#thomas elliot

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Necromunda Promethium Guilder by Thomas Elliott

[yuwigqi]

Sequel to this poll

[feartoxinjelloshot]

since the death of god there's been a vacancy left open. you can fill that void - here's how.

[gffa]

I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING but it makes perfect sense and GODDAMN WHAT A DELIVERY ON THE BUILDING TENSION OF IT ALL, because the entire issue was about Tommy pitting himself against Nightwing as a narrative foil, screaming in rage about how Bruce will do anything for him, how he wants to kill Nightwing because Bruce cares about him and how he doesn't really get why Dick understands Bruce in a way he never did. And it's so interesting that I wonder how much Dick is right about Tommy's motivations, because everything Tommy has said up to this point in the issue doesn't really feel like he wants Bruce's life:

"You keep trying to disavow our friendship and eliminate our shared history.  You keep trying to erase my face from your memory so that I have to wear yours!  I'm going to make sure you never forget... by cutting my name into Nightwing's back! You'd do anything for him, wouldn't you, Bruce? But what have you done for me... your first true friend? Besides take everything that should have been mine!" I can see how it seems like that last line might come across as Tommy wanting Bruce's life, that he felt that life should have been his, and wearing Bruce's face is a pretty obvious extension of that. But being enraged by Nightwing's presence, by Bruce's willingness to do anything for that kid, it made it so that I saw it as what Tommy wants here isn't Bruce's life, it's Bruce's friendship. That distinction makes him such a more complicated, interesting presence in this issue, because here he wants what Dick has--the partnership with Bruce, the willingness to throw himself between Dick and any harm that would come his way, the way they can speak volumes with just a shared look. He wants to be the one that changed Bruce's world the way Bruce and the Waynes changed his world. But he didn't, so he has to take what he believes should have been his--and that's why he changed his face again, because what he wants in this issue is Dick Grayson's life. Underneath all of it, what Tommy desperately wanted was to be loved and Thomas and Martha Wayne are dead, they can't love him. But Bruce Wayne lives and he can and does love. Tommy won't find the love he's been hungry for since childhood by taking over Bruce's life, because then the elements of his childhood won't be there to love him.  So he has to become someone that Bruce loves, someone that Bruce will do anything for. And Dick's absolutely right that Tommy wasn't there for any of the hard times or the little moments, he doesn't understand that being loved by Bruce Wayne isn't some idyllic, easy thing. It's hard fucking work because Bruce Wayne is still swimming against the tide of his own trauma and he is never easy about how it affects his relationships. From the outside, it might seem easy--and I think sometimes not even the other Batfam members understand that it's not easy for Dick, either, despite how they too see how desperately Bruce loves him. Yeah, Dick makes it look easy, he drags Bruce to Batburger and teams up with Clark for a god-awful bachelor party and gets Bruce to say he misses him unprompted and thank him for the night. But you don't see all the history that comes with it.  The knock-down-drag-out fights Dick and Bruce have.  The years of hurt and anger after he was fired as Robin.  The hurt of having to fake his death and go undercover as a spy.  The constant push-and-pull of Bruce trying to respect his independence, but also resenting Dick for how much he misses his kid.  Honestly, the entire Ric Grayson arc illustrates so much of how angry Dick still is about all the shit that Bruce pulls. Tommy skips right over that, because Dick makes it look so easy from the outside to be loved by Bruce, but it's not. You can't just cheat-code your way into that role by getting surgery to look like the guy who knocked down Bruce's emotional walls, because every single goddamned day Dick still has to get up and demand that Bruce love him and be the person that drags light into the darkness of Bruce's life. It makes the narrative foils aspect of this issue so engaging because both of them don't really fully get the other, that Dick doesn't understand what Tommy really wants, that Tommy doesn't really understand why Dick has what he has, all of it wrapped up in wanting Bruce Wayne's attention. And it's so interesting because that's kind of the whole point of Bruce as a character, that all these people love him and want his approval, but only a handful ever really get it because you can't love him as this mythic figure that's there to loom over you. You have to love him as the asshole that makes your life miserable but you also admire for the sheer determination he has for justice and that, when he trusts you, he trusts you with everything he has, and because you like his dry sense of humor, you like that he's kind of stupid sometimes.  You have to love him as a man, not an idea.

[to-be-a-bat]

Who in the Batfamily doesn't have verified social media and why is it Bruce.

At first Bruce did have it but he forgot the password to the account. During Batman Hush Elliot gained access to the account so technically it was his but he didn't care about it and eventually it somehow made its way into the hands of Clayface.

Now the batkids know its Clayface, but they do everything in their power to make it look like its actually Bruce, replying to his posts and interacting with him on social media to keep up appearances. Bruce gets tired of this eventually and tries to hack the account back but Barbara makes sure all his attempts fail. Eventually he has enough and a court case happens to give the account to the real Bruce Wayne. Clayface disguised as Bruce shows up to dispute. Elliot also shows up because he thought it would fuck with Bruce. The Batkids hire Martian Manhunter to show up as Bruce so now there are FOUR Bruce's in the court. Plastic Man also shows up for some reason disguised as Bruce. Eventually half the court room is full of Bruce Waynes and the Judge is trying desperately not to loose his shit.

[sandmandaddy69]

Thomas Elliot

[thecruellestmonth]

Batman: The Ultimate Guide to the Dark Knight - Rogues

[alphamecha-mkii]

Yoshiuki Takani Painting Studies by Thomas Elliott

[two-baes]

Same School AU; final semester graduation (for everyone BUT Lincoln) summer trip out to the lake house. (aka the last time this babby child will see any of them until they're adults)

All his friends have changed; they've become someone new. But that's okay, he's finally caught up to them, and now he's become someone new, too.

[haaaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Neferata by Thomas Elliot

[whipbogard]

Head empty, only Tommy, Colin and Tommy’s boyfriend, Lincoln, being a surprisingly and ironically healthy family on my mind lately thanks to Li’l Gotham

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Tyranids vs Astra Militarum by Thomas Elliott

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men Annual #1 - "Radiant" (2022)

written by Steve Foxe art by Andrea Di Vito & Sebastian Cheng

[feartoxinjelloshot]

Expert surgeon 🤨🤨🤨🤨Mr Thomas Elliot.....?

I wouldn't know what you mean... he's a hard man to get a hold of ;^]

[gffa]

NOMMING AWAY ON THIS MOMENT because I love it when comics give me something to chew on like this, something that makes me want to pull it apart and see how all of this ticks, to explore something I'd never really considered much before and am just starting to poke with a stick, especially when it's that the way to really hurt Batman is through his kids, especially when it's coming from someone like Tommy, who is so angry at feeling abandoned by Bruce, by not having Bruce's attention and affection. That he wants Bruce's emotional investment so bad he warped himself into this creature, he even wears Bruce's face, because he doesn't want to be Bruce, he wants to be seen by Bruce, loved by him here . And who does Bruce love? Who can Tommy hurt that won't be about Batman, but that will make Bruce hurt like he does, on the most personal level? Of course it's one of Bruce's kids. Especially the kid that came first, the one that became Batman's partner, the one that can just share a look with Bruce and they immediately understand each other, the one that Bruce will let drag him to Batburger not once, but TWICE, and even say thank you for this, the one that Bruce will say, "I know you're only half an hour away, but even that feels too far", the one that brought the light back to Bruce's life and refused to not be loved by him. The one that Tommy sees how Bruce would do anything for that kid and I don't think Tommy necessarily sees it as what it is--a father protecting his child, rather than a friendship type of dynamic--but I don't think it matters that a father's relationship with his kid is different from one friend's relationship with another. But it burns because Tommy feels he should have been first, he was there even before this kid came along, but it doesn't matter how much he understands loss and trauma now, he'll never understand Bruce in the way that Dick and the others do, he'll never be the kind of person Bruce would do anything for. Like, Tommy, for all that he's angry here and wants revenge, is idealizing Bruce in a lot of ways, he's making him a mythic figure in his mind, a representation of something that was Tommy's to possess, instead of seeing the flawed, often impossible to deal with person that Bruce is. It's a contrast to how Dick sees him, that he knows Bruce is an asshole and stupid and makes a shitload of mistakes, and Dick loves him anyway, as a person. Both Dick and Tommy are characters who stood up and demanded that Bruce love them here, but there's a reason why Bruce will do anything for one of them and not the other. And seeing Tommy's rage directed at Nightwing, the kid who cracked Batman open and made Bruce Wayne love him and do anything for him, is such a neat narrative foil. Like, I'm liveblogging as I go here, so I'm not sure how spot-on I am to all of this yet, but I am certainly feeling that the narrative foils of these characters against each other is ENTICING.

[diddle-riddle]

Bat-shaped Heart

"So you adopted this kid?"

"I didn't 'adopt him', I... took him under my wing."

Gordon hardly contained a burst of laughter. Batman grumbled, avoiding his gaze.

Weeks post-flood, a vigilante going by 'Spoiler' spread clues across town to unmask the next steps in Riddler's plan, alongside Riddler's real identity: Thomas Elliot. Bruce investigated until he found the culprit, a sixteen-year-old genius.

What Bruce didn't tell Jim however, is that this boy, the true Edward Nashton, lived with two children, his siblings-of-heart Stephanie and Jason. And Batman indeed promised to protect, care for plus help through the three of them.