#Gotham AU

[garpen]

Part 22 Gotham Twitter Au

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Three updates in three days. Everybody say thank you to caffeine for making my brain function normally these past few days (not good for my heart but GREAT for my noggin)

Trolls Band Together is coming on Netflix this Monday and I pray I don't fall back into that hyperfixation bc it was SO BAD when the movie first came out. (Literally watched Trolls 1 TODAY for the hundredth time, and watch it on avg. once a week)

I've already got a part 23 ready to be posted tomorrow (in roughly 24hrs) 👀

[mimicben]

they're twins now, cuz when I was a child i thought the Riddler n poison ivy were related cuz they were both ginger and wore green. I am avenging my younger self

[dawwn-art]

[cliobii]

they’re kissing in some random field idk bro

[space-dreams-world]

Gotham's drowing:

So if Danny reveals the ghost to Gotham's city and it's citizens, it going to be a bloodbath of death as joker, while creating the most kills,what about other villains like poison Ivy and the people she turned to plants, the people two face has killed,he'll even scarecrow and Mr.freezer for their actions with the people who died from fear gas and being frozen. If anybody writes up a haunted gotham,not only Joker's victims should appear but every major villain. And if Ra's wants to investigate what's happening in Gotham,well, there is a line of sacrificed assassins to the pits waiting for him.

[it-happened-once-in-a-meme]

Edward Nygma's ASMR 😉😂

"Most days of the week Ed seems to. Be living in a different genre of overly intense asmr roleplay video" ( @slingbats 's post) is exactly what I've been thinking 😁.

This man lowers his voice as if aiming for seduction in the weirdest moments 😆😂

Here's my vision:

We just know Oswald would secretly watch these 🤭

Maybe someone else too? 🙃🤔

...alluring way? 🤭

More funny titles (with spoilers for season 5 I believe) are here

[mrclownery]

some Oswald doodles from the other day!

I’ll have to collect my thoughts on how I want to go about the s2 Arkham plotline another time. But it’s pretty much same idea, with Strange conditioning Oswald to have an aversion to violence. HOWEVER. It is not using that stupid machine. I’m just gonna lean into the Clockwork Orange angle, which I’m fairly sure is what this plotline was always meant to reference. Being sat and forced and watch violent imagery and films, but unlike how they go about it in Clockwork Orange I think I’m gonna stick with shocks rather than drug induced nausea. That could be subject to change though, I need to do more research on the effectiveness of specific aversion therapies.

ALSO another detail that is changed with this arc is that Galavan is very much still around and involved! Oswald was admitted on ATTEMPTED charges. This entire program of “rehabilitation” with prisoners is going to be apart of Galavan’s mayoral campaign, something about being able to eradicate crime in Gotham. This gives reason for the entire experiment to take place, because the shit with Strange like,,, making monsters in the basement? Gone. That plotline is gone, sorry! To me that whole plotline is when the show started to go downhill. He is still very unethical and does MENTAL experiments and such purely for fun, but this version is just a littleeee more grounded than the show and other iterations. Oswald is essentially the face of the program, being paraded and such by Galavan for his campaign once she’s “cured”, and then subsequently tossed away with no aid. From that point it’s fairly similar to the show when she was in that weird state. Still a tad different though since the entire step family arc is also cut. I’ll have to get into that another time.

One last detail! The drawing at the bottom of her being nauseous is from her post-Arkham era before the breakdown. In this version, Ed does end up letting him actually stay for a bit rather than immediately kick her out (he DOES kick her out later on for being distracting to his work. That whole thing is something I’ll also get into another time). Little thing about her design I find neat there is that of course his hair is more tamed and whatnot, trying to be less crazy. But it’s also more masculine. I NEVER really draw Oswald with squared sideburns, when I think of her hair I think of triangles and such. But I’m leaning into the idea that Gotham is about 20 years stuck in the past, and asylums weren’t all that great for trans people. It’s fucked up but it is a part of the whole “treatment” and reintroduction to society as a functioning, “NORMAL” member of it. That means she’s got to look the part! No more pesky makeup and crazy hair (this does in fact make her mental breakdown haircut when he does eventually snap sooo important).

[theriddleskeeponriddling]

Music Meister art I made a little while before joining Tumblr

My friend named him Charlie Soprano, and it’s now canon.

[xilinjiangart]

Gotham Roaring 20’s au pt. 2

It’s the besties <33

[occasionalsnippets]

I wonder how the inevitable meeting between Bruce and eldritch Mc will go.

There is something strange with Tim's relative, he just can't prove it. So he goes full detective mode.

It's very stilted. Assuming Tim doesn't just tell him about the eldritch creature that followed him home and who he's made fake documents for, the first meeting is awkward.

There's something off about them, no matter how much they seem to care for Tim...

[margonika00]

😈🎭👿

[hot-edits-of-the-ice-cold]

Being a Gotham fan right now, especially an Oswald fan

is kind of weird after the USA presidential election this year 😭

Spoilers for season 3 episode 16/17:

I love Oswald and think he had more potential as mayor than Aubrey James, but that's in a world where the person in power needs to have connections to the crime world!! 😐

And oddly enough, this real-world election, which happened about 6 years after similar events in the show, was kind of similar to Oswald rise to power after Ed's betrayal:

Both gained a part of the people he wanted out of the city the last time: A big part of Oswald's campaign was getting "Hugo Strange's monster" out of Gotham but they were his "Army of Freaks" the second time around — one of Trump's big things during his first campaign was building a wall bordering on Mexico, whereas the third time he tried to get elected, he managed to gain support from Latino Americans, including people whose family member could have to leave under his policies 😯

Not to mention that they both tried to steal the election.

At the moment watching Gotham and the news can be a bit much for me, do any people feel similar?

Cause so many of the things Americans are facing are dystopian elements in gotham:

police corruption (immunity)

a criminal, who has and will contintue to express his dislike of (certain) people, becoming their leader

bad healthcare (abortion too probably, maybe contraception 👀)

poverty

families breaking apart

gender-based violence (I hope no-fault divorce won't be ended)

ostracism/deportation

If you want to see specific examples, here's the edit I made of the parallels:

The Dystopian World of Gotham (Can Be Seen as a Modern AU/Parallels to the USA in 2024) on Youtube (I recommend you watch it there because of the format but it's also on Tiktok)

In any case: please someone edit chief of staff!Ed with eyeliner 💚 Like next to tanned!Oswald or something 💜 Let's ignore that Trump has an actual chief of staff too 🤫

[Edit: someone pointed out that they thought my comparisons made the real problem seem smaller & mentioned a few other things like reading into this that I meant to call latinos monsters, (what the hell?) 🤨. If you feel similarly, you can check out my clarifying response]

[mimicben]

OMG I WAS THE ANON WHO ASKED ABT 70S VIBES AND AHHHHH I LOVE THAT SO SO MUCH :(((( SOME OF KY TWO MAIN SPECIAL INTRESTS HAVE BEEN THE RIDDLER AND FASHION IN THE 60S-80S SO ITS JUST RAHHHHHH JUST SO INSANE ABOUT YOUR RIDDLER DESIGN

HEHEHE your asks have been giving me so much joy I a made a bunch of new late 70s- 80s outfit refs for the boy, i like a lot of these (especially the GCPD nygma outfit)

[dawwn-art]

More designs for my AU

[children-of-arkham]

I drew and give you Eddie after Catwoman's revenge:

Original pic:

[r3djy]

Saw this in tags to one of my previous posts and thought, yeah, why not draw more