determined to not let tkachuk play lmao

[bitter-syscourse]

Like, I'm a black woman and holy shit have I not seen a worse take than yours about race and fucking alter names 😬😬😬

i’d like to assume that because you’re black (hopefully not in a white system??) that you’d understand, but unfortunately, i learned that not everyone is as understanding as a heavy majority of people.

if you’re okay with people appropriating your culture, whatever. that’s not my business and it never will be. but you need to understand that not everyone feels that same way, and a vast majority of people are against this.

i am not going to go out and name my child a stereotypical black name when i myself am not black. THAT is culture appropriation, THAT is racism.

also, holy shit, this blog hasn’t been used properly in forever. we’ve been stepping away from syscourse due to health reasons. i also don’t know how this is even considered syscourse rn, not unless you’re attempting to call me racist for having an opinion that a majority of other POC agree on.

[outrunningthedark]

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[vox-off]

i work from home 2 days out of the week and i get like. fuck all done on those days. my cat is adorable and my neighbors are loud and we have so many windows and there are noises and some smells sometimes and i've been convinced that my quarterly review was going to be "you're slacking, stop that or you're fired"

well

had my review this morning

not only was absolutely nothing negative said about me at all, three different department heads are fighting. over who gets me on their team. my director wants me to become the full-time trainer, the technical analyst wants to create a analyst team with me as the founding member, and my current department head is metaphorically crouched over me like a dog with food aggression

is this

is this job satisfaction

imagine what could happen if i did my job 5 days a week instead of 3 😳