we live in the future and they still can’t spell it

ID: a series of screenshots of posts from twitter account NFTNick.eth (@/allnick). each one has community notes underneath

tweet 1: "Cheers to the haters from my NYC penthouse." (image of nick holding a bottle of champagne and a glass). community notes read: The bottle Nick is holding does not cost $5000, and is in fact a bottle of Tattinger Champagne that cost less than $85.

tweet 2: "A message to all "community notes"." (thumbnail of a video of nick in a car). community notes read: It is visible in the reflection of his sunglasses that the driver is wearing streetwear and not the formal attire that a private chauffeur would wear. He is clearly in a Lyft or Uber

tweet 3: "Good morning to the hates from my private movie theater" (an image of nick in front of a large movie screen). community notes read: It is visible in the camera lens that "my private movie theatre" is not in fact his nor much-private. It is a shared screening room "within Brooklyn Point doubles as a performance space, giving residents and their guests the opportunity to showcase their talents".

tweet 4: "Good morning haters from my helipad" (an image of nick in front of a helipad). community notes read: Nick is claiming that this is his helipad, however, a quick look around google maps shows that this helipad is owned and controlled by Manhattan Helicopters.

tweet 5: "The community notes haters are saying this isn't my helipad! / Who's is it then?!?! / If I called the street I live on "my street" would I get community noted? / Choose rich!" community notes read: The Helipad is owned by Manhattan Helicopters. It's their helipad.

tweet 6: "Good morning from my LA Lambo" (an image of nick in a car). community notes read: The vehicle in the video is not a Lambhorgini as @/allnick is claiming. Based on the reflection in the glasses at various parts of the video, it looks to be a 2021 Mazda CX-5. The various sources below verify this.

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I don't know who this is, but I'm glad he keeps having a bad day.

you really think he'd eventually figure out to stop wearing mirrored sunglasses

"The hearts of men are easily corrupted." Wake Up Dead Man (2025) & Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Bonus for @mykingdomforasong:

How to see whether a Chinese handmade teapot is well done or not - quality of the spout is an important standard. 

cr: 承启 建水紫陶

that last teapot is like witnessing an eternal and important truth

I just watched this with the sound on and i really recommend it because the utter silence of the last teapot is both perfectly predictable and totally remarkable.

I think about this video every time I use a teapot

I think about this

video every time

I use a teapot

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

inspired by TheFlashMuseum's TikTok here!

I love Kyle Rayner, but oh my god Wally sure doesn't..............................

The reactionary backlash to media analysis is a natural part of the wider "fascists hate anything intellectual" phenomenon, btw.

Wanting you to ignore the politics of Star Wars comes from the same exact place that wants you to substitute the germ theory of disease with the 'sickness comes from failure to be a good christian and most people who claim to be sick are just faking anyway' myth.

To take a quote from Dan Olson:

Trying to inflict psychic damage to a tumblr user is like trying to irradiate a cockroach, like it can be done, but the lethal dose is not safe for humans either

Besides the point, but you could always try physical damage?

You’re right Gomez, bring me the flail

context according to instagram:

original image from the magazine:

Found a scan of this issue on the Internet Archive (it's the back cover). This scan is 4000x6000 for all your high resolution needs!

The caption reads: "Defeated by roses. Near Turin's Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)"

Incredible. At a distance I understand how the woman might appear to be the abuser and the man the sympathetic victim, but the second you zoom into the man’s face the pink-cheeked rage- not remorse, or rejection, or embarrassment- not heartbreak or despair- but RAGE- the deeper story speaks itself into your suspicions.

And the bit where they’re HER roses? Almost a relief, but also sadder, as she will arrive at whatever event without them, or with them destroyed.

Do you think when the righteous anger and anxiety and annoyance fade, when she arrives at her destination- will her loved ones applaud her? Will she be proud? Will her hands shake? Will she walk home with company from then out, and for how long?

In this moment, she is provoked into anger. Anger is good- it appears strong. But look at his face. Would you put it past him to linger there after dark, in case she returns alone?

What story will HE tell, of ‘I was perfectly polite, but she didn’t even give me a chance- women like that, they’d swoon for a jerk in a heartbeat, but kind and flattering men like me?…”

I love this piece. It paints both stories while illustrating the power dynamics and struggles at play. This should be shown in art classes

"What's the point of Tim Drake? There's nothing he brings to the table that the other Batfamily members don't have" buddy, I don't know how to help you understand that 7/8ths of those other people WOULDN'T BE THERE if it weren't for Tim Drake

the thing about Tim is that he, more than any other Batfamily character (except MAYBE Dick), is responsible for helping create the 'Batfamily' as a concept. Dick as Nightwing was basically completely on his own, and Jason as Robin rarely interacted with anyone outside of Bruce & occasionally the Titans.

Post-Jason's death/pre-Tim, Babs was Oracle but didn't work with Batman (she was introduced as Oracle through her work with the Suicide Squad and then with the Birds of Prey; reintegrating her into the Batman books happened a bit later) & Dick was, again, a solo/Titans hero. 1988-1989 is really the only time when you can truly say Batman was a solo hero. It's only when Tim becomes Robin that it stops being "Batman the solo hero" and even just "Batman and Robin" and the "Batfamily" starts actually being a thing.

And because of the way that Tim was introduced, a large part of that is directly because of Tim. Tim sought Dick out, for example, and their developing relationship was honestly a big catalyst to helping Dick and Bruce get back on good terms with each other (this was after the retcon that Dick became Nightwing because Bruce fired him from being Robin):

Tim's function as a character has ended up being the person who helped Bruce build a network of people, both his kids and other Gotham-based vigilantes, that he could rely on outside of himself. Of the Batfam, Tim is second only to Dick in how many heroes he's connected to and works with. He led Young Justice and his generation of the Teen Titans, he's worked with Justice League members independently on several occasions, and he cultivated several relationships with independent heroes (both in and outside of Gotham). Tim literally knows everyone.

Steph definitely never would have been Robin OR Batgirl if she hadn't met Tim and had him vouch for her on multiple occasions; so much of her early narrative arc is (for better and for worse) wrapped up in how she and Tim interacted with each other. I'd like to think that Bruce would take Cass in independently of any beliefs he had about his parenting abilities, but Tim's presence gave him the confidence he needed to be okay with doing that again. Tim wasn't his kid, but he still convinced Bruce he could be a parent again.

So many members of the Batfam (like...at least 4) exist and/or are on good terms with Bruce either because they came into the family through Tim or are connected to the family because of Tim changing Bruce's mind on Batman working with partners and Bruce taking in children in need. Tim helped bring Dick back into the family, was the first person to accept Helena as a hero, helped set the stage for Cass's introduction, was the vehicle through which Steph became part of the Batfam at all, and helped Bruce get to a point where he didn't summarily dismiss Damian out of hand when he was introduced.

Like...Tim is the living embodiment of the stubborn refusal to accept the concept of Batman as a loner hero. In many ways, Tim is the glue that holds the Batfam together (not Dick, as stereotypically thought, or Bruce himself).

Anyway IN CONCLUSION:

The reason Cass is able to say that the Batfam is a family and not just a team by the time Jason is resurrected and Damian is introduced in 2005/2006 is because of Tim. If it weren't for Tim, the Batfamily wouldn't exist, and people need to start acknowledging that

ITS FUCKING REAL???

The Bongcloud Counter-Gambit: Hotbox Variation

god the comments section is creasing me

sibling bonding

I’ve been watching a bunch of musical movies recently and I really need some dancing bat kids in my life.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about how the topic adoption is addressed when it comes to the batfam in both cannon and in fandom. This isn't meant to be like a call out to any writers or fans, I just think this is part of a larger cultural discussion of adoption. I will be discussing things I dislike personally when it comes to how it's represented, but there's a lot of nuance here. This is also my personal feelings on this, as someone who was adopted and knows other people who were adopted. I think adoption in the US is pretty misunderstood and often glorified. I think that the cultural understanding of adoption, raising a kid that wasn't born to you, and the legal process of adoption get lumped together.

I think a lot of people don't really know how adoption in the US exactly works. Adoption is when your birth records are changed to being the legal child of the adoptive parent. You are issued a new birth certificate with the adoptive parent listed and your previous records are sealed and can only be accessed by petitioning the court, and they can say no. It also severs all legal ties to your biological parents. This does give you the legal rights of a biological child, like being automatically included in inheritance and being next of kin without additional paperwork.

A legal guardian is someone who is given temporary or permanent custody of a child, is fully responsible for the child, and has all the same rights as a parent other than legal recognition of parentage. Also inheritance and next of kin assignment is not automatic and needs to be handled separately.

A foster parent is in charge of caring for a child, but does not have legal custody. The child is considered a ward of the state but you are in charge of there daily care and housing. Also the goal of foster care is supposed to be reunification. There's also a lot to talk about regarding the foster system, but that'd be a whole other long post.

I clarify these things partially because I see them mixed up in discussions often, but also to get into the matter of adoption records. So as I stated previously when you are legally adopted your original birth certificate, medical records, and many of the documents from the adoption process are sealed and cannot be accessed without petitioning the court and proving "reasonable cause" for unsealing them. Apparently them being your personal records is not reasonable cause enough. All of your legal ties to your biological parents are severed, in some cases they are given visitation if it's an open adoption but they don't have custody or even legal ties to the kid, they're just allowed to see them sometimes. Many adopted people, including myself, disagree with this process and want the legal process to change so that we are not deprived of legal documentation of our own history.

A lot of us feel that the right to these records is a human right, and sealing them is another instance of the system treating us like property.

(There is also a lot to be said about infant adoption, and how adoption agencies prioritize them, and neglect older kids because more people want babies and are willing to spend more money to get a baby. This leads to struggling mothers of new borns to be pressured to give up their kids rather than being given help, as well as instances of human trafficking because there are several adoption agencies that have been caught buying babies from traffickers overseas. Also the amount of money people pay for babies kind of makes it feel like human trafficking anyway. This is a huge issue in the US right now, not really related to this topic, but as someone adopted as an infant I just wanted to get this tangent out, and also I think it's something more people should learn about.

I'm not calling all the parents who have adopted infants human traffickers by the way, this a critique of US adoption agencies and the system they built.)

Now onto actually talking about bat media, one thing I always see talked about is how Bruce didn't adopt Dick until he was an adult. This is usually explained in comics as either the courts wouldn't allow him to adopt Dick as a single man, which was the case in the 40's comics as that usually wouldn't be allowed in real life, or Dick didn't want to be adopted because he was still grieving his parents. The latter is actually very common, especially nowadays, most grieving kids don't necessarily want a new birth certificate that says their dead parents never existed.

I think that the treatment of this in both fannon and cannon as a mistake Bruce made that needs to be rectified is weird because it is a very real and valid decision, and treating it as something bad implies that adoption is inherently better than legal guardianship. The only difference between a legal guardian and an adoptive parent is the process of sealing records and cutting legal ties with the birth parents, as well as automatic inheritance. A legal guardian has all the parental rights of an adoptive parent, and the legal status doesn't say anything about the relationship with the child. Also Bruce did in fact change his will to include Dick.

Batman #20 1940

Bruce adopting Dick later us usually seen as formality, often because he adopted Jason as a child, but I think we should start considering legal guardianship as a completely valid route to go, without putting adoption on a pedestal as a better option. This isn't to shame anyone who writes this plot point in comics or fan fiction, most people don't know the nuances in adoption and the struggle for adopted people's rights, but I think glorifying adoption often just silences these conversations about the downsides of adoption in the US.

(Here's some panels of Bruce talking about not adopting Dick as a child and adopting him as an adult)

Tales of the Teen Titans #50 1984

Gotham Knights #17 2001

I was gonna talk about instances like Cass and also Clark who's in the same boat with not really having previous records, Clark coming from a planet that blew up and Cass being raised in isolation (considering she had to threaten David Cain into telling her when she was born, I'm gonna assume she wasn't legally documeted.) and not having a legal identity for a good part of her life. That being said I don't have a lot of experience with kids who don't have legal records before being adopted. So if anyone has anything to add on that topic feel free to. I think this is a very case by case thing.

I think media as a whole conflates the actual act of raising a kid as your own with the legal process of adoption. There has been a lot of push to change how the legal process of adoption works and to regulate the adoption industry, but it's still an ongoing fight. Most media doesn't portray the ugly side of adoption which skews people's view of it. I hope to see more media in the future begin to explore the nuances as the cultural perception of adoption is very limited. I also highly encourage anyone to do further research into this topic, so I'm leaving some sources here at the end of the post. After all there's a lot I didn't talk about, and I am just one adopted person sharing my experience not the all knowing adoption god. I hope that this post inspires some people to do more research into adopted people's rights, and begin thinking more critically about how it's portrayed in media.

(Resources in the Reblogs because tumblr hates links)

(Also this is the third version of the post, the first one I decided I didn't like so I deleted and re-wrote it, and then tumblr ate my next draft)

Concerned United Birth Parents

Beginners Guide to Adopted People's Rights

Exposing the for profit adoption industry

Account from an adopted woman who found out she was trafficked

A non-profit fighting human trafficking in the adoption industry

The final, brilliant word on passive voice.

“She was killed [by zombies.]” <— passive

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <— active

This is legit one of the best ways to identify passive voice.

"Why would this character be jealous of their friend's romantic relationships? Clearly they're in love with them" I don't know if you guys have ever Had Friends but it's actually pretty common for people to feel jealous if their best friend suddenly has less time for them and is prioritising someone they just met over them. That's not inherently romantic, that's the general human desire to be valued by the people you value.

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖