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[mainalias]

thinking about compiling screenshots of golden/silver age batman exclusively calling dick his ward to combat the allegations that it was “initially a father-child relationship”

[front-facing-pokemon]

[mikakuna]

the way people care more about jason fighting tim than like any other rogue fighting tim during his robin run is...!

"they're brothers! jason is so horrible to attack his little brother."

aside from the obvious twinkification of tim, stop pushing the family narrative on two people who did not see each other as siblings at that moment.

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[soaps-mohawk]

Is it bad that I don’t want to give birth? Like, I told some of my friends and family that I don’t want to give birth and they told me that I’d change my mind and I told them I wouldn’t and they get mad at me. I told them that I’d adopt kids instead to give them a home and living family but they say that doesn’t matter and count because they won’t be biological.

That's not bad at all!! I know a lot of people that feel the same way. Hell, I feel the same way. I don't want to give birth and I'm very against having children. I've known that pretty much my whole life since I was old enough to conceptualize children and parenthood (very young as a woman growing up in America), and I was always told I'd change my mind someday.

Well, it's been about 20 years and I haven't changed my mind at all. There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. The constant societal pressure that every generation has gone through of "you have to have children otherwise your life is meaningless" has very much been challenged as of late with plenty of people realizing your life doesn't end as soon as you're old enough to have children. A lot of those people pushing that narrative shouldn't have had kids in the first place. The world would probably be a lot better off if people that didn't want kids but were pressured into it by society just hadn't given into that pressure.

There's plenty of neglected, abandoned children, and children in foster care that deserve love and support. So yeah, if you don't want to give birth, then there's nothing to feel bad about. You've made that decision and anyone that tries to tell you otherwise is only recycling the same societal pressures that probably made them have children they didn't want.

And if anyone says adopted or fostered children don't count, then kindly say fuck them and don't speak to them again. Same with people that say IVF or children born of surrogates. Just because you didn't give birth to your child no matter the reason, that doesn't make them "not your child." Hell I know there's people out there that say C-sections aren't "giving birth" because it wasn't natural.

Yeah, fuck those people and do what you want. It's your body, it's your life and they can either get over it or get out of your life 🤷

[steloiv]

it baffles me how much the civil war could have been resolved if tony were a little more honest and steve a little more trusting...

it's been revealed in the What If: Civil War comic that the tiniest instance of Tony telling the truth to Steve during their meetup would have been the ripple that would cascade monumentally and would've been tantamount to Steve trusting Tony.

and it's so surreal to me (and at the same time makes absolutely perfect sense) that what Tony was being honest to Cap about was the fact that he (Tony) had uncertainties about the Registration Act and needed Steve's help to make sure that he was on the right track. Tony had put on the effort to ask Steve for help.

i think it deserves to be given emphasis: Tony Stark asking for guidance? Tony Stark unsure of a decision he's already made?

this is where it all comes together. up until then, Steve was performing and fighting under the assumption that Tony was stone-cold confident and certain that the Registration Act should be pushed through. Steve knows how Tony is once he's already made a decision: it's nearly impossible for him to change his mind.

in fact, Steve mentions this during their secret meetup before the final battle happened:

Steve's anger comes from the fact that Tony won't ever change his mind about it, and there's no other way this could be fixed other than oppose Tony. to Steve, there's only one correct or wrong way to do this, and as far as he knows, the Registration Act strips them from their freedom by a singular entity which is fatally wrong.

but Tony is acting on the motivation that even though he knows there is a wrong on the Registration Act, the alternative solution to it is just the worse. Tony is a pragmatic person, but he's also smart. the wise way to do this was to work on the inside.

it's hard for Steve to realize this himself, so Tony knows that he needs to convince Steve to do it so that there would be no bloodshed.

it's been shown in Civil War: Iron Man that Tony had reservations about the Registration Act from the start. he doesn't know if he should be doing what he's doing and this uncertainty is eating him inside out.

if Tony had told Steve about this, if he had shown Steve that he wasn't nearly sure about this like he was with his past decisions, they could have worked things out.

but they didn't.

because, let's face it, Tony Stark is rarely honest. Tony has a lot of insecurities, and him being honest requires a huge level of trust and bond from the guy.

Steve would have been the perfect man for that description; he and Tony have been friends for quite a long time and they literally went through thick and thin with each other.

if Steve had trusted Tony a bit more, he wouldn't have betrayed Tony's trust to him and they might have took time to talk things through. if Steve hadn't been blinded by his anger and took a minute and put himself in Tony's shoes and understood things from Tony's perspective, he wouldn't have to be so distrustful to Tony.

it's so damn painful to think about how small instances like this could've been the key to a world with no civil war. they could have worked everything out!!! but it takes two to tango, and if either one of them was willing to meet things halfway, they could've avoided things spiraling downhill to a worse downhill.

like cmon, don't ever talk to me . the look tony gives cap and cap gives to tony is just . so painful i literally have no words. i'm grieving so hard on this two yall need to understand .

[c0rpsedemon]

oh yeah. the reason why i decided to reread tbhk (and thus it was able to hit me like a truck this time around) was actually not bc of mitsukou going canon but actually bc i maybe accidentally started a tbhk book club w my kids at work and wanted to check the contents of it justttt in case before i put the books in their hands

[joyfuladorable]

@elbisivni's you, alive now because someone loved you and @threestripeslider's odd man out say Pinoy Jones Family Rights and I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE!! 😤

Bonus doodles under the cut:

^^ Quick midnight doodles cuz my mind is a steel trap when it comes to unhinged sapphics and also was just Thinking about Story Stuff I wanna do at some point. (yes, I know a hockey goalie is a goaltender now but I didn't wanna go back in and change that)

^^ Had just finished reading OMO and felt no other course of action than to practice the Joneses so I could draw them in pinoy outfits uwu

OH! And if you're wondering: Casey's wearing a filipiniana gown and the lesbian flag-colored sash is called a sablay. Junior's wearing a barong tagalog.

[evilkitten3]

shigaraki is the funniest fucking character bc he starts off as some gamer manchild who just showed up to wreck shit. then he made friends and now i'm pretty sure he's the protagonist and the author just hasn't noticed it yet

[boilingrain]

If it wasn't for the fact that Warrior Cats is full of plotlines that weren't really thought out fully and/or had potential but went nowhere, I'd be a little surprised that nobody in Thunderclan during the Power of Three was looking at Ashfur and Jayfeather and going "hm..."

Squirrelflight briefly dated a gray cat with blue eyes and then later one of the kits the brought home and claimed were hers was gray with blue eyes and you're telling me nobody jumped to any conclusions and just accepted that all 3 of them were Brambleclaw's?

(Though tbf I haven't read TNP in a while but I think Squilf & Ash broke up before Lion, Holly & Jay would've been conceived by Leaf & Crow so maybe that's why nobody assumed things)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[aeolianblues]

pop stars aren't born in the 70s anymore like they used to be. These days they're born in a year uncomfortably close to my own which makes me clutch my chest and cry out

[dandyshucks]

part of me wants to (re)start up the indigenous selfship tag bc it seems to have died last year but also i do not feel like the right person to do that bc I'm still working to reconnect w my culture properly. also i missed saying anything about indigenous history month last month and augh I wish I'd been around for it properly to actually make art for it ;-; maybe I'll make some late art.... share some cultural things I've learned over the past couple years... draw Wardell with a sash and ribbon shirt perhaps,,,

[airbenderedacted]

deathstar shippers stop going out of ur way to tell me you hate dominator being a lesbian and that you’re homophobic asf challenge (impossible, apparently)

[eolewyn1010]

me, rewatching old Barbie movies to indulge my inner child, realizing it's queer polycules all over the place: Huh

[tomurakii]

I truly apologise but I've never found a character more irritating than Ruby Rocks. It is severely impacting my ability to watch a crown of candy because this bratty literally-the-embodiment-of-the-status-quo bitter bastard child won't stop sulking and being shitty to the only good surviving member of this royal bloodline (Saccharina).

The immediate Rocks family in general is so unsympathetic, I'm sorry but if you want me to feel bad over your personal growth journey you can't ALSO be a monarch who has absolute power over an entire nation-state. If you had literally the best education of everyone in your country and you're still an idiot I don't know what to tell you except that you're a resource hoarding pig who has not earned an iota of the power or luxury you have. They have SERVANTS and all they do is complain about going to class or doing their job. Hey if it sucks so bad demolish the state and redistribute your wealth <3 you won't <3