bright hauntings @bright_helpings@mspsocial.net

In the old comics, Batman’s parents were millionaires. I want to see a Batman where they never adjusted for inflation. Like Bruce Wayne grew up in an expensive suburb, went to a private college with no loans but then they cut him off at 27 and he’s just a person who is poorly prepared for real life. Batman with an aging MacBook Pro, a starter house, and a lot of credit card debt. The “bat cave” is an MMA gym his dad’s cousin lets him use after hours. Batmobile is a Prius with a bent fender.

Adventure achieved! Met a man walk a dog and a goose. The goose is a rescue that lives indoors and thinks it's a dog! 🌞🐕😃🦆🌳

Today's YouTube actually is lo-fi beats to be a puppy to, and it's cute as heck, I love it so much.

I sometimes get unnerved by the sheer aggression of institutional transphobia in the UK, but then I remember, this is a social moment. The data, in any sphere you care to examine, from prisons to medicine to social science is on our side, it always has been. Politics is transient, data is forever.

complement the guys in your life.
there's a thing we do where we focus on a derogatory view of ourselves, to avoid entering a position of vulnerability. expressing what you value or appreciate about yourself shows others the aspects of yourself that if criticised, could particularly hurt, because they are more important to you than other aspects, and because if challenged, could impact your values and how you consider yourself. i think there's an enormous scope for insecurity if the people you care about do not make it clear what they appreciate in you, or if habitually you do not receive positive affirmations of being. it's easy enough to hide your hurt or insecurity or desire for affirmation and appreciation, if in a situation you might need to self-analyse, you instead fall back on self-deprecation because insincerity is safer. so complement the men in your life, if you see qualities that you appreciate or value.

Why doesn't my mind feel as awake and energetic during the day as it feels at 1 in the morning when I lay down to sleep?

@bright_helpings
Brad Golfman in all his glory.

I was planning on deleting these toots today because people have been *super* helpful! Then I got billed for 200bux for a past medical expense...

So thank you for all the donations and boosts! We've gotten over $300! and *65* boosts!!

Please keep boosting/reboosting 💚

WHAT?

Sweet Dreams / 7 Nation Army Mashup.

It's good. Like, scary good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmLBSCiEoas

Manchester having a normal one

#inktober day 14, tick. this one makes me laugh. cw, it's a bug

I declare #CakeForTransFriendsDay.

I'm fed up of "coming out" days that ask trans people to come out in an unsafe world, doing all the risky stuff, while cis people ignore us.

Today, 14th Oct, every year, the onus is on cis people to buy cake for their #trans, #nonbinary and otherwise genderly-interesting friends.

@bright_helpings also entertaining etymologically that "rosemary" is unrelated (except for through convergent evolution) to either "rose" or "mary" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rosemary