One more chapter or a nap

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

I'm not Jewish, but there's a reason that I've risked everything to speak up for the Jewish community. And when I say everything, I mean everything. I mean being blocked by friends that I grew up with, unfollowed by most friends and associates, accused of being a spy for the Mossad, IRGC, CIA etc, having my family accused of the same and having their lives put at risk to the extent of having to contact the FBI, being subjected to unthinkable smears, conspiracies, and rumors that are intended to blacklist me from everywhere and by everyone, but I still speak up despite it all, you know why? Because the same time that Jews had to watch their children being shot and kidnapped on October 7 Is the same time they had to watch half the world protest against the existence of their tiny Jewish state that is their only refuge from global genocide

Is the same time they had to watch their friends, associates, celebrities, and the world's body politic post paragliders in celebration of their massacre Is the same time they had to watch their synagogues go up in flames amid renewed pogroms in Europe Is the same time they had to be banned and blacklisted as persona non gratas of the world by trading the word "Jews" for "Zionists" Is the same time they had to be pushed back by human chains on college campuses and beaten unconscious for defying chants for their death Is the same time they had to watch a mentally ill rapper tell millions of his followers that he loves Hitler and supports the Holocaust Is the same time they had to watch the likes of Dan Bilzerian, Candace Owens, Jake Shields, and the rest of the "woke right" claim "Jewish supremacy" is the world's biggest problem by citing obscure texts of the Talmud & claiming to "seek truth" while regurgitating antisemitic Soviet disinformation to justify their persecution

Is the same time they had to watch the woke left claim that the victims of Islamist extremism deserved the October 7 horrors because their grandparents who fled Nazi Germany back to Palestine in refugee boats were actually "white colonizers" All while the world looks on and glibly asks, "what antisemitism?" That's why I speak up. The most important thing I've realized is that nobody can take from you what doesn't belong to them. They can silence, intimidate, threaten, and accuse you, but they can never take away the power of your voice when it bellows into the scorched earth the last hopeful, fragmented glimmers of truth. That belongs to you and nobody else, and in our lifetime, it may never be more important than now.

Reply from Daniel Saynt (@/danielsaynt):

I'm not Jewish, but fuck Nazis, fuck terrorists and fuck anyone who treat women like property and gays like trash.

Reply from Degsy Roberts (@/degsyroberts):

I'm not Jewish but I speak up because we said never again and some people are intent on making the destruction of Jews happen again. I stand with Jews

Reply from Levicy_UK (@/Levicy_UK):

I'm not Jewish but I speak up because Jews have given this world so much and I am grateful. And I will always defend Western values against violence, terrorism and evil.

Reply from VIPER 3-2 (@/VIPER3215):

I speak up because it is a matter of historic and incontrovertible fact that standing up for the Jewish people is a hard right, and not an easy wrong.

Reply from Kristján Va (@/kristjanvalur):

I'm not Jewish but I'm simply flabergasted that the west, having inherited their moral axioms, is abandoning them in their fight for survival against a primitive evil.

Reply from Suffrajetski 💚🤍💜 (@/suffrajetski):

I'm not Jewish AND I was indoctrinated by the far left in uni. But I have a brain, so I educated myself on the holocaust and the truth about Israel. The more I learned, the angrier and more protective I became. So what if I lose friends. I don't want moral cowards for friends.

Reply from Seasin48 (@/OBucsa):

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because it's the right thing to do. Because I studied history. Because I have friends and family who come from Israel. Because I admire a lot about Jewish people. But mostly, because it is the RIGHT THING to do.

Reply from Kevin Diamond, 🎗️ (@/kevinajdiamond):

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because I've formed unbreakable bonds with Jews. Once you love an ethnicity that living in a small town without Jews you could only meet here, the bond only gets stronger. Also history has to stop repeating. If we can protect the 0.2%, who can we.

Reply from Kim (@/keul2013):

I'm not Jewish, either. But, I stand with Israel. What happened on October 7th in Israel is no different than our 9-11. The hostages must be brought home now. It is clear time is running out for them.

Reply from Saint&Sinner:

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because... I'm Human.

Reply from Primus (@/wwwPurityOrg):

I'm not Jewish either but I support Israel because democracy must win over terror and tyranny.

Reply from Disdain is my name:

I speak up because it's clear as day what is happening to Jews is wrong...and a sign our society is very sick. Evil walks amongst us

Reply from Thedas.Time.Machine:

I'm not Jewish but I speak up because I was taught Never Again. What we're seeing being allowed to happen on college campus and in the street is shameful.

Reply from SarahJ 🕯️(@/vanderwolf10):

I am not Jewish, but I (try to) speak up because no demographic deserves to be persecuted or hunted b/c of their race, religion, ethnicity, etc. Also b/c Jews and Judaism are awesome 👍🇮🇱

Reply from Alyssa (@/alysslutt):

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because you don't have to be Jewish to speak the truth.

Reply from Ajay Lowe (@/AjayLowe31954):

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because I can't stand to see so much hatred towards Jewish people; because I despise jihadism with all of my heart; because, as a Christian, Jewish people are our brothers and sisters; because, as a proud European and Italian, I swore "never again".

Reply from Sana Ebrahimi:

I'm not Jewish, but I speak up because it's not only about Jews. It starts with them and ends with all of us.

I'm sick and tired of Islamists committing the most horrific acts of violence and then crying victim the moment their victims fight back.

I'm sick of seeing them freely marry underage girls, oppress women, and treat people of other religions, atheists, and apostates like disposable sacrifices for their "greater cause."

I'm sick of watching them get away with kidnapping, torturing, and murdering people over something as small as an insult to their beliefs.

And I'm beyond tired of all this being repackaged and sold to the world as "acceptance of other religions and beliefs."

Reply from Sherry Sh (@/sherrysh12):

Iranians support our Jewish friends. We won't apologize for it and the world is better off getting used to it.

So... This was inspired by listening to EPIC (FREAKING LOVE ALL THE ALBUMS, SO GOOD) and by @noxcheshire post of Tim being Odysseus reincarnated and Danny (maybe also reincarnated) being his Penelope (Here) so I had to turn it into a Dead Tired idea.

The song The Challenge is the main one here. (Cause I LOVE that song... along with Would You Fall In Love With Me Again)

So WHAT IF Danny IS the reincarnated Penelope, after becoming the Ghost King Danny's memories of his past life as Penelope returns and remembers how before dying/ or being reincarnated both Penelope and Odysseus promised to find each other in their new lives, no matter who they are, what new form they take, they will find each other.

So Danny/Penelope, just like before waits for their Odysseus to return to them, but also tries to find him in their new life (CW is laughing whenever Danny asks for hints and gets a 'In due time, just wait' answer, ugh Danny wants to smack CW for that)

However just like in his previous life with being in a high position of power, Danny is being pressured to marry/take a spouse (now its not just men/males though so its a huge headache, I head canon Ghosts don't care much for gender preference) mostly by the dang eyeballs that Danny is still trying to find a way to get rid of without upsetting the Infinite Realms delicate (but slowly healing) balance even if Danny wanted nothing more than to punch all of the suitors out.

So Danny decides to play the long game again.

And waits for their Odysseus return.

Danny's wait is over when they suddenly feel the Realms shift one day, as if welcoming someone familiar home, and the same feeling Danny had when he had been Penelope and saw the storm that was sign of Odysseus coming home, Danny decides its time to bring out The Challenge once again. (CW gifted Danny a few things from his past as Penelope as a coronation gift, like Odysseus's bow (now enchanted to be unbreakable), a painting of when he was Penelope, with Telemchus, and Odysseus, and the Marriage Bed/Olive Tree, AND the Palace Odysseus made that Danny takes to being in over being at Pariah's Keep)

-x-x-

Meanwhile

Tim Drake, aka Red Robin, always had strange dreams as a child.

War, Death, Monsters, Gods, Goddesses.

His dreams were more like nightmares, haunting him and he sometimes woke up in cold sweat.

He hated storms. Hated being in the water for to long. Hated how he felt both tense but also at home when around Greek heroes, as if he was afraid to 'disrespect' them (Cassie was the only one he didn't feel that way around, mostly cause they had been somewhat friends before their heroing since their parents knew each other) but also knew how to appease them should he insult them. He also had a strange hatred for the CoO with a burning passion because he felt like they were mocking real Owls.

The worst part of nightmares that always pop up are of what feels like should be his home is being invaded by unwanted guests (they aren't guests), how they are angry over trying to string a bow and shot an arrow through axes, of the terrible terrible things he hear them saying they were going to do to his loved ones (two names that keep getting muted out).

How it ends in bloodshed with echoing of begging, pleading, mercy, and screams.

However in those nightmares at the end. He also finds himself looking for something in them.

Or rather he always found someone waiting for him at the end of the nightmares. Calling him by the wrong name but it sounds just right coming from them.

The dream always ends with the person asking 'How long has it been?' and before he can answer he wakes up.

So yeah Tim has horrifying nightmares/dreams he could never explain.

And the urge to find someone. To go home to them.

It isn't until he and his friends from Young Justice are hit by a spell from Klarion (who may or may not had a visit from a certain chaos encouraging Time Keeper) and sent to a place called the Infinite Realms in the middle of their fight, that Tim is hit hard with déjà vu when he spots a certain Palace in the distance and overhears some of the 'people?' (they glow and float and some don't even look human?! where are they?) talk about how the 'King' has issued a new 'Challenge' for his 'suitors'.

A Challenge involving a bow, and axes.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

More of THIS energy.

Got a new idea cooking in my head.

Another DPxDC idea.

A reborn into DCverse Toddler!Danny but also Dad!Dick and Talons.

Danny is reborn into the DCverse (either he's a clone of Dick, a created test tube baby, OR a kid Dick unknowingly had during his amnesia year) and wakes up in the Court of Owls who finally have their Gray Son and will turn him into the greatest Talon ever.

Thing is, Danny still has his ghost powers (King Danny? Idk leaving it open, either that or just able to control clean ectoplasm) and knows whatever fruitloops have him, this will not be fun. So, when none of the Owls are watching him, he uses his abilities to influence a few Talons and they all book it out of the place.

Danny later finds himself walking the dirty Gotham streets with a few Talons, one holding his hand while the others hide in the shadows in case they need to protect the baby Talon they all care for.

Of course, the sighting of a Talon holding a toddler's hand catches the camera's and Oracles attention very very fast.

Mostly because first their reactions to a baby Dick would be hilarious. (Neither has seen any of child Dick outside of a few videos and the couple of deaging spells they've encountered) (there's also the WTF moment each would have when they see a familiar grin or twinkling eyes on a baby when they know Dick isn't scheduled to be back until next week)

Tim and Damian having to work together to keep the Baby™ safe (and keep an eye on some slowly deprogramming Talon's that are equally protective of the baby Talon). Again mostly cause Dick is not on Earth and Bruce is out of Gotham with the JL for a few days, even Alfred is out of Gotham for a bit (like a day or two). They rope Jason into helping take care of the baby, mainly cause Jason does not trust them to know how to cook actual food for the kid.

Also Damian using all of this chaos in order to spar against the Talons is the best. Of course he would. (He also is trying to cement himself as the BEST uncle, he will fight for that title)

Alfred returns, and see's a toddler version of Dick (or close enough, there are some tiny differences) on the chandelier while the boys are trying to either get him down with cookie bribes or keep the Talon's from joining up there with the Baby™ . He raises an eyebrow and just takes it in stride. He is also the only one that manages to get him down with little to no fuss.

Also again, nether Dick or Bruce are ready to see a army of Talon's and a toddler version of Dick at the Manor.

But outside of that, his voice is always leveled. He's always composed. Whatever happens, he'll always be soft spoken with his vode. Even when he does swear and bitch a little.

Sam and Danny were messing around with some occult books she had gotten and to both their surprise Danny got the spell to work.

Turns out being saturated with ectoplasm during the portal incident lets danny tap into the mana that's all around, and he can do magic.

As an adult he moves out and becomes a traveling mage, mostly doing seances for people and letting them believe he is a scam or not. Usually he can actually get contact with the dead, death magic is his natural affinity after all, but skeptics will be skeptics ya know.

One day he had his whole spiel set up in Gotham, the people here lose loved ones all the time and would gladly pay him to hear their dear nana once again, or get their mothers secret recipe, or say one final goodbye to their spouse.

What danny didn't expect was a certain mr wayne showing up asking about his parents.

What he double didn't expect was one of his other customers of the day being John Constantine

What he triple didn't expect is The Batman inviting him to be a consult and detective for murder cases with his seances

Danny stared up at Batman, who was attempting to be a menacing look over at him. With a deadpan stare, one tempered by too many years of his parents' nonsense, he pulled out a cigarette. With less than half a thought, the tip of his index finger caught a blaze. Lighting the cigarette, he took a drag and blew out through his nose. A sharp flick extinguished the flame.All the while the smoke swirling lazily about Dann’s head, hanging in the air for far longer than reasonable or possible.

With a low drawling voice, reeking with the distinct taste of sheer boredom of his situations, he spoke,” Real magic doesn’t bills, honey.” Danny leaned back, to settle into his chair, lounging like a cat in the sun.

Taking the cigarette between two fingers, he gestures around lazily, “do you think I do this for fun?” He takes another drag, pausing to blow out the smoke before speaking against, “People don’t want reality, they want the comfort the idea of magic can provide, that childhood belief in the fantastical. The cheap party magicians pull rabbits from rigged hats.”

He pulls another drag, this time blowing smoke rings at Batman, who was still looming above him. Though he was distinctly more uncomfortable than he had been before, even after having to sneak through the beaded curtain to hide himself in the shadowed corner (a corner which Danny had left, unknowingly to Bat, completely empty for him, in preparation). “No one wants real magic, especially not the landlady.”