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siren-of-the-ocean-tumbls · 2 months

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Alright, Siren. First post on Tumblr (Have I been here forever? Yes. Is this a new blog? Also yes. Does this mean that I will be dramatic about it? Very much yes

My friend and I were discussing the other day about Batkids and their ages!

So! Ages and reasons, let's go!

Let's start with some canon ages and events (Also, canon is a puzzle and who knows if any of this still applies anywhere but!)

Dick was 8 when the Graysons fell.

Bruce was 19 when he started his journey to become Batman (18 + 1 year of med school) Bruce also trained for 3 years overseas and there was no Robin for Batman year one. So Bruce is minimum 23 when the Graysons fall.

Now. When Jason dies, he's 15. Tim is 14 when he takes the mantle about 6 months later. And Dick is in his rebellious phase at 19.

Barbara is shot just shortly before Jason's death at the age of 19. Meaning Babs is 19. Jason is 15

When Tim becomes Red Robin, he's 17. Damian is 10.

Cass becomes Batgirl at 17 during the middle of Tim's Robin Run at +- 16.

Steph becomes Spoiler and starts to date Tim at 15, meaning they're about the same age.

Now Duke is a bit more difficult because canon shifts. But! He's Signal when Tim is wearing the terrible showgirl costume! So, it's after Red Robin. Tim's gone for a year so Tim is a minimum of 18 and Duke is 17 when he becomes Signal

This gives us age comparisons for all of these charactefs

Age stats as follows

Damian: 0

Duke: 6

Tim: 7

Steph: 7

Cass: 8

Jason: 8

Dick: 12

Babs: 12

Bruce: 27

So! In essence! Duke is 6 years older than Damian. Tim and Steph are 1 year older than Duke. Jason and Cass are one year older than them. Dick and Babs are 4 years older than them. And then, Bruce is 14 years older than Dick.

This means that now that Tim is 18 and out of the house, Bruce is 20 years older than Tim. So 38.

Why did I decide to do this again? I could have made the first post anything but this is what I chose. Lovely.

#batman #tim drake #dick grayson #jason todd #damian wayne #cassandra cain #bruce wayne #duke thomas #barbara gordon #stephanie brown #ages #calculation #why did I do this again?

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convertedzukaang · 2 months

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Title: There's No Reason -Also posted on Ao3

@flashfictionfridayofficial

Pairing: ZukAang (ATLA) Zuko x Aang

Warnings: Stockholm Syndrome, Mild Angst

Word count: 802

Zuko stared at Aang from outside his cell below the ship’s deck. They're approximately six days away from the Fire Nation Capital. Aang’s stomach turns at the sudden realization, it has been twenty-five days since Zuko has captured him and he has grown fond of the Prince’s presence in his tiny prison cell. They have shared intimate moments, and some days he finds the Prince lying next to him in the middle of the night, soundly asleep and breathing peacefully. Aang sighs and gets up from his chair, “Are you going to just stand there or are you going to come inside?”

He sounded discourteous, Aang didn’t mean to. But he was exhausted and being stuck in his diminutive cell did not help the suffocation he’s feeling. When Zuko opened the cell door and stepped in, he looked at Aang with apologetic eyes. He could almost hear Zuko’s unspoken words, his apologies, his confession, his cognizance. Aang simply takes his hand and places small and gentle kisses on Zuko’s fingertips, silently reassuring the Prince that everything will be alright.

“Would you like to..” Zuko started, staring intensely at Aang’s lips, “..come to the deck with me?”

Aang gasped at the question, shocked at how nonchalant Zuko suggested the activity. He smiled at the Prince as tears formed in his eyes, quietly asking, “Is this a test?”

The Prince laughed, the sound sending electricity down Aang’s spine. Zuko responds, “I trust you because..” He paused, holding his tongue from saying things he might regret later, he shakes his head and continues, “..because I just do.”

Zuko tugged at the airbender’s hand, leading him up to the deck of the ship. It seems that Zuko had planned to invite him out here all along because on the far end of the deck, Aang sees his glider perched on top of the crates. He was about to run off, however, a strong squeeze on his hand stopped him. Aang looked back at Zuko with a sad smile, “I’m sorry, I just got excited.”

“I know, I’m just.. Nervous, that’s all.” Zuko says as he lets go of Aang’s hand, “I said I trust you, and I do. I know you will always come back to me.”

With a nod from Zuko, Aang sprints to where his glider was, his bare feet feeling cold against the steel of the ship. He spends no time warming up, he whips his glider and soared through the clouds. Aang didn’t even notice how the sun burned his skin when he ascended to the sky, he took no notice of anything as he breathed in the salty and fresh air. Laughing as he passed through the mist, soaking his clothes. But Aang didn’t care. Realistically, he’s only been held captive for less than a month, it hasn’t been that long but his mind wandered around his friends. Katara, Sokka, Toph and Suki. Where are they now? Did they survive the Serpent’s Pass? That was the last time he saw them before he was captured by Zuko. The feeling of guilt buried deep inside him is now bubbling up, Aang has always thought he is responsible for his friend’s lives, and he left them alone, traveling through a deadly pass. But his friends are strong, surely they can survive without him. They might be in Ba Sing Se by now.

He flew as high up as he could until he could no longer see the Fire Nation ship below him, until he could no longer see Zuko. It’s as liberating as it is suffocating. He could fly away right now and spend his energy flying to the Earth Kingdom again, he could try to find his friends. Aang shakes his head and comes back to reality, he descends below the clouds just enough so Zuko can spot him and keep an eye on him. Reassuring the Prince that he’s here.

No matter how freeing this feeling of flying in the clouds is, he is still a prisoner. He can escape. He should escape, but something inside him, a mere whisper in his ears, telling him not to leave. Even if Aang knows that when they arrive at the Fire Nation, he will be offered to the Fire Lord as a reward, then Zuko will have his honor back, his home. But as he looked down, seeing Zuko smile warmly at him from his ship’s deck, trusting Aang that he would never stray too far and escape, the airbender can’t help but let a tear slip down from his eye to his cheek. The wetness immediately dried as he ascended further into the clouds, letting all his conflicted feelings plummet into the ocean below him. He thinks – there’s no reason for him to be falling in love with his captor like this.

#FFF242 Soaring Above #zukaang #zuko #aang #aang x zuko #atla #ok bye #why did i do this again?#fff242 #soaring above #flash fiction friday

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riguren · 3 months

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wriggle nightbug

wriggle nightbug is a funny bug

i like her and i think you should too!

so - instead of responding with something silly,

i think for this, a quick poem will do

firstly, let's talk about her design

a cape, shirt, pants, and some other cool stuff!

charmingly simple, not too complex

still don't like her? damn, that's rough.

let's move on to her personality, then!

"quick to anger", the touhou wiki says.

or is that a burning passion, her care for her own kind?

i dunno. i made it up. that's just how this fandom is.

some other things that i find pretty cute:

she ran a news delivery service once, but then she forgor 💀

her forgetfulness in general is a pretty fun trait!

if you look elsewhere, i'm sure you'll find more.

so now that i've wasted your (and my) time,

when it comes to wriggle, have i managed to change your view?

it should be quite obvious that i hold her close to my heart,

so would it hurt for you to let her in yours too?

#touhou #wriggle nightbug #why did i do this again?#i dunno

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erasabledinosaur · 1 year

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I forgot I ordered this

Waffles say hi and he wants more shredded chicken (so go get him some)

#I don’t own a disk drive yall #maybe the code works???#why did I do this again?#oh right lol #grief does weird shit y’all

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divorcedwoodlover · 1 month

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i got a bit bored so i did this

#regretevator #why did i do this again?

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0mbrettahi3ron · 8 months

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ʜᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ ꜱᴀʏꜱ

ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ɪɴ ᴅᴀɴɢᴇʀ—

ᴡʜʏ ᴀʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏʀᴍᴇɴᴛɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜɪꜱ?

ɪ ᴅᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ ᴜᴘ ʜᴇʀᴇ. ɪ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ—

ɴᴏᴡ ꜱᴘᴇʟʟ -ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀ-

ꜰ-ʀ-ᴇ-ᴇ-ᴅ-ᴏ-ᴍ

ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴛʀʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ

ɴᴏᴡ ꜱᴘᴇʟʟ -ᴍᴀɴᴋɪɴᴅ-

ᴅ-ɪ-ꜱ-ᴇ-ᴀ-ꜱ-ᴇ

ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴛʀʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ

ɴᴏᴡ ꜱᴘᴇʟʟ -ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀ-

ᴠ-ɪ-ᴏ-ʟ-ᴇ-ɴ-ᴄ-ᴇ

ᴡʀᴏɴɢ ᴛʀʏ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ

ɴᴏᴡ ꜱᴘᴇʟʟ -ꜱɪɴ-

ꜰ-ʀ-ɪ-ᴇ-ɴ-ᴅ-ꜱ

ᴡʀᴏɴɢ

ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʀʀᴇᴄᴛ ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀ ɪꜱ

ʏ-ᴏ-ᴜ

#heaven says #why did i do this again?

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sa-v-anghae · 1 year

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I haven’t been here since my superwholock phase oh dear lord

#how do I do this again?#more importantly #WHY did I do this again?

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kiirous · 2 days

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I spontaneously decided to sign up at a big bang fan event, but now I realised it means collaboration, and I'm terrified. Because what if someone decides that they don't pick my submit, or they do it as a last resort as all the other things have been picked? Or what if I miraculously do get picked, and my partner is disappointed during the process?

#i guess i do have some feelings after all #it's not surprising #but no feelings are better than this #fan behavior #help me #why did i do this again?#rant post #venting

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blueboyluca · 10 months

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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

#dog books #this chapter was very sad reading #when you become aware of punishment #and its use and its prevalence #it's hard not to despair #again this is why positive reinforcement feels like absolution #maybe now my eyes are open I can make up for what I did #what I did because it's what everyone does #because it's more acceptable to punish than to do anything else #I've been having so many thoughts about punishment and society and justice #this book was very validating #another great validating moment in my jumbled thoughts #was listening to the You're Wrong About episode on justice #with Amanda Knox #it helped to ease the despair a little

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sketchy-tour · 1 month

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Thank you, Remderem!

#WALLY SITTING ON THE CLOUD I DID IT AARAAH #Ended up coming out a lil janky but we take the Ls and we post anyway!!!!!!!#and by we I mean just me #Another excuse to draw Wally with a robe on is an excuse I'll take any fucking day #He just looks SO FUCKING COZY!!!!!!#Been doing little Wally doodle studies again and this one was one of the sketches that I decided to finish!#which might be why it looks a bit jank but OH WELL!#welcome home #welcome home fanart #welcome home puppet show #welcome home arg #welcome home wally #wally darling #WH wally #wally darling fanart #my art

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inspisart · 9 months

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dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say

#this is not how the interaction played out in the issue btw lol I'm just having a bit of fun #tim drake #dick grayson #batfam #dc #the new titans issue 65 #inspi art #I remember being baffled when i read ALPOD and tim broke into dick’s apartment like it was nothing to find out where he’d gone #like where did he learn that? reddit?#I chalked it up to comicbook goofiness and wolfman stretching suspension of disbelief a little to keep the plot moving #which is why it surprised me when they acknowledged it again #and by doing so cemented tim knowing how to pick locks and being used to breaking into apartments as a canon fact(TM)#and so hence forth he would continued to be a little contradictory weirdo who’s both normal and incredibly not normal at the same time

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hailsatanacab · 6 months

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A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."