#HEAVES AND SIGHS

[critai]

8.15 ☆ happy kagerou day !!!

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jonny sims, learning absolutely nothing from his past: surely i've done it. surely the fandom won't want to kiss a man made entirely out of needles

[gio-cosmo]

[bleekay]

zuko and sokka are both that character that at rock bottom says "well at least it couldnt get any worse" followed by immediate clap of thunder and torrential rain

[sciderman]

ive noticed ur spideypool story on ur blog takes alot of just canon cablepool

oh ya... ooohhh ya... it's funny - in my silly little head i kind of always saw ask-spiderpool as a follow-up to the cable & deadpool series, and all the events of cable & deadpool are pretty much canon to 9319 - from spider-man and deadpool's first meeting (#24)

to... ough. (#43)

the wade wilson from the cable & deadpool series specifically has caused me so much brainrot and i think about him every day of my life. he's the wade i'm writing. he's the wade i'm always thinking about. he's...

been rotating this specific wade wilson in my mind for a decade and he won't leave me in peace ever never not ever

[calciumdeficientt]

call me edward little the way i pine for approval from a superior and absolutely do not recieve it

[tteokdoroki]

okay but bakugou can’t wear his wedding ring during patrols because sometimes his hands get too hot and it messes with the metals in the ring so he gets your wedding date tattooed around his ring finger instead.

like he’ll kiss it and put his fist in the air whenever he takes down a big villain and it’s being live streamed because he knows you’re watching.

“this is for you, baby.”

[weevmo]

nimmy reminds me of those skrunkly cats that look like they're about to explode

This looks JUST LIKE the cat picture above and I wholeheartedly agree and approve. 👌

[distort-opia]

you know i often see people throwing around the claim "joker r*ped/sa'd barbara in tkj" (mainly to shame people for liking the joker or batjokes) even though alan moore has dedunked it at some point. like the only piece of media i can think of with joker as a rapist is the azzarello graphic novel which is shit and doesn't need to be accepted as canon. i know it's kinda of a touchy subject but i'd be interested to hear your thoughts

Well. You've pretty much said it, to be honest.

Even a cursory Google search will reveal that Azzarello's Joker (2008) is a one-off, non-canon story. The just as much stand-alone sequel, Batman: Damned has a grieving Harley Quinn almost force herself on Bruce, and yet I haven't heard people say Harley is a rapist. Hell, didn't Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) have Harley and Nightwing sleep together... with pretty dubious consent on Dick's side? And yet fans are able to acknowledge that these are not canon storylines and that the writer matters a lot-- in the case of the latter, it's co-written by Bruce Timm, who is infamous for his shitty portrayal of female characters (also see the animation Batman: The Killing Joke, in which Barbara very assertively has sex with Batman, because that's of course the only way a woman can exercise power). Actually, Barbara's character has suffered so much... there's even Batman Beyond 2.0 #28, in which Bruce apparently got Barbara pregnant, Dick's girlfriend at the time.

But we all dismiss these storytelling choices because we know they're idiotic. They go against the core of the characters, simple as that. Why is Joker not allowed the same? While what he canonically did to Barbara in TKJ was horrible, rape did not happen, and that's a fact. Any other implications of sexual assault can only be connected to Frank Miller's writing in the TDKR series (not canon), or that horrible (and again, not canon) book adaptation of TKJ by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips. Unfortunately, there are always some writers who think that it's just darker and grittier and cooler, more shocking to have Joker attempt rape or resort to sexual means of intimidation; though it's funny how it happens that these are also generally controversial writers for their sexist depictions of women.

But we do know why Joker is not afforded the same kind of treatment as other characters who got butchered by out-of-character stories, canon or otherwise. He's become the punching bag of the DC fandom; it's so easy to proclaim loud and proud these days how much you hate the Joker and want him dead. If you're an anti and looking to feel morally righteous and signal to your echo chamber how good and pure you are, it's a low hanging fruit to latch onto Joker and criticize him for all he's done. The problem, of course, is when these people start attacking actual, real-life fans over their fictional preferences, shipping or otherwise.

But to give a more general conclusion, and my actual opinion on the matter: Joker is a master manipulator. His main schtick is literally getting Batman to kill him by orchestrating all manner of situations; he manipulates his doctors, his henchmen, he manipulates Gotham itself through the media on countless occasions. The very reason why he did what he did to Barbara in TKJ was to manipulate her father into having a mental breakdown. Joker picks people to break and then breaks them psychologically, that is his MO. What he wants is to expose the people around him, he wants to show that deep down, everyone is rotten.

It probably becomes obvious why rape is inconsistent with this mindset. Joker isn't the kind of monster to make things happen by brute force, he's the kind of monster to manipulate people into the worst versions of themselves and then laugh at them as they hate themselves for it. He'll murder and torture and imply any manner of atrocity to make that happen, but the source of his glee is seeing people fall into the same dark pit, devoid of humanity, he's chosen to live in. (And don't even get me started on the fact that Joker was canonically shown to have been a victim of sexual assault himself as a child, in Batman: Streets of Gotham. As an adult, he's depicted as gruesomely taking revenge on the man who did it. Something tells me there's more than one reason why Joker would not resort to rape, and it goes beyond MOs or agendas.)

[corviiids]

follow for more content of everyone's favourite part of hit series death note (shoves the yaoi out the window) extensive discussion of terms and conditions

[softly-n-sweetly]

messy gross spit-swapping tongue licking kissing would fix me i think

[ofrandomthought]

I maintain that kija is the funniest character in this whole damn manga. this is the face of someone who's just had their entire life flash before their very eyes. man looks so bewildered and bamboozled and befuddled you'd think HE was the one who just found out he got allegedly cheated on by having his partner's child appear out fucking nowhere

[remyfire]

Every day I am out here in the queer M/F trenches putting in an 18-hour shift. When will I have rest. When will I know peace.

[mywadeyisthecentrefold]

my bad! Didn’t realize you had a blog for Wade- but the question stills stands

right!

the answer is yes, it is bad

[sciderman]

The repeated motif of “You were so close.” In regards to Peter and Harry really gets me, man. Sighs SIGHS something about the loss, of no longer having a relationship with a person who was SO important to you. Something about the what ifs. If Peter had been less scared, if Harry had been more patient. If Norman hadn’t sent him away in the first place. If things had gone just a little differently would they still be in each other’s lives? They were so close. SIGHS

THEY WERE SO CLOSE...

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THEY WERE SO CLOSE...

[daggerspared]

bradley bradshaw i am Embarrassed for you