I love World Without Young Justice. It’s not only great fun, but really insightful. It makes me wonder how long Bedlam spied on YJ and spent time crafting his revenge, because he didn’t just screw up the timeline willy nilly. He used Bart’s scouts to put Young Justice in situations tailored to make them miserable. They’re all something they hate or didn’t want to become. 

Some are more obvious, in that the characters have outright stated what they feared becoming. Some are more subtle, in that they simply go against the character’s personality or ethics.

Cissie was terrified of being unable to escape the life her mother laid out for her, and that by giving into her desire to murder the school shooter, she’d be forced to leave her friends and become a villain.

Where is she in Bedlam’s wacky timeline? Still running around in a costume, with no real friends (she and Cassie nearly killed each other, they walk a fine line as coworkers), and no real moral code. She’s a leather clad villainess antihero in a skimpy outfit, exactly what she was afraid of turning into. 

In the normal timeline, Anita is a brave, kind, opinionated girl who loves her family and her heritage. She wants to be a superhero, and for her that means wild adventures and protecting people, both strangers and especially the people she loves. 

In Bedlam’s timeline, she has no family, no self respect, and no higher aspirations. She is concerned only with her own self interest. Much earlier, Anita told Lobo that she can’t stand the stereotype that gives real vodoun a bad name. But that’s exactly what she is there — the Hollywood voodoo stereotype she abhorred. 

Kon is a nameless, helpless, powerless nobody who has been passed over. He'll never become what he was made for, and can’t even make a name for himself.

Cassie is a teenage alcoholic with no morals or goals of her own, beholden to the god who granted her powers (“Dionysus likes me like this!”). She’s completely out of control; she never stops to use her head, and is unable to hold her volatile team together outside of big acts of violence.

Tim is a civilian who can’t or won’t act on what he knows. Which is huge, considering how strongly he believes in stepping up to do what’s right, and his sense of duty.

Greta is nowhere to be found. Is she (un)dead? Alive? Nonexistent? Billy’s taken her place and he’s clearly out of his element; why was he roped into Bedlam’s revenge?

Other people have written excellent metas on Bart’s role in the story.

Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3

I FOUND IT BITCHES

This is going to save me so much trouble in the future.

instead of exterminating rats, the state of New York should hire a rat trainer to round them all up and teach them to do odd jobs. they could clean up litter, scrub the manhole covers… run electrical wires. maybe do some plumbing

there should be a dedicated rat feeding station in every subway. if you pass out drunk on the bus a squadron of 50-60 purebred albino rats should carry you gently down the street back to your home. i know this may all sound rather infeasible—but if you hire me, the pied piper,

Quick Diana doodle before bed. I was just really inspired by Rhea Ripley photos!

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Pro Tip: The Way You End a Sentence Matters

Here is a quick and dirty writing tip that will strengthen your writing.

In English, the word at the end of a sentence carries more weight or emphasis than the rest of the sentence. You can use that to your advantage in modifying tone.

Consider:

Do you pick up the subtle differences in meaning between these three sentences?

The first one feels a little angry, doesn't it? And the third one feels a little softer? There's a gulf of meaning between "what you said didn't matter" (it's not important!) and "it didn't matter what you said" (the end result would've never changed).

Let's try it again:

That first example seems to kind of side with her, right? Whereas the second example seems to hold a little bit of judgment or accusation? The first phrase kind of seems to suggest that she was so sad she couldn't cry, whereas the second kind of seems to suggest that she's not sad and that's the problem.

The effect is super subtle and very hard to put into words, but you'll feel it when you're reading something. Changing up the order of your sentences to shift the focus can have a huge effect on tone even when the exact same words are used.

In linguistics, this is referred to as "end focus," and it's a nightmare for ESL students because it's so subtle and hard to explain. But a lot goes into it, and it's a tool worth keeping in your pocket if you're a creative writer or someone otherwise trying to create a specific effect with your words :)

Every single time I say the phrase “I was classically trained in the art of multiple choice tests” everyone in the room who’s not a millennial laughs at my joke while all the other millennials in the room immediately look like they just walked in on a funeral by accident.

teach me please

Why? It has nothing to do with the real world and I’m mad that the school system taught me how to take multiple choice tests rather than write a report for a job or properly research what issues are important when deciding who to vote for in an election. Or like… accurate history. You know. Actual stuff you need to know to be a person.

im currently stuck in the school system and I want cheat codes

Okay, I completely understand wanting to know the actual stuff, I want to know those things too, and those are things im working on learning. but to be able to get to the information that tells me these things I need to survive this hellhole of a system and im bad at tests, which means i dont survive very well. 

Okay fine.

As someone who is also classically trained in the art of multiple choice test, I can confirm

Yeah I learned all this shit too. And like while most things public school teaches you is such fucking bullshit, this is actually true.

The C trick isn’t always useful, especially when it’s a computer-generated test. But I would recommend choosing an option to stick to, if only because it limits the brain energy you use on questions you can’t answer.

Similarly, don’t panic if you’re getting A for five questions in a row: if the teacher has made any attempt to randomize answers, this is entirely possible. I’ve also known teachers who do this on purpose to mess with students (yes, really).

Also, this is very important: As long as your test doesn’t deduct points for wrong answers, you should always answer every question no matter what. Use the last 5 minutes to fill them all in.

Do not get stuck in a question if you don’t know the answer, skip it, if by the end you still got the time then go through the ones you left unanswered.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

An actual World Heritage Post

how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it

one week until ten years of Spiders Georg

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Incredibly disappointing behavior made all the more cynical by it happening just after Pride Month

Here are some LGBTQ+ helplines to call instead of the Trevor project in the wake of this:

Help is still out there!

Imagine Tim gets hit with fear gas or something and he sees Alfred.

And Hallucination Alfred tells him that he failed his test- he couldn't find him, didn't investigate his death, like he did with Bruce, that he waited to be found but Tim didn't find him.

Tim gets the added on paranoia that Alfred called it a Test, Bruce had already used a test like this, and Alfred had been in on it. [Robin 116-120]

Could be used as a reveal for his siblings/teammates finding out, or Tim coming to terms that Bruce was a emotionally manipulative duchebag.

Imagine Tim getting hit with slow acting fear gas during patrol, and then going home. In the morning he wakes up and Alfred is sitting in his kitchen, looking the same as always, just like when he was a kid.

Alfred tells him he's happy that Tim seems to have moved on from his death so well- Tim is just standing there and then eventually, offers his grandfather tea. Imagine him sitting alone in his kitchen with two cups of tea, talking to the air, telling Alfred how their family's been.

Then Alfred interrupts, says he knew, that Bruce was sure to keep him updated while he was away. While he was waiting for Tim to uncover the clues to find him. He'd waited for so long, he missed so much- he didn't have to though, if Tim had figured it out. No one would have had to mourn.

Cut to Tim going through Bruce's files- trying to figure out what clue he didn't even know existed was suppose to lead him to alfred.

Cut to Tim digging up Alfred's grave, trying to find proof for either side. He doesn't know whats real. Dick or Cass finding him in the graveyard, with the desecrated grave of their grandfather, and their brother having a mental breakdown

i've been thinking about hobie spiderverse since i came out of the movie theater, about how on a superficial level he acts like every other stereotypically alt character, stealing and instigating and bantering and being chaotic and rebellious and looking Cool™ but on a second look it's so so clear that every single thing he does is motivated by kindness and compassion towards his friends in general and miles in particular, and that's so viscerally truly punk of him

the already famous palm suggestion that makes miles break out of miguel's containment thing. miles initially reads this as condescending but hobie's genuinely trying to help

already he's looking out for miles by trying to keep him away from hq, a place where he knows miles isn't welcome and might be in danger

now, they get to hq and he immediately starts lifting stuff to homebrew a watch for miles, a guy he's known for five minutes (bc you can't convince me he didn't already have a bunch prepped for gwen and the other spider-people he trusts). he even lampshades it with the line above.

he's questioned miles' motives to join the spider society and he knows they're the same as his own: it's literally just to get a watch, to have a means to travel dimentions, to see his friends, to build community. he's already made the decision to grant that ability to miles without subjugating him to the oppressive restrictions and requirements of the spider society. at this point we know he's strongly ideologically opposed to the society and he later in this scene admits he's only there to look out for gwen, just like miles

this one makes me insane. it's a "are you safe at home in your dimension? do you have one? do you need a place to stay?" bc we know he's given one to gwen, who's not safe and does not have nice parents and has been crashing in hobie's dimension for the previous months

and then he tries again to warn miles off the spider society

and when push comes to shove and all the other spider-people are set on stopping miles from going home and changing his timeline he's the only one in miles' corner

btw notice how the palms thing is the first and last thing he says to miles in this film?

anyway. he was in this movie for like 15 minutes tops, showed up exclusively to hype up his friends and protect them by whatever means necessary, adoption papers and illegal interdimensional tech included, and he looked that cool the whole time while doing it. most character ever.

I also want to note that the exact moment that Hobie went from "Oh sure I'll help this guy" to "This is someone that I will finally blow this place up for" is when Miles saves the police commissioner and disrupts a canon event. Miles doesn't know what will happen, but he DOES know that someone he trusts (Gwen) tried to stop him from saving someone, and rather than listening, his immediate reaction was "No, someone needs saving, I'm going to save them, I don't care what it costs me."

After that, Hobie goes from just friendly banter and helpfulness to being on Miles like glue and hyping him up at every possible moment.

He saw Miles in action for a whole five minutes, and immediately goes "This is what it's about. THIS kid understands what it means to be a hero fighting an oppressive system. He IS willing to make sacrifices, but refuses to sit back and be told he HAS to make sacrifices. THIS is what Spider-man should be."

Hobie has a line about the Quantum Mold, saying "It's a metaphor for capitalism" that is clearly meant to be a joke. But, as you pointed out, all his stuff that is 'meant to be a joke' is still actually genuinely sincere. And he is RIGHT, actually. It kinda IS a metaphor for capitalism. The Spider Society has basically gone "These are people that have to die for the greater good. In order to keep the system working. If we don't stand back and just let them die, the whole system falls apart." and when that happens, it takes the form of the Quantum Mold. That uh.... that very much IS (or at least can be read quite easily as) a metaphor for Capitalism.

I have no doubt that Hobie is sitting there thinking "If we can contain this stuff, why are we still just letting people die?", and he sees in Miles someone asking the same question, and willing to fuck around and find out because saving the life of even a single person is far more important than maintaining a system that allows them to die.

I was thinking recently about how "alt" subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything

Yes, this is it! This is exactly it!!

Helena Bertineli ran so that the fandom could disrespect her and make Jason Tood walk. The absolute disrespect.

You headcanon Jason Todd to become an English teacher if given the chance? Helena is an English teacher.

You have Jason Todd fight for woman and children? Helena was doing that first.

You write Jason as being connected but outside the batfamily, where there are constant fights about morality of killing and the ways of being a vigilante? Helena was doing that first.

You have Jadon and Tim being wierd sibling dynamic despite orders from Batman or the others? Tim was one of the people who first worked with Helena despite what Batman said and they have a funny sibling like relationship. He never gave up on her, and saw the best in her.

You have Jason with religious sometimes Catholic guilt in your headcannons? Helena is Catholic and carries a lot of that guilt.

You want the cool anti hero? Helena Bertinelli.

My point is not to just go hate on fanon Jadon, don't mistake me, it can be fun, and multiple people can take up the same roles, but I wish the fandom would do more for the gals.

At least look up Helena, maybe read a couple of her comics because she has an impact.

Just Helena deserves more love than she has been given.

Huntress my beloved <3

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