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Not gonna reblog this too much to avoid flooding my blog so it's up to you

FINAL HOUR

I've been sitting on this announcement for awhile, but I'm finally going to cave and just get it out there:

I'm finally getting top surgery at the end of July!

I'm so, so excited. I've been waiting for this for years and cannot wait to get these things removed. I've always felt disgusted by them, even before I knew I was trans. Finally gettting top surgery is going to be liberating for me. My insurance will be covering at least some of the cost and I'll be living with my parents for at least 2 weeks while recovering.

Now gets to the... not fun part of this post, and the reason I've been putting it off so much.

My insurance will probably be covering at least some of it, and I'll be on medical leave for work, but it only pays 60% of your usual income. I'm... not gonna lie, I've not been posting things here in large part because I've been struggling financially all year. Hours at work are consistently being cut, everything else is getting more and more expensive, and I've been struggling to make ends meet for well over a year. The only reason I've stuck with this job as long as I have is because the insurance includes top surgery. At the end of this year at the very latest I'm going to try and find something better.

So comes the hardest part of this post; I've revamped my kofi a little and added a goal to try and help with some of the costs of surgery as well as my estimated 4 week recovery time on very little wages. I'm still selling my oddity vials and have put them up on my kofi shop, as well as created a fund/goal specifically for my top surgery. Over this past year I've had to use a large chunk of my savings just for grocerries and rent that had initially been specifically FOR my top surgery.

If you could reblog or donate or want a cute little oddity vial for your shelf, any little bit helps and will be going towards my surgery, rent and food. Thanks for reading. ❤

So I just noticed some old comments on my fics, and now I’m overthinking replying since it’s been so long. So tumblr:

honestly if someone replied to a comment I left years and years ago I would a) be touched they made the effort when they don't owe me anything, and b) probably would read the fic again and leave ANOTHER comment.

I don't expect or require replies, but I always love seeing when I've made a writer happy.

Not gonna reblog this too much to avoid flooding my blog so it's up to you

I saw a tweet talking about how non-Indians can't wear Pavitr Prabhakar's costume since many of its elements are derived from Hindu culture and I want to talk about it.

As an Indonesian person whose culture from the island of Java, I just want to say how happy I felt when I saw his costume in Across the Spider-Verse. My culture is heavily influenced by Hindu culture in the past. I wasn't really invested in the movie until I saw him. When I saw him on screen, I instantly thought of wayang, a general term of puppets that originated in Java.

I was thinking of how the Sheikah tell Link that "A hero rises to right the wrongs of Hyrule". Then, I was thinking, again, of how Rauru calls Ganondorf "a hero to his people".

I feel like the wording is deliberate. Throughout LoZ and even in BotW/TotK there are plenty of instances where they mention that light and darkness exist hand in hand. The bargainer statues also mention how good and evil at the end of the line are meaningless labels. If Ganondorf/Ganon was all that was wrong with Hyrule, then why not say "to right the wrongs inflicted by the calamity/demon king"?

I think Ganondorf tends to appear in Hyrule when the country itself is waning, on the verge of corruption, or going in a direction that throws it off the delicate balance that the gods have established. He comes to wipe out the status quo, to kill and destroy the establishments that are contributing to a country that is ready to fall into decline. Then, once he has scorched the earth, Link appears to kill Ganondorf so that the people may rebuild with new hope and a new vision for their future, guided by the hand of wisdom that is Zelda. So, I suppose to divine beings, the conflict occurring in Hyrule seems to be a natural cycle that must occur to maintain stasis in Hyrule. Any time the country begins to diverge from what it is supposed to be, a great "evil" appears to shake things up so that the hero and the princess can appear to destroy it and "course correct" Hyrule's destiny. In that sense, Ganondorf can be regarded, in a very morbid sense, as a "hero".

nobody is allowed to call themselves a Batfam fan unless they know about Harold, the genius hunchback who lived in the Batcave for ten real-life years building Bruce's bat-tech

people have a lot of hopes & dreams for the Battinson sequel, but me? all I want is Harold puttering around in the background of every Batcave scene with absolutely no explanation

oh buddy

pedants will get up my ass if I don't mention that Harold technically originated in an issue of the Question, but for our purposes what matters is his second-ever appearance in Batman #448, the first part of an arc called the Penguin Affair that spanned two issues of Batman and one of Detective Comics.

tl;dr Harold has had a bad time for his entire life because he's ugly, but he also happens to be an absolutely brilliant engineer. the Penguin scoops Harold up off the side of the road after he gets the everloving shit kicked out of him for looking the way he does, and takes Harold in.

unfortunately for Harold the Penguin is the Penguin and proceeds to treat him pretty badly while enacting his latest scheme (something something kidnapping his favorite soap opera actress while trying to auction off trained attack birds to various shady governments, typical Penguin shit). Harold, being an upstanding sort of guy, realizes that he's being used and ultimately sides with Batman, disappearing at the end of the adventure

you'd understandably assume that that's the last we'll see of Harold, but he makes an unexpected return in Batman #458. Harold has been hiding out in an abandoned building in a shitty part of Gotham (an admittedly silly phrase, as it implies there's a part of Gotham that isn't shitty) fixing toys for impoverished children. unfortunately the local parents assume some creep shit is going on and promptly form a mob about it

you'd expect this to end with everyone learning a valuable lesson about discriminating against people who look different and Bruce Wayne setting Harold up with a cushy job in Wayne Enterprises R&D or something, but instead he just. takes him home and sets him up in the Batcave.

after that Harold becomes an intermittent fixture in the Bat household; every time you start to think the writers have surely forgotten about him he pops up again to remind you he's still there.

on Bruce and Tim's first night out as Batman and Robin in Batman #465 watching soap operas with Alfred and Ace

and in Batman #470 he gets a casual namedrop to remind us that yes, he's still down there building things

bear in mind that all thee issues cited so far are from 1990 and 1991, but Harold is around until he dies during Hush in 2003.

this man was fully living in Bruce's basement, apparently aware of his identity, for over a decade and predates a quite a lot of other important Batfamily events: Barbara becoming Oracle, Jason's resurrection, Steph and Cass existing at all - hell, he even predates this version of Ace by a few issues.

and we simply do not speak of him because it was just. so weird that Bruce had a nonverbal hunchback living under his house building him stuff for nearly 13 years.

every day I am prevented from imprinting Joshua "Huge Bitch" Kiryu's internal garden screens into people's minds to explain literally everything

THE RELATIONSHIP LIVES WHERE TWO BEINGS ATTEMPT, IMPOSSIBLY, TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER.

SOMETIMES THIS UNDERSTANDING GOES SO WRONGLY IT IS UNSALVAGEABLE.

AND SOMETIMES. YOU RECOGNIZE A PIECE OF YOUR SELF, REFLECTING BACK AS YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE.

It’s important they have someone to trust… 💗

The Assorted Old Fic Rec Post

I was given a friendly challenge today, through Discord, by the lovely @merfilly​, to do some public fanfic recommendations - with the caveat that the fic be older than 5 years old.

“Huh,” I said… and went to my AO3 bookmarks.

Friends, I found some absolute treasures there. I had to stop opening more links - I limited myself to five, all from different fandoms, or else this post would be too long and I wouldn’t finish it. Enjoy the following curated section, and I highly encourage you to reblog this post. If you have any Fanfiction Recommendations Older Than 5 Years Old, please do add some on to share with us as well!

Recs under the cut, fandoms in this post are: Discworld, Calvin & Hobbes, Young Wizards, Animorphs, and The Avengers (2012) (MCU)

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Happy Aro Visibility Day!

Jason Todd and Bruce Wayne are both aro in the exact same way but in opposite directions.

I mean, it's about the same as everything else. I'm PERSONALLY unable to separate being aro from being ace, so I can't exactly give you a defined area where they are different things, but. The inability to say one relationship 'matters' more than another. the inability to NOT 'fall in love' with every friend you have, because it is the same feeling. The desire for every relationship to be for a lifetime. No such thing as 'temporary.' No such thing as 'just playing around.' Either all-in or 'no interest.' In a way, it's very straight forward. Bruce thinks there's something wrong with him. Jason thinks there's something wrong with the world. If they could just feel the right way, everything would be better. But you can't change how people feel. So you have to fight, instead.