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I just misread smn as "dick grayson loves boyporridge" so

Headcanon that Dick is rly into long furbies, he has a small army of them, his love language is making you a personalized long furby.

The first thing Jason did upon getting back to Gotham was break into the manor and steal his back, it's named Tina Tire-Iron and he loves it more than anything because it was the first time he realized Dick rly saw him as family.

Tim left his (William S. Edmonton, aka Wise-Boy) when he ran off trying to find Bruce and finding it sat on Tim's bed broke Dick. Tim actually left it bc he didn't want it to get messed up bc it was like the last thing showing him Dick ever loved him, but Dick thinks it was Tim rejecting Dick completely.

Bruce's response the first time he got one was just a soft "what the fuck Richard?" But now he's resigned himself, a new one shows up in his room every time Dick forgives him after their latest fight, so Bruce has a fuck ton of them.

#long furby #batman #dick grayson #tim drake #jason todd #bruce wayne #dcu #batfam

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SHE IS A TRUE HERO 

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2024 RISK map for transgender people in the us

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happy pride tumblr! to celebrate the new season, i offer you my design for the official tumblr pride flag:

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Netflix really uploaded Nimona in its entirety on YouTube. With English subtitles. That’s really cool!

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“why does that character have to be queer?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be trans?”

why not?

“why does that character have to be a poc?”

why not?

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please spread this so that it can actually be funny instead of just 1 person voting

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My personal headcanon, knowing elves in bg3 don’t sleep

Astarion, to Halsin, looking at their sleeping companions: it’s just so precious, isn’t it? All of them, flopped, like someone clubs them over the head with a chair every night

Halsin, nodding: and they just … go… somewhere, every night

Astarion: every single night!

Halsin: and every morning have only faint recollections of where their mind has been, if any. All that missing time and they don’t seem to miss it

Astarion: they don’t even question it! That part just kills me. They just accept paralyzed, forgotten hallucinations for a third of their lives

Astarion: though it’s worse if they don’t do it of course

Astarion: then you actually have to hit them in the head with a chair until they do

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So much shit happens to him in canon I'm inclined to believe you'd just never run out of material

me: *brings up canon traumatic events that happened to dick grayson in his comics but aren’t well known*

people: *use them in angsty fics*

me:

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as a small reminder aro week 2024 is february 18th through the 24th

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Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

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What is or isn’t a slur can be highly contextual, y'all.

“Jonny Sims bummed a fag off my ma” doesn’t contain a slur, but “What are you, some kind of fag?” does.

“Queer studies”, “the queer community” and “I’m queer”? Not a slur. Some bigot calling you a “dirty queer”? Slur.

“Be gay, do crimes” and “He’s gay” ≠ slur, but “Ew, that’s so gay” = slur.

In conclusion, stop buying into this fucking “q slur” bullshit. Queer people talking about the queer community aren’t using it as a slur any more than a gay man calling himself gay is using that term as a slur.

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Oh nooo I hadn’t noticed that my cat’s automatic feeder was getting low on food so as usual she dashed off when she heard the machine start but I couldn’t hear the usual sound of her food falling into the bowl so I went to look and my poor cat was just. Sitting there. Staring at her empty food bowl. Then for a second she glanced up at me then right back to her bowl with the biggest, saddest, most bewildered eyes you could ever imagine on such a small creature. I filled her bowl and the machine right away ofc but I still feel a little guilty 😭

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Every time someone well-meaning suggests I see a chiropractor for my migraines, I have this little moment of "ah, you're new here. You weren't here prior to 2018 when a chiropractor very gently adjusted my neck for my migraines, and I ended up having to get an emergency MRI because the ensuing symptoms were indicative of a brain bleed."

It wasn't a brain bleed. The muscles on the entire right side of my neck "just" tore (Spoiler there is nothing "just" about that kind of traumatic injury. I am still in physical rehab for it), and I couldn't hold my head up, see straight, walk or do any of the things I'd previously taken for granted until several weeks later when the area finally started to heal.

This was before I knew I had Ehlers Danlos, btw. But this is true even for people who don't have a connective tissue disorder: Don't let chiropractors touch your neck.

There are a lot of vital nerves and blood vessels there, and even gentle adjustments of the area can have life-threatening consequences.

I know chiropractic care can be pain relieving--I still get it for my lower back and hips because I work with a chiropractor who knows about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and sometimes my hips need to be popped back in at short notice, and it's easier to hop walk in and see her than wait for physical therapy--but it is a short-term relief that doesn't actually correct why something is happening.

If you can afford it, physical therapy will likely help more in the long term. I know not everyone can afford it, and that's why chiropractors have such a booming trade in the US, but please, I'm begging you, don't get your neck adjusted.

The spinal cord specialist I saw after my injury told me the number one reason he used to see people for traumatic brain injuries was car wrecks, followed by other major roadside injuries. He said those numbers were still the highest, but after that, the majority of his patients were survivors of chiropractic injury.

Do Not Get Your Neck Adjusted.

It's been over 5 years, and I still can't move my neck properly on my right side. I still struggle to eat and drink because my muscles will randomly seize up. It feels like my skull no longer fits on top of my spine because of the scar tissue. Please. I just want people to be safe.

And if you are a chiropractor reading this and thinking, "Well, I've never injured anyone, skill issue." No. You Have Gotten Lucky. Rethink how you apply your trade. Please, you can still help people while recommending safer options for specific body parts. Learn to do pressure point release and acupressure. Teach patients how to stretch and relax the area safely. Just fucking stop cracking people's necks like pop rock candy.

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Mystery solved, everyone!

Emails between the Hugo Awards admin team last year were leaked and turns out the American & Canadian members willingly went through all the finalists and removed those of us who they thought might offend China.

The leaked emails

The full exposé

Edit: We can't yet say for sure if the team did this due to government pressure or not. If you read the exposé there's a piece of evidence that suggests the local Sichuan government had a hand, but there's no confirmation. The point is that the Western admins chose to actively comply instead of uphold the integrity of the awards.