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It's been 84 years... Its me, OceanFae, just locked out of my old blog. I like art, history, and I will sometimes reblog things your eyes will not like. Simply shut them as quick as you can and scroll. Xoxo gossip girl

[lvkeskvwalkers]

@oceanfae​ and i had a long conversation about How to Fix the Dark Knight Trilogy and several options were proposed but here’s what really would have worked in it’s favor.

Keep everything the same (or like, with minor tweaks, i.e. give the joker a gun that shoots out a “bang!” flag ugh) until the kidnapping of Rachel Dawes and Harvey Dent. Both of them desperately want the other to live, out of love and out of hope for Gotham. They see the way the other has the potential to fix Gotham in a way that Batman never will attempt (because batman is an addict who would never hang up the cape for the “good” of the city, who would never use his degree from (where the fuck did he go to school? harvard? princeton? oxford??? who cares) to actually make a difference in the city. batman, in DKT, is driven by the need for control and power.  

ANYWAy. Joker gives batman a choice about who he can save, but this time he’s honest when he tells him where Rachel is and where Harvey is. So Bruce gets to Rachel, who is sprawled on the floor trying to talk to Harvey so he knows how much she loves him in these last moments. Rachel has gasoline on half of her face. Rachel is the one who screams out that Bruce was supposed to save Harvey, who shrieks as she hears the love of her life burst in to flames, who loses half of her own face to the same fate. 

So Rachel wakes up with a burnt coin on her bedside table. 

“You make your own luck.”

So Rachel is the one who is visited by Commissioner Gordon, who apologizes. She faces him full on and says, “Take it back.”

“Heads I go first, tails it’s you.”

Because this is what Rachel Dawes was. She was the two-sided coin that landed on heads, on goodness, no matter what her choices were. She was the one who believed in the justice system, who worked tirelessly to protect people and who was crushed every time she failed. She was the one truly moral character. 

And that is why her fall from morality is so much more terrifying than the charismatic and driven-by-glory Harvey Dent, who cared, but differently. He wanted Rachel and all the other good people to love him, so that’s who he became, while Rachel--Rachel was just good. It didn’t matter what everyone else thought of her, as long as she did good, as long as she was good--

Until she wasn’t.

Losing someone like this, it can twist you and make your insides rot. Because how can the man who murdered the love of your life walk free? Everyone knows he did it. Everyone knows he’s the one blowing up hospitals--the one blowing up this hospital that you’re sitting in, and you in it, if you don’t stand up and walk away. 

Everyone knows the man--the monster--sitting by your bed and whispering to you about how it’s not his fault that Harvey is dead, how it’s the mob and the corrupt police and batman for making the wrong decision--everyone knows he’s guilty and here he his. Here. And she can’t do a thing.

But she feels that rush of power when he presses the gun to his head and presses the burnt coin into her hands.

“Chaos is fair.”

And then we don’t see Rachel for a while. We see the joker burn down the hospital, but we don’t know if Rachel’s morality won out or if the coin landed in the Joker’s favor. 

We don’t see Rachel again, in fact, until the close of the movie, after Bruce has left the Joker dangling upside down while he laughs about corrupting Rachel (and Bruce doesn’t believe it, because Rachel is incorruptible--)

And then there’s Michael Wuertz, standing behind the bar looking scared, and Rachel’s voice, hardened by loss. “If the coin lands on heads, you live. If it’s black, you die.” The coin flips, through the air, arching gracefully, and then the screen goes black with a gun shot. The credits roll.

(I love Tom Hardy as much as anyone but let’s be real and admit that the third movie just didn’t fit??? So no bane. Instead Rachel!Two-face gets a whole movie to herself, (throw in catwoman, if you like) with many parallels drawn between herself and Batman, except that she’ll kill people or set them free, regardless of any sense of morality, culminating, possibly, in her death, or in her capture. And there’s no 8 year time gap because. really???)

And the trilogy ends with Alfred burning rachel’s letter with her voiceover, and we remember the woman who was lost. 

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oceanfae replied to your post “oneweirdguy00 replied to your post “How do I become a hot goth...”

there is no true goth, only the goth u feel in ur heart

HOLY SHIT that’s beautiful !

[lvkeskvwalkers]

labyrinth aesthetics//gift for oceanfae

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oceanfae replied to your post “This haircut was fun for about three days, and now it’s fluffy again...”

just wet it and slick it back, you'll look super rad

My bangs are so big that it would probably dry into a pompadour, and nobody needs to see that. 

[lvkeskvwalkers]

last night oceanfae and I watched lawless and I was going on about how j couldn't believe tom hardy's character survived Spanish influenza, getting his throat slit, and getting shot like 6 times, and charismablackhole said "it's because...he's hardy" Clearly they are the best person I could have ever fallen in love with

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oceanfae you would be the most beautiful Rose Quartz tbh please

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oceanfae replied to your post “Woah, I wrote some shit for the first time in months. So here’s some...”

no this is very good my friend, there is something there that sticks. please keep it and work it around, its definatly worth it. (i love your work, for real.)

thom-bjorke-ish replied to your post “Woah, I wrote some shit for the first time in months. So here’s some...”

ooh i like this : 0 maybe you should write/post your writing more often? bc it's pretty cool imo!

ohmygosh thank you guys ;A; I’m really self conscious about ever sharing my writing anywhere because, well, you know how that kind of anxiety goes. i’m trying to force myself out of that bubble. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.