Batgirl 2000 would be more straightforward than a fair number of other Bat titles to adopt nearly wholesale to a multiple season animated series. It had relatively few crossovers, so you don't need to make too many huge decisions about including, excluding, or altering the surrounding titles arcs. It started out fairly episodic, shifting to multiple-issue plot arcs as it went, but consistently have series-arching character arcs.
And while No Man's Land is a keystone for following Preboot era Gotham comics, you don't really need the whole damn thing to introduce Cass for her own series. At most, have her save Jim Gordon from an assassination attempt in the pilot episode, setting up her skills, heroism, and mysterious backstory.
Don't end it on Bludhaven getting blown up, though; just have her come back to Gotham from the "Are You My Mother?" arc, and have a heartwarming conversation with Babs about her plans for the future. Whether those plans are staying in Gotham, travelling more, not having plans but feeling more confident in what life can throw her, balancing her civilian & cape lives better, etc, depends on what's been built up over the series.
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I think if there is a Jurdan child at least we can trust in Holly that she doesn't make it a cringe trope. She isn't the type for that and I like that she gives them both the time to have grown enough to make an informal decision. If it happens it'll probably be mentioned and then we get a time skip when the kid is older, and I think a new book out of that kid's POV could be hilarious given their parents
My problem with that is that in my eyes they are Not Meant For Parenthood. Nothing about them as a couple ever made me wonder what kind of parents they will be, and I feel like they would lose a lot of what I like about them if they suddenly need to take care of a kid. They were born to be an uncle and an aunt, as evident by Cardan and Leander being super cute in TPT but not in a father-son way
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Okay okay okay
I just
*need* to hear more of you rambling about trains being shipped together I don't care who it is
Although if I am allowed to request a couple I find very cute myself it'd be Culdee and Catherine
Sorry it took me a hot minute to answer (I got sick) - but let's dive in!
Ok - Catherine and Culdee are the very definition of an adorable old married couple, perhaps even moreso than Toby and Henrietta. They *need* each other - and Catherine gets jealous when Culdee takes the Truck out. Likewise, while some of the engines just take whichever coach out, Culdee has specifically requested Catherine be taken off the rotation roster (especially after the Lord Harry era). They are absolutely adorable together, but they can have a... possessive streak.
It comes from the codependency.
(They legit need each other... to survive Culdee Fell.)
At the opposite end of the adorable old married couple is Toby and Henrietta. These two actually recently made history when they became the first two (to steal the term) non-faceless vehicles to marry. Ever. Previous to this, there had been a lot of legal battles and red tape and a whole heap of "they can't marry, they're machines" which the pair fought through... since the 1920's. (Culdee and Catherine legit married the next day, and are still jealous that Toby and Henrietta got hitched first).
Furthermore, Henrietta and Toby adopted Mavis in the early 70s the moment she stopped actively ignoring their advice. It is entirely thanks to Henrietta that Mavis asked Daisy out.
(Toby continues to enjoy watching his wife verbally beat other men into dust.)
Speaking of, Mavis and Daisy really are the very essence of disaster lesbians. There is no understating how ridiculous this pair can be - see the fact that Mavis spent nearly a full decade with her jaw hitting her bufferbeam every time Daisy entered the yards. And to make matters worse, Daisy had no clue! She thought (wrongly) that Mavis had a thing for Toby... which she vehemently objected to because - and I quote - "Toby is too old for such a powerful, commanding woman." Somehow, Daisy also missed the part where she liked said 'powerful, commanding woman'. Cue Daisy trying to flirt with a very uncomfortable BoCo every time he visited the junction while Mavis tried to get her driver to send... 'messages' to BoCo.
The only engine who enjoyed this absolute anime-plotline of a romance was Toby, who revels in chaos.
(Annie is pretending not to listen in on this gossip - but she's totally listening in on these two disasters.)
From disasters to functional beings - Duncan and Rusty continue to hold the title of 'most functional Sodor couple'. And for good reason! After Duncan got over his preconceptions about diesels, he was very blunt about his new feelings for the little diesel. And remember, Duncan is a mix of rock-star, factory worker and punk. So he manages to seem wild and abrasive to everyone who hasn't seen how devoted he is to his little diesel.
Rusty, being cool and calm and petty, loves to rub their relationship in Rheneas' face - because Rheneas can't do the same thing Duncan did and ask Duke out. Because Rusty is petty, let's not be mistaken - that little diesel was happy to let Duncan just sit off the rails because he was rude. Rusty is kind and helpful - but will also sit back and let you suffer from some Sodor Karma.
(This is why I say Duncan confessed - Rusty is gazing off into the sunset, but Duncan only has eyes for Rusty.)
Speaking of poor Rheneas - I've already given him a full post dedicated to the wild ride that was his courting of Duke - but I managed to miss the small detail of Duke adopting Spencer (see ERS for details). And that leads to a whole new realm of disaster for this poor engine. He gets Peter Sam on side, he gets Sir Handel to begrudgingly admit he's... decent enough... for his Granpuff - heck, he even manages to get Skarloey to stop laughing for long enough to wish him luck! He even manages to get some good advice on asking Duke out from Rusty and Duncan! And then.... AND THEN...
Spencer grabs Duke and whisks him away. Away? Away away - to the Boxford Estate. Spencer is not a 'good' engine, and he literally resorts to kidnapping Duke like the old engine is suddenly Rapunzel (Duke has feelings about this). In response, Rheneas had to get out 'The Truck' and make his way across the Island to save Duke... who had already hitched a ride out of there with Edward and was having tea and biscuits while laughing about their respective prospective red disaster boyfriends.
(Genderbent Elizabeth and Thomas enjoy watching Rheneas watch Duke get mended...)
I think that's all from me for now - no Percy x Diesel 10 shenanigans this time, but if someone asks for them, I will bring them. Until then, I'm going to take a heap of antibiotics and try to sleep off this illness some more.
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ONE ROOM ANGEL (2023, JAPAN)
Episode 2
What is happening? Why is this little show got me in a chokehold.
A down on his luck depressed loner Koki (the amazing UESUGI SHUHEI) and a cutesy boy angel simply known as Angel (the equally amazing NISHIMURA TAKUYA)
Is Angel boy gay? Is our handsome (he thinks he's not) loner gay or perhaps bi?
Where is this going? I'm intrigued. Very intrigued. And the wing thing. Koki got lost in the wings and somehow it was dare I say..adorable. I'm at a lost but I want to see where this 6 episode Japanese BL is headed. Hmmmm? 🤨🤔
@pose4photoml @lutawolf @kingofthereblog-boysloveed are you guys watching this one?
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Jon Snow & Sansa Stark Book Parallels & Mentions 20/∞ : They’re both romantic cuties
Sometimes she would whisper his name into her pillow just to hear the sound of it. "Willas, Willas, Willas." Willas was as good a name as Loras, she supposed. They even sounded the same, a little. What did it matter about his leg? Willas would be Lord of Highgarden and she would be his lady. She pictured the two of them sitting together in a garden with puppies in their laps, or listening to a singer strum upon a lute while they floated down the Mander on a pleasure barge. A Storm Of Swords, Sansa II
If I could show her Winterfell . . . give her a flower from the glass gardens, feast her in the Great Hall, and show her the stone kings on their thrones. We could bathe in the hot pools, and love beneath the heart tree while the old gods watched over us. A Storm of Swords, Jon V
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Closed starter for @not-really-an-agent (Will Graham)
The transformation Hannibal has witnessed in Will in recent days has been nothing short of transfixing. When his metamorphosis began, it was undeniably Kafkaesque, but no birth can be successful without the requisite blood and required agony. In recent days, since his release from Baltimore State Hospital, and after his subsequent attempts on Hannibal’s life, Lecter has watched Will truly bloom, transcending crude shock and self-denial to finally begin to embrace his essential elements - from the deranged to the divine. Through his carefully cultivated endeavours he has granted Will a rare gift, created new life, brought new colour, new taste and texture to his existence; an exchange Hannibal has determined to be mutually beneficial. He too has experienced, through Will, a renewal of appetite and with it the promise of something akin perhaps to friendship, albeit one still blighted by raw, fractured edges.
Will claimed some days ago that the scales had ‘fallen from his eyes’. If that is true, then it is time for Will to determine the true nature of what he now sees and in doing so understand his own nature; as Hannibal envisions it, better.
Gently settling his hands in his lap, legs crossed at the knee, Hannibal studies Will for a moment in the low evening light of his office as he considers how best to continue - not so scared of eye contact now it seems. The tension between them is unspeakably thick and yet Hannibal does not yet feel willing to cut it with a knife and address any silent insinuations.
“Why have you resumed your therapy Will?”
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