Bruce: "Turning off comms for a bit to focus, you're all going to be okay right?"
Duke: "Considering I'm going to bed, yeah, I think I'll make it."
Damian: "It's insulting you think we require your constant supervision."
Tim: "You're so dramatic."
Cass: "Can I be in charge?"
Steph: "Do not put Cass in charge. I'm clearly the best choice."
Bruce, interrupting all of them: "This was not an invitation for a coup. Just stay on task, it looks like a quiet night. Batman out."
Bruce: *grudgingly listening to a playlist made for him by the League and horrified that he likes Hal's suggestions. Making good progress on new antivirals, sending reports to Lucius, submitting a proposal for WE to convert a property into low income housing*
Bruce, two hours later, turning on comms: "Does anyone remember if we--"
*incoherent screaming and the sounds of sirens over comms, someone shouting over a microphone. News reports indicating that martial law is imminent*
Bruce, sighing deeply: "Goddamn it why didn't I leave someone in charge?"
It is April which means it is time for my approximately annual
mathblr roll call!
Reblog/reply if you are a mathblr and/or mathblr adjacent. And tag the other (at least semi active) mathblrs & adjacents you know of!
"What counts as mathblr? Do I count?" If you want to! Math shitposters! Math academia aesthetic blogs! Math studyblrs! Unthemed blogs owned by people who happen to be math fans! I want them all! I'm happy to see CS, stats, physics, and other math-adjacent folks too if they like hanging out with the math crowd!
And while we're at it, here is the link once again to the mathblr discord server (LCM- Least Common Mathblr). It's a good time and all are welcome :)
I have always loved Molly Knox Ostertag's work, in particular the really cute, heartwarming tact of the Witch Boy trilogy's trans allegory and the way it feels so well built to walk that fine line of appropriately nuanced but still perfectly digestible for its intended teen audience.
Well The Deep Dark is more of precisely that style of writing and it blows me away just as much now as Witch Boy did the first time I read it. It's exactly the kind of book I wish I'd had as a kid, and the sort of thing that lights a little hopeful flame in the jaded dark corners of my heart. It's the sort of thing that helps me feel optimistic about a generation of kids who will grow up with this kind of story as their formative personal mythos.
I know I don't usually do reviews or recommendation on this blog so I dunno who this is for really, and it certainly won't have any particular reach, but if you find yourself with the chance to, I really can't recommend The Deep Dark enough. And of course everything else Molly Knox Ostertag has had a hand in, even the one's she's not been the sole author on.
HC that Bruce's bad habit of invoking how "bad his training was" to shut down the Batkids always backfires on him.
Bruce: "You're not even close to being ready. Do you have any idea what I had to learn? You have it so easy and it shows!"
Robin!Dick, furious: "Fine, I'll just go train with the league too! Or maybe I'll train with Deathstroke!"
Bruce: *rolling his eyes*
Soon after, Barbara, mutinously: "I knew I should've just taken Waller's job offer instead."
Fast forward to Red Hood!Jason, smugly: "I got trained by the people Ra's has nightmares about."
Then Tim: "I'll just ask Lady Shiva to teach me."
Stephanie: "Sign me up for it, I don't care who I have to fight. Anything so you shut up!"
*A little while later*
Bruce: "See my training focused on--"
Cass:
Bruce:
After which Damian came along: "Father, I think you're exaggerating, Mother told me she went easy on you that day."
Never let it be said that Bruce can't learn: "My training was actually a walk in the park, yeah, all those assassins, they went real easy on me. I'm the hardest teacher you'll ever have."
Duke: "Not even fucking close."
Bruce: ??
Duke: "Jason has insane standards, and Cass hits harder than you when we spar, and Shiva--"
Let's get a new mathblr roll call going! There's an older version but it's got a decent number of inactive people on it so let's start fresh. Reblog and/or reply tagging yourself and any other good math accounts!
Math shitposters! Math academia aesthetic blogs! Math studyblrs! Unthemed blogs owned by people who happen to be math fans! CS, stats, physics and other math-adjacent dorks too if they like hanging out with the math crowd! I want them all!