#health-based projects

[cluescorner]

Randomized Robins AU - Ages + Worst Trait Exercise:

Steph (25):

Says her worst trait is her murderous rages (she is exaggerating for dramatic/comedic effect, she’s killed 3 people tops and for very good reason)

Thinks her worst trait is her spitefulness (one of the few traits she definitely got from her father + one that prevents her from fixing her relationships and living her best possible life. She’ll refuse to interact with someone she dearly loves after an argument (happens significantly less after Tim’s death) or will say things she knows are hurtful just for the sake of having the last word. This trait will worsen in some ways as the list of people who have wronged her and those she loves grows, but will also ease up as she matures and realizes the harm it’s doing to her relationships with those she loves most.)

Her worst trait really is her spitefulness

Cass (26)

Says her worst trait is her self-righteousness (she believes that her goals are righteous and, as a result, she is righteous. Cass becomes very defensive whenever someone questions the mission and often does not second-guess herself. This is a trait she only develops later in life as she grows closer to Bruce/learns to understand herself more/starts to love herself more. But she knows she isn’t perfect and when somebody she trusts criticizes something she is doing she is willing to listen. She just usually isn’t the one to START the introspection.) 

Thinks her worst trait is her self-righteousness. 

Her worst trait actually is her obsessiveness (she gets it from Bruce and, while not as bad as him, she will easily become preoccupied with her night-life and the mission if someone isn’t there to pull her back. She will do this to the point of self-destruction and it hurts her relationships with the people she loves, especially Steph.)

Tim (24)

Says his worst trait is his spitefulness (he actively rejects the idea of mending his relationships with the older members of the family and this causes him to also lack good relationships with the younger ones)

Thinks his worst trait is his obsessiveness (similar to Cass, if he gets fixated on a task or idea he will neglect everything else in his life in order to dedicate more time to it. Unlike Cass, he will almost never be dragged away from it unless Pierrot snatches control of the body and forces them to take care of themself.)

His worst trait actually is how manipulative he is (the KING of guilt-tripping and using people’s emotions against them. He’ll do whatever he needs to do to get what he wants, he’s not above crocodile tears. And he will do it to whoever he needs (or wants) to with little care for how his actions impact others.)

Pierrot (Insists: “Age doesn’t apply to me! And even if it did, I'd probably be the oldest. Or the youngest! I’d never be a middle child, though.” Mental assessments by the Bats have put him around 21, with a margin of error of 3 years. Pierrot has called this “blatant character assassination by my eternal rival!”)

Says his worst trait is that he is an irredeemable psychopath without any regard for the wellbeing of others (this is a lie and everyone who's important to him understands this). 

Thinks his worst trait is his parasitic nature (he literally would not exist had Tim not suffered the way he did. Plus he is a living reminder of one of the worst things that happened to many of his loved ones. He is a parasite injected into a functional person's body and contributes to his continued suffering. This is also a largely incorrect judgement of himself, caused by his actual worst trait.)

His worst trait actually is his limited sense of self (he doesn’t really know who he is outside of ‘inheritor to the legacy of the Joker (a man he despises yet also views as a father)’ and ‘chip in Tim’s brain that became sentient’. He slowly develops an identity over the course of his life and relationships with other people, but he lacks the foundations of identity that most people have. Pierrot will often almost become a caricature of himself and what others perceive him to be because it's the only person he knows how to be. This causes wild swings in how he behaves and relates to others, sometimes to the detriment of himself and others.)

Dick (17) 

Says his worst trait is his clinginess (he is a very extraverted person who likes to be around others, which mixed with his fear of abandonment after his parents died means that if he goes a few days without seeing/talking to a friend he will get very anxious.)

Thinks his worst trait is his anger issues (he gets ticked off very easily and will explode on people. He’s kind at his core and is usually very nice, but he has a temper that can escalate significantly. Spoiler (and later Twist) help him channel this anger into something positive.)

His worst trait actually is his anger issues.

Barbara (18)

Says her worst trait is her disability (internalized ableism, she thinks of herself as less valuable than the other Bats because she cannot be out there in the capes like they can. She will grow out of this as she matures and as she learns how invaluable her support for the team is.)  

Thinks her worst trait is her disability 

Her worst trait actually is her overly-independent nature (In an attempt to overcompensate for everything she can no longer do, she has resolved to do literally everything that she possibly can without any help from others. This results in many instances where she either takes on too much and winds up not being able to fully realize any of her tasks or where she makes her life and the lives of others significantly harder by refusing help when offered/not asking for it when she needs it.)

Damian (16)

Says his worst trait is his perfectionism (he is overly critical of both himself and others, taking any flaw or problem and amplifying it to an absurd degree. This is due in part to his life with the LoA (where even a brief misstep could lead to death), in part to how others treated him initially as Spoiler (any flaw was fixated on and used as a reason to either mistrust him or portray him as unworthy of the mantle), and in part due to the fact that he is Bruce’s son (the only person with worse perfectionism problems than Damian). Gradually, Damian has improved in this regard but it’s still a massive barrier to both his own happiness and his relationships with others.)

Thinks his worst trait is his perfectionism 

His worst trait actually is his perfectionism

Duke (16)

Says his worst trait is his definitely-real secret evil side (says this as a ‘my dad is a villain so who knows??’ joke)

Thinks his worst trait is his impulsivity in his words (Sometimes he will crack a joke or say a remark without thinking it through, leading to a LOT of hurt feelings and drama. He’ll say something without thinking it through and wind up seeming insensitive. This isn’t done because of malice, rather because Duke is someone who’s quick to act and speak. But while the mantle of Insight and his awakening powers have helped him with his actions, they do not always help with his loose tongue. As such, Duke gains an unfair reputation in the media as an instigator and will accidentally cause family drama through what he says.)

His worst trait actually is his impulsivity in his words

Jason (14)

Says his worst trait is his bad manners (he grew up on the streets and has no idea how rich-people society works, which he’s pretty insecure about considering he’s now the youngest kid of Bruce freaking Wayne). 

Thinks his worst trait is his reactiveness (Jason never got the privilege of planning ahead for various events in his life, so he instead needed to rely on being swift and harsh in how he could react to situations. It’s saved his life on multiple occasions and helps significantly in his role as Spoiler, but it can also lead to extreme overreactions (accidentally causing kidnapping scare after Jason ran away following a fight with Dick) and a struggle to plan things out ahead of time. As he grows more secure in his place in the family and in life, this trait will lessen but never fully dissipate.)

His worst trait actually is his reactiveness

#stephanie brown #cassandra cain #tim drake #dick grayson #barbara gordon #damian wayne #duke thomas #jason todd #batfamily #randomizedrobinsau #I'm debating whether I should tag this with the Joker Junior tag and those related to it for Pierrot #because like...it's not quite that. but it's also very close to that and is the direct result of that. #but Pierrot would fucking HATE to be tagged as that and sees it as an insult to his identity...which he already has problems with #so I don't think I'm gonna #anyways lmao I am totally projecting my younger self onto Barbara. How could I not? She's literally the reason I view my disability #the way that I do and she actively improved my mental health just by existing and saying some of the shit she did when I was in the #stages of accepting my own disability. So yeah I am projecting a lot onto her because I love her and see myself in her. #I'm mostly basing these characterizations on my favorite versions of them (ie Red Robin 2009 Tim and Birds of Prey Barbara). #so I'm taking the traits I like/think fit in this AU and discarding what I think either is bad or doesn't fit or if I just don't like it. #Damian's 'murder gremlin who is a meanie on purpose because he is a meanie' is entirely unappealing to me and also does not fit this AU #I prefer him when he's portrayed as a sympathetic kid (who is still an asshole) and not a demon child. So that's what I'm using. #same with Talia's 'abusive mother who is totally on-board with all of her father's bullshit and will kill someone for no reason' version #I have read enough comics to know what I like/what is most important and what I don't like/what is #BLATANT CHARACTER ASSASSINATION GRANT MORRISON YOU FUCK YOU SET TALIA BACK SO FUCKING FAR #I also decided to outline their WORST traits because I already know what I like about these characters/their best traits. #most people do. But what was a greater challenge was finding what would make their lives and those of others worse. #what would I hate about this person if I knew them IRL? What would I first suggest they get therapy for? What hurts them and why? #I found these questions really interesting in the context of this AU where some people are forced into completely different roles #the says/thinks/is was inspired by trying to answer that question for myself. I say my worst trait is my impulsiveness but when #I asked others in my life they answered 'oh so you said your weird thing where you don't ask for help right?'

[vaguely-concerned]

I just finished padawan by kiersten white and had a blast with it -- it was exactly the kind of thing my brain craved this week, just some nice character study and adventure story stuff for my brain to chill in. thoughts:

a) I love obi-wan and his poor anxiety-ridden teenage self so so much. peak a delight to have in class to the point of nervous break representation, someone help him. local boy manages to become parentified child to an absent father somehow. that part where he's so afraid he's so bad and useless that the force itself might just decide it doesn't want him after all........ heartbreaking. that's exactly what I would have thought at sixteen too probably. (also my personal headcanon has always been that obi-wan is on the ace spectrum, so that was a very nice thing to find supported in this book! canon is vast and can support any number of stances that way honestly everyone should go hog wild with it in whatever manner they please, but that's always been my vibe)

b) qui-gon fucking jinn if you don't step up and do something to help the child in your charge with his ACTUAL DEBILITATING ANXIETY DISORDER RUNNING HIM RAGGED other than ask him to meditate so help me I will come over there and do maul's work for him ahead of time I swear to fucking god

c) no, really, it says some not very good things about qui-gon's mentorship abilities that obi-wan really only manages to grow and be calmer when he's outside of his influence. I know this book means you to come away with the feeling that obi-wan takes a big step towards enlightenment and adulthood on this trip (and I do think that's also true to be clear!), but there is a part of me that also thinks that just as much as personal and spiritual development what we're seeing here is an avoidant attachment style definitively entrenching itself as a result of having no adult that can be consistently trusted to meet him emotionally. (which also makes a horrible kind of sense, thinking about what obi-wan and anakin's relationship is going to be like in the future -- obi-wan is avoidant and self-contained when it comes to trying to deal with his emotions, and anakin skews far more anxious and towards lashing out, and they never quite understand each other for all the love that is there. you can trace that all the way back here. sins of the master, huh.) obi-wan finds some agency and catharsis in being able to help a group of abandoned children, you say. hm. I'm sure this means nothing and has no parallels in his own inner world. you let the kid think you'd completely abandoned him instead of communicating with him openly for like five minutes. For His Own Good of course. Wow I didn't realize I was this angry about this but here I am once again livid on obi-wan's behalf, actually. 'I'm an incredible teacher and this lack of honest emotional communication I'm fostering in favour of (benign!) manipulation is never going to come back and bite the jedi order in the ass, surely'; the qui-gon jinn story

#as someone who has been asked to meditate to cure mental illness since I was like twelve: obi-wan should be allowed to kill. murder even #star wars #padawan 2022 #obi wan kenobi #I may of course be doing some projecting here but knowing how it turns out..... I don't think I'm entirely off base either #I uh. I wonder a little bit at how the jedi actually approach mental health in general because obi wan is A Mess in this #and no one fuckign seems to notice or care b/c he's obsessive about not making it anyone else's problem lmao #he's been allowed to develop crippling eldest daughter syndrome among a bunch of enlightened force sensitives #there is so clearly a lot of warmth and wonderful things in the jedi temple don't get me wrong at all! but uh. #they've clearly got some weak spots that will also be there by the time it's anakin's turn with the generational trauma lol #star wars meta

[calamity-unlocked]

To get rid of the Doodler, they needed to be radical. Code Purple was that radical plan, and it had worked. For a while. It just needed to work again. Which it would. Lark was convinced that it would. You’re either with us or against us, Nicky. Welp. Guess that by that infallible logic, I’m against you. Sorry, guys. Lark was sorry, too. But feeling sorry had never been too big of an issue for him.

Or: Lark and Nick spend one last night together before shit hits the fan.

Dungeons and Daddies - Nark - Rated T for Teen - 5.2k words

#dndads #dungeons and daddies #nark #nark nation #lark oak #nick close #calamity's writing #i swear i'll be gone in the morning #right. tag rant section #i think you can tell my mental health has been getting worse based on the content of my nark fics lol #this one is *so* unhappy and it was undescribably cathartic to write #taking the sentence 'lark doesnt allow anyone to love him' to a literal level #i intend to focus on my multichaptered projects from now on #although i do have a sequel to this one in mind #also! as people might know i am no longer listening to dndads #thought about explaining why but nah. you can unlock it if you find yourself in my discord dms tho #but that means i only know whats happening in the show secondhand #so characterization might be a bit off #though lbr the kiddads ficwriters never had that much to work with anyway #anyway. different topic. #im reccommending the ghost note symphonies to everyone. amazing album #played it on loop while writing this

[dndtreasury]

Songbird's Survival Guide for Aspiring Adventures

#talmanah project #sketchy kobold #camping #travel #bases #base #nature #book #books #magic items #rare #food #healing #health #recover #favorites #fav #ranger #rangers #survival

[non-un-topo]

Prayer circle for me pls so I can get this bursary that I desperately need!! 🙏

#it's one of those working bursaries so i would be working in the library 5 hours a week #but it’s all based on financial need. so im not applying for any loans or whatnot this year #and i told my parents not to try and help me gndkgks. the less money the better my chance is of getting this job #i really really really want it. it's in the gender studies library and that's exactly what i want to do post graduation #and ofc i desperately need money. it's really bad actually. #was GOING to open up commissions this summer but oh hey it's august tomorrow! #i had a lot of unexpected health issues this summer so all my projects have slowed down. still working but slow. #anyway pls pray to the universe and anyone who is listening 😭 im actually desperate

[sootandfangdiary]

I finally have time to work on my environmental science honors project I am . Incredibly excited and the best idea just hit me

#basically the project is about creating an experiment about something relating to env science #based off of previous literature #and I’m thinking about doing something about pollution and it’s possible effect on mental health #possibly focusing on dissociative disorders if I can find enough stuff for it #but ye #excited

[dreamsy990]

hey friend of mine said to call you dream the green smile man. do I have permission to kill

POINTING. MY NAME CAME FIRST. PLEASE KILL

#honestly when i chose my username my biggest worry was a german fortnite youtuber who had it #anyways origin story! it came from the name of one of my two childhood ocs #she ended up kind of being a character i projected all my thoughts onto and ended up being. a little bit self destructive and gloomy #and her counterpart was her chaotic sister (who i eventually turned in to just a friend) who i based off the persona i tried to give off #their names were dreamsy and sapph <- (originally dream and sapphire) #anyways when i was super young i used to care a lot more about dreamsy as the one who was representative of all my issues #but over time i actually started thinking about the mental toll sapph would have with the narrative id made of her constantly putting- #-herself and her own mental health second to helping dreamsy #and it kind of turned into a narrative about boundaries and learning to take care of yourself first #now that i think about it this was kind of. dark for a story i made up when i was like 7 or 8 #but ive had these two in the back of my head for years #theyre the only ocs i ever made that i really cared about #i wasnt really thinking too hard about it when i picked the name though i just chose my ocs name and went with it

[pallases]

PROF ROUNDING GRADE UP AMEN 🙏🏻

#personal #the engineering chronicles #also there was a mistake in how he graded my final project so that helped too #get to feel good abt at least one of my classes this semester thank god 😭 physics has me feeling so shitty and the rest of my classes are #either teetering and probably won’t be a’s or they’re one credit labs etc that are easy to get a’s in #but this one oh my god i slaved away for this class. and idont regret it at all bc i feel like i really really understand everything i did #in it and how it all worked. v glad that he is letting it pay off #didn’t even need to ask him outright i just wanted to know what his calculated final percentage was to see if it matched mine and he just #went i was waiting for you to ask that. etc etc we discussed some stuff. and then he just went i will round it up #part of it is also that my lab partner vanished off the face of the earth for the last three weeks bc of health issues and obv the last #three weeks are when you’re covering the hardest content and assignments so he is granting me leniency based on that LMAO #seriously though besides the blinking rgb i had to do eeeeverything for our final project. and it was SO time consuming #again don’t regret it bc honestly i don’t think i would Get It nearly as much if we had actually been able to split the work properly. but

[not-poignant]

Hi Pia!

How's writing Mallory and Mount and Underline the Black going?

xxx

It's not!

I mean firstly I just don't have like magical extra time to do lots of side writing. As an example this month I have written, edited and completed:

Secret Project chapter 1 Secret Project chapter 2 Falling Falling Stars 133 Falling Falling Stars 134 Falling Falling Stars 135 Falling Falling Stars 136 Falling Falling Stars 137 Falling Falling Stars 138 The Nascent Diplomat 23

To the tune of a wordcount of 43k, you know? (This also doesn't include making all the graphics for the oracle deck launching tomorrow, and making sure all the listings, advertising etc. are ready for that).

Idk where I can sort of find extra time to write or work on side projects. They really do have to completely wait until after I finish at least Falling Falling Stars.

But since I've been writing a ridiculous and borderline unhealthy amount every month for around 2 years, I'm actually taking the rest of August off from writing as a holiday once Falling Falling Stars is finished.

So I'm not actually going to be writing any of Underline the Black or Mallory & Mount, at least not in a very dedicated way, until probably September. I am...tired. And very realistically, I will be writing Underline the Black first, there's still an awful lot of worldbuilding to do for Mallory & Mount.

#asks and answers #mandm #mallory and mount #underline the black #upcoming projects #this also doesn't take into account like the 20+ medical appts i've had this month #and the liver specialist i'm seeing next week because i have liver disease now #and the physio i saw because of a knee injury #and the podiatrist i saw because of an ingrown toenail #and all the stress-based physical symptoms i have from working hard #and the psychiatrist i'm now seeing #and the heart test i needed to have because my heart is weird dslkafjsdaf #my health imploded over the last two months

[detectiveships]

Digital Painting/Likeness study from memory of the queen Park Min Young as Choi Sang Eun in Love in Contract

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Please do not repost; reblogs are always welcome 😉

#park min young #choi sang eun #love in contract #detectiveships #my art #love in contract fanart #digital painting #study #I might or might not have finally been able to take some time off and get my mojo back into drawing for personal projects AHEM fanart #honestly it's refreshing to draw for fun and was much needed for my mental health #bless choi sang eun x jung ji ho for reinspiring me to draw ships 😏 and give me an excellent excuse to study faces likeness and portraits #I know this one is just a digital painting study but TBH I'm so happy this came out from memory #I've been having a really hard time capturing PMY’s features to maintain likeness #so I made a couple of studies based off photos earlier today as well as stylization attempts and it's paying off #I'm not ready yet to post my sang eun x ji ho sketches but hope to be soon! #alsooooo #forgot to mention (as note to self) that I picked two colors at random and kept working with this high-key contrast #Which I've been loving and don't always use

[astranauticus]

anyway can we talk about how almost every upcoming liu yuning character is a tragic figure. cuz if im thinking about bai choufei for months after finishing heroes idk how many more of those my mental health can take tbh

#liu yuning #oh so that's what it takes for me to finally make a tag for him #like of his 5(?) upcoming shows 3 of them are adaptations so we know exactly how things end for all his characters #and the answer is 'not good' for all of them! delightful #like spoilers obviously but as far as i can tell #di lin (from zi chuan) has a very similar character trajectory to bai choufei #starts out in the protagonist trio slowly gets pushed onto a path that eventually leads to him betraying his brothers #and thats the one thats projected to air this year so. delightful #as a side note the zi chuan animation is on myanimelist?? wild #zhuo bufan from floating world is the worlds best swordsman in the era when guns are just starting to get popularised #you can probably already see how that's gonna go for him #completely unrelated side note but the story of zhuo bufan and his love interest is so fucking weird #like this is all from that one floating world bts live lyn did but #she is somehow simultaneously his 师妹 (younger girl taught by the same master) and 师娘 (wife of his master) ?? #no idea how that works dying to find out #and best for last! luo mingxi from legend of anle #just like. classic pathetic love triangle victim male second lead stubbornly in unrequited love with the female lead #also his health is terrible like hes constantly ill or something #like you can just tell hes gonna be one of those. pathetic meow meow wet paper bag men and im so here for it #hilariously after heroes came out a lot of lyn fans who read the book the legend of anle is based on were talking about how like #luo mingxi has this. super likeable characterisation #like you can kinda tell the entire fanbase is just really sick of the bai choufei discourse #and like desperately hoping that his next character is gonna be just. wholesome and unproblematic #well with the way the chronologies worked out in the end we're sure as hell not getting that if zi chuan airs first but oh well #the writer and director on zi chuan are from the writing/directing team of ultimate note actually so i have a lot of hope #cuz ultimate note was a really good adaptation so clearly this team knows what they're doing #actually ultimate note has 3 credited directors and of those 1 of them is a director on both zi chuan and floating world #another is directing a journey to love #c ents a small world i guess ???

[darthrrevan]

it's weird I lived in europe for a year and now the prospect of going back for 7 weeks has me very anxious

#rev speaks #it's probably the Trauma #it obviously is #but it's weird trauma idk how to deal with and I'm tired of therapy #bc there's only so much to say when you have chronic pain and that's what devastates you daily #BUT COME ON IM GOING TO STUDY AT OXFORD #FUCKING OXFORD #that's a big fuckin deal #galaxy braining myself #it's all my extremely deeply buried high school me's dreams were #just far later and affected by severe health issues than i ever wanted #last summer writing my papers was agony #im hoping poetry based class will be less painful? #but im a dumb dumb and am also doing a special one on one professor project for poetry as well #genuinely did not think id get to do it I phoned in my proposal very very hard #wrote it on my phone in about 5 mins I believe #ahhhhhh despite everything and my own wants and desires I remain good at one (1) thing: academics #i want to ask my parents what they think life wouldve been like if they'd encouraged my love for english and arts earlier #but that's the petty bitch in me wanting to punish them

[starkidlabs]

I just want to do a PhD so badly but I feel like there’s 100 obstacles in the way and that nobody (other than me) really wants me to do one.

#biggest obstacle is cash but also just trying to find a supervisor who would want to take on my project and is based in a uni I actually #want to go to/can reasonably get into #like Oxford and Cambridge (maybe?) have supervisors but can I get into them - probably not #my old uni definitely has a supervisor but I also just wanted a change of scenery #then all the other unis I kinda wanna go to seem to have no one in the department suitable for my project #and generally I’m just feeling discouraged by the people around me (other than one friend who wrote me a very nice text about how I should #do a PhD) #like it felt like my sister was trying to encourage me not to do one - my mum is constantly saying I shouldn’t because of mental health #issues - then one of the last things my ex said to me was not to do a PhD #like generally It feels like the worlds against me

[sol-flo]

i'm going to destroy this damn phone

- the boss avoider

#long vent / rant on tags open at your own risk #straight up turned off my phone and put teams on do not disturb because i was TRYING TO WORK and kept getting interrupted by his whining #(he particularly said he needed me to work [read: be at the office. december 22.] while hindering my ability to do so !!!) #like the job is lame and boring and all but as much as i bitch about it i overall don't mind it that much #i was on a nice roll. think i finished this first website draft in record time (it's not very complicated but still. just 2 days) #and i stg i never have any problems with my project heads yknow. it's not a matter of being bad at receiving orders or w/e #and regardless of what he might say the communication problems are not on my end. bc again it doesn't happen w anyone else #i brought it up with him and he said 'well communication is a two way street you have to do it too' but tell me how can i talk to this man #i misunderstand a message he sends bc he never ever details what he wants even after i specifically asked him to yknow #tell me the whole information when he asks something of me #and then i respond based on the message i received and he goes 'well show me where i said that' FUCK YOU #he's always so passive aggressive about it all too #like if you say 'we have to look at the marketing materials to make new social media posts' and then. not tell me anything else #how am i supposed to know that there's a specific folder and you want me to take the text previously written and put it on new images #like that's a whole other sentence my guy you cannot be mad that i thought you wanted me to scour your social media and #make new posts whole cloth. fuck right off i have to put in my notice bc it's impossible to work under a man like this #like forgive me for the expression but he absolutely lacks leadership skills #if you're not good with people you should just delegate those parts to people who are and focus on reading about the metav3rse #GOD. i'll soon be sent to the seaside for my health (new years trip w my friends) but. i won't be on break at all so :grimace: #because there's that too. haven't had a single break except for holidays but like. only the DAY of the holiday #holiday on a thursday and you're expecting a nice four day weekend? well too bad get fucked you're working that friday #like jesus you're not providing anything so important you need to work your employees every legally allowed day of the year #just stop for the holidays! people won't die because someone's website has been delayed for two weeks! #to think i even considered learning frontend to branch my career options. i'm not stepping foot in a tech company again in my life #i mean there's still self important bosses everywhere. my friend's at a marketing agency and god knows the owner is crazy but #the grindset is gonna kill you and i won't let it kill me too.

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #16

April 26-May 3 2024

President Biden announced $3 billion to help replace lead pipes in the drinking water system. Millions of Americans get their drinking water through lead pipes, which are toxic, no level of lead exposure is safe. This problem disproportionately affects people of color and low income communities. This first investment of a planned $15 billion will replace 1.7 million lead pipe lines. The Biden Administration plans to replace all lead pipes in the country by the end of the decade.

President Biden canceled the student debt of 317,000 former students of a fraudulent for-profit college system. The Art Institutes was a for-profit system of dozens of schools offering degrees in video-game design and other arts. After years of legal troubles around misleading students and falsifying data the last AI schools closed abruptly without warning in September last year. This adds to the $29 billion in debt for 1.7 borrowers who wee mislead and defrauded by their schools which the Biden Administration has done, and a total debt relief for 4.6 million borrowers so far under Biden.

President Biden expanded two California national monuments protecting thousands of acres of land. The two national monuments are the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which are being expanded by 120,000 acres. The new protections cover lands of cultural and religious importance to a number of California based native communities. This expansion was first proposed by then Senator Kamala Harris in 2018 as part of a wide ranging plan to expand and protect public land in California. This expansion is part of the Administration's goals to protect, conserve, and restore at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.

The Department of Transportation announced new rules that will require car manufacturers to install automatic braking systems in new cars. Starting in 2029 all new cars will be required to have systems to detect pedestrians and automatically apply the breaks in an emergency. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration projects this new rule will save 360 lives every year and prevent at least 24,000 injuries annually.

The IRS announced plans to ramp up audits on the wealthiest Americans. The IRS plans on increasing its audit rate on taxpayers who make over $10 million a year. After decades of Republicans in Congress cutting IRS funding to protect wealthy tax cheats the Biden Administration passed $80 billion for tougher enforcement on the wealthy. The IRS has been able to collect just in one year $500 Million in undisputed but unpaid back taxes from wealthy households, and shows a rise of $31 billion from audits in the 2023 tax year. The IRS also announced its free direct file pilot program was a smashing success. The program allowed tax payers across 12 states to file directly for free with the IRS over the internet. The IRS announced that 140,000 tax payers were able to use it over their target of 100,000, they estimated it saved $5.6 million in tax prep fees, over 90% of users were happy with the webpage and reported it quicker and easier than companies like H&R Block. the IRS plans to bring direct file nationwide next year.

The Department of Interior announced plans for new off shore wind power. The two new sites, off the coast of Oregon and in the Gulf of Maine, would together generate 18 gigawatts of totally clean energy, enough to power 6 million homes.

The Biden Administration announced new rules to finally allow DACA recipients to be covered by Obamacare. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an Obama era policy that allows people brought to the United States as children without legal status to remain and to legally work. However for years DACA recipients have not been able to get health coverage through the Obamacare Health Care Marketplace. This rule change will bring health coverage to at least 100,000 uninsured people.

The Department of Health and Human Services finalized rules that require LGBTQ+ and Intersex minors in the foster care system be placed in supportive and affirming homes.

The Senate confirmed Georgia Alexakis to a life time federal judgeship in Illinois. This brings the total number of federal judges appointed by President Biden to 194. For the first time in history the majority of a President's nominees to the federal bench have not been white men.

#Thanks Biden #Joe Biden #student loans #loan forgiveness #lead poisoning #clean water #DACA #health care #LGBT rights #queer kids #taxes #tax the rich

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There's something to be said for 'don't trust your thoughts about yourself after 9pm', but I think there's also something to be said for 'wallow in them and indulge your deepest anxieties and insecurities until you make so many concerning journal entries that you figure out the root cause of your mental health issues and various unhealthy neuroses'. I call it 'DIY Therapy'.

#and then i do Nothing with that information #but hey at least i know the base assumptions i have about myself that make me sad! #instead of projecting them onto others! #which is a step #mental health #venting #queen.txt #delete later