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people still don’t understand batman’s rogue gallery and what they represent to him. hollywood i will kill you. listen: each batman villain challenges a different aspect of his character and/or philosophy, and it is why grim dark batman was never meant to work

joker: chaos and order.

the foil to batman’s suppressed madness. bruce is discipline; none is above the code and justice. “you’re just one bad day away from being like me” WRONG!! bruce wayne has not had a good day since he was 10 years old. every good thing that happens to him is followed by 100 bad things. he is the universe’s punching bag. and yet he persists, does he not? does he not still believe in goodness in spite of it all? suck my dick joker he does not think of you AT ALL you are nuisance to him he wants to spend the one day off he has every year with his family and friends and you had to ruin it with ur lame jokes and terrorist attacks

riddler: obsession and intellect.

the foil to batman’s ego. bruce wayne is one of the smartest people in the world, by way of writer favouritism. wdym you outsmarted brainiac, a being of pure intelligence, just because ur the author’s favourite pretty princess? alright king whatever u say. but he never lets it rule him. his intelligence is a tool to of protection; it’s a shield, not a sword. he’d never raise it against the innocent. edward uses his intelligence to prove superiority, that he is better. he is batman without humility, and that is why he will always lose, because intelligence is nothing without wisdom

the penguin: wealth and corruption.

the foil to batman’s class. they’re both billionaires, Gothamite socialites. oswald embraces his privilege and uses it to oppress the poor. bruce wayne understands his privilege and uses it to pull others up. “you wear a mask too” yeah and it’s prettier than urs u ugly bitch. oswald’s socialite mask is a polished classy persona that disguises his inner evil. bruce’s socialite mask is just a himbo and remains true to his desire to help people

mr freeze: love and grief.

foil to batman’s ability to move on from the past. victor fries cannot let go of his wife and makes it everybody else’s problem. this is also the philosophy of grimdark batman, which is why it cannot apply to batman’s true character. bruce wayne is traumatized from his parents’ deaths, but it also inspired him to become the person who he wished had saved him in that alley. how many times has he looked into the eyes of a scared child on patrol and saw himself? he became the saviour for his 10 year old self left in that alleyway. he was able to heal; yes, his parents deaths has shaped him into the man he is, that’s literally what life does. healing doesn’t mean the grief will shrink, but your world grows bigger around it. he has a family again, built by his own hands

scarecrow: fear and power.

the foil to batman’s darkness. batman is iconic for instilling crippling terror into others by a mere look, psychics hate him because his mind is a screaming hellscape, he dresses like a bat because when he was a kid he fell into a hole filled with bats and he associates it with fear. jonathan uses fear to control the helpless, bruce instills fear in evil to protect the righteous. “you’re just as ruled by fear” WRONG!!! batman is ruled by love. it’s not fear that powers him when he drags his mangled, half-dead body off the streets at every dawn to go home for a costume change and immediately go to a charity gala for disadvantaged youths named after his street-rat son. it’s not fear that inspired him to keep lollipops in his utility belt for the children he saves. it’s not fear that makes him do the same old shit of throwing you fuckers into that useless max security prison twice a week after getting his shit rocked, knowing full well he’d have to do it again in a few days, instead of just killing you.

two-face: duality and justice.

the foil to batman’s divided self. harvey started off as a batman, a lawyer wanting to do good. his trauma split him, but bruce integrated it into himself. bruce wayne does not reject his pain, he lets it shape him and he asks himself: “ok that sucked. how do i make sure nobody else will experience that?” harvey dent is completely split, indecisive in his morality, good and evil depends on the flip of a coin. but batman? people say that bruce wayne is the mask and batman is his true self. dawg do u think his kids call him batman? that’s some shit he’d say in his 20s when he was figuring himself out but he’s a middle aged father now and his children would drag him to filth if he says his black-leather bat fursona is his “true self”. they are all him. brucie wayne isn’t completely his mask either, because it’s the persona he uses to fuck with rich people and you know full well he’d delights in that to the bottom of his heart

his rogue gallery is a mirror to each aspect of himself. everything high-brow reddit bros and zack snyder says about batman’s edgy true self is literally disproven by the people batman spends his life trying to save. he’s not on the edge of villaindom; he stares his inner evil that takes on the faces of broken people in the eyes every night and says “this isn’t the way forward”

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Echo and Narcissus

Her child was born and Liriope was told to never let him discover himself. She warned him of obsession and the way it drives you into yourself, or perhaps away from your true self,  whichever fit the lesson she needed to give.

He grew up never seeing himself in the mirror, moving too quickly past for contemplation. He grew up seeing the girl in the woods follow him, footsteps falling always close behind, a girl who would repeat his words back at him, look just like him. He wished to love her but often found himself unable.  He was not fit for any reflection.  He could not see what anyone else could.

His echo buried herself in his chest and he fell over the lake surface and shattered. In the movement he saw himself  for the first time, for the last time, the water warbling his face with the difference, and on the sandbanks he changed into his own obsession.

When the boy walked home they did not recognize him. So the gods put yellow flowers on his grave  even though he had not died.

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had dental treatment for the first time since 2017 yesterday and the gen z dentist described my tooth as cooked

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wanting

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Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

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all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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You might ask why the Fugitive Doctor wouldn’t remember Thirteen if she’s actually from her future. Well, if any future showrunners want to be smart about it, Chibnall already gave us a very helpful answer: memories of the Doctor’s previous incarnations were fob-watched, just not the ones we thought! They stole Sixteen’s memories of her previous 16 incarnations. It makes her much easier to control and do the Division’s bidding.

So how does the Doctor get her memories back? That’s the best part: she already did! She recovered them from the Division back in Flux before the fob watch was even used on her in her timeline. It’s just sitting in her TARDIS waiting to be opened. It’s a time travel show, we can do that!

All the pieces are there if someone in the BBC wants to arrange them in that order.

Doctor Who spoilers below:

You know who should’ve been the Sixteenth Doctor? Jo Martin. She deserves better.

It’s the perfect way out of the Timeless Child story arc that most fans aren’t on board with: The Doctor doesn’t remember being Jo Martin not because their memory was erased but because she’s an incarnation from their future.

It explains why her TARDIS is still a police box even though that didn’t happen until the First Doctor and it gives Martin the opportunity to show that she can be the Doctor on her own terms rather than always being the side character version.

Plus it would’ve been just as effective a cliffhanger regeneration without all the baggage of it being Billie Piper.

Of course the downside to this is somehow writing in the Division plot line, which would wildly alter the show for maybe a season, but I think with enough planning it could still work.

I don’t envy Russell having to concoct an ending to Ncuti’s tenure so last-minute and recast his replacement without any time for more in-depth casting process, but I think there were still a thousands ways to do it better than what we got.

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on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

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Doctor Who spoilers below:

You know who should’ve been the Sixteenth Doctor? Jo Martin. She deserves better.

It’s the perfect way out of the Timeless Child story arc that most fans aren’t on board with: The Doctor doesn’t remember being Jo Martin not because their memory was erased but because she’s an incarnation from their future.

It explains why her TARDIS is still a police box even though that didn’t happen until the First Doctor and it gives Martin the opportunity to show that she can be the Doctor on her own terms rather than always being the side character version.

Plus it would’ve been just as effective a cliffhanger regeneration without all the baggage of it being Billie Piper.

Of course the downside to this is somehow writing in the Division plot line, which would wildly alter the show for maybe a season, but I think with enough planning it could still work.

I don’t envy Russell having to concoct an ending to Ncuti’s tenure so last-minute and recast his replacement without any time for more in-depth casting process, but I think there were still a thousands ways to do it better than what we got.

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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dreams

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It's out!

Parasite, my debut song, now available on Bandcamp!

Thanks to everyone who came to the live shows and has supported me so far; I couldn't have done it without you x

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It makes me happy when they listen

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Comic adaptation I made for class!

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You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?