Land of Prisms and Frogs

Black Canary: Yeah, I mean hes an adult, but he's closer in age to them, I figured he would be better at understanding them.

Flash: I mean he is childish, but maybe they'll finally listen to someone.

*opens the training room door*

Phantom, snarling: Is that seriously all you've got? Pathetic! Get back up and try again! Saving the day waits for no "hero"!

*Young Justice scattered across the room, all panting heavily, or cradling bruises as they're each paired up with a Phantom duplicate*

Superman, gobsmacked: Phantom what are you doing?!

Flash: Yeah man this looks a little harsh don't you think?

Phantom: They want to be treated like adults, Flash, so I'm treating them like adults. If they want to be treated like adults, then they can train like adults, work like adult, eat like adults, balance their hero work and their civilian work like adults. I said no slacking! Get back up!

Superman, wincing: Still...

Flash: Dude, what did they say to you to piss you off this much? *tries to joke* I need to know so I don't do the same. Seriously, you're scary.

Phantom: *scowls*

Kid Flash, panting: Pl-Please! Can we take a brake? I need some water.

Phantom: 10 minutes. *all his duplicates vanish and Phantom turns and floats out*

*water bottles appear out of nowhere, and all the sidekicks collapse, desperately chugging the water bottles*

Flash: No, seriously, what did you say to him? I've never seen him that upset before.

Artemis, clutching her ribs: K-Kid Flash s-said he didn't get why-why we couldn't be treated as adults and-and do our own work. R-Rob in Said-Said that Phantom was-ss lucky, cause he didn't have a mentor and took-took care of his territory on his own without help. Said-Said it couldn't be that hard since Phantom did it.

Adult Heros -Batman: *winces*

Superman: No wonder Phantom was so upset.

Green Arrow: Yeah, I'd be pissed too if my years of hard work was chalked up to "not that hard".

Flash: *turns and follows after Phantom*

Batman: Hmn.

Robin: *flinches*

Batman: It looks like Phantom still went easy on you. You should thank him for that.

Kid Flash: That was easy?!

Batman: You're still alive aren't you?

Superman: And by the looks of it, he was only brawling, I don't smell the scent of his Ecto-Blasts.

Black Canary: And he gave you water.

Quadrupedal and bird pokemon cannot easily open doors and drawers. Tie rope to handles so they can pull them open instead.

Smaller pokemon cannot reach the tops of counters and tables. Having step-ladders and stools on hand allow them to reach better.

Under the helmet

Anatomy ref + ramblings under the cut

This month people have been tearing Flock cameras off their poles. Perched above public streets, they are birdlike things, weatherproof, and they photograph every passing car and file it in a searchable national database. Somebody cut two of them in half at Washington Avenue and Westcott in Houston, spray-painted the wreckage, and left an American flag on one of them. Police were notified on the morning of the Fourth of July. Somebody severed a camera in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. The police department posted the photograph itself and collected more than twenty thousand comments. “Not all heroes wear capes.” “Give them a medal.” Here is what the cameras do when nobody cuts them down. Cops use them to hunt immigrants and to follow ICE targets across state lines and to find women who ended pregnancies in states where that is a crime and to watch exes and to watch women they want, without a warrant and without a judge. A cop types a reason in a box and the box does not check. A man in Burleson, Texas, told deputies his girlfriend had taken abortion pills. He showed them the photographs, the FedEx envelope, the instructions. Deputies opened a death investigation into a non-viable fetus, and the district attorney told them the state could not charge her, and they searched anyway: 83,345 cameras across 6,809 networks, a month of everywhere she had been. The reason they typed was had an abortion, search for female. The search reached Illinois and Washington, where what she did was legal. They found her in Dallas. She came into the sheriff’s office a week later, and they thought she had come to explain the fetus, and she had come to report that the man who called them had put a gun to her head. A sheriff in Jerome County, Idaho ran his wife’s plate more than seven hundred times in three months. He typed the same reason every time. Test. The attorney general found nothing to charge him with. He retired in April. The Institute for Justice counts at least twenty-two officers who used the system to track people they were romantically interested in, and calls that almost certainly an undercount. And the cameras keep falling.

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The world may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.