Awkward Blonde Gaylien

I'm gonna run y'all through a brief list of plotpoints and I am not making up a single one of these. And I want to preface this by saying each of these plotpoints are all just from ONE SEASON of this show

The Penguin gets electro-shocked into being a good person, Alex DeLarge from Clockwork Orange style and during this time he meets his long lost dad. His dad loves the fact his son is a "Dashing gangland kingpin" and is all set to leave him the entire family fortune which pisses off his dads gold-digging wife and awful children. So his step sister tries to fuck him to get him to keep them in the will. When this doesn't work his step-brother offers to try and fuck him next. The step-mother, not willing to follow in the footsteps of Corey Chase, comes to the conclusion that re-enacting the plot of a Families Tied porn scene ISN'T going to work and so she instead poisons her husband to death and she and her kids make Oswald their live in cook. When he finds out he MURDERS HIS STEP SIBLINGS, COOKS THEM AND FEEDS THEM TO HIS STEP-MOTHER

Michelle Gomez shows up for two episodes as an assasin talent scout that operates out of a crime lord lesbian bar and she sends a face eating cannibal to try and kill Jim Gordon

Jim Gordon's ex wife becomes a supervillain who ends up in a bisexual polyamorous relationship with a BDSM assasin and her brother (God there's so much incest and cannibalism in this show it's like an episode of Game of Thrones...or a gathering of the RNC), a supervillain with an ancient grudge against the Wayne Family who wants to use a string of false flag supervillain terror attacks to get himself elected mayor. Jim Gordon LITERALLY HELPS A CRIME LORD MURDER HIM. However, the batshit insane mad scientist who is the head of Arkham Asylum resurrects him as a nigh-unkillable zombie assasin that's been brainwashed to believe he's a Holy Warrior of the Order of Azrael, a Knight Templar cult. This leads to him going on a killing spree as said unkillable zombie soldier. He dies for the second time when the Penguin shows up on the lawn of Wayne Manor out of nowhere with a rocket launcher, blows him up and then just peaces out

The show basically deciding sometime halfway through season two that it didn't want to be a crime drama about Jim Gordon but would instead like to be a black comedy about Gotham's villains was honestly such a good call <3

the more it just embraced being fuckin insane the better it got :D

And yeah, the show deciding to make Penguin and Riddler a Toxic Yaoi supervillain couple was CHEFS KISS <3

There WAS an Alfred series that was indeed him working to bring down a fascist dystopian government in Britain that seemed like it was heavily "inspired" by V for Vendetta

(Count Olaf voice) Inspired is a BIG BIG word that means "please don't sue us Alan Moore"

And yeah it was indeed set in the same universe as Gotham

Genuine plot point in this show: Riddler falls for a woman who looks like his Sexy Dead Girlfriend and Penguin has her killed because he's jealous which sparks a supervillain feud between the two. At one point when he thinks Penguin is dead the Riddler gets high as balls so he can hallucinate Penguin because he misses him. At another point Penguin has the Riddler FROZEN IN ICE so he can gayze at him like a weird frozen trophy

"What if we kissed during a supervillain gang war caused by me killing your Sexy Dead Girlfriends doppleganger...and we're both guys....

hahaha just kidding

UNLESS....."

Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny reinterpret this cartoon first published in German magazine Lustige Blätter in 1932:

bitches talkin’ shit

actin’ like they can’t act tough

when it’s time to fight

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.