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You're seriously feeding my batlantern worms while I'm in irl crisis and love you for that sm
Also in my genuine thought of thoughts, in a context of Batlantern having been in love/together from the start, I think Hal would especially be close to Tim and Steph because they were the last of the Batkids he took care of with Bruce before his Parallax arc 💔 Imagine him coming back from the dead and the two of them simply don't want to talk to him anymore for completely different reasons, each boiling down to the fact that — "My first father figure already left/betrayed me, I didn't think you'd do that to me too"
— Yumi 🌪️
hehehe im so glad you're enjoying my brain has sort of locked in on them fr these last few days
aughhhh don't do this to meeeeee. I think personally of all the Batkid's Hal is closest with Duke, Steph and Damian bc Duke is BatLantern's child and I have no evidence for it but just yes, Steph is literally Hal reincarnated and Damian is literally Bruce reincarnated and none of it makes sense but it makes sense in my heart.
it really is significant to me that both the first and last books in the underland chronicles have gregor fully expecting to die. hell, he's even sure of that in book 2, and there might be stuff in 3 and 4 that I'm forgetting, but the bookends of it all really stands out to me.
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I lived and worked in a lighthouse at a previous job. There was a thick line painted in a circle around the shack where the fog signal was kept. The line represented how close you could get to the fog signal without experiencing physical harm in the form of eardrums shattering or worse.
Even in the house it was LOUD. Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval. You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off. It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.
At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks. People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.
One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit. It did. Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that. People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.
That said Id do it all again, I really do treasure those days
ROLAND ORZABAL’S Q QUESTIONNAIRE, 1995
Q: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
R: Put in my dentures and ask my valet to prepare my wardrobe.
Q: What was the first gig you went to?
R: Motorhead and AC/DC at the Bath Pavilion, 1976.
Q: What song do you wish you had written?
R: Creep by Radiohead.
Q: When did you last cry and why?
R: The James Bulger tragedy.
Q: What is your most treasured material possession?
R: Citroën DS23 Estate, banana yellow, French leather interior, fully reconditioned engine, £5000 or nearest offer.
Q: Who was the last person you slept with?
R: Bob Dylan.
Q: What do you think of Bob Dylan?
R: He’s no good in bed.
Q: What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
R: When brushing your teeth, don’t forget to brush your tongue.
Q: What characteristics do you think you’ve inherited from your parents?
R: My father’s rage and arrogance and my mother’s stern ability to go it alone.
Q: What is the biggest myth about fame?
R: That it can close the hole in the ozone layer, feed the starving and find a cure for AIDS.
Q: What are you like when you’re drunk?
R: Good company.
Q: Who would you have play you in a film?
R: Emma Thompson.
Q: Pick five words that describe yourself.
R: Purple, clairvoyant, Saturnine, martial and lunatic.
Q: Is there one piece of criticism that sticks in your mind?
R: I think the serious lack of stars in the Q review of Elemental has been the cause of paralysis in my right hand, making it virtually impossible for me to pick up a guitar nowadays.
Q: Do you believe in God?
R: No, I believe in Gods. I think the Greeks were much closer to the truth. I think there are forces which shape events and that the universe is basically amoral.
Q: What is your most unpleasant characteristic?
R: I have an uncanny knack of being able to wish ill upon people and witnessing the fruits of my labour.
Q: What is your greatest fear?
R: Becoming my father.
Q: What ambitions do you still have to fulfil?
R: I still have a yearning for becoming Minister Of Education in Puerto Rico.
Q: Are you afraid of failure?
R: No, I’m quite enjoying it at the moment.
Q: What do you never leave home without?
R: A knife.
Q: Who is your best male friend and your best female friend?
R: Prince Charles and Heidi Fleiss.
Q: Who would you most like to meet?
R: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Q: What music would you have played at your funeral?
R: Serenade To Music by Vaughan Williams.
Q: When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see?
R: If I’m naked and I haven’t eaten for a week.
Q: Do you have anything to declare?
R: Six Swiss watches, two bottles of Jack Daniel’s and 200 Silk Cut.
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I did Hal Loathes A Child but now we're gonna talk about Hal and his relationship with each of the Bat-Animals
Ace: Ace genuinely wants Hal dead and Hal wants Ace to be his best friend and they have a genuine and intense rivalry. I made a post about Dick hating Ace and Hal has along the same mindset. Ace is BRUCES dog and this Random Man who is taking up his Space and Time and sorta smells like him but not really is an Imposter and Should Not Be Trusted. Hal just wants the dog to love him, man
Titus: Titus and Hal are best of friends. The sort of relationship Hal wanted with Ace he gets with Titus. Imagine the most purest and truest forms of 'a boy with his dog' in any media and you will get what Hal and Titus have. Titus adores that man. He follows him around the Manor when he comes to visit, he does an adorable little 'woof' when he wants Hal's attention, his tail thumps against the floor aggressively whenever Hal looks at him, he is a goner for Hal and Hal frickin loves that dog. A big reason for it is because of Damian, because Damian wanted to show interest in his fathers newest 'fling' that wasn't going away and one of the ways he bonds with people is through animals, so. It's beautiful
Alfred(the cat): Alfred is hit or miss. Sometimes, if no one else is around, the cat will curl up on his lap and purr. Sometimes when Hal comes into the Manor after a really long and tiresome mission, he'll even wind himself around his legs in greeting. Sometimes. Hal isn't his favorite human by far, but he's a reliable one.
BatCow: BatCow has it out for Hal. In the same way Ace does but more like she's going to suffocate him with her affection. Hal steps one foot into the bat cave and immediately has to sprint for the stairs because otherwise a ten ton cow is running full speed at him and mooing like an overly excited puppy dog, about to slobber him full and sit on him until he physically fuses into her. She bites him. She licks him. That one dude on TikTok who tries (and fails) to cook with a cow in his kitchen? That's Hal and Batcow
Goliath: Goliath is like The Cool Cousin at family functions to Hal. He doesn't dislike Hal, he just doesn't put that much effort to be around him either. Sometimes they make eye contact and it almost looks like Goliath might not eat him and Hal swoons about it for a week.
Haley: Haley is Dick's dog and is not around Hal all that much, but she's just a lover. She is happy to see anyone no matter who, and Hal likes to think he's special but she just likes attention and as an Attention Whore himself, Hal is the one who gives it to her the most whenever Dick brings her to the Manor
I think that's the last of them... maybe. Anyway. That's Hal and the Batfam Menagerie. :P
if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.
I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.
Remember, a world where everyone stays in their own boxes and only writes about their own narrow demographic is straight up a goal for racists. If you ever find yourself attempting anti-racism so hard you've looped back to "functionally the same thing racists want", stop, take stock, and ask yourself where things went wrong.
I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.
I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.
I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples.
If you like something, tell people.
If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well.
Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two.
Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.
This is why I’ve gotten into the habit of leaving book reviews if I read something.
But yeah, tell creators you like their work if you can. They’ll like a kind comment! Even if it’s just a keysmash or a heart emoji! A heart emoji can mean the world to someone.
with all the cat fights and petty beef and exorbitant yearning in Simon and Garfunkel I think sometimes we forget how deeply serious the two of them are and the intensity of their beliefs
because what do you mean I'm watching The Harmony Game having a lovely old time thinking to myself 'aw find yourself someone who looks at you the way Art watches Paul when he's talking about Mozart turning 200 this year lol'
and then suddenly Art goes 'you know who else is turning 200? America.'
and the car grows quiet and both of their smiles fall a little and Paul bites his lip before saying, softly, 'think its gonna make it?'
oh where to even begin (I am by far not the leading authority on this topic but honestly I've wanted to do ts for a while now too)
~Reading this back I didn't do just 'theorized' songs I just did every song he wrote about Art lol and also the descriptions and my reasoning for it is all over the place so I apologize I am deeply tired but wanted desperately to do this :P
(based purely off the Simon and Garfunkel era for now)
Bleeker Street: "I saw a shadow touch another shadows hand" implied closeted relationship
Wednesday Morning 3 AM: They shared beds while on the road. People have frequently assumed he's referring to Art even though he states its a woman...mhm
Kathy's Song: this one is just like... allegedly it's based off of a poem that Art wrote for Kathy. There's just a lot to unpack with this one
I Am A Rock: "I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain" its a breakup song.
Homeward Bound: This one is less about the lyrics and more about the way Paul always looks at Art when they sing this song. "I wish I was homeward bound ... Home where my love lies waiting silently for me"
The Dangling Conversation: They both called this their favorite song when they first started singing it and now they refuse to play it. "And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your hand" once again the allusion to a closeted relationship because of society repression
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her: this song actually makes me mad because he says so often its about 'no one in particular' and actually not about a person but about the idealized vision of a relationship... boy don't piss me off. "I kissed your honey hair"
Overs: The song to follow For Emily, he once again said this was about the fall of the idealized relationship and Art said 'no yea it's about me' so.
Old Friends: I feel like this one is obvious
At The Zoo: now see, technically- technically, this song is not about Art and was never really theorized to be about Art but! The original demo version of this song is the most yearnful goddamn song I've ever heard and it is undoubtedly about Art. "Something tells me things have changed since I've been gone ... I long to - tuck you in and sing a gentle song but your eyes are filled with icicles your touch is bitter cold and I know that I've been on the road too long... too long now"
The Only Living Boy In New York: Both of them have come out and said this song is about him so... it's not theorized it's just fact but I figured I'd include it anyway???... erm
So Long Frank Lloyd Wright: I feel like this song deserves to be on the list because even Art himself didn't realize this song was about him even though like... dude C'mon. And Paul has come out and said it's about him by now I think, but he also yells "SO LONG ALREADY ARTIE" in a recording of it so that's like... a lil obvious too
Why Don't You Write Me: This is also not a theorized one this is just... expressively flamboyant.
Song For The Asking: Art has said this song is about him. Uh. Yeah
The Boxer: "After changes we are more or less the same" Originally I actually don't think this song was theorized to be about Art, but after the Concert In Central Park it became about Art.
I might come back and add his solo songs later but I fear that's even less my area of expertise so... uh yeah. I hope this was helpful but at the very least entertaining<3
Oh my gosh thank you for all the descriptions and everything! I haven’t hear anyone else mention that the boxer might be about him but after what you said, I can totally understand.
I also love how you included why don’t you write me because for me that one is obvious but I feel like it never gets talked about.
I also am WAY less educated on Paul’s solo stuff, which is why I made this after finding out that his song tenderness was about art.
I love all your descriptions, you are so good at putting things into words lol
You're very welcome and I'm so glad you enjoyed my crazed thoughts lol!!
The Boxer is inherently a romantic song even though there's not a note of romance in it that's just the way Paul Simon wrote it and how they sang it, and also at the end of the recording, buried beneath the last few 'la la lie's Art allegedly says 'I love you' so... yk..
(Also Why Don't You Write Me is such a Peak and dumb song and I will never not talk about it it's so stupid I love it)
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oh where to even begin (I am by far not the leading authority on this topic but honestly I've wanted to do ts for a while now too)
~Reading this back I didn't do just 'theorized' songs I just did every song he wrote about Art lol and also the descriptions and my reasoning for it is all over the place so I apologize I am deeply tired but wanted desperately to do this :P
(based purely off the Simon and Garfunkel era for now)
Bleeker Street: "I saw a shadow touch another shadows hand" implied closeted relationship
Wednesday Morning 3 AM: They shared beds while on the road. People have frequently assumed he's referring to Art even though he states its a woman...mhm
Kathy's Song: this one is just like... allegedly it's based off of a poem that Art wrote for Kathy. There's just a lot to unpack with this one
I Am A Rock: "I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain" its a breakup song.
Homeward Bound: This one is less about the lyrics and more about the way Paul always looks at Art when they sing this song. "I wish I was homeward bound ... Home where my love lies waiting silently for me"
The Dangling Conversation: They both called this their favorite song when they first started singing it and now they refuse to play it. "And I only kiss your shadow, I cannot feel your hand" once again the allusion to a closeted relationship because of society repression
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her: this song actually makes me mad because he says so often its about 'no one in particular' and actually not about a person but about the idealized vision of a relationship... boy don't piss me off. "I kissed your honey hair"
Overs: The song to follow For Emily, he once again said this was about the fall of the idealized relationship and Art said 'no yea it's about me' so.
Old Friends: I feel like this one is obvious
At The Zoo: now see, technically- technically, this song is not about Art and was never really theorized to be about Art but! The original demo version of this song is the most yearnful goddamn song I've ever heard and it is undoubtedly about Art. "Something tells me things have changed since I've been gone ... I long to - tuck you in and sing a gentle song but your eyes are filled with icicles your touch is bitter cold and I know that I've been on the road too long... too long now"
The Only Living Boy In New York: Both of them have come out and said this song is about him so... it's not theorized it's just fact but I figured I'd include it anyway???... erm
So Long Frank Lloyd Wright: I feel like this song deserves to be on the list because even Art himself didn't realize this song was about him even though like... dude C'mon. And Paul has come out and said it's about him by now I think, but he also yells "SO LONG ALREADY ARTIE" in a recording of it so that's like... a lil obvious too
Why Don't You Write Me: This is also not a theorized one this is just... expressively flamboyant.
Song For The Asking: Art has said this song is about him. Uh. Yeah
The Boxer: "After changes we are more or less the same" Originally I actually don't think this song was theorized to be about Art, but after the Concert In Central Park it became about Art.
I might come back and add his solo songs later but I fear that's even less my area of expertise so... uh yeah. I hope this was helpful but at the very least entertaining<3
sometimes ill write things that are tooth shatteringly honest and horrible and revealing and ill read it back and go 'huh. I didn't realize that this is about me'
and other times ill write things that are tooth shatteringly honest and horrible and revealing and ill read it back and feel like im just watching someone else experience everything even though it came from me and my mind and my head and those are my thoughts on the page and I know its about me
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