#twitter is a hell hole

[crozzby]

lmao @ st*rs fans whining about the refs as if they haven’t let the stars get away with so much shit this whole series

#Twitter is a hell hole #flames lb

[sheepnasleep]

i forgot how fun this site is ^_^

#twitter is a hell hole #baa

[nounaarts]

It's everybody's fav !!

#whats funny is that because of atsv i would of gone full spiderman mode if the english version of the s4 special didnt come out #lmao even if it was an accident #im going fully insane over it #it just dragged me back into the hell hole #twitter is recieving nothing but delusions from me #had to balance it all out with some art heh #lmk #lego monkie kid #lego monkey kid fanart #monkie kid #macaque #lmk six eared macaque #lmk macaque #lmk s4 special spoilers #lmk season 4 spoilers #lmk spoilers #lmk s4 spoilers #lmk s4 english special #art #doodles #nounaarts

[distort-opia]

you know i often see people throwing around the claim "joker r*ped/sa'd barbara in tkj" (mainly to shame people for liking the joker or batjokes) even though alan moore has dedunked it at some point. like the only piece of media i can think of with joker as a rapist is the azzarello graphic novel which is shit and doesn't need to be accepted as canon. i know it's kinda of a touchy subject but i'd be interested to hear your thoughts

Well. You've pretty much said it, to be honest.

Even a cursory Google search will reveal that Azzarello's Joker (2008) is a one-off, non-canon story. The just as much stand-alone sequel, Batman: Damned has a grieving Harley Quinn almost force herself on Bruce, and yet I haven't heard people say Harley is a rapist. Hell, didn't Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) have Harley and Nightwing sleep together... with pretty dubious consent on Dick's side? And yet fans are able to acknowledge that these are not canon storylines and that the writer matters a lot-- in the case of the latter, it's co-written by Bruce Timm, who is infamous for his shitty portrayal of female characters (also see the animation Batman: The Killing Joke, in which Barbara very assertively has sex with Batman, because that's of course the only way a woman can exercise power). Actually, Barbara's character has suffered so much... there's even Batman Beyond 2.0 #28, in which Bruce apparently got Barbara pregnant, Dick's girlfriend at the time.

But we all dismiss these storytelling choices because we know they're idiotic. They go against the core of the characters, simple as that. Why is Joker not allowed the same? While what he canonically did to Barbara in TKJ was horrible, rape did not happen, and that's a fact. Any other implications of sexual assault can only be connected to Frank Miller's writing in the TDKR series (not canon), or that horrible (and again, not canon) book adaptation of TKJ by Christa Faust and Gary Phillips. Unfortunately, there are always some writers who think that it's just darker and grittier and cooler, more shocking to have Joker attempt rape or resort to sexual means of intimidation; though it's funny how it happens that these are also generally controversial writers for their sexist depictions of women.

But we do know why Joker is not afforded the same kind of treatment as other characters who got butchered by out-of-character stories, canon or otherwise. He's become the punching bag of the DC fandom; it's so easy to proclaim loud and proud these days how much you hate the Joker and want him dead. If you're an anti and looking to feel morally righteous and signal to your echo chamber how good and pure you are, it's a low hanging fruit to latch onto Joker and criticize him for all he's done. The problem, of course, is when these people start attacking actual, real-life fans over their fictional preferences, shipping or otherwise.

But to give a more general conclusion, and my actual opinion on the matter: Joker is a master manipulator. His main schtick is literally getting Batman to kill him by orchestrating all manner of situations; he manipulates his doctors, his henchmen, he manipulates Gotham itself through the media on countless occasions. The very reason why he did what he did to Barbara in TKJ was to manipulate her father into having a mental breakdown. Joker picks people to break and then breaks them psychologically, that is his MO. What he wants is to expose the people around him, he wants to show that deep down, everyone is rotten.

It probably becomes obvious why rape is inconsistent with this mindset. Joker isn't the kind of monster to make things happen by brute force, he's the kind of monster to manipulate people into the worst versions of themselves and then laugh at them as they hate themselves for it. He'll murder and torture and imply any manner of atrocity to make that happen, but the source of his glee is seeing people fall into the same dark pit, devoid of humanity, he's chosen to live in. (And don't even get me started on the fact that Joker was canonically shown to have been a victim of sexual assault himself as a child, in Batman: Streets of Gotham. As an adult, he's depicted as gruesomely taking revenge on the man who did it. Something tells me there's more than one reason why Joker would not resort to rape, and it goes beyond MOs or agendas.)

#I got a bit long but alas #this was prompted by whatever twitter meltdown is currently happening wasn't it #heard about it and heaved a long sigh. this is why I stay away from that hell hole #asks #long post #joker #rape mention #discussion of rape #fandom negativity

[nightgoodomens]

Continuing with my “Tumblr supremacy over Twitter” they all gasp about things we’ve noticed 100 years ago already. Tsk.

#I dislike that hell hole of a page so much #I can’t believe I came back to tumblr after years and it’s so much more normal than Twitter

[merp-blerp]

Pro-gaylor swifties (like swifties who aren't gaylors themselves but are nice to gaylors) should make a fandom-name for themselves so I know who I'm safe with 😅

#i just get nervous when ever i do more than reblog a gaylor post #like when i make my own #tumblr has always been such a safe place for me #and i don't want that to end because where else would I go? #most other socials are video-based and I'm much more of a text post kind of girl #the only other text-based cite i know of is twitter/x and I'll die before I join that hell hole #while i love the gaylor fandom we take a lot of hits from dicks #i haven't gotten any of my own personally but it's a bit scary to know a hetlor could find my post and come at me or something #gaylor #friends of dorothea #lgbetty #taylor swift

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

Sometimes I think I want to download TikTok but then I come across a TikTok video on another platform and tell myself, ‘yeah that’s enough internet for the day’

#TikTok #nope #I think I’m okay #I’ll stick to the hell hole that Twitter is

[aeriteatime]

First comic of my OCs from 2020 awkwardly exploring their dynamic 💖

#AwkwardXAwkward #Nao #Plum #PlumXNao #art #I FUCKING MISSED THIS TYPE OF POSTING LAYOUTTT #attempting to post on tumblr lets see if i get nuked #everything is gonna be censored tho #uncensored on my twitter!! (the hell hole) #how tf do I discreetly tag stuff

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I have a feeling Sonic wasn't being sarcastic when he told Shadow that he's "one in a million"

I swear to god… these dorks gay…

#MEET HIM AT THE FUCKIN FERRIS WHEEL #MEET HIM #MEET HIM MEET HIM MEET HIM SONIC! #SO HELP ME I WILL KICK YOUR SPIKY BLUE BUTT #SONADOW #SONADOW FOOD FOR MY SOUL #I HAVE FALLEN INTO THE FUCKIN SONADOW HELL HOLE 🥺😈😈❤️ #sonic twitter takeover 6 #sonic twitter takeover #mystery anon #off topic

[itspyon]

i mentioned this a while ago so here goes an update !

that awful mc mod comm experience ? i managed to resolve it yay. but ! it indirectly got me to meet two wonderful amazing people ( one of them is a dream stan too !) that are professional mod makers, and have been teaching me here and there how to work on some things

i am not great by any stretch of the word when it comes to code, but man this is sooo fun. and i love making models and textures ! this whole group of modders that took me in has been so nice, and they like the dteam, and are helping me put together something i have always dreamed of doing for minecraft

this is obviously a whole new skill and i don't want to bore people with it, but it's fun how you can find dream fans everywhere, especially the casual ones like them, and how willing to make community with you they are. nicest people ever

#thinking of how loved dream is when you literally look outside the hell hole that is twitter #people just. like him. as he comes and as he is #and liked his video and believe him and think good of him #even in an out of fandom real life setting #it made me very normal ngl it really did

[dwtdog]

So are you here to stay…?

unless something drastically terrible comes out that makes me reevaluate the entire situation (again) i'm here to stay :0 don't know if i'll get back into writing anytime soon but i'll liveblog sapnap's streams and dteams videos if they ever happen

#cq.asks #tumblr solo though #not going back to the twitter hell hole

[extremelybabygirl]

the internet's reaction to OF season 2 is so funny lmao most of yall be hating it but I BE SCREAMING SHAKING CRYING CLAWING MY FACE OFF cuz i have MIXed feelings about it (pun intended) i'm super excited i love the entire cast and love to see the gang back together again but also nervous as hell bc i'm afraid they're gonna ruin it cuz ss2 is usually worse than ss1 and i don't want this series to be ruined it's one of my fave series, and i want the cps to have their own new series too (godddd i NEED my forcebook mafia series!!!) but at the same time i also NEED to see what gonna happen with Mix and the gays lmao 😭 do you see my struggle

#only friends #ofts #forcebook #firstkhao #neomark #my post #i'm glad i avoided twitter during OF ss1 lmao #cuz i'm sure as hell won't be on that hell hole when ss2 airs

[sheepnasleep]

i forgot how fun this site is ^_^

#twitter is a hell hole #baa

[livingdeadvamp]

I could never be on parx twitter because "I'm not able to buy a frog plushie with the band name on because I'm not American" really isn't a big deal. Like yeah it kinda sucks but I'm seeing people get SO upset. It's a plushie in a common style. You'll probably be able to find one elsewhere. I found a similar green one on Vinted! At the end of the day, you don't NEED merch. Idk take a deep breath and maybe log off for a bit if you're genuinely upset over not being able to buy a toy frog

#parxies highkey need to reevaluate how they interact with merch #its. not normal and slightly worrying #this is coming from me btw im VERY materialistic #i love buying things i love making purchases #but idk if stuff like this upsets you then you need to take it less seriously #in a weird way im almost (almost) grateful im working class cos its forced me to think about being careful and not just buying EVERYTHING #moral of the story is that parx twitter is a hell hole #then again so is parx tumblr #shit were all fucked

[funfettisundae]

Sighhhh guess I'll post here more often

#twitter is dying #it was a hell hole but I was content #whatever

[fcb-mv33]

There ain’t no way lh fans are calling out Max for wanting to launch a clothing brand😭😭😭😭oh my Jesus my lil baby boy is so popular it isn’t even funny😭😭

#pls Twitter is a hell hole but it’s so funny😭😭😭😭 #like you a lh fan but your most common word is Max😭😭😭 #pls have some S H A M E😭😭😭 #rambles