#soooooo normal about

[faithinlouisfuture]

[bubblingsteam]

Oh my god... they were gamers

First post wooo

[vechter]

the trees witness everything, victoria chang // batman: dark victory (1999) #13 // robin: year one (2000) #1 // light, sleeping at last // jla (1997) #69 // batman (2016) #130 // light, sleeping at last // batman (2016) #54 // moony moonless sky, fatima aamer bilal // jla (1997) #73 // batman (1940) #416 // robin (1993) #13 // checkmate (2006) #14 // the two times i loved you the most in a car, dorothea grossman // batman: gotham knights (2000) #21 // outsiders (2003) #49 // robin 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular (2020) // robin in a cage, george ralston wyllie // poetry, richard siken

bruce & dick + (mis)communication

[chaikachi]

"If there was anything I wish I could borrow from you Ruby, it would be your certainty..."

[pterosounds]

Chappell Roan @ Outer Harbor, Buffalo, NY - 5/24/24

[serendippertyy]

lovebug and lovebird, respectively 🪰🪽

[arcademyth]

this is my favorite star rail ship dynamic

[themostuselesspotato]

Have a Nastya from my history class bc she's fun to draw :)

[qiankunnies]

Ten — 【TEN - The First Mini Album】 Teaser Image #5: 'Nightwalker'

[rookdaw]

monster X monster hunter

[conartisthaiji]

honestly the real wind breaker experience is just wailing "HE HAD NO FRIENDS!!!!!!!" any time sakura's like wait. why are people being nice to me.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

STAY STRONG GAYMERS WE'RE ALMOST THERE

[vechter]

dick grayson & bruce wayne: on partnership

bruce's audio log: log entry bt-70, gotham knights // year one: batman/scarecrow (2005) #2 // grayson (2014) #5 // amsterdam vallon, gangs of new york // batman (1940) #156 // unknown // tales of the teen titans (1984) #50 // it'll all work out, phoebe bridgers // batman (1940) #438 // antigone, sophocles (translated by paul woodruff) // batman and robin (2011) #34 // batman/nightwing: bloodborne (2002) // batman (1940) #156 // robin & batman (2021) #3 // grief slut, evelyn berry // almost touching by @hannahlockillustration (x) // tales of the teen titans (1984) #50 // unknown // batman (1940) #590 // batman (1940) #439 // the secret history, donna tartt // batman/nightwing: bloodborne (2002) // oranges, roisin kelly // robin & batman (2021) #3 // batman: gotham knights (2000) #14 // bruce's audio log: log entry bt-70, gotham knights

[nirby-wirby]

Mentally I’m still here. What do you mean their shared greatest desire was to be married and in love and have a family together?? They had a whole life together, lived a dream that was mutual and beautiful and was almost too difficult for them to leave behind. And then. And THEN. They just chalked it up to be Monarch and the akuma’s influence and never spoke of it again???

[ratatatastic]

Vanha Kauppahalli date: en full, a 2 minute 50 second masterpiece...

Primetime Panthers | 11.6.24 (x)

[incesthemes]

god i just love heart. it's such a good episode. sam doesn't want madison to die because madison is an allegory for himself and sam does not want to die. he doesn't want to be a monster. he sees himself in madison and he desperately wants her to be good because if she is good then so too, maybe, is he. and killing madison is admitting that there's no hope for him and that he can't be saved.

what's particularly thrilling about this episode though is the way this allegory interacts with dean, and particularly the developing relationship between sam and dean.

namely, sam refuses to let dean be the one to kill madison. he takes up the mantle and expressly disallows dean from being there when the bullet is fired. throughout the episode, even, dean is sent on the wild goose chase while sam stays close to madison. and oftentimes, these chases are initiated by sam, who urges dean to follow the trail. it comes off, in the end, as if sam is trying to actively prevent dean from interfering with what he needs to do. which is, ultimately, to kill madison.

when sam begs dean not to be the one who kills madison, he is ultimately talking about himself. the message of the episode is that he doesn't want dean to kill him. this is a striking difference from playthings, where sam begged dean to kill him. sam spends much of this span of time between the two episodes grappling with the depth of dean's love and his fears of the inevitable (his own monstrosity). and the turning point of these episodes appears to be the direct midpoint between 2x11 and 2x17, born under a bad sign—it's where dean insists that he will save sam no matter what happens. and from then on, sam's fears turn from the inevitability of his monstrosity to the desperate hope that dean will, in fact, save him. his dependence on dean for stability and hope is growing, and he comes to trust in dean as the only person on earth who can save him from the promise of the monster.

madison is therefore a conduit through which this discussion about their fate is had: if dean is successful in killing madison, then it becomes a confirmation of sam's fears. if dean kills madison, he is killing sam. he's going back on his promise to sam. it's a betrayal of the highest degree, and sam must prevent that at any cost. and so he disarms dean and sends him away from madison, never lets him get too close. and in the end, when he realizes his efforts were futile, he kills madison himself. metaphorically, he kills himself before dean can do it for him, which is a subversion of fate in itself. he may not be able to prevent the monster, but he can destroy it with his own power, and destiny will be thwarted because dean's hands will be clean.

and as such, this is a microcosm, a foreshadowing, of swan song. where the metaphor becomes real and the monster inside of sam is indeed killed by sam's own hands, leaving dean's bloodless. more than anything, 2x17 heart insists, sam will not let fate run its course. if he can't prevent his own fate, then he will prevent dean's. so he kills madison; so he throws himself into the pit. it's the ultimate act in service of the brother and therefore the ultimate act against destiny. and well i just think that's neat.