While thinking about the times we see Dick and Bruce physically fight I started thinking about Dick's motivations in those fights. When does Dick fight back, and when does Dick just take the licks?

I noticed a trend.

the worst is wanting to create and create and create but being trapped in a body that is so so so so tired

Problems disorder

hey sexy what time do you plan on being done grieving

oh, honestly I was planning on reopening the same wounds again and again and again and again and again and again and again

Someone said “au where instead of stealing the tires jason and Bruce meet because Bruce hits jason with his car” and like, I have no clue what they meant by that but it’s been rattling around in my mind. Jason steps out in front of Bruce’s car for the lawsuit money. Jason “go ahead, pay my tuition” Todd. It’s the modern adaptation we deserve. That or Jason stealing the catalytic converter. Taking tin snips to the batmobiles exhaust. Fuck you batman

i’ve decided this is how “kiss your knuckles” jason and bruce met, there is something so wrong with them

sexy genre of making characters needlessly suffer for your enjoyment and yet its called "whump" the unsexiest name in the world

"im a whumper" grow a spine and call yourself a sadist

based on that post i took a capture of a million years ago and haven’t been able to find again thanks to tumblr’s amazing search feature lol

Evil Ikea. The throne of bleached skulls has a 70-page instruction manual 

1) put skull on skull

2) put skull on skull

3) put skull on sku-

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

Merry Christmas, Please Don’t Call. Bleachers (2024).

requested by @h3x-ed, my most loyal and stalkery fan<3

The celebrity Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors being some of the best ones is like the retail equivalent of having to go to a restaurant and order a rootin tootin yeehaw cowboy burger or something

The Tonight Dough is a downright hedonistic ice cream flavor concept but in order to obtain it you have to purchase a pint of ice cream with Jimmy Fallon's face on it and then see him in your freezer every day for a week

why are there so many tonight dough posts

The victim-blaming of Jason Todd is such an ugly refutation of what his Robin was meant to stand for it’s depressing.

Worse yet the victim-blaming ultimately neither absolves Bruce nor works as a proper narrative patch for the hole his death left in the fantasy. If Jason wasn’t good enough to be Robin and Bruce’s greatest mistake was to give him the mantle, it’s still Bruce’s mistake for putting a vulnerable unprepared kid in the line of fire.

So now not only is the narrative making the ugly statement that actually, some people (*cough cough* poor and marginalized people) are not worthy of being empowered, and are better off keeping their head down than to try and make a positive impact, Bruce still looks like a total piece of shit.

I for one am comfortable with Bruce being a piece of shit. He’s a complex and flawed character etc etc. What I won’t stand for is Batman’s greatest mistake being believing in Robin; that condescending mess of a moral the story turned to. Bruce fucked up nine kinds of ways when he met Jason, but the one thing he got right was recognizing Jason’s worthiness to be a hero.

The child soldier issue is only an issue so long as we’re unable to articulate how it was Bruce’s continual failure to understand and provide for Jason’s needs as an individual and communicate with him, that created the precarious situation which lead to his death. (Bruce’s self-centerednsss leads to a teenager’s death twice after Steph.)

I don’t think it was an accident that Jason’s introduction included an arc where he found out Bruce hid his father’s death from him right as he officially became Robin. That was meant to be a wake-up call for Bruce. This boy isn’t Dick, he isn’t you. He doesn’t do this out of grief or out of anger. He is the will to do good given power, and to be his partner you must step outside of your own perspective.

cassandra cain u make my head and heart ache

I do actually care marginally about the guy in that reddit screenshot who voted for Trump and is now worried that he might lose his medicaid funding because I did not fucking stutter when I said healthcare is a human right but the people losing their internships and job offers to the hiring freeze are straight up hilarious.

My mom was telling me about this YouTube video she watched (I can't remember the name, sorry) where the person shared a screenshot of some MAGA voter from Florida asking for help, because his wife had been hired for a nursing job with the VA in Texas, so they sold their house and were preparing to move. But they rescinded her job offer after Trump's executive order. The post from the guy was basically like "I already contacted Senator Ted Cruz's office, and they said they couldn't do anything about this. Please help me get this story to President Trump, we love him! We voted for him 3 times! And we know this was just a mistake and he'd help us!"

Just.................a part of me laughs, and another part of me thinks about how cult followers genuinely believe that the cult leader cares about them

This is the part about believing in universal human rights that can be a bit difficult: they're universal, and should never be denied anyone, no matter who they are or what they have done.

You can be – you should be – furious with people who voted for Trump, for wilfully trying to sabotage those rights and make them conditional, a privilege for the "deserving", a privilege they can deny the "wrong" kind of people.

And when the MAGA crowd are hit by the consequences of their actions, and denied basic human rights because it turns out their Great Leader doesn't actually include his followers among the privileged, it's tempting to say that they deserve to be denied those rights, because that's what they wanted to do to others.

But if you do that, you don't truly believe that those rights should be universal; you just have a different idea than the MAGA crowd about who should be included among the privileged.

You can still tell the MAGA who's crying that the leopards ate their face that you're angry with them for letting the face-eating leopards loose. But you shouldn't be fine with their face being eaten.

The key here, IMO, is the distinction between your emotional reaction to hearing about it and how you consciously believe people should be treated.

Having a positive emotional reaction, enjoying the schadenfreude or whatever, doesn’t mean you’re bad and isn’t something you need to suppress. You just need to also be able to say, “but that shouldn’t happen, not to them, not to anyone.”

This is a good articulation! I'm going to reblog this addition because I think it might be helpful for some people who are sorting out their feelings to see this stated so plainly!