#BRO WHAT DO YOU MEAN HELLO ?????

[kyouka-supremacy]

Yeah having infinite alternative universes where the same two people love each other no matter the world no matter the time is nice but have you considered dedicating your entire existence to find the only universe where your loved one is happy, even if they're going to hate you in that universe, even if you yourself have to die in that universe, because their happiness always came before everything else? Because you never mattered as long as they were happy? Have you considered it??????

[turbo-gum]

I- HUH???

[batbabydamian]

🦇🐥 Batman and Robin (2023) #6 rambling and screaming crying throwing up about a single page

so right off the bat, i'm adding these panels to the Ms. Hall is Shush conspiracy board - the first suspect in mind for who could train Zach would be Principal Stone, but Ms. Hall is conveniently placed in the "teacher's pet" panel HMM

Damian's history with Zsasz is mentioned again! any further reference to Streets of Gotham ends here once Damian and Zsasz face off, but i'm not complaining when Damian gets to kick his ass again LOL

AAH SUCH A COOL PANEL!! i rambled enough about Cizmesija's impact shots last time, but this is just. SO COOL... DAMIAN'S POSE, the light streak from the eyes, the jittery effect at the point of impact from Zsasz's front to his back - LIKE DAMN, YOU KNOW THIS KID HIT HIM HARD

ok i was gonna shut up about the impact shots but to accompany the Robin panel, THIS SICK BATMAN PANEL!! THE SPEED LINES ALONG HIS WHOLE ARM, the hilarious waves of that hit going through Zsasz's face asdfg, the cowl and cape silhouette in the back - and the KRAK SFX!! it's got a bit of that gritty splatter effect Cizmesija uses so either another smooth choice by letterer Steve Wands or extra kudos to Cizmesija!!

i thought the action would be my favorite aspect of this issue, but it was THE EXPRESSIONS. from Damian's frustration here (his glare and his seriously gritted teeth) to the page that brought me to my knees lol

a breakdown of my breakdown for this page:

DAMIAN'S WIDE EYED EXPRESSION AT BRUCE'S COMPLIMENT, THE SHINE IN HIS EYES!! what gets me about Bruce’s praise is how specific it is, especially pointing out Damian’s storytelling 😭 Bruce already knows Damian’s technical art skills are amazing!! storytelling through comics is a whole different skill and Bruce recognized that!! 😭 no wonder Damian is so touched, Bruce is paying attention 😭

HE LOOKS SO OVERWHELMED BY THE VALIDATION FROM HIS FATHER - THE TENTATIVE SMILE!! BEFORE HE BREAKS OUT INTO A FULL GRIN!! 😭

HOW HE BURSTS ABOUT HIS PROCESS AND THEN THE LIL ASIDE OF “I love those…” HE'S SO CAUGHT UP IN HIS JOY PLEASE I’M COUGHING UP BLOOD THAT'S SO CUTE 😭 happy Damian is my weakness i mean LOOK AT HIM OH MY GOD the wide smile his lil fist and the pointing, he cannot contain himself!! 😭

his art is so fun, i'm glad we get to see more of this!! the shadow of Bruce and Damian over the pages is a neat touch too! Damian expanding from realistic renders to this manga style on top of these amazing comic layouts…Bruce is right his growth is crazy 😭

to add on to Damian's progress from Bruce's eyes - Detective Comics (2016) #1003 was the last time Bruce acknowledged Damian's art!

the return of Flatline!! for this last bit, i'll be referencing Lazarus Planet: The Next Evolution (2023) since that's Nika's last notable appearance!

Nika calling Damian out on not contacting her asdfg she mentions something similar before, and i could only imagine it's been months since then considering that issue came out a whole year ago 😭

besides Nika meeting Bruce, the most important thing that needs to be addressed is if Damian's aware that she resurrected Ra's and finally, what they could have discussed??

ending note, upgrade from earbuds in Batman and Robin (2011) to headphones haha wired earphones only!!

[caffiene-creature-chesed]

[An Agent's voice message is in Chesed's inbox. The ID of the sender reveals them to be one Emily (just Emily) from Safety, a relatively senior Agent. Her voice is thick and hoarse like she'd been crying for a long, long while before the recording was made.]

...I just thought this was just some silly, stupid bullshit, y'know? Like with that weird You're Bald Abno or whatever. I mean, it sounds dumb as hell, right? A printer that gets your balls stuck in it— it's a fucking joke! It's like one of those stupid nonsense jokes Maxine always makes—!

...

[A long, shuddering breath is taken. Agent Emily exhales against the microphone, distorting the audio for a short time.]

...Made. I guess.

[A short pause.]

...I mean. This originated from your Department, right? I, I don't know anything about you but there had to be signs that something was wrong, right? You're not blind, right? You knew that people were getting hurt, or going to get hurt, right? Getting... getting stuck's a horrible feeling! And I had to watch Maxine get stuck, and I had to watch Maxine—!

...

...Maxine. Maxine. We... we were alone together, y'know? We were just hanging out. Just, y'know, talking. And it was just me and her if we both ignored the security cams and the Clerks, and we did ignore them, so as far as I cared it was perfect. I was gonna ask her out, and maybe it was stupid but I wanted it to be like one of her romance novels 'cuz I sometimes sneak in a chapter or two when she's not looking. She always read that kind of, of cheesy shit and I know she woulda appreciated it. But I know you don't care about that kind of stupid pointless shit, right? Why am I even telling you my goddamn life story?

[Emily lets out a humorless chuckle.]

...Well. I guess it's because you're the only one left to hear me now, even if all you do in the end is turn away and plug your ears like I bet you always do. Like what everyone here always does. It doesn't matter— tomorrow will once again be business as usual, right?

[Emily sniffles, choking down a sob. A pause— about two minutes and four seconds in length— ensues as she presumably attempts to regain composure.]

...I'm pretty damn strong, if I do say so myself, but I guess I wasn't strong enough to do anything that actually mattered. One of those damn printers came outta nowhere and just crushed her, just like that, and suddenly my first love is gone. Just like that. Isn't it ironic that the moment I decide to open my heart, it's squashed flat just like Maxine was?

It wasn't a quick death, either, y'know, but I bet you're already familiar with these kinds of stories, right? I bet you don't even feel anything when I tell you that I watched her bones struggle and splinter and snap beneath the weight. She made this horrible rattling, choking noise as she scrabbled at the floors so hard that her nails broke, and I felt the way her flesh tore as I pulled so hard so desperately at her arm that it came off altogether and somehow it was still warm against my cold-ass fingers that i would always press against the back of her neck just to see her jump and curse at me

but now she will always be colder than my fingers

I know it wanted it to hurt. It wanted her to hurt. It wanted me to hurt and it killed her with the same kind of slow and loving care that i used to reserve for her

and this could have been prevented right ?thiswas a pointless death pointless s,uffering everything everything meaningless how could you how could you

always turn a blind eye

to these losses? do you lower your head and

imagine that

these unending tears of your employees are just rain,

and that our eternally piling corpses with faces twisted in every imaginable agony are just lumps of rotting mud beneath your feet,

and that the ever-thickening stench of our blood and our terror is just sweet petrichor in the air ?

...

...

...

...Well. So much for Welfare... pfft.

[The recording ends abruptly. Later inquiry reveals that Emily had jumped into Blue Star shortly afterwards, dragging Maxine's remains with her.]

(Chesed is standing in the corner of the hallway, absently spraying printers and listening to the recording. On the wall is a screen where a video tape of the security cameras is paused.)

...

A dead agent, not even from my department- and it's my fault, again. Just as always. I'll... try my best to get those printers down, though I'm not sure how they got here myself. The manager has just called Rabbit Team and the facility received a notification for an unannounced threat... I'm sorry, Emily.

(He puts his device up, and scrolls through the security tapes again, before abruptly closing it. Soon, an announcement can be heard ringing through the halls of the Welfare team.)

Everybody, listen up! There is one printer in the printer room that is controlling everything. It is also responsible for turning clerks into new printers, as well. I need all my female-at-birth fighters to direct all their attention to that printer, while everybody else capable of fighting need to watch the hallways and make sure nothing else gets out. Any clerk who is unable to protect themselves should take refuge in my office or Mirror of Adjustment's containment unit, are we clear?

[the-way-astray]

so we can add "stupid" to blur's list of traits

[the-lesbian-orpheus]

So I finished the finale a few hours ago

And don’t get me wrong I loved most of that shit

Just enough conflicting emotions that it slayed and not pushed me away

Nandor and Guillermo having that whole moment with the stake at the throat hello?!?

Something something nandor being in love despite being angy

Something something about that cerimony hits different idk

GUILLERMO WITH A BEARD (I mean I know Harvey Guillén has a beard a lot but still)

Also memo my beloved you’re so real for that I would struggle with the murder too but also ahh I just want yall to have a happy ending and date already

But most importantly

WTF NOW I (WE) HAVE TO WAIT FOR WHO KNOWS HOW LONG AGAIN 😭😭

It was a great ep tho slayed

[irritablepoe]

💀💀💀💀💀

[toxycodone]

thinking so hard about cam but they can lose main parts of their body which scuttle off and become their own things. so depending on how many fingers/toes/limbs they lost there’s a weird implication of like. who got replaced

S1 of The Boys - He’s missing is right index finger. It takes form of his childhood dog 💪🏽 continues to live on as its own sentient being.

they steadily start missing more as the seasons go by.

[baffledapple]

once again i am being subjected to "educational courses on generative AI" (lengthy advertisements that the higher ups want us to watch so they can say that we are trained in AI)

[aria0fgold]

I'm around the end of Sae's arc (which is where the beginning scene happened! Oooo) and like, I just wanna say, I have beef with this guy:

NPC number whatever with his haughty ass, who are you to decide Who gets killed, WDYM "Find them and kill them all" THEY'RE KIDS?!?!?!!?!? YOU GROWN ASS MAN WANT TO KILL KIDS I WANT HIM IN JAIL BRO HE SHOULD BE THE ONE IN JAIL NOT THE PHANTOM THIEVES

[oflgtfol]

shaking my fucking cage my grad school app is due friday and the only thing preventing me from submitting it is that everyone i ask for a letter of rec is taking their sweet fucking time

[todayisafridaynight]

Oh ok [Saying this, she casually threw aside a large rock] [For Now]

keep that rock on standby i still dont know if i need to wrap my grubby mitts around yokoyama's neck yet

[https-mika]

mr reca is my BIGGEST hmo. bro's cutscenes did something to me

can i offer y'all a badly edited meme while we wait for the server update?

[pinoke]

He is so stupid 😊

[littlebluejayy]

took my shirt off to jump into the freezing ah frost off my ass cheeks river water for the end of the season and this guy. goes "nice pants" as he looks me up and down. guess im krilling myself !!!

[maraczeks]

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