I’m on a dimension hopping kick rn so imagine an AU where Bruce, as a last ditch effort to save his son from a dying planet, sends 10-year-old Dick to a different universe. He’s done extensive research. He knew something was brewing with Darkseid, he knew he might need to do something drastic, so he found the best possible world to send his son.
In this alternate universe, Dick fell with the rest of the Flying Graysons. Bruce never had the chance to adopt him, it never even crossed his mind, because it was never even a possibility.
Having a child is something he never knew he was missing. He’s still friendly with Superman and Wonder Woman and he’s in the Justice League, but he’s more closed off. He doesn’t open up as much as he would have if he had a brightly colored little Robin at his side.
So when this terrified and frantic child appears in his cave one night after patrol, he doesn’t really know what to do.
“I have to go back!” Dick shouts at him, and he’s breathing heavily, he’s panicking. “I have to go back, I have to help him!”
“Alright, alright,” Bruce tries to calm him down. “Where did you come from?”
Bruce keeps trying to grab hold of him to keep him still and calm him down, but Dick keeps squirming away.
“I need to go home!” he cries. “Stop! Stop, I need to go home! You’re not my Bruce!”
Bruce freezes, because he’s still in his batsuit. He still has the cowl on. There’s no way this child should know who he is.
It takes a while, but he eventually figures out what’s going on. Once Dick calms down. Once Dick explains that his Bruce sent him away. That his Bruce came back from a mission with the JL, and he was hurt, he was hurt so so badly, and the world around them was crumbling. He wouldn’t let Dick help him. He grabbed a bag and gave it to Dick and sent him away.
This Bruce has no idea what to do. He has a distraught, panicking child in his cave. He can’t send him back to the world he just came from. What is he supposed to do with him?
He brings Dick upstairs to the manor and gives him a room. Well, Dick picks the room. He says it’s his. Bruce doesn’t argue.
Later that night, as he broods in the cave, he receives a transmission from the Bruce who sent Dick here. It’s a video explaining why he picked this universe, why he picked this Bruce. He pleads for him to take care of Dick. To keep him safe. He explains what’s going on in his universe, how it’s not going to survive much longer.
“You’ll love him, I promise you will,” this other Bruce tells him. “He’s the best kid from any universe. He deserves the best. He deserves to live. I know you’ll do right by him.”
And, well, shit. Now he’s gonna have to keep the kid. He just needs to figure out how to go about it from a legal standpoint. He can’t just say the kid appeared in his basement.
Maybe he’ll say Dick is the product of some fling from a decade ago. That’s plausible. That could work.
He’ll have to figure out the details with Dick. He’s sure the kid will have several opinions.
So! This is a perfect case study in situations where you should be wary of misinformation.
Take a moment and ask yourself, a project like this requires a lot of time, money and dedication of resources, why would scientists dedicate that time to something that could just be done by a tree?
The answer is they wouldn't. So that means this claim requires further investigation!
This project is called LIQUID 3, and it's not meant for cities with wide open spaces, it's meant for cities like Belgrade in Serbia. These cities are densely populated and heavily polluted, to the point where pollution actually chokes out current trees and makes creating green spaces difficult.
Liquid 3 was a PhD scientists answer to these problems. The microalgae tank is intended for spaces where you either:
Don't have enough space to plant full trees, or
Don't have enough time to plant trees and wait for them to grow up.
The tank is extremely efficient when you consider the amount of space needed compared to the amount of CO2 turned into oxygen. The tank can operate throughout the winter. And most importantly, it can be quickly set up in areas that desperately need relief from air pollution NOW not in 10 years when trees are done growing. Children currently suffocating on polluted air can't wait for trees to grow, they need to be taken care of now, and Liquid 3 is one of the ways to take care of them. Depending on the species of microalgea used, a number have shown a pretty amazing capacity to pull heavy metals out of the air which is something trees can get choked up by.
The tanks aren't just tanks either! Liquid 3 have solar panels placed on top, they have lighting and mobile phone charging, and they work as public benches. The designers of it want to encourage green spaces where there's room, but where there isn't room or time, Liquid 3 can step in. Realistically, this isn't a replacement for trees. It's replacing boring metal city benches with new, cooler benches that also clean the air (and have at least some heating during the winter).
Not only that, but the microalgea that grows is native to Serbia and all that microalgea has a ton of great uses! It makes for great fertilizer, compost, wastewater treatment, cleaner biofuels and even for helping create new tanks for further air purification. They only require a quick algae divide once a month, and the produced algae can be carted off to where ever it's needed. This makes them effective solutions for areas that can't sustain complex installations.
So yeah, there's actually quite a lot of places that would like these. Lots of people currently breathing in terrible quality air would much rather have their boring city benches replaced with really fucking cool algae tanks that clean the air and can be used to help create + sustain future green spaces in cities. I dunno about you, but I'd take that over a dumb metal bench any day. Put these at every bus stop and I'd be delighted.
Serbian here living in Belgrade! This is all true and I've actually seen some of these around the city a few times. They're amazing at what they do and really cool to watch up close because you can see pretty swirling inside them. It's not only functional but aesthetically pretty nice as well!
Happy Pride Month to my poor innocent self getting targeted
So for starters I can’t remember if it was literally June first or if it was right before but I was scrolling TikTok and got a people you may know recommendation on video form and it was the girl who bullied me for being queer posting about her FUCKING GIRLFRIEND and I made sure I wasn’t just reading into things and no definitely her girlfriend
so I’m still not over that
and then last Friday I went to my friends house after work and you know what I would definitely be open to dating her if asked not necessarily a crush but I am open to the idea
To set the context she got excited when it was mentioned I was queer by one of my parents because our parents are also friends I heard this second hand because I was at work still
but literally like a week later she starts talking about how she is bi but doesn’t really like girls that much and how she is interested in this one guy I’ve met twice mentioning the fact that he has a girlfriend that he actively cheats on which whatever not my business I don’t know this guy nor do I know his girlfriend
so makes a point to tell me that there is no interest
my mom went over to their place while I was finishing up at work (look I work with her mom and their place is literally walking distance from our job so there’s a reason most of this relates to work days) and she refers to me as her girlfriend and also takes offense to me saying she wasn’t my type (solely to piss her off) after she makes a comment on how uninterested she is in me and so I am just here trying to figure out if she is just acting like she doesn’t like me like that or if she actually doesn’t like me that way and I’m just reading too deeply into it
then we throw in the fact that my little brother is commenting on the fact that I have only dated guys which is false I was just in the closet when most of my girl dating was and I was still uncomfortable talking about it with my family for the other girlfriends I’ve had but they don’t believe that
sorry in advance for the in-depth explanation of reasoning that I actually didn’t think I would be able to do thoroughly and then over did unclear instructions on how much explanation you wanted
I’m going to color code it
green- personal life
white/black- explanation of why these characters
blue-explanation of why not these
orange- summary (or tying it all back)
Okay so I picked Mabel and Stanley
(I actually really don’t like typing his full first name even though it’s only three letters more it feels intrinsically wrong to me idk)
and I did in fact sit and consider my answer for a few seconds considered my options let out a sigh as I selected my answer
and we are probably going to go with the classic excuse of they remind me of myself because that is probably the most accurate reason
I am autistic and adhd and have always been viewed as less mature because of the way I am due to those factors
I have received countless lectures on appropriate time and place for certain comments or behaviors I have made not knowing the full context as to why I was in trouble
i also have an older sister who I have lived in the shadow of falling just short of the standard she has set and considering my last real conversation with her was almost two months ago where she lectured me on how I was making up something my Doctor(a specialist doctor) has told me on multiple occasions and is very easily research able and even if it was not what it was and instead was what they are so hell-bent on it being it would still fall under the category of what my doctor has addressed as she has also explained it to my dad on several occasions much to his displeasure (until she eventually told me that I should stop letting him come to my appointments because she could tell that I wasn’t comfortable discussing anything that we really needed to discuss with him present)
another thing being that our father doesn’t treat any of us as equals and never has clearly favoring my sister who is the most successful to launch of us (I like to phrase my situation as inability to launch I just was not made for the sky and therefore I most likely will not be going there) but where I don’t quite meet those standards they have seen met by her I am very accustomed to hearing the comparisons and nagging comments about how I failed in comparison to her
but also they are fun characters
and I like how Stan is with the rough exterior that doesn’t do much to hide the soft interior
how often he will say no to the twins and fold basically immediately, his general gruff softness for them, the way he has a FLOCK OF individuals that look up to him for reasons he likely doesn’t understand.
I could go on.
and I like how Mabel is portrayed as a child character who gets to act like a child and be a little reckless and let her emotions lead her even if it is wrong and also how she drags dipper into that with her
and I do think Dipper is a good child. Character but a big part of his character is him trying to be and appear more mature to others which is something I understand well enough and I think that might actually be part of what makes Mabel my favorite over him is that Mabel feels like what I could be if I didn’t try to hide the fact that I wasn’t as mature as I was “supposed” to be
But where that is so deeply ingrained into his character and how a lot of his personal character development revolves around how he sees himself and portrays himself to others counter balanced by how he sees others (read: Pacifica, Stan, Ford, don’t killed me but: bill, even Mabel at times) and his trust in others (again all of the above [potentially excluding Pacifica but I feel like I could probably make the argument for that])
it’s not that that can’t be a child character or that it SHOULDN’T be a child character I think he does great at portraying a realistic kid who is learning so much all at once (over the span of like two months but still the course of very little time) and he does have so many moments that ground him as a kid it’s just that he doesn’t feel the same way that Mabel does and it’s entirely my own preference from my experience
I don’t really have a whole essay to edit out 40%(I lied) of for ford but I do think that he and Stan are a very good parallel of Dipper and Mabel and I like how the show used that so much not only by showing it to the audience but also having both sets of twins be able to see it even if they don’t all directly acknowledge it you can tell that they all see it and FEAR it in the show especially as you get to the point of weirdmagedon (I definitely misspelled that)
and when you look at him and dipper in their individual relations to bill I personally think that a big part of it is that Dipper had Mabel there to pull him out of it and to think through what he was doing and stop it from going too far
whereas by the point that Ford let anyone in after he met bill he had already been working with bill for an extended period of time before he called fiddleford to help him with the portal and so fiddleford couldn’t talk him down because bill had already made home in fords mind. And he had already gone too far by the point of him reuniting Stan and even if he hadn’t there was already years of resentment, longing, anger, envy, love, loneliness, and BETRAYAL most of all for them to work through that it probably wouldn’t have ended any better than it had.
I also found it very interesting to watch him open himself up to people again after years of TRUST NO ONE
also Mabel and Stan both have so much faith in people and see the good where dipper and ford both tend to look at the negatives due to their jaded nature
So all and all I think it has to be Mabel and Stan for me
Warning: This could pass as an essay but it is punctuated by breaks and if I were to actually make it into an essay I would have to actually take the time to organize my thoughts rather than just allowing my thoughts to flow out so messily.(just finished tags; I am actually so sorry for the rambling)
okay so since Good Friday I have not been able to stop thinking about these two and it's honestly kinda agonizing iykyk
but l was adding to my playlist on them that I made and honestly I think it is honestly so fascinating how Jesus must have known that Judas was going to sell him out and he still loved Judas
and Jesus is so good and so he still had so much love for Judas when he knew that probably from the start of his discipleship and I feel like it really shows how much grace he has and is freely given
because I know that in the case of most people they would hear that someone would sell them out and immediately avoid ever even associating with that person and Jesus loved Judas even after he sold him out and still loves him but humans aren't going to naturally want to give that grace and certainty not want to hold any love for that individual but Jesus fully God and fully man did he loved Judas when he didn't have to he had every right to hold it against him and he didn't
but as Jesus was fully man as well I can't help thinking that maybe Jesus had moments where he wanted to hate Judas and he pushed through that because it had to happen Judas was predestined to sell Jesus out for silver as Jesus was predestined to die on the cross as a result of Judas' decision
I can't help but thinking how Jesus might have felt towards God
knowing that this was their fate
that this was how things were going to end
knowing that for his mission on earth to be achieved he would have to go through that betrayal and still choose love I'm pretty sure l have a post on how Jesus prayed for God to give an alternative way (if not it's somewhere in my drafts because I definitely remember typing it out)
Jesus knew his fate but as a man he didn't want it he took on the cross for us and he befriended Judas Iscariot knowing their fate and he loved him despite it
and he loves us despite our sin and how we are so quick to turn against him to put him on the back burner and put ourselves first
anyways can't really stop thinking of how Judas Iscariot can be used as a mirror for humanity and how Jesus loves us despite anything we have done whether that is outwardly denying him as Peter did or putting ourselves first own wants above him as Judas did.
Oh it’s all encouraged to know the Bible and stuff until you mention Genesis 19:30-38 in the middle of an argument with your brother that started out as an argument about Batman and then your brother mentions it at family dinner and you have to watch every single person at the table compare their preferred bible translation because “THERE IS NO WAY THAT IS ACTUALLY IN THE BIBLE”
hello this is your google account. did you know that you are trying to log in. to. your google account. would you like five emails about how you logged in to your google account.
lot of people online who were not shot in the head by the taliban at age fifteen for insisting on their right to go to school while being a girl have a lot of opinions about the woman who was shot in the head by the taliban at age fifteen for insisting on her right to go to school while being a girl
