a well maintained enrichment enclosure

I do think the circus wasn’t like. The greatest operation just considering everything about it and I do think the animal welfare situation was probably dubious. And Dick will sometimes think back on it and get uneasy about it but crucially he would never actually acknowledge those flaws for the same reason he will never say ‘maybe I shouldn’t have been on the trapeze at four’ because that would taint his rose-tinted memories of his childhood with his parents. If he acknowledges the elephant’s situation he’s opening the door to acknowledging his own which he simply cannot do. In a sense Dick is the elephant

can i stick my tongue in your guilt complex

i do think it’s important that “batman & robin” as a type of relationship is like, a major and distinct thing. that’s a type of relationship independent of fatherly or brotherly or what have you. i also think thats partly what makes his relationship with cass so interesting (when they bother to write it!) because she’s his daughter but never his robin and that’s really special and unique compared to the way he relates to and talks to all the other of his Children

truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.