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we're not kids anymore.
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So, Alice Isnāt Dead is coming back in a few months and words canāt describe how excited I am for it! Spoilers for the former ending of the show below the cut!
Iām really hoping that itās gonna be at least partly about Keisha working to help Sylvia regain her individuality from the Road Oracles, cause I miss my girl!
im not even the type of guy to go "actually it's frankenstein's MONSTER" because a painting by rembrandt or picasso or any other artist is often called "a rembrandt" or "a picasso" as shorthand. so in this respect frankenstein's monster can be considered "a frankenstein"
darling I love your 8 foot tall patchwork flesh creature, it really livens up the place. is that an authentic frankenstein?
it's only a true frankenstein if it was produced in the frankenstein region of switzerland. otherwise it's just a sparkling homunculus
Birds of Prey #28 - "The Unreality" (2025)
written by Kelly Thompson art by Sami Basri, Vicente Cifuentes, & Adriano Lucas
on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldnāt helpĀ feel like the OāConnells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The OāConnells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibinā over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time
Morticia: āSo what is it you do for a living my dear?ā
Evelyn: āWe dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!ā
Morticia: āfascinatingā
Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!
Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty
Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh heās screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!
*Rick and Gomez, still frantically sword fighting*
Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I havenāt really expanded enough on how wonderful she is
Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better
*sword fighting intensifies as both men rapturously extoll the virtues of their wives*
And their kidsā¦ Wednesday and Alex deciphering runes to ancient cursesā¦
ditto what Shane said
What is a Christine Jorgensen
Tfw nazis literally burnt Hirschfeldās (sp?) papers so we wouldnāt be in the history books
Like I wanna be really clear. Hirschfeld was literally moving to a depathologized explanation of trans women (inversion as variance not defect) and was advocating for providing trans women with HRT and surgery, all the while treat numerous trans women with hormones, in the early 1930s. Berlin had a thriving trans and gay community you have never heard of because the nazis destroyed it and the systematically erased evidence of it.
Itās not that trans women have only existed the last thirty years, itās that you have been intentionally denied knowledge of our history by reactionaries who want to see us dead.
So like, Martian Manhunter is a telepath and heās said several times in Justice League comics that he doesnāt like getting into Batmanās head because itās really unpleasant in there, and I always kind of rolled my eyes because at the time it was said, Batman was in his toxic masculinity/Iām so edgy stage. I thought it was a cheap way of goingĀ āoooh look heās so grim and dark and cool even telepaths canāt handle himā
But taken with the modernĀ āBatman has PTSD and Obsessive Compulsive Disorderā this suddenly makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE because if there is a way to get a telepath to goĀ āum no thank youā to some mental shenanigans it would be someone with constant obsessive intrusive thought spirals and massive trauma.
Like Martian Manhunter hooking up a mental link between Justice League members trying to screen out how Batmanās brain is screaming at him for the entire 12 hour mission about how Nightwing hasnāt stopped by the cave to switch out his costume for the new improved kevlar weave so he has definitely already been killed by a rocket launcher and oh god what is Batman going to say at the funeral
so after the mission is over Martian Manhunter has like, a telepathic hangover and has to call Dick up on his Justice League reserve communicator going āI swear to god, if you donāt get your ass to Gotham to switch out your suit I will come down there, phase into your body and WALK YOU THERE MYSELF. Which incidentally, IS ALSO SOMETHING BATMAN WORRIES ABOUTā and then has to crawl into bed for 3 daysĀ
benoit blanc autism? benoit blanc autism? benoit blanc? benoit blanc auti-
Fully support my friends on the autistic Benoit Blanc headcanon train but personally my thoughts on fictional detectives are that they're legally required to have autism or ADHD and Blanc is in the ADHD category. Hold on, I'll make a chart.
Here it is
Where's Jessica Fletcher fit?
Middle column. Final answer.
Okay if this gets 300 or so notes I'll update the chart with all of the detectives people are asking about in the notes
Okay here's the neurodivergent detective chart: director's cut
My favourite example of the domino effect
Allow me to explain:
Gerard Way witnesses 9/11 and as a consequence, starts My Chemical Romance
Stephanie Meyer sees My Chemical Romance and becomes inspired to write Twilight
Somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, a man by the name of Felipe Neto is so outraged by the Twilight movies that he makes a hate video about them that goes so viral he becomes one of Brazil's biggest YouTubers
His brother Luccas Neto rides off his fame and becomes a children's YouTuber
Across the Atlantic, Portuguese children become obsessed with his videos. Like the lusophone Jake Paul
Portuguese children watch his videos so fucking much that they begin talking like they're from Rio
Portuguese parents are horrified by the Brazilian Portuguese but can't make it stop
Brazilian Portuguese slowly eats alive the European Portuguese dialect
WAIT WHAT
Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]
i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge
#same energy š
Legitimately who the f is this character who shows up in Batgirl #28, tele-blasts her to go to a building, sics a couple power ranger looking mf on her, chi blasts her to forget about the whole thing, and just disappears!?!
He has a whole section in the back of the collection saying who he is that manages to tell you absolutely nothing and just make me want him out of this comic even more.
The issue heās in is good otherwise but heās like a third to a half of it.
I strongly suspect that Puckett had a lot of plans for Sensor that ended up getting cut.
i love all the aus where thad has a happy ending and stays with max & helen & bart because how tf would they explain that to bartās civilian friends. how would they account for the sudden appearance of a long lost twin brother. bart and carol stay up all night workshopping possible explanations and write a whole soap opera about how they were separated at birth thatās frankly more ridiculous and unbelievable than the real story. preston decides that enough crazy shit has happened in bartās life that he HAS to make a documentary about it and āshadowsā bart to get day in the life content. cue incredibly typical close-call shenanigans featuring bart shoving his costume in a closet while prestonās back is turned, talking about āhis cousin wally west from keystone city- OH HAHA not THAT wally west,ā etc etc. this is how preston finally accidentally finds out that heās impulse, because after bart does everything he can to keep it secret thad just shows up in his inertia costume and waves hi. preston is less mad about the whole impulse thing than he is about the fact that now he canāt share his documentary
guide to pronouncing "tora olafsdotter" like a norwegian bc why not
some facts about the name itself:
each element in her name hails back to norse or proto-norse: the name tora is derived from the god thor (whose name in modern norwegian usage has also dropped the th-sound for a hard T). olaf/olav means "ancestor's descendant". dotter/datter is still in our base vocabulary meaning "daughter". her name is very much anchored in old tradition and familial ties.
all in all a natural-sounding norwegian name i wouldn't find odd if i encountered it irl even now. true patronymic names like olafsdotter were phased out by law in norway in the late 1800s/early 1900s, but you frequently encounter so-called frozen patronyms, ie one patronym that became the family name when the laws changed. the female variant (-dotter/-datter) is markedly less common than the male (-sĆønn/-sen/-son) but still a thing you'll spot here and there.
in (my very rusty) IPA:
[ Ā²'tuĶ:É¾É 'uĶ:ÉÉŹs'dÉtÉɾ ]
in my clumsy non-IPA:
stressed syllables at the start of each naming element: "TO-ra OL-afs DOTT-er".
the first two Os (tora, olaf) are closer to the vowel sound in "cool" (so "oo", not "oh").
(central) norwegian Rs are tricky for english speakers, they're a lot more fronted in the mouth (tonguetip touching palate just behind teeth) than in english. imagine a very short rolling R.
the As are open like in "palm". aah.
the "afs"-combo gets swallowed into a single brief sound where the f-sound is commonly simplified into a v-sound (bc it's easier to combine with S. lazy phonetic drift is very norwegian). lavvs.
despite the O in dotter it's still pronounced fairly close to "daughter" with the same "aw"-sound (also like in "call") but with a shorter vowel. you're not gently resting the vowel on the soft bed of "augh", you're tossing it on some very hard Ts. dot! dawt!
the unstressed E ("dotter") might almost disappear depending on personal pronunciation (DOTrr)
so in essence: too-Rah oolavs-dauTr
My semi-controversial Cassandra Cain take is that I think that the things that sheād be angry about with regards to her past and time growing up with David Cain would/should not be the things a lot of people think she should be mad about.
I think an important cornerstone is her messy and atypical relationship to her own past that befuddles those around her (and should befuddle the audience too). At least, thatās a part of the Puckett written Cass which I still hold to be the best.
As an example, I donāt think that Cass would feel much anger over many of the physical aspects to her upbringing.
These were the parts of her childhood that she actually enjoyed. Cass *likes* being the best, and the physicality of it isn't really a negative thing for her. She likes fighting and succeeding. Doesnāt make it "right" at all but itās still *her*. What she hates is that it all amounted to murder and thatās where more of her sadness about her past shows up. A kind of contradictory and inseparable quality that combines a deep sense of pride with self-loathing is my preference for Cass.
It's hard to divorce and cordon off these deep seated emotions that Cass would have about her own self, and I'm not really interested too much in the kind of stuff we get more often in modern Cass depictions that reference David Cain that to me often feel like the writer wants Cass to be as aghast at David Cain as we the audience would already naturally be. Seldom did Cass ever cry over her past in her 2000 solo but these days Cass cries like... a lot over it.
On a broader level I think it should also be a bit of a blueprint to Cass in other areas too like her being confusing to other people who have trouble relating to and adapting to her approach to herself and others and that coloring her relationships with them.
A Cass depiction that embraces that kind of off-putting ambiguity on a more broad level would be a boon for character relationships
Tim takes a while to get comfortable around her and even then struggles to really see things from her POV a lot of the time:
Barbara throughout Cass' solo struggles to really relate to and often pushes Cass to be the kind of person she wants her to be.
And conversely her relationship with Stephanie is made all the better by being a point of contrast where she seldom treated Cass like this weird thing (outside of a few instances here and there like when they both got locked out of the Batcave) which is in large part why Cass and Stephanie got as close as they did.
She was one of the few to really take her as she was while also not really "enabling" either (see Bruce throughout Puckett's run). She didn't baby Cass or balk at her general abrasiveness but just kind of accepted her for who she was even if she didn't accept all of her specific actions.
Embrace letting Cass have contrasts that don't always track with "healthy" relationships to things whether they be with herself or others.
Makes for a much more compelling and unique Cass imo
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