#it's sort of tied to those things

[wanderingmind867]

Bruce's Uncle Phillip was an eccentric sort of man, a rich man who hated the big city lifestyle and wanted to get away from it all. So shortly after adopting Bruce, the three person family unit temporarily moved to Smallville, Kansas. To get away from it all and escape the trauma of Gotham. It was here that Bruce Wayne first met Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor and some others.

For a few months, Bruce stayed in Smallville. Him and Clark became good friends. For a brief time, Bruce even ended up Superboy's sidekick as the Flying Fox. Bruce never learned Clark was Superboy, and Clark never learned Bruce was the Flying Fox. They couldn't learn each other's secrets, because Bruce moved away from Smallville a few months after he invented the Flying Fox identity. Uncle Phillip was bored of small town life, so he chose to move the family back to Blüdhaven. He grew homesick, and he realized that small town living just wasn't something he could make work. So Bruce lost a friend in Clark Kent. Although they would eventually reconnect. One day…

In any case, Bruce moved back to Blüdhaven. Blüdhaven ends up being where Bruce spends most of his childhood. It's here that he decides to become Batman, and here that he learns Mrs. Chilton's son was the person who killed his parents (although he still managed to forgive her). Blüdhaven was where Bruce began dedicating himself to the ideals that would go on to define his future life. And on the whole, it was home to a relatively peaceful childhood for him. He still keeps in touch with Uncle Phillip and Mrs. Chilton to this day. Just because they're family to him. So his childhood after Smallville was fairly unremarkable, at least until he turned 17 or 18.

When he turned 17 or 18, Bruce moved away from Blüdhaven to go to Gotham University. Bruce began studying to be a law enforcement officer there. His professors taught him everything he needed to know about forensic science, non lethal combat training, and all the other fine arts of criminology. At Gotham U, Bruce also met two new friends (who helped fill the void in his heart since leaving Smallville years ago): Harvey Dent and Ethan Bennett. Ethan was also studying to be a Detective, and Harvey was training to be a lawyer. Together, these three became best friends, infamous on campus for their academic achievements.

Shortly after graduating from university, though, Bruce took on the identity of the Batman. He became a nightly presence in Gotham City, a vigilante either helping the cops or making them look ineffective, depending on who you asked. But either way: Batman had arrived in Gotham. And he has here to stay. Fighting against Falcone and the other mobs in Gotham, Batman had inadvertently drawn the ire of the Court of Owls (led by Carmine Falcone). But that's a story that won't be resolved for a little while yet. For now, we leave the story of Bruce Wayne here. In the next part of his life's story, we meet Robin I (Dick Grayson), and Alfred re-enters the fold.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"Everything went wrong after David Bowie died" "everything went wrong after the Reformation"

Me, whose Metaphysics studies and medievalist interests have been heavily shaped by Dominicans: everything went wrong after Ockham et al. sustained the primacy of Will before Good in the nature of God.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

hiii cool drawing person!! I uh saw that you kind of do requests? So I was wondering if I could request a little doodle of Yesod hugging Netzach.. I feel like Netzach goes through so much hell that he'd need that, and Yesod would like to give affection to someone considering his uh. . . prior need to delete a bunch of information and pretend that no one who died existed you know ? Plus snake.. haha good at squeezing. and he's chest height, how stupid <3 thank you so much for making so many people's days with your art and your thoughts oh my god your thoughts. i love how you dissect these little freaks 🥺

hi neat anonymous sender!! thank you so much for your words!!! im so glad that i can bring some sort of joy and happiness even if it is small. and that my thoughts and writings are well received still. i am still in a bit of a shock that people like and read them even with the passing time. . . i hope youre okay with these doodles! thank you for sending this in

[sciderman]

I swear I have read your big post regarding Peter Parker's neurodivergence and why it is best to avoid labelling him, but he definitely has a weird brain

Can't find it and feel kinda sad about it cuz I deeply related to it

i know exactly which post you're talking about and i can't find it either! i've raked through my archive, and it's just - nowhere to be seen. i think tumblr eated it (it happens.)

really, tumblr's search functionality is so so useless, i don't know what to tell you. there are plenty of keywords i can search to find it that post, but the search functionality actually just does not work!

undiagnosed audhd-addled peter parker, my darling, my light, my life, my everything.

i think peter parker's such an interesting creature to write, because a lot of people will point to a certain behaviour about him and say "this is an autistic thing, right?" but a lot of those behaviours are actually, in my head, tied to certain traumas in peter's life too.

people say "oh, the food thing, peter's a picky eater because he's autistic" and yes, absolutely. but also it's tied to his trauma with his parents.

peter gets overstimulated, and yes, it's an autism thing, but also he was bitten by a radioactive spider and his senses are dialled to 11.

it's a similar case i've found for myself, too – where a lot of friends i have kind of diagnose me because i have autistic traits, but actually - i'm hesitant to claim the label or pursue diagnosis because, actually, i know where these certain behaviours come from, and they come from certain traumas. there are events i can pinpoint in my life and say "yep. that's where this behaviour comes from."

so - i think there's a lot of overlap between trauma and autistic traits. the brain is very complex! i think the reason for that overlap is maybe as simple as the fact that people with autism and people with trauma are both doing the same thing - developing behaviours to protect themselves or soothe themselves. so - i think it's nice to be able to see a character like peter parker, who may or may not be autistic, but recognise behaviours in him and see yourself in him.

people who go undiagnosed for whatever reason - people who are really good at masking - so good, in fact, that they have no idea they might be on the spectrum - everyone and anyone at all can look at peter parker and recognise themselves. because i think we discredit the thought that every single brain does the same thing! develops certain behaviours in order to survive. every brain has that same software - we've just all been faced with different hardships that we need to overcome, and that's were all the differences come in.

autism is a spectrum, i guess - everyone falls into it to some degree. and i think events in your life probably push you along on it. but i don't know, i didn't study brain science. probably what i'm saying is very stupid and uninformed. of course there's brain chemistry involved. but i know people in my life living with autism and certain events in their life have exacerbated certain behaviours or made coping with it a lot more difficult. so maybe trauma is a catalyst.

[dafpork]

dafpork is like a modern day speakeasy to me because everyone comes in like it’s forbidden but since it’s the modern day it’s perfectly normal. Little secret club

LMAO YES!!! THIS IS A REALLY GOOD ANALOGY.. AND SEE IT'S SO FUNNY because i'm like I DON'T WANT IT TO BE FORBIDDEN... i'm such an accidental hypocrite in that regard because i'm like "i want more people to talk about them i want people to be loud and proud it makes me sad to hear that people might have been initially embarrassed to ship them there's so much to love :(((( anyway here's my SHITTY ART of these people i HATE i'm so EMBARRASSED thanks for putting up with me in my SHAME CORNER UGH i'm so EMBARRASSED they're so EMBARRASSING i SUCK they SUCK it all SUCKS" LOL and i do mean it in a joking manner... mostly... but i'm kind of now at the point where i'm like. Okay well you're going to have to put in some more legwork if you want people to talk about them. (but, again, just the fact that people talk about and support them enough is so great! it's so weird and wonderful to me that people are calling it on dafpork on platforms other than this one, people who may not know i exist... it's cool hearing a term you and your friend came up with in a private discord be used, it shows how much growth there HAS been since there really used to be nothing!)

a dafpork speakeasy sounds so cool though oh my god can you imagine Porky and Daffy themed cocktails...............

COME JOIN US AT THE DAFPORK SPEAKEASY. which, you are not supposed to advertise that a speakeasy is a speakeasy. but it's subversive. like Daffy. or something. this is your sign to play pig and duck with us. yes you

[cerealmonster15]

I love that he’s wearing hair clips but his bangs are still in his face lolol I’ve been there brother 🙏

[smile-files]

ernest's plot was executed MUCH better in the anime, in my opinion, and that's largely because in this version of the story he didn't have it out for the seven dragons from the get-go. he just "knew" someone had betrayed his grandfather and his family, and wanted to find out who. he only learned of the seven dragons' involvement much later on, after already having lived most of his life: including attending gressenheller, becoming kat's assistant, and helping the seven dragons during investigations.

one of my gripes with the version of his story in the game is that he's supposedly had this specific, burning hatred for the seven dragons his entire life, but this somehow doesn't affect his actions at all until the very moment he enacts his revenge plot on them - which is ridiculous, whether or not ernest was so single-minded about it or not! it's much more plausible in this version, where his desire for revenge was always somewhat nebulous, as he didn't yet know who to blame for his family's plight: that anger was strong enough to push him forward, but not so precisely focused into hatred that it should be odd for him to reasonably live life normally outside of it. it makes more sense in this scenario that his promise to his mother should channel primarily into his becoming independent, rather than actually getting revenge, as he spent most of his life not even knowing who to get revenge on; in the meantime of not being able to fulfill the latter half of the promise, why not work on the former?

anyway, in terms of these specific screenshots... i don't think the game specifically described ernest as a "weak" boy, but that's how i always interpreted him to have been: lacking his own will and dependent on others for direction, particularly family members like his mother. after all, this all was a promise to her... and for all of ernest's growth as a person, you can see how many of his childhood weaknesses have carried over into adulthood: among other things, he's eager to assist katrielle to the point of being servile to her, and notably she's a very passionate, bold, and kind person herself. ernest is more than happy to be told what to do, when the person directing him is strong and makes him feel safe! aside from having a crush on her, he likely admires her on a personal level... because she's brave, which he's always found difficult to be himself.

something which i'll never forgive the anime for, though, is paralleling ernest to emmy in the end: having him wish to leave katrielle's side as her assistant out of a feeling of guilt. that just breaks my heart! they didn't need to do that to me! fortunately, though, kat comes by with more tasks for ernest to help with, and he returns to her side... some things never change, it seems!

[simcardiac-arrested]

zavijava info PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! PLEASEEEEE ZAVIJAVA COME HOME ... PLEASE .... umm um um ill tell you about umm . tma au im making for nastya if u tell me about her .PLEASE!!!!!!!

so she is definitely a star of some kind. i mean she is an angel but in that story in particular The Stars are kind of angels. like they’re otherworldly beings and they jus kinda hang out. cosmically. it’s a different dimension separated from the human one but like, obviously stars still exist for humans, they just don’t do anything crazy because the rules of the world dictate that their realities shouldn’t interact. angels can observe the other world from far up above yet they still exist on a different level. But tbh zavijava had never enjoyed the otherworldly ethereal whatever lifestyle—she just didn’t feel like she fit in there. she is a #1 humans fan though so she knows that’s where she’d fit in. so she does just that. she fits in perfectly :) and normally :) yay :)

[kremechihihi]

FUTURISMO ⚡️⚡️⚡️

buwan ng wika already passd but i still wanted 2 draw sum futurism in modernized filipiñana garb 4 funs

[marimeeko]

Random headcanon of mine (context, I am a multishipper and did like KiriBaku in the early seasons;it has since obvs taken a back seat for bkdk):

Katsuki and Kirishima dated for a short time....if you want to call it dating. (They're both young, and it's their first situationship, not to mention they're both figuring out where they might stand on the queer spectrum. They obvs don't date deeply or for long, only kiss maybe once or twice. If that's even something Katsuki would want in an early relationship at age 15, troubled as he is.)

It's in that Era of the first movie, OF COURSE. LOL.

Obviously, though, their school work starts to take first priority for both of them as well as the LOV targeting them all the time, not to mention whatever Katsuki starts to have going on with Izuku.

They remain friends but naturally fall out of "dating". They're both ok with it.

[ciderjacks]

argh. This comic writing is taking me way longer than usual. I keep editing things and it doesn’t feel right.

[blyghthound]

i am

so slep

[captain-danwilds]

My personal life is in chaos right now and for the most part I’m only considering happy or hopeful media. I assumed TGR would easily fall into the hopeful camp because Jean’s healing is the most important thing (or that my own excitement might cancel out any other requirements I had) but I’m not even a chapter in and I may need to reevaluate. Can someone who’s read the book give me some non-spoiler/limited spoiler insight into the hopefulness vibe? Does it end on a good note for Jean and Jeremy? Is the angst mostly working through old shit or is new trauma being accumulated? (I am not opposed to learning about new traumatic events that happened in the past, but want a handle on whether focus is healing/growth or in the thick of it emotional turmoil)

[windydrawallday]

Someone asked for this feathered airhead so, during this week I'll try to work on an infodump for him 🦅

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Congratulations, Kane! You've successfully determined a grocery store was from the UK by looking at one small section of the shelf and only zooming in and looking for the currency symbol on the price tags after you figured it was from the UK.

[peapod20001]

Hi hello. Why am I so good at making complimentary character designs???