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subtlety who?

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The Musgrave Ritual

“His papers were my great crux. He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them... Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.”

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Batman animation yayy 🙌👍

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snork mniininmimi

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dont have a lot to dump rn

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Funniest part about Robin Jason canonically going to heaven is that it implies either 1) Jason didn’t kill Felipe and Bruce completely blew up their relationship for no reason or 2) you’re allowed in heaven after killing someone as long as that someone really deserved it, which would then imply that heaven itself is on Jason’s side in the Jason vs Bruce conflict.

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A collection of my favourite Blue Beetle poses I've come across from Justice League America (1989) #62-67 because I'm obsessed with how Jurgens draws him

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Sherlock, to a disadvantaged young lady client: I assure you that I will do all in my power to help you, now pray, tell me the facts of the case.

Sherlock, to a gaggle of high-up government officials: What up, fuckboys, who jeopardised democracy this time?

The Literal Prime Minister: It is of the utmost importance that not a word is breathed to the public, it would be the ruin of us all!

Watson, actively taking notes for his book: Yes sir 🫡

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The last picture didn't load for me but I thought it was a stylistic choice until I noticed the missing signature

kitchen nightmares was a good show

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I hope when you clock me years down the line you cant find one good read to slay. And I hope if I found the boots to walk out you'd sashay the hell out of my way

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people who act like batman isn't "judge jury and executioner" because he doesn't kill people are like. genuinely so funny to me because. they're very obviously thinking of "executioner" as like. the stereotypical guy with axe who chops people heads off, and not, yknow, the literal definition of the idiom itself, which is about someone who has the ability to judge and then subsequently punish someone unilaterally. which is quite literally what batman does.

he has the ability to decide what is a "crime" to him, he is the one who decides whether people are guilty of those crimes, and he is the one who executes their punishment. the severity of the punishment doesn't matter - he is unaccountable to anyone else, and indeed is allowed to commit as many crimes as needed to reach his arbitrary ideal of "justice."

the ideal of batman is this: a man who is so fundamentally changed by an act of senseless violence that he takes it upon himself to fight back against the rot and corruption in the world. he does this not through political activism, not through ridding himself of his wealth in favor of a greater good, not through community outreach, but through an individualistic fantasy of being a hero.

and you'll say: charlie, but he does do that !!! he donates his money all the time, he funds social programs, hospitals, orphanages, gets people jobs -

and i will say this: so why don't things get better?

because here's the base of it. gotham, at its core, can't get better. no matter what bruce wayne does, there will always be more crime, more villains, more death, more people for batman to beat up in back alleys. because that's what sells.

reoffending rates don't matter in gotham, prison reform doesn't matter in gotham, what actually causes crime doesn't matter in gotham because that doesn't sell books.

and so here it is; dc has unintentionally created a world where batman can't win, but can't be wrong, and where thousands of nameless, faceless, only-created-to-die civilians must be pushed into the meat grinder that is gotham, to fuel bruce wayne's angst and vindicate his constant, tireless, noble fight against the forces of evil.

and then: a new robin, who is poor and who's parents are dead or gone because of this cycle; who is happy go-lucky and hated by editors and fans for being robin, for not being dick grayson, for being poor.

and this robin is written, unintentionally or not, to be angry at the ways in which batman's (the narrative's) idea of justice is detached from its victims. bruce seems perfectly fine to allow countless unnamed women to be at risk from garzonas in his home country, yet robin is the one who is portrayed as irrational and violent.

this robin is not detached from gotham in the way bruce wayne is: this robin is a product of gotham.

(and here's the thing. you can't punch aids. you can't fight a disease with colorful fights and nifty gadgets. and how would robin dying from aids add to batman's story; it would call into question the systemic changes that haven't been made in gotham. how does a child get aids, in batman's city?)

so robin dies, and then bruce (the narrative) spends the next couple of decades blaming it on him. it is jason's fault; he was reckless, he just ran in, he thought it was all a game. if only bruce had seen what was coming, if only he could have known that jason wasn't rich enough or smart enough or liked enough to be robin.

batman gets a little more violent, a little more self destructive. he hurts people more and almost (!!) kills a couple guys. this is bad because it's self destructive and "not who he is." it is not bad because batman should not be able to just beat people up when he's angry.

and then he gets a shiny new robin - who is all the things jason "wasn't": rich and smart and rational and he doesn't put who batman is into question. batman and robin are partners, and jason is a grave and a cautionary tale, and (crucially here) never right.

the joker kills thousands and it doesn't matter because they were written to be killed.

batman beats up thousands and it doesn't matter because they were written to be criminals.

and then jason comes back, and nothing has changed. there is a batman and a (shiny! rich!) robin and the joker kills thousands. (because it sells)

and jason is angry - he has been left unavenged - his death has meant nothing, just as willis' had, just as catherine's had, just as gloria's had, just as -

thousands. ten of thousands. hundreds of thousands. written to be killed.

but one of them gets to come back.

and he is angry - not only at the joker, but at bruce (the narrative) - because why is the joker still alive (when thousands-)

here is the thing - jason todd is right. not because the death penalty is good, not because criminals deserve to die, not because of everything he says -

but because of what he calls into question. why is the joker alive?

because he sells books.

and dc has written a masterful character, through no fault of their own, because jason knows what is wrong, and he knows who is at fault - batman. (the narrative)

so the argument that bruce can't kill because he's not judge jury and executioner; the argument that jason is a cop or that jason is insane or that jason is in the wrong here; they hold no weight.

batman can't kill the joker because the joker sells comic books.

and jason can't kill the joker because the joker sells comic books.

so he will beg and plead and grovel - he will betray everything that is himself, he will forsake his family and his city and kill himself - just so that bruce (the narrative) will let the joker die.

he was condemned to death by an audience, and after he came back he has spent his whole life looking us in the eyes and screaming, asking, pleading; why is the joker still alive?

why are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands (the number doesn't matter, see, because they're just a number. not people. not real.) why are we expendable for his story? why did i have to die just for nothing to change?

and the answer is money. and the answer is the batman can never be wrong. and the answer is shitty writing. and the answer is -

nothing jason can ever change.

which is the worst of it all. he is a victim with no power, and no one else in the world can see it. he is raging and crying and screaming at his father and his writers and you - and it doesn't matter. jason doesn't matter. and he knows it.

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You have the right

To remain silent.

Anything you say

Can and will be used

Against you.

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You nerds keep talking about how willing Holmes is to just chew on something and die for his case and how Watson has to have him on a leash or whatever but also like it goes both ways. Watson is just as ready to die a hamster-level death of cartoonish violence for Holmess cases and Holmes has to be like "hey... Hey how about you sit this one out actually 😅" and Watsons like :(( and Holmes has to be like "dw I'll let you risk your life for something completely mundane later but RN I just don't feel comfortable watching you idfk throw yourself at a terrorist for the vine okay" and then Watson goes to his diary and writes "Holmes made me sit at home for hours bc I could've died god I hate my baka life this is so unfair I'm gonna be so mad at him when he gets home"

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I had a dream that scout tf2 was from a crime family in Boston and was searching for his father because of uprising problems between his family and another that were caused by spy (maybe also the reason spy had left 20+ years ago)

I had this dream twice because I woke up in between

Version A goes like this:

Scout gathers the team to break the news to them that he might leave soon because of the family business but asks them if they might be up to help him try to find his father

so that the issues might be resolved.

He does not know that his father is sitting in front of him, the others do. And scout goes on to tell them about how amazing his father is and how great, and tells them every story that he was told about him so that they can get an idea of what kind of guy the team is searching for (all sounding completely different from who spy actually is)

... And then I woke up for a bit, very sad, would've liked to see how the story goes

But then I fell asleep again to version B:

In which the setup is mostly the same. Scout enters the common room (or is already in it sketching in his notebook) with like everyone in it except maybe spy, and proclaims that there is trouble with his family back in Boston so he'll have to leave tufort.

The team now asks what's going on and if they can somehow help (kill/defeat the threat) at which scout starts to explain the situation about his asshole of a father and how he caused the rift between the two most powerful families in Boston almost 25 years ago or something and that they demand that man dead or alive.

The team is now nervous and looking amongst each other because they know and then once again ask if there isn't any other way "who knows where this man is now, he could already be dead as far as we know" One of them says, to which scout chuckles and replies "oh I know where he is" He turns around and points his pen, and shoots (either a bullet or a tranquilizer idk but scout called the pen a 'boom-pen') which hits the until then cloaked spy who looks very shocked at scout before collapsing to the floor.

The moment after Bidwell and Ms Pauling walk in just as the mercs are freaking out. Bidwell still in the door and looking at his clipboard, says very loudly "Jeremy we are on a tight schedule, are you done packing-" Before looking up and seeing spy on the floor "oh I see you already handled everything" Scout gets a bit pouty at that "I can be very efficient if I want to you know? " To which Bidwell let's out a fond little sigh "yes I know, you've always been able to get things done quickly. C'mon now, we need to wrap things up here and get home as soon as possible" (Yeah Bidwell and scout are brothers and miss Pauling knows) to which both of them turn to miss Pauling and talk to her about something involving the administrator and their paychecks.

And as they're carrying spy out Bidwell makes a little joke about how scout shouldnt miss the Australian too much, who knows maybe they'll hire him through miss Pauling, to which scout gets a bit defensive and remarks about how Bidwell seems a bit too fond of his own Australian at times...

So that's pretty much all I remember from that dream too, though it would have been nice to see how this developed and scouts and Bidwells dynamic and how their crime family thing actually works. Did they both start working for Mann co. just to find spy? Where there other reasons? Idk, I've never written Fanfiction, I just have weird dreams, but if anyone sees this and feels like they might do something with it: please please please please do it 🙏🙏🙏

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Instagram user jermoids thank you so much for creating this I’ve watched it so many times it’s permanently burned into my retinas