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As an intellectual person it kind of offends me that emotions are so physical. Like, why am I too anxious to do this task? Oh right, because when I get that anxious, my body is either in too much pain to function, or literally kicks my ability to do it out from under me. How do I fix it? Fucking calm my body down.

It is OFFENSIVE that I can’t just think my way out of a feeling.

Honestly this post explains why the one time I tried an exclusively CBT therapist I spent all of our sessions arguing with him about how he was wrong.

Because otherwise I was wrong and HE WASN’T EVEN NICE ABOUT IT.

Huh, can you say some more about that? It sounds like it might sow some really helpful revelations for me since I feel the same way about emotions being physiological, but I’m not sure I’m understanding it correctly.

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my best OC is Brad Wayne, Bruce’s illegitimate biological child via a totally normal woman he had a fling with when he was younger and didn’t stay in touch with

Brad grew up a totally normal kid, went to college, joined a frat, and decided to get in touch with Bruce, who now has an awkward situation on his hands

now the other Batkids have to deal with fucking Brad Wayne, whose normalacy is absolutely insufferable... he tells Dick to try yoga and suggests that Tim will sleep better if he gets more exercise... Bruce goes out of town and Brad decides it’s time to throw a house party with his frat friends

he’s so good

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All of Brad’s Bat-siblings are absolutely unprepared to deal with him. They can’t handle it. They can’t even hate him properly, even Damien, because he’s just... he’s not even... he’s just Some Guy™️!

They’re all braced for the inevitable reveal that he’s a villain, an imposter, or an interloper there to usurp the Wayne fortune or spy on Batman. They have all sorts of plans to foil his schemes and the only thing they’re not able to prepare for is the fact that he’s just. Brad. He’s not a bad guy, but he’s not a saint, either—his problems are just so mundane, so ordinary.

They TRY to understand what his life is like, but how are they supposed to relate to someone who doesn’t text back because he’s hungover or his phone died, not because he’s tied up in a death trap somewhere being menaced by someone in a Halloween costume?

No one’s ever tried to ritually sacrifice him before and it shows.

Does he know they are the batfam? Or does he just think it is so cool that his dad has adopted all these kids that needed a home?

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Oh he has no idea. Brad didn’t grow up in Gotham and isn’t really familiar with its culture, so he thinks it’s an ordinary city with ordinary problems (presumably there’s still a concept of ‘ordinary’ in the DCU).

When someone tries to tell him he laughs it off. Maybe one of his friends asks him about the popular rumor that Bruce Wayne is Batman, but he’s never even contemplated the possibility. Later he’s trying to coax Dick into playing beer pong and loudly tells the story to party guests as a funny anecdote. He thinks the whole concept of Batman is hilarious. Maybe he makes up stories about seeing Batman to impress his family and make himself sound cool.

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Eventually though some bad guy who wants a huge ransom is going to kidnap Brad. What happens then? Does Batman call in a favor to one of the other members of the Justice League or does Damien go out and rescue his brother and tell him he’s the most useless of all his brothers because he’s so ordinary? Because you know if anyone is going to blab it’s going to be Damien.

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Brad gets kidnapped and Steph and/or Cass rescue him in costume.

Later, in Wayne Manor, he tells his family all about how the Batgirls were totally flirting with him and how he managed to take out a few of the bad guys all by himself.

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Brad Wayne: “Hey, do you guys think Batman fucks? Like, you think he has ever gotten laid?”

Dick, stiffly: “Um. Yes. I think so.”

Brad: “Really? Guy sounds like a turbo-virgin to me. I mean, he fights crime in a fursuit! Come on!”

Tim: “I have it on reasonable authority that Batman fucks. Unfortunately.”

Steph: “Hey, Damian. Penny for your thoughts?”

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Frat Kid Brad Wayne

some of y'all didnt grow up as the person nobody has a crush on and it really shows

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some of yall never have to deal with the constant doubt in your own ability to be loved to the point where you get second hand embarrassment at the idea of someone being in love with you and finding you attractive because you’ve been diagnosed with ugly and cringy your whole life and it really shows

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some of yall never had to deal with seeing bullies come up to you to say “(Name) wanna ask you out” as a joke to humiliate their friend because nothing was as embarrassing and disgusting than imagining going out with you and it really shows

Y'all. This is a fucking global emergency.

Some quick facts:

  • The Amazon rainforest is responsible for 20% of the world's oxygen. (**edit below)
  • It's home to numerous species of wildlife.
  • It is referred to as the lungs of the Earth.
  • And it's been burning for weeks, and no one is talking about it.

What is happening right now is an emergency that should be concerning all of us. The air we breath is at stake. This isn't exaggerating. Our lungs are destroyed as we speak and we are only just finding out.

This is our future. Are you upset about Spiderman? Same. Were you sad over Notre Dame? Same. But this is so much more important.

SPEAK UP. GET THIS KNOWN. Even if you can't do anything else, at least raise awareness to put some pressure out there on those who can do something. OUR HOME IS AT STAKE. The skies in Sao Paolo turned black. We are losing our most valued rainforest. WE CANNOT JUST SIT BACK.

**Edit: Many of you pointed out how the 20% oxygen phrase can be misleading (and many thanks, don't want to misinform). So, to clarify, it means that the rainforest provides us with an amount of oxygen that is then used by living organisms to survive. It is not a surplus, however; its carbon footprint is neutral because all this oxygen is used up. However, it remains essential, because, without it, we are left with less oxygen to sustain the organisms living now, which means some organisms will die. Also, without the forest, we will have fewer sources that absorb carbon dioxide, so greenhouse effects will be more pronounced. Many thanks for pointing this out.

HERE I WILL POST LINKS WITH WAYS TO HELP:

  • https://www.fastcompany.com/90392750/9-ways-to-help-the-amazon-rainforest-right-now-as-fires-burn
  • https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/the-amazon-rainforest-is-on-fire-what-we-know-so-far-and-how-you-can-help/
  • https://www.adventure-life.com/amazon/articles/what-can-i-do
  • https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/how-to-help-amazon-rainforest-what-charities-to-donate-to-2019

Many of these are donations, but not all. I am aware that some suggested ways are not linked to the crisis directly, but for the sake of a better lifestyle and because some of the damage cannot be undone, reading up cannot hurt.

Please everyone, anything to help, spread, donating one dollar already makes a big fucking difference (1 USD equals to 4,4 Brazillian reais).

We don’t say this often enough (though I think most of us know it) but men who can’t write women are bad writers. It doesn’t matter how perfect their pacing is or how many awards they’ve been given by other men. If they have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of 51% of the world’s population, they are bad writers, and nothing they have to say about the human condition could possibly be valuable.

My friend messaged me this photo yesterday saying it was taken right outside our church. At first I thought “that could be anywhere” until I saw the building. That is definitely our church.

Apparently this 20-year-old gator was the pet of someone who lived nearby. Someone had been keeping an alligator as a pet.

And it got loose.

Then the owner came around and just handled the situation himself. Wild.

This post has gotten over 2,000 notes so I just want to make it clear

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