The Zone

Dear Gobblepot fans! We're holding a Mini Fest for our favourite couple!

The rules are simple: whatever you write should be mainly about Jim and Oswald, and it shouldn't exceed 100 words. Yes, that's right - you don't need to come up with some elaborate plot, it can be simply a short scene or even just a single sentence if that's more your vibe.

As always, you can create anything else for the event if you feel like it, be it art or moodboards or playlists, let your fantasy fly free! You can make multiple entries too!

The event starts on June 22 and concludes on June 30, and we'll post a recap after.

Here are some prompts to help you come up with ideas:

Please mention us @gobblepotgazette so we'd see and reblog your creations!

Writing is not my thing so I made a drawing instead 🙈 Prompt: Kiss

ok, i forgive Jim everything when he reach out to Oswald and punches that man in the face. 

and Oswald climb to hug Jim right away when he saw him, what a baby 🥺

It’s particular important given the whole situation, too.  Yes - the Pax Penguina is partly Oswald capitalising on the lawlessness of the city after the Tetch virus - but it’s also a rebuke.  A rebuke, specifically, of Jim.  

Oswald might know, rationally, that the Tetch virus means that Jim was not in his right mind when Fish died.  But even after all their squabbles and betrayals and rifts - part of him still sees Jim as a hero.  He’s a protector, someone who will do the right thing.  Someone who - using an example from season 5 - would step between Oswald and an enemy pointing a loaded gun.

So even though he’s moved past Fish’s death (he never mentions it, never seeks revenge) - another part of him feels let down.  Jim the protector, Jim the hero, Jim the policeman he could trust - he failed him.

So, for me, Oswald’s Pax Penguina -  stepping into Jim’s shoes as the protector is a lashing-out, an accusation.  It’s as loud a covert declaration of hurt as he can manage.  I have to do this, because you didn’t. You failed me.  

This incident, though, shows the truth of the matter.  Under all that anger - Oswald still trusts him.

🧡 Saucy's (K)inktober 2025: Day 11🧡

(a new format of mine! 🥳 You could say he's my first 😉)