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Imagine a Batfam Half-blood/PJ&tO AU where the dark- haired Batkids all have different divine parents but the same mortal father: Bruce.
Dick and Jason are both the result of a threesome with Aphrodite and Ares. Bruce was fairly young at the time, finishing up his globe-hopping, and the divine lovers seemed as keen to fight over him as they were to seduce and share him. Then Dick came along and was delivered to Wayne Manor, and Ares got jealous of Aphrodite for producing such a beautiful child with their shared lover. So he took some time to learn the trick Athena uses to make kids and triumphantly returned a few years later to present Bruce with Jason.
And then promptly fucked off again ‘cause, you know. Fucking gods.
Cass’s divine parent is Harpocrates, a minor god of secrets, silence, and confidentiality. Bruce has no idea when or how he met this god, though he suspects it might have been on patrol. All he knows for sure is that Cass turned up one day already old enough to walk and do things for herself and just made herself at home. She’s mute, but has the power to transmit meaning and emotion to others. It’s a little unsettling though, so she generally prefers alternate means of communication.
Bruce caught Athena’s eye on accident. She’d taken mortal form to attend a conference at Wayne Enterprises. Bruce struck up a conversation, and before you know it they were having lunch and then dinner while discussing everything from scientific discoveries to the moral philosophy of war. Athena finds herself so inspired by him that she conjures up Tim as a brainchild and sends him to Bruce as a gift. At this point Bruce just goes with his weird life and accepts the little bundle of joy.
Damian turns up much much later and is the only one of Bruce’s kids with a mortal mother, though Talia claims the al'Ghul line includes the legacy of both Zeus and Hades. In practice though, Damian’s otherworldly-ness is more comparable to the House of Life, as he’s a magician who can wield divine power….just not of the Egyptian gods. No, the al'Ghul legacy is older than that, and darker, going back before history to ancient pacts with gods long forgotten. There is power in Damian’s blood, and it scares him. Scares them all.
Better just to pretend he’s a son of Hecate and leave it at that, at least outside the family.
Alfred, like Bruce (despite all evidence to the contrary) is utterly mortal, a normal human. But, in wrangling and loving all these demigods and maintaining their home, he’s earned the favor of Hestia. He even takes secret tea with the goddess, once in a blue moon. No one else knows, but then, no one really needs to.
throwback to the time my classics professor asked “does anyone know who sappho is?” and i immediately replied “she’s the OG lesbian” and my professor yelled “EXACTLY” and wrote the OG lesbian on the whiteboard
why are star wars planets more boring than earth and our solar system like sure we’ve seen desert, snow, diff types of forest, beach, lava, rain, but like…
rainbow mountains (peru)
red soil (canada/PEI)
rings (saturn’s if they were on earth)
bioluminescent waves
northern lights (canada)
salt flats (bolivia, where they filmed crait but did NOTHING COOL WITH IT except red dust?? like??? come ON)
and cool fauna like the touch me not or like, you know, the venus flytrap.. and don’t get me started on BUGS like… we have bugs cooler than sw aliens
BASICALLY like???? come on star wars you had one (1) job where are the cool alien species
I KNOW!! I did a report on filming locations in Star Wars last year and just made a list of places that looked so surreal they could make a convincing other planet. You covered some on my list but if I could just add a couple more:
Tsingy di Bemaraha, Madagascar
Zhangye Danxia, China (similar to the Rainbow Mountains in terms of appearance)
Chocolate Hills, Philippines
Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
So many missed opportunities with cool ass things on Earth, Lucasfilms smh…
Earth is effing amazing!
Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentina
Lake Retba, Senegal
Tepui, Venezuela
Tianzi Mountains, China
these would make amazing Star Wars planets OR fantasy material:
Tsingy du Bemaraha, Madagascar again (but a different part)
(those are razor-sharp, if you were wondering. very little of this area has been explored because YIKES)
Lake Natron, Tanzania
(looks cool, but is alkaline enough to Kill Your Shit)
Lake Baikal, Russia
(the deepest lake in the world, seriously)
and I’ll wrap it up with Son Doong Cave, Vietnam, the largest cave in the entire world.
it puts anything Dagobah has to offer to absolute shame:
(seriously, the largest chamber is 660 feet high. you could jam a fucking skyscraper in there and still lose it)
anyway I really like caves thanks for coming to my ted talk
July 3rd, 11:59 P.M.: This country is a festering cesspool
of corruption, ignorance, and violence. Every achievement is built on
the backs of millions of dead. The Founding Fathers-
July 4th, 12:00 A.M.:
July 5th, 12:00 A.M.: -would shake their heads in shame if they could see the state of this nation.
Hijab- Fun Facts for those who don’t know how to create/write hijabi characters
From your local ex-hijabi and someone who lived in a country that enforced mandatory hijab.
1. Hijab is not just necessary for a woman. Hijab also includes men, who have to wear modest clothing, cover their arms, and grow a beard.
2. No one wears their hijab when they get inside the privacy of their home. Wearing hijab, especially if you wear it tight or its really hot out, can get uncomfortable so often times I would just whip it off.
3. We don’t wake up and put the hijab on, it’s only to be worn around men who are not close-relatives (husband and son) or children. Some people don’t follow this to a T and that’s ok.
5. Being a hijabi doesn’t mean you understand the dynamics and philosophy of islam. It just means you want to wear the hijab and took that step. Hijabs dont make you Holier Than Thou.
4. Hijab is not only a headscarf, but it’s literally a dresscode. You can’t wear a hijab with short shorts and your whole tit hanging out. You need to cover up to your wrists, ankles and neck area— clothes should be baggy and not tight. Once again, some people don’t follow this to a T, that’s fine.
4.5. Hijabs are suppose to cover the ears, hair, and neck.
6. “Can I draw this character without their hijab in the privacy of their own home?” Yeah it’s fine, no one wears hijab in their house unless they have guests.
7. Hijab means different things for different people. They can mean security, they can be a means of achieving confidence. They can also have absolutely No Reason for wearing the hijab besides that they want to.
8. At the end of the day Hijabis are still human beings, and often times they’re treated like aliens and it’s not okay. They’re a human who is wearing a headscarf for religious reasons. There’s nothing “exotic, ethnic” or “mysterious” about that. It’s like considering anyone who wears a hat to be some weird foreign creature.
There’s a bunch of other things but stop treating the hijab as a personality trait for your muslim characters. Hijab has nothing to do with your personality, at all, ever. I’ve seen timid hijabis. I’ve seen hijabis who were starting fights with authority (I being one myself). I’ve seen hijabis skateboarding, drinking, smoking, because guess what; it doesn’t define who we are.
