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Similar deal with ASoIaF/GOT. Writers are less inclined to fix the whole plot, but they still like to use one diversion point to improve things an improbable amount for a bunch of the mains. I enjoy this.

Is it my understanding that a huge part of the point of the Untamed/MDZS is that all the problems are an unfixable tangle that you can’t just put right with this change or that one? Yes. Do I mostly read fics where one detail changes and it fixes everything? Also yes.

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my "i love nuance" t shirt is raising a lot of questions but no one is liking how long my answers are

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what are yall doing that we need this??

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I'm glad you like my weird deer art because it is doing whatever the opposite of numbers is on my business Instagram. It's doing full on letters over there. Just absolute fuckin'... runes or something.

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they should invent an. awake that. something.

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Hm, this AU ignores the foundational reasons things went down as they did in canon and doesn’t engage with the core flaws of the characters it wants to play with. Excellent, time to settle in!

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Hate when I end up spending money due to sheer awkwardness. Poked my nose into the cafe to see if anything looked tempting and it turned out you stand right in front of the barista to look at the menu, so I was too awkward to turn around and leave without buying.

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Happy to be included

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Johnny and Daniel doing a good cop bad cop routine (without Johnny's intention), where some irritating situation is happening that Daniel's money can't unfuck (or he just doesn't want to give the situation his money even if that would unfuck it) and Johnny like visibly/audibly tries and fails to do a calming breathing exercise and mutters distinctly not under his breath, "I am a grown man. I can control my temper." and stomps around in a wrathful, caged little circle. Daniel makes challenging eye contact with the person who has informed them of the situation's fuckedness and who can unfuck it for them if they so choose, and says, "He really struggles to act his age." (threat).

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The best part about No True Scotsman arguments is that they’re always right. Yeah, sometimes you hear someone make something that sounds like a No True Scotsman argument and they’re wrong, but that’s only because it wasn’t a real No True Scotsman argument

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scary pop up

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I have to offer: AU snippet where Tim travels back in time to Knightfall and bothers Helena about it :)

Helena's apartment had been invaded. There was a cape hanging over the back of her couch, a pair of boots tossed haphazardly on the floor, and curled up on her couch balancing a laptop at an uncomfortable looking angle with an open bag of chips next to him, was a familiar teenage boy in green tights and a sweatshirt.

She set her groceries down on the counter "What," she said, "are you doing here?"

Robin looked up. "Helena!" he said with far too much enthusiasm for someone she teamed up with once and who was now acting far too comfortable in her space. "It's a long story." He wasn't, she noticed, wearing his mask this time.

The show of trust was appreciated, she had to admit. The showing up without warning was not. Helena crossed her arms and gave him the do you want to try that again look she'd perfected on her students.

He grinned back, unphased.

"My apartment is not a clubhouse, kid."

"I'm here for business," he said, unconvincingly. "I have a proposal."

"Which is?"

"How would you like to become Batman?"

"Excuse me?"

He had a whole presentation prepared, it turned out. Apparently that was what he'd been doing while eating her chips.

"Sorry," he said unconvincingly when she pointed this out.

Helena sighed. "Just show me this presentation."

"You know what happened to Batman," Robin said. In case she didn't remember, the first slide had the picture of Batman being tossed down into the streets by Bane that every news station had been running for the past week.

Helena nodded. "Yes."

"Well that left Gotham in a bit of a mess..."

Point 1 of Robin's argument: Gotham needed Batman. This was argued with a fervent sense of bone deep conviction on Robin's part and also graphs. Lots of graphs.

"I get it," Helena said, after he'd been talking for at least five minutes. "I think you can move on."

He made a face at her, but skipped past at least half a dozen more graphs to get to point 2: Batman's chosen replacement sucked for reasons including assassin brainwashing, not listening, and also more graphs of predicted casualty reports.

"Where did this data come from?" she asked, looking closer. There were some awfully specific points on that graph...

Robin skipped forward. "Not important. Just trust me on this," he said, sounding untrustworthy.

"So why me?" she asked when he finally got to the end.

"I can't take down Azrael on my own," he said, "and it's not like I can put on the Batsuit on afterwards either."

Helena waved a hand dismissively. "That much was clear, but why not someone more trustworthy."

"I trust you," Robin said without hesitating which was both endearing and also a little intimidating.

"But what about that Nightwing guy? Wouldn't he make a better choice."

For the first time that evening, Robin dimmed slightly. He looked away, an unreadable expression on his face. "Nightwing's... complicated," he said. And then, lighter again: "And maybe I want to make Batman sweat a little after ditching me with Azrael. Come on, it'll be fun. Please?" he added when she didn't say anything.

He made a very tempting case was the thing. Helena doubted that it would be as easy as he made it out to be, but it would be fun to mess with the real? former? Batman some.

"If we're doing this, does this mean I get to know who I'm partnering with?" she asked.

"Tim," Robin said, far easier than she was expecting. "Tim Drake. We have a deal then?" He stuck out a hand.

Helena shook. "We have a deal."

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Six months after posting this I am, I think, fingers crossed, basically home free. (Half the toenail ended up breaking off because it was growing in brittle, so I had to wait again.) No hidden corners currently. Most of it looks healthy. I think I’m really just about done!

At the 11th hour my toenail tried very hard to give me a fourth significant infection, on the remaining side that hadn’t had one yet. There was a hidden corner growing into the skin that I couldn’t tell was there, which I discovered after like twenty minutes of poking and prodding with my pointy cleaning tool. All hail the pointy cleaning tool.

(It’s funny everyone who’s seen me poking around has either gone “uh should you be doing that?” or straight up “don’t poke at it!”. But in fact I’m supposed to. Tugging at the skin is recommended, and while the pointy tool wasn’t specifically, it’s similar to what the doctor used to do the exact same thing.)

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my contribution to make a terrible comic day

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it is #makeaterriblecomicday2025 so i have done that

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it's Make A Terrible Comic Day