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"So, level with me," he begins, floating close to the Big Bat himself, perched up on the observation room as some of the Justice League trained, "the Tibetan Monks thing...is that real?" Look, Danny was fucking curious. Batman ALWAYS seemed to bring up those damn monks and-look- he gets that people could be pretty cool and learn how to do AMAZING things, but all the instances he's heard it four times, he's never felt more bullshit in his life. Or unlife, for that matter. Still, Batman didn't answer him. He DID, however, give him a small note to which Danny stored it away in his right arm to find later so it wouldn't get mixed up with everything in his chest. When they were at the Old Gotham Clock Tower (because of course it was a fucking clock tower), and Danny-very kindly he might add-threw up a barrier for extra noise-protection, Batman smirks as he looked across to Danny, "Not all of it." Danny fucking knew it. "I did learn many things from the monks, as well as every master I studied under," he gazed out to the city, Lady Gotham's purr heard at the clear love the human clearly had for her haunt, "but eventually, it was just things I did myself to see if it was possible." Danny barks out a laugh, grin wild as he darts in front of the man, "So you're telling me, Mr. Contingency was working on the fly?! Making it up as you go?" "It helps when you don't just learn from one source. I learnt about the human anatomy at my father's knee, was trained by assassins in ancient ways of honor and killing." He shrugs once more, "When people just let me keep getting away with one answer? I kept at it. Do you KNOW how many teachers I've had? It's their own fault for not prodding more."

usa: you do not need to go to the post office to mail a package

you can order priority mail shipping boxes and envelopes in any size from store.usps.com for free. if you do not have a printer, you can buy them with the postage already paid on them. the postal service will deliver these boxes to your house. you can pack your item into the box at home, then go back to usps.com and schedule a time for the mailman to pick the package up from your house. this is also free. you do not have to visit the post office at any point in this process. if you use flat rate mailers you also do not need to weigh anything.

i have to explain this to people about 20 times a year, no joke. it is some sort of anti post office conspiracy that everyone thinks you have to buy shipping boxes and then drive to the post office and stand in line to mail things. you do not. shipping mailers and boxes are 100% free. priority mail service or above (and prices are now adjusted to the point that its usually pointless not to use priority mail) entitles you to a free pickup, and if you have even one priority mail package to ship, you can ask for all your other packages to be picked up on the same trip too.

if you are shipping JUST books, use Media Mail. its very cheap

in the whole greenland conversation i feel like there's not nearly enough acknowledgement of the fact that greenland is already suffering under imperial rule. seeing wayyyyy too much tacit validation of denmark's possession of greenland on socials today. look into reproductive abuse against greenland inuit women by the danish state. US acquisition of greenland would be bad but the status quo is not good. this is not a matter of sovereignty, i only wish it were a matter of sovereignty, it's just a bunch of imperial powers playing RISK with indigenous people's lives again

DP x DC Prompt Language Barriers

     When the creature- no, being stepped through the portal, Bruce didn’t know what to expect.  He’d created as many plans as he possibly could regarding everything he knew about the entity, which was frustratingly not enough for even twenty possibilities.  Depending on how the meeting went, it was highly possible he’d be cobbling together a plan based on contingencies for Darkseid, Klarion, hell even Superman.  He didn’t know what to expect, just enough to know that the entity was more powerful than anything and anyone that Constantine could think of.

     The first part of the entity visible through the vertical Lazarus portal - and wasn’t that worrisome by itself - was their feet.  Clad in white boots, ones that seemed impractical as anything more than a fashion statement, platforms that led up to buckles and even some chains and ended just below the knee.  The being’s legs were clad in black, a material that looked like something halfway between Kevlar and leather.  They had a black tunic, with intricate silver designs embroidered into the fabric, with long sleeves that tucked into archery gloves, also of a white material.  Over the right shoulder, a white fur-trimmed cape was draped, flapping in the wind that only seemed to affect the entity, with the inside fabric showcasing what appeared to be multiple galaxies.  The entity’s face suggested they were a male-inclined being, taking the form of a young adult male, Caucasian - lacking in melanin but outside of that and the pure white hair, there seemed to be no other signs of albinism - with unnervingly green eyes which swept across the gathering as the entity adjusted one of their gloves.  Elfin ears and sharp teeth completed the look of other as the entity grimaced at what they saw.

     Yet, despite how much this being looked like they’d just stepped outside of one of Tim’s video games, the most eye-catching parts were the glowing ice crown and the gently flaming ring.

     Before anyone could address the entity once the portal had closed, they looked over their own form as if checking something.  Then, holding a finger up when someone tried to speak, looked down at the summoning circle as if to read it.  Slowly turning in a circle, catching at one part, then turning towards Constantine.  “Come hither.”  The entity beckoned the magician as the otherworldly voice echoed in the room.

     “As if, I’m not falling for such a blatant trick, mate.”  Understandably, Constantine was resistant.

     The entity rolled their eyes.  “Your foolish mortal mind will not be capable of understanding mine words.  The rune is doomed.”  It was more obvious now that the being’s words were being translated, words continuing even though the entity’s mouth was shut.  “Even should I attempt thine language, it would be impossible for mere mortals to comprehend.”

     “Yeah?  And you know how to improve a summoning circle?”  Bruce frowned; if the being was truly as powerful as Constantine said they were, then why was he antagon- pride.  Constantine’s pride as a magician was being insulted when another pointed out the flaws in his magic.

     The entity’s grin was too wide with too many teeth, “undoubtedly.”

ive said it before and ill say it again, self harm is an incredibly valuable grounding technique and without it i almost certainly would have done far more harm to myself than any cutting or burning could have. We need to stop framing self harm as this ultimate horror indication of damage, why is this form of self harm any different than another?

We should be teaching people harm reduction not that self harm means you're broken. I'm sorry if anyone has ever made you feel that way. If self harm makes you feel better, even for a moment, why shouldn't you be allowed to do that? people do shit that harms their body all the fucking time but this one thing is off limits?

I'm edging around the topic because it's almost certainly ban worthy but like, if it helps fucking do it, id much rather you use a "less than ideal" grounding technique (which im already rolling my eyes just typing that) than have no way to help yourself.

I hope this makes sense and helps at least one person, i love you <3

THEY KILLED AMITY???????

you're not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they're not broken. it's a bannable offense on tumblr.

Honestly, fuck @staff. This post helped save my life and @staff banned her. Fuck you @staff, when ya'll are *anywhere* close to the level of harm reduction that this post provided, maybe then you'll be a real blogging site again

THEY KILLED ESTROGEN BLOOD CHALK TOOO?????

they cannot kill me in any way that matters. Thanks for being here, lovely.

they've been very clear with us on this point: you're not allowed to tell girls who are in a terrible place that they're not broken. it's a bannable offense on tumblr.

I'll do it again.

Do you remember when Amity risked her blog to give love and paid the price? I haven't forgotten.

The Fenton Parents get the chance to present their work to Bruce Wayne. He looks vaguely interested, and even purchases some personal protective devices and ghost weapons.

Danny's parents are really hopeful that this is the start of something big! All of their inventions are patented and if a big company like Wayne Enterprises decides to make a deal with them, that would meam the first real financial success in years.

Unfortunately, Wayne Enterprises never contacts them again. A few months go by and Danny sees a member of the Justice League using ghost weapons that are exact copies of his parents work without the fenton branding on them!

Did Bruce Wayne really just. Steal his parents designs and then sell them to the Justice League?????

Thats corporate espionage!!!

Danny gets so mad he literally flies to Wayne Enterprises biggest competitor, Lexcorp, and manages to finagle a meeting with Lex Luthor himself. It was suspiciously easy, but the moment Lex heard about an opportunity to get some leverage on Bruce Wayne, he personally invited Danny into his office.

An hour later and Lexcorps lawyers are chomping at the bit to start the lawsuit process. This is basically definitive, legal proof that Bruce Wayne and Wayne Enterprises has ties with the Justice League, that so great for lex he literally has to stop himself from evil villain cackling. Lex gices the lawyers cart blanche to go for the throat on behalf of the Fentons.

Danny is spitting mad! If the Justice League had gone to his parents, they probably would have made them personalized weapons for free. But instead Wayne stole his parents work and then, presumably, sold it to the League. All billionaires really are bastards.

Meanwhile, Bruce had purchased the weapons with the intent on keeping them for the Bat family to use. He removed the fenton branding because the neon green paint literally glowed in the dark and was not good for stealth.

Green Arrow borrowed a couple of the weapons for a ghost problem, one time, and now he is looking at the nastiest lawsuit Wayne Enterprises has seen in a long, long time.

Well shit.

I know I haven't posted regularly on this blog in years but I'm not seeing a whole lot of posts on this site about what's happening in Minneapolis right now. And the posts I am seeing are not covering the scope of it. I'm genuinely surprised because tumblr is usually where I find out about things organically through my feed. So I'm making a post about it.

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

Pay attention to Minnesota, I think an example is being made of us.

I've been monitoring this closely because I have friends in the area, and because I think every city in the country is at risk of having the feds come to do what they're doing in Minnesota, and we all need to get ready.

There are some Twin Cities activists who have been very clearly laying out what they're doing, and why it's effective at slowing down ICE. It sounds like all you really need, is neighborhood group chats where people can let one another know when and where ICE is present, and then people show up, start recording, and blowing whistles, and then ICE will leave again more often than not. This VERY SHORT thread by a Twin Cities activist outlines what to do and how it works.

Also: Minnesota Public Radio has been doing great coverage of what's happening, and the local NBC affiliate has some excellent interviews with activists who were arrested and detained for hours.

And finally, some good news: the courts restored SNAP funding.

Brotherhood of The Orb

Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn't understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn't understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his "favourite example" and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.

Apparently sport climbers use this word with a meaning of "technique, method." But for a horrifying, horrifying second there was the possibility in my mind that we were gonna talk about ABO in my fucking linguistics class

Professor Betas Georg, who writes 50k omegaverse fics during office hours, boldy wrote "beta" on the board while observing which of his students went dead. still.

ART being brought back in NE. To me. If you even care

I do think it's funny that Murderbot complains about all the stuff that it doesn't know because its company didn't teach it anything useful but then when Three spends all its time interacting with nonfiction media and learning stuff mb is like "I don’t get you. Why would you watch nonfiction when there is sanctuary moon"

pictured: nerd to nerd friendship