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armed-with-a-waffle-iron · 2 days ago

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a pretty ambitious ask, but let's go:

suppose, you are now in charge of writing a dual story for stephanie brown and helena bertinelli. it can be a mini, a standalone, a comic series, or an entire run. you can use any version of them (as in, any alias or any particular storyline) and it doesn't have to align with the current dc storyline — simply, the floor is all yours. it can have connections to blunt trauma but it's not necessary. you can also revisit any past storylines and rewrite them newly for this dual story.

how would you go about this? what ideas and themes would you like to explore? or would you like to aim for more of a buddy vigilante adventure action thing?

(this is meant to be lighthearted and a roundabout way of me asking what sort of purple power comics you'd like to see more of, heh 💜💜)

Ooooo. It'd be a miniseries (4-6 issues), sort of a sequel to Blunt Trauma. I'm calling it Huntress/Batgirl: Blunt Instruments.

Dustin Nguyen is on pencils. It's set in the Batman: Reborn era. The Birds of Prey are broken up and Bruce is "dead". Stephanie is still established herself as the new, wild-card Batgirl and Helena has been vigilante-style globetrotting with bestie Renee Montoya. They're both feeling a little out of place and little lonely but won't admit it. They're both actually struggling with their complicated feelings over Bruce's death but won't admit it. They're both struggling with the open question of who they will become after this hard reset. Sky's the limit now right? So why doesn't it feel like that?

"Blunt instruments" is gonna be a phrase they've both heard Bruce use to describe them; undisciplined, heavy-handed loose cannons, ill-fit for vigilante work.

I wanna get to the bottom of what kind of heroes Helena and Steph are. What can they do just as well as Batman? (combat, crime-busting know how...) What can they do that Batman can't? (being more human than idea; approachability/intuition with people, viewing Gotham from a socially-concerned lens, lives/work outside batman-ing, faith/spirit, unpredictability...) What really drives them? (Helena as a teacher & Steph as a nurse) What's Gotham mean to them? (as people who live there and breathe the same air, instead of living in an ivory tower) To do this, they're gonna have to reckon with something close to home that raises old sins and old demons.

It's gonna be a mob story, drawn in the style of film noir but more playful. No super-powered threats. The antagonists are the Gotham Mafia, specifically the Inzerillo Crime Family who are primarily involved in racketeering and headed by an old-fashioned, "Mustache Pete" called Boss Enrico. The Inzerillo's secret weapon will be a young woman, Steph's age, who is the Boss's adopted daughter. She's an incredibly gifted assassin with a point to prove. She's desperate to "make her bones" and establish herself in a tyrannical, male-dominated space which ostracises her.

While they'll mostly be beating up male mafioso no-names, I also want Huntress and Batgirl dealing with youths and female spouses getting involved in the rackets; criminal receivers, runners for drugs, racketeering vandals and arsons, or even murders of those who dishonour the Family. I want these "complicit innocents" to have agency, and I want Helena and Steph get that (and get them).

I want them to deal more with the social ramifications of organised crime which Batman stories neglect. Lost kids, broken families, debts, addiction, incarceration, sexual exploitation, over-policing, police brutality... Things you can't just slap "Wayne Foundation" onto as a fix. I wanna show how better equipped these characters are with reckoning with more socially-concerned themes.

I also wanna really draw out their shared antiauthoritarian bent. The authorities, cops, and even Batman (Dick) and Robin will be barriers as they fight, dirty if they have to, to bring down a despot don with far reaching tentacles. What have authority figures ever done for them? They're used to flipping-off authority.

In a sense Batman, as an idea, that gave birth to Huntress and Batgirl/Spoiler and also represented to them a distant, disproving, unpleasable patriarch. Who are Helena and Steph in a world without God Batman? I want the story to be an answer. Batman will always influence who they are but who says they can't be independent and distinct in their own right.

Supporting cast. Their "mothers" will both show up to stir the pot, and by "mothers" I mean Catwoman and Dr. Thompkins. Oracle, and to a smaller degree, Misfit will help out on the case. I want them to come off as part of a (complicated) community, however alone they may feel.

Also, they're both only going to use their signature piercing weapons (crossbow and trick-batarangs) in the final issue, as a kind of we're not blunt instruments after all huh?

We're not getting a happy ending, but they'll come out with a hell of a lot of respect for one another (and hopefully themselves).

#is this too much?#ask #helena bertinelli #stephanie brown #huntress #batgirl #batman #birds of prey #dc comics #bat family #batfam #comics

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goldnkuro · 3 years ago

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⌇ kingdom (episode 2).

a/n: read the tweets from bottom to top! and there is spoilers about each episode on kingdom, so if you haven’t watched it fully, then go watch it asap!

when soo-young got a sudden text from the btob group chat she created (named ‘soo-young and the four idiots’) that eunkwang sent, asking for them to go to his apartment, she knew the results were to be announced today, so she hurried to the location

soo-young was the first one to arrive in eunkwang’s apartment to save him from the awkwardness of being surrounded by cameras all by himself, she got there earlier than planned, but she took the opportunity to help him organize the room a bit better

once the other three arrived, they quickly sat around the coffee table to see the results on the laptop, and every single one of them was genuinely surprised and happy to get third place

they didn’t waste time to start discussing how their next performance should be and what song should they use

the discussion didn’t take long as they liked the idea minhyuk suggested

the d-day finally arrived and soo-young was more than ready to be amazed by spectacular performances she knew she would see

and she was right, both tbz and ikon delivered the least she expected from them, greatness

soo-young rapped alongside peniel and harmonized with eunkwang, she was the only one with a white outfit, while the other 4 had darker outfits, which made some of the other groups question it

in the break, the camera turned to show soo-young and minhyuk, both taking their swords out of the scabbard while the image turned black and white. she did the sword dance with minhyuk, their characters showing that they have nothing to fear from their enemies

however, when minhyuk killed the last enemy, he didn’t notice that there was one last survivor that was planning to kill him while he was distracted, but before he could do so, his sword ended up slashing soo-young’s back, she sacrificed herself so minhyuk wouldn’t get the fatal wound

minhyuk quickly took care of the last enemy before holding soo-young as she fell to the ground, the camera panned down once she gave minhyuk her trinity knot necklace

the camera changed with peniel, changsub, and eunkwang surrounding a grave with a written ‘in the memories of a caring sister’, now the image is back on full color

minhyuk joined them to carefully place a single yellow lily on top of the gravestone, and soon after, soo-young appeared and held the flower, she stood in front of her own grave

the four men turned so their backs were facing the gravestone, the camera began surrounding them as all of the five started to harmonize together, and it was shown that each male member also had a trinity knot necklace, but minhyuk had two necklaces

and for the final climax, the high note harmonization with eunkwang, but what surprised the other groups was soo-young’s high note with her chest voice, which she has never done before

for the final scene, the five of them walked to the trees, as the four men faced the camera, soo-young sang the last line before turning to the side and staring at the flower on her hand with a wistful expression

❍⌇ interview segment;;

“i’ll be honest, even before kingdom started, i was full of… certain insecurities, i actually still am, so i was nervous the whole time, i had to do two things i never did before: the sword dance and the high note with my chest voice. we all worked really hard to deliver a performance that people would enjoy.”

“i wanted the people to see that btob is more than a group that sings ballads, i wanted them to think ‘ah, so this is what btob can do’.”

“and after our performance, i was so overwhelmed with a mixed feeling of having a burden lift off my shoulder and at the same time, proud of us for doing well, that i couldn’t help but start crying right there. i’m really thankful to the members for allowing me to experience this, i love you guys!”

❍⌇ noir’s 1st round outfit;;

a/n: blurring the artist’s faces is in no way meant as a form of disrespect, the sole purpose is to put the focus on the hairstyle and there is absolutely no ill intent. thank you for understanding!!

❍⌇ twitter reactions;;

❍⌇ line distribution;;

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Eunkwang | Minhyuk | Changsub | Peniel | Noir

난 그냥 그렇게 살아

너를 그리워하다 그리워하다

오늘도 하루를 보내 다를 게 없이

하나도 안 어색해 혼자 있는 게

너 없인 안될 것 같던 내가 이렇게 살아

근데 좀 허전해 난 여전히 거기 있나 봐

내 마음은 여전해 아직 너를 원해

몇 년이 지나도 난 아직 널 그리워해

난 아직 기억해 우리 처음 봤을 때

네 옷차림과 머리 스타일도 다 정확하게

I pray for you every night and day

I hope that someday soon

I can see you once again Yeah

[EK/Noir] 아직도 내 마음속엔 너 Oh oh

너를 그리워하다 하루가 다 지났어

너를 그리워하다 일 년이 가버렸어

[EK/Noir] 난 그냥 (난 그냥) 그렇게 살아

너를 그리워하다 [EK/Noir] 그리워하다

잠에서 깨어 헝클어진 머리처럼

내 일상도 꽤나 엉망이

돼버렸어 책임져

아무렇지 않은 척

드리워진 표정도 내 모든 곳에

스며든 네 흔적도 다 책임져

아직도 난

[EK/CS] 잊을 수 없나 봐

[EK/CS] 다시 돌아와 줘

또다시 같은 엔딩이라 해도 너

[All] 너를 그리워하다 하루가 다 지났어

너를 그리워하다 일 년이 가버렸어

너를 잊으려 하다 하루가 지나가도 (지나가도)

너를 지우려 하다 일 년이 가버려도

난 그냥 ([EK/Noir] 난 그냥) 그렇게 살아 ([EK/Noir] 그렇게 살아)

너를 그리워하다 그리워하다

그리워하다 그리워하다

a/n: i really don't like to publish anything on mobile tumblr, but i just might have to since i can organize the tweets better, but it would be at the cost of the aesthetics, and i hate it. but i do hope that you enjoyed this!!!

#✧ sky’s the limit > ( noir )#✧ sky’s the limit > ( scenarios :: noir )#✧ sky’s the limit > ( social media :: noir )#✧ sky’s the limit > ( misc :: noir )#✧ sky’s the limit > ( kingdom :: noir )#✧ sky’s the limit > ( eras :: noir )#fictional idol group #fictional kpop group #fictional idol oc #fictional kpop idol #kpop idol oc #fake kpop group #kpop oc #oc kpop group #girl group oc #idol oc #kpop imagines

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kavaeric · 2 years ago

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Run of "Yinmai Cinematic" commissions from 2022. Commentary on each piece (yes, each) below.

I learned that I really, really liked comms where I was tasked to tell a story in a single still composition. The Yinmai series of commissions was an experiment in limiting/directing the prompts to suit this desire: the composition is inherently limited with the anamorphic-esque crop, which means having a typical character-on-white-background comm isn't really possible. The space around a character becomes exaggerated and emphasised, and so by nature this comm style forces you to engage in visual storytelling.

Luckily, I seem to have really good clients who know how to rise to the occasion. I actually had a contingency tier for Yinmai, where I would accept avatar/portrait comms for those not interested in the whole cinematic affair—no one took me up on it.

In order of appearance:

AstroVernox

She commissioned me years ago, before she came out as trans. I think her initial prompt was actually a more mundane scene of being in a cupola, but to work with the drama of yinmai we agreed to adjust it, as well as making a bit of a reference to her transition.

Noir

A fun experiment in quads composition, where the negative space around the subject is further exaggerated and creates a strong sense of empathy. Good for a bit of horror.

Flake (Light Era diagetic)

Ditto as above. One of the two trial comms before I opened publicly. The character of theirs is Trellis, and they included a Dropbox folder of inspiration images; one of them was of the hydroponics scene from the film Sunshine. I incorporated that into this.

Fosh (Light Era diagetic)

She wanted a piece about being out in the field in the Olympic forests. I had a lot of fun with the trees and the colour in the sky makes it really stand out amongst this set.

Taky (no social media) (Light Era diagetic)

They requested them as a Wintertide Adept, which got me a bit hesitant since I never liked to romanticise the military aspect of Light Era too much, but I read their prompt further and they requested a more sombre mood of anticipation, maybe dread. A great example of a client understanding the assignment, if you will. I thought about showing the feeling of isolation by strategically placing the window frame to separate him and the rest of the group in the background.

Forth & Hydrophagist

The other trial comm of this series. The dramatic nature of Yinmai means it's predisposed to show character at a moment of weakness or emotional vulnerability. It makes me more comfortable portraying military themes as it moves it away from ideas of dominance or strength.

Ashii (Light Era diagetic)

Much the same as above, but taken to a larger scale—a little more chaotic, a little more frantic. Playing with depth was very fun. This one is the most popular piece of the series, apparently.

Panzica

Prompt was making a call under the feeling of uncertainty, if I recall correctly. I sneakily referenced a police interrogation room for the environment. The worm's eye view works for the idea, but I feel like I could have executed the anatomy better.

Phenokage

The prompt was of their character, Trouble, whose backstory is a lot of them learning how to deal with being turned into a macro; feelings of being out of place and learning to cope felt resonant as someone of Asian descent living in a foreign country. I felt like I could evoke this feeling by trapping her between a building and the cage-like railings of an expressway headed in the wrong direction.

#artwork commentary #artwork backlog #furry #anthro #furry art #artwork commission #yinmai #light era #kouwa #cinematic #science fiction #scifi #artwork

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cap-ironman · 2 years ago

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Marvel Noir Month: Cap-IM Universe Medley Fest

It's the 15th, so welcome to the next month of Cap-IM's Universe Medley fest!

You can create as many works as you like across as many different mediums as you like! This is a no-pressure, low commitment challenge to encourage you to try something new, stretch your creativity, and check out other versions of Steve and Tony.

For our full fest guidelines, including our annual schedule, please click here.

Coming up, Marvel Noir Month!

Marvel Noir is a comic series that came out in 2009/10 and featured a number of Marvel characters reimagined in a late 1920s and 1930s setting with film noir and pulp fiction influences. Think of 30s hard-boiled detective stories, a Steve and Tony dynamic like Nick and Nora from the Thin Man, or Indiana Jones.

We care only for Tony Stark, codename Byron Ironsides, a famous adventurer whose expeditions are chronicled in Marvels: A Magazine of Men's Adventure. Tony is still Iron Man, traveling the world in search of magical items and punching Nazis with distinctive armor. At the end of the comic run, having faced betrayal, a weak heart, and an evil Baron Zemo, Tony decides to focus on making the world safer as WWII approaches.

Although Steve doesn't exist (yet!) in the Noir universe, his pre-war life overlaps the era of Iron Man Noir. It's not hard to imagine Tony Stark meeting pre-serum Steve looking for work, or Iron Man joining Captain America to fight the Nazi and HYDRA menace. You can also make Steve's backstory entirely different—this is your chance to make Steve and Tony childhood friends, sworn enemies or reluctant allies without canon events to sway you!

Let your imagination soar, and have fun going noir stares broodingly into the distance.

WAYS TO PARTICIPATE

If you would like to earn a badge for Marvel Noir Month, you must submit your work before the end of 15th December.

UNIVERSE MEDLEY:

If you post a Stevetony work set in Marvel Noir in the next month, congratulations! Share it on a Cap-IM community platform, add it to the AO3 Collection and BAM! You've participated!

UNIVERSE THEMED PROMPT FEST:

Got inspiration? Fill out our prompt form to inspire creators! You can also come along and fill a prompt for the universe of the month, or two, or three… the sky's the limit! We have plenty of past prompt lists to browse through.

Don't forget to share your work with us, and post in the AO3 Collection!

RUN A MINI-CHALLENGE:

Love a universe with all your heart and have an idea for a flash challenge? Let's do it!

Get in touch with the mods to claim a month (or contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel) and you can run it on cap_ironman's community platforms! The cap-im mods can also support you in setting up and/or modding the mini-challenge.

CLAIM YOUR PRIZE!

This is a fest encouraging fun exploration in various Marvel universes, and we'd like to invite you to share your milestones with us!

Badge Milestones

I created a work this month!

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If you do any of the above this month, let us know by filling out our Prize Claims form. If you have any questions or comments, read our event guidelines, email us at [email protected], or get in touch on tumblr, on contact us on discord in the #universe-medley-challenges channel.

#stevetony #stony #superhusbands #capimevents #capimuniversemedley #noir month

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cheesymovie · 5 years ago

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okay so I’m alone in my dorm @ uni and I’m bored as all hell & i’ve has a recent fascination w old movies??? & u reblog stuff about old movies all the time so I’m just wondering if u have any suggestions?? I wanna watch some good/fun ones but I have no idea how to find the ones that don’t suck!! always a sucker for the ones that have gay subtext but like. any suggestions at all would be so appreciated thank u queen

oooooh yes!!!!!!! you came to just the place! im just gonna list some of my faves, hang on cause this is gonna be a LONG one (im not sure what your cutoff for Old is so i just went with 1960)

silent:

wings: really well done visually, also features the first gay kiss in history (ofc the context is different, but it’s there!)

nosferatu: the legendary spongebob character’s origin story! the music is wonderful in this, it’s very Artsy, just one of the greatest horror movies ever (it’s a bit slow at times but most silent films are)

the cabinet of dr caligari: REALLY cool from an art perspective, the sets are incredible, i love german expressionism, another great one for when you’re in the mood to get Spooky

steamboat bill, jr: buster keaton is a legend for a reason, this is my personal favorite of his. theres also something very unique and charming about silent film slapstick that i just adore, and this is a wonderful showcase of it!

the gold rush: basically the same reasoning as above, but with charlie chaplin. also this movie has a lot of genuine emotion you dont often get from silent comedies!

sunrise: a song of two humans: a must-see for silent films, it has super intriguing visual effects that really give a dreamlike quality to it, as well as great acting for the limited medium

show people: a really sweet classic romance that also gives you a nice (if not totally accurate) taste of The Movie Biz @ the time

metropolis: one of the first sci fi movies ever. visually STUNNING like nothing ive ever seen, also a bit of a workers of the world unite moment

noir/drama/general Serious Stuff:

the big sleep: SEXY! the plot is hard to follow but it’s worth it for the characters and also just all i can say is. hot - it’s about a murder or two!

the maltese falcon: actually makes sense and like. Says Stuff abt humanity. gripping plot and nuanced characters -about a bird statue and the knights templar also human nature but also who could forget a murder or two!

sunset boulevard: absolutely enthralling characters, script, plot, performances, all of it! - it’s about a murder!

rebel without a cause: HUGE gay subtext with this one, one of the original Teen Movies

kiss me deadly: interesting!!!!! i was intrigued from start to finish w this one and you probably will be too

strangers on a train: one o those Psychological Thrillers, interesting n well acted - it’s about The Concept of Murder

north by northwest: super fast paced spy action movie that also #makes you think

murder, my sweet: another classic phillip marlowe story with that fast talkin detective dialogue i love so much - it’s about a murder! (my sweet)

double indemnity: the height of Cynicism in noir, not even any detectives in this just bad deeds and Tension -it’s about a murder or two!

key largo: just a hotel full of intriguing characters all At Odds with each other and the concept of heroism

random harvest: kinda cheesy amnesia plot but comes across well with good acting and dialogue

the lady vanishes: about a lady. who vanishes. funny at times and has that Classic hitchcock tension before he really landed on his final style

casablanca: “here’s lookin at you kid” “i think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” just. one of the most iconic movies of the whole Classic Era and for good reason!

to have and have not: basically casablanca BUT consider this- i love Them (them being humphrey bogart and lauren bacall)

comedy/romance/general Light Stuff:

the thin man series: one of my absolute all time favorites! it’s just a story about two rich people who only love each other and alcohol getting dragged into solving various mysteries. my favorite thing about this is how much you can tell they love each other, like they’ve been married for years and just banter back and forth in a way founded on mutual respect n adoration which is So refreshing to see in classic movies!

it happened one night: i ADORE this movie! it’s a classic road trip comedy with a ton of bizarre side characters and hijinks, and also basically Invented the rom com genre. they’re also genuinely in love in a very cute way! it’s just sweet and fun and one of my fav movies of all time

arsenic and old lace: a dark comedy about old lady serial killers, brothers who think theyre theodore roosevelt and frankenstein (respectively), and Love. it’s super bizarre but a real joy to watch!

it’s a wonderful life: makes me sob every single time and leaves ya with that fuzzy warm feeling inside (recommended for christmas/winter viewing)

duck soup: i mean it’s the most iconic marx brothers movie, what more can i say!

bringing up baby: just a real wacky romp where it’s the lady and the tiger, with a whole lot of silly comedy

my man godfrey: makes fun of rich people n has a big loud ensemble cast (also romance)

the shop around the corner: they fall in love through letters but hate each other in real life! :0! bonus points for jimmy stewart’s voice

abbott and costello meet frankenstein: the title says it all. completely joyfully stupid movies like these are a big reason why i love old movies!

roman holiday: audrey hepburn’s debut movie. really sweet, has an ending that makes me cry

death takes a holiday: super interesting experimental concept not seen often in this era - Death literally takes a holiday and has to deal w life n love n all that

sabrina: a very nice and well acted little romance/cinderalla story w sprinkle of comedy

the philadelphia story: another Classique rom com with a love triangle n some nice fast-paced witty dialogue

musicals:

singin in the rain: one of the first classic movies i ever remember loving. every second of it is just. ah chef kiss

guys and dolls: very fun!!! just emblematic of good ol showtunesy musicals as a whole

top hat: fred astaire and ginger rogers!! need i say more?

on the town: really fun music n choreography, generally engaging to watch

cabin in the sky: an all black cast with a ton of great songs n talent!

the great ziegfeld: a really lovely period piece about 20s live shows with stunning costumes/choreography

gentlemen prefer blondes: it’s classic baby!

meet me in st louis: very sweet very fun lots to love

an american in paris: kinda ran out of juice near the end here and realized Musicals is the Same. anyways watch it gene kelly is charming and can click his heels together

horror/sci fi

dracula: sexy. iconic. what more do you need

frankenstein: really has a Heart unlike a lot of these, also Iconic

bride of frankenstein: made me cry! see above but like, More

just realized im listing all the universal monster movies, so just, watch Any of those for a good and cheesy classic horror time

the day the earth stood still: a real cold war era movie about aliens and morality

plan 9 from outer space: a HILARIOUS so-bad-it’s-good old sci fi movie, highly recommend

them!: giant radiation ants babey! really good effects for the time n well done suspense

honorable mention: this is past the cut off date but watch santa claus conquers the martians oh my gosh it’s the epitome of old b list sci fi and it never fails to send me n pals into a regular Laugh Riot

#dont feel obligated to read all this #also! i dont feel entirely qualified to speak on gay subtext n didnt wanna come across wrong so it's pretty limited in here #bc a lot of them are like. Problematic coded villains and stuff of that nature #ok i realize this is much more than you asked for but you cant just hit me w an ask abt my hyperfixations n expect anything less #ok fiona #movin pictures

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aion-rsa · 4 years ago

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What DC’s Infinite Frontier Means for Batman and Joker

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James Tynion IV has been writing Batman in some form or another for his entire career. He began his time at DC Comics by writing backup stories for Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman during the New 52 era, fleshing out the history of the villainous Court of Owls before landing his first owl-centric series titled Talon. Tynion was one of the lead writers on Batman Eternal and Batman & Robin Eternal, two weekly series that mainlined years of Batman continuity back into the New 52. And following the Rebirth reset, he got a long run with the Bat family on Detective Comics.

With all that time on the Bat-books, it’s a little surprising to see the deluge of ideas still pouring out of the writer now that he’s got the flagship title all to himself. Tynion took over after Tom King’s 85-issue mega run, and proceeded to pit Batman against an entire city of clowns in “Joker War” after stripping the Dark Knight of his greatest superpower: his money. Tynion returns to the Dark Knight for the Infinite Frontier era, the post-Dark Nights: Death Metal status quo that has an energy to match Tynion’s voluminous idea output.

We had a chance to talk with him about a new year of Batman stories, his next big arc, and the surprising Joker solo book spinning out of “Joker War.”

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

Den of Geek: When we last talked to you, you were just getting Punchline into the wind and just getting cracking on Joker War. Now we’ve got Joker getting his own series, you’ve got Batman past the big 100th issue milestone. You’re the boss now, right?

James Tynion IV: :laughs: Right. And to be honest, when I came onto the title, the company had certain things that they were looking to accomplish with the Batman title. So I had a list of things that I needed to accomplish in the book, which is honestly part of why I leaned into creating so many new characters, especially once I got [artist] Jorge Jimenez as a creative partner. It was because those were the elements that I had the most control over. And in doing it because the company had where they wanted Batman to end at, where they wanted Joker then.

But then as things started to change and it started to look like I was going to be staying on the title for the long haul, they started asking me “totally blue sky, what would you do next year if you had total carte blanche to do whatever you want?” And I said “I want to do a Scarecrow story.”

There’s a Scarecrow story that has been in my head since I was working on the [Batman] Eternals, since I was working on Detective Comics. It’s changed a lot since then, but there there are some core pieces that I’ve wanted to explore in a big Batman story for years. And now taking everything I’ve learned from my first year on Batman, taking everything I’ve learned from working with Jorge Jimenez, and also just looking at the state of the industry and the state of DC Comics in particular, I wanted to try some new stuff. I wanted to see what was possible and sort of test the limits of how far we can push the Batman mythology and still have it feel like a Batman book. And that is what we’re up to next year, and I’m really really excited about it.

Scarecrow as a character has always been a great, classic Batman villain. But he’s also got some mission overlap. He’s creepy and scary like the Joker is. He’s a brilliant scientist like Hugo Strange. What makes Jonathan Crane stand out as different and important and worth examining to you?

Well, I think there’s a really interesting parallel between Dr. Crane and Batman, which is the fact that Batman, by putting on the costume, is trying to instill fear in people. That is part of the core mission of him trying to put on that costume. It’s the belief that criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot and if he makes himself into something that seems inhuman and frightening, criminals are going to be scared out of their mind. In a weird way, it’s a psychological experiment on criminals that Batman is waging war with.

With Jonathan Crane, with Scarecrow, he is someone whose entire modus operandi is trying to unlock all of the secrets of fear and doing it with the amorality of a classic mad scientist. He doesn’t care how many people get hurt around him, but he’s genuinely fascinated in scientific terms. He thinks he is unlocking some of the truths of human nature and he’s willing to use the entire city as the testing grounds for that. But in a weird way, so is Batman. And that’s why the name of the big arc is “Cowardly Lot.”

Post-Joker War, you’re taking [the Joker] outside of Gotham, right? Where are you most excited to send him and why?

Honestly, there are a bunch of exciting places. I like showing him in places where it’s tonally incongruous for him to be. Like, I like Joker in the sun. It’s just the most bizarre thing possible with his pasty white skin, just him out on a beach laying with some sunglasses is really, really wild.

But tonally, what I was really excited to explore is the idea of what is the whole secret criminal underworld that spans across the globe? How do people like the Joker stay off of Batman’s radar for years at a time sometimes before they reemerge to cause their latest havoc? And what are the support systems that hide these people away and all of that.

One thing that I tapped into was a little bit of real life history, with the ratlines out of Europe at the end of the second World War, where a bunch of Nazis basically snuck into South America and changed their names and identities. And a lot of those similar systems are how organized crime evade the authorities and set down roots in places where you can’t be extradited.

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Joker, in particular, he is someone who appears to be a part of that world, because he is part of organized crime. He is the Clown Prince of Crime. But at the same time, he is such a chaotic element that he cannot…he walks into those systems, and those systems think they can control and contain him, but they can’t. And so a lot of those players who have been burned by him before are just as eager to take the Joker down as the heroes of the world. So that’s some of the core pieces that we’re trying to unpack here.

The element of the Joker that I’m most excited about is the fact that Joker does not necessarily make a great protagonist, because he’s someone you can’t really get into the internal life of. So emotionally the real protagonist of the Joker series is going to be Jim Gordon, who is one of my all time favorite characters, and the character I’ve been missing writing the most while getting to make my mark on the Batman mythology. So getting to put him up front and center with all of his very personal enmity towards the Joker, that is really exciting. And it also gives the book its tone. I keep referring to Joker as a horror noir book. This is this is me trying to do something that feels a bit more like a work of crime fiction, with the horror knob dialed up to 11. I honestly think the first issue is one of the best things I’ve written for DC.

Joker is going to function more like a kind of Jason Voorhees, right? He’s a horror movie villain rather than the focus of the story?

He is. Everything in the book happens because of the Joker, and the Joker is in every single issue of the book. But it is about the people who are pursuing the Joker, and the Joker playing with the people who are pursuing. He is both the Hannibal Lecter and the Buffalo Bill of the book. There is still a Will Graham, Jim Gordon is the Will Graham/Clarice that he’s playing with along the way.

You are obviously a very well established horror guy, but the artists on your horror books generally have a certain art style to them. Something Is Killing The Children [Tynion and Werther Dell’Edera’s horror comic about exactly what it says on the label] and Department of Truth [Tynion’s book with Martin Simmonds about conspiracy theories that become real], they don’t look like your typical superhero books. Guillem March has a vastly different art style to what Martin Simmonds and Werther Dell’Edera are doing on the other books. Has Guillem’s art style changed your approach to the horror in Joker at all? Or has your horror brought something different out of Guillem’s art?

One of my first books for DC comic was a title called Talon back in 2014, and Guillem March was the artist. I had been a fan of Guillem’s work, but I started realizing how good he was at the horror moments. Because he has this style that, I think you can see a lot of Joe Kubert. In his line work, it has a kind of Gothic edge to it. I’ve always loved writing some really scary moments for him. And I tried to tap into that, again with Batman…I think that his work on [Joker] so far is my favorite stuff he’s done in all the time that we’ve worked together, which has been pretty much my entire career.

Who’s your definitive Joker? When you’re dragging in a script, what Joker stories do you go back to to try and catch his voice again?

Oh, boy, that’s a really good question. One of the north stars just because of how closely I’ve worked with him, and for how long, is the Scott Snyder Joker. I think Scott got into the Joker’s head more than almost any other writer in the modern era. There’s a certain element of the Joker as the devil who just knows how to hit every single emotional pressure point on your body to make you afraid and to pick you apart. And the idea of him being almost ever present and in this solitary, terrifying way. So there’s an element of that, that I always bring in.

But I’m never going to be able to shake the Mark Hamill voice from my head. There is an element of Joker when he’s at his most performative and he’s always performing to an audience, [but] it depends who the audience is. Sometimes the audience is Batman, but his voice changes a little when he’s talking to other villains and those are the stories that I’ve always loved. When I was doing my Legion of Doom one shots during Scott Snyder’s Justice League run, writing him as a foil for Lex Luthor was incredibly fun. Even going all the way back when I was doing the backup stories in the New 52, writing a Joker up against Two Face or up against Penguin or up against Riddler. He has a very different dynamic with all of them that is a little more playful because he’s not trying to kill them. He’s just trying to mess with them. So that Joker gets a little more Mark Hamill where he is a bit more of the clown.

But honestly, my favorite Joker story ever is Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. I think it captures all of the sides of him. It’s him at his most performative, but you also see the deep hatred and also the incredible intelligence of the character, which is the thing that makes him so dangerous. The Joker would not be effective if he wasn’t as smart as Batman. The scary thing is he’s always playing a larger game. And it’s a larger game that does not necessarily follow a logic, but he can follow every step of it.

So we’ve got Jim [Gordon] in the Joker book. I’ve also read Barbara [Gordon], Bluebird, Punchline, [canonical best Batgirl] Cass [Cain], and Stephanie Brown are all showing up there.

Yeah, in the Joker book, there are also going to be backup stories continuing from the Punchline one-shot that I co-wrote back in November of last year, and continuing the story of Leslie Tompkins and Bluebird investigating Punchline’s past while she’s on trial for her crimes committed during the Joker War event. That story is going to continue there.

Barbara Gordon is going to play a key role in that book, especially her relationship with Jim Gordon. Joker looms large in both of their pasts but also in both of their recent pasts. In the Joker War tie-in issues, we saw the death of James Gordon Jr. and that’s going to be one of the key things that sets the story in motion here. So, there is both a loss in their family instigated by the Joker that sets the Gordon family on this journey.

The Gordon family is a very central force in the book, and tied very closely into that is the new arrangement in which we have Barbara Gordon working a bit more [behind the scenes, but] has not fully given up the Batgirl costume. But she is working more and more as Oracle again. And because she’s behind the computer, she is using Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown as her agents in the field, as her Batgirls. And so we are playing and building out that whole dynamic.

A lot of people are very happy with that.

I’m very happy about it. :laughs: And we have big plans for all of the Batgirl characters in the line that will become more and more clear as the year goes on.

Is everything pointing back towards each other? You’ve got the big Scarecrow story in Batman, you’ve got all of the toys that you’ve brought into the Bat-family hanging around with Clownhunter and with Ghostmaker. But it sounds like they’re kind of eventually going to converge again.

Oh, absolutely. You can’t have two parallel threads going if you don’t plan to have them intersect. And honestly, one of the big things that I am most excited about this next era is how closely together all of the writers are working. There are certain things you can only pull off in a connected superhero universe. And especially like in the era right now, there is an incredible opportunity at DC which is, we have Black Label and books in the YA space and all of that. There are more straight up the middle, back to basics Batman stories being told that are more in the classic mold. And then there is stuff written for all ages audiences with the Bat family characters. So it frees the main line books to go a little further, where we don’t need to reset everything to the status quo, we can kind of push the status quo a little bit and change it

The guiding idea that I’ve been going back to over and over is we’re further down the timeline than we’ve ever been before. If you look at Batman The Animated Series as a kind of core archetypal peak Batman moment where you have Batman, you have Bat Signal in the sky, you have Jim Gordon on the roof of the GCPD, you have a Tobin at his side, he’s in Wayne Manor, and Alfred’s in the Batcave. That is the era of peak Batman. And then you see at the end of the spectrum, you have stories like The Dark Knight Returns and Batman Beyond. We’re now at the midpoint of those two points. And that’s really exciting to me. Because you get to play with a Batman who’s a little worried that he used to be more effective than he is. Because when he first came on the scene, he cleaned up crime, he was all that, he made it for a better city, but then everything started pushing back even harder. And the city started becoming a more dangerous thing.

And now Bruce Wayne is no longer a billionaire. He’s still wealthy, still a millionaire, but now he can’t just buy up all of Gotham City and try to fix it. He’s having to re-approach what he’s doing, build his methods back from the ground up. He’s doing it with the Bat family. But this is not an all powerful Bat God who can solve any problem that’s put in front of him in 30 seconds. This is someone who has to do the grunt work, the detective work, and touch up on his training and push himself to new limits, despite the fact that he’s not as young as he used to be. And I think that that makes for exciting storytelling.

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I’m really excited. And seeing how the other writers in the line are tapping into the new elements of the status quo. The hope is creating an era of Batman comics that people come back to long into the future. I want people to look at this era and be like, “that’s my favorite era of Batman.”

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1. If I remember correctly it was ’Into The New World‘ by SNSD

2. (For all the blanks I‘m doing Dreamcatcher) Trap, probably

3. Since 2012

4. I‘ve been stanning them since their re-debut as Dreamcatcher (Chase Me Era)

5. Piri - Dreamcatcher, Show - CLC, Put It Straight - (G)I-dle, White Noise - EXO, Lilili Yabbay - Seventeen

6. You & I

7. (Oh shit, that‘s hard) Um, A Korean Odyssey

8. Definitely Weekly Idol when the hosts were still Doni and Coni. Now, Showtime and this ASMR Show where they have to prepare snacks while their ’mother‘ is asleep

9. Musically: Red Velvet, EXO, Dreamcatcher, Mamamoo, NCT

Character wise: Dreamcatcher, CLC, Monsta X, Loona, Gfriend

10. NCT (This one changes pretty frequently tbh)

11. Well, if you haven‘t guessed it yet... it‘s Dreamcatcher

12. (I‘m going with 10 for each of these, 5 singles and 5 B-sides) (Also, I‘m limiting it to 1 song per group for more diversity)

Singles:

Overdose - EXO

Last Romeo - Infinite

A Lie - B1A4

Beautiful - Monsta X

My House - 2PM

B-Sides:

Baby Don‘t Like It - NCT 127

House Of Cards - BTS

Trigger - SHINee

Memory - Ravi and Hyuk of VIXX

Flower - Seventeen

13. Singles:

Sunrise - Gfriend

Red Light - F(x)

Piano Man - MAMAMOO

Save Me, Save You - WJSN

Genie (Tell Me Your Wish) - SNSD

B-Sides:

Trap - Dreamcatcher

Show - CLC

Kingdom Come - Red Velvet

Colors - Loona

Maze - (G)I-dle

14. Sunmi or Taeyeon

15. + 16. (Just 10 Solo Songs I like to listen to)

Twit - Hwasa (of MAMAMOO)

Noir - Sunmi

Please Don‘t - K.Will

Fine - Taeyeon (of SNSD)

Dally - Hyorin

Gotta Go - Chungha

Love In Color - Taeyeon (of SNSD)

Fervor - Baek Jiyoung

Nocturne - Park Jiyoon

Western Sky - Lee Seungchul

17. Yes, in 2016 I went to see the B.A.P concert in Düsseldorf (Germany)

18. (Let‘s go with my 6 favourite albums of last year)

The Perfect Red Velvet (or the Perfect Velvet) by Red Velvet

Favourite Track: Kingdom Come and Look

Escape The Era by Dreamcatcher

Favourite Track: Mayday

Something New by Taeyeon

Favourite Track: Circus

Red Moon by MAMAMOO

Favourite Track: Midnight Summer Dream

Alone In The City by Dreamcatcher

Favourite Track: Trap

Act. 5 New Action by Gugudan

Favourite Track: Shotgun

(I just noticed that these albums are all by female artists 😂)

19. My first bias in Dreamcatcher was JiU

I still love her very much, but I think I prefer SuA now ❤️

20. I don‘t have an ultimate Bias, because it‘s just way too hard to choose one

21. Some of my other Biases (?) are:

Hwasa of MAMAMOO

Choerry of Loona

Chuu of Loona

Jinsoul of Loona

Luda of WJSN

Eunseo of WJSN

Taeyeon of SNSD

Yeeun of CLC

Shuhua of (G)I-dle

Yeri of Red Velvet

Hoya formerly of Infinite

B-Bomb of Block B

Chen of EXO

Jaehyun of NCT

Ten of NCT

Yuta of NCT

Shownu of Monsta X

Minhyuk of Monsta X

Jeonghan of Seventeen

Wonwoo of Seventeen

22. My 3 ultimate Bias Wreckers are Wonho of Monsta X, Vernon of Seventeen and Moonbyul of MAMAMOO

23. (Back to Dreamcatcher)

My favourite Era was the You & I Era. They all just looked so good and I really loved the Concept! 💜

24. I just noticed how much I love JiU (Dreamcatcher) with Red hair, like... damn

Oh, and Yeeun (CLC) with that blonde hair? I literally die every time I see her

25. (Let‘s just go with 10 random ones)

EXO - Black Pearl

Shinhwa - Wild Eyes

B1A4 - Solo Day

Block B - H.E.R

Infinite - Man In Love

Miss A - Hush

S.E.S - U

IU - Lost Child

Ailee - Don‘t Touch Me

Wonder Girls - Like This

26. (Dreamcatcher)

SuA

JiU

Gahyeon

Yoohyeon

Handong

Siyeon

Dami

27. I actually don‘t really watch V-lives

28. + 29. (Just some Songs with Lyrics I really like)

Melted - AKMU

Toy - F(x)

Yes I Am - MAMAMOO

Wake Me Up - B.A.P

30. + 31. Not necessarily a specific moment, I just love all that ‘Gaycatcher’ stuff that‘s been going on 😂 I loved Sorn raising awareness for elephants and basically everything that is about an idol supporting the LGBTQ+ community

32. I don‘t have any Dreamcatcher albums yet, but I have albums by several other K-pop artists. The Group I have the most albums from is Red Velvet. I have The Velvet, Russian Roulette, #CookieJar and Summer Magic

33. My favourite album by Dreamcatcher so far is Alone In The City.

Wow, I feel like this post is a freaking mess 😂 Well, whatever. 😅👋

Kpop asks!

I haven’t seen any Kpop ‘reblog and ask me’s in a long while, so I made a list- Here’s 33 Kpop asks!

1. Your first Kpop MV? 2. Your favorite song of (blank) group? 3. How long have you been into Kpop? 4. The era you joined the fandom for (blank) group? 5. The first five Kpop songs that come to your mind? 6. Your favorite MV of (blank) group? 7. Your favorite K-Drama? 8. Your favorite idol show (ASC, Star Show, etc.) 9. Your top five favorite groups? 10. Favorite boy group? 11. Favorite girl group? 12. Favorite boy group song(s)? 13. Favorite girl group song(s)? 14. Favorite solo artist? 15. Favorite solo song from (blank) idol? 16. Favorite solo song? 17. Have you ever been to a K-event? 18. Your favorite song on (blank) album? 19. Your first bias of (blank) group/your bias now? 20. Your ultimate bias? 21. Your bias of (blank) group? 22. Your bias wrecker of (blank) group? 23. Your favorite era of (blank) group? 24. Your favorite hair color on (blank) idol? 25. The first song you heard of (blank) group? 26. Your bias list of (blank) group? 27. Your favorite Vlive of (blank) group? 28. Your favorite lyrics from (blank) group? 29. Your favorite lyrics from (blank) song? 30. Your favorite iconic moment(s) from (blank) group? 31. Your favorite iconic moment(s) from (blank) idol? 32. Do you have any albums from (blank) group/how many? 33. Your favorite album from (blank) group?

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⌇ kingdom (episode 1).

a/n: read the tweets from bottom to top! and there is spoilers about each episode on kingdom, so if you haven’t watched it fully, then go watch it asap!

btob was the fourth group to enter

everyone was already surprised when soo-young (who belonged to another group, and not just any group, a girl group) was confirmed to go to kingdom with btob

but it was a whole another thing to actually see her there

soo-young was actually really nervous because unlike the other survival reality shows she went to, she wasn't going to fight for herself, she was going to fight for the group, so she was scared to mess up

she was so awestruck with the other groups as she observed the three groups in front of her while she sat between peniel and changsub.

she was especially happy to see ateez, she haven’t seen or chatted with any of them in a while, so she missed them

when the other four mentioned that they looked the most normal between the 4 groups, soo-young didn’t waste any time teasing them

soo-young: “but you guys know that you’re nowhere near normal, right?”

in which they of course agreed with her

she laughed loudly when changsub mentioned the age difference between the three oldest with skz’s maknae

everyone was whipped for soo-young, mentioning how pretty she looked with her outfit, as they should be doing

“hey, mr. chan!”

that was the moment when soo-young regretted the decisions that let her join the group

the pain soo-young was feeling was very visible on her face while she watched eunkwang interacting with chan in english, with her butting in once in a while to translate to the leader

soo-young: “please, someone, save me from this.”

sf9 came in right after and soo-young couldn’t help but be fascinated with them, but you can’t blame her, since there were nine models right in front of her

and finally, ikon was the last group, and soo-young was excited just by seeing their clothes, they would certainly use one of their hip hop songs and that hyped her up

ateez was chosen as the first to perform and soo-young made sure that she was the one cheering the loudest for them

just at the first line, she recognized the song and she was so surprised because the arrangement of the song was so different from the original, but she still liked it

once the performance ended with a human pyramid, soo-young was the first to stand up and clap the loudest she could

soo-young: “as expected, they never fail to impress and always deliver the good stuff.”

next up, ateez choose them, btob, and soo-young found it quite funny, the youngest group was the first one to perform, now it was the oldest group

before the stages began, soo-young could see how restless the other four were, so she made it her mission to calm them down, be it by just chatting about anything with them, playing some quick games with them, or just telling funny stories she experienced in her life

“and she did that even when she was the most nervous between us.” minhyuk commented while they were on their group interview and soo-young couldn’t argue with his statement since it was true

“so i wanted to thank her, for taking care of us even though we’re older and not even her group.” and all five of them had a tight group hug

in beautiful pain, soo-young was peniel’s rap duo, sang with changsub and harmonized the high note with eunkwang and minhyuk, and finished the song with the final lines

thankfully the performance went as perfectly as they expected, and soo-young was quite satisfied with it

they were called to choose the next group to perform

“yes, a moment, please.” they turned and quickly pretended they were discussing before returning to their places, soo-young had to keep a straight face so she wouldn’t laugh with their reactions

the group they chose was sf9, soo-young was initially confused as to why rowoon was going with them, and when he told her the reason, she decided to sit closer so he wouldn’t feel lonely, maybe her compliments to the performance would make him feel a little bit better

soo-young was glad they chose them because as soon as the performance started, she quickly recognized her favorite song, and at every opportunity, she would throw lots of compliments, making sure that the left-out member was hearing

when the performance ended, she threw both thumbs up to rowoon to let him know how satisfied she was, and she returned to her previous place between her group mates

the next group to perform was stray kids, and soo-young really wanted to see it, she knew that skz was a talented group, so she knew they would impress everyone

and she wasn’t wrong, with the good song arrangement, the difficult choreo and the overall performance made everyone cheer for the group, soo-young included

the groups left were ikon and the boyz, but since ikon was already set to perform last, the boyz were the ones who would perform next

soo-young binge-watched road to kingdom a few days ago, and she knew that these boys were incredibly talented and equally creative, so she was really looking forward to their performance, although she was slightly worried since she overheard some staff saying that one of the members made some mistakes in the rehearsals

and just as she expected, they didn’t deliver a performance, but instead, they delivered a piece of art

finally, the moment soo-young was waiting for, now it was finally time to watch ikon’s performance

she started to get ecstatic once she saw them going up to the stage after preparing their mics, especially when she recognized her favorite song and she started bouncing and singing along, just like in the previous stages, she was not disappointed in the slightest

after they received the okay to prepare to go home, soo-young asked her for parents - ahem, eunkwang, and minhyuk’s permission to see her friends and hopefully make more

she interacted with both sf9 and ikon, compliments leaving her mouth non-stop about how cool she thought they were, at some point, she got ikon to promise to sign one of her albums one day

soo-young made her way to some of the boys in tbz, her mind set to talk with a specific member and she soon found him a bit far from his members

to sum it all up: she got juyeon’s number because she was worried about his knees and wanted to make sure he wouldn’t feel sore later, she also got changbin, chan, and felix’s numbers and got a warm and tight hug from each member in atz, although she was the one who had to hug jongho with the excuse of ‘what kind of older sister would i be if i left out my dear baby brother?’

she got home with a big smile on her face

❍⌇ noir’s intro outfit;;

❍⌇ twitter reactions;;

❍⌇ line distribution;;

youtube

Eunkwang | Minhyuk | Changsub | Peniel | Noir

Yeah love then pain love then pain Yeah let’s learn from our mistakes 우린 실패로부터 성장해 (성장해) 사랑은 하고 싶지만 Nobody wants to deal with the pain that follows, no I understand them though Yeah 이해돼 이해돼 사랑이라는 게 매일 웃게 하던 게 이제는 매일 괴롭게 해 (괴로워) 아픈 건 없어지겠지만 상처들은 영원해 But that’s why it’s called beautiful pain

[EK/MH] 시간은 슬프게 기다리질 않네요 [EK/MH] 오늘도 결국 어제가 되겠죠 다시 시작하는 게 (시작하는 게) 너무나 힘든걸요 [EK/MH] 어김없이 끝이 날까 봐

사랑을 만나

사랑을 만나 이별을 하고

수없이 많은 날을 울고 웃었다

[CS/EK] 시간이란 건 순간이란 게

[CS/Noir] 아름답고도 아프구나

[CS/Noir] 아름답고도 아프구[All]나

a/n: first i tried to write this as if it was an story or something like that, but it was a mess and it was really hard to write it, so i decided to stick with bullet style instead

also, it’s my first time using the colored text on tumblr so i really hope it works

anyways, i hope you guys like this small test of mine, i plan to keep posting all the episodes, so if you guys have any feedback, i’ll be glad to hear it!!!

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