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People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.
It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.
Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.
I'm gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don't even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!
treat yo’self
Updated as of 12/18/2022
I genuinely love promoting other writers’ works, because they’re freaking awesome, but today? Today I’m gonna hype myself. Because I can.
It’s a long holiday weekend for those of us in the US. Maybe you want to indulge. Maybe you have family you want to avoid. Maybe you have no plans and are looking for a way to fill the time. Maybe you’re on retail or restaurant duty and need a pocket of escape. Maybe you’re not in the US and just want some standard weekend fun.
Let me present to you ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*My Fic*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
Marvel Fic
The only way I can reconcile Steve’s choice in Endgame. Bucky POV set just after CATWS.
Morgan and Peter talk, post-Endgame, pre-FFH
Voicemails from Tony to Peter, from 2018-2023
DC Fic
EVEN MORE self-indulgent Jason and Bruce
Family is messy sometimes, ft. Jason, Tim, and Cass
Something is wrong with Bruce, but no one knows what
Dev has a VERY bad night
Bruce and Tim at two different points in their relationship
Cassandra sickfic, ft. the best dad
The BatFam as seen by Jim Gordon
TFW you watch Tenet for the first time and have SuperBros emotions
VERY self-indulgent Bruce and Jason fluff
Jason has a bad night. Tim is there to help
Tim is sick and not-exactly-friendly Red Hood is kinder than expected
I use Jason Todd to make everyone cry (including myself)
Sadboy Tim Drake takes care of a very sick Jason
Damian is kidnapped. Dick has a bad time.
Dev has a Very Bad Night (good thing he has a Bruce)
Dick and Jason are stranded on a desert island. There’s magic(?) and lots of regret
New butler-dad Alfred has taken a fright
The light of my life is given his due love and affection (aka I nearly kill Dev and the Fam takes it poorly)
Jason Paranormal AU
Filling in the gaps of what might have happened (relationally speaking) immediately after Bruce comes back from the “dead”
Hand holding. Lots of hand holding by Bruce and for Bruce.
Bruce is hurt and Damian is worried and it’s very sweet
Absolutely unjustifiable fluff in which Dick goes to camp
The rules of surviving as a Rogue in Gotham, as explained by Oswald Cobblepot (ft. BAMF Alfred Pennyworth)
Alfred is sick and Bruce is worried and I drown you in fluff.
I fix a gap in the “Bruce Wayne lost in time” storyline. With knuckle kisses.
Bruce gets a call about his kid, has a slight heart attack.
Totally plotless GoodDad!Bruce fluff with cuddles, kisses, and sweet pet names
Tim is afraid of being forgotten.
Dick and Jason try to be brothers. Twice.
Jason gets a cat. Or rather, a cat gets a Jason.
Jason, Bruce, and the stars above.
Dick is a bad patient but so are the rest of the family.
Bruce Wayne adopts each of his children.
Bruce Wayne has depression.
Damian&Dick whump from Damian’s (pt 1) and Tim’s (pt 2) POV.
Jason&Bruce hurt/comfort, centering around Ethiopia and post-reunion.
Pure BatKids fluff from Clark Kent’s POV.
What I call my Sad, Sad Tim Drake fic (for all you middle children out there.)
A Stranger Things/Batman crossover that literally no one expected or asked for
Damian&Jason coming to an understanding as wary siblings
Pre-Robin Tim is a nervous lil bean with bad timing
I spit on the idea of Ric but have the Fam react to the haircut
Jason learns about something that happened while he was dead and it’s traumatic for everyone (including me)
A selection of Jason’s Christmases, from Catherine to post-Ethiopia
Alfred goes on vacation and NewDad!Bruce has a sort-of emergency
New-to-Gotham Damian and Dick start to understand each other
Canonically, Tim’s mom died on Christmas Eve, so here’s a look at that
5+1 of the times Jason saved his siblings and the time they saved him
Bruce Wayne adds one last child to his hoard
Tim, Jason, and Bruce are offered the chance to go back in time and stop Jason’s death from happening. With a catch.
If Bruce had reacted to Jason’s return the way he should have screw you DC
Dick gets the flu and it’s bad but Bruce is there
Time travel shenanigans where Bruce finally gets to hold one of his children as a baby
My ongoing fic where Bruce gets deaged and his children experience him at different points in his life
Damian and Cass go on an unplanned hike
My Whumptober 2019 fic prompts, which include:
Jason&Bruce deal with some of the practical emotional fallout from the fact that Jason is canonically a serial killer
Jason races to save a sibling as a bomb counts down
The sibling’s POV for the above fic, plus a resolution
Bruce really loves his butler dad, okay? Like a lot.
Home invasion fic starring audreycritter’s Dr. Dev, plus Bruce
Clark deals with a Bruce emergency and is partially based off that one post that upset people 😁 (also part of SuperBros, below)
Post-Ethiopia Bruce panics over Tim, then panics over panicking because he doesn’t want to father
Follow-up of the above, where Bruce is still panicking
Cass is, as one commenter put it, a BAMF (but also loves her family very much)
Robin!Dick and Uncle Clark have a sleepover but Clark is still a clueless 20-something bachelor who has no idea how to Adult
BatFam Week 2018 prompts, which include:
Dick/Babs whump, open-ended
Jason&Bruce are buried alive and it’s as traumatic as you might think
AU where tiny Jason refuses to stay with Bruce for Reasons
Time travel shenanigans with BrandNew!Batman Bruce
Tim&Dick hurt/comfort set during Bruce’s “death”
100% BatFam family night fluff
My ongoing collection of Bruce&Clark Superbros fic, which include:
Clark is so powerful it freaks Bruce out, set during Robin!Dick years
Clark catches a cold and Bruce is definitively the Dad Friend of the JLA
Clark deals with a Bruce emergency and is partially based off that one post that upset people 😁 (also part of Whumptober, above)
Bruce has a nightmare and Clark appears (and Clark’s POV)
Clark and Bruce are dying, but at least they’re together
Clark has the hiccups then uh-oh, things get serious (plus Bruce’s POV of the same series of events)
My ongoing collection of Tumblr prompt fic, which include (listed by chapter):
Pukey Jason, mama-henning Dick
Dick gives CPR to a sibling
Damian has a flashback, Tim gets the brunt of it
Tim and Jason, post-fear toxin
Jason and Dick work themselves to exhaustion with expected consequences
Tim and Damian get kidnapped
Sniffly Jason, mama-henning Dick
Steph and Duke bond
Tim, Cass, and Damian have a movie day
A brief scene with Robin!Jason and Bruce
Tim and RedHood!Jason have a heart-to-heart
Dick is laid up but he has a nice time with Cass and Tim regardless
Damian is ill but tries to sneak out on patrol anyways
My ongoing collection of headcanon/fic mishmashes, which include (listed by chapter):
Four Dick Grayson headcanons (traveling, sleepwalking, an unshakeable truth, and not a cop)
Four Jason Todd headcanons (self-love, squicks, Dick, kiddos)
Four Cassandra Cain headcanons (crying, singing, family, favorite superhero)
Four Wally&Dick headcanons (Batman, favorite story, sit still, Enrique)
Four Damian Wayne headcanons (hugging, jumpscare, anger, #1 bros)
Four more Jason Todd headcanons (glasses, patrol games, Robin, kitty cat)
Four Tim Drake headcanons (noise, nails, crying, Bruce)
Four Clark Kent headcanons (Kryptonian, scruff, plan, Dick)
Three more Tim Drake headcanons (school, sleep, home)
Four Alfred Pennyworth headcanons (cards, bingo, the end, ripped)
Jason and zombies
Damian’s eyebrow
Can Bruce cook?
Is Damian a vegetarian?
My worst BatFam head canon of all time
BatFam voices
Jason Todd and the local library
Dick and Jason’s relationship as adults
Tim’s role at Wayne Enterprises
Jason’s tattoos
Jason, Damian, and Talia
Damian’s taste in music
Alfred’s initial reaction to Damian
The truth about Jason and Catherine
Steph’s place in the BatFam
Damian’s feelings regarding Selina Kyle
Dick and Tim’s relationship before the other kids arrived
Bruce’s favorite child
How Tim really feels about Jack leaving on so many trips
BatFam weird takes
Bruce sharing memories of his parents with his kids
How the BatFam hugs
A word on Dick and Bruce’s relationship
Mental health medication
Each BatKid’s favorite song from Six: The Musical
Four more Jason Todd headcanons (Cass, the bet, Bruce, naming)
Cassandra’s fears and phobias
What flusters Bruce
Dick, Bruce, and their tickle spots
Tim’s humiliating memories
What makes Dick cry
Alfred’s grudges and vendettas
Dick’s emotional/moral weak spots
A what-if/AU for Dick
Alfred’s vices
Damian’s habits
Things Tim will never admit
Damian’s bad habits
BROTP: Bruce & Clark
BROTP: Cass & Steph
BROTP: Tim & Steph
I’m working on adding Tumblr links to the end of each AO3 story as well.
Credit
Lol the panels of the is still my favorite and now with @thepandared from tiktok its even better
Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
To put it very bluntly.
You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.
no offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone
Hey btw, here's a piece of life advice:
If you know what you'd have to do to solve a problem, but you just don't want to do it, your main problem isn't the problem itself. Your problem is figuring out how to get yourself to do the solution.
If your problem is not eating enough vegetables, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make vegetables stop being yucky". If your problem is not getting enough exercise, the problem you should be solving is "how do I make exercise stop sucking ass". You're not supposed to just be doing things that are awful and suck all the time forever, you're supposed to figure out how to make it stop being so awful all the time.
I used to hate wearing sunscreen because it's sticky and slimy and disgusting and it feels bad and it smells bad, so I neglected to wear it even if I needed to. Then I found one that isn't like that, and doesn't smell and feel gross. Problem solved.
There is no correct way to live that's just supposed to suck and feel bad all the time. You're allowed to figure out how to make it not suck so bad.
ok, this is amazing. I found a great site with short stories in 34 languages!
"WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.
We are adding new stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings every week. So keep coming back to enjoy new content!"
u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
42+ ways to fix a story in progress
(Also posted on: 42+ ways to fix a story)
Here is a list of (some) ways to fix a draft or story in progress. I started it in the observation journal when I was struggling with some story changes.
In summary, these can be reduced to intensify; focus/tighten; swap/invert. But in a tight spot, specifics are often more useful. And making the list was also important, because it reassured me I knew all these techniques, and had used them before, and should calm down.
List 10 terrible endings (adapted from a Helen Marshall exercise), or just 20 endings. Or 100…
Re-outline it
Map it onto another story (I like to quick-outline fairy tales until one resonates, and then identify the parts to strengthen)
Fill it out as a synopsis questionnaire (I used to use Sue Dennard’s 1-page synopsis to trap story ideas)
Ask — what is the story behind the story?
Change the place
Change the era
Genderflip main character
Genderflip everyone
Change the genre
Change the adjectives
Describe the story in one emotion, & align/adjust
Do the same for each scene/section (see also three moods)
Flip (main) character’s personality (quiet to loud, etc)
What happens after
What happens before
What’s happening at the same time
It’s a metaphor for: ___
Pick/change emotional note for end
Scene-map
Match to 3-act structure
Match to 5-act structure
Give characters a preoccupation or secret
Start it later
Start it earlier
End it earlier
End it later
Map it onto a song
Blow something up
Make everything worse
Change [define & intensify] the aesthetic
Explain the reasons
Invert
Make it/ the weak bits A Whole Thing
Make it/ the weak bits a Good/Bad Thing
Make it/ the weak bits The Shape of the World
Tell from a non-obvious point of view (see also: by whom and to whom, and some less common points of view)
Change the type of character in the role (think archetypes and stereotypes)
Change drama – pose (?)
Change motifs
Change sentence structure
Change form, shape (e.g. list, pastiche, non-fiction)
And to these I’d add:
change voice, and
change age.
I might add more as I go. But in the meantime: hey, my debut collection of short stories, KINDLING, is now out from Small Beer Press (in the USA, and coming soon to Australia). It includes the new story “Annie Coal”. And if you look closely at the journal page above, you’ll see that was the story I was editing when I made this list.
I was talking with my dad recently & we got on the topic of People Thinking They Can't Do Things, and like, he is at his core a well-intentioned person who genuinely wants the best for others, but he has definitely internalized some harmful ideas a la "anyone can do anything, the only thing stopping them is their own attitude". so I was like. I see where you're coming from, but let me tell you a story.
last year, I worked with 10 year olds- many of whom had never really spent time outdoors- in an outdoor education program where they came to spend a whole week doing shit outside in nature. the top two scariest experiences for these kids were 1) very tall metal tower, and 2) walking outside at night in the dark with no flashlights.
I tried a lot of different things to persuade them all to join me for each experience: I presented it with enthusiasm and passion, I did physical demonstrations and scientific explanations to help them understands how safe it was, I voiced my absolute commitment to their safety, I invited them to brainstorm ways to help each other and themselves feel safe, etc.
generally I always had at least 2-3 kids out of about 10 who opted out, or if they did join me, would spend the entire experience crying and freaking out. when it was over, they would conclude that even though they did not die- or even get hurt- it was so scary that it wasn't worth it and they never wanted to do it again.
then I changed the question I asked. instead of asking them to tell me whether they could do it or couldn't do it, I asked them to raise their hand for one of three options:
You can definitely do this.
It will be hard or scary or uncomfortable, but you can try to do this.
It will definitely be too hard, scary, or uncomfortable, and you cannot or should not try to do this.
suddenly, almost nobody was opting out of these experiences.
they would try, even if they were scared, because they know that being scared didn't necessarily mean that they couldn't do it at all. and more importantly, they knew that if they needed to stop, that was an option; they weren't trapped in their decision to try.
and the real takeaway here, for me, is in the nuance: people need to be able to challenge themselves and to be uncomfortable in order to grow, and people need to be able to opt out in order for opting in to be a safe option.
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.
The only way to stop misinformation and avoid inadvertently spreading radical rhetoric is to stop sharing things you haven't personally looked into.
It sucks, especially with the state of the world right now, but before you reblog something:
Is there a linked source in the post? Click through and read the article, don't reblog it on faith.
Are there verifiable claims in the post but no source? Look them up, see if you can verify what's being said.
Is someone claiming something can't be verified? Try anyway. It's possible that the truth just isn't convenient to the point the person is trying to make.
Does something sound right but you haven't learned much about the topic? You need to learn about the topic first, not from social media but from reputable sources.
Don't have the spoons to fact check? Then I'm really sorry, but don't share it. Don't reblog.
i know it sucks, I know you want to be engaged. But there is rampant misinformation on this site, and it is better to not share anything than to spread lies.
When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.
Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.
What do we expect to happen?
Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.
It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.
Yes, we need more. AND we can't afford to focus solely on some utopian future (much less burning everything to the ground with no other goal in mind) and ignore the little things that help NOW. Those things build up to make a better future possible faster, because more people will have their heads above water and be able to contribute to building their vision of a better world instead of having no resources to devote to anything but surviving
My biggest frustration with the left has always been the inability/unwillingness to work on making progress inside of the system while advocating for greater change.
I remember the first time I came to this realization.
I was nineteen, pregnant. We couldn’t afford to heat the house because we couldn’t afford the deposit to turn the gas on. It was miserably cold. The duplex we were renting was old and rickety and drafty. The window frames were messed up and there were cracks you could stick your finger through that were open to the elements.
Just, like, to give you an idea where we were financially. And this was better than we’d been doing before!
Anyway, I had recently started going to DSA meetings. And that month, they were talking about how a moderate democrat had successfully gotten a small increase in WIC benefits monthly. It came out to, like, $10 a month.
The members talking—mostly male, almost all doing decent—were scornful. The democrat should have pushed harder and gotten more, refused to accept anything until everyone else caved to their demands. I remember sitting there, quietly drinking the latte in the smallest size they had that I had bought with scrounged quarters, listening. Wishing it wasn’t held in an indie coffee shop because it was a luxury I really couldn’t afford, but it would be rude not to. Enjoying the coffee anyway.
I was one of the lucky ones who was getting that additional $10 a month through WIC. Even more exciting, we were now getting a voucher for the farmers’ market. I casually mentioned that WIC recipients would now be getting farmers’ market vouchers, too.
The guy who organized the meetings was a hard worker, passionate guy. Did something in tech.
He was like, “That’s the thing! These people don’t want farmers market vouchers. They want—” and he went on to describe a bunch of pie in the sky desires. That, yeah, sounded good.
But one. I was one of those people! A lot if the tamiles were super excited about it, myself included.
I had never been to a farmers’ market before. I tried arugula for the first time, a piece pulled from a bunch by the grower as he explained the flavor difference. I hadn’t known before then that different lettuce greens had different flavors, that it was more than just the texture and shape. I tried pesto, which delighted me. Goat cheese. I got three full pounds of strawberries for two dollars, since they were closing soon and the old man selling the berries got a kick out of me.
Anyway. It was like, you have a decent life. Not great but decent! The things that are life changing for me, for us… you already have.
The ten dollars at the grocery store made the difference between a meal of broken-noodles-with-some-half-horrible-pantry-scraps and a meal. It kept me full and healthy! And the additional farmers’ market voucher was world changing for me.
The democrat who worked for those things barely got them through. And it was means tested to hell and back. They weren’t able to get everything they wanted. But what they got made such a huge difference for me, for people like me.
I’m all scratched up and I can still taste spray paint in my mouth and my husband almost fell out of a tree BUT THE GHOST SCULPTURES ARE FINISHED!
They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!
Some progress shots:
hey just a little reminder — sometimes when you’re in survival mode, living day by day is literally all you can do. it’s all you have space for. and then when you have the space and time and release to slowly start to come out of survival mode, you have to re-learn how to live with the future in mind. learning from your past. making your future self proud. doing things your future self will thank you for. and I don’t see a lot of people talking about how TERRIFYING that is. but it is. it’s really, really scary to plan and learn what healthy self discipline looks like and how to greet every version of yourself. and so if that’s you today — I’m very proud of you. there’s nothing shameful about relearning something. you’re doing so well! I’m so glad you got this far <3
if you are abroad and want to help:
do not post graphic pictures of victims or videos of the kidnapping victims, especially not the ones showing them being harmed.
donate:
Magen David Adom
https://www.mdais.org/en/donation
Red Crescent
3. stop glorifying violence. this is war, both sides are doing atrocities and this suck for the people living here. all the people living here
You are going to put that back, and I will turn you over to whatever authorities deal with you, and then Lois and I are going on a perfect normal date.
My Adventures with Superman — "Kiss Kiss Fall In Portal"
sometimes i see a post that has inaccurate information about libraries and sometimes i contemplate correcting them but then i don’t
we’re gonna be ok btw
"Stop saying 15 year olds with weird interests are cringe, they're 15" this is true however you should also stop saying adults with weird interests are cringe because who gives a shit
