Bats? in MY Belfry?

I might have misread snooter and thought "oh, I suppose he could have a scooter. He's going to race after the pumpkin carriage with his trusted Vespa."

It includes:

A digital copy of the movie (with English soft subtitles)

My transcript of the movie (more on that here)

Audio recordings of the movie

A PDF of the book

An EPUB of the book (for e-readers)

The full audiobook

A copy of Andy Weir's doc on Eridians

A copy of Andy Weir's spreadsheet on Astrophage physics (among many other things!)

A draft of the screenplay for the film from 2022

An audio recording of the director's commentary

My transcript of the director's commentary

The subtitle SRT file

The audiobook, audio recordings, and commentary all have their properties programmed so they (should) work just like songs with a track number, album cover, artist, and so on if you download them.

There are two audios of the movie, one is the entire film untouched and one is that same audio cut up and broken down into separate scenes for convenience.

Additionally, there are two versions of the movie transcript, one with time stamps that match the audio recording and one without. The time stamps (+ their titles from the audio) are outlined in that version, so if you double-click on that tab or click "show outline," they'll all show up and you can pick a specific scene.

Similiarly, there are two different versions of the director's commentary transcript. The first is made to listen along to the commentary, while the second is more intended to be read on its own. The first is a direct transcription of everything that's said (an attempt, at least), while the second is slightly cleaned up for easier reading, meaning things like jumbled sentences and stuttering were removed or reorganised, but nothing has been actually paraphrased. Both are broken down into different scenes based on how their conversation goes, and the listening version includes timestamps. 

The first few seconds of the commentary are missing unfortunately as my US friend who was kind enough to record it for me had some technical difficulties at the start, but the she paraphrased the part that was missed. The commentary starts at that first red shot of Ryland Grace's face in the coma suit 32 seconds into the digital copy.

There's also a google doc with some instructions to follow if any of the files aren't working, which usually happens when too many people try to access or download something at the same time.

There is now only a digital copy with English subtitles instead of a telesync with English soft subtitles and a digital copy with Russian hard subtitles as I was able to track down a digital file without those hard subtitles. It's also much smaller, at just under two gigabytes instead of the telesync's nine and the previous digital copy's three and a half.

A lot of this is conjecture. But, I like thinking about how they tackle their own morality.

Superman is obvious: he’s good. He’s strongly good - a golem-like figure who values life and love and humanity. He fights to preserve those things, because he believes in them, even if they don’t follow the law to the letter.

Batman, on the other hand… he’s good. More or less. But the law is what guides him. He follows rules and guidelines, even though he, himself, is doing so illegally. He does what’s right in his eyes, and in his eyes, the law is right. He doesn’t fight because he believes in love, life, and humanity. He fights because he believes in the law.

It’s like Batman, having gone through too much, just shut out his thoughts about the matter. He’s avoiding any ambiguity about his decisions by following the Law, because the Law is a set of definite rules with a right and wrong answer. It makes it so easy: there are people who break the law. They are bad. There are people who follow the law. They are good. He is protecting the good and attacking the bad. It’s so simple like that; so relieving. But, what is he, now? What is something with no beliefs, that follows the law, that is made to be pointed and shot at the Bad in order to protect the Good?

@cdpdoodler aaawgwhwhwghshwhw tysm I am cryinf 😭

I’m so glad you agree!! I’ve had a lot of things on my mind lately but I wouldn’t mind delving back into this AU and my super/Batman HCs if ppl like them ^^”

I think that his view of himself as a “good person” affects how Batman uses rescission making. In this world, at least, he kind of *doesn’t* view himself as a good person, likely because he couldn’t save his parents as a boy. Hell, nowadays he barely considers himself a person at all. So he made himself into a crime fighter with all the capacity for good, but none of the moral agency, Whereas Superman is kind of like the platonic ideal of what Bats could be; *wants* to be, but could never achieve. Because Superman is a good person.

Now, with the usual backstory it’s extremely obvious that there was nothing that Bruce could do to actually save his parents. He was like, 8. But in this AU I kind of want to write it in a way that Bruce actually could have done something, but made a mistake, and it cost his parents their lives. Something small, some mistake a little kid would make, but a mistake nonetheless - one with disaster plus consequences. Now he’s so afraid of making the wrong decision that he doesn’t trust himself with any at all.

Dorian had a line about twenty years of work going down the drain. he also says that Tygrus is not his first attempt at a human/animal hybrids?? so even if we assume he meant slightly more than twenty years Tygrus is still probably barely 20 at most. he's like Dick's age. wtf. (I know he probably matured faster than a normal human would cause cat genetics but my god.) he refers to Dorian as his father, Batman assumes he was made in a test tube (and he's probably right) but even so like ???? did he raise him. how fast did he age. does he know how to read. he knows how to talk, what other skills did he learn from his father.

and then there's fucking Garth. who I think we're meant to assume was born human and forcibly altered, like Selina? he wears clothes. why does he get clothes but Tygrus doesn't 😭😭. it's also equally plausible that he was created as a monkey/human hybrid, no cat DNA whatsoever, since it is mentioned Dorian experimented on other primates before his retirement. but he's a lot more human-passing, a lot less feral than how Tygrus and even Selina in her half-cat form behave. who is he. where did he come from. I don't think he ever calls Dorian "father" and his design makes me think that he's closer to middle aged ?? was he just a guy?? why doesn't he grapple with his humanity. how long has he been working for Dorian. was it willingly?? is he just a furry hired goon that was down for whatever as long as he got to be monkey? Where did Batman take him. did he put him in prison. what is the ethical way to punish a half ape man criminal.

And then at the end??? Tygrus hands his father over to Batman bc he figures that Batman will help him?? and also opts to stay on the secluded island with the burning remains of his father's lab??? does he just live out the rest of his life as a wild animal? He's clearly capable of sentient thought. does he resent his humanity? does he resent his creator? Batman says Dorian has to be punished for his genetic crimes- do you think Tygrus sees himself as an affront to nature. does he have internalized furryphobia

A lot of this is conjecture. But, I like thinking about how they tackle their own morality.

Superman is obvious: he’s good. He’s strongly good - a golem-like figure who values life and love and humanity. He fights to preserve those things, because he believes in them, even if they don’t follow the law to the letter.

Batman, on the other hand… he’s good. More or less. But the law is what guides him. He follows rules and guidelines, even though he, himself, is doing so illegally. He does what’s right in his eyes, and in his eyes, the law is right. He doesn’t fight because he believes in love, life, and humanity. He fights because he believes in the law.

It’s like Batman, having gone through too much, just shut out his thoughts about the matter. He’s avoiding any ambiguity about his decisions by following the Law, because the Law is a set of definite rules with a right and wrong answer. It makes it so easy: there are people who break the law. They are bad. There are people who follow the law. They are good. He is protecting the good and attacking the bad. It’s so simple like that; so relieving. But, what is he, now? What is something with no beliefs, that follows the law, that is made to be pointed and shot at the Bad in order to protect the Good?

@cdpdoodler aaawgwhwhwghshwhw tysm I am cryinf 😭

I’m so glad you agree!! I’ve had a lot of things on my mind lately but I wouldn’t mind delving back into this AU and my super/Batman HCs if ppl like them ^^”

I think that his view of himself as a “good person” affects how Batman uses rescission making. In this world, at least, he kind of *doesn’t* view himself as a good person, likely because he couldn’t save his parents as a boy. Hell, nowadays he barely considers himself a person at all. So he made himself into a crime fighter with all the capacity for good, but none of the moral agency, Whereas Superman is kind of like the platonic ideal of what Bats could be; *wants* to be, but could never achieve. Because Superman is a good person.

Now, with the usual backstory it’s extremely obvious that there was nothing that Bruce could do to actually save his parents. He was like, 8. But in this AU I kind of want to write it in a way that Bruce actually could have done something, but made a mistake, and it cost his parents their lives. Something small, some mistake a little kid would make, but a mistake nonetheless - one with disaster plus consequences. Now he’s so afraid of making the wrong decision that he doesn’t trust himself with any at all.

bonus batman creature bc i actually rlly like how it came out 😭😭

Can we have ONE FUCKING DAY where some aliens or robots or giant monkeys or some shit don't destroy every highway in Metropolis. My fucking god I am trying to get to work

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Actually this is so real I work in an insurance agency in Metropolis and the rates are INSANE. Like its crazy out here. Turns out if you have a cataclysmic infrastructure-upending event every month it makes insurance companies overwork TF outta their employees.

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If only there was some tech billionaire based in Metropolis that could donate a fraction of his enormous wealth to fund Metropolis repair teams and not leave the city to fix itself with volunteers. or even invent something that isn't a fucking MILITARY WEAPON for once??

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@Bababooeyy Another so-called "progressive" tumblrite defaming a self-made POC businessman because they're racist against rich people. Maybe there's a reason you're still dirt-sucking poor 💅

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LMAOOO WHAT

🧙‍♂️Nightynightart Follow

HELLO????

😈 Bababooeyy Follow

My brother in christ you are on the hating rich people website. What are you doing here

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@Lexusnova almost exclusively reblogs random trans people's posts and demands they "debate" him BTW. Also hes flagged with Shinigami eyes so

🧙‍♂️Nightynightart Follow

LMAOOO GET FUCKED

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Also, self-made????? Motherfucker he is from a rich ass family. Nothing about him is self made!!! he INHERITED all his shit. he might as well be fucking Bruce Wayne the amount of shit he gives about his parents' company.

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Lex Luthor fucking Bruce Wayne??? 😳😳😳

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I CANT BELIEVE HES GONE </3