He felt a tug at his sleeve and when he looked down Daniel was greeted with Aiden's puppy dog eyes. It was just Aiden's fifth birthday and so he has been spending most of the day playing with his new toys, so Daniel was surprised to see Aiden out of his room. In one hand he saw Aiden had an empty mug and chuckled softly.
They two of them have gotten into the habit of Aiden come to his dad with a mug and Daniel would make him a cup of hot chocolate. His wife has told him off saying that it's too much sugar for such a small boy, but who could say no when Aiden give you those eyes.
During the process of making the hot chocolate the small boy followed the adult bouncing from foot to foot in excitement. Once Daniel handed the mug he expected Aiden to go back to his room, but Aiden's smaller hand reached for Dan's as he started to try and drag him somewhere.
He allowed himself to be pulled along and was brought to the couch, which Aiden had to jumped to get onto. "Do you want to watch something?" Daniel asked trying to find out what Aiden wanted to do, the boy answered with an excited nod.
Aiden didn't like to speak, he decided to just ask for something or answer in quick, short motion. So they all learnt how Aiden communicated to make him comfortable and happy.
He handed Aiden the remote control so he could chose whatever movie or show he wanted to watch. Sure, maybe Daniel had work to do and files to fill out, but they could wait. Nothing is more important to him than his son.
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I'm sorry I keep posting my tiktok comments but please. What does this mean. What do people THINK shipping is for anymore???
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You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.
Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.
Kill the censor in your head.
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Say it with me now
You are never late to a fandom. Your fic is never "invalid" for being "late". Your fic doesn't need a high word limit. Your fic does not need a high standard. Your fic does not need to be highly popular. Your fic isn't less valid than a popular author's fic. Your fic isn't inheritly bad. Your fic is amazing. Your fic is valid. The only thing that matters is that you're having fun. Fandom is not consumption and consumerism. Fandom is fun, free and for the people. Fandom is not a popularity contest. We're all nerds at the end of the day.
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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.
Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.
just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?
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Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol
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Dick : Jasons been more, relaxed lately. It's unsettling.
Tim : Yeah, I've started spiking his water with mood stabilizers.
Dick : What
Tim : I've been thinking of doing it to the wider gotham water supply. Think about the crime rates.
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