I feel like one of theses days the joker is gonna spray Gotham with laugh gas and NOTHING will happen. The citizen of Gotham will have built an immunity from all the chemical shit that gets thrown at them.

osheamobile:

kiragecko:

elfgrove:

osheamobile:

elfgrove:

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elfgrove:

I don’t think that’ll happen. Immunity to chemicals/poisons tends to be built up in matters of small exposures (I think, not my field) and the villains would have to be using the same basic chemicals every time, not likely. You’d also have to survive the prior exposures which seems not very Gotham~y. — Besides, it’s a fictional city and that wouldn’t make for a good story precedent to set, the citizens as immune to such a common plot point.

Now what I’d like to see is the people of Gotham building an immunity to widespread media panic about said Joker Gas.

It becomes like a pollen count on the weather. “And today’s expected Joker Toxin index is listed at 15.4, so make sure to put those breakable objects away on high shelves and put the kids to bed early, because this is going to be a bad one.”

And then the next panel shows an average family just matter-of-fact, getting the seatbelts (that they’ve installed by now) and strapping themselves in while green and/or purple clouds start filtering in through the window, so they’re safely secured when they start to have painful hysterical fits.

Every time the Joker breaks out, sporting goods stores have a BOGO sale on mouthguards.

Yes.

And like certain cities I know of down South where there’s a chemical depot, many citizens actually own gas masks and there’s sirens for leaks.

You wanna help out Bruce? Those gas masks that you and the Robins don to such good effect (until a villain knocks it off mid-fight), have Wayne Enterprises “develop” a cost-effective public version to sell since it’s such a regular issue. How to keep your giant ass company in business and make your night job easier. Hell, given how regularly it comes up, the government would pay for it. They do in real life.

I’d love to see little things about how there’s water filters commonly purchased advertised by being “Gotham-Grade” or how it was tested and proven to filter out chemicals just like was used in the Scarecrow’s last attack. Stuff like that.

Immunity isn’t likely, but companies capitalizing on the commonality of the threat, locals being desensitized to the repeated same threat situations — that’s stuff I’d buy.

I grew up in North Alabama. — We are not going in the safe room yet, that tornado cell isn’t close and it’s gonna be really boring sitting in a closet with the battery operated radio. Just leave the weather coverage running on the TV and come help fix dinner. — You learn to read how much of an immediate issue commonly occurring dangers are and you take reasonable action without flipping out. It’s part of the routine.

“Honey, get back here and finish your dinner. You heard the radio; Killer Croc is two blocks south of here and going the wrong direction. Your food’s getting cold.”

This is exactly the kind of Gothamite I would expect.

“Channel 8 says the fight with Freeze is going on in Tribeca and headed towards the West Village, your school is not going to be closed tomorrow. Now go write your report. You’ll wish you had to deal with Batman if you bring home one more D in Mr. Jones class.”

People choose entertainment based on how nondescript the name and theme are, and places with giant smiling faces/puns of ANY kind quickly go bankrupt. Street and buildings have been quietly renumbered so there are less 2s. Restaurants close on holidays and everyone has quiet meals indoors – Takeout places triple their business. Restaurants adapt by offering unnamed parallel days of celebration –

‘Come in February 17th with your significant other. Enjoy a quiet, safe meal – our dining room features no unnecessary decorations, and our name has no unfortunate associations in the world’s 32 most common languages!’

yes i want a gotham not crushed by murder and fear where people have adapted and are rarely in too much danger where businesses no longer have themes because theme criminals are so bad for business 

Elf, it got better.

Yeah, this sounds like humans. 

captn-sara-holmes:

OH MY GOD so an urban legend nearly happened to me at work today, I’m not even kidding.

SO  I took my class ice skating for their first ever session and was having a whale of a time trying to persuade a student with ASD to let go of my jacket, and then I see a line of kids go down like freaking dominoes. One flails and knocks the girl next to him over, she butts another on the way down and then he wipes out two more. So that’s pretty funny, until someone starts screaming. They all struggle to their feet and one has her hand aloft like she’s victorious, celebrating the downfall of her friends and then I realize oh dear god she is bleeding and she is bleeding a lot.

I abandon my ASD friend, leaving him with the one already-competent skater in my class and hurtle over the the dominoes. The girl is still holding her hand up and it’s just bleeding everywhere, all down her arm and onto the ice. The coach looks like she’s trying not to swear and quickly says to me “please can you get her off the ice.” It’s worth noting that the screaming is still happening, though the girl who is bleeding everywhere is not the one screaming. She’s just looking at her hand in mild surprise, like “oh dear, all of my blood is evacuating via my fingers.”

So I grab her wrist and haul it up above her head and skate the fuck off the ice with girl in tow. By this point some bright spark is yelling “SHE’S LOST A FINGER,” and my entire class is freaking out. ASD boy gives up and lies on the ice with his legs and arms in the air like a distressed turtle. The rest of them just form a sort of perimeter around him, one of them happily explaining to the coach that yeah, he does this a lot, he’ll get up in a moment.

I take the girl off the ice to the medical room. By this point the ice looks like a massacre has happened, her jumper and leggings are wrecked, my jacket is doomed and both of our skates are covered. When we get her into the medical room I find that she’s still got all of her fingers (I did at one point think omg how do I explain to her mum that her kid is coming back missing a finger) but there is a huge gaping slice down one finger – i won’t go into any more detail apart from to say it was fucking gross. The medic immediately goes for adding pressure, so he’s gripping her finger while holding it up above her head and I have to ring school and ask what the procedure is when a child in my care has been maimed.

Half an hour later, the bleeding has stopped, the ice has been cleaned, her mum is on the way to pick her up and take her to have it stitched up, and the kid is still super chill. I’m not kidding, there was no screaming, no crying, not even a complaint. All she said was “it hurts a little but, less than shutting my toe in the door.”

I, on the other hand, am traumatized forever. And I broke a nail getting her skates off when she couldn’t do it one handed.  

if you have the time – how do you think horses might differ if they were a carnivorous species? like in skeletal structure, overall look, maybe even behaviour etc

drferox:

First of all, they would not be horses, They would be some sort of eldrich demonic fae beast monstrosity and I would like exactly none of that, thank you very much.

But on topic, some of the way an equine species would need to be modified to become carnivorous include:

  • Wider mouths. Horse mouths don’t open very far and are geared towards chewing high fiber diets. All their dentition needs to change.
  • So does their lips and jaw muscles. The carnivore horse needs to be able to open wide and have a strong bite force. The strongest jaw muscles of horses are for chewing grass side to side, they need more chomping power.
  • Forward facing eyes if this species hunts rather than scavenging. Horses have great peripheral vision but poor binocular vision.
  • A sensible digestive system, for goodness sake.
  • Whether you keep them quadrupedal or make them bipedal is up to you, both motions of locomotion are efficient enough.
  • They may have longer tail bones for increased dexterity when turning at speed.
  • Whether you keep the hooves or switch to claws is up to your design, but the claws are definitely more concerning.
  • Continuing to live (and hunt) in a group keeps the horsey flavor and is extra concerning. Imagine them playing tug of war with a corpse like wolves do.

Give them thicker hindlegs, clawed forelegs, and the ability to temporarily balance on their hindlegs to claw with their forelimbs? They already do the beginning of that when fighting, pawing at each other, so it wouldn’t take too drastic of a modification to get them to offensive measures. 

There’s a kind of cold-blooded goat that has eyes on the front of its skull, look ‘em up for skull reference.