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no glory in love (3/3, 23.8k)

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The first thing Selina is? Angry. Absolutely fucking furious. There isn't a single person the world who she isn't angry at, whether they're involved in this or not. Irrational and shortsighted, to be sure, but she's never once claimed to be Sofia.

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Went looking at some of my old tumblr posts and

Johnny was 43 when Sofia was arrested at 27, which.

?????????

Why was a teenager introducing his adult cousin to a crime lord???

Like if they met in 1985, the year Sofia was born (not even possible bc Alberto is a year older),

Carmine would have been 28 and Isabella 26. What kind of shenanigans were happening that a high schooler introduced them. Was Carmine his substitute teacher in Mafia school. What was going on.

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the neurodivergent experience:

20% of the time: wowwieee!!! i love my passions and interests!!!!! they make me so happy i want to jump up and down!!!!! weee!!!!!!! :3333333333

80% of the time: this mind is a prison

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no glory in love (t, 1/3, 8.8k)

ch 1: see yourself in mine

Carefully, Dick lifts his hands up to his neck and taps at the hollow of his throat. It takes Jason a second to process, but Dick knows it the moment he does. Jason's never been able to keep his emotions to himself. They're written all over his paling face, in the way he presses his lips together and swallows, hard. "He did do this to you," Dick says, and he's surprised, somehow, by how emotionless he sounds. "Didn't he?" *** About six months ago, Bruce Wayne slit Jason Todd's throat. It was an accident. Jason came back. None of that matters.

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Bro was Weirded Out™

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Fanart of Sofia projecting her period cramps onto Oz

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Sofia as a Red Lantern (powered by rage) and Oz as an Orange Lantern (powered by greed)

(Green Lantern lore fanatics DNI i am just vibing here)

AU where a red ring is passing by earth by at the exact moment Sofia finds Alberto’s body and chooses her as a new Red Lantern. Is this anything.

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"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink."

Question for you from the finale actually. Do you think Oz actually doesn't remember that what happened to his brothers was his fault? Or was he trying to play some sort of game?

Like, his behavior to me makes me think he's buried that day under layers of lies and delusion (him carrying Francis out after she stabbed him doesn't really fit with 'I will let them cut her finger off rather than tell the truth' in my mind) but maybe I'm being overly charitable to Oz?

Yes and Yes.

I don't think carrying Francis to safety after she stabbed him seconds earlier, after being willing to let her be mutilated rather than telling the truth, is at all at odds with everything he's been and done in the rest of the show, that's just the perpetual motion bullshit generator that Oz has instead of a soul hard at work. It wasn't her fault she stabbed him and said all those things, it was her disease acting up, it was that psycho Sofia doing things to her mind, I love my Ma and my Ma loves me and I gotta get Ma to safety cause taking care of her is what I live for, and that's that. If that seems contradictory and hypocritical and weird, it is, and you're thinking like all the other chumps who lost to him because they had use for like, an inner monologue or a conscience or some shit.

Oz can never betray himself, everything he is and does is already built on an infinite procession of lies and delusions to be adapted and rebuilt ad-nauseum (hence the real threat Sofia posed to him in that scene- there was no going back from admitting to what he did to his brothers, Oz cannot break character, not even if everyone knows he's playing one - if he breaks character, he collapses and dies), and in the occasion he does betray himself, he'll spin it as something he had to do or something that was good in the long-term, and then he'll forget he did it. He believes everything he says is true at the moment he says it, up until the moment it isn't.

Did Oswald convince himself that what happened to his brothers wasn't what actually happened and was he deep in denial about it? Yes. Does Oswald know exactly what actually happened and he's spinning lies on top of lies to avoid denying it as strongly as possible? Yes. He knows everything he's doing ("Lies...it's just your disease talking") up until he doesn't. He knows everything he's done ("Sh-She'll never look at me again, all right?...Not till I get this done") up until he doesn't. And so long as it's buried deep down enough, it doesn't matter if it's true or not. And so unless Sofia, who knows the entire sordid story, makes it out of Arkham, the truth of all he did will never actually matter, and so it might as well not exist. It's that simple for him.

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AU where a red ring is passing by earth by at the exact moment Sofia finds Alberto’s body and chooses her as a new Red Lantern. Is this anything.

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I don’t know if they would really be friends, but I’d really like to see them interact. Something about them and their experiences is so similar, like they’re written in the same font.

@reynardwrites summed up their similarities really well here:

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I’m devastated. But it was such a good show

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Woke up at 2 am with the sickening realization that none of our main characters get any sort of space to really grieve and process... anything.

Sofia goes directly from learning her father is a killer to being 24/7 tortured in Arkham, then within a week of getting out, Alberto dies, and then she has to immediately deal with Oz related bullshit for the next few weeks until she goes back to Arkham.

Vic's family dies tragically and he has to resort to petty crime to survive and then within a week gets picked up by a gangster and then also busies himself with Oz bullshit (including KILLING one of the last people of his old life) until he dies.

And Francis. Poor fucking Francis. Goes immediately from losing her babies to finding out her remaining child killed them and then spends the rest of her life incredibly entwined with Oz while actively lying to him about knowing and loving and hating him and relying on him and

insane insane insane no wonder all these people are so incredibly turbo fucked

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I took a break from runescape leagues to rewatch the first couple eps with a friend and

dude. dude. duuuuuude.

The first time I watched this show I thought the line was "the" dipshit brother, meaning Alberto specifically. But no. No. No. "Their" dipshit brother.

fuck you oz you piece of shit jesus fucking christ

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Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: The Penguin (US TV 2024), Batman - All Media Types

Sofia considers how to explain, arranging and rearranging the words in her head. "I think my family is cursed," she finally says. "The Falcones?" "The Vitis." ------------- It's not so easy, breaking the cycle.

Ngl this almost felt more like an analysis post than a fic lmao.

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Originally posted after ep 5

You know what. The theme of legacy and reputation and infamy didn't quite get resolved the way I had thought it would, but I'm glad that the Gigante name isn't like. Just Falcone 2.0 anymore.

If Sofia ever gets out, if she takes to using that name again, it won't be her bearing the name of the crime family she rules. It will just be her name, for better or for worse.

also i am absolutely sick and nauseated and disgusted by carmine keeping his wifes room intact. a fucking memorial to a woman who didnt want to be there. trapping her in death in a family she wanted to escape.

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This is how The Penguin (2024) ended right?