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[02511213942]

Fox Neil!

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[bitchyblkqueer]

15!

bart !!! i need to read more of him i still havent finished his solo run.....

the best thing ive seen him in recently was that mini comic they made for flash #800

also the wet blanket joke from JLU is too funny. if u have an older cousin u know the pain........

since they're already keeping mark waid in the basement they should give bart another solo run............

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[boyfridged]

Hi! Would you mind elaborating on the differences in how Mike W Barr wrote Jason vs how he wrote Dick? I re-read Barr's run with Jason on TEC recently and concluded that he pretty much gave Jason the standard Robin Personality(tm) for almost all of it, so I'm curious to hear about the distinction (haven't really read Barr's work with Dick before)

hi:) why not read it? batman: full circle is a really good one... it's a sequel to year 2, and my beginning and my probable end is an intro to year 2... it's all interconnected.

"robin personality(tm)" is a category that makes sense only if you look at the wide batman media, but doesn't mean much when discussing specific titles, authors and runs... and i've seen plenty of people saying "well, jay in barr's run is just a carbon print of dick," just as people say "well, pre-crisis jase is just a carbon print of dick," but both are simply wrong if you care to read more and compare.

dick in batman: full circle has a much stronger personality than barr's jay does, and goes openly against bruce's orders, tricking alfred to leave the manor and follow bruce. and bruce is so much stricter with dick too. it does, of course, have to do with the tone of those stories—full circle is much darker than the silver age-esque series that jay stars in. but that also tells us something about how barr views their respective relationships and batman "eras" in general; in his interpretation, early years of batman were challenging and there was no space for leniency in the field. bruce was still burdened by many moral dilemmas that did not crystallize into his strict moral code yet, and let him at times slip into the 'darkness' of the cases he was working. but later, when jay comes into the picture, the modus operandi is already set; bruce has many allies and little doubt in his heart. jay is also his second kid (and parents often get more lenient with their younger children) and barr's version of him, similarly as much of jay's early robin run is both at times insecure, and eager, his innocence shining through the shadow of his backstory.

it is true that barr did not seem very interested in working with jay's background itself; a huge loss! but it's not that he was writing just any robin either; it's supposed to reflect a specific time in the batman mythos.

of course, both archetypes—jay's compliant little self and dick's stubborn "recklessness," were and are keenly (and often completely randomly) distributed to different robins at different times by different writers; but barr did make his own choices here.

[housemdsuggestions]

What if wilson had a fursona and house finds out

[basedstoutland]

What do you think what happend with tom and sara during the toonami hiatus? (08-2012 ish)

Not entirely sure...but! You know how in the first intro with TOM 5 and SARA v3 sounded like they hadn't seen each other in a while? So between seeing them together last back in 2007 (her showing up the April Fools run was apparently not canon) and her reintroduction in 2013, I think they separated for some reason. I like thinking that SARA voluntarily went to help someone. Perhaps an old friend/ally like the Dronomeks? Something also must've happened in between this time to make SARA have to revert to a face on a screen again and no longer a more physical looking hologram. Maybe it had something to do with the Absolution mk III's capabilities? Or cuz of their lower budget- I like to think them having more budget and less airtime back in 2004 is what made it so she was able to have a full body in the first place since it also means the ship is saving enough energy for it now that they were working one day a week and not five. No idea what happened between that time to make TOM 3.5 become TOM 5...they've been holding that story over our heads for over ten years now... Maybe all this could be explained...if they told us what HIS origin story was! And where did that version of the Absolution come from? Was mk II destroyed like mk I was? Was it revamped into mk III? Is it a completely different ship that just has a legacy title? Besides that...I'd say before SARA left temporarily, it would be interesting if Fusion fall was canon for them somehow- that at least explains what they were doing in 2011. Maybe some interdimensional shenanigans caused them to go to the post apocalyptic warring anime version of CN City or something idk. Before though...I also gotta wonder what 3 was doing during the 2007-08 timeframe when he essentially lent the block to his clone/twin. (Yeah that's canon by the way.) Unlike 5, I actually have a theory on 4's existence- he one was one of the other spare bodies in those pods seen in the Intruder when TOM 2 was first awakened that crash landed onto the planet we see him on after mk I exploded...as for why he looks like that...emergency repairs. Ship of theseus'd himself...heck maybe that's why he's 4...maybe he called himself 3 until something happened where his appearance changed greatly before meeting 3 and it just so happened to line up. Other than what I listed...probably the usually stuff, but just off screen?

[carnation-damnation]

I love your art!!! The world needs more werewolves

Here’s my cat tax: her name is pumpkin

THANK YOU THIS IS SO SWEET,,. Also please tell her she deserves the entire world

[roobylavender]

hmm this may interest you, do you have thoughts on this subject matter character-wise or in a meta sense?:

https://www.tumblr.com/thecruellestmonth/740875315694501888/batman-turning-points-3-batman-under-the-red

personally i'm not a fan of bruce's disavowal of fatherhood much for the same reasons that i'm not a fan of his installing the good soldier plaque. these to me are both writing choices driven more by writers' desire to explore theoretical concepts than they are driven by a character study of bruce himself. the concept of robin as an occupation inherently equivalent to child abuse is interesting. the concept of wondering what right a father has to children he has adopted towards that end is interesting. that being said, exploring the former concept didn't necessarily demand eliminating robin altogether. exploring the latter concept didn't necessarily demand bruce completely disavowing himself of any accountability. and ultimately both writing choices ignore that a core aspect of bruce's relationships with the robins was wanting to be a good parent, or at the least a good guardian. certainly something more than a mere ally or friend. he took responsibility for these children because he wanted to help guide them towards a certain path in life where they would no longer be ruled by their trauma the way he was and is by his. allowing them to become robin to that end was obv more than questionable, but all too many writers forget and even go so far as to ignore that bruce knew that. he was well aware of his status as an enabler and he eventually hated himself for it deeply. he felt perpetually guilty and reluctant to ask dick for any support once the latter became an adult bc he didn't want to sanction and (in his mind) effectively require dick to do something that would endanger his life on his own orders. he could realistically never stop dick from pursuing vigilantism, but he could at least refuse to ask dick for that commitment any longer so that dick had complete freedom to make his own choices as to the matter. regardless, bruce had to live with the guilt of having enabled the existence of robin to begin with, and he intended to live with that guilt. it was his closest friend and his primary means of survival

if anything, that to me is precisely why his disavowal of fatherhood doesn't make sense. bruce is a poor communicator and he has a tendency to take upon all burdens at the expense of his loved ones feeling like he no longer values them or their support, but that doesn't negate the fact that he's quite hyperaware of his flaws. he's a far more relentless critic of himself than he is of others, and that stems as much from self-righteousness as it does guilt. he's supposed to be better. he's supposed to set an example. he's supposed to do the right thing. he's supposed to save the whole city even if he's only one person. and so on and so forth. bruce is possessive of highly unrealistic expectations for himself bc he's a ridiculously emotional person trying to tell himself to act like a robot. he repeatedly sets himself up for failure and then when he inevitably fails he kicks himself down like a dog. he is essentially a walking man-child simply because he cares too much and that often leads him to make stupid, emotionally driven choices: like taking random children into his home and teaching them how to channel their emotions through fighting crime, because if it worked for him it might work for them too, esp when they've got the added benefit of his supervision and well-intended (albeit awkward) companionship

all of bruce's circumstances and internalizations and traumas point to him taking what i would term excessive ownership of his crimes. he's a self-made pity puddle because he thinks everything is his fault. dick barely having a life outside of vigilantism is his fault. dick nearly falling to his death is his fault. jason failing to properly process his parental trauma is his fault. jason getting blown up by the joker is his fault. i simply cannot imagine a world where bruce isolates himself from caring or from taking the blame because doing the latter has been his modus operandi for so long. it makes more sense for bruce to disavow fatherhood in the specific context of not wanting to take the place that john and mary or willis and catherine will always occupy; it makes less sense for bruce to disavow fatherhood in the specific context of raising and loving dick and jason as if they were his own. it's very much a you don't have to call me dad but when i call you "chum" i mean "son" situation. he's never one to burden others intentionally (although we obv know this rarely plays out the way he wants it to), rather he intentionally burdens himself. that's precisely what knightfall as an arc is stellar at depicting, regardless of the fact that it coincides with the existence of the good soldier plaque. bruce in the aftermath of jason's death has to blame himself excessively because it's the only way he knows how to cope. i've never understood depictions of his grief with an emphasis on jason's share of the blame bc not only is it classist towards jason, it's also inconsistent with bruce's own character and tendency to believe that every bad thing that happens is his fault. it's why i'm not really a fan of gotham knights #43-45. a death in the family makes it clear that bruce blames himself for not allowing jason to have the space and time to process his trauma properly before throwing him into the suit. allowing him to have hope never even comes into the picture

and i'm not sure if anyone has ever considered this, but the disavowal of fatherhood really confuses me when you remember tim exists. why is bruce's disavowal with regards to jason even necessary when the crux of tim's entry into the mythos is precisely the fact that he isn't someone over whom bruce can similarly exercise responsibility and ownership.. it's far more interesting to explore the tightrope bruce walks with that partnership because he's easily in a place to deny responsibility and yet obv he ultimately can't because despite whatever reluctance he expressed initially, he eventually gave in. the tone of the grant/brefoygle run also helps with depicting that dilemma. we're not primarily privy to the bruce of old anymore, who while quiet and awkward nonetheless expressed a capacity for caretaking. there are remnants of that of course (esp after tim's mother dies). but the bruce of the 90s is more imperious and domineering because he's been hardened by trauma. he delivers grand speeches about vigilantism and justice. he sends tim across the pond because he needs proper training. the fact that they're neighbors and get burgers together sometimes doesn't detract from the physical divide present there because tim is ultimately someone else's son and possessive of a life entirely divorced of what he does in the mask. he can walk away without preamble in a way that dick (at least until adulthood) and jason never could. plenty of writers recognized that and personally i believe it's what made the 90s robin run interesting to read, but i also believe writers retroactively projected the necessity of an emotionally distant bruce to that narrative onto the bruce of old. it was progressively rewritten to be a constant rather than a development in the wake of a highly transgressive event. and unfortunately that's tainted every interaction and/or recollection that he has with/of jason afterward

[dangcrabbit]

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[hemipenis]

where on ig did u see his mango 😭

They straight up erased your username, too, homie 😭

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8bvfSJOeOP/?igsh=eGJkazN1dzI5Y2Nv

[02511213942]

The lap one👀👀

oh i realized it's not a wip, it was the first draft sketch of this drawing! :3 well two lapfuls of andrew are better than one . is what i always say

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[bitchyblkqueer]

(obligatory disclaimer for having never read a barry comic linearly + major gaps in knowledge for other characters) god i tried to getting into barry and wallace’s relationship and started off w that comic where barry arrests him bc it was the only one they had at my library. downright egregious. idk if they have other origin stories, but if you had to write one for them, how would you reimagine it?

omfg that's such a horrible introduction to them 😭 however comma i like that their relationship is always antagonistic. barry just has no idea what he's doing with wallace and somehow always does the wrong thing.

in my head they meet when wallace is a toddler 😭 and barry's just always been around. his aunt-mom's on again off again boyfriend of ~15 years. why would wallace take him seriously 😭 here he is disliking barry on sight.

i like to think he was a precocious toddler. and this is off topic BUT i want a story centered around iris and barry, who are kinda-sorta dating, co-parenting wally and wallace. imagine being ~24 years old with a toddler and a 10-year old in your custody while working full time as a journalist..... literally how.

and it's interesting that wally and wallace have such different relationships with barry because they were all raised together. ofc siblings can have different experiences with their parents.

i think it's that wallace had daniel (his father-uncle) who was a better influence than wally had with rudy. so he didn't need barry the same way wally did.

also i dont think barry is good with kids. i think he likes kids but is too awkward to be good with them. wally is a fluke. like lightning in a bottle or something. anyway

[muensterfucker]

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[boyfridged]

tumblr might’ve eaten my ask in the process of submitting it so i want to send it again just in case but i loved burning money! it was so so so good! something that was interesting to me was mai (and the others’) disgruntlement with the foundation—which makes sense, big corporation encroaching on small community—but it’s the first time i’ve really seen a stance like that in fics? so i was curious about your thoughts on it! mostly because the foundation is usually depicted as doing good and nothing else, which isn’t true, of course, there is more depth to it, and i really liked and thought your depiction was interesting (even if it was intended to be a one-off thing) so i wanted to ask you about it :) if you don’t mind!

it seems it did eat it, so i'm glad you sent it again!

i absolutely do not mind, and i am happy to elaborate on that -- not only in the context of the fanfic, but also in terms what i think of the canon and fanon depiction of the work of the wayne foundation, and bruce's philanthropy.

that scene in burning money is, after all, symptomatic of my own politics. but as i always say, there was also a time when dc attempted to take in-world politics seriously -- leslie is a sign of that! so i do not see why i should not, given batman is an inherently political text, more so than most superhero comics (where the power fantasy elements are not as pronounced in their relation to class and the category of crime). and batman is just impossible to read without a consideration for these elements of discourse.

the love that contemporary comics (and i do think it's much more emphasised nowadays; the editorial seems to feel a need to continuously justify bruce, and there is not an ounce of modesty in how charity is portrayed) and fanon have for the foundation is something i find perturbing; the excitement regarding it even in the more progressive fandom spaces, the willingness to indulge this narrative of saviourism is really hard to ignore. and that is a narrative i have little patience for -- i, personally, like bruce as a multi-dimensional character, his flaws included. and that does not exclude keeping in mind that he is in a position of power.

the wayne foundation is not a grassroots organisation; and as such it is bound to have it's problems at the very core of its mission. the main issue is that it has a huge potential to become an instrument of biopower; that is to say, that people in charge get to say what sort of help the area will 'benefit' from most; and that is often a calculated choice that has little to do with the existing structures and even simply the wishes of people in question. while not directly related to the foundation, this is also something that i wanted to come across in the paragraph about the plan to make the crime alley into the entertainment district (btw, my rundown of the history of east end is by no means a canon one; i took different elements and mentions from comics and even adaptations into it, since it all remains vague otherwise). even when providing the people with a new (albeit limited; there was another bit that i ended up cutting out, about crystal being a nurse and the foundation putting a lot of money into nurse training programmes, since it is productive) range of opportunities, what it often leads to is yanking the populace around according to their latest charitable ideas, rather than providing long-time support.

here is also another thing to consider, that being -- no matter bruce's best intentions, he also cannot control everything that goes on in the foundation (which again, he should not -- but that also means that his 'stellar morals' will not save it from corruption and even just administrative troubles -- like the 'queues' that arlo mentions in burning money).

and about the scene you bring up in particular -- i want to say that this principled (!) reluctance to engage with the foundation it is not supposed to reflect the attitude of the community as a whole, but some part of it. mai, especially, has a personal connection to willis (and jason); this is very much a matter of pride and resentment regarding jason's death.

i have another wip with a scene of a somewhat similar, if not more open, conversation -- that one starring benny harlowe, who mentions that after jason's death the foundation seems to have doubled down in their efforts to 'fix' the alley (a trope somewhat popular in fanon, along with catherine todd/jason todd foundations), and he says: "The whole time I was thinking, why now? What was it, our boy’s trust fund? They murder our kid and then come back with a check?"

while I do not (obv) think the whole crime alley knew Jason (neither as jason nor robin; canon does not give us much reason to think that bruce would approve of robin-era jay venturing into the alley), nor do I subscribe to modern-era exaggeration of bruce's celebrity status, I do think most people in east end would hear about a billionaire adopting a child off the streets and the child dying not that long after; and there is surely some bitterness and distrust to come with that knowledge. is this what they are -- disposable charity cases? this is, needless to say, not true to bruce's feelings -- but what does it matter? there is little dignity to be found in this whole situation (with the system) to begin with.

this got ridiculously long... sorry about that! and thank you for reading!

[housemdsuggestions]

can you draw hilson in The Titanic

[basedstoutland]

This will be my last niche lore ask i swear, but do you have any tom headcanons?

Awww does it have to be? I loved getting asks like these. If it is, I'll miss getting the notification that I got an ask and finding out it was you- on or off anon. Anyway, I already answered some specific ones for this one ask game a while back. To sum them both up: He definitely writes fanfics for the shows that get broadcasted, especially Cowboy Bebop. He's definitely written at least one where Spike and Julia get to be together and nothing bad happens to them. He also hums along with the openings to shows too...probably dislikes the fact that they have to use shortened openings for the runtime. Also probably wishes they could air movies to the shows more often. Also like the first link says and how a previous post I made said, he does like exploring planets...especially when he's not forced to. He's able to enter a sleep mode recreationally, but will be forced into one when knocked out. He gets existential and thinks about things maybe a bit too much...but will only really cry when it's something a lot less serious. He'd feel prideful about any scars he gets and would most likely feel the same way about getting older. As for headcanons I have that don't have anything to do with previous asks I've gotten- Since it's shown that they like Steven Universe, I've always had the feeling that his favorite character from it was Garnet. And definitely likes other kids' cartoons as well. He will also, out of pettiness, pirate any anime or show that was snubbed from them by streaming services before they even had a chance to consider airing it and branded as 'streaming provider original'. ...Thinking about part 6 of JJBA, mostly. Most importantly, he is still definitely scared of Slenderman. edit: I'm adding this too: This is what I think he'd look like as a human. He has more scars hidden under the shades and his bangs. That's probably only the surface...I kinda feel bad that I've come up with so much more stuff for him than SARA...maybe if I ever get asked about her again, I'll be able to come up with more? Anyway, hope you've been enjoying me talking about Toonami as much as I've enjoyed getting the opportunity to talk about it. If you ever do want to ask me about Toonami stuff again, please feel free.