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||normal about classic TV + movies||
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stuck in that moonlight riptide
brudick; rated E; underage
In Dick's defense, Bruce did promise he could have whatever he wanted if he got straight A's on his end of the year report card. If he chose to remind Batman of that while they were out on patrol, well then, what of it?
Distractions, Distractions
brudick; rated E; underage
Bruce had to tell Dick that Robin’s suit needed a cape. He just had to figure out how to do so without admitting the real reason behind this. For better or worse, Dick had a way of wriggling the truth out of him.
Bruise Your Lover (So He Remembers Once You're Gone)
brudick; rated E; graphic violence; w/ @ful-crum
After what could only be called a rough patrol, Dick and Bruce finally broke through the barrier that had been separating them since Dick left for Blüdhaven years ago. That night felt like a new leaf, for Dick at least; too bad he had to wake up alone the next morning.
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Or: Dick gets mildly tortured for 23k straight
Guidance of the Gray Son
brudick; rated E; graphic violence; w/ @lunarbeastsol
Dick Grayson had a destiny. For eighteen long years, he trained under the guidance of his sponsors, pushing his mortal body to the limit and beyond in the hopes that one day, he, as well, could be among those who cared for the city that had raised him.
Bruce Wayne had a dream. For eighteen long years, he followed the progress of the orphan boy he hadn’t been able to save, coining the plan to help the city that gave him all he had.
And she... she dreamed, awaiting her incoming destiny. She had never been a damsel in a distress, no—she had been fighting tirelessly, with all she had—but still, she had grown weary…
And so, she waited in the gentle embrace of dreams.
this time i won't be complacent (my old shit ends here tonight)
brudick; rated E; author chose not to warn
All Dick had to do was keep Bruce from questioning just why he continued to allow the sex to happen, even though it had been years since they started this little thing. How hard could that be, really?
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Or: five times Dick and Bruce fuck to avoid talking about their feelings for each other, one time Jason gives Dick a much-needed pep talk, and one time Dick and Bruce actually talk about their feelings.
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Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”
Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”
Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”
Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”
State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”
The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.
Got a lot of traction with my Dad like this: he's not even MAGA he just doesn't Get It(tm) ... but he understood me perfectly when I said "Well I don't want a politician to decide what my gender is it's none of their business".
“It just means you have to work double as hard as most people!”
Well maybe I don’t WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe I’ve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and it’s led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I don’t have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DON’T have to work double as hard!! Maybe if there’s the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because I’m already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!
Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?
sometimes when someone comments on your fanfic, it’s like those randomly-occurring emergency heal spells that bring you back up to full health when you’re about to die. like i was struggling to write today but someone out of nowhere left a comment and HELLO! THANK YOU! i am back and a writer again.
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When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...
This is the fifth anniversary of me receiving the paper that contained "Unused York City." With ChatGPT slop invading my classes like original thought-choking kudzu, I now look back on the copy-paste + Spinbot days with a surprising amount of rosy nostalgia.
I was once in the office and another professor called me over. She was teaching a course on global citizenship.
"I can't figure out what this student is writing about," she said. "She keeps using the phrase 'perspiration stores.' Perspiration stores this, perspiration stores that."
I glanced at the paper and read a paragraph.
"Friend," I said. "She's writing about sweatshops."
They thing about women’s sports is that I think most of us who watch them want a future of all gender sports leagues but unless you have a way to make misogyny go away in the next week and cis men to actually, meaningfully allow other genders to compete with them and share resources without harassment, women’s leagues going away would just mean women do not play sports anymore (or, play it in secret unsanctioned events like it used to be.) And the biggest thing you can do is 1) fight against the idea that these spaces should only be for certain kinds of women (cis women, white women, upper class women, etc) and refocus / realign these spaces to be for anyone experiencing gender marginalization who is denied access to traditional sporting spaces 2) invest enough resources into these athletes until they’re just too good to deny the most predominant spaces in sports that men occupy
The thing that annoys me is way too many people, including other people on the left, is acting as if women’s sports came about because some women went up to their college admin like “we want to play basketball but we’re too scared to play with the boys :(“ instead of it mainly being clubs and teams of women who suffered nonstop harassment playing on boys clubs and were refused playin time or resources or were literally barred from competing and had to do it in secret / after hours / etc and were mainly asking for a place to just safely play and work on their craft and saying if you won’t let us in, we’ll create our own. There are obviously some women athletes right now pushing bullshit narratives and getting in on the grift of “well we need this because we’re weaker we know we’re not as good as the boys~” but there’s a lot more that understand these places exist because begging cis men for scraps in their spaces wasn’t working so they created their own
hi okay sorry I'm actually reblogging a second time because I have more thoughts. I feel like a lot of (especially new) women's sports fans rn are going in the "sports should all be gender integrated" because that /feels/ more liberatory, but I think underlying that is (like you're saying) a misunderstanding of history and structure, and it ends up accomplishing the opposite of what I think most of these folks actually want.
To put it simply: I think a lot of fans think of the existence of women's leagues as being like segregation, when really it's a lot more like affirmative action.
In slightly more detail: a lot of people seem to think that men wanted to keep women out of existing sports leagues/orgs, so they created separate leagues to contain women and keep them separate from men. That didn't happen! Keeping women out of men's sports doesn't require providing any alternatives, and men certainly didn't start women's leagues. Women fought for and built their own sports institutions, and the purpose those institutions serve is to create a space where misogyny--not biology, misogyny--doesn't create inequity between athletes. (Though there's still PLENTY of inequity around race, class, nationality, transness, etc.) That's the affirmative action part: a women's league is an organization where it's guaranteed that every roster spot is protected for people experiencing gender-based discrimination. If you've ever interviewed for a job you're qualified for and then found out afterward that they hired some unqualified dude who's going to get that money instead? Women's sports leagues are built to make that material impact of misogyny impossible.
The second layer of this that I really wish more people understood is that when you see "women's" sports leagues not as single-gender segregation but instead as affirmative action meant to combat gender-based discrimination, you also get *the strongest possible argument for including trans people--especially trans women--in women's sports.* That's something I think (I hope!) we are all fighting for, and I think a lot people saying "we should just integrate sports!" are really doing that out of an anxiety or uncertainty about how to reconcile their enjoyment of "women's" sports with their desire to include trans people. But if you frame what we currently call "women's" sports as "sports spaces set aside for people experiencing gender discrimination" then nobody who's even a little bit worth talking to can tell you that trans people (again, especially women) don't 100% belong there.
100%, also like not a 1:1 on any sense as the social context and systems of oppression were very different but in a philosophical sense / understanding how these sporting spaces can be born as a response to oppression without endorsing said oppression, another historical example would be the existence of the Negro Leagues in baseball. They existed because of the color line in baseball, Jim Crow laws, and segregation meant they could not participate in the existent major leagues, but the Negro Leagues themselves were not created by white people or pro-segregation, they were spaces in which Black people could continue their athletic careers / crafts with less harassment, a better chance at controlling the resources within the playing field even if there were less resources than their white counterparts, and the ability to keep making money from the sport. It also meant that once integration did happen, there were players ready to compete right away in terms of skill level because the leagues got better with time and players got better. It was not perfect and they were still given less pay, resources, and respect than white teams and faced intense harassment, but it was an improvement from either playing on the majority white teams in the indie leagues where they got treated horribly or not playing at all, and Black baseball players were able to form their own communities and make their own history in that time
it's really beneficial to be able to discern when something is being used as a dog whistle and when someone is just doing/saying something that happens to also be used as a dog whistle. dog whistles are specifically designed to blend in with other language and symbolism. while some phrases/symbolism is always fascist shit, some dog whistles are only dog whistles in context.
odds are that person with a sunflower profile photo is not using that sunflower as the obscure dog whistle used by nazis but instead just likes sunflowers. on the other hand someone with "noticer1488" as a username is probably signaling that they are a nazi.
additionally, sometimes people are using an always-dogwhistle but don't even realize it because it has been so normalized! I see this a lot with "goy slop," the "noticer" thing, wojak memes, etc.
"noticer1488" is probably still a nazi but a random autistic person calling themself a "pattern noticer" might not realize that they're calling themself a nazi because nazi memes got reblogged and shared among autistic people without context and they seem innocent so a lot of people didn't catch on. that's the point of dog whistles. they seem innocent to an outsider.
it's often good to approach someone using a common dog whistle (I wouldn't count things like sunflowers in this) and say "hey are you aware this is a dog whistle?" unless it's apparent they are, in fact, a fascist. most of the time people will go "oh fuck! I did not realize that!" and they will stop using it.
my sewing machine does exactly one thing, and yet every single time I try to sew something with it I feel like I've put my baby in the pelican's mouth. over and over again.
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I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!
PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!
For anyone who wasnt around when this happened, this was real. Littlefuckinmonster was actually stealing bones from cemeteries. She is the bone stealing witch. She was specifically stealing bones from poor people. She was arrested for it.
rip to the guy who posted his very expensive yixing teapot to r/tea, only for the comments to be not compliments on his taste as he expected, but instead GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY and I SHOULD CALL HER. he then crossposted it to r/gongfutea, which is ordinarily more dignified and self-serious, but was it? was it?? of course not, because this is reddit, and this was the teapot
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probably the worst attitude tumblr unintentionally cultivates is "the world out there is completely dangerous for you and no one can possibly understand you, so you should isolate yourself from it and avoid interacting with it as much as possible"
"If you put away social media and you walk out into the streets and you look at real people, three-dimensional people, they mostly smile back at you. If you look around you- you see perfectly decent, ordinary people getting on with their lives and inclined, by and large, to rather like each other, that is the real us. Let us not be fooled."
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