Bat Bear

Just a bear in a Bat costume. Find me everywhere: https://fleetsparrow.carrd.co

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I hope to all things that this becomes my lasting contribution to fandom.

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Listen, as the only person in the office who knew not only Arte Johnson but specifically his Laugh-In "very interesting" sketches, and who, because of this (and formerly revealed) knowledge, was called a Renaissance man by the coolest man in the office, I may still be riding high.

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I forget sometimes that not everyone lived through the media of the 70s.

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In the most genuinely loving and positive "wow the world sure is a wonder" tone, I always find it funny to see what is basically a horror story described as an "uncomfortable" reading experience.

Like, oh, the horror story where things are Bad and Off was uncomfortable to read? Huh. You don't say.

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That moment of Concern when you read something to help "when you feel... disconnected between your left and right side..." and you just sit there like,

You're supposed to feel connected?

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Armies of Isengard: Don't worry, guys! Boss said we won't lose until Birnam Wood marches on Dunsinane Helm's Deep.

The Huorn:

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Hot take that I don't have time to explain because I'm at work, but

"Disney fairy tales (derogatory)" aren't inherently Worse than any other form of fairy tale, especially when you consider that the "Disney fairy tale" hasn't really been A Thing since... The Little Mermaid???

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Throwback to when I was about 18 and I watched in real time as a trans guy I knew had his PTSD and anxiety manipulated against him by radfems as they groomed him into medically and socially detransitioning. We were in transmed spaces, so really he was only as nice as anyone could be in those cesspools, but I watched this generally funny and charismatic trans man that I looked up to deteriorate and detransition into a woman who was vocally just. bitter, jaded, miserable, constantly angry, constantly lashing out, and regularly relapsing both with self harm and substance abuse because the pain and dissociation that came with detransition was too much.

That was my wakeup call that I was laying with dogs and dangerously close to catching fleas.

There's a reason why you should never trust a radfem and it's because she would rather see you detransition and kill yourself in a hole of desperate dysphoria than let you live wholly as yourself.

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Just so we're clear, the last thing that I had heard about this person several years ago was that she had detransitioned, became a TERF, and had attempted to take her life for the first time since before her transition.

I do not share this shit lightly. I'm using she/her here because that was what she was using last time I heard of her, but when this person was on T and surrounded by other trans people she was on several good clean streaks wrt both self harm and substances and was generally doing well. She was still struggling with her mental health but don't we all.

When she started hanging around radfems and detransitioned it triggered her suicidality so badly she tried to follow through for the first time in over a decade.

The situation kind of speaks for itself.

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everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

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“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.

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Nightwing (2016) #140

This blog doesn’t reflect how much time I spend thinking about the fact that you don’t see seedy strip joints in comics as much as you used to, but I do mull on that frequently. So, um, welcome back seedy strip joints. Dan Watters is funnier than I’ve been giving him credit for, too.

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“There’s a drive-through strip club in downtown Bludhaven now” is also one of the strongest opening lines I’ve clocked in a comic recently. I’m saying that as someone who does actually have a definitive favorite ever opening line, though that issue was written by someone who’s done worse things than the movie crimes that people on here are typically upset about so I’ll be holding it close to my chest.

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REblog if you are Asexual, support Asexuals, or spend most of your time actually thinking about Superheroes.

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Bruce is asking, praying, begging to know what the hell they’re feeding Dick at college. Look at him.

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A very very tiny hamster.

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it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.