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ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1

i absolutely adore issue #1 of absolute batman srsly

as someone has just been getting into DC this year, but still aware enough of the basic principles of batman's origin and character, this feels like a really exciting, yet approachable story.

I'd seen online some complaints that it's the 'same old batman' and that it's just another 'rehashed story with nothing interesting or worthwhile.'

I've even seen complaints regarding the inclusion of (spoilers) classic rogues like catwoman, killer croc, the penguin, riddler, twoface being introduced or mentioned so early in the story or simply being mentioned at all.

First of all - it's a five-issue series - there's only so much time to introduce everyone - and I think the first issue does a wonderful job at setting up the characters and world right of the bat.

Besides, I like the rogues. I like the DC characters - I'm reading a batman comic after all. This isn't to say that characters haven't been butchered in certain runs, or that DC always tells good stories.

What I'm meaning is - just think about what makes comics so different from every other media format? Aside from the gorgeous use of text, color, form and image - trust me, I am GOING to be making numerous posts about the silly bat costume and the GORGEOUS ART.

I'm still very new to comics, so I might be off here obviously, but;

when I think of batman, I think of the character

and what makes the character of batman?

Well, absolute batman is obviously asking this question - they've taken away the money, mansion, and butler - on top of that - his mum is alive! (He is a mama's boy 100%).

BATMAN IS GOTHAM

Like; Alfred Pennyworth (HOT DAMN THO) is narrating most of issue 1, and I love it - but when he arrives, he's asking 'where is your heart Gotham?', and then batman later appears.

Batman, who has studied and worked every blue-collar job ever - who knows the city in and out - who repairs the stairs he breaks in the night at his day job. Who Alfred acknowledges is building something here - who is childhood friends with his rogues - he's protecting Gotham.

Even Killer Croc goes 'This is our HOME, man ... someone's got to do something!'

This is overlayed a photo of them all as childhood friends, and child Bruce is even smiling - it's so precious.

We're being presented with a Gotham that's in very dire straits - and this is a Batman that feels so much more a part of the city.

Batman LOVES his city, and he LOVES the people in it.

To me, Batman is a protector.

Alfred calls him a crusader, citing his mother as his one weakness - seeing Bruce come home to a regular old house with his mum sitting on the steps - that got me.

Batman has this single-minded devotion - that's the strength of his love. I never realized how weak that devotion to his ideals seemed when he had all the money and resources in the world.

You take that away? You get a Batman who has planned his entire life to learning everything he can, on his own merits - that's some superhero shit.

Anyway, I'm so excited to see where this series goes - can't wait to meet more of the rogues! At the end of day, nothing stings quite like childhood friends who aren't as close as they used to be. Plus, his costume is cool as hell and so so so silly.

Update: these are now available for preorder as prints 💙

Behold! One of my largest projects to date! I'm hoping to have these as textured prints soon.

My love for nudibranchs knows no bounds 🌊

Lace-making

Lace-making: So detailed, so fine - such skill shall surely be preserved for centuries to come! The rich: I love this lace and I am rich - so bury me in this The king: Think of the wool trade - I'm making all burial shrouds be woolen by law! Be sheep & do as everyone else does: The lace: Oh hi, I only exist know in old graves - and you don't know how to make me because you chose wool over my beauty The lace: If you stop paying attention to me for even a moment I shall perish like your loved ones I embrace long after you could

Me when something Dropout related happens but none of my IRL friends watch it:

Ryan: We are not here to hurt you. We just want to communicate Shane: SCRATCH MY NIPPLES Ghosts: ... I think we have different definitions of communication

YALL THE BBC WROTE AN ARTICLE ON DND

GO SHOW THIS TO YOUR OLDER RELATIVES AND PARENTS MAYBE

just had a guy declare he’d fight for me because I gave him some popcorn.

mercenaries seem to have to really gone down in price!

Eronoctosis!

Game Review:

Yet to finish as most of my friends can’t stand horror games but I got one to play for a bit with me!

I am not good at video games, like really bad. I have multiple issues that affect my coordination and hand movements but this game was accessible enough. It really only uses the mouse and WASD, plus it’s possible to pause in a safe starting place.

Mechanically, I adore the camera and flashlight. One player can use a flashlight to shine on and scare away monsters. The other, can banish them by taking photos (as long as the light shines for long enough on the monster!)

Visually, I love the twisting, pixelated, almost 2D till you get close enough map design.

Conceptually, I adore the trying to build this body objective (literally putting flesh on a skeleton) combined with the visceral, literally just body parts, monsters. It’s rated 18+, for, warning, pixelated genitalia. If that is something that isn’t a dealbreaker for you then, honestly, this game does a great job at derealising the biological.

Pros:

Free!

Co-op

Basic WASD and mouse controls

A variety of steam achievements

Pixelated visuals for distinct style

Cons:

When you die you have to completely restart

Apparently it only takes 20-30 minutes to play through in one go

Might not have the best replay value

Overall: 4.5/5

How to make soup

This is not a recipe. Soup requires no recipe. Soup is soup. All you must remember is that food is love and food is for sharing. Now onto the recipe.

Whenever you prepare soup, you must tend to it. Unwatched stoves are the most common cause of housefires. What? Did you expect me to speak of the loneliness of unattended soup? I need not speak of unattended soup. You know what happens when you leave soup unattended. You will not like what happens when you leave soup unattended.

That's right - possibly a housefire.

Start with liquid - stock or water will do. If you are adding cream to the soup, do not add it yet, it does not do well with extended boiling. Next, find your meat, if you consume it. The bones are the best, and a chicken carcass is my favourite to start with, although lamb will always work wonderfully after hours of boiling and skimming off fat repeatedly. Here, you must extract all the flavour from the bones and leave them hollow like an old tree where you might find fairies - or a possum - there is no difference really. The meat should fall of the bones and swim in the water. Now, you add the chopped-up root vegetables. Carrots, potatoes, swede - whatever takes long to cook. Do not forget your grains - barley and rice are delicious additions to any soup, soaked for hours to absorb flavour. Heat this on a low heat with the lid on for a long time; it will not overflow. Turn off the heat and go to bed now. The soup and you both need rest. Continue to heat it the next morning. Add whatever else you wish (now or earlier even) - salt, pepper, leak, onion, garlic, basil, sage, thyme - it matters not to the hungry soup.

Serve the soup and share the soup. A soup ladle is designed to cradle the soup like you should cradle the ones you share the soup with. Gently.

Some may try to tell you that the soup is bland. That it has no substance and is not a meal worth treasuring or even cooking. Pay this no mind. There are many places, many times, many families, where not much was to be had. Tough meat and tougher vegetables were made soft and spread further with the love and time taken to craft them into soup. Whatever you have, it has always been worth taking pride in the dinner you serve. To sleep with quietened bellies is to sleep full of love.

To eat soup is to find comfort in whatever you have in the pantry or fridge or garden. To share soup is to find comfort in those around you.

CAPULET GIRL ON FLUTE

I’m realising I have so many bizarre Shakespeare related stories. For English, we had to do a ‘fun’ summary presentation. Somehow one guy ended up convincing our group to write and later perform to the class a parody version of uptown girl. This was accompanied by my recently ex-boyfriend of two weeks (who still was not speaking to me or sitting any less than three seats away from me - even if no one else was sitting there) playing the song on flute. ON FLUTE.

I would say that luckily that no one could hear us over the damn flute. However, another girl had made a karaoke style PowerPoint video creation, so that everyone could see our terrible lyrics on the screen clearly.

a sample of what I can remember:

Capulet girl She's been living in her Capulet world I bet she's never had a Montague guy I bet her momma never told her why

it is the most dreadful thing I’ve ever been a part of and I did high school theatre .