Talia: So you're the woman who gave my son a cat even after my Beloved told him no.
Selina: Yes...
Talia: As well as stealing antiques out from the noses of wealthy men.
Selina: I gave it back to the rightful owners... mostly. Eventually.
Talia: And you have managed to outwit and outsmart Batman multiple times, escaping the law time and time again.
Selina: You know it.
Talia, pulling out a diamond ring and getting down on one knee: You shall make a fine addition to our family.
This is how several of Bruce’s nightmares have started.
Did Scarecrow get out?
He needs to check.
He also ignores Dick and Jason fist bumping in the background.
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I don't think i could ever believe that ulder secretly resented wyll because his wife died. i did think he had a difficult time trying to be strong, for himself and wyll, while juggling his responsibilities in his day job. he wanted to openly grieve. he doubted that they could go on without francesca, that all was lost. but he couldn't. he couldn't make himself do it, be sad and depressed esp in front of his only son. so he had to be strong. of course there are days when it's hard, and he feels lonelier than ever. i think he's the type of person to mask any kind of sad emotions, putting up a front. for wyll.
of course that meant they both never properly coped and grieved the loss of a wife and a mother, and that's why we have wyll wondering what it would've been like if his mom was alive, only for him to quickly brush the idea off
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it's just. he's alive now but what for? now that he's back what does he keep himself alive for? one thing, one goal, but you don't see him stop and wonder if he's happy with being back in the first place, if he wants to, if he wants to keep going beyond his revenge and build something for himself. he just wants to confront bruce, to show him what he's done, what he has become and he'll be from now, a better batman, a better man than what he sees in bruce now. he's so caught up in this that he doesn't stop and wonder about life beyond this goal. everything he does in utrh, especially near the end, shows this single-minded focus on his plan, on bruce and their confrontation, and no indication of a goal further than that, of a life beyond it. the bomb in his helmet, the lack or attempt at building a life for himself, connections and a network to fall back on after, the extreme stunts and actions he goes to, play cat and mouse with dangerous individuals with a seeming lack of care, the fail-safe of the final confrontation being either bruce kills him or he kills them all and bring the building down. he never even envisioned that his life would go on beyond this culmination, and i'd kill to see what his struggles looked like right after this, when he found himself alive once more and with nothing else to live for, now that the bridge between him and bruce had been burned and left to ruins with no way back, no reconciliation possible. what did it look like when he had to sit down and wonder if he even wants to be here now, if he wants to live any more than he already did, if it would even be worth it, if he could make something out of it because his utilitarian mindset would never allow him to live just for the sake of living, his existence must be justified, especially now that he's here despite what his fate meant for him and his end
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Merry Christmas!
Yes, I know it’s June. But something about the Secret Santa fic I wrote for @lovedbythesun has been niggling at me for a while… it just seemed like there was more of this story to tell…
Chapter 1 - Get a job, cop!
Paul never would have thought it would take getting arrested to be alone in a room with John again, but here they were.
Chapter 2 - Bloody ‘bout time, too
John and Paul have some unfinished business to attend to
Chapter 3 - And so I quit the police department
Paul tries to move on from recent events, but it’s easier said than done
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i've had such a weird relationship with making fanon things lately for a few diff reasons i think.
i haven't rly been inspired enough to take things beyond my thoughts and make an actual thing out of them. part of this is probs bc of my medication. the other part is that...
i don't have the time to dig too deeply into my favorite things rn. this means i don't dig up new parts to feel excited about, i don't feel Qualified to carry those ideas out bc my understanding of the source material is so limited and people expect waaaay too much quality from fanworks these days, and i feel like i'll never be able to finish what i start anyway.
lastly, i've been doing fandom so repetitively i'm just... tired? of the same thing over and over again. i work on a thing, i polish the thing, i post the thing, i wait for feedback that is either nice/mean/empty, rinse and repeat. the solution would be to just not post these things, but why go through all that effort to carry something up out of an idea stage then since that's what makes me most excited? and if i spend the time drafting, it feels like a waste of time since it's not going to go anywhere.
i do think a lot of this is medication, because it dulls Just how insane i am capable of getting about a thing. in the past i would have sooo much drive because i felt like if i didn't make a thing, i'd explode. i don't rly get that anymore, at least not in a big enough burst to keep me working on things very long.
i've instead been thinking a lot about diving into original content because... although i make everything for fun, i think original stuff has way less of the above issues attached.
there's no time limit. i'm not... "competing" for being able to get an idea done first, or trying to get a fanfic out while there's still hype over a show, or worrying about my work being ooc compared to someone else's, or worrying the fandom landscape i vibe with is going to change when people move on.
it's theoretically not as repetitive. i'm sure the things i'm interested in shows are similar to what i come up with from my brain, and i could just try to make different things for fandom than i'm used to. but i am kind of tired of my inability to do anything besides hurt/comfort oneshots for the same kind of pairing over and over again. this would force me to actually develop other shit too lmfao.
it's Technically something i could profit off of if i really wanted to, making it less of a waste of time. for fandom, it feels like a waste of time if i'm not putting a fanon thing out for other fans to see. it also feels like i put a ton of work into my own little understanding of a show--fleshing out backstories and worldbuilding etc. so if i move onto another fandom... it feels like it was all for nothing, esp if i don't make something from it all. ideally i would be doing it just for the fun but there needs to be some balance with what i consider pay-off. and since i usually don't stay motivated long enough to do these big huge projects, or people move on, or other people do the idea first because i work so slow, it's just gotten rly un-motivating.
there's like, layers of motivation imo. i like a thing and i get excitement about making stuff for it and exploring certain parts of it. and i can do that for myself, but to make it stand on its own enough to post for other people to see isn't something i currently get enough motivation for. and because of that, it makes the fun part feel like a waste of time i guess.
i usually stay away from my own original stuff bc i honestly just don't feel the level of excitement with it as i have felt with fandom in the past, and... it's just harder lmao? but i think it would be good for me to at least fuck around with it.
fandom started as a vessel for creativity for me. i wanted to make videos, it gave me footage. i wanted to draw, it gave me designs for characters. i wanted to write, it gave me a sandbox to play in. and i still find those things fun, but i guess it just feels like i'm limiting myself by only playing with other people's dolls in a public park for all to see. like i'm just not as connected to the Making part as a hobby or to the parts of myself i would put into it.
idk, i am just rambling and i think honestly if i Did have more time it would help take a lot of the above pressures and risks away and balance me out so that making silly little fanfics sometimes would feel more worth it because i'd feel free to do other things as well.
i also do sort of get glued to the screen when i'm in mode of making and posting things and i'd like to uhhh. do other things with my life too sometimes lmfao. part of this boredom does probably stem from being chronically ill and therefore barely leaving my house. i haven't been able to do other things beyond fanon creations in years. so no wonder i'd feel less inspired and more bored.
i also think i've gotten tired of watching things feeling like a chore. oh shit i need to write down this scene so i can use it on a fanvid, or make sure i take note of this piece of dialogue for this character's backstory, etc. i know i bitch about how i don't hate the word "content creator" bc it is just an easier catch-all for me as someone who makes lots of diff things, and i still agree with that, but i do think because of my own levels of perfectionism, mixed with honestly how weirdly expectant of quality fandom has become, it's become a chore to engage with source material.
another thing is i've always felt like i've needed a purpose in what i've made and that purpose tends to be justified by the community interactions. it makes me feel less lonely and it helps me feel inspired and like... it doesn't hurt to know you'll get feedback on something because you've found so many supportive friends in it. i rly just haven't landed in any new communities i vibe with a ton for the things ive gotten into lately, so there's less motivation there. that's not to say anyone's Bad, just... discord servers are too big, tags are too dead or all over the place, i don't message people to become friends, and the communities and friends i do have from fandom are all kinda doing different things rn, etc.
the other form of purpose would be challenges--exchanges, bingos, etc. this fanwork isn't just a random thing for fun, it has a reason for me to work on it enough to let it see the light of day. and i think i've kinda broken my brain a bit using those for motivation so much, but the alternative would be to never get anything into a publishable state, but without it being a publishable state and interacting with communities through it there's no reason for me to really spend all that much time on it in the first place, which means i'm really not getting to Create.
i think the biggest issue these days if every part of the creative process now feels like it's "for show" and original stuff that has literally no audience is the only way to kinda undo the amount of rules that's put on me and my creativity.
tl;dr i'm just not feeling the same fulfillment from making fanon stuff as i used to so i guess i need to experiment with making other things so i can still do the Making part and see where that lands me, and see if it can help undo some of the toxic mentalities being an exclusively fandom girlie for so long has kinda instilled in me.
i'm sure i'll still make fanon shit every so often--i honestly have been so busy that output won't be noticeably different from my usual once every five months contributions. i just need to get back into the right blend of circumstances for it to feel worth it, and until then i guess i need to dig out the dolls from my own attic instead of someone else's so i can have a less complicated vessel for creative hobbies because i'm fairly certain i'd still like to create.
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Approaching an analytical thought here in relation to how delivery can change the implication of a very similar statement, and how there is still a very thickly implied "however" in relation to the degradation of aging when it is respected vs. not respected, but:
You see the border of her coat is torn, and stained with sand
Vs.
His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake
Both commenting on the state of degradation of their coats, venturing into a "but/yet" for Gus, but then a continued lowly picture of Grizabella (which has it's own implication towards Gus in regards to aging, however that's another thought)
And then:
She haunted many a low resort
Near the grimy road of Tottenham Court;
[...]
And the postman sighed as he scratched his head:
"You'd really have thought she ought to be dead"
Vs.
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy
When he sits in the Sun on the vicarage wall
The olderest inhabitant croaks:
"Well, of things, can it be really?
Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye!"
Illustrating through language and delivery through the POV of a nameless human character a sense of regality and delight at the sight of Old Deuteronomy but pity and distaste for the similarly older Grizabella.
Connections - perhaps purposeful perhaps not.
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hermes & lethe make me go ballistic & scratch at the walls of my padded cell because they, in their isolation, are the picture of everything wrong with ancient society. the very structure of that society is reliant on them, and people like them, remaining isolated because the minute these outcast black sheep in that society come together is when the rot gets exposed. lethe isn’t even a person, having been a created arcane entity who developed a soul through experience (a phenomenon we have learnt can happen through the omicron quests + hythlodaeus hinted at it in elpis as well), but even with the soul she develops, she’s still treated as a thing.
and then she’s clandestinely thrown into pandæmonium as a dangerous specimen for further study when the convocation learns from her creator that she’s arcane rather than natural. and hermes is led to believe that she left without a goodbye. because there could never have been a happy end for them. i, rather self-indulgently, like to think of them as the first tragedy, because they had to be kept apart somehow for everything to play out as it was supposed to. idk if any of this makes sense but i’m losing my mind this fine evening <3
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