The Riddler hijacks the local TV airwaves and appears onscreen holding a comically long roll of paper. After dramatically clearing his throat, he proceeds to read from it.
“The following is a list of people who can suck it. Number One: The Joker. I don’t think I need to explain that one. Number Two: Cluemaster. Fuck you, you stole my bit, and I will be like a plague unto your house. Number Three: King Tut. You also stole my bit, but did it while killing people and got me arrested for murder. Also, I’m, like, 93% sure you’re a white guy and your costume is racist.
“Number Four: The Scarecrow. I know you ate my leftover Chinese, Jon, even though I wrote my name on it. I was saving that for lunch. I had to eat a goddamn peanut butter and jelly sandwich like a five-year-old. It was all you had in the hideout. For fuck’s sake, go shopping, not all of us can live like a bridge troll.
“Number Five: The Penguin. You- No, no, wait, wait… That one should be crossed out. He replaced that and apologized. Never mind, Oswald, you’re fine. Drinks at 7:00 tomorrow, right?
“Anyway, where was…? Ah, yes. Number Six: The Mad Hatter. You carded me and left me like that for six hours because I, and I quote, ‘would not stop talking about Mythbusters.’ Well, excuse me for trying to make intellectually stimulating conversation on a level you could understand. I suppose every time you prattle on about mome raths and borogoves it’s goddamn Shakespeare? Well… Well, it’s Carroll, but… Oh, you know what I mean!
“Number Seven: Catwoman. You left me hanging by one hand from a ledge five stories up and holding a twenty-pound bag of jewels and very pointy
objets d’art while you ‘distracted’ the Dark Knight. I know you were making out with him, Selina. You were gone for fifteen minutes. My shoulder almost dislocated. Very unprofessional.
“Number Eight: Kite Man.”
Here the Riddler pauses, lifting his narrowed gaze to glare at the camera, voice dropping to an ominous tone.
“You know what you did…”
His demeanor shifts quickly, and he’s back to reading from his list almost cheerfully.
“Number Nine! Th-”
He’s interrupted by a crashing noise in the background and looks over his shoulder just an instant before a deep voice angrily growls, “Riddler!”
“Oh, for the love of-” He turns to glare at the camera, speaking quickly. “Number Nine: Batman! Interrupting me while I’m on television making very important- Hm-mmph!”
He’s reduced to muffled curses as a black gloved hand covers his mouth and pulls him out of frame. The camera tilts, a cracking noise is heard, and the broadcast turns to static.
KITE MAN’S CRIMES WERE NUMEROUS AND TERRIBLE
If I were batman I’d give him like a five minute warning, because this actually sounds theraputic.
Batman: Riddler, you’ve hijacked the TV airwaves and you know that’s wrong but I think this is actually theraputic. So I’m giving you five minutes, and then I’m taking you to Arkham
Robin: Geez get a facebook account for this crap, hell if you wanna vent to millions of strangers just get youtube.
“RIDDLER YOU CAN’T JUST GO ON TV AND SCREAM AT PEOPLE
THAT’S WHAT YOUTUBE IS FOR”
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Something that has been bothering since the first reviews of Wonder Woman came out. Critics loved the movie, they love Diana (of course, I mean) and especially they loved her character development and delivered many important messages without “forcing an agenda”.
With development, they meant – Diana’s save paradise place, actually being quite confident, leaving it to be introduced to mankind, her naivety is funny, of course, but doesn’t have the “Born Sexy Yesterday”-Trope, the more she sees how double-sided men are, the more she questions everything and gets more confident in what she wants to do instead of what others tell her to do because she is able to do that. She realizes although there is both dark and good side in each human being, love is the only to fight it (be it romantic, be it a family, friends etc.)
They loved that. It was great, that’s true.
But this is the exact same thing, that Clark has gone through. That Bruce has gone through. Surely it was a bit different here but they all had the safe space™ where they came from (Clark from his farm in Kansas, Bruce from the wealth of his parents), were forced into the double-sided coin of mankind (i.e. meeting a threat but getting to know people that would support them somehow), struggling with both believing in good in people and making a decision to do something evil or staying good (Bruce and Clark killing each other, though they fight for the same thing). We had Man Of Steel and Batman v Superman to show this from Clark’s POV and partly Bruce’s POV, most people know Bruce’s history as Batman so far (especially with the hint of Jason’s death), so there is no need for him to have an extra movie to point that out.
So what I am saying is: These critics only loved it with Diana because a) they gotta act like they are not sexist because she is a woman and women have “more” emotional feelings and can “easier” show them and b) ARE sexist at the same time because Clark and Bruce did show their feelings towards this whole development, each of one them individual because of different personalities, but then with men it’s not okay because men “can’t” have feelings.
So maybe the problem people had with the Snyder’s version of Batman and Superman was that they were shown vulnerable, broken, emotional, not just a bag of masculinity and being ripped. The Trinity is so well-known for a reason. Also why they work so well together. Because of what they’re gone through and yet always find a way to keep on going.
I agree with this but I also think it’s because the critics have a gross misunderstanding of who Clark, in particular, is as a person and a character.
Too many people accuse Clark of being “perfect” and not having any real problems and therefore is an iron character because his powers makes things easy for him. Except that’s completely untrue. Snyder gave us a Clark/Superman that is extremely emotionally vulnerable and doubts himself and struggles. In other words, just as other popular media (ahem*comics/tv*cough) he gave us a human!Clark. And all of a sudden this was BLASPHEMY!
The thing is, Diana and Clark, regardless of what the “mainstream” audience thinks, are not the same. She grew up sheltered, Clark grew up bullied. She grew up royalty, he grew up poor. She did not come to man’s world hiding who she was, Clark is an undocumented immigrant refugee. Diana came to man’s world with a naive thought that all men were good; even when she learns otherwise, she first doubted and then ultimately chose love. Clark, having grown up among us, knows people can be evil, mean, and just plain awful to each other, but he still fights for us anyway and believes everyone and anyone deserves a second chance. I mean!
I maintain that the problem people had with DCEU Superman is that they wanted this coded-Other to Rise Above It ™ regarding the criticism and bullying and micro-aggressions from the media and the public (i.e. The same shit that is told to minorities) instead of allowing his character development which was that he actually did basically rise above it in the end and sacrificed himself IN BOTH MOVIES to protect humanity.
Yeah I still feel some kind of way about it.
omg, the Snyder’s haters are pissing me off so much they actually managed to ruin post WW glow.
all the “WW SAVED THE DCEU” bullshit aside, there’s has been a lot of people lately who claim that the reshoots requested by JW are caused by Wonder Woman’s newfound popularity and he’s now trying to give her a bigger role in JL because Zach underused her in his original script.
Like, people, from the moment she appeared in BvS, Diana has been in the spotlight. She outsmarted Bruce Wayne, she saved his life, she gave Clark the opportunity to kill Doosmday. At the end of the movie, Bruce is the one who’s asking for her help because he knows he needs her. The few promo pictures of JL that were released showed her in the front. She also has a pretty big presence in the JL trailer. So let’s stop pretending that the only reason they’re having reshoots is because they just now “realized” how important WW is thanks to her solo movie success.
So the latest is the fake “Gal got paid nothing compared to Henry” story which came out after the JL reshoots to put WW central despite she was central before, right after all those “Lol a DC movie that doesn’t suck” ‘reviews’… before there was fake stuff about the embargo, no promotion, Gal being a killer despite being an instructor, fat suits, the infamous letter, and Marvel can make a raccoon movie before DC make a WW one… one bs thing after another and people claim there’s no agenda?
Now They’re trying to say ‘’They liked Wonder Woman therefore there can’t be a bias’’ after They did it with The Lego Batman film. I’d also add John Campea’s bullshit rumors, people not admitting to being premature in assuming when we found out why Ben Affleck dropped out. Hell, it got so bad that the only reason Zack Snyder said why he was dropping out of JL was because he knew the rumor mill would work over time otherwise. When your behavior has gotten so bad that people are being forced to make public extremely personal tragedies just so you want make shit up about Them, it’s a good time to ask ‘’am I the bad guy here?”
People who hear accusations of bias always tend to play it off like DCEU fans are suggesting some vast elaborate conspiracy that goes to the highest levels of government or some shit and it isn’t like that at all. It’s very simply that sites know that a lot of people are keen to believe the worst about these films and They’ll go to sites that confirm and play into that belief. Add to that people who have a personal dislike of these films (You don’t need to go far to read extremely unprofessional articles from the AV Club about these films and Zack Snyder personally) and it’s no surprise shit like what we’ve been dealing with happens.
I’m not saying anything new or anything that should shock people. Anyone who’s paid attention to the media in the 21st century knows that They can be just as biased as the rest of us and everyone knows that websites are desperate to get as many clicks as possible on Their articles. If They can do that with some piece about how They heard that Wonder Woman was terrible from some source who supposedly works in the industry, that’s what They’ll do.
Between what Zack Snyder said a few weeks ago and the fact that the negative rumors that so many people believed about Wonder Woman, including many people on this site, this should be the moment when people start to realize that maybe They haven’t been as fair to these films as They should be and a moment for Them to examine Their behavior and the media They consume and ask about both the real-life effects, as with Zack Snyder, and if They’re simply doing what so many do and falling victim to confirmation bias.
But I know They won’t think twice about it and will keep sharing some click bait about some rumor They heard that Aquaman is a mess or some shit.
It’s exhausting being in this fandom.
that is terrifying and also why I approve of Steampunk not being _too_ accurate. I like looking like a sepia-toned photo not a circus clown. (Bright accent colors are getting more popular though.)
Personally I think it’s beyond hideous, and I also really don’t like most Victorian silhouettes and fashions to begin with- but yes. I don’t want all Steampunk outfits to be accurate awful synthetic Victorian dyes (though need to do more with that arsenic green dyes as story character-inspiration), but break away from the monotone. Or admit that the AU isn’t just ‘hey what if the technological advancements were more fantastic but what if they also had a more refined and elegant restraint to color use?’
I mean, I’m admittedly more on the costuming end of things than the fiction end, but typically I see very little pretense at accuracy and a lot of fantasy-Victorian, in the same sort of vein as Renfaire is fantasy-medieval. Lots of goggles and bustled miniskirts and synthetic dreads and octopi and pseudo-mechanical gewgaws and weirdness, lots of vaguely Gothic-Horror-Lovecraft-neo-Victoriana-nostalgia flavoring, and a generous use of sepia tones and brass holding it all together for coherency.
Yes, and odd that there’s no problem with synthetic bright colors for the Renfair fantasies- which I ugh dislike, unlike Steampunk where hey, use some accent bright colors and accessories (also Steampunk definitely improves the clothing/fashion lines for me by going away from the accuracy)
I’ve never run in to anyone actually objecting to bright colors – my sky-blue-accented steampunk kimono always gets a ton of compliments, and emerald green and hot pink and royal purple have started turning up more as accents. @charcoalandcowpies made runner-up in a steampunk pin-up contest in the outfit she’s wearing in the last pic in this set. The sepia-toned #aesthetic is just the most popular and straightforward, especially for the makers who put more effort into their gadgets than anything, and/or do their own leatherworking and like the natural oiled leather look.
I’d honestly like a little more use of actual historical fashions like tea-tray bustles or the natural form gown, but I love the shit out of pretty much all Victorian/19th c. fashion. The generic off-the-rack steampunk trends do get sort of boring, but it’s the lack of creativity, not color, that bores me.
(Also if everyone starts wearing bright colors we’d all clash instead of looking like a carefully costumed movie cast, and my planned ivory-and-teastain outfit wouldn’t be nearly as striking.)
Well of course we do! 🙂 Yeah, the actual Victorian silhouettes and even the less common styles…are so very much not my thing.
So much of Victorian and Edwardian looks either bores me or looks ugly.
If I want elaborate costume details or even that gathered bustle effect, I will clamor for the rococo polonaise. Idk how I can love the zone-front of certain rococo styles but hate bolero jacket and apron front skirts. I think it doesn’t help that I also dislike fringe. Like, a lot. if it’s psuedo-historic costume I like men to wear breeches and if they’re wearing trousers then go for original dandy simplification. If I have to have those three-piece suits then the Romantic Era exaggerates the puffy shoulders and wasp-waist in a way that isn’t Elizabethan-Jacobean ugly (I won’t defend that shit).
My ideal Steampunk would be more Napoleonic uniforms and Romantic inspired looks paired with those leather and brass and googles. If the comfort zone inclination is to stay monochromatic and similar shapes and ideas, at least a Regency vibe would be more elegant and even more cohesive?
And I wouldn’t want all or even the majority of people in a photo-shoot for instance to be wearing those bright colors- but this gut feeling that it would make those nice fancy bright brass gadgets pop more.
The thing is, I rather don’t like those Victorian bright dyes and how garish they are, so I want those Victorian-esque fashions which I don’t like to share the color choices. That’s my actual complaint. ;p
that is terrifying and also why I approve of Steampunk not being _too_ accurate. I like looking like a sepia-toned photo not a circus clown. (Bright accent colors are getting more popular though.)
Personally I think it’s beyond hideous, and I also really don’t like most Victorian silhouettes and fashions to begin with- but yes. I don’t want all Steampunk outfits to be accurate awful synthetic Victorian dyes (though need to do more with that arsenic green dyes as story character-inspiration), but break away from the monotone. Or admit that the AU isn’t just ‘hey what if the technological advancements were more fantastic but what if they also had a more refined and elegant restraint to color use?’
I mean, I’m admittedly more on the costuming end of things than the fiction end, but typically I see very little pretense at accuracy and a lot of fantasy-Victorian, in the same sort of vein as Renfaire is fantasy-medieval. Lots of goggles and bustled miniskirts and synthetic dreads and octopi and pseudo-mechanical gewgaws and weirdness, lots of vaguely Gothic-Horror-Lovecraft-neo-Victoriana-nostalgia flavoring, and a generous use of sepia tones and brass holding it all together for coherency.
Yes, and odd that there’s no problem with synthetic bright colors for the Renfair fantasies- which I ugh dislike, unlike Steampunk where hey, use some accent bright colors and accessories (also Steampunk definitely improves the clothing/fashion lines for me by going away from the accuracy)
CORAL PINK CAPRIS
Confession- coral is one of my favorite colors (at least for clothing) – I have sweaters and shirts in every length and fabric heaviness – at least that redder coral that’s almost watermelon (ff4040 or so), whereas the pants are more definitely a pink and which i wear with only a few shirts- though my fav is to pair it with a brown shirt and this scarf that’s brown with pink polkadots. Jewelry wise I have quite a bit too, but it tends to run more towards orange.
I worry capris make me look even more like a hobbit so i avoid them but this color was too tempting.
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