thematically, Batman needs to be a good father. 'but he's the dark knight! but he's vengeance and the night! but he's a loner!' yeah sure whatever, but that's over looking several crucial factors of his story. Batman's real enemy is societal corruption, it's what killed his parents, it's what makes it impossible for him to only throw money at Gotham to fix it, it's the source of basically all of his rogues. and you know what flies in the face of societal corruption? kindness, compassion, a willingness to try to improve oneself. Batman fights it on the ground, dismantling large crime families as much as he stops muggers and rapists. Bruce Wayne fights it with money, with charm, with charities riddled with more good people than bad. the societal corruption Batman and Bruce Wayne is fighting is a wealthy, white, uppercrust aristocracy. and you know what's a part of that aristocracy? toxic masculinity and a near pathological refusal to be close to people. if Batman is really going to be a story about fighting against society and a rich man trying to use his privilege for good Bruce Wayne has to be shown fighting that influence even within his own home, by reaching out to his kids and being soft and sweet with them and not a bullshit toxic male fantasy that punches them in the face to prove a point (looking at the fucking court of owls dick grayson issue) he doesn't have to be perfect but he HAS to be more good than bad.
you can make the argument of Batman seeing them as soldiers and Bruce Wayne seeing them as his kids and the inherent conflict between the two but he has. to be. a good. father.
Please know that if you receive a message in your inbox that goes a little something like this
1. I’ve been a KM supporter for a while
2. BUT (always a but)
3. I saw Jungkook interact with x member (Yes, it’s rarely Jimin whose actions make these pressed anons question their loyalty)
4. And I have to say …it seems pretty legit. (Yes, Jikook could have just fed us a 5 course meal but for these “km supporters”, Jungkook so much as looking at another member for more than a millisecond invalidates it all)
5. Please help me (there can sometimes be a cry for help, poor little lost sheep just need to find their way back to the jikook pasture)
That it’s scripted!!!!! These are fake pressed anons who literally send anon messages to larger/popular Jikook accounts as a way to plant seeds of doubt and convince your large network of followers jikook isn’t real.
I know, this sounds so ridiculous, petty, and truly doing the most, but I’m not lying!!! It is hysterical how some people take shipping SO seriously and are SO invested in their ship that they literally spend their time writing fake messages! LOL
I love Jikook and I love supporting them it’s not that serious. If you resort to sending fake messages because you think convincing people Jikook isn’t real will make your ship more real…it is time to find a different hobby!
I am just so disappointed with the direction DC is taking Damian, it’s honestly making me consider leaving comics. Batman and Robin by Tomasi was one of the first comic books I read and Damian was the Robin I grew up with. Like I get people like Tim and he the Robin some people grew up, but some of his stans need to consider that some people feel the same way about Damian. Disregarding Damian character development for the sake of making Tim Robin again just ain’t it.
Lmao it’s legit never been IT but ppl constantly complain about Tim even tho tim hasn’t been robin for like over 10 years ITS OVER,its DONE but I constantly saw ppl BITCHING and complaining about him not being robin on legit every comic platform ever TO THIS DAY , they never gave this fucking child a chance and like yea I get it , I was once a person that didn’t like Damian cause I was new to comics and everyone else was saying shit so I was just like??? oh Ok bad robin (the movies didn’t help) but the thing is I actually decided to read his comics and he has legit the best character development and character themes among the robins (at least for me i love jason and dick but yea) DC is legit telling me you can’t outgrow your abusive upbringing, if you’re child that experienced horrible beliefs by your family due to traditions you can’t actually better yourself , you can’t actually grow and have support and try to connect to ppl your own age do to a missed childhood that’s how it’s coming across to me ,yes you have relapses but the way dc handles it is point blank just bad sometimes outright racist
The fact that he’s also a character of Arab/Chinese descent and its NOW that they acknowledge it when it’s the time to be turned evil to make way for the white fave for nostalgia bait is something that makes me see red I don’t know what to tell you, i BET im gonna see ppl being like “Wow fInAllY MY RoBiN iS bAcK uwu” like shut up dude he never LEFT what y’all were missing was his friends and character not acting like new52!Tim and i LOVE tim when he’s with YJ but all the way to rebirth it just gave me a bad feeling seeing tim in the same colors as damian and damian constantly having this push and pull in editorial land
the thing is i also feel bad for kids that actually like these characters when Supersons started i saw so many kids being HYPED,they cosplayed them and everything it was wholesome and like you had a perfect gateway for kids to read comics but like now its all in the gutter
So many characters have been butchered post rebirth but I can’t quit DC cause I think they’re gonna fix this eventually, it happens all the time , it happened with cass and she’s ok-ish now depending on which fan you ask🤷🏽♀️ but I know if there’s enough fan outcry they’ll eventually have to listen ....I hope ,just at this point speak with your wallet stop buying Teen titans or anything you dont like , support the creators you actually like.
Edit: I think I’m also sad because most of the robins got to build their own teams based on friendship Damian never got to have that, every time we’re close to getting something they always screw with his character it’s super tiring, I just feel disappointed for the ppl that actually tried in dc mostly Gleason but his ideas kept getting shut down because of editorial agenda thinking Damian could never be a true hero, they just don’t like Jon or they barely know maya, we’ve never gotten chance to actually see Damian have conflicts with ppl he’s actually compatible with and how he would grow as a result
It’s bad when most of the teen titans writers in 4 YEARS have said that they actually haven’t read Damian comics with B&R and RSOB being one the most important things for Damian’s character so they just kept having ppl that had no chemistry with him and it just felt forced now we’re getting the consequences
This entire thing is just going to reinforce ppl’s belief about Damian and I guess I’m just gonna see a whole new wave of ppl saying the same damn thing for the past 10 yrs about Damian having the robin mantle
this is the first time in years that tumblr has felt organic. No I will not elaborate
Man found the stoplight cameras were activated during yellow lights and decided to cut the wires of it.