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ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 10

kon-el, flying into gotham air, only to immediately see three comically italian mobsters with giant cigars & actual carrier pigeons: oh my god what YEAR is it???

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 10

love the idea that gotham is like. comically different to every other city. you walk in and the entire atmosphere shifts.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 9

whyd i read that as lesbian grad school. can i go there.

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Kathryn Grayson Nanz @kgrayson.com · Jul 8

My most millennial gripe is the way fandoms and interest groups have moved into closed discord servers now. The children yearn for the forums, webrings, and livejournals of their ancestors.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 9

the robins & batman all seeing themselves as regular, human vigilantes, but over time they’ve been changing and getting more inhuman… they soar through the sky for just a little too long, jump just a little too high, see just a little too well, hear just a little too much…

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 9

there’s just inherently something “off” about all gothamites… somehow they’re hardier and more resilient than the average person, but not in ways that seem obvious to an outsider. they’ve been through so many poisonings and fear gases etc. that their systems are just… stronger

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Jul 9

breaking my silence to say how much i love the idea of gotham being such a fucked up, insane, liminal space that its vigilantes slowly become inhuman without realising it

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · May 19

unfortunately music/theater is outside of my little arthuriana knowledge zone 😔😔😔 i wish i could help more!!! you could def look into modern productions of chaucer/comedic poems though

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · May 14

quietly chanting “you’re okay!!! you’re safe!!!” every time i have to swim even deeper

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · May 14

can’t think of a better way to confront my thalassophobia than playing dave the diver

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · May 14

i’ll never bash on beginner writing, especially in horror (horror is hard!), but why is the whole “people thinking it’s actually real” thing happening AGAIN!!!

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · May 14

i can’t believe people are trying to gaslight me into thinking “the russian sleep experiment” is good. in the year of our lord 2025????

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

i say all of this without acknowledging the nepoest of babies of all time: kon-el “conner” kent.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

nepo baby batkids ideas absolutely sending me on this fine afternoon. batkids 100% playing into dumb & rich public personas to distance themselves from their hero personas.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

honourable mentions:

stephanie brown, never adopted but technically a ward, has compilation videos of her saying “my father, inventor of gotham city-“

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

older gens hate damian, the non-white activist child who doesn’t appreciate capitalism. the younger gen LOVES damian, who’s using his generational wealth for a good cause. bruce wayne is especially proud. truly his flesh and blood.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

enter damian wayne, weird rich kid, #1 contributor to every animal rights charity in the world. damian wayne, barely 13, using daddy’s money to speak out against animal cruelty. damian wayne not just at fundraisers, but actively protesting, in person, picket signs and all

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

damian’s is the funniest BECAUSE he essentially goes from a prince to a lowly billionaire’s kid. He’s Poor Now. damian is constantly posting about how much he HATES gotham, the US, etc. youd think people would hate him, except:

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

the running theory is that cass only got these roles because she’s bruce’s kid and he paid for it. there’s a kernel of truth in there. cass has never once spoken to press, so these rumours run wild.

(black bat / orphan fighting crime in these foreign countries is purely a coincidence)

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

i’m going to say something else controversial: cassandra cain, though barely in the public eye, is accused the MOST of being a nepo baby. why? little cassie - barely talks, a complete unknown - gets adopted and is suddenly in some of the most coveted ballet troupes in the world???

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

i am 100% drawing from juni ba’s boy wonder here but in a ranklist of bruce’s kids, he’s the MOST controversial: he’s the most Annoying Corporate Rich Kid. tim’s the one going on random private jet trips (missions) or dropping exorbitant amounts of money (also missions)

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

tim’s sitting in on business meetings by 17, genuinely dropping good ideas and doing a great job; he does have to throw out some curveballs to keep his image rock-solid, but as an heir of two companies, his persona is solidly “rich kid socialite with rich parents richy rich rich”

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

tim drake is THE nepo baby of all nepo babies. public heir to two companies? grew up with wealth? tim’s in the public eye the most, because he’s the only kid with a real stake in wayne ent; he plays the strongest into the “our dad’s a himbo, but we love him”

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

like dick, jason is not involved with the company or anything with the media, so he can’t really be a true Nepo Baby; he is, however, the perfect example of when a celebrity’s kid is their #1 public hater. he loves to make trouble at public events, subtweet bruce constantly, etc.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

post-death is where that problem child thing REALLY ramps up. in the au of my brain, he starts making public appearances again quite a long time after the Pit (resurfacing in his mid twenties to the public eye) and he gets hit with the Child Actor: Where Are They Now? effect.

ali is on bsky! @mowochi.bsky.social · Apr 15

pre-death jason is a difficult case. he’s a cutie patootie, but he’s not in the media as much as dick was. there are spiralling rumours about him being a “problem child”, speculation on his history…