#also i guess this is technically my first post with my three gay rats

[threegayrats]

I made a clownsona (ignore the fucked up arms, this was just for concept)

His name is Icky

You'll never be able to guess my two favorite clown media

Face close up because I really like the face

[roguish-gallery]

Did you ever make that joker tier list, I always like seeing what people think of all the different ones. Though if they put Romero last I can no longer respect them.

LMAO I DID! I think I’ve made it kind of obvious in this blog but I... don’t... particularly... care... for... the joker.... unless he’s, y’know, fun to watch. Cause he’s a clown, and clowns are supposed to be entertaining. But since you politely brought it up, and and because I have a deep respect for mutual Romero-lovers, I guess this would be a good time to explain my rankings and just discuss my general thoughts on each clown:

General Thoughts:

For the most part, I don’t really care for the Joker. This is hardly an uncommon opinion here on tumblr, but I definitely fall on the side of the fandom that feels that he gets too much attention from DC. I get WHY they use him so often for films and comics, and I don’t have anything against *most* folks who consider them their favorite Batman villain, but at this point he’s used more for shock value and as a crutch instead of anything interesting. Like, instead of giving attention to the other Rogues, writers (at least for the comics) will try and make up some bullshit story that they can shoehorn the Joker into, ‘cause it sells. It’s tiring, and I feel like the character has lost his meaning; I can only read so many stories about the Joker, I don’t fucking know, wearing a suit made from dead babies and Jason Todd’s flayed corpse before I get sick of it.

I’m at the point where I’ll like any Joker who’s just fun to watch. I genuinely respect those who prefer darker interpretations of the character, but that isn’t me; I vastly prefer the lighthearted takes on him, because... at this point... writers who use the “cleaner” version of him tend to be more creative, since they actually have to write a Joker story that doesn’t rely on gore/torture porn.

TIER ONE:

Joker Baby: Self explanatory. Joker Baby is thematic, thoughtful, and intense. Everytime I watch this video, I shiver with fear and pleasure; something primal in me awakens whenever Joker Baby runs his fingers through his spray-on dyed hair, and ends up smearing green paint on his forehead- it represents the inner turmoil, the chaos, that resides within the disturbed body that is Joker Baby. Nothing can ever hope to top the artistic and cultural impact Joker Baby has had on society.

TIER TWO:

Batman Ninja: I genuinely believe that Batman Ninja is one of the most fun, organic, and creative things to come out from the Batman side of DC comics in like... hmmm... a decade, maybe (I could talk for hours about how much I love this movie but that’s something for a future post). This Joker is easily, and unironically my favorite interpretation of the character, period. I love his energy, his design, everything. This is the most fun I’ve ever had watching a Joker on-screen, and for that I’ve gotta give the film credit where it is due.

Batman ‘66: I looooove Caesar Romero. Batman ‘66 in general is one of my favorite pieces of Batman media, and I absolutely adore this Joker. The show is pure, genuine fun, and it’s nice to turn my brain off and watch a show where the entire cast was allowed to goof around. This Joker is just a cute, goofy little clown-man who likes to commit crimes, go surfing, turn Gotham’s water reserve into gelatin, and have wild orgies with Penguin, Catwoman, and the Riddler. I massively appreciate the hustle. I love his little mustache and his facial expressions. I’d give him a chaste little kiss on the cheek if I could.

The Batman: EXTREMELY CONTROVERSIAL TAKE BUT. I think TB!Joker is better than what people will give him credit for. I can only imagine how stressful it must have been to be the first Batman cartoon to follow BTAS and the writers for this show knew they were gonna be fucked no matter what they did with the Joker, so they just decided to try something completely different with him. Personally, I appreciate the new direction- he has a fun, unhinged energy. I’ve placed him higher than BTAS/BTNA!Joker simply because The Batman was the show that got me into the Rogues in the first place, and I’m just a bit closer to this Joker because of it. Also his vampire form was cool as FUCK in Batman Vs. Dracula and the scene where he gets drenched in blood at a blood bank is fucking awesome.

Batman the Animated Series/The New Adventures: Everyone loves BTAS’s Joker, and I’m no exception. Mark Hamill is fucking great, and the writers clearly knew the character well enough to create a version of him that can be fun and threatening. As an aside, I unironically like his redesign in BTNA- I remember Hamill mentioning somewhere that he thought it was neat that this Joker looked more like a shark (I’ll see if I can find a source on that... I think he said it in an interview with Kevin Smith?) and I kinda agree with him. the redesigns in the final season are hit or miss, but I didn’t get why so many people bitched about the Joker’s new look.

Batman Unlimited: Hear me out... Hear me out... Clown... funny... and cute... He wears a little crown and gives Solomon Grundy a little smooch on the cheek and it is as delightful as it sounds. Yes the Batman Unlimited films literally only exist to sell toys but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them on some ironic level.

TIER THREE:

Lego Batman: He’s a gay icon. He has the range. Enough said.

White Knight: This is just a genuinely good, original take on the character, and the art in White Knight is absolutely gorgeous. 

Arkham: My friends and I joke that this Joker is basically a more unhinged version of BTAS! Joker and... yeah. I’m glad Hamill and Paul Dini got to fuck around with the character more, but I never really dwelled on the Joker parts of the games like I might have for other characters. I definitely liked him the most in Arkham Asylum, as he was more fun to watch. Arkham City was fiiiiine, but I think I replayed the game so much that I kinda got fatigued with everything about it. Genuinely hated his part in Origins, and I was pissed that he stole the attention from Black Mask and Bane (who’s the best fucking part of Origins IMO). I’ll admit that I... Haven’t... played... Knight yet (I have it on PC but my laptop is too wimpy to run it) but like... He’s dead at that point, so I’d assume he isn’t the main point of that game anyway. I love Mark Hamill and the fact I can personally beat the shit out of this Joker, so he’s ranked up pretty high for those reasons.

TIER FOUR:

Batman ‘89: TBH this Joker should be a rank higher, but I’m too lazy to hop onto PicsArt to change it. NIcholson was an excellent choice, and I apprecaite how this Joker makes use of the playful and unhinged aspects of the character. Also, his outfits are cute, and I love the museum scene.

Brave and the Bold: Technically this Joker SHOULD be ranked higher since he’s literally based on the more lighthearted comics in the 60′s but... ehhh... I haven’t really watched BATB so I don’t have any strong opinions on the show and how it handles the character. he’s ranked this high through beause I appreciate what they were going for.

Golden Age: The quality of comics are always subjective, based on the creative team behind them. Some I’ll like more, others less so, It’s kind of hard to rank the pre-52 comic version of the Joker because of this.

TIER FIVE:

Killing Joke: Read it, didn’t care for it. I acknowledge how massive the impact this comic had on... everything, but just because I recognize how important this graphic novel is, doesn’t mean I have to like it.

The Dark Knight: Ledger did an excellent job with the role, but uhh... I’m kind of sick of the alt-right chuds who are out there sucking this Joker’s dick. The fanbase definitely ruined the character for me.

TIER SIX:

99′: Eh

Endgame: No

Suicide Squad: NO

Death of the Family: Hate him. Despise him. Lame stupid dumb little edgy bitch.

Gotham (Jeremiah): I don’t particulary care for Gotham in general, but the only reason I ranked this Joker over Jerome is beause I thought it was kinda funny to see that they made him a little rat-man, and I liked watching all the fujoshi on here cry and complain that they can’t ship this version of the joker with the pre-pubescent Bruce Wayne in the show bc he’s too ugly.

Gotham (Jerome): stop shippping this freak (who is fucking eighteen years old) with a literal twelve year old child. what the FUCK is wrong with yall.

UNRANKED:

The Joker (2019): I don’t plan on watching this film, nor will I ever. I know this is ironic, coming from someone who runs a Rogue blog, but stuff that focuses primarily on a character’s deteriorating mental health makes me reaaaaallllllyyyyy anxious (it’s kind of a phobia) and considering that I don’t particularly the Joker, I have no reason to watch something I know will only give my dumb ADHD-ass intrusive throughts.

[likecaskets]

introducing...   julián antonio ❝ jules ❞ valdez santiago.

🗽 looks like that’s JULIÁN VALDEZ reporting for duty. they’re originally from BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, so i wonder if working as a TECHNICIAN for the TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE RESPONSE UNIT (TARU) ever gets old. anyway, i heard that they’re ATTENTIVE but also kind of ALOOF, which is why i guess they always remind me of THE GLOW OF A COMPUTER SCREEN, DARK CLOTHES, NIGHTS WITH TOO LITTLE SLEEP.

( it’s ya boi skelly / admin s here with my first bio! i’m so super excited to plot and rp with all of you!!! below the cut i got jules’ bio and some wanted connects, too, so please drop a like on this post or hit me up on discord to plot!! )

bio!

julián was born to two wonderful mothers in brooklyn, where the three of them lived for all of julián’s childhood, albeit moving around the neighborhood a few times.

his childhood was normal, or so he thought. two loving parents, public school, he had friends... but still, the two mothers thing somehow gave people ammunition for bullying him. and he was bullied, for a while and well into middle and high school. though, julián developed thick skin for it all. had to, when he realized his own truths in life. 

his mothers were both successful in their own right. son of a public relations consultant and a graphic designer, julián grew up with an appreciation of both appearances and aesthetics. his mother, a graphic designer, worked with computers and was really the gateway for julián’s subsequent knack for computers.

by age twelve, thanks to his proximity with computers, he’s already familiar with most technological things. he had to be, in order to outsmart his moms when it came time to use the family computer, to override passwords and locks. to hide browsing history.

still, these were childish offenses. julián was definitely instilled with a strong sense of right and wrong as a child... but, as it turned out, not with a very good radar in the gray areas of it all. 

this comes to a head once julián becomes a hacker in his spare time when he’s 15 and gifted his first personal computer.

after that slippery slope into testing his limits and finding ways to get into secure locations.

he falls in with the right crowd on the wrong side of the law. his friends are punks, just like julián is. they’re hackers, too --- but more than that, they’re hacktivists, using their skills to right wrongs in the world.

after a while of running with the crowd, of making them his new family, despite his loving one at home, it becomes a slipperier slope.

at first, it’s all for fun. then small rights in the world, outing big companies’ records.

then comes the stealing. the redistribution of wealth. the taking for their own gain. the world becomes twisted. julián knows well enough to know that it isn’t right.

and it all ends, as good and bad things do. only, julián is the one who drops the dime on his own crew. he rats them out. but --- it’s only the organizers. the big wigs in their group. it goes sideways. falls flat when he gets arrested, too.

only, in interrogation, they know about him. they know julián was the one who told on them. so, they offer him an out, a job. a job he can’t refuse, a job he doesn’t mind taking. one with TARU.

for a while, they keep an eye on him. make sure he’s on their team.

and jules is, of course, always on the side of doing good. but every now and again, he feels the calling to the other side. feels the need to skirt around the laws, get places where he shouldn’t be.

and lately? lately, that call’s been getting louder. slope’s been getting slipperier.

only time will tell about julián, now.

pinterest here.

wanted connections!

hacktivist friends: i have a connect for this on the main but pls! this could be so interesting, given julián’s complicated history with his hacktivist group! could be older members who left when things were getting bad with the group or members who were there with jules while things escalated --- and they could know about julián’s deception or not! see, that’s fun

brooklyn pals: julián has lived his entire life in new york but only in brooklyn until he was 18. so this person would’ve known him in elementary school... middle school... high school.... and it would’ve been a kind of whiplash to now see him working for the nypd, i think. fun times!

gonna be putting this on the main as proper wanted connect but the cop who saved him: this is a connection for the cop who offered him a way out of the charges he was facing when he was in his early 20s. would’ve been 10ish years ago so they’d be 40ish now but that’s literally all the criteria.

non-tech friend: i just think it’d be cute if jules had a friend who doesn’t know a lot about computers but needs to learn because the world is becoming more tech-heavy. so this would basically be someone he’s tutoring in computers, kind of? helping them check their email, use their phone, even turn on their computer. all of that stuff! in return, they can help get julián off the internet for more than two hours at a time smh.

other than that, hookups, exes, flings, etc.: julián is gay, no way around it. he’s known most his life and was never really in the closet about it because... he had two moms! he didn’t really need to hide! also, he’s lived his entire life in new york, first 18 years in brooklyn and last 13 years in manhattan. he’s sure to have had a flurry of flings in that time and i’m open to literally... Anything. angst, fluff, missed connections.. ongoing flings is also an option. just gimme things!

friends!: self explanatory! jules is a private person but once he warms up to you, he’s unshakable. kind of like a cat in his affections as a friend!

okay that’s it for now pls plot with me a.k.a. like this or message me on discord !!!!