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three typos on the first page of The Birds... who the hell edited this 😭

every harley miniseries with other characters (wonder woman, power girl, gcs) is just get "what if the girls were kidnapped by a space man and turned into slave" like please free me from this hell

"male presented at 6 foot 9" how is it possible that nobody knows bruce wayne is batman when he is 1) the most notoriously bat obsessed person in the city who designed award winning bat-based architecture and 2) he is SIX FOOT NINE. like. how is nobody noticing he's built exactly like the bat vigilante and 7 inches taller than every other man in gotham

martha these are three men with guns who just shot at you point blank for money and told you they were going to murder you... all youre doing to retaliate is a girl power punch in the face to ONE of them??????? like this shit doesnt make sense

i hate how the stakes are so CRAZY high like horrible gorey murder of children on tv and assault... and still the other end of the spectrum is still ~radical optimism~ like "we have to be GOOD and HOPE and DO THE RIGHT THING" please give me a break rn

everybody else is watching their kother or wife or grandma get shot in the head meanwhile oswald is watching a penguin get shot 😭 ts killing me

"apparatchik" what year is it and why is jorge jimenez writing like a geriatric fascist

if he came up on my treadmill like that i would knock him over so fast ... bruce this is an HR nightmare this is you sexually harassing a woman you've never met but you do employ and are actively giving money to for her electroshock devices 😭

?????? bruce is beating his 14/15 year old at kick boxing while telling him to go ahead and accept his FOUR YEAR EARLY acceptance to Gotham U because AND I QUOTE "GIRLS. they have GIRLS at college damian. SMART ONES."

HELLO????,? HE CANT FUCK THEM BRUCE HIS BALLS HAVE YET TO DESCEND???? HES A TEENYBOPPER???? WHAT THE HELLLLLLL

oh no the mean GAY boy is kicking bruce out of tim's hospital room. oh no the mean BLACK scientist is yelling at the white lady for putting an electrical device on her patient's heads. oh no he called her a NAZI because he's so unreasonable and triggered.

I feel as though the team behind batman has lost the plot a bit with some of their set dressing! diabolical

damn i'm pretty sure it's time out here being useless and getting shot... the hell

i really hope it's damian in there who just got shot 😭

why are the evil men chasing women through the woods, carrying scissors and wearing bikini tops and have dyed hair and big coats with fur and-

who turned matt fraction right wing? 😭 cus this is a mob of evil trans people. they have butterfly as their logo wherever did he get that idea 😭😭😭

tackyyyy why is lois punching lex for being right like i know he's smackable but bffr

harley ivy yaaaaay

Damian "I'm not worried" Wayne talking to Jon "Batman will be fine" Kent ... I know something you don't 😭

underwater zombies for aquaman...... now wait a minute. that might be something

bro of course it's cyborg that got kidnapped and strapped to a table 3 lightyears away by a freaky dude in a hood who's stabbing him with stakes... of course. idk why i even questioned

Don't Look Now

The titular story definitely hooked me, though the random mention of hermaphrodites & "good ol' Musso knowing what to do with the Italians" & "too many Communists nowadays" threw me. I will ponder upon these inclusions and see how they add to perhaps our main character's paranoia or his sense of/attunement to the "real" world.

Very sudden, yet sort of expected ended.

4/5

The Summer People - 4/5

Home - 5/5

The Man in The Woods - 3/5

The Good Wife - 5/5

I love the way she does subtle female horror by just framing things a certain way.

A Visit - 5/5

This is just proto-Hill House. Shirley loves a haunted house, a critique on society, a lost woman, a cycle that must repeat.

Family Treasures - 5/5

Not scary but enjoyable. Klepto girls I love youuuu

The Bus - 3/5

Not sure what she's telling me but this was fun. Spooky.

What a Thought - 5/5

I'm beginning to think Ms. Jackson had OCD to be honest cus three of these stories now are just like... vaguely OCD female. Speaking from personal experience.

All She Said Was Yes - 3.5/5

Fun, silly psychic girl story.

The Beautiful Stranger - 5/5

When you strive for sameness, do you lose yourself? Is your home not everyone's home? Do you have a home if nothing belongs to you, if you are a stranger married to a stranger in a stranger's home and a stranger's nation? An American problem.

Jack the Ripper - 4/5

Subtle. Shirley Jackson understands female fear... quietly unsettling scenes.