The Grand Highblood is dead, and some young upstart named Makara just took his throne. A perfect time for seadweller nobility with political aspirations to take an unsanctioned friendly informal visit the battleship Dark Carnival and make sure the clowns' new leader knows his place.
I've had a Playing With The Big Boys animatic in my head for actual years and this all emerged in two days straight of nonstop clown-drawing. I'm losing my gotdamn mind. Happy Honkoween. Please enjoy my baby. Here it is on youtube if you,,, want that.
Warnings, because they go by fast: canon-typical violence and brief flashing lights.
thinking about just how likely it is that Batman was the only person Harley told about having suicidal thoughts whilst in Arkham in Detective Comics #831
"I was seriously considering hanging sheets from the light in my cell and doing the maximum checkout when I heard this voice..."
Detective Comics #831
and how he knew when she strapped that bomb to herself in Batman (2016) #100 that he had to go after her because she was going let herself die in an attempt to end Joker's rampage for good but that she refused to physically do it because he didn't want to her Kill him and he told her that so she's found a middle ground
"We don't need to end it this way. He needs to be locked back up."
that she'd rather die than keep living with his presence in the world haunting her, haunting Them.
That if he did choose Joker, she wasn't going to disarm the bomb herself.
"Honey. You're talking to the wrong girl if you think he's not dangerous locked up in Arkham. It's like I said. That's not good enough for me. Not anymore."
the way he yells for her as she leaves.
"You're only going to get to one of us in time, Bats. Who's it going to be?"
"Harley!"
the way the two men stare at each other in the way they have so many times before, in those moments when Joker stayed or prioritized their fight over her. the way he knew Joker loved the thrill of it all and thought it was funny, thought there was No way Batman would leave him and that this game had to end as according to the rules. And that Batman would do so, he would follow the rules and save him. The way he immediately assumed Batman would choose him, choose his life and choose to stay and disarm the bomb.
And how Batman didn't do that. How Batman walked away from him, leaving him to die or escape or whatever, because He was choosing Harley and her safety and prioritizing her life over him.
The way he stared him in the eyes before choosing the woman Joker had always left to die over him. The way that it was always Him, it was never a question if he would choose Batman over her, but when faced with that type of scenario, Joker is the one that gets left behind to die.
The way she literally woke up in the hospital instead of them having a scene just outside after he removed it. because she didn't intend to live in one of the two options. the way the bomb probably did go off to some capacity because you don't just end up in the hospital knocked out for a week.
Him saying that he's glad she's okay, after everything they've been through, this war and Everything else. and the way he didn't brush off her concern
"I'm glad you're okay."
"Are you?"
"I had to bury my father again today. I did it with my family."
Her father sighed.
"Ah, Arya. You have a wildness in you, child. 'The wolf blood,' my father used to call it. Lyanna had a touch of it, and my brother Brandon more than a touch. It brought them both to an early grave."
Arya heard sadness in his voice.
AGOT, Arya II
Then, so faintly, it seemed as if she heard her father's voice. "When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives," he said.
"But there is no pack," she whispered to the weirwood. [...] "I'm not even me now, I'm Nan."
"You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you."
this came to me in a vision. this is half-me figuring out relationships and half-me wanting to figure out how to draw these dummies.
dumb thoughts under the cut bc i cant shut up lol
crocodile and dragon ... truly divorced. extremely divorced. they run into each other at the supermarket and the tension is Palpable as they remark to each other "...Dragon." and "...Crocodile." while Luffy is standing there awkwardly texting his friends some shit like "besties my dads are about to fight in the cereal aisle" and someone (PROBABLY NAMI) is like "send pics lol"
crocodile and buggy is "you're stupid. i like that in a man" while buggy honks awkwardly being simultaneously afraid but also Into It
mihawk and buggy is the same except with more of mihawk being like "well. idk who the fuck this guy is but this is happening i guess." buggy's like 😨😫😭😳🤡 and mihawk is like 😶😑😐🤨
can u tell buggy and shanks own my ass tho ... i love childhood friends who drift apart bc one of them is so fucking stubborn about going off on his own and the other just Letting him, and theres a completely one-sided rivalry, and u just Know that if they got talking for too long, they'd start reminiscing about their pasts and start getting sad about their shared losses (re: Roger). something something buggy insisting it's a "can't live with you but can't live without you" thing idfk!
shanks and mihawk ..... ooouuuughhh we love rivals who respect each other and trust each other genuinely, and shanks being the only one who can crack mihawk's stoic exterior and the only person he can kinda let his guard down around.
i have nothing to say about crocodile and mihawk. their relationship is like. we are fuckbuddies but if our relationship level was at Strictly Coworkers.
i don't ... hate ... croco + doffy together but the way some ppl write them is so like ... not how i imagine their relationship. i went on an entire rant about it to my friends but tl;dr, i think it's a completely one-sided thing of doflamingo wanting them to be hannibal and will, playing mind games and having a psychosexual homoerotic obession w each other, but crocodile is completely like ... No. Get Away From Me (proceeds to smack doffy with a broom)
sooo this is less of my traditional shit and more Work Shit
but i did do it today so im counting it! the haunt where I work has been in talks about ideas for next season and i figured itd be helpful to get my own face chart sketched up and draw some looks to show the groupchat
but also let yall get a lil peek of the kind of stuff i get up to during october when im really busy and posting here less often!
i am too fucking exhausted and grieving to crop these properly / make them nice and neat / get individual links to all of these (quick search can find them) but in the past two weeks ALONE israeli settlers (civilians!! not IOF!!) have attacked palestinians, set their houses on fire, mocked palestinian women grieving their genocided children, & more.
in the past several DECADES israeli settlers (including civilians — who by the way do have mandatory military service) have been active and violent participants in israel’s settler colonialism. not just passive benefactors of it. active agents. destroying palestinian homes. violently removing palestinians from their homes. attacking palestinian ppl.
when people talk about hamas’ “unprovoked” attack on civilians, these are the people they’re referring to. “oh so you’re saying those civilians deserved to die?” no. i’m saying where the fuck do you think this violence came from? think for two seconds about why the fuck there might be violence targeting the same group of people that’s actively spent the last several decades invading their land and ethnic cleansing their ppl?
you don’t get to, as civilians, be active violent agents of ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism, and then act surprised when said civilians are targeted.
israel’s occupation started this. israel’s occupation caused all of this. israel’s occupation has always been violent and therefore created and actively cultivated the material conditions for violence. if we want no civilians to be targeted (which is good and correct! i agree with u!) then israel’s occupation must end.
I WANT TO HUNT LIKE DAVID; I WANT TO KILL ME A GIANT MAN
1) levi as caravaggio's "david with the head of goliath" 2) erwin as michelangelo's david 3) hange as bernini's david 4) reiner as turchi's "david with the head of goliath" 5) armin as caravaggio's "david and goliath" 6) gabi as ferrier's "david victorious over goliath" 7) mikasa as novelli's "david with the head of goliath"