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Stephcass early romance is like: "Hey there, do you wanna haunt my narrative?" followed by dying, disappearing or both

DC had it out for these girls but they didn't realise that every editorial mandate only made StephCass STRONGER.

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DC killing off Jason AGAIN??

they didn't even let us vote this time

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God the arguments between the batkids must be wild. They all know different languages the others don’t know and so someone is yelling in Spanish, someone is yelling in Arabic, there’s French being flung around and pretty sure Jason is cussing someone out in pig Latin. Bruce has a rule if they are going to argue everyone has to use the same language.

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patrol is fun :DD

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was suddenly overcome with the inexplicable urge to draw jason fishing

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and if you kick every robin out of your city, who is going to die for your cause bruce wayne?

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the realest man is Gotham is this random Blackgate guard who let Steph beat the everloving shit out of her dad for 10 full minutes no questions asked

from Robin #16 (1995)

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anytime someone asks me “there’s more than one Robin?” i begin to vibrate at a frequency only dogs can hear and my brain goes to static and then i open my eyes hours later to find i have explained the entire history of all the Robins and their vigilante identities after outgrowing the title to some poor unsuspecting soul

(this does not include carrie or jarro. i just don’t rlly care abt carrie, and i hate jarro with a burning passion. there is no reason for me to, i just do. i hate that stupid little fucking starfish)

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This is literally them

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oh to be two batgirls in a high speed chase with the magistrate and you’re both queer 💜

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Not to mention the fact about Nico's coming out party thing after Cupid outed him that um. NICO ACCIDENTALLY OUTED WILL AND ITS PLAYED OFF AS A JOKE??

Nico comes out two times. None of which was (fully) by his own will. Both of which include someone getting outed (Nico and Will, respectively).

Yeah I'm not happy about it either.

Ngl I question the plots sometimes... Like. I've read many good come-out scenes of Nico in fanfics. It's... actually not that difficult, you know? Rick even has Mark as a co-author. You can't possibly tell me they couldn't think of something not... controversial.

If Ricks wants to show a Nico who's comfortable enough to express himself publicly, what's the problem with Nico did have his picnic, asking out Will, sharing a nice moment, and then gradually managing to publicly come out later? It's soft, purely sweet, and has more chances of sending a positive message to those struggling? I'm pretty sure it wouldn't bring such discourse like this.

Like... I just don't understand, you know...? Why the difficult method? Why not just do it the normal way like it should be ajsdhakjdhakjd---

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this is kind of a long shot so i don’t know if it was the authors’ intent, but it’s got me thinking….

it’s interesting that Will’s monster nemeses are Stymphalian birds. They’re like, the perfect opponent to prey on his weaknesses as a demigod.

Because how did Hercules defeat them in his labors? With a bow and arrows.

Will’s inability to use a bow and arrows (and his insecurity over feeling useless as a healer) come up in Blood of Olympus. And in TSATS when the birds are attacking him he says he wished he’d trained his archery skills more.

I’m just saying I think Stymphalian birds are exactly the right monster to make Will Solace feel useless and doubt himself. Will is non violent, and never wanted to be a fighter — but if he was, he’d be an archer, and these birds wouldn’t threaten him.

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Will: Persephone's the most gorgeous person I've ever seen!

Nico, his boyfriend, standing right there:

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one of the funniest parts of the solangelo book is nico straight boldly LYING when asked if he feels guilty about letting Octavian die. “i literally think about it every day😭” no you don’t king. we’ve been in your head and you dgaf. live your truth <3

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nico being a teen parent man u can take the boy out of the 1930s but u can’t take the 1930s out of the boy

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u know, everyone is entitled to their opinion and even though i loved tsats A LOT i wouldn’t fight anyone that didn’t like it

however

it is really disheartening to me to see so many people say “it reads like fanfiction” as though that’s the lowest insult they can think of. mark oshiro and rick riordan are not gonna see your negative posts, but fic writers in the fandom are seeing them and it’s extremely hurtful to see people talk about fic like it’s garbage.

we are getting a clear message that people in this fandom think fanfiction is not real art, that attempting sincerity in writing is cringeworthy, that nothing is more humiliating than sharing imperfect writing with the online community.

not only do fic writer share their work for free out of a passion for the source material and a desire to connect with others over their art, but sharing writing is such a uniquely vulnerable experience. And honestly, mark oshiro is so vocally proud of their work in this book and it’s incredibly discouraging to see people deride it so harshly. you don’t have to like tsats, and you are free to critique it like any other work, but ridiculing it by saying it’s like fanfiction is harming our community.

i’m honestly not sure why the pjo fandom is so largely negative about fanfiction but it really sucks and i needed to say something about it. it is so mean spirited and contributes to cringe culture in a way that is poison to art. please think about what you’re saying when you openly deride fanfiction and how your words might affect fic authors that see them.

fanfiction is an incredible form of art, even bad fics are wonderful, and any fandom would be much less rich without fics. your words aren’t going to stop mark oshiro or rick riordan from writing, but they might shame a small fic author into silence.

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Anyone else find it weird that Bryce Lawrence wasn't mentioned once? At all? And with the Carl and Bartholomew shaggy bone creature things Nico said he can't willingly kill someone like that...is he forgetting he murdered Bryce just for threatening Reyna?