#i'm sane about him.

[earthfleurs]

omg omg he's so stunning

[collieii]

someone probably said this already but in spiderverse i think it's interesting how when pavitr was first introduced everyone thought something bad was gonna happen to him bc of how confident and optimistic he was. and then in the actual movie we see that something bad was supposed to happen to him (police chief dying!) but it doesn't! miles stops it! and miguel berates miles for this, says it's going to cause the universe to collapse or whatever.

there's this idea that tragedy is inherent to spidermans growth, and while it's true that some spiderpeople learn important lessons through loss, no one stops to ask, is it really necessary? yeah, maybe the chief was supposed to die. but why does spiderman have to be formed through tragedy? why do we (as heroes) have to let people die? pavitr didn't lose anyone, and he's still a good spiderman! maybe, if he doesn't suffer, he'll end up better off for it!

so while miguel is arguing for all this big picture stuff about saving the multiverse he's lost sight of what it really means to be a spiderman, he's not looking out for the real individual people. yeah it's just one person who would die, but that one person means something to someone. shrugging and saying "stuff just sucks sometimes, we can't do anything about it" is the opposite of what superheroes do. pretty obviously, miles arc is also a reflection of the struggles people face in real life, working within unequal systems, where it's easy to shrug and say "that's just the way it is" and not ask "but why does it need be this way? can't we do something about it?"

miguel is arguing that you can't have your cake and eat it too. presumably, miles and co. are going to find a way to get around that and change things for the better (and maybe that's why miles has that line about two cakes in the advisors office!)

[lotus-pear]

dazai stop rizzing up the enemy challenge go!!

[moonferry]

if kent stardew valley has one million fans, i'm one of them. if kent stardew valley has ten fans, i am one of them. if kent stardew valley has only one fan, THAT'S ME. if kent stardew valley has no fans, then that means i am no longer on this earth. if the world is against kent stardew valley... i am against the world.

[zhouxiangs]

Mr. Ming, do you know him? No.

MY STAND-IN (2024) | Episode 5

[apricior]

i need you guys to know that tonight i dreamt that normal was forced to travel to different worlds/dimensions and that in every single one of them he met hermie. and hermie was always slightly different (maybe it was his hair, or his clothes, just the tiny details), but it was always hermie, and normal always fell in love with him.

and it didn't matter that normal knew he wasn't his hermie, he still loved him with his entire heart

[salixcustodia]

hello mortefi nation

[crowley-exploder]

"Yea I've been rewatching supernatural" ← lie, i'm just rewatching every episode CROWLEY IS IN like a sane person would

[distort-opia]

Alright excuse my compulsion to situate everything within a timeline, but. I love that now there's more than one story taking place before The Killing Joke that establishes Bruce empathizing and relating to Joker, and that Zdarsky clearly took inspiration from the one before his own for this aspect of Bruce and Joker's relationship.

The events of Zdarsky's I Am A Gun take place while Dick is a boy and still Robin, early in Batman's career... and so does Darwyn Cooke's amazing-showstopping-spectacular Batman: Ego. In Ego, we get another instance of Bruce's mind being split in two; there being a separation between Bruce and Batman, with the embodiment of Batman arguing for Joker's murder:

-- Batman: Ego

But Bruce says no. He says he isn't a killer:

Forever obsessed with how Darwyn Cooke so efficiently conveys how Bruce understands Joker, and relates to him. He knows Joker chose madness to deal with tragedy, that he was faced with the same choice Bruce was, and that Bruce could've become him. Because that's what Bruce lapsing into laughter and acting like Joker shows.

But the story is centred around Bruce in Batman: Ego, while in I Am A Gun... perhaps the best line to summarize it is Bruce thinking to himself, "Is the Joker broken too?" in Batman (2016) #128. It's not just the two facets of Bruce vs. Batman in this story, it's also the two facets of Joker: a human being, and a monster.

The conflict in Bruce is mirrored in Joker, and I am kissing Zdarsky on the mouth for acknowledging it and portraying it so beautifully. There's a monster in Bruce made out of hollow anger, and there's a human being crying for help buried inside Joker:

-- Batman (2016) #130 -- I Am A Gun

"He'll fix you." And Martha being the one to say this, the one who becomes Joker herself in a different world, a different Universe... perhaps it's not intentional, but it feels so relevant. In Flashpoint, Thomas Wayne is a Batman who kills. In New 52's Earth 2, he's a Batman who killed Joker himself. And in Bruce's head, it's Thomas Wayne arguing for Joker's death.

But I just love that keeping both I Am A Gun and Ego in mind, knowing that these thoughts and emotions were there for Bruce for years, makes The Killing Joke... even more poignant.

Bruce has been thinking about this for a long time. And all of it coming to a head with the iconic offer for help, with the one time Bruce offered Joker his hand despite what Joker had just done...

-- Batman: The Killing Joke

[clenches fist] It's beautiful.

[themadknightuniverse]

100 Lalo/Tony :)

[murderedbyhomework]

Fun fact of the day, the soundtrack/background music in the scenes where Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua breakup after his identity reveal, and the scene where Li Lianhua writes his letter and is implied to have died shortly after, is the exact same. Even more fun tidbit, that soundtrack is called 世上再無李相夷 (Li Xiangyi is no more in this world).

So fanghua nation how are we feeling about fdb saying "Li Lianhua.... No, I should call you Li Xiangyi now." during a scene where the soundtrack is literally called Li Xiangyi is no more in this world?

[tallyballing]

ZUBIN SEDGHI SIGHTING MOODBOARD

[herearedragons]

tag the oc that's most likely to get stuck in a time loop and what kind of time loop it would be

[hanasinbloom]

I don't want this isolation See the state I'm in now?

doing some lighting / shading practice + warm-ups with my favorite blue boy in between commissions 💙✨

full art below:

[toshkar]

They are so dead!

[eri-pl]

So, Vanyar are the good guys, right?

The boring, faultless Elves?

...except that part where Ingwë (that's the Vanyar king, right? I tend to mistake him with the Teleri one) plays matchmaker so that his sister could marry Finwë despite the fact that Finwë has a wife (who is dead but anyway) and we all know how it ended.

Seriously. In one of the alternate tellings of the story, he knows Indis loves Fnwë, he invites Finwë for a visit and tells Indis to go sing on (the mountain? a balcony? anyway somewhere) and Finwë falls in love and this looks very much planned.

Which is just

just

it was even before the Valar said that Finwë can divorce, that this is even a possibility.

Since I learned about that I have a strong hc that many Vanyar are very "letter of the law", "if it's not forbidden, it is ok" kind of persons, while simultanously blaming the Teleri for not going to Aman fast enough and the Noldor for leaving (I'm not even talking murder, just leaving would be enough) and if they got whatever terrible order signed by the Valar, they would do it without question.