artists fuck better because we turn sex into art, masterpieces, mattresses become canvases where we can paint our love to someone with bodies.
cannot get over this comment on a chess tournament video
thematically, Batman needs to be a good father. 'but he's the dark knight! but he's vengeance and the night! but he's a loner!' yeah sure whatever, but that's over looking several crucial factors of his story. Batman's real enemy is societal corruption, it's what killed his parents, it's what makes it impossible for him to only throw money at Gotham to fix it, it's the source of basically all of his rogues. and you know what flies in the face of societal corruption? kindness, compassion, a willingness to try to improve oneself. Batman fights it on the ground, dismantling large crime families as much as he stops muggers and rapists. Bruce Wayne fights it with money, with charm, with charities riddled with more good people than bad. the societal corruption Batman and Bruce Wayne is fighting is a wealthy, white, uppercrust aristocracy. and you know what's a part of that aristocracy? toxic masculinity and a near pathological refusal to be close to people. if Batman is really going to be a story about fighting against society and a rich man trying to use his privilege for good Bruce Wayne has to be shown fighting that influence even within his own home, by reaching out to his kids and being soft and sweet with them and not a bullshit toxic male fantasy that punches them in the face to prove a point (looking at the fucking court of owls dick grayson issue) he doesn't have to be perfect but he HAS to be more good than bad.
you can make the argument of Batman seeing them as soldiers and Bruce Wayne seeing them as his kids and the inherent conflict between the two but he has. to be. a good. father.
If you could rename each ship what would you name them?
Dickkory → Dickfire
Dickbabs → Dabs
Birdflash → Dickwall
Dickroy → Dick Arse
Jaytemis → Jartemis
Jayroy → Joint Tombstone
Jaykyle → Red-Green
Timsteph → Drown
Timkon → Rob-El
Timber → It's going down, I'm yelling
Stephcass → Sporphan
Harlivy → Plant-based Cupcakes
Batcat → Kwayne
Batlantern → Battery
Superbat → Blark
What do you mean the latest villain in Nightwing’s solo was in the audience the night Dick’s parents died? Is there anyone in the DC’s universe that was NOT at this show?
Groovy
everybody in the notes
The conversation around abortion shouldn’t be “are you absolutely sure you want an abortion” it should be “are you absolutely sure you want a child”. You can get pregnant again. You can adopt. But you can’t half-heartedly raise a child or change your mind midway through parenthood. Children are a huge responsibility and if someone isn’t 110% sure they are willing and able to do it, they shouldn’t. Having a baby shouldn’t be the default because of how extremely demanding and difficult parenthood is and the irreversible damage it does to a kid to be raised by someone who didn’t even fully want parenthood and wasn’t prepared for that level of responsibility.
A hero in more ways than one
me irl
People don’t hate rich ppl enough for me
Starting off my day with an excellent take from Reddit:
tumblr polls have amplified the human need to vote on things. this place just became the roman senate
So.... Yeah
Misogyny is not an inherent biological feature in men. It’s a societal ill that men are taught and socially rewarded for perpetuating. Spreading the idea that misogyny is biological is a really defeatist way of looking at things because leads to people thinking that women being harassed and attacked and murdered is just the natural order of things and not something that we can push back against and change and eradicate.
i think i've been tagged in the "nine books you want to read in 2023" thing a few times but i lost track of who tagged me...im sowwy. anyway here are my picks
these are just the first that come to mind, either because i've already downloaded them or because i've been particularly curious about the subject matter: the membranes by chi ta-wei; last words from montmartre by qiu miaojin; psychopolitics by byung chul han; abolish the family: a manifesto for care and liberation by sophie lewis; the body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world by elaine scarry; labyrinths: selected stories and other writings by jorge luis borges; kalpa imperial by algelica gorodischer; if on a winter's night a traveler by italo calvino; how europe underdeveloped africa by walter rodney
i'm not gonna tag anyone because im shy </3
truly could’ve never guessed the second half of this 5 second video