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thecryingastrologer · 2 years

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Astrology observations pt22🚬

Disclaimer: all these observations are based on my personal observations ❤️

DO NOT PLAGIARISE 🚫 MY 🚫 WORK 🚫 IF YOU WISH TO REPOST IT GIVE ME THE CREDITS 💌

YALLLLL I HAVE A FEW PERSONAL STORY TIME MOMENTS RN I CANNOT -💀

💪okayyyyyyyyyy story time,

Sooo i recently started going to clg and i started liking this guy. Were gonna call him spikeyhairman. Ik. Bear with me 🥲😂

It was like i started liking him at the very first sight. Idk how to explain it, it was like i felt so drawn to him and got a little obsessed with him. So i just checked his chart out of curiosity👁️👁️ and found out he had Leo sun and Aries ascendant with Scorpio mars. Yes. Ik. That mars also had y'all👁️👁️💧😫 and then i saw my chart and i have Leo in 12th and mars in 8/Aries.

It was like we know we like eachother but aren't making any moves. I'm not cause i dotn wanna get rejected and ik he's not cause he doesn't either.

When i tell you, I've NEVER gone out of ym way to see a guy, I MEAN IT. he just brings out something in me, like i want his attention i want him i dress up for my self but a part of me also wants him to notice me. Y'know what i mean????

AND GUESSS WHATTTTTTT 😫😫😫😫😫

ok sooooooooo 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♀️

I didn't meet him for 2 days. Like i didn't take the usual route to the other block of my uni and guess what? He started cmg around on my floor and came around to see me, not once but 6 times. Ik. Ik. Some shit out of Wattpad ik. Let that sink in.

Since I'm still an amateur, I'm trying to figure out this type of astrological side. So bear with me and if any other person who has exp, feel free to engage ☺️💗

My point is, the planet/sign in your 8 house can bring out sides in you that you may never have thought and you may attract that theme into your love life or relationships in gen.

Like im my case, i have mars in 8 house which traditionally rules Scorpio and Aries.

Aries is alot abt passion, quick attraction, chase and guess what? It s all there. I didn't even know his name for like 1 month but i still fell for him cause of his piercing. It was on site attraction.

Scorpio is abt passion, intensity, secrets and being guarded too. And once again, guess what??? I want to see him all the time but when i do get to see him, i look away cause ik he knows i like him but neither of us have verbally said it. It's like you feel it. It's intense.

So pay attention to your 8 house and 12th house too cause it is the house of hidden. You may secretly feel attracted towards those themes or may attract people with those themes.💗💗🕵️‍♀️

💪 you may attract alot of people with he same rising signs as yours. Like i have Libra rising and i have attracted quite alot of libras in my life atp.

💪 i Never believed that venus risings could be charming as fuck but GOD DAMMMNNNNNN the way my Libra rising ass gets compliments and somewhat misinterpreted as flirty just because I say thankyou or speak to them in a warm and sweet manner😂😂. It genuinely confuses me cause i have my eyes on one guy but i don't even speak to him 👁️👁️💧

💪 pisces men don't let go of arguments easily. More specifically sun, moon and Mars. Sometimes even mercury. Ik it. Cause my dads. One.🥲🙏

also babies sorry for the long break, all this uni shit had me 👁️👁️💧

Love you guys🤍❤️

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hecckyeah · 4 years

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Ok. Inbox game.

Uh. 30.

And writer's choice (pick one that you've wanted people to ask you but no one has)

30. What my last text message says:

Lol it says “WhatttTttT” because my brother was being dumb and was roasting me for not answering his video call within the first 2 rings 🙄

42. Have you ever had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back?

(I only chose this one because I’m feeling particularly Salty on this fine day, due to literally everyone around me blasting their relationship status over social media, getting married, and having children. and also my inability to find a romantic partner. So I kinda feel like ranting. Tune out if you must. ANYWAY.)

Yes. I have. Twice, actually. maybe three times. It’s been too many.

The first time, I crushed for four years. I’ve always been unreasonably shy, so of course I didn’t say anything. I was awkward around him, tried to be friends but failed because of being so awkward. So of course it didn’t go anywhere, and by the time we were both halfway through high school he had gotten himself a girlfriend who is literally my polar opposite (short, blonde, not built like an actual Amazon woman weightlifter type [me])

And the second time, I crushed for only two years. Again I was too shy, figured I wasn’t his type because of being burned by Crush #1, and didn’t say anything. And yet again, now he has a girlfriend who is (AGAIN) my polar opposite. At least we’re still good friends, and I’m not salty at him. Just myself.

I’m sensing a pattern here, anyone else? History is doomed to repeat itself, I suppose 🙄

#so sorry if that was too negative #i might delete this later lol #but apparently september and october are the months to announce everything #new relationships and engagements and babies #and it kinda drives me nuts #as a single person #i am Salty #but it's okay #just had to rant for a sec #:)#rant over :)#ask me stuff #get to know your blogger

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annabethisterrified · 6 years

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Book Review: THE BURNING MAZE (The Trials of Apollo #3) by Rick Riordan

There are no spoilers unless you click ‘Read More’!

California is burning. After shutting down the oraclic sites in New York and Indiana, Apollo (aka Lester Papadapaulos) and Meg McCaffrey team up with Grover Underwood to find the source of the burning maze, a morphed portion of the Labyrinth where the third oracle is trapped. Along the way, they must work with demigods Piper McLean and Jason Grace to figure out how to navigate the twisting, smoldering maze.

But the third emperor of the evil Roman Triumvirate makes Nero and Commodus look pathetic. With the stakes high and their world burning, Apollo and his friends must put out the flames before they devour everything.

In classic Riordan tradition, this third installment amps up the drama and danger. With dark and mature themes, the lighthearted aspect of this series begins to dwindle away as real consequences and devastating decisions wreak havoc upon Apollo, Meg, Grover, Jason, and Piper. The Burning Maze is a cinematic, heartbreaking adventure that elevates the stakes and leads us to the grittiest part of The Trials of Apollo. Once again, this book proves that this third series is not a spin-off or separate from Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus; The Burning Maze proves that The Trials of Apollo explores the loose ends and lingering fears the first two series laid out. A must-read for any fan of Riordan’s mythological mayhem. Just, uh, grab some tissues first.

SPOILERY COMMENTARY BELOW!

Heyyyy there! So seriously, massive spoilers ahead. You sure about this? Okay. Also, I gotta break this down into chapters. It’ll be the only organized part of this, trust me.

1. That Fun Five Letter Word...Starts with D!

2. The Devolution of Jasiper

3. Apollo’s Arc

4. What Comes Next...?

5. Miscellaneous Sobbing

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CHAPTER ONE: THAT FUN FIVE LETTER WORD...STARTS WITH D!

I am not okay. Like, really not okay. Granted, I’m writing this review less than thirty minutes after finishing, so maybe I need more time to process what just went down but....damn. Like, my stomach ACTUALLY HURTS. I AM IN PHYSICAL PAIN BECAUSE OF THE CONTENT OF THIS BOOK.

In a good way, you ask?

Uh. It’s hard to say. This book is tricky to review. I’ve had an easy, breezy time describing my feelings for all the PJO, HoO, and ToA books prior. But in The Burning Maze...everything changes.

For years, a lot of us on here have lamented the fact that we felt Riordan’s books have lacked a degree of consequence. On the rare occasion that he did kill a character, he brought them back-- Jason in The Lost Hero, Hazel, Leo...I could go on.

And it’s not that we’re bad people who want to watch our favorites perish! We just...well, if you keep bringing back dead characters, we start to lose the fear that a character’s death should instill.

I guess he heard us, then.

Because if you’ve read this book, you understand too-- there isn’t anything bringing Jason back. This was real. Final. (In his own words!) And that kind of hurts. A lot. But at the same time, as heartbroken and sick as I feel, this is what we’ve been asking for for a long time-- something that reminds us of what’s at stake.

Something, I suppose, to make us remember that. (See what I did there?)

Now, I’ll talk more about this in Chapter Two because I have a lot of confused feelings, but I for one, when it was announced that Piper and Jason would be in this book, assumed it would be a joint arrival, if that makes sense? I wasn’t expecting the two of them to be starkly and individually portrayed and explored...and yeah, I gotta wait til the next section to talk about this. Back to Jason’s demise.

And yeah, this was spoiled for me. And yeah, it was my own fault, so don’t feel bad for me. Still, I didn’t know HOW or WHY he would die, so there was plenty of heartbreak for me to uncover along the way. I was mentally steeling myself for the first 300 pages of this book, dreading what I knew was coming, crying at nearly every scene he was in (which frankly, wasn’t many scenes!) and basically losing my damn mind remembering ceaselessly all the times we’ve had over the past what? EIGHT YEARS? Since Lost Hero came out? I’ve loved Jason since The Lost Hero...since I was TWELVE. I am now TWENTY. I watched him grow. I waited impatiently every year for the next HoO book to release. I watched him fall in love with Piper and expand his loyalties and grow stronger and wiser and end up with such a fitting duty-- pontifex maximus.

And today, eight years later, I watched it all get ripped away.

And I’m torn, because I think in a dark way, this is an absolutely tragically beautiful arc for Riordan to explore and utilize in ToA. I think it was a long overdue and necessary decision that clarifies the real danger our characters should have been exposed to much earlier.

But I really thought he was going to be okay after Blood of Olympus. I thought our Seven were safe. I had already imagined and accepted what their lives were going to be like-- I had imagined he and Piper’s kids, his job as pontifex maximus, everything that was going to unfold for him... I thought the great tragedy of his long, happy life was going to be not growing old with his sister, Thalia.

And it was hard to have him brought back into the action just for half of a book, just to get killed so gruesomely, so violently...without even getting to say goodbye, a fact that Piper and Leo later lament. So am I outraged at this writing decision? Or simply as a loyal reader? I think it’s the latter. I am angry for Jason and the friends he left behind, but I also deeply respect this writing decision. It’s a weird balance, and my thoughts will likely evolve as I have more time to digest.

I don’t feel good thoughts about this book, but that’s not a negative on the story. I think Riordan knocked it out of the park. That doesn’t diminish the dread and devastation I feel as a reader who has loved Jason for eight years. As a reader who had happiness for Jason’s future, and as a reader who really, truly, thought it would happen.

Then again, isn’t that the whole point? Demigods are never, ever safe. And now Apollo will always remember what it is to be human, because Jason did such a goddamn noble job of it.

I’m proud of that boy, and deeply sorry for him. I’m gutted. I’ll miss him terribly. I just hope this arc is further explored and resonates in the final two books in this saga. I just hope it wasn’t for nothing, but I know it won’t be.

Don’t get me fucking started on

Coach Hedge: “I was his protector.”

Leo: “Where’s Jason?”

Goodbye, please see Chapter Five for more screaming!

CHAPTER TWO: THE DEVOLUTION OF JASIPER

Ironically, this somehow hurts me just as much as Jason’s death? Like...okay. Let me think of how I can articulate this, because I’m feeling a lot of things.

First off, I (unlike many of us bloggers here) genuinely loved Jason’s character and his romantic pairing with Piper right from the get-go. It clicked for me. It really resonated, and I was fully supportive. I loved the strange dynamic of having this fake foundation, and watching it develop (seemingly) into something real-- something unique and strong, a soaring romance worthy for a daughter of Aphrodite.

We didn’t see it happen on-page, but they were an official couple by The Mark of Athena and I was behind it 100%. They had rough patches that I guess were indicative of future problems, but they were easily swept aside by the larger importance of surviving their Argo 2 mission. I loved their tender, intimate moments in The House of Hades and The Blood of Olympus.

Truly.

So I was confused when they were broken up (again, something we don’t see happen on-page) in The Burning Maze. And being from Apollo’s perspective, we of course will never fully understand why this happened.

Now again, I have to deal between looking at this from two perspectives. Am I upset at the author’s decision, or just as a really-passionate Jasiper shipper? Of course, my immediate thought was that one of them had broken it off to protect the other, probably thinking “oh fuck if one of us is gonna die in the maze, maybe I should break this off to avoid future pain”. But then jason goes and tells apollo that it was PIPER that broke it off well before the burning maze was even a thing and i’m like WATTTTTT

I’m still like WHATTTTTTT

So, I wait for Piper to have her heart-to-heart with Apollo. (Listen, I fucking LOVE Piper in this book. What a badass motherfucker. Holy fuck.) And I’m expecting her to give a concrete, selfless reason for breaking things off with Jason.

I wasn’t expecting her to have fallen out of love with him.

But the more Piper explained herself, the more I realized that I was just the type of secondhand observer that Piper had started to resent. Apollo put it succinctly: “Your relationship was born in crisis.”

It really was-- beyond Hera’s meddling and Aphrodite’s hyperfixation, these kids were also in WAR MODE. That’s enough to stress anyone out. I hadn’t really stopped to consider what Piper was dealing with, as a daughter of the love goddess. How everyone expected her to have everything romantic figured out. To have a love story to rival Percy and Annabeth’s. How her first love must be the love of her life.

And the whole world-- and the whole pantheon-- was watching them and expecting it. Judging them, all the time.

Like, yeah, girl. That’s a lot. I think I get why Piper did it, even if it broke my heart. That being said, I do wish that if Jason had lived, they eventually would’ve made their way back to each other and fallen in love for real.

But Piper was right. She deserved to forge her own identity, even with the world restraining her constantly. I wish I knew exactly where her feelings for him stood, but at least we know with certainty that she always considered him her closest friend. She clearly loved him so much, more than anyone-- even if it was a different type of love than the one they first shared.

Just because she’s Aphrodite’s daughter doesn’t mean she should have to fall in love so dramatically and eternally. That isn’t fair for her. Her first remark to Grover was cutting and clear-- Jason and Piper were never like Percy and Annabeth.

And this is still hard for me to stomach, since I love(d) them together, but I am glad Riordan is exploring the much more realistic aspect to relationships. As someone in a long-term relationship, I can empathize with Piper’s fears. The world always wants couples to be “Percabeth”-- together forever, utterly known to each other.

But the reality is, most couples are nothing like Percabeth. And that’s okay-- that’s normal, and as sad as that is, at least it was acknowledged and addressed and explored.

It took away some of the sting of Jason’s death that I’d been anticipating. I thought maybe there would be some last-minute confessional, some last tender moment between them. There wasn’t. He was torn away so fast.

I’m devastated that Piper has to live on without him. But she has her father, Hedge and Millie, Leo...she’ll be okay. She’s a fighter. Always was.

It’s hard to see one of Riordan’s hallmark couples fall apart in a way you don’t expect. But I can’t say it’s not realistic, and it’s kind of relieving to see one of his romances take on the tough stuff and not fall into a sweeping, encompassing romance that is usually unrealistic.

CHAPTER THREE: APOLLO’S ARC

YEESSSSS RIORDAN DONE GOOD ON THIS PART

Apollo’s narration and character has finally developed into someone I can truly empathize and sympathize with. As cool as it would’ve been to see some of these scenes from other character’s points of view, I was really happy to read through Apollo’s eyes. I love love love where his character is going.

God....him referring to Jason as ‘brother’...his obvious care for Meg...it got me good. I’ve always liked Apollo as a narrator, but this is the first book where I LOVED IT. He’s set on a good path! He’s still funny, thank goodness, but there’s also a darker, wiser grace to him now that gives the story a more serious edge that will definitely help the books moving forwards.

I can’t believe he tried to kill himself to save the others. Ugh. What a guy.

Love him!

That is all.

CHAPTER FOUR: WHAT COMES NEXT...?

So, I did a big happy dance when the next prophecy was revealed....REYNA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE REYNA OH MY GOD WE GET A WHOLE BOOK WITH HER I’M PSYCHED FOR THE TYRANT’S TOMB

But beyond REYnA!!!!! and Camp Jupiter????? I don’t really know what to expect for this fourth installment. I imagine we’re going to Delphi for the final book, but sticking to the Bay Area for The Tyrant’s Tomb???

I’m like...extremely apprehensive because a lot of people are predicting that Apollo and Reyna are gonna fall in love?????????????????????? like what with her final prophecy: no demigod shall heal your heart

umm. first off, reyna could do WAY better. But like...is this actually gonna happen? UHHHHH????? Guess I have a full year to think on this one hmmm

CHAPTER FIVE: MISCELLANEOUS SOBBING

soooooo i’m like kinda numb kinda devastated kinda in love with this book kinda wanna throw it against a wall

Like, okay, I recognize that as an author Riordan did an excellent job writing this book and I am so excited to see what goes down next.

BUT ALSO I HAD BEEN IMAGINING THIS DREAMY REUNION SCENE BETWEEN LEO/PIPER/JASON AND THEN IT HAPPENED EXCEPT JASON WAS IN A COFFIN??????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ALSO CANNOT BELIEVE PIPER IS MOVING TO OKLA-FUCKING-HOMA i mean actually I’m really happy that she’s finding her roots and that she’s taking some well-deserved family time and that coach hedge is with her but also I WISH SHE WAS WITH HER CHB AND CF FRIENDDDSSS

at least it’s kinda close to Indianapolis?

jesus christ

Anyway, I really loved Piper in this book-- my queen, my crush, my...oh my god i just love her she’s a fantastic character and i really hope she’ll come back somehow for the final battle

I’m also happy that Grover gets to go back to CHB and see Percy and Annabeth again! Yay!!! And I’m happy that Camp Jupiter hasn’t burned down to the ground yet! Yay!!!!!

In conclusion, I will grieve Jason Grace forever. But damn, what a book. See you next spring, demigods.

PLEASE MESSAGE ME TO TALK ABOUT THIS IF YOU’VE READ TBM I NEED TO CRY MORE

#review #burning maze spoilers #burning maze #trials of apollo #the trials of apollo

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ncfan-1 · 7 years

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Gotham 04X03, ‘They Who Hide Behind Masks’

This week, we have an auction, a hare-brained, morally bankrupt scheme, and Bruce Wayne as the least-convincing spoiled brat in the history of everything. Also: whatttttt. (You get three guesses before reading this recap, and the first two don’t count.) This is Gotham.

- We open with a flashback to AD 125 Arabia, a single man on horseback after a terrible battle. He stops over the corpse of a seemingly-dead Alexander Siddig, but we know how this ends… with a dip in incandescent green water. The man tells Ra’s al Ghul that he is his heir, and that now al Ghul must find his, as he is given a very particular-looking knife.

(Will we be told what made the man choose al Ghul? Who knows.)

- Bruce is watching one of Oswald’s shipments be brought into Gotham via boat. He sees a thief scoping out the docks, but despite Alfred’s pleas, goes down to help them.

- It’s Selina. Obviously. But it’s Bruce who gets caught first.

- Now for sunny Miami! Gordon’s really going through with this. Oh, my. He didn’t even call ahead. What an asshole.

- Falcone does not take the extended hand. Gordon, why are you calling him ‘Carmine?’ Do you really think that’s going to endear you to him?

- Falcone’s good at cutting through Gordon’s bullshit, I’ll give him that.

- And he’s dying, too. Can’t say I’m shedding any tears over that.

- Sofia isn’t immediately thrilled about Gordon, which I appreciate. I don’t know if she and Mario were raised together or not, but even if they weren’t, he was still her brother. She actually looked pretty freaked when she first found out who he was.

- Tense scene between Bruce and Alfred as the latter stitches up the latter’s wound. Alfred is really not liking this vigilante business; considering their relationship, I’m not surprised.

- Barbara’s demeanor is… interesting. I’m really hoping they’re going where I think they’re going with it.

- Oswald’s just talking to the Edcicle like it can answer him when Zsasz irritates him. Christ.

- And we have a random woman defrosting Ed. Because of course it couldn’t be anyone we already knew. Look, I know Gotham’s supposed to be a super-chaotic place, but couldn’t Ed getting defrosted be the result of something less… random?

- Oswald’s not happy. Zsasz looks happy at having someone to kill.

- Edward wakes up to a stalker shrine set up by an elementary school classmate, in what I’m pretty sure is a direct parallel of Oswald waking up in Ed’s apartment in S2. We have what I think (considering I’m not an expert) is a pretty realistic depiction of muscle atrophy. And we have the man who has objectified women, now being objectified by a woman.

- Bruce bullshits his way onto Oswald’s ship. Runs into trouble, and Alfred bails him out again, less than pleased.

- Barbara’s trying to buy a knife off of Oswald. Three guesses which knife.

- Now Bruce and Alfred are looking up the knife. They see an illustration of Ra’s al Ghul, and are justifiably pretty freaked, considering this would make the man around two thousand years old. (For the record, I don’t think this is a logic fail on their parts. As best as I can recall, all they know about the Lazarus Pit is that the waters can heal mortal wounds. They don’t necessarily know about its other capabilities.)

- Harvey points out the obvious that bringing Falcone back would ignite a really bloody gang war.

- And now Sofia’s approaching Gordon in a really low-cut dress.

- You always respected Falcone, Gordon? Really? Not the impression I got. (I note he’s much more able to be tactful with Sofia than he was with the surviving loved one of a man he killed last episode.)

- It turns out Falcone was a very hands-off father.

- Sofia and Mario were raised together. Well, the Gordon/Sofia subplot is going to be even ickier than it already was.

- Please tell me she is setting him up for a serious fall. She does sound super wooden when she says Gordon didn’t have a choice about shooting her brother.

- As Zsasz is relating a rumor that Ed’s defrosting was an inside job, I notice that Oswald doesn’t even seem to have noticed Ivy’s absence.

- Myrtle is still… I can’t say I feel sorry for Ed, ‘cause this version of Ed is… not particularly sympathetic. Like at all. I feel a little sorry for him, if only on principle. But even then, she’s not nearly as creepy as he could be with Kristin Kringle. And we get our first signal that Ed didn’t come out of his time on deep freeze mentally unscathed. (I do appreciate the fact that the writers acknowledge that someone isn’t just going to bounce back from something like that.)

- Sunk cost fallacy, Gordon; you really need to figure out what that is.

- This episode is making me miss the ocean even more than usual.

- Gordon does make me a little sad sometimes; this is one of those times.

- Quick to lock lips with the guy who killed your brother, aren’t you, Sofia? Okay, I definitely think she’s looking to set Gordon up for a fall now. Stitch him up nicely, as Alfred would say. Please make it happen, Gotham writers; give us a dangerous, manipulative Sofia Falcone, I beg of you.

- Bruce and Alfred are going over their new plan. Bruce goes to the auction and buys the knife. Alfred is talking about roles, and the one Bruce needs to play tonight—a reckless teenager, a “spoiled brat”, as Bruce puts it. This isn’t gonna go well. I don’t think Bruce could do “brat” convincingly if his life depended on it.

- Bruce is getting a little better at improv. Alfred is pleased.

- (I know it’s on short notice, but couldn’t Bruce have found a proxy buyer.)

- The knife is an embalming knife.

- And Oswald lets Bruce have the knife just ‘cause he knows it’ll piss off Barbara.

- (And yes, Bruce Wayne is the least convincing spoiled brat you could possibly imagine. His default state is “well-meaning sweetheart”, and he clearly has no idea how to pull off “shallow, empty-headed brat.” Probably the only reason anyone buys it is because most of the people in the room haven’t had extended contact with him up until now.)

- And Ed reveals that as far as physical health goes, he’s doing just fine now. Demonstrates it by knocking out the woman who defrosted him. Dude, I know she was a stalker and she wasn’t being particularly nice to you by then, but… Never mind. Roll scene.

- Bruce and Selina confront each other. I like their new dynamic. They’re clearly not happy with each other, but they also still clearly care about each other and they are asking each other questions instead of just assuming they have all the info they need. I think they’re still making a few assumptions, though; Bruce definitely is.

- We have a new character, Detective Harper. I hope she’s a new mainstay.

- Sofia shows up at the precinct. She looks a lot better in a suit than in a dress, I must say. We have it implied that Sofia’s taken full part in Miami mob activities. And she was setting him up, at least a little. I’m happy.

- Myrtle is tracked down, gets offed. Zsasz likes her dress, but that’s not enough to save her. I actually feel kind of sorry for her.

- Edward’s just walking around town in broad daylight. ‘Cause of course.

- Barbara vs. Ra’s al Ghul fight scene. Yessss, they are going where I thought they were going. (Well, not entirely. Babs x Ra’s whattttttt…. Just…… Whatttttt.)

#ncfan watches Gotham

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