#the riddle

[confused-wanderer]

Batman and superman are their opposite personalities in civilian form.

.. so this gives us a perfect opportunity for the most disastrously chaotic dynamic (and love square) EVER.

ESPECIALLY if they don’t know the others true identities, or even they did and are just being lil shits anyways

Give me:

grumpy skeptical Clark to Bruce’s sunshine playboy persona.

Clark *trying to down as many aspirins as he can, half tempted to throw himself into the sun* : Bruce we needed to surround the enemy, not SEDUCE them!

Bruce *currently on his way to a dinner wearing the most seductive outfit known to man* : Well, you know the saying. We can’t gatekeep or manslaughter our way out of it. Girlboss it is.

Clark: Bruce you are going on a date with a STRAIGHT MAN

Bruce: Give me five minutes and then I’ll let you hear him scream my name

*horrified Clark noises*

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Brooding and detective Batman meeting lie-detector and very effective investigator journalist Clark Kent

Batman: Tell me where the bombs are Riddler!

Riddler *currently tied up* : Hehe you’ll never find them~

Clark: Mind if I record this session Mr. Riddler?

Batman:

Riddler:

Clark:

Riddler: Who the hell-

Batman: .. Kent. How’d you even get here?

Clark: Irrelevant questions. *waves recorder* so..?

Riddler: Sure..tell the public I’m going to paint the walls red-

Clark *in investigative journalist mode* : So which devastating rock bottom led you to lose your mind and pursue this as a career?

Riddler:

Riddler: hey wait hang on this is a fulfilling career!

Clark *raising a judgemental eyebrow*: So.. you fighting a man dressed as a bat, with that atrocious outfit you must’ve gotten from hell and riddles that you’ll give him the answer to anyway.. this is fulfilling?

Riddler *voice breaking* : .. yes?

*questioning and judgemental silence*

Few hours later

Red Robin: .. why is Riddler crying and why does he also have a career counselling book in his hand?

Batman *just as surprised and kind of disturbed at how methodical and impressive Clark was in breaking down Riddlers plan based on evidence and connecting the dots* : Honestly I thought he was here for me and he started ignoring me so out of concern for his safety I demanded he paid attention

Red robin: And?

Batman: and he said “oh you don’t want me to pay attention to you” and showed me.. a lot of details and screenshots I don’t know how he got his hands on

Red robin:

Batman: Riddler also then attempted to escape and Clark just.. punched him so hard Riddler still doesn’t know which universe he’s in..

Red robin: well it could’ve been worse.. Clark could’ve pulled out a gun

Batman: .. he has a flamethrower

Red Robin: IM SORRY WHAT

Batman: .. and he told me we should work together sometimes, and I gave him few crime stories and plots to help raise awareness for the public and stop them.

Red robin:

Batman: also he gave me a therapy card.

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Give me ray of sunshine and leader Superman with no sense of self preservation Bruce Wayne

Superman: Good evening Mr. Wayne, there’s a credible threat against you so I’ll be on the lookout for today-

Bruce *sidling upto him* : .. damn.. when I said send your hottest stripper you did deliver..

Superman *beet red* : Im not the stripper sir!

Bruce: Really?

Superman *furious nodding*

Bruce: okay then.. hey listen, I’ve been learning about important dates in history lately.. do you wanna be one of them?

Superman. Exe has stopped functioning

Later

Superman: Mr. Wayne there’s a blackout and the building is under attack! Evacuate!

Bruce *running with gunshots behind* : Are you outside? You’re invulnerable right? Nothing can hurt you? Not even gunpowder or explosives?!

Superman *touched and pleasantly surprised* : yes.. so you don’t have to worry about me Mr. Wayn-

*glass breaks and Superman catches the dark mass falling in the air*

Superman: See? You’re safe-

*realises he’s holding a huge bomb about to detonate*

One explosion later

Superman: … you threw a bomb at me

Bruce: What?? You said you were invulnerable! I didn’t know what else to do with it??

Superman: So you didn’t think to tell me? Not even a warning?

Bruce: Listen that bomb was hot but compared to how smoking hot you were I didn’t think it ever stood a change

Superman: Mr. Wayne, listen. You should’ve atleast yelled or said something so I could’ve gotten it away in time. What if I hadn’t?

Bruce: I did! I yelled GET READY FOR A BLOWJOB

Superman:

Bruce:

Superman:

Bruce: ?? Did I do something wrong?

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And obviously.. the usual golden retriever Superman x black cat Batman that we all know and love so I’m just going to leave it at:

Batman: Someone is going to die.

Superman: Of fun!

Batman: Sure if you consider burning to death fun

Superman:

Superman: Oh come on be a little optimistic! We must have hope! We will persevere!

Batman: we are literally being held hostages by aliens

Superman: ..listen okay, let me do the talking. We just gotta de-escalate the situation

Alien: You intruders! You will never get our superior defender systems-

Batman *done with this bullshit* : I already hacked into it twenty days ago and found all of your identities, families and now have full control over your systems of defends and weapons. If I wanted to hurt somebody.. I would’ve done so already.

Alien *tries to punch him, gets headbutted instead*

Alien *chuckles* : You have a thick skull Batman..

Batman:

Superman *frantic whispering*: Dontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayit-

Batman: .. atleast mines protecting a brain. Wish I could say the same for yours

Superman *heavy sigh*

#superman #batman #superman x batman #superman x Bruce wayne #batman x Clark kent #Bruce wayne x Clark kent #dc #robin #red robin #Tim drake #riddler #the riddle #the batman #batman and robin #dick grayson #red hood #jason todd #batfam #nightwing #bruce wayne #superbat

[shiresome]

WATCHING BTAS WITH MY LITTLE SISTER

#i lvoe people #this show is so fun #even though i am incredible late to it #spectacularly even #the rodlder beloved ...... #dc #dc comics #btas #batman #two-face #harvey dent #the riddle #edward nygma #the joker #umm #clock king #fanart #shire art

[nopiedraws]

I blacked out after finishing exu and now I have this

#exu calamity #exu #exandria unlimited #exandria unllimited calamity #critical role #critical role fanart #animatic #cr fanart #the riddle #the scarlet pimpernel #Youtube

[machetelanding]

Batman: The Long Halloween #11

#batman #the long halloween #superheroes #comic books #dc comics #dc universe #the riddle #supervillains #comic book art #1990s

[80sheaven]

Nik Kershaw poster from Smash Hits (April 1985) and “The Riddle” vinyl sleeve.

#nik kershaw #Smash Hits #the riddle #80s pop stars #80s vinyl #80s music

[house-of-slayterr]

@keffirinne help these photo is Harley wearing Riddlers clothes are sending me. She looks so goofy 😂

#fang rambles #Harley Quinn #poison ivy #Gotham #gotham villains #the riddle #I love it

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: November 6, 1984

Lyrics:

Near a tree by a river

There's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran

Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon

In the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion

There's a wrong and a right

Near a tree by a river

There's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran

Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon

In the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion

There's a wrong and a right

And he'll never fight over you

Near a tree by a river

There's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran

Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon

In the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion

There's a wrong and a right

Near a tree by a river

There's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran

Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon

In the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion

There's a wrong and a right

And he'll never fight over you

Wise men fighting over you

I got plans for us nights in the scullery

And days instead of me

I only know what to discuss

Of for anything but light

Wise men fold

It's not me you see pieces of valentine

With just a song of mine

To keep from burning history

Seasons of gasoline and gold

Near a tree by a river

There's a hole in the ground

Where an old man of Aran

Goes around and around

And his mind is a beacon

In the veil of the night

For a strange kind of fashion

There's a wrong and a right

And he'll never fight over you

Wise mens child

I got time to kill, sly looks in corridors

Without a plan of yours

A blackbird sings on bluebird hill

Thanks to the calling of the wild

Songwriter: Nicholas Kershaw

SongFacts:

'The Riddle' was part of the studio album of the same name, released in November 1984. The song reached high chart positions in many European countries as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The song was particularly popular on the radio (number 1 in the German airplay charts). After many attempts at interpretation, Kershaw called the lyrics "nonsense".

The title as well as the lyrics suggest a classic enigma, leading to an attempt to decipher the song to a deeper meaning.

Years later, Kershaw explained that it was a random piece of text with no meaning. He wrote the song under time pressure and therefore used nonsensical text ("jibberish lyrics"). However, the lyrics were then retained and the song was given the name 'The Riddle'.

#Youtube #Spotify #Nik Kershaw #The riddle #music #hit of the day #music video #video of the day #youtube video #chaos radi o #good music #80s #80s music #80s charts #1984 #pop #pop rock #new wave #synth pop #lyrics #songfacts #57

[disco-troy]

What happened to Duke’s Zero Year riddles? Did he keep them in a scrapbook? In a diary? When will he use them to annoy the riddler again????

#dc please all I need is a storyline where duke annoys the riddler #it would be so funny #duke has all these riddles just SITTING THERE #DUKE THOMAS #the riddle #edward nygma #the signal

[earths-roots-grow-up]

A remake of this piece from a year ago.

#batman #riddlebat #batriddle #the riddle #riddle #bruce wayne #myart

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Image: A meaningful (to me) gold ring with a textured surface sits on wet grey stone glinting in sunlight and the reflection of green trees and sky]

* * * *

Riddles in the Dark One of the simplest ways to define the Buddhist concept of “emptiness” (suññatā) is that a thing is “empty of what isn’t there.” We’re looking at what is absent in a thing that we have been assuming is present. What could that be? My kid and I have been listening to The Hobbit together, and of course the riddles are one of the best parts. Riddling, the book tells us, is an ancient sport, and even dreadfully evil (read: traumatized) people like Gollum respect its rules. Begging forgiveness of master Tolkien (and master Baggins) here’s a riddle: Absent though you think I’m here In all things you hold most dear Nowhere will you find me tied To the shape your eyes have spied What am I? Philosophically, we say that the thing that is absent is “essence,” or “substance,” both of which refer to a hypothetical permanent defining attribute of a thing that persists through any change that happens to the physical object we call the thing. But essence is an idea, nothing more. It is the “soul” of a thing, which we may have an intuition about, but no actual evidence for. All the evidence suggests that physical forms, as well as the ideas and names that describe them, all change. So I think the simplest way to answer the riddle is “meaning.” What is the soul, or the essence of a thing, if not a way of saying that it has a fundamental meaning? The meaning a thing holds is a concept that defines a thing in as deep a way as we are able. So a simple way to think about emptiness is to recognize that any meaning we give to a thing (object, entity, experience, concept, intuition, place, culture) is contingent—contextual, dependent on time, place, and relationship. Another way of saying that is that in the absence of telling a story about a thing, that thing has no intrinsic meaning. The meaning is in the telling and hearing, not in the thing itself. (There is no “thing itself.”) The usual mistake in understanding emptiness is taking this to mean that things do not “exist,” in any way other than as illusion. But that’s just a conceptual trap. “Exist” and “doesn’t exist” are just more layers of story and meaning—and the Buddha explicitly rejected them as irrelevant concepts. The meaning bound up in these words is that something that doesn’t exist doesn’t matter, and that’s terrifying. Our lives don’t matter? Good and evil in the world don’t matter? That doesn’t feel right—because it isn’t. Existence is a philosophical conversation called ontology. What matters is a different conversation, and it’s the more important: ethics. Things are empty of intrinsic meaning. Any story we tell about a thing is thus more about us than the thing. In the Theravāda system, this is the first insight that leads to liberation from suffering, called nāma-rūpa, or “name and form.” It is the recognition that the name of a thing, which is the closest we can come up with to identifying its fundamental identity, or meaning, is not the same as the physical thing it points to. The label rides alongside the thing like the answer to a riddle. The riddle is the strange poem of direct experience, which is oblique, poetic, always leaping the bounds of whatever concept we try to bind it in. The answer is a name, which seems final, but which ends the game. Which is more ecstatic, more resonant with mystery, the riddle— Alive without breath, As cold as death Ever thirsty, never drinking, Clad in mail, never clinking —or the answer, stolid as a full stop: fish? The riddle sings. The answer thuds. It’s always like this. Emptiness recognizes that the answer to the riddle of experience never sufficiently sings the meaning of the thing. There is no soul in a person because no single concept can do justice to the wild mystery of a life. For a map to depict in perfection every detail of a landscape, it would have to be an identical replica of the place, and just as large. No concept is that capacious. So the thing is empty of the meaning we think it has—the name that defines it. Emptiness, philosophically, turns out to be a word problem. A riddle. It points to a mistake we keep making… until we don’t. When we recover from the illusion that things are what we call them, an incredible spaciousness opens up around us. Suffering is basically emotional, the Buddha tells us, as we react to the stories unfolding around us. Freedom is a word for when our emotions are unbound from story, and set free to respond more intimately to life as it unfolds. The real riddle of practice, then, is how things continue to matter even as they are set free. The answer to that defines the enlightened activity the tradition came to call bodhisattva. ___

[Thank you Sean Feit Oakes]

#Buddhist #Lord of the Rings #LOTR #Sean Felt Oakes #words and writing #the riddle #ring #emptiness #bodhisattva

[elbirtlesclarkeofficial]

#niked and kershawpilled #oh me oh my #how high do you have to be #just to exceed excess like that #it wouldn't be good to let the sun go down on me #near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground where an old man of aran goes around and around #and his mind is a beacon of the veil of the night for a strange kind of fashion there's a wrong and a right #but they'll never never fight over you #hope there's a nik kershaw fandom here #nik kershaw #the riddle #the riddler #wide boy #i won't let the sun go down on me #wouldn't it be good #80s music

[sectumsempraxz]

Just thinking about how almost every Batman villain is crazy or revolutionary.

#edward nygma #ed nygma #the riddle #gotham #jerome velaska #jeremiah valeska #the joker #oswald cobblepot #the penguin #I believe oswald is the only one who has a gangstar style but still

[donnahinkleystaceytroy]

#nik kershaw #the riddle

[sparrow00]

‘Rail me this, Batman’ -the Riddler, minutes before his death

#Batman #manbat #I have never see a Batman movie #the riddle #the Batman #the dark knight #dc #mr batman #Alfred #Bruce Wayne

[babyyfaceddemon]

I cannot, for the life of me, find a metal-cover of Nik Kershaw's 'The Riddle', that is even slightly satisfying enough. They always leave me thinking "this needs to fuck harder" (ﾉಥДಥ)ﾉ︵┻━┻

#nik kershaw #the riddle #metal #metal cover #metal head problems #metal girl #txt #personal #music #rant

[80sheaven]

“The Riddle” 7″ vinyl sleeve (MCA NIK 6) - Nik Kershaw 1984

#the riddle #nik kershaw #80s vinyl #80s music #80s pop #mca