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Dan Hays Colorado Snow Effect 4 (with detail) 2007, oil on canvas

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Here comes the sun
And I say, "It's all right"
mutually assured
Have you read mutually assured?
Yes, previously
Yes, now that you've recced it to me
No
Authour: @chejuu (cheju)
Subfandom: Batfamily
Media: Comics
Relationships: Shippy (Slade Wilson/Dick Grayson)
Year: 2024
Rating: Teen
Warnings: None
Summary:
Every night at sundown, Slade and Dick swap bodies. As soon as they figure out how the hell to fix it and who the hell is responsible, Sladeâs going to kill the sorry bastard that did it. That is, if he and Grayson don't kill each other first.
Submitted by anon
Submitter's comment:
Bodyswap fic that does an amazing job making the body swap part important. These charactersâ bodies are their livelihood, and the author is so, so aware of how they move and relate to their bodies. Lovely mystery as well; the author uses it to beautifully express how the characters think. Love how clever Dick gets to be here too.
wemby is so great. he's 22. he had a potentially fatal blood clot. he's in a fantasy/sci-fi book club for nba players that's just him and one other guy. he beat the okc thunder in the nba cup semifinals and said immediately afterwards he was happy to be playing "ethical basketball" (implied: unlike them). he has a high kick so high that it can knock a basketball out of the hoop. he decided the best way to recover from the potentially fatal blood clot was training with shaolin monks. he could have had a career with fc barcelona but turned it down because the coaches weren't challenging him enough. he's 7'4". actually he's 2.24m because he's french. he cries on the court because he "refuses to hide the burden of [his] emotions." he elbowed a guy in the neck last week. he hates iso ball. he hates ICE. he's the first guy to win defensive player of the year in a unanimous vote. he's currently building a 7,500-piece lego model of the millennium falcon
and san antonio fucking loves wemby
who the fuck cares about the rest of the team, wemby's the best and amazing and everyone will fucking fight to protect this precious cinnamon roll of a basketball player.
like, literally, there were people threatening to fight the timbers last week or whatever because they thought the referees weren't being fair to them and that the timbers were attacking him too much.
you cant just say that man

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Andy Wier going on an anti-woke podcast to promote his film (Project Hail Mary) and trash Star Trek (after his own ST project got rejected) just for Trekkies to terrorize him into an apology with a day⌠Thatâs one way to ruin your cutesy neo-liberal brand at breakneck speed
Genuinely such a dumb cunt thing to say while still trying to get Star Trek money:
âI dislike social commentary. Like⌠I really hate it. When Iâm reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the authorâs political agenda is validated. I hate that,â Weir said. âI put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and Iâm not trying to affect the readerâs opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.â
Here is a list of all the politics and social commentary Andy Weir did in fact include in the Project Hail Mary book that I can recall at the top of my head:
When Grace is still incredibly amnesiac and manages to remember what his apartment looks like, he remarks the lack of feminine touches in the decoration and casually wonders if this means he is single or maybe gay.
Upon learning of the astrophage problem, all the nations of the world get their shit together in record time and give Stratt basically unlimited power, authority and resources to do whatever is necessary to save Earth. This itself is a political choice. Pair it with the vastly different real world response world leaders have to climate change and it becomes a social commentary, sorry Andy but it really does.
The reason Grace decides to join the Hail Mary project is because of his students. He's in the middle of a class when he realizes the incredibly hard and bleak future that awaits his students due to the cooling Sun, and tells Stratt he wants to keep helping.
Shortly after figuring out how astrophage reproduce on his own, Grace is taken to the aircraft carrier, where he meets for the first time the other scientists involved in the project. After explaining his findings, a Chinese scientist announces their team has been able to reproduce Grace's findings, the implied reason being they had somehow spied on them.
During one of his first conversations with Rocky, Grace remarks on an unexpected hurdle of meeting aliens: pronouns. His conclusion is to just shrug and slap he/him pronouns on Rocky. There are no further conversations about this topic, not even when both of them are able to communicate fluently. Grace doesn't re-examinate his pronoun choice any further, nor, despite having a PhD in molecular biology and being curious about things like how Eridians eat, ask about Eridians' concepts of sex and gender.
Following that previous point, when Rocky mentions having a mate back home, Grace chooses for said mate the name Adrian. This is yet another reference to the Rocky movies, albeit a more obscure one, and a lot of the people that didn't realize this simply read both Rocky and Adrian as male and therefore gay.
One last bit re gender and sexuality is the fact that at no point during the book does Ryland Grace, a single man of unspecified sexuality, lament being single or express any sexual desires, which is why many people read him as being on the asexual spectrum.
The movie had to gloss over many things and completely skip over others, some of these later things were the incredible sacrifices and hardships Earth had to go through to survive until hopefully Project Hail Mary managed to find a solution to the astrophage problem. First off, in order to produce the astrophage fuel for the ship they paved a huge chunk of the Sahara desert, which had devastating ecological and climate consequences, altered or destroyed the homes and livelihoods of millions of people and created tons of refugees. Also, in order to win time and counter the effects of the cooling Sun, they start to nuke chunks of fucking Antarctica, because making climate change worse will make Earth hotter and therefore buy them time. The first time the scientist (a self-declared hippie ecologist) in charge of this orders the release of the bombs, he understandably breaks down and starts to cry. Needless to say, nuking the fucking Antarctica raises sea levels and also has horrendous ecological and climatic consequences and once again would in fact create millions of refugees. The fact that the book doesn't dwell on the consequences of any of these two actions doesn't change the fact that we as readers are supposed to extrapolate and put two plus two together whether Andy intended to or not. Expecting otherwise is frankly insulting.
At one point Stratt tells Grace what will happen to Earth while they await for the solution to the astrophage problem. She talks about the famines and how many people will die, but that's just the people that will starve to death. Millions more will die in the wars that will break out all over the planet because there is no way the richer and more powerful nations will be willing to share resources equally with the rest.
Grace gifts Rocky, a member of an alien species, a laptop that contains the sum of all human knowledge, history and media. He knows Rocky, but has never met other Eridians, and despite this he chooses to give it to them.
The fucking foundational plot of the book is interspecies collaboration, trust, and friendship. Choosing to meet and befriend an alien despite all the possible risks and dangers is just as political of a choice as choosing to kill an alien would be.
Andy Weir is very good at writing Cosmic Hope books about Space MacGyvers, but writing any kind of story is inherently full of a myriad of political and social commentary choices, whether you want to or not, and whether you realize it or not. Being unable to see or willing to admit this makes him a worse writer and frankly greatly mars part of his supposed genius.
favorite take that I've seen on this so far. Andy Weir is a great author who writes very humanist novels, he's just also a guy who doesn't understand what political means. PHM is his best work and it's not even close, and it's a story about connection in spite of everything that would get in the way of friendship and community. in this world? there's no way to read that as anything other than political.
i feel like it should be important to recognize that this meta commentary?
this is what "death of the author" means.
andy weir has said there's no politics.
his audience has gone "fuck that" and read about the politics that he clearly has included without even realizing it.
You are a villain famous for âkillingâ heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths.
Sometimes they try to pay you.
You are posted out by the Hollywood sign tonight, sitting under the frame where the W used to be. It got burnt to a crisp during last weekâs big superhero fight. A hero died right where youâre sitting. The whole areaâs been closed down until Hero Force can coordinate a recovery effort. Usually itâd be done by now but no oneâs willing to touch it until the ash has been completely blown away.
Itâs a rule that the world must stand still when a hero dies.
âHow much?â
The voice comes from behind you. The lights that illuminate the Hollywood sign are down to hide as much of the scorch marks as possible. You wouldnât be able to see anything even if you did turn around, so you donât.
You put some chapstick on, the glide of the balm against your wind chapped lips grounding.
âI said,â the Hero says, voice tightening, âHow. Much.â
Thereâs the sound of gravel crunching now. Theyâre wearing heavy boots and the scent of fresh blood grows stronger the closer they get. Their breathing is smooth and even which means itâs not their blood.
You put the cap back on your chapstick and tuck it into your leather jacketâs inner pocket. âI donât take money.â
âThen what do you take?â The Hero rounds the Y and comes into your line of sight. The dark hides most of their features, but you can make out a glittering gold mask and the dull shine of drying blood on their chest plate. Their breathing may be even, but their stance isnât. They sway in place, back and forth, back and forth. Their arms wrap around their stomach. âIâve got land. A house. You can have it.â
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the thing that you HAVE to understand about much ado about nothing is that beatrice and benedick are NOT COOL. they are HUGE DORKS and also major softies. they make everything loud and obnoxious and about themselves because they are SO hurt about what happened in the past between them and SO sensitive about it. Beatrice says this more explicitly but itâs also true about benedick. he gets legitimately so upset and angry when he thinks beatrice doesnât know who he is at the party and she calls him a dumbass. he storms off stage when he sees her next. because heâs hurt!!! because it really really matters to him what she thinks!!!! and right after that Beatrice literally talks about how Benedick âlent [her his heart] awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with false diceâ HE BETRAYED HER and sheâs STILL UPSET. âthus goes everyone to the world but I, and I am sunburntâ she is not railing against marriage because sheâs principled against it or because sheâs Strong Female Character (tm). sheâs sunburnt!!! she loved benedick more than he loved her and sheâs still torn up about it!!!! she would rather never deal with that again!!! which is what you have to understand here. they are putting up fronts that they donât care all the time. they are putting of fronts of Cool Mean Witty Remark Girl and Living It Up As A Bachelor Dude but this is not who they are in ANY way and they are both so sensitive and get hurt so easily!!!!!! and this is why they almost donât get together this is why they almost take it all back in the last scene!!! they canât be vulnerable! they canât risk it! itâs easier to be Cool Mean Witty Remark Girl than just Beatrice who got her heart broken and now canât trust anymore. itâs easier to be Living It Up As A Bachelor Dude when you blew it with the girl youâre obsessed with and you survived war just to go back to her after you broke her heart and she calls you a dumbass to your face. the vulnerability necessary to their relationship only happens through their friends but otherwise they are actually hopeless. it is so so important to me that these two are both incredibly sappy losers
Couldn't leave this excellent analysis in the tags!
Good Riddance - Project Hail Mary
(thinking about Orpheus and Eurydice similarities where turning back saved them both. about saying goodbye and being freed from all the burdens, that you deeply cared and loved, but it also hurt you at the same time. about how Grace might sometimes see the future of humanity as a debt he needs to pay. about how guilty he will feel in thinking so. about making peace with it in the end maybe because he was as good as dead maybe he was content maybe he had rocky maybe he knew he did something good.)
what if we kissed and we were both tyrannical rulers and girls
can i interest anybody in my old lady yuri

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Oh, to be a little kitten who just got vaccinated and then taken to a high-end restaurant and tasted the best food the chefs could offer and then fell asleep in a basket.
it just occurred to me that darth vader, master engineer, probably looked at the death star plans at some point and noticed the flaw, but didnât bother to tell anyone about it because he despised everyone who was involved in the project
#krennic and tarkin: [die as a (indirect and direct, respectively) result of the death starâs flaw]Â #vader, who knew about that flaw and did nothing: unfortunate
âUnfortunateâ
Meanwhile Vader, expert ace pilot, acts well below rank to supposedly fight off the attackers. Attackers who, as far as anyone else knows, canât hope to do shit to the Death Star.
Convenient.
ConvenientâŚ
Lol there are some ppl on here all âoh he was feeling a little Light so he knew he had to destroy it to do the Right Thing!!!â like nah. I love my boy but heâs a bag of stinky garbagĂŠ at this point and still totally evil.
He just despised the Death Star cuz everyone was all ânyeh heh this thing can do ur job for u u LOSERâ and he actively loathed every single person who was on board it. Of course he was petty enough to ignore its self-destruct button. Heâs just that bitch.
this seems entirely reasonable sidebar: apparently thrawn treason is, like, mostly Krennic and Tarkin hating each other and i have never read a thrawn book but i might just read that one
Vader is high-key insulted by the existence of the Death Star, the effort and expense thrown into making it, and the way everybodyâs praising it as the new ultimate power in the universe, and probably the worst part of the whole affair?
 He has no one to bitch to about it.Â
Even the Emperorâs jumped on the superweapon hype train. Even the tolerably-competent officers like Tarkin are all #TeamDeathStar, and then thereâs smug assholes like Admiral Motti who just wonât shut up about it, and honestly?
Vaderâs probably been on the email CC list for the design since the project started. Years of enduring shitty design and interdepartmental bickering and watching some smarmy asshole in an inferior cloak prance about bloviating about his special superweapon like somebody who has an anime body pillow of the superlaser housing.
And then thereâs this one scientist who keeps going on and on about this thermal exhaust problem.
Just. Huge amounts of emails on the subject, going on and on and on about it.
Vader is totally the only person who actually reads these after the first, like, five of them. Everybody else just skims through them with a side of âSeriously, Galen? Another one? Force-dammit, Krennic, couldnât you have left him on that mudball with his family?â But Vader is bored out of his skull with 90% of his job anyway, and itâs not like he has anything better to do. Besides, viciously judging other peopleâs design abilities is the closest thing to pass for fun when there arenât any Rebels to slaughter or armies to curbstomp, and thereâs plenty of shit design for the judging.
He spots the flaw in the reactor the first time it appears in the plans.
Heâd have shit himself if it wasnât for the suit.
He promptly makes a bet with himself on whether anybody is going to spot it.
Nobody does.
Theyâre a pack of idiots. Every last one of them.
Maybe he contemplates telling them for like two-thirds of a second. It would be fun to lord his actual mechanical expertise over that little shit, Krennic.
But then he considers that he can only tell them once, and what if it were after the thing blew itself right the fuck up, what if that? He can still point out the flaw, and he can throw everyoneâs stupidity right in their stupid faces, but also thereâll be no more Death Star.
So when Galen Erso sends out Thermal Exhaust Problem Analysis Report #6,109 and buried in paragraph 37 is a suggestion of an extra exhaust port, and Krennic responds with âSHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT YOUR GODDAMN THERMAL EXHAUST PORT, GALEN, I DONâT GIVE A SHIT!â and Erso goes, âSo you approve the solution?â and Krennic goes âS***** F*** LKJDGJFKL!!!!LJF$%#$DJF! YES!â Vader saves the email exchange for posterity and is downright cheerful the rest of the week.
True, he acts in its defense, chasing down Rebels when the plans are stolen. Of course he does. Theyâre Rebels, and hunting them down is his job and one of the very few pleasures of his existence. But itâs not for the Death Star. In fact, if one of them were to escape with its plans, and hide them successfully, and keep their location secret through torture and worse, and if another of them were to fly a starfighter well enough to keep from being destroyed long enough to drop a torpedo through that vulnerable exhaust port and touch off that reactor instability and turn the whole massive, ridiculous, wasteful, absurd, and vaguely insulting contraption into so much spacedust âŚ
⌠well âŚ
⌠oops.
Vaderâs only regret about the whole affair is that Krennic predeceased it and is therefore unavailable for gloating to.
It doesnât stop him from snagging a copy of the Rebelsâ footage of the Death Star blowing up and posting it anonymously to the holonet with the added caption âPlay stupid games, win stupid prizes.â
What makes this whole thing better is that the comics ( Darth Vader Annual 2 to be precise) backs this theory up
The Annual literally starts with Tarkin arriving on Scarif, only to find Vader had broken into the archive and was just casually studying the Death Star plans
Then later on, he literally says THIS to Tarkin
Vader is the pettiest fucker who hates EVERYTHING to do with his coworkers and the Death Star and I LOVE it
You know, I usually hate these exhaust port conversations, but I think it actually works here.
Because the entire point of the exhaust port is how absurd a long shot it is. If you can survive flying through a narrow trench lined with turrets while in an active dogfight long enough, then you might get close enough to attempt a shot your computers are literally incapable of making.
No matter how many times it gets brought up, no one is going to put time and energy into addressing this, because no reasonable person would consider this an actual vulnerability.
But weâre not talking about a reasonable person.
Weâre talking about Anakin âI destroyed a droid control ship from the inside piloting a fighter I had never seen before when I was ten years oldâ Skywalker.
He sees those plans, and immediately knows how he would take down the Death Star.
Who cares that a computer couldnât make that shot? Itâd be easy, if you use the Force.
You know, the Force? That thing all you Imperial officers are calling superstitious nonsense?
Yes, well⌠I guess weâll just see how this plays out.
I saw a request for Jason having vulture habits but I canât find it, so this is for you mystery anon,
Jason genuinely likes the taste of âold meatâ he has a heavy preference for bones but before and also as Robin he used to snatch any roadkill he could find to pick at and chew on during patrol, unfortunately for dick and Bruce it was hard to stop him since when he got caught he would swallow it whole.
At first it really scared Bruce Alfred and dick since they thought that is was a bad habit from Jasonâs time fending for himself, until they recognised that it was Jasonâs vulture nature and they focused on providing bone broths and jerky to encourage a cleaner âscavenger dietâ for little vulture jay
...Grace
Muse
Edit: by "I don't think that's happening" gerry is referring to getting the painting out of his head. He most definitely will help with supper. I need to learn to read tho.

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on the topic of the Met Gala I think more museums should have high fashion galas. whereâs the MOMA Gala. the LACMA Gala. Monterey Bay Aquarium Gala
A group of friends and I did a one shot recently in 5e. The catch is that they play something called âDude Squadâ where the only play âdudesâ (not exclusively male people, just dude mentality) and they hate all magic and magic users. They think true strength is muscles and only muscles, and have in the past encountered magic users who they then convince to give up magic.
We got told to build a level 17 character for this one shot, most of the other folks had previous Dude Squad characters to resurrect. But I didnât really want to play a straight martial class. In my heart, spellcasters are my true class, and I didnât really have a strong idea of what kind of character to make.
So I approached the DM and said, âHey, I have this idea to play a character that pretends to be a martial class but is actually a magic caster?â My girlfriends character is an aasimar who thinks heâs Thor and my backstory was that after meeting him and falling for him she decided to invest heavily in deceptive magic so as not to alienate him.
And my DM. Loved it. So he helped me build an extremely custom character. Two levels in Hexblade warlock gave her a good weapon and the ability to cast disguise self pretty much nonstop to appear buffer than she actually was.
Then there was four levels in Stone sorcerer in order to get 4 sorcery points, the ability to use those points to cast using Subtle Spell and no one could tell sheâs casting, and to buff her AC.
Finally there was 11 Bladesong wizard levels in order to get some attack bonuses, even more AC, extra attacks, and the ability to burn spells to take less damage.
So the whole time I was burning spell slots to recharge my sorcery points every time I cast things like Haste and Spider Climb and use my Bladesong powers. We busted through walls and smashed our way through puzzles. We lied and said my character was a Barbarian/Monk so they didnât bat and eye when she ran on walls with spider climb, but no one noticed when even after dashing she âheld onto the stone wallâ without any kind of check.
The final battle: the goblin wizard boss we were fighting had cast invulnerability on himself and had our friend mind controlled. So Iâm trying to cover for not attacking as I try to dispel his invulnerability. I can no longer run on walls, or make the jumps my party is making on floating platforms over a spike pit so I try to use my actions on other helpful things like tying ropes for friends in the pit. I manage to dispel the magic on our friend but I burned almost all my spells trying to secretly dispel the bossâ spell and finally we just ended up grappling and suffocating him then pummeling him to death.
But at the last moment as weâre running out of this horrible goblin mansion Iâm running down a wall and my friends are climbing down. The building says thereâs 6 seconds left and my very injured love interest is not gonna make it so my character shouted âFuckfuckfuck!â Ran over and cast dimension door to bring them both to safety. (Two people got left in the blast but both survived cause Dude Power). Then I critically failed my deception about how I had used magic and came clean and everyone lost their shit when they heard what weâd done. Her final confession, after dropping her buff disguise self, was, âWhen I met Kathor I really liked him and he freakinâ hates magic so I just kinda figured out how to hide that I was castinâ magic cause I though we might go to pound town.â
Kathor then declared, âIâve never had someone try so hard to get in my pants!â And swept her up and they messily made out. It was deeply satisfying the wonders that DnD can create, like making a whole class based on the lie that youâre not spellcasting.
Oh, I forgot to add we had code names for all the spells and abilities so my DM would know what I was doing, and because I think thatâs funny I will list them here, bolded if I used them for this adventure.
Bladesong: Ki Dance
Song of Defense: Just a Flesh Wound
Hexbladeâs Curse: Intense Focus
Font of Magic: Deep Breath
Booming Blade: Thundersword
Blade Ward: Fleeting Rage
Armor of Agathys: Chill Dude
Absorb Elements: Dance of the Seasons
Shield: Brush Off
Spider Climb: Unarmored Movement
Haste: Adrenaline Rush
Telekinesis: Do You Even Lift Bro?
Tenserâs Transformation: Hulk Out
And since there was literally no disguising dispel magic I just texted him what I was doing with the spell level I was using.