Mantybat's Hyperfixations & Thoughts about Life

My current Hyperfixation is Robin Lord Taylor and absolutely anything he is in. Other things I love are: Gotham, Severance, Bob's Burgers, 9-1-1, Hannibal, Our Flag Means Death, What We Do in the Shadows, Interview with a Vampire

[vic-draws-sometimes]

in and out of costume

[eebie]

[cosmonautroger]

[mantybat]

What a cutie little baby

[mantybat]

Its been a few months since I've had access to Max so I can continue watching Gotham. And I have realized that I need certain shows to feel emotions.

Its not that i dont feel emotions on my day to day, but these shows just make me feel more. And of course Robin Lord Taylor as Penguin would make me feel many emotions.

Love, excitement, fun, sadness, intrigue, and many other things.

I miss my sweetheart. 💖

Here's to getting back access to Max 🙏🫶

[ofmd-ann]

Me looking at this auction deluding myself that I have a single hope of buying it with 0 moneys 💰 but also I am deeply sad to see these precious things being sold off, all of this belongs in a museum

[mantybat]

So interesting to see all the things in auction. It's amazing to see which ones are more fan valuable than others.

[gotham-daily]

[mantybat]

🫶

[oswaldcobblepot20]

OSWALD....oh...and ed...ig...

i love this little emo goth wierdo...no one can make me hate u oswald. He is my MUSE❤️‍🩹

[mantybat]

Omg this is so adorable 😍 love it so much!!

[bogleech]

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[mantybat]

Incredibly enough I have always been terrified of boars, hippos, and squid, and one not mentioned here, the hyena!

[mantybat]

The other day I finished watching the Bear and there was this scene in S4E9 that was soo powerful!

Carmy is talking to his mom and she is asking forgiveness for not being a better mom, and explaining how she felt in the past and how she is trying to make amends and be better now. And Carmy has his hand covering his face and he is literally shaking and Omg that made me think that this scene is sooo brilliantly played. It is something that many of us never get to hear from our parents, and it is something that it is so felt as a child if you see your parent really wanting to make amends, I mean many times they never even realize, but Jamie Lee Curtis was here so brilliantly playing this mom DeeDee and she is really trying her best to be a better person because she realized she was a mess when she was raising her kids. Jeremy Allen White played this so brilliantly, the way he was shaking was so real, so powerful. I absolutely felt impacted by that scene!

And another thing that happened a long those lines is one scene where Carmy is talking to Sugar about how he had such a hard time dealing with the mom and she goes and says something along the lines of , yea, we grew up together. And this there was such an important thing to comment on because Carmy had completely forgotten that all the trauma he felt growing up was not only felt by him, but by his siblings too. He was not in a bubble feeling all this dysfunction, but there were more people there.

It's how he saw himself separately from the rest of his family, as if he was the only one living the trauma. And him finally realizing that all this time he was feeling alone when he didn't have to be. That there was more people than he realized being united by his trauma.

He was not an island, even though this whole time he was living as if he was. Again a topic that its explored in the last episode of the season.

I don't know, I really love seeing these types of scenes in shows that portray these deep topics that resonate with so many of us.

If you have not in S4E9, don't watch the video if you don't want to spoil yourself.

[0-rwna]

this is totally for fake collab purposes and NOT because I got too lazy to draw someon else !1!1!!1

[mantybat]

This is so adorable

[riddlersbimbo]

they’re not boyfriends (they are) ↳ S03E09

[mantybat]

Oh, to be there!!

[phemiec]

FOX Gotham:

A plot: Jim Gordon going 😐

B plot: Bruce Wayne going 🥺

C plot: a torrid love/hate affair between a disabled machivelian mob boss and an autistic serial killer with DID. Spanning decades and including genuine friendship between two evil misfits, caretaking, jealousy, betrayal, political plots, murder of love rivals, attempted murder of eachother, love confessions, bi panic, identity crises, grave robbing, death traps, drug fuelled erotic hallucinations, jailbreaks, vendettas, flashy outfits, high camp public displays of obsession, trust shattered and rebuilt, self sacrifice and mutually assured destruction.

D plot: Ian from shameless going 🤡

[mantybat]

Oh this is so real 😆

[stupido-mirko]

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I really hope he plays Tennessee Williams again in Kowalski when it comes to Broadway this fall!!

I will be saving some money for this!!

[stupido-mirko]

[mantybat]

My baby, My baby

Let me go!

[mantybat]

When I started watching Gotham, I loved Jim Gordon on Season 1 because I identified with him. His strong desire to do the right thing, his strong sense of justice, even if it meant bending the rules a little bit in order to be fair.

I loved that he saved Penguin, and at that time I saw Penguin as My Child, and Jim Gordon was me. So does that mean this is us? 🫶🏻

I know some people ship them. I just see purity!

(I didnt like Jim after he breaks up with Lee. I'm only up to Season 3 so not sure what happens after, and now I don't see Penguin as my Child as he is older and almost my real age, so we are besties now 🫶🏻)

[mantybat]

ok so this showed up on my Pinterest recomendations widget.

The middle picture from the bottom was the one that hooked me. I don't know what he is feeling or saying or anything, but it could be so many different things, pain, love, sadness, desire, confusion.

I love You so much that sometimes it hurts.

whatever this is referencing, I love his face.

I also love to have the oportunity to see in the middle right pictures his hands, frozen in Time, as it allows me to study them, and memorize them.

And honestly all this sounds creepy to me, My thoughts make me feel creepy. I mean he is a human being with his own life, not a character and I truly know that. And I'm still fascinated by him, and have the utmost respect for him and his family.

These are just thoughts, and he is just beautiful!

[mantybat]

Ok, so this is going to be an odd post. But hear me out. I have a thing for armpit hair, I don't know. I find it so fascinating, since I was very small, 11 y/o maybe. Don't know what triggered it, but I remember staring at armpit hair on people and just being fascinated. Whatever, so as you know Robin Lord Taylor is my main topic on these posts and today I was looking in Pinterest and saw this picture again and reveled in it.

What fascinates me the most about this is the Black hair with the blond pits, it's beautiful!

The first time I saw it, it confused me for a second, and then it got me to thinking, ofcourse his pits are blond, he is blonde! And then I went on this whole tangent about him not really needing to dye his armpits for the show since he really doesnt show them on the show, and wondered if he would have dyed them had he been in a position to be shirtless in the show at some point.

But anyway, Robin Lord Taylor, if you ever read this, I hope it's not embarasing for you, I really don't mean to cause embarrasment, I have so much respect for you and hope you know how perfect and wonderful you are and I wish you all the best always!!

Now for the picture I'm talking about!🫶🏻