#Social Class Differences

[polelover91]

Debutantes and Drama in Gossip Girl: 1x10

"Serena van der Woodsen, looks like your invitation just arrived. With strings attached. Come out, come out, wherever you are." ~Gossip Girl, 1x10: Hi, Society

Written By: Lauren Long Date Published: April 5, 2024 Photo by Matheus Oliveira on Pexels.com “Hey Upper East Siders, it’s that time of year again. When the mere act of descending a staircase means you’re a woman. That’s right: Debutante season. And from what we hear, there’s been some changes to the lineup.” Gossip Girl, 1×10: Hi, Society, Gossip Girl Hey Upper East Siders, word on the…

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I've seen the concept of Jason being adopted by various people other than Bruce while he was still a little tire stealing Crime Ally kid a few times, but I've yet to see anyone put forth the idea of Duke and his family taking him in.

Like, depending on the continuity Jason and Duke are only like 4 or 5 years apart in age, and we know for a fact that Duke was a terrifyingly brilliant kid already shaping up to be able to take down the Riddler in a battle of wits at the age of 9. Now throw in protective older brother Jason into that mix who didn't think twice about trying to steal the tires off the Batmobile and then try and hit Batman with a damn tire iron when he was caught.

Just imagine how terrifying it would be with the two of them growing up constantly feeding each other's unhinged Fight God and the Devil in a Waffle House Parking Lot at 3am and Win energy. Imagine the chaos they would cause. The terror they would strike into the hearts of their enemies- all before Duke ever even gor his powers.

They would be unstoppable. Just a pair of two of the smartest motherfuckers you've ever met who know they're smarter than you, and the only thing sharper than their minds are their vicious verbal take downs.

Also I just have the imagine in my head of Doug Thomas, half asleep early one Saturday morning stumbling into the kitchen after following the smell of breakfast to see his 8 year old son happily stuffing the most delicious looking pancakes imaginable into his mouth. Blinking in confusion as he realizes it's not his beloved wife cooking but some scrawny kid in worn out clothes, covered in engine grease and bruises manning the stove like a seasoned line cook - complete with the most foul mouthed swearing even Doug, a construction worker, has ever heard in his life and a cigarette tucked behind the kids ear.

And Doug has a moment where he's just staring, full on Who's Goddamn White Baby is That? when Duke pipes up to explain:

"This is Jason! I caught him trying to steal your catalytic converter this morning. His mom's dead and his dad is a deadbeat so he's gonna stay with us now!"

And oh. Well. Shit. He knows that look in his son's eye. Knows he's already lost the fight before it evan began. It looks like it's theirs. It's their god damn white baby now.

He's gonna have to call Elaine.

(Elaine, for her part, goes through the full range of human emotions when she gets home to realize that the boy Duke has decided they're adopting is the Todd boy Elaine has been trying to track down for months now.

She's Jason's social worker, not that she's been able to really do her job and help him when he's managed to stay under the radar of every single vaguely responsible adult in a ten mile radius. The one time he had been picked up by one of the few decent cops in the city and Elaine thought she was going to be able to finally finally help him, Jason had managed to climb out of a window of the precinct bathroom and disappear into the night.

He'd managed to steal the hubcaps of six different patrol vehicles while he was at it. Just to rub it in that there was nothing they could do to stop him.

Point was, the kid has been her damn white whale for almost a year. And now she walks into her home after a maddening unhelpful phone call with Doug about needing paperwork to adopt a child only to find the boy she'd spent so long looking for teaching Duke how to take apart and reassemble their toaster in the living room.

She isn't sure if she wants to laugh or cry.

She is sure that there's no way she's going to be able to convince Duke that they can't just adopt his new friend, not when she can tell that both boys have already gotten attached to each other in the scarce few hours they've known one other. Or when her husband is just sitting there eating delicious pancakes with such resignation in his eyes.)

[stealingyourbones]

Demon Twins AU that focuses on the discrimination and bullying that Danny faces from being a kid who appeared out of nowhere, evidently adopted, and is impacted from his reactions to the world as a former League Assassin and the culture shock that would come from it forever imprinted on the minds of his peers and fellow Amity Parkers.

[katierosefun]

pyramid game is such a perfect little drama for the sapphics because you've got a whole demented psychological thriller going on about high school girls creating a whole fake social class system that results because one bored little princess bitch thought it'd be funny, and you've got all these dynamics that can only be boiled down to some kind of love story because like. ye lim and eun jeong's dynamic? the princess idol and her athlete bodyguard. soo ji and ja eun's dynamic? the cold mastermind and the compassionate heart. even whatever da yeon and seol ha have got going on? typical hitter and loyal dog dynamic. the list can go on.

[fjordfolk]

puppy fever, might be terminal

[kirkwallguy]

also. as much as i think it was the right call for veilguard's cc to make its top surgery scars look very modern and neat given youtubers were already calling them "mutilation scars" as they were lol, i still have so many questions about it. like it's the first real example of surgery we see in the entire series beyond basic amputations. i'm interested in a society that figures out trans surgeries alongside basic medicine - like what if nipple grafts for aesthetic purposes were actually how they figured out better skin graft techniques to help burn victims. have they figured out bottom surgeries? hysterectomies? figuring out hormones was probably a pretty big medical breakthrough and would require understanding the endocrine system, unless the hrt is magical, which would mean there's a divide with some parts of the transition being practical medicine and some being magical healing; does this change the way some people transition? would it make hrt less popular in the south? and this all comes back to trans rep feeling very halfhearted / poorly thought out when people just throw in fully passing / seemingly medically transitioned characters with 0 thought into how they accessed their physical transition lol.

[handweavers]

i don't think a lot of people understand that the problems between like marxist-leninists and maoists and anarchists and trots and left coms etc are based upon like fundamental disagreements with economic/political programs and tactics and things that very much do matter when trying to organize anything in a real sense irl and not just aesthetic disagreements and esoteric internet arguments lol but that would require people to have any degree of participation in such things irl and not just on social media

[disillusioneddanny]

So, I've been writing fic for over ten years now (wow I feel old) and lately I have noticed an influx of people in my comment section who don't know what the fuck a plot is.

so I figured I'd kinda aggressively explain it because I'm slowly losing my mind lol.

A plot is the goddamn story itself. Plot is quit literally teh sequence of events that happen from the beginning of the story to the end that creates a narrative to push the story forward. Every minute detail, the prologue, the insignificant details like going to the grocery store or getting to know another character, that's all plot.

Plot is NOT just the action of the story. Plot is not when the story is "getting good" or getting more action-y or whatever else. That's the climax and falling action of your fucking story.

Pretty much all stories (although not all) have the same fucking set up.

This is our friend, we will call him plot mountain.

The exposition is setting the scene, the rising action is building the tension, the climax is when the big problem finally shows up, like the villain has revealed himself, this is the high point of the fucking story. Then the falling action is when the characters start to fix things. they defeat the villain, they save the girl, they solve the issue. Then the resolution, this is the happily ever after. The day is saved, everyone is okay, they lived happily ever after, whatever else.

BUT GUESS FUCKING WHAT!! THAT'S ALL PLOT. EVERY SINGLE PART OF THAT IS PLOT. When you comment on chapter 20 of a story and you're like "Oh hell yeah the plot is finally here" you're talking about the climax or the falling action you're not talking about the plot.

This is just me ranting a bit, but I hope to god that this helps someone lol. Because good lord, i get so many comments about the story is finally getting to the "plot" or that the "plot is finally happening" and that's not at all what is happening. You're just reaching the climax of the story lol. They are two different things.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my ted talk. TLDR Plot is the entirety of your story, not just the juicy parts/exciting parts.

[notakoolladz]

long time no see octonauts-

Real time- I've already mentioned longest of time wanting to draw different fandoms cuz like I have several drawings ideas from stuff for peg + cat all the way to class of 09.

[ultimate-marysue]

I have this massive AU for the Batfam (and DC in general) that spawned from a very sleep deprived "You can't just gender swap Batman, there are implications" and honest to God, it's the one thing keeping me sane.

[polelover91]

Introducing the Upper East Side: Gossip Girl: Pilot

"And just when B and S had built a bridge . . . it all had to come crashing down. But dry your eyes: the 'Kiss On the Lips' party is around the corner. And you know who loves parties? Gossip Girl." Gossip Girl Voiceover

Written By: Lauren Long Date Published: November 22, 2023 Photo by Chris Schippers on Pexels.com “Why’d she leave? Why’d she return? Send me all the deets. And who am I? That’s one secret I’ll never tell. You know you love me. xoxo Gossip Girl.” Voiceover, Gossip Girl, Pilot Episode Hey Upper East Siders, this has been in the making for a few months, and I’m super excited to finally launch my…

[clove-pinks]

In his 1839 travelogue Diary in America, Captain Frederick Marryat described the crowded and rustic hotels that a traveller in the United States could expect at this time, especially in remote areas far from cities and large towns. Rooms might include "three or four other beds," most of them with two people in each bed. Then, he shares an anecdote about an American friend:

A New York friend of mine travelling in an Extra with his family, told me that at a western inn he had particularly requested that he might not have a bed-fellow, and was promised that he should not. On his retiring, he found his bed already occupied, and he went down to the landlady, and expostulated. “Well,” replied she, “it’s only your own driver; I thought you wouldn’t mind him.”

A fascinating look at the attitudes around male bed-sharing in 1830s America, and an underutilized historically accurate take on "there was only one bed"! Imagine your OTP: forced to share a bed by the landlady.

[akai-anna]

shinichi: *takes a deep breath* shinichi: i lo- anyone who has spent five seconds around shinichi ever: yes, you love ran, we know, you love mōri ran so much, she's the light of your life, you love her so much, you just love ran, we KNOW , you love ran you fucking love ran ok we know, we get it, YOU LOVE MŌRI RAN. WE GET IT.

[maaaxx]

Studying social work means that i will never have any faith in a mental health provider ever again. Ive seen the type of people they give these degrees, the standards arent existent

[goddessofwisdom18]

Emerie Şafak, Lady of the Hills, the Cloaked, the Shimmering, the Carynthian

[waitineedaname]

i find wei wuxian, jin guangyao, and xue yang really interesting as foils of each other for a lot of reasons, but a big one to me is the ways they relate to gentry society

jin guangyao is extremely aware of his vulnerable position with relation to the gentry, and he's very conscious of the hypocrisy involved in the classism he experiences. still, he tries to operate within those constraints to rise in status within the gentry -- and he eventually succeeds! he becomes chief cultivator and head of the wealthiest clan around! but he never stops being hyperaware that everything could be taken away from him in an instant, a fear that is eventually proven to be justified

xue yang reacts in the exact opposite way. instead of the constructive way jgy operates to climb the social ladder, he's purely destructive. he was abused by a member of the gentry, so he'll destroy a whole clan in revenge. he saw the injustice of how he was treated because he was poor, and he decided to burn it all to the ground in revenge

so if jgy is working within gentry society, and xue yang is working against it, wei wuxian is a third option -- completely separating himself from it. sure, he had the benefit of being adopted by a gentry clan, but we saw how well that worked out for him in the long run, and he was never allowed to forget his origins. like the other two, he's very aware of the hypocrisy of the gentry and is a direct victim of it, but instead of playing by their rules or burning it to the ground, he just. fucks off. if he'd been left alone, he could've probably stayed in the burial mounds indefinitely. he wouldn't have been happy, but that's more about missing his family than missing his status. and at the end, he has married into a gentry clan again and is begrudgingly accepted by gentry society, but he's more aware than anyone how conditional that acceptance is. his fondness for rogue cultivators and his cottagecore fantasies show that he's not really concerned with class and status, he just wants to be free and happy with the people he loves, separate from the concerns of high society