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Why is Wally afraid of his parents?
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sick!dick au. Bruce's POV. read in order here.
For most everyone else, it starts at the Gala.
For Bruce, it starts in a grey little office, with a stack of papers and a glitter pen.
Dick will confess after the fact to the fainting spell in the apartment he shares with Wally, and the months of progressively worse migraines, including an incident on patrol with Jason – and Bruce is none-too-pleased with that information being kept silent, but he picks his battles and this isn’t one of them. Still, looking back nearly everyone will unanimously agree that the night it really “began” was the Gala.
For Bruce, it begins when the social worker hands him a creased manila envelope. Inside is a birth certificate, a social security number, and an immunization record. Bruce looks through the contents of the envelope. Is this really it? Yes, he’s never exactly done this before, but he feels like there should be more. Guardianship of a child shouldn’t be reduced to three pieces of flimsy paper in an envelope. There’s a coffee stain on the corner. The social worker doesn’t really know what to say to that; this is just the way it is. She slides the rest of the paperwork across the table. Everything’s already been looked over by his lawyers, all he needs to do is sign. She pats her pockets, muttering to herself before bringing out a red glitter pen and sheepishly offering it to him.
Bruce is in his twenties. He’s impulsive with his compassion and he just witnessed another little boy watching his parents die. He knows he can give this boy what he needs. Or he’s going to try. But between the drive to bring this boy’s family justice and the need to heal a part of himself in the process, he’s somehow skipped over just how huge this is. He’s thought about it, of course, but always with the under current of doing whatever it takes to make it work. He was going to give the boy a home, give him the closure that Bruce never got, and maybe he’d save him from turning out like… well, like Bruce. Only now he’s staring down at Guardianship written in big block letters across the top of the stack, and it’s sinking in now that he’s not just taking the boy in. He’s going to be his family. And it doesn’t change a thing, his resolve doesn’t waver, because he knows he can give him a good life, but it’s that one word. Family. His family is starting out with a coffee stain, a stack of papers, and a glitter pen.
He signs the papers. Dick is already waiting outside with Alfred, who’s taken him to the small cafeteria down the hall. The boy hasn’t spoken much, in the days Bruce has taken to get to know him. Bruce had asked Alfred if he was like that – after. And Alfred had looked at him sympathetically, answered carefully. Yes, he was, in a sense. Bruce had been quiet. Shellshocked. Traumatized. But Bruce needs to remember that he had him, at least one steady presence in his life. Dick has no one. It’s going to take time.
It shouldn’t be so easy, Bruce find himself thinking over and over as they finish up. He tucks everything away into his briefcase, bears with the social worker smiling and shaking his hand and thanking him for doing such a good deed as if this is a charity stunt for publicity and she doesn’t seem to care either way. He asks again, just before he closes his briefcase, if she’s sure that there’s nothing else he needs. Report cards, keepsakes, family medical history, he doesn’t know. She shakes her head, all pleasant smiles. No, that’s all he came with – as if he’s a shelter dog. Bruce latches his suitcase shut.
Back then, it was just a passing thought. He doesn’t spare it another over the years, because he doesn’t need to. Time went on, Dick becomes an inseparable part of his life. Bruce will always silently maintain that Dick was the one to save him in the end. He’s not a perfect guardian, not a perfect father, and he makes more mistakes than he can count. They argue, they have fallings out, and still they always work through it – because they’re family.
And the issue of the family medical history does not resurface until that champagne gold night. Until he catches Selena watching him from across the ballroom, smiling behind the rim of her wine glass and cocking her head to tease him. Until, he’s distracted between secretively searching the crowds for her and forcing himself to smile and laugh with Gotham’s elite, so he doesn’t notice the commotion rising up on the other side of the room. Until his youngest son comes racing toward him through the crowd looking more scared and shaken than Bruce has ever seen him. Until he breaks through the ring of bystanders and sees Dick passed out on the floor, Wally kneeling over him beside himself with panic. Until the ambulance and the fury of the waiting room (making a mental not to raise absolute hell with the Hospital’s board of directors) and the doctor pulling him to a side room, a little grey office, to ask the dreaded question. All at once, it comes back to that moment, and Bruce sighs, scrubs his palm over his tired eyes. No, he doesn’t have Dick’s family medical history. It doesn’t exist. Realistically, it isn’t Bruce’s fault, but that has never stopped him from shouldering blame.
Selena reaches out in the following days it ask in on how Dick’s doing. Bruce is cordial, tells her that her concern is appreciated but Dick seems to be doing fine. And on the other side of the phone, he can hear her moving around her penthouse, maybe standing at the window – she’s glad to hear it. Let her know if he needs anything, if she can do anything to help. It’s early days then, and none of them know just how bad it’s going to get.
It’s a slow progression at first, and then it’s not. It’s months between seizures, a steady increase in migraines – but life goes on. It’s not as if Bruce is hovering every Dick at every second. He’s a grown man now, with a career and a home and a partner. Bruce supports him in any way he can, until it gets to the point that he has to make the hard call. The argument he has with Dick that night, in the study of Wayne Manor, is something he’ll never wash from his memory. He’s used to making the tough decisions. He’ll be the asshole if he has to, he can handle Dick’s anger, but he’s not going to allow him to take this much risk into the field. Benching Nightwing until they have a handle on this is a necessary call, but Dick is stubborn (who on earth did he learn that from), and unwilling to step down so easily. And as the argument reaches its fever pitch, Bruce pacing and ranting, listing off his rational, he hears Dick call his name in a wavering voice and it cuts through the background noise. Dick, the colour drained from his face, eyes unfocused, conceding that he’s about to lose this argument, will haunt him in the same way as the worst things he’s seen in the life he’s chosen. That’s the moment he knows that this isn’t just going to pass, the moment he bolts to catch Dick before he can topple forward and hit his head. This isn’t something they can wait out. He’ll never regret making the call, but he will always regret the way he put the pressure on Dick, as if he’d just made things worse.
The thing is, this lasts years. It becomes a part of all their lives – because it’s Dick. It isn’t all consuming, it doesn’t eat away at their thoughts every minute of the day, but it’s a resurfacing concern that’s rarely spoken about aloud. And Bruce sees how this changes his family. No one can say that the Wayne clan is the most well adjusted and healthy family, but Bruce does his best. He realises and appreciates now more than ever just how much work Dick put into keeping them all functioning. Keeping them together. He never thought he’d taken it for granted until then. It shouldn’t have taken this to bring the family closer together, but it does, and as much as Bruce hates that, he’s not going to fight it.
Time goes on. Still. It’s a slow progression at first, and then it’s not. Bruce is in a meeting with his chief executive officers when his secretary buzzes in over the speaker saying there’s a call for him on the line. He thanks her for letting him know and tells her to take a message. She says the young man is telling her it’s an emergency. One of the CEOs is about to launch into a presentation and Bruce doesn’t spare him a second thought. Picks up the phone, pushes away from the board table, and paces to the window. Wally’s voice comes through saying his name, shaken and urgent, rambling out sentences too fast for Bruce to hear.
Wally. Slow down. What happened?
He stopped breathing. Fuck, Bruce, he called me at work – sounded like a seizure so I ran home, but he – it didn’t stop, he wasn’t breathing.
That first night, after Bruce has sent his reluctant children home with Alfred, it’s just him and Wally left with Dick. The end of visiting hours is fast approaching. Bruce steps out to let Wally have his time with Dick, allows him some privacy. He eventually makes his way up to the terrace balcony on the upper floors, a green space with massive glass walls and an open ceiling. Fresh air for the first time in hours does wonders.
Selena is there. She approaches him from the other side of a low hedge, bundled up in a cashmere sweater and scarf – ones he bought her ages ago. When he asks how she knew, she smiles. She has her ways. Tim called her, didn’t he. Yeah, he did. They stand in silence for a while, staring out at the mosaic of lights against the persistent dark of Gotham, before she puts a hand on his arm. I know you’ve got a lot on your plate, Bruce, she says, and the coy smile fades into sincerity. Come to me when you need to.
Three days after Dick is admitted to the ICU, Bruce calls Damian into the study. It’s late, they just got home from visiting an hour ago. They’ve been arguing a lot lately, before Dick went downhill. Mostly regular thirteen-year-old boy versus father arguing, but a few too many frustrated shouting matches in the Cave. Bruce can’t help but wonder if it’s in part because Dick hasn’t been there to act as a mediator. Still, the past few days have been quiet, if not tense. Damian complies when Bruce calls him down. He’s wearing a sweater he stole from Dick months ago, the bulk of it swallowing his smaller frame like a blanket. He has the sleeves rolled up, his hands in the front pocket, when he pauses in the doorway. Bruce gestures for him to sit across from him at the desk. He can see the way Damian is bracing himself for a lecture, wondering whatever it is he did wrong this time, as he takes his seat. Bruce, in his chair on the other side, watches him for a moment before deciding this won’t do. He stands, and pulls his chair next to Damian’s and pulls a file over from the other side of the desk.
Wayne Men are at a higher risk of Prostate Cancer as they get older. I get tested every few years. He tells him. My Mother’s side of the family, the Kanes, have a history of Crohn’s Disease. It’s prevalent in people of Ashkenazi Jewish decent. I’ve never had it, or had symptoms, so it’s unlikely that I passed it on to you, but not impossible. And when Damian stares back at him, he leans forward, presses his hand to his son’s shoulder. I want you to know these things, Damian. It’s important that you know your history.
And with any other child, it may have not been a good idea to have this conversation right then. Any other child may have been scared. But this is his son, and Damian is as frank and pragmatic about these things as he is, and Bruce knows that he will appreciate the honesty, knows that those questions have likely been rattling around in Damian’s head for a while now. They spend another hour that night talking about their family, beyond just medical history, and Bruce answers any questions Damian has.
Dick gets worse. Wally leaves to find answers. Bruce is doing everything he can; medical bills are nothing to him, he checks in on his children, calls in favours from the league to keep watch of Gotham when he’s needed at the hospital. It’s the most he’s ever relied on others in his entire life.
It’s just him in Dick’s room one night. He’s at the window when he hears Dick rasping his name. It’s been rare lately that he’s been coherent enough to really speak without being prompted, so he has Bruce’s full attention immediately. He crosses over to the bed, braces a hand over Dick’s. And Dick doesn’t say anything for a long while. His eyes are half closed. Bruce is close to assuming he’s fallen asleep, when Dick’s unsteady hand slides out from under his, and rests on top with a barely there squeeze. Dick is staring up at him. His voice his so quiet it’s almost drowned out by the monitors, but Bruce hears it.
Take care of Wally.
Bruce doesn’t waste time on don’t talk like that sentiments. He doesn’t tell Dick that he won’t need to, that he’ll be fine, because Bruce does not make promises he knows he cannot keep. He nods. He will. Dick doesn’t need to ask him to take care of the family, that much is an unspoken understanding, but if this is a piece of mind he can give Dick, it’s without hesitation.
He ends up at Selena’s door after visiting hours. She buzzes him in, and when she opens the penthouse door neither of them say a word. She guides him over to the couch, pours two glasses of good wine, and when she returns, he’s already got his face in his hand – not sobbing, not breaking down, just… exhausted. She isn’t sure Bruce knows how to break down anymore. In the end, she just sits with him. Rubs his back, tentatively at first, not sure if he’ll let her. Bruce not only does, but he shudders under her hand, allows himself to breathe with her, and it’s enough to let the pressure ease and the ache to come in. He allows himself feel to it.
Because that’s his son. That’s his first son. And he’s failed him.
Years from then, when this is all in the past, he’ll let it slip. It’s over a late night coffee with Dick in the Cave as they wrap up a case, near to the anniversary of the Dick’s surgery. Maybe it’s the string of late nights and no sleep wrecking his inhibition, maybe it’s something he needs to get off his chest. But Dick stares at him, goes quiet, sets down his coffee mug.
You did everything for me, Bruce. He says. You never failed me.
And, someday, Bruce will believe it.
#dickwally#batfam#sick!dick#I've wanted to do Bruce's POV for years and it just hit me in one sitting
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Carl Barks: Back to the Klondike Review: Blinkus of the Thinkus
Welcome one and all! If your a longtime reader of this blog, you know I love a good birthday celebration, having started with my first year reviewing animation last year with Donald’s and deciding to do Mickey and Scrooge’s later that year. But since I misseda LOT of disney birthdays, and found several Non-disney birthdays and anniversaries I just gotta celebrate, this year i’m making it up and style and have a whole calender set up to tack these big milestones to the wall. So over the year expect tributes to the greats of disney, looney tunes, and mgm both behind and in front of the scenes, as well as to various shows I like. It’s gonna be a good time.
So to start us off, it’s only fitting my first duck birthday since Scrooge, is for the love of his life and the stealer of his wallet, Glittering Goldie O Gilt! And I felt the best way to celebrate this storied day was to go back to her very FIRST apperance, one of earliest Scrooge headlined comics and a forever fan faviorite, Back to the Klondike!
But before we get into that, a little history on our gal in gold. Goldie was created for this story by comics god, the late great Carl Barks. Barks ended up just using her once, which is a shame but understandable as he probably only thought of her for that one adventure. While some characters like Gyro ended up being used again and again he probably just didn’t have any more stories in mind for her and figured Scrooge would return to her one day or he wouldn’t, but it wasn’t up to him. Fans however loved the character, her feisty dynamic with scrooge, and the fact she brought out his good side, so naturally other writers would bring her back. In paticular Barks Superfan Don Rosa cemented her as the love of his life and wrote several more stories with her, fleshing out their backstory and saying that at least in his personal canon, Scrooge retired to spend his final years with her. And while his fanboy was clearly showing, and that can end nasitly just ask Dan “Hates Wally West because he’s not barry allen” DiDio, glad he’s gone.. Rosa’s work with goldie is an example of what happens when it’s done right. Less DiDio or Bendis and more Al Ewing. Using the continuity and what’s there to build on a character who deserved better.. to me that’s one of the BEST things you can do in comics and Rosa’s work is proof of that, ironing out the.. questionable elements we’ll get to and leaving the gold in. So Rosa’s work combined with Ducktales not only adapting this story but bringing Goldie back a few times after that has elevated the character to a storied and permenat part of the duck canon, with her excellent heavily revamped Reboot counterpart currently carrying the torch with the help of the wonderful Allison Janey, perfect casting there. So with a legacy of gold behind her, let’s take a look at where it’s started and see if it still glitters after all these years under the cut.
We begin our story at the Money Bin. Scrooge has been counting his money.. but has already forgotten, and forgot where he put the slip he wrote the number on and even forgets who Donald is when he shows up until Donald, while having some fun with him as Scrooge is trying to phone him while he’s right there. As for how he got into the most secure place in the bin.. the story actually answers that both worringly and hilariously: Scrooge left the door unlocked. Naturally he’s not happy about this and Donald states the simple solution: Go see a doctor something’s CLEARLY very wrong, and the fact this could possibly be something like Demntia is VERY bad for someone who runs a zillion dollar company. Scrooge of course scoffs at “wasting his precious money” But Donald not only points out the obvious, that two bucks now saves him from having someone rob EVERYTHING, but Scrooge’s attempt to tie a string around his finger.. instead triggers a trap. And this entire sequence is decent with some good gags.. it’s just hampered a bit by making light of something that’s kinda bad. Not old people forgetting things.. but an old person with a disease as we find out forgetting things. Not helping is I laughed at first at the gags.. till I remembered a kind, old, friend of the family who had it and forgot me entirely by the end. So yeah, not the worst gags and the boxing glove and donald bits aren’t terrible, but it hurts now my brain’s made that connection.
Our heroes head to the doctor’s office where Scrooge is diagnosed with...
That.. might be the best name for a fictional illness i’ve ever heard in my life.. just inching out “Brain Cloud” and “Whale Cancer”. Still not the most SENSITIVE gag.. but it was the 50′s and mental issues weren’t given a lot of respect. IT’s why the above sequence and this whole part of the plot dosen’t scuttle things: It’s not the most repsectful.. but it wasn’t a time where these things were givne proper respect, treatment or knowledge, so barks wasn’t being an insentive douche on purpose, he just didn’t know. It dosen’t make it 100% okay btu it dosen’t wreck the story like say his blatant racist caractures in Voodoo Hoodoo. Seriously that’s.. not okay, and given he’s the kind of guy who researched locations he used, unlike with mental illness i expect BETTER of him than most men at the time. Still respect the guy, but it dosen’t mean i’ll overlook the fact he made some pretty bad mistakes. Same way while I love and miss Stan Lee I won’t ignore his blatant sexisim or racisim towards Chinese and Vitamise people. You CAN like a creator even if their work has some questionable and unjustifable elements, times do change and people do mamke mistakes when their young. It just depends on exactly WHAT they did or wrote that makes that distinctoin. So on that bombshell, Scrooge is given medication after a needle gag. He needs to take his pills every 12 hours. It’s then he starts to remember something, mubling abotu skagway, goldie and dawson and telling Donald to get the boys, their going to Alaska! Once they get on the boat Scrooge explains: he remembered thanks to the medcince he left a stash of gold nuggets there from his prospecting days.. and part of why this story ended up being one of the single most important to Scrooge’s character. While it establishes some character traits, something I dind’t realize till wikipedia pointed it out, it also establishes Scrooge’s days as a prospector. While other things made him what he was and got him to that point as Don Rosa would later flesh out, it was his days in the yukon that, for better or worse defined who he is now and shaped him into the man he is today: Tough, fair, badass as all hell, mean as the devil and richer than god. This time would be used a lot to set up stories, which made sense as it was the cleast and most agreed upon part of his past by all writers, and him at his abosltuely peak physically and mentally and the gold rush motif of the time perfectly fits someone defined by being rich. It’s also honestly nice that the Yukon is used, as Canada sometimes gets lost in the shuffle wise and hell until reading life and times I gneuinely had no idea what the Yukon was or where Calvin was headed when he and hobbes ran away from home.
Scrooge also first mentions Goldie and while clearly remembering her fondly.. goes into a rant about her howing him a thousand dollars which has compounded to a billion the second the boys catch on he was sweet on her with Donald assuming he’s just not a good person. But this is really just setting up another vital part of his character and the other thing: his heart. Before he’d been show as a pretty heartless, greedy asshole. While the previous story, Only a Poor Old Man, had softened him up a bit, this is the first to show that beneath the pile of greed and mean lurks a decent human being. Just don’t tell anyone or he’ll throw his money at you.. then tell you to bring it back to him. It’s what makes the character who he is: he’s cruel, onrey and selfish.. but he CAN care when the chips are down and can do the right thing.. as we’ll see later.
God I love the little poems Bill Watterson would put in the books. I didn’t as much as a kid, but god I do now. Anyways before our heroes can get going Yukon Ho, they stop in Skagway for suplies before heading out, Scrooge softing at taking a plane as “Soft” and him and the nephews hiking a week.. before running into the same flying service again, and finding out Scrooge OWNS it and forgot, because being scrooge he forgot to take his meds. Something I can relate to and i’m not proud of as staying on them is important to my well being. Seriously always take your meds. Unless their not working for you then talk with your doctor to get new ones.
So we arrive in Dawson, as our heroes will have to walk rest of the day Scrooge takes the boys to the Black Jack Ballroom, which used to be a hot spot and was where he met Goldie for the first time. After another covering for his reminscing with greedy bollocks, he tells the boys the story.. one that was cut from the original printing despite introducing goldie and something the editors dind’t bother to tell carl till they berated him over trying to sneak a blackjack saloon and a kidnapping in there... and to them, or their long dead skeletons probably, I say.
Yeah not wanting that in a kids story, while bollocks, tha’ts their perogative.. not having him send in replacement pages to keep story flow.. is dickish and underestimates kids intellegence as Don Rosa, while loving the story felt something was off till he saw the missing pages years later thanks to a fellow fan. So yeah kids, and adults, into the work noticed. Nice job. Again I can’t BLAME them for not wanting Scrooge to be a kidnapper as we’ll see and Don Rosa had to massage the hell out of that, but I can blame them for not caring enough to fix the obvious hole int he story. Though it’s now complete and unabriged and has been since the 80′s so there's that.
So in a nutshell Scrooge came to town for a coffee, and while the bartender ignored him he didn’t once he plunked down his goose egg nugget, what made his fortune and one of Scrooge’s most treasured possessions. It’s here we meet Goldie.
Yup.. just in case you thought her being a thief and greedy as hell was a new thing, and I kinda forgot how much, she dirves for the nugget, has Coffee with scrooge.. and drugs it, but makes the mistake of NOT clearing town, so Scrooge fights his way through the ballroom to her, gets the nugget back, forces her to sign the money for the iou he spent.. and then uh.. kindaps her to force her to work on his claim for 50 cents to try and teach her how to work honestly.
Yeahhhh as I said Don Rosa tried his best to fix this , and did so in his final story, which we’ll get to some day, revealing Goldie had a shot gun on her the whole time and was going along entirely to find out where Scrooge’s claim was. That.. actually makes more sense with the character and is far less horrifying and Scrooge finds this out fairly quick, so them forming an attraction out of this becomes 100% more plausable. So yeah good on Don Rosa for fixing the implications here. I may give out on him from time to time.. but he is a genuinely talented writer and did what a good comic book writer in an established continuity should do: update elements so they aren’t so... eugguuhhh after they become horrifingly outdated. And look YES she did do horrible shit to him.. but you still can’t kidnap someone over that. just put her in jail. What was any of that.
Anyways Scrooge HAS been taking his medicine, and proves it by showing the boys his pills and the next day they head to Scrooge’s old claim.. only someone’s living there and using it, and his old cabin.. and a shot gun. Yeah so they aren’t getting through in the day what about the night.. well they get attacked by Blackjack, who turns out to be owned by the claim jumper.. and is also you know a bear> And Donald left his back in new quackmore so their outmatched.
So outgunned and outplanned, if not outnumbered or outmanned, our heroes make a camp fire and whiel Donald again suggests the obvious, call the police.. Scrooge can’t. He didn’t pay taxes on the claim so he’s technically jumping his own claim and techincally she has a right to it. So techncially.. Scrooge is the bad guy here as he left the money here, didn’t pay his taxes and didn’t ever come back for it. Still beats trying to terrify your nephews or deny orphans a train because your an asshole buffet.
So the next morning Scrooge dosen’t want to rush her because “We Daren’t Get Rough with an old woman”. Two things.. 1... think before you put images in my head scrooge.. brrrrrrrrr. I mean Goldie. is not in the best shape in thie story as you’ll see and neither are you. In the reboot sure you two kept up a lot better but here.
And it’s not even an old people thing. Ann Margret was still fine so fine by the time of Grumpy Old Men, not to get creepy jut to prove i’m not being ageist. For a still alive example Keith David is also still a smokeshow at the tender age of 64. So yeah, not an age thing just not these paticular old people.
But they need a plan so the boy suggest luring the bear into a trap with honey. Donald and Scrooge build the cage while the boys.. find the jar of honey.
Regardless since the boys won’t do it for what Scrooge pays and neither will donald Scrooge goes to lure the bear with the honey. Once that’s done, and Scrooge is being covered with honey and licked by a bear...
So while he washes that off, the boys come up with another plan: they run around back while Donald makes noise to draw Goldie’s fire, with that being Dewey’s plan to meet her since he’s figured this out already. But Goldie has a backup plan and when she figures out they disabled Blackjack unleashes mosquitos... ugh. Having been stung like hornets about 50 times in animal crossing I feel you boys. So while Scrooge and Donald run off naked... troy if you will.
Thank you Troy, the boys confront Goldie who reveals her identity... and that she’s broke, her dance hall having failed with the rush and this claim being all she has.. and her suspecting scrooge woudl gladly take it. The boys vow not to tell scrooge.. but he’s on his way so they kinda have to and he primps to go visit and Donald starts to see through his BS about collecting the debt. Sure enough despite being taken aback by her putting on her old dress , he takes her for all she has and is.. genuinely suprised as she thought she’d have more and she’d actually changed since the old days, donating her profits to orphans from mining disasters. Scrooge.. is clearly rattled by this. Whiel it turns out to my shock he was clealry after the money, though givne who we’re dealing with I shoudln’t of been really, he still cares and still realizes he’s being kind of a dick. So he challengers her to a gold digging race, and if she wins the claim is hers and any gold she finds.. and naturally, while he seemingly puts her soemwhere where there isn’t she finds the claim and Scrooge bemoans not taking his pill.. but while the boys boo him for it, Goldie who fondly waves them off and Donald know better: Donald points out he counted the pills this morning.. and recently. SCrooge DID take one today... he’s just has his cane shoved firmly up his ass with pride so he coudln’t ADMIT he was wrong and instead simply staged that whole thing with the full knowledge Goldie would win. It, again, sets up one of his defniing traits; how he keeps people at arms length. How he’s just so proud and full of himself he can’t bear to admit anything resembling weakness.. but WILl find a way to do the right thing without that or forgoe it as a last resort. He may project being a stingy cretionus old man.. because he is.. but he’s got a heart as big as that nugget.. it’s just locked tight in it’s own bin... his body is complicated and weird that way Final Thoughts:
This story is a classic with a decent setup, great backstory for scrooge, and a great guest character and unquestionable impact on the character. However.. it does have it’s problem; As Don Rosa, who as i’ll remind you is both a huge barks fanboy and huge scoldie shipper, himself pointed out he wrote his final story, and had planned to for years ENTIRELY because this one never quite explains how Scrooge and Goldie went from old enmies to lovers.It did lead to one of his best stories and one of the first I read post life and times so, props to that. And of course as I pointed out some things have just.. not aged well, especially the kidnapping so their relationship kinda comes off like stockholm syndrom as a result of both of these.
That being said.. warts and all.. it’s still a really damn good story and a good one to try if your intrested in barks work or where Goldie came from: it has adventure, some really good jokes and if you can get past the dated bits the plot is solid. And while it goes without saying i’ll say it anyway Barks art is goregous as always ESPECIALLY in the flashback sequence. Overall not the best AGED Scrooge story, though not the worst either see Voodoo Hoodoo, good god, but defintely a classic for a reason. If you liked this review, follow me for more, and for more duck content as I still have more of the three cablleros to work through, another chapter of life and times coming up this week befor ewe break again for feburary, and some other fun stuff. Until the next rainbow, it’s been a pleasure.
#carl barks#scrooge mcduck#uncle scrooge#donald duck#huey duck#louie duck#dewey duck#glittering goldie#goldie o gilt#scoldie#back to the klondike#blackjack#comics#disney#ducktales
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Why do you hate Wally?
Oh let's see:
1 season
• He is absolutely not serious
All this work is perceived by him as a fun pastime with his friends
In the only episode where he was supposed to be revealed as a character, he is literally upset that instead of a cool fun task, he must save someone's heart.
•The ideal hero - you have to save this life because this is what the heroes do, this is what is important for the hero - to save and protect lives, this is literally the goal of the hero -
Wally - But I wanted to have fun and ruin things with the tough guys lol :(
•Batman explains an important task? Let me joke and why did Artemis hit me for this hmm?
•Let me hate this girl because she took the place of my friend on the team because the main thing is not to fight for justice, the main thing is to have fun with my friends and I don’t know her so I can hate her :D
•His relationship with M’gann - I love you so much for no reason, I only love you, but I don’t care about you so much that I don’t even notice that you are in a relationship with other people or that you like someone else, I’ll flirt with you and ask you kiss though you didn’t give me a single sign that you like me.
• Artemis again- I will hate you for no reason and then I will like you for no reason, I will believe you, knowing nothing about you and will protect you from the team and then when they say that you lied I will not know the reasons but a minute after I protected you i will hate you again. But in the end we will be together for no reason really shown
+ he is the one who does not have a serious storyline in the team
- Kaldur bears responsibility as a leader and as a subordinate of his king, lives in not his world . He is a superhero because his king is a superhero, he does not have much choice because he must be a good hero for the two worlds of his king
- Robin lost his parents and now literally lives in the world of fighting crime and is torn by the conflict between who he wants to be and who he should be and the pressure of the batman who always expects the best results from him. He is a superhero because he has an objective reason to be a superhero
- superboy is literally not a human or an alien, but the only one who can help him does not want to talk to him, he is an unfinished clone and his second father is the most evil opponent of his original version, he has nowhere to go in this world except a team. He is a superhero because he was literally made to be him.
- Mgann - ran away from her home planet to find a better life, she must always pretend and hide herself, she must always control her usual abilities and powers. She is a superhero because her superpowers are part of her personality.
- Artemis - her family is destroyed and everyone in it is a criminal and was a criminal, her father and her sister are her enemies and she must hide all this from the team because she does not know whether they will trust her and the team is her new family now and she doesn’t want to lose it - her work as a superhero is literally her chance the fact that she does not fall into darkness like her whole sick family
- Wally - he has the whole family, his mentor is his uncle and everything is fine with him. Does he have important reasons to be a superhero? Are they shown? Not. All that he does is eat, jokes stupid jokes and that’s all. (The creators wanted to show that he is a genius, but did it only once, cool) - important and deep character
as a child, I loved this character very much, but when I watched this show as an adult, I was surprised because Wally turned out to be that nasty guy who sticks to every girl and doesn't take anything seriously and considers himself cool for no reason. he disgusts me now
Season 2
He left the team and on the one hand I can understand it because he never showed that being a superhero is important for him, that this is the dream of his life or something, only “it was fun and now I finally found a girl and now I don’t want to have fun”
I’m not saying that the choice of ordinary life is bad, but it is an important factor in the hero’s life in comics and so on - the lives of people whom I can help and who I can save are first for me, but Wally says «no thanks» and takes Artemis with him
And then he gets angry at Dick and Kaldur, at people who risk their lives for the whole world!! but the world is not important right? Wally is worried about Artemis (by the way, thanks for not worrying about Dick, he is not your best friend and cannot die because of an explosion or something like this beautiful friend ) he worries about Artemis, which, !!!! SURPRISE!!! IS WORRY FOR THE WHOLE WORLD AND FOR HER FRIENDS AND WANTS TO HELP SAVE THEM AND READY TO RISK HER LIFE FOR THIS. (This is a personal opinion, but I think that it’s really important for her to do something for people - she’s a very caring and executive person, we can see it throughout all seasons, starting from the way she wants to save her family in childhood and ending with how she protects and helps Halo and Tara as a mentor (they are nobody to her but she seeks to take care of them and help) . )
BUT IT’S NOT IMPORTANT, Wally just doesn’t want her to be a superhero even if she herself wants to do it. Cool.
In the end, he dies without any real objective reasons for the plot (and no, I do not believe that he has an important role in the future because he no longer wanted to be a hero and he is weaker than flash so he is unlikely to appear and become a new savior of the world and new flash)
3 season
The whole drama of Dick was staged around Wally because OF COURSE he has no other people in his life who know his story and who are always with him. We had only one series where Dick and Wally’s relationship is shown seriously and now I have to watch like Dick suffers because of this for two years. Cool:)))))
Anon said well about artemis. Her whole life does not revolve around Wally, she is free and has her own life
Sorry all my English
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4/2/19 a busy day of absolutely nothing
Today, I had my three other classes.
Coffee Lab: Very chill. Started at 8 am. I had a very bad stomachache in the morning, but the coffee that we got to sample woke me up and made me feel a lot better.
Tennis: Turns out, I have a very good friend in my tennis class this quarter. This should be fun. It rained, so we got out early.
Dinosaurs: Pretty neat, seems a little tough though. Definitely expecting much from us.
In the meanwhile, we weighed Allen’s idea of visiting Nic this weekend, even though he goes to a college very far away from us. We decided not to.
I also hung out with said tennis friend for a bit. It was fun.
I got super invested in 1984. I’ve doubled my page placement, and it feels like it’s building up to some pretty exciting stuff. Hana, you were totally right when you said it picks up.
A weird thing happened today, as I got off the bus I take home.
After getting off the bus, I passed the convenience store that exists between the bus stop and my apartment. And I’m hurrying, because it’s raining. And I come across this little girl, who’s plunging this sheet of paper into a puddle. She’s really submerging it, like, it almost looked like torture. As I passed her, I saw that the sheet was some child coloring sheet thing designed by the convenience store for some coloring contest for kids to participate in. The girl took the paper out of the puddle and put it on the wet ground to dry out. It made me crack up. She got so much joy out of doing something completely contrary to what the paper wanted her to do. It made me mad.
On a related note, there was no parent to be found. I watched this little girl trot around in a plaza and briefly considered asking her where her mom was. I didn’t, though, because I didn’t wanna seem like a creep. Well, that was my justification. But honestly, I think I just didn’t care.
Yeah. After that, I watched some Domestic Girlfriend with Wally (and wow that show is really trashy).
I wanted to read more 1984, but I was sleepy. So I took a nap.
And I had a very not great dream.
I was driving home from college and picking up various things from my friends’ houses. I was at Tye’s house and picked up a beanbag chair and Wally was there and I said, ‘wow, this would’ve been nice for Allen at our apartment.’ Wally agreed.
As I was driving home from Tye’s house by myself (weirdly, Tye’s house had taken the exact geographic location of Nic’s house), I saw some passerby, and they shouted at me to lower my window only to tell me that my family was awful and my dad was an awful person. I ignored them and drove home.
After getting home, I parked a little further out because there was no parking, as there seemed to be some kind of block party thing going on. So I parked in front of a house further away, and began hauling things into my house. When I opened my trunk up, some more passerby for some block party walked by and informed me that my father was a terrible person, and had screwed people over. I ignored them and started bringing things in. I ran into my neighbors along the way, and their car was halfway stuck into the garage door, implying they had driven clean into it without opening the door. They were on the phone, presumably for assistance. Funnily enough, I ignored them too.
I brought my things home and greeted my family. I went back to my car and the process repeated: passerby tell me that my father/my family is awful, I ignore them; I pass my neighbors and ignore them; I bring things into my house and am ignored by my family.
Finally, I’m left with only two things in the trunk. My parents inform me that they’re heading out, and leave. My brother soon follows. I feel weird because I’ve left my trunk open and two things are still there, after all, so I rush out after they leave and yup, they’ve been stolen. But the house I’m parked in front of has their front door open, so I try my luck and rush in. I yell, a little too aggressively, inside and ask if they took my stuff.
Immediately I regret this. I dunno why, I just can feel that I did the wrong thing.
So I slowly back out, hoping no one was around to hear me. I walk away, cautiously, and immediately feel like something ice cold pierced through my shoulder. I whirl around, and it’s the residents of the house.
They’ve shot me.
I choke and sob and try getting away, but get shot again. And suddenly, these guys are feeding me images of how I truly am part of an awful family. In my head, I’m seeing childish, crayola-drawn images of me and my life. (This is weird, considering the girl I saw today at the convenience store). There’s a picture of me crying after my parents have a fight. There’s a picture of me whining on my blog, particularly childishly drawn, and saying Blah Blah Blah Blah. There’s pictures of me being a jerk to people I know and getting away with it. There’s more pictures, but I’m being shot the whole time, so it’s hard to focus. But I’m feeling helpless. Not only am I being shot (ow), but it’s made apparent to me how utterly useless my life has been. And I’m shot in the legs and the arms and everywhere, and I’m like...gonna die. But I don’t want to. So I wake up.
That dream shook me up. It single-handedly made me realize that I consider myself of almost no worth right now, at least subconsciously. It was pretty jarring.
Anyway, after that, I went grocery shopping with Wally, and there were Starbucks samples of banana walnut bread. So he got a lot, because he loves it.
We went home, and Allen was back. We all started making dinner, and watched Wally play LA Noire.
I was feeling really lazy after dinner, so I decided to go get some cardio in on one of the exercise bikes in my apartment gym. It was tough.
After the grueling not-exercise, I got back, watched more LA Noire, then played some Melee with Wally, and now here I am.
I feel pretty bad about the dream I had. I’m gonna ignore the things my subconscious may or may not be trying to tell me, just like I ignored all those folks in my dream.
Maybe I should call my parents.
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'Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath' Focuses on Child Scientology
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'Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath' Focuses on Child Scientology
The latest episode of Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath focused on the treatment of children in Scientology, something the show has touched on before.
In Scientology, children are viewed as equal to adults, and therefore responsible for their actions in the same way adults are. “A child is a man or a woman who has not attained full growth,” L. Ron Hubbard wrote in The Scientology Handbook. “Any law which applies to the behavior of men and women applies to children.”
But the stories from two former students sent to a Scientologist-run reform school allege corporal punishment, manual labor, and other poor treatment.
The episode specifically focused on the experience of survivors of the Mace-Kingsley Ranches in California and later New Mexico, where, as Remini’s partner Mike Rinder explained, Scientologists would send their children “to get them onto the straight-and-narrow and move them to the first steps of the Bridge.”
The original Mace-Kingsley Ranch was started in 1987 by Debbie Mace and Carol Kingsley, whom Rinder described as “celebrated Scientologists” — though a statement from the Church “asserts that the Ranch did not have any Church members on staff and was owned and operated by a lay Scientologist,” and that “the school was modeled after military and reform schools.”
Remini and Rinder received many stories from former students at the ranches alleging corporal punishment and manual labor. Third-generation Scientologists Nathan Rich and Tara Reile both attended the New Mexico Ranch in the late ’90s, and outlined some of the treatment they say they received there.
Rich was sent to the California Ranch at age 8 because he said he was actively rebelling against Scientology at the time. His mom described the facility to him as like camp, but as soon as his mother left him there he was put to work.
“Life at the Palmdale ranch was generally that you [when you] wake up, you’ve got to clean your room immediately,” Rich said. After breakfast came physical labor and cleaning the grounds. “You would do some kind of like schooling—things that you need to know for Scientology…there wasn’t any, like, math or history or anything like that.”
Children at the Ranch would write “knowledge reports,” or K.R.s, documents Scientologists are supposed to write if they witness actions or in-actions not in line with Scientology practices. “If you didn’t like a kid, you would write a K.R. on them even if they didn’t do it,” Rich said.
As a punishment for being dirty from playing outside, Rich said a security guard took Rich to an outdoor shower and had the entire student body and staff watch as he scrubbed him with a metal fence brush. As a punishment for being caught smoking, Rich said ranch manager Wally Hanks spanked him with a wooden paddle. An audio recording allegedly of Hanks seems to capture him using the paddle on a 15-year-old boy. Though Hanks denied it is his voice on the tape, Rich insisted it was.
In the early ’90s, the Ranch moved from California to Reserve, New Mexico, which is where Reile was sent when she began acting out after she caught her father cheating on her mother. At first, she said she was promised a fun three-month program with outdoor activities, but realized quickly that her days would be filled with strenuous manual labor. Once, on a camping trip, she got in trouble and was punished by being thrown in the lake with her only warm, dry clothes, and then forced to collect spring water for everyone each morning.
Despite graduating (after completing a complicated 10-step process), her family refused to take her back and continue to hold the program’s $150,000 cost over her head.
“The whole Scientology aspect of that, of truly making you believe that you are at fault for everything that’s happened, it really, really messes with you as a person. I still struggle with that. I still have that deep-rooted fear that I am a bad person and I’m not worth it and I don’t know why I’m here,” Reile said, breaking down into tears. “I don’t know how I’ve made it this far because I’ve wanted to give up many times, and I’m still trying to figure out how to just be okay.”
Reile is now a mother of two and undergoing treatment for PTSD. She hopes to become a peer support counselor. Her family did not know she was going to appear on the show. “By telling my story I’m essentially going to lose contact with my entire family,” she said. “I just would like my dad to see what really was happening this whole time and I’m really sorry if he truly still believes this is all my doing and that I’m responsible for all of it. It’s really tough.”
Rich didn’t speak to his family throughout his entire time at the Ranch, per his mother’s request, and didn’t see them until his graduation. But when he returned home, he still didn’t accept Scientology’s teaching so he ran away and spent 7 years battling homelessness and drug addiction.
When he eventually pulled himself together and decided to go to college, his mom wouldn’t fill out the FAFSA form with her financial information. Rich, who is now the Chief Technology Officer for a major visual effects company, wrote her an email saying he hated her and didn’t want to see her again. She died in 2010, and his biggest regret is not being able to patch up their relationship.
“I don’t feel that there’s any one cause for anything, but the largest piece of my life that’s caused me the most trouble was definitely Scientology,” he said. “If I could talk to my mother today, if I could say anything to her, I would tell her that I don’t hate her anymore and I forgive her.”
The New Mexico Ranch closed in 2002, and the Church denies having any knowledge of the kinds of events Rich and Reile described. But there is a Mace-Kingsley center operating in Clearwater, Florida that promotes working with children thorough Scientology technology. Mace won a Scientology award for her work, which Rinder said should discount the Church’s distancing of itself from the centers.
Remini called “bulls–t” on the Church’s response to allegations at the Ranch. “Scientology schools are run on Scientology technology. It doesn’t matter if you’re just an average Scientologist, it is all run the same way,” she said.
After the interviews, Rinder and Remini said they were upset that they didn’t know about what was happening on the Ranches. Asked Rinder, “What the f–k were we part of?”
(The Church of Scientology challenges the credibility and statements of the contributors appearing in the series. Read the Church’s statement in response to allegations here.)
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