Some context for the destruction of that Aboriginal site:
When indigenous ppl complain that their sacred sites are being destroyed and they say stuff like "we have a cultural connection to this place" "if we can't come here it's like ripping off our roots" "we need this place to communicate with our ancestor spirits" etc., white australians are conditioned to handwave statements like that away with shit like "oh well they're just saying that, it's just a random tree, they'll get over it, obviously ancestor spirits aren't real, sacredness of trees isn't real", and that is total bullshit.
Aboriginal sacred sites are integral parts of highly sophisticated mnemonic techniques that have been proven to preserve information for (i know this sounds hard to believe but) at least ten thousand years (they accurately describe coastlines that are now underwater, or dry areas that have since been rainforests for 7000 years, or extinct megafauna etc.)
Physical features (either in one place, or along a track known as a songline) work as subheadings in an encyclopaedia. Ritualised teachings tell people what rituals or song cycles (like subheadings in an encyclopaedia) to associate with specific visual cues, and then those songs all contain stories that have (for example) systematised knowledge of every local animal and plant, contained in songs for easy memorisation. White anthropologists mostly handwave these techniques away as "animist beliefs" and "ancestor worship" but in reality it's this extremely sophisticated system of knowledge that's something like a cultural encyclopaedia, and that's why it's such a big deal when this fucking anglo settler state and its profiteers destroy these locations like it means nothing bc "oh it's just a tree" or "what it's a rock they'll just go to another rock"
sick of all this "chumby friendshaped huggable snoft dad bod thicc boi" bullshit. just say you want to fuck fat men and mean it, you little picrew cunts.
Listen. I love batman. I love the robins. I love Gotham.
BUT IF I GET ONE MORE BRUCE WAYNE BEFORE A MOVIE ABOUT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERS IM GOING TO RIOT
anyways, here’s a list of characters who should have a film about them before another movie about Batman:
-CLARK KENT!!! For one of the most iconic and influential characters in history i am shocked and appalled that this man doesn’t have a decent movie about him. Man of Steel is probably the most memorable but i dont like it or Zack Snyder or its characterization of Clark so fuck it. I do like Henry Cavill, i will give it that.
-CASSANDRA CAIN!!!!! SHE’S GOT A GREAT BACKSTORY THAT I THINK COULD TRANSLATE REALLY WELL INTO A MOVIE AND SHE DESERVES BETTER AFTER WHAT BIRDS OF PREY DID TO HER
-Dick Grayson, probably just because i love him and somehow manage to be surprised every time a Batman movie comes out without him, but i would absolutely rock with a coming of age style movie abt 19 year old Dick Grayson as long as hes characterized well AND HIS COSTUME IS ACCURATE AND NOT THE ARMORED BULLSHIT HE WAS GIVEN IN TITA-
-Roy Harper, a canon accurate Roy Harper movie that’s less of a superhero movie and more or a drama (think Tick Tick… Boom!) would be absolutely insane. ESPECIALLY if they include his drug issues and Lian, as long as its done well
-STARFIRE!!! I just love starfire so much and she’s actually goated stg
-Martian Manhunter! He doesn’t have much of a character in most media it feels and he’s actually lowkey the goat so literally anything on him thats well done could be fun.