there's room in this line of work for hope, too

they added another luftballon while you were sleeping

i know we probably all know this but to be clear ilya is walking through the door shane is holding open for him carrying absolutely nothing and talking dramatically with his hands in an aggressively slavic manner while shane also carries his bags, his hopes, his dreams, and his entire life

I do think the circus wasn’t like. The greatest operation just considering everything about it and I do think the animal welfare situation was probably dubious. And Dick will sometimes think back on it and get uneasy about it but crucially he would never actually acknowledge those flaws for the same reason he will never say ‘maybe I shouldn’t have been on the trapeze at four’ because that would taint his rose-tinted memories of his childhood with his parents. If he acknowledges the elephant’s situation he’s opening the door to acknowledging his own which he simply cannot do. In a sense Dick is the elephant

goshhhh I love that hudson plays show!shane as way more emotionally vulnerable than book!shane. show!shane is always rolling over and showing ilya his soft underbelly (often without even realizing it) and ilya is always like AAA AAAAAAAA YOU CAN’T DO THAT YOU CAN’T LET PEOPLE SEE YOU FEEL and then shane’s big brown eyes start getting all shiny/wet with tears and his bottom lip wobbles a little and ilya is like well now I have to kms. or take care of you forever. AGH

i do think. hmmm like one of the greatest gifts bruce wayne (unintentionally) bequeathed upon his children is the ability to return to grief without drowning. you can run from gotham forever and a day in one direction, out past the harbour north and over the bridge and up through new york and conneticut only to turn and find yourself still tethered to the clocktower, the bay, the park and downtown, with the manor sitting squat on the horizon. you always turn around because it is in your nature to look for that grief, to see if it still follows you (it does) and if it will ever truly leave (it won’t) and if you might one day wish it gone (you can’t). says orpheus: at length i yielded, won by mighty love! so you find the circus and the valley and the hallway of your father’s house and that man’s office and a cave of blood and your mother’s empty smile and rather than swallowing you whole it instead welcomes your return. to gotham, to yourself before the grief, during and after. you turn to see yourself, to see others, to see the dead and dying. here is how you transform loss. here is how something truly terrible can change the world and act to prevent it happening again. here is the meaning of the suit. this is what it means to save a life. so says orpheus: i wish to be able to endure nor shall deny that i tried; love conquers!

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

@stealingyourbones

@jasontoddsguns this is entirely because of your PFP and because I thought you'd find this fascinating.

everyone who reblogs this and is like "I ordered my own tea this week" or "I only barfed once when I had to give a presentation'- you are doing amazing sweetie. Have patience with yourself, you are relearning a skill so difficult that people get 4 year degrees to do it professionally.