#ME Thesis and Project Help

[necrotic-nephilim]

what's fun about shipping Tim with Dick, Jason, or Damian is he has, at some point, hallucinated all of them to comfort himself. even when he doesn't like them or particularly get along with them, he has to imagine/hallucinate them just so he has the power to go on. Tim's concepts of the Robin mantle and what it should be is so fun, because he respects the others through the Robin mantle. Tim worships Dick because he was the first Robin. he wouldn't be Robin if Jason hadn't died in the mantle. and a lot of his frustration with Damian is he feels Damian isn't honoring the mantle correctly. when you ship Tim with the other Robins you can't divorce their identities as Robin from it because Tim will always see them as a Robin first and that's so fun and fucked up. like.

batman (1940) #456

Tim perceiving Dick as *Robin* cheering him on, not Nightwing, which is the version of Dick that Tim actually knows? that's just. wild of him. he will always view Dick as Robin first, his personal hero but also the original of the legacy. his love for Dick is shaped by that.

and then of course, even when he's hallucinating/imagining Jason cheering him on, it's *still* through the lense of being reminded how Jason failed? subconsciously believing that Jason got himself killed because of his actions, and that being a lesson for Tim to learn from? Jason isn't a person to Tim, he's a moral lesson about how to be Robin. any potential idolization he could have of Jason isn't because he loves Jason, it's because of the lessons Jason's death taught him.

and then, even though him hallucinating TIm is from the New-52, which makes characterization all kinds of questionable, i do think it makes sense for TIm to hallucinate/imagine Damian after Damian's death in an attempt to cope with it.

teen titans (2011) #18

to an extend, he sees Damian's death as in part his own fault. and even hating Damian, Tim needs the comfort from this to cope with Damian being gone. he's angry that Damian even was Robin, and has to learn something from Damian's death and how it impacts the Robin mantle, and teenage heroes as a whole. like, Tim can pretend he hates Damian all he wants, even getting taunted by the image of Damian, but there's still an underlying love to their relationship.

i think that's just the fun of shipping Tim with any of them. you will never divorce Tim's views of them from the Robin mantle and how fucking Unwell he is about anyone else who's been Robin before or after him, to the point he has to hallucinate them comforting him when he's at his lowest. it's always going to be a little unhealthy, a little toxic, and driven by Tim's relationship with being Robin as well. i need more Tim being weird about Robin in these ships.

[kolechiart]

* while it exists as meta commentary on the failures of the schooling system something about this exchange being with nimrod has stuck with me. being from a bygone era he too is different from his peers. his struggle to adapt is acknowledged yet in the same breath he is denied accommodation. the second he's unable to preform what is expected of him it's deemed a personal failing, that he's just too old, too broken and such he's punished. he's thrown in the deep end and then blamed for drowning and so does nimrod realise the irony of it all? because i think he does and i think that's exactly why he said it.

[ninis-dollhouse]

hi guys!!! i know most of you definitely follow me for fandom posts, but i do need some help y’all.

i’m currently working on a thesis project, which is very exciting!!

no, not a phd. nowhere near that. but a thesis project nonetheless!!

my project is on how the books we read in childhood and adolescence affect our political beliefs as we get older. i’m currently running a survey to collect statistical data!!!!

however… i have been responded with very few participants…

if some of you guys could just take a few seconds to answer my questions (they’re very very simple) so i could get started, that would be so amazing. and if not, if you could reblog this post so more people can, or share with your friends who might be interested, i’d really appreciate that too

here’s the link, thank you if you choose to support me <3

[immortalsins]

uni sucks so bad never come here

[redbean-nom]

watched the first 2 episodes of acolyte and so far i like every character except for the main one lol. (also is her name osha as in occupational safety and health administration??)

[perlukafarinn]

got offered a TA position this semester too 🥳🥳

of course, this means another semester of a full course load (actually more than full because i want to graduate this spring but i put some things off......) and two jobs. but i can make it work!

she said, feverishly knocking on wood

[jennchecks]

on day 3 of an ongoing migraine friends, feeling somewhat like this

[lo-cinno]

Back from college

I’m in agony

[whovianwholikesgirls]

💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome. 💌

"Take care of yourself" I'm trying I swear

[vanishintoyou]

holy shit i just realized i can definitely use my experience with the earthquake AS AN ARCHITECT in my motivation letter to gain extra interest points wow

[emero0]

I feel like we hold fictional characters to too high of standards

Let them make mistakes! Especially teenagers! Yeah they should own up to their actions n stuff but it feels weird to get so irrationally mad at them or act like their mistakes are so out of left field

People aren’t flawless and neither should characters depicting people

• tldr and bottom of cut •

And i dont mean “oh theyre clumsy oh and they have a short temper” because usually people (mostly) can acknowledge those as personality traits

I mean when a character messes up, in a big way—maybe even in a small way—but they make a mistake and instead of acknowledging their mindset and what they were thinking we just start hating,

Not to say bad actions are justified but understanding where a person’s coming from is a good skill (especially when the problem stems from miscommunication)—and i feel like we lose that skill in the real world when we fail to use it in fiction

Like everyday people lose the ability to make mistakes—and vise versa (which tbh is a growing mindset irl anyway sadly (its a bit of the chicken and the egg argument—they both contribute to the problem))

I’m not saying its wrong to joke about hating a character for an action—or that its wrong to dislike a character for something they did—or even if they didn’t do anything!!

This is just aimed towards irrational aggression towards characters and mainly people who will hate on fans of a character

I can’t stop hate of fictional characters—but at the very least I wish people would be respectful towards fans, even if its not for you—if you wanna hate on stuff thats fine (freedom of opinion) but losing basic common decency over it is just sad

Tldr:

Disclaimer: (for those who skipped) this isnt about hating characters as a joke, or general disliking of characters (with or without reason)

hating characters for their actions without learning the context behind those actions can be a negative mindset which can bleed into real life (while it can also stem from irl ways of treating people) (i also just personally dislike seeing irrational hate towards characters)

If you hate a character at the very least don’t hate fans of a character just because you dislike the character itself

[euelios]

where is the line between “i won’t hold future me back on account of things i can’t quite manage Right Now” and “man i’ve never had this level of executive function in my life it would be foolish to expect otherwise”

[immortalsins]

ive lasted. checks watch. 3 days

[jentlemahae]

how do u say kys in a professional way

[aspeckof-stardust]

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[aggressivelydoesnothing]

My wife is extremely stressed about her final project for school and it's so frustrating that there is nothing I can really do to help her