keep Gotham weird

batman-focused sideblog of gloriousmonsters. Expect a lot of Scarecrow & Mad Hatter, weird posts, crying over fictional human trainwrecks. Personal 'verse tag is Earth 451. 

[stellerfly]

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

[stellerfly]

this goes hand in hand w the "so if this (unconventional/modern art) is art then i guess i'm an artist bc i did stuff like this in 3rd grade lol!!!" yes. Yes you are. Go Forth.

[p1xelpc]

if you defense for why eugenics bad is " maybe our disabilities helpful actually " you part of problem

[p1xelpc]

those of us who not able do anything " helpful " still deserve live we not next step of evolution we just people stop worry if people disable could be good in future and just help keep alive in present

[funkyness]

felt like posting my absolute favourite tiktok of all time

[bartmobile]

baby i have psychological issues previously unheard of

[bartmobile]

yeah i’ll sign ur dsm-5

[oneeyedscarecrow]

can... can you tell me aboot magpie???!??

i just saw this and I have NO clue how old it is lol I’m so sorry

I don’t even remember what I posted that might have prompted this, but long story short---in Earth 451-verse, at least, Magpie is the persona that Alice Lydel takes on when she isn’t acting as part of the Wonderland Gang. (Remember, gals, it’s always a good idea to have your own Rogue career even if you also support your boyfriend in his! Less awkwardness with co-ordinating when he’s in Arkham, and sometimes you just need time and schemes for yourself).

Magpie is rooted in some older history than her time with the Wonderland Gang, however. Alice has been a petty---and less petty---thief since she was eight, mainly using it as an outlet for a host of untreated mental health issues and a way of asserting her own power under the eye of parents that escalated from over-careful to outright controlling as she grew up. Around the time she was eighteen and the loose floorboard in her closet was almost popping up due to all the shiny, shiny jewelry she’d crammed under it, her thefts and other small rebellions were discovered and the ensuing meltdown led to her parents sending her to an asylum for a brief stay. The stay extended when a doctor there promised that their daughter’s ‘condition’ could be cured---a cure that took the form of repressing everything undesirable about Alice’s personality at the back of her mind, turning her into a timid and obedient young woman.

‘cause Batman Comics.

She lived at home until her parents died, and moved to Gotham on a strange impulse (buried Fun Alice screaming for the company of other weirdos, possibly) where she met and began to work with Jervis Tetch. The repression was already growing weak, and encounters with Jervis’s experimental technology finally shook it loose altogether---kicking off a beautiful friendship/fuckbuddies for life relationship between Alice and the Mad Hatter, and, when Alice regained the confidence to branch out on her own, Magpie’s career of crime.

in less backstory terms, Magpie is weird. She forcibly masked for several years and is NOT doing it again, thank you very much; she chirps and cooes in a birdlike way as a form of vocal stimming (and is very fond of her ‘shiny, shiny!’ catchphrase). She likes weird, fancy fashion and longuewear with no in between. When her and Jervis are in the same room, they’re very Kinky On Main together, and she’s also absolutely That Friend who will encourage you to do weird sex stuff at the slightest provocation. (She will drive you to the kink store. She will recommend floggers.) Common habitat is holed up in a crappy apartment where she’s made a nest of colorful and shiny things she’s stolen; she steals them for the thrill and to have them to roll around in, not for the money. (Money’s nice, though! She’ll go for it if a good money heist comes up. Girl’s got to keep herself in lolita skirts and costume jewelry somehow.)

[screenshotsofdespair]

[lgbt-tiktoks]

[teddylacroix]

@delphinidin4​ your transcript:

Transcript note: This transcripts the verbal exchange, which occasionally differs  from the text captions on the video in minor ways (e.g., caption may say “this is also why I suspect” while the verbal dialogue says “which is also why I think.”)

Person 1: I’m coming around, but what about gender and autism?

Person 2: I haven’t secured data, so this is purely anecdotal—

Person 1: Real life headcanon?

Person 2: Cute. There seems to be a significant overlap between trans-nonbinary and autism, and while this is partly our neurochemistry, I suspect social conditioning plays a significant role.

Person 1: Harder for your peers to police your behavior when they don’t want to be near you.

Person 2: Which is also why I think autism “flies under the radar” more with girls [note: caption says “this is also why I suspect” instead of the verbal “Which is also why I think”]

Person 1: Social expectations to be caregivers making adults less tolerant of girls excluding their “lame ducks” and CAFAB autistics spend more time being socially conditioned by their peers.

Person 2: That said, autistic people don’t seem to gender good.

Person 1: Because gender expression is more cultural than inherent.

Person 2: And when not performing, autistic people tend to experience and express themselves outside of, unguided by, or in defiance of societal folkways, mores, and norms.

Person 1: And Batman?

Person 2: Oh yeah! So it’s just interesting to think of the mask Bruce Wayne as the autistic performance of gender and Batman the real person as an experience outside of, and not interested in, gender. But because gender is fake we can be a bit cheeky and say—

Persons ½, voices overlapping: Batman’s gender is bats.

Person 1: His name is BatMAN, though.

Person 2: It was the 1930s.

[ratliker1917]

really disappointed to discover “ratify” absolutely does not mean the extremely cool thing you could think it means just from looking at the word

[de4dbl0g-deactivated20191110]

[slappycat]

you hate me because you know i am funnier and sexier than you. when i jingle my little clown bells and do my silly little jester dance it fills you with anger that i can be so funny and also so sensual in my big, big clown shoes

[dogfoodissogoodforyou]

im a goth girl on the inside. on the outside? a father figure

[newspapersinyourshoess]

-Bruce Wayne

[frogandtoadpdf]

despicable me ruined the word minion whenever i become a supervillain im just going to have to call them my homies or whatever

[vendetta06]

my music taste is immaculate. dick game huge. i am friends with rodents. i am sexy and insane and i think that's cool of me. i am gay. the only flaw is that i'm evil

[lankybrunettepartdeux]

Nightwing Annual #1 (2018)

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

i love superheroes as escapist power fantasy fiction but the power fantasy i engage in when i play with batman stories is less "punch güd, kewl car" and more "if batman can be a bitch and make god accept that so can i"

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

i joke but legitimately there is something very empowering to me about the idea of there being a guy who is perpetually grumpy because of an entire slew of mental health issues and people just fucking love him anyway. he has 1 (one) facial expression and it's a disapproving scowl, he's obsessive, he's not good at handling or discussing emotions, he's a control freak and he has no sense of tact, but it's all cool, even fucking superman loves him. it's very validating for those of us who suck and are bitches, like me

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

i want to be able to be weird and goth in the dark and my best bro is still goddamn superman ok

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

but also i want a car that is a tank so i can stop fearing for my life when i Approach The Road

[thingsthatcannotsaveyou]

[batbrobeyond]

[theghostisametaphor]

@gloriousmonsters

[whitepeopletwitter]