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random imagines about Hattie Tetch (which i guess we're calling her for now? until proven otherwise rip) or the Mad Hatter from Batman The Caped Crusader Season 2 because clearly I'm too impatient to wait 3 weeks and this woman has been running laps in my brain despite only having one screenshot and a millisecond clip in the trailer...
- Imagine being her producer (and accomplice) in a secret relationship, sneaking in her dressing room before the show starts and after it ends. You two have gotten caught multiple times but Hattie ensures any witnesses forget...and you two carry on....
- Imagine being a guest on her show and everything goes smoothly, you don't miss a beat, and you don't miss the way she steals glances at you...you remember the segment, yet you dont remember making it back to your hotel or where you got the red lipstick stains on your skin or the napkin with a number on it.
- Imagine being part of the live studio audience. You try to talk yourself out of it, there's no way she's looking at you. She scans the crowd and looks at everybody but her eyes tend to linger on you for a beat before focusing on the camera. Did...did she just wink at you? Your body feels warm...you cross your legs...what's happening...?
- Imagine being an intern, having multiple lapses in memory of your day in and day out at the job...but you showed up on time, left on time, and got paid...there was nothing to worry about...yet Ms. Tetch continues to grin at you when your eyes met hers...like she knows something...
A fic written 2 years ago is NOT OLD. Two years is nothing. Two years ago was yesterday.
Also I don't care if a fic is 10 years old. Leave those comments!! Even if you think the author isn't active, or moved on from the fandom, I promise you it will make them smile.
I commented on a fic that was 11 years old, and there was already a response by the time I got up the next morning. Comment on the fics, please, comment on them, I promise it'll make the author's day either way
(transcript: Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.)
Use this ask as an excuse to build the worst game of spin the bottle with various characters of your choosing
anon sorry i have been sitting on this for ages because i wanted to choose my beloveds but give a reason that kissing them would actually be rank rotten lmaoooo
enjoy this dc rogues spin the bottle and don't get mad if you find out that kissing your beloved or beloathed is far nastier or just as nasty as you thought it would be!!
i have been thinking about the riddler a lot as i always do since i am in love with him and haven't gone a day in the past four years without thinking of him tbh and, since i also want him to suffer a complete ego fall i've been focused on his weaknesses, obvious and numerous as they are. and hear me out i think his main weakness, over most eddie's but particularly the arkhamverse riddler, is that he's not actually as smart as he says or thinks he is and worse than that he knows it all too well
rambling opinions and thoughts below, i just really like the idea of him being so fallible and so warped and so deluded, makes me want to smother him with love and/or pillows
this is maybe an observation that's been made, but i still mostly see people insisting that eddie is the smartest man in the world, a genius, unapproachable in his intelligence. i fell into that trap too because it's his language, and as a diehard loser groupie of his i would absolutely be hanging on his every word, knelt at his feet telling him of course he's the smartest person to ever exist. but he's... not? and outside of adoring fans i think everyone realises it. including himself. or he did at one point and is now past the point of being able to recognise it or admit for fear of the self-combustion that would happen
now you'll have to bear with me, because i'm not saying he's unintelligent. i'm saying though that where he is clever is not the way he thinks he is, and it's different for every iteration, really, or most of them. my own edward for example is an adept mathematician and engineer, he has dyscalculia and suspected dyslexia, he can't tell his right from his left, but none of that affects the areas where he is skilled and informed. despite what any given riddler insists, he has strengths and weaknesses
that's where eddie in the arkhamverse (specifically to me) comes into things. because he refuses to acknowledge that he has any weaknesses.at least not out loud. and maybe not even to himself if he wants to have a good day. obviously he's clever. obviously he has skills. he's a mechanical engineer. he reminds me of a close family member who once tried to explain quantum physics to me on a napkin in four minutes before i had to go to choir. BUT that's where the difference is!! eddie can do things, he can know things, but i don't think he could explain that knowledge. he couldn't pass it on to someone else. it almost just feels inherent to him. not earned, just there. which i think is where his imposter syndrome and need to prove himself and the resulting overcompensation comes from
much like in his youth where he cheated instead of actually bothering to learn, eddie either absorbs the information or doesn't, and when he doesn't it embarrasses him to a point where he can't admit it and has to lie. there are considerable gaps in his knowledge and his skillset and rather than fill them, he pretends they don't exist because to admit it would be to admit his falliable nature, his humanity (gross)
that sort of fits in with my idea that he's sort of fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy of it all. i mean, in the arkham games he's a purveyor of puzzles more than riddles. admitting, however, that maybe he should have called himself something else or chosen a different shtick would be like admitting he was wrong. that does make me wonder why he chose to change from e.nigma as in arkham origins. perhaps it shows the change in his personality and intentions, maybe it felt to him like a progression, an evolution, rather than a discarding of a planned career that failed
another thing that points to this would be the fact that he doesn't have a doctorate, no mentioned degree either, but specifically amongst his peers a lack of a doctorate (for him) speaks volumes to me. and while obviously intelligence is not measured in what certifications you have (sorry doctors), it does offer up an interesting thing to consider with eddie who does value proof to his claims. he thinks he's better than batman and seeks to prove that. he claims he's intelligent but... doesn't need to prove that to people? i like to imagine him playing it off with a sort of "i don't have peers and therefore cannot be judged or reviewed by them in order to gain an accreditation of any sort" when asked or teased. and that could be true, but only in that it suggests he's scared of being proved wrong
i make a lot of comparisons in my head between eddie and derren brown who describes himself as a 'psychological illusionist' (and also hilariously as a mind bender, because he reads minds and is gay) because he performs feats of magic and mind control using perception tricks, memory skills, and subliminal suggestion. one of his sort of more famous 'tricks' is that he can say what word is on line 5, paragraph 4, page 127 in a book he has read, for example. it's something that wows people who don't possess those kinds of memory skills and i can't find a source but i am certain i have read him talk about how it's misinterpreted as him being very clever, as opposed to him just being really good at memorising things. he pretends he can read minds, but he can read facial cues. he can manipulate a pattern, rather than just predict one. i think this is the kind of skills eddie possesses
he can predict people's behaviours, which makes it easy to outsmart them. he confesses openly to having an eidetic memory. yeah, maybe you can recite pi to a thousand places, but that doesn't make you a genius
and he obviously has an above average intelligence, but he bases a lot of that on his own assumptions and on outdated methods of measuring intelligence like iq levels. there are plenty of areas he is lacking in, and he'll never be able to become smarter or more learned because it's almost like he refuses to see where his flaws are
he's so deeply flawed, in fact, that he either doesn't realise it or he's aware and hiding it down so deep that he can't even trust or recognise his own intuitions anymore. only what he knows from experience and can therefore attempt to predict. that's why it bothers him so much when things don't go to plan, and why, for a genius, about 99% of the time things do. not. go. to. plan
people aren't all that predictable, and being able to recalculate on the fly and be flexible with your learning is what makes other incredibly smart characters (lex luthor, michael holt, bruce wayne) so different to eddie
he's in the middle. too smart for most, not smart enough for those he believes are closest to being his peers. he pushes people away for fear they'll see through him, but he's desperate for attention and to have the spotlight on him, for people to tell him he's good and smart and better than everyone else. he's so fucking complicated and annoying and tragic and i love him so much argh
I know I haven't changed my list of characters I write for in a minute...except when I'm taking characters out...
however how would you guys feel if I added a couple rogues to the list?
I finally got around to re-watching Batman Returns and finally reading Gotham Central...
I'm thinking of adding Batman Returns Penguin and Gotham Central Mad Hatter to my list...
I am also considering adding some of the Rogues from Batman The Caped Crusader too, I just gotta rematch season 1 and just wait patiently for season 2...although I wont lie I've already thought of fanfic ideas for Hattie its actually pathetic rip
30yo Bruce Timm: *creates Harley Quinn as a skinny blonde woman eager to please a man while wearing a tight leotard*
60yo Bruce Timm: *reimagines Harley Quinn as a fat Japanese woman who punishes middle aged men with age-regression roleplay while wearing a tight leotard*
He's equally horny but in (almost) entirely different ways.
an Alice but she’s just as if not more freaky and unstable then Jervis. 🤔😏 can’t hypnotize her, she’s already long gone.
oohhh yeah that will definitely be appealing...to some of the Jervi lol.
most of them have a very idealistic version of what they want their alice to be (hence why most end up dead because they don't measure up if they ever could to begin with...unless they're special like the reader in a fanfic lol)
I imagine most Jervi want their Alice to be hypnotize...able(?) just cause thats the easiest and quickest way to get what he wants...and it may unnerve a few of the jervi if some alice archetype they found just wasn't privy to it.
I do think HQTAS, Secret Six, and maaybbeee Arkhamverse would be into that kind of Alice? I do think with Arkhamverse it depends on the timeline, Arkham City being the ideal one...but even then its slim and he'd likely spend most of the time trying to hypnotize her in the first place since to him free will is a lie and can be manipulated no matter who it is.
sorry this turned into a weird ramble not related to your ask that was probably just meant to be fun lol but it just opened the flood gates i guess lol
what is the POINT of hold music if every 30 seconds you're going to interrupt it, make me think i'm finally done, then say "we're sorry, our staff is busy on other calls. please hold on, we will be with you shortly."
like just play the damned hold music that's what it's for
I think the ideal mutual is someone with some solid common ground but who also has a bonkers niche interest that’s totally foreign to you. It’s like a friendly educational experience
Hmm....probably voyeurism? I've only ever written it twice and I'm excited for another chance to write for it again lol
🍈 - Who’s your blorbo and what are some of your favorite headcanons/ideas about them that repeatedly show up in your fics? Free pass to rant about blorbo opinions.
But...but there's so many blorbos...I...I can't possibly just fixate on one...I love writing for Riddlers that are emotionally constipated having to work around emotions they thought wouldn't be an issue. Writing for Penguins who suddenly find comfort in more than his wealth and power but in someone. Writing for Scarecrows that slowly let their guards down and be vulnerable for once. Writing for Hatters who wind up finding someone who matches their freak. Then there's Lupin and the gang, and despite each of their own strong personalities which both clash and combine its still a lot of fun to explore them and figure out how to make it all work out because it always works out for them in the end. And with Bigby its finally being able to explore the idea of someone who understands him and is in his corner through and through, to give a character who constantly gets shit on by others over and over again to finally give him that unconditional support and love.
I think I sorta ran far away from the actual question, but I hope it makes sense regardless lol
🍌 - In your opinion, what’s the funniest joke/reference/pun you’ve made in a fic?
Honestly, any time and anyway that I can make a tea/tea party related pun or metaphor in my Jervi fics. It can be fluff or smut but I still make it work and I cant help but pat myself on the back when I make it happen lol
