#S: todd and the book of pure evil

[harveywritings92]

{paranormal college au: Gaz and R/n run out of class after Soap calls them about a rogue demon causing problems around the school.}

Gaz and R/n's Teacher: Alright class, none of the other teachers will listen to me, but whenever those two get up and run out of a room weird shit starts happening. 

[The class stares at them blankly as they get up to leave.]

Gaz and R/n's Teacher: Now If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go barricade myself inside the teachers lounge until it’s over. Hopefully I'll see... Some of you tomorrow.

[harveybwabbit92]

Tregear: I always loved you!

Taro: As a friend?

Tregear: That too.

[incorrectbnhavillainsworld]

Geten, after Dabi insulted him: "Dickbag"? Tell me, do you just take random obscenities and pair them up with equally random nouns? Cock Lamp? Ass Taxi? Shit Rooster?

Dabi, scoffing: No, I can do way better than that.

Twice: Note to self: call someone a shit rooster.

[incorrect-bangtan-boys]

Jungkook: What do you want dickbag?

Hoseok: Tell me, do you just pair random obscenities with equally random nouns? Cocklamp? Asscarriage? Shitrooster? Is that how this works?

Jungkook: Note to self, call someone “shitrooster.”

[incorrect-figureskating-world]

Shoma: What do you want dickbag?

Javi: Tell me, do you just pair random obscenities with equally random nouns? Cocklamp? Asscarriage? Shitrooster? Is that how this works?

Shoma: Note to self, call someone “shitrooster.”

[multiverseforger]

In his original appearance, Jason was scripted as a mentally disabled young boy.[91] Since Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees has been depicted as a non-verbal, indestructible, machete-wielding mass murderer.[92][93] Jason is primarily portrayed as being completely silent throughout the film series. Exceptions to this include in part 3 when he grunts in pain several times when final girl Chris manages to stab him (once in the hand and once just above his knee), flashbacks of Jason as a child, a brief scene in Jason Takes Manhattan where the character cries out "Mommy, please don't let me drown!" in a child's voice before being submerged in toxic waste, and in Jason Goes To Hell where his spirit possesses other individuals.[55] Online magazine Salon's Andrew O'Hehir describes Jason as a "silent, expressionless...blank slate."[94] When discussing Jason psychologically, Sean S. Cunningham said, "...he doesn't have any personality. He's like a great white shark. You can't really defeat him. All you can hope for is to survive."[95] Since Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, Jason has been a "virtually indestructible" being. Tom McLoughlin, the film's director, felt it was silly that Jason had previously been just another guy in a mask, who would kill people left and right, but get "beaten up and knocked down by the heroine at the end". McLoughlin wanted Jason to be more of a "formidable, unstoppable monster".[23] In resurrecting Jason from the dead, McLoughlin also gave him the weakness of being rendered helpless if trapped beneath the waters of Crystal Lake; inspired by vampire lore, McLoughlin decided that Jason had in fact drowned as a child, and that returning him to his original resting place would immobilize him.[96] This weakness would be presented again in The New Blood, and the idea that Jason had drowned as a child was taken up by director Rob Hedden as a plot element in Jason Takes Manhattan.[55]

Many have given suggestions as Jason's motivation for killing. Ken Kirzinger refers to Jason as a "psychotic mama's boy gone horribly awry...very resilient. You can't kill him, but he feels pain, just not like everyone else."[97] Kirzinger goes on to say that Jason is a "psycho-savant", and believes his actions are based on pleasing his mother, and not anything personal.[79] Andrew O'Hehir has stated, "Coursing hormones act, of course, as smelling salts to prudish Jason, that ever-vigilant enforcer of William Bennett-style values."[94] Todd Farmer, writer for Jason X, wrote the scene where Jason wakes from cryonic hibernation just as two of the teenagers are having sex. Farmer liked the idea that sex acts triggered Jason back to life.[78] Whatever his motivations, Kane Hodder believes there is a limit to what he will do. According to Hodder, Jason might violently murder any person he comes across, but when Jason Takes Manhattan called for Hodder to kick the lead character's dog, Hodder refused, stating that, while Jason has no qualms against killing humans, he is not bad enough to hurt animals.[98] Another example from Jason Takes Manhattan, involves Jason being confronted by a street gang of young teenage boys one of whom threatens him with a knife, however Jason chooses not to kill them and instead scares them off by lifting up his mask and showing them his face. Likewise, director Tom McLoughlin chose not to have Jason harm any of the children he encounters in Jason Lives, stating that Jason would not kill a child, out of a sympathy for the plight of children generated by his own death as a child.[96]

In Jason Goes to Hell, director Adam Marcus decided to include a copy of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, from the Evil Dead franchise, in the Voorhees home as a way to insinuate that Jason was actually a "Deadite", a type of demonic being from that series. Marcus stated the book's placement was intended to imply that Pamela Voorhees had used it to resurrect Jason after his childhood drowning, resulting in his supernatural abilities: "This is why Jason isn't Jason. He's Jason plus The Evil Dead... That, to me, is way more interesting as a mashup, and [Sam] Raimi loved it! It's not like I could tell New Line my plan to include The Evil Dead, because they don't own The Evil Dead. So it had to be an Easter egg, and I did focus on it. It absolutely is canon."[99] In an early draft of Freddy vs. Jason, it was decided that one of the villains needed a redeemable factor. Ronald D. Moore, co-writer of the first draft, explained that Jason was the easiest to make redeemable, because no one had previously ventured into the psychology surrounding the character. Moore saw the character as a "blank slate", and felt he was a character the audience could really root for.[100] Another draft, penned by Mark Protosevich, followed Moore's idea of Jason having a redeemable quality. In the draft, Jason protects a pregnant teenager named Rachel Daniels. Protosevich explained, "It gets into this whole idea of there being two kinds of monsters. Freddy is a figure of actual pure evil and Jason is more like a figure of vengeance who punishes people he feels do not deserve to live. Ultimately, the two of them clash and Jason becomes an honorable monster."[100] Writers Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, who wrote the final draft of the film, disagreed about making Jason a hero, although they drew comparisons between the fact that Freddy was a victimizer and Jason was a victim. They stated, "We did not want to make Jason any less scary. He's still a brutal killer ... We never wanted to put them in a situation where Jason is a hero ... They're both villains to be equally feared."[100] Brenna O'Brien, co-founder of Fridaythe13thfilms.com, saw the character as having sympathetic qualities. She stated, "[Jason] was a deformed child who almost drowned and then spent the rest of his childhood growing up alone in the woods. He saw his mother get murdered by a camp counselor in the first Friday the 13th, and so now he exacts his revenge on anyone who returns to Camp Crystal Lake. Teenage fans can identify with that sense of rejection and isolation, which you can't really get from other killers like Freddy Krueger and Michael Myers."[86]

As Jason went through some characterization changes in the 2009 film, Derek Mears likens him more to a combination of John Rambo, Tarzan, and the Abominable Snowman from Looney Tunes. To him, this Jason is similar to Rambo because he sets up the other characters to fall into his traps. Like Rambo, he is more calculated because he feels that he has been wronged and he is fighting back; he is meant to be more sympathetic in this film.[101] Fuller and Form contend that they did not want to make Jason too sympathetic to the audience. As Brad Fuller explains, "We do not want him to be sympathetic. Jason is not a comedic character, he is not sympathetic. He's a killing machine. Plain and simple."[102]

In 2005, California State University's Media Psychology Lab surveyed 1,166 people Americans aged from 16 to 91 on the psychological appeal of movie monsters. Many of the characteristics associated with Jason Voorhees were appealing to the participants. In the survey, Jason was considered to be an "unstoppable killing machine." Participants were impressed by the "cornucopic feats of slicing and dicing a seemingly endless number of adolescents and the occasional adult." Out of the ten monsters used in the survey—which included vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Michael Myers, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong and the Alien—Jason scored the highest in all the categories involving killing variables. Further characteristics that appealed to the participants included Jason's "immortality, his apparent enjoyment of killing [and] his superhuman strength."[103]

[writtenbyhappynerds]

FF102, Unit 7: That Good Emotional Shit

Some tropes and cliches work for fanfiction. Some don’t. You’ll see lists on Tumblr and Pinterest of whump prompts or cliches to use. Some of them are not worth your time. Others, that we will discuss, are. We’re going to rapid-fire this chapter. We’ll take a trope/prompt/cliche and explain why it works and in what context it works best.

          A good cliche or good trope allows the audience to see the growth and development of a character. We have talked negatively of twin OCs and evil twins because those characters are always the exact same as their cast counterpart, just louder. A good cliche or trope will push your characters into development. An evil twin doesn’t do anything for your OC. An OC who’s been written as calm and in-control finally losing it and snapping? That shows the audience the OC has been pushed over the emotional edge. If the cliche can develop a character, it’s a cliche or trope worth using.

          Angst and angst-fics are so popular because they are pure character development. They are a character coming to terms with themselves and getting past an event that continuously haunts and guilts them. It’s all character development, and we as an audience like to see that kind of journey. There’s nothing wrong with angst fics, and light angst in your own stories is good because it shows not only development for the character but more realistic consequences for a character’s actions. We’ve talked about realism before, and fanfics that aren’t rooted in reality will let horrors, trauma, and death roll off the back of their OC like it’s a Tuesday at Wendy’s. Life isn’t like that, and angst fics lean heavily into the recovery and grieving of loss. It’s what makes them compelling because we see how damaged a person can become, and how strong they are to heal themselves.

          Fluff tropes or whump prompts work especially well if the character has been penned as someone who doesn’t trust others or struggles with being vulnerable. Seeing two people dance drunk in their kitchen, sick prompts, and scenes where one character has to be vulnerable works when that character isn’t comfortable there. It creates inner conflict with the character having to trust other people, and having to rely on others. It creates an exterior conflict where the character is incapacitated or becoming open with others. These fluff prompts can work when they’re placed later in the story. They can appear more organically if they’re used as a tool for character development and not an AU in a piece that is already fanfiction.

          The Editor is a big fan of opposites attract. We’ll also combine this with enemies to friends to lovers prompts, which are popular for a reason. They are filled with character development. Being able to look past your hatred and find the beauty in someone you previously despised is a major representative of growth. It shows us how a character can mature and learn to let go of the past and be open to the future. Brooklyn 99’s Jake and Amy is a great example of friends to lovers, but beyond romantic interest, this works for companionship and friends as well. Look at Zuko and Aang’s relationship in Avatar: The Last Airbender. The growth and maturity from these two characters were monumental; it showed the ability to forgive and to be kind and to take the traumas of your past and not let them define you. Zuko is a fantastic example of character growth, and his entire arc can speak for the development that comes from being an enemy to a friend.

          The Editor also likes slow burns. I do too, primarily for the realism they present. To quote Frozen, “You can’t marry a guy you just met!” Love takes time and effort and work. It takes so long for feelings to fester and grow and blossom into something more, that stories, where two characters fall in love in a matter of days, seem unrealistic. Not only that but in the real-world relationships like this are unhealthy and create characters that are co-dependent. Slow burns don’t have to go from hatred to love either. It can just start at indifference. If you look at Percy Jackson, Percy and Annabeth didn’t even kiss until the end of the Last Olympian. They had a friendship for 4 years before that, and in that time were able to figure themselves out before figuring out a relationship. That really represents the pinnacle of slow burns: we don’t want a character’s entire story or history to be tied to some other person. Slow burn fanfic lets the character blossom as a healthy individual and figure out who they want to be, before merging their ideals and their life with someone else. It’s realistic, and the time it takes for two characters to come together only lets your heart grow fonder. Your audience will feel more emotionally connected to these characters because they will have seen them go through so many personal struggles. There’s nothing wrong with taking your time. We want to see it.

          I am a slut for hospital prompts. The hurt/injury cliches, where the character collapses and ends up in the hospital for an extended period of time. It’s sometimes not realistic but that’s some good shit right there. What can make these prompts especially juicy, is if the character is written as a strong or capable character. Seeing Sam or Dean Winchester end up hospitalized hurt the audience more because we know those characters A) don’t get hurt that bad that often and B) Have never relied on hospitals unless it’s really serious. So, when they did turn up in the hospital we knew that the stakes were increased and that the situation was dire. It offers tension, and it can show you how human even your strongest characters are. You can’t re-set a broken leg on your own. You can’t fix a bullet wound by yourself. So seeing these characters have to acknowledge that they don’t have all the answers and can’t fix themselves. It shows the audience how false a character’s confidence or competence can be.

          I personally like little-kid prompts or genius little-kid tropes. That isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and it has to do with little children being poorly written. Usually, this trope is used so the writer doesn’t have to stress about writing a realistic child. If they make the child a genius they can have it brought up to the same speed as the adults. However, writing children is easier than you think (See unit 5) and a super-genius child can be smart, but not wise. What I mean is that a genius child needs to pick a struggle and commit to it. They can’t be both book smart and street smart because they still don’t have the life experience that adults have. So you can have a genius mathematician child, but that kid isn’t going to be of much help in your detective fanfic where your OCs are supposed to be busting drug rings, because what child knows about that? Now, you could have a child know about the criminal underground because maybe they’ve grown up in it and worked as a mule, but that child isn’t going to be a mathematician like the other kid. You need to pick a side of the line, and there are so many ways for a person or a child to be a genius. What makes it realistic is picking just one. Look at Damian Wayne. He was a child prodigy in combat. He was gifted because he had tutors and masters who taught him for his entire life. But he knew so little about the outside world and how it worked. He was gifted but sheltered. Jason Todd is the opposite. He was a street rat, who had an innate knowledge of the criminal underground but didn’t have as much of an opportunity to learn through academic outlets. He knew the streets but didn’t get to learn the books until much much later. Each picked a struggle to start out with. That’s not to say that you can’t expand their range of knowledge later on, but it comes with time is the key note: if your character starts out knowing everything there’s nowhere for them to go.

          Speaking of little kids, the outcast/weird kid making a ton of friends is often used, and it’s an oldie that’s been around since The Lightning Thief. What this prompt represents is the ability of a person who doesn’t fit traditional molds to find their place and their happiness in the world. We all like content that makes us feel less alone, and prompts like this can even be cathartic for the reader to remind them that they themselves are not alone. Your writing should mean something to someone up to and including you, and these prompts warm us up and make us feel like somewhere there’s a place for us. No one likes to be alone.

          What you should take away from this unit is that predictability is okay as long as it’s done well. Cliches are not going to kill your narrative. Tropes and whump prompts are not bad, they just need to be executed in a way that makes us feel like it’s genuine character development and not an out-of-body experience. We want to see development and growth because that truly shows progression not just of time but of a person, and if you can execute it well, you can pull off just about anything.

          Next week we’re discussing research, and diving deeper into how you should be researching your settings, flaws, and how you should study your own field of work. We apologize for the delay. Unforeseen circumstances came up that life never prepares you for, and the Big Sad came over me for a while. We’ll see you next week!

Xoxo, Gossip Girl

[thebittahwizard]

B-TV Rec List For Winners

Everyone always talks about how they love certain B-movies. Y’know, the campier the better. The equation usually goes like this: cheese factor + camp - A-list actors + surprisingly good premise/writing = a Cult Classic.

That’s all well and good, but I’d like to take a moment to shower praise upon B-TV—any and all of those television shows that were cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons, had cheesy effects, wasn’t very popular, had a weirdly eclectic but cohesive cast—you name it!

So here it is, my post to commemorate my top 5 favorite B-TV shows (in no particular order):

Todd & The Book of Pure Evil (2010), Rated TV-MA

This Canadian show only had 2 rocking seasons before it was axed. It follows the hilarious life of stoner/metalhead Todd & his one-armed best friend Curtis as they find and lose the powerful Book of Pure Evil. Go watch them battle high school hijinks, Evil, and Atticus, their sweater-vest-wearing & Satanic-cult-leading guidance counselor.

Wonderfalls (2004), Rated TV-PG

This 1 season wonder—see what I did there?—follows twentysomething cynic Jaye as she navigates life after college. Stuck in a rut & working at a Niagra Falls souvenir shop, Wonderfalls, she’s trying to figure out what she wants from her life—until one day, the anthropomorphic figurines in the shop start talking to her & giving her spookily accurate advice. Is she going crazy or is everybody else? Go fucking find out, I dare you.

Pushing Daisies (2007), Rated TV-PG

And speaking of the lovely Lee Pace, let’s jump from Canadian TV to a few US shows, namely Pushing Daisies. This show lasted for only 2 seasons. BUT EACH WAS FLAWLESS. The color, the dialogue, the cast, the narrator, the premise—literally everything about this show was *MWAH* brilliant. I mean, who wouldn’t want to watch a show about a pie maker who could touch dead people and bring them back to life? Warning: this show is filled with whimsy.

Veronica Mars (2004), Rated TV-14

Do I even need to say anything? Kristen Bell. Snarky and savvy daughter of a disgraced ex-sheriff turned PI. Side of the tracks element. Coastal beachy setting. Perfect writing. Not-so-perfect overall plot arcs. Only three seasons—but we’re getting more so who’s counting? (S/O to my boy Hulu) Honestly, now I just have the theme song stuck in my head, so I’ll exit “gracefully” with that: 🎶 A long time ago, we used to be friends, but I haven’t thought of you lately at all... 🎶

Farscape (1999), Rated TV-14

This space opera tops out this list at a whopping 4 seasons before it was cancelled. Do you like aliens? Space? Adventures? How about space alien adventures? Well then, strap in because Farscape is the show for you. Follow John Crichton, astronaut from Earth, as he’s hurled into a different part of the universe during one of his test flights. If you’re into any other show that has lasers, an intergalactic struggle, and a sort-of competent human along for the ride, then this show is worth a watch.

🤘BONUS🤘

The Almighty Johnsons (2011), Rated Who Tf Knows, It’s From NZ

With fuck-all in terms of special effects, be prepared to be blown away by one of the best reimaginings of Norse mythology...from a bunch of Kiwis. I know, I know, weird mix right? NO. It’s the best mix—the mix I never knew I wanted. It lasted for 3 seasons, and each episode is pretty fucking great. The Johnsons, a normal enough family, actually have a pretty interesting secret (hint: they reincarnate as Norse gods)—the secret, mind you, is learned by Axl on his birthday. Godly shenanigans ensue. It’s mythology that’s 95% driven by plot and character development, rather than CGI or effects—and it fucking works. Go give it a shot.

[caesar-is-hollow]

Day 4: Your opinion on a recent news story

I really don't deal with the news that often. I have enough problems of my own without taking on everything else too. I would be in constant panic (slightly more than usual)

But I thought I would go ahead and do this one because I kinda feel obligated to.

I've been a practicing witch on and off for the past 10 years. I've only recently gotten really serious about it for the last 3. I don't know everything, by any means, but I feel confident enough to at least stop calling myself a 'baby witch'. (Yuck. Don't do this. Don't infantilize yourself. Witch-In-Training or Apprentice is so much better!)

Is TikTok a wealth of knowledge for witchcraft tips and tricks? Yes. Does that mean everything is up for grabs? Absolutely not. Here's the thing: you have to do your own research. Besides TikTok. New witches don't want to hear that, but it's true. What may work in someone else's craft may not work for yours. And the user you got that love spell from may not know what the fuck they're doing either.

Not all witchcraft is for everyone. Appropriation is extremely prevalent in the witchcraft community. Generally, if you are not a minority, you shouldn't speak over those who are. That goes for literally everything, not just witchcraft.

If you want more information about appropriation in witchcraft, I highly suggest Chaotic Witch Aunt on YouTube and TikTok. I don't really have the mental energy to go into all that right now.

The point I'm trying to make is that you need to know where things come from. All the ingredients to a spell have a purpose there. Even the day of the week or phase of the moon is important. You can't just throw some shit in a jar without knowing what you're fucking doing.

I know it's exciting to jump right in when you first get started, but having the basics down first is incredibly important. Even further than that, you should know what YOUR craft looks like. There's a billion ways to practice and it helps to know what your beliefs are and what magic means to you.

Going back to knowing the origins of what you're working with, there are a lot of foundational sources from the 70s-90s that don't even apply to now because of how sexist and problematic they are. Does that mean you can't learn from them? No, but it's always important to cross-reference. And if something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't.

A lot of witchcraft study is based on morality. You'll often hear talk of 'white magic' and 'black magic', the good and evil. On top of this being an inherently racist representation, it's also a load of shit. Apart from serial killers, how many people are "pure evil"? Same goes the other way. Most people are morally gray. Like most things, it's a fucking spectrum, not one or the other.

You'll find a lot of this type of thinking in anything pre-90's. There was a huge witchcraft boom then due to pop culture (Buffy, The Craft, etc.) but unfortunately a lot of this stuff wasn't totally accurate. It can still be a good base to start from, but don't take it as gospel. I myself started with Silver Ravenwolf books, and now I've challenged a lot of the ideas I got from her writing.

You never stop learning. Ever.

The most important thing is to not be too hard on someone who is trying to learn. It's our job to help educate, not shame someone for trying. Witchcraft is powerful and amazing and I've had a lot of wonderful experiences from it. I would never want to take that from anyone.

Hell, if anyone has any questions, I would be glad to help answer them or provide sources for further reading.

And if that was too heavy, here's a Sweeney Todd-esque game coming out that I might have to get.

[harveybwabbit92]

80: What exactly is it you're doing now?

R/n, she's covered in blood: We're fighting evil!

Belial: With mixed results!

[chicagoindiecritics]

New from Every Movie Has a Lesson by Don Shanahan: MOVIE REVIEW: Joker

(Photo Credit: Niko Tavernise for Warner Bros.)

JOKER— 5 STARS

A pungent plethora of hot-button words are being branded into the film flesh of Todd Phillips’ Joker. Be them complementary or damning, they seemingly cannot be rubbed away. An interesting debate to have is classifying which of those fiery adjectives actually talk about the film and not some external controversy, projection, trigger, or angle being spun before Joker even hits public screens. Not to be undone, this writer will give you readers a self-appointed definitive word, one that he’s never used in a review in nine years and change. The word is gall.

LESSON #1: THE DEFINITION OF “GALL” — According to Dictionary.com, the four possible meanings of the noun span impudence, severity, bitterness of spirit, and rancor. To saunter a little cruder, which is fitting for the movie in play, the Urban Dictionary defines the word as audacity, balls, or something risky. Hot damn, Joker is each one of those descriptors from both sources and then some.

Joker has the gall to go an R-rated level of violence. The performers have the gall to attempt generating sympathy for a villain and show those connective actions in all of their uncomfortable cruelty. Joker has the gall to shove away the sunny glibness of what comic book movies have become today at their peak popularity. The writers have the gall to blaze a maze of social commentary trails and not borrow from any comic source. The director and studio have the gall to do all of this on the competitive film festival circuit rising to the biggest platform of release. And that all is just its general existence.

Between the credits, every fleck and pore of Joker is drenched in gall as well. From an opening scene that begins with a slippery tear temporarily erasing a small streak of makeup to the final one of a fade-out coda set to Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” that trades tears for bloody smears, the insolence escalates in a drastic manner and you cannot take your eyes off of it all. Joker is a twisted pair of narrative vines, one descending into evil and the other rising in motivated malice.

The twitchiest man in Hollywood, Joaquin Phoenix, plays Arthur Fleck, a lonely Gotham City weakling living with his mother Penny (Frances Conroy from American Horror Story anthologies) and holding down the pitiful job of being a clown-for-hire. Arthur dreams of better by journaling to become a stand-up comedian bringing laughter to the masses much like his television idol, late night talk show host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro, switching shoes and feet from his old Scorsese entry The King of Comedy). The gaunt sad sack plods through a 1980s urban landscape of scum and social hatred. Joaquin’s first line of dialogue, an ignored question, says it all: “Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?”

LESSON #2: BE MINDFUL OF THE GESTURES YOU GIVE AND HOW PEOPLE TAKE THEM — Though not assigned or identified by name in the movies, the former mental patient is a card-carrying sufferer of Pseudobulbar affect (PBA). Arthur’s miswired emotional incontinence has cackling replacing crying when his feelings overcome his faculties. Too often, this is the wrong way for something like Arthur to get noticed. He lacks many social graces and allows spoonfed optimism to talk him down.

This Gotham environment also eats Arthur alive, one peck and one setback at a time. His mother’s advice of “smile and put on a happy face” doesn’t cut it and Arthur discovers the gun as a great equalizer of empowerment. When the wannabe entertainer uses it and takes lives, the act of murder liberates instead of rattles him. Beyond Arthur, his vigilante crime inspires anti-rich sentiments and protests throughout the city. Anarchy becomes what makes him smile and the tremors of which explode when the movement finds its poster boy and mouthpiece.

LESSON #3: WHEN ALL YOU HAVE ARE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS — Thoughts should stop at thoughts if they are harmful. By the dynamite third acat, the barrier of consideration of safety is gone with Joker. You in the audience will reach a point where you cannot assign sympathy here anymore. That’s precisely the point. Rooting for this movie doesn’t condone the character or make you a cheerleader. It makes you recognize and respect all that gall splattered all over the place that makes him evil to the core and the movie brave for even going down this path.

Director Todd Phillips and company put Joker in the capable hands of Joaquin Phoenix and he creates an iteration of the iconic villain all his own. For anyone who has seen any period on Joaquin’s resume, fidgets are his specialty. Rage is in Phoenix’s regular range and flips it on like a lightswitch when necessary. On paper, this is not a big stretch. This could have been as easy as Phillips getting his frequent cinematography collaborator Lawrence Sher to have the camera on when he tells Joaquin “just be weird.”

However, believing it is that simple would be shortchanging the performer who methodically channels straight and convincing madness with every drag from a lit cigarette to every mood-changing and entrancing dance move. Midway through the movie, Arthur writes down a poetic nugget in his diary that reads “People expect you to behave as if you don’t.” That’s a pure and blunt parallel between the character and the actor. Watching Joaquin’s poisonous performance is maniacally mesmerizing.

Joker’s artistically seedy aesthetic for moral decline and unchecked depravity creates the proper cesspool for energizing the corrupt title character. If Beale Street Could Talk production designer Mark Friedberg and The Greatest Showman art director Laura Ballinger empower the flickering fluorescent bulbs and walls of graffiti to reflect inner and outer ugliness. The complete atmosphere is made scarier by the ominous musical score from composer and Sicario series cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir. The production value rumbles all senses. Again, this too is gall.

Even without drawing from a specified comic canon source, the most important question of Joker is whether director Todd Phillips and company got this character right. It is possible to be too divergent to really fly. That’s where smart audiences can skip Nicholson, Ledger, Leto, and Romero to ask what’s the core. The essence is the unfathomable enigma. We may very well have an unreliable narrator from Phillips and his screenwriting partner Scott Silver, an Oscar nominee for The Fighter. Combine the twists and turns with the balletically bizarre lead and you have the oozing mystery that fits the urban myth preserved by the graphic novels.

So, how does one take a movie like Joker and all the frenzy surrounding it? Fortunately or unfortunately, that’s up to each viewer. Since the works of Martin Scorsese are correctly being sourced (or bastardized in some opinions) for homage, Robert De Niro rub and all, I’ll submit Roger Ebert’s words be neutral reasoning. The old film critic master said the following about The King of Comedy 36 years ago:

“Scorsese doesn’t want laughs in this movie, and he also doesn’t want release. The whole movie is about the inability of the characters to get any kind of a positive response to their bids for recognition. It is not, you may already have guessed, a fun movie. It is also not a bad movie. It is frustrating to watch, unpleasant to remember, and, in its own way, quite effective.”

Todd Phillips has the very same prickly and problematic brilliance on his hands. Let the polarization begin.

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Give Me Back My Mind!

A Deal With the Devil(’s Daughter)

"Blackmail? I thought Titans weren't supposed to used underhanded, sneaky, dirty, villainous techniques like that," he chuckled as he pulled a cigarette.

"They don't, demons do," she stated. He then noticed the blood sliding down her leg and dripping onto the ally pavement.

"Ah, so you're a demon, good to have that confirmed; Dr. Light mentioned that," he chuckled and lit his cigarette then. Inhaling the sweet toxin of the nicotine he looked at Raven then and noticed she had four, narrowed, angry, glowing red eyes as her energy swirled about her.

"I Want The Book Back," she growled, he felt like he was being hit by three forces simultaneously when she snarled that.

"I'm getting it back," he dismissed and Raven instantly settled. He watched as her four eyes disappeared then and he found himself looking into dark, lavender eyes which narrowed on him.

"I'm sorry, it's very important that I get the book back," she said flatly which had him sighing.

"I don't work for double crossers, so, even if you weren't blackmailing me, Sunshine, I'd be getting the fucking book back just to piss of the fucking double-crossing bitch," he growled. Jason hated double crossers, set ups, and traps; he'd died because of all that, and he sure as hell wasn't going to Hell again; yet.

"And then what would you do, if I weren't blackmailing you, with my book?" she challenged.

He shrugged then, he hadn't planned that far. More than likely his sorcerer friend would have gotten it, and in time it'd be returned to Raven. Probably. He wasn't too certain that Raven would actually get her book back, not that it really mattered. But now it mattered enough that he was willing to retrieve her book for her.

"I hadn't really planned that far ahead," he admitted.

"You would probably try to sell it to the highest bidder," she monotonously stated. He smirked, not willing to agree or disagree with that assessment; for it was an option. Raven's hand was glowing and he noticed her pressing it to her thigh as she kept her eyes trained on him. Getting up he moved her hand and looked at the wound. "What are you doing?"

"Your pain is distracting," he threw back at her. She frowned and he looked at the wound carefully, it wasn't deep, just a bleeder, and going to be a nasty bruise.

"What's in that fucking book that you're willing to blackmail me to get it?" he asked as he moved her floating form so he could work, Raven didn't swat him away surprisingly.

"I can't tell you," she monotonously stated which had him lifting a brow as he looked up at her eyes. Confliction, distrust, fury, and control all warred in eyes; he knew the look well enough from his own reflection.

"Can't or won't?" he challenged.

"Can't because it's personal; won't because I trust you about as much as I trust Robin not to kill Red Robin," she snapped. He chuckled as he bandaged her thigh.

"Fair enough," he said.

"Who hired you to get that book?" she asked, her expression blank as she unfolded her legs and stood, he was startled then at her actual size. Raven was small; not tiny or fragile or anything weak like that, but her commanding presence had made him miss how small she truly was. She came up to his chest, barely, and was slight of figure rather like a ballerina, it was startling as he stared down at her; Raven was always this imposing, terrifying force, she wasn't small, however she was now. No less imposing or threatening, but now he was kind of enjoying that she wasn't so intimidating; she wasn't larger than life now.

"A League member," he admitted. Her stomach snarled and Raven frowned as her cheeks turned red. "I didn't get lunch either, come on, temporary truce, after I get that fucking book back we'll go back to hating one another."

"Truce," she muttered.

"Yeah, come on Sunshine," he zipped up his pack and shoved it at her, she yanked it on and he knew they had a pact then as he straddled his bike.

"I still don't trust you," she warned.

"I don't expect you too," he admitted as he revved the engine and Raven's arms wrapped around him as he slowly pulled his bike into traffic and rode down the street looking for a place to eat and park.

Jason was trying to figure out who had been sent to kill him as he navigated New York and pulled up to a pizza joint. Parking Raven slid off as she muttered something then pulled off her helmet, she looked human now, midnight hair, ivory skin, dark eyes. She looked odd, but he wasn't going to bring it up.

"We'll discuss a truce over a nice slice of za," he mused as he walked with her.

"I can agree to that," she said.

"None of the weird West Coast shit on the za though," he warned her. God, he was finally back east for an authentic slice; he was nearly in heaven with the notion.

"If you put anchovies on it I will send you to another dimension," she warned.

"Glad we agree on some things," he muttered. Getting their slices they took a corner seat, and he waited for Raven to start the negotiations for their truce. Until she started, he was going to enjoy the slice of pizza he had in hand and just savor the moment of being so close to home.

Yet so far, he bitterly remembered.

If Bruce knew he was still alive; and that was an if; then he wouldn't go home despite what he wanted. No, Bruce would pitch his ass in Arkham; infuriating as that fact was.

"You said a League member hired you; who?" Raven finally asked.

"Zatanna Zatara," he answered and he watched as Raven froze then. The shadows danced a bit and the air started to thin or chill. "Raven!"

~~~*~*~*~~~

The name of Zatanna being the one to steal her last relic of home, her last piece of her culture which she could access had her world narrowing. Drastically. Raven could only feel her mind, her psyche, and every emotion she usually kept securely locked away and under control, clawing to be released as her rage boiled.

"Raven!"

Her head snapped to the aquamarine eyes of Jason Todd and she took a steadying breath as her powers were reigned in. the white streak in his hair stubbornly flopped in his eyes and she focused on him for a moment as she found her center again.

"Zatanna Zatara hired you?" she murmured.

"Yeah," he nodded. "Made a big stint about it too, said you were a demon, couldn't be trusted, I had to steal that book, even had a photo of it, said it was important, balance of the world, ectara."

"And it was that book?"

"Yes," he grumbled as he continued eating. Raven suddenly found her appetite to be gone but she forced herself to eat a good slice of pizza. It'd be sacrilege in Cyborg's eyes if she didn't try to eat it.

"W-Who gave you the charm to get around my wards?" Raven murmured.

"You know a guy named John Constantine?" he asked.

"That Bastard! He Gave You The Charm To Get Into My Room!?" she hissed. She was now surprised that they hadn't been blown up or something! Azar! Could this get any worse!? Was Dr. Fate after her? Or worse… Klarion!? Had the magic community just decided that it was time to off her because she was a demon?

"He owes me a few favors, I accidentally saved his ass in England," he shrugged.

"I really hate you right now," Raven warned him.

"Truce."

"I know, but I might kill you when this is all over."

"Titans don't kill."

"You're pissing off my inner demon; which is difficult to do."

"I know an exorcist should it need to be removed," he smirked. "Or do you need a demonologist?"

"Constantine is not coming near me, or I will blast you and him into other dimensions."

"Good to know."

"If you were hired by Zatanna to get the book why is she trying to kill you; that's not the League's style," Raven pointed out as she forced herself to eat. She didn't think Zatanna could actually handle blood on her hands, Zatanna was one of those 'pure' souls. And every time Raven ran into Zatanna she didn't sense much violence or bloodlust from her; a lot of power, but not much in the dark edge department. Whereas Jason here was just oozing the very dark edge it would take to be the monster. Raven didn't mind the darkness, she was a part of it after all, but she knew when people had it and when they didn't. Zatanna didn't. Jason did, and Raven did, which was why Raven was confused.

"I don't know, but it wouldn't be the first time a League member got their hands dirty," Jason bit out bitterly. "Wouldn't be the first time they'd turn a blind eye to one going dark."

"We all have darkness in us," Raven defended. "Some know it, and live with it and try to be better. Others know it and thrive in the darkness. And others have it but they can't utilize it. Having the darkness is a fact of life, live with it, work with it, or ignore it but it's there. The League members are no different, and neither is Batman or the Batkids."

"Whatever you say Sunshine."

"Stop calling me that. Are you certain it was Zatanna who hired you?"

"I have no reason to disbelieve it was her, but I wasn't entirely certain it was her," Jason shrugged as he finished his slice and cleaned his fingers of the grease.

"Great," Raven muttered as she leant back in her seat.

"Look, I'll get the damn book back," he hugged.

"I'm going to be helping," she snapped. He frowned at her. But Raven wasn't going to waver in this. She was going to help him get her mind back, even if it killed her; which while not a pleasant thought was a reality she needed to accept. If somehow Zatanna or whoever opened the Nevermore there was a chance that they could unleash her inner demons and give her father access to this world again. A terrifying thought, but it was one which highly motivated her to just get the Nevermore back, and hide it better.

"Thanks, but no thanks, I work alone, as both Reds," he said firmly.

"I will bring you to Batman," she stated. "And if you escape me now, know I'll just bring Batman to you. I'm sure the entire family is going to love this family reunion."

"Fine! Evil witch," he growled.

"Demon," she corrected. She wasn't really a witch, Jinx was a witch, but Raven was a bit more complicated than simple sorcery. If she did practice just simple sorcery she wouldn't be in this mess, she thought begrudgingly.

"Doesn't matter," he grounded out.

"It does, to me," she clarified. She had been embracing her demon heritage as of late because if she was going to teach the younger kids to accept themselves for themselves, she needed to accept herself. And while she had never rejected her heritage, she hadn't outright embraced it either; and she didn't fully embrace her demon heritage.

"Whatever," Jason dismissed. "Look, with or without your help I'm getting that double crossing bitch and teaching her a lesson she won't ever forget, taking that book back and leaving."

"I'm helping, I need the book back," Raven snapped.

"So we're still a team?" he muttered.

"Not really, we're two individuals working together in the interest of different goals, but a similar outcome. You get your revenge and rep, I get my book back," she clarified.

"Deal," he held out his hand and she tentatively looked between it and him.

"Shake on it or I walk and do this on my own."

"Fine," she grumbled and took his hand as she muttered a binding spell. "Now neither of us can back out of the arrangement until we've completed our goals."

Jason just glared at her as they pulled their hands apart.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Damian had never been so relieved to see another person as he was when Raven walked out of her shadows and everything calmed. For the past two hours the Titans had been deal with a raging Superboy, and even the other Supers had had trouble with them. Now everyone stopped.

"What is going on?" Raven demanded once everyone was calm and Superboy collapsed.

"Raven! Where have you been!?" Dick gasped.

"I was handling something, who is this?" Raven asked.

"The Superboy," Damian filled in, he clutched his ribs; they were singing something fierce from when Starfire had tackled him.

"Alright, everyone will resume training, those in need of medical go to the infirmary, I will handle Superboy," Raven said as she stood and levitated the unconscious teen with her before she left. Damian glance between his teammates who were assessing damage and the Raven before he darted into the elevator with Raven.

"You should go to the infirmary," Raven said after a long moment in silence.

"My ribs are fine, just bruised," Damian snapped.

"You should still go to the infirmary."

"Where were you?" Damian demanded, he wanted to trust Raven; he did trust her, but at times it was difficult to trust anyone who kept everyone in the dark.

"Brokering a deal," Raven answered.

"With who?"

"Damian," her tone was flat but there was an edge in it.

"I will find out!" he persisted.

"If I tell you, you cannot tell Dick or anyone else, I will speak to Victor about it, but only him," Raven said.

"Why?"

"Because you Bats have obsession tendency which border on insanity and I need my deal to remain in place for the time being," she stated as they walked out of the elevator, Raven motioned for the Superboy to follow; his body still encased in her black energy.

"Fine!" he promised; his curiosity truly getting the best of him as he ignored his ribs.

"Then we will discuss this in my room with Victor after I handle Superboy, and you go to the infirmary," Raven stated. He frowned but he knew that he wasn't going to win this fight, but she was willing to let him in on whatever was going on. Which was why he hurried for the infirmary then. He liked Raven, but her secretiveness bugged him and he wanted to know more.

Damian walked into the infirmary to see everyone on beds as Cyborg looked them over.

"What did Raven do to him?" Supergirl; Kara, asked.

"Raven's got abilities, she used them to save our butts," Garfield stated. Damian didn't know why they didn't just state she was an empath.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Raven looked down on the boy when he started stirring, and she stuffed her hands in the jacket Jason had shoved on her in their escape. The young man's eyes groggily settled on her and she softened slightly, even as she felt his conflicting emotions bombard her.

"Hello, my name is Raven," she said calmly as she sat beside him, the boy shifted away from her.

"W-Where am I?" he asked as he stared at her.

"You are Titan's Tower," she stated. "My friends seemed to have rescued you; I don't know all the details, but when you woke you attacked them."

"They… They're your friends?" He asked.

"Yes, you are at the Titan's headquarters, we're smaller than the Justice League, but similar purpose," Raven said as she looked him over. His emotions were everywhere, aggression, fear, anger, rage, and pain; so much pain. "Do you have a name?"

"I am the Superboy, Superman's clone to replace him should he perish, a weapon if he turns from the light," the boy stated.

"I see, Superboy," she nodded. "Superman is an admirable man, you must look up to him."

"I do," he nodded.

"Raven!" A voice on the other side of the locked door called out which had Superboy glaring, she held up her hand as she rose to open the door.

"Nightwing, this is Superboy, Superboy, this is my dear friend, the Titan's leader, Nightwing," Raven gestured to Dick who was wearing his uniform and domino mask. "He's not here to harm or hurt you. You can trust him."

"I helped pull you out of Cadmus," Dick grinned.

"I see," Superboy hesitated.

"We only want to help you, Superboy, if you let us. We can even help you meet Superman," Nightwing started. The boy looked interested in that and Raven softened before she waved to Dick and walked out of the room as they talked.

Raven found her communicator as she sent a message to Damian and Victor to meet her in her room in an hour. She pulled out a duffle bag then and started packing it, she'd put in her notice of undetermined leave in with Barbara before she left and leave her communicator behind.

She was going to simply state to Dick that this was an undercover mission, something in the Magical World, and he'd leave what she was doing alone. Jason didn't know how long or where they'd be going, just that he had to work on tracking people down, and he'd have a lead for them to follow when he picked her up at the park in two hours. Picking up everything she felt she needed but wouldn't be able to get her hands on she shoved it into her bag before she went through her closet.

"Hey Rae, got your message," Victor said as he walked into her room. Raven didn't look at him as she thumbed through a book of dark spells. "What's… What are you doing?"

"Now will you speak of what is bothering you?" Damian demanded as he walked in.

"I have made a deal with Red X to retrieve a book he stole from me," Raven stated as she picked up at least nine books she knew she would need, then started looking through her supplies. The ingredients she wouldn't get on the road were the first she collected and started putting in her bag. She didn't know what magic she'd be up against to get her mind back, but she was willing to bet she'd need everything in her arsenal not to fail. If Zatanna was the one who truly had her book then there was no way the sorceress would let it go without a fight.

"What kind of a deal and who is Red X and why must I tell no one about this deal?" Damian fired off.

"Rae! Have you lost your mind!?" Victor shouted and she lifted her brows at him. He rolled his eye before he looked down on Damian. "Red X is the best thief in the world, nearly five years running, he's even been rumored to have broken into the Watch Tower of the JL. He's a contractor, and no one knows his civilian identity."

"I do now," Raven muttered.

"Rae, you need to tell Dick," Victor started.

"No, the last thing I need is Dick getting involved and then I lose the book because he locks X up; X is the only one who knows who has that book and I have brokered a deal with X for the book," Raven stated flatly. It wasn't a perfect deal, but then no deal was ever perfect, and Raven considered this one to be of the utmost importance. She didn't have time to figure out how to explain to Dick that Jason was alive, he was Red X, and Red Hood, and that he was now a world class, feared criminal who had been trained by the League of Assassins. No, there wasn't time to try to explain that.

"You said you know who Red X is? Why not just arrest him?" Damian asked.

"That's actually more complicated, no I cannot tell you who he is, just that he's now helping me," Raven said.

"Why not?" victor demanded.

"One, it's part of our deal, two, it's my leverage over him, and three, I need him to help me get that book back," Raven stated.

"What about after the deal you brokered is up?" Damian asked.

"Then I can only say who he is if he's ever caught," Raven stated.

"Rae, I don't like it."

"I don't either.

"How do you know he won't double cross you?" Cyborg asked. "He's already stolen the book, so why is he so willing to help you steal it back?"

"Because the leverage I hold over him is too big for him to be willing to double cross me, and he's helping me because the buyer double crossed him and he's out for revenge," Raven shrugged and tossed Mumbo's hat out of her closet before she found what she was looking for; another backpack for her clothes and she tossed it onto her bed as she pulled garments from her closet.

"So what's the plan here? Run off with the guy who ranks number two on Dick's shit list and most wanted list? Hope to get the book back?" Cyborg asked.

"I don't have a lot of options at this point, so yes," Raven stated.

"I'm coming then!" Damian spoke up.

"This might be either really easy or stupid dangerous, are you certain you want to leap in without thinking this through?" Raven asked. She knew that Damian didn't know Jason, and even if he had seen photos of Jason it was doubtful that he'd make a connection between Jason and dead Jason. Jason didn't look the same as the boy he had been at his death.

"Yes."

"Take the kid Rae, I don't like you traveling with Red X and no back up and the kid here is great backup," Victor stated.

"I am not a child," Damian hissed.

"Dude, you're ten, you're a kid," Victor argued.

"I don't care," Raven snapped. "I'm not taking anyone with me, I'm telling you," she looked at Victor then, "what I'm doing because I'm leaving my communicator behind so Oracle can't track me around. And I'm telling you," she gave a pointed look to Damian then, "what I'm doing so you don't try to break into my room or do something equally stupid."

"I don't like this Rae," Cyborg stated.

"I agree, you do not have sufficient backup. What if this Red X decides to double cross you or kill you? Will you defend yourself?" Damian snapped.

"You don't have to like it, I've brokered the deal and he can't back out or double cross me," Raven stated to Cyborg before turning her attention onto Damian. "I am a demon, daughter of Trigon, the Gem of Scath, I do not require back up. And if X decides to double cross me, I'm sticking him in Hell, and should he attack I have no doubts I cannot stop him; but I can hurt him more than anyone knows. I am not defenseless, Damian, I am the last line of defense."

"I'm still coming," Damian stated.

"And I'm not letting you leave the Tower without back up and communication," Cyborg stated.

Raven internally groaned but surrendered. At least Damian wouldn't be able to blow Jason's cover, that was a plus in her mind as she finished her packing.

"Fine, but you don't tell Oracle about the communicator you give me, and you will tell Dick and Bruce you're coming training with me so we can calm your anger," Raven snapped. "And the entire trip you will do exactly what you're told or I will send you back here and disappear with X until I have my book back, understood?"

They both nodded before they hurried out of her room.

Raven groaned as she fell onto her bed and then sighed before going to her lock box and pulling out the money she had stored there in case of emergencies. Shoving it into her pack she went to fill out her leave reports for Dick, and Damian.

It was a good cover using Damian's explosive rage to leave.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Jason sat in his shot up safe house; his favorite one in this city and merely sighed. Great, now he was going to have to move, and his other safe houses weren't as nice as this one had been. At least the ones in this city weren't that nice, he had others across the globe far nicer than this place.

In twenty minutes he had the place cleared out as he moved all his gear to the other safe house, and dropped it all on his bed before he started sorting through the gear here and the gear he had brought for what he would need. Once he was sure of what he had and what he'd need he put the other gear away, locked up, set his traps and surveillance before he left. As tempting as it was to take a bike he settled for the car he had bought instead.

Dropping his gear in his trunk he put the tech in the back seat before he got in and started up the engine. There was a stubborn rumble from the car before he had it and they pulled out of the parking garage and started down the street.

He smirked, he stood out, he knew that, but he also knew he was invisible at the same time, just another bad boy with a classic muscle car; worth the admiration not worth the notice. Besides, he liked the car, not as much as his bikes, but he liked his 1967 Charger, and had put a lot of work into reviving her. It was beautiful, but he also wasn't willing to risk wrecking her because of a job. This time was the exception because he'd be traveling with Raven, and he didn't see Raven and him surviving a motorcycle trip. Not with all the gear he had, and all the shit she was no doubt bringing.

Pulling up to the curb of the agreed upon meeting place he got out of his car and picked up his laptop as he got to work on a park table.

It was about an hour and a half later Raven appeared, he looked up at her and smirked.

"Hey Sunshine," he caught her attention as her eyes narrowed on him and she stalked over to him before sitting across the table.

"Stop calling me that," Raven warned him again.

"Aw… but you're so bright and happy to see me," he mused as he continued working.

"I'm shadows, and I do not believe happy is the right emotion to describe how I feel at the moment," Raven warned darkly.

"Relax princess, I've almost got what we need to start," he stated.

"You are Red X I presume," a stern voice asked and Jason looked up from his work as he blinked twice to make sure he wasn't going even more insane than he already was.

Before him stood a boy, about Raven's height, with black hair, blue eyes, and Bruce's face. It was unnerving, but as Jason inspected the boy closer he noticed the minute differences between the boy and Bruce; darker skin, sharper features, and the shape of his eyes were wrong.

"And you are?" he asked blandly.

"Jason, meet Damian, we will not have hero identities on this mission, and I have no doubts you're already aware of who the current Robin is," Raven shrugged. Damian balked, and Jason smirked as he glared at her, Raven gave him a challenging look. "Victor doesn't trust you with me alone, and apparently neither does Damian. Frankly I don't see why they think I need help against you, but you're now stuck with Damian and I."

"I see, you're lucky I thought to bring the car instead of the motor cycle then," he muttered and resumed his work. He knew who Damian Wayne was, had even remembered the kid vaguely being at the compound Talia had kept him at before the Pit, but honestly, he hadn't ever really stopped to study the boy. Now it was unnerving to see a replica of Bruce sitting beside Raven glaring at him.

"I can drive!" Damian squawked.

"You're not driving my car, twerp," he warned and found what he was seeking and smirked. "And Raven has shotgun so you'll be sitting in the back."

"Jason, where are we going?"

"According to the League records she has a place in Gotham County, New Jersey, Shadowcrest, we'll start there, she is not in San Francisco, that I can tell you, no records, and no electronic foot print, and according to my magic friend she isn't here, if you'd like to verify what he's said."

"I already know she isn't," Raven muttered.

"So… road trip or the trick again?" Jason asked. He saw Raven rub her brow.

"Road trip, I'll get us to Pittsburg, but I can't get us closer than that at the moment, the first two were exhausting," she yawned.

"I take over in Pittsburg," he admitted as he shut his laptop and tucked it into his case, his eyes narrowing on Damian who was scowling still. "Sure we should bring the kid?"

"I am not a child!" Damian hissed venomously. Jason snorted.

"And I'm not a contractor," he countered.

"Enough! Damian is coming and you're coming, let's go before she tries to use the damn book." Raven stood, picking up a duffel and her backpack. Jason just stood and looked as the kid hefted up his duffle.

"'67 Charger, black," he said and watched Raven closely as the kid walked ahead of them.

"Break our deal already, Sunshine?" he asked her darkly.

"No. He merely thinks you are Jason, nothing more or less, and unless you give it up he's not going to figure it out," Raven warned him as she walked ahead of him to the kid. He frowned, he didn't like the idea of travelling with a spawn of the Bat, it was just inviting catastrophe for him.

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TODD & THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL: THE END OF THE END Tour + Release Dates

After 5 long years in purgatory, Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: The End of The End: The Animated Feature Film (or TATBOPE: TEOTE: TAFF for short, lol) is finally seeing the full release it deserves. Affectionately referred to by fans as a foul-mouthed  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Canadian cult classic will find it’s way to DVD/Blu-Ray later this year after a brief theatre tour. For the uninitiated, Todd & The Book of Pure Evil follows four teenagers that stumble upon a book that has the power to make their deepest and darkest desires a reality. But with great evil power, comes great evil irony. All the stands between us and the end of the world as we know it are four hormone fueled nightmares. But the show was cancelled after two short season. Thankfully, the animated feature, The End of the End, picks up right were we left off. 

  Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: The End of The End returns to Crowley Heights to find Todd, Jenny and Curtis grieving the loss of their dear friend Hannah, whose death may or may not have been caused by Todd’s banishing of the Book. The three must reunite to fight evil when the Book of Pure Evil returns to Crowley High, bringing with it some familiar faces (Guidance Counsellor Atticus Murphy Jr., Jimmy the Janitor, and The Metalhead Dudes) as well as some new foes, such as the Sweater Vest Beast and an Acidic Acne-Faced Teen. But these enemies are merely warm-ups to the final battle with their greatest nemesis yet: The New Pure Evil One, whose intimate knowledge of our heroes may ultimately lead to their destruction!

The Space Channel announced in 2012 that Todd and the Book of Pure Evil was not renewed for a third season. After a successful Indiegogo campaign, the showrunners went on to animate what will be Todd’s final chapter. The film is currently making it’s way across Canada for a series of one-day events before it’s release December 12, through Raven Banner. Todd & The Book of Pure Evil: The End of The End: The Animated Feature is directed by Craig David Wallace and Richard Duhaney, written by Charles Picco and Craig David Wallace, starring Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull, Melanie Leishman, Chris Leavins, and Jason Mewes.

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So my girlfriend asked me to do that character meme, but rather than giving me names she gave me several genres from which to choose a couple of characters each. (To remind myself: one or two from any sitcom, one or two from any horror show, one or two from any fantasy show, up to five from any YA dystopian fantasy book that she has also read, one or two from any drawn fiction [comic, manga, anime, cartoon and the like] and a character from Monster High)

Note: since I’d just mark “neutral” for every single character’s “hotness level”, I’m gonna save some space and leave the whole thing out

1. Manny Bianco (Black Books)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: will do anything for you, most importantly your taxes (and make you a sandwich on top of that) worst quality: eats all your bees ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Fran Katzenjammer needs to stay away from: that sleazy photographer misc. thoughts: I feel like the sorting hat would most definitely want to place him in Ravenclaw, but it would be very possible for Manny to ask to be placed in Hufflepuff instead. He’s definitely a genius, but he might feel safer in a less studious environment where his creativity can flow freely and the kitchen is nearby.

2. Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: is a great sport despite her numerous neuroses worst quality: cares too much about what other people think of her ship them with: Jake brotp them with: Rosa, Gina, Captain Holt, Jake needs to stay away from: the sixth drink, because six-drink-Amy is just sad misc. thoughts: she’s adorkable and even though I like pretty much everyone on B99 that’s not supposed to be disliked, I think I like her a little bit more than everyone else (except Rosa, who will forever be my fav)

3. Atticus Murphy Jr. (Todd and the Book of Pure Evil)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: incredible taste in clothing, as proven by the sweater vests he always wears worst quality: as your guidance counsellor - which is what he is - he’s not very helpful ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Todd, Curtis, Jenny and Hannah needs to stay away from: his Dad, the Satanists and the Book misc. thoughts: he wishes he was in Slytherin and so does his Dad, but deep down he's neither ambitious nor cunning enough and basically just wants to be liked

4. Audrey (Scream)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: actual tomboyish character worst quality: too secretive for her own good ship them with: Emma brotp them with: Noah needs to stay away from: psychotic killers (which - to be fair - is easier said than done in Lakewood) misc. thoughts: to be honest I don’t remember that much about the show (because I found it to be quite ridiculous in large parts), but my favorite moment is probably Audrey stabbing that copycat/prankster, instead of running away scared

5. Rupert Giles (Buffy - The Vampire Slayer)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: bookish type worst quality: potentially manipulative / bit of a dark side ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Anya, Spike needs to stay away from: the Watcher’s Council misc. thoughts: I’d very much like to see a mini-series about Ripper 6. Brittany S. Pierce (yes, I’m counting Glee as fantasy because fuck it, why not)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: very adept at making friends, also great talkshow host worst quality: can be brutally honest in a kind of mean spirited way, also tendency to manipulate others ship them with: Santana brotp them with: everybody needs to stay away from: Will Schuester (simply because everyone needs to stay away from that unstable, manipulative manchild) misc. thoughts: needs to be protected at all cost, because despite her manipulative streak, her general confusion does make her vulnerable. I can’t decide whether she’d be in Slytherin or Hufflepuff or even Ravenclaw, she’d fit in everywhere except Gryffindor. Would instantly become best friends with Usagi Tsukino given the chance.

7. Tally Youngblood (Uglies/Pretties/Specials)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: pigheaded worst quality: a little slow on the uptake, tends to rush into things without thinking ship them with: Zane brotp them with: David, Shay, Andrew Simpson Smith needs to stay away from: bubbleheadedness misc. thoughts: I kind of like that liking her isn’t easy, because she’s a little dimwitted and constantly makes mistakes - which is especially enfuriating, when those mistakes could have been easily avoided. I love how she changes over the course of the books, while somehow still staying true to herself.

8. Doctor Cable (Uglies/Pretties/Specials)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: at least has somewhat good intentions? worst quality: powerhungry megalomaniac ship them with: nobody brotp them with: nobody needs to stay away from: any position of power, lest she be corrupted again misc. thoughts: when saying I don’t like them, I mean that in the sense that I like to dislike her, because she’s an interesting villain that I’d actually like to get more background on

9. Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: actually cares worst quality: ignorant ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Haymitch needs to stay away from: the pampered, ignorant life in the Capitol misc. thoughts: my thoughts on her character might be compromised by the movies? I think she didn’t have as much of a character arc in the books

10. Haymitch Abernathy (The Hunger Games)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: knows how to manipulate the audience worst quality: doesn’t have many fucks left to give ship them with: peace of mind brotp them with: Effie needs to stay away from: alcohol misc. thoughts: would like to read a more detailed account on how he won his Games, also forever sad they left that footage out of the movie (even though I can see why)

11. Gert (I Hate Fairyland)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: keep out of Hogwarts at all cost! best quality: murderously delightful worst quality: delightfully murderous ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Larry (nobody else would put up with her) needs to stay away from: mushrooms misc. thoughts: seriously, don’t let her near Hogwarts, she’d burn the school to the ground and kill every living creature in the Forbidden Forest

12. Nanami Kiryuu (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: very caring (Tamago Tamago Ta ~ma ~go) worst quality: way too jealous ship them with: nobody brotp them with: Utena, Anthy (I think they’d make great friends under different circumstances) needs to stay away from: her big brother and all the other assholes misc. thoughts: favorite character of the whole show. Even though in the grand scheme of things she’s not that interesting, she is the main character in my three favorite episodes, and I love the insanity that constantly seems to surround her

13. Ghoulia Yelps (Monster High)

general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff best quality: smart, adorkable nerd worst quality: - ship them with: nobody brotp them with: everybody needs to stay away from: - misc. thoughts: to be honest I don’t remember much about any of the Monster High characters, except that I like the main characters and always get a laugh out of the short episodes of the series

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[When Irida, Adaman and Laventon are asking Emmet and Y/n/Engie just what exactly are Time Wardens, and what do they do? ]

Emmet: We fight evil!

Engie: With mixed results!