#gun manor

[thefelinefox]

here’s the man behind the ‘girl help I just got shot by a tuba’ post

[reineydraws]

jason is a grandpa's boy and u cant take this away from me!!! they cook together, they discuss literature together, and when jay comes back, they clean their guns together haha. ofc they celebrate their birthday together too! 😌

✨️🎂 hbd jay & alfie 🎂✨️

[somepsychopomp]

Too lazy to make a gif but I'm obsessed with this really small detail in the new episode where Kinger raises the gun as Pomni walks by. (It's at 16:22 for anyone who wants to see it)

They only had two shots and he used them already. They both know the gun's not loaded, so it could be that he's just moving it out of her way.

But I'd like to think that, given his lucidity in this moment, (plus his levelheaded calmness as he used the shotgun, implying to me he has/had a familiarity with firearms) it shows he was well trained and still remembers to never point a gun at another person- even if the thing's unloaded and even if it might not kill Pomni given things like lack of food/air won't kill them either.

And if not that, you could still interpret it as Kinger instinctively not wanting to point a dangerous weapon at his friend. I really liked this moment a lot.

[theknucklehead]

Kinger with a shotgun:

The difference between the preview

and the actual episode.

[littlefankingdom]

~ Batman Detective Comics (2016)

I really like those pages, they demonstrate well how they are a family, with little touches.

First, Tim saying"the only place that ever felt like home", with a cut to the Wayne Manor. That's clear, Tim talks to Bruce about how his family manor is Tim's only home.

And then his brothers show up! They never appeared in the last issues, but suddenly, they're here. Which means that Tim and Bruce, upon realizing that Future Evil Tim is going to their home, they called them to help. Because, who is better to protect their home and Alfred than other people with connection to them? And Dick, Jason and Damian, they immediately showed up. Because that's their home, that's their grandfather, that's their future evil brother, that's their family.

[methoughtsphantom]

A tim drake that after jason’s death but before he becomes robin stumbles into an after-battle scene he shouldn’t have to intercept a portal gun for batman. he arrives to the infinite realms to then get kidnapped and adopted all in the same day.

er, maybe? tim didn’t actually catch much past the fact that the ghost who kidnapped him is only rather insistent on bringing him to the only other human child he knows.

which, would be nice and all, if the ghost wasn’t a liar. this dude standing in front of him is dead.

and sixteen tops. the age robin would’ve been if he hadn’t—

wait.

jason. this was the afterlife. shouldn’t he be here?

…

(he is) (and that’s how tim got adopted) (trying to drag jason back to the manor)

[error-ego]

Hey am I the only one who thought the story of the couple living in the manor may have been a retelling of or metaphor for how Kinger and Queenie were separated?

TADC episode 3 spoilers + theory below the cut!

To recap the story of the couple in the manor:

Martha and Baron Theodore Mildenhall lived together in Mildenhall manor. Theodore had been hunting as a hobby for as long as he could remember. at some point Theodore becomes aware of the presence of a creature near his manor that is neither man or animal.

Believing it to be dangerous to him and his wife, he attempts to hunt and kill the creature, plagued by a feeling of dread the entire time.

Over time, his hunt for the creature turns into an obsession, and he spends years trying to catch it. He at some point learns that this creature is an angel of God, but this doesn't stop his pursuit.

When he eventually does catch it, he decapitates it, but the body goes missing during the minute he isn't looking at it. He knows it's still alive somewhere. He knows it will be back to claim its head.

He mounts the head on his wall as a trophy, but he doesn't celebrate. He becomes anxious and paranoid, constantly on edge for when the body will return.

One day, this paranoia leads him to mistake his own wife for the creature, and he shoots her, leaving himself as the only living thing he has left to protect.

He hides in his cellar with a shotgun and two rounds. There he stays, keeping watch for the creature's inevitable return. He dies alone there, his soul dragged down to hell for the crime of harming one of God's angels.

TL;DR: Theodore and Martha Mildenhall live together in this manor. Theodore hunts as a hobby. This hobby turns into an obsession when he tries to kill a monster to protect his wife. He finds out the monster is an angel of God. He doesn't care. The angel's body lives and escapes when he does eventually catch it. He becomes paranoid the body will come back for its head and mistakes his wife for the angel's body, killing her. He dies alone in his cellar and goes to hell because he harmed an angel.

I believe the angel is meant to represent Queenie, and that Theodore and his story represent Kinger and how he accidentally caused Queenie to abstract.

Hear me out:

The eyes on the head of the angel are misaligned in the exact same way Queenie's are,

and when Kinger first sees the head, he stares at it for a long time before saying "You know, I'm starting to think..." before cutting himself off. He may have been about to acknowledge the similarity between it and Queenie. His eyes tremble noticeably during the moment after he says this.

He never elaborates on this statement for the rest of the episode.

Kinger appears to see Queenie inside the mouth of the angel while it's chasing him and Pomni. I say this since it's out of character and unlikely that he'd call anyone else "beautiful" and "honey" in the same sentence.

The composition and numerous eyes within the mouth also mirror a scene later in the episode depicting him and Queenie after she abstracted.

Also, his eyes tremble in this scene in the same way as when he was looking at the angel's head for the first time.

Kinger doesn't find out what he believes to be a monster is an angel of God until after he's shot it.

This could be a parallel to how Theodore didn't realize what he believed to be the angel's body was his wife Martha until after he'd shot and killed her.

Both people took the shot in the effort to protect someone they cared about, but both times it only made things worse for both parties.

Based on Kaufmo's abstraction and the way people respond to stress in real life, it's likely that Queenie was isolated from Kinger to some degree before she abstracted.

Kinger says he doesn't remember the events that lead up to him and Queenie in his pillow fort together.

Something may have come between her and Kinger that caused Queenie's relationship with him to weaken, which made her spend less time around him and other people as a result. It's possible that Kinger accidentally said or did something that sent her over the edge and caused her to abstract.

In conclusion, Kinger may have caused his wife to abstract and Caine used this fact with a modified version of the events leading to it in his horror tragedy adventure because he's an AI and isn't capable of coming up with completely original stories or art, just like generative AI in real life.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I'm going to shoot you with a tuba

[peachn-000]

Reference dump of some of my alters!!

🥰🫶

all were made by said alter except for the first three, those were all made by GPS!!

[drconstellation]

"Not Even At Gunpoint!"

Future Echoes of the Past #3

I didn't plan this meta. Well, maybe...just a tiny, weeny bit...I had been keeping a parallel in mind for a while...but not in this context. But it was kind of one of these moments:

Lets start at the beginning.

@beebopboom has been exploring the three magic tricks that appear in the S2 opening sequence recently, and speculating how the third one might appear in S3, and I've been exploring the paintball fight scene at Tadfield Manor in S1E2 and how that relates to the Great War in Heaven that formed Hell, and the events around the Fall. The two topics intersect, as you have echoes of the Bullet Catch magic trick from the 1941 minisode in S2E4 appearing not once but at least twice at Tadfield Manor.

But...then I realised, there's more than one pointed gun. Way more.

I'd always liked this throwback line from Crowley in S2E1, when Nina asks him if he is a bookseller as well:

Who would want to be a bookseller when this could happen to you?

Shadwell, turning up at the book shop in S1E4, disturbs Aziraphale contacting Heaven through the portal (a modified Solomon's magic circle) under the oculus, and breaks in to confront him. The historical implications of Aziraphale's lines here are that before homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK meeting places for such people were often disguised as respectable looking book shops. Which makes Nina's question in S2E1 and Crowley's denial to her all the more...loaded? Ah, well, you can't fool Nina, now, can you?

Anyway, mah point is...Shadwell literally has Aziraphale at gunpoint, er, fingerpoint here. Loaded fingerpoint.

But then, this isn't the first time Aziraphale has had a gun pointed at him. He had one pointed at him in the church in 1941 by the Nazi agent double-crossing Greta. His biggest fear, as always, isn't actually "dying," or standing in front of the guns, its the paperwork that he knows will go with getting a new body from the Ineffable Bureaucracy.

Crowley turns up to rescue him, because he "didn't want to see [him] embarrassed." With a bit of equivocation between the two of them, all the time while at gunpoint from Greta, they team up to save each other.

This was even before we got to the Bullet Catch - his "show stopper!"

Back to Tadfield Manor.

As they enter, Crowley is lined up in the crosshairs.

Er, wait a minute...

Only Crowley is shown this way here, not Aziraphale. He's a target. I'm starting to ask what point in time this is referring to - the present or the past? Both. Yeah, why not both! The work I did in this previous meta in this series showed that Crowley was considered a target for early removal by the other demons-to-be prior to the Fall.

Then they are both shot.

I pointed out Aziraphale gets shot by blue paint, representing Heaven, but its a colour we don't see used again by any one in the fighting to come. But what I didn't talk about was WHERE he got hit - in the back. That's synonymous with treachery. Heaven has stabbed Aziraphale in the back, so to speak. wow. Nice - not.

And Crowley? He gets hit in the heart - just like the Norman/Lucifer parallel on the Yellow Team does a short while later during his "fall" scene - with the red paint, betrayed by the Red Team who represent the management in Heaven.

Seems the Ineffable Bureaucracy wanted both them out of the way during the Great War...it get more and more interesting each time I look closer at it...

So was Aziraphale ever in the crosshairs? Yep.

And, as @vavoom-sorted-art points out, this is a time Aziraphale chooses to pick a weapon, and to fight. He didn't want the simple, safe deception trick with the ropes - he wanted a weapon. He really is much more the warrior than Crowley. Aziraphale, I think your nature as a principality is showing!

Firing that gun made Crowley sick to his stomach, and so did this metaphorical loaded gun - the Book of Life.

As soon as he found out from Beelzebub it was a real possibility of being played he went back to protect Aziraphale. Crowley hates fighting - watch how often he will try shut it down as quickly as possible or try to escape it when he can. To him everyone has free will, and the person picking the fight with the other is imposing their will on them. That's 'not on' in his books.

Aziraphale, on the other hand, is still reacting with his ingrained Heavenly instincts - that he should follow his morals because they are 'right,' and more sophisticated weapons add weight to the moral argument. He thinks. Maybe. (Yeah, keep working on that doubt, angel.)

Az: Impressive hardware. I've looked at this gun, its not a proper one at all. It just shoots paintballs. Cr: Don't your lot disapprove of guns? Az: Unless they're in the right hands. Then they give weight to a moral argument. I think. Cr: [laughing] A moral argument? Really? *tosses gun away* C'mon. [Heads into the Manor.] [later, after Crowley changes the paintball guns to real guns...] Az: But there are people out there shooting at each other! Cr: Well -  Lends weight to their moral argument. Everyone has free will, including the right to murder. Just think of it as a microcosm of the universe.

I'll think I'll end this here and leave you with a small montage of the aftermath of all this gun play - everything going up in flames and smoke.

Bring on S3!

If you didn't follow the links in the meta, and want to read the first two in this series, they are here:

#1: The Great War of Tadfield Manor

#2: The Newton/Crowley Mirror-Parallel in S1

[mjbear130]

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[thefelinefox]

Loathing Girlboss Tournament results Round 1, Part 1!

Out of 31 votes…

Naughty Sorceress: 65%

Stella: 35%

The Naughty Sorceress wins!

Out of 28 votes…

Terri: 32%

Susie: 68%

Susie the Arena Mistress wins!

Out of 42 votes…

Doc Alice: 55%

Susie Cochrane: 45%

Doc Alice wins!

Out of 32 votes…

Felicity Wainwright: 44%

Florence: 56%

Florence the Ghost Hunter wins!

Part 2 results coming soon!

[sardonic-sprite]

Oh my fucking GOD ok so I just "read" Lonely Place of Dying and...

Ok first off, Tim's first appearance as Robin is actually fighting 2face not Bane but whatevs, this CHILD THIS 13YO CHILD IS *LITERALLY*...

Like this tiny twat is just DAMNED AND DETERMINED to MAKE Bruce get a new Robin, to save Bruce and Dick when they're in trouble, like. LORDY CHILD. AND HE'S FUCKING DOING OK.

He lands a punch on 2face puts a tracker on him digs bruce and dick out from under an exploded building and goes with them to the next fight where he warns them of an attack and saves himself from the same attack thanks to quick thinking and at the end he's tying up 2face himself like timothy istg wtf.

AND ANOTHER THING

So in all the fics Jasons like HOW COULD BRUCE GET A NEW ROBIN SO SOON HE DOESNT CARE ABOUT THE RISKS and like its bruce he wants to murder for it... but LITERALLY bruce is the one who fights this the LONGEST like panel after panel he's saying "no, stop, robin is done, its too dangerous, i wont put another child in danger". And Tims just saying BATMAN NEEDS ROBIN over and over in every imaginable way.

And like this little shit who WAS in the batcave with alfred weaponizes alfred's fear for the others to get him to drive tim to the site and then the two of them as a badass grandpa grandson duo like 2shot 2face (temporarily), and then despite dick dramatically leaving the cave going ROBIN DIED WITH JASON in like 5 pages as he watches Tim hes like. "Damn hes good. Damn. Look at him go. You know what, hired." And bruce is the FINAL HOLDOUT even though he agrees to like train tim, he would not have if it weren't for Tim's beating him over the damn head with BATMAN NEEDS ROBIN and then the other two braincellholding family members agreeing. So literally Bruce is the last person Jason should be angry at 😂😂😂😂😂

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS COMIC?

[science-lings]

how does shadow being batman fit into the lore? I vote he gets adopted

[carladuquette]

Mike Flanagan character draft

Rules are simple: pick your top 6 characters from the Flanaverse. Series only! If a character appears at different ages, specify which one you want on your team. Can be characters you love, love to hate, whatever. Ready? GO!

1. Jamie (Amelia Eve, The Haunting of Bly Manor)

… and I’m in love with her.

2. Owen (Rahul Kohli, Thobm)

Puns for days, must be protected at all costs

3. Camille (Kate Siegel, The Fall of the House of Usher)

Stylish, efficient, awful in the best way

4. Dani (Victoria Pedretti, Thobm- obviously my fav)

Loving, kind and so, so brave

5. 1970s Madeline (Willa Fitzgerald, TFOTHOU)

Terrifying, glorious HBIC

6. Dr. Sarah (Annabeth Gish, Midnight Mass)

A woman of action AND science! What a combo.

ETA: Everyone feel tagged! Spread the good word of Flanagan 😅

[befuddled-calico-whump]

okok I had a dream that this super wealthy aristocratic family was throwing some big party. The family had three adult sons, two were married, and one was single, and the single one invited me to pretend to be his date, but I was really there to help him investigate the family and uncover the shady things he suspected the rest of them were doing

Party/event goes on, we keep sneaking off and looking for things, I think eventually I found an incriminating journal? I don't remember what the details were but there was a lot of corruption (and murder)

Well, we got found out by the other brothers just when we were on the verge of proof, and ended up cornered on the steps outside the manor.

The guy I'm with tries to get them to talk it out, and removes a pistol he was carrying and sets it on the ground behind him. His brothers do likewise, but just when I think we might be fine, one of their wives comes out with a gun and fires at both of us, giving the brothers time to grab their own weapons.

Me and the guy hit the ground, and I can see blood on my shirt but can't even feel if I've been shot or not, but the guy definitely takes a few hits. I end up just playing dead, which is actually very hard because the brothers then proceed to throw us both down the stairs. One of them pries up a fancy storm drain cover and the other just drops us in.

So it's super dimly lit and very muddy, and as soon as the brothers leave, I hurry to find the brother I'm with. He's still alive, but not very conscious at this point, and is definitely bleeding from somewhere, but since the current conditions are sub-optimal, I just slap him awake and half-drag him through the storm drain.

We come up at the next drain cover, now faced with the very fun task of finding somewhere in the manor where we won't be murdered or ratted out so I can get a look at him. This ends up being a janitor's closet in the basement, where I literally just hose him down over the mop-washing drain.

He'd been shot in the side, leg, and upper back, and two of those still had bullets lodged inside, so I had to dig those out. Luckily there were plenty of clean cloths and stuff in the closet that I could use for bandages. The wound I got was just a graze, so I was mostly fine. From there, we started making a plan of what to do next, but that's about when I woke up.