SomeStoryThoughts

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

we were just as smart then as we are now

Danny gets turned into a goose, and instead of trying to fix it, he goes to Gotham and plays the untitled goose game irl.

He makes objections and keeps them in a little backpack. He also sings honk honk revolution in his downtime.

“What’s the situation,”Batman grunts, and Jim sighs.

“There’s… “ Jim starts, seemingly unsure of how to explain,”there’s this…goose.”

“….a goose?”

He could easily get around the spell by turning into his ghost half - the spell only binds humans, after all, but this is so much more fun!

And, well, Clockwork DID ask him to track down that cursed city and see what was up with it... might as well be incognito while he's there.

Danny figures out really quickly that there's at least 7 different curses actively fighting each other for dominance over Gotham. To dismantle one would throw off the delicate balance that they hold, meaning that they would all need to be dismantled simultaneously. Definitely not something he can do by himself.

What Danny CAN do, though, is collect all the stray cursed items that literally litter the entire city. Seriously, he can't seem to go a single block without stumbling across a new one. He finds a bright red toy trailer by a place called 'Amusement Mile' that has a portal to hell in it when the handle is lifted at a specific angle, and decides to store all of the cursed items he finds in there. When it gets too full, he can just lift the handle, and it'll become Leviathon's problem. That guy won't stop whining about souls anyway, so Danny figures that this'll give him something new to fixate on.

It's on his second day haunting the city when someone actively notices him. In Danny's defence, the people in Gotham are very good at ignoring things they don't want to see - how was he supposed to know that Commissioner Gordon and his daughter were out for lunch directly inside the window he was standing next to - it was mirrored glass!!

Meanwhile, Babs was enjoying a rare luncheon with her father when they happened to glance outside at a goose pulling a toy trailer down the road.

She stopped mid giggle when the goose lifted the handle, and a portal to hell swallowed the entire load of items.

Seeing as it was the King of the Infinite Realms who sent them finding that out was urgent. The Ghost King did seem to find their company irksome. Maybe Leviathon should send another message.

*Back in Gotham*

Danny *happy goose vibes* has managed to clear up a LOT of the cursed artifacts. And a few cool magical items he could use too! The rogues herealised REALLY hoarded the fun stuff. Now how to gift it to the local bats?

*later that night*

Bat man stated down at the goose. The goose stared back. It waddled slowly towards him and dropped a ring at his feet. Was, was the goose bribing him? The goose stared for a moment longer and then wadled off happily honking.

The debrief later made them conclude that the goose was most likely trying to befriend them, even while being a menace. The gifts they all received were well known protective magical items the goose seemed to have stolen from various rogues. Orphan was given an amulet that was known to aide a person with a cloak of shadows. Red hood a bracer that deflected bullets. Just, how smart was this goose?

I desire to make a another part to this if you would listen.

Eventually danny decideds to take a break and goes to metropolis for a week to cause more chaos.

Danny, being the goose he is, decideds the he hates Lex Luthor when Lex had a stare down with him and then called security to shoo him away.

Lex, on the other hand, has no idea way he felt like that goose was staring into his soul and he didn't like it, so he call security. He also doesn't like the stink eye the goose is now giving him from the top of a car.

Danny now spends the week relaxing, doing things geese shouldn't do infront of unprepared people, and targeting Lex Luthor specifically.

Lex is now regretting calling security on the goose as it aims for his head to be his landing spot. Eventually he gives in and the goose is very happy, and very loud.

Lois Lane knows theres something up with that goose she saw it read a newspaper, walk backwards and laugh while pointing at Luthor when he fell over trying to dodge it, but no one believes her, except clark.

Superman feels out of he depth as he doesn't now how to handle the goose and wonders if it's the same one from Gotham. (He is also lowkey intimidated by it as he had watched it eat kryptonite once)

Gothamist wondering where there goose went. (Some hopes it never comes back)

At some point the goose is found with a little black cape and a black bat paint on its chest and then proceeded to befriend a cat, a dog, a pigeon and a raccoon they also got vigilante caps, and masks and markings painted on them. The cat got a Spoiler, the dog got Nightwing, the pigeon got Red Robin, and the raccoon got red hood. Eventually they moved back to Gotham and meet a duck(who is actually dani) and the duck gets a robin costume.

Animal gang cosplay local vigilantes would make a killer headline. People would be frantic over this. The memes alone. Especially as Danny and Dani target their specific hero to 'help'.

Sam is the cat. Jazz is the dog. Tucker is the pigeon.

The raccoon is Dan who is on probation and heard about this. He decides this is something he has to be involved in. Luckily clockwork agreed.

Danny the Goose is cosplaying Batman! tiny mask and symbol with a tiny cape.

Dani the duck is Stabby Robin.

Dog Jazz is Spoiler.

Cat Sam is Batwoman.

Pigeon Tuck as Red Robin.

Racoon Dan as Red Hood.

They make a point of wandering around the area those vigilantes patrol most often. So Can is having the time of his unlife being a the feral sidekick to Red Hood. Hood found a raccoon dressed as him and laughed so hard he cried. Then the raccoon kept finding him, and fuck it. He has a new animal companion.

Batman is not so pleased by the Gose dressing up as him. Rude. He is not that unsociable. Right?

Damian adores his sidekick. Just so much. Duck!Robin is very good at helping in her own feral way!a

Red Robin didn't quite know what to make of he pigeon wearing his colours at first. And then it literally handed him the clue he needed to escape Riddler trap. He knows this pigeon has to be smarter than it appears. But Fuck it.New friend and a mystery to solve. Nice.

Spoiler and batwoman of course are enjoying their animal companions. Sure when they aren't helping them do their vigilante work they run off to cause chaos. But it's so much fun to watch! So much chaos!

She’s a bird. Maybe an eagle or a dove.

Perhaps like Ember found out, died laughing and demanded to be part of this with permission cause hey: people will know who she is if she does this right?

Now with more people, you think danny finally has enough hands to get rid of all the curses at once?

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They can certainly try!

Which leads to the bar clan seeing their animal friends performing a ritual? Well. A series of rituals. They start at Arkham. Gotta get rid of that set of curses first!

Then they have to work on the general miasma of fear and death. Allow it to dissipate. Which looks very much like their animal friends are magically cleaning the city. The next day the smog is lighter? What the hell?

And then they can tackle the big ones! The get Lady Gotham in to help them. As she has been a moderating influence on them for centuries. She is most pleased to help the Ghost King lessen the curses woven into her being.

Yes, Shabby duck with a tiny sword. Somehow wields it prefectly. Damian is VERY proud to have such a good companion.

Dan with his tiny raccoon hands. Using a comically oversized gun. Jason has never seen anything better. The way Dick sulks just makes it better.

Goose!Danny’s shenanigans are the villain origin story for a poor animal control employee.

The man just wants to do his job and becomes more and more unhinged as time goes on.

Due to various pranks played by Goose!Danny the animal control employee is looking more and more like a conglomeration of all of Batman’s rogues, but like the D list rogues from the camp era.

The worst part is this guy doesn’t even see himself as a rogue but has been embraced by the rogue community. Nothing he does can convince them he’s just a normal gothamite cursed to capture that evil goose and his little friends, he will not stop until he has that goose in his clutches.

Danny: Your worst nightmare

Bruce: Alfred getting married!?

Danny: .... I was going to say, I'm the boy you failed to save coming back to haunt you, but you know what? I'll do that instead.

Bruce: Do what?

Danny: Get your butler married

Bruce: Alfred would never marry a child

Danny: True, but he might be tempted by someone's rabid 25-year-old son!

Bruce: What?

Danny is making a quick phone call: Dan! I need you to come seduce a silver fox as an act of vengeance.

Dan: How silver are we talking?

Danny: If someone found this silver in a yard sale, they would make twenty million off of two dollars.

Dan: HOT DAMN THAT'S SOME GOOD SILVER. I'LL BE THERE SOON

Danny hanging up: You have a few days to make peace with this, Wayne. Soon, my brother will be your stepfather

Psychic dampeners basically don't work on you, you can still see through walls while under the influence of the stuff that puts normal psychics in comas

The daugther kidnapped Obi-Wan from some backwater planet to give him to the Jedi.

that 'Gifted to the river" idea, and what is a river surface but a moment in-between sinking and swiming?

[tags via : @heavenly-havoc]

A king parrot visited our verandah today!