This is the Goose of Outrageous Self Assuredness. Take from her example, her ludicrous and excellent poise in the face of bullying, and be confident in your place, your course, your equal validity.
Me, watching a “how to make giant jiggly cheesecake” video: Ok, I see where the jiggly comes in… but where is the cheese? did I miss them adding the cream cheese?
::Guy in video, blithely adding slices of processed, orange colored cheese on top of the batter::
Me, horrified: Um. That’s not…hmm.
::Guy in video happily serving this cheese layered cake to people who pretend to like it::
One thing I really adore about Tom King’s Batman (This is from I Am Gotham with David Finch) is that he takes the Moore/Miller “Isn’t Batman craaaaaazyyyyyy” approach and then flips it on its head, showing the repetition and the obsession, the unhealthy coping mechanisms, and then asks the simple question, why are they unhealthy? They kept him alive, kept him together, helped him become a better person, didn’t they? It takes the mentally ill aspect of Batman’s character and separates it, utterly, from the “Sociopathic villain” perception it seemed to go hand in hand with, explaining that, yes, Batman can be mentally ill, and yes, Batman can still then be an inherently, unambiguously good person
I’m having conniptions because years of reading and writing fanfic has trained a part of my brain to recognize the category ‘good short romance fiction summaries’ and this subheading is pinging it hard
