Hi, I would just like to talk to the writers of Batman (1940) #496 and ask why they would hurt me by having Bruce get sprayed with fear gas, have a vision of Jason's death, and then beat up The Joker while screaming nothing but "Jason Todd" at him over and over.

Observing peoples reactions to morally gray or black actions committed by different characters is so funny. Throughout all of G. War the character tags were chock-full of people unironically enraged claiming “Bruce isn’t even capable of doing something bad like that.” about an action that is pretty well in line with his character journey thus far, meanwhile there are still new posts that gain traction that open with lines like “I know Jason has committed his fair share of sins/crimes but” like bro when. In 2010?

Also. The whole premise of the b*tfamily™ that you so love is built on the load bearing wall being that they are a crime family. Hell, do people just collectively forget the part where Bruce manufactures and freely uses weapons with his own furry brand logo plastered all over them, causing all sorts of 'explosions and more!' property damage all over the streets of Gotham? Pretty sure that makes him a terrorist but you people don't feel the need to go around reminding fandom of that every five minutes.

A survey of 100 authors from 54 countries named "Moby Dick" as one of the 100 best books of all time... But public opinion was very different 161 years ago. When "Moby Dick" debuted in 1851, reviewers trashed it.

The book sold fewer than 4,000 copies in total (fewer than 600 in the UK), prompting Melville to have serious doubts about his future writing career.

Given that The Beetle was very popular for several years since its publication (and had outsold Dracula six times over) I am once again judging

I don’t think I will ever get over how the Batman Beyond Rebirth series treated/used Matt McGinnis during its run. Ever.

Cause one of the main reasons I dove into reading the rebirth series was to read about how Matt became Robin and what his time was like. And having read and finishing the entire run like a year ago it STILL upsets me how they set him up to be Robin, stressing that he is essential to Terry’s batman and to his success, only to rip it away ten issues later b/c “they didn’t want to bring in another child into the mission”.

Acting as if they hadn’t dragged Matt through the ordeal of being sidelined to helplessly watch losing his brother MULTIPLE times both before and after he was Robin. Like what was the whole point of that set up if they were just gonna rip it away?? Explain it to me, b/c I can’t find a damn reason.

" [ ... ] I was reading today in the science section of the paper that passionate love lasts only a year, maybe two, if you're lucky. Because I want to be extra, extra lucky. Because the article apologized specifically to poets─ sorry, you helpless saps─ as though we automatically believe in love more than anyone else ( more than carpenters, kindergarten teachers, novelists ) and have been pushing this Non-Truth on everyone. Because who knows what will happen, but I want to, baby, want to believe it's always possible to love bigger and madder, even after two, three, four years, four decades. "

Holy fucking shit, this is just...

I know I say a lot Anna and Maddie have astronomical levels of miscommunication but the majority of them stem from Maddie being avoidant of negative emotions and Anna’s tendency to express her feeling things in ways that are often unconventional/misinterpreted.

gotta love marineford because literally No one is having a good time

one problem with dnd is that, to some extent, you kinda have to do Getting A Good Grade In Therapy conversations sometimes because you don't get to control the entire narrative or anyone else's characters, so if you want people to know what your character is really thinking or feeling then eventually you kinda just have to say it out loud, and the problem with that is that sometimes you're playing a character who is really not very good at even knowing what they are thinking or feeling themselves in the first place

one of my old friends (who im not friends w anymore) has a baby and it's so weird to me like. ppl my age have babies already. i can barely take care of myself and some of my peers have entire children. life is weird man

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Look, I’m just saying that not being a genre snob is helpful because reading these 4,000 KJ Charles and Jordan L Hawk novels helped me figure out why this book felt off.

Like, within any genre, find an author you dig and read that shizz. You never know what will spark an epiphany.

End of a Decade

The end of 2023, for me, marks the end of a significant decade and chapter of my life. I had a fallout with my best friend. Someone I’d known for ten years. It’s not a pleasant thing to go through. No one teaches you what to do when a good person hurt you, but you know you’ve hurt them too. No one teaches you how to bid farewell to people you thought you never would say goodbye to. No one…

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feeling tension and anxiety from things that come from within you vs the sugary sickly sweet anxiety and tension that come from feelings, whatever they may be, for another person really are the difference between depression and a mental breakdown huh

Feeling weird about it being Easter and yet me having no plans to do anything

My family aren't religious at all but they did always have a very working class English approach to Christian holidays as in 'this is the only day we're all getting off work so you bet we're going to celebrate it'

It took me a long time to even realise things like Christmas and Good Friday/ Easter even were religious cause they already were a whole thing in my head 'it's a day you make food and see all your family' I never even made the link between that and the whole Jesus thing for many many years. For a long time all the big (by big, I mean you get them off work. This is my only frame of reference. If its a bank holiday, it's a holiday. If you aren't it isn't.) holidays were spent with my family, cooking, if not visiting them and eating their cooking.

Since my great grandparents died, there's no one place for our family to gather in. My great grandma was the matriarch of our family, if you made a decision about your life, it was understood that you'd go tell her about it. Everything went through her, she'd give her opinion and you probably wouldn't follow it but you had to get it all the same. My great grandfather was her backbone, her voice of reason. The two of them together made this unit, around which the rest of our family rested on. I never had to worry about keeping in touch with my cousins or aunties or uncles or anyone as by regularly visiting my great grandparents I was in touch.

Usually I'd spend at least some of good Friday, sat in their lounge catching up with everyone else that dropped in while I was there. It was the only bank holiday I didn't work, apart from Xmas and boxing day. It feels so wrong not to be doing anything but what could I be doing? Of course I could have arranged to see the rest of my family, those that are still in England anyway but is there any reason to. Its harder to arrange those sorts of things now because before we were all doing it for the same reason, for them and now they're gone that common reason isn't there. Not to mention there's no one place to gather. It's not that they had a big house, it's that their house was a place of safety and everyone was welcome. Other family members have an open door policy but its not the same when you don't feel safe there. Their lounge was barely big enough to fit five people at once but we crowded in because it was home, to four and a half generations of us. What's sitting on the floor when you've spent twenty years sitting on the same floor.