batman confidential #1
[ID: Alfred Pennyworth walking down the stairs into the Batcave—where Bruce Wayne sits in the dark and in his costume with the cowl pulled down. Alfred announces, “Coffee, eggs benedict and The Daily Planet, Master Bruce. I took the liberty of presuming you would be taking breakfast in the cave this morning.” Alfred sets the tray down on a nearby table as Bruce silently holds a gun up without looking at him, his finger still on the trigger. Alfred gasps, “Master Bruce? That gun, is it...?” He trails off but Bruce speaks up. “The one he used. That night. On them. I took it from the G.C.P.D. evidence depository last year... there was nothing more they could learn from it.” Bruce unloads it, letting a bullet clank to the desk before he picks it up and stares somberly at it. Alfred stiffens up as he asks, “I see. And what precisely did you hope to achieve by stealing your parents' murder weapon, if may be so bold as to inquire...? Beyond an increased capacity for morbid introspection, that is.”
Bruce elaborates, “He fired two rounds. 117-grain hollowpoints... twenty-five cents apiece from any gun store. Is that all their lives were worth, Alfred? Fifty cents of ammunition...? He left four rounds in the clip, one in the breech, dropped it and ran—afraid to finish what he started. And I just stood there. Helpless.” Alfred tells him, “The good your parents did lives on, Master Bruce. And I, for one, am glad he left those final rounds in the gun. I happen to believe the world is better served for having you in it.” Bruce still doesn't look at Alfred or acknowledge the kind statement. He'll go on to explain that a young mother was murdered while he was on patrol and that he blames himself for not preventing it. END ID]
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I'm rewatching s1 again and I think it's so fucking funny how much every other doctor except nine absolutely hates guns. nine is SO excited to shoot that goddamn dalek. he is READY he is DOWN he is soooo for it. he points a gun at rose tyler and doesn't even think about it until she scolds him for it.
and then in bad wolf where he's incredibly comfortable about holding that big ass blaster. never gets onto jack about parading around with them either. just does not bat an eye. in fact he is threatening people with it, even if it is a farce.
the others would NEVER lol
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is it me or everyone is making tinn's mom the big villain when there's nothing notable happening? i mean, ok she looked her son's phone without authorisation but she didn't search anything. yes she's the type of intrusive parent but not too much, or i'm being too nice. her son doesn't talk to her anymore (understandably), doesn't trust her anymore and it's making her sad. she wants answers and not doing it so in the best of ways. so because of that she's the villain?
i think about that scene where she's crying with her husband. it may not be related though.
could you explain what do i miss please.
people are saying that?? i don't think she's a villain! when she looked over at tinn's phone i was like GIRL U BETTER STOP and she did! all she saw was gun calling and i think she's smart enough to connect dots, but doesn't want to push tinn into saying something he isn't comfortable talking with her about yet. maybe in that vein she has the self awareness that most people think she has some personal dislike of the music club ex when she had to confiscate the instruments and tinn AND her own husband thought she was being cruel - she wasn't! needs must, however unfortunate, but i would hope she can look back on things and see how from her son's pov it may seem like she would be totally against his dating gun.
that isnt even to mention the queer aspect of when she assumed tinn must like a girl - he almost told her right then, if she hadn't interjected her assumptions, and maybe she can recall that moment and recognise her mistake in affecting how open her son feels he can be with her. it took hardly any time knowing gim - the mother of his crush - for tinn to feel comfortable admitting everything to her literally everything that he's done for gun thus far. that's saying something.
i think a big part of their relationship has been her guiding tinn in the direction she thinks will benefit him the most. but hopefully she will see tinn is a good, kind, rational (mostly fjsjdks) boy and have no problem with his seeing gun aside from the tricks he used to do so (ex lying about the tutoring at the apartment - a week alone and unsupervised with his crush!), while making an effort to understand her role in why tinn felt he had to go to such lengths to keep it all from her.
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secret rocker santa updates (11/26/23)
well. once again everyone who has signed up should have received a number by now :-) so let me know if you're signed up and don't have one! i still have 8637636 messages to answer and i'm hoping to get officially caught up today!!!!! sorry sorry sorry it has been like two consecutive super busy weeks
november 28th is the last official day to sign up!!! i will probably be leaving it open on the 29th as well but it reeeaaally depends on how busy i end up being that day, so if you're thinking of signing up but still haven't, time is almost up! we have a really good number of people this year and i think it's going to be great :-)
expect to be contacted by me either on the 29th or 30th with information about who you'll be santa for! (if i send this to you in the form of an ask, please do not publish it!)
whoever is going to be my santa will be contacted by @lord-of-the-weird :^)
i'm already kind of preliminarily coming up with matches and i've noticed a few more bands/artists for whom we could still use a few more participants, including: t. rex/marc bolan, styx, iron maiden (still lmao rip), guns n roses. i'll be tagging this accordingly but feel free to reblog if you have potentially interested followers :-)
likewise!! feel free to reblog either the short post or long post if you have music enjoyer followers who could potentially be interested in this sort of thing!!
andddd lastly here is the sign up link if anyone who sees this is interested (u can click either link in the last bullet point for more general info if needed) <3
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I understand why Tolkien didn’t like spiders (though he insisted he didn’t have arachnophobia - yeah, right), but what did he seem to have against cats? He made a villain Tevildo the Prince of Cats, said they were creatures of Mordor, and had evil queen Berúthiel cruelly enslave them. What gives?
Haha, Anon, I do not know what Tolkien's deal with cats was. However, I do think all the cats we see are very fun villains: evil cat-cooks abusing poor Beren! I think Berúthiel has a dramatic army of all black cats and an extra evil white cat! So I can't be too mad even though I love cats myself.
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