#many of whom have kids

[imma-dragon53]

I think something that a lot of batfam fics don’t take into account, especially fics where they meet the justice league, is that the kids alone could reveal Batman’s identity.

Of course Batman doesn’t want to introduce his kids to the league. If he only had one or two? Sure he’d probably eventually be ok with them meeting, lots of people in Gotham have one or two kids. But there are at minimum 6 bat kids, if you’re only counting the ones he adopted legally, though we all know that Steph is always there for the shits and giggles. The number of people in Gotham who have six kids? Specifically 5 sons and one daughter? That list is probably pretty short. It wouldn’t take a genius like Tim to link the bats to the Wayne’s, and all of their associates.

Huh dicky Wayne’s best friend is from star city. Batman’s eldest son is really close with kid flash (who also happens to have red hair)

Huh didn’t spoiler make a joke about kissing both RR and Black Bat? Didn’t two of the Wayne kids date the same girl (at different times)

Huh Damien Wayne moved to Gotham at the same time the new stabby Robin showed up.

Hey doesn’t Bruce have a cousin with red hair? Weird so does bat woman

The mere existence of Bruce’s kids could reveal not only his but all of their identities. So of course he’s going to hide their existence.

#batman #batfam #batfamily #big families aren’t that common #it would not be hard to pull up a list of people with lots of kids #and match up the heroes #huh Batman has 6 kids #huh Bruce Wayne has 6 kids #and they’re all the same age! #what a weird unrelated coincidence #like no #Batman himself can probably hide #but having that many kids severely limits the suspect pool #and that’s not counting all the other kids #most of whom have a connection to Bruce outside of the mask

[isfjmel-phleg]

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#random personal stuff #I get it everyone in church wants to fuss over the babies #who are very cute and I'm glad that they're loved! they should be! #but I'd like to put in a good word *also* for a group who tend to get overlooked and undervalued #and that's older kids #once you get past baby age in the church circles I'm familiar with #you are no longer an object of adoration and are now a nuisance a burden and a problem that needs to be suppressed and contained #parents will openly complain about them and heaven forbid anyone reach adolescence because then they're regarded as next-door to a monster #and not many people are really listening to older kids or thinking about what they might need as human beings #which is connection and knowing that people give a darn about them personally #and don't just see them as something to be 'kept busy' or as free labor/babysitting for younger nuisances #I have the most interesting conversations with these kids #they're bright and hilarious and passionate about all kinds of things #and they're dealing with more than most adults seem to realize or take seriously #I remember being that age very vividly and the adult whom I wanted to be around the most was my aunt whenever she visited #because she actually took the time to listen to me and put up my jawing about [current obsession] #probably took a lot of patience on her part but I appreciated it so much #it made me feel like I mattered #sometimes the kids at church will talk to me and I want to be for them the kind of adult my aunt was for me #they ARE worth listening to! #everybody at every stage of life is worth caring about

[irregularbillcipher]

having a normal one about brad and birdie again

#no spoilers for definitive edition here because i haven't played definitive joyful yet and haven't gotten any new birdie content in painful #lisa rpg #i know that half the things i say about birdie are looking Too Far Into It #but also they give us another bearded b-named addiction riddled wreck ruining his life because he's haunted by the deaths of young family #members he feels he should have protected (one of whom even committed suicide) and you expect me NOT to go 'wait that sounds familiar' #honestly the 'like/love' parallel really gets to me because it's so throwaway and i don't know why it's THERE #terry and buzzo say that (and ofc lisa originates it) but that makes SENSE #they're both categorized as someone deeply devoted to someone in the armstrong family. ofc that parallel is made #but why BIRDIE #brad's shirt pattern when he's young is the same pattern as birdie's poncho too #god it's not even just brad #dustin's least favorite thing being 'letting people down' and birdie's being 'being a failure' ESP. with the context of his children like #and (prefacing this by saying i do NOT think birdie was at all the type of father marty was) there's even similarities to marty #like you're telling me the companion who visually looks most like marty is *checks notes* the alcoholic single dad whose kid killed themsel #like there are so many weird things that are canon traits of the armstrong family that you can also see in birdie it's WILD #i'm not even saying i think any of this is THAT intentional or deliberate. like i think having fathers that failed their children on brad's #team is an obvious and deliberate choice but i don't think all this minutia w/birdie was intentional. i acknowledge i'm a lil insane #(birdie has rosy cheeks like marty because they're both drunk. fly also has the same shirt pattern so it's recusing assets. i get it) #there's just a weird amount to pick at if you want to

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Sometimes I am just so convinced that I am allistic. And then some times I am just not

#it doesn't help that my isolatedness means I have no baseline for neurotypical behavior #my baseline of what people are like is my twin and my little pony characters #/exaggeration but it is all just family member many of whom suspect or are diagnoses nd of various kindas #and fictional characters from kids media who by nature have exaggerated interests and behaviors that dont fit real neurotypical people #just me rambling #just me complaining

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Might be a hot take but a major character’s death is really only as good as the weight and the treatment that the narrative gives it. Sure, any author has the ability to write death as they see fit. But whether the consumer (of any given form of media) is actually able to emotionally connect and resonate with the departure of someone who has occupied a good chunk of narrative space very heavily depends on how it’s treated within the story. If it’s a major character, the narrative needs enough built-in breathing space. As in, the consumer doesn’t have to fill in the blanks as to how the death impacted the plot or the remaining characters. Let the narrative do that for them, and that would actually allow the consumer to better react and relate to that major death (sadness, anger, joy, etc). Allow the rest of the characters (who were impacted by the deceased) to react to their parting. Let them engage with the death in a manner that helps justify the character’s inclusion in the narrative to begin with. Make it clear how the character’s life and (especially) their death relate to the larger themes of the story. Because most consumers aren’t stupid. We don’t want our hands held at every waking moment, but we also don’t want our investment in a story to be insulted just for the sake of a cheap shock. Give us time to breathe and grieve. And respect that we have put in a lot of emotional investment in a story and its characters, and we deserve to have that acknowledged.

#recent developments in a very popular ip have forced me to think about how creators treat the deaths of major or main characters #and the discourse of ~ohh we don’t need to see every single thing~ has got me thinking #like sure we don’t need to be spoon fed everything but consumers have varying emotional investments depending on the characters #a side character it’s passable if we don’t get any fanfare but a MAIN??? #we’ve invested so much into their journey and the themes in their arcs and how they affect the world around them #is it too bad to want that to be actually acknowledged by & within the narrative? #so that whole thing got me to think about main characters whose deaths were well done in fiction #ned stark imo is a really good one because the immediate payoff of his death is the start of the wot5k and long term effect was #that the stark kids now had to fill in their father’s shoes and rise and become leaders in their own right and while we still have twow an #ados we can also tell as shown in adwd that the long term effect of Ned’s legacy is that house stark will be preserved even when it’s on th #brink of extinction #so that’s a well done imo because we also see throughout 4 books just how much his death meant to the kids #his death hurts because we see how his kids are hurting - jon arya sansa bran are GOING THROUGH IT AND IT HURTS! #I’d argue MCU did a pretty good job of showing tony’s everlasting legacy after his death and they did that through Peter who was the proteg #we can love and grieve for tony though peter whom we love and have come to relate to so Tony’s death has a lot of narrative weight #and how it’s handled is satisfying even though we’re hurt that he’s gone #same with sirius and dumbledore in HP - sirius’ especially hits sooo hard because Harry goes absolutely apeshit in ootp and then has to #pick up the pieces in hbp + dumbledore’s life and death is given quite a good amount of narrative space for both harry and the reader #the recent developments in jjk have me worried that a certain someone’s departure won’t be given the narrative weight it deserves #and part of that is gege’s pacing being wonky because oops it’s another big fight that will take god knows how many chapters idk #I’ll wait and see but as of right now….i feel like fan complaints about it shouldn’t be brushed aside because they’re super valid 😕 #asoiaf #harry potter #jujutsu kaisen #mcu #marvel #comics #manga

[itstimeforstarwars]

Derry is sooooo in love with their beautiful wife Keava, who is an extremely capable warrior and pilot and parent. What does Keava look like? What is Keava’s species? I don’t remember, because for some reason, I just???? Did not write it down???

#chit chat #galidraan au #if i simply never mention if she has lekku or how many hands she has it does not matter right??? #i have notes on their three kids #two of whom are not even mentioned yet #but keava derry’s wife keava who gets mentioned every other chapter? total mystery #lol #nobody knows what’s under that armor not even the author

[tecchan]

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

#nu carnival #babygirl whom i still haven't met in the main story but who's my favourite for some reason #got kuya too but i don't care for him aeizfefge #actually got kuya first and i was like damn i KNEW i would get the one i don't particularly want but i got rei right after #not gonna pull on my alts since i got them both and i'd rather have different units on different accounts if possible #also i'm unlucky as balls on my alts #only got og quincy and garu (literally just got him with the free 10-pull) on my second and maid blade on my third #and blade didn't even 'come home' as the kids say #i had to crawl through however many pulls that was and grab him by the ankles myself with the box thingy

[alliluyevas]

your post made me curious so i checked wikipedia and brigham young married his MOTHERS IN LAW? how did mary ann angell not kill him?

okay the whole "mormon polygamist men married widows to protect them and financially support them" thing is sometimes overblown but i do think that brigham young's marriage to his elderly widowed mother-in-law was almost certainly a formality only and i doubt there was anything remotely non platonic going on there. that being said poor mary ann did have the patience of a saint.

#it's kind of hard labeling exactly how many 'wives' BY had because a lot of them were non conjugal wives like his mother in laws #with whom he did not cohabitate and did not presumably have sex with #but there are also wives with whom he cohabited but did not have children so that's kind of a gray area but i would argue likely they just #could not have kids in most cases

[darkwood-sleddog]

Did you see the horrifying photos an alleged Montana woman took proudly showing off her skinned "wolf pup"? Spoiler alert, it's an effing sled dog, very obviously. Looks like the authorities will have her on incorrect permits at the very least, but why in the world does someone so inept at identifying wildlife have a gun or permits?! Some people are incredibly stupid - please drape yourselves and your pups in orange when in proximity to morons!

This is a sadly common story, even when dogs do not look wolfish at all and a large part of why I'm hesitant to let my dogs off leash in areas where hunting is allowed.

Frankly if you cannot correctly identify the wildlife you are hunting you should not be hunting in the first place. That goes for people mistaking coyotes as wolves and vice versa.

#not dogs #hunting #also. why anybody wants to kill young wolves is beyond me honestly #so this lady sounds like a treat #honestly the answer is more animal knowledgable #and conservationists need to be hunting #but that's just my opinion #leaving hunting to the populations of people in this country that do not care about the wellbeing of the world re: global warming #or covid protections #or letting people make their own choices with their own bodies without government interference #such as roe v wade and trans kids in sports #does not = a population of hunters that are thoughtful. i'm just saying #that being said a huge majority of hunters around me are incredible conservationists and i love them #but there is a population demographic in this country more likely to have guns and hunt #and do you think these people #many of whom think jfk was gonna show up in this year of 2022 #know the difference between a dog and a wild canine they can hunt legally

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Man I want to reread Not a Catholic Thing again. I've already read it like 5 times in the last two months. It attracts my brain so much. Absolutely fascinated by it. Enthralled. And the author's Constantine fics. Absolutely feral about those 7 fics in particular. I mean I'm feral about a lot of fics on top but right now yeah

#like holy shit!!!! fanfiction!!!!!!!!! #one day i will draw john constantine all bruised and it will be because of jupitermelichios. i'm not even kidding #i've never read a comic with him in it to be clear. i know him from like a dozen fanfics and one animated movie. #he's the blorbo equivalent of an acquaintance with whom you overshared a lot drunk at 3am one time and nothing else #there are so many good fics...... so many.......... #okay it's 2am i'm going to put on the fool by jain and think mattfoggy thoughts until i fall asleep #wow i have a ramble tag now #fandom nerdery

[lurking-latinist]

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#I'm just so tired of posts mocking people without siblings #I know in the grand scheme of things it doesn't mean very much #and I know many of these posts are probably made by teenagers to whom sibling status seems much more important than it will in 10 years #but what if we didn't make negative generalizations about people based on circumstances outside their control at *all*? #sure your upbringing affects your personality in some ways! #but maturing is a process of adjustment and of learning to be more considerate of others for EVERYONE #having siblings does not magically speedrun this process for you #just. next time you see a post about how only children entirely miss some essential aspect of human development #stop and think about people with no siblings that you know #which - if you know me - includes me #stop and think about how you would feel if someone made a post like that about a group to which you belong #stop and think about whether you really think people develop fundamental personality flaws based on whether their parents have other kids #stop and think about how much some of us WANTED to have siblings and didn't #how thrilled we were when we got to spend time with a big family or sleep over at a friend's #how much it means when we're able to say to a friend 'you're like the sister/brother I never had' #(one of the 'sisters I never had' is my college roommate btw) #(so I can't have been THAT bad of a roommate) #stop and think and then decide if that's the attitude toward other people that you want your blog to embody #and if this tag rant has made you think 'wow! only children can't take a joke!' #I promise you that's just me. there are plenty of others that can #I also want to add that this is not directed at anyone in particular. #there are many such posts I've seen and I don't think I know the OPs of any of them #this is just a general reflection on how that whole genre of post makes me feell #*feel #eta: and to be clear there's good-natured joking and there's mean-spirited mockery and I'm not always great at telling the difference

[elfindreams]

I am a normal person with a job and various normal hobbies but also if you sliced open my brain you would find a region which has existed for years and is singularly dedicated to storing my needlessly overspecific post-OOT / MM Zelda headcanons covering the span of several in-universe decades and in fact aren’t headcanons because they are all completely correct and accurate and ~thematic~

#okay so canon strongly suggests that TP Link is a descendant of OOT Link but I dislike the trope of biology/bloodlines = magic destiny #also OOT Link was raised by a talking tree and literally never even met an adult until he was like. eleven. #therefore dude has no attachment to the concept of marriage or a ✨nuclear family✨ and by the time he grows into adulthood again #he gives like. negative fucks about anything. he’s paid his dues to the world man. #therefore he ends up in some kind of polycule thing + raises a bunch of kids some of whom are maybe ‘’his’’ but several are adopted orphans #so like. inherited generational Stuff is going on and he’s a parent in every way that matters but as far as biological ancestry: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #he obsessively teaches them all the survival skills he knows but is super lax in most other respects #(no sword training tho bc he didn’t want them to HAVE to know and then by the time he was maybe ready he physically couldn’t anymore) #and is thrilled to see them turn all rowdy and rebellious bc he feels like his life would’ve gone better if he’d been that way as a kid #in the same way that Link was somewhat modeled after Peter Pan (or really one of the lost boys to be more accurate) #the kids end up akin to Robin Hood and the outlaws especially after Link dies at a fairly young age bc they’re quite reasonably like #‘’hey fuck you queen Zelda you ruined our dad’s life fuck off fuck offffffffff’’ #(cue them being derisively called a wolf pack—foreshadowing the whole Assigned Wolf Fursona at Death thing lmfao) #this ends up being extremely relevant to 1.) what happened to the actual ocarina of time between MM and TP #2.) Ordona becoming a semi-independent province within that timespan as well #but BEFORE ALL THAT HAPPENS so like relations between Hyrule and the Gerudo people are like. Very Poor at this point. for many reasons. #so by the time zelda actually becomes the ruling queen—

[kimabutch]

I wonder how long and how much therapy it takes after being a friendless and bullied kid to really believe that anyone would willingly spend time with you for fun

#I feel like I’ve posted something like this before #but if so it’s cause I’ve been thinking about this for a long time #I’m better than I was #at least I can acknowledge that I went through some shit #but it hasn’t gone away #even though I had friends at some points as a kid #even though I have many friends now whom I love dearly #and have had friends all my adult life #it’s just impossible for my brain to wrap my head around #the idea of anyone actually wanting to be my friend #especially in situations when there are literally any other options #it doesn’t make sense to me #about me #also please don’t worry I genuinely am in therapy for this #as I said I can acknowledge it now #and acknowledge that as impossible as it seems #all evidence points to some people liking my friendship #and am working on believing it

[navree]

wonder how many of the people who have said there’s no issue with rhaenyra having bastards are the same people who singlehandedly blame cersei for the war of five kings solely because she had bastards

#personal #i think that venn diagram would be a circle ngl #to be clear i think both of them should have as many bastard kids as they want #rhaenyra and laenor had an understanding and robert was an abusive rapist so fuck him #rhaenyra's issue is that she did not think through the concept of big b and little b #cersei makes slightly more sense and at least gives her plausible deniability because she's blonde and so are her children #rhaenyra's hopping around saying that her pale as milk and deeply brunette children are the result of a union #between two platinum blondes (one of whom is a black man) #like howwwwwww is anyone gonna buy that #girl you couldn't have found a single blond man anywhere on the entire continent #like rhaenyra can and should get it with whoever she wants as is her right #the issue is that it's so obvious that no one can take the legitimacy claims seriously and it's giving her a political headache #but i'm betting that we're gonna see some Hypocrisy within the fandom

[chaoticwholesome]

sometimes it's just kinda funny that like. I'm someone who's very passionate about looking at children's media from an academic standpoint and a "this is my job" standpoint and also from an "i never really aged out of enjoying this and that's fine!" standpoint, but also feeling the need to preface all this with "yes I enjoy kids cartoons! No not Like That!!"

bc of fear this hobby gets associated with the trend of like... adults starting nasty interpersonal discourse online over shows that are not even made for them :(

#like. do i have opinions and praise about the way a show like Bluey handles social-emotional learning in children? YES! :D #would i actively recommend it to adults or start discourse over it? absolutely not! i touch grass! #i think more adults need to treat children's media as an exercise in watching things Not Made For Them #both for the sake of internet culture at large and also just like. out of respect for the young people for whom this media is made #i have no idea if i'm making sense. i watch many kids shows for work research but i also watch them for enjoyment! #and i think it sucks going back to being as embarrassed as i was in middleschool now bc this gets associated with fandombrain #i mean the trick is obviously to diversify ur tastes and have mature media in ur media diet. which i do! but yeah #sidenote theres a certain type of brainrot that demands mature media have the same didacticism and sanitization as kids shows which. wow #anyway i would love to one day become an Expert in Children's Media studies and i think the first step is to respect children as people #and as a distinct audience

[destroyalovesu]

hiiii if you have a kid in kindergarten and you send them there without labeling their clothes with their name i will drop kick you into fucking mars

#''but they have trains on them surely youll remember the train gloves belong my little timmy'' #sir do you know how many kids we have here. all of whom wear gloves #how!!!! many pairs of cute gloves!!!!! do you think im capable of memorizing!!!!!!! #my post #job tag