nothing much, hbu?

just whatever stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ accidentally deleted my previous account :/ cant believe i cant put the title in comic sans - adult- sideblog with any fanworks i make is @yourneighborhoodneighbor - blog with more image-y posts is @iwouldtradeyoufornoodlesoup

[dcxdpdabbles]

Danny: How are the kids handling the farm life?

Bruce: Well-

Tim: Why can the ants fly. Why do they have wings!

Duke: They're everywhere!

Jason: Where is the bug spray!? Where is it?!

Steph: I can't tell the difference between the flying ants and the mosquitos. Its just a cloud of bugs. SOMEONE SEDATE ME.

Bruce: My more city raised kids are having a hard time adjusting.

Danny: Don't worry. One slice of Ma Kent's pie and they'll be settled in no time.

Bruce: I'll take your word for it. How long have you been the Kents' farm hand?

Danny: Oh I'm not. I'm haunting the farm.

Bruce: what?

Danny: *vanishing*

Bruce: What.

Clark: Bruce, stop flirting with the farm ghost. It's time for dinner!

Bruce having forced his kids to spend the summer at Kent Farm to seduce the farm hand: What.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Alfred: Its 12 am. I'm calling it

Dick: *Gasp* No. You don't mean-!

Alfred: It must be done. *Picks up red phoneline* We're going nuclear

Dick: Don't do this!

Alfred: I must.

Jason: What's happening?

Tim: I...don't know

Damian: What? Drake doesn't know? We're all gonna die.

Alfred: Not to worry children. This will only harm me and your father.

Dick: Noooooooooo!

Two hours later at the watch tower:

Bruce "Lightweight" Wayne drinking with Clark and Diana for the first time: And then- and then he told me I need to be home by 12 am. Me! I'm an adult. I make adult decisions on my own and don't need no butler to put a curfew on me!

Clark: You sure do, Honey. Have about some water?

Diana: He's a rather adorable drunk isn't he?

Clark: He is. He hasn't stopped hugging me since his third shot.

Bruce muttering into Clark's pec: I love you, farm boy and your country muscles.

Clark: Love you too.

Diana: Aw. You make a good couple. How long has it been?

Clark: Thanks. Our first year anniversary is coming up. I want to-

Bruce spring up suddenly: Did you feel that?

Clark: feel what?

Bruce: The red phone has been activated.

Diana: What?

Bruce: We got- we have to-run. Not safe here! *stumbles* No! I'm uncoordinated. Love, help!

Clark: What's going on, Honey? What's wrong?

Bruce: He's coming!

Diana pulling out her sword: Who is?

Danny appearing in a bright green portal: Bruce Thomas Wayne! What's this I hear about you breaking curfew?

Bruce: Dad! I can explain!

Danny: Are you drunk? You know the legal drinking age is 221, young man!

Bruce sobbing: I'm sorry Dad, I just wanted my boyfriend to think I'm cool.

Danny: I don't want to hear it! You're grounded! You're going to spend the summer with me harvesting natural ectoplasm in the Infinite Realms without internet!

Bruce: No! Anything but that Dad!

Clark: Oh, you must be Alfred's ex-husband. The immortal that adopted Bruce and legally made him fall under a different dimension laws correct? It's lovely to me you sir, I'm Clark Kent.

Danny: Put that hand away. I know the reputation you Els have. You won't turn my sweet boy down the path of delinquency. You are never seeing him again.

Diana: Sir, Bruce is a full-grown man-

Danny: Not in the eyes of the ghosts council, he isn't. Look at him!

Bruce: *trying to sneak out a window* Why wont this open!?

Diana: Did he forget we're in space?

Danny: This is what underage drinking leads to! Once I get Bruce safely home, I'm going to go beat Alfred's ass. How dare he let our boy get this bad? And you!

Diana: Me?

Danny: You seem like you're far into your 200s. How dare you buy these boys alcohol? I'm calling your mother.

Diana sarcastically: I'm sure you are

Danny pulling out his phone: Hello Hippolyta? Your daughter is encouraging underage drinking

Hippolyta: She is doing What?!

Diana: No, wait! Don't tell my mom!

[toastyglow]

why be radically exclusionary abt queerness when you could be radically inclusionary instead. let's inflate the numbers. let's become the majority. the sky's the limit

[toastyglow]

"we can't let just ANYONE call themselves queer!!" what are you talking about. I'm steepling my fingers and gleefully cackling every time we Get Another One and you should be too. lock in.

[vaspider]

Fuck yeah, let's make this little raft we're surviving on big as hell. If I bring my bit of driftwood and you bring yours and we let as many people join in as want to, we might end up with a functional boat.

[libraford]

I heard someone say 'queer is that which accepts queerness' a few weeks ago and I've been thinking about it ever since.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Back when I was active on AVEN (I have no idea what it's like now), we had two definitions of asexual -- an external definition and an internal definition. The external definition, the one that's on the wiki and the press material and that everyone uses when talking about asexuality, was of course "an asexual is someone who does not experience sexual attraction". The internal definition, the one we kept in mind when talking to each other, was "an asexual is someone who calls themself asexual".

The reason for this was very simple and very practical. In the very early AVEN and immediately pre-AVEN days, back before my time when the disparate ace communities were first finding each other and creating a public online network, there was a fair lot of exclusionist discourse. There are a lot of ways to be asexual, and the early community of course fell prey to the usual infighting about whether someone with a libido counts as asexual, whether someone who chooses to have sex can be asexual (usual tiring Purity Brigade Bullshit), whether someone without a libido counts as asexual (after all, if you have no sex drive, are you sure it's a matter of sexual orientation?), whether ace people count as lgbtq, all the usual nonsense. This worked out the way it pretty much always does -- the inclusionists "win", because exclusionists always break off into smaller and smaller communities so the largest group is, of course, the one where all different kinds of people stick together and welcome each other. And that was AVEN.

And when you're trying to have a strong community and somebody shows up at the gates saying, "hi, I think I'm asexual", it's a fucking horrible idea to start doubting their credentials. They saw the public definition and started calling themselves asexual; they're here, and now they're under the internal definition. An asexual is somebody who calls themself asexual. Sometimes, these people would be frustrated allosexuals, or people choosing to swear off sex, who might not fit the external definition of the term. We made sure that everyone knew the external definition, and there were always conversations about asexuality and how it affected our lives, if they asked us directly what we thought then we'd say "only you can know for sure" and then give our thoughts on the matter for as long as they asked for them, and other than that it wasn't anyone else's fucking business or anyone's place to judge. If people weren't nasty and didn't create problems, they could stay and call themselves whatever they wanted.

Many of these people who didn't fit the strict definition eventually left after receiving support and discovering more about themselves. Some stopped IDing as ace but became allies to the community. Some people who came in with the most "I'm a heterosexual girl who is angry at my boyfriend" intro posts you've ever seen in your life discovered that they were in fact ace and that the messages that society had taught them about sex and romance were simply not for them -- these are people who, in a gatekept community, would have been incorrectly ousted immediately.

And then there were people -- a LOT of people -- who found themselves in grey areas. People who said "okay, this community makes sense to me and is useful to me and I have so much in common with a lot of you, but not EXACTLY like you. However, what I experience may not be the strict default definition but it's an awful lot like these other members on the forum." And they formed sub-communities. The grey aces. The demisexuals. The aromantics and greyromantics. Through these dialogues, between subgroups who in a more exclusionary community would be arguing about who the "real" asexuals are and splintering off into their own communities away from all those stupid cishet fakers, we developed language to describe our similarities and differences. The sexual/romantic/aesthetic attraction model came out of these dialogues and it became so massively important to our understanding of asexuality that basically everyone in the ace/aro community describes themselves by it, as do a large number of people outside the community. The community made massive leaps ahead in just a decade or two by, well, being a community. By being a place where anybody who called the place home, and didn't bully other people in the home, was right. By being somewhere where anybody who saw "asexual: someone who doesn't experience sexual attraction" and thought "that sounds like a term with some use for me" was allowed to use it.

An asexual is somebody who does not experience sexual attraction.

An asexual is somebody who calls themselves asexual.

These definitions are not in conflict -- they are both, in concert, fundamentally necessary for a safe and vibrant community where we can protect, support, and learn about each other and ourselves.

And that is absolutely not exclusive to asexual communities.

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

What doesn’t get talked about enough is that, all those 40-something years, Rocky had all the supplies he needed to go back home. He had the fuel, he had the food. But he didn’t. He tried and tried and tried. He kept going. He took measurements, gathered data, built new Astrophage samplers but could never get it right. He maintained the Blip-A, a ship that was built in a hurry and just kept breaking, for over FORTY YEARS. When Grace found him, Rocky wasn’t just sitting idle in orbit. He was still working, still trying, he hadn’t given up. He was tracking the stars, probably to watch for a potential second mission from Erid, when he spotted the Hail Mary in reverse-thrust. Rocky calls Grace brave. Truly, Grace is. But I’d compare Rocky more to Stratt. How much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice to save your planet? Rocky was willing to stay at Tau Ceti for the rest of his life until he either found a solution, or died.

[skaylanphear]

Okay but teacher Grace on Erid having very little say in which kids get filtered into his class, though he is aware that the selection process is super specific and that most of the kids he gets are high performers with star academics and some even with influential parents. He isn't quite comfortable enough with Eridian culture yet to object to the selection process and make it more inclusive, however. That is, until he learns about the special needs kids.

Obviously, there are Eridian kids with special needs, and a few of them even filter into his classes. But one specific type of special needs kid has never shown up in his classes, and the only reason he even learned of the condition is because Rocky and Adrien's first pebble has the condition.

It's initially quite a struggle for them to deal with, and Grace sympathizes of course, because the child will apparently have huge learning and academic struggles and will likely never be able to live on their own. That is, until he learns the details of the disability.

Basically, it's a condition where the part of the Eridian brain that gives them their eidetic memory isn't fully developed, and so these kids just... can't remember things the way most eridians do. And in a culture where an eidetic memory is the norm, all things cater to that, so not having that is actually a massive disability.

But Grace is like, so... this kid just learns the same way a human does, or something like. Which is nothing new to him, though he is somewhat boggled at how much Rocky and Adrian struggle with their infant and their "slow" learning curve, even as far as initial developmental stages. Grace, on the other hand, simply treats the kid the same way he would a human infant, and Rocky and Adrien are impressed with his patience.

But, through this, it occurs to Grace that there must be other kids out there with this disability who likely aren't getting the attention and chances in life that they deserve, because Eridian culture is particularly hostile toward this disability, and actively views those with it as unable to function in regular society.

So Grace demands that a special course be put together where he teaches kids with this disability specifically. Rocky is hesitant, as most kids with this disability are home schooled and kind of... kept shut away. But Grace insists and as one of Erid's saviors, he gets what he wants eventually.

His first class is super small, maybe only three kids because so few parents were willing to advertise that their children have this disability. And because of the stigma around it, even those who agreed to it are super unsure and want to be present during the lessons, perhaps paranoid about the impression it will leave on Savior Grace, who is so accustomed to only teaching the most gifted students.

But Grace knows exactly how to deal with these kids. Some of them have varying degrees of function when it comes to their memory banks, which isn't so unlike teaching kids on earth. And so Grace is able to introduce all these tools and teaching techniques that were previously unheard of on Erid (though very normal on Earth) like having textbooks for reference with you at all times and having strategies that are less focused on memorization for understanding, and providing these kids with tools like calculators and teaching them the art of taking notes to look back on, etc etc.

Suddenly, with all these tools that most Eridians don't need, these kids are learning at a much faster rate, and succeeding with the help of all their little tools. And because so many normal eridians are ignorant of Grace's actual biology, it's shocking to them that Savior Grace doesn't have an eidetic memory either (shocking to everyone but Rocky anyway)--that his brain functions quite similarly in capacity to these "disabled" children.

Once this news gets around, suddenly there's more kids in his special classes, and there's all kinds of discourse being inflamed because the real reason these kids can't live on their own or function is lack of support from Eridian society.

If Savior Grace, who is well respected as a genius in his own right amongst the Eridians, can function so successfully, they why can't these kids?

I dunno, I just think it's an interesting premise.

[dcxdpdabbles]

One paragraph challenge: Danny refuses to be adopted

The meeting is interrupted by a nervous-looking secretary. Her eyes bounce between the department chairs before landing on Bruce and lingering. He knows instantly what she was going to say even before she stammers, "I'm sorry for interrupting. Mr.Wayne, you have a message from your children. They insisted it was an emergency and called multiple times to ask that you hear their message as soon as possible." She glances down at the sticky note she brought with her, almost frantically reading it from the doorway instead of walking into the room to hand it to him. "B, he got outside, pass the security system and is loose in the city. Please come home as soon as possible. Damian is crying" .

Bruce feels a headache building behind his eyes as some employees start muttering that a lost pet isn't important enough to interrupt the meeting or to count as an emergency. He isn't sure whether explaining that it isn't a lost dog but rather his latest adoptive son who escaped will make their opinion worse or better. If only Danny would just let them give him a home. But that boy yearns for the Gotham sewers.

[teffiebell]

[arch-user]

as a completely cis dude, I would press this button immediately, without question. There are a lot of things I would do for money, but shit I'd do this for like 20 bucks... maybe less?

[arch-user]

She said with all too much confidence

[melynnwaters]

A DAY!?!?!?

[humankk]

[arch-user]

I cannot stress to you how hard this post broke containment. There are like 600 people that decided to follow me over the course of a day and now there are so many people sending me love and support in my inbox that I'm having a really hard time responding to all of them. Every time I look away from my notifs, I look back, and I have like 99+ new notifs like wtf!

[dcxdpdabbles]

Clark: Mr. Wayne? Bruce: Yes? Clark, charmed: You have something on your back. Bruce: Is it a bug!? GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF! Clark: Wait! Wait! It's a kid! Bruce: What? Clark: Yeah, it looks like a boy? Around four? Bruce: Four? I don't have a four-year-old? How long has this kid been on my back? Clark: I....is that a joke? Bruce looking over his shoulder: Nope! I'm completely serious. What does the kid look like? Clark, growing alarm: Sir, that's a kidnapping Bruce: Well, wake him up. Clark: I...no. Bruce: You're right. I should let him sleep. Anyway, where were we on the interview? Oh yes, I remember. I do think I have amazing social awareness. Nothing gets past me! Clark: The child is glowing.... Bruce: This isn't about my maybe son, it's about me Clark, alarmed: Maybe son!? Bruce, shrugging: Yeah, if no one claims him, I want to keep him. He's like a baby koala bear. Adorable no?

[hugsandchaos]

Imagine going to Amity Park and your relative who lives there hands you a picture of Phantom and below the picture reads

This is Phantom.

Phantom is friendly. Phantom protects our town from other ghosts. No, he does not mean to cause any property damage. Yes, he tries to help clean up the mess. No, you can not approach him.

Don’t go looking for him. He’s scared of people, and we suspect it’s because of ghost hunters. Saying hi might be okay, but don’t be surprised if he leaves. If he approaches you, consider yourself lucky.

Phantom likes space. Don’t be surprised if you see him outside stargazing or in the library reading books on space. If you accidentally make eye contact, simply wave and move on to avoid scaring him. If you see him sleeping, walk away and don’t let the Fentons approach that area.

Many people here at Amity Park love and appreciate our ghost boy for protecting us. We’d hate it if something were to happen to him, so please be polite and respectful.

Have a good day!

[didgeriduwu]

i made a thing based on @edenisquiet's version of @justcakethanks genius Eridian Welcoming committee idea

[uququ]

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

[life-of-jauxro]

[anachronic-cobra]

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

[hapalopus]

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

Author: Rachel Bourbaki Category: Philosophy of Mind and Language Word Count: 1000 Can your mind be outside of your body? Typically we think

[thatfandomhoe73]

I think there’s a teaboot(?) post about this with a huge security cam system

[teaboot]

Yeah I get twitchy when I don't have my eyes

[dcxdpdabbles]

Hal: Everyone, I have an announcement! We are going to have the privilege of hosting a real-life prince!

Diana: I am a princess

Arthur: And I am a King

Hal: This isn't about you. This about a alien prince, better known as the immortal, the powerful the beloved Prince Phantom!!!

Diana: Prince Phantom!? Here!? On Earth!?

Bruce: You know him?

Diana: Of course! We've told tales of his adventures for centuries on my island but I never thought I have the privilege of seeing him much less speaking to him!

Arthur: Prince Phantom is considered a god to my people. He helped create our kingdom and is said to have given our people the gills to survive underwater! I must prepare for his arrive! My people will be so please!

Hal: You better hurry. We only have three days before he arrives. I flew over as soon as I was told at Oa, but it still wasn't fast enough.

Clark: What should the rest of us do? If he's that important, I want to leave a good impression.

Hal: Hang these images of him in your home to let him know he's welcome

Clar, staring at his boyfriend's newest son, whom he saw that morning at the breakfast table: Ummmmm, Sweetheart? Can you look at this?

Bruce glancing over his shoudler: Is that Danny?

Clark: Yes

Bruce: Oh, he is so grounded. I told my kids they weren't allowed to become gods anymore!

[dcxdpdabbles]

Danny: I don't like the look of this

Dan: Why?

Danny: Well, for one thing, you totaled the Specter Speeder, which Mom and Dad are going to kill you for, and two, the group of people surrounding our crash landing.

Dan: Oh yeah, I also feel uncomfortable with how much spandex they are wearing. Do you think we landed in a weird sex cult?

Danny: If we did, you have to protect me. They do weird things to virgins.

Dan: Ill set the Specter to self-destruct with us in it, if it come to it.

Danny: Thank you

Clark hearing everything they are saying: Okay guys we are all going to have to back up a bit. We're scaring the alien children.

Bruce: Children? There are children in there?

Hal: Yes. My ring confirmed it during the last scan. Looks like twins from the Infinite Realms, a sector really far from our galaxy. They are the equivalent of 14-

Bruce: EVERYONE, BACK THE HELL UP. THERE ARE SCARED CHILDREN IN THERE.

[sushi1056]

deactivated

So thoroughly nuked that there isn’t even any record of their original blog url

[ivys-garden]

The Forbidden Knowledge

[the-post-crow]

The notes are broken too…

[pastelchaos12]

Truly the most Tumblr, Tumblr post

[spr0cketz]

The eridian welcoming committee and the eridian hating committee exist in the same world and should have an intense rivalry Grace is oblivious to.

[petals42]

people who comment on fics just to say that they are re-reading and still cried/felt emotions/loved it are the greatest people on earth and should be given a thousand dollars. 

[petals42]

addition: people who comment on fics to say that they are not even in this fandom and didn’t know the characters at all but read it anyway and loved it are also the greatest people on earth and should also be given a thousand dollars.  

[writersagony]

You guys.. really like seeing people tied up and tortured in writing, huh?

[brutal-nemesis]