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Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

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Golden boy ✨✨

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all the batfam members hate taylor swift

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letting duke and damian be insane is so important to me. let them be insane, let them be more then just model minorities, please my gods, give me more powerful, insane, loving characters of color plsssss

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it's cool how DC's entire valentine's special this year is just absolutely nothing. none of the stories are even really bad they're just staggeringly bland.

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Back then she was real deal. I think Barbara/Oracle is the only fictional character I had a crush on at some point… %) Good times.

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Bruce is, in canon, an abusive parent. I am not going to equivocate on that. It’s not some wild characterization thrown in one every million comics; it’s a consistent pattern. He periodically hits his kids. He far more regularly emotionally abuses them. He makes them responsible for managing his emotional state. He neglects them. He puts expectations and responsibilities on them that are wildly unfair to put on your child. (I’m in no way including the ‘sidekicks are child soldiers’ base argument here, because I am totally willing to accept kid sidekicks in general; I’m talking more about his interpersonal expectations, and his prioritizing of the kids as Soldiers For The Mission instead of as, you know, his kids. Other heroes with kid sidekicks manage to handle it perfectly fine.) Is he also sometimes nice and kind and caring to his kids? Absolutely. There are sweet moments. But if we’re talking about a character who is kind and loving and good to his kids sometimes, and abusive to them at other times….what we’re talking about is an abuser. That’s the description of an abusive parent. The comic book character of Bruce Wayne is abusive to his children, in canon, in main continuity, regularly. There is no single writer responsible for it. (No, Bruce was abusive long before Tom King.) There is not even a single era responsible for it. (No, Bruce was abusive long before the new 52.) It’s been there for a long time. That’s point one.

It fucking sucks that Bruce is an abusive parent!! For a lot of people this sucks for the personal reason of not wanting a character they like to be abusive–maybe having gotten attached to a version of the character that is a much better parent before getting into comics. (I hear that the animated shows tend to have good dad Bruce, though I can’t personally confirm that.) But discounting personal opinions, I think on principle it sucks for two reasons: 2a. Batman is DC’s flagship character. He has four bazillion comics about him. He is arguably the most famous superhero in the world. And it really sucks that DC’s most famous hero is an abuser! This dude is 100% supposed to be a hero on the side of good, however dark and gritty he may act, and it fuckin’ sucks to have him be such a terrible parent at the same time. 2b. Most important to me, his abuse! is never! fucking! addressed! Sometimes Bruce is written abusing his kids with an awareness his actions are bad, but never with a real examination of how bad–and often glossing over that the people he’s mistreating are his children. And sometimes it’s just not acknowledged as bad at all! Batman writers vary between portraying him as abusive with zero awareness that’s what they’re doing (and often absolutely awful excuses like “well that’s just how he communicates”) and portraying him as a genuinely good dad while explicitly ignoring the previous abuse he has committed. But no comic ever actually…calls him out as abusive.

On the fan side, no one I know or have seen in this side of fandom is happy he’s an abuser. Obviously out in the big, wide world, you have plenty of people who think those claims are exaggerated and Batman sometimes hitting his kids is…uh, idk, unimportant I guess? (see: dc comics official writers.) And probably there are a few outliers who think he is more cool for it. But by and large, in this tumblr/twitter, fan-content-creating, analysis-posting area of fandom, everyone hates that Batman is canonically abusive.

And as a result of all of that, you pretty much end up fractured into two groups here.

There are the people who simply refuse to acknowledge or deal with Bruce as an abuser. Comics with his more obviously heinous actions are ignored. Comics with more subtle abuse have the abuse blatantly glossed over for the sweet moments. Issues where he is a good parent are touted. This group makes headcanons and fic and art and discussion that simply rewrites Bruce’s abuse until it doesn’t exist, and treats him as if he is and always has been a good parent. Bruce being abusive is Bad, Bruce being a good parents is Good, and canon is optional.

And then there are the people who are all about acknowledging that Bruce is an abuser. Bruce being a canonical abuser is still bad, but Bruce being a canonical abuser and it never being addressed is far worse. So this group REFUSES to forget all those issues where Bruce hits his kids, and is far more interested in examining his emotional abuse than glossing over it. And this group makes headcanons and fic and art and discussion as well, but now versions that specifically call out Bruce’s abusive behavior. Sometimes that’s to force him to change, and sometimes it’s to get his kids to a better place, and sometimes it’s to deliver him karmatic punishment–and sometimes it doesn’t change things at all, but just finds the catharsis in acknowledging them.

And both of these things are mostly fine, and valid ways for transformative fandom to deal with something shitty in canon. And when it comes to fanworks, both of these motivations lead to stories that I personally can enjoy a great deal.

BUT.

I say mostly fine, because pulling seemingly sweet moments from canon out of their toxic context and holding them up as great parenting just makes it sound like you didn’t recognize or care about the surrounding abuse. And insisting that Bruce actually totally is a good parent most of the time does the same.

Good Dad Bruce is a headcanon that’s directly opposed to canon. And you can absolutely stick with it anyway, because that’s what transformative fandom does! But arguing that canon Bruce isn’t or couldn’t be abusive makes you sound, at best, like you have not read a lot of comics (which is hardly a sin, but you probably shouldn’t be pretending you have an informed opinion on them), but at worst like you are actively dismissing abuse. And arguing that the people who do want to address that abuse are themselves somehow awful, mean, abuse-lovers just…makes you an asshole.

That’s it; that’s the post.

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“I like my baby hair with baby hair and afro”

I’ve always wanted to see Storm with kinkier hair texture. How cool would it be to see the most iconic black female super hero stuntin’ with protective hairstyles? Imagine her hair being as fluffy as the clouds that are at her command.

I think about this a lot.

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Duke has had enough of everyone’s white bullshit 💀

also I need to spread my black bi man agenda so watch out 🙏🏾

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Au where Damian comes to Gotham with the goal of infiltrating and eventually overthrowing Batman instead of inheriting the mantle. Not much changes from canon except for the fact that he views everything that batman owns as his. That's his future cave and his future batmobile. This also includes his robins. After all everyone knows Batman wouldn't really be Batman without them.

Cue a very bewildered Tim being lectured on his eating habits by a righteous Damian who won't let one of his people take shortcuts with their health.

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Tim & Duke: Tim & Duke: The Most Underrated Duo

Look, we need to talk about how criminally underrated the Tim and Duke duo is. They’re so different but somehow they just work together.

You’ve got Tim, the strategist, always five steps ahead, solving puzzles in his head before anyone even knows there’s a puzzle to solve. Then you’ve got Duke, who can literally see in darkness and read Gotham’s shadows like a second language. While Tim’s putting together all the pieces of a case, Duke’s already got his instincts fired up, scanning the city like he’s got his own Bat-radar.

But what makes them so great? It’s how they complement each other.

Tim is the guy who can tell you the how and the why. He’ll map out an entire mission, know where every player is going to be, and anticipate what move to make three days from now. Duke? He’s the guy who doesn’t need the map. He reads the moment. Tim trusts Duke’s instincts so much that sometimes they don’t even need to talk during patrol. They just know.

The Batfam doesn’t give them enough credit, but Tim and Duke have this unspoken bond. Like when Duke senses something off and Tim just adjusts his whole plan without missing a beat. They’ve got that effortless teamwork, no drama, no spotlight—it’s all about getting the job done and protecting Gotham.

Plus, can we talk about how chill they are? Tim’s all about getting lost in his work, and Duke’s the guy who’s like, “Hey, let’s take a breather,” but in a way that Tim actually listens. It’s subtle, but Duke keeps Tim grounded in a way the others don’t always manage to.

I just want more Tim and Duke content, more moments of them being the underrated power duo Gotham doesn’t realize it needs.

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Jason Todd’s service dog

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Complete based on this

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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.