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Batfamily poll

#DC comics #tumblr polls #Dick Grayson #Tim Drake

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headcanon polls

#DC comics #tumblr polls #Dick Grayson #Jason Todd

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Lmao you’re an adult, you shouldn’t be using the word squick. Use trigger. Use your grown up adult words to explain how you feel instead of leaning on a cutesy uwu term that no one outside of tumblr uses. It’s embarrassing.

Idek if this is serious or ironic honestly

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hey quick question!! how would someone be able to not read a fic with triggering shit in it without a warning without reading the shit that will trigger them? idk just a fucking though that it takes 0 fucking effort to warn for shit and you're so annoying for being like ummm it's not my responsibility actually! like grow the fuck up and give a shit about other fucking people.

hey quick question!! how would someone be able to not read a fic with triggering shit in it without a warning without reading the shit that will trigger them?

Simple. Don’t read fics that don’t have trigger warnings. Don’t watch movies that don’t have a “does the dog die” page. Don’t read books without a comprehensive list of trigger warnings someone else made.

idk just a fucking though that it takes 0 fucking effort to warn for shit

Not true, it actually takes a lot of effort to consider all the possible things in your fiction that someone else might want a warning for.

and you’re so annoying for being like ummm it’s not my responsibility actually!

It’s not my responsibility. Your feelings are not my responsibility. Your mental health is not my responsibility.

like grow the fuck up and give a shit about other fucking people.

How about you grow the fuck up and take responsibility and have some agency in your own care instead of expecting the rest of the world to cater to your comfort specifically?

how about you care about other people by not demanding that everyone cater to your preferences?

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Let's take a moment to appreciate just how amazing the title cards were for Batman the Animated Series.

#DC comics #BtAS #Batman the Animated Series #Batman #this show was SO GOOD #still is; really holds up during rewatches

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#AI fuckery

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“And remember: the sky is the limit! You can be anything you want to be!”

“Thank you. I want to be a secretary.”

That stopped them short. “What?”

“A secretary,” she repeated.

“But…” they trailed off, dumbfounded. “Why? You could be a CEO, a scientist, a law–”

“I don’t want to be a CEO,” she said. “I want to be a secretary.”

#if I want to get paid a decent amount to do what I love to do I have to become Management #(I keep being forced into lowercase-m management which isn't the same—there're more responsibilities but the pay's basically unchanged) #I don't want the responsibility of Management! I just want to be paid what I'm worth! #everyone should be paid what they're worth! #capitalism is the hope killer

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Every year… Every damn year…

#AO3

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"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

#Ursula K. Le Guin #yes

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where's the merit badge/award ribbon for "did not strangle my coworker"

#....less my coworker and more the company v.p. #sometimes I feel like strangling the editors but normally I can just slowly explain things and over time they learn

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finished book 1 :^]

#Gideon Nav #The Locked Tomb #others' fanart #maxkonbo #such excellent energy! OP you really nailed Gideon :D :D :D

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Internet Safety

#internet safety #I was doing my biennial management training course last week #and some of the advice was “be careful what you post about coworkers on social media and make sure it's only ever respectful/appropriate!!” #bitch you think I use my REAL name on social media? you think I let my COWORKERS know what name(s) I post under? heck no #I have Facebook and it consists of a single picture and info that's 15 years out of date #my LinkedIn only gets updated when I'm job hunting and is not connected to anything else online #protect your info and keep everything compartmentalized and separate!

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Include step and half siblings if you so desire

#what is this 3–4 or 4–5 #Mandybro is exactly 1 week less than 4 years older than me #tumblr polls

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#Jason Todd #Bruce Wayne #Batman #DC comics #relevant to recent campfire >.>

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Jason Todd's not-Robin vigilante names

#Jason Todd #Bruce Wayne #DC Comics #reference #ngl Skyhawk is kinda a banger 👀

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this might be because I’m a family law lawyer and also an old crone who remembers when marriage equality wasn’t a thing (as in, marriage equality only became nation-wide two months before I went to law school), but I have Strong Feelings about the right to marry and all the legal benefits that come with it

like I’m all for living in sin until someone says they don’t want to get married because it’s ~too permanent~ and in the same breath start talking about having kids or buying a house with their significant other. then I turn into a 90-year-old passive-aggressive church grandma who keeps pointedly asking when the wedding is. “yes, a divorce is very sad and stressful, but so is BEING HOMELESS BECAUSE YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF MARITAL PROPERTY, CAROLINE!”

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I love this. These are great things to remember.