still thinking about that "do you feel attached to your name" poll and im realizing i feel more attached to my url than my actual name LMAO its like. full first name < jay & psychiclounge on about equal footing. in "jay psychiclounge" the url is as much (if not slightly more) of a valid name as the actual name
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I was listening to the GTN audiobook and I was at the bit from chapter 21 where Camilla mentions that soul siphoning normally causes brain damage, and that Colum probably does have brain damage:
And now I can't stop thinking about Augustine basically calling Cristabel an idiot in chapter 17 of HTN
Was it just the siphoning??
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ugh i just need to dig my fingers into someone’s sides and armpits while they’re facedown and just watch them laugh helplessly into a pillow - such a beautiful sight <33
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Obviously people can write what they want, but nothing takes me out of a story faster than seeing Jason adopted without Bruce meeting Dick.
I know I have my biases, but I feel it shows a complete…lack of interest in Bruce, as a character. Bruce is a highly traumatized man, one who hasn’t had a family since he was 8 years old (hired butlers really don’t count, for all that they might get more family-like later). What could possibly convince him that he was the best person to care for a young boy? It’s delusion at best or even insane narcissism. What could he possibly offer besides money, which he already gives in large amounts to actual child-helping organizations in Gotham??
Unless, of course, he witnesses something so shocking, so deeply affecting, that it’s become one of the best attended events in the DC universe because everyone wants a piece of that emotional arc. Something that vividly takes him back to the alley way, back to another boy kneeling between two bodies. Makes him realize that there might be other people in that lonely, dark world of his.
Dick in general is so massively influential on Bruce, but this moment is what pries its fingernails under the doorframe. It’s what makes everything that comes later possible. And it’s not just that he’s an orphan boy; it’s the shock, the spectacle, the intensely public display of grief after violence from a boy who looks like Bruce, who is the same age as Bruce was,and, I think this is critical, was so happy just moments before like Bruce remembers being.
Maybe Bruce still finds Jason and Tim and Cass without taking in Dick. Maybe he still can be a good father, be a good Batman, without Dick’s influence directly in his life. But the character is fundamentally different without being there that night. It’s the first and longest lasting moment of character growth that we see on page for Bruce, one that gets retold over and over.
He needs his night at the circus.
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i think if someone kidnapped me and a couple friends nd forced us to live in a house in the forest for like a year that would fix me
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the part of old school fandom days i miss the most on here is getting lots of really amazing anons but i've had anon off for years after a couple bad experiences of people being mean and now that i'm super active in iwtv fandom the urge to turn it back on is so strong but... i don't think i can deal with people being mean to me right now lol
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