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So, once again, I have a queue of posts to write in my head, that I haven't yet.
Right now, a brief musing on love and friendship and music and... things.
I have two truly amazing friends in Chas and Dean. And no matter what happens in my life - if things turn around and my life becomes tremendously awesome, if I go into politics and become Prime Minister, or anything like that, I will be loyal to no-one and nothing above them. (If I do go into politics, that will be a very good thing - they're both truly good people, and wouldn't let me be corrupt or corrupted. I'm Not Allowed to be immoral.)
It's sometimes hard to explain to other people why it's not that they're in charge of me, not my bosses or my parents, that it can be that I'm Not Allowed to do things they disapprove of - it's that they've earned the right to tell me what they think will be bad for me, and saying I'm Not Allowed is a shorthand for: if I do that, it will make Dean and/or Chas sad, and that will make me sadder than doing this thing will make me happy, so I cannot bring myself to do it. It's not that they control me, it's that they care about me, so they don't want me to do things that are unhealthy or dangerous or risky.
There's a Marilyn Monroe quotation, the key part of which is: "If you can't handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." Chas and Dean have seen me at, and handled me at, and forgiven me for, my worst. (Forgiveness is part of it. For instance, yesterday I was miserable, and in pain - I had a fall, and everything hurt, and I was just in a foul mood, all upset in ways that manifested as directionless anger and resentment. I spoke sharply to both of them, and got annoyed at them for being concerned and sympathetic at me. They forgave all of this as a manifestation of pain and depression and general I-have-a-broken-leg malaise. This is not, in fact, the worst in me they've handled.)
I started thinking about all this because I was listening to Melanie Safka's People in the Front Row. I love the lines at the end.
These chords that I'm using are usually sad,
I had to use them they're the best chords that I had
Oh yeah, this progression is usually sad,
But it felt my sorrow and I wanted it to feel me glad
This is, in some ways, how I feel about my closest, most beloved friends: I want a better future, and I want to bring them with me, because they've felt my sorrow and I want them to feel me glad.
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So, in idle conversation today, possibly partly inspired by the fact that I was beating up many mans in Arkham City challenges, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya and I semi-plotted a moderately cracktastic DCU AU.
In this one, Tim Drake, rather than simply being a heroic young badass, is in fact a badass young supervillain.
The reasoning goes like this:
Tim Drake is sufficiently awesome that, while still a child, he successfully stalked the goddamned Batman until he'd learned pretty much everything about him - including details that Batman's legitimate supercriminal enemies have yet to work out.
Tim Drake, essentially, out-Batted the Bat before he was old enough to vote.
Which means he could be a terrifying villain.
Since we're dealing with events surrounding Teen Titan types, clearly it has to be Kon who takes him on. (And because we're fangirls and adore Timmy, he'll have to redeem him with the healing power of his cock good and true heart, etc.)
(You have no idea how long I hesitated about that sentence, because as a joke it amuses me - remember, narcotics - but my mother reads this occasionally.)
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