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#hurughghggg why do I do this to myself #I’m not in college anymore #I don’t have the time for these kinds of hijinks

Amazing how swiftly the body decides it cannot keep up with the kind of bullshit treatment you inflicted on it in the past.

No idea what I was thinking about anymore after going through that over five hour flight delay and having to somehow drive myself back home after landing at a gods awful hour.

#delete later #food for thought on Bruce’s shitty habits I guess #looks like I get too keep up my running theme #of inflicting horrible joint pain on characters

Nonstop hellfire thoughts still aka unending obsessive over living with the consequences of your past shit decisions, but also the unshakable truth that no matter how shitty and horrible things are right now, if you fight and claw for it a better tomorrow could always come.

Shaking with not sleeping in thirty hours like a dumbass as I finally get to kill Dabi in fire almost a dozen times. UGH this is seriously taking a decade at this rate.

#hellfire series #don’t remember the tag #whatever #I’m going to crash and sleep on this flight now

Me: yeah early Batman digital systems for his personal stuff was probably terminal heavy with C or Java or a disgusting spaghetti mess of Perl-

Me: wait a fucking moment

Me: this freak might have set up an entirely unique language instead. you were already having him going down to the machine level

#raccoon empire #the grossest GUI imaginable #Bruce and Dick were using utterly god awful GUI #I don’t care what the comics cleaned up #this is for my entertainment #truly god awful brutal design #the learning curves for later members of the bat colony keep getting worse and worse #it takes so long to finally add mouse point and click functions

I don’t care that it’s been over half a decade. I still dream of some way to contrive an excuse to introduce electromagnetism to Toph so she can have fun harassing firebenders.

#the ongoing saga of navi's niche interests #is Navi still pissed at the idea of lightning bending power plants #ABSOLUTELY #USE A TURBINE YOU DOLT #WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT WORLDBUILDING DECISION

Navi there’s a recent 99 Percent Invisible episode where they talk about the historical incompatibility of different types of screws and how it fucked everything up for people until they standardized it. It’s really good. i can’t think of an application for it any of your current WIPs but like, the spirit of the problem… it seems like something you would put in one of your fics

Oh man, I’ve loved that podcast and Roman’s stuff since my brother introduced it to me back when we were in college, roundabouts. The current special series is utterly delightful.

Honestly, I do still think on a bizarre near weekly basis about how crazed I want to be about Fire Nation smelting and metalworking and coaling and the sheer baffling, horrible screaming of everything that went into and came out of the attack on the North Pole. Just on a sheer resource allocation and cost from spirits know how many years of design and production and training and minutiae that got wiped out in a single night. In any version of events that had Zhao surviving that utter disaster, he would have been swiftly executed. Unfortunately, it makes nearly no sense to fit it in any of my current narratives, beyond overall larger picture devastation to morale and resources. Which Aang and crew bulldoze with further actions swiftly enough. Maybe Sokka would care about the engineering or Toph might sense it, but it’s such a distraction to bring up.

Meanwhile in Raccoon Empire, I have been delighted digging up my random notes and ideas from my past brief fits in Voltron thinking about the hell of standardizing procedures and measurements across a galaxy or more of different cultures. Not enough people inflict hilariously paranoid and onerous quarantine procedures for returning from space and coming into contact with who knows what kind of horrifying disease or invasive species. Any kinds of sharing tech across aliens plus the existence of magic has me cackling with glee.

#the blah blahs #raccoon empire #no such thing as heaven #hilariously! did see this screw thing in action with my brother’s typewriter!#had to keep track of what we popped out where when servicing it

bobst my beloved I miss you so much

#delete later #tiny me did NOT appreciate how good they had it with libraries as a kid #what do you MEAN the entire county only has ONE (1) copy of this book #and it’s physical only #no digital copy on Libby

It’s also so funny seeing Gotham compared to basically Union Square and south of Manhattan, with the context of this comparison making far more sense decades ago.

Like yeah, Bowery used to be super alarming. But by the time I briefly lived in that area, SoHo and Greenwich Village were some of the most expensive, tech bro, bougie places around. Don’t even get me started on West Village. Lower Manhattan was so gentrified and even Chinatown was on its way out.

Anyways. Sole point of all of this is that I’m going to make bitching over the bridges even more prominent because apparently not enough authors have experienced taking over an hour to move past one block on the way to Lincoln Tunnel in an attempt to get off the island. Legitimately so many conversations with friends and roommates back then about Manhattan and Long Island being death traps impossible to evacuate if something happens.

#raccoon empire #also that one map I found that put Gotham so far east of I-95 is diabolical work #humidity in the summer has to be miserable #I don’t care how much the overcast weather helps #I hated summer growing up in the mid Atlantic #lmao this makes me even more tempted to strip out all alleys from raccoon empire #pile your trash on the streets in five foot mounds every night as the malicious gods intended #and where is all the scaffolding

“Gotham has a population of 9 million —”

You can’t fucking do this to me, I refuse to accept that especially in a version of the setting where NY also exists at the same time, what the fuck do you mean Gotham would be the most populated city in the US, I won’t take this—

#raccoon empire #IM GOING TO CHOP A ZERO OFF THE END THERE #I CANT LIVE WITH TWO CITIES OF THAT SIZE SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD #IS PHILLY CHOPPED LIVER

Really hoping that I’m able to fully exorcise my beef with soulmates with the hellfire series because if I’m still carrying my gripes and worldbuilding questions into DC too, we’re in for a miserable time.

#delete later #we’re fortunate that I’m far more preoccupied with curse bs in hellfire #if it was straight soulmate tropes #it was be far more surveillance state dystopian in different ways #and also a giant screaming fit about guilt by association and ostracism #and scam artists and stalking and catfishing galore #if your rules! say! that EVERYONE has a soulmate!#that has to mean EVERYONE

In the wide, wide internet, at least one of you has got to have written something about ED in an omegaverse AU…

#delete later #if you’re asking Navi wtf #this is entirely brought to you by the ad algorithms getting completely confused about my profile again #complete hodgepodge of baffling ad choices served up recently #anyways this accompanies my dire need to figure out the menopause situation

One thing the fanfic idea of tiny Tim running around his home alone for ages never seems to mention is that uhhhhh. small children I know and remember. do NOT tend to remember routine hygiene needs like regular showers.

Is this kid showering. I’m serious, when in this timeline your plot has constructed does this kid get his haircuts.

#delete later #it’s wild that if fanfic is going to use this idea so frequently #that NO ONE addresses this matter #how stinky is this child #fanfic: and then finally the plot unveils the house of cards #me: bullshit everyone in this fic universe was caught ages ago because Tim kept having weird roof grime all over his hands

Still chipping away at the tiny stalker Tim shenanigans and really need to add a counter for how many footnotes go “this is fraud. this is also fraud. the child doesn’t realize it, but this activity also breaks these following laws.”

#delete later #honestly the entire approach for the Tim and Barb centric pieces #is just nonstop ‘this is all HIGHLY ILLEGAL activity’#I’m half sorry and half not sorry for when the raccoon empire verse gets to crypto age #because I absolutely won’t shut up about crypto crime

Trying to figure out if I’m just being a grouchy older person or if there is genuinely a bafflingly small percentage of fics in this fandom that are good old case fics.

Are people using a different tag these days? Is this just a different fandom’s conventions that’s hiding content from my search results? I just want more fic that actually engages with antagonists through an interesting action plot? Why is there so much whump???

#delete later #I’m strongly suspecting my character filters are also fucking things up????#I understand that canon plot lines have made characters’ lives the pits #but also???? so much whump????? for the sake of whump?????#instead of being framed as like. overcoming adversity and challenges in a relentless pursuit of survival and growth?????#or even just being horrifying determinators that should have succumbed to the pain and injury already #but refuse to die

There is a criminal lack in fic of mentioning any strategic or logistical issues about moving between islands over waterways for the purpose of running around as a pack of vigilantes hunting down criminals with gimmicks. How are we not talking about choke points galore.

Also have none of y’all ever wandered around a riverside in the middle of the night feeling like you’re losing your mind and getting your ears ripped off by the cold of the wind that seems to never stop blowing in winter. No one else ever wander around blocks of silent but fully lit warehouses at midnight on the way to and from said riverside?

No one? Guys?

#raccoon empire #thank you Smithsonian for these maps #they’re going to sit in my browser permanently pinned next to my maps of Ylisse and ATLA #barely anyone ever talks about the characters having preferred travel paths along the roads to respond to traffic patterns #or weird nonsense caused by construction and bike lanes and restaurants treating streets like extra floor space #you’d think that with the single minded obsession of all the Batman fandom fics I’ve read by now #that more of them would have a tangible texture to the urban setting the characters move through #or even more mentions of rats #where are the city rats

Underutilized element in fic: random civilians treating fire escapes and flat rooftops as free extra balcony space.

I’m not saying this is common or a good idea given safety concerns. But my neighbors a couple of floors above me while I still lived in Manhattan had an alarmingly enthusiastic pot of thyme growing in the corner of their section of the fire escape. And wandering around on the roofs of the apartment block (all the buildings were basically only separated by drywall in the units), I found all kinds of table and chair set ups.

It’s free real estate.

#raccoon empire #I really don’t think the thyme should have been growing there lmao #but it was! in a pot!#to be fair 99% of outdoor staircase fire escapes I saw were clear #just that apparently my block lived more wild #despite how it could be argued that with the density of restaurants sharing buildings #maybe we were at a bit higher fire risk #roofs are definitely more utilized that people realize though #plenty of trees growing up there

Bizarre experience of starting to hammer out outlines and realizing that in all the fics I recall that feature the idea of Haly’s Circus also spending time outside the US never address the question of if Dick is a US citizen or not.

This is not important at all for most people, I get it. Still.

#delete later #for the most part I also don’t think this is an issue #I’m honestly operating as if the circus is a US operation for now #but if your fic explicitly states that dick spent some of his tiny years in Europe #what on earth is his immigration/citizen status

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