#unless it's actively dangerous

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

why are male spaces so deeply embarrassing

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: My Brother’s Ghost

So there are a bunch of fics where Danny and Damian are twins and Danny eventually has to go to Gotham or Damian/another bat interacts with Danny as ghost king. But I do you one better. Danny faked his death because of failing a mission/he actually died and his mother brought him back. (Or maybe he revived on his own after constant Lazarus exposure over time and knew he couldn’t go back). Anyways, Danny knew that he needed to go to Bruce Wayne in Gotham if he ever needed anything but only as a last resort as they would expect him to go there. So he’s been monitoring Bruce from afar and immediately knew when Damian joined the bats. He clocked him as the new Robin and started following his hero career more closely. He was content to watch his family from afar. Even after the accident. Then something happens where Robin was said to go missing and when no news showed up after a few days, Danny got worried so figured it couldn’t hurt to do a quick trip to Gotham.

He dresses in all black and a hood made using an old ninja Halloween costume. Not nearly as much protection as his old league uniform but with his ghost powers he doesn’t really need protection. Just anonymity. He goes to Gotham in phantom form, making sure all his white hair is carefully tucked in the black hood so only his green eyes remain. He uses his old assassin training and finds Robin drugged and captured in an old warehouse by the court of owls. Robin clearly isn’t thinking straight but Danny puts him in a simple choke hold to knock him unconscious anyways. Better safe than sorry. He quickly frees the boy and drops him off in an area he knows the other bats are searching. After watching to make sure Damian is safe and a bat finds him, he leaves.

Damian could barely remember his capture but he thought he saw a figure in black with glowing green eyes. He could have sworn the future was trying to kill him but…he woke up looking at another bat (or maybe even the manor). Did his family save him?

Meanwhile, Danny can’t stop thinking about Damian. Despite his assassin training, he was drugged and hurt. Danny thought his brother could handle himself. He thought he would be safe. But what if this happened again? What if the colony of bats wasn’t enough? So Danny couldn’t help the occasional visit to Gotham to make sure his twin was ok. Most of the time he didn’t do anything, just watched. Sometimes, though, there would be an instance where Damian got out of a dangerous situation and no one knew how. A building collapsed, Damian appeared unharmed outside. A goon was about to get a lucky shot? Somehow the bullet missed or the goon got taken out when no other bats were nearby. Fear gas? Damian faintly remembers warm hands hugging him as he struggled. And while he thought it was weird he heard his brother’s comforting voice when it should be a nightmare, he chalked it up to the fear gas anyways since there was no other explanation.

Yet every time there is a particularly dangerous encounter, he swears he sees the figure in black. Damian sees the figure more and more yet none of his family do. They swore to keep an eye out anyways in case. You never know. Sometimes the figure becomes more clear and Damian has tried to chase them but always loses them quickly. One time the chase lasted at least five minutes and Damian managed to corner the figure in an alleyway only for them to pass through the wall.

The bats suspect that this could either be meta abilities or magic. The funny thing is, there were no traces. No one sees the figure except Damian. No one hears them, and there is nothing to indicate their presence, not even footprints. It’s like they were never there and no matter how hard they try, there is no footage of the figure. Sometimes cameras glitch out and sometimes they only show Robin, sometimes neither or they seem to loop on themselves. So the bats are leaning towards Magic.

They call Constantine to give Damian a thorough check and he declares that Damian shows signs of interacting with a ghost. And that stumps everyone. A ghost? If it was a friendly specter like Deadman then he would help everyone, not just Damian. If it was hostile, it would never help Damian. So why is this ghost only focusing on the youngest bat and why? Is there even someone that would come back from the afterlife to help the demon brat, let alone have the will strong enough to manifest a ghost that can affect the living? Damian was a former assassin after all and he’s hardly the friendliest bat. So who would help him that has already died?

Throughout this, Damian is silent. Because there is one person he knows to have died that might do this. One person skilled enough to avoid the other bats and evade Damian during a chase. One person Damian would acknowledge as having a will stronger than his own. But something was wrong…because he was sure that that person didn’t have green eyes.

So the next time the figure shows himself Damian attacks. Not just a chase but an outright challenge. Hand to hand combat. And as Damian punches and kicks, the figure expertly parries each attack. And as the fight goes on, Damian watches. And he knows those moves. Those dodges. Those blocks. He can read this figure’s fighting stance like the back of his hand because he grew up with it.

And Damian knows without a shadow of a doubt as the figure disappears into he ground, that despite the changed eye color, the tan skin, the increased height, his brother’s ghost has come back to watch over him.

And for the first time in many years, Damian cries. That’s how the bats find him.

[prince-liest]

Shoutout (🔪) to whatever metaphysical force decided that the guy interrupting my set at the gym to ask for my number happened to do it while I was listening to Never Ever Getting Rid Of Me from the Waitress.

I want to say that he was a nice enough dude, but also, replies that did not dissuade this man:

Three sets left.

No, I'm actually not interested in men.

I don't date, actually.

I'm too busy to even really make friends, to be honest.

I don't like to give my number out to strangers.

I don't have Snapchat... I don't really do socials.

Haha, I don't think anyone in my generation really uses Facebook.

Oh, I only really use my work email.

No shade, you're an attractive dude, but I don't date.

Maybe if we see each other around again.

The answer that finally worked:

Sure, just tell me your email and I will write it down.

(This is, not coincidentally, the only answer that worked on the guy that I ignored when he catcalled before he then sat outside my work for two hours waiting for me to come out and then followed me several blocks to my bus stop.) (They do not take "no" for an answer, only a variation of "yes" that you plan to throw away as soon as they leave.)

[gunkbaby]

ik most of u dont agree with my ed tokyo ghoul takes and that’s fine. but there is something so validating about an almost entire cast of characters for whom eating is a task that inherently involves a lot of guilt and shame.

[achespink]

I think it’s so insane how . . scary aphrodite kids can truly be even if you don’t think it at first

[corfisers]

Do you think Doumeki will get out of the yakuza?

i think he'll be out by the end, one way or another. not necessary out of his own volition, but it's not like he's attached to being in the yakuza in general anyway. i keep thinking back to his conversation with kamiya where he says that he shouldn't expect him to get promoted (ch 38) and the fact that doumeki ultimately doesn't have any ambitions, the only reason he got in is to exist in the same space as yashiro. it's hard to tell for sure but i feel like he wasn't really trying to get a higher position, he just got promoted because of the incident with nikki. like, i don't think he actually cares where he is in the hierarchy? and now that yashiro's back in the picture things are getting really messy. tsunakawa already doesn't trust doumeki, kamiya is smart enough to know that something's up, there is potentially more going on with izumi too. idk, i'd be surprised if doumeki stays after everything plays out, and i'm getting the impression that he doesn't expect to stay either

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

randomly thinking about when they discharged me from the ward back in October. why did they discharge someone who their own records said was at moderate risk of suicide? I could have died. I don't really know how I got through that time, in truth. with the level of risk they assessed me as, why would you discharge someone??

[airanke]

I was shocked.

Okay technically it gave me this (putting under cut in case anyone has arachnophobia!):

The whole title is "spiders are eating snakes all over the world, and yeah, it's gruesome" 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

[deusluxuria]

not sure how many of y'all are familiar with "the cube" sci-fi movie (?i guess? or even a philosophical and social commentary thriller lol)(warning: there's a ton of ableism in it -- tho could also be considered social commentary on ableism since they treat a disabled person like garbage until he "serves a function"), but it's about basically a big windowless jail cube puzzle thing that people are stuck in.

some rooms in the cube have fatal traps, some are safe (you can't tell by looking at the rooms before entering because most of the rooms are motion-activated and such).

i think that'd be a really interesting scenario for a group of stand users to navigate because most stands can't create solid matter that's detectable by machines.

what stand users do you think would be the most interesting to see trying to escape that?

[fablepaint]

I’m curious as to how Serafine and Nico’s teenage years were, I feel like they would be fun to hang around with if they weren’t … You know,the way that they are in the comic

Missing out, cousin. Folks on the wrong side of the law can be some of the MOST fun to talk to.

[theskeletoninthegarden]

Did you know if you go to a place like Lowe's and buy a monstera, there could be multiple in that same pot? I learned this from a plant Tuber, remembered to check mine after buying it, and now I have four plants for the price of one. Four!

[cacw]

hi people who have seen the movie, maybe read the prequel book, do you think bruce would have ever made any attempt on his own life

[marsbotz]

OKAY SO LIKE. for the heist scene for meeee its bad bc like. they gave dru wayyyy too many ways to fumble it. and not many r even in line w his characterisation up until that point

[domorebemore]

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[23sanguinity]

HELLO! YOU THERE! CAN YOU VOTE?

YES?

THEN YOU BETTER DO IT!!

NO?

IM SORRY! I HOPE YOU CAN SOMEDAY!

(Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸)

UPDATE: YOU NOW NO LONGER CAN VOTE FOR BIDEN! LIKELY KAMALA HARISS WILL REPLACE HIM!

***have to, no one really wanted to vote biden lol

[im-vibin]

Something I’m realizing now that I’m in my twenties and becoming an Adult is that a lot of the authority in my life simply didn’t have to be Like That.