#keen converses

[kindlingkeen]

It kills me that rhato has Jason having spent all this time in the mountains with the all caste meditating and working through his inner conflicts and he winds up able to manifest his soul into swords that kill true evil and then he hardly uses them. Also what is true evil? Since it is his soul is it based on his understanding of evil? If so then DC let my boy kill the joker with his soul swords! You owe him one after like 40 years of classism and victim blaming and disrespect!

Friend, I’m afraid you and I are going to be waiting a looooong time for dc to do right by Jason. Pretty sure the world economy will be collapsing in the face of a second viral apocalypse, and dc will still be happily publishing bullshit dragging Jay through the mud.

I totally agree, the all blades are such a missed opportunity. I love the idea of Jason ‘Robin gives me magic’ Todd as Red ‘I’m actually fucking magic’ Hood. And they would totally shish kabob the joker. He’s true evil by anyone’s definition.

In fact, given the joker’s cockroach like tendency to come back from just about anything, seems like magic soul swords are just the thing to kill him dead for good. And is it really murder if it’s done with magic soul swords? Sounds like divine intervention to me. Batman can’t throw you in Arkham for carrying out spiritual destiny, right? Hmm … this is sounding more and more like a good fic prompt 👀

Thanks for the ask, anon!! 💙

🪽🔥🗡️🤡☠️

[kindlingkeen]

Hey that’s me! Thanks, buddy! 🥰 I wish you good sleep soon!

I haven’t read pain is just pain entering the body yet, looking forward to it!

ur post x100. so desperate for SOMETHING to look at i went to the for you tab. lasted 2 minutes before deciding if i'm going to be looking at shit content anyways i might as well get it from instagram, at least then i won't be forced to read the worst character takes that have ever cursed my eyes.

…unfortunately instagram sucks ASS. got any fic recs for a fellow desperate insomniac, Rot? they would be GREATLY appreciated

real. my whole dash rn is just me and the the for you (cursed) is just posts I've already seen??? often things mutuals are reblogging from me??

i honestly don't know what I've been reading lately. mostly going through old bookmarks. here are some of the things I go back to and reread though

the neighborhood watch by alexaaffect (anything by them, really)

both harm reduction and echoes of future past by orangesky37 (my beloved @kindlingkeen here on tumblr) are favorites of mine

pain is just pain entering the body by femme_morte (@theeclecticenquirer here on tumblr) is fun if you like things that have medical things going on and lets ya test how much you learned watching house md and greys anatomy

lowkey I haven't had the attention span to read things lately (my job is reading things and I Have Not been getting my work done :D) I am suffering

[firelise]

you know...kinda like...i don't know

brothers?

perhaps

[miriadalia]

I love you Alicia, thank you for this content 😍💞

[justhereforthecupcakes]

I can’t believe I’m going to defend Johnny Lawrence, and JJ&H by default…

In regards to Johnny being firmly against Robby going to trade school…

There’s been a lot of posts/conversations about this scene.

So let me preface this by saying Classism is real, it has real negative effects and real negative long-lasting impacts on people, the economy, etc.

No one’s denying this.

So let’s address two things about Classism.

One: Classism devalues. Classism is meant to devalue. It devalues people by their status — which includes their job status.

Two: Classism also divides. Classism ALSO includes utilizing division by deterring certain people from college because ‘well it’s not a realistic goal.’ … What a coincidence that seems to be geared towards minorities (ie people who are from low-income households, POC, neurodivergent.) Because they just don’t deserve to be there.

Johnny is not the most educated guy in the world, and he doesn’t have the most depth; he certainly wouldn’t be considered knowledgeable about social issues and things outside of his own existence (ie being a white straight cisgender dude bro).

He lacks self-awareness and how his words/actions affect other people.

Again, no one who has been paying attention disputes this.

He DOES know what it’s like be told you’re not good enough for something.

And it’s important to acknowledge where he is coming from.

Like I said, he’s not educated (no pun intended). He doesn’t understand the classism involved, the way it works…

He doesn’t know how it affected it him — He just knows it affected him.

Like the saying goes, people don’t always remember what you did, but they remember how you made them feel.

He remembers being devalued in those jobs. He saw that brochure, saw himself, and he remembered how much a loser he felt like… how aimless he was… being trapped in a negative cycle…

Now. He has a history of blaming the wrong things… and people (cough Daniel LaRusso cough)… for his circumstances.

Clearly, there’s more to this than his job status… like his performance, his (lack of) customer service skills, his (very bad) attitude.

All he knows is he doesn’t want that for his son. He’s already failed him enough as it is. As misguided and classist as it appears, he wants better for Robby and he wants to do better by Robby.

He was acting on his feelings, feelings he lacks the education to fully understand and appreciate.

And yet they are just as valid.

Where they come from is valid.

His classism isn’t rooted in superiority, he’s not being elitist. That is not what he said.

His response is rooted in fear and personal negative experiences — those experiences being on the wrong side of classism and gatekeeping… being subjected to classism.

Him being “rich boy” once upon a time doesn’t negate what he’s gone through.

(Also I don’t remember the “not everyone wants to go to college” crowd shitting on Daniel for assuming Sam wanted to go to college… in fact I remember people defending it saying he wants better for her, look what he went through.”)

And that’s an important distinction that needs to be acknowledged.

And don’t get it twisted, HOW he expressed those feelings was a problem — And there was a HUGE golden opportunity to address this and address the root of this mentality that was clearly ignored in CK (so so many opportunities lost in this show).

Subsequently WE need to be careful about missing the opportunity to discuss what’s not being said.

Because this also needs to be talked about if we really want to address issues like this.

Edit: and btw. My father was one of those kids. He had the highest marks in his class.

He was also one of the few brown kids in a PWS.

His school counselors graciously took him aside to tell him “he was smart enough he could go to community college.”

Never mind that they encouraged his white peers that he had outperformed to go to University.

And they used the same excuses:

We’re just being realistic — it’s expensive… blah blah blah blah… There’s nothing wrong with trade school…

Of course there isn’t.

But that’s not why they said it.

Sure there’s nothing wrong with learning a trade. But they know they’re not going to be as economically successful as a University grad with a white collar job.

That’s why they said it.

Classism and racism work this way too.

By discouraging you from finding your potential in well paying fields so that with rich kids don’t have competition.

Even the most well meaning counselors will tell you “don’t bother because it’s not realistic.” They speak from internalized classism brought on by personal experience.

The focus is supposed to be on potential. You are not supposed to steer someone away from their potential and use the excuse “oh I’m just trying to be realistic… gosh there’s nothing wrong with THIS path…”

The question is: Is this the right path for them and their potential?

If your focus is on “being realistic” and not their potential, then you have utterly failed as a counselor and adult.

It’s just another avenue in which classism sustains itself.

Johnny seems to be the only one to recognize this, and called the counselor out. As former rich boy, he knows how things operate.

Yes he squandered many an opportunity, but Robby wasn’t even given these opportunities. That’s where his issue lies, and he’s not wrong.

That there is much to discuss and dissect about it, and address, doesn’t make him wrong.

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

eli should've been allowed to be mad at robby about the shaving thing for longer than five minutes, in this essay i will-

[inversionimpulse]

one of the most arbitrary Touhou headcanons that I'm really attached to is that Reimu isn't actually wajin at all. I came up with a really great and clever explanation of why I felt it was actually really important, but unfortunately it was during a long transit ride and I forgot it as soon as I left the train. I don't know, something about how the most emblematic person in the paradise for the outcasts should be from a minority people herself... or something.

Usually I'm most passionate about it in the form of Okinawan Reimu, but lately I've been thinking about the Hakurei clan being naturalized Korean immigrants like the Soga clan. Or maybe Indian? But with the Hakurei Shrine's komainu wearing a kariyushi shirt, Okinawan feels most natural to me.

[mariana-oconnor]

So glad I took Minsc back to the Guildhall. His conversation with Nine-fingers is hilarious. The look on Nine-fingers' face. The confusion. The horror. The dawning realisation that no, this is not a joke.

[dracvlavra]

holding out hope for sotr to pick up (they’re currently rehearsing for the interviews, so still very early in the book) but the book feels so off and i can’t really explain it

[goldensunset]

i could wager a guess

[fictionadventurer]

All the tour groups in Springfield should be very proud of me for how well I refrained from sharing all my fascinating Lincoln facts.

[kindlingkeen]

not ‘baby jason was a sweet little cherub, way easier to deal with than his predecessor’ or ‘baby jason was an unhinged murderchild imitating the violence he viewed as normal due to his poverty’ but rather ‘baby jason was a snarky, clever, extremely eager to please kid and when he was triggered he fought with everything he had to protect himself and others’

🤨 Did you sneak a peak at the outline for my baby Blue Jay AU that I keep pretending doesn’t exist, anon? Seems like you and I are on the same wavelength. Baby jason was a snarky, clever, extremely eager to please kid and when he was triggered he fought with everything he had to protect himself and others is exactly how I think of the little guy.

Canon actually supports this version of him. In fandom, the tire theft origin story gets a lot of attention, but the canon details of what came after are so important. After Bruce gets his tires back, he makes a deal with Jason not to turn him over to the cops or social workers if he goes to stay at Ma Gunn’s School for Boys (Batman #410).

Turns out the school is a front for criminal activity.

Jason nopes right outta there and gets picked up by Bruce again for boosting tires (Batman #411).

Jason tells Batman about a plan to steal from the museum. Then Jason shows up to foil the crime himself because he didn’t think Batman believed him. It’s after this that Bruce takes him home.

Bruce likes to talk about how he tried to put Jason on the right path, but really Jason’s heart was already there to begin with.

[meringuejellyfish]

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

does the tone of this succinct email suggest my academic advisor is annoyed with me or is it just that I put off eating lunch for 3 hours? and other fun games to play

[oh-gh0st]

is it weird to feel bad for not wanting to drink alcohol

[titsthedamnseason]

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again but in spirit of my new url … LESBIANS LOVE FARROW KEENE!