#anti tom taylor

[ursie]

[trexiejan]

Some Toxic Dickbabs moments that happened in canon. (LONG POST)

so i saw a dickbabs shipper talking crap about dickkory saying they're the most toxic nightwing ship? and they also claim dickbabs is the most healthiest ? it's ironic considering I've seen many dickbabs comic panels where dickbabs is being toxic towards each other plenty of times in the canon comics. Looks like Tom Taylor wants to brainwash people and make them believe that Dickbabs is such a perfect healthy loving couple since day 1, when that hasn't been true at all before he was put in charge of the nightwing comics to write dickbabs wattpad fanfiction in the book every single issue, this ship has done nothing but damage both characters even in tom taylor's run Dick is turned into a happy go lucky himbo who is incapable of accomplishing anything on his own without being monitored and babysat by barbara 24/7.

Anyways let's proceed with dickbabs history of being a toxic couple.

Remember those times where Barbara physically and verbally assaulted him when he was only trying to be nice and polite. She yelled at him, called him stupid, a crybaby and beat him up.

Also they keep calling Kory a victim blamer for something that happened once in over 30 years ago but ignore the fact that Babs has victim blamed him and slutshamed him multiple times in the modern comics when he was sexually assaulted and raped by Tarantula and when he got shot in the head by the Joker.

Dick just got raped by Tarantula and was traumatized by what happened but instead of comforting Dick, she has the nerve to mockingly say Dick likes his rapist. her jealousy always clouds her judgement.

I'm sorry But Barbara is canonically a victim blamer and a slutshamer. Don't forget how she also insults and slutshames other women like Helena when she gets jealous of the other women in Dick's life. She called dickhelena a cheap one nightstand even though Dick clearly told Helena he doesn't do casual sex and and she mocked Kory and refused to help her on a mission when her people were dying.

so yeah let's get back to her history with victim blaming Dick. She victim blamed him again after he got shot in the head and had an amnesia and when his memories was restored, she lashed out at him for forgetting about her when he had an amnesia.

And remember that time when Bludhaven was burned down and Dick lost his apartment, he came to Barbara to ask if he can stay at her place but she kicked him out of her apartment the next day. She's totally fine with him being homeless but dickbabs shippers claim babs has always been very loving and supportive towards him while calling Kory a slut.

Even in elseworld stuff she treats him like garbage. Aside from cheating on Dick with Batman and getting pregnant with Batman's baby in the BTAS universe, she's also very emotionally abusive to him in comics where dickbabs shippers brag about them having a kid in it like in whiteknight.

Barbara was always out there acting like a toxic judgemental domineering bitch in the modern canon comics, Barbara behaved like this consistently for more than 30 years but Kory is the one we should crucify over something that she did only once from 30 years ago 🙄 Did they crucify Barbara too when she was ableist to Cass and called her stupid because she can't read.

And they call Kory a sexual assaulter? Because she kissed him when they first met. Did they forgot that Kory was an alien, she was clueless about Earth laws when she first came to earth, she didn't know that you're actually not supposed to kiss someone without their consent, she had no clue that it was considered inappropriate and she kissed him not to sexually assault him but for her to learn english. Her people can learn other languages through kissing and Kory didn't learn anything about Human law until she officially joined the teen titans, so you can actually excuse her for her behavior what's not excusable is Barbara who was a human being who studied law for years, but still has the nerve to commit a sexual crime. As always, She violated Dick's personal privacy, she put camera on his apartment so she can enjoy watching him naked without his consent. Look it up on google the crime is called voyeurism. Barbara would considered a creepy criminal by human law. I'm not surprised considering I always think of her as a type of gf who has no respect for her partner's personal space especially when she's Oracle, She never respected Dick's privacy even in tom taylor's run, she keeps monitoring his every move in her computer, she always invades his personal space. Dick is trapped in this relationship. It's not a good relationship if you constantly watch your partner's every move and if you keep following your partner around like a dog wherever he goes.

Many people think Dickbabs is such a healthy because of Tom Taylor's run. I think for someone who is a huge dickbabs shipper like tom taylor it's expected he's gonna try to convince people to believe that to to sell his favorite ship but in reality even in Tom Taylor's run Dickbabs relationship is pretty toxic and forced. It's toxic when your partner doesn't respect your privacy, when your partner constantly stalks and keeps an eye on you on every single thing that you do, when you wanna talk to other people but she's there lurking in her computer listening to your conversations with other people, when she puts a camera on your mask so she can always see what you see and hear what you hear, as if you're not a real human being who needs your own privacy, and constantly follows you around like a dog, like Barbara does to him every single issue. It really is a sign of an abusive relationship when there is no respect. How is Tom Taylor's Nightwing good when the book keeps destroying Dick's independece by having Barbara stuck to him like a leech 24/7 . The book is called Nightwing but Tom Taylor turned it into a Nightwing and Batgirl fanfiction series where 90% of the time Dick hasn't done anything on his own and where his IQ is chopped off in half to prop up Barbara as the smarter woman in their relationship. Dick can't even handle his own missions without constantly being babysat by Barbara in her computer like a sidekick who needs to be watched 24/7.

Poor Dick he became Nightwing to stop being Batman's sidekick and be independent only for Barbara to take away his independence and treat him like a sidekick again. Dickbabs has always been a toxic ship in any kind of form.

and don't forget Tom Taylor himself is a toxic misogynist slutshamer. He keeps throwing shade on Kory on twitter by liking comments that slutshame her on twitter

You know what would be the best way to fix dickbabs? is by letting them move on from each other! Let them grow tf up and move forward in life outside this relationship.

Babs is an anchor that brings him down whenever she's too involved in his life and same with Babs because do dickbabs shippers even care about Barbara. I haven't seen any barbara fan complain about barbara not doing anything on her own other than chasing dick around like a dog in his comicbook every single issue.

[devine-fem]

For context Injustice Superman breaks the arm of Jay Nakamura and Jon activates his powers not even to fight but to quickly… give him a hug… are you serious?

Tom Taylor… this is not how ANYTHING works like first off this is going into my cliff notes of unconscious moments Jon proved that he didn’t give a fuck about Jay. I’m sorry - this literal murderous dicator threatens the life of the person you “love” and you give him… a hug…?

like oh thank you superman for breaking my boyfriends arm!

WHAT?!?!

No because what is truly with this spineless nepobaby jon that are trying to push, hes a goddamn idiot? oh my god…

he gets exactly what he deserves of course because wtf is wrong with you?

GUYS DONT READ THIS ITS SO INCREDIBLY BAD, NO WONDER IT GOT CANCELLED

i just have to laugh at it omg 😭

[dick-nightwing-grayson]

Tom Taylor is a furry, confirmed

[camo-wolf]

Tom Taylor-ya we are going to deal with Jon trauma in the next issue!

Literally the end of the chapter -

[farsight-the-char]

Two of best Dick Grayson focused issues/minis in Years.

(I do like some of the anthology stories)

[ambelle]

What exactly is the issue with Dick in the comics now? I'm not following them at the moment.

He’s lost all of his feats

No leadership skills

Is not in anyway a match for Batman anymore let alone better than him as Bruce himself used to say

Is no longer considered a great detective. They gave that trait to Tim. He lost his hacking skills as well. In fact his intellect is often mocked by Babs because it's romantic to humiliate your love interest

Speaking of that she is there to babysit him. Not even being facetious, she went to Bludhaven to keep watch over him because he's dumb now.

He’s no longer allowed to defeat an enemy on his own. Not one.

His entire existence is either directly or indirectly tied to Batman. His key/best trait is being Bruce's most loyal pet.

He’s now completely tethered to a city and not allowed to go on big space adventures or do anything remotely close to what A list DC characters do. Ironically Tom Taylor said he would prove why Nightwing is a A-lister just to make his solo run a cameo/ crossover book for other DC characters.

He's not allowed to interact with his friends regularly

He needs help from 10 people to fight villains he used to solo when he was 11 years old

… I really could go on but I think the panels here speak for themselves

Here is who Nightwing is when he's free from Batman/Batfam's Shadow

And this is him now

It’s not the same character. He's just a joke.

As for Tom Taylor himself he refuses to address and ableism in the books and blocks fans who bring it up, He leaves Duke out of Batfam stuff for ~reasons~, and he spends a weird amount of time trying to antagonize Dickkory and Starfire fans instead of addressing the issues I mentioned.

[sylvieserene]

Why are people so defendent of Tom Taylor (DC)? Like people on reddit subs treat him as some sort of Saint incapable of flaws and with top notch flawless writing....I'm actually baffled that people defend actual valid criticism of his Nightwing run with "You are just a chronic hater" , "DickBabs hater" , "Toxic DickKory fan" , some even accusing that you're a LGBTQ+/Liberal thoughts hater 💀

Like guys....he's not a God. He is just a human calm down....

I have never really made a post about him specifically since I like to keep my blog positive but um what's wrong with the fan base??

I recently made a post on reddit discussing the "Wisely and Ethically invested money" Alfred's letter scene of the Nightwing (2016) run by Taylor and ppl are actually telling me I'm the problem since these details don't matter and that I'm an idiot for looking into it? (Some of them don't even clarify why and make pretty bad comparisons/points) Like uh what

You are telling me Dick Grayson , the same guy who turned down a whole rich funding from a shady guy at one point wouldn't care on how Alfred somehow managed to have more money than Bruce Wayne ???? And the only explanation we get is that it was invested WISELY & ETHICALLY?!

Like bro depending on the continuity, Alfred has killed people in his run as a spy in England, he is not too innocent and his definition of morals and ethics can differ ALOT from us.

If TT did act on it other than the bland/low stake stuff he's been doing, we could have had a pretty good stake in the game since that money would matter quite a lot (its too relevant to the plot) and would put Dick into a dilemma on if he should use it or not incase he found out its origins...It would have actually led to Character development...

Like what's wrong in pointing out bad writing? You have to show or atleast show implications for things not just spell it out.... just saying "Character A did good things" isn't enough. You need to show what good things Character A did.

Im genuinely curious as to what exactly is this fan base...and what's wrong with it since....how is this question even dumb?

For people curious on the post, here's the link to it. Feel free to read and share your opinions!

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

I genuinely can't with Tom Taylor, man.

Why is the dialogue so bland and interchangable?? You could have each titans say each others' lines and the story would feel THE SAME. He also, needs to stop having characters call the things he's writing "awesome", and stop rapid-firing tongue-in-cheek jokes (that don't land).

[ursie]

I’m sorry but this is awful and pandering like. Babs hates her and it’s wrong but we don’t need to pretend she doesn’t and hasn’t said the most misogynistic stuff about her behind her back consistently like. Let her be a bitch 😭 THEYRE NOT FRIENDS ITS OK like?? it’s honestly more misogynistic to insist women can’t hate each other or have ugly/bad traits on the basis of being women like. Babs is consistently mean to Kory. Kory doesn’t give a shit about Babs. It’s ok. Literally it would be so much funnier if they acknowledged it as a one sided rivalry that it is and always has been 😭 I’m a Babs stan but ignoring her bad traits and just making stuff up to make her look good isn’t helping anyone

Also Babs is straight up not one of the best fighters on the planet she’s not even one of the best fighters in the batfam like 💀 embarrassing I’m sorry I’m a Babs stan but this is out of a bad fanfic. She’s an ok fighter but she’s an unparalleled hacker and tactician ect ect like she’s a good gymnast and stuff but honestly she wasn’t at her best as batgirl and that’s ok. Cass & Helena (and maybe Steph) are better fighters than her.

Literally all of the bat boys save for Duke are consistently better fighters than her. It’s ok. She’s not the best fighter. It’s ok.

If you want her to be the best at something let her be Oracle again 🙄!!!!

Also it’s bs to be like Starfire the best warrior on another planet like she’s one of the best in the galaxy you two are not the same 😭 don’t play

[apopcornkernel]

reading tom taylor's run on nightwing so i know what i'm hating on. two things i'm already noticing:

taylor has managed the incredible feat of turning THE barbara gordon into a mere superhero girlfriend. she's literally just there to comfort him or provide info on comms in a genuinely insulting affectation of "oracle"

taylor writes like someone desperate to gain the approval of annoying people who have mere surface-level knowledge of batman and go "erm ackshually 🤓☝️ batman is making gotham worse 🤓☝️ he should be using his money as bruce wayne instead 🤓☝️"

[devine-fem]

every time i think im writing damian wayne out of character, i think about tom taylor

[troythings]

zionist tom taylor, who wrote this scene regarding settler colony israel and the people of palestine, is still in charge of titans (2023).

steve orlando, who wrote donna troy as an american imperialist white savior photographer-abuser and made an entire arc implying a neo-nazi offspring had legitimate concerns about the ‘genocide’ of her ‘people,’ has faced almost no backlash for this and continues to be embraced by the fandom.

and dc still uses the imagery of IDF soldier gal gadot for wonder woman, across all media.

that said! there are sites where you can read their shitty new comics and watch their shitty new movies for free. no money funneled to them at all. you don’t have to give your cash to people that aren’t looking out for you.

[fatheriimaginedyoutaller]

[fiapple]

society if dc hired a writing team of colour who could acknowledge the racial coding of starfire & raven, explore vic's status as a Black man in modern america who's specific disability further means his body is going to be read a certain way by certain people no matter what he does, along with potentially finding a way to sort through the racisim + fetishization that went into prior depictions of dick's heritage:

[ambelle]

Tom Taylor is such an asshole!! I H8 him and cannot wait for him to fail. And he will. He’s moving forward with BBRae in Titans because he’s got a hard on for DB but there are more people asking for DK. They’re the real “fan favorite” and he knows it.

Like it's one thing to force Babs into the Titans but a whole other hilarious take to pretend BBRAE was the most popular TT ship.

He doesn't have to write Dickkory and I don't trust him not to make it terrible if he did...but this kind of lying? LOL!

Like this is really amusing to me. Just write every other ship and cope with the fact no one cares about them. Dickkory is just #That Girl no matter what Batman editorial does.

You can't kill a bad bitch