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Grayson | he/him | 18 I am a walnut
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whore4batfam

ALL I’M SAYING IS THAT did Bruce raise Dick? Yes and no. He was like an older brother who stepped up. And as he grew as an adult and felt more comfortable being an adult with a child in his care, he changed. but Dick didn’t stay a child, he grew up.

Is he Dick’s brother yes and no. Is he Dick’s father yes and no. Is he Dick’s friend sometimes yes!!!!!! sometimes no.

Are they inescapably close to each other and bound together not by grief but by the strength of seeing each other grow and nurturing kindness in a world that is cruel? Did they make a difference in this world? Even if that difference is only for each other? Yes.

that’s my kid that’s my brother that’s my friend/that’s my brother that’s my father that’s my friend

that’s the soul my life has been shaped by

do i love him yeah i guess

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911bts

Okay I wanna clarify something real quick..

SAG-AFTRA is the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. So actors (and more) union.

WGA is the Writers Guild of America. So writers union.

They went on strike last year. They went on strike because of a lot of things but things like AI and residuals were big topics.

IATSE is International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. So the crew is under this.

They almost went on strike a few years ago but made a deal before it reached that point. (The union members vote on a contract that it was just over a 50/50 on the for and against. But ultimately it ended up being a a touch more on the for side).

Their contract is up for renewal right now and they are actively negotiating. If those talks don't end in a deal at the end of July, they will strike.

As a member of IATSE, we DONT WANT TO STRIKE! We want to work! We don't want to be on unemployment again. We don't want our brothers and sisters to leave the industry because they can't afford to stay.

We want to work we love our jobs but in the name of safety and making sure everyone gets home on time and can put food on the table, but we WILL strike and you WILL hear it from us and we will win, just like the writers and the actors won last year.

The Teamsters local 399 (The Hollywood truck drivers, passenger van drivers, even the guys who drive characters cars that you see on screen) are also negotiating together with IATSE. Their president Lindsey Doherty is a second generation teamster with a Jimmy Hoffa tattoo. She said it wonderfully last year "If the studios want to fuck around, they're going to find out"

The studios try to pit us all against each other. They try to make the crew blame the writers and actors for going on strike. They try to make us get mad at them for being the reason we're not working. We see straight through that shit. We are all stronger together, we fight for Halyna Hutchins, Sarah Jones, Spike Osorio, Rico Priem and all the other crew members who never made it home.

I'm sick of going to candlelight vigils for fellow crew members.

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fans4wga

This, absolutely. We hope IATSE's negotiations are successful—striking is the always the final option!

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3liza

99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

you should have a rough outline of a plan for if any of your loved ones experiences psychosis, it really does happen a lot. UTIs can cause psychosis. taking drugs, even safe drugs, or prescription drugs, can cause psychosis. i was once prescribed a heavy regimen of vitamin D because i was deficient, but the doctor never told me to stop taking it, so i moved to california, stopped being deficient, and developed vitamin d toxicity with downstream hyperparathyroidism which triggered significant hypomania that was undetected and uncontrolled for yeeeeeeears. i just slowly got Weird and started making impulsive decisions based on slightly out-of-gamut beliefs. i drove cross country by myself to have a love affair. the love affair was real, the series of decisions leading to burning down my life in pursuit of it were based on not great brain function however. etc. you see what i mean. churchill mentioned depression being the "black dog who stalks us" (one reason for Churchgrim's multi-referential name) but theres another, stealthier dog called Insanity and it's closer to some people than others but man it sneaks up on you. every time i see one of those "guy gets weird and drives into the wilderness forever" missing persons stories i think "yeah i could totally pull that off"

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oarfjsh

"van gogh cut off his ear what a lunatic" you are 3 nights of bad sleep, getting unexpected upsetting news and taking a substance as benign as coffee at the wrong time away from doing the same hope this helps

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I think the real reason destruction left the endless is because he was the only one who wasn't goth. every family get together is just his siblings talking about dream's disastrous love life and the novel new human musicians known as Bauhaus. and he had enough. my man just wants to talk about light beer and fooball leave him be

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tlirsgender

Convinced every male actor on supernatural is making their voices lower intentionally like the opposite of when straight women answer the phone because why do they all sound like that

I don't think I've heard them speak out of character in like interviews or anything I just sense this. I just know misha collins is like quietly growling to himself before the cameras roll trying to get the vibe right

[ID: a reply from @icantleave that reads, "That's for real what happened" /end ID]

No way. I mean this is the same show where the directors thought using an umbrella was gay so yeah that tracks

[ID: a reply from @pinejaysong that reads, "from what i understand, misha thought that cas should sound like, as intimidating as possible, so he used that voice thinking that he was only going to be in three episodes anyway. but obviously he stayed far longer than that, so not only did he have to Keep doing the voice, but jensen especially kept trying to match him." /end ID]

Masculinity is so fascinating

[ID: a reply from @icantleave that reads, "Yeah. Jensen mentioned that in the first season he intentionally lowered his voice as he felt it suited the character. Then it got even lower in the course of the show. Misha was originally cast to play castiel only for like a short four episode arc, so he decided to play the first angel on the show as weird and inhuman, and add a very low gravely voice (his real voice is Significantly higher). Then he had to keep that up for 12 years lol" /end ID]

They invented voice training for cisgender men. This feels like a metaphor for something. This is why their characters keep getting headcanoned as tboys. This is how misha can still be bisexual

Just found videos of misha out of character. Help

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seriousjones

tired of hearing about how saturn is the most fuckable planet just because it has the most rings. jupiter is clearly the most fuckable planet, and trust me, i’ve already heard your “oh the great red spot is an std” jokes, and i don’t care. and btw, the logistics of fucking the rings of a planet don’t make any sense. have fun trying to put your dick through a bunch of jagged rocks and ice, you piece of shit

this is like one of the best posts i’ve seen on tumblr and let me tell you why

  • “tired of hearing about” posts that then go on to delineate something i have literally never heard anyone talking about are hilarious
  • the idea of trying to rank the planets as fuckable is absurd
  • huffy “i don’t care”
  • nitpicking the logistics of something impossible
  • horrible mental image
  • ends very angrily
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did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

This is especially funny because they aren’t even right. Foxes *ARE* dogs.

No they aren’t.

yes they are. because they are fluffye.

OK yes they are.

Dog

Dog

Different family, but same order as @pictures-of-dogs

No, they are the same family. They are the same kingdom, phylum, order and family. They separate at the genus.

They’re a dog.

yeah they’re fluffye

theyre literally not dogs theyre not even fluffy. can we get science tumblr over hear or what!?

checkmate athiests

fluffye

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pa-pa-plasma
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okay but they literally are dogs, for those who are confused

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stele3

If foxes are dogs, then so are wolves, coyotes, dingoes, jackals, and several other extant and extinct species.

Behold! A dog.

of course it’s a dog you buffoon. it’s fluffye.

Why on earth would someone think “BUT IF THEY’RE DOGS SO AR -”

Like yes of course wolves are dogs, where have you been. Jackals are excellent doggies! So are coyotes. Why is this confusing.

I love that this is literally two completely different arguments running simultaneously.

That guy up there who said they’re not even fluffy was thinking of sharks

sharks are also dogs. ravenous water dogs, but still dogs

Sharks can NOT be dogs they are SMOOTH

Tags via @jenroses

sharks are smooth dogs

BEHOLD, a SHARK

17 clown car pileup 84 injured 193 dead

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In my opinion, the butt jokes are incredibly incredibly tired.

So here are several fun facts about Dick that you can use for comedic effects/running jokes instead:

  • His hatred of Capes. Listen we are talking about Dick wore a yellow cape for 9 to 10 years in universe Grayson. The moment he changed his costume, he straight refused to ever wear a cape again, the only time he had to wear one, it was as Batman and it was very very frustrating for him.

You know that when he watched the Incredibles with Lian and Roy or Damian and Edna Mode came on screen with her hatred of capes, this was his reaction:

Someone else finally understand him. She instantly became his favorite character.

  • His tendency to put unknown substances/evidence in his mouth and being able to identify it by taste and his knowledge of what Heroin taste like (yep still not over it).

It's both impressive (the fact that he can actually identify something by taste alone is impressive) and gross and even his closest friends don't understand why he is the way that he is, Do we think it's the Bat training or do we think it's just Dick (tm)... I feel like it has to be just Dick, right ? considering everything in Gotham is a toxin of some kind ? How many heart attack do we think he gave both Bruce and the Titans with that ?

  • Dick Grayson namer of superhero things: Listen, I just learned that Dick named the Arrowcave and now I just kinda love the idea of a running joke that every time a classic superhero in contact with Robin has a goofy name for something superhero related, it probably comes from the 9 year old superhero who thought it sounded cool.

The Titans are never letting that go and Dick doesn't want to talk about it (but he secretly still really like the names, they were cool when he was 9 and pretty practical when you think about it, thank you very much).

  • Everyone has a crush on him (tm): Honestly it is pretty funny that everyone and theirs entire family have a crush on Nightwing (and also pretty consistent canon since Raven in ntt). The reaction of the batfam is annoyed because that's gross, it's Dick, theirs brother/son, and the Titans are amused (Donna, Vic, Garth and maybe Wally) or maybe sorta part of the people who have had a crush on him (Kory obviously , Roy, Raven).

You do need to be careful with that, but I think if you do the opposite of what DC is usually doing, you'll be fine.

Also you can also includes the disastrous first date with supergirl in that. She also had a crush on him and they date was so horrible that he considered changing superhero identity because it was so embarrassing (truly one of the greatest plot-point on Superman/batman world finest honestly and this series is genuinely my favorite modern/current series)..

  • His petty side when he doesn't like someone: Listen, Dick has a petty side, ask Helena circa Outsiders (2003), Talia (always), Jason circa the late 2000s (Morrison era) and Azrael (also always). When he doesn't like people but has to work with them, he is going to be a little shit because they have to know he doesn't like them. it's important. and the comedic potential of Nightwing, one of the most competent, known and admired hero of the community being so petty is excellent. 10 out of 10, I need him to work with someone he hates again just for the fun of it.

The last one is just an headcanon and do not have basis in canon as far as I know:

  • Sometimes, as an adult, Nightwing says Holy shit in front o fa classic superhero and that superhero does a double take because they are so used to him saying Holy goly batman (and that include Batman).
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