#at some point soon they will be indistinguishable in terms of skill level

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its time for the Annual Superbat Redraw

#my art #DC #superman #batman #at some point soon they will be indistinguishable in terms of skill level #but not quuuiiiiite yet babey!

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since there are so many different interpretations of clint’s deafness in canon and within the fandom, i figured it’s about time i make an Official post about this. although it doesn’t define him, it’s a very important part of his character and it needs to be discussed. so here we go friends !

TIMELINE :

clint has been partially deaf since childhood. he and barney grew up in an extremely abusive household. his father would beat them regularly, and managed to do enough damage to cause clint hearing loss. barney was the only support clint had during this. he made an incredible effort to learn american sign language so he could eventually pass it on to his little brother. until then, clint was forced to learn lipreading to get by. as clint aged, his hearing gradually improved, but just slightly. he would’ve benefited from hearing aids, but never had the financial means to do so, and he was eventually used to life without them.

when he began to operate as an independent young man, clint stopped using american sign language to communicate, as there was never much of an opportunity to use it when he wasn’t around his brother. clint is a very insecure person, but adolescence took things to a new level. it came to point where he’d rarely reveal his deafness to others. clint has always been hesitant to ask for help. it makes him feel weak and incapable, which was the last thing he needed growing up. there was no one to teach him the tips and tricks of life after his injuries, so he lived in a world of missing pieces, constantly bluffing and playing along like he understood every word. 

as clint’s life continued on into adulthood, his skills only got more refined. he learned to live with himself in a way that works for him. unfortunately, all this changed when he meet the clown. an incident in the fight to save his building landed him with arrows shoved deep in both his ears. he woke up in a hospital with his head bandaged and not a clue what had happened. if the arrows were any deeper, they would’ve hit his brain. instead, he suffered severe damage to his middle and inner ear canals. it took a while for him to grasp the reality of his situation. now left 80% deaf in both ears, clint experienced acute unilateral vestibulopathy, which resulted in severe dizziness, nausea, blurry / spinning vision, neck pain, and loss of proper balance. this lasted for quite some time, so he was confined to the hospital while everything was falling apart in the outside world. being the person he is, clint took less time than he should’ve to recover. while fighting the mafia, he was still dealing with his symptoms, if not yet being adjusted to life without sound wasn’t enough. 

somehow, clint managed to come out on top. his building was safe and he finally had time to come to terms with his deafness. after giving his ears more time to heal, he got his first pair of behind the ear hearing aids. while he learned to navigate his world with the new devices, he picked up american sign language once more to polish his skills, and soon reached full fluency. he is currently working to further accept his deafness, and expose himself to deaf cult/ure in an effort to find a community of people he can relate to.

DETAILS :

• the first few weeks without his hearing were absolute hell. whenever anyone spoke to him he was lost, and for a while he didn’t have much motivation to try and understand them. his depression worsened and he found it hard to even put in his hearing aids in the morning. it took him a while to readjust to relying on lipreading for conversation. before having access to hearing aids his world was empty. the only thing reminiscent of sound he could hold onto were his own thoughts. going outside for was incredibly difficult for him for a bit. he used to find comfort in the constant hum of the city around him, and that had been torn away from him. even with his hearing aids, the most he can pick up are remnants of a passing truck. he’s taken more of a liking to riding the subway, since he can hear the trains pulling in and out of the station. occasionally, he runs into trouble around the city, not registering the sounds of honking cars or the disgruntled mumbles of people on the street. 

• clint uses behind the ear hearing aids ( x ). his are purple. of course. they do not fix his hearing, but they help more than he’d imagine they would. he went from only being able to hear very loud, lower pitched sounds, to being able to hear the bass tones in a person’s voice. he has particular trouble hearing high pitched sounds, such as younger children’s voices. when he’s in the field, clint uses special hearing aids made for him by tony s/tark. they sit completely in his ear canals, and are able to connect to whatever comms system his team is using. although he doesn’t look forward to it, clint takes a trip to the audiologist annually, and sometimes lets a close friend tag along.

• clint usually feels left out in conversations, especially ones involving multiple people. seeing everyone else getting along just fine around him is tough. things like seeing people laugh and not understanding why still make his heart drop every so often. even though he can talk your ear off, he’s much more confident communicating through asl or over text. he is extremely embarrassed to ask people to repeat themselves, so he doesn’t do it often. lipreading is hard. clint has has been doing it his entire life, but even when he’s used to the way someone speaks, he finds it difficult to pick up all of what they’re saying. only about 30% of english can be lipread, so everything else has to be filled in. most consonants are virtually indistinguishable from each other without context. fraction does an incredible job of expressing this through writing. for example, clint is talking with jessica, and before he can gather his thoughts, she doesn’t make much sense : 

… but all of that seems almost worth it to clint when he meets someone who knows asl. being able to let his exaggerated expressions and body language flow freely is something he’ll never take for granted.

• clint accidentally raises his voice when he talks from time to time. soft spoken people are hard to be around, even though he occasionally wishes he were like them. he doesn’t like when people quickly approach him for conversation from the side, and gets a bit annoyed if someone he knows tries to talk to him when he has his back turned. if they’re not close, he’ll just nod and pretend he knows what they’ve said. 

• in his own house, clint doesn’t like wearing his hearing aids. they’re uncomfortable. there’s this thing sitting behind and in your ears. once in a while he needs to give them a break. but because of this, he finds himself checking up on lucky more than he probably should, and sometimes leaves the apartment door ajar for him if he knows it’s safe to do so. the subtitles on his tv are always on, and he won’t always put his hearing aids in to watch it. when he does, and he’s alone, he turns the sound up loud and tries to enjoy himself as much as possible. nothing will get in the way of him and dog cops. 

that’s the basics. clint lives his life every day dealing with his deafness and it will always be a part of him. he wouldn’t be the same without his experiences, and wouldn’t change himself if he had the chance to. he’s learning to love himself the way he is. it might take a while, but he’s taking steps to get there. 

#DO NOT REBLOG. #➤ headcanon. #this took me so long oh my god #n e ways i love my son clintoris barton #long post / #this is the first real headcanon post i've ever made i hope this is okay???? #abuse tw

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Episode Two: Stormborn

The attitude towards killing off characters here before they actually get to do anything interesting invites reflection of the terrible aptness of the gamer term ‘wasted’ to refer to a death.

But reader let us begin at the beginning.

Scene 1: The weather in winter-has-come Westeros is miserable, and Daenerys is cabin feverish in her new storm-whipped angular rock palace. She has a go at Varys for his key role in the plot to assassinate her in season one, which initially is awkward but then he gets self-righteous and delivers a speech about being the People’s Spook which wins over everyone’s hearts and minds again.

Honestly the Khaleesei has such a dream team around her, it makes me feel anxious. When is a traitor / assassin / magic monster / other issue going to arise and sneeze on everyone’s dessert? Probably soon and also to an extent in this very episode, the snake being that penis Euron.

Then they all go into the throne room and Melisandre is standing there between Daenerys and the throne!

It’s like Melisandre is receiving Daenerys in the throne room and not the other way around, which is very awkward and seems like it could be foreshadowing about the Red Priestesses getting out of hand like Cersei’s Sparrows? Tbh I am also concerned about the Dothraki too who hardly seem likely to bring harmony to Westeros, devoted as they are to rape and pillage. Could the Dothraki be persuaded to settle down as gentle farmspeople of the Reach? This seems unlikely. Yet mass deporting them back to the steppe seems neither feasible nor fair on everyone else who lives there, who are probably now entering into an unprecedented age of peace, prosperity and cultural flourishing. Daenerys is a magical dragon queen and Varys and Tyrion are the best statecrafters in Westeros probably, but are their skills a match for the religious fire witches of Asshai AND the Dothraki AND the Army of the Dead AND all of Westeros’ more standard-issue intractable problems? We will find out, but for now Melisandre substantially moves the plot along by telling Daenerys that she absolutely must meet this northern hunk Jon Snow. “Sounds like quite a man,” says Daenerys, probably filling the tall sails of Dany/Jon fantasists with merry gusting hope; but, further to my concerns about Daenerys’ already too dreamy team, plus how boring Skyrim is once you reach high levels, I hope your sails turn to rags sorry. Game of Thrones is about the joy of not getting what you want. There is no point complaining. Melisandre understands that more is less so doesn’t mention anything at all about Jon apart from some vague stuff about the prince/ss who was promised and wildlings and so on. 

Daenerys says she’ll send Jon an invitation to visit and “bend the knee,” confirming the sinking feeling everyone had when we all heard those fatefully inconvenient words, “the King in the North”: good for the morale of people who live too far north to be comfortable / clean most of the time; bad for every other objective.

Scene 2: Jon, Sansa and Davos are already reading Daenarys’ letter, because this plot waits for no raven. Davos, genius of his age, notes the radiantly obvious fact that fire-breathing dragons will be of great use against an army of ice demons who only die by means of 1. rare materials and 2. fire. They all agree that Jon actually going and securing the dragons to save the world would be too dangerous, however.

Scene 3: Cersei lists an array of tediously one-sided facts about Daenerys’ atrocity record to date, larded with some unnecessary racism. The sanctimonious southern lords assembled all duly listen in prim horror. Jaime tries to poach Sam’s dad from the Tyrells using more racism, a good strategy with Sam’s dad.

Scene 4: Jorah’s grayscale is looking absolutely terrible. 

The Archmaester scolds him for not cutting off his own arm immediately, but because he’s an aristocrat gives him the opportunity to commit suicide before shipping him off to a decade or so of frenzied madness in Valyria. Westerosi best practice of sending crazed grayscale victims off to roam the wilderness seems questionable from an epidemiological perspective, but what do I know.

Scene 5: Creepy kindly wrongun Qyburn shows Cersei his new spear-crossbow, and impresses her by getting her to shoot it at a centuries-old, already-cracked dragon skull, against which it works wonderfully effectively.

How punchably excited Joffrey would be if he was alive! His mum looks quite pleased too.

Scene 6: Tyrion explains to the Southern and Western Ladies of Westeros how this war is going to go. They’re going to do a hearts-and-minds war with minimal use of foreigners in key optics locations, thereby preserving the country as something more than ashes (Daenerys repeats a line here about being queen of the ashes that Tyrion used earlier). Tyrion is saving the Dothraki to pillage his own ancestral seat! What a guy. Olenna points out that the hearts-and-minds strategy didn’t work out for Maergery, something I too am yet to process emotionally. In a one-on-one Olenna counsels Daenerys that war is permanent and to ignore clever men. Thanks Olenna!

Scene 7: Missandei and Grey Worm, two extremely emotionally scarred yet preternaturally attractive young things, share a scene whose tenderness is am I right in saying unrivalled in GoT history? Grey Worm’s lines about Missandei being his weakness are not what anyone used to talking to people in informal settings would call smooth, but this poor young man is like 75% scar tissue, and anyway Missandei calls him on it and refuses to take “you know what I mean” for an answer. She has prepared for this moment by wearing a dress you can undo by pulling a cord, and after pushing Grey Worm to develop greater levels of emotional literacy they go to bed and have a fulfilling experience together despite their tragic pasts and Grey Worm’s absent genitals. In fact,

"Sir Richard Burton, in his travels, wrote about the eunuchs of Mecca and talked about them being sexually active with their wives. When we had the rise of the Italian castrati, who were castrated usually between the ages of 10 and 12, we have a number of them attempting to marry, and a legal brief from the Church in 1718 said that they shouldn’t be allowed to because eunuchs are too tempting to women. ‘They are more esteemed by lewd women because they can give them all the satisfaction without any risk or danger of pregnancy.’"

The scene is extremely affecting good god

Scene 8: Is that Missandei’s hand grasping a bedpost no it’s the Archmaester getting a badly written history book off the shelves what is wrong with you. The Archmaester is going to write A Record of the Wars Following the Death of King Robert Baratheon, First of His Name. Sam suggests a more “poetic” title. This scene is further confirmation of the fan theory that Sam wrote A Song of Ice and Fire.

Sam says he can maybe cure Jorah, the Archmaester tells him he can’t without probably catching greyscale. We cut to Jorah writing a suicide letter to Daenerys, but then Sam comes around with a trolleyful of hope and crude surgical equipment, and goes ahead and very kindly and politely peels off Jorah’s skin. Sam, is there not a facemask in the Citadel? After the Archmaester’s warning this seems excessively rash and virulent pus eye squirting seems extremely probable.

Scene 9: The show’s cruel hatred for the viewer at home is confirmed by this cut. 

But Game of Thrones forgiveness springs eternal in this recapper’s heart - look, there’s Hotpie!

The appearance of her homely old friend, together with his revelation that Winterfell is Stark again and Jon Snow is its king, gets those unending hope jets spurting too: maybe Arya’s life could end up not being entirely unremittingly without friendship, solace, love? 

Scene 10: Jon immediately scotches our reunion at Winterfell hopes by making the sensible decision to leave for Dragonstone after all in. He also makes the sensible decision to leave Sansa in charge of the north, which I guess she looks okay with? King in the North is a bit of a poisoned chalice to be passing on and he did just say he neither wanted it nor asked for it.

Then Littlefinger goes down to annoy Jon while he’s attempting some quiet reflection at Ned’s grave. To Littlefinger, Jon says: “you don’t belong down here”, “I have nothing to say to you”, and [strangling him] “touch my sister and I’ll kill you myself”. Were these the intended outcomes of this conversation for Littlefinger? I guess Littlefinger doesn’t always have a masterplan and is possibly just looking for an opportunity to worm up the old chaos ladder on which he may temporarily have misplaced his footing?

Scene 11: Was that Nymeria?? Arya says “That’s not you”, which made me think the reason why the wolves leave is because she wargs them or something? 

Scene 12: Just as Yara and Ellaria are about to strike up a beautiful friendship, Euron ruins everything by firebombing the Ironborn fleet.

This was a sad scene in which as mentioned above two thirds of the Sand Snakes got massacred after only perfunctory wielding of their signature weapons. Could the remaining Sand Snake be developed into an interesting Last of the Sand Snakes figure? It seems possible that captivity in the hands of Euron and presumably also Cersei will offer Yara, Ellaria and the Last Sand Snake few character development opportunities, and that they will be gorily sacrificed at the altar of the development of Euron’s character as the new Ramsey, and join Maergery and Ros in a lugubrious chorus of Female Hubris in the sky. Let’s hope for a sexy triple escape instead, during which the Last Sand Snake, shorn of her sisters from whom she was unfortunately formerly indistinguishable, dons characteristics and saves the day.

#gotcap