#again I am NOT an expert

[kandidandi]

What’s it like being autistic?

sorry if this is weird or sounds rude-

I’m just curious ‘^^

this isnt rude at all, tho one autistic person is never the same as another, its a spectrum so everyones experience is different. (i will talk about my experience. bad + half bad half good and good yknow (p.s. i am not an expert on the tism don't quote me))

its good and bad, sometimes i love having autism and sometimes i wish i didnt have it.

i hate having it because i cant go into shopping centres without panicking or breaking down because of all the noises and sensations. i got bullied for literal years in a row for being the weird kid and i didnt know why until i found out i was autistic. i dont like being spoken to in a condescending way like im five years old once someone learns about my autism either hgh

sounds and noises are way louder and lights are brighter. i wear sunglasses and carry earplugs for when its especially bad. when im in a crowded environment like the city i have a hard time calming myself down and sometimes meltdown because of all the sensations going on (not all autistic people hate the city).

bright lights and noises aren't just annoying, they physically hurt aswell (dont ask me how)

i love matching my clothes together! like if i have a blue shirt i'll have blue socks :D but but but if i cant find a combination i like i'll panic because nothing seems right. i really like some textures one day but might hate them the next, for example i really love the feeling of foam beads but sometimes they feel so bad i'll throw up.

im semi-verbal, sometimes i can talk and talk and talk but then sometimes im super quiet and its hard for me to say anything, for this i have hand signals i use with my family and friends to communicate what i want to say! other autistics may also use cards or AAC (Augmentative and alternative communication (basically just speaking with a phone or tablet).

i love having it because i feel things more intensely and see the world differently. i stim almost constantly because it feels nice and makes me happy. i love listening to my favourite music because i connect with it a lot, not because of the lyrics but just cuz makes me extremely happy idk its hard to explain. i love having echolalia, when i pay for soemthing the machine makes a beep and i always always say beep in response awawa and sometimes the cashier will beep aswell!!! i love when im so happy i need to full body stim to regulate myself its great i love it. i love being easily entertained! slap some blocks infront of me and i'll have a blast for hours!! i also really like puzzles and jigsaws because of this awawa (i also really like solitare and minesweeper)i also also love having random sayings i use like "awawawa"! i actually do say these things irl aswell as a vocal stim hehehe

[mask131]

Hello, I hope you are doing well. Apologies if this is a bit of a dumb question, or is otherwise one you've already touched on elsewhere, but based on your experience would you happen to have any insights regarding how matters of economic/social class might influence the mythology, folklore, and other storytelling traditions people groups engage with? I understand if this is a tough question to answer, it is admittedly very broad.

Not at all a dumb question! No question is dumb!

... Well to be fair some questions are dumb, but this isn't one.

Indeed it is very, VERY broad, especially since every mythology and folkore has a different context and tone and history to it.

Economy and social class... I can't actually talk much about this topic - because I am not an expert on either economics or sociology. But I will try to answer with a few things I know... And given I have been very active on my fairytale blog recently I think I can tie that to something also relevant to fairytales (which as in truth another form of folklore, somehow).

If I had something to say it would be: the idea that mythology and folklore are just "stories told by the common folk, that spread orally among the low class, that is part of everyday's culture" has to be treated VERY CAREFULLY. It is not an unfounded assumption. Folklore does spread and exist through oral traditions, as the stories are told by grandpas to granchilds, by nurses to children, from villages to villages. Lots of mythologies of the world do survive on oral culture, traditional storytelling, and "belong to the people".

But to assume mythology always was a sort of free-entity wandering around, that is transmitted exclusively orally, and that media adaptations cannot truly change or touch is probably a bit foolish - especially in the Western world.

I'll take two examples: Greek mythology and fairytales.

Given how widespread and common Greek mythology is nowadays, people tend to believe they are just stories that exist on their own, and were kept to us by storytelling, and that they existed as they are of all time... But a lot of people do not realize that Greek mythology isn't some sort of petrified oral culture or a defined set of pop culture references: Greek mythology is a literary mythology. And this is true for a lot of the mythologies of Antiquity - they are "literary mythologies" because we did not kept any of the actual "oral myths". It is not like when colonizers started to study and record the mythologies of the First Nations, or when Europeans tried to understand the myths of the first inhabitants of Australia - these were "live captures" of a mythology still in an oral, active, "folkloric" form. But Greek mythology, and in fact all other Antiquity European mythologies (Roman, Norse, Irish, Finnish...), we only know through literary works - and exclusively through them. The tales of Greek mythology were lifted, recreated and taken out of poems, of epics, of history and geography treaties. Aka works of a somehow "high" culture, works of literature, works of scholars. Taken from these literary works, the myths were then extracted and reconstucted to live just on their own, free from their original literary frame - but because of that people somehow think that these myths came to us directly from the Greek people to us without any in-between carrier or reshaper. But that's not the truth.

Heck, modern day Western Europe's perception of Greek- mythology is on top of that influenced by another "high class" intermediary: art. From the Renaissance to modern day, for centuries, Greek mythology in France (for example) was mostly spread through sculpture, opera, paintings - it was the domain of the arts, and these pieces of art importantly shaped and redefined how Greek mythology is perceived (it notably worked heavily the confusion between Roman and Greek myths). And these pieces of art were "elitist", as in accessible mostly to those that had the social status, the wealth and the and the culture.

And this is something very important to remember when dealing with European mythologies: up to a recent time, they were transmitted and carried by those that had the culture, the education, the means. Which wasn't everybody. A relevant case would be the Celtic mythology of the Isles - like Irish mythology. The only texts we got of it were from the Middle-Ages, and being texts they could have only be done by clerks. But who were clerks? Christian monks, men of the Church. And because of that, the texts of Irish myths were changed (this is why the People of Dana went from gods to just "very strong magical warriors"). Irish mythology could only survive because it was written down - but it could only survive in a modified, "diminished" form because the ones who held the culture, the education and the means of spreading stories were Christians.

European mythologies are literary in nature - as in, the myths and legends we know today all come from literary works. And writers were not anybody back then - they were special people, and so we could say that European mythology is somehow "elitist". It wasn't a "people things", it wasn't a true "folklore" like it is today. In fact, when you think about it, even back then mythology asn't just the prerogative of "everybody" - myths and legends were passed down by bards and skald, which were special people, treated with respect, with a specific training... Not everybody could be a bard, and telling myths was an artistic and social prerogative. Mythology was always quite "elitist" - unlike religion, which was the widespread thing. Mind you, mythology does become "folkloric" when you work on its reconstruction because , in front of collapsing ancient civilizations and the wave of Christianization of Europe, a lot of research can re-create and resurrect legends, myths and gods by looking into folklore proper - which often is a leftover or mutation of mythology. In folktales we find Christianized myths, in superstitions we find rites that lost their legends. (Even though not all rites have legends, and religion is different from myth - but you get what I mean, there are leftovers of mythology in what is called "folklore").

In fact, this is why we know barely anything about Gaul mythology. The Gallic mythology is lost to us because they never wrote it down, they were not a literary people, merely oral. The result was that all the legends and myths of the Gauls are gone. All we have left are images, sculptures, rumored rites, and list of names. . A puzzle with missing pieces, illustrations without the book. Hopefully some European mythologies without a "mythological literature" survived better (notably in Eastern Europe), but these are exceptions, and even then they survived in an incomplete form full of questions and interpretations.

And the second thing I want to talk about is fairytales - which I extensively cover n my secondary blog, @adarkrainbow but which hold very similar misconceptions... But my computer is bugging the hell out so I'll have to cut this post short. I will continue my answer in a reblog...

[adoptsomecookies]

A little while ago I came across a Croissant Cookie wondering the streets alone, I asked her if she had somewhere to stay, she said no, so I offered for her to come and stay with me which she accepted! But lately I've noticed that she's been having a lot less sleep, feeling unmotivated to do the things she loves and more persistant in helping me do stuff that I'm prefectly capable of doing, do you have any suggestions on what's going on? (i'm a new anon, you can call me Sage Anon if you wish)

* I would not really say this is the symptoms of a Croissant Cookie with the type specific disease that they can be potentially baked with. I think, I am not a psychiatrist so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think this Croissant Cookie may just have a bit of an depression issue combined with some need to prove herself as being useful.

*Again, take this with a grain of salt, I am not an expert in this department. All I can suggest is potentially therapy and some talks on what could be bothering her if she is willing to discuss that with you.

* Best of luck to you, Sage Anon, and hopefully your companions psyche can be properly analyzed in due time. Feel free to send me updates.

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[kaplooie]

You mean free VPN's sell your data

Paid for VPNs definitely have the capability to sell your data. Idk if they do or not, but if you decide to install a VPN, every action you make on the internet is now through the vpn company’s server, and that data is now all in one place in the company’s hands. Whether or not you decide to use a VPN should depend on whether you trust a VPN company with your data. It’s perfectly valid to trust a company with your data, especially because of how sued a VPN company would be if they got caught doing anything suspect.

VPN companies are still companies, which means they have to act within the law, which can have loose interpretations. NordVPN released a statement about this a while ago, where they said they could give someone’s activity in the event of a law enforcement request.

I personally don’t think I’ll use one unless I somehow build it myself but that’s just me. Also please know that I’m not an expert on this, i took one class in network security in undergrad and my professor said she wouldn’t trust a commercial VPN and after learning about how they work I agree with her.

Here’s a paper reviewing various VPNs from the google play store. There’s a section that separates free and premium VPNs and tries to find 3rd party trackers. while premium VPNs have fewer trackers on average, they can definitely still have trackers.

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[xoxoemynn]

For OFMD Tumblr friends who want a S3 and are scared of Twitter

First, no judgment from me. I very much get it. I resisted Twitter for a long time, and even though I'm now a bit more comfortable on it, it's still not my Fandom Home. There are a TON of valid reasons not to be on Twitter, but if you REALLY want to keep OFMD visible right now and help its chances of returning for a third season, Twitter is the best place to do it. Like it or not, Twitter is still the best social media platform for raising awareness and for instant news updates.

Tumblr posts don't make headlines. Topics that have been trending on Twitter do. And if we want this show to come back, we need to make OFMD impossible to ignore.

By now you've probably seen just how close we came to a S3, and if you're like me, you are RAGING and donning your battle jacket. But I get it can be intimidating to get on Twitter for the first time, so I thought I'd address some common anxieties I see. I'll put below a cut because this got a bit long, but I promise it's a quick read.

I don't know what to say! Where do I even start? That's okay! You don't have to create your own tweets (although it's great if you do). Amplifying other people's posts is also important. Go ahead and like/retweet/reply to other people's posts. This may also help you get an idea of what you may like to say in your own tweets.

Hashtags...yes? Yes! Although don't use too many or you may get flagged as a bot. The biggest one that seems to be emerging is #SaveOFMD. Other popular ones are #RenewAsACrew, #RenewOurFlagMeansDeath, and of course, #OFMD and #OurFlagMeansDeath.

Should I just be tagging all the streaming services? Per @renewasacrew, no. It's counterproductive. You'll want to tag one streamer at a time and be specific. Below is an example of a tweet I made the other day -- use specific reasons why that that particular streamer may benefit from picking up OFMD.

I'm scared. People are mean. Yeah, people are mean. But I will say the vibes over at OFMD Twitter are currently the best I've ever seen them. People seem to have united for the greater good and are being overwhelmingly positive and just trying to do whatever we can to save the show. (That said, again, I already had a pretty curated feed, and was very liberal with blocking users/terms I didn't want to see, but I've been able to spend so much more time in the For You tab than I ever have without being jump scared by something.)

But I don't know anyone there! Wouldn't I just be shouting into the void? Not if you use the hashtags! Fans are being really good about following those and engaging with the tweets. Plus, [Stede voice], I'm your friend. I'm xoxoemynn over there as well, I'll follow you back and engage with any of your posts that I see. Plus, what's been REALLY lovely to see is that SO many lurkers have come out of lurkerdom to support the efforts, and they are being welcomed with open arms, so you will not be alone. Again, I am telling you, vibes? Best I've ever seen them.

I can't get sucked into another social media platform, I don't have the time. The beauty here is you don't need to spend a lot of time. I've been on Twitter more in the past week than I have in the entire year I've had an account, and I'm still only on for maybe an hour total the entire day? I open the app, I check a couple accounts, I engage with a handful of posts, and I close the app. It takes all of five minutes. It's an extremely small lift that can have a very big impact.

My bet is on Zaslav expecting us to be upset, and that there may be a day or two of outrage, but then we'd move on. I'm sure right now he's trying to convince everyone that this is a fluke, and that it'll blow over soon. Don't let him win. Keep OFMD in the news. Be loud (but polite) and make Max and other streamers take note of what a passionate, loyal fan base this show has. Make their stocks continue to drop. Make it clear this is NOT just a fluke, it is NOT business as usual. It's a BIG fuck up with lasting consequences.

Twitter, for all its sins, is the best place to do this.

Now let's get our damned show back.

[songofwizardry]

ok I'm not an expert but I'm not seeing much specific info going around here, and there's a lotta Palestine solidarity protests in the UK this weekend, so here is some (including UK-specific) protest info and resources (mostly pulled whole-cloth from Twitter)

policing is heavy at Palestine protests generally

Hamas is a proscribed org under UK law. that means "inviting support" for them or "wearing clothing or displaying articles" that implies you are a supporter is a criminal offence (if you're interested, here's the full list of criminal offences from gov.uk). Palestinian flags etc are ok*, but do not have something that could be mistaken for Hamas imagery. don't go out there looking for convictions pls.

*in spite of what Suella Braverman has implied, the London Muslim Community Forum has just confirmed that the Palestinian flag is not a proscribed flag and is not banned (apologies for quoting the "we advise the met police" group but I thought it was important to have that info explicitly)

don't talk to cops. that includes the police liasion officers in blue bibs.

particularly if you're concerned about your face ending up on social media etc, but also just good practice in general (both in terms of COVID and protest safety)—mask up. cover up tattoos etc.

have bustcards or contact details for protest legal support on you. Green and Black Cross can be contacted on 07946 541 511. write the number on your arm etc.

if you witness an arrest: check if there's a legal observer nearby and if so call them over; if not: if the arrestee doesn't have a bustcard, give them one, find out where they're being taken, and contact eg GBC or a protest support line

if you have the time and can help out, there will likely be arrestee support required after—GBC tend to post callouts on Twitter for this

other links

for particularly children and young people and their families being referred to PREVENT for pro-Palestine statements, contact PREVENTWatch and maybe also Palestine in School (newer initiative I think, I don't have an excessive amount of detail on them just FYI)

Liberty, Migrants Organise and Black Protest Legal Support have bustcards in different languages, including Arabic and Somali (also Liberty's website has lotsa useful info, including advice for disabled protesters, protesting and immigration status, and what to do if you're kettled)

GBC's thread on what to do if you see an arrest is useful, as are all their resources generally

if I've missed anything or made a mistake, lmk—as I said, I am very much not an expert. if you know people who are protesting, pass them the legal support line numbers; if you're attending, stay safe and be vigilant; and ofc carry water.

[lonicera-edulis]

[cryptidfuckery]

I don't want to become a tree.

I have a fascination with death. Not how it happens, not what happens after. I have a fascination with how death is handled by the ones left living.

I talked at length about it in the Egyptian gallery with you, surrounded by bodies misplaced. "Most of history we learn through the way we treat our dead." Which is true, I think, for the most part.

We have written and oral history. We have the skeletons of buildings and cultures left behind for us to interpret. But before that, before the corpses of civilizations we're still able to uncover, we have our own.

The oldest body ever found is argued to be 230,000 years old. Hundreds of millennia, a culture so lost to time and decay we can't hope to uncover significant artifacts.

Our bodies become the artifact. The way we were buried, where, with what, with who. Was there care put into our final resting spot? Was there effort put into the ends of our lives?

Most often, there was. Our bodies tell our descendants our status. Our injuries. Our community. Our loves.

Perhaps they'll debate. Perhaps they'll misinterpret. But millennia later, your body might tell someone how we lived. How we loved. What we cared about at our core. What we thought would help us after death. What we thought we'd want to continue our comfort. What the living needed to let us pass on from their lives.

You tell me you still think about what I said.

Many people talk about becoming a tree when they pass. It is a beautiful notion, one I've considered. A natural, living reminder of a life lived. A place for their loved ones to share a connection with. In a way, the continuation of a life; albeit in a different form.

But I don't want to become a tree. I'd rather become a forest.

Maybe it's a notion toward the state of our world. The lack of top soil is one of the prevalent factors of our declining environment. The way we've stripped it of the nutrients of decay.

There are ways to decompose naturally. In the ground with nothing but a natural shroud is the oldest and easiest way. A new, human composting method has been created for an urban option when the easiest is unavailable. An alternative to cremating. One that can give back to the earth.

My body might not be one that tells the story of my time alive on this planet. My body might tell a joke, or rest peacefully, or ideally decay away. My DNA will dissolve into nitrogen and an assortment of other elements. I will become no different or better than the dirt that lies around me. What was me will become something else entirely.

I'd rather become the top soil. I'd rather become the forest.

[ducktracy]

Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure in Henderland (1996)

Directed by Mitsuru Hongo Written by Mitsuru Hongo and Keiichi Hara Storyboards by Mitsuru Hongo, Keiichi Hara and Masaaki Yuasa

[ishgard]

#wolqotd! Was there ever a specific moment where the story touched on a topic your character is intimately familiar with or even an expert on? Did they grit their teeth and stay silent, or did you headcanon an entirely different take on the situation?

[notthesaint]

that hornosk x vengefly king drawing implies vengefly king and zote are siblings. in this essay i will

ANON.. THIS ASK COULD BE AN ENTIRE AU... also it took me more than one year to answer this, I am supposed to be planning an entire concept for this but... 😭

[mrstargkonnen]

I think people are focusing way too much on the s*xual side of things with Noa and Mae.

Like…stop 🛑

I’m going to assume no one here needs anything explicit to happen between them to ship them. If that’s the only way you consume ships, then that’s on you.

But by ‘certain’ logic, then shipping Noa, Soona and Anaya means you like to watch animals getting it on irl. Is this true? I doubt it.

Thankfully, I’m capable understanding that shipping the fictional characters we were given is easy because of their human-like qualities and relatable dynamics. The CGI helps to suspend our disbelief a ton too, and of course, the great chemistry the actors delivered IRL. They did a fantastic job!

Because let’s be honest, if these characters behaved or resembled irl apes 100%, NO ONE WOULD GIVE A FLYING FUCK ABOUT THEM and these movies would not be what they are.

They’re shippable because of their dynamic, because of the themes and narrative devices they are using, because of the idea of two opposing worlds coming together through the kindredness of two unlikely heros, because of their relatability in the face of fear, prejudice and the unknown, because of the Shakespearean tragedy of it all-

NOT and I repeat, NOT because they might have s*x 😒

[gerryrigged]

wait wdym dc didn't stick with Red Robin for Tim [and the de-aging thing?] what are they calling him if not RR?

He's been Robin again since 2019 😬 it's a bit more complicated but that's the gist of it.

Okay so Tim became Red Robin in the 2009-2011 series of the same name, back in the post-Crisis timeline. He was supposedly 17 at the time, by official records, and I believe he was still supposed to be 17 when the universe was rebooted with Flashpoint in 2011? (Although this doesn't really make any sense with respect to jamming the huge number of events that happened while he was Robin into like four years, if he was supposed to have become Robin at 13; he should probably at least be 18 if not 19-20).

The Flashpoint reboot took us into the New 52 (much beloathed), where nearly everyone was de-aged to some extent to keep Bruce Wayne and his generation from getting ~too old~, and also Tim Drake was mangled into a completely different character who had never been "Robin"; he'd been "Red Robin" right from the start of his vigilante career. He was de-aged to 16 for the New 52 Teen Titans series.

Teen Titans (2011) #0; as you can see, this version of Red Robin kept a version of the bandoliers and gave Tim a fancy new functional wing cape that he could fly around with.

Next, Rebirth in 2016 was a partial reboot that brought back some aspects of the post-Crisis timeline; tbh I'm not an expert on this period. What I do know is that Tim mainly appears in James Tynion IV's run of Detective Comics that ran from 2016 to 2018. During this period Tim was still called Red Robin, but he'd basically reverted to a Robin costume, with only the silly doubled "RR" symbol identifying him as not ~actually~ Robin winkwink nudgenudge, and as I understand it he was mostly back to functioning as Bruce's partner.

Tynion's run ends in Detective Comics #981 with Tim telling Bruce that he's going off to Ivy University. (He's totally lying, as Tim Drake does; Alfred notices that his tracker is going off in the opposite direction of the university, but Bruce is like "I trust him" and turns the tracker off. Yay, I guess?)

Anyway the important bit is this revealing that Tim is 'going-off-to-college' age. Which could still reasonably be anywhere from 17-19, and DC being DC, they ~refuse to confirm~

Tim as Red Robin on the cover of Detective Comics #934 (2016); as you can see, he's pretty much Robin again lol

Detective Comics #968 (2018); another shot of his "basically Robin" Red Robin costume

In 2019 we got the actual return of Tim as Robin (no "Red") in Brian Michael Bendis's Young Justice run, re-uniting the Core Four from YJ 1998.

Young Justice (2019) #1

As you can see, he no longer has the doubled 'RR', and he confirms that he's Robin - "Well, one of them!" I think he's supposed to be filling in as the Gotham Robin while Damian is running around the world having adventures and presumably getting into trouble, as Robins do? idk.

Tim also chases down his erased post-Crisis past at the beginning of this arc, having Zatanna magically restore (most of) his memories of the previous timeline, and, crucially, his forgotten best friend Kon, kickstarting some plot.

Tim, and all of the Young Justice crew, are notably young-looking for almost the entirety of this run. It varies based on the artist, but uh, yeah for the most part they are really damn baby-faced. This is a trend that continues with Tim and his generation of friends from this point onward, so fans have basically thrown up their hands like "is he 17 forever???? is he Edward Cullen from Twilight???? is he aging backward????"

We Just Don't Know

In any case, Bendis makes DC's next attempt to give Tim his own identity in short order, giving us the hilarious, ill-fated, and rightfully short-lived "Drake" identity.

Young Justice (2019) #10

He's back to being Robin by issue #18, hilariously switching costumes from one page to the next, although some time has apparently passed during the scene transition.

Young Justice (2019) #18; Jinny: "Is Drake back to being Robin?" Kon: "I think Batman and Spoiler made him go back to Robin. Don't bring it up. And say thank you because we didn't have to have the Drake intervention we were planning."

And as of the current date (July 13, 2023), Tim is still in the Robin identity, sharing it with Damian ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ God knows how old he's supposed to be right now. I certainly don't.

Batman (2016) #136; the most recent issue out to date, with Tim suiting up as Robin while filling Bruce in after diving into a bunch of parallel dimensions to bring Bruce home.

As you can see, it's a Mess. The Tim Drake's Vigilante Identity question is of course a hotbed of wank and infighting, as people are torn between (a) wanting him to continue as Robin and (b) wanting him to move on and "grow up" into his own identity again (and, importantly, leave Damian as the sole Robin again, lol).

It feels like most people are for option (b), but then nobody can agree on what his next identity and costume should be. Red Robin again?? Some other bird-based identity that doesn't share a name with a major restaurant chain?? Something else entirely??

God only knows what DC is going to come up with, especially after the Drake fiasco.

And there you have it, Anon! Hope that was helpful.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

okay listen so yosano needs an extra hand when rearranging some stuff in her apt and asks kenji for help. while there, she finds a skirt that doesn't fit her anymore and asks kenji if he wants to see if it fits. it doesn't (she gives it to naomi), but it was kenji's first time wearing a skirt and he absolutely loves the way the skirt swishes and the spins! oh my god the SPIN!!!

so later in the week, he asks kunikida if they can go to the store to get him a skirt or a dress because he wants to feel the swish again. kunikida agrees, and kenji tries some stuff on, and then he finds a yellow, short-sleeved sundress that goes to his ankles. “kunikida-san! look how it swirls!" he says, then spins for kunikida.

kenji takes it off and is about to put it in the cart when he suddenly hesitates. it's not that he's embarrassed or anything, but would it be weird if he starts wearing typically feminine clothing? he doesn't to make anyone uncomfortable.

kunikida, ofc, says that no one will get upset, and if they do, he'll punch them. kenji laughs and thinks it's a joke but. no. he's serious. kenji then asks if kunikida will wear a skirt or a dress with him to work the next monday. he Really doesn't want to bc dazai is just going to laugh at him and make fun of him the whole time, but he says yes bc it's kenji and he doesn't want kenji to give up on something that makes him happy bc he's nervous about offending people!

so he lets kenji pick a skirt out for him. he ends up getting an ankle-length dark blue skirt that shimmers a bit in the sunlight or if he spins.

it isn't his favorite thing, but he gets why kenji likes the twirl (it is kind of fun).

then, work! kunikida walks in behind kenji (who runs into the office and yells for kyouka to show her the spin) and ranpo takes one look at kunikida and calls for dazai bc he "needs to see this".

and kunikida gets pissed bc great now dazai's going to make fun of him and he'll be miserable all day bc dazai will go all day. but dazai walks in, all casual and nonchalant, and he starts to make a joke but cuts himself off when he sees kunikida.

and suddenly he's having yet another romantic crisis. bc god does kunikida look good in blue and wow he really wants kunikida to twirl so he can see kunikida spin with the skirt flowing around him

and that's how kenji both discovered he likes gender non-conforming clothes and indirectly got kunikidazai together (and, if he could be slick about it, dazai would take a picture of kunikida to send to chuuya)

[evie-writes-sometimes]

its a fucking saree idiot

even I know i am not indian

Oh but darling, I am (also rather racist of you to assume only Indians wear sarees, when there's more countries in South Asia than just India, but I digress). And sarees are characterised by a long dupata wrapped around your body like this.

While lehengas are a three piece (gagra/long skirt, choli/blouse and a seperate dupata which you can wear as you please).

Of course, there are many variations of both and can sometimes overlap. I assume that you're talking about this SN post where I called it a 'lehenga' in the tags, which is not a saree, although it is a fair assumption. But the model is wearing an uncharacteristic cape and her dupata is a seperate piece, making it a lehenga, not a saree.

Next time choose a struggle anon 😉 either be a fool (talking about a topic you clearly do not anything about) or a coward (sending this on anon probably because you knew your own arrogance and lack of expertise could bite you in the ass, which it did).