Soooo

We saying that the times Bruce gets kidnapped are some inexperienced roughs that are not from Gotham? Couse I'm here for that!

Just Imagine some rough trying to kidnap Bruce, but the guy can't get henchmen because they all are, hold up! Bruce Wayne?! No way!

Two-Face’s Henchman: *carrying Bruce over his shoulder* Boss! Boss! I got the richest guy in Gotham! The Wayne kids will pay big bucks for a ransom, right?

Two-Face: *helps Bruce off the guy’s shoulder, and immediately slaps henchman upside the head* You moron! Do you think your Goonion-contracted health insurance prints “Wayne Health, Inc.” at the top of the statement for funsies? He keeps half of Gotham healthy! We don’t touch Bruce Wayne!
*turns to Bruce, pulls the bag off his head and dusts him off* Real sorry about that, Bruce. Are you okay? This idiot didn’t hurt you, did he?

Bruce: No problem, Harvey, I’m fine. And don’t be too hard on Mr. Jones, I’m sure he just misunderstood. If you could have him drive me back home, though, I’d appreciate it. Alfred’s doing a lasagna tonight for dinner and I don’t want to be late. Do you want me to save you a plate?

Two-Face: No thanks, Bruce. I have, err, other engagements tonight. Jones, you heard the man. Get him back home in time for dinner.

Henchman: Yes, boss!

the fact that people have reblogged this and tagged it "q slur" makes me want to eat glass.

We’re not all gone. Some of us survived. Those funerals OP went to as a child? My friends and I were the ones arranging them.

I was always kind of grateful that the marches slowly became parades. That the protests slowly gave way to parties. It was progress, it was healing.

I was grateful for that because I never healed.

I’m still remembering how straight society turned their collective backs on us and let us die. I will never forgive or forget that. Maybe that’s a shortcoming on my part but it’s true. I’ve tried and I can’t. That scar runs too deep.

And now we’re back to the same shit again. Straight society is turning their backs on my trans brothers and sisters. Ignoring their pain. Trying to legislate them out of existence.

Even our so-called allies are saying shit like “well if we want to appeal to a broader base we can’t keep going on about the transgender thing.” Fuck you Gavin Newsom. In particular.

Make no mistake: they want us dead. Not just closeted, not just silent. Gone. Non-existent. And I say us because they’re just starting with the trans people. They’ll come after the rest of us if they succeed.

I am old and so, so tired.

But I’m alive. And I’m not going anywhere.

For anyone who hasn't heard, the OP here, @saint-batrick, passed away about a year and a half ago. So yeah, please... love the queers that are still here, still alive. Love us while we're all still here, and learn why so many aren't.

i want to share some non-american context about aids pandemic

AIDS is often talked about as an event that changed queer history, and sometimes I see people frustrated about how cruel it was to think that aids is "God's punishment" for gays. It could be different if society was not that homophobic.

It's interesting that if you compare it to the situation with aids in USSR, you can see the issue was also in USA medicine + social stratification where middle class+ people saw themselves as kinda *biologically* separated from others.

The USSR had aids pandemic started at the same time, and at first the government was trying to tell that soviet people are safe from the "capitalistic disease of gays, addicts and sex workers" (the language was much more dehumanizing, I just don't want to use it). And you know what? Soviet people did not believe it. They were scared as fuck, especially when the knowledge spread and they saw the first results of misinformation and secrecy around AIDS.

The propaganda did not work because people knew the medicine is the same for everyone in the country but the most powerful politicians. Soviet citizens had no control over if they will receive the donor blood of an ill person or the injection from the same reusable syringe as aids+ gay or whoever. There was not enough medical equipment, it was not sterilized properly, and nobody was protected. You could behave as the most "dignified" person ever, to remain celibate and stay out of drug usage, but if you need a vaccination, got hurt at work or have diabetes, you are damned. Every visit to the hospital was a risk. It's the matter of accident if you catch aids in the hospital or not.

It was evident in practice. Because children were first to suffer of aids. Many of them.

The first victims of the aids pandemic in the USSR were an adult man and a 12 yo girl. Almost 10 years later there was an outbreak in the children's hospital in the Asian republic, Kalmykiya, and a lot of really young children got ill. I mean newborn babies and toddlers. They had no chance to misbehave to deserve a punishment, you know.

AIDS pandemic was one of the minor reasons why the USSR collapsed. It was obvious that this government could not protect its people. It tried to use the queerphobic rhetoric borrowed abroad, and it led to the bad stuff, not only for gay people, but for every part of society. And if for the USA the homophobic negligence was at least based on reality - homosexual men were the first victims indeed, - for the USSR it was total fantasy!

There were a couple of gays and bisexual men who brought aids from abroad and were diagnosed because they confirmed the homosexual contact somewhere. But there were foreign students, who formed partnerships and families with Soviet people; there were tourists, children of aids+ parents who had no idea about aids at all, sailors working in Africa and having contacts with locals and etc. Putting the blame on gays did not work because officially the soviet union had no gays! And even when they caught some, it did not look credible.

The history went wrong and now it's forgotten that soviet gays had nothing to do with aids. The tale of gays bringing aids was told so many times that it started to seem the only one. Ehhhh, it's not that simple.

And usa was the origin of this tale, which is upsetting. May be for you the aids pandemic is mostly in the past, but oh boy it's getting only worse for post-ussr space and homophobia rises

My source is the book "Вспышка", Ирина Ролдугина, Катерина Суверина

@brightlotusmoon a perspective of AIDS from the USSR side.

I am hugging everybody.

star trek explores these strange seemingly inconsequential extremes because it wants you to consider the possibility that your concept of ethics doesnt and could never possibly account for every scenario. It wants you to consider the ethical ramifications of just wiping out the little nanites taking over your ships computer even though eventually this will kill you all becuase

-What if they’re alive?

-What if they’re sentient?

-What if they don’t realize they’re hurting us?

-What if what hurts us is what they need to live?

-What if we can communicate with them?

Star Trek takes the situation of, “these computer bugs are eating our ship and in an hour we’ll all be dead and we COULD just wipe them out utterly but…what if they’re like us?” because the ramifications effect what risks we ourselves are willing to take in the name of pacifism and understanding. it says that even the smallest most immenently dangerous creature deserves as much of a chance to live peacefully as we can possibly give it through understanding.

without examining ourselves this way, through these made up seemingly inane situations, we will never be able to understand ourselves and what we’re truly capable of, what levels of understanding can be achieved. without the ability to place ourselves in a difficult situation and reach beyond our first instinct of fight or flight and self-preservation, we will never be evolve as a global community

preserving creekfiend’s tags because GOLD

#star trek does this because its the space talmud actually

this is unequivocally true. the rabbi at my childhood temple made it a point to bring a Star Trek scenario into every single d'var, and there was always something relevant!

Ah there's no subs, so I probably wont get the- nevermind that's hilarious

do it on the clock are you stupid

remember remember

Holy fuck you illegally downloaded a cardigan

Dang. The skill needed to know how to use all of those machines, the vision, the planning. Wowzers.