Dick in Gotham handling a hostage situation at a local university. Some villain crashed a party in the student apartments and has the whole building locked down. Dick is in there with Damian, and they finally make it to the floor where the bad guy is and they’re having this big tense stand off before the final fight…
and then one of the college students who this guy had huddled in the corner grabs a chair and just fucking clocks this guy. He hits him over the head so hard that the chair breaks and the guy COLLAPSES. Dick is like . Oh??
And then the student turns around (with a truly unhinged glint in his eye) and Dick recognizes him and realizes OH . Oh this is Tim’s boyfriend. That’s the crazy guy who recruited us to go beat up cultists with him. Yeah we didn’t even need to come he had that handled actually
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what's worse than the ambani wedding is the way the indian government bends over backwards to satisy anything those billionaire overlords need. you want us to convert the domestic airport near your venue to an international one? we'll do that overnight to accommodate all your foreign guests and their private jets. you want there to be no hassle on the mumbai roads during your wedding week? no issues! we'll make it a public holiday FUCK THE PEOPLE!! and on top of all this, it's the middle & upper class either not giving af or actually eating this shit up...... i mean..... as long as we keep being at the heel of these ppl and looking with awe at their bollywood bridgerton royal family-esque shenanigans, we're always going to suffer as a society oh my god. i wish we were more like the french honestly. we need something like the french revolution but in india.
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When stressed or tired, Pandora doesn't eat dinner but prepares for the night early. She slips her favourite pyjamas on, curls up in her bed, mutters to her little friends, and falls asleep. Only to wake up in the middle of the night, sit up, start crying and breaking down, scream and throw her pillow, sit in silence, watch the room she's in, then fall asleep. Only to pretend nothing happened the next morning, as if everyone didn't hear her.
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welsh remus guide pt.3
Third Lesson
Right then, lads. It’s alphabet time.
Often, when looking at Welsh place names, it can seem confusing and overwhelming for anyone who is unfamiliar with Welsh. Sometimes, the confusion comes from not realising that the names are in Welsh.
Visually, we use the Latin alphabet and so it’s easy to make the assumption that the Welsh alphabet is exactly the same as the English.
It is not, my dudes.
To begin with, the following letters do not exist:
K, Q, V, X, Z
Secondly, these are the vowels:
A, E, I, O, U, W, Y
(Occasionally H is also a vowel but I couldn’t tell you when or why??? I usually go off of vibes)
Next, are the double letters. They count to us as single letters and each make a unique sound:
CH, DD, FF, NG, LL, PH, RH, TH
NG as in thiNG
PH as in PHil
FF as in Fun
RH as in RHiannon
TH as in THat
Now comes the uh, more complicated sounds.
For those familiar with German words such as Nacht or the name Brecht, the Welsh CH is that same sound.
CH as in naCHt
DD is like a harder TH sound. It is NOT a D sound.
LL sounds like hissing. I genuinely don’t know how else to explain this. It straight up does not exist in majority of languages but there are some out there with the same sound (sometimes shown with a different letter).
To hear it and learn more here’s a better explanation.
This is a really fun video on the different accents but someone mentions the town Llanelli so it’s also a good example of the LL sound.
And so in full we have:
A. B. C. CH. D. DD. E. F. FF.
G. NG. H. I. J. L. LL. M. N. O.
P. PH. R. RH. S. T. TH. U. W. Y.
There’s no K because the C is always a hard C sound.
There’s no V because a single F is always a hard V sound.
J is a modern addition to help us with new modern words we’ve loaned from English. Such as Joke becoming Jôc.
G is always a hard guttural G sound.
Despite misconceptions, Welsh is actually vowel heavy and we tend to stretch vowels. If a letter has a little roof on it, like “ô” or “ŵ” then it’s an extended/longer sound.
This means, when speaking English, our vowels are more likely to be elongated.
Similar to the “r” in Spanish, the Welsh “r” is rolled and therefore many will still roll their Rs when speaking English.
For a reason I have yet to discover, despite H being perfectly clear and pronounced when speaking in Welsh, when we speak English, a lot of areas have a habit of dropping the H sound.
“Here” becomes “Ere” or “Yere”
I am guilty of this. Why do I do this? I genuinely can’t tell you.
For the reasons above, the following words sound stupidly similar to each other:
Ear
Year
Here
Hear
As with any language, understanding the basic sounds helps you understand the core of the accent.
In terms of character dynamics, I would take note that the “CH” and “LL” sounds along with our supposed “lack of vowels” is usually what the language is mocked for. Usually by English folk but other folks, including non-Welsh speaking Welsh folks are perfectly guilty of this mocking.
Fun fact: I didn’t realise W and Y weren’t vowels in the English language when I was a small child. So I really didn’t get why they thought there wasn’t any vowels in our place names.
Another thing to note is that the Welsh language and accents are very up and down. It’s not usually flat or monotone. A lot of people also describe them as melodic. Sing-songy even.
Colourful alphabet video with BSL
Shorter alphabet video
Note: I am not the collective consciousness of every Welsh person. My experience is not universal - especially when it comes to North Walian things. This is just meant to serve as a general guide. Hope this helps and good luck with your writing!
pt.4
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There's one thing I never believe.
Eclipse is a sociopath.
Because if so, he would never care about Earth, he would never feel this much bitter about how Lunar betrayed him to the point of bombing Lunar. He would never tag along with Puppet and all of her stupid shit and try to help revive Solar just because he wants to prove himself. (Or truthfully, tired of being alone.)
Eclipse is not a sociopath, because he still cares. His emotions still have more than 2 modes: angry and revenge.
He hides it behind the stupid sarcasm facade, behind the 'I don't need anyone' attitude.
Because he still feels bitter about how Moon leaves him and wants Moon back. Because he still feels bad after hitting Lunar and trying to check on him day by day because trapping Moon inside his head is leaking a lot of damage to Lunar. Because he still wants to connect with people, with Sun and Moon, and try to save Sun even leading to his death.
He is manipulative, yes, especially Eclipse v1, but it is only for survival, only because trapping inside Sun's head driving him crazy.
He is a sad, lonely, needy pathetic who has a lot of trauma and abandon issues, and saying it makes him a sociopath really downgrades all of the effort he makes for himself.
And truthfully, I see Eclipse as a baby who doesn't know how to deal with his emotions and snap out of the world, than a sociopath, who has already done by the world and sometimes try to takes advantage of it.
Because Eclipse is still a good person, deep down, and even if he tried to hide it or suck at express it, it is still his nature. A good caring person. He still cares, he cares too much about what the others think.
And the way he talks with Sun and earth recently, he also feels bad for hurting them. Which a avpd? Nah ah
Because Aspd (English is not my language) or sociopath is low or lacks empathy. They don't feel or feel very little guilt, or remorse. They do things due to their impulsiveness, and they lie because they can, because they think it is true. The hurting, manipulation of someone is partly only the bonus, and they sometimes do it even without any real purpose. (Do it for funsie)
It is usually created by trauma in childhood. (Born too, but it is a psychopath) It makes their emotions usually numb or dried out and they know what they do is wrong, but their needs are stronger than the morality they rarely uphold.
My friend is a sociopath. She is very nice and a good friend. But she also manipulates people a lot, and uses what she knows about these people to hurt them or just curious how it goes. She has a very low emotion, and she only feels briefly what the situation truly goes.
She almost kicked my classmates's puppy to death because it annoys her. She used to poke a knife in my throat for fun. (Well actually, it's kinda my fault. I have low empathy too and it's kinda fun to just push her.)
Anyway, my point is Eclipse is too caring and guilty to be a sociopath.
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