it’s kinda fucked up that you’re only an age for a year. I didn’t know how to be 23 yet, let me try again

I’m going to think about this forever…

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Who among you are old enough to remember the "It's 10pm, do you know where your children are?" reminders on TV?

That was probably necessary at the very beginning of the exchange program. Diavolo or Barbatos would have to send out text messages every day. "It's 10pm. Do you know where your human exchange student is?"

You could be doing homework in your room in the House of Lamentation when at ten o'clock on the dot you hear loud swearing and footsteps. Mammon barges in to check that you're there. The others coolly walk by and peek in just to double-check. Every single night.

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Phantom, the newest addition to the Justice League, pulls Wonder Woman aside.

He has...a strange request.

He's nervous, flustered, fading in and out of the visible spectrum. It's clear that what he's about to ask of her is important to him, and even though she has an uncomfortable voice in the back of her head telling her this young hero is about to ask her out, she resolves to listen before she jumps to conclusions.

She's glad she did.

"Can...can you put a grave for me in Themyscira? I know it's just for women, but it's the safest place I can think of for it! I just...I don't have a grave, and Clockwork says it's starting to stunt my growth as a Ghost, and I have too many enemies on American soil, so. It's okay if you say no, though, I'll figure something out, it's fine."

Diana lets him ramble to the end, already knowing what her answer is going to be.

"We would be honored to host your grave, Phantom. Do you have any remains I can take home? Do you require a funeral service?"

Phantom looks...he looks beyond grateful. Close to tears.

"No, no remains. A symbolic grave is fine, it just. It has to have my real name on it, my mortal one." He says, looking hesitant. "Please don't reach out to my family, Wonder Woman. They don't know."

With that, he hands over a small slip of paper, torn from a notebook and clearly folded one too many times.

She takes it as though he were entrusting her with the rarest diamond in the world. She wants to, but she does not ask how they could not notice the death of someone so very bright.

Instead she nods, tucking the paper away.

Phantom will get a grand grave, one worthy of a friend to the Crown of Themyscira. She will ensure it.

Can we focus on the "#she makes it a point to leave flowers at it whenever she can" tag for a moment because imo it's just so sweet and I want to explain why.

Mostly because she is an Amazon and lived in this society for majority of her life. What does this change in this situation? Amazons are based on Ancient Greeks and from what little I know about their funerary traditions (I should change it ig, gimme links if you have something good), they were quite different from nowadays. Like, they gave their dead a coin (or three I haven't read reliable source on that and what I did contradicts each other) so they could get a ride on Charon's boat. There is probably much more to it but once again, I have no idea. But the thing is, I don't think they actually were giving their dead any flowers. So for Diana, Amazon born and raised, when she has to show a respect to the dead flowers aren't first instinct. So this means she repeatedly went out of her way to honor him in a way appropriate to his culture.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love idea of people honoring Danny in a way appropriate to their culture, I brought up this idea literally yesterday on other prompt but I need you all to see how absolutely precious it is this way.

It's a difference between telling someone "I love you" in your mother tongue and explaining what it means and learning how to tell it in their language. Both causes cavities but the second one just hits different

Going off prompt but finally! My time to put all of my Classics and Archeology courses to use and infodump about ancient Greece has come!

But also? Completely unrelated to Diana? That grave, for a CHILD, is now on "we are ALL Momther now" Themyscira? The land of the "we ALL collectively raised Diana" Amazons? That is a Dead Kid.

A Dead Kid who asked for a Place Of Safety where no one could harm his resting place. Who's OWN FAMILY didn't even notice he was dead.

......Not On Their Watch. *slaps down adoption papers in front of the grave* Honey! I adopted the dead kid!

Just? Imagine it? A whole island of immortal bamf warrior women. Casually stopping by this child's grave. They don't know him, he's not one of their's, but they care because he is a child. That should be reason enough. He lived and now is dead.

Flowers picked while they walked, little hand carvings, stories about their day. Little offerings. A grave kept clean and well tended. Worn soft by gentle pats as they pass by. A place to rest and be remembered.

Y’all, the thought of all those women just casually patting Danny’s grave as they walk past? The gentle touches, do you think he feels them? Does he feel them like a mother carding her fingers through their beloved child’s hair?

for his sake, I hope he feels them as a little touch of warmth, especially when he needs it most.

I bet Diana tells them his hero name, so whenever he is injured, a few dedicated women do maintainance, such as cleaning, re carving, and replacing and washing worn-out offerings.

This boosts his recovery and gives him extra strength.

They won't fail him, just like they don't fail any of their other fallen sisters and mothers.

His grave will be kept sacred and holy, until he wishes to rest.

On warrior's honor.

Danny gets another title added to his list of them in the Realms; Son of Themyscira.

I GOT INSPIRED BY THIS AND DIDN'T MEAN TO SPEND 5 HOURS DRAWING THIS LMAO

Danny probably hears the people who touch his gave, the sudden words telling him to rest well, that he's fought long enough and he's loved would move him to tears.

(I was gonna write "Son of Themyscira" to his grave but mf doesn't have a birthday???)

good goddamn

this is beautiful

Would a Danny who never physically ages past 14 be allowed on Themyscira? Since he's a child that will never truly grow into a man.

Can Danny ever go to his own grave?

Or did he willingly ask for it to go in the one place he can never go? Trusting that his grave would be safest there and prioritizing that over his own ache to be able to go to it, to find the peace and safety other ghosts feel at their own resting places.

Gosh this is a great edition I am trying not to cry. AND THAT ART! I think more then a place he can't go (he probably assumes he can't go whether he actually can or not) is a place he knows no one will ever look. Not his enemies and certainly not (and he NEVER lets himself think about it too hard) his family. Because he didn't just never tell them because they didn't notice but because a part of him believed his death would hurt his parents. Or worse was afraid it WOULDN"T. But here's the thing. Very often the things we do for the dead are as much for them as they are for ourselves. So yes Princess Diana is proud to lay a resting place for her friend Phantom, for Danny. It is her honor and her pleasure to honor both the warrior she fights with and the boy he was. She lays flowers at his grave but also gifts of food and lit candles. And tries very carefully not to think that if Steve Trevor had lived... The stone carver that takes the commission is thrilled and honored to do this work for the Crown. She is an artist on an island of warriors and it is rare the stone carver gets to follow her heart's work. She asks for tales of the boy. What does her princess know? What deeds should she depicted, honors should she immortalize? The stone carvers takes everything she has learned and across the top of his tomb depicts a boy eyes up gazing at the heavens, head back in wonder, a spear at rest and almost forgotten at his side. She carves the constellation for Pegasus and Cassiopeia in the sky above. It is a masterwork. Queen Hippolyta congratulates her and asks her opinion on redoing the columns at the Temple of Athena.

One of the first guards on the tomb is a marathon runner, currently off active duty due to an injury. No greater joy has she then to race across the beaches and fields of Themyscira, feeling the winds in her face. She crafts a pair of miniature running sandals, talking to Danny Phantom as she does, explaining the best way to hold the body as you race, how to hug the terrain when you move, how to roll if you trip and fall and get back up again. The peace of this tomb gives her the space she needs to forgive herself. To get back up again. She leaves them next to a little plate of Oranges the Princess left. When the cast comes off she races up to Danny's grave, exuberant with the news, feels like she is sharing her joy with a little brother and not a monument of stone.

There are a dozens more examples. Amazons who leave little spears and slings and great stories of brave deeds. Amazons who leave dishes of steadily increasing quality, thanking the spirit boy for his patience at they learned finally to cook that dish. Amazons who kiss their fingers and run them over the stone, who share silly jokes or advice and always always the steady beat: "You are loved. You are remembered. You are ferociously protected. Rest well. Dream happy things."

i feel like due to this Danny ghost form would slowly become more and more Greek looking

like for a few examples

he gets armour more themed to the warriors of Themyscira

maybe a shield to represent his need to protect

maybe even gaining tattoos that mark a blessing from the god/goddess of protection and mercy (if they exist)

This is DC, all the Greek Gods exist. Olympus is a place you can visit if you can open a portal.

I really like Danny's Ghost form taking influences from those and other Powers he's connected to as his mortal one grows and ages.

Persephone and Hades would adore him.

Just saying, he's perfect for the two of them. Half alive, half dead, forever in-between, traveling from the realm of the living to the realms of the dead regularly.

He's more than just gaining aesthetic elements. Everything they tell him seeps into his dreams; knowledge in his subconcious bleeding out into his actions.

Take the runner, for example. She told him how to run. How to race and roll and navigate terrain. The next time Danny finds himself flightless and has to physically run, he finds it easier than it used to be. He's steadier on his feet and knows how to pace himself better. He doesn't trip or stumble over odd terrain, but rather uses it to his advantage in ways he never knew how to do before.

And of course, it's not just knowledge of physical feats that ingrain themselves in him. In every great story of heros and heroics, there are many lessons to learn. Story by story, the wisdom of the Amazons is imprinted on his sleeping mind.

Eventually Pandora's whole area of the Zone start automatically orbiting closer to the King's Lair, and when Pandora goes to ask Danny (Who is now bedecked in more Grecian themed stuff) 'Hey, so, I'm delighted by your new look and by my Lair being blessed by it's new closeness to yours, but I'm curious. Did you um... switch Religions recently, or anything?' And Danny, looking like a Greek God of some sort, trying to hide the fact he has a grave and where it is (because that's the whole point) just goes 'No. I just think it's neat.' And he does but like y'know... he's a shit liar but she doesn't press.

This post and the outfit ideas have been haunting me

it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

Not to get emo on main but you ever think about how the troop sang about their dreams of finding “a girl worth fighting for”, and they think their girl worth fighting for is one of romance, but the song abruptly comes to a halt when they find a different girl worth fighting for.

A tiny girl that had been killed at the hands of the Huns. A child too weak, too small to have any chance of withstanding the murderous invaders. That is their girl worth fighting for.

This is fucking horrific

It’s also worth noting that ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the last song in the movie. Up until here, it’s a fun movie, and the imminent invasion feels like it’s just there to keep the plot moving, and to provide a little bit of drama to spice things up. None of the soldier’s are quite taking this seriously yet; sure, Mulan wanted to save her father from the draft, and on some level she was aware that he would die if he went to war, but beyond that she’s interested in not being caught, and not shaming her family. Her motives are good, but they’re entirely self centered. All the other soldiers are more or less in the same boat - they want to get tougher, they want to impress girls, they want to be cool soldiers. Shang’s easily the most serious of the bunch at first, and even then it’s just because training bad soldiers will reflect poorly on him, and important people are paying attention.

The abrupt ending of ‘A Girl Worth Fighting For’ is the wake up call. The soldiers and the audience get slapped in the face with the realization of what’s really at stake here. China is being invaded. Villages are burning, civilians are dying, and this isn’t going to stop until the country is conquered or the invaders are defeated. This is not a fun musical, this is a major crisis.

Mulan is such a good movie for so many reasons, but the abrupt tone shift is such a major reason why. It’s an excellent commentary on the reality of war, and it being a kids movie just meant they had to make their point without showing any actual gore, which I’d honestly say makes it that much more poignant.

That moment, when they come over the rise and see the razed village is one of the best scenes in film. Period. Somehow, instead of giving me tonal whiplash, it took my breath away, and that’s one fuck of a balancing act.

I think I forgot to show tumblr this but it's been over a year since Phoenix Wright appeared on my crashed laptop screen

Art challenge where you have to finish what you're making

Obssesed with this comment

Thinking about how my grandfather used to sit behind me while I video-chatted with my girlfriend and he didn't understand "video calls" and told me that watching the same show all day would rot my brain. he said he could see this happening because of how happy and bouncy I got while I watching it

He complained to my father that I was becoming a lunatic because I would at times speak to the character on the screen

I think the most invested (negative) he got was when the character assembled furniture for two hours straight

The best part is that when he reported my deteriorating mental state to my father, my father wasn't aware I had a gf and thought he was referring to me animating. I was working on my thesis at the time so the logic cohered. so my father tried to explain the concept of animation (which my father also didn't fully understand) and why frames have to be drawn over and over. this one frame of a lady's face staring into the camera as she builds a home bar lowkey gaslighting my grandfather who then decided animation was making me insane

in your deranged grandfather's defense, i also absolutely hated the furniture assembly episode

also in your deranged grandfather’s defense, animation probably does make people insane

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.

A really good host would actually provide a topic of conversation based on things you and the person they were introducing you to had in common.

At networking events I've gone to, where there's no host who knows everybody, good networkers pick up the slack. They go around the room once making just enough small talk to learn some useful info about a good portion of of the people in the room, and then circle back around and go, "Oh hey I was just talking to X over there and he's looking for someone who does Y for his next project; you should go talk to him." You can do something similar at parties, referring people to other people you made smalltalk with you have the same hobbies or like the same kind of movies.

To take a few steps back up the thread to the part about turning down future dates, the same goes for turning down shitty job offers.

"[Thank you for your interest]/[Thank you for thinking of me for this role], however I'm afraid [I have prior commitments]/[I'm not a good fit] at this time. I wish you the best of luck [finding the right fit for your company]/[with your startup endeavor]"

Delete or substitute more relevant lines as appropriate, but it's a polite way of saying "no" without feeling like you need to overexplain.

Increasingly, people -- millennials and younger, rarely anyone older -- will not get the hint about this and get pushy, fishing for extra information to let them work around the Polite No, which in previous generations would have been incredibly rude. It's still incredibly rude, at which point the polite response is, "Thank you, but I gave you my final answer. Best of luck!" no matter how many times they come back. Become a broken record until they go away.

More depressingly, but no less usefully, we used to have common scripts for things like grief and mourning: what to say when it feels like there is nothing that could possibly be said.

Like-- just because it's a script doesn't mean it isn't sincere. And it's often a damn sight better than saying nothing at all.

The most consistent and reliable resource I've seen for, at least American-style, etiquette instruction is Emily Post, of newspaper column and etiquette book fame.

There's a website now that's organized by family business, and has not only a section dedicated to business etiquette, but also the general etiquette page is full of information sorted by topic.

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Oh my gosh this is literally too cute! And Luke being the BIG brother! My heart!!!! 💞💞💞💞💞

New political strategy just dropped.

Taiwanese parliament member stole a Bill before it could get passed. 

@NFL Someone sign this man as a running back.

This is simply how they do things in Taiwan. In 2006, DPP deputy Wang Shu-hui successfully prevented a vote on an incoming bill by Eating It.