#sucks.

[yellowocaballero]

I love how your Bruce is traditional but it is also like a mix of different types of traditional. Like he comes across as both "Rich white old money type" traditional AND "member of a marginalized minority group who take great pride in their identity to cope with years of ostracization and going "the world wanted me dead for my culture and religion so i might as well die loud and proud instead of conforming to their unachievable ideals" " traditional

Thank you for this ask, I really love it! I have a shitton to say on this topic, including a lot of worldbuilding decisions on Gotham cultures, immigrant spaces, segregation, how it ended up like 1920s-1930s NYC/Chicago mixed with my own city, Jason "Foil" Todd's Inferiority Complex, but that would make this depressingly long. Long time readers would know that I have, like, really complex and discrete religion headcanons for everybody I write. It's important.

Any decent Batman Story (TM) is about Gotham. It has to be a huge presence. It's like writing Dick Tracy without Chicago, or Cheers without Boston. When he's written well, Batman is a reflection of Gotham, and they metaphorically represent each other.

Most Batman writers get this, so there's always a lot of historical worldbuilding and everything. But I'm a community health person, and I grew up in the inner area of my own very large city, and creating a Gotham that feels real and rich is more complicated than the Court of Owls stuff. For me, cities are the intersection of culture, community, history, oppression/SES/war etc, and the modern day to day lives of people. When I want to make a rich city that was relevant and important to the story, I wanted to focus on immigrants and cultural minorities. You know - the people who create the cities lol. I decided on a history that involved the idea that Jewish families were the oldest in Gotham, and that they were one of the people to help create it and influence its culture.

I read a Daniel Handler quote just now that said "there is something naturally Jewish about unending misery". What is more Batman, Bruce, and Gotham than that, lol. The Jewish diaspora experience - the traditional history just as you outlined it in your ask - is baked into Gotham, it's the foundation. Gotham is a city of unending misery, but it's a city that stands tall. It takes a thousand hits and always gets back up again. People within it experience unending poverty and suffering, but they stand together. Just fucking refuse to die, as a whole. What's more Jewish than that! What is more Batman than that! Gotham should always be allegorical for Batman and Bruce, and through Gotham existing in that traditional Jewish experience, I think that's where you got the impression of Bruce as very traditional too.

Tim and the Drakes are the modern reflection of this. I was extremely explicit that Tim is alone in the world because of the Holocaust. I talk a lot in the story about how war and violence destroy children's lives, and that stretches back to the 1940s. About how war and violence creates violent children, which is what Tim became. His acting out was from the trauma of seeing his family slaughtered in front of him, and like a lot of people he used his religion to justify it.

There's a reason why the very first moment when Tim and Bruce actually connect as a family is when they find kinship and understanding through their shared backgrounds and values. They both saw their families slaughtered, they're both alone in the world - but they found each other, and they'll keep living.

OK BELIEVE IT OR NOT THAT'S THE SHORT VERSION. Seriously, though, I'm not. Uh. Actually fucking Jewish. This is like the fourth time I've talked out of my ass about this. I'm actually really interested in reading about the actual Jewish themes in Batman, because from what little I know they HAVE to be there. Any smart people out there who know about it, or who can link something written about it?

#tw holocaust #my asks #my writing #fwiw I think of Bruce as an atheist and Tim as pretty religious #I always write Bruce as really alienated from his Jewish heritage/culture #and his relationship with Tim (or jason in rr) reconnecting him with that #in nw that generational trauma is also why tim's parents weren't great parents. #heartbreaking! 25 years ago your mom was a survivor! #sucks. #i think i accidentally started thinking of tim as religious #because of that one time i wrote him as having come back from the dead after killing himself #and like anybody would get into god after that. and it stuck a bit for me #new story covid puppy Tim makes like an extremely smug point to call judaism dumb #kid has stuff going on. #hm I think I may have very persistent themes of returning to religion and religious heritage as a method of healing #not gonna psychoanalyze that! bye! #i feel like a fucking fanfic writer conservative for all i talk about masculinity and jesus

[sakakisilverlining]

Now, I’m a changed person, and I’ve sworn never to resort to shady tactics ever again!

However, I need to let off some steam! Do you mind if I join you~?

( @blastingtowardsbluerskies )

Oh, absolutely. I'm debating on whether to continue onto Goldenrod or go to Celadon. Either way, I'm going home with so much stuff in my pockets. Not like they'll be missed anyways.

#Ugh... Wish I could get Hibiki on the action but I wouldn't want to ruin his rep of Champion. #Sucks. #♤hmph. naturally. [×silverpostings×]

[stromuprisahat]

I’m not overly invested in Vikings: Valhalla, but if there are two characters with decent chemistry, who should deffinitely fuck, it’s Leif and Harald.

#It's a shame they don't even have a proper ship name btw. #Vikings: Valhalla #season 1 #Leif Eriksson #Harald Sigurdsson #Harald x Leif #Leif x Harald #Sucks. #You should be ashamed yourself shippers! #Haraleif #Leifarald #??? #V

[lunarpanda]

I just want to watch my anime...

#Mika shushup #Been like this for a few weeks now I wonder what's up #I heard that there's more traffic since there was a tiktok that took off and lead people to it but still #Sucks. #I hope it doesn't get killed like KissAnime did... I love this site.

[waterloggedsoliloquy]

comic from 2011 has male gazey sexualized lesbians: ok what freaking ever idc

diff comic from 2011 has psycho lesbian trope: Hurts Just A Little Bit!

#cecil drawls #i rly should not be emotionally affected by a 12 year old nuzlocke comic but man #Sucks.

[opiotes-thoughtvomit]

It’s so cool how I can autistically hyperfixate on fictional worlds during periods of intense depression and loneliness but also I think if I wasn’t autistic or whatever then I wouldn’t be in the position of having to do that.

#sucks. #like then maybe I would actually have human relationships that would fill that void for me. #maybe not tho who knows

[puphoods]

whyd they give ricardio an ass

#et cetera #sucks.

[kinglypup]

i need to not be here anymore i feel like im moving through jelly i cannot get anything done

#UGH #sucks. #mine

[paxcallow]

hey, here is the official fundraiser for ra’s medical bills. it doesn’t mention it yet but we are still waiting on the biopsy for this tumor and if it comes back positive, ra will need to start chemotherapy. 

anything you can give will help, and if you can’t give anything right now reblogging/spreading this around is so helpful too.

3/1/23 : hey, no need to RB this if you’re snooping through my old posts. ra died on february the 6th surrounded by the people who loved him. thank you for your support!

#pets #not art #bluh. #sucks.

[magic-is-something-we-create]

ya boy got sick and can no longer attend dinner with friends that i dont get to see often because everyones in different places for college :(

#braindumps.txt #brain machine broke :( #after 2 years of no sick getting sick twice in the span of like. six weeks? #sucks.

[jaanlouis]

stop reblogging merlin im already in my merlin era n SUFFERING FOR IT

you literally triggered this in me suffer the consequences of your actions 😐

#sucks. #asks #alyssa tag #<- that’s the first time im using that cry 🥺

[sparrovv]

Ok I can't sleep rn so I'm gonna keep complaining about school supplies.

Sticky Notes

3×3 in canary yellow:

Can't go wrong with these. You can take notes on them, you can draw on them, you can turn them into tiny paper cranes only for your insane friend to eat them. 11/10

8 pack of 3×3s:

It's nice. I think. The yellow hurts my eyes because it's not a fucking highlighter it's a piece of paper in highlighter yellow. Same with the pink. That should be illegal. The salmon color is weird. The green and light blue are so nice though- 2.5/10 because I like 25% of this pack

Post-it "super sticky notes" assorted pastel:

Nice color selection, but too many colors. Feels wrong. Heretical. Why aren't the colors in order. 5/10 I like the yellow.

Pastel Sticky Notes:

They're pretty for the most part. The pink needs to pick if it wants to look like a raw steak or a highlighter, the green looks like mint ice cream. 8/10 only burns my retinas slightly less than the sun

Post-it "super sticky notes" assorted sizes:

Where's the canary yellow. -20/10 I want my canary yellow.

Transparent sticky notes:

These are so fancy. But also looks like crunchy water. I wanna eat one. 20/10 warning: these are in fact, non edible.

Lined sticky notes:

No.

-500/10

Pastel pack of 4:

THEY HAVE CANARY YELLOW. No annoying colors, it's pretty, the mint green isn't too minty. perfection. 100000/10

3x3 24 pack:

Absolutely not, burn it all. Orange is too orange for a sticky note. If you look at that all you'll see is orange not notes. -10/10 the other colors may be fine without the orange

Pop up notes:

Really? That's what these are called? Fun to play around with. Until you write upside down. Or it falls down and now you have a pile of slightly connected small pieces of paper on the ground which you much now pick up with utmost care so that they don't break into a pile of unconnected small pieces of paper. 100/10 worth the risk

Post-it note cube:

I could start a fire with this. Yet no way to get to the color you want without separating it. Bad design. -200/10

Graphing post it note:

Everything you hate about math class, but small and irritating. only good in math class -174/10

Black sticky note:

mixed feelings here

???/10

#rants #text post #humor? #hot takes #i think #back to school #i hate school #school sucks #us education #sucks. #very much not assassin's creed #its 2am

[keijism]

i just want life to slow down for two seconds is that too much to ask for < :D

#it's all sinking in #i hate change #sucks.

[chronicas]

My late sister’s birthday is this week…

#Sucks. #ophidian lore

[cahootings]

I redownload this app for one day once every maybe two months and unfortunately I’m rewarded every time

#everyone reblogging this needs to go stream our flag means death on max #and suck your friends’ fingers

[bookpdf]

unfortunately i Do feel better when i clean my living space and eat enough fruits and veggies and go outside and generally remember i am a mammal :| real pity that knowing this does not make it easier to do those things

#i am my own zookeeper basically and that kinda sucks