Bats In The Shadows

Me in 2016: I’m still salty about that

-hallucinate

-cry over what seems to be small things

-become furiously angry over what seems to be small things

-hit a self destruct button over and over again

-lose all sense of reality

-becoming straight up unable to communicate

-view every situation as life or death

-experience delusions/become vulnerable to irrational worldviews

-perceive hostility where none exists

-become extremely nauseous and/or throw up

-stop engaging in sleeping/eating/basic hygiene

-stop processing sensory input

-process way too much sensory input all at once

-lash out at others/themselves

-and more!

to look around at the state of Things right now with the ongoing Endemic and the wars and Fascism rising at a horribly precedented rate

and cut everybody

including you

GET in line

Woman: "B-batman? Like... scary, grumpy Batman?"

Superman: "Oh, don't worry! He's great with kids!"

Woman: "I'm not so sure-"

Batman, appearing out of the shadows with a baby wrapped up in his arms, and a diaper bag: "Are you the mother?"

Woman: "Oh! Yes-"

Batman, eyes narrowing: "Prove it."

Woman: "Excuse me??"

Superman, sighing tiredly: "Batman..."

Batman: "Prove. It. Which foot has a birth mark?"

Woman: "Her left??"

Batman, eyes still narrowed, slowly holds the baby out and only relaxes and gives the baby back when she makes grabby hands for her mother.

Woman, hugging the baby to her chest: "Oh there's my little girl!"

Batman, handing over the bag and a notebook: "The notebook has every time she fed and how much she ate. Every time she slept and for how long, along with any disturbances. Every time I changed her, and if there was anything concerning - which, there wasn't. She's very healthy. You should be proud."

Woman: "... thank you?"

The woman and the baby leave. Batman visibly deflates.

Superman: "You already miss the baby, huh?"

Batman: "She was so small..."

[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]