I gave myself a writing challenge and I am fascinated by it
So basically I put the robins in a randomizer to give them a new order/role (because I just...kinda wanted to see what would happen + I like role-reversal AUs) and got results that are giving me a fucking brain blast.
Stephanie, the first sidekick who defines the role
Tim, the sidekick who dies and comes back wrong
Dick, the sidekick who saves Batman from himself
Damian, the sidekick who was never supposed to be a sidekick but would go on to prove everyone wrong
Jason, the youngest sidekick who is still the Kid Wonder
...So this is fucking wild. I've got some ideas and several of these fit perfectly (Dick's role is pretty similar to his one in canon), but some of these are fucking INCREDIBLE to explore (Steph being the first Robin is something I never even considered but tbh I kinda love it).
I probably won't write a fic or anything because tbh I don't like publishing my writing that much, but I might expand this into a full AU and post about it. I might randomize other stuff too (ie, stuff that I cannot change vs stuff that I cannot keep the same) but this fucking rules as a starting point.
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I know this is opening myself up to Discourse but I just feel like people who don’t appreciate JC’s skills and leadership would benefit from working under a boss like him. This is from personal experience. I don’t need my boss to be smiles and jokes, and I don’t need them to be my best friend. That might be nice, but it’s not what I actually need from a good manager.
I need them to be able to make hard decisions pragmatically. I need them to prioritize the good of our team and protect our team members. I need them to navigate the politics of our company on our team’s behalf. I need them to successfully advocate for us to the higher-ups, to partners, to clients, even to competitors. I need them to keep a level head in stressful situations. And when hard times come, I need them to be able to rally the group and successfully navigate us out of troubled waters. Just like JC does for YMJ.
I’ve had bosses like that, and I’ve had bosses who weren’t. I had one director in particular who wanted to be everyone’s friend and host pool parties for the office and was great fun, who had a ~vision~ for the team, but who was not good at politics and couldn’t execute that vision. Working in her division sucked as a result. Moreover, she would sometimes make decisions that were aspirational, but lacked pragmatism. Dealing with the consequences of that also sucked. No matter how much I loved my team and even really liked her - and I did like her as a person! And I supported her vision, too! - but it was honestly painful to be in her reporting line. I ended up leaving that company. I can’t tie my livelihood to a job where I don’t trust the leader to execute.
In that sense, her leadership style reminds me of WWX’s - great vision, great person, heart is in the right place, but politically unsavvy and with impractical execution. This is not really to rag on WWX, but rather to acknowledge that that’s not where his skills are since he’s viewed as the counterbalance to JC. More parallels: that director was laid off a few years later, after which she retired and is sort of freelancing as a leadership coach now (ironically). Her business is going well for her actually - which makes sense, because she’s inspirational and personable. I think she’s just better as a soloist than the leader of a team where she has to be responsible for people other than herself.
That’s a really big reason why I appreciate JC as a character and as a leader. I’ve worked under leaders who were more like him, and I’ve worked under leaders who were more like WWX - and even though I like the latter as people, I’d stake my career and my livelihood on the former any day. If you haven’t had a JC-type leader, I hope you have the good fortune of working under one some day.
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Progress isn't linear, but play therapy has helped Dulce a lot. Dulce will be going to kindergarten soon, and the specialist recommended that Dulce try out general education first and see how things go from there.
If special education will be better for her, that's completely fine. All that means is that she'll be getting the help she needs. No matter what, Noemí wants her daughter to know she's so much more than a cognitive delay diagnosis.
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Sometimes, I really want an animated show about the OT characters. Their adventures, serious and silly, as they become friends and family long before Luke and Leia discover that they're siblings. Stories about Leia struggling with going from princess to general. Luke struggling with being a Jedi and a commander. The Rogue Squadron and their adventures. Han and Chewie barely keeping up with the Space Twin shenanigans.
But, then I remember how each of these characters were treated in the Sequel Trilogy, and I realise that it doesn't matter. No amount of stories about them will change the fact that they all die alone away from each other, that they gave up their childhood, their homes, themselves to the safety of the galaxy and that none of it ever mattered. And I can't enjoy canon stories about them because it won't change their ending, and I can't forget that.
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I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.
At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them.
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.
But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.
When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me "Why?", but there's no use in talking to people who have home.
They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lay your head.
I was always an unusual girl.
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.
And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying.
Because I was born to be the other woman.
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.
Every night I used to pray that I'd find my people, and finally I did on the open road.
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.
⸻ Ninya Tonkin a.k.a. "Ivy"• 24, bold & blonde walking Chaos, Callgirl by choice and always in the mood for some trouble.
{Ooc: Novelist, open for plotting, texts in german, FSK 21, On/Off character since 2011.
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@tremendouswolfsaladranch
you are absolutely right about Daera supporting Rhaenyra’s interest in sword fighting.
I mean, who is going to tell the daughter of Alyssa Targaryen that her own daughter cannot do what her grandmother did?
If Rhaenyra wants to learn how to wield a sword, Daera will rope a King’s Guard into teaching her the basics and if her interest continues, more. Her Nyra is just similar to Alyssa in that regard (that certainly makes Vizzy come around).
And if Daera gets to ogle a handsome knight under the pretense of watching over her daughter during training, where’s the harm in it?
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what kind of catharsis do you need?
a long hug. you are not alone. sometimes life and all its troubles can be so isolating, but there is comradery in that, too. slow down, catch your breath. reach a hand out when you need one. offer yours in turn. feel the warmth of those around you like a home, and know that the world is full of good people, too.
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