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my #1 favourite comic book scene of all time will always be jack drake's wife saying he shouldn't tell his son to play hard sports like football because tim is "a scholarly delicate type"

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Ok back to regularly scheduled antagonism

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This is technically yesterday's art, but it didn't upload for some reason.

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help me put it on, will you?

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God I wish Jason and Bruce were still enemies. There's so much juicy father/son heartbreak we're missing out on. I want them to be in agony.

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This is my pitch on how we can fix whatever the fuck is going on with Jason in DC

1 - We kill him again (for real). At this point writers keep trying and failing to do anything interesting with him so my solution is to put him on a high shelf for like 10-20 years until everyone who’s currently at DC has retired and we can try again

2- Full pivot, we should either send him to space or hell or like a mix of both. Just stick him in a situation completely alien to him and let him have fun, caveats for this one: a) he can’t lead any team because who would listen to him b) no one from his previous team ups or books is allowed to show up

3- He actually gets to kill the joker for realses, this one kills two birds with one stone. We don’t have to put up with a joker storyline for at least 10 years and we can also table that plot point for Jason. Now should this give him catharsis and resolve his issues? No! It should make him worse actually, but it would make him worse in new and innovative ways

4 - We send him forwards in time in a futurama like scenario, he can’t argue with his family if theyre all long dead by then

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Using this panel as a "Kori wouldn't like Jason because yes she's killed people but she still looks down on killers" is so funny to me. Like that's taken SO far out of context of the plot, where Kori has been advocating for these people who want be part of the Titans... except then it turns out they came from a future to kill Donna, so she's pissed off and feeling betrayed, and one of them keeps talking about how she was dating Dick in the future (it wasn't him, just some guy who ig his past was erased and had Dick's memories implanted in him. Which, horrifying!) And is OBSESSED with him and Kori is jealous about that and angry about them attacking her friend who was pregnant and in labor because yeah, this is the plotline about the ethics of killing babies.

Even if said babies could potentially grow up (or... magically age themselves up because of cosmic horror levels of "has power and understands the power they have but has no Lived Experience to contextualize that understanding and it driving them mad"...) to be cruel global dictators or, gestures at the child above calling Pantha "mama", were genetically designed to be "monsters." (She wanted to kill said baby at first, but eventually came around and accepted being his "mother.")

So like... sure. I'm pretty sure she wanted to use a different, more derogatory word for them that probably wouldn't be comics code approved, hence the pause, but. Yeah. I'm pretty damned sure the part where they're willing to kill is pretty far removed from the crux of the issue here lol.

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i think one of the most misunderstood aspects of selina is her pragmatism and how i’ve seen people use this to dismiss her, both as a character and as a love interest. selina kyle did not grow up with a support system and got stuck with a terrible deal in life where she had no one to rely on, and it’s true, what she initially wants in life is nothing more than to escape the crime infested hole that is gotham. this is because unlike bruce, the idealist, selina is a realist who understands structural inequality and therefore knows that gotham cannot be saved. she’s going to ask bruce to run away with her not because she doesn’t understand his mission but because she needs to offer him an out, because she knows that his mission is a suicide mission, and there’s nothing that she can do to stop him from marching to his death. she’s not wearing rosy colored glasses in thinking that his mission will find him peace, and it’s her more than anyone who understands what a burden it is to be batman. however, selina will always be the unlikely hero who despite all of this will show up to save the day anyway, because bruce is her other half and her mirror image, and she is seeing a version of herself going to her death that she cannot allow. she still feels that someone should be there to put up a fight even if it cannot be her and its the fact that she for a moment, chooses selflessless and understands bruce’s language of sacrifice for the greater good despite how jaded she is that makes her such a dynamic character in terms of motivations.

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i tried to post this earlier and tumblr ate it idk what happened 😔 anyways woman moment

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Fanon Tim: skipped two years, no friends, bullied

Canon Tim: did not skip any years, only liked to go to school to socialize with his gazillion friends, told jocks to try to beat him up and they laughed and told him he's cool

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"good dad lex luthor" as a concept gets me every time. cups my hands around my mouth. He Sold His Daughter To Brainiac 13 In Exchange For More Power And Control In Metropolis

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its actually the arrowfam that needs a reality tv show, not the batfamily

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starfire wip ☀︎☀︎

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Bruce and Jaybin? That’s a father and his son.

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On my knees begging the “justice league doesn’t know the Robins” posters to reconnect with canon. Please. What are you guys even talking about.

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classic barry allen is based on an idea of policeman = good person which we now know to be complete fantasy so his post flashpoint appearances all have completely different undertones to them yet somehow the opposite of this happened to hal jordan in that his pre flashpoint appearances were all full of infinitely more moral nuance

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Small question, does it have to be Gotham for Cass? There's charas like Dick that can go establish their identity in a different city. Then there's Bruce, Steph, Jason and Duke who are so intrinsically tied to Gotham that this has to be the city for them. Where does Cass lie on this spectrum? Tq!

EXCELLENT question. I think Cass' situation is somewhat unique because of the way her character was handled post-Batgirl (2000).

In favour of Cass not staying in Gotham, she doesn't have the same emotional connection to Gotham as the four people you listed. She wasn't raised there, and in Batgirl (2000), she has next to no ties to Gotham civilians. In fact, it's when she moves to Bludhaven in Gabrych's run that she gains her first civilian friend and civilian love interest. The iconic volving panel is from Bludhaven, too. It's undeniable that the distance from Gotham, from Bruce (and arguably Babs), helps her grow:

Batgirl (2000) #71

It can't be overstated how important ownership is to Cass. To own something means, necessarily, that you not an object. You are a person who something belongs to, and who belongs to something. By calling Bludhaven the "first place that's ever been... mine," she's explicitly saying that Gotham was not hers. Bludhaven was the first place that made her feel fully human.

But there are caveats to this. Cass goes to Bludhaven in the wake of Stephanie's death, a Gothamite through and through. It's probable that Steph's death colours her view of Gotham here, and her willingness to embrace Bludhaven is in response to the pain that Gotham now brings her. (This is also after Babs calls Cass stupid). Feeling like Gotham doesn't belong to her might stem from these specific circumstances, and not be applicable in current canon.

Still, if the story had ended there, I'd say Cass doesn't need to stay in Gotham. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

Red Robin (2009) #17

After Bruce's death, Cass goes to Hong Kong. Well, 'goes' is putting it nicely. She was written off to make Steph Batgirl, which resulted in Cass a) not appearing in most comics, b) being stripped of the bat symbol, and c) being isolated from everyone she cares about, besides Tim. It's a horrific and undeserved fate, reversing everything Cass' story once stood for (narrative agency; becoming a hero; finding a family).

Though Cass regains the symbol and becomes the Bat of Hong Kong, she is no longer part of the narrative; her distance from Gotham became a representation of her distance from narrative importance. That's the real danger of Cass leaving Gotham - unlike Dick, who is a big enough character to be guaranteed solos in Blud, Cass leaving Gotham will forever hold the threat of erasure.

I'm discussing this in a meta-textual sense, but textually Cass knows the danger too.

Gates of Gotham #5

Here, Cass rebuffs Dick's assertion that Gotham will never keep either of them because they don't belong. She says, "It's about how you choose to see the world. Everything else is just an excuse." She's repudiating multiple things: editorial's decision to boot her from Gotham; Bruce's decision to take Batgirl away; even, somewhat, Dick's ascension to the Bat mantle when she wasn't given a chance.

This is ultimately why, though Cass could work elsewhere, I think she should work in Gotham. It's the place she ran to after David Cain, the place she chose to stay in, and the place that gave her Batgirl. Most importantly, it's the place that rejected her. It's not about Gotham itself - It's about how she was ejected from it, and how she fought her way back, over and over again. Cass staying in Gotham ensures history doesn't repeat itself. It rewards Cass fans who survived OYL, Batman Inc, and New 52 with the light at the end of the tunnel.

This is just my opinion! I do love her stint in Bludhaven, so I understand other people preferring her elsewhere. Just for me, she may not belong to Gotham in the way Bruce, Steph, Duke, Jay, or Babs does, but she deserves to be there.