A grocer at J. Ferrara Grocery in Brooklyn Heights, in March 1958.

Photo: David Attie via Getty Images

Friendly Grocer (1918). Built in the dying stages of WW1 as a produce store with shop fronts. The grocer survived the Pandemic and just keeps on keeping on. Lilyfield.

Prompt 112

Once again, you know who is underutilized in DCxDP crossovers? Battinson. Skrunkly shivering boi. Who we should definitely give children to care for. 

 Did you know that Jason canonically had a brother named Danny? Well you do now, and it should also be used more. 

 We all want to give Battinson a robin, so why not give him four for the price of two. He of course gets Dick from the circus- he’s never going to go into public again, this was the first time he’d gone to do something out of his comfort zone for a while and look how that turned out. 

 And on one of the nights that Dick has to stay home (Alfred insists he must finish his homework if he wants to go out on patrol) Bruce returns to the batmobile to find not one child, but two. Is Danny reincarnated? Just appeared one day? Who knows, but he’s here now and going to protect his little brother. 

 Bruce might have tears in his eyes when they both hit him in the kneecaps and bolt because even with the armor it still hurts. How he manages to grab both kids he’s not too sure, but he ends up getting them food after they put the tires back. He also doesn’t understand how he’s convinced them into the car but they’ve both conked out and maybe he’s panicking and needs Alfred- 

 D-Dick why is there another child here? He’s the neighbor, cool cool. W-what do you mean he’s home alone, he’s like, 4?? What do you mean he’s been alone for a week now???

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Alfreeeeed-

the real reason that tim can't age over 18 is because if he did, dick would have an existential crisis about how old *he* is. wdym tim, who was 13 when dick met him, is 21 now. if tim has been doing this for 8 years, how long has dick been doing this for? wdym tim is legally old enough to drink now? if *that's* true then dick's no longer 25. when did dick suddenly get so close to 30. that's not a thing that's real. *his* annoying little brother isn't that old because dick's not that old. he hasn't really been working here for going on 20 years, right? can't be, because he just started here two days ago.

so yea, tim's not older than 17. who are you trying to kid here? dick's not gullible. he won't fall for your lies.

what utter nonsense are you going to try to tell him next? that damian's in high school or something? he's onto you.

Sequel to this. Cat dad time

no real cheese will ever live up to the phantom taste i imagined the cartoon cheese from tom and jerry cartoons i watched as a kid tasted like.

this is the pinnacle of the cheese-based foodgroups. i think it was less the visual appeal (almost none, it looks like a dried sponge half the time) and more the fervent desperation with which the mouse pursued it. the permeating lust for this cheese.

the fanatical daydreaming was so evocative that my brain and tongue made up a flavour that will never exist and i am doomed to spend my life unfulfilled

I can’t explain how fucking inconvenient a lack of local transport is

i just realized smth,, in the haircut video when dans Words Of Affirmation-ing phil hes like "you've always been there feeding me snacks" and then, in college dropout which is his first vid in the Existential Crisis series phil is comforting dan and going "ok we're gonna get you some chocolate" like.... ok......... he rlly has always been there feeding him snacks....

(No Obligation Whatsoever but if you *want* to give me a birthday present my kofi is in the pinned post or you could always draw a kirby :> after all I started drawing him every day in the first place just cuz I think low key simple kirby drawings are fun and there should be more of them!)

Grocer in Harlem, ca. 1937.

Photo: Aaron Siskind via the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

got into zutara vs kat@ang discourse with a neighbor

neighbor: well the ending was good enough for ten year olds. it's not like the show was written for adults with writing degrees

me, who at age ten, watched the premiere when it happened and then rented the DVD off of Netflix later and rewatched the finale 5+ times before accepting that THAT was how it ended and there was simply no narrative explanation: it wasn't good enough for me then either

neighbor:

me:

neighbor: you must have been a weird ten year old then

my cats my reason to be happy

just thinking about an au where red hood/jason keeps getting randomly ambushed by a scrawny kid bc he refuses to get help with the whole ‘contaminated by bad ectomatter’ thing he’s got going on and danny’s just like “okay:D i’ll just give it to you anyway:D”

when i get a bread maker it's so over for you fuckers