#barbra keen

[hadesbullshit]

rollin' with the

[gothamstimms]

Barbara Kean lyric board with red tones ❤

▹❁Barbra Keene❁◃?_

LyricBoard

[babygirl-but-a-boy]

Battinson Live Action Batfamily

fancast:

DC:

Cass Cain: Reily Nai Nelet (pretty)

Tim drake: Yang Se Jong (I simply have to stan korean Tim Drake)

Jason todd: John Boyega (we all saw the tweet, I support him)

Bruce Wayne: Edward Cullen

Dick Grayson: Steven McQueen (basic white dude)

Damian Wayne: Carter Rockwood (from that weird webtoon tv show that got cancelled??? I think he's the best fit)

Duke Thomas: Jeremy Pope

Stephanie Brown: Bae yoo jin (I thinks shes just pretty af)

Barbra Gordon: Leslie Grace (from the movie/tv show that was supposed to be made for her)

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Raven: Dafne Keen (I think she has a naturally neutral expression that fits Ravens character well)

Beast Boy: Aramis knight (pretty)

*Replace the dog, with Duke Thomas, elected to have their civilian fits*

[lilmissfanfic]

The end..

(Please don’t take my work. Readers +18. WARNING child loss mentioned)

Reader has settled happily with Oswald, but also having a past with the one and only Jeremiah Valeska. Now she needs to officially end things with Jeremiah before going out her husband.

(Y/n POV)

I rode in my limo to pick up my one and only. The doors open as I saw the press sorrond him

"Mr. Cobblepot, What's the first thing you'll do as a free man?"

"I shall lay flowers on the grave of my beloved mother with my beautiful loving wife by my side" my husband said

"what is Jim Gordans role in your recocilnation? do you seek revenge?

"the best revenge against Jim Gordon will be a life serving the city I love, by the people I love" he smiled then stopped when he notice something across the street.

I looked over and saw two men looking at him. He asked one of the press something and I looked back over at the two men.

Oswald got in the car with one of the press0 members. They sat across from me on the back side.

"hello Mr. Cobblepot" I said

"Hello, Mrs. Cobblepot. You looking quite beautiful as always." I blushed,, he smiled then he folded his hat. He wore the suit I sent him, A glass spectcal over his blue eye. He looked terrific in my eyes. He looked kinda hot. Enspecally when he yelled at the Press guy to switch coats and take his jacket. The man then left the car as I laughed.

"oh pengy, I fall in love with you everyday." I smiled

"I love you too, my little birdy" He smiled

"driver, to our next destination. I have an erron to run but after that I'm all yours" I smirked as the car began

,"you better" I laughed as he leaned towards me and smashed his lips onto mine but I quickly pulled away

"don't tease" he groweld kissing me again making me giggle.

When we got to the location I broke away from Oswald as he pout

"stay out of trouble while im gone" I said as I booped his nose

"no promises" He smiled as I laughed then kissed him goodbye

"turn around i won't ask again" Barbra said pointing the gun at the women

I hid behide the wall of the old bar well as I saw the once love of my life, 

"surprise" he said behide her. She went hit him but he doge her and pushed her into Ecco who had a knife to her throat.

"easy it's just a surprise party, for you Barbra Keen, in line Queen of Gotham, Buissness Tyson, how exciting. But their was another you. I seem to recall. Wasen't their? Then again thier was another me too. Oh so hard to hold on to what's real. It's enough to drive you mad." he laughed

All of sudden, Barbra daughter ran before I could stop her over throwing a glass where Barbra hit to the flower and turned the knife to Ecco making her stab herself. But Jeremiah shot Barbra in the leg. as the little girl hit him

"cute.. She has your eyes, for now." He picked up the little girl who was still kicking away. He notice Ecco covering her wond

"oh I..I think she nicked me daddy... I.. oh boy" she sighed

"oh dear me, my sweet nongogal, my ecco. Their will be none like you" he smiled

"really?" she smiled. I loaded my gun and shot her. she smiled as she bled out through her mouth and fell onto the floor."

"but she was never you" he said and turned to look at me

"let them go, Jeremiah" I pointed the gun at him

"oh my dearest treasure, look at you, such a big girl" he said hitting the gun against Barbra

"How I missed you, What do you say we play a little game, like old times? Hmm?"

"Barbra, James Gordon will be at your apartment at this second and I want you to deliver a message. okay. okay? okay."

"and what about me?" I asked playing fake hurt

"like always, by my side. My partner in crime, my lover, my dearest treasure. My wife" he laughed

"Hate to break it to you but not anymore, puddin" I said and he laughed

"oh come on, y/n/n. Don't be fussy. Come back to your Daddy, Where you belong, In my arms." He held out his arms but I stood my ground. He began to slowly walk towards me.

"so did we ever did have our baby?" he asked

"no" I said sternly

"No? oh" he said dissapointed

"I lost him... his name was Xander Mark Valaska, after my father.. and his father" Jeremiah stood their

"he was beautiful... Even had your eyes and smile before he passed" I said almost in tears

"Hmm well half to try again later" he shrugged "enough sappy stuff, come on we have work to do" he said emotionless

"hello comssioner, were waiting, the party waiting. But its well pass the princess bed time. It's funny being back here. I can still feel my flesh sizzleing like it melted away. you think so?"

I was tied up to the fence while the little girl hung down on a rope helfd by Jeremiah above the acids,

"Barbra. Miss Mayor, everythings going to be fine" Jim said

"Oh whatever Jim" i rolled my eyes

"personally i think things are far away from fine they can possibly be, Barbra lee. What do I know, I just spent the last ten years in the funny farm." he giggled

"What do you want Jeremiah."

"is thier a Jeremiah here?" 

"so what do I call you" I pulled out my blade and began sawing the rope

"uh.. I don't know call me jack- no that sound right. Joseph, John, Jay, I don't know. I just feel something new here, crawling from the oozing to be something beautiful."

"how long have you been pretending to be brain damage?"

"how long have you been pretending to joke? I know your not pretending- That's far enough James. uh tututu

"you still haven't told me. why? why keep pretending?"

"I was waiting for him to come home. were bond together he and I. One thing I knew for certin, the one thing I knew was true. And I couldn't just abound us.  do you know how it feels to have the one. the only thing you love. ripped away from you. It feels like this" he let go of the rope.

"no!" Jim caught it in time but then Jeremiah stabbed him as he laughed

"doesn't it funny it was. but i'll admit it was fun planning the fun codmissoner." suddenly metal boomerang swung over hitting him

"who's thier? what do you want? show yourself! show yourself!" Jeremiah looked up in shocked. 

"you.." he began laughing till another boomerang hit him in the hand. He laughed eximaning. I got my ropes undone and punched Jere in the face. Gordon pulled her up the girl up

"it's okay" he told her

"get her out of here!" I said as Jeremiah began to come back. He began laughing once more as he sat up

"Go!" I yelled and they did. 

"I did it, I created the Dark Kni-" I kicked him in the gut

"oooh my dearest treasure, easy on daddy their, you wouldn't want to hurt me now would you?" he laughed

"I'm done playing your games. I want to end this once and for all" I said pointing the gun at him.  He just smiled as I held the gun. The once of my love, the father of my lost child, my ex-husband, and my childhood best friend.

"you wouldn't dare, you don't have the guts, why do I even bother" he grumbled taking the gun then pointing it at me

"I know slick fella with a cheap suit and cheaper grin telling me what to do! Ever Again! we had mad love once upon a time, But NOW that's OVER MR J" I said. he stepped back in shocked and I kneed im in the gut, climbing over his shoulder and gebbing a pole to turn him. then hopped down behinde him then kicked him in to the acids

"I am the Queen of Gotham, and I don't need no man" I groweld through my teeth. I saw something drop their the edge infrount of me

"good to see ya" I smiled. We looked at the acid then he disseaper and I ran away 

Oswalds POV

Ed was shoved in the car next to me

"Edward Nygma, it is very good to see you

"Oswald, I thought you were behide this 

"i'm not but I thought you might need some help and what else are friends for" he laughed "you look well"

"you too, a little thicker in the middle" he laughed "Damn it's good to see you Oswald"

Suddenly something fell on the car and the driver crashed it. We walked out the car I couldn't believe my eyes

Y/n POV

I ran down the street where cops piled up. Then I saw hung from a light post was my dearest husband and the riddler. They bickered and disress noises as I began to chuckle

"Miss Mayor, Do you want them to come down" Foxy said as I laughed. they both looked at me

"In a little while, I'm enjoying this" I laughed

"a little to much don't you think?" Ed yelled

"keep it up and you'll be up thier for the night" I laughed

"little birdy please!" Oswld begged

"Ozzy, your fine up their and I'll be here when you come down. Maybe.." I laughed

"Do Not Tease!" he threw a little tantrum making me laugh even more

"alright alright, get em down" I said 

As soon as they were down, Oswald stood up and kissed me

"thank you, baby birdy" he said holding me tight till we heard someone clear their throat. We turned our attention to Ed

"I just wanted to say thanks and It's good to see you both" He smiled. Oswald smiled and hugged him in a friendly way then he turned to me.

"it's good to see you too Ed" I smiled and hugged him

"and hey if you need a chief in staff-"

"we'll see" I laughed

"well goodnight" he said and walked away. Our other limo pulled up and Oswald wrapped his arm around my waist as we began walking

"I guess this is our happy ending" I sighed

"my love, this is only the begining" we smiled as he kissed me pationatly

[vermillioncrown]

JLI sans B to the best of my knowledge: Martian Manhunter p much the DCAU version but with a Crippling Oreo addiction, Fire: ??? Lesbian Brazilian ??? Ice: Died once dated Guy ??? Scott Free: Master Escape Artist Malewife, Big Barda: Ngozi is doing a comic on her Stoic Warrio badass from a Divine Dystopia, Guy Gardner: Considered the Asshole GL had brain damage that affected his personality Batman knocked him out with 1 punch (pt1)

JLI knowledge (pt2): Booster Gold: had a good JLU episode, Jock to Janitor pipeline, stole stuff out of fancy future museum to be a superhero for the $$ fame, had to keep up the act as a gloryhound does barely anything to keep from getting Terminated ⏰, time management, shipped with Blue Beetle II, Blue Beetle II: Ted Kord dated Barbra Gordon once, had a heart attack that kept him off the playing field the BB movie called him "Batman with ADHD", has asshole uncle, studied under BB I.

(mashed your asks together, anon)

(re: post about the blowjob brothers)

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my idea of the justice league is from the animated series + peripheral new earth/modern stuff, so ofc i know there are discrepancies between media + from general hubbub most comic knowers aren't too keen on animated series only ppl so 🤷‍♂️

^but hot fucking damn why do any of these people talk to each other, this is like "you're all stuck together bc no one wants to deal with you, now go eat each other's faces off"

(i'm both curious and not really bc there is a lot of source media and i'm only one person...i also love seeing a writer's mental convolutions to connect pieces up to a point, and that point is very arbitrary and mutable)

one of the ppl i follow has subjected me to... "boostle" yes? i know of it. booster gold without his boyfriend looks like someone i want to smother w a pillow, i think what you've said of his arc is interesting but again. i need to fight the smother response

batman w adhd poor dude. sorry for his affliction, bat brain sucks.

(no lol i've read some summaries of ted kord and again. my ???? w a lot of big comic stuff is "everyone is the most special pretty princess, we can't all be the most specialist prettiest princesses)

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(no my biggest fucking beef is so many of them are self-taught genii that is perfect at all physical skills and expert whatevers just go. flip into the sun. it bores me. very 'grown dudes never outgrowing playing pretend in preschool' type of writing)

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i'll leave a link to this post and think this covers the vibe of how i want to play it lmao

[sahenamaharjan]

“Learning How to Learn”: Techniques to Help You Learn with Dr. Barbra Oakley

In this post, I will be talking about “Learning How to Learn” where we will explore techniques given by the guest speaker, Dr. Barbara Oakley to help us learn effectively. Dr. Oakley is a registered professional engineer in the state of Michigan and an inaugural “Innovation Instructor” at Coursera. She has done numerous kinds of research, out of which following are some of the interesting reads:

For the past couple of years, I have been curious about the way that I am learning something, whether it is the right way or not. And this led me to have a keen interest in finding out the methods we could follow to practice learning effectively. Thus, this directed me to listen to the engaging interview with the guest speaker hosted by my professor Wassem.

The discussion is about understanding how our brain functions while we go through a learning process; and understanding the importance of knowing how the brain works so that we can achieve effective results. She has shared some important techniques and her life experiences. She also insisted that the most crucial step in learning is knowing how to handle the information.

As per the discussion, I have learned various ways how we can train our brains to focus on starting new things and would like to share some of them. 

First and foremost is knowing that everyone learns differently. We should be aware of this difference but should not compare ourselves with others. One of the beautiful examples she has given is about the bikers and hikers. While the bikers reach the top of the hills at a rapid speed, hikers reach much slower than the bikers. However, hikers, while climbing slowly, get to experience the breeze, smell the pine trees, and spot rabbit trails.

Secondly, one of the techniques for efficient learning is the Pomodoro technique. It is a time management technique that breaks the work into intervals of 25 minutes with 10 minutes of the short break. Focused and diffused are the two fundamental modes of learning in our brains. Applying this technique will help our brain be in a focused-mode for the 25-minutes, which means we will be concentrating on the work that needs to be done. During the 10 minutes short break, our brain goes to the diffused mode, which means we will be doing the things we like apart from what we were focusing on. This way of learning has been realized to be very effective while learning new topics.

Lastly, while we learn so many things and ways of doing as told by smart people, we tend to think that “they” can do it because they are geniuses. However, Dr. Barbara recommended we explore real-life examples from people who have been through difficult times learning and eventually being expert in it. I find herself as a great example as she used to hate the subject of math in her childhood days, but now we know her as a genius engineer.

References:

"Learning How to Learn": Techniques to Help You Learn with Dr Barbra Oakley (CLASSIC) https://soundcloud.com/bridging-the-gaps/learning-how-to-learn-techniques-to-help-your-learn-with-dr-barbra-oakley

Barbara Oakley PhD. (2022) Available from: https://barbaraoakley.com/about-me/ [Accessed: 30th September 2022]

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Brazilian Artists Barbra Wagner and Benjamin de Burca delve into race, religion, class, and ideological affiliation - with a keen eye to gender performance and power dynamics.

[thebookofagma]

Chapter 2

I remember a daycare in the woods... A daycare off highway 7 on our way to Excelsior from Waconia Minnesota. It would take a while to walk there, though as the crow flies it was actually pretty close. Into the woods on a long winding dirt road that seemed endless, to a house that lay in the thick of the forest. The forest was alive. Squirrels and birds bounced from tree branch to tree branch in blurs as fast as sun flickers from light coming through the tree tops. Sometimes it felt like the forest was breathing, pulling us in. A big white mini van was the chariot we took to that house everyday. Hmm... or was it a tan van.

I remember my dad trying to take me out of the comfy car seat as I kicked and cried for my mom to be the one to take me out. Wow. Even as a small child I was showing signs of selfishness and a lack of empathy for my father. Into a dim lit garage that swallowed us, down 13 steep stairs into the basement of Barbra Fransdahl's basement.

Barbs facial features resembled Ms. Trunchbull from the children's movie Matilda, her body as well only with a short hair cut and a modernly dressed. She shared the same temper as Ms. Trunchbull as well. She had a round figure to her. The type of body one gets from being sedentary. When she spoke to the children's parents there was an underlying tone of reticence. It would take a keen ear and a lot of time with the woman to hear the un honest laughs she would feed the parents. White, in her late 40's early 50's and the wrinkles to prove it. Her eyes were gray blue and looked as if the person behind them had went through pain, knew pain well, but also filled with rancor.

To this day in my life whether I was adequately punished or abused from the ages of 2-5, but from my research, trauma can have that affect on people. Especially kids. Trauma is unique to its owner. A person who skateboards all day, like Nyjah Huston, can fall down 15 stairs and feel no anxiety or trepidation at all. Now, if you mother fell down 15 stairs balancing on a piece of wood she might feel some apprehension towards falling and heights for a while afterwards. Unless your mother happens to be Leticia Bufoni. My daycare experience was traumatic for me, and Barb was the first human that ever scared me in my life.

There were 6 other children. Kyle and Erin. A brother and sister that were attached by the hip. A very odd, messy looking boy named Jacob. Along with my two best friends Mitchell and Lisa. A girl two years older than us. Alison. We were "pretend" married. We would pick dandilions for each other, kiss, and get fake married on barbs homemade playground. Mitchell's mom worked with my mom. Im guessing that's where my parents got the idea for the daycare because Mitchell was from Minnetonka.

To a parent, outside appearances made the daycare seem like a perfect little cozy cottage in the wood, but as we know from most fairytales, inside behind closed doors of the cottage in the woods is where the problem lies. There were very odd rules at the daycare like the kids not being able to flush the toilet after use. Which was odd, because she made all of us line up and use the bathroom at the same time. Whether this woman wanted to save on utilities or take our pee to pass drug tests for an unknown probation officer, I don't know. Either way you look at it, Barb had some deep seeded, old fashion psychological problems I couldn't begin to get in to.

All the other children served time outs on the steps, which was as rare as an eclipse, but my time outs were in the closet. Dark, dark, darker. So dark anything could've been in the shadows. The cement cracked basement floor felt like fire and ice on my tiny hands and feet. Seconds felt like minutes and hours felt like weeks. I always hoped to see my dad come through the closet door and save me, but nothing would come but anxiety for me in the corner of the storage closet.

Analyzing everything now I know that we all have days where our chest tightens, where triggers are around every corner, lurking in shadows where darkness spills into heavy breaths. To any ordinary person anxiety is a devastating thing. No matter how many times you tell yourself to "breathe," to remain calm, you feel like a ship with no sails in the middle of a storm. A three year old child in a closet for 1-2 hours. You hopefully can only imagine. I felt as if I was caught in suspension.

I remember flushing the toilet once after five kids had went in front of me. The next instant I was being dragged across the room like a rag doll by my left arm and whipped to the stairs hitting my head against the steps as Barb screamed in my face "what the fell is the matter with you?!" Once I snuck out during nap time because I couldn't sleep. "Boom, boom, boom!" A sound I never forgot. A warning that Barb was coming from the upstairs, where the kids couldn't go, to the basement where we stayed. I tried to run as fast as I could back to the room where the girls shared a king sized bed and the boys slept on cots on the floor. Again she me by the left arm again, threw me on my stomach and hit me twice on the back of my head with the end of a broomstick.

Later on in life I exaggerated the beatings to girlfriends to get sympathy but the truth is I didn't have to. What happened to me was traumatic for me, plain and simple. Maybe I exaggerated things because nobody ever believed me and I wanted other people to equally understand my pain, but I don't have to anymore. This honest auto biography will give exposure to my traumas, and little by little this exposure will help my trauma and anxiety lose its power. With the only remedy I haven't tried. Complete honesty, and a therapist in the near future. For once, this book is also for me.

pages~ 8, 9, 10, 11

[i-dont-know-the-word]

thoughts?

[gothamslostboy]

GOTHAM

Favorite Movie Genre

ACTION:

Harvey Bullock (Western)

He just gives off the vibes

Like I can full picture him half asleep on the couch while a classic western on the tv is the only light in a dark room

Fish Mooney (Superhero)

Mainly just female lead ones or heros w/ similar powers to her

HORROR:

Victor Zsasz (Comedy w/ Body)

Wants to be able to laugh, but loses interest in horror without gore

“So is that demon JUST gonna snap their neck? Not even a little burning the body dragging it to hell? What the fuck, lame”

Johnathan Crane (Psychological)

Sense he doesn’t get scared anymore he watches them only with other people to see them freak out

MYSTERY:

Edward Nygma

Any mystery movie works for him as long as you let him gloat that he figured it out before the reveal

Lucius Fox (Murder)

Likes the Who Done It vibes and figuring out what the killers exact path would be

FANTASY:

Ivy Pepper (Urban)

She just likes when semi realistic human societies get destroyed

Jim Gordon (High)

He likes to go to a place completely different from his real life in his free time

COMEDY:

Lee Tompkins (parody)

Loves to see how similar the parody is to the actual movie, enjoys it more when they poke fun at her favorite movies in other genres

Butch Gilzean

Likes all comedies, least favorite movies in the genre tend to be dark comedy

ANIMATION:

Jerome Valeska (Claymation)

Fascinated with how the characters move, also enjoys that they tend to lean into darker themes than other animation sub genres

Selina Kyle (Disney)

Used to watch them all the time before living on the streets

ROMANCE:

Tabitha Galavan (Rom-Com)

Won’t admit it & if you find out she’ll threaten you into silence

Victor Fries

Any romance film reminds him of his wife, but tends to lean toward contemporary romance bc it was her favorite

SILENT FILM:

Alfred Pennyworth (comedy)

Used to watch them with Thomas & Bruce years ago so now it’s just a nostalgia thing he does every once and a while

DRAMA:

Barbra Keen (Melodrama)

Watching a bunch of people who are also highly emotional makes her feel better after an impulsive over reaction

Oswald Cobblepott (Soap Opera)

Used to watch them with his mother

THRILLER:

SCIENCE FICTION:

Bruce Wayne (Space)

I feel like he wanted to be an astronaut when he was really young and had a ton of space posters in his room

MUSICAL:

Jervis Tetch

This man is all for theatrics, there is literally no other option that comes close to this

OTHER:

Jeremiah Valeska (Documentary)

Let’s him learn about past criminal’s mistakes and increases the intelligence gap between him and Jerome, even if only a little

[hadesbullshit]

Thinking about the parallels between Barbra and Oswald. Barbra shot butch be tabitha loved him and not her. The same way Oswald killed Isabella bc Ed was inlove with her. They both want to be the king/queen of gotham. They both have incredible fation and hair. They should have been besties

[himbowashington]

Beej being a puppy: beej x reader hc + fic

(in true beetlejuice chaotic spirit i did not proofread this shit so imma go ahead and give a general “my bad” to any errors in here but y’all know the vibes)

The head tilt THE HEAD TILT

sometimes he’ll get excited during a kiss and do the little head tilt things and you’ll smile into the kiss

Beej is also very receptive to being called for

he likes for you to seek him out for him to feel as though you’ve chosen him

you like how his eyes light up when you do it so you’re more than happy to oblige

you’re favorite reaction though comes when he’s in a good mood and bounds over to you all smiles waiting on what you’ll say

really just loves any and all positive reenforcement because of his upbringing/past he just loves being doted on and youre happy to be the one to do it

definitely chews things too, like sides of couches etc you yell at him when you catch him but once you introduce a squeaky toy or two in his life your furniture thankfully begins to take much less of a beating

——————- ————NSFW————— ————-

The first time you hit him with the “Good boy” you feel rather than see his knees buckle slightly

he whines. a lot. loudly. keens in a way that drives you crazy. he’s trying so hard to be gentle with you not to hurt his little breather it’s endearing

another of your favorites is to tease him in a room full of people with pet names you typically only use privately

You’ll look at him talking to Charles or Barbra across the room, damn he looks good you’ll think. You want his attention and you decide you’ll have it turning to your head towards him you bat your eyelashes at him, “Puppy, would you come here please.”

You’d smile as you watch the tips of his ears turn pink, flustered, his hair would have a faint streak of pink in it that he would be incessantly trying to cover with the rest of his hair.

Adorable, you thought to yourself.

He opened his mouth to say something but no sound came out, he simply stood there, shell shocked for a few moments before lightly nodding his head and making his way toward you in a daze.

He looked frantic. You smiled when he got to you taking your hands. “What are you doing, doll?” he asks in his tell tale scruffy voice eyeing you darkly, god you love the way he looks at you.

You smile. “I don’t know what you mean, I just missed my puppy that’s all so I called for him.” you tell him with mock innocence smiling at the sharp exhale beej makes. He’s rattled just how you wanted him to be. It’s delightful.

“You gotta talk like that right now?” he retorts in a breathless voice.

“Like what?” you ask not quite willing to the give up the charade.

He take a step closer to you, almost nose to nose.

“You know what, calling me that.” he says and his face burns red.

“It’s just a nickname.” you reply turning back to look back to see everyone had gone back to their own conversations and that no one was watching before taking a few steps down a back corridor. “Besides I like how you react when I call you that.” He turns his head doing his own scan of the background before following you back into the darkened hallway unnoticed by the group.

“Goddamn you doing that to me, you wanted me worked up? It’s worked baby doll I’m about to lose my mind. I hope you’re pleased with yourself.”

He says immediately backing you into a wall a hand coming to lightly grasp over your throat. You groan. “Don’t be angry with me, puppy.” you run a hand through his hair watching his eyelids flutter closed for a moment.

the stumble to the back bathroom is a blur. You both tumble in one by one and Beej shuts the door with way too much force causing the frame to rattle in a way you try your best not to find attractive

you fail. everything he does you find attractive.

But then he’s whining and keening and your brain snaps to the present “That’s it right there.”you whisper into his ear fingers threaded through his hot pink hair pulling lightly. He makes a growling noise from the middle of his chest. “That’s my good boy, that’s right just like that, fuck yes,-“ you gasp as you feel his hips stutter

He pulls back slightly to look at you and you’re shocked by the vulnerability you see on his face. He’s flushed, breathing hard of course, but it wasn’t just that. It was his eyes the way they widened when he looked at you, the way his gaze tracked you, like he was afraid you’d leave, change your mind, decide you hate him. Abandon him like every one else but instead you cradle his face softly between your hands. He’s looking at you like you’re scalding him but he doesn’t move.

You know it’s his own trauma trying to drag him back down, the voice in his head telling him he’s not good enough. He was good enough. He was good enough for you and you’d let him know it.

“My puppy-my good boy- god-just like -aH please. You make me feel so good my good boy. No one’s fucks me like my puppy can.” the words tumble out of your blissed out mouth almost automatically. You only notice what you’ve said when you hear beetlejuice groan.

It keeps building, and you keep his head back so he’s forced to look you in the eye, you open your mouth letting out a lewd whine and the next thing you know you’re coming

You keep your hand clutched in his hair and he dutifully watches you with a stunned expression.

“I love you.” It’s out before Beetlejuice can even register what he’s thought let alone just said.

You gasp. He freezes terrified of your reaction. He knew there was no recovering with jokes from this one no way to dodge the sting of rejection.

You smile. Laughing breathlessly, joyous.

“If you love me you’ll go back to fucking me just like you were.” He laughs but turns his head clearly not satisfied with the reply.

“I love you too.” You whisper. “I love the way you fuck me. The way you whine, the way youre such a good boy for me. I love everything about you, puppy.”

and in the end that’s all it takes just your words, your confession to him and some light rocking together and you feel your insides warm up as he spills in you.

He’s breathing hard, puffing slightly, repeating quiet i love yous like a mantra.

He hush him gently, pulling him into your arms.

“shhh, i know sweetheart I know.” you kiss his temple as he settles in to sleep on your chest.

“i love you puppy, now get some rest sweet boy.” you say dreamily smiling as you feel Beej nuzzle in closer to you, and with that you feel him begin to doze off and manage to fall asleep yourself.

[batarangsoundsdumb]

hae interrogationes multae respondeant quia demens .

if you read this entire ask post you deserve a gold star and financial recompensation

Um, Obviously because when you’re adopted by a white guy you automatically become white duhhh

this is about this post lmao and yeah youre absolutely right, you have to hand your poc card in when you get adopted by a white guy.

Do you think Cass would listen to Yanni, the YouTube channel epic symphonic rock, or some other stuff? There's some cool mashups but idk if that's up your alley, I kinda feel like I'm pushing it with my weird taste of music by recommending an orchestra cover of metal, but i just love that sort of thing and mashups :P @harvestyourcherries 

i haven’t heard of that? but in my personal (correct) opinion steph listens to classical music, and then both modern and older, and then also stuff like black sabbath, iron maiden, but also hardrock and hardcore. i like the idea of cass just liking the most extreme screaming songs full of noise and then also listen to pachelbel’s 370th sonata yanno? THANK YOU for the rec tho

speaking of ur cass playlist hc...reminds of the time (yesterday) i found 2 playlists randomly on spotify from the same user. one was abt 3 hours of instrumental/classical "dark" & "nostalgic" music. the other almost 11 hours of nothing but hardcore bass/synth/electronic music. just an incredible tightrope act to put on in public. the synth one was also called like "psalms for synth sluts" which is Also incredible

tbh i LOVE synth SO MUCH like for no reason at all but then also cannot handle a poppy electronic beat lmao. but this seems like the kinda thing i’d do but just in one (1) playlist bc i just sort songs by vibe instead of genre? that’s how i end up with britney spears and billy ray cyrus in the same playlist. 

Oh, I want Kate Kane playlist next! It would be amazing if you could do one when you have time and will 🙏

how rude would it be of me to just say no? like sorry kate but idk you and also you seem way too keen on the us military for an institution that homophobically targeted you? (and also commits war crimes) but let’s unpack the fact that the institution that caused the death of your mom and sister and also got you blacklisted for being gay is still one you align with???

'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' 'yes i am' 'no you're not' --- when i tell you i fucking screamed LOL!!!!!!! i can imagine the cameraman not knowing if he should cut to commercial or keep it on these two weirdos fighting on stage (bruce definitely ruffled dick's hair/noogied him right?? 

about this post but yeah lmao. this cameraman just turns to like the audience to get a reaction and it’s just multiple moments of CLEAR shock.

you are the only funny person on this hellsite

how egotistical is it for me to say that i get this ask multiple times a month? bc it literally happens so often it’s hilarious to me.

Wish there was more john/Bruce content 😔😔😔 was so hungry I actually looked at canon media 😔😔😔 (Justice League Dark babeeeyyyyyy)

check out batman: damned for some mediocre content but at least it’s john/bruce (also very interesting story and stuff, just got very >:( over this weird part where harley quinn tried to r*pe bruce or something? it’s not for everyone)

dick grayson but he's nicki minaj

his anaconda don’t want none,,, unless...... 

Dick Grayson was never a cop, he played Marshall on Paw Patrol

you are SO right. also paw patrol is a fucking good show idc. that shit could’ve been the new steven universe on this hellsite.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1lI0bLI7-/?utm_medium=copy_link

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why do people keep reposting my CONTENT. if you are not funny yourself don’t just grab shit off of tumblr and post it on insta,,, get a life. sidenote: should i start an insta and get all these ppl to take my content down that would be funny as hell.

Might I suggest for a Gotham City Meme: something about the true crime fandom thirsting for the rogues gallery

ok can i just say something slightly controversial?? no? i don’t find true crime ppl who are into criminals funny, that shits disturbing irl im not gonna bring that into my very chill universe.

i may have never seen a 'jason cleaning guns in sink' fic but i do know he WOULD

THANK YOU

bestie im sorry to say this to you but while you can, and people do wash their guns in the sink, that is a lot of lead in a very vital part of the kitchen.

people tend to do it in the bathtub.

WHY???? like damn why do you even have guns

i dont think i read many gun sink fics exactly but i have read lots of fics where jason cleanes his guns in the living room. usualy dissembles them and cleans them with a rag i think

lmao fair enough, like i think that’s a large part of what i remember as well.

if you say you've seen/read gun sink fics I believe you. I think those of us who didn't see them are lucky or maybe didn't search for fics by tags or something idk

i mean ive never sought them out but i HAVE seen them,, like definitely i know almost for certain.

saw your tags and I'm interested in Steph/Kara now. They would be the most chaotic couple <3

literally thoooo, i have a wip where they get together in a zombie apocalypse and like UGGGHhhh i am so in love with them.

I am the Breece anon. Thanks for the recommendation; am reading now. I’ve always been a hardcore Superman fan because I love my pure himbo farm boy. My logic is, if one Bruce is a Broose, then multiple Broose are a herd of Breece. And this is a hill upon which I will perish.

fair enough,,,, like moose, meese, goose, geese, bruce, breece. i get your logic and i stand by it as well. (glad you enjoyed the comic recs!!!!)

It's a beautiful day in Gotham, and you are a group of horrible Breece

OH my god dude lmao

there only being 42 fics on ao3 for tim and bernard is honestly so sad i need more

it’s like twice that now!!! we did it lads. (tho very sad that my fic isnt number one but like number 4 :((((  )

i'm too late you already did the poll lol but may i suggest bethy (bernard + timothy)

shit dude that wouldve been so fucking funnyyyyy. think ppl have just stuck to timber tho, tim/bernard kinda died down recently and i think it’s too bad, they’re a great couple and i love them.

Wait, hear me out

Bernothy @redlightofdawn

great recommendation (lmao this ask is from like a month ago) but very sorry to announce that NARDTH is the superior shipname

Wait, we know that bernard likes milfs (Tim's step-mom) but what about dilfs? gilfs?

Wait no, I regret sending that ask

these were two seperate asks and they’re HILARIOUS. in my personal opinion tho,,, milfs, gilfs, dilfs are just about vibes and bernard is just attracted to sexy ppl who may sometimes be milfs, dilfs, or EVEN gilfs.

crime in bludhaven would drop to half if nightwing had a boob window. in this essay i will-

WHERE’S THE ESSAY ANON, WHERE’S THE FUCKING ESSAY

Wait if Barbra and Tim r at opposite ends at all times what happened to Barbra once everyone’s Tim’s ever love before started dying lol

she won a lottery ticket and spent 2 weeks on a resort in the bahamas before returning home and finding out that the joker was arrested for tax evasion and then spent a month staying at her big tiddie goth girlfriend’s house before conner came back to life and she broke her pinkie playing table hockey.

Why is the opposite end thing so funny and compelling to me. Tim comes back from his depression quest for Bruce and Babs is now a literal god

lmao when tim loses his spleen barbara reaches nirvana.

Are you still taking music recs because I have three songs that remind me of Jason that I think you'd like

send to me or lose a toe

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thanks, i wont tho on account of i wont.

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This is the whole of Blüdhaven and everyone anywhere.

Nightwings ass alone saves more people in a calendar year and does more for so society than most heroes do their whole career.Also u are one of the funniest tumblr pages out there. The vibes are unmatched and the memes and tags ✨send me✨.Thank u and goodnight @julia-flow 

fanksss also lmao.

That's going to be a little bit difficult to explain, but

There's some music that you listen to and you think, "oh my gosh, I can perfectly imagine Dick Grayson singing this song, with the same voice as the singer because that voice matches with Dick Grayson"?

oh yeah totally lmao. i have a lot of songs that i think are just entirely dick grayson yanno? kind of all of my playlists have that vibe, but i really find bleachers to fit with dick? idk.

"Lois lane/Superman" fics this, "Lois lane/Clark Kent" fics that, (/lh) let's get into the real good stuff. Some people ship Lois, Clark, and Superman as a throuple. Most popular fic tag for sure

yes totally, i think they’d be absolutely killer on ao3 and clark gets so fucking embarassed about it.

I miss your post, hope you’re doing okay!!

haha this was like 2 months ago, but i was doing fine then too! just didn’t have a lot of inspiration in terms of content.

Doot doot!

noot noot

I’m confused. What did DC do now? Like with nightwing? And another sibling? Please spoil everything for me

lmao they gave him a secret sister plotline where they had his dad cheat on his mom with tony zucco’s wife, bc dick’s life wasn’t traumatic enough yet.

sorry but it's so funny that batman is called "the dark knight" when the gotham city baseball team is called the gotham knights. it'd be like if a vigilante was running around new york called like "the scary yankee"

lmaooo no. but like yankee comes from dutch names or something so wouldnt it be HILARIOUS if gotham knights came from like german names and bruce would be running around called the dark KLAUS UND NIEK @graysonnightwing 

(not a batcest shipper) it’s so funny to me that the responses are “i’m a batcest shipper because i can differentiate fiction from reality and and it doesn’t bother me personally, but i understand why you oils think it’s weird” to “i wish all batcest shippers a very fucking die”

yeah lmaoo. i personally basically flipped my entire stance around to ‘i dont care please leave me and everybody else alone’ bc i think there’s really no point in starting a moral dillema over some fucking fandom bullshit. Please just,,, go home,,, log off, find a nice forest to have a little walk in and remember that somewhere in history, somebody probably died in the place you’re standing. and you will also die someday, and somebody will have to look at your internet usage and see you fighting multiple people anonymously while being named ‘nightwingsbuttchin200186′ like... calm down, we’re all gonna die this is not the thing to worry about.

so since like "wards" don't really exist in modern society almost all the batkids are foster kids, right? i used to work in the system and imagine: monthly visits from social workers and guardian ad litems, bruce having to get permission to take the boys anywhere out of state, calling their social worker at like 8 a.m. like "yeah dick broke his arm again... a gymnastics accident this time...." their poor social worker. bruce send her a huge bouquet and box of chocolates every month to stay on her good side

i imagine the social worker just getting into the case like ‘yeah let’s get this kid a good guardian’ and then ending up having to work with 22 y/o bruce wayne and his 50 y/o dad. and so this social worker is like ‘okay we can work with this, this is the best home i can find’ and then like it ends up landing on its feet and then the kid gets adopted and then they get a call a year later like ‘uhm so hi, this kid tried to steal my tyres can i adopt him?’ and like 3 years later. ‘okay so basically, my neighbours’ kid imprinted on me and now they’re dead, can i keep him?’ two years later it’s like ‘okay so this assassin child-’

ever since I saw that one post of yours, the meme that's something like "I know that abba's backup dancer got me" with a picture of discowing, I've been haunted. Every once in a while I'll be minding my own business then the image of abba's backup dancer dick grayson aka nightwing aka discowing will flash in my mind and I'll be frozen in place. Today at work I was in the middle of folding clothes and suddenly once again discowing entered my mind and I suddenly lost the ability to see anything except He. Thank you.

wow. the IMPACT.

Braver than any US marine man props to you🤝

this shit is about the time i wrote an article on batcest, like man,,, the fact that i didn’t get cancelled is MIRACULOUS. also like,,, uh if anybody on here did gossip on me,, send screenshots i’d love to see it.

Hello, just wanted to say your article was great. Thank you for taking the time to provide an unbaised answer. It should provide people with nuances they couldn't possibly conjure on their own.

May I ask where your username originates from?

yes you may (also thanks!!!) i thought it up when i was trying to find an original username bc i didnt want to be called like ‘timdrakes something something’ or ‘jason todd something smoething’ or ‘dick grayson something something’ yanno? so i thought batarangs, they sound so dumb and that’s my username story... now it’s my whole entire brand lmao.

yno that bit in kick ass where red mist asks kick ass if he wants a hit of his blunt, was that the inspo for stoner tim

no? it’s bc i think stoners are hilarious and drugs are great. (dont do drugs tho) 

How would u feel if someone actually wore one of those bruce or ollie pride shirts u edited

fenomenal next question.

Dick as lil huddy and Jason as James gave me radiation poisoning and now I’m screaming crying throwing up so thx for that

(Rico suave as Tim is perfect tho literally no changes needed)

i was so funny for that shit wasn’t i??? lmao i loved those weird ass fancasts

You're doing the Lord's work by providing us with all these Gotham/Metropolis citizens memes, thank you for being so relentlessly funny @nellethiel-aranel

you’re welcome!! i really enjoy making memes, but getting validation for my content and my memes is REALLY nice.

Bruce is such a slut in your memes and honestly i love that for him @rhodey-rhudert-rhodes-main 

he’s that much of a slut irl too dw.

Bruce and Alfred have an emergency pride flag for the batkids. Oliver Queen printed an emergency "I love my gay son" t-shirt and as soon as Roy told him he was dating Jason, Oliver started wearing that shirt everyday and Roy always cringes when he sees it. Oliver also has an emergency "I love my lesbian daughter" shirt just in case for Cissie.

lmao YES i had a post like this bc like all of their kids/family members are so gayy

stop bringing back batfam fancasts it is not real it is not real it is not- 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

oh yes it is my darling.

did discowing burn down the notredam because he hates the bees? @allulily

no he did it bc fuck the french.

im gonna beg for 1 thing and 1 thing only. please please please put physical by olivia newton john on dick's playlist

okay then beg. bc i wont. physical reminds me too much of glee and that hurts me mentally.

your playlist is sorely missing some Madonna. Specifically Into the Groove, Like a Prayer, and Vogue

i’m scared of madonna that’s why she’s not on there. she haunts me in my dreams.

suggestion: son of batman by aaron dews for dick’s playlist🤩

sorry, i listened to it and the vibe didn’t agree with me.

Hear me out, metropolis citizens sending rare pair fics of Clark Kent x Superman fics to Lois to edit

yes, absolutely hilarious. even more funny if they send like physical copies, no address attached and lois sends it back marked with red ink, SOMEHOW

Imagine all the smut Clark must of read editing the fics

clark reads smut confirmeeed

NOT LOIS READING SUPERBAT PORN AND EDITING IT A 2AM 

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hc that alfred is a meta that boosts healing factor of the people around him. if the bats are injured as much as they seem to be they would be doing bat stuff MAYBE half the year. no one including alfred knows about this. whenever the kids move out they inexplicably dont recover from injuries as fast and feel better whenever they visit the manor they just chalk it up to homesickness. bruce just thinks he heals really fast. alfred thinks everyone doesnt take care of themselves properly @finchcollector

that’s actually such a great idea, but i think that alfred would find out and learn how to concentrate it better so he can help more people, bc he’s great and i love him.

One of your dickfast posts reminded me of that tweet that goes: 'so you've had sex how many times? Yeah technically that's not a bromance' lol that's dickwally or dickroy

literally tho. like that’s all of dick’s friendships. once it gets past a certain time dick is like ‘wow i wonder what it would be like to make out with wally, wally come make out with me’ and wally’s like ‘we’ve done this like 40 times, dick, you know what it’s like’ and dick is like ‘sorry are you complaining?’ and they just make out.

superfam and batfam associations??

-batman and superman

-dick/barabara and supergirl?

-conner and tim

-jon and damian

pls enlighten me I am confused

nope,,, uhm batman and superman, but dick and superman as well, and then conner and tim, jon and damian and steph + babs with supergirl

I came across a fic in which Wonder Woman calls Batman "Stella" (like Stellaluna, the children's book) and I can imagine the batkids hop on the trend and maybe copies of the book appear at random places (aka, everywhere Bruce frequents)

sorry can’t reciprocate that was the name of my high school chemistry teacher and it gives me nightmares to think about.

good human what are your pronouns?

wouldn’t you like to know?

I need me some gothamites preferring harley over joker memes

everyone prefers harley over joker youre just very fucked up if you dont

don't understand why people try to add like veteran policy to the batfamily

dick pulling out his veteran batfam member card so he can eat first: step aside, peasants

Do you know the song Simmer by Haley Williams? It (the first verse anyways) reminds me of Jason? It's about rage.

damn yeah i LOVE HAYLEY!!!! youre right thoo

Okay so I like listen to your stoner Tim Drake playlist 24/7 but would he listen to skegss? Also I keep adding songs mentally it’s killing me 😩✋🏼 Anyways,, I literally love and worship your playlist 😃🤞🏼 And uh yeah have a good day ✨

stoner tim drake playlist is lyfeeee. also dont know who skeggs is? i’m stupid? have a good day!!

All the Robins (and Batgirl) decide to trade costumes for one night just to fuck with Batman and all the villains in Gotham. @subspacecadet 

batman knows it’s them youknow but like,,, what does he call them? he’s like ‘red hood?’ and 3 people answer and he’s not about to compromise some identities so he’s just Pissed.

I aspire to treat cops the way my dad treats them. This man is a 45 year old Asian immigrant to the US and the treats them like his pets. He talks about them like unruly children. Sometimes he pays off local cops to shut up and stop acting racist. And usually it works. I don’t know why but I can see Oliver Queen doing this

vibes... and also yes? oliver queen handing a local cop a donut to shut the fuck up lmao. but yanno i commit enough crimes to not really want to ever see a cop ever, so they kinda scare the everloving fuck out of me.

seeing as tim hasn't aged in years, that means he was 17 at peak emo tumblr era. im back on my emo tim bullshit and im not letting it go

emo tim had a wattpad account send tweet

People seem to think that batman is so dark and serious when the rainbow batsuit is right there. He wore it with no shame.

dude the 60s were a DIFFERENT TIME

dick grew up in a circus, jason grew up on the streets, and tim was probably raised by the internet

all of them cuss every other word and you cannot tell me otherwise

bitch i KNOW but dc has to change to an 18+ rating if they want to sell comix with swear words in them so we gotta deal with imagining the swear words in ourselves

thoughts on teen titans and young justice

haven’t seen teen titans on account of havent seen it and young justice was LITERALLY my favourite thing ever, tho i do gotta admit it’s not at all similar to the young justice comics unfortunately. i really wouldve liked to see timmy bart kon cassie and cissie animated on tv!!

ew ew ew how to delete batcest shippers I genuinely digust them

log off tumblr?

Okay as poc who was called racist for calling an Italian pastabrain: in the batfam are Italians bit Damian just yells various insults about the others being Italian. Just him yelling “What are you doing you moronic spaghettihead!” At steph etc

huh? i meant real italians. homeboy is telling steph he hopes she chokes on her fucking garlic.

I think it's dumb as hell to pull the batman is the best fighter in the batfam argument because like it's just irresponsible of Bruce to let his kids fight when they couldn't possibly be on his league or something

fair enough, but also like who cares they could all kill you just sit down and take a beating.

lady shiva, thalia al ghul and Selina Kyle are all milfs @notanothertimburtonenthusiastugh 

unfortunately, i have to admit,,, you’re right

why tf didn't someone give joker a death sentence already? like he's a mass murderer...give him the electric chair treatment wtf

idk i think plenty of people would have tried to murder him already (boring answer is: he is a popular character so they can’t kill him off bc he brings in lots of money)

There’s no such thing as “ copaganda”.

all american media is propaganda. happy to clear this up for you

is it bad that I find lady shiva owa owa

no. find her as owa owa as you want.

aight I'm guessing the order of your favs in batfam:

1. tim

2. Steph

3. dick

4. Duke

5. the rest

you’re wrong but it’s cute that you tried, i generally don’t have favourites, but i have a special place in my heart for steph, tim, dick and cass. bc they were like my introduction to batfam. but damian, jason, duke, bruce, babs and alfred are NOT FORGOTTEN OR UNLOVED

oh my god i was literally just readily willing to believe that italians werent white ty for clarifying it was a joke im so dumb sdkvjskdfs

i mean some italians aren’t white? italian is a nationality as well as an ethnicity, so like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

since I saw so many people doing headcanons about the nationalities of batboys, I see Dick as an Italian.

dont know if youre serious or not, but sure.

super random but

jason 🤝 damian

old english

lmao fair enough.

tim absolutely has 1 gay uncle and his parents shit talk said uncle all the time so after bruce adopts him he specifically reaches out to this uncle to be like "heyyyy just so you know you majorly influenced my life yes i know i havent seen you since i was 5 and at the family reunion yes i know you dont remember my name idc thank you im gay too" and then they never talk again.

yuppp lmao that’s definitely something that could happen. i can also consider tim having no family members, like none. until he does like a dna test and he realises he has like an aunt living barely 2 miles away from him who’s like some illegitimate child of his grandpa.

I dare you one of them sends clark superman/clark fic and clark corrects the shit out of it and then goes like ps his dick is not that big, just telling as someone who has seen it. internet either explodes or goes who tf did he not fuck at this point.

i think everybody would call clark a buzzkill and try to cancel him over that.

so you're telling me Tim Drake wouldn't buy Starbucks?

no. dunkin donuts all the way

One of my favorite things is imagining people finding out jason came back from the dead and being like "oh no does he have magic powers now?!?!?" and he just pulls out a gun and tries to shoot joker

now he doesn’t even have the gun :) lmao

my favorite batfamily fanfictions are the ones where they use their shitty codenames, unironically, in any context

bruce gets codename ‘ugh’ everytime. he hates it.

crazy that tim being a 17 y/o ceo and a stoner who does brand deals are all actual canon things written in detective comics comics and not made up for shits and giggles by you, tumblr user batarangsoundsdumb @rowdeyclown

SO CRAZY HUH?

batman au where everything is the same but his utility belt is bright pink

absolutely, but i raise you, his boots light up like sketchers when he kicks people.

unbeknownst to the superhero fandom writers in the dcuniverse, clark and BRUCE are one of the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag on ao3. clark writes the best lois x superman angst, full of unhappy endings and scenes that are a so detailed you'd think you were in the middle of a superhero beatdown. bruce made an ao3 account to fuel "the do the butts match" thing, and makes batman/bruce fics from time to time. he wrote a superbat fic as a joke but ended up making it REAL porny. @concrastinator

dude they’re WAY too busy for that. Oliver Queen and Hal Jordan on the other hand are the most prolific fanfic writers in the superhero rpf tag writing what is Mostly porn.

When the dining table topic gets to politics, Steph says "eat the rich" as the solution

bruce just silently takes away her fork and knife while she’s talking.

[brokehorrorfan]

Blu-ray Review: King Kong (1976)

The recent release of Godzilla vs. Kong revived the age-old debate about which giant monster is superior, but it's not exactly a fair fight when you consider their respective quantity of output. By the mid-1970s, Godzilla had already appeared in 15 films, while King Kong only had a mere four to his name: the 1933 original, its same-year sequel Son of Kong, the 1962 crossover King Kong vs. Godzilla, and its 1967 followup King Kong Escapes.

The first remake of King Kong arrived in 1976 at the behest of Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis (Dune, Flash Gordon, Army of Darkness). Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Flash Gordon) was hired to pen the script, based on James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose's original screenplay, and John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile) assumed the director's chair. Richard H. Kline (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Soylent Green) served as cinematographer, while John Barry (Dances with Wolves, Goldfinger) composed the score. The plot largely follows the same beats as the 1933 version, although some alterations and expansions were made along the way.

Hoping to sail into the history books with the biggest oil strike in history, oil magnate Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin, Midnight Run) leads an expedition to an undiscovered island in the Indian Ocean hidden by a perpetual fog. Paleontologist Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski) sneaks aboard the vessel, as he believes an animal occupies the island. In the middle of the ocean, the ship happens upon a life raft with struggling actress Dwan (Jessica Lange, American Horror Story), who quickly hits it off with Jack. Upon arriving at its destination, the crew discovers that the island is not uninhabited when they interrupt the native's ritual. The tribesmen proceed to kidnap Dwan and offer her as a sacrifice to the giant primate known as Kong.

The big reveal is impressive considering the limitations of the time. Per the closing title card, Kong was designed and engineered by Carlo Rambaldi (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Alien), who also constructed it with Glen Robinson (Logan's Run, Flash Gordon), with “special contributions” by Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London, Men in Black). Since Rambaldi's attempt at a full-scale electronic Kong failed, however, the majority of creature work is accomplished with Baker in a costume with mechanized masks. It's fairly convincing as such, although the seams of the composite shots are clearly visible in high definition. Perhaps more than any other kaiju, it's important for Kong to be expressive, and this iteration successfully conveys pathos.

Semple's script drops the filmmaking angle from the original plot yet retains that the female lead is an aspiring actress and the human antagonist wants to exploit Kong on stage - which, smartly, becomes a corporate-branded event here. Kong only fights one monster on the island - a bloody battle with a giant snake - but his path of destruction in New York is much grander, rivaling and often upstaging the Godzilla films of the time. Instead of the Empire State Building, Kong is drawn to the then-new World Trade Center this time around, as the Twin Towers parallel his habitat, leading to his tragic downfall and a brilliant final image.

After Barbra Streisand passed on the role of Dwan, De Laurentiis sought to pluck an unknown actress from obscurity and make her a star. He did just that with Lange, who receives an "introducing" credit. It's easy to see why she won out over innumerable other aspiring actresses, as she radiates on camera, and her naivety works to the advantage of her character. Bridges is serviceable as the leading man and has good chemistry with Lange - but the film's focus is, rightly, on Kong and Dwan. Their bond is palpable, although the sexualization of their relationship is an odd choice.

While the supporting roles are largely one-dimensional, they're filled by a number of keen character actors: John Randolph (Christmas Vacation) as the ship's captain, Ed Lauter (Family Plot) as the first mate, Rene Auberjonois (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as a geologist, Jack O'Halloran (Superman) and Julius Harris (Live and Let Die) as oil drillers, Dennis Fimple (House of 1000 Corpses) as a crew member, John Lone (The Last Emperor) as the cook, John Agar (Revenge of the Creature) as a city official, Walt Gorney (Friday the 13th) as a subway driver, and a young Corbin Bernsen (Psych) and Joe Piscopo (Saturday Night Live) as uncredited reporters.

King Kong has been released on Collector's Edition Blu-ray by Scream Factory with reversible artwork featuring a new design by Hugh Fleming and John Berkey's classic poster. The two-disc set includes the 134-minute theatrical version and the 182-minute TV cut, with its additional footage newly scanned in 2K from the internegative. (NBC paid De Laurentiis $19.5 million for two showings; the highest amount a network ever paid for a film at the time.) It features DTS-HD 5.1 and newly restored theatrical DTS-HD 2.0 stereo audio options.

This version of King Kong lacks the awe-inspiring spectacle of the three other major iterations (the 1933 original, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, and 2017's Kong: Skull Island reboot), but it has moments of greatness that shine in high definition. De Laurentiis successfully spearheaded a sincere remake that shows reverence for the cinematic icon, and the theatrical cut is smoothly paced despite the lengthy runtime. The TV version doesn't fare as well, as it's padded by nearly an hour of additional footage (along with trims to the more crude sequences). They do little to add plot points, character depth, or anything else of potential value; instead they serve only to fill a programming block at the expense of the pacing. Still, it's nice to finally have a restored version for diehard fans.

King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon author Ray Morton provides a new audio commentary on the theatrical cut. It's very dry but full of information, especially when it comes to the drama between Rambaldi and Baker over the creature design. Having "outgrown the boundaries of a featurette," per disc producer Justin Beahm, an interview with Baker was turned into a second commentary. It's not as long as the whole film, which is fine, but it frustratingly forces the viewer to sit through gaps of the film's audio while awaiting the next soundbite rather than presenting it all in succession. It's unfortunate but worthwhile, as there's a lot of firsthand insight.

Beyond that, there are over 45 minutes of new video interviews with O’Halloran, assistant director David McGiffert, production manager Brian Frankish, sculptor Jack Varner, second unit director William Kronick, photographic effects assistant Barry Nolan, and production assistants Jeffrey Chernov and Scott Thaler. Most are conducted over video chat with mostly fine results (O’Halloran's picture quality is particularly bad), although a few are traditional on-camera pieces, and some subjects are paired together. They all seem proud of their contributions and happily share anecdotes about working on the massive production, even if the experiences weren't always positive.

Other special features on the first disc include the theatrical trailer, seven TV spots, three radio spots, and four still galleries (stills, posters and lobby cards, newspaper ads, and behind-the-scenes photos). The TV cut disc, meanwhile, sports an hour-long panel with Baker, O’Halloran, Kline, Dino De Laurentiis' widow Martha, and Barry's agent Richard Kraft, from a 2016 event at Santa Monica, CA's Aero Theater. Hosted by Morton, it's an entertaining and informative discussion.

King Kong is available on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray now via Scream Factory.

[sweetest-honeybee]

In the PM!AU, just how 'evil' are some of the villains out of curiosity, give the identities of some of them~

Hm, I can compare them with some villains in a show called Gotham :D

Llama Dad is like Don Falcone (Essentially quite a nice guy actually, doesn’t get his hands dirty and has other people [*cough cough* Etho *cough cough*] do it for him). He himself actually doesn’t necessarily engage in anything but would go in guns blazing if he wanted to.

The Goat Father is like a solid mix between Fish Mooney and Barbra Keen (can’t spell her name either lol) bc he would engage in more violence and fraud than Beef does. Definitely much more chaotic, would slap a bitch at any moments notice, and makes quic, bold, violent decisions when the opportunity is presented to him. Probably relies more on machinery and people with powers than regular men. Be it that he mutates them himself or not.

For the first two, a lot of their crimes are more around murder, assassination, small heists if needed, etc, but general both have a LOT of money and ammunition and even those with superpowers fear them bc they’ve got thousands of people who work for them and they’re just really powerful in general.

Helsknight is of course like Helsknight, just a little more competent and angsty for the sake of the AU. As far as his schemes go, they typically revolve around fire, explosions, and gunfire. He’s the kinda guy who sets off bombs in a train station or sumn.

Evil X wasn’t a big name villain but worked for one (The Wither King and yes, that’s from hermitcraft) but he was the guy who did the dirty work. Generally, would kill if he wanted to, would scam anyone out of a deal, but mostly relies on electrical powers to pull off his stunts. Without power (provided you destroy any backup generators), there’s no security so it’s actually quite easy and I mean the average man can’t really withstand 10,000 volts of electricity.

I believe we said Cleo was kinda a neutral person, but generally kinda scams people too.

Guess we’re throwing impulse in here now and I haven’t decided what he does yet if he doesn’t help tango with anything.

Tango is more or less a villain and just kinda robs people and does small bank heists. I think he’d be a good worker for Doc actually.

There’s Salmon Ghsot who is more into taking down the heroes themselves than causing harm to other people but if that’s what it takes, then he’d kill a million people to get rid of that damn chicken.

Etho is technically a villain, and works for Beef. He does the dirty work.

I think that’s all of them?