Ok, I just Wallpapered the tarsier, and it morphed into a fuzzy, quite menacing looking critter.

AGGGHHH!

All your Tarsier are belong to us!

Ever image Google your hometown?

Fergus Falls, MN, where I was born: [link]

Yes, that is indeed a concrete otter.

Faribault, MN, where I live: [link]

Just so everybody knows, I wasn't actually advocating pushing religious figures into your orifices. Merely pointing out that such things exist, you know, in case the thread was unaware. Which, considering the thread, was probably a pretty silly thing for me to even suspect.

I very much understand your squick, JZ, and actually agree with it in many ways. I'm glad you posted.

And now, back to Gaiman: Why is he SO DANG CUTE? In my opinion, brilliant people should be ugly, so that I don't feel TOO inferior in comparison. But cute, brilliant, and, most importantly, British, just makes me jealous. And also makes me want him to give the commencment address for my class. Which was going to be the entire focus of my career as Senior Class President, I might add, if the "cool people" vote (my words) hadn't been split between two separate campaigns while the "total douchebags" vote (again, my words) was concentrated in the people that actually won.

So we get Yet Another Completely Boring Scientist (tm) as our commencement speaker, instead.

But I'm not bitter. Really.

Hmm. Victor, it has not arrived.

Plei, help! I want to write Bat-fic (because I have an intriguing bunny*), and I don't know nearly enough to write it, and I just need to be TALKED OUT OF IT.

(*Bunny: someone in LJ posted about a World Without Batman challenge, where Bruce never became the Bat. So, I'm thinking, Gotham City: Timmay, detective in the GCPD; Montoya, police commisioner; Jim Gordon, 6 feet under; Babs, total vigilante, a la Huntress; Helena, crime boss; Bruce Wayne, just a dissolute billionaire. And I really want to write it, and I don't have any business even thinking about it. TALK ME OUT OF IT.)

Dude! That's an AWESOME Elseworld.

WRITE! WRITE!

What would you do with Dick, who would wind up in Gotham even sans Bruce.

Dude! That's an AWESOME Elseworld.

Yeeeeah, actually, she's right. Sorry, man.

What would you do with Dick, who would wind up in Gotham even sans Bruce.

Yeah, I was thinking that too, except I was wondering how Tim was in Gotham, but then I forgot he always was, but, as you said, Dick wasn't.

Maybe the circus comes to Gotham, and Helena kills his parents, and then there's this whole Nightwing/Huntress thing.

What would you do with Dick, who would wind up in Gotham even sans Bruce.

See, I dunno. He might stay with the circus. They're his only family.

Yeah, I was thinking that too, except I was wondering how Tim was in Gotham, but then I forgot he always was, but, as you said, Dick wasn't.

No, Dick was. Dick's parents died in Gotham. Bruce took him in, but in some versions/variations/stories, there's a period where Dick's in an orphanage after the Graysons are killed.