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Just realized I’m never at a 0 on a fatigue scale, at my best I’m at like.. a 1-3?

I always feel like.. kinda dozey? (Like when you get yawny but not really tired) and my legs and arms feel kinda like how they might feel after a workout or smth.

Wack how people just don’t feel at least a little tired.

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join-mi-in-the-forest-darling

shadow, ai am begging you to tell me right now that being fatigued at all time is typical. please. because ai am always at least a two.

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suillinesuine

I hate to be the one to inform you /lh

Most people are at a 0

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are they because thats fucking wild

abandonedandurbex

Stairwell in an abandoned button factory

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vegetarianvampireduck

A cool aesthetic, but also a damn fucking easy way to fall down some stairs

I mean… how did they get there? Was the factory abandoned after a button explosion? Did disgruntled former employees just hurl buttons around on their way out after being made redundant? Or was the factory abandoned after their fifth fatal staircase fall in a month because this is just how they kept the buttons?

Buttons, when left undisturbed for so long, begin to multiply. This is why you always seem to have more buttons than you thought you did. These buttons seem to have spread themselves across the floor of the factory over several years of growth. Impressive stuff, perhaps we should get a seamstress to take a sample of them for further research.

Kind of funny when fanfic writers have Tim figure out Dick’s identity by seeing Robin do a quadruple flip in person, because DC writers didn’t even think of that back when they were trying to make it a rule that Robin couldn’t be seen on TV so the Batfam could be urban legends. They just still had Tim see Robin do a flip on TV and never tried to explain how Robin could be an urban legend and still have his exploits broadcasted on TV by professional news media.

Batman just gaslights every cape & rogue he comes across.

The Penguin: Where’s you’re partner?

Batman: What partner.

The Penguin: Y- your partner. Robin. I saw him in the news yesterday.

Batman, straight-faced as a small child dressed like a traffic light drops from the ceiling onto his shoulders: I have no idea what you’re talking about. I work alone.

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It slowly becomes a thing where folks start thinking that Robin is some sort of being that is purposefully keeping Batman from being aware of it, to either fuck with him or with everyone else (or both).

Like, with all the quips and tricksey nature I could see someone coming to the conclusion that Batman's unknown (to Batman) partner is a fae, and that Robin is actually THE Robin Goodfellow just hanging out and entertaining himself by pretending to be a child vigilante.

It makes perfect sense! Who other than a fae would dress like that?? Let alone wear the brightest colors imaginable and somehow *still* be so stealthy? And look he's basically flying! Look at all those insane flips no way that's a human child!

Short DPXDC Prompts #650

Damian really didn’t care for school. He already knew all the curriculum and the kids in his class were wary of talking to him. At least his P.E. Teacher Mr. Fenton makes it much more tolerable.

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Bruce; How was school today Damian?

Damian; All but last period were a chore. Mr Fenton however knows how to make a class informative and interesting.

Bruce; Isn't Mr Fenton the new PE teacher? I thought you hated the idea of PE. Because it was useless for real life?

Damian; Yes, that is how it has been previously. Mr Fenton however decided that he would teach us escape manoeuvres and how to identify a safe escape route during a rogue attack. His teaching was exemplary.

Bruce; He's teaching what now?

Damian; How to escape the hold of a criminal if it is safe to do so. How to evade capture. And how to identify a safe path when a rogue is attacking. He set up an assault course that looked like a street during one of Ivy's attacks. When someone stepped wrong he would tag them with a fake injury they would have to navigate around. He seems to be making it his job to ensure my classmates can safely evacuate from a rogue attack.

Bruce; Maybe I should look into him, that is unusual behaviour.

Damian; If you scare away my one competent teacher I will make your life a misery. I learned a new way to take someone down today. I would be happy to show you Father. I am assured it causes great pain, allowing the victim time to flee their attacker.

Bruce; On second thoughts, maybe I will just leave the investigation to you.

#Damian's favorite teacher #actually that makes him more sus #you know Damian will try to smuggle home a ghost pet at one point

Batman quietly runs a background check in secret and learns Me. Fenton came from a no name tourist trap claiming to be haunted and that there are som very strange and concerning firewalls all over the place form what looks like multiple people trying to keep what happens there a secret. Damian is gonna kill him for this, it was just supposed to be a quick check to make sure he wasn't a rogue in disguise and to find out how he knows this stuff, but it's suddenly turned into a real investigation.

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Bruce takes one look at the picture, sighs and calls in Dick.

Bruce; I need you to befriend Damian's new PE teacher. The fact he is exactly your type should make it easier.

Dick; Wait, what? You want me, your son, to investigate Damian's new teacher?

Bruce; Yes. His town of origin is under a series of information lockdowns. From about three competing sources. Something is seriously wrong there. We need an in. And he is your type. 'Danger Twink' I believe is the accurate phrase.

Dick; I, you. B! Look I don't do honeytraps!

Bruce; I know, the fact you will almost certainly start flirting with him when you see him is unfortunate. But the rest of them will be to intense. You are the only one who can be friendly. But we need this information.

Dick; Can't we just ask Little Bat to ask for more pointers, and WHY he teaches the way he does. Look if he came from there and is teaching this way, he probably wants to stop kids going through whatever plagued his own town right?

Bruce; No, Damian specifically told me to leave him alone.

Dick; OMG Damian likes his teacher that much? I am still not gonna fake befriend him. I'll go as Nightwing!

Two night later

Dick; B, he's perfect. I broke into his flat and he had me pinned in seconds. God B. He's amazing!

Bruce; Dammit. I'll have to try Tim!

Dick; No, no it's fine. I uh, got his number it's all good!

Damian; RICHARD! Why did you break into my teachers house!

Dick; B asked me to! And anyway. I got a date. So if I play my cards right he could become your brother in law!

Damian; I will accept this only if you succeed! Father! I have a new move to show you in training!

Bruce; Fuck!

Pfft "Danger Twink" xD

But yeah Bruce really regrets, especially when Dick has several more dates with Danny and Damian is very much unhappy with the investigation, even when Bruce tries to explain the necessity of it. Honestly at this point Bruce isn't even very suspicious of Danny, he's jus the only oen who possibly has am answer to his questions!

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One day Danny just hands Bruce a USB device and winks. Suddenly he has access to Amity. And holy fuck! That was not what he expected at all. Ok, yes the situation has been handled and is no longer a problem. But fuck! No wonder Danny is so competent. And so focused on ensuring the kids can protect themselves.

He gives Dick his blessing the marry him.

Bruce: Dick, if you want to marry him. Do it. He helped save the world and ensured world ending threats didn't leave on specific area. He is more than worthy of marrying anyone he damn pleases.

Dick is just like, ah he finally told you about Amity then?

Damian is still pissed. But If Grayson marries the competent teacher he will be pacified. Now to find suitable spouses for the rest of his siblings. Maybe Amity is a good place to start. It seems to create strong individuals.

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I agree with you in principle about paying media creators, but the fact is that people who are spreading piracy stuff are often doing so because either 1) they don’t want to give money to the big corporations that control most mass media, or 2) they don’t have the money to give to creators of things they love. I agree that if you have the means to give proper support to things you love, you should, but not everyone has access to library resources (for example, not everyone is American/western and so not everyone has access to online pdfs through a library, or even libraries at all in some places) and it just feels very…. not extreme, but a bit harsh to equate reading a pdf with intentionally withholding money from creators. I’m sorry it this comes across rudely, that isn’t my intent, but it feels very unfair to generalise so harshly on a post about resources for when you can’t access certain things

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You aren't entitled to someone else's labor just because it's art.

I'm going to repeat that, because people seem to be confused: you aren't entitled to someone else's labor just because it's art.

Just because you don't have money to pay a creator doesn't mean that you can take what you want and take money out of other people's pockets just because it's art.

I would love to have more art from @fofoart, but I don't have the money to pay them right now, so you know what that means? I don't have more art from them. I would love to read Thistlefoot right now, but I don't have the money to buy it at the moment, and so you know what that means? I wait until I can get it through my library or until I have the money to buy it, because I am not entitled to someone else's labor just because it's art.

There are plenty of books out there which can be read without pirating books. If you sign up to Tor's website you often get emails about free books and short stories. Project Guttenberg exists. Writers often post free stories on websites. There are more legitimate and free books out there right now, in the genres that you like and want to read, than you could ever read in ten lifetimes.

You are not entitled to someone else's labor just because it's art. You are not entitled to fuck up someone's sales numbers or make a publishing house go "your books are pirated too much so we're gonna pay you less" just because you want to read that specific book.

I mean, you can do that, I guess, but you can't do it and be morally correct about it. You can do it and be an asshole, or you can not do it, read one of the many many free books in this world, and not be an asshole.

There are no other choices. You don't get to just say "well I don't have money but I want this" and fucking steal it and then act like this is anything but theft. It's theft! It's not justified just because you really wanna read it!

This isn't "not supporting creators," this is stealing from artists because you feel entitled to do so because "I want it."

That's toddler logic. Grow up.

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Two and a half years ago, shortly after my book Outside the Charmed Circle was published, I came across a request for a PDF of it on a subreddit known for distributing pirated books. Someone on that subreddit registered an objection to the book being, well, stolen goods, and another redditor responded with (a.) the dubious claim that pirated books drive sales, and (b.) even if they didn't, it was "a tax on the golden elite," meaning me.

"A tax on the golden elite." It's one of those phrases that sticks with you, especially when it's directed at you.

To date, my humble little book has sold somewhere around 2,000 copies. My royalty rate is pretty standard for authors in the niche I write in, right around a dollar a copy. This means that, since the preorders for the book were first opened in (I believe) December of 2019, I've made somewhere around $2,000.

I can't even be glib or coy about this: two grand over the course of three years is not "golden elite" money. That's why I have a day job, and why I have no interest in pursuing full-time writing as a profession. Dying of consumption in drafty garrets is romantic nonsense, and so is the notion that my work, our work, should be a gift to "the community" without any recompense. We need to eat, and pay bills, and maybe even support other artists, too.

There isn't a week that goes by that I don't think about that phrase, "a tax on the golden elite," and how it made me feel. And you know what? That feeling sucks. It sucks worse than having TERFs say my book is garbage, worse than people leaving mediocre reviews on multiple platforms because it wasn't the book they expected to be, worse than my own family's disinterest in reading it. It sucks because, in a way, it's the ultimate insult. These are people who valued my work enough to want it for free, sure... but not enough to pay me for it.

They are, in a very real sense, erasing me from the work I created for them.

And if that sucks for me, I can only guess that it sucks for other artists, as well.

This.

The Department of Fisheries in Hyderabad, India, is shaped like a fish.

I hope that one day this building takes off like a plane with no warning

I hope that one day

this building takes off like a

plane with no warning

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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im not joking when i say that this meme single handedly got me invested in learning how the fuck electrical production works small scale so that i could explain it to somebody from a millennium ago

If that's a thing that bothers you for more subjects then just electricity there's actually a book for this! That I own! That is both very stupid and fairly useful! And entertaining!

How to invent everything: a survival guide for the stranded time traveler is the book for you, complete with flowchart about how to identify what time you've landed yourself in! It's very funny and very fun and informative and starts with the production of written language and works it's way forward through inventions of varying complexity, all framed in the way of "so you got into this time machine from our company and it's broken, huh? Well tough fucking shit! Welcome to your new home!"