This is an incredibly selfish take but I was just about to start my evening editing of the podcast episode all about the health of Kate and Charles when I saw this news. We really need to stop talking about the health of the British royals
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Marvel/DC Crossover Week | 2024
Day 1 | Sidekicks | Family | “I won the fight before you even turned up.” - Batman
@marvel-dc-crossover-event
Boom! The two sidekicks of DC and Marvel, a wild Robin and a Bucky bonding over Alpine!
Initially I was going to have Bucky standing with his arms crossed, and Robin Dick doing the same with a puffed up chest next to him, mocking him like he might Batman, but I found I didn’t really care about that idea if there wasn’t dialogue, or any sort of relationship between the characters.
The second dialogue I wrote:
D: “We should arrange play dates for Alpine with Alfred.”
B: “Your grandpa? Why would we—“
D: “Tt. Not Pennyworth. My cat, Alfred, doesn’t have a companion. I think he may be… lonely.”
B: “You sure you’re not the one who wants to play with Alpine?”
D: “Ridiculous. Alfred wants to, not me. Though, I’d have to be here too. To supervise.”
Additionally, Damian was supposed to look more… victorious, that he was getting to pet Alpine, but I guess I put the eyebrow too high. Oh well. And instead of the Black Widow logo, I wanted Bucky to wear a Black Canary shirt, because I think he’d like her, but she didn’t really have a logo I liked.
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okay, lemme just say:
Gil-galad, who hated being the king
Gil-galad, who had never wanted to be the king in the first place
Gil-galad, who was crowned anyway, because there were hardly any finweans left around and the noldor in Beleriand needed a king, just so they can hold onto something, have some semblances of normality in the apocalyptic post-nirnaeth time
Gil-galad, who became the high king when he was only 13/14 if we convert to human years, who was barely able to hold back tears in front of crowds as the crown was being placed upon his head
Gil-galad, who had been raised by Círdan on Balar, among Teleri, and now he was the number 1 person in a culture that he didn't even feel like was truly his. A culture that so far he had only been taught about, had never participated in.
Gil-galad, who politically hardly ever got to make his own decisions, whose role as the king was mostly limited to signing up whatever the parliament needed to validate and who was ascribed the blame whenever an idea backfired
Gil-galad, who always wished he could've just lived a simple life on Balar, alongside Teleri, worked on a fishing boat and stuff like that, but instead he was manoeuvred into politics and bureaucracy, and an office that everyone at this point already knew was cursed, overall an enormous amount of responsibility, when he was basically still a child
Gil-galad who was handling it all quite well until the third kinslaying happened
Gil-galad, who was something like 15/16 in human years when the third kinslaying happened, who then had to face the reality of his reign, which was: he held little to no power. He was just a teenager, put on a throne, so the noldorin power in beleriand didn't seem to be crumbling as badly as it actually was. And he definitely wasn't able to protect his people
Gil-galad, who was still doing his best after the third kinslaying, but also he started turning completely self-destructive in his free time. Like, there wasn't a single weekend he wouldn't spend at some party, drinking until he blacked out, taking whatever drugs he could get, getting involved in all kinds of reckless/precarious sexual behaviours
Gil-galad, who just wanted someone to show up and take over the kingship , but was aware that all hopes for it had been wiped out when the feanorians attacked Sirion. That any hopes were gone along with Eärendil and his little sons.
Gil-galad, whose role was mostly representative, so he had to be present at all kinds of events, no excuses. ,,What do you mean you need a day off? You're the king, ffs!!! Get your hangovered ass over there, it's not like you're going to work'' It pretty much resulted in young Gil-galad quite often showing up in public hangovered/ still lightly drunk/drugged/ overall messy af. And aside from the toll it took on his reputation, like- the king who has some serious troubles with substance abuse is probably easy to be influenced on many matters; it's also the fact that he was crowned to raise the morale among noldor, to message: ,,Look, we still have a king, it's not that bad!" How does it impact the Noldor when they repeatedly see their king barely able to stand upright or retching in some darkened corner? Not well, to say the least.
Gil-galad, who felt trapped by the kingship.
Gil-galad, who knew there was no way out of it for him, other than by suffering a painful death like basically every one of his predecessors
Gil-galad who was being self-destructive and he didn't care about getting hurt because ,,hey, I have no control over my own life anyways :)))''
but also Gil-galad, who grew out of his teenage years and in his early adulthood had some ,,I can't keep living like this" moments , especially after waking up somewhere on the cold ground, feeling like shit and covered in vomit and all other kinds of fluids either his own or someone else's or both
Gil-galad who was in his early twenties (again, converted to human years) and decided to get his life together, because if he's trapped anyway, he can as well try to make it a little less horrible for himself
Gil-galad, who had maybe never got quite the amount of support he needed from Círdan, but Círdan had definitely taught him a lot and enough for him to be able to get by in life and politics
Gil-galad, who started getting his life together in his early twenties, and even if he stayed dangerously close to alcohol/drugs addiction and kept his inclination for partying for the rest of his life, he was actually doing fine
Also sometime after the War of Wrath began, it turned out that Eärendil's sons had made it out alive after all, and maybe it wasn't fixing all Ereinion's problems, but it sure was SOMETHING
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apparently one of my friends and i had a fun talk last night, and this was the result:
context (?): we were watching return of the king with a bunch of friends and playing a drinking game, and i think i said smash when the witch king came on the screen… and he agreed…
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