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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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yk how iPhones will like keep tabs of who you text most often and like suggest that you contact them?? Anyways I like the person it suggested it made me happy to see their name :)
Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day – even the littlest thing counts
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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Nah bc I was so upset at his death. He barely got ANY screen time and his character was so underdeveloped fr a crime 🙄🤚
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Goncharov (1973)
I know everyone talks about Ice Pick Joe, but let’s be real, that scene where he finally kills Gil “the Grill” McGilicuddy? Brian Dennehy STOLE IT.
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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reblog and put in the tags what you think is the most attractive weapon
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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This is literally inspired by the Joëlle Jones Catwoman suit, prove me wrong
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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Good LORD Ioved this post because so many people see Batman this way, especially in the movies, and it’s just simply not how he is. At least, not how he was meant to be.
When he thought kids fighting crime who were inspired by him were going to get themselves hurt, he took them in a trained them. Helena, Harper, Stephanie, and so on. Heck, he let Cassandra carry on the mantle of Batgirl knowing full well it would probably put a target on his own back for David Cain and Lady Shiva to come after him, but he didn’t care. He was willing to take that chance bc Cass earned her spot, and he didn’t want her past to define her future (…like his did).
People are always, always going to want to see the softer side of Bruce in the way he cares for his family, allies, and even his enemies. Whoever is writing that garbage where he abuses and needlessly scolds his children in hopes of creating emotional tension in their story is just hurting the franchise as a whole.
I am. So fucking tired of Batman being portrayed as a bad parent and a toxic person. And it’s so goddamn widespread. Fuck, it might be as bad as the whole “Superman being a kindhearted Boy Scout is boring” take.
I get it, the man’s not exactly stable, he watched his parents get murdered in front of him and spent years of his life training to fight crime dressed like a giant scary bat, of course he’s not perfect.
But to say that Bruce Wayne isn’t caring, isn’t empathetic, to call him abusive…it just misses the point of who the character is to me.
Why do you think he fights crime? Yes, part of it is because he’s bitter and sad because his parents were cruelly ripped from him as a child, and he’s lashing out against the corruption of his city. It’s arguably the focus of his earlier years. But he learns to become more than that. He learns to bring hope, a chance to be better.
Harleen Quinzel is the Joker’s right hand lady, but she’s also a victim of an abusive relationship and a woman with a surprisingly strong moral compass and a love for animals, and wants to get better.
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Harvey Dent is a man who will decide someone’s fate on a coin toss(and a pretty inaccurate depiction of DID), but he’s also Bruce’s close friend who clearly needs help learning to live with his condition, rather than try to get rid of it, and someone who he still goes out of his way to visit, even after everything.
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Victor Fries is a cold, emotionless man who will callously discard allies and blame them for being careless, but he’s also a man who’s either lashing out because he had the love of his life taken from him, or just desperate to make sure she isn’t taken from him, and is willing to do anything just to guarantee her survival.
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Even the Joker, arguably one of the most morally bankrupt characters in all of fiction, is someone that Batman has offered a chance to. After the guy shoots the daughter of his friend, a girl he cared for like she was his own kid, and paralyzes her from the waist down, he tells the Joker that he doesn’t want to hurt him. He wants to get him help. He looks at this monster who has taken countless lives and says “You don’t have to be alone.”
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For fuck’s sake, he sat with Joe Chill in his last moments so that he wouldn’t be alone. Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents, who took so much from him, the person responsible for all of the misery and suffering he’s gone through. And he sits with the man to comfort him while dies.
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And you’re gonna tell me the man who did that would abuse his kids?
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That he’d hold up the young man whose death was his greatest failure, the boy he grieved, and say this?
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That he’d look his goddamn son in the eyes and say this to him?
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Why the FUCK do you think he took in Dick Grayson in the first place? It wasn’t because he saw the kid and thought “Ah. A potential soldier.”, it was because he saw a boy experiencing the same heartbreaking loss he had so many years ago, and wanted to make sure he didn’t end up as bitter and miserable as he was.
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Why do you think he smiled when Tim Drake presented him a broken watch for Father’s Day? Because he was just happy to see the boy alive and safe.
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DAMIAN LITERALLY POINTED AT A COW AND SAID “I’m keeping her. She’s Bat-Cow.” AND BRUCE JUST WENT WITH IT. DIDN’T EVEN NEED TO ARGUE WHY BRUCE SHOULD LET HIM KEEP HER. HE SAID “this cow is my pet now” AND BRUCE SAID “alright, bet”.
The thing about Batman is that he wants to make sure nobody else ends up feeling the way he does. That’s not just about stopping a mugger so a boy’s parents aren’t gunned down. It’s about giving his loved ones the support and care that he couldn’t have, because it was taken from him. It’s about comforting someone who just went through a traumatic experience and letting them know that they’re going to be okay. It’s about going to someone locked away in a cell who thinks that they’re a lost cause and a burden to society and telling them that he wants to help them get better. It’s about EMPATHY.
That’s what makes him a HERO. He’s meant to inspire us, to show us that we can have that same empathy for others around us, that we can turn our suffering into hope for a better future.
I just wish more people at DC would start recognizing that. But I might as well follow that example myself. Maybe through this struggle of having to see this hero mistreat the people around him and act like a grade-A jackass, people will start to recognize that missing empathy, and slowly but surely, it might come back. After all, what is this post, if not trying to bring attention to the matter in the hopes of fixing it?
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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Hello everyone!! I have so many dang posts I wanna make and then I simply don’t have time and I feel so stupid for not having done it BUT here’s a rant I’ve wanted to get off my chest for a while :)
So today I had the most fun and fresh fanfic idea and usually when I have fanfic ideas, it’s within the universe I’ve drawn my inspiration from rather than like writing a whole new universe and such with similar character archetypes bUT I think those types of fics are just such cool ways to break into the writing world bc you have a guaranteed audience within your own fandom, but the idea is also purely your own and I just think that’s so neat bc you’re holding onto your roots but still doing your own thing. SO I had an idea today inspired by the first three BatBrats: Dick, Babs, and Jason.
They are a love triangle. No one talks about it nearly enough, but even if key members of the triangle don’t know it, they are a love triangle.
The only time I’ve ever seen Babs and Dick addressed as being a thing by other members of the Batfam MIGHT have been by Alfie and then ONCE by Tim during the old 1990-something Nightwing run, which is probably considered inaccurate now since they’ve rebooted that series like three times. Like I used to think that when they would walk into Batfamily debriefs together, everyone would like smirk at each other and annoy them about it after at their respective girls/boys nights. But then it occurred to me:
In Batman: Three Jokers there’s a little… tension between Babs and Jason 😏 they share a little moment and it’s cutie and slay and whatever but I also felt like a wHORE because I’ve been a DickBabs fan since before I officially joined the fandom like,,, they were what drew me into comics. I have been a sucker for any romance plot since I was born and the two of them falling in love right under Bruce’s nose was the best thing in the entire world to me. Whenever I need a dopamine hit, I craft a little daydream plot about them, and I’m back on my feet.
That being said, almost every Robin has a Batgirl. Whether platonic or otherwise, they all have one. Dick and Babs, Tim and Steph dated before she was Batgirl, making her more Damian’s Batgirl and Cass would be Tim’s.
However
Jason never got a Batgirl.
OR you could say that Dick and Jason shared a Batgirl (Barbara) which would make more sense.
Because the way Babs saw it was that after Dick became Nightwing and moved out with the Titans, he left her alone with Bruce. And who came in to keep her company?? Jason. There’s also the obvious shared trauma related to the Joker, which was the core of their little fling during Three Jokers.
And then you have to consider that Jason and Dick are like moral opposites of each other in every way. We’ve all agreed that deep down, Dick is the angry, vengeful one, but he presents more calm and controlled. On the other hand, Jason comes across as being angry as a sort of intimidation tactic, and frankly the kid has a lot to be upset about. They all do. But if you take a peek into his brain, everything he does makes logical sense. He’s thinking three steps ahead and knows exactly how his little rage fit is going to turn the tables in his favor. They present opposite to how they actually are, and because of that, they misunderstand each other about 85% of the time. If they would just look at each other like “hey! You’re like me!” They would get along a lot easier. And frankly I think that they see themselves exactly as how they present on the outside and don’t realize just how wrong they are because the world has told them what they are for so long. Everyone’s yelling at Jason telling him he’s too vengeance driven, and Dick is put on a pedestal as the perfect Robin and leader when he’s really the biggest hot mess of them all.
So anyways,,, they’re both in love with Barbara because they either relate to her or compliment her in some unique way, and Barbara has her own private history with each of them that I’m sure the other doesn’t know about. Can you imagine Dick asking Barbara how the Joker case went and her saying, “yeah it was fine and I kissed your little brother” like ???? He would absolutely LOSE it
So that’s my rant idk if that made any sense at all but if you grasped all those feelings and such, they’ll be in the story I’m writing and if I remember I’ll try to keep whoever sees my posts updated lol
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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Take a deep breath it’s gonna be ok, we can use echo location
this blog is for directionally challenged people only btw. none of that “i know how to get there” stuff. where are my bitches who don’t know where they are at any given moment
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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Finally hopped back into the Robin 1998 series (Ik I took a FAT hiatus) and I’m close to the end now and STEPH IS BACK but they just stay doing her dirty. Like … Tim contemplated joining Ra’s al Ghul to bring her back and then she came back and first thing he did was give her a fat kiss, she’s like “wOah calm down”. So he calms down and nEXT ISSUE he’s mad at her for not telling him she was alive, which is valid ig but if y���all would tALK THINGS OUT THEN IT’D BE FINE. Then he asks her for help on a case and she obliges and then she’s like “Dude Batman asked me to keep you away from him” and he’s like “dang rude” which again ,, valid but homegirl is freshly returned from the grave and you’re already mad at her it’s not like she’s supposed to cater to your feelings yeesh !! And then she tries to talk to him in the next issue and he’s like “that’s crazy lemme walk away with my new girlfriend” like ??? With no intention of cleaning things up and THEN at the end of that SAME ISSUE they have Stephanie ordering a hit by Scarab on Robin??? HELLO???? So I’m just sick and tired of people doing my girl dirty like they are so bipolar with her one day she’s a fake Robin and the next Bruce is welcoming her back and then she’s going lowkey insane ordering hits on her ex-but-not-really-bc-they-never-officially-broke-up-boyfriend ???? Make up y’all’s minds pLEASE
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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the-emerald-quill · 1 year
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IMMEDIATELY REBLOG
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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…didn’t he already get one???
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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It’s giving thrill killer, but actually good plot
i’m OBSESSED with francesco francavilla’s batman 1972 concept art
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like?!!?? less concept more actual comic! i would read tf out of this!!
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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TBEHDHRVWHFHRB KITTIESSSSS WJFBWHSHDUA
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kitty kisses [ID in alt text]
tattoo tickets
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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Me too !!
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I can’t wait to see them again 🥺
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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Nah cuz I understand why villains have beef with Robin. Ever have a middle schooler insult you? That shit is devastating.
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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… Thanks !!
Maybe you weren’t a terrible person maybe you were just fifteen
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the-emerald-quill · 2 years
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DEAR GOSH YES PLEASE PLEASE YES GIVE IT TO ME NOW I NEED IT I CANT BREATHE YES
when bruce and selina are on the outs with each other in the sequel as batman & catwoman but are cautiously flirting and falling for one another in their civilian identities >>
when we finally get to see the classic batcat dynamic onscreen of catwoman outsmarting batman and leaving him dazed and confused as she successfully gets away with her score >>
when we get to see the games they play with each other...the teasing and the flirting, and the never-ending chase that they both love so much >>
when they're having one of their usual blowout arguments on a rooftop and batman finally initiates a kiss with catwoman and kisses her so hard he lifts her off the ground as he is so fond of doing >>
when bruce starts getting jealous of his own damn self because selina asks him to run away with her the same way she did batman >>
when they end the sequel with the two of them amicably broken up as bruce & selina but getting deeper and deeper entwined as bat & cat >>
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