tenkaoru

Demisexual&Genderfluid (He/They/She) 🏳️‍🌈 OCD/ADD Dysgraphia

[imsorrybruce]

I saw your post about Bruce's public persona and his philanthropy work and thought you could help me with something (I'm gonna preface this by saying I'm using quote marks to indicate quotes, not sarcasm)

I don't want to link to the post I saw to not be mean or rude or anything, but it basically boiled down to:

- Bruce has some ownership over Arkham (based on that one comic where Martha is related to the Arkham family), and once his identity as Batman is revealed, his family (except Tim because he's " a rich white man") and city turn on him because he never did anything for the Asylum despite his wealth and kept throwing all the super criminals in there instead of putting them on "death row". Then Batwoman becomes Gotham's hero because they realise she's "for the people", and doesn't have the "saviour complex" Bruce does.

Look, people can post what they want and have whatever options they want over fictional characters. I understand Bruce's wealth is a turn off for many. Also, I quite like Kate, and want to see her in more stuff. But istg if I see one more "Bruce doesn't do anything for Gotham other than Batman" take I'm gonna explode!!!! It's not Bruce's fault that the narrative requires him to have a constant set of reoccurring villains -_-

(also why would his family only turn on him after the information would be revealed to the public? Wouldn't they have known for as long as they had known his identity? To be fair the op isn't being 100% serious but still)

So, with all that preamble, I'm just wondering, do you know of any panels that specifically show Bruce putting his money and resources into Arkham? There's plenty of him putting his money into the city in general, but I mean specifically the institution. Thanks :)

So, I know that Bruce is directly quoted to be a benefactor of Arkham Asylum in the Arkham games. In Telltale, from my understanding, one of the choices is to fund Arkham too.

Arkham was destroyed multiple times. I don't remember if it was said directly that Bruce helped with it after no man's land ? so if someone does remember feel free to tell me. After battle for the cowl, Arkham is rebuilt by Jeremiah Arkham, and Bruce is part of the council that like. Checks it? or whatever. There were also some shenanigans with Wayne manor getting turned into Akrham manor during n52 I think but I have no idea about that. Bruce also sometimes does investigations inside Arkham as Batman and I think the new run has him investigate dr Zeller on her treatment of patients, but I haven't been keeping up with it since issue 3 so idk where it went with this plotline. There is also an elseworlds story where Bruce is a psychiatrist at Arkham and he takes good care of the inmates. (the Batman of Arkham)

The problem with Arkham, from my understanding, is that it's privately owned by the Arkham family (to whom Bruce doesn't have any relation in main run, I don't think?) and so it's not clear how much sway the public actually has over the inner workings of it, as in, who gets hired, which security measures are installed, etc etc. It's also not really clear if it's a non-profit or a business. Also Arkham is just not consistently bad. Like sometimes it's hell for the patients, sometimes it's hell for the guards and doctors. Sometimes it's all "electroshock therapy" type of stuff, and sometimes it's just group therapies that aren't super effective. The only constant is that the asylum doesn't really help (because the villains need to stay villains)

I think I remember some other panels on Bruce in relation to Arkham but I don't know where these were coming from and can't recall for the life of me. If someone has smth else to add, then feel free.

[imsorrybruce]

I'm not sure if this counts as supporting Arkham in general, but Bruce made sure Ivy got a cell with plants and light in Batman/Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows (2004) :)

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[homunculus-argument]

Day 159/365 of listing something good I saw today:

There was a jackdaw in the library's park that was chilling on the ground, turned to us as we approached, and tilted its head while making occasional odd vocalisations - something between a bike bell and a dog's squeaky toy. It turned its head to look at us (from a slight angle to the side, birds like jackdaws don't have forward-facing eyes like people and birds of prey), made the odd sounds, looked at us, tilted its head from one side to the other, pecked pointedly at a stick on the ground in front of it, and squeaked again.

As the jackdaw occasionally also made more normal jackdaw sounds in the middle, I don't think it was a matter of injured vocal chords or anything. I don't know how skilled they are as vocal mimics, but making that weird sound was clearly a voluntary thing it was choosing to do. The way it looked at us, standing there with its head cocked, gave the impression that it was making the sound at us, personally. We stood there watching this until the jackdaw got bored and flew away.

I don't know whether there's perhaps people who frequent the park and like to feed the one specific jackdaw who makes squeaky toy noises, but whatever the bird wanted from us, it evidently left sorely disappointed.

[byjove]

So many anti-science (and particularly, anti-vax) people apply their diet and orthorexia culture to medicine. That is one of the things you will hear over and over again. “I actually read the ingredients of this vaccine and it has [SUBSTANCE] in it so I will not let my child get vaccinated.” which is exactly how these people grocery shop, I’m sure. No understanding of chemistry, no research into why that ingredient is in there, what it is doing to help make the vaccine safe and effective and what amount would make it toxic to the human body. They will be like “Oh my god, there is hydrochloric acid in there! I’m not going to research into why it is in there (in small amounts as a PH stabilizer), it’s hydrochloric acid (the human body creates it naturally) and they’re trying to inject this into our children!”

[butters-multiverse]

i would almost love to meet one of these people and say ah yes i love drinking Dihydrogen Monoxide with heavy amounts of Citric Acid, Glucose and Limonene (this is a very terrible lemonaid) these ingredients are water, the sour of a lemon, sugar, and lemon flavoring

or just asking if they know the chemicals in a lemon.

[byjove]

Unironically, I saw someone say to avoid citric acid in food products (it’s a common preservative and acidifier, very safe in moderation, occurs naturally in fruits and vegetables) because it is made of black mold. Which is partially correct, Aspergillus niger produces high amounts of citric acid when fed properly BUT the mold is completely filtered out of the final refined product. SO MANY FOOD PRODUCTS ARE MADE WITH MOLD, this one doesn’t have actual mold in it, you are fearmongering about the evils of mold while it lives all around us all the time!

[blubalum]

Pretty crazy how wind is invisible yet sporadically says hello through moving objects

[redstonedust]

you notice over time that some people clearly understand the concept of thinking critically about the media they consume and who its created by but dont want to do the critical thinking themselves so they just like. wait for people on the internet to tell them what theyre allowed to like in order to keep their Good Person score high or whatever. which doesnt seem very productive to me i think.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Whenever I replay fallout new Vegas I can’t stop thinking about how the game starts with you being shot in the head and that’s a big deal but then you spend the rest of the game getting shot by enemies, sometimes including in the head, and you just walk it off no prablem

[what-even-is-thiss]

I guess Benny’s 9mm gave us a resistance to it or something. Our body knows how to fight off bullets now.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I also usually play on very easy because I’m a little baby with poor reflexes which makes it even weirder. I am tanking so many shots to the face and yes I am crippled but that’s beside the point

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know maybe it’s not the shot in the head that changed your personality. Maybe it’s the lead poisoning from all those bullets.

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[mommahoney]

Moms for Liberty

[shetheyslain]

Trying to sleep during a heatwave is a great reminder that all oil executives need to die painful painful deaths

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere

[assignedmale]

[assignedmale]

[homunculus-argument]

I like that the library can send me automated text message reminders that my stuff is due, but I wish they also had an option to personalise the messages. I would like to make them more personal. Specifically passive-aggressive, with progressively less on the "passive" as the date approaches. Like three days before they're due it's like "hey I just wanted to remind you that you still have my stuff, in case you've forgotten that you were supposed to return them. No pressure though! You have three days :)"

Then a day before the date there's another text like "hey you still have my stuff, right? Yeah you have them, I'd know if you'd have returned them, I keep tabs on everything. Return them tomorrow. :)"

And on the day they're due it's just this picture

[surroundedbybooks]

This would be hilarious but most library patrons would hate it

The public librarian is amused

[homunculus-argument]

That's the neat part: being able to personalise them would let everyone choose exactly how they want it to be. I also don't think that most people would want the library to pester them with "yo give us our shit back" at any level.

[maidslime]

mom's minion memes for real justice

i posted these originally like 9 or 10 years ago or something but I can't find them anywhere, so now you get retortured.

[stillhereandstillqueer]

Nonbinary people are so cool I wish our rights were taken seriously haha

[stillhereandstillqueer]

Genuinely though it is so frustrating that nonbinary rights and exorsexism are not treated seriously at all, even from within the queer community. It sucks that there's not even an option for an X gender marker in so many countries, including in more progressive queer-friendly ones. It sucks that if enben want to get gender affirming care that we're advised to lie about our gender (or lack thereof) in favour of a more binary trans identity lest we jump through a million extra hoops on top of the million already in place for binary trans people to prove we're serious in order to get the care we want/need. It sucks that in most cases we're still forced into some kind of binary and I wish that the issues we deal with were acknowledged more.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I need everyone to be talking about how Qween Jean, a Black trans woman (founder of Black Trans Liberation Kitchen!) won a fucking Tony last night, first openly trans person to do it!!