AcesPhrases

Fan stuff (mostly Batfam) and occasional poetry. Just here to have fun and over-analyze (but for fun) :)

[arch-aeology]

mini comic i created which i have dubbed Lian Harper vs the U.S Education System

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[autoenucleate]

Trans girl dinah naming herself after her mom is an idea I love so much. In that scene in bombshells, she talks about how her mom gave dinah her first pair of fishnets. That and her taking up the black canary mantle....

There's something so sweet about it

[autoenucleate]

the way that her mom didn't want her to ever be a hero... and how the passing down of the title is an allegory for her mom accepting both parts of her....

[autoenucleate]

#THIS POST HAS MADE ME A TRANS DINAH TRUTHER #dinah lance

Well you should always be aware of the the panel that started it all. From Bombshells: United #30.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[royboyfanpage]

Sometimes the fact that they were teenagers just hits me like a fucking truck. Like, particularly the fab five. The realistics of child sidekicks are very much something you need to kinda ignore in order to read comics, but sometimes you think about it. They were children. And sure, there were generations after them, but they had help, they had support, they had the fab five and the other first generation Titans as a guideline, to help them. But the fab five only had each other. Their mentors couldn't understand, sure they were heroes too but there's absolutely a difference between an adult hero and a teenager. They were kids.

[rhautumnson]

Imma leave this panel here.

[dictearchive]

[beardedmrbean]

One more in the W column for Japan.

[supersoftly]

Link for extension :3c

[cricketcat9]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[vibrantstarfire]

i littt came 2ur blog to see ur thoughts on how watters characterized star on the latest nwing issue!!

ty for coming to ask me abt this !!! :D okay i actually really liked it, especially in comparison of new titans treating dick and kory ....... like that. we haven't gotten really good kory content in a while and it was a seriously pleasant surprise today!

i think dick was out of line and pretty rude to kory ("there's that tamaranean candor i don't miss from when we dated" thanks xenophobe jr). but he (and the story itself) also acknowledges it was out of line, which i liked. but i also notice she's been written to put up with it from him and frankly most humans consistently enough for a long enough time that its not ooc for her to be so not-affected, even when dick knows it's wrong. the fact that she launches from this into trying to comfort dick is a familiar tune. it was wrong; she's so used to it that it's barely noteworthy.

but i like that when she does challenge his lack of physical self-care, she's not coddling him or being overly sensitive. she's pointing out the raw impracticality of dwelling on your pain and letting it affect your physical health: not eating, not sleeping, etc.

"i don't understand the human need to suffer, to pick at your wounds and make yourself bleed over and over again" -- this was an EXCELLENT line from kory. despite it, dick can't fathom her actually being able to not be still dwelling in her trauma too, even though she seems quite calm about the psion (aside from one combat moment of impulsive blasting with her starbolts. but to be fair, it was coming directly at her).

i think this issue nails what it's going for, which is that kory provides a completely different perspective than the guilt spiral dick has been falling into. dick doesn't stop her from wiping the psion's backed up mind harddrive; and kory explains the rationale of her perspective. although i will say, imo it took on a strangely suicidal tone for a character who survived torture -- i can't imagine it was unintentional, so im curious what watters was getting at with that line, if he was implying kory was at one point suicidal or would have taken death over the continue abuse and torture -- which doesn't really line up with the usual story of kory perservering. it's an interesting juxtaposition! either way, it gives dick a perspective that's not his usual one. his family might generally encourage moral ocd and debilitating guilt spirals, but kory says "sometimes you need to make the decision you think is right and not obsess over it for the rest of your days."

it reinforces one of my favorite characterizations for her. she sticks to her guns and value systems, and doesn't feel the need to grovel in guilt and shame. she's going to do what she thinks is right no matter the cost, even when others think she's in the wrong for it and want to shame her.

i will also say, in terms of kory 'not dwelling' i'm always a fan of anything that adds to my #queenofrepression agenda. kory canonly doesn't process grief or trauma very well and instead tends to ignore it and it's easily mistaken for moving on, which others see as brave and it helps them idealize her. love this about her. queen of never dealing with her shit and calling it #movingon

interestingly, with these added layers it makes both dick and kory really fascinating here. because with the note that kory did impulsively fire at the psion -- despite being calmer later, when making the choice to delete its memory and personhood -- that implies again that kory is NOT entirely over her trauma and there are lingering issues she has never worked through. so her advice is somewhat hypocritical, despite being effective and practical. meanwhile despite having some accuracy and acknowledgement that it would be the most normal thing in the world for kory to not be #over her trauma, we also know that part of what he's doing here is projecting his own internal struggles onto kory. he can't move on; surely she can't, either. they drive me nuts!!

[robstaryeah]

Nightwing and Starfire teaming up in Nightwing #138

[a-thousand-pots]

I made something 🥰🎉🎉

Wayword — a daily word-ladder puzzle

Get from one word to another by adding, removing, or changing one letter at a time.

It has a daily mode that resets at UTC midnight. I’ve had fun with it with some friends - hopefully other people find it fun too :)

Lmk if you have any feedback

[mickidona]

I'm doing a 50% discount on mishies for my first month as a #VGen artist ! Please reach out to me on VGen HERE

[milowing]

thinking about donna troy in titans (1999). thinking about only knowing yourself through the lens of someone else. thinking about not remembering most of your life. thinking about not remembering why you loved your husband. thinking about not remembering the little things about your child. thinking about being thankful for him bringing you back to life except was it even you who was brought back? thinking about whether or not you'd even be thankful because how much of you did he really know? thinking about how maybe the real you wouldn't think these things. maybe the real you would be perfectly happy and not angry inside. thinking about how maybe the real you would've hated him but he just thought you were nicer than you were. thinking about how you'll never really know who the real you was. thinking about mourning the loss of yourself while everyone around you thinks you're alive.

[passumbapper]

it's almost summer do you guys want my stupid hyperoptimized lemonade recipe that takes half a day to make and whips absolute ass

[passumbapper]

Fruited Lemonade That Makes You Reconsider It All

ingredience:

lemons/limes (this needs to make up the bulk of the fruit being used, like at least 80%)

whatever other fruits or fruit scraps you want, plus any herbs/other flavorings you want to try. by fruit scraps I mean things like cherry pits, apple peels, pineapple cores, strawberry ends, things like that.

granulated white sugar, the coarser the better, 50% by weight of total citrus rinds + 100% by weight of any additional fruit. you'll measure this after you prep the fruit.

water as needed

equipment:

a few nonmetallic mixing bowls

a mesh strainer

a chinoise, ricer or some cheesecloth

a kitchen scale

a citrus juicer or reamer (manual or electric)

a potato masher

juice the citrus through a strainer - saving all rinds -  and refrigerate the juice for the time being. dice the rinds and other fruits if any, keeping the rinds separate. make note of weights, and measure your sugar.

 Place sugar in a large nonmetallic bowl. If using non-citrus fruits and/or any other flavorings, mix them in with the sugar and mash with potato masher. add diced citrus rinds, mix thoroughly, and mash again. cover and let stand at room temperature for at least 4 hours. this allows the sugar to draw out flavors that would otherwise get discarded with the rinds, and the rinds' acids should be enough to dissolve the sugar into a syrup.

Afterward, mash one last time, then collect the syrup by pressing the macerated mixture through a strainer/chinoise or ricer, or squeeze it through cheesecloth. if you want, this can be saved as a standalone syrup at this point, for use in cocktails or desserts. if not, slowly pour the reserved juice through the solids to to help get the remaining syrup out, and squeeze/press again. do the same thing one more time with warm water (roughly the same amount of water as juice). discard solids (or try making sangria with them!).

taste the mixture and add more water if necessary. a stronger mix is totally fine if you anticipate serving over ice on a hot day, or adding booze, or if there was a lot of non-sour fruit. keep in mind that it will taste a bit less sweet once it's chilled. pour into a pitcher and refrigerate.

citrus oils will float to the top, so stir/shake before serving. love you. enjoy.

some tried and true flavor combos:

straight lemon or lime, or any combination of the two, is of course an untouchable classic

lemon & strawberries (that's pussy babe!)

lemon & orange with a hint of vanilla (creamsiclemonade...?)

lemon & apples or apple peels with cinnamon/ginger/allspice (for late summer)

some cocktail type combos, booze optional:

lemon or lime & berries with basil + gin

lime & mint + white rum

lime & ginger + dark rum

lime & cucumber + gin

lime & orange (berries optional) + tequila

lemon, orange & cherry + brandy, bourbon, or rye whiskey

[starburstpaladin-96]

Say Nightwing Fans and Casuals,

If someone somehow can make a mega post for all The Pages and Panels of the Unpublished version of Nightwing (Vol 3) #30 drawn by Meghan Hetrick on this website, that’ll be greatly appreciated

Every single time I tried logging on to Blesding Cool for the complete story, the images just never load up, usually on my IPhone though maybe my computers too

If anyone here can help with that, that’ll be a blessing for me and maybe plenty of Nightwing fans on Tumblr

That’s all

[aliteralchicken]

from lost media (and others)

I found some