#The Joker is more Sane than I am

[dasparkmaneyt]

My Series ‘Elemental Masters’ will soon be released here on Tumblr, here’s some incorrect quotes for ya

Shadow pouncer: we’ve lost them!

Swift Swipe: I’ve got this

Swift Swipe: DAWN ISNT SMART ENOUGH TO BE THE ELEMENTAL MASTER!

Dusk: [Bursting out of the forest in flames] BITCH

Amber: [poking her head out of a hole] WHAT

Jasper: [also in said hole] THE

Char: [also poking her head out of the hole] FUCK

Flint: [who wasn’t in that hole but in a different hole] DID

Wolf: [ready to defend his girlfriend] YOU SAY ABOUT MY GIRL?!

Dawn: [walking out of a cave holding a bag of nuts] hey did you know nuts may contain nuts?

Swift Swipe: I appear to be correct

Viper: the moon looks nice tonight

Dusk: not as good as you

Viper: [intensely blushing]

{outside}

Amber: should we tell them that’s a tortilla you just threw at the window?

Dawn: nah

Dusk: here’s all the possible places Dawn could’ve gone

Queen Blaze: this is the whole continent

Jasper: we have no clue where she is

[Blister being knocked out on complete accident]

Burn: we gotta hide the body!

Viper: [rolling Blisters body on a carpet] go get the twins to help!

[Dawn and Dusk walking in with Slushes]

Dawn: oh shit

Dusk: [helpful husband roles kick in] I’ll help!

Dawn: I ain’t, I wanna hear the story!

Queen Blaze walking in: what are you doing?

Burn: we’re playing a game!

Queen Blaze: Called?

Dawn: [completely deadpanned] guy in a carpet

Sunset: YOUR HAVING A LITTLE SIBLING!

Dawn: I’m going to the Haven

Hawk: hatching next week

Dusk: VIPER PACK A BAG! WERE GOING TO THE HAVEN FOR A MONTH!

Viper: WHY?! ITS SO COLD THERE!

Dawn: I’m never returning

[the next week]

Sunset: another boy!

Dawn: his name is Smoke

Dusk: why do you get to name it!

Dawn: because I’m now the middle child!

Dusk: AND?! IM THE OLDEST!

Hawk: I like Smoke

Sunset: agreed

[twins yelling at each other as Hawk, Sunset and Smoke all cuddle up]

Sunset: YOUR HAVING A LITTLE SIBLING!

Dawn: I’m going to the Haven

Hawk: hatching next week

Dusk: VIPER PACK A BAG! WERE GOING TO THE HAVEN FOR A MONTH!

Viper: WHY?! ITS SO COLD THERE!

Dawn: I’m never returning

[the next week]

Sunset: another boy!

Dawn: his name is Smoke

Dusk: why do you get to name it!

Dawn: because I’m now the middle child!

Dusk: AND?! IM THE OLDEST!

Hawk: I like Smoke

Sunset: agreed

[twins yelling at each other as Hawk, Sunset and Smoke all cuddled up]

Dawn: [singing horribly] GRAVITY DON'T MEAN TOO MUCH TO ME!!

Wolf: oh my stars-

Wolf: DAWN GET OFF THE CLIFF!

[mochinek0]

Where is MY Boyfriend (3/4)

PREVIOUS

"So, who wants to bet on how long it takes Demon Spawn to propose?" Red Hood asked, in the Bat Cave.

"Have they been dating that long?' Bruce questioned, taking off his cowl.

'I didn't even know he was seeing someone. What if she's from the League?'

"Her personality changed so much." Dick spoke, redressing into civilian clothes, "Is she sane?"

"Actually, it's not that much different than what B does when he has to go out." Tim sighed.

Bruce and Dick turned to him quickly.

"What do you mean?" Bruce demanded, "I don't act like that!"

"You turn into 'Brucie' the playboy billionaire at galas and for the board memebers, but then you come down here and you turn into the 'Big Bad Bat'." Tim rebuffed.

"Replacement's got a point." Jason commented, "You can switch personalities at the drop of a hat, too."

"I was trained!" Bruce growled.

"So was your son; you don't see him coddling up the hoards of girls that follow him. He looks like he would rather skewer the girls at school and you know he could." Jason sighed.

"So, what makes this girl different?" Dick asked.

Tim sat at the computer and looked up Marinette. He cross-referenced Damian and the school to get more information.

"I'm assuming he hid his own personal file on the bat computer or it's on his own." Tim spoke, "She's a foreign exchange student on a scholarship through the Wayne foundation. Her parents are bakers, which are extremely well known, and she's from Paris. She's here for fashion design."

"Paris is the fashion capitol of the world." Bruce stated, "Why would she come here?"

"Seems she was severely bullied." Dick announced, "She has restrainign orders on a lot of people. Some of them have well known parents and others are serving time in a detention center. From the look of this article, she knows a lot of people. Her bully lied about them and she pleaded with her classmates to see reason. She was later hospitalized and then she went all out. She made calls to her connections and left the school. She was homeschooled for a bit and applied to come here. During that time, she was cyber bullied and stalked. They blamed her for the bully manipulating them and for the rug being pulled from under them."

"Let me get this straight! That girl who took out the Joker was bullied by a liar. She tried to get her classmates to see she was lying but got bullied by all of them. When they found out, they cyber bullied her because they were upset? She left the City of Love to come here? Is that what you're saying?" Jason shouted.

"That's what it looks like." Tim whispered.

Bruce remained silent. They all did.

"So, back to my bet." Jason spoke, after recovering, "How long til she's a Wayne thru the brat? After that display, I'd be shocked if he didn't try. Brat's not one to play the damsel in distress."

"Robin isn't emotionally prepared." Bruce declared.

"When isn't he?" Tim scoffed.

"My point exactly." Jason smirked.

"Have faith in him." Bruce sighed.

Jason just rolled his eyes.

As they exited the Bat Cave, they spotted Damian entering through the front door.

"So, when are your prosing, Brat?" Jason asked.

"Tomorrow afternoon." Damian declared, heading up the stairs.

The Waynes' stared at him in shock.

"Called it!" Jason cackled.

"Are you sure?" Bruce asked, "How long have you been dating?"

"Five months." Damian spoke, continuing his way to the second floor.

"Damian-" Dick spoke.

"Have you pick out a ring?" Jason questioned.

"I am about to begin my search online. She deserves the best one and I can visit the stores later to see if the appearance is just as adequate." the youngest Wayne announced, leaving the others stunned.

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[roseworth]

rating different versions of jason by how insane they are

someone made a joke about this in the tags of one of my posts and i thought that was hilarious so now im doing it. these are just the ones i could think off of the top of my head i cannot stress how little effort im putting into this

canon jason: 8/10

yes he is extremely mentally ill but everything wrong with him is funny so no one should ever fix him. sure babygirl killed some people but he knew exactly what he was doing. not to mention he is legally sane according to arkham asylum :)! he is insane but in a normal way

three jokers jason: 9/10

he is a little more insane than normal jason i am going to be real. not his fault though. same origin but things are 10x worse for him here bc this entire book is titled "be mean to jason at every turn." however i do take off some insanity points because he is very pretty

bombshells jason: 0/10

he is a little guy that has done nothing wrong ever in his life. completely sane and if anything ever happens to him i will kill everyone in this room then myself

world without young justice jason: 3/10

he is mostly normal except for the fact that he knows hes supposed to be dead and is having a crisis over that the whole time :( also he burns to death at the end of the issue which i guess isnt necessarily insane but its not normal so it gets a few insane points

flashpoint jason: 10/10

babygirl WHAT r u doing as a priest. what is wrong with you

wfa jason: 9/10

he is too normal in this and it makes me suspicious. what do you mean youre just hanging out with your family. what are your intentions. why.

suicide squad get joker jason: 6/10

i guess hes relatively sane here. also hes in belle reve and not arkham so he is legally sane here too! he gets some insane points for being in a bad book, but also some points taken away because he is very pretty here. most of the points come from the fact that he didnt shoot joker at the end. what the fuck.

arkham knight jason: 30/10

sweetheart we are going to put you in therapy fr. he is so near and dear to my heart and there is so much wrong with him. this man invented the word insane and he gets worse every day. he is so babygirl. he is the "him" in the phrase "i could fix him" because there is nothing you could do to make him worse. and i love him so much

[distort-opia]

I love how both batman and joker pretended to be each other's henchman/ally at some point and both expressed some type of fondness towards the other. batman pretending to be one of red hood's henchmen and joker pretending to be eric border.

Hah, you're right. They both went undercover to deceive the other. Joker pretending to be Eric Border will never cease to be amazing to me though, because... imagine. You're Batman. You've been fighting this guy for almost two decades and he's been pulling some absolutely terrifying shit, but you thought you knew him. You thought you could at least predict how he worked, even if you didn't really understand him. But then the fucker shows himself capable of fooling you so thoroughly you hadn't had the slighest clue it was happening. I am 10000% sure Bruce's trust issues and paranoia got so much worse after this, and let's be real, who could blame him.

But, digression aside, I must mention that Bruce has technically done this more than once! Some of their first encounters contain a lot of disguises, interestingly. Brubaker's Batman: The Man Who Laughs is the most prominent modern Joker introduction arc, but before that there was O'Neill's Images. The stories are similar, with the exception of Bruce being way flirtier and fooling Joker with a disguise for the first and last time ever as far as I know:

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50

Almost immediately after, Batman Confidential: Lovers and Madmen takes place. It's basically the aftermath of Joker being brought into custody after trying to poison the Gotham reservoir. And Bruce, in an attempt to understand how Joker's mind works, disguises himself as Matches Malone and gets himself put in a cell next to him. But Joker clocks him immediately:

Batman Confidential #24

And then, in Batman: Joker Time, Bruce goes undercover in Joker's gang once more, impersonating an unfunny comedian (who he pays off to stay in a hotel as he does it). If you ask me, the comic paralelling them "putting their face on" together is... something:

Batman: Joker Time #2

But a truly hilarious thing happens:

Batman: Joker Time #3

So basically, Joker had been expecting that Batman would pull this move, and asked someone to keep an eye on the people in the gang. And he immediately figured it out, because Bruce-in-disguise-as-Oscar was too funny. Joker didn't even need to see Bruce to identify him.

All in all, Joker kind of wins when it comes to figuring out Bruce's true identity. I'm only counting times in which Bruce or Joker deliberately tried to fool the other, and not... cases like temporary amnesia (e.g., Batman #48 or Going Sane). This is one of the most interesting aspects of Batjokes, and one that certainly is a big drive behind Bruce's obsession with Joker-- the fact he doesn't truly know Joker. Joker himself mocks him about it more than once, but most recently in Endgame:

Damn, this ended up way longer than expected. But I hope this was a fun answer, Anon!

[sonneambedo]

let me be cringe for a moment let me let m

"They say tears are holy. That there is a certain sacredness to them, that there are much more tears shed to answered than unanswered prayers.

Bullshit.

I cried a sea enough for Noah's Arc, I bled when I couldn't cry anymore, I sweated my life out as I choked to death in the smoke. Do you know what blood, sweat, and tears brought me? A merciless death. Slow, painful, merciless death. As if that wasn't enough, I woke up, once again, almost out of oxygen; stale air choking me, again, again - and despite all that I clawed my way out. I managed to leave the hellhole. Literal..."

A ghost of a laugh escapes his lips.

"You do not deserve my mercy; you left me to die, and despite your grief, you let him live. I thought I was going to be the last one.

I will make sure I am the last one.

You will not stop me."

The words are not a plea, nor a command. They are a simply stated fact, nothing more, nothing less. 

Joker will die, innocents will live.

He will have his revenge.

girliepops and boyopops and theythempops im so normal and so sane and i am not cryign about smth i made real quick i am not

[mrs-monaghan]

I was looking through tkk blogs to see what they were saying about Jimin’s death threats and their role in it—unsurprisingly nothing, and I saw you in the replies and just wanted to say, they don’t have receipts because they don’t exist. Their entire ship is built on slow-mo edits and conspiracy theories.

I do wish some jkkrs would realize they’re starting to think and move like the cult. That blog seemed more rational and reasonable than I’ve seen a tkkr be before, and harassing them isn’t doing anyone any favors. No jkkr is ever going to convince a tkkr of anything in the same way that a tkkr can’t convert a jkkr. That blog at least thinks jk and jm are friends… and wow the bar is on the floor isn’t it? I am surprised that blog is so popular though because they don’t seem to say much of anything. They agree when tkkrs send them asks and then give vague non answers with no receipts for any other ask, but I guess they’re used to that sort of thing. The one time I saw them trying to show receipts it was from an account named KookV FANTASY FICTION 😂

I did not harrass them. I do not harass people. I just made a statement. Like u said, this person seemed pretty level headed so yeah, I replied. You don't come across a sane tkkr everyday so that's why I was confused by their post. Because all I have to do is swap Taekook for Jikook and I can find all the moments they described.... with receipts! 😅

There is something you said thou that stands out to me.

No jkkr is ever going to convince a tkkr of anything in the same way that a tkkr can't convert a jkkr.

Anon, I disagree. If a tkkr showed me legit questionable moments I would listen. If we didn't have HD photos of the Taennie Paris drama I would listen. But as it stands everything they say makes tkk real can be found with V and the wooga squad, can be found with V and other members, with JK and other members. There is not one single "sus" tkk thing that applies to only them.

So yeah, a tkkr would never make me stop believing in Jikook... but Jikook would make me stop believing in Jikook. What happened with V is NEVER going to happen with Jikook. There is not leaked photos or videos (legit ones) that exist of Jimin and JK with other men or women. I personally don't think they have ever broken up so I believe this to be fact. From 2013 when we met them till now November 2023, there is nothing of substance out there that suggests Jimin or JK are or have ever been with other people.

Idk about the future but now, in this moment, I can confidently say this.

But,

If in future they broke up and stopped... well Jikooking, I guarantee you Jikookers would stop "shipping" them. Me included. We don't support Jikook to be stubborn. We believe in them because they remind us of our own rlships or rlships of people we know about.

I discovered BTS and then gravitated towards the two members who screamed "we suck each other's dicks!" to me. This is the story of 90% of Jokers. If it was RM and Jin who acted the way Jikook do, this would be a Namjin blog. If it was Jhope and V doing and saying the things Jikook do, this would be a Vhope blog. Because I am an Army and I watched alot of content with all 7 and Jikook just happened to be the sus ones.

Heck, if Tkk were any bit suspicious to me, i would be a tkkr too!

But alas! That's not the case.

Anon I disagree because majority of Jikookers have reason. We are smart, we did the math. When we get debunked we accept. When we get corrected by the Koreans, we accept. We admit when we are wrong and the survival of our ship doesn't depend on getting rid of V. Most importantly we don't make up anything just so our ship can keep sailing.

GCF Saipan who???

We are here because among all 7 members it was Jikook who looked like they had something going on. You will find Suga biased Jkkrs, Jhope biased Jkkrs, Jin biased Jkkrs, etc. If I thought tkk were real, I would support them despite Jimin being my bias. THAT, anon is the difference between us and them. Not what you think.

Oh. This is the post anon and I are talking about. Please no hate to the blog. He/she seems like good people.

Like @magicshop-pjm1 likes to say; thanks for attending my TED talk

[multifanatics]

All The World's a Stage || Joker x F!Reader

A/N: I wanted to try my hand at writing a Joker x Reader fic since I finished Harley Quinn and The Joker: Sound Mind and am getting the Harleen comics. The beginning is a tad gruesome, I have no idea why but here we are.

Warnings: Blood, Descriptive, The beginning is a bit gruesome, Twisted romance? PROCEED with caution as there are more that I haven't caught.

Word Count: 1164

The only other thing [Y/N] could hear was his signature maniacal laugh. His laughter and the thumping of her heart beat. The cause of her current rush of adrenaline that surged through her veins, the same adrenaline that kept her at her current task. The uncontrollable contagious laughter of no one other than the Joker himself was the only other thing she could hear. 

“I th.. I think that punchline STUCK!” He tried to contain his laughter while running a hand through his longer green hair in an attempt to get the stray strands back in the position they were previously. Joker stared at [Y/N] taking in the way the blood of the man who previously insulted her was so graciously splattered on her face. The weapon of choice was a hatchet, not exactly the cleanest but it did the job which was the center of today’s lesson. Using what you had over what you preferred and [Y/N] demonstrated the skills of an A+ student. 

“Did I do good?” [Y/N] asked as she came back to her reality. The adrenaline that sounded like a drum muted, causing her to be slightly more tired than she had been previously. 1 am on a skyscraper with a man who could kill her just as she had done to the poor man with a hatchet through his heart. It was the symbolism of the action that made her swing harder, and soothe her fear. Even with all rational thought rushing back to her the atmosphere felt romantic. [Y/N] was on a rooftop illuminated by Gotham city 330 feet below her with a special guest. What a dance, one may say a Midnight Waltz. 

“That question is starting to bore me.. Of COURSE you did well, I am the one who taught you.”  Narcissism, and dependence wrapped into man and woman who happened to find each other.  Unlucky are those who trifle with the stage they perform on such as The Batman which according to the news remained in a hospital overseas. Everyone bleeds but how many cuts does it take for an already fragile Bat until he bleeds black? 

“Well it seems the GCPD are missing an old friend. Perhaps we should bow and exit stage right?” [Y/N] gazed into the illuminescent sky where the Bat signal remained. Gotham’s way of saying Get better Batman.. We need you. The ‘hero’ who caused the villains in Gotham he currently could not control since the newest Arkham breakout which ricocheted with Blackgate. [Y/N] was brought out of her thoughts by Joker stepping onto the ledge of the skyscraper she watched his intricate steps. The tight rope routine is a known and practiced routine [Y/N] personally uses on old tightrope back at the circus. 

“To quote Shakespeare: ‘All the world's a stage.” Joker once again distracted [Y/N] from her own thoughts, handing her his hand. A Joker offering his hand was in many ways the most dangerous thing he could do, his hand had a taunt to it, something that would drive any sane civilian insane. Between a clown and a showman this taunt became much more personal, especially when they were equally insane. [Y/N] places her hand in Joker's; the taunt was irresistible. Come, show me. Let me put you on display for this is our Gotham. [Y/N] stepped onto the ledge with the man who claimed her as his equal, a relationship never spoken yet known between both parties. A slow waltz between the two came to fruition after [Y/N] learned her balance. The slow movement matched what could have been Moonlight Sonata (First Movement). The night sky and slow movement made them cling to each other as if life could decide to throw them both off the edge. The night time breeze became a wind setting a romantic scene. Without death to the underlings of Gotham this moment would not exist: the perfect moment between man and woman.The feeling of being without restrictions, without law, and without those troubles that keep children up at night. The real nightmares of Gotham were sleeping, plotting, or dancing on the ledge of a skyscraper. Gotham is a city of beauty and love with corruption, in so many ways being a villain was an act of the truest love.

“Must we leave so soon?” [Y/N] frowned as she brought the flashing blue and red lights to Joker’s attention. The innocence of the moment ruined by the GCPD and a frown. 

“We can continue later, as for now we must exit our stage.” Joker held his hand that was intertwined with [Y/N]’s over the concrete ground of the building. In a simple gesture to help her down from the ledge before hopping down himself. [Y/N] guided him toward the emergency stairwell, her hand still in his per his silent request. The current chaos of the police being at the scene yet slipping away as though they had never been there after a dance had humor to it. They both ran down the emergency stairwell dreading the echoing of their feet and Joker’s uncontrollable laughter. Soon enough they both had made their getaway with the help of some man Joker held at gunpoint so they could arrive back home safely. 

“Such a shame.” [Y/N] took Joker’s gun and killed the man before exiting the car. A place of safety should never be at risk. A person of safety should be accompanied when thrown back into Arkham... Given why crime lords work with others to take the fall. [Y/N] walked into their current safe place and placed a vinyl on the old record player. She watched as the vinyl spun and classical came out in return, safe at last. In the criminal world of Gotham there weren’t many places you could be safe when your name was in the five o'clock news every night. Joker took [Y/N]’s hand into his and spun her into him finishing the dance they enjoyed. There was something intimate rather than romantic about the shared dance in a different light. Very clearly there was a line drawn of where Joker stood in this relationship of sorts and when he could cross said line. He pulls [Y/N] closer to him as they dance, he spun her once pulling her back into him before dipping her and catching her with his palm on her lower back. A bow of sorts to conclude another day of which they lived, and no show was complete without some sort of kiss between the main characters. A kiss that sealed the fate of each character, in this specific instance the fate of jokes, crime, and the impending doom of death. [Y/N] wraps her arms around Joker’s neck as he removes his hand from her back, a test of his strength as they both focus on locking in each other's fate. What an irony. 

[forthegothicheroine]

Elseworlds: Superman Volume 1

I’m reading through all the Elseworlds comics in my library’s ebook collection; I think that writing these would be a perfect job for me. Take a bunch of characters and put them in ridiculous situations! Anyway, here are my thoughts about the stories in Elseworlds: Superman, Volume 1.

Speeding Bullets: This one was possibly my favorite- Kal-El’s spaceship landed just outside of Gotham, where he was adopted (and named Bruce) by Thomas and Martha Wayne. Unfortunately, his powers only fully manifest when he sees them gunned down, leaving him with the additional guilt of having fried Joe Chill to a crisp with his heat vision. He grows up to become a dark and angry Batman, until Lois Lane convinces him that people will be better helped with hope than with fear. Lex Luthor as the Joker was the weakest part of this to me- he should have been the Penguin.

Kal: The plot here is pretty simple- the spaceship lands in the middle ages, and Superman ends up playing out a Braveheart plot against Baron Luthor to avenge Lady Loisse. I feel like they could have done a lot more interesting things with this, like Kal having people think he was a saint or something, but it’s okay. There is a twist at the end about the origins of Excalibur that I am willing to incorporate into my personal Arthurian canon!

Distant Fires: Post-apocalyptic Superman. I really did not like this one. I’m not opposed to Clark/Diana on principle or anything, but I wasn’t convinced by them just automatically hooking up as survivors, nor of her being the love interest/damsel in distress to be fought over by Superman and a bitter jealous Captain Marvel. I don’t know much about Captain Marvel beyond the dork in the Rifftrax shorts, but that seemed very arbitrary! Also, the radiation that took away Superman’s powers made the Joker sane and good. Even by the standards of comics, bullshit.

A Nation Divided: My other favorite, where Superman grows up in the 1800s as Atticus Kent, joins the Union Army, and kicks some rebel ass. Lincoln gets a letter that some Kansas soldier caught a cannon ball in the stomach, got up fine, and hurled it back at the other side, and asks “Is Grant drinking again?” I thought it made sense that while, as a soldier, he was willing to kill, he wanted to minimize death if he possibly could, and just picking up Jefferson Davis and flying him over to Lincoln to surrender was a good way to do that. A nice Golden Age-style fun time.

Superman, Inc: As a little orphan boy, Superman goes through the foster system and juvie and finds purpose in his life when he discovers how good he is at basketball, so he becomes a celebrity with a franchise. But when he clashes with Lex Luthor’s media empire, will this lead him to face some truths about himself and use his skills for a higher cause? Not the best, not the worst, but the ending was very nice.

War of the Worlds: Clark Kent arrives in Metropolis and gets a reporter job just as the Martian tripods attack! I always like when superhero stories are set in the 30s and 40s, so we were off to a good start there, and Superman picking up and throwing around Martian equipment was endearingly pulpy. I didn’t care for the resolution as much as the setup, but Lex Luthor’s constantly shifting alliances depending on whether humanity or the Martians were offering him the better deal at the moment was a highlight. Now, if they’d continued the story into “Edison’s Conquest of Mars”...

[jdaviswords]

Growth & Prosperity

If I were to die tonight

I’d be disappointed

for more reasons

than I could

attempt to explain

but none more important

than imprinting our name

From the depths it came

years of old

tales of the same

and still

even though the map was lost

back

we found our way

Some days

it takes

a vast amount of effort 
to contain this brain

but

in your presence

I am whole

I am home

I am sane

How beautifully simple

how touchingly difficult

how boundless

There are countless

and endless

reasons why

this feels limitless

when your hand

connects in mine

Time pauses

and the causes

of stress

take a back seat

and I relax

In fact

with you

I feel intact

like when a puzzle piece

meets its pairing

or like a greyhound

when it’s on the track

We are on track

to reestablish

what was

with what is

like the April fools joker

WHATS UP WITH THAT

I kid

I laugh

Who woulda thought

not me

like what the bad kid says

in denial

in the back of the class

Alas

lemme get back

to you

and to us

I must

take to the page

at times

to convey

just how much you mean to me

Each time I leave your place

I leave a piece of me

driving home

living in vulnerability

smiling uncontrollably

knowing

that I can see you

again

rather momentarily

Unknowingly

I am of the future

but I know

you’re part of the scripture

written to capture

the perfect moment

even if imperfect

but like Crush said

toooooootally

worth it

You wanted crazy

I guess you should

be careful

whatcha wish for

but

even still

through the hardest of times

we’ve endured

Now we endeavor

said in a French accent

I hope you can now hear

how I pronounced it

after the airs been cleared

If I were to die tonight

just know

I love you

my dear

When the night is cold

and the clouds are grey

know that I am here

to hold you near

or squeeze your head

and wipe your tears

I am here

to hip thrust and dance

to head butt our faces

and clack our glasses

and cheese from afar

and watch you catch

my glance

And then and then

and another and

chopping up semantics

and continuing to laugh

If I were to die tonight

I hope you would know

just how much

you are worth

how elegantly intricate

how uniquely authentic

how much you deserve

As I continue to be

your partner

through thick and thin

I can only hope to concur

that you and I are eternal

beyond this living space

and even after our time

has come on this earth

we remain connected

like we were

when the stars

first

burst

[murderbirds]

You know, sometimes I consider making proper batman art, but the thing is I like shipping and I ship batman with so many people. My batman ships:

•Superbats

•Wonderbats (Wonder woman has to be written in a specific way, the warrior with heart of gold one to be specific)

•Superwonderbats

•Catbat

•Twobat

•Talia X Bruce

•Very rarely, jokebat (joker has to be written in an endearing way like telltale and lego batman)

If we are talking Gotham specifically, it becomes:

•Silver X Bruce (but my version of Silver where she becomes Azrael in the future)

•Selina X Bruce

•Bruce X Sane Jeremiah (Jeremiah was far more interesting as an antihero/grey character than a joker)

How am I supposed to decide?

[lankylordoflevity]

What kick-started your interest in Joker? Have you always been a fan, or did something particular happen to make you notice and/or identify with him for the first time?

Hi anon! Thank you for the question!

The first Batman media I ever consumed was actually Joker (2019). Before then, I always avoided media in the superhero genre because I’m not a big fan of movies/comics with overblown action and/or fantasy elements. But my partner convinced me to give Joker a shot because I am a huge fan of psychological horror and gritty realism. Lo and behold, I was absolutely blown away by the film! Even though I now strongly prefer other interpretations of the Joker’s character, Joker still holds a very special place in my heart for several personal reasons I will place under the cut, because I know not everyone signed up for personal blogging on their dash:

I have treatment-resistant mental health problems, and I identified a lot with Arthur Fleck’s character. I know what it feels like to bounce from medication to medication and see little to no effects. I also know what it feels like to spend hours in the offices of mental health professionals who don’t know how to help me, and what it’s like to feel abandoned by the healthcare system. Joker made me feel seen at a very desperate time in my life, and I immediately latched on to the film and the character.

As I started to branch out into other forms of Batman media like the comics (Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth was one of the first Batman comics that really stuck out to me), I started to identify with the Joker even more. Everything from his abstract, undefinable weirdness to his queer rage to his existential dread seemed to speak to me directly. I struggle to identify with other people because I have a hard time feeling at home in any particular boxes; even when I’m with other queer people, other neurodivergent people, etc., I have a hard time relating. So, seeing a character whose entire schtick is being undefinable and unrelatable felt relatable to me, especially in the realms of sexuality and gender. As I’ve already kind of touched upon, I also know what it’s like to feel like some weird kind of enigma to therapists and doctors.

His character also just happens to align with a lot of my interests. I’m studying psychology and philosophy in school (with plans to continue my studies down the delightful road of ~academia~), and he has deep ties to both fields. I love that there’s this debate with his character as to whether he is actually insane or some form of “super sane”, which makes you question what it means to be sane in the first place (I’d argue that he is both simultaneously - maybe I’ll write a meta about it some day). I also love that there’s this nature-nurture debate in the form of not knowing where he came from, what created the Joker as we know him today, and the question of whether it even matters in the first place. There’s so many other things about him that interest me, like his fourth wall breaking (awareness about the true - and fictional - nature of his existence?), shifty personal identity (is a consistent sense of self an illusion? is he understanding something we don’t by embracing a constant state of becoming?), etc., but I could literally go on for days. :)

I’m sorry if that was longer or more personal than you bargained for, anon! I really enjoy talking about why I identify with Joker so much/why he is so important/interesting to me in the first place. I don’t know if I would go as far as saying that he saved my life, but finally having something to turn to that made me feel seen - at a time when I was genuinely beginning to think that the world simply wasn’t made for people like me - pulled me out of a very dark place and helped me in ways that more traditional mental health treatments didn’t. 

Anon, if you’re also a Joker enjoyer™, and you’d like to share what initially interested you in his character or made you identify with him, I would be very interested in hearing it! He’s a very special and deeply personal character to a lot of us; if he wasn’t, we wouldn’t be running entire blogs dedicated to him. That goes for anyone who has read this far into this post, too. Since there’s so much hate and stigma attached to his character, I think it’s important that some of us talk about why he is so important to us in the first place, even if it’s just because we find him interesting. Not everything is black and white - great things can come from the existence of horrible characters - and I think Tumblr has a hard time understanding that concept sometimes. :’)

[ask-batman-official]

look batman joker isn’t insane because insanity isn’t a mental term it’s a legal one to put it simply for you to avoid confusion the joker would have to not know any of things he dose are wrong if joker truly was as insane as he claims to be he would have to not know he’s killing people or doing anything wrong but he simply doesn’t seem to not know in fact he seems to know exactly what he is doing is wrong to the point were if it wasn’t for your city being full of corruption then the joker wouldn’t go to an insane asylum he would just go to prison were he be longs because he knows what he’s doing is wrong so he can’t possibly be long in Arkham asylum but what do you think i mean you are the worlds greatest detective so what do you think about that

... first off do people really not understand the difference between a layman's definition and a technical definition? The Joker, as according to most people, is insane. That's what Joe at the bar would say. I fully understand that technically speaking he's not insane. What he is is a shell of a man sustained off of coping mechanisms and trauma, mixed with severe brain damage. I fully agree that maybe he should go to jail, but the only other jail fit to hold him other than Arkham, which I have put some investments into to upgrade, is stock full of perfectly sane villains who might listen to him. The last thing the league needs to deal with is the Legion of Doom listening to the Joker. He's deceptively intelligent, probably far more than Luthor. I am personally suprised the city has not given him the chair yet, though my morals are against murder of any kind. But that's a question of corruption which, as you stated, is highest in Gotham when compared to the rest of the US. Which is saying something as we no longer live in a democracy.

[distort-opia]

that post about ivy and joker got me thinking... do you think that she is right about batman only pitying joker?

Ah, definitely not. However, she is right on the money that it's something Joker dreads, and she used it against him beautifully. Joker's deepest, genuine fear is being insignificant, and especially in Batman's eyes. (This is the post in question.)

If Bruce only pitied Joker, he wouldn't be beating him within an inch of his life, showing up to every scheme, woefully neglect attempts to rehabilitate Joker. Even in The Killing Joke, Bruce doesn't offer help out of pity; he states outright that he relates to Joker and says they could work together, that they don't need to be alone. It comes from a place of being equals. And in multiple other stories where his dynamic with Joker is explored in more depth, it's empathy that drives Bruce the most (for example, Batman: Ego, or Batman: I Am A Gun, or Batman #629).

Thing is, for Bruce to only pity Joker he'd have to believe himself... better than him and the Rogues. And he clearly doesn't. Bruce thinks of himself as a different breed of monster, but a monster nonetheless. Perhaps he does pity Joker sometimes... however, he tends to then pity himself for the same reasons (something along these lines happens in Batman: Going Sane, with Bruce bemoaning how neither he or Joker can let themselves be human). And well, obviously empathy is only one component of the contradictory and complicated mix of feelings Bruce has towards Joker; but I've got a longer post talking about Bruce's side of things here, if you want to delve into it.

[wack-ashimself]

So I have seen some shit...

Real life and fictionalized.

Some of the most graphic things you could imagine. I once read a fictionalized movie's wiki....that was a rape/snuff film (thank every god I never saw it). Only found out about from top 10 list of most audience freaking out movies.

ANYWAYS, I can deal with that. Because that's...the world (sadly).

BUT shows where you get into their heads. the heads of psychos, and watch normal people go insane from them?

I'm just saying I am watching killing eve's season 2 finale, and HOLY FUCK. She broke her. You watch a sane person turn insane from a psychopath. Think of the joker, but more on the killing than the jokes.

2 more seasons. I wonder how they are gonna keep this up....take down the 12? The government? Each other?

All I know is when you see the psychopath realize she had been duped into killing someone, it looks to be the first time she partially regretted it, if only cuz she was a puppet; who knows what she wanted to do.

I actually feel bad for psycho killer. I mean, she doesn't feel anything except obsession. Not good or bad; just something to silence the boredom. She truly isn't human. I ain't saying her actions are fair (hugging the girl then throwing her in front of a TRUCK?!), but I understand them...

(and that's why I hate these shows. Why should I want to understand someone so broken? It humanizes evil. But..I can't look away. I have seen so much entertainment, when something is ACTUALLY unpredictable, I must watch if only cuz I'm bored ;) )

<This is def one of the most violent BBC show. Damn.>