#we know that much

[anselbun]

Thinking about jim Gordon having to get used to the bat signal starting to become a universal bat family thing.

Like for years it was only to summon Batman. Sure, he wouldn’t always show up, but jim could guarantee that if someone DID show up, it would be Batman. Nobody else, just him.

Then of course, he was introduced to the first robin and had to deal with the fact that now Batman would almost always have a child with him. A little jarring and weird, but he got used to Robin being around eventually.

Then no robin for a few months, and jim comments on it and Batman won’t say anything. And then- a much younger boy, clearly a different person but very much still robin. More questioning that easily gets brushed off. Still, when he uses the signal, Batman shows up.

Then Jason dies, and no more Robin for a while, and though jim doesn’t know about Jason he has a feeling of SOMETHING going on again. The Batman is acting strange and angry and is honestly a bit of a mess. But still, he shows up. Then there’s another new Robin, and a new hero with him that jim is meeting for the first time but he KNOWS that voice and those specific jokes and the boy seems to know him too, so it doesn’t take more than once or twice for him to realize that this hero, nightwing, is the first robin. It doesn’t take long for him to adjust to nightwing and the new robin, even though he never gets used to either of them showing up without Batman at their side. He’s far too used to dealing with the dark knight, not these two sassy young adults who bring a different tone to these conversations.

Years pass, and jim watches as Batman’s family grows and shrinks and grows some more. He watches these kids grow up through rooftop meetings over deadly cases, but is still shocked and a little frustrated whenever one of the kids shows up without their “leader”. Especially with their constant changing identities and vague hand-waving about their relations to each other, how they all came to be part of this growing group that might be a bat-shaped cult. He wants to know, but also he absolutely does not want to know. Especially when there’s another new robin, small and angry and looking way too suspiciously like the Batman himself.

He still gets startled by it sometimes. He’ll turn on the signal- some important case coming across his team, or needing to pass on information about a current active case. He’ll wait a few minutes, and feel a presence behind him. There’s no laughter or bright greetings, so he turns, going on into his immediate spiel about the case in the way he’s used to talking to Batman, not the kids. And there’s red hood, standing there fully masked and intimidating but not attacking in any way. He simply questions about the information, saying that he’ll pass it on to the Batman.

The red hood? Passing information on to the Batman? Is this a pre planned thing? None of the typical bats are showing up, so maybe he really is one of them, as strange and concerning as that is.

But then they’re finishing up, Jason tucking some file into his jacket, and he makes some dumb comment. A simple joke that jim hasn’t heard in years, heard last on the final time he saw that second robin who disappeared. Red hood disappears before the realization can fully click, and Jim’s forced to stand there and think through all of this once again. How no matter how long he knows the Batman, there’s always something about him and his strange weird family that he has left to learn.

[thebrazilianfan]

edgeworth has such broad shoulders in his investigations' sprites. meanwhile athena who canonically works out and have a diet to match is drawn thin. I need to learn how to drawn muscles and amend that myself

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[bakerstreet-and-beyond]

There seems to be a general malaise on most of Tumblr about TikTok getting banned in the United States.

I understand the problems, "brain rot", whatever but- A government banning a social media app that opened the world for many people is legitimately scary and upsetting. Say what you want but, there are MANY global and local issues that would not have gotten the same traction, recognition, and outreach without TikTok.

And then add to this that Meta/Facebook was one the largest lobbyists working to get TikTok banned... Like- I think folks should be more concerned about the implications of what this means, especially since the ban goes into effect the day before inauguration.

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[eosofspades]

i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

[teaboot]

I totally forgot till just now but one time a new therapist handed me a pad of paper and said "draw me a picture of how you feel" and after spending like five whole minutes of dead silence scribbling a teeny tiny pitch black dot in the middle of the pad that dug a hole straight through like 15 pages I gave it back to see him staring back at me like

[transannabeth]

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

[artkaninchenbau]

Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)

It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.

Bonus:

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

maddening that there is a common medical condition whose symptoms consist of massive long-term loss of mental and physical functions, due to the incredibly damaging effects of prolonged stress overextending the mind and body by pushing it into survival mode beyond endurance—and that there is no medical term for it. despite the fact it's so damn common that everyone knows of someone suffering from "burnout."

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[egophiliac]

did this as a quick scribble at like 1 AM last night and...immediately lost all motivation to ever clean it up. ( ᐛ ) but I had to draw my son being the fanciest little flower boy who ever threw petals down an aisle. oh my god.

[dovewingkinnie]

i liked when dr harley sawyer was messing with u like a mouse type of guy to put u in a maze and watch u collect seeds

[repotting]

So it's clear a lot of the "I'd even vote for Hitler" Democrats are trying to impress upon us the urgency of the situation, like "things are so dire I'd even resort to this!"

And of course one major problem with this tactic is that you're assuming we'll be like "wow, you'd overcome your obviously strong principles" but like.

You haven't established you even have those principles. You've just told us that you'd collaborate with Nazis and like, yeah, that is famously something many liberals have been okay with doing.

[teaboot]

Sorry if I'm mixing you up with someone else, but you've worked security before, right?

If you're willing, I'd be really interested on your thoughts on the murderbot diaries or murderbot as a character with that in mind?

Like did you recognise aspects of your job in murderbots descriptions of security work? Or did they like throw you out of immersion in the story?

Anyway thanks and hope you're having a good day/evening wherever you are!

As a security guard who has read the first two Murderbot books, Murderbot has been the number one most realistic security specialist character I have ever seen in media so far 😭

The third most annoying thing in security in my experience is handling threats. The second most annoying thing is having no threats to handle and being bored. The number one most annoying thing is the client being an idiot

Ihave social anxiety which I am medicated for. When I am in uniform with clear instructions, that anxiety is zero. I have a script and a set of rules and that makes life easy. I’m super good at performing tasks with clear expectations and that’s kinda how I keep getting good offers, it’s super straightforward

Bad clients are clients who give stupid, inefficient, counterproductive, cruel, or flat-out illegal orders. There are ways of shutting that shit down without them losing heir shit, but it’s still a pain in the ass every time

I’m a security specialist. I specialize in security. This is what I am trained for- handling crisis situations and minimizing harm. If you, an off-shift cashier at pet smart, see me deescalating a situation and decide you’re gonna drop your untrained uninformed ass in there with zero context or skills and “help” because I look small and helpless, then all you’re doing is increasing my likelihood of getting hurt while increasing my paperwork load by like two hours, and I’m gonna hate you the entire time. What you have essentially done is promoted me to meat shield while giving the aggressor I’m calming down an obnoxious and aggravating hostage. Good god please do not

Yes, I am sometimes asked to stand perfectly still in a corner for several hours like a mannequin. What do I do to avoid going insane? Think about Star Trek and the very good fanfiction I’ll be reading on my break, mostly

Yes I can assist in evacuating tw location in the event of an environmental disaster. No I cannot tell my waiter that they put cilantro on the wrong order. Yes this makes perfect sense

I love Murderbot. I love how realistic it is. Like obviously I can’t speak for everyone in the industry but yeah I’ve worked for absolute dogshit security companies in the past and yeah a lot of the books so far are super accurate to that experience so A+ so far, honestly