#A Widening Gyre

[comicsiswild]

Batman: Widening Gyre (2009) #3

[aliteralchicken]

the widening gyre is such a…comic for Bruce Wayne,

nightwing calls him squidward and he doesn’t know who or what that is, Ivy tells him to relax and makes weed to help him do so, there’s an entire page dedicated to him and Alfred standing awkwardly together until he tells him to stop being British Alfred then roasts the shit out of him for the way he reacted to a woman being there to see him

Robin spends every appearance he has in the comic also making fun of him for the same thing as Alfred but going twice as hard, he asks the new hero if he’s a stoner, aqua man’s only appearance is making fun of him for having a girlfriend (he doesn’t believe him but still wins a bet about it)

there’s a whole thing about the new hero taking off his mask and it not being traditionally how superhero do things and Bruce not being ready for that type of commitment at all, Bruce manages to have an actual successful relationship yet he rips out her hair to make sure she’s not an ivo robot (she’s not), there’s a scene where he admits to pissing himself

yeah never a dull moment there

[sgrobailancoiseam]

an Tighinn Dara

A' cuartalan 's a' cuartalan sa slugan mèananach cha chluinn an seabhag a seabagair; tuitidh rudan às a chèile; cha sheasidh am meadhan; tha dìreach ain-rian leigte mu sgaoil air an t-saoghal, tha an làn dubh-fala leigte mu sgaoil, 's anns gach àite tha an deas-ghnàth neochiontais bàthte; iad as fhèarr gun cinnt, neas iad as mìosa làn de dèinead lasanta.

Gu fìrinneach, tha taisbean làimh rinn; Gu fìrinneach, tha an Tighinn Dara làimh rinn. An Tighinn Dara! Cha robh na faclan a-mach Nuar chur tionnail mhòr às Spiritus Mundi trioblaid air mo shùil; badeigin sa bacannan fàsaich cumadh le corp lèanhainn agus ceann fir, sgeann cho bàn agus neo-thrusacante ris a' Ghrian, a' gluasad a sliasan slaodach, treis timcheall a' ruidhleadh sgàilean de na eun-fàsaich diomach. Tùirl dorchas a-rithist, ach a-nis bha fios agam gu robh figead linnteann de cadail càrnach dorranaichte do trom-laighe le creathal turcadh. Agus dè biast garbh, a h-uair thàinig fa dheireadh, a' sliùbhd chun Betlehem 'son a bhreith?

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An Tighinn Dara, le WB Yeates, Gàidhlig le Còiseam

Cuiribh mi Ceart

dìoghrasach, seach lasanta? an urrian dhomh a chleachd thimcheall gun cuspair? a bheil an verbal adjective ceart air 'fighean linnteann... dorranaichte'?

[campgender]

when i get a certain level of high i start experiencing profound dysphoria over not having talons so like watch this space ig

[ceruleanvulpine]

thinking of him

[arcadienne-writes]

It's time for chapter 3! Watch as a local girl struggles to give at least some personality to characters she never cared about before including them in her story (the Knights of course)!

[lord-squiggletits]

Speaking of stupid reasons to criticize the Autobots (or rather, the opposite), I actually find the ““““problematic”““““ nature of Cop IDW Optimus and other elements of the plot to be quite essential to enjoying the story and seeing it as a balanced, nuanced story.

Because like... in other continuities, the story of revolution seems to be very much “there were good revolutionaries and there were bad ones, and then the bad ones wanted to be in charge and then they fought about it for 4 million years.” Which seems very weak to me not just in the “revolution bad” sense, but it makes me wonder how the war could go on for millions of years when the Autobots and Decepticons literally had the same goal and achieved it, now they’re just fighting over who gets to be in charge.

But like, in IDW1, the Autobot insignia and stuff already existed as a badge for the previous regime of the Prime/Senate. Orion Pax (now Optimus Prime) was a lackey of Zeta Prime who was either his loyal puppet at best or being groomed for the position of Prime at worst. Most of the people Optimus Prime recruited to help him fight were other police officers and military members he was affiliated with, who were already cracking down on the Decepticon movement as it became more and more violent.

With that base of Optimus/the Autobots being actually ~problematic~, I can absolutely see why the Decepticons wouldn’t consider the war over and would continue fighting. I mean, why the hell would they trust a police enforcer/military officer who was lackeys with the PRIME? Why would they think Optimus actually believes in peace and equality?

Of course, the Decepticons have their own problems as well. What was once a universal political movement (because remember, the Decepticon movement began with Megatron’s writings but he was NOT the leader of a militarized faction until Megatron Origins) was taken over by essentially an underground criminal gladiator organization that began engaging in weapon trafficking, crime, and terrorism. From the Autobot perspective, the Decepticons are allies for equality gone bad due to Megatron’s violent influences and the gladiator/criminal aspects overtaking the actual social equality vibes.

I just think that the premise of IDW1′s Autobot-Decepticon war is so good because like, the Autobots and Decepticons existed in a way BEFORE either Megatron or Optimus became the official leaders of those two specific, organized, militarized factions. But the society that created them and the two different social classes they came from doomed them to distrust each other. It wasn’t ever a fight about who got to be in charge, it was a war between two different factions of people who had every reason to distrust each other and think that the other faction would subjugate them if they allowed them to gain power.

[demisexualnathanvuornos]

Haven parallels: Nathan +bruises 1x3 Harmony 2x9 Lockdown 3x1 301 4x7 Lay Me Down 5x24 The Widening Gyre (2010-2015)

[closetoedshoes]

aj soprano what rough beast bass boosted 10 hour loop

[red-hemlock]

@onopoeia started following you! (For Onomatopoeia!)

The Bat's renown was becoming an infection. Spreading with no signs of stopping, it seemed a three-way coin-toss to whether or not you were 'spared' or inspired to join Team Good or Team Bad. Team Good had a recent crop of 'hopefuls' looking to shine from the rabble, one of them was scampering ahead of her now. Shit-for-all when it came to the old hand-to-hand, but one slippery street-fish on the evasion-side of things; It'll be glorious once she finally sinks her claws in, and descales those pretty plates back to expose the soft underneath.

But, Hemlock had to admit this one sure knew the city well. Enough to lead her on a mad-dash throughout, and enough to stoke the fires of irritation into an inferno. Time to end this clown-show.

They land behind some old abandoned warehouse, but before the fledgling vigilante can gain ground, pain forces him to eat it, instead. Courtesy of the hooked head of her grappling-gun dug deep into the meat of his calf. The mechanism begins dragging him screaming back towards her; and with no movement wasted, she's on the hero like a starved beast. Knee to the back, hand on neck, and a greedy blade raised skyward for the kill.

But movement is what catches her eye, and stays that blade from falling.

"Woah-oooh, there-!"

“Back-off, Bulls-Eye! I came, I saw, I conquered this tool first. His head belongs to me!"

Or was this ominous hombre here to help this guy? God, she hoped not. There were shows waiting at home for her to get back to.

[comicsiswild]

Batman: Widening Gyre (2009) #1

[63883728]

me in my music world

[abwatt]

Sun in Libra III (13-23 October 2023)

The Sun enters Libra III on October 13, 2023 at 10:38 am EDT — the decan that Austin Coppock called The Gyroscope, forever spinning in an effort to stay upright and keep going. T. Susan Chang in 36 Secrets, her book on Tarot, called it The Widening Gyre, noting its associations with the four of swords in Tarot. The Greeks of Hellenistic Alexandria noted that this season of the year was associated…

[campgender]

high femme dysphoria (ze is distressed by not having claws)

[arcadienne-writes]

chapter two of "the widening gyre" is up!! i missed writing a fantasy story so much. i hope you enjoy it!

[ritterum]

if your vagina

- develops a fascination with occult and Gnostic mysticism

- keeps turning and turning in its widening gyre

- pens multiple scholarly and literary works on Irish mythology

- can no longer hold its centre

call your doctor immediately! you may have contracted a yeats infection