I’ve created a Medium, and am starting things off with a bang, talking about Devin Grayson’s and Marv Wolfman’s runs on Nightwing. Warnings for sexual assault, suicide, and abuse.
I’m still willing to add features like more hairstyles and outfits per suggestion, but for now I’m considering this complete enough to release! I hope you have fun with it. 😊
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting emotional about the way trans elder and renn faire musician Alexander James Adams conceptualizes his relationship to his pre-transition self, Heather Alexander:
“Heather was a changeling. In 2006 she was called back to faerieland and Alec, the child in whose place she had originally been left, was released after beating the faerie queen in a fiddling contest. Thus, Alec now carries on Heather’s musical legacy as her appointed heir.”
God…. good for him :’)
This tag is the highest honor I could ever receive.
I don’t like to add to the noise of Software Developer Do Dumb Thing, but I feel like this is as if the Japanese government sent me an email going “it turns out there are a lot of you named Kenji Tanaka, so to solve this problem we are retiring passport numbers”
Our username system makes it difficult for folks fluent in other languages to express themselves. That’s why we’re moving to a system like the one on Twitter, where every Asian artist forced to get an alphanumeric username has a handle like @bc2931a or @2023jx or @wabababxa_, which is very easy to remember and shows how versatile alphanumeric handles are at expressing one’s non-English-speaking self
Discord’s post trying to convince me that we’re somehow now extremely allergic to the idea of sharing a number, despite the fact that Nintendo, that video game company that makes stuff for actual children, has had no problem with its users sharing IDs that are 14 digits long
Bruce wholeheartedly believing Dick as Nightwing is a better version of Batman and Dick believing no one will ever make a better Batman than Bruce and fearing not living up to it is something that can be so personal actually <3
that’s it! you get it!
and it’s wild because Bruce genuinely admires the way Dick can open himself up to other people, he loves Dick’s optimism and compassion. The way he’s made himself into a hero who doesn’t have to use fear to be effective.
and Dick is frustrated with his own passion, his inability to completely regulate his rage. He admires Bruce’s detachment and how Bruce manages to snatch victory from defeat “effortlessly” (it’s not effortless obviously it only looks like that to Dick)
they admire something in the other that they don’t see in themselves and never stop to think about the parts of themselves that are being admired, that are worth admiration.
Tempted to think of this merely as another stage of “What Fresh Hell Is This.”
The glass cliff, on the other hand, refers to the phenomenon by which women are more likely to be appointed to senior executive positions during times of organizational crisis, making them less likely to succeed. These newly appointed executives may confront internal board resistance, operate with less time flexibility, and ultimately receive shorter tenure than their male counterparts. And, when a woman CEO is terminated from her position, she is more likely than not to be replaced by a male (the “savior effect”).
am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?
It should be so. I had to go to the hospital today and the guy who walked in after me as wheezing something fierce, no mask, and I was completely icked out. I don’t understand why it isn’t enforced.
every mother’s day there’s always “remember moms are everything” posts and every father’s day there’s always “it’s okay if you’re traumatized, you don’t have to celebrate it” posts and that’s fine of course, I just never see the opposite. so reminder you don’t have to celebrate your mother. you have your reasons. be proud of yourself and don’t let the holiday get you down.
The lack of boomer LGBTQ+ people isn’t because it’s “more popular now.” Many were murdered by their peers, died from government inaction during the AIDS crisis, committed suicide due to lack of social supports, or have had to live in the closet due to their peers’ cruelty.
“The men in white are the surviving members of the Original San Francisco Gay Men’s Choir. Those in black represent the members lost to AIDs. Remember this when people say the gay community survived the epidemic. We had to start over because we lost a whole generation.” (original post)