#covid persistence

[willowreader]

Did you know that there was something called Covid Persistence.?It means there are people who got Covid that have been positive for 3 months and more. Covid lives in their body. I found this frightening. This Tik Tok video explains it well.

[daisiesonafield-blog]

“Mystery virus” getting everyone sick… …. It’s COVID

Link

[yellowocaballero]

I love how your Bruce is traditional but it is also like a mix of different types of traditional. Like he comes across as both "Rich white old money type" traditional AND "member of a marginalized minority group who take great pride in their identity to cope with years of ostracization and going "the world wanted me dead for my culture and religion so i might as well die loud and proud instead of conforming to their unachievable ideals" " traditional

Thank you for this ask, I really love it! I have a shitton to say on this topic, including a lot of worldbuilding decisions on Gotham cultures, immigrant spaces, segregation, how it ended up like 1920s-1930s NYC/Chicago mixed with my own city, Jason "Foil" Todd's Inferiority Complex, but that would make this depressingly long. Long time readers would know that I have, like, really complex and discrete religion headcanons for everybody I write. It's important.

Any decent Batman Story (TM) is about Gotham. It has to be a huge presence. It's like writing Dick Tracy without Chicago, or Cheers without Boston. When he's written well, Batman is a reflection of Gotham, and they metaphorically represent each other.

Most Batman writers get this, so there's always a lot of historical worldbuilding and everything. But I'm a community health person, and I grew up in the inner area of my own very large city, and creating a Gotham that feels real and rich is more complicated than the Court of Owls stuff. For me, cities are the intersection of culture, community, history, oppression/SES/war etc, and the modern day to day lives of people. When I want to make a rich city that was relevant and important to the story, I wanted to focus on immigrants and cultural minorities. You know - the people who create the cities lol. I decided on a history that involved the idea that Jewish families were the oldest in Gotham, and that they were one of the people to help create it and influence its culture.

I read a Daniel Handler quote just now that said "there is something naturally Jewish about unending misery". What is more Batman, Bruce, and Gotham than that, lol. The Jewish diaspora experience - the traditional history just as you outlined it in your ask - is baked into Gotham, it's the foundation. Gotham is a city of unending misery, but it's a city that stands tall. It takes a thousand hits and always gets back up again. People within it experience unending poverty and suffering, but they stand together. Just fucking refuse to die, as a whole. What's more Jewish than that! What is more Batman than that! Gotham should always be allegorical for Batman and Bruce, and through Gotham existing in that traditional Jewish experience, I think that's where you got the impression of Bruce as very traditional too.

Tim and the Drakes are the modern reflection of this. I was extremely explicit that Tim is alone in the world because of the Holocaust. I talk a lot in the story about how war and violence destroy children's lives, and that stretches back to the 1940s. About how war and violence creates violent children, which is what Tim became. His acting out was from the trauma of seeing his family slaughtered in front of him, and like a lot of people he used his religion to justify it.

There's a reason why the very first moment when Tim and Bruce actually connect as a family is when they find kinship and understanding through their shared backgrounds and values. They both saw their families slaughtered, they're both alone in the world - but they found each other, and they'll keep living.

OK BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION. Seriously, though, I'm not. Uh. Actually fucking Jewish. This is like the fourth time I've talked out of my ass about this. I'm actually really interested in reading about the actual Jewish themes in Batman, because from what little I know they HAVE to be there. Any smart people out there who know about it, or who can link something written about it?

[o-chunks-appreciation]

Baby girl I be having medical concerns and procedures meant for people over 50 like you have noooo idea <3

[oflgtfol]

i was talking to my therapist last week about how i'm kinda excited but also equally apprehensive about starting grad school this fall because yes, i so so desperately needed a gap year otherwise i think i literally would have killed myself and/or had a breakdown big enough to land me in the hospital, and even beyond that i just needed to figure out a more concrete plan of what i'm going to do with my life in general -- while all of that is true, and i'm glad i took the gap year for it, i'm also apprehensive because i genuinely feel like an entirely different person than i was even at this exact point in time last year, nevermind anything earlier than that. it's only been a single year of me being out of school but my life has changed so dramatically, mostly for the better, and my whole personality has flipped on its head, it's just going to be so fucking weird going back to the same school, the same campus, potentially seeing my old friends around. augh

[databent]

my mystery illness hurting me -_-

[inkfox]

my psychologist (who consistently questioned me whenever i wore a mask to our in-person appointments) asked to meet virtually this week bc she’s caught covid…. again

[poppy-parkers]

night time bedside table shot of the New Gorls™️. idk what the hell a 'photography' is they're just pretty and i like looking at them. thus i welcome you to pls enjoy beholding them, too.

[july-19th-club]

all of this is like immaterial anyway bc my throat is raw enough this morning that i might just stay home like. i dont want to go somewhere and use up all my spoons on anxiety and new situations when i could save them and have them for work tomorrow if i need them

[wraithsoutlaws]

trying to decide if I've developed asthma or if there's some other terrible thing going on that will eventually be my demise

[willowreader]

Below is a wonderful explanation of this article on Twitter.

[rimouskis]

what a horrible cruelty it is to get sick on a sunday... like we really couldn't save this for monday?

[jedi-bird]

I have made two trips to the pharmacy today. First this morning for over the counter cold and allergy stuff. Just now, right before they closed, to get my partner their new prescriptions. I'm now very hungry again and very tired.

[franthonyofficial]

me being nauseous since dunes is insane please free me from the anthony virus

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

My throat: *starts to feel achey n bad when I swallow*

Me, with an exam in two days, which I must take in person: please… babygirl don’t do this to me

[captainnickfoligno]

it really is just me and this 24oz takeout container of congee against the world