Just Kidding

I haven't drawn In A While, but a quick doodle for a fic is not a bad idea.

(A DPxDC prompt)

Danny needed cash.

While Gotham was a cheap city (why else would anyone choose to stay) he still needed money.

Thanks to his stint as a teen vigilante turned interdimensional prince, Danny didn’t have the grades to get a scholarship. Plus a rogue attack and destroyed the dorms meaning Danny now needed to get an apartment, preferably one with no roommates as his last ones kept thinking he was dead when he was asleep.

The problem, actual legitimate jobs were scarce and he had promised Jazz he wouldn’t get involved with anything shady.

Danny needed money quick but using the Ghost King’s treasury was not an option, you try turning that shit into cold hard cash without using the black market.

So here he was, sitting in a crappy coffee shop that didn’t even have good pastry’s, scrolling through job finding sites and hoping he wouldn’t have to ~ugh~ ask Vlad.

That’s when he saw it.

Wanted: Engineer. No formal education needed. All parts and tools provided. Must be willing to sign NDA and work with free spirited artists with a vision.

And the number of zeros on the potential paycheck made Danny snort/choke on his dark roast.

The ad even mentioned the job could be a gateway to other local creatives who needed someone to bring their vision to life.

That amount of money, future commissions and nothing that would set off Jazz’s disapproval glare

Was anyone going to tell me, or….

It’s free real estate

I love you. (Here’s the latest news)

Live slug reaction

__ ? In my __? It’s more likely than you think.

And some highlights from the notes:

Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does.

THIS PERSON?!

the WHAT

Cash is how you can buy food and clothes without your abuser knowing. It’s how you can get hotel rooms without leaving a paper trail. It lets you receive money without a record of who gave it to you. You can hide large amounts of money in a purse or backpack. You don’t have to keep it all in one place.

Cash lets people save up and leave their abusive spouses and parents. It’s so important.

Image description: A photo of what looks like from a magazine or newspaper reads as follows:

This plush bird was sealed in the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia. It's remarkably well-preserved, thanks to the unique conditions in which it was buried; the permafrost ice lense formation that runs beneath the site served as an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter, which helped to produce a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows, aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk, and it's attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Sources & More Info:

The Hermitage Museum: Swan

University of Washington: Artifacts from Southern Siberia/Pazyryk

CRAFTARCH: Natural Felt as a Sculptural Textile

The pattern link is below, the pattern is free to download. If you do, I just ask that you please credit me for the original pattern

"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"

or

"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"

and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)

they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)

they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)

they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)

they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)

they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)

they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)

they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)

they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)

the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)

you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:

natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)

being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)

random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)

you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up

and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.

Found this last night, when I was looking for a good reply to that post about nonviolent protest. And I realized it was more appropriate to share in its own post, so here you go:

What's remarkable (and has, indeed, been remarked upon in the YouTube comments) is that they hired actually disabled actors to play the roles of actually disabled historical figures.

This historical event is why I kinda wish April were Disability Pride Month -- to commemorate the month where Disabled people came together in solidarity to protest for their own rights -- instead of giving all the credit to George W. Bush.