#KEEP GOTHAM WEIRD

[zombeesknees]

#i don’t think we give keaton!bruce enough credit for his flirting game #he feels this is the perfect time and place - mid-catwoman straddle - for a BOTANICAL FUN FACT #100% convinced that is the thing to say in this scenario (he is correct) #i want him carnally

Batman Returns (1992) Dir. Tim Burton

[bluestockingbaby]

73 + Batman villains

73. Venus In Furs by the Velvet Underground + Batman Villains

Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather Whiplash girl child in the dark Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart

Downy sins of streetlight fancies Chase the costumes she shall wear

"My safeword is... Batman!"

"Batman? Okay."

"No! He's behind y--" [GLASS SHATTERING]

[ikiprian]

Ghost Kitchen (brought to you by criminal entrepreneur, Red Hood)

Danny’s got the easiest job in Gotham.

He works as a fry cook at a shoddily-run, independent burger joint. Hardly anyone comes in, despite prices being criminally low, and portions insanely large, and while the manager looks like the average tough-as-nails ex-con, he lets Danny mess around in the kitchen whenever the place is empty. (Which is often. This place has to be the city’s hidden gem or something!)

Mr. Manager’s the only one ever there with Danny, except for sometimes when his buddies come over to smoke and play cards. Danny would find it shady, except part of his job is not to ask questions. Literally, he was told during the interview.

(It was a weird interview. Why would they need to hire someone who’s been in a gunfight before? Like, he has, but Gotham’s idea of “hirable qualities” is so bizarre.)

So instead he whips up some killer burgers with the frozen ingredients, and basks in the praise as the guys tell him he shouldn’t have, he does too much for this joint, ain’t that friendly!

Now, Danny’s a chef on the newer side. As a teen he’d preferred the look of Nasty Burger over anything with Michelin stars, and he only really took up cooking after Jazz moved out for college. But just like ecto-exposure used to turn the groceries sentient, Danny’s low-level ecto signature imbues all his food with something historically haunted Gothamites just love! And Danny’s never been one to half-ass a job when it makes people happy.

With fresher produce, real meat, Danny’s sure he can take his dishes to the next level. It takes a couple months of badgering, but his manager finally agrees to contact the mysterious store owner, who keeps the place going, despite profits Danny knows have to be in the red.

Danny spends the morning prepping. He pours his heart into his food, eager to impress. The big boss will be here soon, and he wants to prove that despite the dangerous location, this place has real potential!

It isn’t until the Red Hood shows up that Danny realizes he’s been working for a money laundering scheme.

[ch3rrygummy]

dick got him a shirt

[bluestockingbaby]

[frownyalfred]

Tim is the kind of person who would swallow one of his AirPods while getting mugged just to assert dominance and I stand by that

[vinelark]

That entire Reddit post is just the Batman family members arguing amongst themselves on their different secret Reddit accounts! There is not a single authentic Gotham civilian anywhere on that post. Don’t think I don’t see you, HC 1942! They all think they’re doing Tim, a solid by commenting, but they are all at cross purposes with one another. Incredible work, no notes. Be the disinformation you want to see in the world.

LOL the mods would end up locking the post within an hour. it would be a bloodbath. meanwhile babs would be like "why does tim have both a hate club and a fan club all of a sudden" and she'd trace all the ip addresses and then just look into the camera like on the office.

[bluestockingbaby]

#attend the tale of jason todd #he dug his way out of the sod

via @susandsnell

they’re canceling me for the way I deal with grief. Also for all the severed heads and the bombings and the racketeering and the

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

On the subject of gotham county line and batman noel and so on and so forth it’s pretty frustrating (from a watsonian pov) that anytime Bruce hallucinates Jason being loving/ caring/helpful/compassionate towards him it’s always as robin and never as his current self

[anormalkidingotham]

why did killer croc just poison the water supply? isn't that where he lives?

[bluestockingbaby]

[zombeesknees]

#eyyy it’s the boys #one brain cell bouncing around between them like olympic table-tennis

#jfc Bruce his family just fell to their deaths

[blankerthought]

I can't put it in now but i need to write a fic where bruce just straight-up has been lying about his age for years and gotham's record-keeping is so fucked he's been getting away with it. other heros are like 'damn batman's so limber for a guy who's just hit his fourties' and bruce is quietly trying to remember if he said he was 41 or 40 because he's still 37

[science-lings]

I love how all the Robins want to kill sooo bad and the only thing keeping them from sneaking out to do murder is the smallest amount of adult supervision in the form of the most terrifying man alive

[smartestmaningotham]

I cant figure out this riddle its too smart for me.....as your biggest fan i tried so hard.......what is it.......

Well, because you seem so infatuated ... an aficionado! Not to be associated with a devotee.

[necrotic-nephilim]

do you use any site/spreadsheet/etc. to track your comic reading? i use locg right now but have been considering other options.

... yes. technically. but bc i'm an autistic bitch i just. have a google spreadsheet i'm gonna be honest. i log it all manually.

this is an example of what a random section looks like of my 2023 spreadsheet. in order it's: title, issue/volume number, page count, date i finished the comic, and my personal rating. blue and red is obviously DC and Marvel. pink means the numbering is counting single issues, yellow means it's counting volumes/trades. sometimes for the page count i guesstimate based on how long comics tend to be if i can't find an exact page count. the colors in the rating are just for fun so i can easily see what stuck out as 10/10 and what stuck out as 1/10.

then i take all of *that* data and condense it into monthly stats. all by hand bc idk how to like. properly use google sheets that well.

obviously i'm aware all of this is likely the most tedious way to do it and i'm probably making it harder for myself. however. i am just Like That. i do use the Comics Geeks app as well, which i think is a solid app? i just haven't fully logged everything i've read because i find that to be wildly tedious. but the stat breakdowns it gives about most read characters and writers and whatnot is nifty. though you can tell the app is more geared toward tracking comic collections rather than comics read.

so uh. i'm not the best person to ask about this probably lkjhghgjhkjjkjh i will always brute force my own way than just doing it the. smart way. but! i do keep track of it all and i find it very useful to do so, because i like seeing the trends of what i was reading when. also i enjoy the data of how i rated a comic when i read it vs how i feel about it now that it's sat with me. idk if this helps but!! i do like rambling about my spreadsheet!