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So this is my new blog so if you like my blog here, I recommend you go over there because this isn't really gonna be updated much. If at all.

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You know Alfred is just sitting there with a cup of tea smiling at Bruce, while Bruce only then fully understands the pain Alfred has always been in when saying, “don’t do the thing, Master Bruce.”

“Would You like to know what I’m drinking, Master Bruce?”

“No.”

“It’s Karma. Do you want some?”

“Please, Alfred, don’t.”

“I will get you a big cup of Karma.”

“Alfred, I’m sorry.”

The Thing, a study of Bruce's children

Bruce “I am the head of this household, and while that status is rather antiquated, I really must insist as your father/mentor that you do not do the thing”

Dick “UGH shut up go away let me live my liiiiiife I’ll do the thing if I want to!”

“Barbara, do not do the thing”

“This is interesting, I do not recall you ever being in charge of my life or decisions. Now, ONE of us has photographic memory, so…oh! That person is me! BYE BRUCE”

“Jason, do not–”

“FLING YOURSELF INTO A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS, PISSWAD”

“Ah. Well then. Tim, you know that I care for you. So do not do the thing.”

Tim “I’m not going to do the thing” *looks at the audience* “technically because I already did it”

“Damian, you are ten years old and I am your father, now understand this: you are not allowed to do the thing.”

“IS THAT A DARE”

“No, it’s not. Do not. Damian, I mean it. DAMIAN–”

Bruce approaches Cassandra “Cassandra…my sweet obedient child…my only daughter…the shining hope of my heart…please…do not do the thing”

“…”

“…”

“…”

“…”

“…I am going to do the thing”

Bruce is distraught “All these children, and not ONE who listens!”

Stephanie pipes up “Hey, I actually didn’t do the thing. Do I get a prize? A card or a ribbon or something?”

Bruce is dead inside. “Fine. Sure. Go ahead. Make yourself a prize. I don’t care anymore”

“Awesome! I’m going to make one in your craft room”

“It’s not a craft room, it’s a cave”

“Craft room, cave, brooding place of solitude, whatever. Hey, do you have any glitter?”

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Suicide Squad Gag Reel

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Suicide Squad (2016) → Gag Reel

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found on twitter. WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE

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Concept Art/Models and Expressions of Joker from the LEGO Batman Movie “The Making of the Movie” Book!

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This is such iconic moment right here and I want to share it will all of you.

Superbat meeting Wonder Woman

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Oh my god

A “what-if” batjokes thing

weird day dream of a could be/never would scenario as are most of my shit

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The Clwon Prince of salt.

Inked using clip studio paint… formally manga studio.

really enjoy inking with this, probably going to switch to this for line art stuff. and use photoshop for colour etc

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something quick and silly

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Ha me

10 ways to hit your readers in the gut

One of the strongest bonds that link us to our favorite stories is the emotional tie, or books that sink a fist right into our guts. When you finished a book where you couldn’t let go of after the last page, chances are, the author successfully punched you in the spleen. If you’ve ever wondered how to do just that, here are some of my favorite methods:

Make your reader root for your main character(s). Make your character stretch out their arm toward their goal, as far as they can to reach, until their fingertips barely brush it. Make your character want something so much that your reader wants it, too.

When your character trips and stumbles and stops to question themselves, the readers will hold their breath.

Push your character to their very limit, and then a little further.

When your character hits the bottom, they should scrape themselves back together and get back up. Give readers a reason to believe in your character.

If your character is challenging your plot, your plot should challenge your character.

Leave a trail of intrigue, of questions, of “what if?” and “what next?”

If a character loses something (a battle, an important memento, part of themselves), they must eventually gain something in equal exchange, whether for good or bad.

Raise the stakes. Then raise them higher.

Don’t feel pressured to kill a character (especially simply to generate emotional appeal). A character death should serve the plot, not the shock factor. Like anything else in your story, only do it if it must be done and there’s no other way around it.

What’s the worst that can happen? Make it happen. Just make sure that the reader never loses hope.

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Help. I need an argument for why I don't hate Joker as a character?? Because there are a ton of people who seem to despise him and I never have anything to say!

This made me so sad because I know how you feel, Nonnie, it’s why I don’t really interact with the larger Batman fandom and stay in my little niche. The character hate is so prevalent that it’s exhausting seeing it everywhere. And there’s really no arguing, in most cases? When someone already has their mind made up about a character no arguments are going to change those feelings. I’m the same way about other characters - when I’m not interested, or when I dislike one, people can be throwing arguments at me and I’m gonna be like “yeah fine I see your point but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m just not interested.” 

With Joker it’s doubly bad because half the time, DC themselves will be going out of their way to highlight all those qualities in him that make people hate him. His brutality and his treatment of Harley are the main offenders here and DC have been doubling down on those two elements really hard in a bit of a race to see “how horrible can we make this guy?”. The mainstream Joker fandom doesn’t help either with their “edgy” philosophy and I’m really not surprised that people hate the character as a result. I see where it’s coming from, and for the longest time I felt so guilty for enjoying him as much as I do because yeah, the Joker really is a terrible, terrible person.

But on the other hand, he’s also a makeup-wearing, high-heels-loving, pun-making, bombastic, extravagant, colorful whirlwind of a character with buckets and buckets of charisma, Batman-level intelligence and skill and fascinating potential to be reinvented over and over and over again into something that, when it’s done well, is so thoroughly captivating that his appearance livens up any page he’s on. 

I mean, in canon, Joker:

robbed a bank by jumping on a pogo stick

slapped Superman in the face with a rubber chicken

kidnapped Robin into a giant vaccuum

escaped from prison with the help of a balloon

rode the streets of Gotham on a huge-ass rooster

customizes everything to have his stupid pointy face on it because branding is important and also if Batman can put bats on everything then Joker can sure as fuck celebrate himself the same way

is nearly always broke because of this because all that customization has to cost a fortune

tried and SUCCEEDED to put that same stupid pointy face on fish too because why the fuck not

carries pies, rubber chickens, aforementioned fish and goddamn bazookas in his pockets because aesthetic

makes his henchmen wear clown makeup and chooses them to match his style because again, aesthetic

he definitely loves himself, man, at the very least he’s a good role model in that regard, if the Joker can love himself as much as he does then you can definitely love yourself too

keeps his fellow Arkhamites up at night by singing and yelling at the top of his voice for no other reason than to be a dick

compares Lex Luthor to an egg

tags along for supervillain teamups just for shits and giggles and then fucks everything up for the bad guys when he’s bored

has a teddy bear named Bruce

literally wore socks with sandals

when he does something he commits, okay, he’s the walking embodiment of Ron Swanson’s “never half-ass two things; whole-ass one thing” doctrin; when he hijacks a baseball game he’s gonna dress up in a t-shirt and a baseball hat, when he robs a post office he’s gonna crash the party dressed as a postman, when he’s trying to direct a movie starring Batman (and himself of course) he’s gonna rock that ponytail and horrible sweater vest/jockey pants combo, when it’s Christmas you bet your ass he’s gonna have ten Santa suits at the ready, that man is prepared for every occassion and he’s not gonna let any detail slide

makes up songs about Batman

draws and scribbles shitposts on his walls even when he’s in the fucking shower (which Batman somehow knows about, which, okay Bruce)

gets so absorbed in his own little world that he forgets to feed himself to the point where he collapses from malnourishment twice in the same comic

when he does remember to feed himself he loves junk food, really loves it okay

adopted an entire colony of pigeons once, and I mean he went the whole nine yards, learned to communicate with them, forged a bond, built them shelters etc.

(he adopted a chimp once too but We Don’t Talk About That)

is in love with Batman, I mean, duh

is generally hella queer too, and presents as such (I mean he’s a splash of bright purple and yellow and green in a city full of murky greyness, if that’s not a statement I don’t know what is)

broke out of Arkham once and went all the way to Motor Town just because a little girl started writing to him as a school project and shared with him how shitty her dad is, and Joker decided to teach this guy a lesson and strip him of custody and he achieved all this while still acting like a villain

exposed the corruption and thorough shittiness of TV gameshow execs by hijacking the show and then not killing a single person

sulked in a fallout shelter for months living like a hobo because he thought Batman now preferred Harley as his enemy

helps Batman with his cases far more often than people expect

loves to be beaten up to the point where it’s indecent

like seriously when he’s kidnapped and worked over he starts giving his torturers pointers

hangs out in the Iceberg Lounge wearing a bearsuit or a tutu + bra combo and Cobblepot just accepts this as normal

every time Nazis tried to recruit him he turned them down

dressed like Elvis for a battle he was sure he was going to die in

regularly throws pie in Batman’s face

… Yeah I could go on with this, and I could talk about how he can work as a reclaimed queer character (especially with some of his more obscure origin stories), and how his unpredictability in the hands of a good writer just makes him so much fun, and so on, and so forth. I could also talk about his complexity, about the layers you can dig and dig and dig into and still find something new to ponder, and how his darkness and violence and vulnerabilities can be fascinating too, and so on, and so forth, but the bottom line really is: 

Do you enjoy the character? Great! There’s plenty of reasons to, just as there are plenty of reasons to hate him. You don’t need to get into arguments with anyone to defend something you love and that gives you joy. You have your reasons for this, and those reasons can be multiple and complicated, but they’re all good. 

Let’s just let ourselves enjoy things. 

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Joker's "dead" again; he fell into a smoke stack... so that means the Joker resurrection lottery is back on! Tweet @JokerLive$ with the exact date and time that you think he'll reappear, and throw $1 into the pot. Last time @DefNotBatman won $3.2 million and donated it to charity, but if you win you can keep it! #OnlyInGotham #IfYouBetHe'sActuallyDeadYouCanOnlyWinAYearAfterTheyFindAndCremateHisBody #HarleyYou'reStillNotEligible