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    "WHAT MAKES IAGO EVIL? some people ask. I never ask."

    — Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

    Or: Dick, his family, and the moral morass of a wishing well.

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    19 Mar 2024

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    “My father,” Dick says, “worked the rope. It cut him. His hands were never clean.”

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    18 Mar 2024

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    Incredible.

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    It feels amazing. The wind is blowing through Tim’s hair and he’s smiling so big that his cheeks hurt. Harder and harder he pedals down the sidewalk, picking up speed from the slight downward hill as he goes.

    He’s doing it — he’s actually riding a bike!

    Then, a little ways down, Tim notices another boy on the sidewalk, wobbling unsteadily on a bike of his own. He doesn’t look much bigger than Tim, but his bike is way taller, to the point that he’s sort of standing up on the pedals. He looks like he’s concentrating super hard on what he’s doing, the handlebars wobbling side to side as he tries to stay up.

    That’s about the point when Tim realizes he never learned how to stop.

    Or, in which seven-year-old Timothy Drake bumps into Bruce Wayne’s new foster kid. Literally.

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    10 Mar 2024

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    In the night the creature came to him, and sat on his chest in the grand bedroom, and said in its high thin voice like a scrape of metal, you are going to die.

    And Bruce tilted his head back to look at the ceiling and said, yes. Because it was true. The bullet today had avoided his jaw by inches, and there were limits to what even Kevlar plating could do. He had felt the breath of it pass him, the hot stinking reek of death. And even if the next one missed, and the next one, and the next, he was not getting any younger.

    Would you like not to? the creature said, cocking its broad, spade-shaped head.

    Bruce says yes without reading the fine print.

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    Clark has accepted what it means to be Lex's prisoner - the pain of the Green, the experiments, the hands on it. The long years buried in its containment cell, let out only to act as Lex's weapon, as Lex's tool. It had fought back at first, but years have ground it down and away to almost nothing.

    Then Lex hands it a baby. And Clark realizes that while it may have hurt humans, and lied about what it is, and it may deserve to be locked away - Kon deserves to be free.

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    09 Mar 2024