grandballoon

Has the accident affected your fertility, and were kids something you ever planned on?

Do you call them tall-mom and short-mom? Because that's super.

You're probably the prime example, to my mind at least, of our generation at its best. And I don't know if this has been mentioned to you before, but I think it's important: a lot of people watched that speech. I'm willing to bet that quite a few of them were gay and lesbian kids dealing with the same shit that brought on that string of suicides. And I wouldn't be surprised if somebody found the strength to hold on after hearing your words. So, thanks for saving lives.

I was gonna say, you're a handsome gentleman. Because your physical flaws are YOUR physical flaws, they might seem particularly glaring, but really, everybody's got their little imperfections. If you're 23, and you've spent an average of ten minutes a day critiquing or worry about your appearance (which is probably a pretty conservative estimate), by this age, minus say the first five years of your life when you may not have had the mental maturity to worry about those things, you've spent over a thousand hours by this point just thinking about how you don't like the way you look. Well, considering how just 127 hours is enough to saw off your own hand, I think you might have to consider the possibility that you've overthought this.

Here's the thing: it's not just about powers. If the question was "who would win in a fight, someone with the abilities and flaws of Superman or someone with the abilities and flaws of Batman?" then the odds lie heavily with the superstrong invulnerable alien with laser vision. But there's more to it than that.

Superman doesn't want to win. He could never bring himself to kill Batman - they've been friends for years, and even when Superman finds himself under some kind of mind control his better nature wins out long enough to Batman to find some clever way to KO him. It's just not a fair fight when one person isn't trying.

Look at Dark Knight Returns, for instance. Batman's hooked up to the Gotham power supply with his neat high-tech suit and all his gadgets. Or even in the regular canon, when Batman keeps a Kryptonite ring on him at all times. In every one of these situations, Superman could easily have vaporized him from outer space, or frozen him and then shattered his body into a million pieces, or crushed him with a chunk of mountain or or or. These hypotheticals always go the same way: "Batman is smart!" "Yeah, but Superman could just (insert incredible feat of power)!" Sure, he could. But he won't. Because he's Superman, and Superman is pure of heart.

How are you getting all that marker off your nub so effectively?