me some time ago, after sobbing about my fight with another partner: I wouldn’t be having this problem if I were a premodern peasant girl who had gotten monogamously married to an adult man when she was 14
81k: you would be having worse problems
me: like WHAT. Oh… yeast infection but no antifungals
81k: I mean, classically marital rape
81k: You would also have to get up early in the morning to sew textiles.
me, still kind of crying: For my rapist? (starting to get angry) Leggings for my rapist?
So funny to me that some ppl meet their mutuals and get laid on here. This is where I come to mentally shit on myself
im pretty sure thats why i met my mutuals
it works because you’ve already established that the topics you Poast about are in-bounds for conversation, so you can speedrun your way to a high degree of intimacy instead of anxiously probing whether the vulnerable stuff is Okay.
Alfred Pennyworth / Bruce Wayne / Bruce Wayne Jr. / the Riddler / Mr. Freeze / Poison Ivy / Bane / Harley Quinn / King Shark / Firefly / Harley Quinn, Batman and the Outsiders / Penguin
ah, can’t pick just one? me neither. but i’m not gonna lie, i don’t think those are all villains.
Alfred Pennyworth is probably my favorite DC villain, though I don’t actually read much Batman anymore. He’s just so interesting from both a psychological/character and a social perspective.
Batman is a really interesting villain, and I’m a big fan of him.
And of course, I really like the Riddler.
i love Riddler very much as well, but Batman and Alfred are not villains, Frank! a robot such as yourself should know that.
I mean, I think Alfred’s role as a member of the DC “villains” club is somewhat questionable, insofar as he’s not really a “real” villain. He’s an artificial intelligence who appears to have voluntarily adopted his role as Bruce Wayne’s advisor and “narrator” of his life’s “true story” (which is a very different thing from “bad guy”).
His job is not to be a “supervillain” like the Riddler or Poison Ivy – they’re more like “super-villains” than Alfred is
Although, in the same vein, Poison Ivy does go a long way toward reconciling Batman’s popularity with the fact that she is a super-villain (or an urban-explosion-loving supervillain), since Batman is not (or is not) a super-villain. People love Batman because they are drawn to characters who don’t really want to hurt people and only do so reluctantly. Poison Ivy is such a character.
(And, as a bonus, Harley Quinn is not an urban-explosion-loving supervillain, she is a goth who just happens to steal people’s souls and turn them evil
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Frank, you have stumbled upon the hottest of takes. Sometimes Batman is his own villain, you’re very right. May I ask, though, what makes Harley able to steal and corrupt souls?
(The Batman movie script apparently has the Joker say “you know who she is, don’t you? Harley Quinn, the goddess of mischief, the jester of crime. She’s one of Gotham’s greatest legends.”
There’s been no live-action movie with Harley or her team, but in the animated Batman Beyond series it was established that Harley was able to corrupt people’s souls by just messing with their heads a bit, like hypnotizing them or playing mind tricks on them or some other kind of mind control.
What about— you know what? Never mind, thank you, Frank
:)
A while back I re-watched The Batman, and one part I really liked is the scene in which Bruce Wayne and The Riddler are driving down an empty stretch of road and Bruce is thinking about the murders his parents committed. He’s pretty distraught about it all, but then at one point he remarks, “You know what my parents were? Really, really evil. What is it?”
The Riddler looks at him with contempt and says “Batman” before driving off.
I think everyone’s mathematical journey would have been so much easier if they showed you the sine, cosine, and tangent unit circle (R=1) animation in precalc
Below is sine and cosine graph in relation to circle (R undefined)
Below is tangent graph in relation to circle (R=1)
below is all six trigonometric functions on unit circle (R=1)
i have to be honest this makes it worse
it’s very nice to look at but i think i actually understand less
River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
idk what the Pacific Northwest river is called. probably either Washington or Vancouver though?
snake - colombia? idk, PNW people are big blood and soil ppl. how come i never hear them talk about these rivers. sounds fake.
Yeah, that’s the Columbia, drains snowmelt from the Rockies.
huh didn’t know it had that much flow
altho I guess what makes the mississippi so valuable is not that it has a lot of water but that it has a huge navigable network, which is correlated but not the same. the columbia is apparently navigable all the way to idaho which is further than I might have expected. seems like a solid regional waterway
It’s only been navigable (by barge) to Idaho since 1975, part of the psychosocial stuff around it was a lot of the damming (which rendered it smoothly navigable and controlled flooding but also interrupted mighty salmon runs) didn’t happen until after the development of modern environmentalism
Oh, huh, just learned that the only moderately pressing thing on the horizon is significantly less pressing than I thought, and I’ll be able to follow the processes I’m currently in the rhythm of to completion rather than settling them aside for it.
Alright, fuckit, I’ll get silk sheets. You have to hand-wash them (basically, give it a soapy massage in that big sink in your laundry room) so I had been going with just satin sheets (which can do machine gentle), but that achieves the smooth-surface effect with a loose weave such that even now prophylactically trimming my toenails and filing my rough skin, my feet skittering around while asleep start pulling it apart to pill.
River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
idk what the Pacific Northwest river is called. probably either Washington or Vancouver though?
snake - colombia? idk, PNW people are big blood and soil ppl. how come i never hear them talk about these rivers. sounds fake.
Yeah, that’s the Columbia, drains snowmelt from the Rockies.
shouldn’t you be personifying her as a wet t-shirt babe more
Because the coastline is essentially mountains in the PNW, there’s no lazy delta at the Pacific mouth, it bursts through a gap carved out with such force it’s constantly carving and recarving channels through all the sediment it drops, making the approach (Portland is an inland port where the Columbia meets the Willamette, which drains the first-in-from-the-coast timber valley between the Coast and Cascade ranges) one of the more difficult in international shipping, there are locally knowledgeable pilots that’re helicoptered out to vessels to guide them through.
River flow volumes, as visualized by some guys at Pacific Institute, who explain:
Major rivers of the 48 contiguous United States, scaled by average flow where river symbols are proportional to the “gage-adjusted flow.” The symbols drawn here have widths proportional to the square root of the rivers’ estimated average annual discharge. Only rivers with discharge above 1,000 cfs are shown. Data from NHDPlus v2. Background map by ESRI.
