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i do think. hmmm like one of the greatest gifts bruce wayne (unintentionally) bequeathed upon his children is the ability to return to grief without drowning. you can run from gotham forever and a day in one direction, out past the harbour north and over the bridge and up through new york and conneticut only to turn and find yourself still tethered to the clocktower, the bay, the park and downtown, with the manor sitting squat on the horizon. you always turn around because it is in your nature to look for that grief, to see if it still follows you (it does) and if it will ever truly leave (it won’t) and if you might one day wish it gone (you can’t). says orpheus: at length i yielded, won by mighty love! so you find the circus and the valley and the hallway of your father’s house and that man’s office and a cave of blood and your mother’s empty smile and rather than swallowing you whole it instead welcomes your return. to gotham, to yourself before the grief, during and after. you turn to see yourself, to see others, to see the dead and dying. here is how you transform loss. here is how something truly terrible can change the world and act to prevent it happening again. here is the meaning of the suit. this is what it means to save a life. so says orpheus: i wish to be able to endure nor shall deny that i tried; love conquers!

am I unforgivable or is it just thursday

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

WAWHHWAWAWAWAWA LOOK AT THEMMMMMMM IM GEEKING OUT OMG I LOVE YOUR ART SM LOOK ITS THE UCTIES AUGH AUGH ON HOO OH NO. im going down. im dying. @dreamweave01 continue my legacy oughh

when a vacuum cleaner doesn't work very well: I would say it sucks but it actually doesn't and that's the problem