(from Gotham Academy: First Year, issue #2)

Olive Silverlock has a problem, and it is shaped like Gotham’s favorite hero: Batman. He “saved” her when her mom lost control and got Commissioner Gordon to pawn her off on Bruce Wayne, who promptly shuffled her off to Gotham Academy. Boarding school. With a bunch of awful rich kids! As if she wasn’t traumatized enough already! How will Olive navigate her trauma as a new student? Who will she share her first kiss with? And…why are the existing fans talking so much about maps? Fall in love with the fan-favorite characters all over again in this revealing prequel taking readers back to Gotham Academy! Artist Marco Ferrari joins the original team as we return to the hallowed halls for even more mystery, romance, and teen drama. Guaranteed to delight fans of the original series and introduce new readers to the lovable cast; don’t miss the year it all began! 

(from the Amazon listing of Gotham Academy: First Year, issue #1)

✧✧✧ the original gotham academy team are publishing a new prequel comic for the first time in almost 10 years!! right now there's three volumes out, and i wrote up this little liveblog in my excitement. since im also writing a GA multi-chapter fic right now, ive made some notes on characterization, so whenever i say endgame, im referring to my fic (and not the GA oneshot about the GA kids camping). (crossposted on my tumblr)

issue #1
pg. 12, starting off strong with the implication that macpherson and bruce wayne have fucked
pg. 14, olive's assigned buddie is a girl named annie, who knows pomeline, but pom is in olives year
pg. 20, kyle's here!! aww, he's rly nice. note to self, kyle is a year ahead of olive. 
pg. 23, olive's feelings of displacement and loneliness have always been really relatable to me. its nice she still gets the attention of the schools golden boy, but the trope irks me. the most popular guy in school takes notice of the poor homely weird girl? yeah right. although, the feeling of overwhelming excitement when you do get attention from a boy, however momentary, the feeling of being special - thats very relatable. 
pg. 28, Johnathan crane sounds like an important name, but bc i actively refuse to engage with any dc media outside of gotham academy (and the occasional movie/tv show about Harley quinn), this means nothing to me. sigh
pg. 30, losing my shit over this guy giving 14 y/0 olive pills, like what

issue #2
pg. 1, is that maps on the cover?????????? GA be like how can i make this about maps mizoguchi
pg. 5, oooh, kyle and olive's spot! this place makes multiple appearances in the og draft of endgame 
pg. 10, am i the only one who hatesss the trope of person pulling away from other person they like because theres 'too much happening' or 'no one can know the truth about me'. this is probs just a me thing, me projecting my experiences onto olive. in endgame, i think im gonna shake this up - when kyle and olive dated first year, olive put everything on trying to make the relationship work and looking good for kyle. the pressure she put on herself (unbeknownst to kyle) became too much and she turned resentful of the relationship. 
pg. 11, HEATCHCLIFF RAY MENTION. fun fact i read the black canary volumes including Heathcliff, which i made reference to in ARC. those volumes will not be included in my GA reread.
pg. 12, was macpherson always so... Scottish, is it?
pg. 13, i do remember Heathcliff and olive being friends! and olive helping Heathcliff score with pom is so cute...
pg. 14, COLTON IS HEREEEEEEEEE
pg. 16, kyle got picked on too! interesting
pg. 18, that is the vibe
pg. 19, wait i think!!! olive has that same poster in vol 1!!! omg!! also, awww, lucy is nicer here than in the ogs.
pg.20, WE'RE MEETING THE MIZOGUCHIS AND THEYRE NOTHING LIKE IVE WRITTEN THEM!! sorry, again projecting, my hs bf was really rich and a different race than me and his parents were super cold and uninviting to me. it sucked! 
pg. 21, awwww baby maps (even tho shes literally only 13 here). 
pg. 24, i appreciate that kyle and olive aren't allowed to share a room. 

issue #3
pg. 1, COLTON RIVERA IN A SUIT
pg. 5, batman stops school bullies now? tbh im not rly in the know on batman lore. it seems like bruce is taking a more paternal role for olive. interesting dynamics to consider. damian and maps as a couple. maps and olive as a couple. maps and olive as sisters. maps as robin.
pg. 14, this is a classic yaoi ref, which is funny. im not educated enough to know which one. 
pg. 30, manbat??? i wish it was my boy Tristan but its def that professor

until next time <3

i dont rly feel like using my old format for year in fic bc im lazy so im changing it up w this prompt list i stole off of tumblr <3 enjoy
ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

 

 

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since i've been in a rgu mood recently, here's an old drabble. i like it, but i'm too picky to dump it onto ao3. its pretty abstract. mikage and mamiyanthy centric.
CW: nothing outside the show's general weirdness. unreality, maybe.
word count: 697
( I feel her slap against my face and I think of you... )

ai yazawa's gojinko monogatari/neighborhood story is finally getting the english release it fucking deserves
i wonder if they'll release the anime? i love our fansubs so much and the lovely people who made them, but i also love putting on dubbed anime while i'm doing hw and even tho i've read the manga, it's much harder to focus on subs while ur multitasking. a 50 episode anime is also daunting to me <-- thinks no anime should be longer than 9 20 min episodes.

i'm watching the live action adaptation of ai yazawa's 'paradise kiss' rn, figured i might as well live react because i don't have any fans who are into parakiss. my expectations are eh: just from the poster alone, it doesn't look great, but i've been pleasantly surprised by live action anime before. also, i adore the live action 'nana' movies, so the bar is prettyy high. ( Read more... )

what better place to talk about my niche writing hobbies than a long-dead journaling site? <3 we're a month into the new year, but better late than never! this is for my entertainment and my entertainment only. i stole this idea from komacinne, who stole it from someone else, who stole it from someone else. yoohoohoo🏴‍☠️
( year in fic 22 )