I wrote this as a comment somewhere, and I wanted to share it here. The discussion was about door-holding etiquette and "chivalry" and stuff, and it reminded me of college...
So, from 2006-2010 I went to an extremely conservative Christian university (if you know me now, feel free to laugh for a while) and I…didn’t fit in especially well even before I left that religion, being a budding feminist, gay ally (…and closeted gay person but never mind), and so on. Even once I realized it wasn’t the place for me, I’d invested a lot of non-transferable credits and wound up sticking it out.
So, because of the super Christian environment, the expectation that everyone was looking for a future spouse, and several other super weird factors, there was a definite culture of Men Always Open Doors For Women. 20-year-old guys would very nearly shove a woman out of the way rather than allow her to so much as touch a doorknob with her delicate feminine hands. I was perceived as a woman at the time, and so if there were men around, doors would be opened upon my approach, and for the most part I just rolled with it because they were usually there first anyway.
One time, probably junior year when I was well and thoroughly sick of everything, I reached the door first, and opened it, because it turns out that people assigned female at birth can actually grasp a door handle and pull open a door without suffering spontaneous uterine prolapse. And since it was a cold day and there were a few people behind me, I held the door.
However, these people behind me…were men. And they couldn’t just let a woman hold the door for them! It’s one thing if they sort of failed and this woman-shaped individual went through by herself, but they couldn’t go through a door that was being actively held open by a fragile female limb, could they? Their marriage prospects would be in shambles! Jesus would seek them out specifically to give them disapproving looks! They’d be emasculated! They might as well start voting Democrat at that point! But they also couldn’t reach past me and grab the door, because then their arm might brush against mine through our coats and in early 2000s purity culture, that’s basically third base and you can’t do that unless you’re married, or at least have gone to Bible Study together.
So…we stand there. I hold the door. They stare at me. Minnesotan winter breathes through the foyer to the academic building we’re all trying to enter. My roommate, who has already gone through the door without mishap and is waiting for me, is trying very hard not to laugh. This is an actual stand-off.
“Go ahead,” I say, in case they just don’t realize, somehow, that the door is open and they may walk through it at any point.
They just stand there. Time ticks by. Empires rise and fall. I’m freezing. The door is actually getting heavy by now, which is probably less because of my helpless “feminine” anatomy and more because I’m a 20-year-old LiveJournal-obsessed nerd who doesn’t exercise, and also because this building is from the 1920s and the doors are solid as hell and I’ve been holding it anywhere between five seconds and seven years.
Finally, I cave. Sort of. “Fine,” I say, and walk through the door. And I let the heavy door fall closed behind me, in their faces.
The world lets out the breath it’s been holding. I catch up to my roommate, and we continue with our day.
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Green Arrow, Batman, and a civilian named Daniel Fenton get sucked into the Realm between Realms.
This would be easy to resolve, but the civilian keeps running away.
Danny has heard...things. About Batman.
He collects children, black haired ones, and makes them his Robins. Danny doesn't want to be adopted! He's got two perfectly fine mad scientists for parents, and they love him very much!
Also he's bantering with Green Arrow like they're a married couple, so Green Arrow is totally in on it. Whatever "it" is.
He's convinced that a goody-two-shoes like Batman will rat him out if he goes ghost, so he's gotta stay civilian.
So he runs from both of them as a civilian, using every trick he knows to disappear out of sight long enough to go invisible.
Unfortunately, they're persistent, and even if they can't see him that doesn't stop them from stampeding through the Realms in search of him.
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Series 8 of doctor who is legit the most funny shit ever. Like, Clara is treating both a time lord and a solider like you treat the side piece. Missy is out here trying to plan the most elaborate "get your man back scheme" that verges into "planning a threesome". That Time Lord is acting like a jealous 17 year old who's listened to too Much Carrie Underwood and caught her bf making out with a teacher. And Danny just wants to date the pretty English teacher...
Polyamory would have made shit worse and better.
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a man will die
but not his ideas
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I've been thinking about these two so much. I've been making a whole story for these two in my head.
By the way I've come up with names! They're Oleander (Ollie for short) the Sprigatito and Cora the Sobble.
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Batman: Universe (2020) written by Bendis and illustrated by Nick Derington was one of the most charming and lovely batman comic i have read in a really long time. it's a silly time travel story!!! and only six issues long!
SPOILERS AHEAD, here are some out of context panels that just really amused me;
i really enjoyed how casual batman is with the people in gotham. like yeah, bruce regularly spooks residents when he grapples up the side of their building, and stops for a quick chat. the young new cops aren't exactly sure how to handle batman while others are too used to him to care anymore.
then the whole interaction with green arrow (issue 2) was SO fun! i am so fond of them and they're rarely in enjoyable comics together anymore. i particularly loved this little detail:
at first bruce calls him oliver, but as the situation becomes increasingly more dangerous, he switches to calling him ollie! i am very normal about this.
THE BATLANTERN MOMENT. this whole part of the story (issue 3 & 4) was just, very sweet. it was a perfect balance of them being prickly to each other, while also sticking close and working really well.
this part of the story also features cowboy bruce and hal (sort of)!
...and then bruce was really worried about hal when he lost control and vanished from the past (he's fine), so much so that later in the story when he's dying, he mentions that he hopes green lantern is okay (in the present, hal leaves bruce a voice message to say he is okay, and hopes bruce is safe too).
oh right yeah so bruce dies (for like, a page, thank you confusing time travel mechanics) and THIS IS WHAT HE SAYS TO ALFRED:
I AM SORRY YOU CAN'T HEAR ME.. TELL YOU.. HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.. I REALLY DO........ bruce wayne when i get you (issue 4).
AND THEN!!!! DICK ARRIVES (issue 5)!!!!!! i was hoping we'd get to see damian when bruce returned to the present, or that robin would come along on the time travel shenanigans, but this moment happened and i didn't even mind. it was so lovely. the duo of all time always.
a lot happens after this moment (issue 6), but these little panels really spoke to me. look at him. sitting criss cross apple sauce in the face of absolute doom. the pastel coloured eternal hell was also very funny to me, as was bruce then literally jumping between different periods of time during the final fight — but i have run out of space to share those. you need to go look at them for yourself.
so idk, READ IT !!!!!!
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Climax (huh huh) is finished, time to draw the conclusion. Four pages left until SWEET ABILENE is done!!!! Really wanting to get it printed and out some time between March and May.
If you ever wanted a peek inside Olly’s head*, this is one of the very few comics I’ve done with first person narration
*oh dear it’s a mess in there
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outing myself as a dinahollie hater 🫶
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Roy character sheet, as promised
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Okay, but Oliver actually being a stupidly rich kid too, and him being rich and bored... well, he started doing social experiments. It started off with simple stuff with the staff, like dropping money and seeing if they’d keep it or give it back to him or his mother. As he got older, the experiments became more complicated. In a sense, he accidentally created a little cult before he just ghosted them because he got scared. (He saw Scientology and was like ‘oh yeah I could do that’) He had journal after journal, all being very detailed research on each experiment he’s done. Then he entered Oxford, and instead of Oliver falling in love at first sight, he kinda just wanted to see if Felix, the golden boy of Oxford, could be befriended by a 'poor awkward scholarship kid with no style' (lmao). Anyways, he started from the very beginning, meeting Michael (whom he would have liked to befriend because the guy was weird and would be nice to socially study), and then the whole lying about his ‘family’ to be taken to Saltburn, and then after conducting that experiment because it like worked, he decided to do a second part and see how much lying it would take for a friend to forgive. He hired another family and planned to be called when he was bathing. Oh and if y’all want you could say he fell In love with Felix at the end of it so he confessed in the maze and like after some angst they had their happy ending hahaha. Anyways, he takes his social experiments very seriously. (I would say the most he would do is the Farleigh thing about the plate, but he would still feel bad lol. I wouldn’t say he would be able to kill someone. As he did social experiments, he learned more about people, the good and the bad, so I feel like he would have very good etiquette.)
Sorry I like making completely new stories from already existing once cuz I’m dumb
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𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑 : 𝐒𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐱 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬
Social Media! Au | Ollie Bearman x Singer Reader
𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐
At the restaurant, "Carla, I'll show up, but just don't tell him, please." The atmosphere lightened you felt a bit of anxiety seeing him again. Who doesn't? Seeing your ex again
her eye lit up seeing your answer, she celebrated her small victory. You two say you're goodbyes to each other
The days passed smoothly until the weekend, and nothing made you more anxious
Carla texted the results of qualifying and chatting and catching up. You asked your friend if you're doing the right thing
"Well, are you ready to see him again? It's been a long six months for you two, " She says, having long conversations about what to do if you see him and just making mindless jokes
After hours of talking and time passed, it was sunday the race you and carla running late on the way
Maybe it was better being late cause the tabloids are focused on the race sneaking in just in time for the race to start. You hoped for a safe race for the two boys
A few more laps till the race is over seeing him lead made you proud you didn't feel any anger or bitterness. Maybe deep inside, you did resent him, but you were proud of him
Hearing his name announced made you happy as Arthur and Ollie Got P2 and P1 Carla held your hand, leading you to the garage the bright red garage
"Congrats on P2 Arthur," you two smiled, congratulating him he hugged you. "It's been so long," arthur said. You two catch up, and you hope Ollie won't spot you he came back and spotted you. "Long time no see"
Arthur and Carla killing the silence. " How about we have dinner? And catch up"
At your apartment, you remincse looking at your journal and everything you two had through journal entries of what you did in dates. You can't even write one song that is not about him
Hours passed, and getting ready for the dinner finished showering you felt nervous, but it's fine. You can still be friends, right? A knock on your apartment door you opened it and it was
Hi again my signature cliff hanger is good no? Sorry I didn't post earlier cause it was exams and I'll upload the new au later too so thank you for reading again!🤍🫶🏻 - Love mishaella
Taglist : @lclrnelliluvs @fulla02 @gentlemonsterjennie1 @mirrorball-6
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I don’t think it makes sense to assume that Jason was mocking Mia’s past. At all. The thing that got jason painted as violent back in the 80s was his anger against rapists…how does that turn into mocking a victim? and that entire story was written by winick. Do we honestly think winick intended to communicate that? The same writer who made Jason’s first kill a man who was trafficking children? Who had Jason pause in his mission of madness to make sure those kids were found by the right people so they wouldn’t be in further danger?
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