New appartment!

[elspethdixon]

Yay! My appartment is perfect. It's much bigger than I thought it would be (I was expecting a Hollins dormroom), and has a gas stove and internet hook-up. The good (non-dial-up) kind, included in the rent.

I no longer feel cheated by the amount I have to pay for it.

It's on the bottom floor, half-submerged (the windows are waist-height indoors and ground level from the outside), and everyone else in the apartment building is upstairs of me, so I don't even have anyone next door. The carpet is new (given the subterranian location and the fact that it's near DC, I think it may be a post-Isabelle carpet), the walls are freshly painted, and the only flaw so far is that the doorknob sticks.

Also, pixyofthestyx, thanks for reccing me the naked Lex and Bruce/tentacle scans. Is it just me, or does Lex Luthor spend an inordinate amount of time naked or nearly naked? You can't even blame it on a particular artist's fetish for drawing him in a state of undress, a la Larocca's Shirtless!Gambit, because the nudidity happens in multiple mediums (Justice League cartoon, Superman cartoon, comics, probably Smallville, too, for all I know). Also, how, how could no one at DC have realized how wrong the tentacle thing looks? Even knowing the context, it looks wrong (and Bruce Wayne's pajamas are hideous. God, Bruce, just stick to basic black). Are we fangirls all twisted, or were old school comic writers just terminally naive? Because I'm pretty sure that scene was supposed to be
dramatic or angsty or something, and that making the reader snort diet coke out their nose wasn't what the writers were going for.

Comments

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

Yay! Your apartement sounds lovely.

Lex does spend an inordinate amount of time shirtless, doesn't he? I tend to read it as a characterization-point. Lex likes showing off his chest, especially when Superman's around.

As for the tenacles... well, just look when that comic was written. 'Cause sadly, that kind of explains everything.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Unlike the general run of supervillain, Lex doesn't want to destroy the world (rule it, maybe, but he'd do a better job of it than most megalomaniacal villains. I'd rather live in Lexworld than Magnetoworld). Mostly, he just wants to make Superman pay attention to him get rid of Superman in a dramatic an humiliating way.

because if he can pwn Superman, he get to be on top

Also, if Batman is having dreams about Ivy's tentacle plants, they're probably not nightmares. If his reaction to Catwoman is anything to go by, Bruce wants to be tied up by semi-sentient vines. But, yeah. Comics code era=stupidity

Yes, you definately need to come and visit the appartment.

[seanchai.livejournal.com]

That's one thing most DC fic writers miss- Batman secretly wants to be dominated and have a sexy woman whip him. With men, it might be a little different, but still.

I'd love to visit sometime- I ought to anyway, since I'm going to be applying.