Luci

Please take one ONLY.

[sacred-portal]

[curseworm]

the fact that i am constantly saying strange and unpleasant things is just part of my charm

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[cndy1701]

women exist in a whole universe in and of themselves

[70sgroupie]

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[rubykgrant]

I can’t remember which comic I saw it in (and it may have even been a fan-work done to look as comic-book-y as possible), but I remember seeing a bit where Bruce was like “I pay all my taxes, I donate to all kinds of organizations, why are there still so many places in Gotham that are falling apart?” so he did his detective thing and found out that like… everybody who was in charge of everything in his city was just keeping most of the money for themselves, or hiding it, or only using money to fix-up things that they themselves used (like, “look! we fixed all these roads!” and it was the private roads they drove on, or “look! we helped this school!” and it was the school their kids went to), so naturally Batman went and punched them while also dropping off evidence to the police, and then Bruce got to do an outraged act like he JUST found out about this in the news, and he doubled-down on making sure stuff got fixed with his money, but then a whole bunch of new people got put in charge and they were just as corrupt as the first

[pondering-the-blorbs]

So in conclusion we should overthrow corrupt governments

[neshtasplace]

We should…probably also stop making all these narratives elevating billionaire characters too, I mean.

[espanolbot2]

Hm, I know that in the story Cacophony Kevin Smith stated that Bruce donates millions to Arkham Asylum to get them to beef up security and hire competant doctors, but the board instead took the money as bonuses and fired a bunch of their old security staff to “save money”. This, naturally, led to a disgruntled former employee selling the security details for the asylum to an anonymous bidder as he retired to Mexico with his new ill-gotten fortune.

And recently Bruce discovered that the children’s home his mum had established had long since been turned into part of a child trafficking network, with the dude in charge keeping homeless children out of the paperwork so they could sell them to some dudes on the blackmarket… Bruce is not pleased.

Plus the Court of Owls entire deal (at least, until DC Metal, where their motivation… drifted somewhat) was entirely about maintaining the control rich, white elitists had in Gotham, to the point where they’d deliberately target social reformers and competant city employees (and have done since the 1700s) to suffer “accidents“. The logic being that if Gotham was competantly run, then their privilege and entitlement wouldn’t carry as much weight as there would be checks and balances to stop them.

Y’know, like how certain politicians with ties to the prison industrial complex or the military cut spending to social services and schools to get kids in poorer areas on the pipeline to either end up in prison or join the armed forces.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

“You must tell yourself, ‘No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.”

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[poemswords]

[ouc-h-deactivated20180811]

that’s my problem, I think too much, I feel too deeply. what a dangerous combination

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“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via books-n-quotes)

Book Recommendation: No One Ever Asked by Katie Ganshert

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