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this is from a "manipulation advice" video and it's just so fucking funny to me. why didn't I think of responding to insults like this

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There’s a theory that early Europeans started saying “brown one” or “honey-eater” instead of “bear” to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa “the faceless woman” because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber

English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize it’s spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.

Mx. Leah Velleman on twitter

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what's her problem

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the current state of fandom needs to be old yellered immediately. im loading up the shotgun as we speak

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what does turkish delight taste like and is it worth the events that occurred in chronicle of narnia: the lion the witch and the wardrobe

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@batsandbirdbrains I literally just started a comic that coincidentally does something VERY similar to your first-but-also-younger Dick Grayson as Robin AU.

So in this comic, there are temporal displacements occurring that causes people from alternate timelines or the past to come to the main timeline. Tim is Robin at this point.

A younger Dick Grayson comes as Robin, and as you predicted in your AU, Tim’s kind of an asshole about the younger Dick Grayson showing him up.

Course, the whole batfam is going through quite a bit at this point and Tim’s just being a teenager, so he’s not evil or anything. Just thought it was crazy that I coincidentally stumbled upon basically exactly what you were describing and your characterization of the Robins is accurate to a near-T.

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thinking about how, as a vigilante, you're getting shot at/losing a lot of blood all the time

and thinking about how, as a family, the batkids/Bruce have compatible blood types even if they're not related actually- Dick/Jason have universal blood and I think Babs does too

thinking about how, in a pinch, they have each given each other blood at some point in time

thinking about how the argument used against those who are adopted/emotionally adopted is that they don't share blood with their family

thinking about how even the ones who aren't officially adopted do share blood with their family because they had to in order to survive.

idk. blood on the brain.

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Red Hood (on the phone): Yeah, Batman, we’re above you, but the plane’s going to crash.

Batman (surprised but flat tone): The plane is what?

Red Hood (grabbing a parachute): Yeah, the pilots were employees of Joker. They jumped out, so we—

Red Hood and his brothers nearly lost their footing as the plane’s engine burst into flames.

Red Hood (sarcastically): That’s what was missing, the engine bursting into flames. It felt naked for a second.

Nightwing chuckled while securing Robin’s parachute. Robin groaned, annoyed at being treated like a baby in this situation.

Red Hood: I should’ve brought a skateboard. I could stick the landing and skate down the street.

Nightwing: I told you to stop suggesting that! I get you’re a daredevil, but you’re not that insane.

Red Robin: You don’t know me.

Batman (over speaker): Guys? I can’t hear you well. Did you make it off the plane yet?

Red Hood: We should get Wendy’s after this.

Robin: They don’t have vegetarian options.

Batman: Hello?!

Red Hood: Yeah, we’ll see you on the ground, B. Gotta go.

Red Hood ended the call, though Batman’s voice shifted into a panic. Red Hood rolled his eyes, slipping his phone into his pocket.

Red Hood: He’s worried about us now.

Nightwing: I mean, the plane is on fire. Although, that’s not the first time I’ve dealt with this. Who’s going first?

Red Robin: LET’S GOOOOOO!

Red Robin ran with an eager grin, his parachute on his back, shouting with excitement as he leapt out. Nightwing, with a proud smile, looked out the open door then sighed. He held his parachute pack to his chest, preparing for the jump.

Nightwing: I’ll see you guys on the ground.

Nightwing fell backward, leaving Robin and Red Hood behind. Red Hood looked at his little brother, the youngest Robin, who was loosening his buckle on his stomach while grumbling about how he’s a trained assassin.

Red Hood: Why haven’t you jumped yet? Thought you'd be the first one out.

Robin: I wanted you to jump with me. Don’t want you to die again.

Red Hood (smiling): I appreciate that, brat. You first.

Robin nodded and leapt out. Red Hood followed, holding his parachute like it was a lunch bag. Below them, Batman and Jim waited for the boys to land. Batman was, admittedly, freaking out.

Jim: Relax.

Batman: I’m calm! They’ve parachuted before, that’s not the first time with a crashing plane either... But this could be their last mission, and what if the parachutes don’t deploy? I can’t lose four kids!

Jim (lighting a cigarette): I doubt they’ll die. You can revive them if that happens.

Batman growled with rage, glaring at Jim. Jim looked away, checking on the Robins and whether they managed to jump out of the plane in time.

Jim (relieved): I think that’s them over there! Thank goodness.

Batman turned toward where Jim had pointed, pulling out his binoculars. When he recognized the black and blue unitard for Nightwing and the gleam of the glossy motorcycle helmet, he let out a breath of relief.

Batman: Oh, thank every deity in existence! I would lose it if Joker managed to kill all of them!

Jim: Is that your way of saying you love them and don’t want to lose them again?

Batman: Yes... Don’t tell anyone I panicked like that.

Jim: Your secret’s safe with me.

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As the resident feral Baby!Dick enjoyer, I figured you’d appreciate all the gremlin moments in Dixon’s Robin: Year One run, so I’ve been documenting them.

Thus far, we have:

The most sinister fucking smirk I’ve ever seen on an 8-year old.

Local boy threatens to “pop” the head of a man because Bruce isn’t here to tell him to chill tf out.

The most sinister fucking smirk I’ve ever seen on an 8-year old (part two: electric boogaloo).

And local boy juggles no less than half a dozen curved knives while engaged in casual conversation, thus contextually making this the most sinister fucking smirk I’ve ever seen on an 8-year old (part three).

I love him in Robin: Year One so much he’s such a menace

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Uh- are you aware of the meaning of proship?

Proship has never meant anything except a combination of three ideas:

Ship and let ship (your ships don't harm me and vice-versa) and YKINMK (your kink is not my kink, and that's okay; my kink stories don't harm you and vice-versa)

Harassment over fiction is not acceptable

Censorship of fiction is not acceptable either

Any other definitions are made by antis, not proshippers, and are an attempt at revisionism to justify harassment based on false claims.

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I love that Jimmy Olsen is exactly the type of photographer Peter Parker pretends to be. Just bat-shit insane.

Whenever someone asks Peter how he took a picture he's like "Oh! I uh-, climmed a flagpole. Totally"

And very mortal, normal-human Jimmy is like "See, Clark, is not that weird"

I mean, look at this nutjob.

The world could be ending, lava on the streets and Jimmy would be out there photographing away. No powers, no sense of self preservation. Just khakis, a camera and a dream.

I like to imagine Peter meeting Jimmy and immediately being mortified about it.

Jimmy: –and so luckily I was able to take the picture before the building collapsed on me... Superman was super pissed at me but, photographer to photographer, it was totally worth it.

Peter: Right, no– See, this is actually my first time hearing how fucking insane that sounds. No wonder people at work look at me weird.

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What's Your Favourite DC Disability/ND Headcanon?

this is for my rewrite, where i combine canons into one timeline and add my own flair. this time, i wanna know your disability (mental or physical) headcanons for any DC character. literally any. ofc i will still be using canon disabilities as well, but i wanna see what people have as headcanons.

for instance, my J'onn has a limb difference with one leg shorter than the other, and he prefers to float slightly instead of walk when hes not shapeshifted (the leg is not correctd by shapeshifting, he just wears corrective shoes as Detective Jones)

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Or, in nerd terms, The Flash breaks the sound barrier. Black Canary does not.

today in pedantry born of extreme annoyance and doesn't-anybody-go-to-school-anymore grumpiness:

the term "sound barrier" has absolutely nothing to do with how loud something is.

a powerful singer does not break the sound barrier. a loud crowd does not break the sound barrier. if you hear an opera soprano belt out an aria and you say she broke the sound barrier you sound like a fucking idiot. that is not what it means.

"but it's just a joke why should i car--"

no. sit down. THAT IS NOT WHAT IT MEANS.

"sound barrier" refers to the increase in aerodynamic drag that occurs as a moving object approaches the speed of sound.

it's called a "barrier" because when the first aircraft starting reaching high enough speeds, they would shake so much pilots were afraid they would get torn apart. it was perceived as a real physical limit, but that perception was false. there is no actual barrier. there is only engineering; it was the drag on the aircraft making them feel like they were shaking apart. turns out if planes are built well enough and go fast enough, they can break the sound barrier just fine without falling apart. the first time this happened was in 1947, in a plane flown by US Air Force pilot Chuck Yaeger.

this means that "breaking the sound barrier" applies to things that are moving very fast, not to things that are very loud.

please read that sentence again to make sure it sinks in. fast, not loud. read it again because tiktok has been lying to you and you need to unlearn what you have learned.

(that also means it applies only where there is a speed of sound, which is not everywhere in the universe. but let's not complicate things by thinking about a pure vacuums or the extreme low density of space.)

the speed of sound varies depending on the density of what it's moving through, but at sea level on Earth it's about 770 miles per hour. once an object is going faster than the speed of sound, it is supersonic--and, again, that refers to speed, not volume. bullets break the sound barrier even if they are muffled at firing. a bullwhip can be snapped fast enough that the very end breaks the sound barrier, even if the noise they make is a sharp crack and not unusually loud.

but people standing still and shouting or singing do not, because nothing that is standing still can break the sound barrier. so unless you are sharing a cool vid of a soprano getting yeeted out of an operatic cannon at >770 mph, she has not broken the sound barrier. and if that is what you are sharing, she breaks the sound barrier whether or not she's singing her aria.

there can be a very loud noise associated with objects moving so fast they have broken the sound barrier. that noise is called a sonic boom, and it happens because the object is generating shock waves as it travels. it's not a single boom; it only sounds like that because when you hear it you are listening at a single point. it is in fact a continuous, traveling shock wave that happens as long as the object is moving faster than the speed of sound. it's just that you only hear it when the shock wave passes directly over you, so it sounds like a finite noise. it's also not necessarily a boom. it can be a crack or a snap or a clap or whatever. it's just called a sonic boom because the ones generated by supersonic aircraft are big fucking booms.

in conclusion please stop saying loud noises break the sound barrier.

🚫 wrong kind of hyperbole: "wow that man shouted loud enough to break the sound barrier!"

✔ right kind of hyperbole: "wow that man ran fast enough to break the sound barrier!"

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Mira's my favorite. She's the visual and lead dancer of HUNTR/X. Nobody can move like Mira. Apparently she's the black sheep of her family. I don't know why because she's sooo cool. Who else could wear a sleeping bag to the Met Gala?

KPOP Demon Hunters (2025) dir. Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

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Something funny and nice in the midst of all the other Oscar happenings

Context!

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episode sixteen, aka Barry's No Good Very Bad Terrible Day