Welcome to my fandom blog, which should technically be my main blog but whoopsie. I’m more active here anyway :p
I mainly ramble on here, reblog cool art and promote my fan-fiction. I also do art sometimes if I can be bothered finishing it.
Eternally devoted to the batman fandom, though sometimes I'll talk about other media. WWE has me in a disgusting chokehold and I may be returning to my Postal and JTHM roots...
Feel free to fester around in my tags, you can also check #cool art for reblogs, #insane ramblings, and #updates, those three should keep you in the loop
I can’t promise anything consistent but please interact with me if you like similar things I am friendly I promise not to bite :)
I don’t like writing DNI, so just don’t be a goober K? You’ll know pretty quickly if you do something that ain’t welcome here lol
Thanks to twitter user The_Whar for being my push to start reading comics. Just so I can see my favorite character the Riddler. Read the New dawn and just had to do a couple redraws.
Ressurecting my tumblr just to bring you this stupid thing. 1997 was a wild year huh.
Seriously though these three have a concerning amount of things in common. They would be friends and probably try to kill each other AT LEAST once every two weeks.
I have the most obscure voice hc for selina and its Peri Gilpin, and I can’t tell if maybe I’ve just been watching too much fraiser to the point she’s just the default “snarky woman” voice in my head or not.
Please tell me you can see where I’m getting at with this T_T it just seems like SUCH a fitting voice for her
My issue with Jervis in canon Batman media (and how he can be an actually engaging villain)
Gotham's Jervis will always be my favourite portrayal of him (though BTAS is a close second.) but it will always be a complicated first choice because unfortunately the writers of the show decided to do the same fucking thing all the other writers do, which is make him a digusting piece of shit.
[trigger warning, I'll be mentioning predatory behaviour and incest, I don't go into detail but if you don't wish to read those parts feel free to skip a paragraph or two.]
But here's the thing! Jervis is not required to have any sort of gross infatuation with young girls (or his sister in Gotham's case) because his main flaw is his toxic behaviour IN GENERAL. Jervis is an extremely lonely person who desires human connection and closeness, but had absolutely no idea what that should look like. He is also very deeply afraid and in pain all the fucking time! Escapism is his coping mechanism, since the outside world is often too much for him to bear, and when faced with just how little control he has over his life, he projects that onto other people.
Thing is, he can be appealing and attractive, and he is capable of getting himself an Alice. But often he is so used to living with this fantasy of what his perfect partner would be, he is unable to actually recognise the very real person in front of him. He cares very deeply for them, would do anything for them, he tries to be a gentleman and a good boyfriend. But when the tiniest cracks show, his mind goes straight into panic mode. He is going to lose them, just like the last time, and the time before, and the time before. And it just breaks him. Makes him abuse the one source of strength he has - control.
Gotham ALMOST did this perfectly. I fucking love the idea of Jervis being a hypnotist and a magician, a performer, capable of charm and wit and very much in control. But it's all a facade for the lack of control he currently has over the one person who matters to him in his life. It's also a different interpretation of Alice too, being someone who he had to protect growing up, afraid to lose her like they lost their parents, and so his actions are purely out of overprotectiveness and fear (or, it WOULD HAVE BEEN, had the writers not been dumbasses). But in that state of mind, his actions lead him to do terrible things because of his desperation. He will hurt whoever he has to, if it means Alice is safe. Even if she can't see that herself. I equally love the idea afterwards that Jervis doesn't move on from her, he doesn't try to apply her to another person, she is a ghost forever haunting his mind and he holds this intense fury and pain over losing the one person he cared for. And now Gotham too will know such pain.
BTAS also gets jervis right, and thankfully doesn't make him too much of a creep (I'm not against him being a bit freaky with a love interest, but there's a difference between 'jervis will still flirt and be possesive and obsessive even when threatening someone' and 'jervis is a fucking predator'). BTAS Jervis is far more shy and reserved and does actually treat his Alice right, but unfortunately for him she has a jerkass boyfriend. Jealousy is a theme that does work really well for him, and I don't mind a jealous jervis who crosses the line because again, he can't lose this person who is the only good thing on his life, even if she doesn't reciprocate. PLUS you also get his line of thinking to protect Alice from someone who actually is a piece of shit to her, and so again, his actions are understandable AND still villainous.
I think Jervis has the potential to be such a great villain, one that can mirror Batman's own form of escapism through vigilanteeism, as well as the fear of losing those you love. But no one's gonna do that if you keep writing unnecessary gross details into him when it's entirely unneeded and shouldn't really be part of his character!
If anyone's got a portrayal of jerv they wanna mention feel free, I also have my own characterisation in my ongoing fic See You Next Week (shameless plug, i know) BUT I recommend scouring the ao3 tag in general since a lot of fanfic writers also tend to do really nice interpretations of him.
Have I ever mentioned how Jervis tetch is my favorite character? Did that come up yet?
I have been working on this drawing on and off for almost a year now, it was just supposed to be a simple sketch for expressions but that clearly went off the rails! This was definately a love/hate relationship while drawing this, but I think I finally came out with something Im more than happy with!! I wanted a more comic book look, but definately went a bit overboard with it lol
I have so many ideas for Jervis and not enough time to draw them all out DNSKBDJBS
Anywho, enjoy this crazy drawing! and let me know if you can spot the little March Scare and DorRat hidden in the drawing! As well as other details you happened to notice😉
Scarecrow and Jervis were the hardest to design given DC's extreme lack of consistency... But I'm really happy with how they turned out! My Jervis design has dwarfism, so that's why she's so short compared to the others (I'd love to see more disabled people in drag...:p). Scarecrow was inspired by mugler and runway fashion (imagine: scarecrow strutting down the catwalk and blasting you with 8000 nightmares worth of fear gas). Ventriloquist was inspired by Marlene Dietrich/noir. As you can see, scarface is just a mini her.
"We met him on the rooftop to pick up the chemicals. He wasn't wearing his mask, but that almost made it worse...his skin was clammy, his fingers thin, and when he looked at you, you couldn't see his eyes..."
I know many have Jon and Harley working at Arkham at the same time, and maybe that’s like the current canon or whatever (i prefer the older canon before the reboot) but I always liked the alternative idea of Jonathan being Harley’s old professor.
Like imagine Harley having Jon as her psychology professor before The Incident, being absolutely fascinated by how passionately he teaches. He adores his job, and indulges Harley with her myriad of questions about the human psyche - why people become criminals, why phobias happen, how childhood impacts adult life, all the heavy hitters. He’s one of the few professors who doesn’t find her too weird or annoying.
But then he’s fired from Gotham U for his little plant pot stunt, and he gets a job at Arkham instead. Harley doesn’t blame him at all, in fact she understands what Jon was trying to convey, and admires his “non-conventional” approaches, despite the consequences. So when he goes to work at Arkham, she’s inspired by how he continues to want to help other people. She wants to be just like him.
Fast-Forward a couple years, and Harley graduates with a PhD in Psychology. But Gotham City isn’t what it used to be. Jon’s still at Arkham, but not as a doctor. And Harley can’t believe it, she refuses to believe that her old professor went nuts and is now a lost cause. She hands her resume in, and she starts her first day at Arkham Asylum, determined to prove that these people aren’t deranged lunatics, and that they can change for the better.
