Kit

27, DC Comics Enjoyer, Hobby Writer, Autistic, Asks Are Welcome

[robinskies]

wondering if there’s any way to casually play “willing and able” in front of my dad and for him to listen and for it also to somehow NOT start a fight lmaooo

[larkralbirdy]

annoying older brother

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 1 day 22 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 1 day 23 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[robinskies]

the most humbling message I have ever received.

[coconutjelly]

as someone who was present for ~300 days of the 80's, I just felt myself crumble into dust

[robinskies]

me, spending 356 days in the 90s🤝 you, spending 300ish days in the 80s

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[robinskies]

the most humbling message I have ever received.

[katanahime]

I like Batman

By "I like Batman" I also mean "I like Bruce Wayne"

I like Bruce Wayne as Batman

I think the qualities one must possess in order to make a good Batman are fundamentally being like Bruce Wayne

Yes, I acknowledge he is a fucked up individual, but I also think that's part of being Batman

I think if someone is would not be Unwell about what Batman is and represents the way that Bruce is Unwell, they would make a relatively bad Batman, even if they make a good hero

I like Robin

When I said "I like Robin", I don't just mean I like any number of individuals that are or have been Robin, I mean I like Robin conceptually

I think Robin is good

I think it's a positive thing to allow Robin to exist

I feel that arguments that try to push the idea that it shouldn't fundamentally ruin the fantasy in which it exists

[curiositysavesthecat]

Do you think it's weird and/or predatory for a 13 year-old and a 30 year-old to be best friends if they're not family members or related by blood? Assuming everything is innocent and platonic. Nothing romantic or sexual.

Yes, it's weird and predatory

It's weird. But not predatory

It's predatory. But not weird

No, it's not weird or predatory

Remaining time: 6 hours 59 minutes

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[creelson]

unpopular opinion but I don't think there's anything weird or predatory about an innocent friendship

[dianxiacantastemolecules]

The question is why the fuck is a thirty year old hanging out with a 13 year old if not in their family?? The only other relation that could have them interact is through teacher/student and bring friends like that would be weird as fuck

[creelson]

found family? the kid not feeling safe in their house? the adult wanting to help? family / teacher / school isn't always a guaranteed safe place. should the kid and adult each have friends that are their own age too? sure. but if their friendship is genuinely innocent then I think the problem isn't them but people who project their weird and predatory thoughts onto them

[the-bar-sinister]

Don't forget shared hobbies?

A 13 year old and a 30 year old could reasonably meet at a tabletop gaming store, a fiber arts group, a book club....

[audacityinblack]

They could literally just be neighbors. This whole isolationist thing of never even talking to the people you live closest to is new and weird.

[olderthannetfic]

When I was 13, an art teacher who worked for my mother (who ran after school programs) got into the X-Files. This was season 1. Neither of us knew anyone else who was into it, and she wasn't very online given that this was 1994, so she had nowhere else to discuss it. I'd call her every Friday night after the episode, and we'd obsessively go over it.

I'd probably have called her my best friend at the time, though I very much doubt she'd have said the same, partly because having One Single Best Friend and being super weird about which of your friends gets this coveted spot is not something middle-aged people care about.

Some of you have very weird ideas about 13-year-olds living in hermetically sealed bubbles. Frankly, many neurodivergent weirdo 13-year-olds who grew up to be Tumblr users were far, far better at talking to adults at that age than at talking to other 13-year-olds. Many of you would have had a way happier year if you'd also had an old-ass "best friend" to talk to back then.

[katanahime]

People really need to be more normal about intergenerational friendship.

This concept that it is still "weird" even if it isn't predatory is cutting kids off from community and from the concept of safe adults. And I think it's really really important to have that outside of spaces where people can legally control you.

And as far as what the adult gets out of it. Basically the same thing you get out of any other friendship? Teens are people just like adults are people. You may not be on the same maturity level, but that doesn't mean they aren't fun to hang out with and talk to.

[robinskies]

God, yes. I’m a big believer in the fact that kids need safe adults that they aren’t related to in their life. Especially today, which is crazy because it’s becoming less and less socially acceptable as I age. I really and genuinely think I would’ve turned out worse without the adults I had in my life as a teenager, and ended up in some dangerous situations, because there are things that are really hard or uncomfortable (or even unsafe depending on your family) to talk to family about, that an adult perspective is very useful for. There are certainly things I wouldn’t have known were wrong, at the very least.

There’s a not insignificant amount of teenagers from unstable/unsafe homes who I connected with on the internet through fandom who ended up calling me a big sister/mother figure. And other teens that were just my friends, and we didn’t talk about anything more than just fandom stuff. Because kids can be very interesting, intelligent, and fun to talk to.

It certainly CAN be a predatory situation, but it isn’t automatically one. Sometimes, it can be very important lifeline.

[dustdotorg]

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time

[timdrakelonghairtruther]

🖤♥️

[comicpolls]

Favourite Platonic Duo: Round One Match Seventeen of Sixty-Four

Dick Grayson (Nightwing/Robin) & Tim Drake (Robin)

Nico Minoru & Gert Yorkes

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[akaanmo]

happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

[fallen-jpg]

summer rain. redrew parts of an old drawing

BONUS:

he did that on purpose. bonus bonus:

[lukadeedoodah]

Happy pride from the karaoke booth! (they have not been doing any singing)

[sapphire-or-smth]

dick grayson would have an aneurysm if he ever heard people saying tim is closest to jason in the family

[timcassie]

Tim Drake as Robin by Angel Solorzano for Detective Comics 1110. Link to artists posts!