#old man batjokes

[fractualized]

So in Superman: Space Age #3, Mark Russell had Batman and Joker die in a murder-suicide on their first encounter.

And in Batman: Dark Age #6, he does basically the opposite!

There is a fake out first. In Batman: Dark Age, an elderly Bruce is thinking back on the past as part of managing memory loss, and he remembers a night when a beleaguered comedian-turned-terrorist set Wayne Tower on fire.

This Joker is someone Bruce previously hadn't had many close encounters with in his memories, so I saw this as mere crumbs.

AND THEN I KEPT READING

Get in, loser, we're old man batjokes!

Joker recaps what actually happened after the tower burned, which includes the world ending and Superman putting Gotham into a jar like Kandor, blah blah blah, and then back to Joker and Bruce.

The End with Joker and Bruce both living at Wayne Manors, buddies at an old folks home, Bruce made Joker want to LIVE, oh my god.

And then I was like, WAIT, this reveal means I must go back, and there is MORE!

From Batman: Dark Age #1:

Cranky old man banter.

Then in Batman: Dark Age #4:

SWIM CLASS TOGETHER

Er, like I said, Bruce is dealing with some stuff. He's fine! He's fine! Joker is keeping an eye on him!

But yeah, this was a fun read today. :)

Please don't ask me about the rest of the story apologies to Mr. Russell I was there for one thing

[skyler-pog69]

I can’t stop thinking about my favorite ships, which are all ambiguously gay old men.

[duchess-of-new-shire]

Big fan of whatever this kind of obsession is

[gayvin]

These guys stabbing and bleeding out every second Sunday

[polararts]

Joker celebrates mardi gras or something.

[lemon-box]

It is frankly so fun for me that Joker from iteration to iteration has such distinctly unique designs, all of which reflect and highlight something different about him. Like he can and has been anything, each design builds upon a history and yet does something new at the same time. And then you have batsy over here rocking that stupid spandex one piece + cape since the 1930’s. Go girl! Give us nothing!!!

[grave-z-draws]

IDK which I like more so here's both :)

[nickpool]

I'm literally obsess with toxic old man really really

hannigram, batjokes,( I forgot the others

[pinkopalina]

my shedding my skin (old followers no longer interested in my content) so that my soft beautiful brand new scales (new followers) gleam and glow and shimmer and glitter

[toytanks]

IM CRAZY IM CRAZY IM CRAZY UOU DONT EVEN KNOW

OHHHHHHB IM SO FUCKING INSANE. IM SO IN SANE IM CRAZY IM CRAZY IIIIHHDHDHHSHEHES BAHIAYSYEBBEEHKWUGW MY GODDDDDDDD THE FUCKING BAT GE BAT MAN OHHHH MY LIRD SJYEYYWJAIGSGAJKAUAHBWMSKEKNSBSHHDNEBDBD IM CRAZY IM GOING 2 PUNCH A WALL OHFHHEHEUENSNGSYEBD. OHHHHHHHHHHHH

[bookwormbynight]

You know, I've never really been one to ship batjokes even though I like fucked up romance. Dark!Superman, Two Face, Lex Luthor, his adopted children, I'm happy to explore the horror that would naturally come about from putting Bruce in any of those relationships for a time, and considering batjokes is not only huge but also way more fucking horrifying than any of those, one would think I'd spring for it, but... I don't know. The Joker's always felt like he was better used as a plot device for other bat-ships rather than to actually explore whatever he has going on. Maybe because Bruce has 0% chance of feeling any sliver of affection for him to twist into the fray (in my personal opinion)? That's probably it. What's the point of a good old fashioned toxic abuse couple if there isn't something compelling the victim to stay.

Anyway I reread Like Magnesium We Burn right around the same time I rewatched the BTAS episode "the man who killed batman" and Death in the Family clips, and goddamnit ig that was the perfect lightning storm to strike something up because I am starting to see the vision and it is consuming me a little bit

Bruce doesn't need to have conflicting feelings of affection and horror. All he needs to feel is pure, primal, animalistic fear as the Joker commits the most heinous acts known to man to both him and his loved ones - tortures and kills his kids - and his city with zero remorse, but dresses Bruce's wounds if he looks like he needs help and gives him a place to sleep and refuses to ever actually fucking kill him. Help help help help help. I still don't get most of you I think but I kind of get it now.

How did they get there. How did it start. Could Bruce have had any fucking clue just how bad it would get. What does the Joker even care about. What about Harley, was she ever able to tell in the midst of the fog of abuse and codependence that that thing existed long before she was there and would continue after she was gone, that she never even mattered to him, that the Joker only ever viewed her as a stepping stone to this goal he had decided he wanted to achieve long ago and could never be swayed from by someone like her, maybe by anybody. (She should hit him with her baseball bat.) Why is he like that - don't give me the one-bad-day shtick I'll kill you. Was there ever anyone else. Why is Batman The One to him. Does the answer even mean anything now.

[inoghmia]

Hi there!!

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[k-s-morgan]

Can you recommend some batjoke to me and I have nearly finished all of the batjoke on ao3 so it is from somewhere else it is better but even if it is from ao3 I wanna know what do you rec.

Hey! You can see a collection of stories I liked here. ('Gotham' folder features fics based on a TV show). Most fics are from AO3, but there are quite a lot of them from LiveJournal. When getting into a new fandom, I tend to research its history and I hunt down old and less known works.

My biggest favorites are these (you can find all of them via the link above):

Beneath the Surface: Nolan verse. Bruce meets a man and starts a relationship with him without realizing it's Joker.

Immediate and Morbid Curiosity: Nolan verse. Bruce is dining in a restaurant when he notices a man who looks just like Joker with no make-up. Joker sees him watching and develops his own curiosity.

Repetitio Est Mater Studiorum: a classic. Batman relives the same day (mostly with Joker) and tries to do something to change their relationship and its fatal destination.

Half-Way Across: it's also a classic, so I'm sure anyone in this fandom read it. Joker agreeing to be rehabilitated.

Made for the Journey: Apocalypse AU, with Batman and Joker unable to let each other go.

Somewhere between Love and Abuse: Joker falling for Bruce Wayne.

[psalmsofpsychosis]

David advocating for batjokes is so cathartic bc i remember ages ago some were suggesting that gotham!batjokes wasn't really a two-hander and only Cameron was playing up the tragic love arc (which is crazy because david has talked about Jeremiah loving bruce before the ace chem episode dropped and the fact that he literally plays Bruce as though he's on the verge of crying in every other scene he has with post-reveal Jeremiah but okay)

I need to hear these two guys idea dumping on each other while filming season 5

postgrad David and Cameron are dream Gotham blunt rotation for real because i geniunely think they're both incredibly delightful and unhinged and strange individuals and i also think that they both knew what they were doing.

Like, putting it into context— Cameron was just coming off 11 years of Shameless US, jesus christ. He was a gayism veteran at that point, he knew what the tone oh his plot was, of course he was going to act it that way and talk about it that way. But also, David was a 16 years old kid. Like, i dont know what indepth philosophical nuance people expected him to bring to the table, he was a fucking child at the time, teens take things lightly, it's what they do. But still it's an insane, insane thing to me that some people thought that gotham!batjokes is an unintended one sided narrative because, as you yourself said, David's acting is incredibly deliberate and distinct, Bruce's body language is a whole world of its own when it comes to Miah, and we're not even talking about the plot points. So i think that in the specific S5 time frame he played it more intuitively and less philosophically like Cameron did, and he didn't necessarily have a grown up's vocabulary around the narrative, i honestly didn't expect him to. But now that he's older and has had time away from the clutches of DC and also more years on him, he's came back full force. His analysis and understanding of Joker is on point, and he took extra care to really highlight where his priorities lie in a "Joker Essey" video by sticking the fucking "only Batman would go to this length to find the good in Joker, because he's his one true love" comment sticker right on top. There was no reason for him to highlight that comment, or draw any attention to it at all, if he wasn't aboard the batjokes train of hell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and man does it heal me to the bone, i'm just so glad to know that everybody has been on the same page all along, it shows on screen and offscreen

[canonrpfinder]

Hi! I'm Steven, this is my first time doing fandom rp so be patient with me pls!

-I'm a 22 year old bi trans man. I'm very t4t, and I have many many trans headcanons :3c

-I'm looking for ship roleplay, primarily smut so 18+ is a must!

-I'm strictly into being the top, and I prefer to be dominant (not against the idea of subbing completely tho!)

-My timezone is CT, and I work in the early mornings three days a week (usually Tues, Thurs, & Fri) so I never stay up very late. If I'm not responding, I'm probably asleep 💔

-I'm a perfectionist so I may sit and agonize over my writing for a while, but I can put out a lot of content if I'm invested enough... (I have severe ADHD lol)

-I can set aside an hour or more per session, depending on my schedule.

-Expect a few paragraphs at a time from me, with (mostly!) proper grammar and spelling. I prefer to write in the third person.

-I can adapt to whatever rp style you'd prefer, just let me know ur preferences.

-I'm currently the most invested in Gravity Falls (mostly Billford but I like Billstan, Fiddauthor, and Fiddlestan a lot too!) I can rp as any of those characters, but I'm best at Ford or Bill.

-I also really like Batjokes, primarily from the comics, most animated series, the Lego movie, the Telltale games, and the Arkham games. I'm comfortable playing either character.

-I adore Deadpool ships, particularly Spideypool, Poolverine, and Cablepool, in that order. I can play Peter, but I'm the best at playing Wade.

-I love Dungeon Meshi, particularly Labru (I have a really good idea for a transhet fic of them...(transfem Laios is the loml)) I prefer playing Kabru, but I can play as Laios, too.

-There's many more fandoms I'm interested in/would wanna rp for, but these are my current biggest hyperfixations. Lmk if you wanna see a bigger list !

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[laughing-batz]

Some old man batjokes art to celebrate my new blog 🎉

There’s isn’t like any The Dark Knight Returns batjokes art so guess who’s making it happen!!