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Imagine having a hopeless crush on Batman and telling yourself it isn’t real and it’s just the mask you’re attracted to and the whole illusion will be ruined if he takes it off.

Clark, to himself during a JL meeting: maybe he’s ugly under the cowl and you just have a weird mask fetish

Clark .2 seconds after seeing Bruce take off the cowl one day after a battle: oh my god it’s so much worse

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Superman meets Batman for the first time and, because of his superhearing, he can tell that the man’s heart is pounding. Gosh, the poor man must be terrified, after all he does have a rule about no metas. For a human superhero, knowing other people are much stronger must be so scary! So Superman tries his best to seem small and less overwhelming, but Batmans heart rate just keeps going up! Luckily, the man seems to be speaking normally, so maybe its not a big deal? How brave of him, ignoring his fears to help people.

After the Justice League is formed, Clark finds out about Bruce’s contingency plans, and unlike the others, he’s not surprised. He’s already such a paranoid man, but being on a team full of metas, well, Clarks shocked he’s not shaking in his boots. Bruce hides his fear so well! If it wasn’t for his super hearing, he’d never know that Bruce takes a sharp inhale every time he uses his super strength, or that the mans heart starts beating like a million times a minute whenever he enters the room.

Then one day, they’re all in the Watchtower, Bruce drops the pen he was using to write out the plan for their mission, and Clark happily picks it up. As soon as he bends down, Bruce’s heart starts beating rapidly. When he straightens back up, Clarks face is bright red and he can’t meet Bruce’s eye. Is his butt scary?!?!??!

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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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Self care is overrated let’s have a mental breakdown over our favorite shows and then yell at the moon

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Ghosts has been impeccable with the Thomas lore drops my god

Season 1: 'I have (possibly one-sided/imagined) beef with Lord Byron'

Season 2: 'My cousin betrayed me to my death so he could marry the girl I loved.'

Season 3: 'I had a wild regency gap year, hated it and got the shits in Venice'

Season 4: 'It was the same with opium 😔'

Season 5: 'I'm Scottish 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿'

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cap wasn’t fit to fight in the war. he died of a heart attack because his body couldn’t handle the stress. he wasn’t the strongest or most agile. he was a middle-aged man with aches and pains and creaky joints. and he spends his afterlife running lap after lap of the grounds, timing it, trying to be better, faster. he isn’t as supple as the day he died, because he never was. and i just think after years of him trying to prove himself, trying to sell this image of the athletic soldier (that nobody was ever buying) that it’s wonderful he gets to use his body for other things. he skips with kitty, he dances with the ghosts, he puts on a panto, he can be carefree and silly.

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I like how all of Alison’s pranks on the other ghosts are comparatively low key and unserious, and then with Thomas she goes right for the jugular and drives him to the brink of a mental breakdown.

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alison and mike get on very well because they're great at communicating and they genuinely like each other and the only major difference between them is that most of mike's ideas are stupid whereas most of alison's are illegal

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It would have actually been hilarious if the ghost voice recorder had actually worked in The Grey Lady. Like they’re expecting disembodied wailing and scary noises and instead they get some guy from Yorkshire doing an 80s-style radio show complete with ad breaks and some other guy reading horny poetry.

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#when you’re the only queer person of the friend group 

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i love you media that emphasized mundanity. i love you media that says you still matter as a person even if you don't achieve something great. i love you media that says existing and being alive is enough. i love you "we might not remember your poems, but we'd remember you." i love you "i was no hero" "perhaps. but you are a brave man." i love "in another life i would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." i love you "but who's gonna watch the deer?" i love you the mundane as something to be loved for

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Robin, back in 10,000 BC, hiding behind a tree: Ooooh, this is voice of Moonah spirit! Moonah spirit say no drink puddle water, it hurt your tummy!

Robin's son: Dad, we know that you.

Robin: Me not Dad! Me Moonah spirit!

Robin: Moonah spirit no have children! His days are free and easy!

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alt version because the headcanon that mary and annie relentlessly bullied thomas when he first died never fails to bring a smile to my face.

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Fanny, very tired: Can I sleep in your bed?

Julian: *half asleep* Fanny, this is a queen-sized bed. That means it’s for *gestures vaguely to themself* the Queen.

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RIP Thomas Thorne. You would have been insane about pop punk.

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Fanny: they’ll be out of here before you can say ‘hotel’

Kitty: hotel. Oh no I said it!

🤝

Choop: the consequences are unthinkable!

Ho-Tan: I wish they were - I can’t stop thinking about them

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modern pat and thomas would have a podcast