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mariatesstruther · 3 months

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okay just hear me out modern au where tommy ends up picking up ellie from pre school almost everyday since joel is busy but he keeps meeting teacher maria

okay bestie as a preschool teacher you GOT me with this one. like you got me SO GOOD. this might actually get published to ao3, you got me soooo fuckin’ good right now. i have so many unnecessary details for such a simple plot so here’s a cut

tbh i feel like even as busy as joel is, he’d prioritize picking up and dropping of sarah as much as he can, so maybe he and tommy would alternate???? so on days when tommy drops off, joel picks up and when joel drops off, tommy picks up. sarah goes to a public preschool with a lot of kids, so she gets easily overwhelmed and sometimes needs extra cuddles or kind words in the mornings to make it out of the car.

one monday, a couple months into school, sarah is particularly VERY anxious because there’s a new teacher to replace ms. doherty, who quit unexpectedly on friday “because she said we gave her alooooottt of headaches, daddy.” now, sarah knows nothing about the new teacher except that shes a girl from a place called new york—and sarah doesn’t even know what new yawk IS like, thats So Far Away??? (“it’s not really that far, baby,” joel says to her. “and it’s new york. with an o sound.”) still, sarah is VERY concerned:

is new yawk like another planet???? (no, babygirl.) but what if she’s an alien???? (the school only hires human teachers, baby. they promised.) but what if she’s a SECRET alien??? (she won’t be, i promise.) okay but what if she’s mean???? (if she is, you tell me or tommy and we’ll talk to her about it, okay? she shouldn’t be mean to you.) what if she doesn’t play good music at quiet time???? (you can ask her nicely and i bet she will, baby. just say please and thank you, okay?)

still, even with her questions answered, sarah is very nervous on monday. both joel and tommy go with her in an effort to start her day off extra good, especially because joel can’t pick her up. they reassure her that new york has plenty of nice people and her new teacher will probably be one of them. she also gets TWO WHOLE extra minutes of cuddle time with BOTH of them before she and daddy have to leave the car—it’s half for her and half for them, because they’re honestly pretty anxious for her to like her new teacher too

joel is the one to hold sarah’s hand and walk her inside, because the school prefers only one guardian to drop off at a time. tommy’s nervous, but joel actually seems pretty pleased when he gets back to the car with no sarah in tow. surprisingly, he’s back faster than any time they’ve ever dropped sarah off before. with a proud smile, he tells tommy is that miss maria seems really nice. more importantly, she’s Black, which joel says Sarah got really excited about. tommy pries for more details, and he’s glad he does: apparently miss maria has locs, a few even blue and purple, and the first thing sarah’d said to her was an emphatic “😲😍🤩 i like your hair!!!!!!!!,” to which she had responded “thank you! i like your hair! what’s your name, sweets?” and that’d been that

later, when tommy does pickup that day, he doesn’t know what to expect. most times at the end of the day, sarah is super reserved and a bit cranky, eager to get home to finally have time to herself. tommy’s goal is usually to try and get her to at least wave goodbye to her teachers like joel asks—but, more often than not, she opts for reaching for uppies and hiding her face in his chest until they leave.

today??? no. it takes sarah a full two minutes to even notice tommy’s there because her and this drop-dead-fucking-gorgeous woman in a soft-looking lavender pants and blouse set are finishing up a painting at the easel wall. they’re working on what looks like a brown and purple butterfly, probably the most carefully shaped sarah’s ever made.

tommy’s heart stops when this goddess miss maria finally looks over at him and smiles with perfect pearly-whites, waving him over behind sarah’s back. when she says “sarah honey, i think someone’s here for you!” in her sing-songy toddler-tone, tommy swears an angel gets his wings. sarah turns around, shrieks with joy upon seeing him, and runs down to him with her arms out, yelling all the while: “THOMMYYYYYYY!!!!!”—because sarah’s still working on her hard ts—“thommy!!!! thommy thommy thommy come look!!! i made a butterfly for u!!!!! look!!!!! it matches ms. maria!!!!!! it’s gorgeous!!!!” (she’s been obsessed with calling things gorgeous ever since she heard tommy say it about a harley motorbike last week. joel especially thinks it’s cute, especially because of how she over-emphasizes the j-sound: gor-Jus.)

tommy’s never seen her so excited to show her art off at pickup-time before; usually, she waits until they’re home and she’s feeling less shy to start showing off, but she’s babbling and pointing to it as he picks her up and sets her on his hip: “it’s brown and purple like miss maria!!! isnt it so gorgeous, unca thommy??? do you like it???? aren’t they SO gorgeous????”

and now miss maria is looking at him. and he’s looking at her. tommy knows he’s blushing, and he hesitates—which sarah does NOT appreciate, so she says: “unca tommy!!!!!!! don’t be WUDE! thell miss maria she’s gorgeous!!! she is!!!”

luckily, miss maria saves him by explaining, in a slightly firmer teaching voice: “sarah sweets, that’s okay! we’re only just meeting, and that’s not really something you say to a stranger, okay?”

“but why noooooooot?? you are gorgeous! like my butterfly! isn’t she so gorgeous, thommy?”

“well, yeah, of course,” tommy agrees easily, because she obviously is—and shit. now miss maria is looking at him like he’s a fucking bonehead, because he obviously fucking is. “but—uh, i mean—she’s right, hon’. you gotta listen to your teacher, and that’s not somethin’ you say to a stranger, okay?”

but then, after thinking to her tiny self for a few seconds: “well if she stays my teacher then she’s not a stranger, is she???” sarah asks tommy, then turns her conniving little head towards maria, too. “and you said you’d stay! so can he say you’re gorgeous tomorrow?” then, without waiting for an answer, she’s back towards tommy to finish: “i think you should call her gorgeous tomorrow.”

“i think we should go home, s’what i think,” tommy says, finally deciding to save himself from four-year-old torment. he sets sarah down and pats her on the end with a gentle but firm request to go get her stuff from her cubby, which she goes to do without her complaints of being too tired to walk. maria watches them closely with a close-lipped but relaxed grin. when sarah’s out of earshot, he apologizes. “sorry ‘bout that, ma’am.”

“don’t be,” miss maria teases, crossing her arms. “you did call me gorgeous, after all. i’ve had worse introductions.”

“tommy miller,” he offers, moving to shake her hand. he notices her nails are done-up, a sparkly blend of pretty shades of purple that look tie-dyed on somehow. her hands aren’t soft, not really, but they’re smooth enough to make him shiver as he pulls away. “sarah’s uncle.”

“oh, i know,” she reassures, then nods her head pointedly towards sarah. the little one is coming back towards them with her lunchbox in one hand and her water bottle in the other, walking extra careful so she doesn’t trip over herself like she did last week, tommy guesses. clearly fond, maria continues. “she spent all day telling me about you and her daddy. you’re doing great with her.”

“unca thommy! i’m ready to go!” sarah sing-songs, interrupting whatever miss maria might’ve said next. internally, tommy thanks his niece—the you’re doing great was already enough to make him cry, and he’d rather not do so in front of either her or her amazing new teacher. plopping her lunch and bottle at tommy’s feet, sarah gives not one, but two eager waves to miss maria, hands flapping madly up towards the woman’s face. “bye miss mariaaaaa!!!! i’ll see you tomorrow!!!!”

“bye sarah sweets!” maria says back, waving just as enthusiastically. to tommy, she raises an amused, teasing eyebrow. just loud enough for him to hear as he turns away, he hears her say “bye, gorgeous,” and laugh, giving yet another angel a pair of wings.

it takes everything in him to not fall straight to the floor, toppling his own precious niece, right then. he doesn’t think he even breathes until both he and Sarah are secured in the car, him in the front and her in her carseat. she’s already babble singing mary j. blige’s “just fine,” which they usually play and sing on their way home from school to help her regulate. when he plays the song this time, sarah smiles bright at him through the rearview and says “i already feel just fine, unca tommy!!! but can we still play it, just for fun?”

“of course, baby,” he says, and start singing along with her. he’s feeling just fine, too.

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tagging some homies (btw just let me know if u wanna be tagged in this kinda stuff or not guys! im never sure lol): @becomethesun @clickergossip @boilingcowboy @bumblepony

#tbh i might edit this and put it on ao3 #im so sorry i didnt get ti the falling in love part at all but i LOVE a good meet-cute #*to #and this is i think my favorite one i’ve put on this blog???????#anon. bestie. you did so well i love u thank u #if yall didnt know already im a preschool teacher so #and have i dreamed abt a rich hot younger single parent/gaurdian falling in love with me???? you fuckin betcha #preschool au #im 100% gonna try to connect this with the one rose and i already made #idk where ellie is in here but she’s here!!!! she loves miss maria too!#miss maria loves kids and especially loves embracing neurodiversity and all the different ways kids brains works #miss maria provides brain breaks and shows you how to do body checks to check in with your body #miss maria understands the importance of diversity in her book and media selection #miss maria recommends tab time and bluey #tommy x maria #tlou au #the tipsy bison #ugh I LOVE THISSSSSS BROOOO IM PROUD OF THIS 🫶🏾#yeas i have plans for tess and joel YOU BET I DO #when ur kids having play dates turns into u dating their mom #tess and joel: who am i gonna date??? i have no time. im a parent #ellie and sarah: hold my juicebox #like theyre fully setting them up with no clue that they’re doing it I LOVE MY LITTLE GIRLS #she calls them sarah sweets and ellie enchanted #she’s referencing ella enchanted but elie doesnt care about that so she explains it means ellie is magic #and ellie is down for that because in her brain magic equal dragon. ellie LOVES dragons #sarah miller #toddler sarah #baby sarah #neurodivergent miller tag

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wolfheadghost · 4 months

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Hello! Just dropping by to make a small announcement that I changed my url

SleepyorStupid is now WolfHeadGhost

New art tag -> ghostly scribbles

New text tag -> ghostly words

Here's a little ghost for your troubles and I'll see you around!

#i never really planned on posting much but seeing how im gonna be meetimg a small follower milestone i might as well embrace the change!#so long sleepy or stupid hello wolf head ghost!#ghostly words #ghostly scribbles #sleepy scribbles #sleepy words #pssst btw this has nothing to do with hollow knight ghost but more so my actual career lol

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soniclesbianflags · 9 months

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every sonic character is a lesbian. send post.

#ive seen people say this is the agenda im spreading so i might as well embrace it

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samanthamulder · 2 years

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A PERFECT PLANET (2021) — episode 4 | oceans

There are thousands of different kinds [of phytoplankton] and together they produce half of all the oxygen in the atmosphere, more than all our forests and jungles combined. And by absorbing carbon, they are our greatest ally in combating climate change. Plankton are the foundation of almost all life in the ocean, for in those places where the currents bring nutrients to the surface, they multiply in astonishing numbers...turning the ocean green:

#a perfect planet #.gif #documentary #tv #documentaryedit #tvedit #decided to fully embrace the concept of Nothing I post these days is doing numbers so I might as well gif whatever the heck i want :)))#look how pretty <333

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the5n00k · 3 months

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My light went out in my room so I drew this in the dark

[CW: bright colors, mild eyestrain, and gore]

I find myself singing Misery Meat and The Masochism Tango to myself and this is probably inspired by those but I can't pin down any particular line from either lmao I guess it's just vibes

I didn't really have a plan for this, I just sort of figured out a theme as I went along, all I knew is I wanted special colors instead of just plain flats and black lineart

Someday I'll draw this sona not getting mistreated or horribly maimed but alas she is the muse I've shoved all my negative feelings onto 🙏

#cw: gore #cw: eyestrain #tw: gore #gore #neon gore #hoping this covers it all so blocked tags will work #i love drawing guts and stuff but i cant remember the last time i sat down and drew anything like this #oc art #my sona #yeah she might as well be my sona now #i havent used sticks in ages #embrace the bug (she says as she viciously spreads her guts everywhere again)#i will be nice to this oc someday (no promises)

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skeletoninthemelonland · 7 months

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#i think i first listened to this song around the time Behind The Codes became an official project #My brain probably associated the feelings of excitement and fear with the song so ig that's why I love it so much #On one side. I love working on the Behind The Codes #there's an overwhelming amount of ways to tell this story: brainstorming. designing. animating. writing and rewriting until your brain-#starts to fry and get foggy with so many ideas. its both good and stressful to push your limits like this #On another side. I'm constantly anxious about it #I've always been afraid to admit the things I enjoy as well as the things that i create #You don't allow yourself to create and embrace new things even when you're essentially alone #and yes I'm aware of the fact that there will be people who won't enjoy the series- which isn't what bothers me #What bothers me is that I might regret certain decisions #'This is not the message I wanted to convey'#'This is not the story I wanted to tell'#The decision to share this song here is the clearest example of what I mean:#Part of me says: this song is so btc oh my god please put it at the end credits wait THERE IS A 2ND PART OF IT AND IT'S EVEN COOLER OOOAAAA #then there's the main thought: this song is so stupid. it's so corny in a way it makes me uhghu7ujhkjg..#i won against my negative thoughts today. yay #this whole post is just me rambling and being anxious. i dont even know what to say hjdsfbwjkefkdsf #bye :waves:#starbstalks

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lotusmonkey · 2 years

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brain is exploding, tumblr box taKE MY THOUGHTS-

Long Shadows LMK au-

Basically, when Wukong got dragged to the Celestial Realm to be executed? Yeah, Macaque- mostly referred to as Liu'er or "Liu"- got dragged with him.

The Celestial Court tried to execute Wukong in many, many ways. They failed.

Liu, however, was not seven times over immortal. They... "succeeded."

Wukong was forced to watch as his best friend was executed right before he was stuffed into the furnace. Due to his weeping eyes as the king had been crying over the body of his friend, the resulting steam inflicted far more damage than in the original story we know.

In fact, instead of gaining his true sight, Wukong was terribly blinded.

Not that that stopped him from going on a rampage through the Celestial Realm, or inevitably being stuffed under a mountain. (Wukong could not see to escape Buddha's hand, and ended up crashing into his fingers.)

So, blinded and grieving, there Wukong laid.

...and then he slowly thought himself becoming mad, as with each passing day he could hear his best friend's voice in more and more clarity.

However, he was not going mad. For you see, Liu, in an act of sheer desperation, stuffed the entirety of himself within his core to survive the murder of his physical body. He became an actual living shadow of himself, and it took some time before he had enough strength to actually speak or interact with things outside himself.

Eventually strong enough to remove the seal keeping the mountain in place, Liu freed Wukong. (Which was the moment Wukong knew he was actually real and not some figment of his grieving mind.)

Together, one a literal shadow of himself and the other a blinded, broken king, they made the very, very long journey home to Flower Fruit Mountain.

Which is where they stayed to heal and recover and just live, until a certain Mercy Goddess came knocking to request Wukong's aid in helping a certain monk. She promised that if he completed this task, she would leave him be.

Reluctant, Wukong agreed. Liu, naturally, tagged along without anyone but Wukong aware of him.

As they travelled, Wukong became rather attached to the group despite his efforts to NOT become attached. Liu had no such problems, and in fact somewhat came to resent them due to how they would treat Wukong.

Due to being blind, Wukong could not make eye contact nor could he read. However, way back when Wukong had initially become blind, Liu and he had crafted a glamor as to lower the chances of getting attacked on the way home. (It also gave Wukong a little bit of a sense of control after having his sight ripped from him. After awhile he kept it more for Liu's own peace of mind so enemies wouldn't target his lack of sight.)

So, unaware of his blindness, there were a lot of not so kind jabs to the lack of eye contact and just generally avoiding reading and the such. (When forced to "read" or "look" at something, Liu would just whisper what it said to him or otherwise describe it for him just as he does to help guide Wukong so it's not very obvious that he's blind. If he needed to write, Wukong would carefully hold the writing utensil in a way that it shadowed so Liu could write for him. No one knows what Wukong's own handwriting looked like- or if they did it's been several hundred years or more now- and so no one ever questioned Liu's own distinct handwriting.)

After Wukong (and Liu, bc Liu functions as Wukong's eyes and is just a great help all around) had saved the group from a certain little girl-who-was-NOT-in-fact-a-little girl, and was ripped into for it, Liu decided he was done. This had gone on long enough, and he was tired of tolerating it. Of watching Wukong tolerate it.

This, of course, eventually devolved into an argument between them. A big one. One that resulted in them separating for the first time since the whole Celestial Realm Incident(tm).

A terrible idea, really.

The "little girl" wasn't so defeated after all, and Liu found himself being hunted without Wukong to give him a boost of energy.

Meanwhile, Wukong himself found himself without any sense of vision at all. His staff subtly functioned as a walking stick, and sure he'd trained blindfolded before-

But being entirely without someone else who could describe the things around him was a different kinda animal from being simply blindfolded.

Then, of course, the group gets attacked. Because they get attacked literally every other day to daily.

Long story short, neither Wukong nor Liu fare well and end up crashing back into each other. They quickly agree to sort things out later and once again become an unstoppable team and defeat the ones attacking them.

One, however, gets away to lick her wounds and attack them again later. (You all can probably guess who.)

After that entire fiasco, the monkies swear to never separate again and, while they are both unhappy about each other's opinions on the group, they put aside their differences and continue to travel with said group.

Timeskip to present day, there are very, very few people who know about Liu. But they've all heard the tales of how Heaven's Equal's shadow dances and doesn't always mimic it's source, and how the darkness thickens around the sage like a living thing, and how the king seems to talk to himself at the most oddest of random times. How the Monkey King never looks someone in the eye, and oh, how the myths and fables run wild with that, spinning false truths of all the things that could happen if he DID for none know the truth.

Sun Wukong is blind.

So begins the Lego Monkie Kid show. Let's see how it goes, shall we? :]

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danganronpa96 · 8 months

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Sansmaeda is love, Sansmaeda is life

Long live Sansmaeda

The fact that this exact image is a pinned message in one of the channels in the Discord server is insane.

And who sent this image?

It was me.

#we will never escape sansmaeda #so you might as well embrace it #it’s so funny how I’ve received comments like why did you pick nagito and sans as a couple I don’t get it #it’s scary to know there are people out there who don’t know the origins of sansmaeda #even scarier if some believe DR69 is the one who made it #please I am but a humble messager

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kimdokjas · 1 year

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nikiforova → kimdokjas

still tracking #usernikiforova

#moots if u could interact i'd appreciate it!! just to make sure you've seen it <33 #anyway the orv brainrot is permanent so i might as well embrace it #ahh it feels SO weird to change my url???#i literally have not changed my icon or yoi-centric url since 2016 #don't get me wrong yoi is still very dear to my heart!!#but i'm trying out the change for a bit just to see how it feels?#might go back and change it later but idk we'll see how it goes #gabby speaks

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roobylavender · 3 months

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considering what you have spoken about regarding selina do you also get frustrated with like…i cant quite explain it but sometimes especially in more recent years shes been posed or positioned like some sort of damsel that needs a big strong man to save her and like im not saying she should be portrayed with the “hollywood level feminism” for lack of a better term im just think about how old versions of selina would have hated that. like im just thinking of anytime in the reeves movie where bruce grabs her or forces her mouth shut or even when he didnt allow her to kill falcone and im just thinking she should claw the fuck out of him for that. i just miss a version of selina who wouldnt allow anyone to walk all over her personal autonomy like that

oh absolutely! in fact this is specifically why i can't stand loeb's take on her character lol (and as we both know that was a significant point of reference for the reeves film). it's really jarring to transition from her volume one and two canon to the long halloween / dark victory / when in rome. i think a lot of people tend to latch onto these books because tim sale's art is to die for and it's obv hard not to enjoy a good murder mystery. in that aspect they're still books i can enjoy in isolation. but i find it very difficult to enjoy them as a selina fan specifically because in every single one it's like she's looking for solace and security in a man and i'm not sure why. like what was so bad about her original backstory of having a deadbeat dad (whether you ascribe to the volume one or volume two version of him) and why did she need to go looking for her "real" father in carmine falcone. why did she need to seek out temporary boytoy relief in italy. why did she dream about being saved by bruce. none of it really has a reason other than to create a "lack" in her for the sake of it being there, because she'd never needed a man like that before in her post-crisis narrative. as you mentioned it was quite to the contrary and she was fiercely independent and protective of her own peace, esp from men. when she felt empty or without a connection or lifeline to someone real, it was mostly about people like maggie or holly or arizona. her people

what i think it ultimately comes down to are two things: the first thing is the diminishment of her post-crisis origins. after all, it's convenient to ignore how distrustful selina is of people, and of men with power at their leisure to abuse specifically, when her post-crisis origins are no longer relevant to her personal characterization. although selina's status as a sex worker is more prominent now, it was more or less completely swept under the rug for the bulk of volume two. loeb also refused to engage with it in any capacity. it only really resurfaced with the conclusion to volume two because it drew direct parallels to how we initially found her in volume one, and then brubaker expanded on it once again in his take on the character, which was notably juxtaposed against a pre-existing romance with bruce and brings me to the second thing. i've already waxed about this at length so this may very well be recap but i really don't think selina's lack of control over her personal autonomy can be divorced of the modern portrayal of the romance. when selina looking for security and understanding and comfort in bruce is what drives the romance forward there's not much room to maintain her original values and guarded demeanor, if not her outright defensiveness and hostility. a lot of people look at the extensive trauma selina has experienced and argue that she deserves to be in a relationship with someone who allows her to let those walls down. this isn't incorrect in theory. but it does repeatedly ignore who she is. it's kind of like the point i was making about bruce yesterday. exploring the inherently abusive nature of robin or of bruce's right to his children in light of that fact is interesting to do, but the actual execution has rarely managed to take into account who bruce actually is

for however nice it might be for selina to let her walls down romantically and look for solace in bruce—and i say this mostly for the sake of argument, personally i would argue against its necessity—it's realistically not something she's actually going to do. at least not as willfully as she's been portrayed to. realistically she's going to make it extremely hard, which if anything is precisely the appeal. i love it when selina gives bruce a hard time. i love that it's not supposed to be easy or maybe even a possibility for him to win her over bc there's so much about his own ideological stances that's flawed and in opposition to her own. she doesn't have to be any less unrelenting in her principles and worldview for that romance between them to be compelling bc at the end of the day the entire crux of it is that against all odds bruce cares. for however wrong he thinks she might be in a given moment or in her stance against the government, he knows who she is and how hard she's fought and what she's survived and it makes him sympathetic to her because she's real. she's a wonderful character through which to explore the logical limits of bruce's self-righteousness and categorization of crime, as well as a wonderful mirror to hold up to his face as he starts to ask himself whether what he's doing is really the only means of keeping the city safe. and the novelty of it all is that you don't have to sacrifice her character for any of that to be true. writers have simply deluded themselves into believing that they have to and that's why we are where we are today

#you're so real about the reeves movie btw i think she should have kicked him off of a building personally #outbox #also not something i mentioned above but i think a looooot of people cling to bronze age selina #because it was purportedly her first 'positive' portrayal. personally i would argue against that though #i think her golden age iteration was plenty 'positive' and there was an inherent understanding that although she loved supervillainy #she wasn't necessarily evil in a way comparable to other rogues. she always had an inclination towards mercy and bruce Noticed that #which is what made their relationship really interesting. bc she was committing crimes and in his head he was like #yeaaaah she's wrong. but she's also not hurting anyone per se. and she's so pretty. let me turn a blind eye it's fine #these were more generic ideas that newell subsequently rewrapped in new skin and then further developed along a political lens #but i think a lot of people comparatively prefer bronze age selina bc it fully embraced a romance in the most traditional sense #so at the end of the day a lot of the fan sentiment really comes down to preferring wish fulfillment over good storytelling. at least imo #bronze age selina to me is one of the most boring characters ever. and i also hate that she has to 'prove' she's no longer villainous to br #to bruce. and the fact that he suspects her. like since the 40s it's been word of law by the ogs that bruce Doesn't suspect her #he's the first person to not suspect her while everyone around him is judging him for it #i know writers and perspectives change etc etc but when that's what the original creators of both characters are telling you #i feel like it has to hold some weight #so yeah. bronze age might as well be the shit under my shoe it's so boring and bland and most of all ahistorical #bronze age batkat i mean

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