maddie

Thinking of this comic I illustrated, written by @elizabethminkel, about how formative the character of Rupert Giles was to her as teen, in light of Anthony Head’s passing </3

I was going to dig up the link for this, too—thank you!! 😭 (And thank you again for immortalizing my little fandom origin story with such beautiful art. He looks perfect!!)

"i asked chatgpt" ok well i asked the batcomputer and it gave me the quickest route, with no freeways

rough drafting it here but i think Batman has a special connection to the concept of child sidekicks in a way that defies modern feelings about child soldiers because he was the child who lost everything and felt he needed to make a change in the world but was denied the agency and choice to do anything. child Bruce would have fit right in with any of the Robins if he'd had a Batman and it's the fact that he didn't that ultimately drives him to extend the choice he never got. it was never about soldiers or "refusing to protect the children from themselves," it is, within the acceptable morality of the genre, respecting a child's personhood and ability to make decisions for themselves and giving them opportunities their adult never had. it's why you can't take the Robins away from Batman without significantly changing the character, because Batman was born from child Bruce's most heartfelt wish to be able to DO something about all the injustice in the world and so to deny other children that is to deny himself

Possessed Will but it's demo dogs coming up to nuzzle into Mike because it's all a hivemind and it's linked to what Will thinks and feels

Ryland Grace, canonical haver of no immediate family members, focal point of the of goslingverse family, you are so famous to me

multiples of 5 are honorary even numbers to me. does anyone else feel this