Gotham Cat

Gotham is my natural habitat :) Very much a Tim Drake and Steph Brown fan, I mostly ship StephCass, you get the vibe. I do write fanfic occasionally, but most of it goes unfinished.

[kitteningotham]

Hi! I’m kitteningotham, gotham_cat on AO3. I’m in a few fandoms, but my posts will mainly revolve around:

— the Batfam/ Batman comics

— the Carry On, Simon Snow series by Rainbow Rowell (which I totally recommend, it’s very very very good)

— PJO/ HOO/TOA :))

— Twilight

— Music, mainly indie stuff or pop, I’m kinda basic

— The Hunger Games series (I recently bought SOTR and loved it!)

I honestly don’t mind what you refer to me as, Kit or Cat or just OP or whatever, as long as it’s not too derogatory, and I use she/her pronouns:)

I love you all and any contributions! Thank you for reading :) <3

I have a personal tag now! ‘#cat’s character studies’ will denote anything like music for certain characters or just thoughts/analysis

[mazeeque]

a happy autumnal boy for @/ittypenguins via @dcforgaza

comms ✨️

[redcurrantpuff]

Bruce Wayne casually reading his daily news📸

Wanted to try something cool with the flash photography aesthetic but I'm DYING to make it work in lineart and ended up ditching it in the end 😭

[mazeeque]

donna and kory for @fieldsofview via @dcforgaza 💞

[sayasun0]

rereading batgirl 2001, and very cass state of mind so just some sketchbook pages (using acrylic markers for the first time)

[kitteningotham]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE HERRRR

[blackbackedjackal]

We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.

[blackbackedjackal]

At my parents place with 2 children watching YT on tablets and 2 adults watching tiktoks and reels on their phones and trying not to summon a comically sized Loony Toons hammer out of my back pocket to smash them all.

[gigilefache]

I'm rebloging this twice im tired of people not wearing headphones when watching videos in public. It's basic etiquette to wear headphones in public when you listen to things.

[teashoesandhair]

I am absolutely That Bitch who will just ask anyone doing this to stop doing it, and I think what surprises me most is that the vast majority of people have one of two reactions: sheer incredulity that their tinny little podcast could possibly be anything other than an exquisite audio experience for anyone else, swiftly followed by a deeply mortified little smile and a shame-ridden silence for the rest of the train journey; or absolute rage that I'd dare ask them to do something to make the space even remotely more comfortable for - dry heave - other people.

A few months ago, I asked a man in the hospital waiting room - in the ENT department, for extra audacity points - if he could please use headphones, and he said 'no, I don't have any,' and when I said 'well, no-one else here wants to hear it,' he just shrugged and said 'but I do.' He kept listening to it without even turning it down, and everyone else just rolled their eyes and muttered about what a prick he was. A middle-aged woman once told me that I needed to 'mind my own business' for asking her just to turn it down, because she was listening to it at full volume, and then she proceeded to loudly bitch about my appearance with her daughter for a solid 5 minutes, interspersed with direct suggestions that I should sincerely consider fucking off, and it was only when everyone else in the train carriage confirmed that they, too, had been pissed off by her behaviour that she stopped yelling at me and sat back in her seat with a face like a smacked arse. And once, I asked a bunch of teenagers on the train if they could turn it down, and they started filming me and told me they'd make me 'TikTok famous', which frankly excited me in the moment, but has since sorely disappointed me because I've yet to become a household name.

My point being: people are either just so self-absorbed that they genuinely don't realise that other people might not enjoy the experience of being subjected to whatever they, the arbiter of good taste, are listening to; or they're complete sacks of piss who truly do not give a shit about anyone else, and refuse to consider the prospect of doing so. The former is frustrating, but ultimately just a lack of awareness that can usually be remedied by making them aware in the moment that they're being annoying. The latter makes me want to go on an actual murder spree. If you're the kind of person who listens to stuff in public without headphones - and yes, I'm including people who make calls on speakerphone - then just know that you are a festering polyp on the anus of society, and everyone in your immediate vicinity wants to flush your head down the nearest toilet.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

wear your headphones the next 1,135 days

[inbabylontheywept]

you're not allowed to bring wireless devices into classified areas and a security guy noticed a square phone-ish shape in my pocket so he asked me to show him what it was and i had to show him my can of pocket herring :/

[inbabylontheywept]

artists depiction of event

[totalxnostalgia]

all steph sees is cass

[sayasun0]

posting here everyday to keep myself motivated. logging in to lock in lol.

anyways more cassisms

[kitteningotham]

OMG THESE ARE STUNNING? I love seeing physical art in the wild

She is. SO PRETTY! The one in the bottom right where she just looks so disgusted— that’s so her my girllllll!

[binglepringle]

Less Cass and Shiva being mother and daughterly and more Cass and Shiva being inadvertently stuck with each other in bullshit situations where they’re forced to work together

[binglepringle]

Less Cass and Shiva being mother and daughterly and more Cass and Shiva being inadvertently stuck with each other in bullshit situations where they’re forced to work together

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[omens-of-what-is-to-cum]

Okay justice for Ilya Rozanov, a man who notably managed his entire families finances and his dementia-having fathers caretaking since he was literally a teenager, while also essentially raising himself to be an elite, generational athlete by himself.

like what is this ‘Ilya needs the threat of a sex ban to pick up his socks’ slander or this ‘Ilya has terrible financial literacy’ misinformation or this ‘Ilya only eats junk food and needs to be forced to eat his veggies’ tomfoolery

[watermelontuesdays]

AU where Shane and Ilya don't hook up or have a decades-long secret. They don't really know each other at all, except to play each other.

Shane comes out of the closet sometime after Scott does, and in some random, lighthearted interview, they ask him what he's looking for in a man. And Shane's just, off-hand like, "Well, he'd have to have at least one Stanley Cup. Obviously." And when he gets a good reaction from that, he keeps going, like "Needs to be amazing at hockey. Definitely needs to be at least an All-Star, if not a captain. Hot too. If he can't bench-press me, I'm not interested."

And it's all in fun, except two days after the interview prints, Ilya Rozanov shows up at his door like "knock, knock. I am here to apply for boyfriend position. Do you need resume? I brought my Stanley Cup ring, just in case."

[tinylilhollander]

I know that Heated Rivalry is one of those pieces of media where COVID never happens but what if it did? Imagine the lockdown shenanigans.

Shane and Ilya are obviously hunkering down at the cottage together. There's no hockey, but they don't know for how long, so they're still training all the time. They're doing interviews and having to make it look like they're in completely different places. Ilya has to keep being reminded that he's supposed to still be back in Ottawa.

Ilya's teammates keep asking if they can be in a lockdown bubble together and he's gotta be like "No, can't do that. I'm not taking any chances." But now they're worried because he hasn't seen or been around another human being in months and they've noticed that even before lockdown he made more jokes about killing himself than the average person, so they're stressed to their eyeballs about his mental health.

Meanwhile Ilya's living the kind of domestic fantasy with his man that he didn't think they were going to get until retirement. For the first time ever most days he can truly pretend that he and Shane are the only people in the world. Sometimes David and Yuna come over for dinner because they are also isolating at their cottage. But most of the time it's just endless hours of just the two of them and neither of them could be happier. Their biggest decision every day is when and where to fuck. Some people are getting into sourdough – Shane and Ilya have committed to learning one new sexual position every day.

I just think that lockdown would have been the ideal codependent situation for Hollanov.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

[creechie]

How do I... use this? I don't know what to do ;-;

[the-future-is-chrome]

here’s a youtube tutorial by the guy who made it

[daysleftofsecondterm]

it’s ok to ask for help the next 946 days

[manfrommars2049]

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

[hasufin]

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

[tehamelie]

The counter-argument: Not having UBI is in the interests of those in power who want to do anything to the people they are in power over in order to remain in power.

If the greed of the few should come before the need of the many.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,025 days left

[rmhashauthor]

Hundreds of studies from all over the world, from wealthy European countries to countries in the trenches of extreme poverty, show the same thing: Recipients of UBI spend that money on food, housing, education, paying down debt, investing in the future and generally improving their lives, pretty much universally.

They use the money to pay the first and last month’s rent on a better apartment. They buy school supplies and clothes for their kids. They go to the doctor for preventative care, seek mental health support, and get their kids glasses. They start a retirement fund. They can afford better quality food and repairs on their homes, appliances and cars. Many use the money to start a business or invest.

Know what they tend NOT to do? The vast majority do not buy drugs, they don’t drink it all away, they don’t gamble it away and they don’t blow it all on scratchers, iPhones or garish clothes. They aren’t disincentivized to work. None of those things are morally bad or wrong, but they are the most common arguments against UBI: “MEEEHHHHH WE CAN’T GIVE PEOPLE FREE MONEY THEY WON’T WORK AND THEY’LL BUY DRUUUUUGS!” Take a wild guess who is most often accused of spending money on drugs, scratchers and jewelry. Yep, POC. The mythical “welfare queen” we were all told to hate is a racist stereotype based on a handful of anecdotes during Reagan’s presidency and perpetuated by conservative white people who can’t handle the concept of sharing resources with someone who might be a little poorer, sicker, or darker than they are. Using the term “welfare queen” is a good indicator to me that they watch Fox “News” every day and haven’t had a thought of their own since the Gulf War.

Poverty is a failure of society, not the individual. Trapping people in shit jobs by tying their healthcare to employment is yet another way to abuse people just trying to (barely) survive. Stripping a disabled person of their social security for getting a job (because disability pay is such a pittance it’s embarrassing) is bullshit. UBI doesn’t disincentivize people from working, the way that capitalism works does. Creating a safety net won’t turn us all into lazy layabouts sitting at home on the couch eating chips all day, making it more of a pain in the ass just to live by jumping through endless hoops, meeting ridiculous job-hunting quotas, and peeing in a cup for the privilege of a few dollars a month in food stamps does. Learned helplessness is a result of a broken system that punishes you for following the rules.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Also if people wanna spend their money on drugs, that ought to be their business; I mean, aren’t Americans all about “I don’t want no governance scienticians observing my life and telling me what to do,” shouldn’t someone else taking drugs be just, them expressing their freedom the way you do?

[fading-bisexual-queen-milkshake]

Not when…it’s a dangerous addiction…that can kill them?… /nm just confused

[lizluvscupcakes]

We let people do the same thing with alcohol; THAT’S so prolific people feel comfortable making jokes about their chronic drinking problems.

And if you’re further confused, I recommend this video for details:

[daysleftofsecondterm]

my GOD, the notes on this post are APPALLING!

Setting aside how the “Facts And Logic” about why people shouldn’t het their basic needs met is all complete and utter horseshit (I know that’s a big ask already, just try), everyone in here is being unapologetically, unashamedly rude. It’s despicable. Your mothers raised you better than that. And if they didn’t, learn to BE better than that.