. . . . . . so does anyone else have, like, a lil' handful of maybe six to twelve followers who they don't even follow back or really talk to outside of the occasional reply/ask situation, if at all, and who they also know effectively nothing about, but those six to twelve followers are still your Favorites(tm) of your "ones-I'm-not-actively-friends-with" followers because they have good taste in you? like they just reblog/like/reply to all the posts of yours that you think are the best and most delightful and most correct TO reblog/like/reply to, despite the fact that literally all your posts are posts YOU made and therefore wtf do you mean someone has good taste in YOU, what does that even MEAN, brain???? like just their little "like" or "reply" alert pops up and you're like "aw yeah one of my six to twelve approves, n i c e".
like is that thing a relatable thing for anyone else or am I just frickin' weird, hahaha.
Subfandom: Batman
Media: All Media Types
Relationships: Gen (Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne)
Year: 2022
Everyone knows who the butler is.
Submitted by anon
You know, rivers catching on fire used to be a regular occurrence.
Boring, even. Mundane. People just accepted that rivers had oil slicks floating on them that could be lit by somebody throwing their cigarette in the wrong place. Cities had regular protocols in place on what to do when the river caught on fire.
The modern environmentalism movement wasn’t just started by hippies you know. Regular people cared about this stuff because their rivers caught on fire and existing near farms gave them cancer and by the 1970s they weren’t even seeing that much economic benefit from it.
If you don’t live in a world where rivers regularly catch on fire it’s because of stuff like the clean water and air acts. A lot of rivers in the US that in the first half of the 20th century regularly caught on fire are now safe to swim and fish in.
A lot of environmental damage is reversible if we act. We’ve got a lot of success stories like this actually. A lot of formerly endangered species have come back, fish have returned to American rivers, the ozone layer is being restored.
I’m not sure what’s going to happen next with the environment but I hold out at least a little bit of hope. Because rivers used to catch on fire and now for the most part they don’t.
I just woke up and somehow the only thought in my head was Jason Todd as an Etsy witch but he only sells ‘violent spells’ and instead of doing spell work he just personally goes out and beats the shit out of whoever you choose
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Just days since paying for the spell, and my creepy stalker hasn't come near me! It totally worked, someone told me he got hit by a truck in a drive-by last week! Will definitely use again if I need more magical help.
GothamGirlyGuy / Purchased item: Bad Luck Spell for Exes, Stalkers, etc
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This protection spell has been so affective. It's like I have a big, scary guardian angel looking after me.
newtotown / Purchased item: Summoning Spell for Protective Spirits
⭐️☆☆☆☆ Would give 0 stars if I could. Not only did this spell not work, a bunch of other stuff has gone missing from my room since the payment went through. I swear, it almost feels like he cast a vanishing spell on my favorite hoodie, ALL of my left shoes, and my first edition copy of Hound of the Baskervilles.
Alvin Draper / Purchased item: Finding Spell for Lost Items
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So I was a little sceptical about stuff like healing crystals and warding spells and that, and I've seen a lot of obvious scams on here. But this witch took the time to explain to me that while the crystals and stones he uses for his work might seem a bit 'rough', they're really effective at warding off negative forces in my life because he picks the ones best suited for each job. I don't even mind that it basically looks like a chunk of brick he picked up in a construction site, ever since I bought it, the gross peeping tom hasn't been seen in our neighborhood. And the red details on the corner look really cool!
Patty / Purchased item: Warding Stones Sent After Spell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of my new friends told me about this witch and I finally broke down and bought a spell because I've been having so much trouble sleeping lately (wheee, trauma!) and my parents cut me off financially (yaaay conservative assholes!) and it just feels like I'm floundering. SO happy I did. The very. Next. Day. My bf told me his brother was taking over his shifts for a while so we could spend more time together, I got a scholarship for school I didn't even know I qualified for, the restaurant I've been interning at got bought and the new owner tripled everyone's salaries and included the interns on the pay sheet, AND someone broke my father's kneecap with a crowbar! This guy's the real deal.
B Dowd / Purchased item: Stress Release Spell
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Not sure what I was expecting, but I've got to admit this spell has been effective. The guy that used to hit on me every night is convinced there's some kind of demon in the hospital parking garage and now he doesn't follow me to my car. Maybe that Draper person had some bad vibes, because I also found a really nice hoodie and a bunch of left shoes? No book, though.
Caroline Hill / Purchased item: Guardian Spell
"On the one hand, you have an abundance of natural magical aptitude you're squandering. On the other are the broken fingers of the most deserving. Kudos, my boy." —Jason Blood, probably
Y'know, I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen Jack Chains more in fantasy tbh, like it's a really interesting and low budget armor style, I'm legit surprised I've almost never seen it in media
Couple examples I pulled from google images
Actually kind of! It's built with a very interesting principle behind it and I'm gonna explain it below because it's neat
[First 4 images show a string of armour down people’s arms. There’s a shoulder plate, an elbow plate, and a strip on both upper are and forearm, all linked together with loops. They’re over top padded tunics.
The next image is tags saying, “#this is like bikini mail for arms #i love it”.
The next three images show a silhouette with a fancy helmet but no other armour. The second one has red lines through his arms into his torso. The third shows how the thin strips of metal are blocking those lines, with a fourth image that shows a close up of the tiny bit of metal stopping a sword and labeled, “blocked lol”.
The final image shows a diagram of a plane with a whole bunch of red spots. These mark places where a plane was shot and was still able to limp back to base. The original post with this image talked about how people originally wanted to strengthen the areas of the plane with the most red marks, until someone pointed out that the areas with NO marks are the spots that meant the plane DIDN’T come home.
End ID.]
In case anyone’s interested, I just put up some images about the Natural Color System (NCS) on deviantArt. It’s a color model like RGB, RYB, or CMYK. But instead of being based off of the media you’re making colours with (like the other models’ light, pigments, or ink) the NCS is based off of theories about how we perceive light.
The NCS builds on a theory called ‘color opponency’, which suggests that certain colours basically 'fight’ in our brains, and we see things through their struggle. White is fighting black, blue is fighting yellow, and red is fighting green. So the NCS has 4 primary colours! (Actually 6, because they include black and white.) None of the hues can mix with their opposite, but can mix with either colour of the other pair.
I really like the system. I like how messy it is in practice. Lots of areas have gaps, because our brains don’t care about pretty models. There aren’t NEARLY as many blues as there are reds and yellows, especially in the more saturated areas.
The colours in it are also a LOT nicer. RGB and CMYK do NOT care about our puny human brains. They care about PHYSICS. You can make good colours using those models, but all the pure colours hurt my eyes. But NCS colours feel nice and real. I look at NCS 'red’ and say to myself, “yes, that it what red should look like!”
It has weaknesses, of course. If a model was perfect, it would no longer be a model. It can only be approximated on a screen. While there is science behind it, it isn’t nearly as strong as the science behind some other colour models. I don’t like its shades of purple. Etc.
But I really like realizing that colour is ALLOWED to be personal. Yes, it is about the refraction of light off various surfaces. But it’s also about how our brains INTERPRET that refracted light. There are times to submit to the math (like when you want to print something as the actual colour you drew it), but there are times to push back and say,
“Magenta is an EYE SORE! That isn’t red! I DO NOT see the world in shades of magenta!”
Have you read Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity (2003) by Matt Wagner?
Yes
Partially
No
I've never heard of this
This is a WEIRD series. I’m really glad I read it, and I enjoyed it a lot. I’m not sure it’s GOOD, though. The alternate reality and altered history stuff sometimes feels more OOC than it feels like a way to see characters from new perspectives. And yet there’s something really compelling here.
I suggest giving it a try, but I can’t really back up my argument. There’s just SOMETHING!
What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly
I expected Americans without another discernible cultural background to answer this with regional American dishes im getting taken out by people just saying stuff like “burger” and “mcdonalds”
HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS
was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.
seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.
i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.
they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.
sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.
I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.
This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.
I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out.
Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club.
I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.
Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.
This is the exact reason I started my #ace positive and #aro positive tags. I remember learning about asexuality and thinking it was cool, but not for me (yet). I remember ace visibility day where people would post selfies with an ace card to signify their orientation like in the original post. I remember going through the tag and following every ace blog I could find, turning notifications on and scrolling through their blogs endlessly to learn more about it. I haven’t gotten a notification for any of those blogs in ages.
Going through all those blogs and seeing validation, learning more things about my newfound orientation was so incredibly as a questioning and unsure 15 year old. It’s devastating to me that this community has fallen quiet so much. So I started my tags, hoping to spread some more positivity and maybe inform people. This community is full of incredible people and the fact that so little of them remain, it heartbreaking.
Check out my tags if you ever need to. Maybe I’ll add more tags to my list to do whatever I can in support
This is one of the reasons the pride card deck that makes the rounds here pretty frequently makes me so sad. They made a CARD DECK and didn’t have ANY of the aces be for asexuality. They shallowly included asexuality, but not as anything meaningful. It’s a little thing, but it bothers me.
Anyways, please have fun with being ace! Say you don’t think about sex, you think about Batman. Say that cake is better than sex. Get yourself a pretty black ring and wear it on your middle finger. Draw art of playing cards, dragons, clowns, whatever fun thing you want.
Don’t let anyone convince you that you need to act ‘adult’ enough to be respected. Don’t let anyone convince you that pride flags are the only ‘real’ symbol.
And don’t feel like it needs to be this big serious thing. Everyone else IS making a big deal out of nothing, and attraction really isn’t that big of a deal. Don’t minimize other people’s feelings, but also don’t let them convince you that YOU have to care about this stuff and can’t make jokes.
(I DO spend a lot more time thinking about Batman than sex. And 4 times that much time thinking about various Robins. Live your best life!)
