the www gangs communication really cracks me up. first of all we have tim, who just watches you. then we have bruce, who is too scared to go talk to you and sends tim. then we have jason, who holds your hand and just follows you around like a silent guard dog. and honestly damian and dick are not looking any better. what is wrong with these guys. and what is wrong with reader for... for all of that
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the boys' first commentary on keating's lessons being cameron and neil saying 'that was weird' / 'but different' is getting to me like the entire film is a narrative on the suffocation of heavy academia and how it prioritises certain subjects (medicine, law, business, engineering) while condemning creativity and passion and how institutions are promoting conformity and grades-over-wellbeing teaching methods more and more as you both move up the elitism scale and as time goes on, and how that was okay for these kids and like so many generations before them they were going to let it happen to them, but one teacher was different. one single teacher told them to seize the day and make their lives extraordinary and he made them look directly at the state of things, and for a little while it was beautiful but they're just kids; how could they ever change things? and sure enough it catches up to them and the institution wins because it always does and suddenly the suffocating thought of what neil is so sure his life is going to be is so daunting and terrifying that he cant even face it
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um lately i have been feeling so weird because my life w jonathan is great and we have nice things and money is never an issue anymore but then like.. i don't know i still feel hollow and empty and lonely and being with him doesn't really make me as happy as it once did and we are getting into arguments a little more often and i can't help but find myself getting defensive instead of trying to calmly work things out
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as an aside though maybe one area where i really do starkly diverge from fandom opinion on this issue is with the jason scene. like was the use of joe chill as a comparison corny and potentially misplaced? sure. but even without the stains of red hood canon or jason being referred to as a delinquent failure, the very first pair of post-crisis issues that actually employed jason’s revamped background were dc #573-4, which served as a preamble to jason’s official re-intro in batman #408 (notice the reference to dick’s close call), and which featured this admission from bruce:
bruce has always believed he was saving jason from a life of crime. he believed jason saved himself too, but that initial projection of his own savior complex and the fear of where jason would end up if he stayed in the streets was absolutely present. the work from mike w. barr and max allan collins thereafter, however, would attest to jason’s ability to prove that assumption wrong
the problem isn’t so much that bruce held this belief at all (i mean, from an ideological point, it obv is, but i mean narratively), the problem is that there were writers who worked specifically to disprove that preconceived belief and challenge it only for later writers to bulldoze past it completely and disregard any chance for bruce to be challenged about it again once jason died, even though there was every ample opportunity to do so (esp via stephanie imo if she wasn’t also fucked over lmao) before jason was resurrected and made to justify that belief
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holy fucking shit my dad is even worse with money then I thought
so we've been over how when we lived in cali he had us on a 15k(our rent took up 10k of that, so 350 a month for "food" aka car insurance/our phones since he didnt pay ours) a year budget which we made work because my mom also had her own job
apparently for at least one year during that time, according to his taxes he was making 200k
what the fuck
I'm so mad, making that much and my mom has to buy a used car for 800 on her kmart wage so we can still have enough in order to even get food for the week
our food budget was a block of cheese and an 8pack of tortillas, spaghetti sauce and noodles, for 3 people
we lost our food stamps because he got that job, and I always feel like I cant get madder each time but somehow he manages to always disappoint and reach a new low
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