[cardinalvalentino]

hans memling, scenes from the passion of christ, circa 1470.

[dickgraysonsptsd]

OKAY FINEEEEEEE I DID SQUEE

[dickgraysonsptsd]

I SQUEED BEFORE I EVEN SAW DICKIE IN IT WE ARE SO BACK DEPRESSION CANCELLED EVERYONE STAY ALIVE 2026

[nihilnovisubsole]

do you ever find yourself bedeviled by writing ideas that are the equivalent of finding a single carrot in your fridge. your brain goes "we should write a pirate story" or "we should write a parisian thief caper" and you ask, "all right, what do we cook with that, then?" and it says "no other ingredients (:"

[nibblewinger]

Had a thought of what if Dick didn’t make it to the roof so it all went down with the body in full view

I know 🌃 won over 📶 in that poll I put up a few days ago, but I decided I wanted to keep it on the stairs, even if I’m now missing out on the sick rooftop color palette

[lost-my-gender-in-the-war]

I love how horrifying it must be to be a speedster

No other superhero really shows the body horror and cosmic horror the same way speedsters do

Also, other heroes don’t seem to notice how serious it is, because these are the silly “my power is run fast” guys

[fellaorg]

I don't know if this is the case for other speedsters but for Bart his powers are portrayed as a disability quite often

[probuccalfat]

people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother

[dogpuppy]

[residentwordsofaffirmationdealer]

bruce + dick on never changing

"in his head, being 'the good soldier' would win him bruce's affection. but when it never did, they just fought." & "you're smart enough to accept batman for who he is--and you don't get angry over the fact that you can't change him." from teen titans and outsiders secret files and origins (2003)

"none of you ever learn." "learn?" "what you can't change about each other." " oh, i-- i wouldn't change a thing." nightwing volume 2 (1996)

[rainbowmoonshadow]

We are having another heatwave in Europe again... Temperatures have been above 35°C the past days and will rise to 38°C and stay there the coming days. And it barely cools down at night. I know many people in the south are used to these kind of temperatures, but we are not.

Here in Germany houses are built to trap the heat inside and most houses including schools and workplaces have no air conditioning, usually not even ventilation. All of our architecture is designed for cold weather. The houses oftentimes get hotter than it is outside, especially the parts directly under the roof. And even if you open the windows at night the heat barely leaves the house, because the insulation is supposed to trap the heat inside.

What concerns me the most is how people say that this is just our new normal now... When I was a child in the early 2000s we were allowed to leave school early as soon as temperatures hit 32°C (usually earlier) because the heat was considered too much to handle and to work in. It was considered an active danger especially to children or elderly people. Now kids are supposed to work in 38°C, canceling school because of the heat does no longer exist, where I live. A while ago I saw kids in the direct sun, doing their sports class in this heat. This would have been unthinkable back in my days.

Everyone is supposed to go on with their day as if we have not broken heat records with every new year...

[l0vagrend]

RAWR

[stillnaomi]

As a matter of fact, freedom and democracy exist not in the abstract, but only in the concrete. In a society where class struggle exists, if there is freedom for the exploiting classes to exploit the working people, there is no freedom for the working people not to be exploited. If there is democracy for the bourgeoisie, there is no democracy for the proletariat and other working people. The legal existence of the Communist Party is tolerated in some capitalist countries, but only to the extent that it does not endanger the fundamental interests of the bourgeoisie; it is not tolerated beyond that. Those who demand freedom and democracy in the abstract regard democracy as an end and not as a means. Democracy as such sometimes seems to be an end, but it is in fact only a means. Marxism teaches us that democracy is part of the superstructure and belongs to the realm of politics. That is to say, in the last analysis, it serves the economic base. The same is true of freedom. Both democracy and freedom are relative, not absolute, and they come into being and develop in specific historical conditions. Within the ranks of the people, democracy is correlative with centralism and freedom with discipline. They are the two opposites of a single entity, contradictory as well as united, and we should not one-sidedly emphasize one to the exclusion of the other. Within the ranks of the people, we cannot do without freedom, nor can we do without discipline; we cannot do without democracy, nor can we do without centralism. This unity of democracy and centralism, of freedom and discipline, constitutes our democratic centralism. Under this system, the people enjoy broad democracy and freedom, but at the same time they have to keep within the bounds of socialist discipline. All this is well understood by the masses.

On the Correct Handling if Contradictions among the People by Mao (1957)

[cardinalvalentino]

fifteen minutes after i reblogged this my card said insufficient balance at decathlon for the record. so i really did not have the budget for that

[pyrrhuria]

i dont knowwwwww

[cardinalvalentino]

bruce wayne x reader imagine

dick grayson comes over to yell at him and bruce leaves you for him

[24hrsoda]

peak dynamic duo dynamic

[24hrsoda]

goes both ways

[residentwordsofaffirmationdealer]

"how can one truly be "free" when outside forces place constraints on the choices we have at our disposal? do we have any choice at all?" // "guess i was destined to be a superhero." secret origins 80-page giant (1998) #1 // batman (1940) #634 // batgirl (2000) #53 // batman (2025) #10 // batgirl (2009) #1 // secret origins 80-page giant (1998) #1

[nonexistent-triangle]

the irredeemable pervert is generally well regarded among their friends for their insightful thoughts and all around pleasant demeanour