#leslie thompkins aesthetic

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Melissa McCall as DC Comics Leslie Thompkins

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Lee Thompkins (gotham series) narrows aesthetic

▹❁Leslie (lee) Thompkins❁◃?_

Character Aesthetic

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Timkahali takes? /Nf

Yeah!!!!Awnsering this now to cheer you up since i saw your tags

Gonna be so fr,as much as i like Bernard,Kahali feels like a way better love interest for Tim than him for the same reasons Summer does Jason than his canon ones-That being he's so intertwined within his story that them being in love just feels natural as opposed to just for romance ykwim?

Kahali looks like he'd be exactly like Tim personality wise but is pretty much his direct opposite!I.e optimistic sunshine as opposed to pessimistic asshole

Timsteph still happens here but post meeting Kahali Tim kinda becomes incapable of loving anybody else

And if i said Kahali x Tamara is a thing instead of Timtam?In the Bloody Mary run specifically?

They strike me as a low budget but high in intimacy couple-They get food from marts and share it afterwards,they diy'd skateboards with matching aesthetics,Tim learned to make mixtapes for Kahali and slapped a bunch of cutesy stickers he got from Summer on them,Kahali makes indian dishes for Tim,they share a bed whenever they can,etc

Tim got Kahali top surgery but for free,Leslie Thompkins did it as a favor to him after all he'd been put through That Week(Spoilers!!!)(Also 'him' is Tim,Kahali was totally fine!)

And Kahali is how Tim realized he's autistic and he guided him in our ways♡

Tim calls Kahali 'pretty girl' because Kahali'd been through some shit growing up indian in america surrounded by white girl classmates.Kahali calls Tim 'Tough guy' back from all the emasculation he faced from being visibly brown(cherokee)and having long hair his whole life

Dead mom bonding

Kahali grew up pretty proudly in his life,Tim did not because Jack's the painfully ignorant kind of racist despite having had a native american wife in the sense that he didn't ever think to connect Tim to his roots.Kahali encouraged Tim to do his own research with his pride in his indian heritage and they make them obvious jokes

These are them

[astrologista]

batman caped crusader: is it mid?

i don't know! i honestly think it's pretty good for what it is! of course it will never hold a candle to b:tas, nothing could. in terms of the bad... think of it like you took b:tas and took away the warm relationship between bruce and alfred, kevin conroy's voice, paul dini's writing and most of the light-hearted moments. what you would be left with would be a great aesthetic, crime noir, explosions and random toxic gas, forensic detective work, and interesting psychological exposition. and that, more or less, is what you get!

more under the cut! disclaimer, i haven't finished it entirely yet!! sorry! i just wanted to get this written down while it's in my head!

for as dark as this take is, they do purposefully make some things pretty fun. penguin is great, i love how unapologetically evil and fucked up she is. harvey dent is interesting and doesn't disappoint. barbara gordon and jim are awesome, and have lots of screen time. the interpretation of harley quinn really surprised me (in a good way!). catwoman is very fun, a bit one dimensional, but fun. renee montoya is very interesting in this, gets quite a bit of screen time. seeing characters like bullock, rupert thorne and leslie thompkins really cements the show in the crime-noir, gritty 40s detective aesthetic in a way that hasn't really been done since b:tas.

the music direction is really good! i thought the animation was very good too, there's a sense of cinema and establishing shots that clearly had a lot of thought put into it. the writing isn't perfect, but compared to anything DC has put out animated in the last decade i'd say it's pretty excellent! i really couldn't ask anything more of a b:tas spiritual successor in terms of aesthetic, tone, mood and animation.

does it deliver what i would like to see in a batman animated show? no! not entirely! but that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. they just made some... choices? the ah. batman voice. is not great, it kind of grew on me, but it's veeeery difficult to fill the shoes of the late kevin conroy, so i really can't complain. you just can't follow that performance with really anything. their choices to have alfred be very restrained in quips or snark was... um. not my favorite, pretty clearly a way to distance this show from the b:tas characterization, but without the warmth, it really noticeably loses something. i didn't feel like the character really was alfred. i know bruce timm wanted to portray a darker, more hardboiled version of batman, and i think he did. something he perhaps felt was more "true" to the real original version of the character. but is this interpretation... perhaps, a bit outmoded? you could argue that.

the team of bruce timm's animation and designs with paul dini's writing chops was always what made b:tas such a revolutionary series. paul dini's writing (and of the other members of the b:tas writing team, as well) lent itself to a lot of heart, which is what people remember about the series the most. taking away the heart of the series, the emotion, is... a choice, to be sure. but again, it's not b:tas, though it is trying to be. bruce timm has always had a very particular vision of batman that he wants to portray - as dark, as hard, as unflinching and uncompromising in his fight for justice. this is the aspect that i think interests him - the darkness in batman AND in bruce wayne. paul dini, however, contrasted this with the lightness and goodness in bruce and his family. that interplay, with kevin conroy's voice performance perfectly balancing the two, was what made b:tas such a huge accomplishment. caped crusader loses that dynamic, and for huge fans of b:tas, the loss is very noticeable when you watch something like caped crusader.

at the same time, i loved the heart that they clearly tried to put into these episodes. there was clearly thought put in and homages for longtime batman fans. when i saw the errol flynn and basil rathbone robin hood swordplay homage in episode 2, my jaw dropped. there are so many crime-noir-y tropes and old cinema cliches done so well in animation here, i couldn't help but nerd out at the smorgasboard of fun, funny, scary and just plain cool explosions, chases, shootouts, beatdowns that bruce timm is known to direct so very well.

i can't rightly say i enjoy the idea of b:tas with the heart taken out. and this show DOES have some heart. bruce does save some kids, he does do some good things. one scene in particular really stands out almost alongside the ace scene from the original justice league, and you've probably seen it already. it's great, i liked that. overall it was nitty, gritty, very well done, made me want more, and brought back a lot of the spirit of DCAU in an unflinching and unapologetic way that i can't help but applaud. for bruce timm, this really seemed like a realization of a passion project that had been looking for a home for a while, so i'm happy for him. he's a creator that's really passionate about the things he does and has always fought the censors on his ideas, preferring to provide an engaging and exciting story and animation over all else. i'm happy for him, but as i watch caped crusader, i can't help but miss kevin conroy, think of paul dini's amazing writing, and recall what i loved about the DCAU.

it may not be peak, but it's not mid, and i can recommend everybody check it out. enjoy it for what it is, a great batman cartoon with some interesting stories and some great animation. it looks like animation was directed or lead by christina sotta (sottapop) who is a fantastic artist, worked on young justice, and is also a tumblr user. really happy to see them on them credits, great job.

[chardwic]

Gotham Aesthetics: (Favorite Girls) -> Selina Kyle, Barbara Kean, Tabitha Galavan, Leslie Thompkins, Fish Mooney, Ivy Pepper, Sofia Falcone, Ecco, and Bridgit Pike

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“We don’t all make decisions based on what it can get us. There are other people in this world.”

Lee Thompkins aesthetics Moodboard ~ For Anon

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@abigailashe’s Extended Batfamily

Leslie Thompkins, Jean-Paul Valley, Gavin King, Luke Fox, Nell Little, Colin Wilkes, Tiffany Fox, Maps Mizoguchi, Kathy Duquesne, and Cullen Row

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Lee Thompkins aesthetic.

Gotham.

It takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations.

Do all things with kindness.

I know I changed, that was the point.

Act like a lady, think like a boss.

Love is greater.

[potestmagice]

☆ img ~ Jim Gordon ☆ interactions ~ Jim Gordon ☆ aesthetic ~ Jim Gordon ☆ musings ~ Jim Gordon ♥ Jim Gordon and Leslie Thompkins

[thesightofworms]

gotham character aesthetic: 8/? | leslie thompkins

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dark!lee thompkins, gotham.

wow, that’s incredibly vivid. i’d like to see you try it.

[forevercloudnine]

Hi. Do you have any comic recommendations for Bruce being a total freak like in Batman: Reptilian? Just... being a total weirdo. Thanks!

Hmm... this is tough because while Bruce definitely has freak moments all the time, Batman: Reptilian potentially broke new ground in how the whole comic was just non-stop Bruce being a freak with zero breaks. My top picks would probably be:

Batman: The Imposter

"Bruce gets therapy" the comic (yes, the above is a conversation Bruce is having with his therapist). Lots of Leslie Thompkins pointing out the more bizarre aspects of Bruce's psychology and philosophy. Written by one of the screenwriters for The Batman (2022) and very much draws from that characterization of a younger, socially stunted Bruce with good intentions but sadistic tendencies. If you liked him in the movie, this will probably be right up your alley.

"Mythology"

Detective Comics #994-999. In this story, Bruce believes that an unknown enemy who knows his identity is targeting his various mentors. He's impressively freaky throughout (this story canonizes, among other things, the fact that the mentor who taught him how to intimidate people is an Actual Literal Demon), but the twist in the final issue may make this the most deranged Bruce has ever been.*

*In a main continuity comic. He has been way weirder than this is in non-canon au stuff.

Batman and the Outsiders (2018)

The benefit of Bruce not being the protagonist is that he can instead be the weird side character who comes in, says freaky shit that confuses everyone, and then leaves, allowing them to gossip about him in his absence. That is pretty much Bruce's entire contribution to Batman and the Outsiders, which makes it extremely entertaining for me. Another bonus is that he carries over his extreme man crush on Black Lightning from Detective Comics, and a lot of the series comes across as him awkwardly attempting to get closer to Jeff without knowing how a normal person would attempt to do that.

Bonus Classics:

If you haven't read it yet, Batman: Arkham Asylum (occasionally subtitled Serious House on Serious Earth) is probably the most similar comic to Batman: Reptilian in terms of aesthetic, and it certainly has a freaky Batman, though Morrison writes him as more painfully repressed than Ennis (whose Bruce seems entirely confident in his off-putting weirdness).

Scott Snyder's Bruce is quite frequently freaky, so his run on Batman in the New 52 would certainly qualify (or, if you want to condense the experience into a shorter and Even Intensely Weirder experience, read what he wrote as the "spiritual end" of his Batman run, Last Knight on Earth).

And Batman Universe has a weird, awkward Bruce (even taking the time to indulge in his dinosaur hyperfixation) who is arguably much friendlier than any of the others on this list, so if you want something lighter and haven't read Universe yet then I'd recommend it highly.

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