not gonna lie homos and homies, there's something incredibly, incredibly depressing about Batmanverse and the concept of Batjokes in particular, and it's not the murder murder stab stab death plots.
It's the collective unmentioned canon agreement around these characters never being able to escape the confinements of their narrative.
they get pushed to the very edges of their predefined thresholds, they toe the lines of their stories, they poke it and probe it and sometimes even flirt with the possibility of crossing the bounds of their narratives, but they never break throught the structure. they never go over the line, always sorta of wiggling in place; batjokes in particular is the most enticing and intriguing stagnant 85+ years story i have ever seen.
There are unspoken rules around who Batman is, what he will and will not do, and those rules are rarely questioned, if ever. No matter what he does, he cannot be in love with a man, and he cannot ever love Joker in particular. He cannot experience mental and emotional peace. he cannot kill and he cannot show sincere emotional vulnurability, he cannot experience his love in an open and unashamed way. His narrative thresholds confine him to a socially sanctioned image that is meant to be familiar and tangible to the average straight dude, and it's quite frankly exhausting to witness. Whatever happens to Batman's story, he never arrives at physical emotional or mental peace and on a foundational level his tale never changes, not really. You can almost feel it when he constantly bumps into this unspoken narrative rules and stops in his tracks, each and every goddamn time, for 85+ years. It's like a keyed up nutcracker toy soldier bumping into a wall, stumble back two steps, bump into the walls, stumble back two steps, bumpt into the wall,
As someone who loves stories that love to question their own narrative points and break through them and do something different, staring at Batmanverse comics for too long at a time lowkey feels heartbreaking, nothing ever truly changes in this bitch.
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no nut novemeber but its a competition between you and your partner(s) to make the other lose.
teasing them, edging them, small things til one just breaks.
extra small clothes, just to tease.
light touches right where theyre needed but its not enough.
cock-warming, thinking you can handle it but you cant, you give in and just start riding like a slut.
you wont lose if you dont cum first though.
and if you had multiple partners, you could gang up on one of them. its not cheating, its using your resources.
oh how they’d whine about how unfair it is that you ganged up on them, but it’s really an advantage to them. they can do whatever they want since they lost, anything to make you lose.
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devilsoupe's characterization of shi mei in to love without consuming is absolutely fabulous because i didn't realize how funny shi mei could be when he's not masking.
but it's also devastating because at that means that this is how shi mei would have been able to live had he just had someone he could confide in. shi mei didn't have to live in disgust and fear, feeling increasingly cornered with the only tools his mother left him before dying in the same grotesque, tragic way that every butterfly boned beauty had. and will. and will. unless he does something.
there are a lot of circumstances affecting this. i still don't quite like hua bin'an. but thinking about it, the one difference that stands out the most to me in that canon divergence is this:
chu wanning knew.
xue zhengyong knew.
sisheng peak knew.
and of these people who did know, they chose to reach out. they chose to defy tianyin pavilion's "will of heaven" because heaven has got to be bullshit if it really does excuse the genocide and rape and trafficking of an entire fucking species.
they chose to help shi mei. and the thing is, the thing is, in canon, they probably would have too.
we can't blame shi mei for never telling them, not when we know how afraid he must have been.
but at the same time - oh. shi mei did not have to be alone in this world. shi mei did not have to slowly and increasingly chip away at his own morality, despite being a doctor, despite wanting to help people, because he could have had a choice.
he could have had a choice.
it didn't have to turn out the way it did.
but everyone in erha is a product of their circumstances and the abuse they have gone through, and isn't that the message? things could have been different - but the world has hurt itself for so long that these people have forgotten they could have been different at all.
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Personal notes from before the szpd epiphany nr. 1: on maintaining online correspondences. More info in tags
sometimes I want to be alone. Arguably way too often. A break from online interaction too, that at its core is people interaction too.
Connection, in whatever kind of form, is far better than total isolation. The benefits outweigh the bad, though that too isn't pleasant to endure. I keep thinking about returning to my original state of isolation.
Going off for a break is fine. But what if you don't come back? they could be on my mind for the entire duration, yet I don't reply to them or share whatever it is that I've been up to. It's probably the maintenance which is the hardest part.
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Relationships: (Established) Yu Shisan/Qian Zhao, (Background) Ning Yuanzhou/Ren Ruyi, Ning Yuanzhou & Qian Zhao, Yu Shisan & Ren Ruyi
Summary: The (not so) grand reveal
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I don't not mean this offensively at all but is blows my mind that you are a lawyer but also writing jjk fics bc I work at a law firm and cannot for the life of me imagine any of the lawyers that work there writing fanfiction LOL kudos to u seriously I know how busy schedues can get due to court dates haha
im working in like. big city criminal law stuff right now and have been told by people in my office that i come off as a very deadpan and straight-laced legal nerd so i don't think the people who know me from my attorney life are imagining me writing jjk fanfic in my free time either
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oh my god tattoo artist & flower shop owner trope but with Gojo who’s the charming flower shop owner across the street from the tattoo parlor you work at I can’t get over this
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There's something refreshing about how Juri's reluctance to make friends was less "What if they don't like me?" and more "I know I struggle with my temper because of my mental illness, and I know I'll inevitably get mad about something and end up hurting them".
Characters who are afraid of being disliked because of their personality, or who are socially anxious in general, are pretty common, but it's not often that I see characters who are scared of being the one to hurt others with their personality. I love how the story digs into that, with all of the ugly parts and anxiety that come with it-- especially where we get to see that Juri does end up making friends she loves, who love her in kind, and who help her learn to manage her problems.
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