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I've always felt that in terms of looks, John Constantine should stay looking like Sting but as Sting is famously into health and taking care of himself he shouldn't look as good as him. I don't mean make him ugly, there are plenty of issues where it's clear John can take care of himself and cleans up nicely but he's probably not going to get as expensive of a hair cut as Sting or have a personal chef/nutrition. He smokes constantly so his teeth are gonna be a bit worse for wear too.

I got frustrated with some of the later Hellblazer comics because in the beginning, John has clear ups and downs. Sometimes he looks great, his suit is neat, his hair is combed and he's going around confidently but then when shit hits the fan or his mental health suffers he can be seen looking unkempt and haggard. Later writers seemed to have him rolling off a perpetual bender which kind of took away from the realism of how John's mental health had been portrayed in the early stuff. Before, you knew he generally liked to be clean and to take care of his appearance. It makes it more painful, more human when you see him fall into depression and stop shaving or washing up. You know he's not supposed to be this way, you know it's not how he likes to be. You see the effects of his mental health suffering clearly. Later, when he's scruffy and scuffed up all of the time it's comes across as gimmicky and doesn't mean anything any more. The ups and downs of the character were one of the humanizing factors that really drew me to him in the first place and I know I'm not the first person to give my opinion on this but I was disappointed by this shift in interpretation and depiction. I didn't like him constantly being some slob who was just happy to roll around in filth and shit, when he get's like that it's because he's going through the bad times again. Otherwise it's just a meaningless gimmick.

So yeah, I maybe biased as a Sting- enjoyer but I like it when he looks like Sting. I just don't think he should be as generally fit and polished as Sting. I think of it as kind of like those pictures of identical twins where one twin smoked for 20 yrs and the other didn't. Also if one twin had vastly more money and didn't experience untold horrors every other week.

he's just being silly

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the thing about the jokerfish is that gotham isnt on like some pond that’s the fucking ocean. These fish probably show up elsewhere like there’s probably people fishing for like idk scup down in the Chesapeake bay area over the winter and pulling up jokerfish. That’s a fucking nightmare. What fish were they originally do you think. My money is on sea robins. Those things are freaky on their own they literally grunt.

how big and far reaching is the ecological disaster that is gotham. Theres some z plot that should be happening where the TNC sues gotham for their pollution and when they try and fight it some poor TNC worker walks into the court room with a cup of water from Outside Just Now and is like hey. See how that is Shiny and Opaque Green?

how often do you think conservation workers in gotham kill themselves. Said like it’s funny but it’s really not. I know Batman gets shouted at in the streets by/receives letters from ecology majors like STOP fucking arresting dr isley shes the ONLY reason I didn’t kill myself last year

anyways jokerfish. unclear as to if theyre healthy enough to have any kind of stable breeding population but even if they do the population is constantly under attack from gothamites it’s like baked into people to attack them with anything they have to hand upon seeing one in the harbor. Like PAUSE is that a jokerfish??? Hold on i’m gonna throw a brick at it

aldjdhsksj this is funny as hell

i just played/beat this dlc, and after my like 15hrs playing it i want to add: not ONLY is the map blurry, but to unblur it you have to unlock the ability “Headstrong” using skill points.

if you haven’t played the game, you get skill points from defeating enemies and completing missions. a normal marine found around the map will get you one skill point, for example, and completing a mission or sidequest might get you 200-400 (though it’s worth noting that in Zoro’s DLC, he doesn’t have very many missions, and there are no sidequests, so most of your skill points will have to come from defeating individual marines and pirates). most abilities in world seeker cost anywhere from 25-500 skill points (the most expensive i can think of right now from the original being Luffy’s Conquror’s Haki, which i believe costed 800 skill points)

now, with all that in mind...

Headstrong costs 999 skill points. it’s the single most expensive skill in the game. it costs more to teach Zoro to read a map than it does to teach Luffy to use conqueror’s haki.

What's a bitch gotta do to find floor plans for REAL historical palaces and mansions and not fake ones people made up for Minecraft or to sell to Americans

I actually ran into this problem earlier this year, but luckily, I also found a good place!

The Library of Congress actually has an entire collection containing floor plans for historical buildings, with pictures, drawings, floor plans, etc. The place I was looking at doesn't even exist anymore, but they took the time to document everything down to the designs in the moulding.

Hope this helps!

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Fondly thinking about Justice League Action again but specifically the episode where they do a whole gag about Barry and Lobo being Roadrunner and Coyote I need that energy for Barry back just let him take the piss out of everyone for the gags

Hate fanon pit-madness. not only bc it’s just a method to excuse your fav white boi blorbo’s active flaws, but also because I like that he killed people. let him kill those people. he did that. he’s a rapid dog and i love him. He killed once, he’ll kill again and his actions are his own.

I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

A lot of tough situations where we now feel like we “don’t know what to do or say” had social scripts just a couple of generations ago and they might have been canned phrases or robotic actions but they could still be meant sincerely and unfortunately we haven’t replaced them with any more sincere or easier new script.

a lot of people are giving examples in the notes of things they just find annoying like not using headphones in public, but OP is talking about actual literal scripts of things to say in awkward situations

if you have a date or two with someone and you don't see a relationship developing? most millennials / gen Zers just end up ghosting. but a social script that might have been taught and rehearsed in the past could be:

"I really appreciated getting dinner with you the other night and I enjoyed your company, but I'm afraid I didn't feel a spark. I wish you the best, and hope you find that special someone!"

like it sounds kind of trite but it was at least something to say and it can still be meant with kind sincerity. it also communicates in 2 sentences that you don't want to see them romantically again, but there aren't any hard feelings about that. that's it!!! that's all it takes!!!

Another example is that at parties a lot of people talk about how awkward it is to mingle or talk to people they dont know. But at old timey parties that was traditionally the HOST'S job, and there was a specific scripted way of doing it that eased the process! The host would bring you in, introduce you and maybe even a little bit about you like what you did for a living, and then guide you to a group you could talk to. They didn't just let you in the door and then ditch you to fend for yourself in a sea of strangers. That would be unthinkable and no one would be surprised if a get-together like that wound up being awkward.

I still do the party-host thing and yall can, too! (Thanks Mad Men for teaching me a lot of outmoded social scripts... no really tho)

Remember things about your friends! Ask people about their weekends, hobbies, holidays, studies, and jobs! Listen for the concerns people have and what they are working on! Draw connections between one person and another to get the ball rolling. "Oh, Maura, you just got your first cat! You should talk to Felix, he used to work at a rescue. Felix, please tell Maura all the new-cat-guardian pointers."

"Bill, Sheila, Xan, this is my friend Kale. Kale is really into Star Trek, Bill you and them should talk about it!"

Orrr whatever! After you make the introduction and draw the connection you just float on into the next interaction with someone else at the function. Just listen, care about your friends, get our of your own head, and think of how you can bring other people together and you will feel 100% less awkward.

hi i am so excited about this post because i have posted this exact thing MANY times on here, often in the specific context of how formal etiquette is so useful for autistic people especially, but also for everyone. even if you come off a little bit formal, which you will sometimes, having Old School Manners (or just knowing what they are) for various common scenarios is like having a magic ticket that will just sail you through all kinds of social iinteractions, gatekeeping, social weirdness, and as is pointed out in the above posts about introducing people to each other, can make you into a really valuable and helpful person for an entire gathering or group of people.

i also want to point out that knowing what the polite thing to do in all situations makes you a lot more effective at being rude and obnoxious when the situation calls for it, which is also a valuable and necessary adult skill

This issue of Justice League Unlimited really did take us back to 1998 with Impulse, he's yelled at for no reason other than he's 'in the way', solves the problem first and has valuable ideas, and he is immediately foiled. It really does lean into how unfairly people perceived Bart for years and years - you as a reader are supposed to know it's unfair.

It is VERY successful in this.

Check out this amazing sequence though.

Justice League Unlimited (2024) #5

Bonus

Justice League Unlimited (2024) #5

At least Bart gets some interaction with his grandpa Hal.

bart’s thoughts bubbles returning……. nature is healing

The real weird thing about 1985 - 2011 Batman is that it's so devoted to exploring this idea of what kind of person would dress up like a bat, but due to it starting before the mainstream internet and because it was written by painfully straight men, the answer it lands on is "a traumatized psycho freak with some kind of undiagnosable personality disorder driven by vengeance" and not "a transgender software engineer with a keen nostalgia for the 'antique' design of furaffinity."

I do not hate Tim Drake as a character. His original self, as a sort of audience surrogate, this kid who chose to become involved in the Robin Lineage, who figured things out by his dedication and his enthusiasm, that guy is neat. Maybe he's not the most skilled, maybe not the smartest or best trained, but he's got heart and Batman needed a reminder of that heart after Jason.

When Tim is written as this eager hero who sometimes tries a bit hard to be cool, he's endearing and fun. Plus, I like staff fighting, it's cool. Spin that stick, white boy, twirl that thing.

But, when he's written as this Smartest Guy. This Special Boy, who's just the Best Robin Ever, waaay better than all those others who never gets the respect he deserves, who Ra's Al Ghul and Lady God-damn Shiva are invested in, when he can act so smarmy and cocky in a not fun way, that's… not interesting. That's just some guy who keeps getting talked up. If you can't show a character as good without pushing him above others, something's up.

Anyway: bring back Earnest wannabe cool dork Tim, less Ultra Smart Perfect Robin Tim. I hope this is coherent.

Doesn’t even have hands to wash

not to be all i told you so about ancestry tests but 23 and me went bankrupt and can now legally sell human genetic information to the highest bidder, as per their privacy policy which was signed by approx. 15 million test takers

im still mind blown that people really readily submitted their dna so they could be classed by ethnicity on paper permanently. like yeah theres no way this could go badly huh

Given that patent attorneys, especially back then used to have hard science degree, it makes the one about how they know the weight limit on a bridge funnier.

For the uninitiated:

My preferred version:

Dad 100% studied physics or engineering, he's just also a troll, which is why he's a patent lawyer.