#starling city

[starry-bi-sky]

okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.

So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).

Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021

Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.

Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)

Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.

It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.

[plumes-merry-critters]

"Even in daylight, there are still star(ling)s against the sky" - Sept. 2021

[wandering-cemeteries]

A starling on a tombstone.

Trinity Cemetery, Manhattan

May 2016

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Pearlescent Pair

This portrait of a pair of purple glossy starlings (Lamprotornis purpureus) at the Kansas City Zoo in Missouri.

Photograph by Joel Sartore

[oh-hecate]

Kisses from Tuliyollal 💜☀️💙

[night-for-night]

starlings in the outfield - yashica mg-1 & 400 speed color film - developed at eliz digital & scanned with minolta dimage dual iii

[emilou-keen-gear]

Just some goofy doodles about some scenes that may or may not come up in my story. Basically, Darkwing is gloating about having the key to the city and decides to carry it around everywhere, bragging. Not a good idea since it weighs so much. Then Jim decides to help him out with some of his workload as Darkwing Duck (always a good idea, right?) and let's just say that Jim isn't entirely rid of Negaduck. LOL

[emaadsidiki]

The Queens Zoo Aviary 🐥🐦

[scooby-doo-exploration]

FROM :  leti-07

[mywingsareonwheels]

K. J. Charles just never needs to go as hard as she does, and I love her for it.

The Sins of the Cities trilogy is three queer romances set in the 1870s in London, which are very openly her take on the Victorian melodramatic "potboiler" genre of the time (scandalous aristocrats, lost heirs, fraudulent seances, murders in the fog, kidnapping, the works). The books shamelessly fulfill the tropes of both the romance genre (complete with HEAs for all six of the leads!) and the Victorian potboilers. Two populist genres fully accommodated...

... but with such compelling characters and likeable prose and so much nuance and such intensely precise and excellent historical research, and such a sharp and compassionate and where relevant really angry eye on class, race, sexuality, disability, neurodivergence, and gender.

Also fucking hell the London fog of December 1873 sounds terrifying. They had to close the theatres because even though it was inside, the people on the front row of the stalls couldn't see the stage. People got lost within a few yards of their own houses, and the fog followed you in and trailed around your legs whenever you opened the door or a window. And it was to a large extent made of coal and wood smoke, so it was horribly hard to breathe through, even if you had no pre-existing lung problems. Ngyarrgghh! Charles gets this across to the extent that when you witness a character manage to navigate his way across town because his memory and spacial awareness are just that good, it rightly seems like like a superpower to both the other characters and the reader. :-) <3

But honestly, K.J. Charles just always goes harder than she needs to. On historical accuracy and caring so so much about her characters and sometimes on being Really Fricking Weird. Love her. :D

[tuuliareads]

My current TBR-hopefuls. Some light reading. Current read is Bookshops & Bonedust

[siriusist]

Also I want everyone to know The Starling Girl is playing at my local indie theatre and I literally can't go see it because I can't even look at the matinee without thinking of the clip of Lewis Pullman asking the girl to "spit it out," without smirking like an pervert. I would be absolutely feral and unhinged going to that fucking movie on my own. A menace.

As anyone who actually went to this movie seriously would be like why is this girl cackling at a horrific religious trauma movie, and I would literally throw myself out as a result. I am watching this in the privacy of my own home with my friend on the phone so we can have a watch party and cackle as loudly as we deserve to.

[plumes-merry-critters]

"Starling and young blackbird on top of a fence" - Aug. 2021

[aristobun]

lol.   i   should   have   anticipated   helene   falling   in   love   with   the   city   hunter   because   of   what   he   has   done   over   the   last   month   or   two,   killing   joel   being   one   of   them.   he's   saved   her   from   a   lot   of   things   since   they   met   to   be   fair.   i'm   not   surprised,   but   i'm   annoyed   that   it   has   reached   the   love   stage,   haha.

[aturnoftheearth]

they don't even know about lord huron lol

[way-out-there]

Birds in the city... Some random shots on from the walks in NYC.