-dont go to the emergency room with dental problems. go to the dentist
-bagged greens are cheaper than pre-made salads
-taco bell is NOT worth the money anymore. 1/4 cup mayo, 1/4 cup sour cream, 3 tblspoons pickled jalapenos+2tblspoons of the jar liquid, 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp onion powder salt+pepper. all in your blender. creamy jalapeno sauce
-dont quit your job unless you have a bunch of job interviews lined up immediately after
-use resources. food bank, unemployment, housing assistance, financial aid, etc. yes there will be paperwork. but Do It
-dont stay awake longer than 20 hours. you Will start to become impulsive and cranky. resting for 20 minutes is better than trying to stay awake
-for every 2 hours you spend looking up close at screens, spend 20 minutes looking at something far away from you. stretch your wrists a lot
-dont do that yoga stretch where you roll your head around your shoulders. youre grinding down the joints in your neck
-be nice to your friends, bullying them as a joke gets old. if you need a ride somewhere at least offer them gas money
-brush your teeth at any time of the day but especially before you sleep. dont snack in bed if you can help it. make your bed the Clean Teeth Zone. keep floss picks by your bed
-dont tell your boss youre adhd/autism/depression/suicidal. dont trust your coworkers with that. you NEVER know how people will take it and its none of their business
-train your pets to go to the front door when they hear a fire alarm
-the HR person at your job is not there to help you. They are there to help the company. Whatever they say, however nice they seem, their job is to put the COMPANY first. What you tell them is NOT confidential. Assume anything you say to them can and will get back to your boss.
-do not put anything incriminating in writing. Do not email complaints about coworkers / your boss / clients / customers etc on your work email or using your work chat or Slack or gchat or whatever they use
-if your boss is being a dipshit, you DO want to have those conversations over email to have a paper trail of them being a dipshit. Keep records, screenshots. Organize it in a folder (on a home computer or your phone or personal drive ). Even if you never do anything with it, it's good to have.
-when you go for a job interview, after the interview is over, send a "thank you" email to the person who interviewed you. Reiterate something you discussed in the interview (some bullshit about why youre so excited to work for theyre company or something they mentioned that you were interested to learn about etc etc) and how you look forward to discussing the opportunity soon.
-the purpose of your job is to make money so you can afford the things you need to survive, and with luck have nice things, too. The purpose of doing well is to make more money. The only point in putting in extra effort is to further that goal, so make sure you're being mindful of the balancing act. Do your work, do a good job, further your career, get raises, get a better job. Do not kill yourself working insane hours and suspending your entire life for this purpose. It is likely, especially at this level, your boss will only appreiciate or even notice so much of what you do. Good consistent work will likely get you just as far as extremely perfect wonderful incredible above and beyond work that you burned yourself out to do. I am serious. The may say "wow you work so hard thats so great!" But at the end of the day it wont pay off in the long run and you will just be burnt out.
Good consistent work is sustainable and practical. Keep work life balance. Go home and switch off notifications. Set boundaries. Prioritize your mental health and your physical health. Dont let anyone convince you that grinding away is somehow noble or good.
Anyone and everyone CAN write. The world’s most skilled writer didn’t start off skilled. The key is that they practice hard by writing a lot.
As long as you write, you are practicing your craft and you are getting better at writing. But you will never get anywhere if you let AI write for you.
No, no, you've got it all wrong. They want the sort of wedding you get at the end of a fairytale, not the beginning. You need to be inflicting gruesome punishments upon their least favorite relatives.
This post is a summary/compilation of what we know regarding Jason Todd's death, specifically in post-crisis, as details change later on and across adaptations.
This initial post will cover what happened in the warehouse itself, culminating in the explosion. Here's a post on some of the direct fallout + one on my personal beef with that one death certificate. You know the one.
Disclaimer: I am, at the end of the day, one person who is relatively new to the DC fandom. It's entirely possible that I missed things! Please let me know if I skipped over anything relevant/made mistakes. There's a lot of I am not covering regarding how and why the characters are here, since we're focused on how his death happened.
The TL;DR relevant bits:
Jason did in fact disobey some of Bruce's instructions. This is not the same as me saying that the victim blaming is then okay.
Sheila Haywood betrayed Jason and intentionally lured him into the warehouse were the Joker was.
Jason was not tied up at any point, and it doesn't seem like the Joker did very much taunting.
Joker beat Jason with the crowbar for between 10-40 minutes.
Jason's first priority after all of that shit is to try to save Sheila.
When did this happen?
We all use the date April 27th. While I'm not 100% clear on its origins, it's pretty clear it's a reference to the issue his death occurred in (Batman (1940) #427). 427 -> 4/27 -> April 27.
As far as I know there's no clear indication of what time of year it is in the issues leading up to A Death in the Family, so we should be fine running with April 27th.
Although not stated explicitly within post-crisis, the general consensus is that Jason died at 15. He makes multiple references to looking forward to turning sixteen, so I'm okay with this.
Jason's birthday is on August 16th, according to Detective Comics (1937) #790.
Where was the warehouse?
Batman (1940) #427, page 23
A "refugee camp near Magdala" in Ethiopia for famine relief. Magdala may be referring to the real world village of Amba Mariam, which known as Magdala for some time during the nineteenth century. Mekdela is also a woreda (district) in Ethiopia.
In Batman and Red Hood #20, after the new52 reboot, the location is called "Magdala Valley".
Batman (1940) #427, page 29
The warehouse was for storing medical supplies for the relief efforts, but the joker replaced them with boxes of laughing gas.
How did Jason end up in the warehouse?
There's... a lot leading up to the actual event, so we're going to summarize it quickly:
Jason is currently in Ethiopia because he's looking for his birth mother, who seems to be is Sheila Haywood, a doctor working at this refugee camp.
Bruce left Gotham to track down Joker (who had a nuke) but he's since reunited with Jason and neutralized the nuke. He accompanied Jason to Ethiopia to help with the mom search.
Sheila initially left Gotham to escape consequences for a back alley "botched operation" that killed a teenage girl (Starlin definitely means an abortion here which!!!! moving on)
Joker is blackmailing her with aforementioned information to do his bidding. He wants to steal medical supplies, since his plans with the nuke didn't work out and he needs money
Jason overhears Joker and Sheila, goes to find Bruce, and then they arrive at the warehouse to find a convoy of trucks driving away. These trucks contain those boxes of laughing gas (each box is enough to cover a four acre stretch, yikes!!!). They're famine relief workers heading to "refugee outposts" so Bruce and Jason realize that they need to stop the convoy before they reach their destination.
Bruce heads off to warn the workers using the "Mini-Coptor" (shameful lack of bat branding in that name) while telling Jason to "stay here and keep an eye on the warehouse," specifically highlighting "take no action." He then adds, "don't tangle with the Joker alone."
Jason immediately thinks "Sorry, Bruce... but that's my mother in there with that lunatic." (To be clear I am very much against victim blaming Jason for his death, but saying that he didn't disobey Bruce is just... wrong. Bruce said to take no action. He took an action.)
Sheila steps out of the warehouse for a smoke. Jason approaches her here, reveals that he knows about the Joker, and after she rebuffs him he reveals that he is Robin. Sheila then tells Jason to come with her. Jason hesitates, mentioning the Joker, and Sheila lies, claiming that the Joker is gone.
The Joker is obviously here, along with two of his henchmen. Sheila pulls a gun on Jason, and explains that she is actively embezzling funds from the refugee camp, and she can't have Batman & Robin exposing the Joker, because she'd definitely get exposed in the process.
Sheila asks Joker what to do with Jason...
Hey it's crowbar time.
Joker swings on Jason twice: a pistol whip and then a kick. Jason hits back once before Joker's goons punch him in the face and kick him in the stomach. Jason's in a fetal position at this point, and that's when Joker raises the crowbar.
Jason is not tied up or restrained at any point. It's also worth noting that beyond the taunts during the fight and the initial crowbar swing, we don't see the Joker talking at all. Sheila starts smoking, and then we cut away.
Batman (1940) #427, page 36
Joker eventually stops swinging. It's implied both him and Sheila believe that Jason is dead. Sheila asks what to do with Jason, and Joker realizes that Batman wouldn't be happy, so Joker resolves to hide all the evidence of his presence: by tying Sheila to a post and planting a bomb for ten minutes.
Let's cut to Bruce for a minute: He goes after the aid workers in a in the Mini-Coptor, which he "pushes to its limit." It gets shot down by the people protecting the convoy, there's a brief scuffle before he explains the situation "in record time" and tells them to unload the trucks. He then takes a partially loaded truck back to the warehouse, where we learn it will take him at least twenty minutes to get back.
Batman arrives back at the warehouse right as the explosion occurs, which means we have... a pretty good idea of how long the Joker was beating Jason for. Since the Mini-Coptor moves faster than the trucks, it took Bruce less than 20 minutes to catch up to them.
If we push our estimates towards the higher end, let's just assume the round trip took 40 minutes, and it took Bruce 10 or so to explain himself. He drives back in a truck that wasn't fully unloaded, so we can probably assume that he took one as soon as he was done explaining himself. So, an upper limit of being gone for 50 minutes.
On the lower end, let's say the Mini-Coptor is twice as fast as a truck (apparently it is difficult to find Ethiopia's highway speed limits in 1988, but right now the max on rural roads is 70 km/h, helicopters usually fly between 120-240 km/h) so the round trip is 30 minutes, and say it takes him 5 to explain himself. Lower limit we can put ourselves at 35 minutes.
Jason looks for Sheila pretty immediately after Bruce leaves, but presumably it takes him a little bit to walk down to the warehouse from where they were watching it with binoculars, so let's just say... 5 minutes, or so? We can subtract another 5 minutes for the whole confrontation before Joker actually starts beating Jason if we really wanted to, subtract away the 10 minute bomb timer...
Joker beats Jason with that crowbar for somewhere between 10-40 minutes, and I'm pushing the estimate towards the more extreme direction on both ends. The true length of time falls somewhere in between. Which does seem oddly short until you remember that getting beat with a crowbar for any length of time fucking hurts.
Oh look Jason woke up
Jason wakes up with 2:04 left on the bomb. Sheila's surprised he wakes up at all. Sheila tells him to deactivate the bomb, but with 1:35 left on it Jason confirms that he's definitely in no state to do that.
He unties Sheila, calls her Mom, and tells her to run. This is a woman that he met, at most, a few hours ago and had one positive conversation with. Since then he's found out that she's working with the Joker, actively embezzling money from a refugee camp, and also she lied to him and held him at gunpoint.
Sheila refuses to leave Jason behind despite the fact that we're down to 0:23 and helps him up towards the warehouse door. They reach the door just in time to find out they're locked in there!
Jason's final act is to fling himself between Sheila and the bomb in an attempt to save her. This does not work. They both die.
About that one Deadman comic.
Jason Todd's death is featured in Deadman: Dead Again #2. Deadman shows up to the warehouse while Joker is beating up Jason. Again, no taunting, Joker's just laughing.
Deadman attempts to possess Joker, and does so for long enough to make Joker stop swinging. He allows Joker and his men to leave, so they don't realize Robin is still alive.
We go through the same beats:
Deadman gets Jason to get up, but since Deadman doesn't know how to defuse the bomb, he jumps to Sheila instead and tries to figure out the ropes. Jason gets Sheila untied, calls her mom, etc. Deadman is possessing Sheila during the time she's helping Jason and reaching for the door.
Jason as a ghost pretty much says: (1) He isn't mad at Sheila, and that it wasn't her fault "her whole life was screwed up," and (2) it isn't Bruce's fault he wasn't there, Jason was the one who screwed up and disobeyed orders. <- Jason immediately absolves the parental figures involved in the situation of blame. Which could mean nothing.
Ads and commercials have always been kind of dystopic in an uncanny kind of way but they're really freaking me out these days.
The better health commercials- "you can't escape your crappy job, try talking to us!"
That's not funny. Also isn't it sad that most people don't really seem to have close friendships anymore and that you're selling the friend experience more than a doctor one because you can't actually fix anything?
The progressive commercial- "you should go on vacation; what's a vacation? ... I don't know I've never been on one either"
That's not funny. That's fucking awful. Can't you see that's not a fucking joke??
The e-banking app- "how much did I spend on groceries this month? 500?? -hey dad can the guys stay for dinner? - NO!"
That's not funny! THATS NOT FUNNY! It's not funny that we're not "a village" anymore. That we're not "the land of plenty" any more, that we're not the "open table" of a country we claimed to be for so long! It's not funny it's not funny it's not funny!!!!
As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
📺Here is my list:
Proko (Free, mostly teaches anatomy and how to draw people. But does have art talks and teaches the basics.)
Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard and teaches you everything)
Aaron Rutten (free, tips about art, talks about art programs and the best products for digital art)
BoroCG (free, teaches a verity of art mediums from 3D modeling to digital painting. As well as some tips that can be used across styles)
Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)
Jesus Conde (free, teaches digital painting and has classes in Spanish)
Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)
Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price. Mostly teaching character designs and simple backgrounds.)
SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)
Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)
The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney. Mostly nature art)
Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)
Sinix Design (has some tips on drawing people)
Winged canvas (art school for free on a verity of mediums)
Bob Ross (just a good time, learn how to paint, as well as how too relax when doing art. "there are no mistakes only happy accidents", this channel also provides tips from another artist)
Scott Christian Sava (Inspiration and provides tips and advice)
Pikat (art advice and critiques)
Drawbox (a suggested cheap online art school, made of a community of artist)
Skillshare (A cheap learning site that has art classes ranging from traditional to digital. As well as Animation and tutorials on art programs. All under one price, in the USA it's around $34 a month)
Human anatomy for artist (not a video or teacher but the site is full of awesome refs to practice and get better at anatomy)
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
📚Here is my list:
The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.
"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.
"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.
"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.
"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.
"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.
"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.
"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.
"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.
Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.
📝As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. If you want to go fancy Michaels is always a good place for traditional supplies. They also get in some good sales and discounts. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are usually more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates. Galaxy, Windows, macOS, iPad, iPhone, Android, or Chromebook device. )
Procreate ( pay once for $9.99 usd, IPAD & IPHONE ONLY)
Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, animation and more. Free)
PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)
Krita (Free)
mypaint (free)
FireAlpaca (free)
Aseprite ($19.99 usd but has a free trail, for pixel art Windows & macOS)
Drawpile (free and for if you want to draw with others)
IbisPaint (free, phone app ONLY)
Medibang (free, IPAD, Android and PC)
NOTE: Some of these can work on almost any computer like Clip and Sai but others will require a bit stronger computer like Blender. Please check their sites for if your computer is compatible.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
"also apologies for any spelling or grammar errors, I have Dyslexia and it makes my brain go XP when it comes to speech or writing"
Boosting this in case any of the programs and books suggested are useful.
All the photos on this tumblr ad the animal photo reference site I run is another resource available for artists to use!
As long as you’re not using AI to create your art, you can reference / trace / draw / recombine / make any sort of art you want, with any of the photos, for free.
There's also MORPHO, a really good book series on anatomy by Michel Lauricella, with very clear explanations and sketches!
And for pose references, there's @adorkastock who shares a ton of them for free, with different models and props, and her website is amazing <3 you can also buy pose packs from her.
“yeah disappointment and heartbreak when plans or friends or romance doesnt work out hurt me too badly so now i just dont do that stuff or really hope for anything or get invested in anyone/anything anymore that way i can be surprised by nice happy things and bad stuff is just expected”
and my roommate at the time looked horrified and said “thats bad Bee??? thats so sad” and i didnt know what to say because id thought what i said was normal/a positive coping mechanism
btw this is, in my instance, the result of autistic burnout and childhood neglect. if you get so used to your needs and expectations not being met you learn to not have them because it is your only means of survival.
some people get angry and express their pain and are called ‘difficult’, some people shave themselves away until theres barely anything left and disappear to become ‘easier’. learning that disappearing to be easier on those around me was not kindness but, meaningless self destruction was a core part of learning how not to die.
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