just saw a post calling batman the "ultimate male power fantasy" and suggesting that robin is an inherently "female-coded" role because robin has always been "an accessory to batman" and i . yknow its not that often that im literally left speechless but.
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My frustration with Jason Peter Todd is that there is a universe out there where he was given a decades-long character arc; one where he could learn from his mistakes, and make amends where necessary, all the while still acknowledging the pain both caused by himself, his actions, his decisions, as well as the flipside, the harm he has personally lived through intentional or not.
This is a character that will always have his motives and ideology shaped by the trauma he lived through and died for, but the way it feels like current comics interact with that trauma is just one big bad event that everyone else has gotten over and yet he is never allowed to move on from. All he is ever allowed to be is the self-proclaimed black sheep, the one who died, but he's not able to deconstruct what all that meant for him, his morals and foundational beliefs as a character, because we had to shove it all aside way to quickly to make room for big happy bat family.
His entire existence feels like it is there to either serve as a punchline or surface level angst when needed. No one knows what to do with Jason anymore because they never gave him the space for real character growth when it was necessary.
I feel like I'm always like haha yeah Jason Todd, I wish he was worse. I wish he was in more pain. I wish he was alone, and he hated everyone again and vise versa. But it's more that I find his personal morals and ethics fascinating, I just wish they were properly fleshed out and given the time and consideration to evolve and expand along with his growth as a person. I want him to be wrong. I want him to fuck up, and fuck up again. His passion is what makes him interesting!!
I also want him to learn and grow into his skin without throwing away everything he stands for. That he could actually become a solid argument to the status quo that mainline comics can find themselves falling into, one that you get the sense he was originally brought back to be. But instead, he's the angry one that is insane and kills people, or swing way too hard in the opposite end, and all of his claws have been filed off— he's just a sad boy with no real poignant internal dilemmas anymore.
Idk, maybe I like the idea of a guy being able to heal over time. Maybe the idea that you are doomed to relive the mistakes of the past forever is exhausting. But what we have right now is so boring and lame that I'm out here advocating for them to just kill him off again.
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Finally got around to reading A Death in the Family, and I always knew that fandom probably warped the story, but I never realized how much people were leaving out. No one ever mentions that Shelia does try to save Jason (and herself) before the bomb went off. She’s a lot more sympathetic than what fandom leads you to believe. I don’t know, it’s just very interesting…
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My fixations (spn and dc) unite for misha collins to play harvey dent in gotham knights
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because this is a safe space im gonna be honest - every fic im gonna write is a response to the bad brother dick grayson tag on ao3 because it incenses me like almost nothing else
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He was tired; being the Hood never seemed to get any easier. Though Jason wasn't expecting it, as he peeled off layer after layer, he realized he'd gotten worse injuries than he thought. Groaning, he realized he'd have to stitch himself up. So that's what he did; Jason grabbed the first aid kit after showering and started cleaning himself up. He had lost track of time, so when he heard someone's voice in his apartment, he gasps, "How long have you been here?"
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