#it was the grade that mattered

[dorkylittleweirdo]

me about to email my professor for the third time this week despite class being over

[autisticrosewilson]

While we're on the topic of De-aging AU's I wanna talk about Jason and Damian if Jason was 14 again real quick.

Do you guys think that Damian looks at this version of Jason, so different from the version he knows, nothing like the person he was told Jason was, and feels uncomfortably seen?

Damian was always told that Jason died because he was reckless, because he disobeyed orders, he was fired as Robin and he got himself killed. A cautionary tale, not a threat to his position. He dismisses Jason because Bruce does, because Dick does, because sometimes even Babs and Alfred do.

That's not the kid that he's looking at now. This Jason is happy, and smart, and full of love that has not yet soured into grief. He hangs on Bruce's every word, trains until his hands bleed and his body gives out to perfect the moves Bruce teaches him. He looks at Bruce with stars in his eyes and he calls him dad.

And Damian can't help but think, that this is the perfect Robin. The perfect son. And if Jason - sweet, loving, strong, Jason - can be fired, can die and have his room locked away and his pictures torn down, can have his last memory as Robin be as A Good Soldier, how could the rest of them ever compete? What could Damian do to stand a chance?

Jason will never grow out of the shadow of Robin, like the rest of them did. As long as Bruce, and Dick, and Babs, and Alfred look at him and see a dead kid who came back wrong, he will never get to be anything else. He will not get to be looked at through who he is now without the shadow of a dead boy looming over him.

And the worst part? Jason is exactly the same person he was back then. Bitter, sure, angry, justifiably, but he is still the boy with too much love in his heart and righteous fury festering in his gut. He is exactly the same boy who threw himself in front of an explosion to save his mother.

(The lines between the mother that betrayed him and the father that disgraced him are so very blurred. Fire or blade or crowbars or fists it does not matter. It ends the same way it always does because Jason Todd always dies, in every universe, in every timeline, Jason dies and crawls out only to be killed again and again and again.)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good morning, Sleepyhead.

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[icewindandboringhorror]

On average, what is the total MONTHLY amount that you spend on dining out*?

*(This doesn't only count going out to restaurants, but also stuff like picking up fast food to bring home, getting a coffee on the way to work, getting a premade sandwich from a grocery store deli during lunch, buying a quick snack from a convenience store or food cart whilst walking somewhere, ordering a pizza or any other food to be delivered to your home, etc.)

*(If you often dine out in groups/as a household: calculate and divide the costs so that you get a Per Person average. This is for YOU individually, NOT the total household/group costs)

(I'm sure polls similar to this have been made before (very common topic), I just haven't personally seen one that I can remember, so, I was curious to do my own! I was discussing this with a group of people today and it was very interesting to see how widely the number varied between individuals. :0c )

(Reblog for bigger sample size if you can, and feel free to explain your answer in tags if there's anything extra to add!)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

weeee more fantasy au doodles

[cosmicdreamgrl]

hoseok x outro: ego [ 𝖼𝗋: 𝗇𝖺𝗆𝗎𝗌𝗉𝗋𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗌𝖾𝖽 ]

[crowiin]

read the ace novel now. go

[reminiscentrainclouds]

Daily yttd art day 19. Just a quick sketch of Nao because I spent most of the "free time" I had today trying to finish an art project for class that was fighting me at every turn and didn't even turn out good. But at the end of the day, at least there are Characters to draw.

[grissomesque]

Literally: stayin' alive

Music Matters: bonus round insp. @cavemhm

[ryoalouette]

Turns out I'm not quite done with DPxDC HIVE Academy

So like.

I'm legit wondering what kind of university would even have a course on afterlife or ghosts to study scientifically when what we got be myths and theories and all that stuff. (How tf do one even vivisect ghost, study their behavior when there's not even a body(?) and so on- not to mention that not everyone has the belief that Ghost Are Evil and all that-) But then a tot came to me: an extension of HIVE. Or maybe a Proto-HIVE. HIVE Uni though, definitely.

The (not so secretly) villain school WOULD DEFINITELY give this dubious three mad scientist kids some funds to go crazy. Also reason why none of the government call of them driving atrociously went through. Or CPS. Or lab safety and so on and so forth.

They're all protected by this nifty thing called HIVE graduates! :D

[perlukafarinn]

took me until halfway through my masters but i finally managed to work kirk and spock being gay for each other into one of my essays

[sixth-light]

seeing a bit of Discourse pass my dash about how 'realistic' Sokka's sexism in both Original Flavour ATLA and the new Netflix version is, and I'm not actually here to talk about that, what I'm here to talk about is: how 'realistic' you think any depiction of sexism is depends ENTIRELY on your cultural background and life experiences.

I could talk about what my experiences say constitutes 'realistic' expressions of sexism by an otherwise well-intentioned teenage boy who has grown up in a sexist culture, but...am I the target audience for either version of that story? No! I was too old the first time around, besides not being American, and I'm neither nostalgic for my childhood show now nor do I have children old enough to be its audience (also: still not American).

None of which is to say that experiences of sexism can't translate at all cross-culturally. But I do think, quite emphatically, that it's impossible to have a meaningful conversation about the realism of any fictional depiction of something like sexism without taking into account who both the audience and author(s) of the work are, because the possibilities for what constitutes 'real' are many and varied. For fiction set in the 'real world', you can at least discuss the real-world setting and people's experiences of it. This is not possible for secondary-world SFF settings, so authorial and audience context is all we've got. And without it you get a hell of a lot of people talking past each other. See also: a multitude of other heavily culturally contextual experiences.

[jq37]

What is it that the Rat Grinders actually want exactly? Or at least, what does Kipperlilly want since she's the one we know the most about.

At the top of the season it seemed like she wanted to Be The Best at school and Be Recognized in a very Tracy Flick/Sara Berry kind of way and was just going to crazy lengths to get there because this is a world where you help a dragon kidnap girls so you can be Prom Queen and life goes on. But now we know that the Rat Grinders are a part of Porter's larger plan and one of the major steps of that plan is completely abolishing Aguefort as an institution.

It's clear what Porter gets out of this. He gets to be a god and he gets to continue his imperialistic family legacy. And I would maybe get what Kipperlilly would get out of this is she were the Cleric/Paladin of the plan. She'd get to be the new god's champion, like she was gushing to Lucy. That's maybe worth something to an achievement hunting, Type A individual.

But she's not gonna get to be the best student at Aguefort if Aguefort doesn't exist anymore. Hell, Elmville won't really exist anymore. Is Porter planning on opening a new Adventuring School in Rage Elmville and she gets to be the god Principal's pet? Does she think he's gonna make things "fair" for her somehow? How? Retroactively killing her parents? Does she want to use the powers she cheesed from the easy XP he drip fed her to be a renown adventurer? Kinda hard to pull that off when everyone knows you were part of the plan that doomed the town. Maybe she thought they were going to get away with it without being implicated? Does she literally not want anything other than a chance to kill the Bad Kids? Or even pettier, to just to be stronger than Riz? Is that worth it to her? To damn the whole town just so she can say that she beat Riz once? Did she want something concrete at one point but at this point she's just lost in the sauce and doing whatever the next task is without knowing what she'd even do with a victory if she got it? Did she already get what she wanted in the free XP and now she's just paying her end of the bargain?

I'm just very unsure about what her version of a happy ending is here.

[chemblrish]

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[larsnicklas]

ARSHDEEP BAINS ✧ 240220 My dad was here, so that means the world to me. [...] He was a little emotional, had a little bit of water in his eyes. That's every kid's dream, to make their dad proud.

[call-me-copycat]

I just need to be told "You Can Do It" right now.