i am so tired of men who reduce batman to a heartless, brutal man who thirsts for vengeance!!!!!! “can you imagine your batman comforting a scared child? if yes, congratulations, that’s a genuine batman! if no, you haven’t written batman, you’ve just written punisher in a funny hat.” like... we are talking about bruce wayne, a boy who was orphaned at the age of eight. a boy who was born and raised in a wealthy family, who has never known the hardships of life, watched his parents get murdered before his very eyes. bruce came to a realization how fragile humans are, how quickly the fire of mortality can be snuffed out. there’s a reason why he doesn’t kill, why his fighting is controlled and calculated to disarm without increasing the possibility of injury or death as much as possible, why he offers criminals a chance to reform and even land occupations at wayne enterprise. because he believes there’s always a non-violent solution. because he refuses to be swept and contribute into the cycle of violence and death. i’m aware of the trolley problem, and i’m sure he is too. for example, if he just got it over with with joker and snapped the clown’s neck so he wouldn’t have a chance to break out of arkham again and go on killing sprees, he could prevent massacres. but he chooses not to, because at his very core, he has hope. and that’s a very powerful, dangerous thing. it’s comparable to seeing the world through rose tinted glasses. batman isn’t perfect!!!!!! that’s why!!! he thinks of himself as a bad man!!!!!!!!! that’s why he is so tormented by guilt! his humanity, how fallible he is, is a core characteristic. he can’t shoot lasers from his eyes like superman and he’s not related to a god like wonder woman. he’s human just like the people he swears to protect!!!!!! that’s also why it’s so important to see him struggle. to see him make mistakes and try to atone for them. to see him be in the brink and midst of loss and how he managed to overcome or live with it. to see him age, weaken as the burden of the years befall on his shoulders. to see him become surpassed. to see him die. because that reminds the audience that he’s just a man. he’s flesh and bones and skin just like you and me. he’s just a man who’s odds were in his favor. that’s why in the comics for multiple instances we see him making emergency plans to subdue him and the league and his family in case they become corrupted or controlled, even through he knows the risk he’s taking. he knows that if anyone with bad intentions get their hands on those files, the consequences could only result in war. but he does it anyways, even if he could die from it, because he cares about gotham. he loves his city. batman was created because of vengeance but he’s grounded in compassion!!!!!!
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Learning here alone in college that you yourself will keep some people as the second or even third priority, and some people being your 'good' friends too will treat you the same way, and there will be times you will feel left out and wander if you are wrong or maybe not that wanted, which is true, you are not wanted by them, but you need to still keep hope that you are your own person, and perhaps you need to wait for newer circles to come, people who will choose you, and people whom you will choose.
But then despite all their misgivings, you will still treat them with a smile, and keep your head up and move ahead. There are so many people you are yet to meet, and so many wonderful moments waiting to unfurl in your life.
And remember that some of your old friends are still there, those one or two good companions, separated by colleges, states and, countries, will have your back and vice versa. Reach out to them, because some times they too are awaiting your text and a call
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if wriothesley doesn't appear in any quest once we get to remuria, what even is the point?
the parallels between wrio and king remus are crystal clear. remus who descended upon meropis (a name very familiar to anyone who knows of the fortress of meropide) in his golden fortuna, the legendary ship of remus that is also called the bringer of civilization and glory (wrio who built a ship to deal with the misfortune upon fontaine) is an example of it.
wrio also has connections to hades with the cerberus motif as guardian of the underworld. it's curious that the tower in remuria is described not only as not built to receive heavenly oracles, serving as a guide to ships traveling between islands, but also as a border of reality and dreams. if this is not necessarily literal but a metaphor or allegory, it could fit very well with the idea of a portal between domains or realms, like life and death.
wriothesley also parallels another character in the genshin universe and that person is arlecchino. they were brought up as orphans, taken in by an institution with corrupted leaders, which they reformed and achieved a leading position of. and funnily enough, she has ties to purgatory (a place for punishment, much like the fortress). as i have said in another post, purgatory has been described by dante as a tower leading to heaven. but we also know that celestia in the genshin world is associated with the demon realm - archons being named after ars goetia, an anonymous grimoire on demonology. although the concepts aren't the same in theory, is it impossible that the game has used elements of both? wriothesley and arlecchino's themes are similar enough to overlap. even though i don't expect wriothesley to be lore revelant anymore, i do think his ties to remuria and his role as someone who punishes others for their sins, much like arlecchino, is very much purposeful.
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Erotic Love letter from Papa Giveaway (minors dni)
So...
W. H. A. T. like ... WHAT ??
so, yeah! I thought... I might do a little something (because truly, you have all been so wonderful and I have felt so wonderfully accepted and seen by this special community here)!
I can write, and I really enjoy writing letters - and I thought, perhaps, I could write one of my beloved followers an erotic (highly explicit) love letter from Copia or Terzo to you or to an OC of your choice!
Please enter by filling out this google form!
I will close the form on Thursday 3rd Feb @ 2pm PST
This giveaway is ONLY open to my followers who are over 18. No ageless bios. The winner will be selected at random, and I will contact them privately. Because of the nature of this giveaway, I will not be announcing who the winner is publicly nor will I post their letter.
You can have an example letter, though! Here is a link to the love letter I wrote from Copia to my OC Rhodanthe.
The giveaway letter would likely be between 400-600 words, so the linked letter is probably a tiiiiny bit longer than you can expect, but this the writing style you can expect!
Additionally, the entry form is fairly barebones, I will contact the winner via Tumblr DMs within a few days of closing the form to ask for a few more details.
These details may include (do not answer now, I will contact you should you be the winner!):
What name would you like the letter to be addressed to?
What type of body would you like this letter to be written for? (this is an erotic loveletter, and it will be highly explicit as per my writing style)
Do you have a scenario in mind? (for e.g. in the example linked, Papa writes my OC a love letter because he misses her while he is on tour.)
Are there any specific details you want to be included that would help the letter feel more personalised? (e.g. My OC smokes pot, so I wanted to include that! We can have a bit of a chat about this bit!)
Are there any kinks, fantasies, sex acts etc you would like me to include? (I reserve the right to pick and choose a little bit here - if there are concepts I am not comfortable writing for, or do not think I could do justice, I will let you know! I am not here to judge, just to do my best for you, and to have a fun time with writing this!)
Off the top of my head, the only thing I know I will not write is breeding kink or related topics (which I know is a big part of the fandom, so I just wanted to get that out in the open now!).
Anyway!
Depending on how this goes, I may open a small amount of commission spots for this sort of letter via my ko-fi!
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