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[gayrogues]

#ransom.txt #evil dead #reanimator

[canongf-archive]

what if i told you me and ransom eloped

#:-) #surprise!!! #new year newlyweds!!! #it's jan 1st and we're married!!! #this man really started our relationship like #'i don't do commitment i don't do relationships i don't fall in love ever' #and i said 'ok. well that was before me.' #and now there's a rock on my finger #<333 #live #ransom.txt #ˏˋ ship: ransom ˊˎ #self ship #self shipping

[canongf]

🌹🖤 wedding invitations from the drysdales. 🖤🌹

thank you SO MUCH to @enter-the-phantom for creating these!!! they're perfect, they're even better than i could have imagined!!!!!

abby's commissions for custom self ship invitations are open and i cannot recommend them ENOUGH!!! they are so incredibly creative and thoughtful, and i am in love with the final product!!!

check out their commission post here!!!!! 🖤

#THANK YOU AGAIN ABBY!!! #I HAVE THEM ON DISPLAY IN MY ROOM THEY'RE JUST GORGEOUS!!! :''') #self ship #self shipping #self ship community #self shipping community #self insert #self insert community #ransom.txt #🔪 #this is my first time posting abt ransom on this new blog awww!!! #he gets the knife emoji. for obvious reasons :-)

[undindjarin-archive]

i have one brain cell and its heart shaped and it's only job is to spread kindness

#i have one and i love it #u can reblog if u too have a heart shaped brain cell whos mission is to spread kindness #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

#went with who i figure will be the popular options but there's still so many others i wanted to include #classic lit #shakespeare #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

begging for more female characters who are like bart curlish from dirk gently's holistic detective agency she's a freak she's a weirdo she's covered in grime and blood 24/7 she drank shampoo the universe won't let her die she's not a sexy girlboss she's just a fucked up little dude who loves to kill and will kill again but is somehow still one of the most scrunkly characters in the show

#rewatched some of the show with my friends last night and it awakened some dormant brain worms i think #dghda #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

"what if herbert west and [insert other horror weirdguy] made out" interesting but consider the following: what if the bride from bride of re-animator and elizabeth from frankenhooker made out

#i spin the bride of frankenstein trope around in the washing machine of my brain and this is what falls out #something something the way they were both created to fulfill the desires of a man. being literally objectified (reduced to 'parts') #the horror of waking up with a body that isn't yours #and then the contrast between what they do with this #the bride tearing herself apart in despair because of the callousness of these men #they don't care about her now that she's a person rather than a project or something that dan could project his dead lovers onto #vs elizabeth going out and finding men who would objectify her and exploding them to death #and in the end turning the tables on jeffery - they're both frankenstein and they're both the bride #anyways it's been a While since i've watched bride of reanimator so apologies if any of this is off #reanimator #frankenhooker #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

tiny titans cass compilation ^_^

#autism creature night mode #dc #cassandra cain #ransom.txt #cass

[gayrogues]

OKAY.

#watching clips from the korean version of the evil dead musical and they made this part even more homoerotic! #also at the beginning of the song after scott complains about his shirt getting ripped they changed ash's line to 'hey isn't that mine' #evil dead the musical #ransom.txt #evil dead

[gayrogues]

the house of wax experience

#ransom.txt #house of wax

[gayrogues]

the scene in evil dead 2 where ash gets his chainsaw arm is a metaphor for bottom surgery. i will not elaborate

#actually i will elaborate! #there's often phallic symbolism in the weapons used in slasher movies and i swear i'm not just saying shit i got this from a reading i had #to do for a film course i'm taking this term #chainsaws are one of these weapons #as demonstrated in that infamous scene from texas chainsaw massacre 2 #so like. taking a chainsaw and making it a part of your body? i think you can see the connections here #i'd try to analyze this a little more if i remembered evil dead 2 in more detail but alas... maybe after a rewatch #btw the book chapter that i'm very badly citing here actually mentions ash in a footnote as a character who could be considered like #a male equivalent of a final girl (though not entirely) #most of the chapter is about analyzing the final girl trope it's really interesting #(for the curious the book is called men women and chainsaws by carol clover) #ransom.txt #evil dead #(edit: i didn't know this when i made this post but carol clover didn't just analyze the final girl trope she was actually the #one who coined that term in the first place! cool as hell)

[gayrogues]

r.i.p rat you would have loved videodrome

#archive 81 #ransom.txt #a81

[gayrogues]

#normal. i'm feeling so normal #chonny jash #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

after seeing many posts over the past year or so about what level of murder and violence is in-character for the riddler, and changing my own opinion on it so many times, i’m finally writing my own take about it. i’m gonna preface this by saying i’m not writing this to hate on anyone’s interpretations, nor am i vagueing anyone who’s posted their own takes on this recently - i don’t think there’s a “correct” interpretation here, actually! i’m just here to infodump :]

first things first, the riddler does in fact kill people, we know this. but, i do think i know what comic contributed most to the misconception that he’s never killed anyone back in the early days of his character, and to the interpretation that he’s just a little guy whose crimes are mostly harmless:

(from when is a door, by neil gaim*n - censoring his name because he’s on this website and i’m afraid of somehow summoning him)

i often see this page cited by people who think the riddler should be a silly harmless guy, and it very much shaped my own cringey sanded-down interpretation of the rogues before i got deep into comics. but how true is it? (disclaimer, i know that “when is a door” is about nostalgia for the silver age/batman ‘66/etc. era of batman media, not neil gaim*n claiming that this is how every batman comic has been before a certain point - i'm not trying to actually disprove anything that was said in this page, and a lot of the examples i'll be mentioning were published after this comic.) first, let’s look at his pre-crisis appearances.

right from the riddler’s first introduction in detective comics #140, he puts some dude in a puzzle death trap. in many of his following appearances, he tones it down and mostly just sticks to stealing shit or trying to kill batman, with no civilian casualties. (not always, though - there’s a few issues here and there where he kills a random guy or tries to blow up the city, like batman #292 and detective comics #362.) there are very few issues where his crimes are almost entirely harmless, like the brave and the bold #68. this statement from jim gordon in batman #362 sums him up, for the most part:

things start getting more inconsistent in the 80s/90s part of the post-crisis era, which was when the previously mentioned “when is a door” was published. you have the question #26, which implies that the riddler has been very harmless up until this point - gordon states that the only person edward is likely to hurt with his crimes is himself, and he’s considered such a minor threat that they let him go free because prosecuting him wouldn’t be worth the effort. then there’s dark knight, dark city, where he happily tries to kill a whole bunch of people including babies for the sake of a scheme. then there’s showcase ‘94 #4, with this comment from jeremiah arkham:

then there’s the batman chronicles #3, where he’s back to casually shooting people to death. then there’s the long halloween and dark victory, where he’s some pathetic guy who kinda just shows up sometimes and isn’t enough of a threat for batman to send to arkham. you get the idea. of course, there’s more within these issues than what i’ve mentioned - in the question #26, he’s pretty on board to start killing people despite his previous harmlessness, while in dark knight dark city, both his henchmen and batman comment on his bloodthirstiness as being out of the ordinary for him. (not to mention that it’s debatable how much control he had over his actions, because he was kinda being possessed by demons.)

unfortunately i’m not going to keep going down a timeline of every riddler comic because there’s still so many i haven’t read, and this post was mostly meant to analyze his 40s - 90s appearances as many characters began taking a darker turn after that point. i have a few more screenshots from the 2000s onwards pointing to a generally harmless riddler, but there really aren't many:

(i don’t remember which one this is from, sorry)

(catwoman lonely city #2 by cliff chiang - i feel like i maybe shouldn’t include it because it’s an elseworld, but it did influence my own characterization of edward back when i interpreted him this way. i recommend this comic so much btw)

i don’t really have a conclusion for this post, or a specific interpretation i'm arguing for - i just wanted to analyze how accurate this somewhat-common fanon portrayal of him is, based on the era of comics that i think a lot of fans are drawing from. thanks for coming to my riddler ted talk :]

#my own take on him is somewhere in the middle he's killed before and would kill again but it's not often his main objective #i used to be like aughhh i hate edgy batman rogues because i read one bad day: the riddler and i hated it so much it's unreal #but i've pinpointed exactly why i hate that characterization so much and it's not because he kills #it's because it's no fun! he's not having fun with it there's no gimmick no uniqueness no panache #like. compare with audio adventures joker where he does super fucked up shit but he's still undeniably The Joker #okay enough rambling [explodes] #dc #riddler #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

guess who just realized that pact of the blade can be recast on any weapon and does not in fact mean that i have to stick with whatever weapon i bonded with first for the Entire Game

#i'm almost at act 3 on riven's playthrough and wyll has been fighting with a basic rapier the entire time 😭😭😭 #i was like 'damn i can't believe i wasted that by using it in act 1 :[' and now i'm like. oh my goddddddd LOL #ransom.txt

[gayrogues]

this fnaf william afton fansong is just like my tav for real

#not really but. ouuuoooauuu #ransom.txt