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It spoke your name on the stairs that night.

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Ok back to regularly scheduled antagonism

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Nightwing (2016-): Fear State

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“Do you want to make a stop for Batburger?”

[Incoherent concussed Jason noises]

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Red Robin fanart that I made some time ago and forgot to post here 🙃

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What is it about combining fantastic watercolours and garbage character assassinations that makes DC keep doing it?

these books are the same trust me.

They both have gorgeous watercolour art and absolutely terrible shitty childhood retcons.

This one is very bad, Diana is a spoiled child who kills her first crush to win a contest and is banished for her crimes to go be Wonder Woman about it before she ever kisses a real live girl. Also that building with the onion roof in the scrying pool is 400 years old so it retcons her age too i guess.

this one has Bruce bending over backwards to be the perfect father while Jason is this "evil inner monologue" having, violent asshole.

DC has made it clear over the years that they are committed to changing the core of Jason's character, giving all his sunshine to Dick and giving him all of Dicks rage.

these are gorgeous to look at and frustrating to read. its like they were written by one of those fandom members who never once read an actual comic.

Alfred would not say that

Bruce was the most disturbed violent kid ever to go through puberty, Alfred not only would accept a fucked up kid, HE HAS EXPERIENCE WITH THIS EXACT BULLSHIT.

That's not Jason Todd.

That's not Alfred.

That's not Bruce Wayne. That's not Diana.

These comics did not deserve that art.

Fuck these REALLY PRETTY books.

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I need to put together a proper PSA for professional Batman comic writers at some point to explain that "ward" is a very out-of-date and obsolete legal term in the US that hasn't existed since realistically the early 1980s and at latest 1997.

If you're a child actively interacting with the foster care+adoption system you're either an adoptive child, foster child, or ward of the state/court. If you're not a ward of the court (in which case the state is your legal guardian and you're probably being represented by a guardian ad litem or designated social worker), the adult who has legal custody of you and legal/financial responsibility for you is either your adoptive parent, your foster parent, or your temporary legal guardian. You can't really be a 'ward' of an individual anymore; that hasn't been a thing since again, the 80s/90s-era foster care system reforms.

this is all to day: Batman writers stop calling Dick and Jason Bruce's wards challenge. Even if you want to continue the mental gymnastics to ignore their adoptions, he is at minimum their permanent foster father and legal guardian. That's how the system works. Do your research for once in your lives, I am begging

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I need a situation where one of the younger batkids are in an argument with Jason, and bring up the fact that he "wasn't a good kid"

Damian: "Tch. Todd, you are just angry because you were too busy rebelling to get father's attention."

Jason:

Dick: "..What?"

Damian: "Your degenerative behavior as a child is the whole reason father does not respect you now."

Bruce: "Damian, Jason was a saint."

Damian: "What?"

Dick: "Jason had a self imposed bed time."

Bruce: "He had a weird obsession with homework.."

Dick: "Once, I tried to sneak him out, and he cried."

Bruce: "I once implied that he could sneak out, and he cried."

Damian:

Jason: "Dami, B and I don't get along because of our terrible morals."

Bruce: "Well, I wouldn't say that-"

Jason: "He hates me because we both have extremely fucked up versions of justice that we don't agree on-"

Bruce: "Now, I never said-"

Jason: "I was a child and he hated me. He hates children-"

Bruce: "God damnit, Jason-"

Damian:

Damian: "My whole perspective has been altered."

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I think that “Anakin was a slave child who was groomed by Palpatine and raised by someone who wasn’t ready to take on a child, thereby leaving him in a social limbo state where he’s surrounded by people but only has a few close confidants, with the one he trusts the most actively trying to take advantage of him”

and

“Anakin was taught right from wrong from a young age, first by his mother and then by Kenobi, but any time he was presented with a choice, actively CHOSE WRONG EVERY SINGLE TIME”

are two sentences that can, should, and MUST coexist to fully understand Anakin Skywalker as a character

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I actually love the characterization that while Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan truly do love each other very much and end up having a successful working partnership, they are SUCH different people, and actually, really find each other fucking annoying when you get right down to it, while still caring deeply about each other. Qui-Gon is having a stratosphere-level theoretical philosophical conversation in his head while Obi-Wan is so present and practical and funny, and then Qui-Gon's reply when he snaps out of it is like "....stay in the moment, Obi-Wan." Live Obi-Wan Reaction Face: >:o

I think about two scenes I love in Phantom Menace where the film is establishing Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan's dynamic. Obi-Wan's great moment after the, uh, first attempt on their lives "you were right about one thing, Master - the negotiations were short" which is like, actually a genuinely funny observation? Qui-Gon's reaction to this? Nonexistent. We do not get a shot of Qui-Gon's expression, not even an off-camera Liam Neeson dry reluctant chuckle. NOTHING. Cut scene. Sure, this could be the fault of the scene transition, but I don't think anyone watching the scene was under the impression that Qui-Gon bellylaughed and said "good one, Padawan!" The mood is much more of Qui-Gon shaking his head, not dignifying the line with a response.

The other is Qui-Gon's "there's always a bigger fish" line after they've nearly died in another horrific way under the Naboo planet core, a scene that gives me a powerful new kind of combination of fatal levels of thalassophobia-claustrophobia. It could have easily been a "business on Cato Neimoidia" callback reference to some offscreen history together, but no. Qui-Gon just says it, incomprehensibly, while Obi-Wan scowls silently at the controls. And yet, Qui-Gon sounds contentedly amused. It's so fucking hilarious to me. He said that line for the benefit of one person in that ship: him, and he likes it.

They don't get each other's jokes, and yet, I think it's telling that they're both still making them after what, 12 years of Master Padawan partnership. They are both constantly thinking like “what are you TALKING about?” about the other one's core qualities. They both think their miscommunications are the other’s fault. It's incredibly good characterization to me, and it makes them so realistic.

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We simply do not talk enough about how Asajj Ventress is just as much a surviving heir of the Disaster Lineage as the rest of that fucked up family

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they're unreliable narrators

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Idk I feel like a lot of fans forget that Palpatine is in fact a beloved figure in-universe. The RotS novelization calls him the most respected man in the galaxy; the people of the Republic like and trust him so much they’re willing to support a sudden genocide and outright descent into fascism for him; in Andor, a group of rebels fighting the Empire seem to respect him and legitimately believe that the ISB is running a shadow government responsible for the Empire’s atrocities.

Right up until ANH with the destruction of Alderaan and dissolution of the Senate, Palpatine is an incredibly popular leader. The vast majority of people in the Star Wars galaxy like and support him. They don’t know he’s the villain, and that’s kind of a vital part of the story

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I find it hilarious each time I watch the wrong jedi arc and remember Padmé represents Ahsoka in court

Kofi | Commissions

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*Sips tea* Now, I did this for Dick, and Jason, so naturally we all know who comes next!

Stephanie Brown

I already know who's gonna win, but I still wanna see results.

So, WHO do you believe would be the best match for Stephanie Brown? Best for her emotional state, mental health, the one to help her crash out and kick Batman's ahh through everything? Et cetera, et cetera... I don't mean who she's the gayest with or anything either, I mean who would help her become a better person and who she could help become a better person. GO!

Yeah I'm adding in my crack ship as well, deal with it. /Affectionate

Also this was actually hard because half the people shipped with Steph? Never heard of them / didn't know anything about them. And until now I had no clue that Harley Quinn was shipped with Stephanie... Or Luke, but y'know what? Good for them.

PROPAGANDA IS ALLOWED IN ANY AND ALL FORMS! NO HATING ON OTHER SHIPS THOUGH!!! Or do, I don't really mind, just don't internet argue here. Take it to DM's. Thank you.

Speaking of propaganda /j :

Okay, now carry on.