forced creativity

Like, canon gave us:

- confirmed little spoon mickey

- them being each other's first and only love

- ian throwing around the word husband at every opportunity as if that's just mickey's name

- confirmed dom/sub undertones in which mickey calls Ian his dom top, likes to be choked, likes to be called a slut, and has a daddy kink

- mickey being the only person consistently able to pick up on ian's triggers and behavioural changes to help him manage his mental illness

- mutually obsessed in love, would die for each other, no line they won't cross for each other. Ride or die

- them being best friends and childhood sweethearts

- them always coming back to each other and fighting for each other regardless of time or distance or circumstances

- ian grabbing mickey's neck and mickey cupping ian's face every time they kiss

- ian calling mickey "baby"

- clothes sharing

- partners in crime. partners in business. partners in life.

- a love confession in which mickey literally recites wedding vows 5 whole years before they got married

- them actually getting married!!!

He’ll be reading a book in his study, and suddenly he notices a burn mark on his hand that he can’t remember getting. Yeah, he was in the kitchen earlier helping Alfred get stuff out of the oven, but he didn’t feel anything when he accidentally touched the hot pan.

He’ll be feeling a little dizzy after chasing Damian through the woods behind the manor, attributing his lightheadedness and weakness to overexertion since he and Damian were having so much fun. Turns out a thorn caught his pants and ripped down the side of his leg. He’s been bleeding profusely for a while and only noticed when Damian worriedly pointed it out.

No one else notices it for a long while, because why would Bruce ever feel like bringing this up to anyone around him, but slowly they start to pay more attention. Bruce doesn't enjoy that his kids can point out the fact that he's hurt before he bothers to take inventory of himself.

The kids start taking a page out of Bruce's book and carry around more bandages, not just for themselves. Bruce always has stuff on him, cause his kids are chaos junkies, but he deliberately chooses not to use them on himself when he gets hurt.

When Jason finds out that small tidbit, he almost cusses Bruce out, but Dick smacks him in the back of his head and asks him how that was gonna help the situation.

So yes, now Bruce reluctantly lets his kids cover him in Band-Aids whenever he gets even the smallest cuts or bruises.

Dick is the most dramatic when he puts bandages on, giving Bruce a loud, exaggerated kiss every time. Cass decides to follow in the footsteps of giving a kiss, but more sincerely, and asks Bruce to take care of himself. Jason tosses him a Band-Aid (specially made Red Hood themed) and nags him to pay attention before walking away, later nonchalantly trying to check if Bruce actually put the Band-Aid on.

Tim chooses the ugliest and worst Band-Aids he can find, and when Bruce jokingly complained, he found out Tim actually thought they were cute and got pouty for an hour until Bruce apologized. Stephanie exclusively has dinosaur Band-Aids specifically for him; she does not allow anyone else to use them.

Duke has all kinds of cartoons on his Band-Aids that Bruce has never heard of, but patiently listens to Duke rant and rave about the characters any day. Damian used to only use plain Band-Aids till Steph introduced him to the world of cute animal ones, and now he makes Bruce pick out which animal he wants.

The Tatter Textile Library in New York put out a call for volunteers to stitch the names of the 146 garment workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911. They sewed all the names into a banner, which was placed on the site of the fire in commemoration. On Instagram the Library wrote:

We're back in The Pitt for season 2 and rooting for our faves as they embark on another long day of emergency medicine at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Here's some fan art of Drs. Robby, Whittaker, King & co to keep you going til Friday.

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Tim went up on his tiptoes and looked straight into the helmet's eyes. It was kind of creepy, yet not in a way that made Jason want to pistol whip him. "Can you help me with my monologue?" He asked, widening his eyes slightly so that he looked like a particularly spooked owl.

Jason blinked. He was starting to think this was all some sort of fever dream. Maybe something Ivy cooked up?

"No." He said, after a long, awkward pause. "Why would you even–"

Tim frowned. "That's why you're here isn't it?"

"Why would I break into the Tower to help you with your monologue?" Jason asked. 

"I–" the kid cut himself off, seeming to realize the fault in his logic. "Then why are you here?" He grumbled.

That’s not the issue at stake here. Let me tell you a little something about “minirooms.”

Minirooms are a way of television writing that is becoming more common. Basically, the studio will hire a small group of writers, 3-6 or so, and employ them for just a few weeks. In those few weeks (six weeks seem to be common), they have to hurriedly figure out as much about the show as they can – characters, plots, outlines for episodes. Then at the end of the six weeks, all the writers are fired except for the showrunner, who has to write the entire series themselves based on the outlines.

This is not a widespread practice, but it has become more common over the past couple of years. Studios like it because instead of paying for a full room for the full length of the show, they just pay a handful of writers for a fraction of the show. It’s not a huge problem now, but the WGA only gets the chance to make rules every three years – if we let this go for another three years and it becomes the norm? That would be DEVASTATING for the tv writing profession.

Do I feel like I’m mistreated? No. I LOVE my job! But in a world of minirooms, there is no place for someone like me – a mid-level writer who makes a decent living working on someone else’s show (I’d like to be a showrunner someday, but for now I feel like I still have a lot to learn, and my husband and I are trying to start a family so I like not being support rather than the leader for now). In a miniroom, there are only two levels – the handful of glorified idea people who are already scrambling to find their next show because you can’t make a decent living off of one six-week job (and since there are fewer people per room, there are fewer jobs overall, even at the six-week amount), and the overworked, stressed as fuck showrunner who is going to have to write the entire thing themselves. Besides being bad for me making a living, I also just think it’s plain bad for television as an art form – what I like about TV is how adaptable it is, how a whole group of people come together to tell a story better than what any of them could do on their own. Plus the showrunner can’t do their best work under all of that pressure, episode after episode, back to back. Minirooms just…fucking suck.

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