Jess Mahler's Blog -- Take 2

[grounded-gryphon]

Jess Mahler's Tumblr Writing Masterlist

Figured it was time. Will try to update reliably, but life happens.

Where to find me off Tumblr

Dragon Symbiotes World Building Project

Original Fiction

Alexi's Transgender Fairytale -- what it says on the tin

Yishai’s New Roommate/Yishai and Little One -- box boy universe whump, sfw (unfinished)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Enemies to Divorced Parents snippet -- superhero prompt

Without Dishonor -- lovers to enemies short

100 Drabble Challenge

FanFic

Trials & Trios -- dc x dp eternal trio plus jason/jazz/dick (unfinished/updating)

I'd Die (Again) for Y'all -- dc x dp brain dead on main (unfinished/on hiatus)

I Reject Your Quỳnh and Substitute My Own -- The Old Guard (finished)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Unnamed Dc x dp snippet -- Jason tried to avoid Replacement at these things... (might continue later)

Mister Wayne -- because Alfred wouldn't call Bruce "Master Bruce" without a reason.

Jason's Old Man (finished) -- companion piece to "Mister Wayne," intro and two scenes

If You Want My Husband... -- dead on main snippet off of prompt

Jason's Favors -- off of prompt. No one knows why Jason hates Vlad Masters. they don't really care either.

I'll Write It Someday -- Batman's a halfa

Poor Man's Batman (unfinished/on hiatus)

[maimonideznuts]

I know there are bigger problems, but I fucking hate the appropriation of the word "golem".

Just say "elemental construct" or something.

I don't think there's an argument here, it's a Jewish culture term... Invent your own terms and leave ours alone.

[maimonideznuts]

Flesh golem? That's a homunculus.

Magic caster created golem? That's a magical construct.

Naturally occurring golem? That's an elemental.

-

A setting without Jews by definition cannot have golems.

Only a Rabbi can create a golem.

[dikleyt]

I don't know, I grew up playing Dragon Quest, starting with the very first game, and I found the use of golems charming and flattering. I loved that an element of my culture was being used in a game I loved.

Maybe an exception should be made for cultures like Japan that so freely share themselves with the world; they should be allowed to use elements from other cultures all they want, just as I have written haiku in Yiddish and sell a shirt that said "Yudaya-jin"

Wouldn't that make America free to appropriate any culture too, though? No, because America imposes its culture on the world through physical and economic and linguistic imperialism. Japan doesn't (anymore); Japanese people largely make works for Japanese audiences that a lot of people outside Japan love and identify with.

[maimonideznuts]

The best example I've been given of Golems being represented well in a setting without Jews is, Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett, I think Terry did a fabulous job but even then I'm torn.

However it very much is currently and historically Japanese National Policy to use Otaku Culture internationally to foster cultural recognition, build soft power, and create a market for Japanese goods.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/culture/exchange/pop/index.html

There are several Japanese works such as Outbreak Company and Gate that satirise the Government's use of Otaku culture to foster international soft power and cultural recognition, by moving that scenario to an interplanetary/interplanar push run by the military/military intelligence as a quiet conquest of the other world.

The Japanese Government is currently beefing with Crunchyroll over unsanctioned Western Localisation of Japanese Media.

Japanese people are very free with their culture partly because Shinto is open to everyone, and Buddhism is also open to everyone as they seek to liberate everyone from suffering and the cycle of reincarnation. Mostly they are free with their culture because it's National Policy and the cultural foundation of universalist religious practices just made it easier. This is very much not the same as the appropriation of Golems, Japanese people are capable of learning a different word.

[dikleyt]

I get what you're saying but using culture to build international goodwill can work both ways here. Many Japanese people may go their whole lives without meeting a Jew, but Dragon Quest is a tremendously popular phenomenon there. They will see Golems in Dragon Quest and some may wonder, where do they come from? And they might look it up and learn a lot about Judaism they wouldn't have otherwise, including about antisemitism and about our attitude towards words.

Dragon Quest VII has a group called the Dejans (now localized as Roamers) that are an amalgamation of Jews and Roma – again, a way to build international goodwill for Jews. Though they are not connected to the golems that are also in the game, unfortunately.

[maimonideznuts]

You're allowed to feel like the Roamers are good Jewish rep in the game, I haven't played the game full disclosure but I don't see it after reading the Roamer Encampment page of the Dragon Quest Wiki.

I don't think any people are wondering where the word Golem comes from, I think they generally think it's just the fantasy/DnD term for magic thing that walks. In the same way people don't think twice about the origins of the word Mana, they might incorrectly draw a parallel to the Hebrew; מן or Mahn/Mon (English: Manna). Māna is a Polynesian cultural term for the power and authority of a place, object, or person, but it has become the appropriated catch all term for magical/spiritual energy.

[maimonideznuts]

@grounded-gryphon

Yes, absolutely 💖.

Above, in the current reblog chain I said that I'm still torn on Terry Pratchett's, but since then I've been reminded that he actually does subtly (and that is plenty) say that the setting contains Jews with reference to a Kosher Butcher in Ankh Morpork, where there is a Kosher Butcher there are by definition also Jews. Terry, the Atheist novelist, went to the trouble of understanding what a Golem is, and what it means to the community when a Golem is present, and created an original variation on Golem stories that feel like a gesture of love as well as good literature. Above and beyond.

Something else I said in one of these branching reblog chains...

We are saying that lazy, unresearched, and tactless use of our cultural heritage by outsiders is worthy of criticism. Put in the effort to understand the source material and make something great and we will love it. Lazy is lazy, tactless is tactless, you're not immune from criticism when using our cultural heritage in nonsensical or offensive ways.

We will always love Terry Pratchett Z"L.

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[maimonideznuts]

I know there are bigger problems, but I fucking hate the appropriation of the word "golem".

Just say "elemental construct" or something.

I don't think there's an argument here, it's a Jewish culture term... Invent your own terms and leave ours alone.

[maimonideznuts]

Flesh golem? That's a homunculus.

Magic caster created golem? That's a magical construct.

Naturally occurring golem? That's an elemental.

-

A setting without Jews by definition cannot have golems.

Only a Rabbi can create a golem.

[dikleyt]

I don't know, I grew up playing Dragon Quest, starting with the very first game, and I found the use of golems charming and flattering. I loved that an element of my culture was being used in a game I loved.

Maybe an exception should be made for cultures like Japan that so freely share themselves with the world; they should be allowed to use elements from other cultures all they want, just as I have written haiku in Yiddish and sell a shirt that said "Yudaya-jin"

Wouldn't that make America free to appropriate any culture too, though? No, because America imposes its culture on the world through physical and economic and linguistic imperialism. Japan doesn't (anymore); Japanese people largely make works for Japanese audiences that a lot of people outside Japan love and identify with.

[maimonideznuts]

The best example I've been given of Golems being represented well in a setting without Jews is, Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett, I think Terry did a fabulous job but even then I'm torn.

However it very much is currently and historically Japanese National Policy to use Otaku Culture internationally to foster cultural recognition, build soft power, and create a market for Japanese goods.

https://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/culture/exchange/pop/index.html

There are several Japanese works such as Outbreak Company and Gate that satirise the Government's use of Otaku culture to foster international soft power and cultural recognition, by moving that scenario to an interplanetary/interplanar push run by the military/military intelligence as a quiet conquest of the other world.

The Japanese Government is currently beefing with Crunchyroll over unsanctioned Western Localisation of Japanese Media.

Japanese people are very free with their culture partly because Shinto is open to everyone, and Buddhism is also open to everyone as they seek to liberate everyone from suffering and the cycle of reincarnation. Mostly they are free with their culture because it's National Policy and the cultural foundation of universalist religious practices just made it easier. This is very much not the same as the appropriation of Golems, Japanese people are capable of learning a different word.

[dikleyt]

I get what you're saying but using culture to build international goodwill can work both ways here. Many Japanese people may go their whole lives without meeting a Jew, but Dragon Quest is a tremendously popular phenomenon there. They will see Golems in Dragon Quest and some may wonder, where do they come from? And they might look it up and learn a lot about Judaism they wouldn't have otherwise, including about antisemitism and about our attitude towards words.

Dragon Quest VII has a group called the Dejans (now localized as Roamers) that are an amalgamation of Jews and Roma – again, a way to build international goodwill for Jews. Though they are not connected to the golems that are also in the game, unfortunately.

[maimonideznuts]

You're allowed to feel like the Roamers are good Jewish rep in the game, I haven't played the game full disclosure but I don't see it after reading the Roamer Encampment page of the Dragon Quest Wiki.

I don't think any people are wondering where the word Golem comes from, I think they generally think it's just the fantasy/DnD term for magic thing that walks. In the same way people don't think twice about the origins of the word Mana, they might incorrectly draw a parallel to the Hebrew; מן or Mahn/Mon (English: Manna). Māna is a Polynesian cultural term for the power and authority of a place, object, or person, but it has become the appropriated catch all term for magical/spiritual energy.

[twitblr]

These policies can help to improve the mental health of students

[snommelp]

If the point is for the children to learn, then why wouldn’t you give them as many chances as it takes? What is the benefit of telling a child “you failed and that’s the end of it”?

[ferrous-princess]

I’m 25, and in my trade school, our tests aren’t judgement, they’re testing to see what we’ve retained, and identify what we’re missing.

If I weld a joint, and the CWI comes up behind me with a radiographic test for it and finds that I just laid hot metal on cold metal or it looks like a sponge inside, you know what’s gonna happen? You think they’re gonna give me a low score and tell me to move on? Fuck no. They’re gonna hand me a grinder and tell me to take it out and put it in right.

When there’s actual work to be done, we don’t leave it at the first attempt if that attempt was shit. We don’t leave a trail of “what’s done is done.” If it takes you four attempts, that’s what it takes, and next time it’ll take fewer because you learned how to do it right after the third time.

School, as it’s set up, with unforgiving deadlines and single attempt high stakes tests are building a shitty work ethic. It says “I tried once, and that’s all you’re getting.” It sets you up to leave a trail of cut losses and barely or unfinished projects as you scramble to get something, anything, turned in before the deadline.

And we wonder now why nothing works at launch.

[lostinhistory]

‘We genuinely have too many potatoes, I cannot stress enough’: 42,000 pounds of free taters headed to Denver

Twenty-one tons of potatoes are up for grabs at Potato Palooza on Monday.

The nonprofit’s set to receive a donation of 21 tons of tubers this weekend from suppliers in the Midwest. Hoping to get the starchy vegetables to people in need, the nonprofit will host a “Potato Palooza” event on Monday in Park Hill. “Anyone is welcome to come. They can bring tote bags, wagons, you could back up your pickup truck if you wanted to,” Hissong said. The event is 9 a.m. to noon at the Park Hill Food Recovery Hub, 6090 East 39th Avenue, on July 27.

This is the dream

[wobblefloss]

🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️

People near Denver, Colorado.

Potato alert. Potato alert.

Free food. Unlimited free potatoes.

Potato alert.

🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️ 🥔 ⚠️

This concludes this broadcast of the emergency potato system.

[ickaimp]

So this is not a plea for money. This is something that surprised me, and chatting with people on discord, they were unaware of as well.

Discovered last year I couldn’t look at my 2015 MacBook Air without it triggering nausea and migraines, and figured the screen died. Have been getting by on my phone, but concluded I really need a laptop again.

Saved up, realised I could afford a brand new MacBook Neo, and got one.

-And I couldn’t spend more than five minutes looking at the screen without massive eye strain, nausea, vertigo, and if I pushed it, I-need-to-lie-down-in-a-dark-room-for-hours migraines.

Looking up MacBook and Eyestrain explained what is going on. The liquid retina displays that Apple currently has uses Pulse Width Modulation or PWM. In order to give the screens a deeper depth of colour and contrast, PWM flickers between several hundred to thousand times a second.

And there is currently no way to turn it off. There are settings and apps to reduce it, but there is no way to stop the screen from flickering. Checked Apple forums, called Apple Support, and the time I could look at the screen kept shrinking. Got the laptop Tuesday, returned it Friday, today is Sunday and I’m still dealing with a vertigo migraine.

For MacBooks, it seems to vary on the computer model and the software it uses. In retrospect, the issue with my MacBook Air started after a major software update.

And it’s not just an Apple thing. Current Windows and Android screens do the same thing. There’s even a Reddit for people who are sensitive to PWM flickers to help find computers and screens that won’t trigger eyestrain and headaches.

So, yeah. This week has been a learning experience. But for those who are prone to headaches and migraines, this may be something to be aware of, cause I was not.

[keplercryptids]

i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.

[keplercryptids]

soooo many people are rbing this with tags like "yeah! weight is not an indicator of health!" my friends, i beg you to actually read the post.

it does not MATTER if weight is an indicator of health! health isn't an indicator of morality! even if being fat was unhealthy, it wouldn't matter! being unhealthy isn't wrong! and being healthy isn't the most correct, moral, peak state of human existence!

"you can be healthy and fat" rhetoric is exactly what this post is arguing against.

[kelpforestdwellers]

health is also largely out of your control. your stress levels, socioeconomic status, societal oppression if you experience it - all these and more impact your health much more than any choices you make. by all means strive to eat well, however that looks to you, move your body if possible, and look after yourself in general. but know that no amount of effort can guarantee health, and illness is not caused by insufficient efforts at 'wellness.'

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[peasthedumb-reblogs]

Ok i know this is silly but do you know how fucked up and accurate this is?

Idk if it’s common knowledge how a nuclear energy is generated. But on the assumption it’s not, I had to learn a little in Environmental science A levels.

I shit you not, they are harnessing the power of splitting the fucking atom just to boil some water. It’s just a high tech kettle. When you boil your kettle you are doing the same thing these people are using Uranium for.

All these crazy energy generation methods and almost all of them revolve around boiling water to turn a turbine.

It PISSES ME OFF. WHY ISNT IT COOLER??? WHERES THE LIGHTNING!!

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Hear me out:

Earth is not just a Terrestrial World; it’s an Exotic Terrestrial: a Water World.

Water is weird, ok? Everything else that’s anywhere close to its molecular weight is very much vaporous gas at similar conditions to water’s triple point. It’s weirdly easy to make carry an electrical charge (we call it an acid or a base when it’s doing this). It’s polarized as fuck, so it’s squirrely, infiltrating all kinds of stuff you normally think of as being solid, like metal and stone.

Water bonds to itself really well, so the transition from liquid or solid to gas, and back, involves a really profound change in volume.

The Water Cycle, whereby Water goes from solid to liquid to gas in all kinda directions, runs a lot of our geologic and mineral cycles, like the nitrogen and carbon and silicone ones. Plate tectonics is partially enabled by lubrication from the ocean infiltrating the earth’s crust.

It kinda… makes sense? That we’d have Water-based technology? As inhabitants of a Water World? From a world-building standpoint I mean.

We hacked one of the driving forces of our world, and use that power to run our civilization.

Just. Just saying.

[storm-and-starlight]

Also, there are only a handful of ways to Make Electricity, aka Make Electrons Move, and one of those ways and one of the easiest is to Make A Magnet Spin -- aka a turbine. If all you're getting is heat energy (like from combustion or radiation, aka coal/gas or nuclear power), how do you convert heat energy into movement energy to Make Magnet Spin? You heat up something that will expand a lot, and water is 1.) really common 2.) really good at that.

[standwithdaanes]

as much as everyone loves "the power of love won't save us, we need the power of incredible violence" i'm sorry to rain on your parade but we've actually tried that about ten million times as a species, and you'll be shocked to hear the power of incredible violence, without the power of love behind it, is just brutality. the power of incredible violence has been ruling (various parts of, and then the entire) world for the past 5,000 years. ours is not that damn special.

like yes use that gun you found but WHY are you using it? on who are you using it? what would make you stop using it? is your goal to live in a world where every problem is solved by violence, or is your goal to do the violence necessary to live in a world where that necessity is unthinkable?

[ffc1cb]

t-trans danny?? or him with the trans flag please?? if requests are still open ofc

probably not what you guys wanted but i dont feel so good so i wanted to draw something sweet and silly 

vlad is so extra lmao

[quiteliterallyhotsauce]

Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas. 

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS. 

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

Reblog To Save Life

[tuffcrow-deactivated20190517]

Okay but like reblog to LITERALLY SAVE SOMEONE’S LIFE

[missheis]

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please puHLEAAASSEEEEEEE BE SAFE

[unified-multiversal-theory]

They are called sundown towns and there are a LOT of them in the US.

https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntowns.php

This website has a clickable map where you can see suspected and confirmed sundown towns by state, as well as information about whether these attitudes are historical or current.

The homepage of Dr. James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, and Sundown Towns.

[glytchflower]

Reblog for the link

reblog for the link

REBLOG FOR THE LINK

[wordsaremylife]

Please stay safe

[tenmei-savvvv-deactivated202206]

REBLOG IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT BLOG YOU ARE THIS IS GONNA SAVE SOMEONE

[swigglesandwiggles]

I am poc too and i am scared for my LIFE when i go to the south. please stay safe.

[wofworld]

I am not poc but I know this could save someone’s life. Please reblog and spread the message.

[lyrslair]

My obligatory addition to this every time it crosses my dash, because I know the link is definitely missing ones in my own (northern) state and there are some in this thread not on the above link either - thread by LeVar Burton with a LOT of replies from people naming the sundown towns near them:

https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1300918792143339520

[inyuji]

Just in case someone is traveling, please be careful

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG

[amingethia]

On this weeks episode of why America is terrifying.

[pigeonwithabriefcase]

im not american but god this is terrifying

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Warning people of the existence of sundown towns feels extra important now.

[fernthefanciful]

Bruce pressed the palms of his hands against his eyes. He’s usually not one for such an open sign of distress, but he feels in this case it was warranted. And he was having such a peaceful morning, too.

“Did she just write ‘yeti doctor’?”

Bruce’s head snaps up at Steph’s voice, looking once again at the letter on the screen. “Dear Mister Wayne,” it reads, and that is where normalcy ends. “Thank you so much for taking in Danny, I was so worried when he had to escape our parents.” Which is already an extremely worrying sentence. Made even more worrisome with the fact that there is no Danny currently residing in his manor.

His family is in chaos. Tim has three screens in front of him, ranting about living firewalls to Barbara, while Dick leans over his shoulder.

Alfred has lifted a thick three-ring binder out of the care package that this Jasmine Nightingale has sent them, and is flipping through it. Apparently this binder contains all of the medical, psychological, and cultural information needed to make sure that Danny’s species can thrive. Because the missing teen that should be in his manor is not human, but some sort of human/ghost hybrid.

“Father, I think this warrants an emergency meeting with the Justice League.” His youngest says. “There is currently a government agency hunting Cujo and Daniel, citing laws that directly counter the Meta Human Protection Acts. This cannot stand.” Cujo, the green glowing, 10 foot ghostdog that delivered the package and letter this morning by density shifting into the dining room during breakfast. Damian was of course attached.

“Uh, Alfred?” Duke starts form where he and Jason have been emptying the care package, “there’s a huge first aid kit here, but most of it is glowing.” Jason, of course, is turning the high tech laser pistols over in his hands, getting a feel for the handling and grip.

Bruce let’s his eyes skim over the letter again, his eyes catching on words like “Ghost King”, “Infinite Realms”, and “vivisection”. “I know it takes Danny a while to open up,” the letter reads, “so I’m beyond grateful that he feels safe enough with you.” Except he doesn’t, because Danny is not here. Somewhere out on the streets of Gotham is a half dead teenager, hurt and alone. And Bruce didn’t know. Didn’t know any of it until his sister sent him a care package, because apparently this kid has lied to his sister that he’s safe, that he found somewhere to stay.

He doesn’t notice the sudden hush behind him until Jason breaks it. “Is that fucking Lazarus Water?!” Bruce lowers his head back into his hands.

“I will prepare a room for the young master.” Alfred sniffs as his footsteps go towards the elevator. “I’m finding this kid.” Jason answers, leaving towards the lockers “Wait, Little Wing! I’m coming with!” Well, at least Dick can hopefully keep Jason in line. He prays to Rao this doesn’t mean he has to deal with a half-ghost, immensely powerful teen that struggles with Pit Rage.

A small hand lands on Bruce’s shoulder. He looks up into the sparkling eyes of his daughter. “New brother”, she grins.

[fernthefanciful]

From @augundy's tags: #this is very himbo of danny#I approve#though I feel like he probably made up this lie on the spot while on the phone with Jazz and feeling incredibly stressed out and/or in pain#and/or extremely tired#and then he might've forgot about it after

From @geekyrie in the notes: "Bruce's first order of business is finding the teen he's supposed to take care of. The second order of business is most likely to ground him for giving him a heart attack, probably."

---

All in all, Danny’s life is going pretty well. Sure, he’s homeless on the streets of Gotham, but he hasn’t seen a white van in a few weeks, he can phase into gyms to use the showers, and he just found a coupon for a free fro-yo! So, yeah, life is great!

Which is of course when weird things start happening to him. He should have known it wouldn’t last. He’s just enjoying his fro-yo – blueberry, hell yeah – when a car passes him, breaks with tires squealing, and drives onto the sidewalk, coming to a stop uncomfortably close. It’s a nice car though, very sleek. Danny wonders what kind of engine it has, and if someone would notice if he took a look under the hood.

He never gets that chance. Instead a tall man with broad shoulders steps out of the car. He looks mad, and he looks specifically at Danny. Whelp, better keep moving then! Danny focuses hard on the next bite, looking down, and starts power-walking out of there.

“Daniel Thomas Nightingale-Wayne!”

Wait, what? He looks back to the tall man in the suit, and yeah, he’s still looking at Danny. More people stopped at the commotion, aaaaaaand great, here come the phone cameras. Tall man is walking towards him and Danny really doesn’t want to cause a scene, right now. Also the man is familiar. Somewhere.

“Where have you been?” oh, the man is still talking to him, “We’ve been looking all over for you. You can’t just disappear for six days.”

Again, what? “I’m sorry?” He tries, “also, I think you ha-”

“I appreciate the apology, chum, but you’re still grounded.”

“Wha- Grounded?!”

The man, wait – Wayne? Bruce Wayne?! Why would billionaire and himbo Brucie Wayne think he’s one of his kids? Mister Wayne crouches down, not caring about the dirty sidewalk and places his hands on Danny’s shoulders. “Sweetheart,” he starts and Danny absolutely does not melt, nope, “your sisters have been worried sick. Jason is stress-baking, Tim hasn’t slept in three days, and Damian has been – well you know Damian doesn’t show it, but I know he’s been worried.”

Danny is so confused. And now confused and slightly guilty. He doesn’t even know these people! Does he?

“Now come on, get in the car. I think Alfred was making one of your favorites for dinner tonight, and you can call your sister when we get to the manor.” Wayne’s hand on his shoulder is gentle and warm as he guides him, nothing like Vlad’s bruising grip.

“You talked to Jazz?” He asks as he’s deposited into the passenger’s side.

“Oh yes,” Wayne says, with a weird twinkle in his eye, “she’s been waiting to talk to you.”

And oh, oh no, that does not sound good at all.

---

Meanwhile the Gothamites are having a blast. Brucie Wayne full-naming someone only happens when his kids really messed up. Like, Richard swinging from the not-enforced chandelier in Mrs. Plotnik’s mega yacht messed up. Also this kid is obviously homeless. Does Bruce really get empty nest syndrome so bad that he’s now picking up random kids off the streets? The Waynes are so weird.

[p1ss]

[ejacutastic]

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

[biszumletzten]

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

[demonsnakes-deactivated20160829]

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

[brightlotusmoon]

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

[ziijsh1]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[hammersanvil]

Rewatching Book 3 of ATLA and cringing at how dumb the Iroh fanservice plot twists are:

"Iroh lied about killing the last dragon before Zuko was born because he wanted to protect them! They actually deemed him pure of heart and worthy to learn the truest form of firebending🥰" .......... even though he continued to be a violent general in an evil genocidal empire long after that...? I'm questioning the dragons' wisdom now.

"Actually Iroh and all the other old guys in the show are senior members of a super secret society working for the good of the world!!" ..... even though one of them flat out refused to teach the Avatar waterbending for misogynistic reasons, another refused to teach the Avatar firebending for personal reasons, and Iroh was an evil war general barely 6 years ago so I suppose he's only a recent member?

[muffinlance]

I love AtLA as much as anyone, but yeah it is, uh. Pretty abundantly clear that the White Lotus didn't exist in the writers' room until at least season two, and they didn't have a full idea of its role in the narrative probably until season three. The timeline on Iroh "Did A War Against All The Rest Of You" Azulonson joining and being trusted so high in the membership is also. Very questionable.

Which is all to say I think it would be perfect if we got to the season three end game and realized Iroh was actually still an errand boy initiate in the White Lotus. And Piandao pulls aside the main tent flap to reveal our Supreme Grand Lotus:

Gran-Gran

Canonically traveled the world without Committing A War, thus reasonably having met and networked with most of these other people in a positive way? Check

Saw the Avatar and told her only grandkids to go help that kid ASAP, don't worry Gran-Gran's just going to stay riiiiiight here while you're gone and definitely not relive the excitements of her youth? Check

Would recontextualize Pakku's constant sour grapes face (and his reaction to seeing Katara's necklace) to "my ex left me and now she's my superior, if I don't train her grandkid she will mobilize a global movement to Kick My Ass"? CHECK

Gran-Gran for White Lotus Grandmaster 2026

[creekfiend]

thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c

[creekfiend]

an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.

I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.

[creekfiend]

HMMM interesting!! will have to check this out