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Saw this tweet foever ago n now i keep thinkin bout how making any character ever Canadian is funny as fuck. Theyre all canadian now

#latinos making characters mexican #ie me #making Tom Bronson Mexican w zero canon support just vibes #ted is also very latino coded to me #dc

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Summary: Her father wipes at the tears with a soft touch. “Talia,” he says, his voice stern, “You knew I would say no. Why would you ask this of me? Why would you ask when you know it would only force me to bring you pain?” Then seeing her tears come faster, he adds, gently, “I never wish to bring you pain.”

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some talia melancholia for the 4 other classic talia enjoyers

#oh boy talia fic!!! *saying this like a 50's kid excited about a toy* #read this everyone!!!! #its great #dc #talia al ghul #fic rec

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Character: is a white man. That’s it.

Fandom: how dare you dislike this femme-coded female-coded gay-coded disabled-coded mentally ill-coded icon

#you know already #dc #j*as*n

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the muse ⬇️

#dungeon meshi #yaaa

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So bruce is the best detective tim is super hot and Damian…has rabies. Do y’all get tired of being racist or?

#the words ppl will throw around to describe him #ik they don't read comics with a literate mind bc he doesn't even act the least bit irrational or “feral” in them #the next time someone calls him rabid I'm reaching through the screen and strangling them #damian wayne #dc

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#akame ga kill #yes it did scar me and influence my tastes in horror and revolutionary media

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Genuinely nothing more fucked up than having your favorite dc character be gar logan your whole life cos of the 2003 teen titans show only to then read the comics and realise his personality is ‘harasses women’

#me and you buddy #the absolute devastation I went through w NTT and seeing every panel of Gar with weird shit going on #bring back Doom Patrol!!! #what happened to his characterization there #garfield logan #dc

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what is very annoying about the vast majority of batfam fans is the very surface level approach they take towards calling out racism in dc canon and fandom. yes, you want damian to be brown in the comics but do you care about how his mother’s character was butchered due to post 9/11 anti-arab racism? yes, you want cass and duke to be featured more prominently in comics but would you be okay with them displacing your own faves in order to do so? do you even read the comics they ARE featured in, or are you content with just reblogging their one panel cameos from your fave’s solos, extolling how much you “love” them (so long as they are second fiddle, that is)? you want jason or dick (whichever you prefer) to co-parent lian, all the while sidelining jade - you are content relegating jade and talia and shado and shiva to a joking “assassin moms” punchline when you talk about their kids while not realising the implications of their race and how it plays into their portrayal by dc.

you can’t just reblog a vague post about colouring damian correctly and wanting representation and then uncritically reblog another post about how evil his mother is - you’re playing into the exact same racism you claim to denounce, while feeling like you’re being so very progressive while doing it. it’s not like i’m expressing a particularly novel sentiment either, and i’m aware i probably sound like a broken record right now but it’s just so irritating

#it gets very performative around here #some posts about Damian/Duke or Cass sound like they’re being held at gunpoint to describe anything they like about the character #you can’t shout that you want Damian to be visibly brown while also shitting on Talia in every opinion/fic you have #the lack of attention on Duke astounds me bc he has the least comic appearances #with how much people complain and bitch about how hard it is to read comics then you’d think they’d get into the character that easiest #dc

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My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

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Donations Needed: Help a Gazan Skater Evacuate His Family

This is the link to help Hani. Hani is a skater currently living in Belgium and rebuilding his life. His family lives in Gaza and are suffering at the hands of the occupation. His father was killed and they lost their house. He is now responsible to protect his family.

He needs the funds to help them evacuate. Please donate and share this.

Read more about Hani’s situation below (from his GoFundMe):

“Hello, I'm Hani from Gaza, and I'm 23 years old. I've been living in Belgium for a year, and I'm an inline skater. I'm collecting donations to get my family out to safety from northern Gaza to Egypt because I can't afford the large amount of money needed. I'm here in Belgium in the process of rebuilding my life and achieving my dreams.”

“After losing my house and its destruction on October 13th, my family became displaced in tents, and on September 15th, I lost my father due to the attack on Al-Shifa Hospital. My father was suffering from kidney failure and passed away due to lack of treatment. He was the breadwinner of my family. Now I am responsible for my family, which consists of 10 members, including 3 minors, and my 18-year-old brother. The rest are my sisters, including two toddlers, one is 3 years old, and the other is 2 years old.”

“My siblings were university students and had dreams too, but because of the war, they lost everything; they lost the university, our home, and our father. They aspire to continue their studies at the university, but the war destroyed everything. I'm now trying to get them out of Gaza to Egypt to rebuild their shattered lives. To do that, they need to be evacuated, and they need to pay for the coordination into Egypt. Due to war time prices, they're asking for 5,000 euros per person to get them out of Gaza because northern Gaza has been completely wiped out, with insufficient food and people scattered among the rubble of homes under heavy bombardment. I hope you can help me through your donations or by sharing the story with friends. Thank you so much with lots of love.”

Please donate. Every little bit helps. If you cannot donate, share this.

https://gofund.me/5d6469bf

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"Talia can never be redeemed and her romance with Bruce can never come back because *falls for Grant Morrison's/DC's extreme racism towards asian and arab characters in the 2000s/2010s"

Yeah, sorry, but shut the hell up. It never fails to astound me when DC actually tries to fix the mistakes they made with Talia/the al Ghuls in general these last two decades and the fans manage to be even worse than DC by clinging to the blatant racist/sexist writing of the past instead of embracing the turn for the better.

"But she did this and that!"

She's a fictional character in a fictional universe that is aware that it goes through continuity changes/retcons. What Grant Morrison did to her character was a a complete retcon of her 30 year history and characterization with zero respect for her. Why am I supposed to take Morrison's bullshit as gospel and reject any attempts to fix her from writers who know better?

#talia al ghul #embrace change you morons #fanon is effectively stuck in the early 2000s/2010s era and refuse to move on #‘b..but Tim was severely neglected and Dick really mistreated him bc-‘ NO HE WASNT SHUT UP SHUT UPPP #fuck grant morrison #dc #Talia deserves better and is finally getting better #and I celebrate it

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OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

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My only real and valid writing tip is that you google every word you make up for your fantasy stories. That's It

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So the whole “Batman’s mission is impossible and futile” thing is… eh, to me, because I feel like the read on Batman should be like. The fable about the girl throwing baby turtles into the ocean, knowing she can’t save them all from the seagulls swooping in to eat them. It shouldn’t be this nihilistic hopeless thing. Batman’s perspective shouldn’t be “I can’t save everyone so it’s meaningless and everything I do is just self-punishment”, it should be “It means everything to the people I CAN save.”

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just to clear up some confusion im seeing, if you see panels from "Batman (1940)" it does not mean they were all published during the year 1940 😭 that is the year the run started! this is because there are two main Batman runs, one from 1940-2011 (#1-#731/#1000000) and then another one from 2016-ongoing (currently at #148). this is because there will be an overlap of issue numbers, and since both runs have the same name, to avoid confusion one run is "Batman (1940)" and the other is "Batman (2016)".

the same can be said for the two Detective Comics runs, "Detective Comics (1937)" (#1-961/#1000000) from 1937-2011 and "Detective Comics (2016)" (#934-ongoing), currently at #1084 from 2016-ongoing.

so instead of saying Batman #57, to make it clear from which run, it's easier to say Batman (2016) #57 !

#dc comics

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There’s evidence that Palestinians in the mass graves (including babies, children, people in medical scrubs) were buried alive.

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#yeah that sure is a David Byrne moment