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[writing-prompt-s]

A classic superhero vs supervillain story, but the villain mistakes the hero’s reluctance to kill them as a secret affection, and is convinced the hero is secretly in love with them. (bonus points if they confront the hero, the hero denies, and that only confirms their suspicion and makes them believe they’re correct)

[wizardsandglitter]

This is just a set up for batman×joker fanfics

[vilheroinefairytale]

So, there is something I don’t get much. Or, rationally, yes, but not completely. Villain x heroine ships are a lot frowned upon. If one is more a hero x heroine shipper, or thinks that villains aren’t ship material, I get it. But why, let’s take as an example a real conversation with an ex schoolmate, Hannibal x Clarice no, but Hannibal x Will Graham made a lot of success with the tv show Fandom? Why Dracula and Mina no, but vampire!Lucy and Mina yes? Why villainess x heroine and villain x hero are more accepted? And I’m not talking about ship or gender tastes here, let’s be clear, but about what is accepted and what is not.

[my-complicated-pairs]

Not only villainess/heroine and villain/hero - villainess/hero get a better treatment than villain/heroine as well :(

It’s due to two factors, which can be summarized as “they actually don’t see male and female characters as equals”:

a) people infantalize female characterss, even the bad/evil ones: they think they’re actually non-threatening and therefore incapable to both harm anyone (so ships with villainesses get a pass) and to defend themselves from a male villain;

b) people view males are much powerful than females and therefore incapable to be really harmed by anyone.

So from their point of view:

-villain/hero gets a pass, because “a male hero is strong and he’s mostly villain’s opponent, not his victim;

-villainess/heroine gets a pass, because “a female villain is actually not so threatening and besides women can’t hurt each other”;

-villainess/hero gets a pass, because “a female villain - due to being female - can’t actually be so threatening and besides, females can’t really harm males”.

There you go.

[monsters-and-villains]

⬆️ T H I S ⬆️

...it'salsoknownasmysogyny...

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Interponen demanda contra el NYPD por el tiempo de las detenciones en medio de las manifestaciones

De acuerdo con el Departamento de Policía de Nueva York, al menos 1,100 personas han sido arrestadas en relación con las protestas que se ha

[suburban-dreams]

Again the safest best is to specificaly say "I am invoking my right to have an attorney present" and then "I am invoking my right to remain silent" and then DO NOT SAY ANOTHER W O R D

[apersnicketylemon]

Also remember: If they have not read you your rights, you have a legal loophole that could get you acquitted. 

Remember if they have read you your rights. If they have not, you have been illegally detained and can tell your lawyer this when they arrive. Tell them ‘They have not yet read me my rights’, or if they delayed until the precinct to read your rights, tell them this too. Anything you say before your rights are read to, but after you were detained, becomes inadmissible to a court of law. If they have read you your rights and you asked for a lawyer however, things you say before the lawyer arrives ARE admissible, so say NOTHING AT ALL.  

You are also entitled to more than one phone call. Hollywood has taught you that you get ‘one phone call’ and if you didn’t call a lawyer then you no longer get the lawyer. YOU DO. You get more than one phone call, and if you ask for a lawyer they legally cannot continue trying to question you. 

IF YOU ARE A MINOR: They are also required to have a social worker present.

INVOKE SILENCE. INVOKE A LAWYER. 

These are not things ‘guilty’ people do, these are things that protect you. You have rights.  Remember: 

POLICE. ARE. NOT. YOUR. FRIENDS. 

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

a body count not as in homicide nor as in sexuality but as in the trail of people from my childhood and adolescence i should’ve been a better friend to and taken better care of but i was too busy being caught up in my own heartache to recognize their own and therefore our relationship tapered off in an extremely unsatisfying way that continuously manifests itself as a thrumming sense of grief in my chest. anyway which restaurant chains have the best free pre-meal bread?

[infjdoodles]

- Dr. Julian Bashir (DS9 - 3x11)

[wizardsandglitter]

Julian would be so sad to learn about the alternative earth where he's a TV character...

[cujohjo]

[wizardsandglitter]

Wow... The power

[lizardxlizard]

He WILL scream

[lizardxlizard]

This person gets it:

[wizardsandglitter]

Mothman has seen all you smut and knows of your sin.

[silima]

i know kyoshi already got an animal companion in the novels but like please consider…

[esperelizabeth]

[ID: Four digital drawings of Avatar Kyoshi and the unagi from the show Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Drawing 1: Kyoshi, dressed in a basic green outfit and wearing red eyeshadow, kneels in the water by a tiny unagi. She holds out a handful of fish and says, “What a strange eel you are…I never met one who could stick its head out of the water. I probably shouldn’t be feeding you, really, but no human wants these fish scraps, and I hate to see anyone go hungry. Even just a funny little eel.”

Drawing 2: Kyoshi sits with the unagi, who is bigger than before. The unagi sprays water at Kyoshi and Kyoshi, laughing, puts up her hands to protect her face from the water. Kyoshi says, “You’ve gotten so big!”

Drawing 3: Kyoshi, now wearing her iconic full makeup and outfit, stands in front of the unagi, who is full grown and splashing out from the water behind her.

Drawing 4: Kyoshi hugs the unagi’s nose and says, “You will protect them when I’m gone, won’t you?”

End ID]

[wizardsandglitter]

Hey, Aang got two! I don't see why not.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

phineas and ferb quarantine episode where candace is convinced that this time her mom will see what the boys are doing because nobody can even leave the house but somehow linda is always in the wrong room

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

AAH, PERRY the PLATYPUS! I suppose you’re wondering about my evil plan. Well, you see, when I was a child in Gimulshtump, I was quarantined for several months, 

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

phineas: we turned ourselves into holograms so that we can still hang out with our friends while social distancing. later candace! *he and ferb fade out of view* 

candace: mOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoM!!!!!!!!! 

[whereforeartthougender]

Okay, but the thing with Perry and Doof becomes a lot funnier when you remember that Perry, being a platypus, is immune to the virus.

So imagine Doof monologuing over Zoom, secure in the knowledge that Perry the Platypus can’t possibly thwart him over a video call, when Perry disappears from the frame. As he ponders where his nemesis could have gone, Perry plummets onto Doof’s balcony and socks him one in the jaw.

Doof: What?! Perry the Platypus?! What are you doing? You shouldn’t be out here! There’s a quarantine going on, in case you haven’t noticed!

Perry: *platypus noise*

Doof: Oh, right, you’re a platypus, and this is a human virus, so… You know, I don’t really know how I forgot that.

[obsidiancreates]

Perry makes sure to do a full decontamination on his way home, to make sure Phineas and Ferb don’t get any potential virus particles on them after petting him and picking him up.

[lazygravez]

at one point while doof and perry are fighting doof goes “wait! i forget to put on my mask” and perry stops punching him to let him put on his mask then they just go back to fightung

[phantomchick]

The spirit of the show really does live on

[mysharona1987]

Opinion | Pope Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts

To come out of this pandemic better than we went in, we must let ourselves be touched by others’ pain.

This is certainly very interesting, considering the latest SCOTUS decision.

[the-real-zhora-salome]

Even the Pope has had it.

[writergirl2011]

See, even the Pope knows we shouldn’t be having large indoor gatherings where people do a lot of singing. Do those dipshits on SCOTUS who voted to let churches stay open think they know better than THE POPE????

[wizardsandglitter]

Jesus could tell these people to stop and they'd call him a communist.

[bulbiedorf]

Could you imagine how Parks and Rec would have parodied the Four Seasons Total Landscaping fiasco

[wizardsandglitter]

I don't think they could have. That literally sounds like a set up for an episode.

[goldcrescent]

can we take a second to ponder on the fact that a kids movie did lady armor better than the entire film and comic industry

guess who i’m talking about

did you guess? Well you’re fucking WRONG because it’s Susan goddamn Pevensie

They gave her light armor, appropriate for a small archer:chainmail, an arm brace, chest plate, and a light skirt she can easily run around murderizing dudes in the face in

her hair is also only loose in the promo pictures because Susan is fucking busy not dying because her hair was flying into her eyeballs so she braids that shit back

her mail shirt is also loose enough that it doesn’t impede her arm movements it’s almost like she’s dressed for a fight wow

I like the pinks and purples under her bitchin as hell leather armor here, because you don’t have to be masculine to shoot someone in the goddamn face

[queenofthesouthernsun-deactivat]

[twizzlers-and-teslas]

you don’t have to be masculine to shoot someone in the goddamn face

[whitepeopletwitter]

[wetwareproblem]

Literally anyone who’s read the results of any other time this experiment has been tried. Why are we still trying to prove the concept?

[kedreeva]

Here’s the link if anyone wants it!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/

Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being

Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income has concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and improves recipients’ men

[kayasurin]

We’re still trying to prove the concept because in the West, Big Business and their owners, The 1%, are screaming at the thought of having to give up a little money so everyone can get universal income that supports life - meaning jobs either have to pay you to put up with the literal shit or people can walk away from them without becoming homeless.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Our entire system is basically based on people being so afraid of homelessness and starvation that they’ll accept any shit job for shit pay.

[jenniferrpovey]

Past experiments have shown that UBI:

Increases high school graduation rates

Reduces:

Domestic violence

Alcoholism

Emergency room visits related to mental health

Road traffic accidents.

All while not disincentivizing employment for most groups (the exceptions being high school students, who were able to focus on their studies, and new mothers…who were using it as maternity leave!)

People, for the most part, want to work.

UBI would allow us to expand the definition of “work.” If somebody can live off of UBI, then they can devote themselves to things which we don’t currently value financially such as the arts, raising children well, etc.

And if somebody wants to stay home and play video games all day…then so be it. Not that many will.,..and of those who do most will probably find some way to make that into their “work,” whether by providing play throughs and tutorials or competing seriously.

[jabberwockypie]

If somebody stops working all together as soon as they get UBI and stays home to play video games, they probably desperately needed a break.

There are so many people who are struggling with mental and physical illnesses, and chronic pain, who are still breaking themselves working because they don’t have another option - because it can take years to get on disability, and it’s not enough to survive on, so people keep going as long as they possibly can.

Even if it’s not a matter of disability, as such … people get burned out?

We’re not really built to do school and work with minimal breaks to the extent that we do.

Despite what our puritanical culture says, there’s no shame in needing a break.

[naamahdarling]

I’m disabled.

If UBI was a thing, I would actually be able to work. There is probably a job out there I could do for a few hours a week, but because of SSDI’s draconian income limits, I would basically lose half my wages, meaning a minimum wage job would actually pay me HALF minimum wage.

If UBI were a thing, I could go to school to learn a marketable skill. Right now, I can’t. They yank your benefits if you go to school too much because if you go to school, they think you can work. Even if you can only do it one class a semester, over years. As I understand it, the limit is over your lifetime. I can never get a degree in something like graphic design which would allow me to work in a field I love FROM HOME.

If UBI were a thing, I could get married without losing my benefits. Also, right now, I am not even allowed to save up enough to pay for rings or a wedding, even if I do it over literal years.

When you are disabled, the government forces you into a cramped, hopeless, mean little life. God forbid UBI be awarded to someone who doesn’t “deserve” it, though. We can’t have THAT. Lazy people are a crime worse than letting people struggle and starve.

So yeah, fuck the United States.

[dovewithscales]

The idea that UBI would cause people to just stop working relies on the premise that jobs aren’t inherently enjoyable. People like having something to do. They enjoy feeling productive and accomplished. 

Jobs should be enjoyable. If you can’t come up with a way to make people want to work for you without the threat of poverty, you deserve to go out of business. 

Any business that can’t keep employees in a UBI society shouldn’t exist. Any job no one wants to do shouldn’t be done.

And don’t come at me with jobs like janitors and ditch diggers and shit, because yes those jobs are necessary. But can you really not think of a way to make those jobs desirable? Really?

[ninetailedraven-deactivated2021]

I actually really enjoy my job of counting parts and mailing parts to other branches even if it is 8 hours of me simply counting small parts. I turned down offers of relocation and promotion because I love that job. So yeah people would do the mundane things

[dovewithscales]

Exactly. There’s not a single job that is a necessary task that won’t get done if people are offered fair pay and good working conditions.

The reason we dont have a universal basic income is purely because retail employers (among others) don’t want to be forced to treat employees with respect. They don’t want to have to pay fairly and provide benefits and prevent costumers from being abusive.

Walmart would lose billions (but still have billions) if they had to pay a living wage. And the Karens of the world wouldn’t know what to do if they went off on a cashier who told them to fuck off because they can afford to get fired without losing their home.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The father of the most hostile piece of street furniture in world history explains why he thinks he's right to make life harder for homeless people and socializing kids

Dean Harvey is the co-founder of Factory Furniture, the company that created the Camden Bench, a piece of street furniture designed to stop anyone from using it for anything except sitting very briefly; it is the nadir of the “Unpleasant Design” movement, a bizarre response to rising homelessness and hostility to children in public spaces, in which cities and private companies try to shove the problem out of sight by making street furniture as inhospitable as possible.

In a CNN debate with anti-unpleasant-design architect James Furzer, Harvey defends his practice, by simply defining all the things that people without privilege want to do in public spaces as “anti-social” and everything that makes life worse for those people as “pro-social.” For example, he defends his “Serpentine bench” (designed to prevent people from sleeping on it)  and other anti-lie-down boobytraps by saying that “I find it difficult to think why anyone would want to sleep on a bench. It’s no place for anyone to spend the night.”

The problems that these unpleasant designs are trying to solve are only going to get worse with rising inequality and privatization of public spaces. Unpleasant design is being used to make life harder for refugees with nowhere to sleep; to saturate homeless peoples’ clothes and belongings with icy water if they try to sleep in church doorways; and to stop people from resting their legs in public places.

The whole piece is fascinating. It uses an undefined “general public” to describe whose public space needs are legitimate, and excludes everyone else from legitimacy. As many have pointed out, when affluent people pitch tents on Sunset Boulevard to wait for Star Wars tickets, the police don’t beat them up, arrest them and destroy their belongings. But when homeless people pitch tents in the same spot so they have somewhere to sleep, that’s what happens to them.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/07/out-of-sight-and-mind.html

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly this is the most apalling thing I have ever read.

Okay, so first of all, spraying the homeless with water outside church doorways sounds like something the bad guys would do in a Victorian moralistic short story entitled something like “The True Christian”. It just feels wrong in a way that borders on the blasphemous.

Secondly, what does this guy think people use benches in cities for? What world does he live in where people only use them for sitting briefly (how brief is briefly anyway) and then get up immediately and keep on shopping?

A world where nobody ever, say, gets separated from he group and has to spend ages waiting at the designated meeting point. A world where nobody ever wants to eat their lunch at a bench. A world where nobody has to sit waiting with young children while their partner shops, because the shop has delicate things and the kids can’t be trusted not to break them.

I mean, what the fuck?

[white-throated-packrat]

A world where there are no elderly or disabled people who need to sit on a bench for a while to regain their stamina.

[caramelofazurlane-deactivated20]

I do think a sledgehammer would destroy the problem. Both the benches and the idiot who designed them.

[anarchopuppy]

Destroy these and build your own, better benches in their place

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

remus: you must pick a happy memory, harry, the happiest memory you have

harry: sir I live in a closet

[tlirsgender]

Bad practical effects >>>>> bad cgi

[tlirsgender]

Give me a dude in a rubber suit or give me death

[tlirsgender]

You know what's even better than bad practical effects? Good practical effects

[tlirsgender]

Me looking at bad cgi: hm. Fake

Me looking at bad practical effects: ohohoho hehehoohoo fuck yeah

Me looking at good practical effects: This Is The Coolest Shit I've Seen In My Life

[wizardsandglitter]

It sad that studio companies here in the US refuse to believe that

1) Practical effects look far more pleasing to the eyes

2) CGI can be used to enhance and touch up on practical effects post production to give it less of that rubber mask on a robot look if used in moderation.

3) If you're to the point that you are having to completely do the whole movie in CGI then just make an aimated movoe and go fucking ham cause animation, even CGI animations, is a million times better than "live action" movies.

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

Evangelical activist: Joe Biden’s military will be a ‘transgender atheist army for the Antichrist’

In a petition sent out to his email list, evangelical activist and former Colorado state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt warned of some big changes coming to the military under the incoming presidency of Joe Biden. According to Klingenschmitt, female solders and students will be “forced to share common showers and rooms with cross-dressing men or boys […]