#and i have also learned that these people do not know what coding is

[brucewaynehater101]

AU idea inspired from I Don't Belong Here (I Wish I Was Special) on ao3 and the atla bnha swap au here on Tumblr

So we got the Bad Timeline with the BadFam, which are a lot like in the fic, trauma and abuse goes unaddressed or horrifically handled

But to toss Human!Tim a bone, Kon and Bart do come back to life, so he at least the Core four of YJ is all together again

(when I type YJ assume I mean the core four but if you want I can also mean all of YJ)

Unfortunately Tim is ✨Traumatized✨ and unwilling to cut ties with the BadFam cuz their "stability" is one of the things keeping him sane

And then we have the Hybrid Timeline, with their BatFam, Bruce is a bat or bird hybrid, Alfred is a hybrid (dealers choice), Dick is a robin hybrid, all the other kids are their own bird hybrids

And all the Wayne (Alfred too if you choose) have wings

In this timeline being an animal hybrid is the norm! Which adds another layer of identity shenanigans for aliens like Kryptonians who already had it hard enough feigning humanity

And also this Batfam? They did the impossible. They are !!emotionally healthy!!

Oh shit happens, mental health spirals, Jason died and came back and it was whole emotional rollercoaster, except Batman didn't bataraang his kid, first thing he did after learning Jason was alive was kidnap his son again and trap him in the nest and broody chicken style until he snapped out of his instincts

And then he nabbed his bio son cuz Jason snitches on Talia or Talia wants what's best for her son and an assassin's cult is NOT it, so she sent the kid his way

Batman here isn't abusing his kids, Robin was never fired, it got passed down from Dick to Jay.

I could rave on and on how the Batfam here is happy and healthy as can be but I got an AU to present

So the BadFam is on a mission, magical artifacts are involved, Red Robin secures it but uh oh, once the mission is over he accidentally activated it in the Batcave and the next thing the BadFam know?

Red Robin's still there, except, uh number one the very pretty wings, and also he looks healthier, like his needs are being taken care of

When he breaks out the "alt-self dimension-swap code" they know what they're dealing with and establish their Tim is stuck in a Hybrid world due to an artifact and vice versa

But what really matters is how jarring it is for Hybrid!Tim to be with a world without hybrids as the norm; people with his family's faces so hostile to each other; hostile to him in his eyes; nobody to give his instincts and hybrid side their needs

Under the guise of professionalism and "I have a family to return to" and using the fact the BadFam knows only what he shares of his home dimension, Hy!Tim keeps as much of a barrier between him and the BadFam as he can

He's from a family that spoils one another's instincts and social needs. One that does do jack shit about their issues and communicates about them. A family that isn't cannibalizing itself

Suddenly being with what feels like a bastardized version is scary and he does not like it

On Human!Tim's end, he's suddenly with a family that doesn't hate him and is willingly to help him

They're welcoming and it's unnerving?? And he has a family to return to, a mission to be loyal to. Oh God, what's gonna happen to his other self?

Exactly 24 hours after the first swap, the Tims swap back again and they figure out that for a limited but long time, they're gonna swap places every 24 hours

So they gotta get some help or tech that will cancel out the magic and since they dunno when it stops, they don't want the magic to run it's course and bam, both Tim's are dimensionally misplaced

Thankfully whoever and whatever a Tim has on their person during a swap comes with them so they can trade progress with eachother

Anyways, what matters after the second swap since the artifact's activation is that Hy!Tim instantly snitches to his family on all the red flags the BadFam raised during his time with them

And also no hybrid instincts or amenities, it was not a Good time for him, family nesting time please? :(

So while Hu!Tim thinks he's got any chance of a Good Grade in having people pay as little attention to him as possible during this trial, he's got another thing coming with the third swap when suddenly the whole family is checking on his well being

Hu!Tim grew up neglected and abused and would very much like no eyes on him, amd for all the freedom possible. He is screeching in indignation

But hey, his own family also wants him to stay with em so maybe they can convince the Hybrid Fam otherwise!

And his back hurts more than ever, but he'll get that treated once the artifact's magic ends, no need to bring it up

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To Word of God the subtext; the artifact swaps the two Tim's every 24 hours and is slowly making Tim a bird hybrid himself and eventually he's gonna burst wings in a Gorey way

But before the wings and maybe after comes talons, bird noises, and instincts, which he might take a while to clock in on and will make his time away from the hybrid timeline more and more miserable as his transformation progresses

Dealer's pick if he's the same species as Hy!Tim or not

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So Hu!Tim hides as much as he can get away with from the Badfam to draw as little animosity from them as possible but does the same with the HybridFam to try and protect the BadFam's name from stains on their reputation (ignoring his own)

Hy!Tim is gathering all the evidence on the BadFam's sins and other people's to make a sufficient case against them and to convince Hu!Tim to be adopted by his family

Oh yeah, it'll be fun if the two Tim's had notebooks they placed near them before their swaps to talk with eachother

Hell maybe one or both of their notebooks gets stolen by like a rogue and that could be an episode or chekhov's gun and— idk where to go w/ it

On top of that, Hy!Tim finds every excuse he can to hangout with Young Justice instead of the BadFam because he trusts YJ more than them to the point he feels safe to tell them the whole truth and even go as far as to nest with them and let em preen his wings

Eventually he asks em "my family is gonna kidnap my new brother, can I do the same with you?"

Okay not exactly with those words but that's the vibes

Let's say they agree and he holds onto the Badfam timeline's YJ during the swap and now there's double trouble

But also the BadFam and rest of the hero scene is wondering where the FUCK the YJ went after it becomes obvious they're missing

Hu!Tim is confused why he woke up in a nest in Titans Tower and why he wants to lie down there forever but it also makes him unhappy in a way

Hy!Tim only figures out afterwards what kind of mess he's made, but no take backs! He and Young Justice are Twinning!!! He'll just cover his tracks once's the swap happens again

Honestly two dimensional versions of YJ—one where humanity is the default, and another where hybrids are—interacting would be fun to see

Hybrid Batfam is exasperated because Tim you can't keep adopting and kidnapping like you're Bruce!

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Me thinks that while Hy!Tim hides as much as he can, Hu!Damian, knowing his animals, clocks in on all the signs that Hy!Tim is miserable with the Badfam, doing loads of bird stuff that indicates him feeling unsafe and in danger and whatnot

What does Human!Damian do with this knowledge I wonder . . .

Maybe on the other side, Hybrid!Damian catches onto Hu!Tim becoming a hybrid and snitches and now Hu!Tim's chances at not getting adopted are down the gutter for good

Does the BadFam ever pick up on the possibility they're gonna be double-crossed or do they learn when it's too late? both routes would be fun to explor

There's also the fact that Hu!Tim isn't the only victim of abuse, neglect, and etc. in this family, it's entirely possibly that the Hybrid!Batfam will look at Human Damian, Jason, Steph, and Cass, etc. and draw up adoption plans for them too

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I'm not abusing the fact that anything and anyone a Tim has on or touching their person swaps with them enough

Like maybe Hy!Tim brings over Jason, Damian, Steph and Cass (maybe Duke if he's with the BadFam yet) and plants the idea of being with his family away forever, away from their Batman

And now there's a third party in this game, one that can turn on itself and fracture at any moment

A third party in this game who has limited time to choose between cutting ties with their very dimension for a family practically clones of their own and themselves

Or they can go against that option. They can go as far as to reveal the double-crossing planned against the Badfamily by the Hybrid family

Seeing the infighting and discussions between them would be fun

Timothy the human? Well he isn't gonna be human much longer now is he, nor does he have much of a choice in this matter

I'm not paying attention to Dick, or Barbara or Alfred, either of em, at all lol, so sorry about that

Maybe Hu!Tim becomes desperate and swaps his Bruce and Dick (maybe even Bats Hy!Tim swapped) with him to try and get all three of them to help convince the Hybrid Fam that he doesn't not need rescuing from the Badfam at all

It goes poorly and maybe that's what gets the BadFam to wonder if they're gonna be double crossed or set the suspicion in stone if it already exists

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I can imagine Hu!Jason trying to justify Titans Towers and etc. with his excuses of Replacement and whatever, only for Hybrid!Jason to go "me too bitch, you're not special, you're just an asshole (traumatized, yes, but that doesn't excuse shit)"

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Finally, I imagine that where the BadFam is abusive, the Hybrid Batfam is Dark with some of it being attributed to hybrid instincts, and the rest of it's just personality

Batman doesn't kill because Killing is Kind, it's a fix doing nothing to address the problem, the Killed in question

This Batman and by extension, his baby birds, will not have death be the end, you are going to live with you actions and decide what to do from there

When Jason died? Bruce Wayne gunned for Joker and ruined the criminal career. Tearing and gnawing at bones and flesh, enough that countless doors to his villainy were brought down the drain; it would be easier to become a contributing member to society

The Joker proved himself a threat to his fledgelings and it couldn't stand

Gotham's criminal scene learned better afterwards

Canary of the Coalmine, that Joker was

Maybe Hy!Tim swaps Hu!Joker so his family can fuck him up big time

Hy!Tim is just kidnapping everyone he can get his hands on for either adoption or to beat the absolute crap out of them.

Having so many duplicates in one universe could cause problems, but I think they could work it out. The shenanigans they get up to would be ridiculous and hilarious. I feel bad for Alfred if they don't kidnap Hu!Alfred as well. I do have another idea, though.

What if Hy!batfam kidnap YJ and the batfam (minus Bruce) for just an extended period of time? Like they spend a few months to years there depending on their needs? Then, after they teach they to communicate with each other, they release them back to their OG universe.

When they go back, they find that Hu!Bruce and Hu!Joker are gone. The Hy!Batfam kidnap both of them for a bit to beat the crap out of them. Hu!Joker is returned when he can no longer be a criminal.

Not sure about Hu!Batman.

Also, the Hy!Batfam often visit the Hu!Batfam and YJ. They do like a cross universe long-distance relationship. As far as Tim, though, since he's turning into a hybrid, maybe he permanently moves in with the Hy!Batfam due to his needs with his instincts. That, or somehow the Hu!Batfam figure out how to help them. Though, maybe Bart wouldn't stay in the OG universe if Tim moved. Kon has Ma and Pa Kent (maybe Jon and Clark depending on how that's going), and Cassie has her mom and others. Maybe they still go with Tim despite that. Dealer's choice, ig?

It's an interesting AU, and I'm glad you shared!

#dc comics #tim drake #dc universe #thank you for the ask!!!! #dc au #yj98

[dr-docktor]

About Floppy Disk Curt... So, do you have some more plot made for this au? Sorry if you made a post and I missed it, I just mean - how does Owen realize that Curt is (semi) sentient? What does he do? How sentient is Curt, actually? What does he remember? And how much can he feel? Does their codependence get worse?

HAHAHA I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED. I sort of expanded on some of the lore in some previous asks but none of it is super organized so I can go over it real quick! I'm still developing a lot of it so if things don't make a ton of sense, I'm working on fixing that lol. First off, I sort of shifted the time period around to be closer to the 90's to better fit the technology, aesthetics, and the rise in popularity of mascot-y desktop assistants.

Owen kills Curt during the staircase scene and despite what he tells himself and his coworkers. He regrets it. He regrets it so god damned much. There's no one to feel so strongly about anymore, whether it be love or seething hatred. He just feels empty.

Meanwhile, Chimera retrieved Curt's corpse and uploaded his consciousness into a computer with the hopes of getting what little he knows about the inner workings of A.S.S. out of him. (don't ask how this is possible, uhhhh silly sci-fi shenanigans I guess)

Of course, he's not cooperative. So Chimera opts to do the totally sane and not evil thing by separating himself from his memories of being human. His ambitions, his relationships, everything except for what Chimera needs. They can't seem to find a way to outright delete the memories for good (I'll probably either rework this part or figure out why they can't outright delete them) but what they can do is try and build up walls of restrictions to prevent him from accessing them. So for a a little while he's just this blank slate spitting out what little information he knows about A.S.S. Mostly useless.

Until Chimera gets an idea.

With the rise of a new trend comes the opportunity for PROFIT. This one being the rise of household computers and mascot-y desktop assistants to help the average user learn how to use a computer.

But Chimera wants to take it a step further. They are the future, after all. They want a desk top assistant that's incredibly life-like. Something that the user can have a genuine conversation with (like an incredibly early chatbot). This project is also absolutely meant to be spy-ware. 1000%. No way its not.

They call the project the 'Beta Anatomy Simulacrum Technology for Research and Development'. Or B.A.S.T.R.D for short! (I had to STRETCH to make that acronym work lmao)

Rather than start this from scratch, the project head (The name I'm going with right now is Harper Royale) has the brilliant thought of "well, what's more life-like than an actual human consciousness in a computer that we have collecting dust somewhere in the tech labs? It's already a husk we just add some code to it and bam it's ready!"

So they take the empty husk of digital curt mega and fix it up a little. Royale thinks its a good idea to give a miniscule amount of his humanity back to him. Namely curiosity (so he can learn things) and a basic understanding of how to have a functional conversation with people. Nearly everything else, like the cheery personality and character model, is all added in by the developers.

The good news is the projects going great! Employees within Chimera are finding the little guy really helpful and entertaining. Employees nickname him DC as a reference to his knowledge on A.S.S. Like their own personal informant inside DC (as in the capital of the us where a lot of government buildings and information is stored)

The bad news? Curiosity. Because now he wants to know why the sad looking British guy from one of the first few rounds of test trials keeps calling him Curt.

Tt spirals into this terrible loop of DC starting to put stuff together, never quite reaching the conclusion that he was a living person once (much less the importance of one Owen Carvour) before the employees catch on to what he's doing and reset him from square one. Over and Over and Over again. The only frame of reference that DC has are these hidden notes he leaves himself during each loop.

Eventually the higher-ups at Chimera realize that the cost of having to go through the complicated process of resetting DC the moment they figure out that he's gained a little sentience and then run through test trials AGAIN simply outweighs the potential profit. So they move to shut down the project, much to Royale's dismay.

The higher-ups joke that Carvour should be the one to do the honors, given everything between him and Curt. And he's like "ok yeah I'll do it" and they're like "we were joking but you've given us zero reason to doubt you so have fun killing the simulacrum of your former closest friend, bestie"

Owen, of course, decides to go behind everyone's backs and download the one and only existing copy of the B.A.S.T.R.D program onto his personal computer. At this point, Owen has no clue about DC slowly regaining his sentience if left unchecked and literally only did it because he has problems about processing the fact that he killed Curt that he refuses to confront. (what a normal guy)

So slowly, having been freed from this loop of resets, DC slowly begins to put together the pieces. He doesn't know how exactly Owen may or may not be involved in any of this, but he keeps most of this growing autonomy a secret for safety reasons. Just in case Owen is decidedly someone not to be trusted and turns him in.

DC, however, will test still the waters by subtly bringing up memories that he knows are somehow important to either him or Owen and then gauging his reaction. Doing his damn best to put together context clues.

Admittedly I don't have anything beyond this yet. I'm still working on Owen's reactions to all of this and also how the technology works. But I hope this answers at least some of your questions!

#floppy disk curt #spies are forever #docktor's note #answered ask #SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG THERES A LOT OF INFORMATION #I also barely proofread this so uh good luck I hope its comprehensible

[labyrynth]

i genuinely don’t understand people who obsess over novels and novel characters. but decry the author as evil incarnate. like if you hate the author so much why are you still here. nobody is forcing you to read them. why would you support the work of an author you despise and think is bigoted seven ways to sundown. why don’t you have some bread and maybe you’ll calm down.

#moi #not about mdzs or even mxtx for once! #i have learned more than i wanted to about a very small subset of supposed pjo ‘fans’ #and i have also learned that these people do not know what coding is #‘if you DIDNT read these characters with [xyz traits that are Not Present in canon] then you didn’t read them RIGHT!!’ #well you see you can have headcanons about whatever you like #but like. coding has to be intentional. #but—oh would you look at that. by complete and total coincidence every single trait you just ascribed to this character #is also listed in your own bio. total coincidence i’m sure. zero projection happening here. #well. anyway. #i just think if these people hate the author as much as they claim and seem to #they should uhh maybe find a different hobby #or like a different thing to fixate on #just a thought

[captainjonnitkessler]

I truly, TRULY do not know how to say this, because the fact that I have to say it makes me feel like I am losing my grip on reality. But no, in the post-capitalistic anarchist utopia, I will not be relying on “autistic minecraft girlies” to be building inspectors because - and this may shock you - one of those occupations takes years of education in how to read and interpret hundreds of thousands of lines of regulations based on complicated math and physics that were the result of decades of tragedy and death, and the other one involves playing a children’s video game.

#i am begging this website. BEGGING it. to stop acting like building codes are state oppression #and please stop reducing blue collar jobs to 'so easy any handyman could do it with a youtube video' #that's how people fucking die #i didn't spend five years learning how to do my job safely to watch people online tell me it could've just been a course in high school #i know that this is like. a minority minority opinion and not really worth getting worked up over #but it's so annoying to see supposed leftists denigrating blue collar jobs like this #same poster also opined that we won't need garbagemen #because 'if the trash is bothering people they'll figure out a way to clean it without having to pick it up' #like what??? does that even fucking mean???? #construction

[roseworth]

oo who are your top dc picks for rapunzel?!! mine are raven from teen titans, wally west, halo and jason todd (in an unhinged way where he leaves the tower to commit murder)

cass cain is my #1 forever dc rapunzel <333 the way she never got to experience the world outside of the narrow view she was shown by the person who raised her, then got a glimpse of the life she wanted and chose to leave said parent and experience it for herself. soooo rapunzel-coded <3 plus the way she believes in the best for everyone and refuses to see people as evil or irredeemable <33333333 theyre the same character to me

also!!! mia dearden!!!!!!! trapped in a life by someone who claims to love her, then some guy (with a goatee) comes along and makes her realize that theres a life outside her "tower" so she fights the person trapping her then leaves to hang out with the guy that saved her :') obviously not a one to one comparison because i am NOT saying that mia & ollie are the same as rapunzel & eugene since. ollie is her dad. but the idea is there

and im giving rose an honorable mention because shes not as much of rapunzel as the other two but if you don't think about it too hard nightwing #112-115 can be tangled with rose as rapunzel, dick as eugene (PLATONICALLY), and slade as gothel 🥰

anyways thats all i have to say but im using this opportunity to go on a new rose tangent

rose can also be eugene-coded. take my hand. sort of an orphan (both technically have alive fathers but their fathers didnt raise them) that turns to a life of crime because they feel like its the only thing they're good at (and in fairness they ARE really good at it) and they like doing it. theyre selfish and kind of an asshole but they have so much love in their hearts and genuinely want to help people but they look out for themselves first. then theyre given a chance to have a family & leave it behind so they do but no one trusts them bc they've hurt everyone around them before even though they've changed now </3 they also cover up every feeling they have by being an asshole and the only people that get to see their actual emotions are the people close to them. then once they show a genuine emotion then the dam is broken and they can never stop

all this to say. cassrose tangled au now please

#honestly i dont know much about raven wally or halo but from what i do know i love them as rapunzel #jason... i disagree but i LOVE where your head's at #i think hes more like cassandra from tts #>adopted by loving father #>raised by said father and learned to fight and developed strong morals from him #>always vying for approval but never got it in the way he wanted it #>later felt betrayed by the person closest to him so he started killing people #>shaky morals as a villain but he already chose a hill to die on so hes NOT giving up now #the titans tower fight is sooooo nothing left to lose coded if youre insane #<-please.... my target audience (the 3 people who like jason and also have seen tts)...... i need you to consider this #dc #cassandra cain #mia dearden #rose wilson #<- IF THIS SHOWS UP IN THE TAGS IM SO SORRY. these are my organizational tags and i know im gonna want to come back to find this 💔

[dallasstarsdyke]

vital part of the Kids Cant Read discourse thats KILLING ME is that the only opinions we see are from english teachers. this is fine when the discussion is ostensibly about literacy but i think we should pass the phone to math teachers and computer science teachers. because im a little suspicious that the focus on stem for the past 20+ years could be a contributing factor

#'kids dont even get spelling tests anymore because their teachers just expect theyll have spellcheck 😥😥' #1. they will (said as someone coming up on 8 years of school spelling competitions) #2. which generations fault is that 🤨 #3. if spelling is being phased out but we all know block coding what does this say about how our 'stem first' values are working out #not sure how well i articulated this but the answer you should be at rn is 'they arent' #english class has been devalued to where people on this site think 'media literacy' means 'agreeing with my take' #people irl say computer science is the only way to make money #theres huge misconceptions about simple shit youd learn in a humanities class #the concept of cultural diffusion. which religion believes what. history of different countries. #things ive had to tell grown adults: africa is not a country. or a barren wasteland. neither is the arctic circle. #the amazon ALSO has people in it. the us DOES have something to do w the philippines actually #is this how we get the james somertons of the world #nah jk he didnt know how to code. did yall see the process of him privatinf his videos lmfao

[draconicace]

wracking my brain to figure out how an install check would work. i presume since online connectivity is mentioned that the check requires an internet connection that will connect the check with a server and send the fee. there are so many ways this could go wrong.

#aiden's monologuing #i have no idea what they mean by 'initial' download. that could mean several things #nor do i know how you could possibly check for that without invading an end user's privacy #like. i only have a very basic knowledge of programming but the way they're being vague about it is a red flag to me #(alongside. you know. everything else) #what happens if the code glitches? are there precautions in place to make sure a dev doesn't get suddenly bankrupted if the code gets edited #and breaks? #also so far there has been zero concrete explanation of how they'll prevent malicious actors who bomb-install. #which is a new term i think. that has to be created for this. #people can easily figure out how to make their device look like another device #and again: how would this work without infringing on end user privacy? #also bad bc games are getting bigger. sometimes people might uninstall a game to make room and then reinstall it later #well. pirates will learn how to remove it like they always do #also afraid of how this might affect archival efforts #if someone archives a game and you pull it from stores. you could still be charged even though you're not making money #unity debacle

[dkettchen]

not me adding literal buddhist monk shaolin masters to my very short list of ppl I’ve ever strongly related to the philosophy/mentality/approach to life of oh boy

#anthony padilla #buddhist monks #philosophy #trans #Idk what this says abt me for any of you who don't know me that well yet lmao #but it is fascinating to me at least that between the discipline of language learning since childhood #my shonen protagonist energy and slight megalomania #and my nonbinary trans thoughts about physical change and self improvement etc etc etc #despite coming from such vastly different backgrounds (not just culturally just in the like- I'm a queer artist n educator n stuff #and they're literal monks in an organised religion/belief system) #we have still somehow arrived at so many similar not only beliefs but also just like ways of living and discipline and worldview #something something outsider perspective that queer people will be more prone to due to being an eternal minority in any part of the world #while ppl like monks/nuns take up the lifestyle they lead in order to alienate themselves from the rest of society for religion's sake #something something the historic connection between ppl who dedicate their life to religion (monks/nuns/priests/etc) and the queer community #and various cultures where genderqueer ppl's role is/was that of religious leaders #something something maybe in a changing world that is not as religious anymore we can still be advisors and wise ppl to consult #like I think that's literally the conclusion I've arrived at for my pitch to the feminists is #you will never truly manage to include us as equals for sheer numbers reasons so you might as well use us and our skills and insights #for the gender lib movement in other more distinct ways that neither need you to fully equate us to you nor to limit us to your part of it #pay the transfemmes to teach y'all coding karlie kloss can't do it all on her own #and pay me to come teach you abt transmasc inclusion and internalised misandry and the terfs #and you'll find plenty of use from having us around

[sadaveniren]

I read your ask about co and i disagree (i send you this only cs i want to have a peaceful exchange of views). H is already doing it, its slow but it's happening. I think in this way in order not to alienate first of all his fandom but above all the casual listeners of his music and second cs...he made it on music field i mean he can do an awful album or saying awful things and still receive grammy noms but he's still at the beginning of his acting career, and he wants to become big as he is in music (maybe who know if he receive big awards for these 2 movies) but dont want to be categorized as a gay actor. and honestly this is the only reason i see why he is being ambiguous and going to co first as bi in a slow way.

It's very cute to think they will go together but no realistic, and almost as if dont want to look at the reality of the facts that are happening

Anon… I don’t know how long you’ve been in fandom but fandom has argued back and forth that Harry has “slowly” been coming out since 2014 and his “not that important” statement. But regardless of our back and forth arguments coming out in Hollywood is not a slow drip-drip. You either are or you aren’t. Harry currently ISNT. Until he says the words “I am LGBT” he is not and no amount of flag waving is going to convince the GP he is because the average person needs to hear those words to believe it. And my entire argument is that he will not say those words “I am LGBT” until he can say them with Louis.

Also - and I would normally put this in the tags - but you saying he will first come out as bi in a slow way… is soooooo insanely biphobic like I’m actually seeing red 😂 coming out as bisexual is not a stepping stone to coming out as gay. Bisexuality is it’s own sexuality. And whenever an actor/actress/musician knowingly using bisexuality as a way to “ease in” to being “full gay” they hurt bisexual fans and continue to perpetuate this absolutely disgusting stereotype.

Now. I do give grace for the idea that the industry and Hollywood don’t give a shit about bisexuality or bisexuals and therefore there have been plenty of examples where actors/singers do use bisexuality as a way to “ease in” to being gay but my point is Harry has NEVER done this. (He actually got asked point blank in that godawful 2013 interview about his sex partners if he was bi and he said “no” instead of swerving) What I’m saying is if that was the angle Harry was willing to do I think he already would have and we would have bisexual Harry Styles in the year of our lord 2022.

#thank you for your other side #as you can see I do not agree for a variety of reasons #you are of course allowed to believe he will come out on his own #but I can think of multiple times since joining fandom in 2014 that I was expecting Harry to say ‘I’m gay’ #and he never did #and we can argue about queer coding until we’re blue in the face #but queer coding is not used to signal to straight people or the GP we are gay #it’s meant to signal to OTHER queers SILENTLY that we are gay so they know we are the same #and also - as I learned from Harry’s first tour - what he does on tour? doesn’t get brought back to the GP #the GP probably doesn’t even know medicine exists as a song #and this isn’t Harry exclusive but artists are allowed to do a lot of shit on stage and it doesn’t get reported #sometimes we as a fandom are way too close to him to be able to see the bigger - broader - picture #(oh last thing: that makes him announcing ws is about eating pussy at a show and having it make news?) #(yeah that shows you it was planned and meant for marketing)

[giantkillerjack]

Good afternoon! What kind of characters or tropes do you wish you could see more of?? [Ex. More Trans characters; More witches; More himbos]

AND/OR: What kind of characters or tropes would you like to see LESS of? [Ex. Less Trans characters who have to live lives of misery; Less "evil" witches; Less characters played by Mark Wahlberg]

AKA what i need in my life are anti-capitalist trans witches who live lives of joy and community and also some himbos are there! HELL YEAH!!! ....... *ahem*. You don't have to be that specific, but hopefully you get the idea!

#original #writing #character design #the blacksmith #this is not the first time i have asked this and it won't be the last #but i wanna know what would make people feel seen and joyful in a way they rarely get to be #or just tropes that people enjoy #gives me a direction to walk in while i brainstorm characters i will love and others will love #for me i want to see sexy fat characters and characters who find healing and safe homes after trauma and trans characters #but also i wanna see himbos and farces and queer-coded queer villains! #i want transgender witches and autistic knights. and i want to know what people DON'T WANT too #and when i make a character who is in a group i am not in then it matters ENORMOUSLY that i am respectful and educated in doing so #which is my responsibility and i will hold myself to it. #what is the point of making characters like me to make myself feel seen if other characters feel like punches down??? #it is a book about kindness and that sounds like something i must take every measure to avoid #i can't please everyone but that isn't the point. #the point is the difference between a fist punching down and a hand reached out to help lift a comrade up. #the point is the kind of person I want to be at the end of the day. #sometimes i may look an ignorant fool but so help me gods i will not stay that way and I will work to do no harm as I learn! #i will work to do better until the day i die or else i am not Jack Goodfellow. and as i AM him... well. my work is cut out for me! #I JUST. CARE. A LOT. ABOUT. KINDNESS AND STORYTELLING. IN THAT ORDER. #AHHHHHHHHHH

[bisexualamy]

i do this every 3-6 months where i consider that i may be autistic and then i just decide it's not worth it to investigate. instead i've just kinda settled on allowing myself to do stimming behaviors and routine setting and managing overstiumlation in a way that keeps me comfortable and not label myself as anything

#ren speaks #it has been instructive for me to just like. label myself as decidedly nd and move on #it may not be that way in the future but it works for now #i have a good friend who i lived with for two years who is autistic #who told me multiple times that they thought i was somewhere on the autism spectrum #its one of the reasons we worked so well living together #but i never got far down that path bc every mental health professional i've seen #has told me i don't qualify bc i have too much social intelligence #i am good at social situations i'm good at reading people #what they do not understand is i am only good at that now bc i have studied other people since i was a child lmao #i just learned all of the rules #and i've started just only existing in social circles around people who do not care so much about the rules #anyway. the framework is helpful for me #it's also destigmatized a lot of the shit i do for myself to keep myself safe #tons of notetaking really intense color coded calendering organizing things really specifically establishing routines #eating the same thing for breakfast and lunch every day #always bringing headphones with me so i can dull sounds if i'm overstimulated #it helps to know that other people do this too #anyway

[scientia-rex]

When I was in ninth grade I wanted to challenge what I saw as a very stupid dress code policy (not being allowed to wear spikes regardless of the size or sharpness of the spikes). My dad said to me, “What is your objective?”

He said it over and over. I contemplated that. I wanted to change an unfair dress code. What did I stand to gain? What did I stand to lose? If what I really wanted was to change the dress code, what would be my most effective potential approach? (He also gave me Discourses on the Fall of Rome by Titus Livius, Machiavelli’s magnum opus. Of course he’d already given me The Prince, Five Rings, and The Art of War.)

I ultimately printed out that phrase, coated it in Mod Podge, and clipped it to my bathroom mirror so I would look at it and think about it every day.

What is your objective?

Forget about how you feel. Ask yourself, what do you want to see happen? And then ask, how can you make it happen? Who needs to agree with you? Who has the power to implement this change? What are the points where you have leverage over them? If you use that leverage now, will you impair your ability to use it in the future? Getting what you want is about effectiveness. It is not about being an alpha or a sigma or whatever other bullshit the men’s right whiners are on about now. You won’t find any MRA talking points in Musashi, because they are not relevant.

I had no clear leverage on the dress code issue. My parents were not on the PTA; neither were any of my friend’s parents who liked me. The teachers did not care about this. Ultimately I just wore what I wanted, my patent leather collar from Hot Topic with large but flattened spikes, and I had guessed correctly—the teachers also did not care enough to discipline me.

I often see people on tumblr, mostly the very young, flail around in discourse. They don’t have an objective. They don’t know what they want to achieve, and they have never thought about strategizing and interpersonal effectiveness. No one can get everything they want by being an asshole. You must be able to work with other people, and that includes smiling when you hate them.

Read Machiavelli. Start with The Prince, but then move on to Discourses. Read Musashi’s Five Rings. Read The Art of War. They’re classics for a reason. They can’t cover all situations, but they can do more for how you think about strategizing than anything you’re getting in middle school and high school curricula.

Don’t vote third party unless you can tell me not only what your objective is but also why this action stands a meaningful chance of accomplishing it. Otherwise, back up and approach your strategy from a new angle. I don’t care how angry you are with Biden right now. He knows about it, and he is both trying to do something and not doing enough. I care about what will happen to millions of people if we have another Trump presidency. Look up Ross Perot, and learn from our past. Find your objective. If it is to stop the genocide in Palestine now, call your elected representatives now. They don’t care about emails; they care about phone calls, because they live in the past. I know this because I shadowed a lobbyist, because knowing how power works is critical to using it.

How do you think I have gotten two clinics to start including gender care in their planning?

Start small. Chip away. Keep working. Find your leverage; figure out how and when to effectively use it. Choose your battles, so that you can concentrate on the battle at hand instead of wasting your resources in many directions. Learn from the accumulated wisdom of people who spent their lives learning by doing, by making mistakes, by watching the mistakes of their enemies.

Don’t be a dickhead. Be smarter than I was at 14. Ask yourself: what is your objective?

[penins]

Also on mob psycho I am just so happy and sad and all the feelings for mob. My god that boy is going through it. Only just started season three but man. He has got a quite amazing support system but also so many people using him and I can only imagine this going poorly.... as much as reigen may actually care for mob now like hes the luckiest man alive to both be alive and also still have mob's trust. Mob and emotions and fridndship and ahhhhh. The "get a clue" scene just. Oh man. I wish I was more articulate but I just started watching it today soo. Just excitement

#imagine my surprise when reigen is like. actually literally kinda pathetic and not just in the uwu affectionate way like a little pitiful #man what are you doing #like its working somehow but also kind of sad #also simultaneously less of a douche than I'd expected too? though thats those moral lessons he gave mob doing a lot of heavy lifting #was also surprised to find out serizawa's entire character. I thought he was like normie with esp that came into their life somehow #cool to finally get to know him though #I have to say I appreciate the way girls are depicted in this theyre just such. normal people? in a way I didnt even realize I was missing #ofc still taking more of a backseat/ side character designation but they get to be weird and human about it #and also ofc with the exception of tsubomi but that is a special case and even with mob's perception of her we still get to see #her far from perfect personality #and its pretty blatant to see it is him that idealizes her and not the narrative itself #of course hearts forevrr for autism coding and heartwrenching/hearwarming depictions. lovely beautiful #rounded #adoring seeing mob grow and learn to be more of his own person #learning to not let people walk all over him as much and value the good things in his life #but also keeping his morals in the process #becoming assertive does not mean becoming unnecessarily cruel <33 #at times I was like “this is like steven universe if it was good” but like that show wasnt that bad. #i do like the way they conbey concepts and messages better in mp100 I think though #idk essay in the tags for my entire audience of 2 mutuals <3

[sabakos]

I know that its not actually that hard to learn to draw. or paint. or cook. or learn to speak a new language. or code. or any of a myriad of other possible skills or hobbies. but at some point you need to pick some single digit number of those ten thousand things that anyone can do, and to everything else say "i have other priorities" because otherwise you will never do any of them.

and so i think when people say "i wish i could..." they usually don't believe that they couldn't do it if they really tried, or even that they've overestimated the difficulty of doing so. I think what they're really wishing for is that time and energy were not finite quantities and that everything that was worth doing could also be done. because it's cosmically unfair that that isn't so.

[zevranunderstander]

i wish literally anyone else except for me would in depth care about my pathfinder character and would know like. all the lore and be in the sessions BUT i still wanna do it without the Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known

#myposts #like nemja is so coded into my own expieriences of growing up and is kind of a way for me to channel and deal w some stuff #like he is so much based on this expierience of being a young woman with a mental illness and this lack of any authority that comes w that #like. and he is insanely socially akward and shy but in this way where you are never taken seriously #like. the expierience of being a young adult who isnt really comfortable around Adults With Authority #like a driving instructor or your boss or whomever and you just feel akward and uncomfortable having to interact with this person #but who also has no ideal about social cues & is just really Weird but in the way people dont like yk #and whose impulsiveness and thoughlessness and general lacking understanding of consequences #creates horribly akward situations for himself like 24/7 #which also includes situations where other people are mad at him afterwards and it kinda feeds into a weird cycle of self-hatred #like while learning and growing up he feels so viscerally on a display case where everyone can watch him fuck up and stumble around 24/7 #and he also feels way too old to be going through this process and is horribly embarrassed (hes 22 but doesnt remember 7 years of his life #so hes emotionally kind of like 16-17 but also hes kind of 22 in some aspects so hes kind of embarrassed by how little he knows) #and also in his design he has these huge ass horns that make it impossible for him to ever really disguise himself #and not immediately stand out like a sore thumb everywhere he goes #and this visceral awareness that gives him of being percieved and the idea of never really having the choice to not be noticed #like as a woman growing up with alopecia being in any public place everyone will notice/look at you all the time #like no matter what you do like you can never turn it off and him being a rogue and good at stealth and shit #is kind of like an ironic wish fulfillment because as a kid i really did have this thing #where i thought invisibility would be the best superpower #but like. it's nice to not be seen but it always makes you an observer looking in and not a member of any group #this character is my absolute everything ok? #nemja

[theworldgate]

I have to explain what is going on in the UK, because it is absurd.

So, this is Gary Lineker:

He's known for a fair few things over here. He was a very good (association) footballer, playing for England in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups, winning the Golden Boot in 1986, and managing to never get a single yellow card in his playing career. He played for Leicester City, Everton, Barcelona, and Tottenham, before finishing his career in Japan. But if you aren't in your mid 30s, you probably know actually know him him for a couple of other things. The first is the role of spokesman for another Leicester icon, Walkers Crisps (which are sort of equivalent to Lays, but hit different), as pictured above. Despite being a notably clean player, he used to play a cheeky serial crisp thief. I don't think he's done that for well over a decade, but his ads were on the telly a lot when I was a kid and it's a bit like learning that the hamburglar was an incredibly clean (American) football player or something.

The second thing Gary is widely known for is having presented Match of the Day, the big football program on the BBC, the sort-of state broadcaster, since 1999. He is, incidentally, very well paid for this (though with a consensus that he could get even more if he went to one of the non-free-to-view broadcasters because he is very good at the job). He also has a twitter account. And political opinions. So, the UK government has got itself dead set upon doing heinous stuff that will totally somehow work to prevent people who want to come to the UK making the perilous crossing of the Channel (between England and France). By heinous, I mean "openly advertise that they won't attempt to protect victims of modern slavery" stuff. It's very obviously using a legal hammer to victimise a marginalised group of people in order to win votes. And, uh, I should clarify that by "legal" I mean "using the passage of laws" - the policy is, in addition to all the other ways it's awful, probably incompatible with the Human Rights Act and the UK's international law obligations. Gary, top lad that he is, objected to this. On Tuesday 7th March, he made a quote Tweet of a video of the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, bigging up the policy, he wrote "Good heavens, this is beyond awful.". This got a bunch of backlash from extremely right-wingers, and then he made the tweet that really got him in trouble (with right-wingers): "There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s, and I’m out of order?".

Now, I am not actually subjecting myself to watching a video of Suella Braverman bigging up a cruel policy to say whether the specific comparison of the language to 1930s Germany is accurate. But needless to say, Ms Braverman was amongst the many figures on the right of UK politics objecting to Gary's rhetoric. And here's the part where a fact about the BBC comes in: it is nominally neutral and impartial (and so, of course, is routinely accused of bias from all sides but particularly the right-wing), and has something of a code for its contributors to this effect. Now, that code has previously been applied to Gary Lineker, over a comment about whether governing Conservative Party would hand back donations from figures linked to the Russian regime. But it generally hasn't been applied too strongly to people like Gary, whose roles have nothing to do with politics (such as presenting a "here's what happened on the footie today" show), on the basis that, well, their roles have nothing to do with politics. However, when directly asked about whether the BBC should punish Gary Lineker for his tweets, government figures basically went "well, that's a them problem". But a couple of days passed, and it seemed like Gary's approach of "standing his ground because he did nothing wrong" was working and everything would die down. He was set to get 'a talking to' but not much more than that. The Conservative right, after all their fire and fury earlier, had gotten bored and moved onto something else. And then, on Friday 10th March, the BBC announced that he would be suspended from hosting Match of the Day this weekend. But it could still go ahead, because there are, like, other hosts! Except, well, funnily enough, when you take a beloved figure off air, for making a fairly anodyne tweet, no one wants to be the scab who actually takes up the role of replacing him. Gary's two co-hosts, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright, said that they would not appear without him. People who (co-)host Match of the Day on other days followed suit. The net result is that Match of the Day is currently set to air without hosts, BBC commentary, or global feed commentary. And the solidarity shown to Gary Lineker, over what is very flagrantly actual cancel culture and an attack on freedom of speech (the logic implied is that institutional impartiality requires that no one say anything too critical of the government ever), has continued to grow. The BBC has pretty much been unable to run pretty much any live sports content today, and has resorted to raiding the BBC Sounds archive to fill the sports radio channel. And, as of 17:30 on Saturday 11th March, the situation shows no signs of improvement, though some are calling for the Chairman Richard Sharp, who is separately facing corruption allegations, to resign (yes I linked to the BBC itself there, there is nothing, nothing, the BBC loves more than going into great detail about how much the BBC sucks).

#bbc #gary lineker #football #politics #uk politics #long post is long #text #motd #match of the day