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Rabbit and Hare

[text] You need to be more careful next time [text] At home [text] You can stay over if you need to, I don’t mind

[text] Just be safe

[text;] I'm so worried please text back please please please

[ t e x t ] i ’ m here , i think i am okay .

[ t e x t ] where are you ?

[ t e x t ] what happened ?

[ t e x t ] why were you so worried ?

[ t e x t ] my memory is failing me

‘fly on the wall’

“I don’t think Alice will be able to pull this off.”

Madeline stated, crossing her arms.

“She isn’t weak March, I’m sure she can keep them occupied enough for you shut down my cell block.”

“It’s not about her being weak Hattie, it’s just I don’t think she’ll want to join.”

In truth, she didn’t want Alice to join them. She had seen how Alice hung on Tetch’s every word and seemed to worship him. It was similar to Madeline’s own, except more extreme. Alice also wasn’t a criminal. Not yet at least.

“March!” Jervis gasped, “Why wouldn’t she want to join the tea party!?”

“I just think Alice needs more time, after all what will happen when the Jabberwocky comes for us all. We wouldn’t want Alice to get hurt, right?”

Hopefully appealing to Tetches more protective side of Alice would help.

“I can knock out the guards and shut down security for you.”

Colored my fanart for @themarchinghare‘s OC Batman rogue, The March Hare! I hope this looks close to what you imagine!

…Some mental images just like smacking me in the face with a phonebook. This is one. I was listening to the latest CodotVerse audio file when it got a little wild and I had to draw what I saw. Oh, my dear deluded Jervis. Anyhoo, have a good day to all of you. :)

Late night

Ficlet of Jervis and Madeline

The rain made everything seem so loud. Every step, every panting breath, and every police siren echoed so much louder. A part of her wished all of the noise would just stop, stop and let her think. Instead, she kept running forward. Madeline could feel rather than see Tetch stumbling behind her, all she could do was grip his hand tighter and hope the next turn would give them a place to hide. 

Finally several abandoned buildings came into sight and Madeline forced her exhausted legs to push faster.

"Tetch, come on! Just a few more steps! Then the police won't get us. I promise, we'll be safe soon!"

Madeline turned her head only for a moment to see Jervis's panting exhausted face. If she was in a better scenario, she'd try to carry him, but that was impossible now. 

Finally buildings stood in front of them. Without thought Madeline grabbed her remaining Kama and broke the glass to the dingy window. She quickly grabbed Tetch and thrust him through before hopping in herself. The moment her body dropped inside she felt shards of glass entering her torn boot. 

For a few tense seconds, they both remained on the floor, panting. Mercifully, the sirens disappeared, leaving only the sound of rain. Still exhausted, Madeline pushed herself up and looked at her companion. He remained on the floor, trying to curl up and block out the world. 

"Alright, alright, Tetch, the cops are gone, we just need to lay -"

"March, why did- did she do that? Why did she scream for the Red Queen?"

Madeline's face softened as she realized that Tetch was once again lost in his own fantasy. Slowly, Madeline crept closer to her companion, ignoring the glass that penetrated part of her broken boot. Madeline half jumped towards Tetch, before tilting her chin up and wiggling her nose.

"Now now Mister Hatta' we know that wasn't the real Alice. Why that young girl just wanted - wanted to play a game with us. No need to sulk!"

As casually as she could, so as to not spook him, she pushed Tetch into her lap, dusting off the broken glass that stuck to him.

"Ah, but March! I don't care for croquet, you know! And I'm tired of all these silly games!" 

Tetch pouted, throwing his arms in the air, ignoring the bleeding wound on his arm.

"Alice, oh Alice, where is she? Can't she see how much I want to bring her a party?"

Madeline sighed, looking around the old building. She would need to find something to distract him from his pity party. 

"Well, sometimes girls just want to -"

Suddenly, Madeline had a marvelous idea. Moving her hand to grip his shoulder, she forced him up to see a pile of decrepit boxes.

"Ah, look Hatta', a tea party! Already set up! How wondrous, how stupendous! Perhaps this was all a game to get us here!"

Madeline glanced down at Tetch, hoping that he would see the table and cups, and not some other wicked thing. She could never fully predict where his mind would take him. 

Just as she thought, he immediately jumped up and began eagerly walking towards the pile.

"Well, Callooh Callay to you, March! For a hare your eyes are sharp, why I bet they could cut a rath in half!"

Without another word, he sat himself on one box lower than the rest, and began to mime pouring tea.

"Hurry, Hare! Before it gets too cold!"

Smiling, Madeline stood up, already feeling the soreness in her body. It was only a temporary distraction until Tetch got his bearings. 

'Why, see this! Our day went from mimsy to frabjous in an instant! Why it's like a -'

"Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. `You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!"

"You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare, `that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!"

The words tumbled out of Madeline’s mouth with ease. Madeline slowly sat down next to her friend and pretended to eat a crumpet. She knew they'd have to leave and find a better hide out. For now, playing pretend with her friend was all she wanted to do.

This was...messed up at the least, a complete distressing mess that has the police involved at the worst. I know he adores Wonderland, but this is just..

"It.. it's just so new to me! How did you know they wanted to volunteer?"

I tried to hide my nervousness, none of them were Alice so they became.. this? Does that mean?... No, he calls me Hare. The March Hare. I already have a chosen role.

"The roles the girls, and I, play, how exactly does that work?"

I want to ask if they're in pain but.. that should wait.

"Why did you lie to me?"

mini angst sentences 

❝   𝘩𝑎𝑑 𝑖, 𝘩𝑎𝑟𝑒? 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.   ❞

ғᴏʀ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 𝓙𝒆𝓻𝓿𝓲𝓼 ᴡᴀs ᴄᴏɴғᴜsᴇᴅ - ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛ 𝓓𝓡𝓐𝓖𝓖𝓔𝓓 𝓸𝓷 ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʜᴇ ᴀssᴇssᴇᴅ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀs ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴɪɴɢ 𝓲𝓷 𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓗𝓔𝓐𝓓. ᴘᴇʀʜᴀᴘs ʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅ ʙʀᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴜᴘ ᴛʜᴇ 𝓕𝓐𝓚𝓔 𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝒆𝓼 ᴛᴏ ʜᴇʀ ᴘʀɪᴏʀ, ᴏʀ ᴘᴇʀʜᴀᴘs ʜᴇ 𝓗𝓐𝓓𝓝'𝓣. ɪᴛ ᴡᴀs sᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇs ᴅɪғғɪᴄᴜʟᴛ ᴛᴏ 𝓓𝓘𝓕𝓕𝓔𝓡𝓔𝓝𝓣𝓘𝓐𝓣𝓔 ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ 𝓹𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓷𝒆𝓭 ᴏʀ 𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓷𝒆𝓭 ᴅᴏɪɴɢ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴡʜᴀᴛ 𝓐𝓒𝓣𝓤𝓐𝓛𝓛𝓨 ʜᴀᴅ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴᴇᴅ. sᴇᴇɪɴɢ ʜᴇʀ ᴇxᴘʀᴇssɪᴏɴ ɴᴏᴡ 𝒆𝓿𝓸𝓴𝒆𝓭 ᴀɴ ᴜɴғᴀᴍɪʟɪᴀʀ ᴘᴀɴɢ ᴏғ 𝓖𝓤𝓘𝓛𝓣 ᴀɴᴅ ɢᴀᴠᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴀ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ ᴛᴏ 𝓔𝓧𝓟𝓛𝓐𝓘𝓝 ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴅ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴᴇᴅ. ɴᴏᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ.

❝   𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑖 𝘩𝑎𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖 𝘩𝑎𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑚. 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝘩𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦’𝑑 𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑟. 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒?    ❞ 

ʜᴇ 𝓛𝓐𝓤𝓖𝓗𝓔𝓓, ʙᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴀɴ ᴏᴜᴛsɪᴅᴇʀ ɪᴛ ᴍᴀʏ sᴇᴇᴍ ᴛᴏᴛᴀʟʟʏ 𝓤𝓝𝓒𝓐𝓛𝓛𝓔𝓓 ғᴏʀ. 𝓗𝓪𝓽𝓽𝒆𝓻 ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ 𝓲𝓻𝓸𝓷𝔂 ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ sɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʜᴇ ғᴏᴜɴᴅ ʜɪᴍsᴇʟғ ɪɴ, ᴀɴᴅ 𝓰𝓲𝓭𝓭𝓲𝓵𝔂 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏsᴘᴇᴄᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅ ʙᴇᴇɴ 𝓣𝓗𝓡𝓞𝓦𝓝 ɪɴᴛᴏ ɪᴛ ᴀs sᴏ!

❝   𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒 - 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝘩𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦. 𝑚𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩 𝑗𝑜𝑦, 𝘩𝑎𝑟𝑒! 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑦 𝘩𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 - 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠. 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑚.   ❞

𝓣𝓱𝒆 𝓜𝓪𝓭 𝓗𝓪𝓽𝓽𝒆𝓻 sᴛᴜᴅɪᴇᴅ ʜᴇʀ 𝒆𝔁𝓹𝓻𝒆𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷 ᴀs ʜɪs ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀ 𝓗𝓐𝓛𝓣, ʜɪs ʟɪᴘs sᴏᴏɴ 𝓹𝓻𝒆𝓼𝓼𝒆𝓭 ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛғᴜʟʟʏ ᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ ᴀs ʜᴇ 𝓡𝓔𝓐𝓛𝓘𝓩𝓔𝓓 ᴛʜᴀᴛ sʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅɴ’ᴛ ғᴏᴜɴᴅ ɪᴛ ᴀs 𝒇𝓾𝓷𝓷𝔂 ᴀs ʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅ. 𝓒𝓤𝓡𝓘𝓞𝓤𝓢. ʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ’ᴠᴇ sᴡᴏʀɴ ʜᴇ 𝓗𝓔𝓐𝓡𝓓 ʜᴇʀ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪᴛ ᴍᴜsᴛ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ 𝓑𝓡𝓘𝓔𝓕 ғᴏʀ ʜɪᴍ ᴛᴏ ᴍɪss ɪᴛ ᴀs ʜᴇ ʜᴀᴅ 𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷𝒆𝓭 ʜɪs ʜᴇᴀᴅ.

❝   𝘩𝑎𝑟𝑒? 𝑤𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝘩𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑜… 𝑔𝑙𝑢𝑚?   ❞

Virtue, October 2019. One of the tiny ink drawings I made for inktober.

Arkham Asylum and its medical practices p1

What practice:

Electrotherapy (ETC) is actually used to treat severe depression, sucidal thoughts/behaviors, bipolar (mania/depression), and schizophrenia (Catonia). This treatment is also sometimes used in Dementia and pregnancy. This is usually used when medication doesn't work, the patient has had ETC before, or the sufferer needs the effects immediately because they can pose a threat (to self or others) in the time it takes the medication to take effect. This is all done with consent of the patient and possibly family.

Usually the patient is given muscle relaxers and asleep (anesthetic) before hand. While they sleep the device is placed on their head and a controlled electric current is used producing a brief brain seizure. The patient usually doesn't remember the producer and is carefully monitored and is repeated three times a week.

Side effects: Temporary confusion, retrograde amnesia, temporary nausea, headache, muscle ache and medical complications.

(www.webmd.com, www.mayoclinic.org, www.mind.org.uk)

How Arkham Asylum is shown using it:

If you've seen/read whatever anything with Arkham Asylum or the inmates chances are this treatment has been show or referenced. This makes sense as ETC is still used today and I'd be lying if I said that none of the inmates need it. However personally I don't think it's shown/done correctly.

The staff apparently missed the part about the patients being asleep during the procedure as patients laughing (Joker) seem to be a common occurrence. Also how Sparks seem to fly while it's happening when that would probably kill or at least fry the brain. Another thing is how the patients are strapped down, something I didn't mention was that the Patient is LAYING DOWN not sitting in a freaking chair!

Arguably Arkham may not even ask the patients for consent (which kinda makes sense it'd be weird to just have a page of a comic having an inmate sign paperwork). Another thing is which rogues get the treatment I'm no doctor/psychologist/ therapist whatever so I can't say if a certain rogue needs it or not.

If I'm seeing this correctly then it makes a lot of sense so many inmates are not getting better and are always eager to escape. Hell I bet Bruce Wayne and Batman have quite a few things to say to the staff at Arkham.

To add:

Sadly whenever it's shown in the Batman universe it looks like it simply feeds into the public opinion of ETC which is a shame because even though it was horrific in the past it's helped so many people today.

At the end all I wanna add is PLEASE do research into this stuff creators you don't need to know everything about but a quick Google search reveals it's not that horrific, at least today! If y'all would like me to discuss another treatment in Arkham please let me know!