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#comic #crow time #dungeons and dragons #GLORY TO THOSE WHO DEFY THEIR FATE

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no more cold and calculating i want warm and calculating. i want characters who use deductive reasoning to figure out whether their friend would like a wool or cotton quilt based off of their lifestyle, career, hobbies, and habits. i want "your nails are often chipped because you work for a law firm as a typist for this company which notoriously underbudgets their IT department, so ive bought you a keyboard cover that will not only prevent manicure damage but is also sensory friendly because I know you dislike certain clicking noises". i want characters who figure out their friends entire schedules and social battery levels just by examining who only use that info to know when the best time is to hang out with them. i want characters who create elaborate, supervillain level schemes just to get their hands on some collectible they know their best friend wants. most of all i want characters who do not use intelligence and reasoning skills as a reason to be cruel but as a means to be kind

#... #Tim Drake

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

#polls #writing

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an incomplete list of potential tim futures based on things i vaguely remember (poorly cited bc i cba to spend time actually looking for the sources)

still heroic and robin in the our worlds at war event in the future where they don't stave off the bad guys

good, comes out of retirement to become batman beyond for a bit in futures end

there's one where bruce gets injured and tim comes back to take over at batman (really wish i could remember the source for this)

there's one where he becomes batman and takes a different bruce son as his robin isn't there? (also wish i could remember the source for this. i do think i remember seeing panels and this wasn't just a fever dream. i don't think this is the same as prev)

good but retired in nightwing the new order

solo 'the batt' imagines a future where he becomes a good batman. he also is trying to confess his feelings for cass, but this was in 2006 so. before people saw tim and cass as siblings. that is not the point tho, the point is an envisioned good batman future for tim.

batman annual vol 3 #2 tim is good and shows up at bruce's deathbed

he did become joker junior in batman beyond, but hush beyond showed that after he was cured of that he stayed a good guy and is going to extensive lengths to make sure joker is gone

gun batman from tt03, which i count as once instance because it's the same gun batman who keeps trying to come back

gun batman from rebirth/a lonely place of living and beyond

in conclusion: tim does have some bad futures, yes. those are *far* outpaced by good futures and aren't at a necessarily higher rate than anyone else in the batfamily, let alone the superhero community as a whole. tim having canons where he becomes corrupted and decides to start killing is not some unique phenomenon to him. exploring the dark mirror/bad future is something that literally almost everyone goes through. quite frequently. honestly tim might go bad at a less frequent rate than superman does.

#comics meta #Tim Drake #Batfam #DC

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Transmission: -- confirm. JLA were enveloped by the event -- Oracle: Okay, okay, hold on, I -- Oracle: Oracle: Oracle: No. The JLA have not been lost. Oracle: Because I'm still here. -- JLA: Classified #14

Oracle is the most important member of the JLA, actually. I don't make the rules.

#DC #Batfam #Justice League #Oracle #Barbara Gordon #''I'm still here'' #yes #that's it #I'm still here #that's Barbara

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Chiune Sugihara. This man saved 6000 Jews. He was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was STILL writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. He saved 6000 lives. The world didn’t know what he’d done until Israel honored him in 1985, the year before he died.

#holocaust cw #WW2 #Chiune Sugihara #Yukiko Kikuchi #Righteous Among the Nations #history

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The yuzuru hanyu-fication of Timothy Drake

(Aka figure skater au Tim Drake as referenced from yuzuru hanyu bc I have an unhealthy obsession with both of them)

Just a quick sketch bc the amount of figure skating au content in this fandom is disparagingly low 😔

#art rec #Tim Drake #DC #Batfam #oooooh figure skater Timmy

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Sleepybee 💞

#you're a kitty! #cozy

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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14

April 12-19 2024

The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.

The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.

The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.

The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.

The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.

The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.

The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.

The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.

Bonus:

President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.

#vid rec #politics #Biden Administration #Democrats #oh that drug cost cap is gonna make a big difference nice

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Speaking of therapy, I say, as though we're old friends, and you're not a stranger trapped in this metaphorical elevator with me and you can hear the suspension wires starting to fray.

I've been doing a lot of work recently that's focused on imposter syndrome and the feeling that no matter how well or how much I do, I'm not good enough. That I'm somehow tricking everyone into thinking my work is actually good.

Some days it's a minor niggle in my head that I can gentle and soothe with logic and affirmations. Or smother, depending on the mood. Other times it's loud and all-consuming and the mental anguish it causes me is so real I can feel it twitching in my muscles. This desperate fight-or-flight instinct with nowhere to go and nothing to fight but myself.

Anyway, because I'm several types of Mentally Unwell™, I was switching between workshop sheets ahead of next week. Filling in different forms. (Trying to get a good grade in therapy) And I got my "recognize your harmful ADHD coping mechanisms" worksheet mixed in with the "you're not actually lying to people, you just feel like you are because your brain is full of weasels" worksheet, and seeing them side by side made something go topsy turvy in my head, and I just had to sit and breathe for a couple of minutes until the urge to scream passed. Because it clicked, it all suddenly clicked.

The reason the imposter syndrome workshops and therapy sessions aren't sticking was because I do routinely trick people into thinking I'm someone I'm not.

Because I'm masking my ADHD for their convenience.

I've always known there was something wrong with me. My neurotypical peers made it abundantly clear I didn't fit in or was failing in some way I couldn't see nor remedy, no matter how hard I tried.

So I compressed myself into a workaholic box of hyper-competence in the hopes they'd stop noticing the flaws and exploit like me instead. And then subsequently lived with the daily fear that if they looked too close, they'd realize I'm a monumental fuck up with enough personal baggage to block the Suez Canal.

If you ever need someone to burn themselves to ashes for your comfort and convenience, I'm your gal.

Or I used to. Until I had a bit of a breakdown, and the rubber band holding my brain together snapped and pinged off into the stratosphere, never to be seen again.

Unfortunately, the trauma of living like that didn't also fuck off and instead left a gaping maw where my personality ought to be, so now I get to deal with that aftermath.

And it's that aftermath that's affecting the imposter syndrome shit. Because yes, I am hyper-competent and good at what I do-- but it doesn't feel real because that is how I mask.

And the truly frustrating thing is I am good at what I do. I am not pretending. I worked hard to be good at this. It just feels like I'm dicking around because 90% of my personality turns out to be trauma masquerading as humor in a trenchcoat, and having people genuinely like something weird I'm doing is so foreign my brain has decided it's just another form of masking.

I'm pretending to be a good author so people will think I'm a good author, and my brain thinks we are in Danger of being found out. We are in Danger, and writing is Dangerous because then people will know I'm Weird and not whatever palatable version I've presented myself as for their NT sensibilities.

Like the neurotic vampire with a raging praise kink wasn't an obvious giveaway.

Anyway. I got nothing else. Thanks for listening.

I'm going to go be very normal in another room and not stare into the abyss of my own soul for a bit.

#neurodiversity #imposter syndrome #ADHD #ah #hm #hmm oh boy

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I'm just thinking about when given the opportunity to go anywhere and see anything Tim went to an alternate version of his mom to tell her he loves her and get a hug

#DC #Batfam #Janet Drake #Tim Drake #I'll just be over here crying okay

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“average person bumps into a tree 3 times a year“ factoid actualy just statistical error. average person hits a a tree 0 times per year. Jungles Georg, who swings into a tree on a vine 10,000 times a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

#meme #GEORGE GEORGE #GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE

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Because I saw a poll that asked a very good question, but did not have *nearly* enough options:

#religion #Judaism #Christianity #Islam #theism #I'm going with ''no'' for both in no small part because Judaism is not a proselytizing religion #whereas Christianity and Islam both are and that feels like it matters #however I'm an atheist agnostic so all my thoughts have a whole lot of If going on #the Aphrodite Ishtar comparison makes a lot of sense to me #polls

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Really quick Monstrous Regiment comic because I miss Wazzer and love her to bits.

I like my female characters strange and unsettling.

#undescribed #comic #Discworld #Monstrous Regiment

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inspired by those textposts about dick rocking up to the rest of titans with tim for the first time and kori et al. being like: is that the stalker kid???

bonus:

warm ups:

#comic #DC #Teen Titans #Batfam #Victor Stone #Starfire #Tim Drake #Dick Grayson #Cyborg DC #Robin #Nightwing

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I'm not sure how or when the term "fatherless behavior" took off as a "jokey" insult but I'm about to start biting people.

Like, as a queer with divorced parents who had to fucking hear "every child should have a father and a mother!" in the rhetoric against gay rights and in the stigmatization of single mothers, who has a loved one who lost his father at a young age, I am telling you to pull your head out of your ass and stop spreading patriarchal authoritarian "focus on the family" bullshit.

I don't care if it's a meme or a joke to you. I'm not laughing.

#don't know how to tag this! #vent post? thing that pisses me off post? #queerphobia #sexism #patriarchal fucking bullshit #you know passing it off as a joke is how the assholes deliberately spread this shit right? #nobody on my dash has been doing this but some of the fandom tags...

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have i told y’all the story about how crab dicks are directly responsible for me and my partner getting together

#story time