Write It Shitty, Write It Scared, Write It Without A Clue But Don't You Be So Spineless And Have An AI

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The only one thing that will be between them on this table 🫀

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thomas probably knew he was adopted growing up. i feel like it would be pretty hard to hide, and i don't think the hewitts would even really want to hide it? i feel like they'd come at it with the mindset of "it doesn't matter, yeah you're adopted but you're one of us, don't feel bad about it". and that would help thomas to an extent.

but i can't help but think about how that would add on to his loneliness. he'd have no idea if there were other people out in the world who looked like him, who thought like him. he'd never really know why he wasn't with his biological family—did they just not want him? did they take one look at his face and choose to abandon him? did they die? was he wanted?

thomas would have no way to get any real answers. i imagine luda mae doesn't know much about the circumstances surrounding his birth, other than the fact that he was thrown away behind the meat processing plant. thomas loves luda mae very much—she's his mother, after all—but i feel like sometimes, he'd think about what his biological mom was like. where she is, why she had him. whether or not he was made out of love. he'd wonder if his mother ever thought about him, if she missed him. did they have the same eyes? or the same hair? the same skin condition? thomas would have no real way of knowing.

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The Batman (2004) was way better than Batman: The Animated Series. It was missing some villians, sure. But on the whole, it made up for it by having some absolutely great antagonists. I mostly just watched seasons 1-2, but that was enough for me. Tom Kenny as Penguin, Kevin Michael Richardson as Joker, Robert Englund as The Riddler, Clancy Brown as Mister Freeze, Dan Castellaneta as The Ventriloquist, the voice cast was honestly pretty good. I remember most of the villians, because they were creative and weird. The show was a little dark, but it was weird dark, not boring dark. There is a slight difference between those two things, after all.

And sure, the show could have benefited from Two-Face, The Mad Hatter, maybe even some Scarecrow moments. But we had Clayface as a substitute for Two-Face. And that substitution actually worked pretty well. Ethan Bennett, the good cop corrupted by Joker and turned into Clayface...it actually works pretty well. And I mean... it's no Richard Moll Two-Face, but it's still probably the most impactful Clayface for me. It's the Clayface I probably saw first as a kid.

And while the show missed some of the Btas villians, they managed to add some fun villains of their own. Ragdoll is a real standout. I saw him in just one episode, but Jeff Bennett did such a good job! I was transfixed. So the show had some real highlights. I still think The Brave and The Bold tops everything else, but The Batman (2004) was probably my second favourite. Beyond a small handful of episodes, I seem to strongly dislike Batman the animated series. So these other two really stick out in my memory.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

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