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#dc#I've repeatedly pointed out that since Bruce was under the impression during the leadup to this that Jason was suicidal#Leaving him near that warehouse with nothing more than a “take no action”#Is not terribly different from a parent leaving their child home alone with a loaded gun just sitting out in another room with a warning to#leave it alone. and a parent in that situation is considered to be criminally negligent in their care - not only of the child but the weapo#There's another level to the metaphor if you add in the fact that his mother is there with the gun to her own head but then it gets messy#He was only worth selling out because he was Robin#He only had the resources to find her in the first place because he was Robin (@liedownquisition)

What’s with the posts I keep seeing of people saying it wasn’t Bruce’s fault that Jason died? Guys what are you talking about, the whole reason Jason got victim-blamed for 2 decades was because killing off Robin opened the can of worms that was the Child Endangerment Discourse.

We can’t say that Bruce had nothing to do with Jason’s death and it was all on Joker, because Starlin deliberately wrote Jason’s death in such a way that if he hadn’t been Robin he never would’ve been in the position to die like that in the first place.

I mean we could say it. You can. But I’m not going to, and you can’t tell other people they’re wrong or crazy for interpreting the story in this perfectly reasonable way.

Personally I don’t want to fall in line with Starlin and give up what Robin symbolizes, but I also don’t feel like protecting Bruce from blame. Why did Robin die? Because he was isolated and felt unsupported (because he was caged). Bing bang boom, we’ve got a story where the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and a series of minor mistakes culminates in a terrible tragedy. Death is a rather extreme consequence but then again this is comics. Everything is big, and all the stories are metaphors.

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My faith in left politics has pretty much entirely disappeared these days, and I find right wing politics abhorrent for the most part, so I feel myself drifting closer to the centre of the spectrum, where it seems like realism and common sense is stored.

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Not to venerate the halcyon and bygone days of yore, but it used to be that declaring that girls are too fragile and delicate to ever possibly compete with the boys or ever be as good as them at anything was rightly denounced as the kind of raging sexisim that made you sound like the flatly written villain of a teenybopper movie.

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Batman is 100% the villain of that arc. In my heart.

Actually yk what? Batman is the villain in Green Arrow: Seeing Red

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hey don't worry. if you accidentally do something wrong I'll just kick you in the ribs and sides and chest and stomach and body and kidneys and head and neck until one of us feels better. I have heavy boots and no empathy. I forgive you babe. now stay still.

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A lot of people chanting “prison abolition now!” are also the same people who screech that sex offenders need to all be killed.

One of my best friends is a sex offender. He did his time and got therapy and is now an upstanding member of society. Either you believe in actually rehabilitating criminals and doing the work to reintegrate them into society — yes, even the scary ones — or you don’t.

My faith in left politics has pretty much entirely disappeared these days, and I find right wing politics abhorrent for the most part, so I feel myself drifting closer to the centre of the spectrum, where it seems like realism and common sense is stored.

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Yeah, writing from the inside of it is so wildly uncomfortable in this fandom because…this is how victims get treated all the time. “I don’t remember that/that never happened/I never did that to you” = “Jason did xyz terrible things in canon and that’s why he deserves the things that Bruce has done to him.”

And the ways in which victims minimize themselves in order to survive, too. For YEARS I was made to feel like the crazy one, like I was unreasonable and overly emotional. So I bit my tongue and metaphorically held my own head under water in order to survive. I look at the modern comics in which Jason abandons his principles in order to fit in with the Batfamily and shrugs off Bruce’s attempt to lobotomize him as no big deal, and I recognize that in the pit of my stomach, even if the writers didn’t intend it that way. This is how an abuse victim acts.

so many fanfics- even and especially jason centric ones- revolve around this victim blaming idea that jason is just stupid and needs to see the truth aka bruce is god always right and he is always wrong and he shouldnt trust his own thoughts and intuition

there'll be a fic where jason thought bruce was a pedophile all through his days in the manor and the finale is 'jason just needed to accept that he was stupid to think that and say sorry to bruce' instead of 'an adult couldnt convince a child in his care that he wasnt going to rape him after three whole years and needs to change something in his behavior'

fic says jason comes back to gotham after bruce beat him into a coma and told him never to return and fears retaliation and the thesis is 'jason is stupid for thinking his ~family~ would ever hurt him brucie is so sorry he somehow made jason think hes not welcome here' instead of 'beating anyone near death is a severe crime and the psychological pain of that doesnt just go away when the abuser aggressor says oopsie'

fic has an injured jason not feeling safe in an unsecured home and every one of the batfamily makes him open the doors and windows and walk on a broken leg and prove they can break in without him knowing and this is heartwarming? them ignoring his emotional well being to show they care? making someone scared and hurt is good family behavior and jason is just too stupid to understand that

how does that make sense? why do we do this? what do i have to block out of my ao3 searches to not see it anymore? fics will have straight up cult like emotional manipulation played as heartwarming... this shit is so triggering to me as an abuse survivor

tag your fics victim blaming, horror, mind break, emotional manipulation, anything please i beg

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i do not see a lot of white people talking about this in regards to sinners, but i actually felt very... seen? very validated by remmick in this movie. WHICH, LMFAO, PROBABLY SOUNDS LIKE A RED FLAG? BUT HEAR ME OUT.

it was more in that like... idk i think he was written in a really complex way, and it was in touch with reality. like it was real. like it felt... not good, it does not feel "good" to know, to see, and especially to feel the way that whiteness hurts people and the way that it keeps you out of environments that are... healing? that are based in connection. it did not feel good to feel the way that the characters that represented me on screen were never in that barn, right?

but it does feel validating. it makes me feel less crazy because a lot of white people can't face whiteness. a lot of white people either are racist and they don't care, or they do care so they're not hateful and they think that makes it good and fine, or they're self-effacing. they can't look it in the face.

like he felt validating because like... the choice of making him irish, and to make him know what it was like to be connected to something and to have a people, and to just not have it anymore. that when he tried, it wasn't the same anymore. that he was disconnected, he couldn't get what sammie had.

it felt validating. it makes me feel less crazy because a lot of white people do want that, and they will either not admit it or they will grasp at straws to replicate it and it will never work out because white people coming together as a people is a people uniting under whiteness. and whiteness is a culture built upon insecurity and exclusion, so it will never be the same.

if white people want connection to a people, if we want connection to culture, and we want it to be wholesome and fulfilling in a way that white culture cannot and will never be, we must seek cultures whose crux isn't being white, and is more encompassing than our race.

and that's why it is not the same, and it will never be the same, and it is sad. and it's nothing i'm going to wallow in self pity over, because like there are other cultural identities that are so much more important to me than my whiteness. but it did feel good for this film to look me in the face and like tell me like. i'm not wrong, it's not the same, and it is sad. this vampire's story is both pitiful and sad and he is still wrong.

and that felt good, it felt good that this film was a celebration of black culture, it felt good that the film included chinese-americans, and it felt good that i was not there and it was treated as something that is sad and pitiful in a subtle way. like the sadness about remmick feels subtle, and it's so good because otherwise it would feel like too much, i think.

BUT IT FEELS GOOD BECAUSE I THINK.... white people want to pretend like its not real, or they do want to wallow in self pity. and this film like did neither of those things it was just brutally honest and it felt really good.

it is sad. it is something he's missing. there IS something missing.

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He was in there. He was conscious in some respect. Horribly damaged but still somewhat present.

Has anyone written a “Jason gets resurrected but not put in the Lazarus Pit” story?

Red Hood: The Lost Days #1 - "The First Step" (2010)

written by Judd Winick art by Pablo Raimondi & Brian Reber

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Can’t stop watching this

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I follow this lady on instagram who rescues cats, and i have been thinking about this video for literal months. behold the transformation of this wretched little beast

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https://www.reuters.com/business/stockpiling-ahead-tariffs-likely-hurt-us-economy-first-quarter-2025-04-30/

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I'd be fascinated to see the breakdown in this poll between people who read WFA and people who don't.

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We already knew that Ireland is riddled with antisemitism.

Kneecap: leads thousands in the California desert chanting and cheering “f*ck Israel,” which goes viral online (mostly to their benefit), has repeatedly and openly supported Hamas and Hezbollah on stage and social media

Jewish people: are angry and concerned

Kneecap: the (((Zionists))) have launched a smear campaign against us, this is all a ploy to silence us

Kneecap: said “kill your local MP” on stage

UK government and counterterrorism unit: we don’t like that

Kneecap: :((((( you’re so mean to us, we’ve never promoted Hamas and Hezbollah or condoned violence!

the clownery is next level.

I do think it’s necessary to say that they never would have received this scrutiny (instead, they have had millions of people supporting them, and their US dates have sold out) for their antisemitism and terrorist support alone, it was the incitement to murder public officials that did it.

and now that they’re pretending they don’t endorse terrorist organizations, the people who’ve committed to those organizations as true believers are very angry.

(she posted more of this, but it’s videos, so it’s not helpful to screencap it - it’s all easily found on various platforms, though.)

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odesa's under a bombardment. listening but not learning