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terracyte · 2 years
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civilian bruce got yeeted off one of the balconies of his own company and the really nice metropolis guy caught him before his kids could get there <3
bruce and clark are friends but he doesnt know clark is superman yet- the kids fucking know clark is trying his hardest to earn their dad's affection and nOT ON THEIR WATCH- THAT COUNTRY BOY'S GOTTA WORK FOR IT
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melonlthawne · 3 years
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ok here we go young justice! kid au or as my idiot self likes to call it, younger justice. now i know kids fighting crime is already a Questionable topic but if tim and jon could be beating ppls asses at 10/13 then this works too itsj ust with oter characters. a lot of stuff is different so here we go
starting with bart! origin’s basically the same ‘cept he comes to the past much earlier do to PLOT DEVICE and because of this his rapid aging stops quickier so hes like.....idk 9~ 10 ish physically/mentally. chronologically younger, but this doesnt rly come into play. at this point, wally is still kid flash, probably on the later years but still kf, and barry is still around. max is still the primary caretaker of bart i think though since barry is mostly busy with mentoring wally and his own stuff to deal with yet another little speedster. bart’s personality is pretty much the same, just younger. obsessed with video games, has that youthful energy to him and is a real spunky kid. 
kon! same sort of deal.  lex gets that nice SUPERMAN dna much earlier and incubates kon earlier and instead of waiting til kon is teenaged/complete, lex gets idk impatient, opens tubes or whatever and kon’s like....idk 11-12. preteen ish. hes still got the same powers but its ultimately more hilarious for grown adults to be beaten by a preteen. kon’s MOSTLY the same, except trying to push that “im a Man and Masculine as Fuck” thing that a lot of boys do around that age. pubert? i dont know. clark finds out, is like “Oh”, and decides to take kon in despite jon recently having been born (maybe jon’s like 2-3 here? havent decided but i want jon to be AROUND so theres less of a plot hole.)
timmy! big change here? jason doesn’t die. hes still robin. around 17-18 years old, he gets a little tired of bruce and tries to branch out but is mostly still robin. BECAUSE jason is still around, tim isnt robin. YET. but hes still got potential and after some PLOT DEVICE INSERT HERE I HAVENT FIGURED IT OUT YET, bruce realizes he could use tim’s expertise and rly just wants another kid to spoil and takes him in. further into this au jason might get tired of being robin and either go the nightwing route (make his own superhero persona) or just be a normal teen. idk. tim’s gonna be like 10-11 here. nerdy, kind of reclusive, a bit of a knowitall but really cares for people even though hes kind of a loner. 
cassie, greata, slobo, cissie, and anita to be explained! i wanted some framework for this all but im not done thinking it out. what does anyone think? the core (three, for now) are still bffs and just do rambunctious things that get them in trouble but just Smaller
recommendations, tweaks, or additions are appreciated! and if you like this idea, i might draw up some concept art and actually finish the askblog i have! please let me knoW!
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kilibaggins · 4 years
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Would you be willing to do a Clurphy fic where they're friends with benefits? Maybe they started because they want the comfort? They don't have to be endgame and anyone else can be involved and any kinks. If not, that's okay!
Clurphy Friends with Benefits
I DECIDED TO MAKE THEM ENDGAME CUZ ITS CUTE AND I WANTED LOVE, IM SORRY 😂
Uh, idk if this counts as Friends with Benefits since it doesn't really talk much about the fact that they are friends with benefits... sooo.. sorry?
And this Fic is another example of "How many times can Ry use the same 'John Murphy is Insecure' idea without it getting old". Heh, once again he doesn't take off his shirt.
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"There you are, I've been waiting for you, for a long ass time." Murphy says grumbles watching as Clarke walks into his room in the Ark. Clarke raises her eyebrow.
"Oh, I'm sorry. While you were doing whatever the hell you do when no one's around, I was actually helping people in the medbay." Clarke sass's back walking up to Murphy, who is leaning against the wall with a smirk on his face.
"Ah, alright Princess, whatever excuse you need to use." He says smirking at her. Clarke rolls her eyes and grabs his jacket pulling him down into a rough kiss. Murphy gasps and kisses back.
"Yknow, this whole 'Lets have sex, and never ever talk about how close we actually are' thing is getting kinda old." Murphy says against her lips, just for clarke to grind against him, to shut him up.
"Less talking, more stripping." She says smirking up at him. Murphy smirks back and starts unbuckling his pants. He pushes his pants down and watches as Clarke strips her clothes off and gets onto the bed. He bites his lip and appreciates her body for a minute, and sheds off his jacket. He feels himself get hard and climbs into of her on the bed. She immediately wraps his arms around his neck and pulls him to her for a rough kiss.
"You know, id love to feel your skin more than this." Clarke says and Murphy pulls away immediately. He sighs and looks down at her with an annoyed look at the fact that she's bringing up his shirt again.
"I don't want to." Murphy says seriously, he says it clearly and just loud enough for Clarke to know he's upset that she's brought it up again. Clarke sighs and nods her head, grabbing his shirt and pulling him back down to kiss her. Murphy kisses back and trails his hands down Clarke's body. Clarke grinds up into him, causing Murphy to moan. His boxers are getting tight and he's desperate for Clarke's touch.
"Clarke." Murphy groans and leans down running his lips down her chest. He stops at her nipples licking and sucking them, Making them become hard under his tongue. He continues trailing his lips downwards, licking her stomach and abdomen. He stops at her hips sucking hickeys into the skin.
"Don't tease me Murphy." Clarke says in a strong tone causing Murphy to softly whimper. He nods his head and licks her folds softly, wide strokes up and down them as he gets more and more into it. He sneaks his tongue through her folds and towards her entrance prodding at it and moaning into her flesh.
Clarke moans loudly grabbing his hair tightly and pulling him into her, she thrusts into his face and he moans into her. She bites her lip and throws her head back.
"Murphy." She moans, and pulls him up and away from her pussy, Murphy let's her pull him by his hair and moans licking his lips.
"Get up here." Clarke says and Murphy immediately starts crawling to her. He straddles her and leans down kissing her lips. Clarke can taste herself on his tongue as she deepens the kiss.
She can feel him humping down on her thighs and she wraps her arms around his neck and thrusts up causing him to moan from the extra friction.
She uses this as an opportunity to completey dominate the kiss and flip them over all while Murphy moans into her mouth. She pulls back and runs her hands down his clothed torso and she reaches the hem of his shirt and stops.
"Clarke." Murphy says softly and then winces when he sees how much she wants to feel all of him. He bites his lip and sighs softly, looking her in the eyes.
"You dont have to be self conscious around me, John." Clarke says reaching up and running her thumb across his cheek. He gasps softly at the use of his name and then swallows thickly.
"I can't. I can't lose what I have with you. I can't have it all, so I have to hold onto this as long as possible and if that means keeping my shirt on so i dont scare you away than that's what I'll Do. I like you too much to lose you." He says looking up at her sadly. She is giving him a look of shock and then she smiles softly and leans down kissing Murphy's lips.
"If you wanted more with me all you had to do was say so. I like you too, you idiot. Friends with Benefits doesn't work very well when both of the people in it fall in love, hmm?" She says smiling down at him. He's softly smiling up at her as she grabs the hem of his shirt again and his face drops slightly.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." He mumbles and she smiles happily lifting the hem of shirt up to his ching looking him in the eyes the whole time waiting to see if he changes his mind. He sits up slightly and slips off the shirt and lays back down completely looking up at Clarke with uncertainty.
Clarke let's her eyes trail down Murphy's scarred chest and bites her lip. She lifts her hand to run along a particularly big one across his pec. He shudders and his eyes slip closed as she does this.
Murphy completely trusts her. Hes not sure when that happened. Not sure if it is a smart thing to do or not. Hes not sure if its a side effect of hwr just telling him that she loves him. All he knows is hes trusting Clarke to look and caress his Scarred skin. The skin he never shows to anyone other than Abby.
Clarke keeps tracing different scars and then leans down kissing the biggest scar. Murphy gasps and shifts slightly under her. Clarke can feel his exposed cock rub against her ass and she smirks.
"Clarke... Please." Murphy begs feeling her grind down slightly. She's still tracing her lips around different scars all over his chest and its driving him crazy. Clarke sits up to her knees and grabs Murphy's cock causing him to moan. She lines up his cock to her entrance and slowly takes him in.
"Oh fuck, oh shit Clarke." Murphy moans fighting to keep his hips down so he doesn't fuck up into Clarke's wet heat. Clarke keeps softly taking him all in and finally takes him all the way in.
"John..." Clarke moans as she brings herself up and back down again. Murphy moans and grabs her hips helping her move. She leans down and licks over his scars and that makes Murphy moan loudly.
Murphy reaches down and runs his finger across Clarke's clit making her moan loudly above him. She lows down her movements and Murphy fucks up into her.
"Murphy..." She moans loudly feeling her orgasm approach. Murphy bites his lip when Clarke starts biting and sucking his chest. There's no doubt in his mind that there will be a Hickey there by the time she's done.
"Clarke, I'm close." Murphy moans fucking up into her faster. He can feel his body exploding neither energy and pleasure and he feels clarke Tighten around him with her orgasm and he goes over the edge cumming hard as Clarke slowly rotates her hips working them both through their orgasms. Clarke stops moving when Murphy whines at the slight overstimulation. She pulls off of him and lays next to him breathing heavily. About now Clarje probably would have gotten up and gotten dressed. They always wanted to keep it strictly sexual so they could just have sex and have no feelings associated but obviously that didn't work out since they confessed they liked eachother just a bit ago.
"Good as always?" Murphy asks as he smirks and he looks over at Clarke. She shakes her head with a laugh and slaps his chest softly, which ultimately reminds Murphy he doesn't have a shirt on and his scars are out in the open. He blushes slightly and looks down his chest to see a fresh Hickey starting to form and he chuckles darkly and winces at the scars. Clarke runs her hand softly over his chest and lays her head on it.
"You know, the scars are kind of hot." Clarke says and Murphy laughs and leans doen to kiss Clarke's forehead.
"Are we really going to do this?" Murphy asks hesitantly.
"Do you want to?" Clarke asks turning so she can rest her arms on Murphy's chest and look up at him.
"Fuck Yeah." Murphy says and smirks down at her. She smiles widely and leans up softly kidding his lips.
"Good."
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plainvanillapotato · 4 years
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the 100 diaries S1 E5
quarantine diaries: may 23 2020
season 1 episode 5: “Twilight’s Last Gleaming”
is the title a reference to the american anthem? cuz if so remember fergie? 
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bet you wish you could go back to those good old days
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anyway back to the show
finn and clarke. its a cute ship but i dont think that its endgame especially with raven coming down to stir the pot but also because i’ve read some of y’alls urls...
population reduction. nice way to say mass murder. 
what are the actual odds that raven would actually land close to where the 100 is at? cuz i have a feeling its not high but plot i guess
for someone is really about hope and being optimistic clarke really said why would i wish on a shooting star “its just a rock burning up in the atmosphere”
*after seeing raven’s pod enter the atmosphere* “please tell me they brought down some shampoo”- a girl that bellamy is sleeping with...I am this girl and this girl is me. Cuz homegirl is asking the real-life questions. like do they have toilet paper what about pads or tampons i assume no and umm big yikes. but when we all panic bought toilet paper wow that was only a couple of weeks ago. also what these kids really need are some goddamn condoms. cuz from what i’ve seen they are not fit to be parents.
these fools out here thinking that the ark is dropping supplies but its just raven very horny for finn. little does she know about finn and clark. is this a train wreak waiting to happen yes think so...uh oh spaghettios
clarke watching finn and raven reunite big awkward 
also can we please talk about how raven literally crash landed but her eyebrows are still on fleek. i could never.
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love how octavia calls bellamy “bell”--> please tell me that someone has photoshopped bellamy’s face on bell body from beauty and the beast if so please reblog with the image cuz i need it in my life
bellamy cutting out the radio and throwing it in the creek-->once again bellamy proves that he’s out here just to save his own skin but ok yeah i understand it like ngl i would do the same
i dont understand thelonious. one episode he’s like no kane who the tf do you think you are? you can’t go around and kill people and then in this episode he’s like ok so imma kill myself and leave you in charge :/
abby negging theloniuous to not kill himself...wow now i see where clarke gets it
oh Octavia...im clumsy too.
maybe its because im rewatching atla but bellamy talking about how jaha deserved to die reminds of jet and the freedom fighters. it might also be because bellamy’s hair in this episode is a lot like jet’s. 
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see... jet vibez
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i know in one of my other posts i compared bellamy to zuko but as of rn he’s more of a jet (charming yet ruthless leader of a group of kids) especially back to whatever episode where he did a speech about privilege and wanting the upper class to do the work for once--> very reminisce of Jet and the freedom fighters. both bellamy and jet are very bitter towards those in power because they did wrong toward their family members. BUT also season 1 of avatar where jet is willing kill a village just to get rid of the fire nation is similar to bellamy wanting everyone to take off their wristbands despite clarke’s warning about how the need the aid of the ark to survive
and yes im aware of the comparison between bellarke but zutara now idk about that because zutara holds a special place in my heart. honest to god there was so much parallels between the two (twin flames) and foreshadowing you can’t convince that the two are not soulmates. i’ll wait and see tho
abby really released the video that she essentially killed her husband for creating. ok. and then she pretend that the council was the one responsible for his death when she was the person that gave him up. playing the hero when you’re actually the villain
aww the dad is gonna voluntarily die to help his daughter...my heart
side note: what is the life expectancy of people on the arc cuz the oldest person i’ve seen (kane’s mom) could not have been older than 75
wow they really didn’t see the signal from earth great. just great. is it just me or is how they killed the people on the ark remind you of gas chambers? idk this episode was very sad and depressing for me
also now clarke wants to wish on a star? is that character development or is she just salty about finn and raven?
fuck....Octavia is dead that or i predict that she becomes the princess of grounders kind like how princess leia was taken in by the ewoks (and before anyone gets any ideas no I do not consider grounders as lesser beings if anything i think that they are superior to the spacers i’m just spewing out random shit)
also major side note: where the hell is this asian lady on the ark. the last i saw of her was the pilot episode so where is she?? did they cut out of the story??!
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....i was very curious and annoyed so i looked it up and yes. they did fucking cut her out. wtf did they really just bait me with diversity in the pilot. I’m honestly mad because as an Asian american i like to see representation which is why i was so happy to see female asian american on screen when i watched the pilot. now im angry. while i know that diversity is not a big deal to some people it is to me and i really don’t appreciate the 100 showing all these diverse faces in pilot to only to just cut them out of the show. seriously wtf (monty better have a badass storyline) 
don’t worry i’ll keep watching the show and blogging but rn im just really disappointed in the show. like really please don’t dangle diversity in my face when you’re just gonna snatch it away
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float-me-now · 4 years
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[1]Unpopular Opinion Anon with more unpopular opinions! Hi again! First, yes I agree, his chemistry with some of the characters in Sanctum is the highlight of the season, it reminds me of S2 Murphy-Jaha combo which I LOVED, even with Jaha being, well, Jaha... What I dont like as much are the choices about what seems to be the core of his journey this season in relation with his characterization overall the series. It's like they are trying to make him who he isnt. I mean, he started from...
[2]being "feral" and "rabid" from the lack of love in S1 to becoming a better person by being loved by his family. Now tho they're making him become this leader of the people he never was and I dont think it was needed to complete his arc. The premise of his character is needing a support system and to be an active part of a family to thrive, he doesn't need followers, that would isolate him once again, he needs a family that chose him and loves him for who he is (So not his own possible kid)
Hello again Unpopular Opinion Anon!
Glad that you're back :D Oh gosh, S2 Murphy-Jaha dynamics, all of those priceless one-liners... those were good times 😂
I actually see your point there! Even though I appreciate the fact that he went from being an outcast, always rejected by his people, to being someone people could trust and see as a leader, I do agree with you that it wasn't really needed. Moreover, it's not his people who finally trust him and see him as a leader because they see he's a good person, it's the Sanctumites, who don't really know him yet.
When the season started, I knew the "Primes/leader roleplay" would come up and I was kind of curious about it but I didn't expect it would become practically all of his S7 story (so far, at least). When Bellamy disappeared, I hoped he would be on the rescue team (as he wanted to), because I thought that his S7 story would revolve around him getting closer to his family again after his S6 fuck up, getting closer to Clarke because of Abby's death and discovering what the "hell stuff" was about (which we will, probably).
So yes, from this perspective, I absolutely agree with you: the core of his character is to find people who choose him and love him as he is (and God forbid a kid comes out of this Sanctum story, I'd roll my eyes so far back in my head I'd see my brain).
Maybe all of this storyline + reuniting with his family + solving the hell thing (without dying, preferably) will merge into him finally accepting himself and seeing how damn good and worthy he his... or maybe I’m just deluding myself 🤡
Anyway, thanks for coming back and sharing your point of view :D 💙
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Lucas Sinclair S2 Appreciation Post
Is the only one who actually works to get money for Dragon’s Lair
Fact: has the best poses when the boys are getting their pictures taken in their ghostbuster costumes
Calls out Mike for assuming he should be Winston because he’s black
“TooOOotALY toooobuuularrRRR”
When Dustin thinks he’s discovered a new species, Lucas’s first instinct is to show Mr. Clarke + when Will thinks it may be from the upside down Lucas suggests they take D’art to Hopper = the only sensible child in this show. Don’t be afraid to ask for help kids!!!
THE ICONIC DOOR KICK !!!!!!! !!!!!!1111!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somehow makes jumping out of a dumpster look cool
Oh man, Caleb McLaughlin’s acting when he asks Max “how do you know about El?”
In that one line he conveys how much Lucas: 1. misses El, 2. cares about El, 3. wants to protect El, 4. is sad that El’s gone, and 5. feels guilty for not saving El. (asdjskafsdfh am I reading too much into this?? I’m sorry his friendship with El is just A Lot™ for me.)
Goes to his dad for love advice (seriously the only one that has any faith in adults) and listens to him (thank god there’s at least one healthy biological father-son relationship on this show)
After he tells Max about Eleven, he says, it feels “like yesterday” that they lost her. (Seriously FIGHT ME if you think El disappearing didn’t affect Lucas (or Dustin!))
Is such a good listener when talking to Max on the roof of the bus. He lets her pause as long as she needs to when she’s thinking about what she wants to say and when she finishes speaking, he doesn’t say anything right away because he’s processing what she said and wants to give a thoughtful, comforting response instead of saying the first thing that comes to mind.
Binoculars
Bandana
Wrist rocket
Most characters are lucky to get one (1) iconic accessory. This boy has THREE.
He also puts the black paint gunk stuff (i dont fucking know what it’s called ok??) under his eyes because when he’s gearing up to fight upside down monsters he commits to the Look™.
“Analogy” PRECIOUS GRAMMAR SNOB.
READY TO WRIST ROCKET THOSE DEMODOGS INTO NEXT TUESDAY WHO GIVES A FUCK IF IT DIDNT WORK ON THE DEMOGORGON HES READY TO THROW DOWN #nofear
Anyone who kicks Billy Hargrove in the balls is a hero to me
Doesn’t let anyone talk shit about his girlfriend’s driving skills. Mike: she’s only driven in a parking lot. Lucas: “That counts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!11!!!”
Practices asking Max to dance. so. many. times.
Still manages to fuck it up. #RelatableAF.
His hesitation to put his hands on Max’s waist. Someone help this boy, he’s so nervous.
His face after Max kisses him is so precious. I can’t even describe it. Gifs don’t do it justice. Just go back and watch the whole snow ball scene again, you know you want to anyway.
In conclusion, Lucas Sinclair continued to be a icon in season 2 and idk how anyone couldn’t love him.
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robinrequiems · 3 years
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I'D LOVE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT COMIC CON!DAMIJON AU AND KIDNAPPED BY LOA!JON AU (POSSIBLE DAMIJON ALSO SOUNDS PRETTY NEAT FOR THAT AU) PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEAS-
ALRIGHTY! HERES P1 OF KIDNAPPED: https://robinrequiems.tumblr.com/post/656471030683025408/ooo-jon-getting-kidnapped-by-the-league-caught-my
ILL ADD ONTO IT HERE DW:
comic con:
• damian was obviously robin, he had long since disappeared from his family to go and adventure off to go get some art from his favorite comic artists
• and plus he wanted to show off his own art
• he was so glad he wore a mask since like.. chaotic. a wayne? at comic con? that would stir drama up
• damian was walking around peacefully b4 he ended up running into jon
• jon was roughly 5’10-5’11, towering over damin’s 5’6
• they’re both like 15
• jon also ended up dumping his nachos onto damian
• damian wanted to stab him so bad
“This took me months to make, you asshole!”
“I’m sorry! I didn’t see you! I don’t exactly look d—“
“Excuse me?”
“That’s not what I meant— I’m so sorry— !”
“You’re such a prick!”
• damian ended up stomping off to find dick, dick luckily got all of it off his suit
• thank god, damian almost started screaming
• damian ended up running into the boy again, he doesn’t know how he got roped into taking a picture with the boy and another small kid
• all damian knew was that he was annoyed and mad and angry, which were synonyms, but
“I feel like you are mad at me..”
“You nearly ruined my costume!”
“I didn’t mean to!”
“Yet you did.”
• kon ended up running into them to, and laughed. the boy LAUGHED
“Oh god, it’s like walking into a comic book.”
“Konnie stoopp- you’ll make him even more mad than he is!”
• jon could feel the glare, even with Damian’s mask on.
• but.. somehow they kept ending up in the same spots
• jon bought damian a Robin themed sweatshirt, rhay was horrible quality. but he felt soo bad
• damian.. appreciated the gesture
• and they started talking abt the supersons and which comic was their favorite, damian liked the supersons of tomorrow arc while jon liked the whole challenge of the supersons series
• it was nice talking with someone who read the supersons comics, damian couldnt really talk to anyone about them since one; he didn’t have friends. kidding. he did, but they don’t read comics. two; he didn’t like admitting he liked reading those types of things
• they actually spent most of the day together, it was really fun, they took a lot of pictures together, damian got some for his private Instagram ( what? He’s a wayne. He needs a private insta. ) and jon got some for his main
• they ended up exchanged numbers at the end, but jon never learned his name, and all he knew him by was Robin and damian knew him as superboy
• but Damian liked having a secret identity, he didn’t have to worry about jon taking advantage of the fact he’s a wayne, but he could always just say his first name, but where’s the fun in that?
league: ( DONT QORRY ITS BUILDING UP TO DAMIJON ! )
• damian ended up getilting held prisoner
• not his finest moment..
• jon was his guard, ra’s would soon realize that was a mistake.
• damian doesn’t know how long he was in there, it felt like forever, but soon enough, he was able to get jon to talk to him
• but the conversations were small, it was like working with a blank canvas, but Damian could paint on that canvas ( god metaphors, I hate myself Jfc )
• pls wait: jon wears Jason’s league outfit from yj 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥺
• pls hes hot
• damian isn’t given much in his small cell, just a bed, and a few other essentials. he’s given the bare minimum to survive
• which is fine, but that didn’t stop him from complaining
• jon grew up pretty, damian soon realized ( but he grew up too fast )
• did damian grow up pretty? d wonders what j thinks of him
• damian tried to bring up Jon’s parents and how they missed him ( in truth, damian probably spoke to Clark and lois the most nowadays ), but jon got angry
• jon shot out a laser beam at Damian, damian was barely able to even dodge
• emotions. anger is an emotion. Damian saw a hint of green in rhose blue eyes. ( pit madness, fuck )
• damian remembers being dipped into the pit as a kid, he remembers the stinging pain of it
• god, damian feels sick.
• months for by, jon begins.. talking more, damian just grows more tired
• but Damian still hopes his family finds him
• ( who is he kidding? )
• damian tries to talk to him about those stupid baseball cards jon had ( the same cards damian just held onto when he was just losing himself )
• damian tries to do a lot of things
• jon becomes a good fighter, he begins filling out, and he gets a lot of muscle, unbeknownst to ra’s, Jon’s beginning to find himself again.
• ra’s should have known that the supersons would find each other ( they always would, even if one of them is currently a mindless slave )
• his mistake was thinking jon could ever kill him
• damian doesn’t know why ra’s thought that jon could kill him
• it was funny when they put jon and d into a pit, assuming they would fight, damian did put up a fight, he had too much pent up energy
• but jon was stronger, faster, and healthier
• so damian naturally lost, ra’s ordered a killing blow, damian server no purpose anyways
• but jon couldn’t
• he couldn’t kill his bestie
“D?”
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adambstingus · 7 years
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If you haven’t tuned in to the RNC yet, here are 13 reasons why you should.
If you haven’t tuned in to the Republican National Convention yet, youre not alone.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Maybe youre a Republican who gnashes their teeth every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. Maybe youre a Democrat whos already heard “Jail Shillary Clinton” enough for one decade. Or maybe youre just a person who gets bored by boring speeches.
And yet, you still want to do your civic duty. You want to be able to participate in the watercooler conversation. Or, perhaps, youre a nervous internet writer who dabbles in politics and you want to continue to justify your salary to the publication that employs you.
Fear not! Even if the speeches ramble, the music is suspect, and the balloon drop is anticlimactic, there are many ways to make watching the RNC a fun experience for the whole family:
1. Focus on the fun hats.
When you watch a baseball game, you see baseball caps. When you watch a rodeo, you see cowboy hats. When you watch bearded 27-year-old programmers in “Buffy” T-shirts hitting on college students, you see fedoras.
The hats at the RNC are in another league. A noble league … like The League of Nations.
A league that peaked in 1918.
Cowboy hats?
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Check.
Coonskin caps?
Check!
Hats directly from the costume chest for the West Oakport Community Players production of “The Music Man”?
Check and mate.
If youre a fan of delightfully anachronistic haberdashery, the Republican National Convention is the small-screen event of the mid-2010s.
2. Watch campaign operatives desperately try to spin obvious screwups into success stories.
Melania Trump’s apparent cribbing of a passage from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the RNC has already sent Trump’s surrogates into a flurry of questionably credible but extremely entertaining denials.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Some simply pretended it didn’t happen. Some tried to explain it away as a case of the two women simply having the exact same thoughts on the exact same subject. Others suggested that hey! only 7% of the speech was plagiarized, which really isn’t that much. (College students on deadline, take note!)
There’s no feeling quite so warm and cozy as sitting back on your couch, knowing there’s a problem out there in the world … and it’s someone else’s job to deal with it.
3. Cheer on the dancing delegates.
The RNC remains Americas #1 source of elderly people whove still got it, show it, and want you to know it.
Curious what style of arrhythmic jerking was popular in 1962? Looking forward to seeing some semi-coordinated American flag-ography? Want to watch a county commissioner from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, gingerly hip-bumping the state comptroller of Tennessee?
You only get one chance every four years. Seize it!
4. Gawk at the ridiculously over-the-top entrances.
For Donald Trump, last night’s raucous, backlit entrance to “We Are the Champions” was actually pretty restrained.
Scott Baio (Chachi!) was there Monday night.
Ehhhhhhhhhh. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
So was Antonio Sabato Jr., who totally was in something once.
Oh and hey, remember soap star Kimberlin Brown? No? Well, shes speaking too.
Like Pogs, jelly shoes, and friendship bracelets, you might not have missed them and you might not have even loved them all that much even at the height of their popularity, but they’re back, and sure, why not!
6. Cringe at the massive pandering fails.
In a Monday session with delegates from Pennsylvania, Paul Ryan took a few seconds to wave a Terrible Towel an emblem of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the air…
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
…which irked some in the city of Cleveland, where the RNC is happening. They were none too pleased to see the Republican leader brandish the banner of their bitter football rival.
In other news, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are apparently different cities. You learn new things when you watch the RNC!
7. Shovel popcorn into your mouth as Trump and his team pick random, hugely entertaining fights with GOP lawmakers.
Fittingly, for a candidate whose highest profile accomplishment is hosting a reality show, Donald Trump is really, really, good at draaaaaaaaaama.
Even before the speeches started, top Trump aide Paul Manafort attacked Ohio Gov. John Kasich America’s Republican uncle as “petulant” for refusing to attend the convention.
Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images.
“Manaforts problem, after all those years on the lam with thugs and autocrats, is that he cant recognize principle and integrity,” Kasich strategist John Weaver fired back in an e-mail to The New York Times, calling out Manafort’s public relations work for the former president of Ukraine.
Rawr! Go get ’em, boys!
8. Daydream about what LeBron James is doing elsewhere in Cleveland while all this is going on.
Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images.
One of the great things about Cleveland hosting the convention is that, if youre not feeling the program, you can just close your eyes and imagine what King James is up to just a few blocks away at any given moment. Maybe he’s grabbing a beer at the Radisson lobby bar across the street or wandering around the perimeter of Quicken Loans Arena trying to catch a Pikachu!
Train your brain to conjure ‘Bron, and you’re sure to realize a truth that hardened political insiders have long known: The mental image of LeBron James doing anything beats watching the 19th lieutenant governor shuffle haltingly around the stage to Kid Rocks “Born Free.”
9. Enjoy the spectacle of news organizations testing out new technology with mixed results.
The Washington Post has a robot!
LOOK OUT: The yet-to-be-named @washingtonpost robot is roaming the halls of the #gopconvention. (Cc @rkellett) pic.twitter.com/KCFFdootWo Ed O
Come for the debut of an amazing, cutting-edge mass communication tool. Stay for the schadenfreude of when it inevitably, hilariously tips slowly forward and plants on its face.
10. Applaud the fact-checkers doing A+ work.
It’s pretty hard to wallow in self pity about having to sit through three prime-time hours of the Trump Family Variety Spectacular when the heroes at FactCheck.org are spending their week watching every minute of both conventions evaluating every ridiculously hyperbolic claim made by every marginal elected official on that stage, presumably with their eyelids taped open.
David Clarke says Americans don
Every single American owes these people a drink. At the very least, we need to all go in for a gift basket.
11. Savor the meme-worthy speech faces.
Like this one:
A delegate stands on stage. The lights are hot. He’s got his suit, tie, and firmest scowl on. He’s projecting a stern air of authority. He’s feeling good.
And then, this happens:
THE RNC GAVEL IS ALREADY FALLING APART pic.twitter.com/6sL4Mp3z8V Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 18, 2016
One prop master’s catastrophe is one potato-chip-eating, couch-slouching American’s perfect television.
12. Rock out to the endless playlist of music you love to hate to love to wonder what even is it?
Between the speeches, the logistical announcements, and the arcane points of order, the playlist on the first day of the 2016 RNC featured a weird collection of B sides “Limelight” by Rush, The Who’s “Eminence Front,” “Stay With Me” by Rod Stewart that undoubtedly delighted your Uncle Craig:
But it pretty much left everyone else scratching their heads. And you know what, scratching your head is immensely soothing and gratifying, so thanks, music team!
13. Appreciate that you are watching democracy happen in real time weirdly exactly the way its supposed to.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
You may not be thrilled about the election. You may think the ads are tacky. You may wish the participants were different (dear God, you may wish the participants were different).
You can hate everything about the American political process and still be grateful this is how our political transitions go down rather than when the guy in charge dies and his 9-year-old son takes over, or when a bunch of tanks plow over the White House while the president is in Bermuda, or when every federal employee is replaced by an alien impostor except for a single, mild-mannered Nebraska congressman who, luckily, is played by Kurt Russell.
New political administrations in America happen after a bunch of nerdy bureaucrats make a bunch of boring speeches about freedom, justice, and patriotism in support of candidates we dont like very much but who we will dutifully go out and choose between in November.
Its unglamorous. Its stressful. Its frustrating and exhausting. But Im going to tune in. Because it really is the worst.
Except for all the other options.
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If you haven’t tuned in to the RNC yet, here are 13 reasons why you should.
If you haven’t tuned in to the Republican National Convention yet, youre not alone.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Maybe youre a Republican who gnashes their teeth every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. Maybe youre a Democrat whos already heard “Jail Shillary Clinton” enough for one decade. Or maybe youre just a person who gets bored by boring speeches.
And yet, you still want to do your civic duty. You want to be able to participate in the watercooler conversation. Or, perhaps, youre a nervous internet writer who dabbles in politics and you want to continue to justify your salary to the publication that employs you.
Fear not! Even if the speeches ramble, the music is suspect, and the balloon drop is anticlimactic, there are many ways to make watching the RNC a fun experience for the whole family:
1. Focus on the fun hats.
When you watch a baseball game, you see baseball caps. When you watch a rodeo, you see cowboy hats. When you watch bearded 27-year-old programmers in “Buffy” T-shirts hitting on college students, you see fedoras.
The hats at the RNC are in another league. A noble league … like The League of Nations.
A league that peaked in 1918.
Cowboy hats?
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Check.
Coonskin caps?
Check!
Hats directly from the costume chest for the West Oakport Community Players production of “The Music Man”?
Check and mate.
If youre a fan of delightfully anachronistic haberdashery, the Republican National Convention is the small-screen event of the mid-2010s.
2. Watch campaign operatives desperately try to spin obvious screwups into success stories.
Melania Trump’s apparent cribbing of a passage from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the RNC has already sent Trump’s surrogates into a flurry of questionably credible but extremely entertaining denials.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Some simply pretended it didn’t happen. Some tried to explain it away as a case of the two women simply having the exact same thoughts on the exact same subject. Others suggested that hey! only 7% of the speech was plagiarized, which really isn’t that much. (College students on deadline, take note!)
There’s no feeling quite so warm and cozy as sitting back on your couch, knowing there’s a problem out there in the world … and it’s someone else’s job to deal with it.
3. Cheer on the dancing delegates.
The RNC remains Americas #1 source of elderly people whove still got it, show it, and want you to know it.
Curious what style of arrhythmic jerking was popular in 1962? Looking forward to seeing some semi-coordinated American flag-ography? Want to watch a county commissioner from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, gingerly hip-bumping the state comptroller of Tennessee?
You only get one chance every four years. Seize it!
4. Gawk at the ridiculously over-the-top entrances.
For Donald Trump, last night’s raucous, backlit entrance to “We Are the Champions” was actually pretty restrained.
Scott Baio (Chachi!) was there Monday night.
Ehhhhhhhhhh. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
So was Antonio Sabato Jr., who totally was in something once.
Oh and hey, remember soap star Kimberlin Brown? No? Well, shes speaking too.
Like Pogs, jelly shoes, and friendship bracelets, you might not have missed them and you might not have even loved them all that much even at the height of their popularity, but they’re back, and sure, why not!
6. Cringe at the massive pandering fails.
In a Monday session with delegates from Pennsylvania, Paul Ryan took a few seconds to wave a Terrible Towel an emblem of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the air…
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
…which irked some in the city of Cleveland, where the RNC is happening. They were none too pleased to see the Republican leader brandish the banner of their bitter football rival.
In other news, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are apparently different cities. You learn new things when you watch the RNC!
7. Shovel popcorn into your mouth as Trump and his team pick random, hugely entertaining fights with GOP lawmakers.
Fittingly, for a candidate whose highest profile accomplishment is hosting a reality show, Donald Trump is really, really, good at draaaaaaaaaama.
Even before the speeches started, top Trump aide Paul Manafort attacked Ohio Gov. John Kasich America’s Republican uncle as “petulant” for refusing to attend the convention.
Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images.
“Manaforts problem, after all those years on the lam with thugs and autocrats, is that he cant recognize principle and integrity,” Kasich strategist John Weaver fired back in an e-mail to The New York Times, calling out Manafort’s public relations work for the former president of Ukraine.
Rawr! Go get ’em, boys!
8. Daydream about what LeBron James is doing elsewhere in Cleveland while all this is going on.
Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images.
One of the great things about Cleveland hosting the convention is that, if youre not feeling the program, you can just close your eyes and imagine what King James is up to just a few blocks away at any given moment. Maybe he’s grabbing a beer at the Radisson lobby bar across the street or wandering around the perimeter of Quicken Loans Arena trying to catch a Pikachu!
Train your brain to conjure ‘Bron, and you’re sure to realize a truth that hardened political insiders have long known: The mental image of LeBron James doing anything beats watching the 19th lieutenant governor shuffle haltingly around the stage to Kid Rocks “Born Free.”
9. Enjoy the spectacle of news organizations testing out new technology with mixed results.
The Washington Post has a robot!
LOOK OUT: The yet-to-be-named @washingtonpost robot is roaming the halls of the #gopconvention. (Cc @rkellett) pic.twitter.com/KCFFdootWo Ed O
Come for the debut of an amazing, cutting-edge mass communication tool. Stay for the schadenfreude of when it inevitably, hilariously tips slowly forward and plants on its face.
10. Applaud the fact-checkers doing A+ work.
It’s pretty hard to wallow in self pity about having to sit through three prime-time hours of the Trump Family Variety Spectacular when the heroes at FactCheck.org are spending their week watching every minute of both conventions evaluating every ridiculously hyperbolic claim made by every marginal elected official on that stage, presumably with their eyelids taped open.
David Clarke says Americans don
Every single American owes these people a drink. At the very least, we need to all go in for a gift basket.
11. Savor the meme-worthy speech faces.
Like this one:
A delegate stands on stage. The lights are hot. He’s got his suit, tie, and firmest scowl on. He’s projecting a stern air of authority. He’s feeling good.
And then, this happens:
THE RNC GAVEL IS ALREADY FALLING APART pic.twitter.com/6sL4Mp3z8V Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 18, 2016
One prop master’s catastrophe is one potato-chip-eating, couch-slouching American’s perfect television.
12. Rock out to the endless playlist of music you love to hate to love to wonder what even is it?
Between the speeches, the logistical announcements, and the arcane points of order, the playlist on the first day of the 2016 RNC featured a weird collection of B sides “Limelight” by Rush, The Who’s “Eminence Front,” “Stay With Me” by Rod Stewart that undoubtedly delighted your Uncle Craig:
But it pretty much left everyone else scratching their heads. And you know what, scratching your head is immensely soothing and gratifying, so thanks, music team!
13. Appreciate that you are watching democracy happen in real time weirdly exactly the way its supposed to.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
You may not be thrilled about the election. You may think the ads are tacky. You may wish the participants were different (dear God, you may wish the participants were different).
You can hate everything about the American political process and still be grateful this is how our political transitions go down rather than when the guy in charge dies and his 9-year-old son takes over, or when a bunch of tanks plow over the White House while the president is in Bermuda, or when every federal employee is replaced by an alien impostor except for a single, mild-mannered Nebraska congressman who, luckily, is played by Kurt Russell.
New political administrations in America happen after a bunch of nerdy bureaucrats make a bunch of boring speeches about freedom, justice, and patriotism in support of candidates we dont like very much but who we will dutifully go out and choose between in November.
Its unglamorous. Its stressful. Its frustrating and exhausting. But Im going to tune in. Because it really is the worst.
Except for all the other options.
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If you haven’t tuned in to the RNC yet, here are 13 reasons why you should.
If you haven’t tuned in to the Republican National Convention yet, youre not alone.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Maybe youre a Republican who gnashes their teeth every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. Maybe youre a Democrat whos already heard “Jail Shillary Clinton” enough for one decade. Or maybe youre just a person who gets bored by boring speeches.
And yet, you still want to do your civic duty. You want to be able to participate in the watercooler conversation. Or, perhaps, youre a nervous internet writer who dabbles in politics and you want to continue to justify your salary to the publication that employs you.
Fear not! Even if the speeches ramble, the music is suspect, and the balloon drop is anticlimactic, there are many ways to make watching the RNC a fun experience for the whole family:
1. Focus on the fun hats.
When you watch a baseball game, you see baseball caps. When you watch a rodeo, you see cowboy hats. When you watch bearded 27-year-old programmers in “Buffy” T-shirts hitting on college students, you see fedoras.
The hats at the RNC are in another league. A noble league … like The League of Nations.
A league that peaked in 1918.
Cowboy hats?
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Check.
Coonskin caps?
Check!
Hats directly from the costume chest for the West Oakport Community Players production of “The Music Man”?
Check and mate.
If youre a fan of delightfully anachronistic haberdashery, the Republican National Convention is the small-screen event of the mid-2010s.
2. Watch campaign operatives desperately try to spin obvious screwups into success stories.
Melania Trump’s apparent cribbing of a passage from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the RNC has already sent Trump’s surrogates into a flurry of questionably credible but extremely entertaining denials.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Some simply pretended it didn’t happen. Some tried to explain it away as a case of the two women simply having the exact same thoughts on the exact same subject. Others suggested that hey! only 7% of the speech was plagiarized, which really isn’t that much. (College students on deadline, take note!)
There’s no feeling quite so warm and cozy as sitting back on your couch, knowing there’s a problem out there in the world … and it’s someone else’s job to deal with it.
3. Cheer on the dancing delegates.
The RNC remains Americas #1 source of elderly people whove still got it, show it, and want you to know it.
Curious what style of arrhythmic jerking was popular in 1962? Looking forward to seeing some semi-coordinated American flag-ography? Want to watch a county commissioner from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, gingerly hip-bumping the state comptroller of Tennessee?
You only get one chance every four years. Seize it!
4. Gawk at the ridiculously over-the-top entrances.
For Donald Trump, last night’s raucous, backlit entrance to “We Are the Champions” was actually pretty restrained.
Scott Baio (Chachi!) was there Monday night.
Ehhhhhhhhhh. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
So was Antonio Sabato Jr., who totally was in something once.
Oh and hey, remember soap star Kimberlin Brown? No? Well, shes speaking too.
Like Pogs, jelly shoes, and friendship bracelets, you might not have missed them and you might not have even loved them all that much even at the height of their popularity, but they’re back, and sure, why not!
6. Cringe at the massive pandering fails.
In a Monday session with delegates from Pennsylvania, Paul Ryan took a few seconds to wave a Terrible Towel an emblem of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the air…
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
…which irked some in the city of Cleveland, where the RNC is happening. They were none too pleased to see the Republican leader brandish the banner of their bitter football rival.
In other news, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are apparently different cities. You learn new things when you watch the RNC!
7. Shovel popcorn into your mouth as Trump and his team pick random, hugely entertaining fights with GOP lawmakers.
Fittingly, for a candidate whose highest profile accomplishment is hosting a reality show, Donald Trump is really, really, good at draaaaaaaaaama.
Even before the speeches started, top Trump aide Paul Manafort attacked Ohio Gov. John Kasich America’s Republican uncle as “petulant” for refusing to attend the convention.
Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images.
“Manaforts problem, after all those years on the lam with thugs and autocrats, is that he cant recognize principle and integrity,” Kasich strategist John Weaver fired back in an e-mail to The New York Times, calling out Manafort’s public relations work for the former president of Ukraine.
Rawr! Go get ’em, boys!
8. Daydream about what LeBron James is doing elsewhere in Cleveland while all this is going on.
Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images.
One of the great things about Cleveland hosting the convention is that, if youre not feeling the program, you can just close your eyes and imagine what King James is up to just a few blocks away at any given moment. Maybe he’s grabbing a beer at the Radisson lobby bar across the street or wandering around the perimeter of Quicken Loans Arena trying to catch a Pikachu!
Train your brain to conjure ‘Bron, and you’re sure to realize a truth that hardened political insiders have long known: The mental image of LeBron James doing anything beats watching the 19th lieutenant governor shuffle haltingly around the stage to Kid Rocks “Born Free.”
9. Enjoy the spectacle of news organizations testing out new technology with mixed results.
The Washington Post has a robot!
LOOK OUT: The yet-to-be-named @washingtonpost robot is roaming the halls of the #gopconvention. (Cc @rkellett) pic.twitter.com/KCFFdootWo Ed O
Come for the debut of an amazing, cutting-edge mass communication tool. Stay for the schadenfreude of when it inevitably, hilariously tips slowly forward and plants on its face.
10. Applaud the fact-checkers doing A+ work.
It’s pretty hard to wallow in self pity about having to sit through three prime-time hours of the Trump Family Variety Spectacular when the heroes at FactCheck.org are spending their week watching every minute of both conventions evaluating every ridiculously hyperbolic claim made by every marginal elected official on that stage, presumably with their eyelids taped open.
David Clarke says Americans don
Every single American owes these people a drink. At the very least, we need to all go in for a gift basket.
11. Savor the meme-worthy speech faces.
Like this one:
A delegate stands on stage. The lights are hot. He’s got his suit, tie, and firmest scowl on. He’s projecting a stern air of authority. He’s feeling good.
And then, this happens:
THE RNC GAVEL IS ALREADY FALLING APART pic.twitter.com/6sL4Mp3z8V Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 18, 2016
One prop master’s catastrophe is one potato-chip-eating, couch-slouching American’s perfect television.
12. Rock out to the endless playlist of music you love to hate to love to wonder what even is it?
Between the speeches, the logistical announcements, and the arcane points of order, the playlist on the first day of the 2016 RNC featured a weird collection of B sides “Limelight” by Rush, The Who’s “Eminence Front,” “Stay With Me” by Rod Stewart that undoubtedly delighted your Uncle Craig:
But it pretty much left everyone else scratching their heads. And you know what, scratching your head is immensely soothing and gratifying, so thanks, music team!
13. Appreciate that you are watching democracy happen in real time weirdly exactly the way its supposed to.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
You may not be thrilled about the election. You may think the ads are tacky. You may wish the participants were different (dear God, you may wish the participants were different).
You can hate everything about the American political process and still be grateful this is how our political transitions go down rather than when the guy in charge dies and his 9-year-old son takes over, or when a bunch of tanks plow over the White House while the president is in Bermuda, or when every federal employee is replaced by an alien impostor except for a single, mild-mannered Nebraska congressman who, luckily, is played by Kurt Russell.
New political administrations in America happen after a bunch of nerdy bureaucrats make a bunch of boring speeches about freedom, justice, and patriotism in support of candidates we dont like very much but who we will dutifully go out and choose between in November.
Its unglamorous. Its stressful. Its frustrating and exhausting. But Im going to tune in. Because it really is the worst.
Except for all the other options.
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If you haven’t tuned in to the RNC yet, here are 13 reasons why you should.
If you haven’t tuned in to the Republican National Convention yet, youre not alone.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Maybe youre a Republican who gnashes their teeth every time Donald Trump opens his mouth. Maybe youre a Democrat whos already heard “Jail Shillary Clinton” enough for one decade. Or maybe youre just a person who gets bored by boring speeches.
And yet, you still want to do your civic duty. You want to be able to participate in the watercooler conversation. Or, perhaps, youre a nervous internet writer who dabbles in politics and you want to continue to justify your salary to the publication that employs you.
Fear not! Even if the speeches ramble, the music is suspect, and the balloon drop is anticlimactic, there are many ways to make watching the RNC a fun experience for the whole family:
1. Focus on the fun hats.
When you watch a baseball game, you see baseball caps. When you watch a rodeo, you see cowboy hats. When you watch bearded 27-year-old programmers in “Buffy” T-shirts hitting on college students, you see fedoras.
The hats at the RNC are in another league. A noble league … like The League of Nations.
A league that peaked in 1918.
Cowboy hats?
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images.
Check.
Coonskin caps?
Check!
Hats directly from the costume chest for the West Oakport Community Players production of “The Music Man”?
Check and mate.
If youre a fan of delightfully anachronistic haberdashery, the Republican National Convention is the small-screen event of the mid-2010s.
2. Watch campaign operatives desperately try to spin obvious screwups into success stories.
Melania Trump’s apparent cribbing of a passage from a 2008 Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the RNC has already sent Trump’s surrogates into a flurry of questionably credible but extremely entertaining denials.
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Some simply pretended it didn’t happen. Some tried to explain it away as a case of the two women simply having the exact same thoughts on the exact same subject. Others suggested that hey! only 7% of the speech was plagiarized, which really isn’t that much. (College students on deadline, take note!)
There’s no feeling quite so warm and cozy as sitting back on your couch, knowing there’s a problem out there in the world … and it’s someone else’s job to deal with it.
3. Cheer on the dancing delegates.
The RNC remains Americas #1 source of elderly people whove still got it, show it, and want you to know it.
Curious what style of arrhythmic jerking was popular in 1962? Looking forward to seeing some semi-coordinated American flag-ography? Want to watch a county commissioner from Ladysmith, Wisconsin, gingerly hip-bumping the state comptroller of Tennessee?
You only get one chance every four years. Seize it!
4. Gawk at the ridiculously over-the-top entrances.
For Donald Trump, last night’s raucous, backlit entrance to “We Are the Champions” was actually pretty restrained.
Scott Baio (Chachi!) was there Monday night.
Ehhhhhhhhhh. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
So was Antonio Sabato Jr., who totally was in something once.
Oh and hey, remember soap star Kimberlin Brown? No? Well, shes speaking too.
Like Pogs, jelly shoes, and friendship bracelets, you might not have missed them and you might not have even loved them all that much even at the height of their popularity, but they’re back, and sure, why not!
6. Cringe at the massive pandering fails.
In a Monday session with delegates from Pennsylvania, Paul Ryan took a few seconds to wave a Terrible Towel an emblem of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the air…
Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
…which irked some in the city of Cleveland, where the RNC is happening. They were none too pleased to see the Republican leader brandish the banner of their bitter football rival.
In other news, Cleveland and Pittsburgh are apparently different cities. You learn new things when you watch the RNC!
7. Shovel popcorn into your mouth as Trump and his team pick random, hugely entertaining fights with GOP lawmakers.
Fittingly, for a candidate whose highest profile accomplishment is hosting a reality show, Donald Trump is really, really, good at draaaaaaaaaama.
Even before the speeches started, top Trump aide Paul Manafort attacked Ohio Gov. John Kasich America’s Republican uncle as “petulant” for refusing to attend the convention.
Photo by J.D. Pooley/Getty Images.
“Manaforts problem, after all those years on the lam with thugs and autocrats, is that he cant recognize principle and integrity,” Kasich strategist John Weaver fired back in an e-mail to The New York Times, calling out Manafort’s public relations work for the former president of Ukraine.
Rawr! Go get ’em, boys!
8. Daydream about what LeBron James is doing elsewhere in Cleveland while all this is going on.
Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images.
One of the great things about Cleveland hosting the convention is that, if youre not feeling the program, you can just close your eyes and imagine what King James is up to just a few blocks away at any given moment. Maybe he’s grabbing a beer at the Radisson lobby bar across the street or wandering around the perimeter of Quicken Loans Arena trying to catch a Pikachu!
Train your brain to conjure ‘Bron, and you’re sure to realize a truth that hardened political insiders have long known: The mental image of LeBron James doing anything beats watching the 19th lieutenant governor shuffle haltingly around the stage to Kid Rocks “Born Free.”
9. Enjoy the spectacle of news organizations testing out new technology with mixed results.
The Washington Post has a robot!
LOOK OUT: The yet-to-be-named @washingtonpost robot is roaming the halls of the #gopconvention. (Cc @rkellett) pic.twitter.com/KCFFdootWo Ed O
Come for the debut of an amazing, cutting-edge mass communication tool. Stay for the schadenfreude of when it inevitably, hilariously tips slowly forward and plants on its face.
10. Applaud the fact-checkers doing A+ work.
It’s pretty hard to wallow in self pity about having to sit through three prime-time hours of the Trump Family Variety Spectacular when the heroes at FactCheck.org are spending their week watching every minute of both conventions evaluating every ridiculously hyperbolic claim made by every marginal elected official on that stage, presumably with their eyelids taped open.
David Clarke says Americans don
Every single American owes these people a drink. At the very least, we need to all go in for a gift basket.
11. Savor the meme-worthy speech faces.
Like this one:
A delegate stands on stage. The lights are hot. He’s got his suit, tie, and firmest scowl on. He’s projecting a stern air of authority. He’s feeling good.
And then, this happens:
THE RNC GAVEL IS ALREADY FALLING APART pic.twitter.com/6sL4Mp3z8V Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) July 18, 2016
One prop master’s catastrophe is one potato-chip-eating, couch-slouching American’s perfect television.
12. Rock out to the endless playlist of music you love to hate to love to wonder what even is it?
Between the speeches, the logistical announcements, and the arcane points of order, the playlist on the first day of the 2016 RNC featured a weird collection of B sides “Limelight” by Rush, The Who’s “Eminence Front,” “Stay With Me” by Rod Stewart that undoubtedly delighted your Uncle Craig:
But it pretty much left everyone else scratching their heads. And you know what, scratching your head is immensely soothing and gratifying, so thanks, music team!
13. Appreciate that you are watching democracy happen in real time weirdly exactly the way its supposed to.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
You may not be thrilled about the election. You may think the ads are tacky. You may wish the participants were different (dear God, you may wish the participants were different).
You can hate everything about the American political process and still be grateful this is how our political transitions go down rather than when the guy in charge dies and his 9-year-old son takes over, or when a bunch of tanks plow over the White House while the president is in Bermuda, or when every federal employee is replaced by an alien impostor except for a single, mild-mannered Nebraska congressman who, luckily, is played by Kurt Russell.
New political administrations in America happen after a bunch of nerdy bureaucrats make a bunch of boring speeches about freedom, justice, and patriotism in support of candidates we dont like very much but who we will dutifully go out and choose between in November.
Its unglamorous. Its stressful. Its frustrating and exhausting. But Im going to tune in. Because it really is the worst.
Except for all the other options.
from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/2017/07/11/if-you-havent-tuned-in-to-the-rnc-yet-here-are-13-reasons-why-you-should/
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