What the selkie?!
[image: Melanie and Georgie (a seal) on a rocky beach at sunset. Melanie is leaning back on her hands, smiling and blushing slightly at Georgie, who is leaning on her very gently and smiling as much as seals do. Their faces are very close. The light is pink, and touched with gold.]
linework by @fakecrfan, colouring by me ♥♥
eclipse fed was part of vi's college application lmao
This is an important aspect of writing Bruce Wayne, I think. To acknowledge that he thinks about and cares about things like accessibility as part of what Wayne Enterprises does.
...there is no way the gradient on that ramp is shallow enough to work. Also looks very narrow.
I think I see what they were trying to do, but it's not really workable. They tried to take one of the staircases in Wayne Manor, split it in half, and make a ramp out of one half. But the thing about ramps versus stairs is that they need a lot more in the way of long to achieve the same amount of up, so you can't actually. You know. Do that. What Wayne Manor actually needs is elevators.
Fortunately, Bruce has enough money to have them put in. At least in the regular part of the house. Running an elevator down to the Batcave is a far more fraught issue because, I mean, who do you ask? Who can you trust not to spill the beans on something like that? Supes has the raw strength to do the construction work by hand but he is not certified for it, and furthermore after all the stories he's written as Clark revealing nasty OSHA violations in companies across the nation, he's hardly going to go and violate OSHA regulations himself, come on, he has standards. Flash doesn't actually have super-strength and furthermore thinks that maybe it should be a pneumatic tube of some sort because that's more high tech, and maybe it should have a way of putting on your costume as you drop through it?
I think in the end maybe Alfred finds a mysterious crew of individuals who come in, put in the elevator, and leave without a word. He tells Bruce to never ask.
Wayne-owned buildings; that's not Wayne Manor that's a cheap apartment block. Look at the damage on the floor, the cracks in the walls.
The Batcave I think canonically has elevators and since before Oracle, by which I mean 'in some depictions'. But this isn't about the one-off special events of the world: it's about the cheap apartment blocks where ordinary people live, some of whom can't walk up stairs.
Oh boy I can't wait to see what kind of posts are in my favorite character's tag! :D
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It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"
Poly folks x aro folks in the sense that "alloromantic heterosexual monogamous people view love and sex as an entirely different entity than me, and that makes life kinda strange"
how are we back here. Again. Like hiii s4!
Hmm. In the grand schema of exploits "vanilla enchantments that are supposed to be blocked in the plug-in but aren't" is more like season 3 than season 4, and Zam did join the Cleansers, said like i learned that earlier than today
but lying. (note to self derap could still change his mind and tell zam) Hmm. Season 4 flashbacks are exactly why Zam would talk to him
I think if he finds out then either Zam thinks it's fair enough and Derap or both of them uses it or Zam suggests that's bad and Derap immediately folds and pretends he never really wanted to.
...also I did not see it before Derap hid everything but this one surviving clip looks like he literally just enchanted it through the anvil in the most normal way and now I'm wondering if it's literally even exploiting or if they just changed the restrictions and forgot to notify everyone yet. 😂
“I watched the four hour JumperWho void war video and all I got was this stupid t-shirt” type of deal.
In other news, I watched the JumperWho void war video and I’m a changed man.
my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances
I’ve never been happier in my life
Since you can't seem to swing a cat without knocking over a fairytale retelling that centers a different character from the original lead, you know who I want to hear from? Bluebeard's first wife.
Because, like, you can assume that every wife before the one we follow fell into the same trap of finally opening the Forbidden Closet of Mystery and discovering the hidden corpses, and was then killed to protect the secret...but the first wife would have no corpses to find. So why did he kill her?
Was it just for her money, and that's how he became rich enough to woo all the others? Was she getting ready to leave him for whatever reason? Did she cheat? Did he cheat, and kill her in the confrontation after she found out? Does he have some sordid criminal past even before his string of uxoricide, and when she found it, he killed her to protect that? Did he simply, over time, come to find her odious?
I know this was never a consideration in creating the story, and it doesn't really need to be, but...what goes on?
“Holy shit, though,” said Cynica again, “you have to know that none of this was normal.”
Bluebeard’s big, humorous face looked like a melting gargoyle, his mobile bearded face contorted in such a grimace of agony and wild eyes. “Please don’t judge me!” He moaned, clapping his hands on either side of his face. “It got to be so AWKWARD.”
This is the most interesting Bluebeard take I have ever read, and now I really want to know the answer to that question.
Forensic accountant
ls server updates !
★ the server has now been updated to 1.21.4
★ the border has been expanded in the overworld, it should now be 10k by 10k (and POSSIBLY the nether and the end? im uncertain)
★ restocks are now allowed mid fight
★ minecarts have been buffed!! a fully charged minecart now does 9 hearts ^-^
The world border in the End was already expanded past 5k at some point; Kaboodle went elytra-hunting, flew past that, and ran into two or three unlooted End cities in a row
Restocks being allowed—I'm lowkey not surprised, it feels like every significant fight for the last while has involved a "can we restock?" "yeah" chat exchanged. Might as well make it official. I'm in favour, let's see what happens.
this program creates a world that is destined to be destroyed over and over and over again
"it's embarrassing to watch and enjoy children's cartoons and you should be made to feel shame for it" ok. i think you should feel shame for needlessly being a prick but what do i know.
Maybe if YOU watched Bluey and Phineas & Ferb and Gravity falls and My Big Big Friend and My Little Pony Friendship is Magic you would understand that you shouldn’t shame others for the things they enjoy. But hey what do I know.
I was quite peeved when I made the original post, too peeved for complex thoughts, so I wanna add some additional detail and nuance here, actually.
I don't think adults NEED to watch stuff for kids. Like, I think you definitely can derive meaning from childrens' media even as an adult, but if you can't connect with stories that are about kid stuff, if you don't feel like you can relate enough to kid main characters created for children, then there's nothing wrong with that. Like what you like.
And relatedly, I do think adults SHOULD try to seek out media intended for adults. There's a lot of good stories made for adults! There's great stories that reckon with themes and content that kids' stories don't or can't! There's whole worlds of fascinating, life-changing stuff out there.
Now, all that being said, I think problems start to arise when we treat that "should" that I said as a statement of morality rather than enrichment. I think you should watch movies for adults, but not because you have a moral imperative to do so -- you should do it for YOUR OWN edification. You should read grown-up books because many of them have great stories that you will connect with.
The original post is me vagueposting (because I don't wanna bother anyone over lukewarm media takes) about a post I saw that treated reading adult-intended media as some sort of moral imperative. Outright saying that you should be embarrassed and shamed if you only read kids books. And I don't vibe with that.
Shame is a dangerous weapon. I cannot condone shaming people for having limited artistic tastes in the same way I can't condone shaming people for eating unhealthily. Like, we're all progressive enough to know that that's bad, right? Shaming fat people into being skinny doesn't work, we know this, and even if it did, it would still be needlessly cruel.
Like, if a grown adult really does ONLY engage with stories for kids (an archetype of person that I suspect is far less common than people assume), then sure, I'm probably not gonna look to them for nuanced literary analysis. If they try to present themselves as any kind of authority on storytelling or media analysis, I'm probably not gonna take them seriously. If their experience is SEVERELY limited I might poke fun at someone (tabletop gamers who only play D&D, readers who only ever reference Harry Potter).
But like, if someone just mostly watches kid stuff...it doesn't affect me! They aren't hurting anybody! What business do you have shaming a stranger for that? Who gives a shit? Unless they're like, a professional reviewer or something, nobody OWES you media literacy! Argue with bad takes, encourage people to read more, that's all fine, but the brazen gall of "you should actually be embarrassed for this and I will shame you for it" is just so petty. Honestly? Grow up.
