Bats In The Belfry

♠️ Diagnosed Schizophrenic ♦️Cosplayer ♣️ClownBoy™️ ♥️Detective Comics devout

[smylenol]

The Joker, by Mandy War

[smylenol]

Whoa, man. Whoaa. Male pattern baldness/alopecia comes from Satan, I’m sure of it. I just caught a 2026 photo of Taron Egerton, Eggsey from Kingsman. He’s almost horseshoe bald, now. That good looking nigh-shoe-in for James Bond, dismantled by Father Time.

I guess I’ll just do the Andrew Dice Clay thing, bald gracefully with slicked-back hair.

[smylenol]

My shrink, he surprised me when he asked: “Do you have any compassion for yourself?”

I have a completely brutal opinion of myself. I largely see myself as severely mentally ill, which I think means I’m next to useless and valueless. I am kind to myself in small ways, like thinking I’m a spot-on Joker lifestyle cosplayer, and that I’m not as bald and ugly as some, but I think encountering me means you have bad luck coming in your life.

When I was diagnosed, I thought it was the end of the world. I had a stereotypical view of paranoid schizophrenics- I figured they were a social landmine of anxiety and nonsense. Then I became one, and after becoming medicated, fell into a state of ‘normalcy’. I’ve had some episodes here and there, but even my shrink has noted that despite the schizophrenia I’m still pretty sharp.

The real culprit is my family issues. When you’re ignored and abandoned, you wake up one day to find you have very little love for yourself. If you were loved, they would have chosen you, not drugs and self-satisfaction.

But my family is all dead now.. so it’s just wandering through life and treating people respectfully now.

[mydarlingbat]

By Clayton Henry

[thoughtkick]

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.”

— Carl Jung

[feelingsoftheday]

why does wanting to be loved sometimes feel so embarrassingly pathetic?

[tragicburnout]

most men come to realize, too late, that the woman they took for granted was exactly who they needed

[browsethestacksofficial]

Batman '89

Art by Francesco Francavilla

[why-i-love-comics]

Action Comics #47 - "Nargo, the Ruler Atlantis" (1942)

written by Gardner Fox art by Joseph Sulman

[depsidase]

[loveridden1999]

[questionquery]

/Jim Gordon the man you are

[mysticblondex]

unfortunately I am not attractive enough to identify as a hot mess but I am definitely a room temperature inconvenience

[yaybatman]

“I can kill everything… and I need him to stop me.”

Batman (2016) #49

[yaybatman]

Batman (2016) #48

[scarletlaments]

You can break my wand, but I don't really need it.

[smylenol]

Hot take: Lee Meriwether is a better Catwoman than Julie Newmar or Eartha Kitt

And on that note, should Catwoman be a person of colour? I think about how Batman through the 40s to 70s was largely a white man’s club, with a cast of predominantly Caucasian peoples. I hear the desire for inclusion and representation, but I strongly disagree with race-swapping only to diversify a cast. Personally, I’d prefer Catwoman Caucasian, but I can see how talented Zoe Kravitz was as the feline fatale. She actually looked like the spitting image of Selina in Batman Year One, but they massively downplayed the sex work angle.. probably because Catwoman is still inspiring to young women.

Judging from The Suicide Squad and Superman, James Gunn’s DCU looks to be full of passion, but weak on substance. I can only hope we get the fleshed-out DC cinematic universe fans have been begging for.

They really should do a Gotham City Sirens movie, with McKenna Grace as Harley, Alexandra Daddario as Selina, and Megan Fox as Pamela. It’d ooze sex appeal, and DC can further cement those characters (along with Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Zatanna, and Power Girl) as their DC princesses.