Gotham does two important things very, very well

It portrays Bruce and his life after his parents’ deaths in a way that makes you go “Ah yes, this would be the type of child to grow up fighting crime while dressed as a bat”

It portrays Gotham and its citizens in a way that makes you go “Of course, this city can only be cleansed by a man fighting crime while dressed as a bat”

I Didn’t Think I Shipped It But The Fic Writers for This Ship Really Brought Their A Game: a memoir.

Source: sothisisablog

steebthesmol:

Next time you try to invalidate bisexuality, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie will descend from the heavens singing in glorious harmony and smack you upside the head.

distressedphilosopher:

Honestly “thanks I hate it” is one of the funniest phrases in the English language

Types of rarepair fics

The stepping stone: rarepair is tagged, but it’s only used as a pathway to a ship you don’t care about. they disappear by chapter 3 after the characters the author actually wants to get together do.
The weird smut: They are both in this story, and may or may not have had sex with each other at some point. It’s kind of hard to tell because there are at least seven other people having sex, three subplots, eleven niche kinks, and maybe characters from several other fandoms.
The why-is-this-even-tagged?!: One character or both is in love with someone else. The ship actively dislikes each other if they do not hate each other. There is no positive relationship between them at all, but the ship is tagged regardless.
The mention: They’re mentioned in line 722 out of 2180. They never come up again.
The okay, I guess: It’s a semi-normal story about them. The grammar isn’t the best, but it’s readable. The plot is cliche, but it’s tolerable. They’re somewhat in character and you settle for it because it isn’t great, but it’s probably the best you’re gonna get.
The *sigh*: It would be cute, if the author was actually a good writer. Sadly, it’s so god-awful you cannot stomach it, and must abandon it completely.
The nice- oh, wait: The summary sounds good. It seems like it has decent grammar and it’s one of the only fics for your ship on the site. You click on it. It is written entirely in German.
The holy grail: THIS IS IT. THE PERFECT RAREPAIR FIC. EVERYTHING IS GREAT AND INCREDIBLE AND WONDERFUL, AND THIS IS THE GOLDEN ONE YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU WOULD FIND. THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE ONE.
The dammit-my-standards-are-too-high-now: You read The Holy Grail and now everything else seems garbage. Oops.

jindosh:

people who put video tutorials online for literally everything are the backbone of this society i would be nowhere without the comfort that whenever i don’t know how to do something painfully simple i can look it up like i bet i could look up ‘how to preheat the oven’ and there’d be endless videos and i never have to look like a complete idiot again. thank you all for saving my life