#I instead of working on my exams

[violent138]

Bruce Wayne's parents' deaths from Batman 1989 to the live actions that followed. Common recurring theme: they're leaving a movie/play via alley. Common repeating motifs include: the pearls (purity, loyalty, innocence), the gun, Martha usually holds/shields Bruce, and the fact that Thomas dies first, usually after moving in front of his wife and kid.

Batman (1989) - Starts off at a weird angle looking up at the Waynes (establishing their place in the city?), and above them are gold-yellow rays (lights) but they walk into the darkness. Everyone moves in a very stage-directed, telegraphed way, and the whole scene has a choral, atmospheric feel through lighting and sound. Something follows, seen in blurry shadowed figures. Bruce notices something wrong first, and his parents stop and turn due to him doing so. At first we don't see the killer, but one of his accomplices smiles and tears off Martha's necklace. Then Thomas reacts and the necklace breaks and popcorn goes tumbling down. Garbled, ominous dialogue. For this one, both popcorn and pearls go tumbling down, and we very clearly see the killer's face (grotesquely smiling by the way), and the camera lingers on him and his near-killing of Bruce too before he's interrupted. We see the killer, and then Bruce, and the killer talks to him. This is a night that didn't go as planned, for anyone.

Batman Begins (2005) - We're at the family's level, the alley is seedy from the start (dark and derelict), yet the Waynes are unbothered, their focus entirely on their son. We hear sounds, this is an actively unfolding scene and less of a memory. There's a focus on the family's interactions, but we see the killer this time too (but briefly). This is a much slower scene that builds up to the confrontation and then speeds up with the killings. Thomas is alive long enough to comfort his kid. Bruce silently cries over them, and now it gets choral and atmospheric. This one truly feels like a robbery gone wrong, just a twitchy guy ruining a night that had no indications of this happening at all.

Batman v Superman (2016) - We start from above and descend down through the camera to the Waynes, this is another darker lit scene. Similarly, the Waynes are carefree, however this scene relies more heavily on visuals and music. Interspersed with scenes of running, the gun comes into focus, Thomas goes. There's detail in focused sounds, like clenching of leather, clattering pearls, the bullet casing bouncing. Underwater, memory-esque feel to this one as Martha's pearls go, and we catch a glimpse of the killer. So far this is the one most personal to them, and less interested in the pearls, which are snapped deliberately. We catch a glimpse of the killer. It's the slow happening over seconds, and the location/setting makes it intimate and closed off, as it's a memory with a few defined details but much is lost. You get the feel that the why doesn't matter at all with this one (an important part of the movie as a whole).

Joker (2019) - In this one, the Waynes are fleeing the theatre (quite brightly lit), at odds with their burning city, and a clown sees them and follows. The Waynes enter a dark alley (momentarily separated from the chaos), this is the first in which they're forced into danger, and the clown names them before shooting Thomas. Martha's pearls are snapped after she's shot, and this becomes the most random, yet specific killing of the Waynes, with robbery barely even a motive. Bruce stands between the carnage, blood on his face.

Gotham (2014) - The camera pans up from the killer's perspective, slowly rising up from behind him to the happy, unaware family. They tense up when the killer draws a weapon. This one has the least music, emphasizing the dialogue between Thomas and the killer. There's the inclusion of a third person (our inclusion is most obvious in this one, the rest are vignettes or memories pretty clearly aside from Joker). The music slowly does emerge and it's entirely creepy/dreadful. This killer makes a vocal demand for the necklace. The pearls break while being handed over, they're not torn away. Lots of emphasis on Bruce. Thomas dies first, then Martha, and now the killer turns his weapon on Bruce, who's still standing amongst bounding pearls. He's in danger somehow most in this one. We see the killer's eyes intently before the robber runs past Bruce into the street. Bruce reacts, shaking his parents and bloodying his hands.

[mxttellion]

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[plasticsandwich]

thank you for over 1k followers!! wrapped up this special gift for yous

[lastwiltedflower]

Grace: We're nerdy prudes. We're going to have unsolicited sexual fantasies about the star quarterback Richie: I was gonna use that one! Grace: What Richie: Just kidding *to Steph* I'm not kidding Steph: Dear God

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Having a normal time (debating on whether or not time lords can be classified as mammals)

[reinedeslys-central]

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE ARC FOR VALGRACE.

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE ARC FOR VALGRACE.

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE ARC FOR VALGRACE.

please please please I know this will never be canon BUT LISTEN -

SPOILERS UNDER KEEP READING (if you haven't read TOA)

what's that marvelousspider post about the tragedy of how leo found a way to beat the prophecy (and in some stories, that kind of thing works, reinterpreting the lines into a potential that comes true like how the act of observing forces the electron to 'choose' a path) but in doing so doomed jason? Yeah that's what I'm talking about. obviously jason's in elysium but. BUT.

what if he isn't? (or what if he is)

what if leo doesn't tell anyone what he's doing/planning on doing? (obviously someone finds out anyway, my bet is piper or nico or reyna)

what if that theme of glory repeated comes back here too? (hades is tired after millenia dealing with mortals. hades has a sort of hope. these two facts are not mutually irreconcilable.)

Leo's guilt. Leo's guilt. (To storm or fire the world must fall. Gaea burned.)

The surrounding characters (I don't think calypso and leo would stay together in the canon percabeth golden-couple, partners-in-life-and-crime way. I think they'd grow together and eventually grow into people that weren't partners anymore and be okay with that. would calypso feel guilty? She's a titan, eons old. maybe not. maybe the weight of fate is the same to her as sand on her beaches. Maybe seeing leo break down over it does make her feel guilty.)

Nico's resentment. (over jason's and leo's prophecy debacle, over bianca not getting the same chance, over not being able to reach for her hand, charging into the underworld like leo is, so many more things)

Percy. because percy will have all kinds of mixed feelings over the demigods in elysium, some of them he would say he put there. in the end, though.. percy will understand. (I wonder if he and grover and annabeth would fight about it.) he's understood since he was twelve and more willing to save his mother than any god-given quest.

Quests are in threes. (would this be a quest with a prophecy? or does leo just charge in? is the prophecy given after the events have been set in motion?)

Leo goes alone. (An oath to keep with a final breath.)

One more time. One more oath to put everything into question. One more twist to the prophecy.

--although technically, the prophecy should be done and dusted. Jason's, like, actually dead and in the underworld in this story. it's not like he didn't breathe his final breath or something. it's not like he didn't keep that oath.

[ranvwoop]

made a silly custom player model... my guy.......

[cupids-beaux]

apologies for the person i will become after i spend 12 hours straight with headphones on so that i can listen to bitb all in one go

[wraithinkorporated]

Needed a new discord icon

[wasabikitcat]

community college is so funny because half of the teachers are like "For this class you need to use lockdown browser for all quizzes and tests. You need to buy this 70 dollar textbook, and all papers turned in must be in APA format with a title page even if they're only 500 words long. I will not accept late assignments. Also you have a minimum of 4 assignments a week." and the other half are like "you don't need proctoring for the final exam I trust you. here's a download link to a pirated copy of the textbook. as long as your writing is coherent and demonstrates an understanding of the material I literally could not care less what format you use. I can't figure out how canvas works so I'm not giving you due dates, just make sure it's turned in before the grading period ends. your only weekly assignment is a forum post with a minimum of 100 words."

[iwakuraz]

feeling like,,,, soon I'm probably gonna become obsessed with evangelion again. the weather forecast says I'm gonna have the evangelion brain disease not too long from now

[cloudcountry]

i think i may have created way to much pressure on myself when i tell people to send stuff that theyve tagged me in that i've missed. like yes i'd love to be able to read everything you guys send me but im gone most of the day now and its just not possible anymore. it kinda makes me sad because ive probably missed out on so much because of the sheer amount of things in my mentions.

[dolokhoded]

PROCRASTINATING ON MY EXAMS 🔥🔥🔥💪💪🎉 I CAN LITERALLY DO ANYTHING BUT STUDY I'VE BEEN DOODLING THEM ALL DAY 💪🎉🎉💥💥🔥🔥🔥

[whenyoulosesmallmind]

Nicklas Bäckström + Alexander Ovechkin ― Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale, Eugenio Montale (trans. William Arrowsmith)

[raksh-writes]

I have my last exam tomorrow and no idea how to study for it because my brain is straight up refusing to retain any and all information. Very fucking funny how the exam is about information (science) too, ugh...

[hypotheticallyhaunted]

I'm almost done with my masters which means I have just 5 more exams to give and I'll hopefully have my degree but instead of studying for those exams my brain is all over the place about looking for a job and finally getting financially independent and maybe moving out permanently and I have so many ideas (also maybe delusions) about how it's gonna work out and I'm both anxious and excited and it's just a lot of stuff