#esp cause i'm not sure how long it would take to complete one track to the next

[onethousxndvoices]

Been working on cleaning up/making my Ko-fi page a bit more robust and found an option for monthly subscriptions. I already have a $1 tip jar tier up just as kind of a test run to see how it works, but it's got me thinking:

Price wouldn't be very high, probably capped to $3 a month (price subject to change, idk yet). I'll be using that space to post page wips, extra doodles, and, when it comes time to start posting the next track, Ko-fi members will get to read 3-4 pages ahead. Or something along those lines. Would that be something y'all would be interested in?

[serenagaywaterford]

still catching up on your essays and i'm so glad to see someone who adores alma as much as i do. she's one of the highlights of the series for me for sure. alma!centric episode please! :D i'm also dying to learn more about rita. especially since imo her attitude towards june changes constantly and i can't always figure out why. and i feel like her resentment of eden is caused by eden reminding rita of smth or someone from her past and it's too painful for her and so that's how she deals w/ that

also, how much do you think they're going to milk serena regretting giving the baby to june? and one last thing, you know what flashback i am totally expecting to see at one point, june and serena in that brunch place pre-gilead.

i just really enjoy seeing someone like you getting into the depth of these characters, especially serena, it's so rare to see someone elaborate on her behavior and not just scream SERENA IS A BITCH SHE CAN GO DIE and keep walking. and i think nothing this fandom says drives me crazy more than people being happy about serena being beaten and mauled because "it's what she deserves".

yeah, sure, she deserves punishment, but she was not punished for the crimes she had actually commited and also those were the completely wrong people to do the punishing???? like????

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Hello anon! (I’ve lost track, and I’m not sure if you’re the same as other anons, or a new one! If so, welcome, #4 :)) (I think these are all from you??? Feel free to correct me if they’re not!)

YAY FOR ALMA LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t know what it is about her, I just really like her style. (Obvs not fashion style but you know what I mean.) She’s got a no-nonsense way about her that I enjoy. I mean, Lillie had that too in a way but Alma is just so level-headed. She could have been super-pissed off at June and held it against her, and that wouldn’t be unreasonable, but she didn’t. She accepted that it’s not June’s fault that Gilead exists or the Aunts burned her hand to make June suffer. Like, that is some A+ person. She doesn’t take people’s shit, but she also doesn’t hold shit against people she knows can’t help it.

Even if it was only part of an episode, I’d be happy learning way more about her in some way. Fingers crossed they don’t kill her off as well.

And yes Rita. A fan favourite it seems. A fan favourite who needs more screentime. I think we can all agree on that! I would really like to understand Rita’s reactions to things better and I think we can only get that if they explore her character more. Like, we can guess at why she behaves as such to June or Eden, but we never really get much about her. But as Anon #1 was saying, her sarcasm and just way of being is so interesting and enjoyable to watch.

I wondered about that. Cos clearly Serena’s gonna have some buyer’s remorse (or giver’s remorse, more like), and especially if she sees June just strolling back sans baby. (Ngl, I would flip my shit too.) I feel like it’s deffo gonna be a thing but I can’t tell how long they’ll milk it for. Or exactly how Serena will react. (I just hope that she is not aggressive/violent about it. I’ve had it up to here with that.)

Thank you for messaging me! I’m just so stoked that there is this pocket of people who can talk rationally about grey or villainous characters without just resorting to tantrums and vengeance. It gives me a little hope for tumblr lol. Generally I just stopped looking in THT tags here cos of all the stuff I was sick of reading, esp wrt Serena.

“she was not punished for the crimes she had actually commited and also those were the completely wrong people to do the punishing“ ALSO YES. THANK YOU. That’s exactly my point. Like, that is a HUGE issue. How is that justice at all? Getting beaten by your husband for saving a baby’s life? Getting maimed for reading the Bible? That is not deserved on any level. It’s like, just endorsing Gilead if you say Serena deserved it. Like, that is LITERALLY what Fred said. If you think she got what she deserved, then you’re essentially agreeing with Fred’s actions. And these fans are parroting it and no even recognising how wrong that is to be agreeing with Fred Waterford and the SOJ. But I’m preaching to the choir here, lol.

[kiyans-corner]

ok but does he automatically assume Bruce had a brother he never speaks of? That he lost maybe when he was younger and just doesn't remember it nearly as well? Are any of the paintings in the manor actually of his older brother? #GhostUncle starts trending after some of the other people who #DefinitelyDiedinGotham for at least a few minutes start seeing them as a group a bit more clearly than #StillNotDead folks... (how many people get resuscitated after getting gassed/stabbed/blown up/etc in one of the most dangerous cities in the country? this is a well used tag on all social media, there are discord groups, lots of story times on tiktok)

and then there's the MUCH LARGER group tagging #LostRobin. Because obviously the Spirits of Gotham would take him under their wing, and which other ghost would look about the same age, appear in a relatively short time after Robin 2 disappeared- tell me most Gothamites lack enough observational and critical thinking skills needed to not get jumped or taken as hostages every other day and I'll laugh, ofc someone caught a grainy vid of New Robin with a new fighting style and obviously younger, along with a vid or two of Nightwing doing flips for kids just for fun and as a way to establish himself on his own faster and say Fuck You Batman floating around at the same time and no one clicked the transition. I'll believe that before cell phones with good cameras happened, but not modernly

so Robin 2 isn't reported as seen via #BirdWatchinginGotham for a while, there are rumors of Batman absolutely losing his shit, and then #StaffRobin shows up. And he's smaller than Robin 2 was. And Robin 2 was way too young to be doing his own Batmanless thing like #TraitorRobin was. (proposing #Robin1LikesBludMore as used in conjunction with the #Nightwing tag in Bludhaven... and #ReplacementRobin as the alt #StaffRobin tag by salty people who will die mad about Batman firing? forcibly retiring? finding a new kid after getting Robin 2 killed? I'm sure that wouldn't cause any problems when Jason finds that out)

so I mean. obviously this new adopted ghost with the same look and same drive to help people, esp in the Narrows and Crime Alley where help is rarer, HAS to be #GhostRobin. Tagged in conjunction with #RobintheSecond and #LostRobin. The conspiracy theorists are insufferable for a long while in their vindication.

Meanwhile the batkids are losing their minds trying to sort out who it actually is 😂 Bruce refuses to touch it because it's getting him some quiet for once because none of them want to risk him having a full blown meltdown flashback style. Alfred is subtly fueling the fire for fun by making allusions and implications he KNOWS will make it worse but also could be taken in a completely normal way, just because all of his grankids are actually working together on this and also because watching Bruce pretend not to squirm about all of them tracking down childhood photos- many of which are school photos and candids in RebelliousTM outfits and hair styles or post-fights where he lost soundly and "omg Bruce! B-man! Brucester! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WENT TO SCHOOL WITH GREEN ARROW WHAT THE FUCK"

Steph roasts him about all of this the most but there are pictures everywhere, both printed and taped up around the manor and as screensavers and bgs on literally every bit of tech possible. Jason and Damian are leading the information hunt, bc #Robin2 is currently trending "outright slander" (Bruce "this is perfect for Identity Reasons" Wayne, calmly watching with coffee: "If it's in writing it's libel") and #BloodSonlmao and #StabbyRobin are trending with more conspiracy theories and Dami is an insecure little shit with minimal knowledge of his paternal line. Dick is needling everyone who might know anything. Including a good portion of the League. (still on "How could you not tell me you went to school with Roy's Adult what the FUCK")

Tim already knows because he just did a search with the ghosts description and found Phantom online in like. A few minutes. Like a normal person (according to literally just himself, this was not a normal search method). Cass knows he knows and gives zero fucks about who it actually is. because if it was a problem Tim would have said something. She joins in the hunt just to screw with the others for fun because she is outright feral and this is straight up hilarious.

The spirit of Gotham is a wonderful concept and whoever thought of it I love you.

DC x DP prompt

The spirit of Gotham has had many different ghosts holding the title. The current and dare say true title holders are Martha Wayne and her husband Thomas Wayne. They love their city and their son and grandchildren who protect it. It was an emotional time when Jason Todd became a title holder. Even when he was brought back, the realms wouldn't let him discard the title. Gotham is just as much his as he is Gotham.

Oh man, there is so many Spirit of Gotham fics out there that I’m not sure which one you’re specifically talking about, there is that fucking incredible fic I remember someone writing with Martha and Thomas adopting Danny as his ghostly guardians as the ghosts of their city but I can’t find it for the life of me :(.

This is just wonderful. Any Gothamite out there just intrinsically trusts and respects Danny and feels comforted by his presence. There are whispers of a ghost child and his two parents that flit about Gotham helping those in need and down on their luck.

I personally love the idea that time is nonlinear for ghosts, there’s this website called the hypnogogic archives that I’ve been reading recently and they proposed the idea that ghost could exist before the person even died. They are ever-present because their deaths were destined to be and always will happen so their ghosts appear long before their own deaths.

Young Jason has met the Wayne’s in Crime Alley and they helped nudge the kid to find the Batmobile that one fateful night.

So the first time he sees these apparitions in his older years, he remembers them but cant quite place it.

Then he remembers.

The paintings in Wayne Manor.

Those are his grandparents.

With a ghostly kid that isn’t his dad.

What.