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Hey, I hope you're doing well!

So, I just did a post on how Catholic Bruce would interact with the time-travelling stuff during his "death". While I wrote that it doesn't really affect him (except maybe rattle him and make his faith stronger when all is said and done), I wanted to read you thoughts on it. My answer might've been too easy or something, I don't know.

Also, yes, Tim re-evaluating when there's no crisis to handle definitely makes a lot more sense. Maybe Father Brown might be involved when he is trying to find answers? Maybe Tim finds a Dominican school during a normal patrol and it springboards from there?

Moreover, I'm glad you liked my ideas for Jason and Bruce's slow reconciliation, especially the chapel in Crime Alley. For design of it... it might the Franciscan school of thought I was taught, but I think that it should be more simple. Nothing fancy, but nevertheless extremely beautiful. I have a feeling that Bruce help restore it, but it was always there.

And finally, thank you for introducing me to Father Brown. It's definitely gonna the next books I read and I'll probably watch the show a bit (if I can find it)!!

Anyways, God bless and have a good night/day!

Hey! :)

Honestly, that's not a storyline I know a lot about... I think your answers make sense, though! Bruce presumably knows a lot of history, and it doesn't sound like any of these adventures interact much with the Church, so I don't think there'd be anything specific to impact his religious life... The experience of time travel ITSELF might, but it's not like that's outside of Batman's experience. Gonna reblog with more specific thoughts, though!

Maybe! Still mulling Tim over. ...My other thought re: Tim is that, unfortunately, if Dick and Damian join Bruce's church while Bruce is dead, and then Jason comes back soon after (and Cass is probably in there somewhere too—maybe before Dick even!—though I don't have a good grasp of her canon timeline), well, then that's just another way for Tim to feel like the odd man out and excluded from the family circle. :( Which I don't think anyone can do much about, and we certainly don't want to be a reason he feels pressured into converting... but it would definitely be another parenting challenge for Bruce to navigate. (And a similar challenge for Dick, who I think is already trying to rebuild bridges at this period with Tim?)

Yes, simple but beautiful is good! I like the idea of it always being there, I'm just wondering if Crime Alley is realistically a street someone would have built a chapel in even before the, you know, crime... but churches can be anywhere.

Oh excellent! Do read the Father Brown stories, I love them. :) Haven't watched the show myself so can't provide information on it, but BIG fan of the stories!

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2018: Year in Review

Rules: answer the questions about 2018 and tag some people.

Tagged by @fictionadventurer​ and finally actually doing it. Thank you! (Also my fic got into your Good Things? I’m delighted. :-D) 

I have a terrible memory for what happened when, though, so...we’ll see how this goes. :-P

Top 5 Movies you watched in 2018:

Ooh. Hm.

I’m not sure I can remember watching 5 movies in 2018 period... I mean, I’m guessing I did, but remembering? ...We’ll see.

1. Tron: Legacy--Probably 2018. It was a pretty good movie. It definitely had a couple things that bothered me, though--most prominently their treatment of poor Tron himself.

2. Moana--Watched this last summer, finally. I really like the music, and the art is gorgeous. Also, as many people have said, I appreciate the way her quest is for her home and her responsibilities.

3. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)--Watched this on New Year’s Eve with family. It was... okay. They simplified some things, of course, and some of their character interpretations were definitely inaccurate, but on the whole it wasn’t bad.

4. It’s A Wonderful Life--Watched it on Christmas. Not a first-time watch by a long shot, but I’m sticking it in because it’s great and I just realized this time how anti-modern it is. I mean, George Bailey’s whole life is him not “pursuing his passion” or “following his dreams” or “fulfilling himself”... and it’s portrayed as being better not only for the town but for him that he repeatedly gave those things up for others! That’s a rare message to find nowadays.

Top 5 TV Shows you watched in 2018:

1. Doctor Who--Perennial fave for me, but this summer Twitch ran a livestream marathon of all of Classic Who and it was amazing. I saw a lot of stories I hadn’t before and it got me back into the show pretty dramatically. Also the stream was just... a lot of fun. Good memories.

2. Lost--Again, pretty sure this was 2018? Watched it with my brother. The continuity is honestly a lot better than I’d been led to expect, and the characters were really compelling even when you hated them--something of a strength of J. J. Abrams’s, I think.

3. Gravity Falls--Watched it this fall! Not over it yet--I have many, many unvoiced thoughts about this story. (Particularly the Stans, geez.) Incomplete list of good things: The emphasis on family, how well they let the characters be complicated, and how willing they were to have the main characters do wrong things and be forgiven.

4. Over the Garden Wall--watched it around the same time as GF. It didn’t grab me in the same way--it might just be too short to hook me like that?--but the audio and animation are really, really nice.

5. Agents of SHIELD, S4--A season counts if it’s for the first time, right? Especially since I actually wrote a fic for it. The first half felt like they were consciously trying to declutter after the last two seasons, which was nice. The second half... opened up a whole bunch of questions about how the writers view personhood. Still engaging, though.

Top 5 Songs of 2018:

HMMM.

I listen to a lot of stuff on Spotify, but... a lot of it’s in one ear and out the other.

I do like “Dead Hearts” by Stars, though. “10,000 Emerald Pools” by BORNS is also good, and “The Nights” by Avicii is currently in my head. Probably not in my Top 5 of the year, but they’re the ones on the top of my mind right now.

Top 5 Books

Gonna cheat and make some of these “series” instead, because this year I read published fiction in big clumps or not at all.

1. Discworld series--Got into these last spring. Good stuff--I have significant philosophical differences with Sir Terry, but also significant agreements. A lot of humor and a lot of heroism, both.

2. Queen’s Thief series--Saw some people on Tumblr liked them, remembered one of my fave fanfic authors had written fic for them, decided to read them. Really good... I should reread them sometime soon.

3. Killdeer--Got it on ebook because I really like the author (Anne B. Walsh). Technically a novella, I think? Soft sci-fi, a nice, sweet read with action and found family.

4. Persuasive Pro-Life--By Trent Horn. Not fiction, but GOOD. Read it as prep for a persuasive speech I had to give in my Public Speaking Class this fall, would recommend.

5. Tolkien: Man and Myth--By Joseph Pearce. Also nonfiction, also good, though I admit I skipped around a little.

5 Good/Positive Things that happened to you in 2018:

1. Got a job in January--stressful in the beginning, but largely good. And I Have Money now.

2. Got my first car last winter! It’s a nice little car and it’s made life a lot simpler.

3. June Trip--I went to my brother’s wedding, got to spend time with some siblings I hadn’t seen in a while, and then went from there straight to the 2018 Catholic Sacred Music Colloquium. The trip as a whole involved some stress--it was too long for me, for one thing--but it was also definitely good.

4. The six-months-and-counting Doctor Who collaboration I have going with my sister, sparked by a combo of my June trip and the Twitch marathon. We’ve had SO MANY ideas and spent SO MUCH time discussing characters and plotholes and worldbuilding... It’s a great thing.

5. Finding... maybe Chestertonian Tumblr is the best description? (Often, but not always, overlapping with Catholic Tumblr.) :-P I joined Tumblr primarily for nerd stuff, but finding the circle of people who share more of my other interests/values really improved my experience here.

some people to tag: I can’t think of anyone who hasn’t already been tagged right now, but if you’re following me and/or you’re interested, feel free to consider yourself tagged!