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"jason todd is the angry robin" "dick grayson is the angry robin" "damian wayne-" NO SHUT UP THEY'RE ALL ANGRY!!! THEY'RE ALL ANGRY BECAUSE THE WORLD HAS DONE NOTHING BUT BEAT THEM DOWN!!! THEY ARE ANGRY THAT PEOPLE DIE AND THE POLICE DO NOT CATCH THE KILLERS!!! THEY ARE ANGRY THAT THERE IS ENOUGH FOOD AND STILL PEOPLE WHO ARE STARVING!!! THEY ARE ANGRY THAT PEOPLE CAN GET AWAY WITH CRIMES!!! THEY WOULD NOT BE ROBIN IF THIS WAS NOT TRUE!!! BUT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE ANGRY DOES NOT MEAN THEY ARE NOTHING ELSE!!! DICK GRAYSON CRACKED JOKES AND DID FLIPS AND SAID THINGS LIKE "WHELMED" AND LOVED HIS FRIENDS. JASON TODD BELIEVED ROBIN WAS MAGIC SO HARD THAT ROBIN BECAME A MANTLE SYNONYMOUS WITH HOPE!!!! TIM DRAKE WAS THE REASON BRUCE WAYNE CRAWLED BACK FROM THE BRINK OF GRIEF AND HATRED!!!! DAMIAN WAYNE LEARNED TO LOVE AND BE LOVED AFTER YEARS OF NOTHING SO HARD HE KEEPS A HORDE OF ANIMALS AND WANTS TO BE A DOCTOR!!! SHUT UP ABOUT THE ANGRY ROBIN!!!!!

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also please shut the fuck up about talia al ghul if you haven't deconstructed your post-9/11 anti-arab racism and your western propagandist views on asian women because if i hear one more motherfucker act like talia being written as some unfeeling disgusting person who is a terrible mom who only cares about getting her father's power and is also some fucking seductress using her feminine wiles to corrupt male heroes is anything other than blatant racism i'm going to combust

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while i'm on my hot takes shit y'all gotta stop acting like the bat kids hate each other. especially the ones who are NOT bruce's kids. they occasionally have some real beef due to someone doing some fucked up shit, but the point of the batfam is that they literally always have each others' backs. they don't get a choice. it's gotham. if they can team up with their fucking rogues gallery because someone decided to try and nuke the city, they can get over beating the shit out of each other.

"tim hates jason because-" no he doesn't the kid 100% started making fun of jason for wearing a robin costume to beat his ass. "jason hates tim because-" uh no jason thinks this kid is the only smart one because he's the only one to treat robin like a job. "damian hates-" no. be quiet. damian was emotionally and physically abused and had no concept of what love was supposed to be like and reacted aggressively because that was the behavior that has always been rewarded for him. he's a big boy now. shut up. "stephanie definitely hates-" THOSE ARE HER COWORKERS SHE JUST WORKS HERE BRO. "dick hates-" HIMSELF. MOVE ON. "but barbara-" ALSO JUST WORKS HERE LEAVE THIS WOMAN ALONE.

now if you think any of them hate bruce the answer is they probably do and are going to ignore it so hard because whether they like it or not he's good at his job or is their dad.

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bruce wayne can't stop being written as an abusive father until they resolve his conflict with jason todd and in this essay i will-

(before anyone gets up in arms in my reblogs- no i don't think jason is the only kid he's abused, no i don't think his abusive behaviors even started with jason, no i'm not saying this is the ONLY issue, no i don't hate bruce, no i'm not saying they should be fucking besties, i'm saying that as long as bruce treats jason the way he does and has it be excused because jason is a "villain", not one of his other kids is safe.)

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listen i love shipping and hotness as much as the next tumblr bitch but i am at my core someone who cares about themes and this is not the first time a movie about asian culture has been dismissed as "frivolous" and im mcfucking tired of it

You're laughing. Kpop demon hunters is about centuries of cultural shame being forced on asian women as they're diminished to objects for men to use, forcing them to be the foundation of their societies all while never being allowed to show even the slightest fault while men are allowed to do the bare minimum and be the worst versions of themselves and still be praised while also acknowledging that the same system forces asian men into a role that prevents them from expressing their emotions or fears, leaving them to wallow in their shame and mistakes until it becomes violence and only by both allowing themselves to understand and accept their faults and misdeeds while also allowing space for accountability and never letting those misdeeds go without consequences can this endless cycle of generations of self-hate, oppression, and shame end but people are too focused on jinu being hot to care and you're laughing

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You're laughing. Kpop demon hunters is about centuries of cultural shame being forced on asian women as they're diminished to objects for men to use, forcing them to be the foundation of their societies all while never being allowed to show even the slightest fault while men are allowed to do the bare minimum and be the worst versions of themselves and still be praised while also acknowledging that the same system forces asian men into a role that prevents them from expressing their emotions or fears, leaving them to wallow in their shame and mistakes until it becomes violence and only by both allowing themselves to understand and accept their faults and misdeeds while also allowing space for accountability and never letting those misdeeds go without consequences can this endless cycle of generations of self-hate, oppression, and shame end but people are too focused on jinu being hot to care and you're laughing

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You're laughing. Kpop demon hunters is about centuries of cultural shame being forced on asian women as they're diminished to objects for men to use, forcing them to be the foundation of their societies all while never being allowed to show even the slightest fault while men are allowed to do the bare minimum and be the worst versions of themselves and still be praised while also acknowledging that the same system forces asian men into a role that prevents them from expressing their emotions or fears, leaving them to wallow in their shame and mistakes until it becomes violence and only by both allowing themselves to understand and accept their faults and misdeeds while also allowing space for accountability and never letting those misdeeds go without consequences can this endless cycle of generations of self-hate, oppression, and shame end but people are too focused on jinu being hot to care and you're laughing

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Ok minor detail but ...

So I noticed in A:TLA, and it’s carried over in LoK, that Airbenders always seem to have an advantage in a fight. And at first, it felt like plot armour, particularly in A:TLA.

But when Aang fought Bumi, he lost most of that advantage. And I realised that this wasn’t just plot armour. Someone had sat and worked it out: nobody has had to fight Airbenders for generations. 

None of the other nations have had to train to face them, or practised sparring with them, or anything. Apart from Bumi, no bender in the show has ever even met an airbender before Aang comes along. And in LoK, for the most part people still haven’t. We never see fights between those who have (for e.g. we never see Tenzin and Lin fight); when Korra and Tenzin use airbending, its a unique fighting style that people aren’t trained to manage.

It’s a really small detail, and it fundamentally works to give the heroes an advantage (and make up for Aang’s young age and lack of combat experience), but I love how it’s an advantage in combat for completely logical reasons.

The detail in these shows is amazing.