#momo don't look

[danny-chase]

You know I bet Tim with his Flying Grayson/Dick Grayson obsession as a kid probably found lost footage of the time Dick promoted a cult while brainwashed on national television

[ravenkinnie]

they should make it canon that tim had to go back to robin just because red robin the chain restaurant tried to sue him for rights and he couldn't actually fight the lawsuit without compromising himself

[areuils]

For those saying Talia is a bad parent:

Detective Comics #839

[intentionally-out-of-context-dc]

Silver age comics are terrible for this out of context blog, because in other comics I could use this to say "lol remember when Robin wanted to quit school and said it was a waste of time, #be like Robin kids", but the writers here were clearly SO terrified of the reader thinking it's OK to quit school that they had dick immediately clarify in his internal monologue that it's an act

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[rchardgrayson]

One of the really annoying things abt this new relationship between Dick and Jon is that it's completely fabricated and way too recent to have any emotional weight on readers.

Would I like there to be some history and a sort of psedo-brother or uncle/nephew relationship between them paralleling what Clark was to Dick? Absolutely - that sounds adorable - and that's clearly what Taylor DC is going for but because Jon is still a fairly new character and he's still somewhat only recently been aged up they had to just add (one singular) flashback to Dick meeting Jon as a kid which with the aging up can't have been very long ago and now we're supposed to believe that they have this great long-standing mentor relationship and work super well together?

This has been a problem in DC for years now where they continuously fast-track events, characters and relationships to the point that none of it feels genuine or even believable. Like no one is gonna remember this relationship in years to come because it has so little impact on either of them (especially Dick) as characters.

If DC and its writers were more interested in idk actually writing well planned and executed stories, relationships and events like these would actually work out but instead they just rely on fanservice and shock value to keep ppl interested and are, in this circumstance, relying completely on the extremely long standing and deep history of batman and superman to shoehorn other bat and super characters together into similar relationships which is why it falls flat and feels forced.

[antifa-terra]

[In reaction to Slade Wilson, Arthur Brown, and David Cain revealing that they’re dating]

Stephanie Brown: Okay, before anything else, I want to say that I’m not homophobic. In fact, I love gay people. I’m a huge supporter of gay rights, however-- Mia Dearden: No, you don’t need to finish that sentence. I’ve got it. I’ll be cancelled so you don’t have to be.

[muffinlance]

Do you get the impression the live action is treating us like utter morons?? Like I thought that making it aimed at an older audience would open the doors for more subtle story telling, but no, they're just using monologues to tell us eveything! Like in the second episode Katara's like 'oh his power isn't that he's the avatar, it's that he ~connects~ to people'. Girl we're not idiots we can see that!! And the first episode with Aang's goddawful 'I don't want this responsibility' monologue

THIS, YES. The word that keeps coming to mind is definitely "subtlety". The show for literal children? Had it. The remake for adults? Not so much.

[whetstonefires]

Hey you said something about the my hero academia creator being unhinged about sexism, do you mind explaining?

I tried to write like, a thorough explanation of this and it just got longer and longer and longer and I have not touched this series in actual years and yet I've still got all these receipts a;lkjk;lfasd.

So rather than trying to build the whole massive case, here's a pared-down version. It's normal to have sexism in media, and shounen manga especially. Everyone does it. The level and mode and intentionality and so forth all vary, but of course it's there.

What's not normal is to have lots of varied and interesting female characters with discernible inner lives, and on-page discussion of how sexism is systemic and unjust and holds them back in specific ways, and then also deliberately make consistent sexist writing decisions even where they don't arise naturally from the flow of the narrative.

Horikoshi is actively interested in gender and sexism, he's aware of them in a way you rarely see outside of the context of, you know, fighting sexism. He is hung up on the thorny issue of what women are worth and deserve and how power and respect ties into it. He genuinely wants, I think, to have Good Female Characters, and not be (seen as) A Sexist Guy!

But. He doesn't actually want to fight sexism. He displays a lot of woman-oriented anxieties, and one of the many churning paddlewheels in his head seems to be that he knows intellectually that morally sexism is bad, but emotionally he really feels like it ought to probably be at least partly correct.

There are so many things I could cite, and maybe I'll get into some of them later, but the crowning item that highlights how the pattern is 1) at least partly conscious and deliberate and 2) about Horikoshi's own weird hangups rather than simply cynical market play, is Mineta Minoru.

The writer has stated Mineta is his favorite character. Mineta is also designed to be hated--that is, he is a particularly elaborate instantiation of a character archetype normally deployed to soak up audience contempt and (by being gross and shameless and unattractive and 'unthreatening') make it possible to include a range of sexual gratification elements into the narrative that would compromise the main characters' reputations as heroic and deserving, if they were the actors.

Good Guys don't grope girls' tits and run away snickering in triumph, after all. Non-losers don't focus intense effort around successfully stealing someone's panties. Nice Girls don't let themselves be seen half-dressed. And so forth. You need an underwear gremlin for that. So, in anime and manga, longstanding though declining tradition of including such a gremlin, for authorial deniability.

Horikoshi definitely uses him straight for this purpose, looping in Kaminari as needed to make a bit work. And yet he has Feelings about the archetype itself.

The passages dedicated to the vindication of Mineta, then, and the author's statements about him, let us understand that Horikoshi identifies with the figure of the underwear gremlin. He understands the underwear gremlin as a defining exemplar of male sexuality, at least if you are not hot, and finds the attached contempt and hostility to be a dehumanizing attack on all uh.

Incels, basically.

It's not fair to write Mineta off just because he's unattractive and horny (and commits sexual harassment). Doesn't he have a mind? Doesn't he have dreams? Doesn't he have human potential?

So what's going on with Horikoshi and gender, as far as I can figure out, is that he knows damn well that women are people and are treated unjustly by sexist society, but however.

He also understands the institutions of sexism as something protecting him and people like him from life being nebulously yet definitively Worse, and therefore wants to see them upheld.

So you get this really bizarre handling of gender where obviously women's rights good and women cool, women can be Strong, and the compulsory sexualization imposed by the industry isn't them or the author, and so forth.

But also it's very important that in the world he controls, women never win anything important or Count too much, and that jokes at their expense that disrupt the internal logic of their characters are always fair game, that women asked about sexism on TV will promptly get into catfights amongst themselves, and they are understood always in terms of their sexual and romantic interests and value, and sexual assertiveness and failures to perform femininity well enough are used to code them as dangerous and irrational, and that the sexy costumes are requisite and will never be subverted or rebelled against--at most they might be circumnavigated via leaning into cute appeal.

And that Yaoyorozu Momo, who converts her body fat into physical objects, is being frivolous when she wants to use money to buy things instead (rather than as sensibly moderating her Quirk use) and is never encouraged to eat as much as possible at every opportunity to put on weight and even shown being embarrassed by hunger (even though Quirk overuse gives symptoms that suggest she's been stripping the lipids out of her cell walls or nervous system to keep fighting) and always, no matter how many Things she has made, has huge big round boobies.

[egophiliac]

Ego they just revealed anime boy double

I LOVE THEM BOTH

[jasontoddssuper]

Latino headcanons are absolutely based and one of my favorite thing's ever,however,i feel a thing gringos often miss with them is that they make the characters they headcanon like us be too normal.Latinos are weird as fuck dude and i would know because i grew up in Dominican Republic.Even if you don't know any latinos personally,you can easily tell by the good canon rep for us in media.Jaime Reyes?Miles Morales?Luz and Camila Noceda?Yes they are fantastic representation because of their cultures being accurate the irl ones but also because they're super strange.That one netflix show with the last word in it wants what these legends have

[nakathemoth]

Football! So cool!

[danny-chase]

Not to obsess over Dick and Tim's brotherly relationship again but the way Tim time and time again sees Dick at his lowest and still falls into the childlike hero worship makes me chew on cardboard. Tim was there on Dick's failed wedding day, he was there in the aftermath of Dick being passed over for the mantle in Batman: Prodigal, Dick told Tim about his percieved failure with Two-Face, Tim had to pull Dick off the Joker after he murdered him, watched him apparently quit the hero game after War Games, and after all of that still has complete faith in Dick. It's that moment as a toddler cemented in Tim's head, watching Dick perform as a Flying Grayson, but also all those small moments years later, when he needed someone to talk to and Dick picked up the phone when he called, the promises of never letting anything happen to him, and the gift of one of the original Robin costumes, the consistency and the certainty, the fooling around and goofing off, and Dick proclaiming Tim his brother years before Bruce adopted either of them as sons.

[abyranss]

"Nagisa? Nagisa?" "Are you there? It's so dark I can't see." "Call the doctor... I was stabbed by a scary monster..." "It looked human... but it was all white, and its mouth was split open."

I find it so fascinating that when responsibility for her mother's death was taken from her, Nagisa ended up changing to match the description given of the killer

That way it's almost like she can pretend to be responsible for it.

I want to see Yu and Nagisa meet again.

[areuils]

I found one of the best written versions of Dick and Bruce (and their relationship) but it’s in a Hal/Bruce + Jason/Dick fic and I’m??? Neither ship is even my thing and I only read it because I found the marriage concept funny but now I want to read through the rest of their stuff even though I don’t ship it

Old fandom writers do know how to hit hard huh.

[intentionally-out-of-context-dc]

Remember when Jason starred in the low-budget horror movie, revenge of the blob creature?

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[rchardgrayson]

Can't can believe Taylor and co. included their lil oc dog over Duke💀 AND had Steph over Cass in the background 💀💀💀