btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again
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Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.
People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"
Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.
I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.
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DC x DP Prompt: Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not)
Was reading Twincognito on AO3 when I stumbled across this gem again:
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" “Danny, Tim. I was just…checking in. Is everything alright?” Curse his inability to make meaningful conversation when it wasn’t a life or death situation.
They glanced at each other and shrugged.
Then Danny hauled himself out of the bed and walked over to Bruce.
Bruce tried not to let too much excitement show on his face. "
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Now I really want to read a story where Bruce adopts Danny post Meta trafficking and is being his usual emotionally constipated self. His kids keep getting mad at him because he's treating their new meta brother who was trafficked poorly (generally being stilted in conversation with him, walking away hurriedly mid-conversation, avoiding Danny when he's feeling really awkward, etc). They think Bruce is discriminating against Danny for being a civilian, meta, dealer's pick, but really it's just Bruce being horribly socially awkward. Danny knows this because of ghost empathy and find the whole thing hilarious. The whole thing comes to a head with the Bat Kids staging an intervention in the Bat Cave.
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I just love how the difference between these images SO encapsulates the difference in vibe between SNW and TOS.
I’m genuinely sorry, glistening-tits-buff-Spock-with-manly-sleek-interior-design-choices-and-scantily-clad-bethrothed-in-background-who-you-rather-explicitly-raw-and-cheat-on, you could only attain the level of unadulterated cunt that is TOS Spock and his weird campy artifact-filled bedroom in your DREAMS.
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honestly yeah, fiber arts is magic. you cast spell of warm gloves, spell of nice hat, spell of stuffed animal.
material component: yarn
wand: single hooked wand or double pointed wands, depending on caster's preference
mechanical component: specific motions repeated in a particular pattern
time component: a while
look seriously the first step in a knitting recipe is "cast on", and then it's a bunch of letters and numbers incomprehensible to anyone not versed in the arcane art. that's a spellbook. yes it's a book of knitting patterns but also. it's a spell book.
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setting prompts ˗ˏˋ ꒰ 🕊️ ꒱
¹⁾ a rural gas station in the middle of the night
²⁾ the last room at a drive-in motel in the small hours of the morning
³⁾ a cold, draughty church on a thursday night
⁴⁾ a stranger’s bedroom at noon
⁵⁾ a window seat on a red-eye flight during a storm
⁶⁾ a hospital waiting room with only one other person in it
⁷⁾ a sleeper train eight hours from its destination
⁸⁾ the first night in a new house, alone
⁹⁾ the steps of a wedding chapel in the rain
¹⁰⁾ a dingy truck stop after ten hours on the road
¹¹⁾ a divorce attorney’s office on valentine’s day
¹²⁾ the beach at ten on a monday morning
¹³⁾ a police station in a foreign country
¹⁴⁾ a coffee shop at two in the morning
¹⁵⁾ a concert venue, hours after the band’s set has finished
¹⁶⁾ a boat miles from land in any direction
¹⁷⁾ the third highest floor in a skyscraper
¹⁸⁾ the end of the line at a b-list movie star’s meet-and-greet
¹⁹⁾ a bar an hour after last call
²⁰⁾ an overgrown garden in a heatwave
²¹⁾ a car park lit only by streetlamps
²²⁾ a film set two days from the end of production
²³⁾ a graveyard in spring
²⁴⁾ the lap of someone who’s been gone for too long
²⁵⁾ a kitchen counter whilst dinner’s being made
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