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secondbeatsongs

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

some people marching with a big bi flag stretched on a frame. the flag has "Bi-friendly South Bay - www.southbaybi.org - So B O A" written on itALT
A picture of a bi flag, looking bright in the sunlightALT

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

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the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

In designing the Bi Pride Flag, I selected the colors and overlap pattern of the bi angles symbol. I selected, which to me, is the most attractive combination of pink, purple and blue. In flag-maker parlance this is magenta - PMS 226 (pink), lavender - PMS 258 (purple) and royal - PMS 286 (blue). I decided to make the top of the flag pink and would give it 40% of the vertical dimension. Purple, which is the resultant color when you overlap pink and blue, would be the middle stripe and would be 20% of the dimension. The lower 40% would be blue.                         SYMBOLISM:  The pink color represents sexual attraction to the same sex only (gay and lesbian), the blue represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex only (straight) and the resultant overlap color purple represents sexual attraction to both sexes (bi). The key to understanding the symbolism in the Bi Pride Flag is to know that the purple pixels of color blend unnoticeably into both the pink and blue, just as in the 'real world' where bi people blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.ALT

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

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oh! oh, my god.

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look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

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look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

original flagALT
labALT
linear rgbALT
lchALT
perceptual rgbALT
hslALT

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

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it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

thefreewillagency
space-feminist

it's always so fucking funny to me when terfs are like "how can you say trans women and women are the same thing! being born as a man makes you different!" because like. yes. trans women and cis women are different. so are black women and white women. and straight women and queer woman. and women from different countries and different socioeconomic statuses. there's diversity in the experience of womanhood? what a wild concept

space-feminist

incidentally, this why terfs tend to be white women. from the combahee river collective statement, 1977:

...we reject the stance of Lesbian separatism because it is not a viable political analysis or strategy for us. It leaves out far too much and far too many people, particularly Black men, women, and children. We have a great deal of criticism and loathing for what men have been socialized to be in this society: what they support, how they act, and how they oppress. But we do not have the misguided notion that it is their maleness, per se—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As BIack women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic. 

(emphasis mine)

nonbinarygrimwalker

"To argue that transsexual women should not enter [women-exclusive spaces] because their experiences are different would have to assume that all other women's experiences are the same, and this is a racist assumption. The argument that transsexual women have experienced some degree of male privilege should not bar them from our communities once we realize that not all women are equally privileged or oppressed."

(from "Whose feminism is it, anyway?" by Emi Koyama)

stele3

This. This is the core of it. This is why trans-exclusionary radical feminism is rooted in racism, colonialism, and imperialism. It excludes the idea that there can be any other type of “woman” except one very (white, colonialist, imperialist) definition.

coffinbirds
chamiryokuroi

Me: Man I wish DC would stop pushing the idea that only bio children of heroes can inherit the mantles because it sends a message to all young readers that are adopted children that they do not matter because they’re not “real” family, let the characters take over a mantle because they want it and they fit the role, and if they’re the bio child so great! But you don’t have to make up children to take over hero mantles.

Someone: How dare you insult Damian like this!!! He deserves to be Batman! He wants to be Batman! He has worked so hard to be Batman!!

Me:… what the fuck? I am not talking about the characters! My beef is with DC editorial itself??????

thefreewillagency
changelingsandothernonsense

New Ea-nāṣir lore just dropped and I don't know how to feel about that. I hate the meme but the guy having thugs coming after him for bad copper sales is perfect.

teal-deer

Wait wait WAIT

As someone who hard agrees with all your tags re: tired of the meem

BUT who is also invested in antiquities

Is it possible for you to drop the new lore

changelingsandothernonsense

So the building in Ur where the infamous tablet was found (1 “Old Street” Ur Excavations VII) was actually full of similar tablets, all detailing how badly this guy's deals went. All of these tablets were collected and put into storage at the British Museum. Typically this kind of thing gets forgotten about, many of these tablets have been sitting there for a century, untranslated or partially translated.

The Nu Tabletum

This was recently partially translated and it's incredibly fragmentary, but it's a letter from the man himself reassuring a customer in Larsa about a bad shipment (a lot of goods were missing). He is upset that the customer sent thugs to collect (which is located in a different tablet). In turn, he sends his own to the customer's home. They are to make offerings at the temple of Šamaš together to symbolically "smooth things over". They are taking an oath.

He later goes on to blame the customer for the missing ingots. He (Ea-nāṣir) decided to employ a third party to deliver said ingots to the customer (all the way in the next city-state in the Sumerian cultural sphere). It seems like the third party either stole or got into a fight with the customer over the goods.

Ea-nāṣir now has to haul his ass to Larsa to deal with this personally. There's a lot of "Why don't you believe me?" "They don't listen to me!" "Please don't send-" going on in the tablet. But from what I can gather it looks like this peace offering (making an oath at the temple of Šamaš) broke down too. Everyone is blaming each other for the missing copper ingots and now the man himself has to take the three-day journey to sort out this issue.

We have a name for one of the thugs: Mr. Shorty (kurûm). He seems to be a bit scary.

The man from Dilmun got kicked out of the Merchant's Guild for a reason, he's had this problem before with copper shipments from Elam. Either he's the world's worst judge of character or he's embezzling, and badly. This is his side hustle stage where he's selling everything from used clothing to speculating (badly) on real estate. He may have dabbled in money lending too. He's your classic failed finance bro.

stealingyourbones
stealingyourbones

Short DPXDC Prompts #650

Damian really didn’t care for school. He already knew all the curriculum and the kids in his class were wary of talking to him. At least his P.E. Teacher Mr. Fenton makes it much more tolerable.

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Bruce; How was school today Damian?

Damian; All but last period were a chore. Mr Fenton however knows how to make a class informative and interesting.

Bruce; Isn't Mr Fenton the new PE teacher? I thought you hated the idea of PE. Because it was useless for real life?

Damian; Yes, that is how it has been previously. Mr Fenton however decided that he would teach us escape manoeuvres and how to identify a safe escape route during a rogue attack. His teaching was exemplary.

Bruce; He's teaching what now?

Damian; How to escape the hold of a criminal if it is safe to do so. How to evade capture. And how to identify a safe path when a rogue is attacking. He set up an assault course that looked like a street during one of Ivy's attacks. When someone stepped wrong he would tag them with a fake injury they would have to navigate around. He seems to be making it his job to ensure my classmates can safely evacuate from a rogue attack.

Bruce; Maybe I should look into him, that is unusual behaviour.

Damian; If you scare away my one competent teacher I will make your life a misery. I learned a new way to take someone down today. I would be happy to show you Father. I am assured it causes great pain, allowing the victim time to flee their attacker.

Bruce; On second thoughts, maybe I will just leave the investigation to you.

catwithmanyhats

#Damian's favorite teacher #actually that makes him more sus #you know Damian will try to smuggle home a ghost pet at one point

soniclozdplove

Batman quietly runs a background check in secret and learns Me. Fenton came from a no name tourist trap claiming to be haunted and that there are som very strange and concerning firewalls all over the place form what looks like multiple people trying to keep what happens there a secret. Damian is gonna kill him for this, it was just supposed to be a quick check to make sure he wasn't a rogue in disguise and to find out how he knows this stuff, but it's suddenly turned into a real investigation.

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Bruce takes one look at the picture, sighs and calls in Dick.

Bruce; I need you to befriend Damian's new PE teacher. The fact he is exactly your type should make it easier.

Dick; Wait, what? You want me, your son, to investigate Damian's new teacher?

Bruce; Yes. His town of origin is under a series of information lockdowns. From about three competing sources. Something is seriously wrong there. We need an in. And he is your type. 'Danger Twink' I believe is the accurate phrase.

Dick; I, you. B! Look I don't do honeytraps!

Bruce; I know, the fact you will almost certainly start flirting with him when you see him is unfortunate. But the rest of them will be to intense. You are the only one who can be friendly. But we need this information.

Dick; Can't we just ask Little Bat to ask for more pointers, and WHY he teaches the way he does. Look if he came from there and is teaching this way, he probably wants to stop kids going through whatever plagued his own town right?

Bruce; No, Damian specifically told me to leave him alone.

Dick; OMG Damian likes his teacher that much? I am still not gonna fake befriend him. I'll go as Nightwing!


Two night later

Dick; B, he's perfect. I broke into his flat and he had me pinned in seconds. God B. He's amazing!

Bruce; Dammit. I'll have to try Tim!

Dick; No, no it's fine. I uh, got his number it's all good!

Damian; RICHARD! Why did you break into my teachers house!

Dick; B asked me to! And anyway. I got a date. So if I play my cards right he could become your brother in law!

Damian; I will accept this only if you succeed! Father! I have a new move to show you in training!

Bruce; Fuck!

soniclozdplove

Pfft "Danger Twink" xD

But yeah Bruce really regrets, especially when Dick has several more dates with Danny and Damian is very much unhappy with the investigation, even when Bruce tries to explain the necessity of it. Honestly at this point Bruce isn't even very suspicious of Danny, he's jus the only oen who possibly has am answer to his questions!

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One day Danny just hands Bruce a USB device and winks. Suddenly he has access to Amity. And holy fuck! That was not what he expected at all. Ok, yes the situation has been handled and is no longer a problem. But fuck! No wonder Danny is so competent. And so focused on ensuring the kids can protect themselves.

He gives Dick his blessing the marry him.

Bruce: Dick, if you want to marry him. Do it. He helped save the world and ensured world ending threats didn't leave on specific area. He is more than worthy of marrying anyone he damn pleases.

Dick is just like, ah he finally told you about Amity then?

Damian is still pissed. But If Grayson marries the competent teacher he will be pacified. Now to find suitable spouses for the rest of his siblings. Maybe Amity is a good place to start. It seems to create strong individuals.

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stealingyourbones
jaxon-exe

Dp x dc prompt


One day John Constantine decides to check in on the known ghost hotspot that is Amity Park and find it over run with ghost of all sorts. After over coming his first thought of “just walk away, not your problem” and deciding that it is his problem he started investigating from the shadows and finds out about Phantom. His first conclusion is that maybe phantom is the one releasing the ghost. He can obviously tell that phantom has some sort of savour complex and thinks “is this kid releasing the ghost so that he can hunt them down and save the town??” and starts looking into phantom.

That is until one day he sees phantom at the end of a rather long day. Multiple ghost having attracted throughout the previous night and all day long leaving Danny at the end of his rope, running on no sleep in the last 24 hours, utterly exhausted and he just breaks down in a back alley. John sees this from a distance and is like “ok this kid isn’t the cause of this. He’s just doing his best.”

So with phantom removed as a suspect John investigates other leads as to what might be causing the sudden spike in ghosties when the nest ghost attack happens. Up until this point he’s been following a “not my circus, not my monkeys” mentality and just letting phantom deal with the ghost and was gonna do the same thing, had turned around and started to walk away to…

….

… but god dammit the kid seems to be struggling.

So John reluctantly joins in the fight and helps phantom, revealing his presence to the kid for the first time. Now that phantom knows about him tho he can’t just walk away from any of the other fight so John ends up helping him out a lot. After a while of this John gets the bright idea of “hey the kid might not be the ones freeing the ghost but he might know the cause of it” and ask phantom about it.

Danny however being slightly paranoid clams up at the question not wanting himself or his parents in trouble and says he doesn’t know anything. U know like a liar 

Thing is Danny’s shit at lying and John sees right threw that but dammit he doesn’t know how to deal with kids???? Let alone teenagers!! Let alone dead teenagers!! The fucks he supposed to do??????

After thinking about it for awhile he could only thing of one thing.

*ring* *ring*

*ring* *ring*

*rin*-

Batman: John…

John: yeah good to hear from you to mate, lesson I got a question

Batman: hmm

John: hypothetically, if you had a case where your only lead is a kid that knowns something they probably shouldn’t and is very reluctant to tell you said thing, what would you do??

Batman:…

Batman: how old

John: 13-14??

Batman: buy them a burger. Earn their trust. Reassure them they aren’t in trouble.

John: how bloody long is that gonna take??

Batman: your in for the long hall *hangs up*

John:…. Shit

Cut to John sitting on top of a water tower with a bag of take out, felling strangely like he’s trying to coax out a stray cat, as he waits for phantom to drop his invisibility and just come eat with him. 

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