One With The Wind

one with the wind 🍁

would you go inside?

Batman being aggressively secretive towards the Justice League is one of my favorite tropes, but it gets INFINITELY funnier when you take the younger generations of heroes into consideration.

Barry Allen? He doesn't know shit about Batman, still partially convinced he's not human, still a little bit scared to talk to him. But Wally West? That's Nightwing's best friend. He's been around Dick since both of them were kids. He's had sleepovers at the manor since he was thirteen.

I just think it would be hilarious if all of the younger generations 100% know that Batman is Bruce Wayne. They've slept at the manor, some of them have taken various Batkids to school dances, they've been offered Alfred's cooking. And all because they've gotten close to at least one Batkid and said Batkid wore Bruce down until he let them reveal their identity. But all of them manage to keep this information from their mentors. Either purposefully or completely on accident.

Then you end up with a situation where the younger generations grow up and join the League and the older members Very Quickly realize that they seem a lot more comfortable with Batman than they should be.

So, I’ve been seeing a few different posts recently about the new cards that show Gideon’s death, but I haven’t seen anyone pointing this out yet, so I thought I would.

Gideon’s big feature, the gimmick that sets him apart from pretty much every other Planeswalker, is that he can become indestructible. Every card of him has the feature that allows him to become some kind of indestructible soldier creature for a turn, even his Origins card pre-Spark Ignition. No matter where he is, Gideon is always standing on the frontlines, standing in the way of trouble yet never taking any damage himself.

It’s his greatest blessing…but also his greatest curse, as it was because of his indestructibility that he became the lone survivor of the Irregulars.

So, it’s really poetic then, that Gideon’s death by him taking the damage that someone else should’ve. Gideon didn’t step in the way of some spell or attack for one of his friends and throw up his shields–he took on their burden, their curse, and let it take his life instead of theirs when they broke it.

Gideon Jura, the Planeswalker, was born by surviving an attack his friends couldn’t.

Kytheon Iora, the Irregular, was killed by taking the burden too heavy for another.

Real observations since I started wearing a wizard hat daily:

- Brim is so wide that I stay BONE DRY taking walks in the rain

- Brim can be positioned to block the sun from ever getting in my eyes AND keeping it off the back of my neck

- The pointed top part creates an air pocket, keeping my head from getting hot or squishing my hair as it might in a ball cap

- Hat can easily be pulled down over the tips of my ears without looking dumb, protecting them from wind chill

- Strangers say they like my hat, giving me the chance to tell them that I am a wizard

- When you’re wearing a wizard hat, ALL OTHER FASHION CHOICES become secondary, allowing you to branch out with style

Embrace ego death. Stay protected from all elements. Wear a wizard hat.

Unsolicited thoughts. Keep what you like. Disregard what you like. Scroll by as it suits, lol. Freewill is good like that.

Situational awareness matters.

McDonald's is a real estate company.

Google is an advertising agency.

Meta/BookFace is a data mining company.

Disney is a political machine.

We are collateral before citizens.

We are products before customers.

Media & reality TV are Roman circuses.

The govt & Fed is serving Roman bread.

The Central banks are a cabal.

WW3 is actually WW4 and started long ago. Pray for the non-power players in all theatres that are having their days and nights ripped apart in ways we cannot fully understand. The fifth columns will be what impacts the proletariat the most IMO, for good or bad, on every front.

1984 and T2 apparently should have been studied and reflected upon more.

Still believe in hope and humanity.

Chase the day. Walk by faith, even when it's the size of a mustard seed.

Sort your priorities. Resort as needed. Declutter things around you to declutter your mind.

Protect your clan. Help it thrive. Accomplishing that does not always have to come at the expense of others.

Be generous IRL when you can. It's better than throwing money, etc at things you're not around in your regular life.

Pray for people you care about. Pray for people you're peeved at. This is a winning strategy.

Unproductive emotions cost too much. Let it out and make decisions to do something you actually can accomplish. Stewing in a funk doesn't do much.

Get off your phones more. Touch grass.

Talk to people IRL more about things so you're aware and can digest things and form your own views and opinions and priorities.

Listen to things you agree with and don't agree with and form your own thoughts. Be okay changing your mind.

Find ways to keep whatever is roaring at you at white noise levels.

Make time to enjoy the silly fun IRL.

Don't let the Internet of Things rile you so far you find unreasonable fault in decent humans in your life that might not be clones of your current priorities and views of the world.

Inappropriate laughter is a valid cope.

Good hearted fun laughter is a necessary emotion. It's not the same when it happens online vs IRL.

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

The Buff is forever.

Stay classy.

Have the grooviest day possible always wherever the day takes you.