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I'm jealous. I'm so jealous. you get to be incredible all on your own and things will be good as long as you get up to see them. it doesn't matter that you fought for it because from where I stand it just looks like you have everything even when you don't have it

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Grand Order is real ref:

Keep reading

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Happy Pride

(I did this 8 months ago because a friend asked)

Also comes in Blue Hair and Pronouns

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All my mind went to when he started texting mid-fight

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BATMAN: Hush v The Long Halloween

So I finally got around to finishing Jeph Loeb's Batman: Hush (prior to this I had already read The Long Halloween)

It was good.

Had a pretty straightforward plot and was easy to follow.The dialogue needed work in areas, notably the jokes, the monologue was okay for the most part but there were certain small things that irked me.

Batman in this story, isn't quite as stoic or feel as calculated as he does in other stories because during the whole thing he's undergoing a phase of change, we can see he doesn't want to let another Jason Todd incident happen to Tim Drake being part of it but the main change being that he's fallen in love with Catwoman (again).

Expanding on Bruce's childhood and life before batman by the introduction of Tommy Elliot just felt like a dead giveaway that Tommy was either going to die or turn out to be a villain. What happens next being so predictable sort of cheapened the effect of the flashbacks but maybe that's just my opinion.

Tommy Elliot also felt incredibly bland, like, very fuckin generic. He was a Scooby Doo villain, that's literally what he was. He wants revenge because as a child an unaware Bruce accidentally saved Tommy's mother's life by asking his father to operate on her. Tommy who tried to kill his parents loathed this and developed a hate boner for Bruce Wayne.

Jim Lee's art is spectacular as usual, so is the colouring.

But I personally do prefer Tim Sale's style on the Long Halloween.

The couloring especially.

It felt more expressive, they used flatter and more tonally dull colours to create an aesthetic, used light and dark imagery so cinematically, it was like they wanted to create art instead of creating something that was flashy and looked cool. No hate to the colourist who did Hush but I just feel like it could have been more interesting is all.

Tim's art style was also extravagant, each character looked like a cartoon but the grounded colour scheme really brings the reality aspect back to it and it just feels... Right.

It differs from Hush a lot but the monologue in Hush makes sense in context. It's not written as diary entries but instead it's literally batman's every thought, it can often waffle and drift into childhood memories at random times.

I like both but I prefer the diary entries used in The Long Halloween over Hush.

Both had a great mystery and kept me guessing who the antagonist would be but Hush just felt like it was missing something.

It took me a while to figure out but it's Gordon. Hush had Catwoman, Robin and Superman as the supporting cast but they don't feel as strong or as interesting of a trio as Batman, Harvey and Jim. Not only are the cast of Hush less charismatic but they also feel less connected to the plot and Batman mythos compared to Jordan and Harvey.

The endings for both were brilliant tho, it's actually really difficult to choose which one I like. The mystery is uncovered but nobody wins. To put it bluntly overall the two stories have quite a lot in common but The Long Halloween takes the cake.

Tl;Dr:

The Long Halloween - 9/10

Hush - 7/10

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This is bisexuality? 😳

i think, in terms of Shirou Bisexuality, he didn't actually realize he liked men until after the 5th hgw in 2/3 routes, like i think his bisexuality parallels his attraction to sakura in fate route and ubw which exists but isn't fully realized bc he's uhm busy at the moment! love and light! like he was 100% into lancer and shinji and issei to varying degrees but i don't think he realized that was y'know, attraction until heaven's feel (like i said, paralleling his attraction to sakura), or more specifically in the moment where he admitted he liked kirei (obligatory 'this is not a ship post and i don't think that grown man was attracted to that 17 year old and it's perfectly normal for kids to feel one-sided attraction to adults bc brains aren't hard-wired to find childlike features like those of their peers attractive' disclaimer goes here (<< has seen the horrors of bad-faith discourse)) bc heaven's feel is the only route where shirou's sense of self and kiritsugu's ideals are truly able to be separated (bc as much as he wants to save everyone, push comes to shove, shirou emiya is Going to try to save the girl he loves above all), and sexuality is heavily linked to sense of self. without his (kiritsugu's) ideals, who shirou is as a person is drawn into question, and after questioning, before he realizes oh shit he's just like kirei, shirou realizes first that he likes kirei. and then in f/ha we've already had 3 routes and to shove him back into the closet would be annoying bc no one wants to see character development undone so he's able to be his fruitiest (note: NOT the original word used) self towards lancer, issei and shinji. (<<<forgot which parts of this were earnest analysis vs full of shit ramblings)