"Say you kill Chill. Say you kill Falcone, even. There'll be another crime boss.

Gotham needs more than a thug with a gun, Bruce. Gotham needs hope."

I'm toying with the idea of a Batman Begins AU where Rachel Dawes' character role is split between Leslie Thompkins as girl-who-disapproves-of-Bruce's-vigilantism and Harvey Dent as the childhood friend (I would say Tommy Elliot, but... Hush sucks, let's be honest). And while I'm at it, Bruce does kill (well, you know, "kill") the real Ra's Al Ghul in Tibet, it's Talia Al Ghul who comes to Gotham for revenge. They're just two crazy kids trying to live up to their dead daddies' dreams!

Point of order is whether the fic is an interesting thought experiment or a full-fledged story.

Also, I really need a better Batman icon.

Point of order - Scott/Barda on Apokolips is totally Academy!Doctor/Master

Well, okay, not totally the same because there actually is some canon, Jack Kirby canon even, on how they first met (there was snark, I have scans). But it's the kind of thing I can assume was retconned in New Earth continuity for lots of "and then they dun sex" fic. It's fun! Because going by the original Kirby, you see Scott Free presumably coming to Earth in the first issue, then a few issues later Barda shows up. So that puts it at a few weeks, maybe months, after Scott leaves Apokolips for Barda to follow him.

So of course, John Byrne wrote a story where Scott played Highlander for a couple centures while Barda twiddled her thumbs on Apokolips, then came after him. I don't really have a point there, but I think it's usually safest to ignore John Byrne.

Things that would make Barack Obama accepting the Democratic nomination more interesting

Obama: I... do NOT accept the Democratic nomination! Instead, I declare myself... PHOENIX KING!

McCain: Not if this 112-year-old has anything to say about it!

Obama: You mean you're the Avatar who spent the last hundred years in stasis?

McCain: No, I'm just really old!

I think this makes Hillary into Fire Lord Azula. Which is insulting to both of them, when you think about it.

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So that's twenty-five chapters of Batman/Superman fic written, and still not done.

I really hope at least half of the people who complained about Barbara Gordon not being in TDK show up for the Batman & Babs show.

Dinah says "If I had to kiss a girl, I mean if I absolutely had to, I'd kiss Batgirl." Off-hand, can you name a better quote Western Literature has produced? No. Don't try.