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#JEDI CANNOT HELP WHAT THEY ARE #OBI-WAN CANNOT HELP BEING A TEACHER #TEACHING WAS ONE OF THE MOST CENTRAL PRINCIPLES OF THE JEDI ORDER #AT THEIR HEART THEY WERE TEACHERS #AND OBI-WAN LOVED BEING A TEACHER #OF COURSE HE CAN’T RESIST TEACHING LEIA ABOUT THE FORCE WHEN SHE NEEDS COMFORT AND ASKS ABOUT WHAT IT FEELS LIKE #BUT ALSO THIS IS WHY SHE NAMES HER SON BEN #AFTER THE MAN WHO FIRST TAUGHT HER WHAT THE LIGHT SIDE FELT LIKE #BECAUSE SHE WANTED HER SON TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LIGHT OF THE FORCE #I’M GONNA GO GNAW ON MY ARM OVER THIS ENTIRE SCENE

Jason, watching Dick and Bruce scream at each other: Holy fuck. I didn't realise their fights could get this vicious.

Damian, worried: Can you not separate them, Todd? If we do not subdue them-

Tim, totally relaxed: Please. This is nothing.

Duke: What?

Tim: This isn't even in their top ten. I've seen Dick deck Bruce before and this doesn't come close to that clusterfuck

Jason: You're joking?

Tim: No? Steph, back me up on this. This is them being polite

Steph, also extremely relaxed: Yep

Tim: God, when was the last time they threw hands properly? Hey remember when Dick crashed the Batmobile on purpose because Bruce was an ass about some case?

Steph: Good times

"You can't be a lurker on tumblr." Yes, you absolutely can. I've been quietly reblogging things since 2014 and I haven't interacted with anyone in years.

One thing I love about Tumblr that wasn't a thing on Reddit is that I can just write whatever the fuck text post I want. No titles. No putting text on images. No algorithms or karma. Just fuckin splatter your mind onto the screen and people will see it. Like god intended.

This is totally how it all happened 💗

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"All right, maybe YOU JUMPING ONTO THE ROCKET ABOUT TAKE OFF ALONG WITH ME EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO wasn't the best idea YOU had today." --Nightwing probably

"Dick's the beating heart of this family we've created, whether he realizes it or not." TOP TEN COMIC PANELS THAT UNDERSTAND THE BATFAMILY AND THAT HAVE MADE ME CRY

The only thing funnier than that it's canon that Nightwing vouching for someone gives them a massive boost in the superhero community is that they've named the phenomena. The Nightwing Bump. And that not even Batman is immune to this, Mr. "I don't trust Superman" over there is like, "Hm. I guess I'll acknowledge you since Nightwing likes you." Every superhero basically outsourcing their people judgement to Dick Grayson is 1000% accurate. Also EXCUSE ME DICK GRAYSON IS THE CLOSEST THING THERE IS TO A UNIVERSAL CONSTANT--HE'S ALWAYS KIND, COOL, AND THE GUY EVERYONE WANTS TO LIKE THEM. It's like that time the other alternate universe Superman wanted to destroy our world and Batman refused to go along with it because Superman couldn't say his world's Dick Grayson was a better one than our world's. DICK GRAYSON MAKES THE WORLD BETTER JUST BY BEING IN IT.

"Truthfully, I didn't realize how much I've missed working side by side with Dick. We have a shorthand I don't share with any of the others, save for maybe Alfred. He's always been the one keeping me centered. Grounded." I genuinely don't think Bruce has a favorite among his sons, I don't think that's what this is about. He has a unique relationship with each of them and each of them are narratively a reflection of a different aspect of Bruce, each of them occupies their own space that's not about the others. But, and admittedly I may well be biased because of who my favorite is, I do think Dick was the first and that means something. Because he was the one that broke down the wall first and because it had to be him that broke down that wall, the way his tragic loss mirrors Bruce's and the way Dick is a narrative counterweight to Bruce, that Dick amongst all of them, is the overall superhero that Bruce wants to see in the world. He's the light that Bruce wants to see, even while he works in the dark. He's the one who refuses to not be loved, time and again. Respected, yes. But also Dick demands to be loved. That this is what keeps Bruce centered. That being poked and prodded to keep acknowledging that he loves people and that his presence in their lives helps them, that's what grounds him. That's reflected in Dick's big speech in this issue, that Thomas and Martha disapprove of Batman because they haven't yet seen what Bruce did for these kids he loves, what he did for Dick's life. And, too, I think Dick was the youngest when he came to Bruce and the one Bruce raised the most, that Dick will always be his boy in a way the others were already halfway to adulthood, that Bruce loves all of them just as much as each other, but Dick will always be his kid. It's why he struggles over and over with respecting Dick's independence and autonomy, because that right there is his baby even more than the others, who came to him later and more independent. Bruce has unique, complicated, and fascinating relationships with each of his sons, so much depends on who needs him the most, that's who gets the priority and the interaction and narrative weight at the moment. But when you ask which one of them does Bruce need the most--it's the one who understands him and centers him, the one who still looks at him, this complicated and flawed and often broken man of a father, and says, no, you're going to love me. Because that's what Bruce needs more than anything, that's when Bruce is at his most interesting as a character, when he's interacting with those he loves and being forced to reckon with all his issues because he needs to be better for them.

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This is what I've been saying this whole time. Central City and Keystone are on a whole different level.

The Rogues survive Central City and Keystone because they are a team. They have each other's backs and they have rules and they know the game.

Trying to pull off a solo crime in the Flash's territory? Good fucking luck. I'll make you a reservation in Iron Heights 0.003 seconds from now.

I will not shut up about this absolute masterpiece

This belongs in a museum.

My favorite part of their dynamic, hands down, is how abso-fucking-lutely nuts Wally gets when Bart is impulsive, impatient and spacey. Because that is exactly what Wally was like as a kid. Wally has so much self loathing for his younger self that he lashes out at Bart whenever Bart acts like him.

Like, Wally is generally a pretty calm, reserved and friendly guy. He doesn't really ever freak out like this. But with Bart? Oh my god he's a train wreck.

It's a lot of misdirected self loathing, a dash of 'this is the only living part of Barry and I have to keep him safe' and a pinch of jealousy.

And Bart is just... so Bart lmao. I love him so much

And Max, the trainer of speedsters, the adult authority figure to everyone with speed, making Wally begrudgingly say thank you to Bart like a parent with two misbehaving five year olds.

I fucking love the Flash family. It's unreal.

The wild thing is that Bart and Wally genuinely love each other, even back then when their relationship was like this 24/7. They were just so bad at controlling their Cain instincts.

You know what? I think that it's interesting that three out of the four times Bart has been an adult in the comics he has chosen extreme violence (Albeit it is kind of a righteous fury in these instances too).

And that is just very Thawne-like of him. And two out the pictured times also involve interacting with Thawnes (President Thaddeus Thawne and Thad Thawne II (Inertia) respectively).

Yes, I am still on my Bart has Thawne qualities and one of them is anger propaganda. Bart being angry is just so interesting to me because it's not typically the emotion or characteristic anyone associates him with.

i personally favor robin jason being the worlds edgiest teen while bruce still struggles to say any thought out loud ever

One of my favourite Batfamily dynamics is Jason doing this at every opportunity and absolutely no one believing him.

I find it really funny that in Star Wars, Han is canonically about the same age as Kanan & Hera (only a few years younger even in old canon), but because of how they grew up they veiw people 10y younger than them completely opposite ways.

Like Kanan & Hera grew up in active war zones with Generals as parents. They were forced to grow up FAST. They had to be functionally adults before they got a chance to be teenagers. And resultingly they look at anyone young enough to not remember the Clone Wars as babies. They see an angry Mandalorian teenager as the toddler she was in the Clone Wars, drawing on walls to express emotions she can't otherwise express. They see a force sensitive street rat as the tiny crecheling who wasn't even born till the final days, and wouldn’t have even entered the temple until a few years after the war, but who would have ended up his Padawan eventually anyway. And they adopt both in a heartbeat. They're in their 20s and see these teenagers, and are just like "Ah yes, our kids," and they are VERY much parental figures with an obvious generational gap.

But while Han does remember the Clone Wars vividly, he wasn't on or anywhere near the front lines. And he didn't have anyone actively raising him. He didn't have a chance to grow up and got stuck in a mental standstill during adolescence. So he looks at Luke & Leia, and he sees peers. It doesn't matter that he lived through an entire war before they were born, cause he sees very little difference between that one and the one they're currently in. He sees them as his own age group just a little younger and treats them accordingly. He treats them as friends and equals. Leia isn't a kid in his eyes, she's a spitfire woman who has seen more war than he has. And there's a little bit of big-brother-ing to Luke - but more based on Luke's naïvety than age. Theres nothing to suggest he views any real age gap between them, let alone a generational one.

But they're still the same age, and from what we see of their interactions are very much peers and friendly rivals themselves. Which makes me laugh at the confusion Han would react with to realizing that Hera's children are older (even if only by 2 days) than the twins and childhood friends with Leia...

“Hera’s bond with Kanan isn’t obvious in season one…” - Blatant lies in The Art of Star Wars: Rebels

fucks me up that by total coincidence the sun and moon's size difference is exactly matched to their difference in distance from us, thus making our beautiful total solar eclipses where you can see the silver threads of the sun's corona possible because the moon just covers the sun completely

The stars (literally) aligned just right for this experience to be possible. It's likely that aliens don't have this

The moon is also absolutely gargantuan by moon standards. It isn't the largest moon in the solar system, but it is BY FAR the largest in comparison with its planet. Ganymede is the largest satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the solar system. Its diameter is only about 3.8% of Jupiter's. Titan's radius is 4.4% of Saturn's. Callisto and Io are the next largest in the neighborhood, with 3.4% and 2.6% the diameter of Jupiter respectively.

Our moon is number 5. It is smaller in direct comparison to the above moons. The diameter of the moon is 3475 km. That is a full 27% of the diameter of the Earth. More than a quarter. That's ridiculous. It's unheard of. The universe is large enough that the word unique probably doesn't mean a lot, but this might be about as close as you get.

This has had a huge impact on our planet. Other things aliens might not have are significant tides. One of Mars's dumpy little potatoes wouldn't be able to move oceans the way our moon does.

Our moon has also stabilized our axis to a massive degree. Without her up there our axis would wobble all over the place and our climate would be far more chaotic. Aliens might not be quite so lucky.

I guess what I am really trying to say is that the moon is extremely cool. I like the moon.

Just want to add that the reason we have such a large moon is because a whole planet crashed into proto-Earth. Theia (the planet) and Earth got so superheated by this collision that their component cores fused and the impact jettisoned a lot of material into space. That massive amount of jettisoned material became our moon. So Earth and the moon have very similar composition. This does not seem to be a common method of lunar formation.

what if the answer to the fermi paradox is that life cant exist without a moon like luna