Amy sells out

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Is Arkham the only fucking mental hospital in Gotham?

lectorel:

daggerpen:

It seriously seems like that sometimes.

I swear, the mental health infrastructure in Gotham ishorrible. No wonder so many people with mental illnesses turn to crime. Dealing with schizophrenia? Off to Arkham with you! I’m sure that experience will absolutely benefit your overall mental health, and absolutely won’t haunt you in the future.

Like seriously, what the fuck is up with some of this?

Like, no, seriously. An issue I was reading earlier (I am currently going over some of the old Cataclysm and later issues with a friend), an Arkham guard is kidnapped by inmates, who have a story-telling contest for the right to kill him. (I don’t even know.) At the end, it is decided that all their stories are equally good, so they… carve their names into different parts of his body or something, I guess? To mark off their claim for later? And we see this when his wife is visiting him… naked in a cell in Arkham and chained to the floor. Oh, and apparently they’re calling him Jigsaw now.

Um

What the fuck?

Yes, that was an absolutely appropriate and reasonable way for this to end.

Hence my headcanon that Tim has filed his psychiatric advance directive paperwork with ‘Keep me the hell out of Arkham’ written in all caps. Someday, I want to get a job at DC just so I can write batman comics where mental illness and trauma are actually handled in a not-completely-horrible-way.

You would be possibly the first DC writer ever. Best of luck to you.

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