#after 2.5 years

[retrogradestarlight]

happy autumn! 🍂🎃

[zorlok-if]

Gonna delete this later, but if you'll allow me the teensiest moment to be a little salty...

[kpeccati]

Peter Parker depressed and angry in Gotham, post Liberty Island fight, lowkey mentoring early career Battinson send tweet

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #22

The Shipper ep 10:

The Warp Effect ep 9:

Be My Favourite ep 11:

Last Twilight ep 2:

for @waitmyturtles 💙

[youhalfwit]

Your favorite blue blur 💙

[spacejammie-eimmajecaps]

I am taking a short break from SGB to work on a side project with some friends. The plan is to finish it by Halloween.

I'd like to keep the details of the side project a secret until it's done, but here's a hint:

Art by @crushedcanofdrpepper

Co-conspirators: @crushedcanofdrpepper and @park-chimney

[lainpsx]

bf doesnt want me to get a cicada tattoo

[puhpandas]

everybody hold hands I hope that steel wool includes every character in later releases

[ephemeralspirit-blog]

tofu is basil's safe food. its a low calorie and nominally healthy food with a distinct and consistent texture. that he can eat without feeling guilty. im feeling so normal about this brain blast

[ceiling-karasu]

I kept seeing this house on a hill on my dreams, so I figured why not?

[non-un-topo]

I just sat my ass down and wrote 4,000 words for the first time in MONTHS

[vynegar]

"Albie" (main story 11-21)

At the end of Episode 11 (Part 1), we find out that "Albie" is simply a name that Vyn made up on the spot when Rosa asked. He may have been inspired by his own birth name, Vilhelm Richard Albert de Haspran.

In Chinese, Vyn choose the name "阿明". "阿" is a prefix used to form nicknames, "明" can be a name but also means "bright, clear". In Vyn's Romantic Rail Getaway card "Food for Thought", he tells us the meaning of his name:

You can see the character 明 appear in the word 明亮 ("bright"), although 明 is such a common character that I wouldn't say that this Chinese text alone is enough is sufficient evidence to show the connection between the two names. It's the way that the "Albie" and "阿明" happen to coincide in the name "Albert", which made me take note of Vyn's "careless" choice in name.

If the Chinese name was intended to subtly reference "Albert", I can certainly imagine imagine this as one way to preserve that reference through translation, even if it becomes more obvious. We do have an example of the translation preserving plot-relevant wordplay in a name: Lowe Leare ("Lowly"), originally 萧仁 ("小人", both pronounced "xiao ren" but with different tones). However, there's also an incident of a plot-relevant name being missed through translation, though it was in an event (not the main story) that probably foreshadowed a distant plot point and had infamously bad translation issues.

Anyway, it remains possible that "Albie" is a coincidence. However, after Vyn and Rosa wrap up their conversation about Albie's name, the narration makes a comment on the importance of that moment:

It isn't until the whole case is settled that you are surprised to realize something... You had briefly touched on the key to cracking the case at this very moment.

...which at least gives me enough confidence to not feel silly writing up a whole post about it. We've only seen part of this case, and there's a lot of mystery still surrounding Vyn's behavior so I don't have any definitive hypotheses on why Vyn might have chosen his own name for Albie. Is there something that made Vyn seen himself in Albie? Did the delinquent's attitude remind Vyn of the cruel, stratified world that he was born in? Is he reminded of how people who have imperfections will be tossed aside and abandoned? I guess we'll see when part 2 of this episode is released.

[namjoohyuk]

he’s telling me he missed me sm

[queerhollyleaf]

the biologist: writes about the "brightness" within her

also the biologist: yeah I think the psychologist was hallucinating when she saw me as a flame approaching

[wikoymi]

11 october 2023

[psalmsofpsychosis]

real talk though; if i could surgically remove the Bruce & Alfred scenes out of Gotham TV and make an entire separate Batman project out of them i would, because they're so distinctly different from the rest of the show and from the common Batman comic narratives, it floors me everytime. If we take the whole show as a body, the heart is placed in Bruce Wayne and it bleeds into his relationships with people, but most importantly with Alfred. It's such stark and exciting constrast to how Batman comics generally portray Bruce Wayne or the Batman persona; Gotham!Bruce is so tender and bare and transparent, heart beating and bleeding so close to his skin, you can see when it taints through his shirt, and his moments of absolute irrational sentimentality are not played cheap or like missteps in a planned protocol rational persona, they're utterly sincere and every emotion he expresses is as integral to his character as his moments of analytical calculation.