Bruce Wayne struggles to say “I love you” to his kids but is always doing things for them without being asked.

If anyone asks, he doesn’t acknowledge he did any of this or he shrugs it off with a “yep.” He’s a man of action, not words. He cares deeply and doesn’t know how to show it.

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

Hell yeah moon holiday

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

A lot of tough situations where we now feel like we “don’t know what to do or say” had social scripts just a couple of generations ago and they might have been canned phrases or robotic actions but they could still be meant sincerely and unfortunately we haven’t replaced them with any more sincere or easier new script.

a lot of people are giving examples in the notes of things they just find annoying like not using headphones in public, but OP is talking about actual literal scripts of things to say in awkward situations

if you have a date or two with someone and you don't see a relationship developing? most millennials / gen Zers just end up ghosting. but a social script that might have been taught and rehearsed in the past could be:

"I really appreciated getting dinner with you the other night and I enjoyed your company, but I'm afraid I didn't feel a spark. I wish you the best, and hope you find that special someone!"

like it sounds kind of trite but it was at least something to say and it can still be meant with kind sincerity. it also communicates in 2 sentences that you don't want to see them romantically again, but there aren't any hard feelings about that. that's it!!! that's all it takes!!!

Another example is that at parties a lot of people talk about how awkward it is to mingle or talk to people they dont know. But at old timey parties that was traditionally the HOST'S job, and there was a specific scripted way of doing it that eased the process! The host would bring you in, introduce you and maybe even a little bit about you like what you did for a living, and then guide you to a group you could talk to. They didn't just let you in the door and then ditch you to fend for yourself in a sea of strangers. That would be unthinkable and no one would be surprised if a get-together like that wound up being awkward.

I still do the party-host thing and yall can, too! (Thanks Mad Men for teaching me a lot of outmoded social scripts... no really tho)

Remember things about your friends! Ask people about their weekends, hobbies, holidays, studies, and jobs! Listen for the concerns people have and what they are working on! Draw connections between one person and another to get the ball rolling. "Oh, Maura, you just got your first cat! You should talk to Felix, he used to work at a rescue. Felix, please tell Maura all the new-cat-guardian pointers."

"Bill, Sheila, Xan, this is my friend Kale. Kale is really into Star Trek, Bill you and them should talk about it!"

Orrr whatever! After you make the introduction and draw the connection you just float on into the next interaction with someone else at the function. Just listen, care about your friends, get our of your own head, and think of how you can bring other people together and you will feel 100% less awkward.

hi i am so excited about this post because i have posted this exact thing MANY times on here, often in the specific context of how formal etiquette is so useful for autistic people especially, but also for everyone. even if you come off a little bit formal, which you will sometimes, having Old School Manners (or just knowing what they are) for various common scenarios is like having a magic ticket that will just sail you through all kinds of social iinteractions, gatekeeping, social weirdness, and as is pointed out in the above posts about introducing people to each other, can make you into a really valuable and helpful person for an entire gathering or group of people.

i also want to point out that knowing what the polite thing to do in all situations makes you a lot more effective at being rude and obnoxious when the situation calls for it, which is also a valuable and necessary adult skill

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

oh leonid, we're really in it now

Leonid, you really understand it.

Save me Leonid, from my empty Word document

Leonid what should I do about the emails

Babe are you okay? you reblogged Leonid Pasternak's Torments of Creative Work again

Leonid Pasternak is the best! My favorite of his is The Night Before The Exam (1895).

My man Leonid continues to be relatable

Dick was the last to be adopted, Jason became the black sheep post-resurrection, Tim made himself Robin, Damian was dropped in Gotham after ten years of being kept secret, Cass possesses killer instincts that run counter to Batman's philosophy, Duke is a meta whose parents are still alive (albeit jokerized), and Steph has zero legal connections to the Waynes. All of the batkids have reason to believe they're the only one Bruce doesn't want around and Bruce is unaware of the problem because they don't vocalize it not just out of the usual emotional constipation, but also a deep-seated fear of being proven right. In this essay, I will—

there’s probably a universal bat experience of realising with nothing but incredulous rage that out of all of the LIFE SAVING FRIENDLY VIGILANTES working in Gotham, the bat with the most love and support from the general public is the one that’s literally a fucking crime lord. like Nightwing’s the one everybody’s horny for, but Red Hood? that’s their fucking G. their Homie. their buddy. their ride or die.

it drives the rest of them fucking insane

I agree but also I feel like every vigilante other than Batman has like their own following.

Hell some of the fanclubs even have other bats in them.

Jason yah but that's only because the other bats are hyper aware of his.

Duke because he's fucking Duke enough said. Every single kid who's not born with a silver spoon shoved up their ass and or is a peice of shit is fighting tooth and nail for Signal merch. Narrows kids who have little pins of him on their bags.

Nightwing he's got his horny ones and then all the sparkly eyed little siblings who lead all the other baby siblings who think Nightwing reminds them of their parentified older siblings.

Batgirl and I do mean all the batgirls have a huge following with some of the most badass little girls you will ever meet fuck Red Hood they want to be Oracle. Trying to be sneaky enough to get one over on black bat. Sometimes Cass is found with a group of children just hanging out on a rooftop.

Tim's the hero of every energy drinking daredevil who will have posters of skateboard Robin on their walls. Kids who are replicating his tech in their basements.

Damain has a hoard of children following him too, they even bring their cats and other animals to show him. At least 20 different children have needed stitches because they tried to replicate some katana moves because it's Gotham and they got their hands on them.

Every bats for their own following, made up of different kids with different backgrounds and such.

It's a right of passage just like all us fandom fucks you think actual Gotham people didn't at 12 years old read and find everything they could about their specific bat? Please.

Jason's got a following and people support yah but he isn't the only one.

They all just have to much self hatred to realize the mob of people showing them support. Jason included it's the bat motto no matter how much everyone loves you, the self hatred has to be enough for you to fight crime as a furry.

(3:00 am me can't spell damn)

— Donte Collins

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I love me a pseudo-historical arranged marriage au but it always nudges my suspension of disbelief when the author has to dance around the implicit expectation that an arranged marriage should lead to children, which a cis gay couple can't provide.

I know for a lot of people that's irrelevant to what they want from an Arranged Marriage plot, but personally I like playing in the weird and uncomfortable implications.

So, I've been thinking about how you would justify an obviously barren marriage in That Kind of fantasy world, and I thought it'd be interesting if gay marriage in Ye Old Fantasy Land was a form of soft disinheritance/abdication.

Like, "Oh, God, I don't want to be in this position of power please just find me a boy to marry", or, "I know you should inherit after you father passes but as your stepmother/legal guardian I think it'd make more sense if my kids got everything, so maybe consider lesbianism?", or "Look, we both know neither of our families has enough money to support that many grandkids, so let's just pair some spares and save both our treasuries the trouble".

Obviously this brings in some very different dynamics that I know not everyone would be pinged by, but I just think it'd be neat.

This is actually a really cool variant solution to a real historical problem, wherein either primogeniture or other profoundly shitty customs led to wealthy parents having insufficient resources to provide for all of their children in a manner consistent with their station.

Historically, the Church and its widespread monastic structure functioned as a dumping ground for second/third/etc sons and all the daughters one can't afford to marry off adequately, with the military eventually picking up the slack for the former post-Reformation to the point where it's been argued that the need for something to occupy these dispossessed sons played a role in Europe's ongoing conflicts between its nations and the eventual push of imperialism and colonization over the rest of the world.

In a world where homosexuality were more accepted, it would offer a new option: spare a comparatively-small outlay of resources from the main family fortune to equip a house and accoutrements, which would be reabsorbed into the family as a return inheritance in a few decades, and contract a marriage which would be deliberately unable to produce legitimate offspring.

You get the advantages of creating marital ties with another wealthy family, the people married therein have a spouse and the status achievements that go with marriage, and the risk that your child goes off and marries someone unsuitable or inconvenient is removed entirely, as is the risk that they could marry someone and have legitimate, inheritance-claiming children with them. Sure, they can have affairs and thus get children if they're married to a same-sex spouse, but those children cannot be passed off as legitimate issue of the marriage, and so they pose less of a threat to the the main body of the family's wealth.

And, thus: perfectly reasonable reason why your pseudohistorical fictional characters can find themselves in a same-sex arranged marriage!

"Nicholas, we've arranged for you to marry Eric, in the neighboring kingdom."

"But father, I'm not...."

"I'm well aware. I've just decided that you shouldn't reproduce."

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Please write your story. Draw the artwork. Finish the animation. Continue on whatever project you're working on. It doesn't matter if you're not good at it, or you have doubts, or you're afraid of mistakes. Your creation has a right to exist, and it will be important to others.

Your are the monarch of a historical/fantasy kingdom, who perished many years ago and your name is only written down in recorded history, know only to future generations.

Out of the 130 options in the picker wheel here (all are gender neutral),

And yes: there is a 'no epithet' option in there.

I got The Oathtaker.

I got The Leprous. I’m known for a god damn deadly disease

The Bloody. *happy elizabeth noises*

Why do you get something badass while I get a disease!

i came up rough housing with a bunch of my cousins, all of whom were either older or bigger than i. my roommate has nicknamed me 'stabby duckling'. i am known in my dorm as that weird recluse who will threaten oddly specific violence on behalf of anyone who shows me a scrap of care and affection, and knows more about body disposal than any of them. (not a very high bar, tbf.)

you know what they say about stopped watches and occasional accuracy.

Yeah, definitely occasional

plot twist, your title was incorrectly translated from the latin by an unpaid intern too busy stressing over whether they made a mistake with that classics degree to read the admittedly small print on the picture of your unearthed monument closely.

this led to them mistakenly reading your epithet as the nominative lepor (a leper, one who is leprous) instead of lepore, an ablative adjective equivalent, (lexical form lepos, leporis)

your true title may be translated 'One of Great Charm',

(note: lepos may be used interchangeably to imply charm in the sense of either grace or quick wit)

:)

Thank you for the confidence boost

anytime! sides, keeps me from wondering whether i'm making a mistake with this classics, but what else was i going to do with all my latin experience?

Become a cult leader

...i will be right back

Your are the monarch of a historical/fantasy kingdom, who perished many years ago and your name is only written down in recorded history, know only to future generations.

Out of the 130 options in the picker wheel here (all are gender neutral),

And yes: there is a 'no epithet' option in there.

I got The Oathtaker.

I got The Leprous. I’m known for a god damn deadly disease

The Bloody. *happy elizabeth noises*

Why do you get something badass while I get a disease!

i came up rough housing with a bunch of my cousins, all of whom were either older or bigger than i. my roommate has nicknamed me 'stabby duckling'. i am known in my dorm as that weird recluse who will threaten oddly specific violence on behalf of anyone who shows me a scrap of care and affection, and knows more about body disposal than any of them. (not a very high bar, tbf.)

you know what they say about stopped watches and occasional accuracy.

Yeah, definitely occasional

plot twist, your title was incorrectly translated from the latin by an unpaid intern too busy stressing over whether they made a mistake with that classics degree to read the admittedly small print on the picture of your unearthed monument closely.

this led to them mistakenly reading your epithet as the nominative lepor (a leper, one who is leprous) instead of lepore, an ablative adjective equivalent, (lexical form lepos, leporis)

your true title may be translated 'One of Great Charm',

(note: lepos may be used interchangeably to imply charm in the sense of either grace or quick wit)

:)

Thank you for the confidence boost

anytime! sides, keeps me from wondering whether i'm making a mistake with this classics, but what else was i going to do with all my latin experience?

Your are the monarch of a historical/fantasy kingdom, who perished many years ago and your name is only written down in recorded history, know only to future generations.

Out of the 130 options in the picker wheel here (all are gender neutral),

And yes: there is a 'no epithet' option in there.

I got The Oathtaker.

I got The Leprous. I’m known for a god damn deadly disease

The Bloody. *happy elizabeth noises*

Why do you get something badass while I get a disease!

i came up rough housing with a bunch of my cousins, all of whom were either older or bigger than i. my roommate has nicknamed me 'stabby duckling'. i am known in my dorm as that weird recluse who will threaten oddly specific violence on behalf of anyone who shows me a scrap of care and affection, and knows more about body disposal than any of them. (not a very high bar, tbf.)

you know what they say about stopped watches and occasional accuracy.

Yeah, definitely occasional

plot twist, your title was incorrectly translated from the latin by an unpaid intern too busy stressing over whether they made a mistake with that classics degree to read the admittedly small print on the picture of your unearthed monument closely.

this led to them mistakenly reading your epithet as the nominative lepor (a leper, one who is leprous) instead of lepore, an ablative adjective equivalent, (lexical form lepos, leporis)

your true title may be translated 'One of Great Charm',

(note: lepos may be used interchangeably to imply charm in the sense of either grace or quick wit)

:)

Your are the monarch of a historical/fantasy kingdom, who perished many years ago and your name is only written down in recorded history, know only to future generations.

Out of the 130 options in the picker wheel here (all are gender neutral),

And yes: there is a 'no epithet' option in there.

I got The Oathtaker.

I got The Leprous. I’m known for a god damn deadly disease

The Bloody. *happy elizabeth noises*

Why do you get something badass while I get a disease!

i came up rough housing with a bunch of my cousins, all of whom were either older or bigger than i. my roommate has nicknamed me 'stabby duckling'. i am known in my dorm as that weird recluse who will threaten oddly specific violence on behalf of anyone who shows me a scrap of care and affection, and knows more about body disposal than any of them. (not a very high bar, tbf.)

you know what they say about stopped watches and occasional accuracy.