open your heart, does it beat or bleed?

jay / 18+ / misc whatever sideblog

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Prideful Awooing

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"Blackbird" - personal work, inspired by my hometown. Blackbirds are my favourite - they sing so beautifully.

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three unbound

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[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

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ough my son…

based on this

[meruz]

i love this outfit sooo much tbh <3 thanks robin (2021)

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Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

[icantspellthings]

Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible

Pronouns

An accent

Bias

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Te deseo, cariño<3

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"google ai" "spotify ai dj" "ai assistant" "enhanced by ai" what if i just start beating people over the head with a rock

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the dude of all time

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here's where to find it on windows 10

[yasyart]

— I just want to be good, like him. A hero. Is he proud of us?

[red-hooded-robin-hood]

"Batman being abusive to his kids is so fundamentally wrong and makes him a one dimensional character"

So, fun fact about abusers, they often view their actions as coming from a place of love. Of knowing what's best. What's right. And, most applicable to Bruce and Jason specifically, control. Being abusive doesn't mean that Bruce doesn't love his kids. In fact most abusers do love their victims, but that doesn't make their actions any less harmful.

Bruce is a lot of things. He's a man who loves his kids, yes, but he's also abusive. He's great when interacting with other people's kids, yet terrible with his own.

And again, he does have his moments...

...but he's also the same man who did this.

Loving someone and abusing them aren't mutually exclusive things. Bruce being a vigilante and him being an abuser aren't mutually exclusive, nor does it make him a one dimensional character. If anything it adds dimension to his character, no matter how dark that may be.

Sources: Batman: Turning Points #5, Batman (2025) #6, Batman (2016) #138, RHATO (2016) #25.

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Fandom desperately, desperately needs to learn that abuse usually coexists with love. It’d be so much easier if it didn’t, but parents who abuse their kids usually also deeply love those kids and may also be gentle and loving to other kids.

This is bigger than Bruce Wayne. This is a society-wide problem. If you see a parent who loves their child and decide, “that parent could never be abusive,” then you’re much less likely to believe children who say they are abused.

[stele3]

OP tags: #!!!!!#you have no idea how many times people have said my dad is such a wonderful person & doubted that he's abusive#or gushed over how well my mom works with kids and then blamed everything on me just being a disobedient kid 😒#Bruce is probably one of the most realistic (within the medium of comics) and relatable examples of an abuser I've ever seen#because he's *human*#being abusive doesn't turn someone into some monster incapable of feeling love (nor does being unable to feel love make you a monster)#all it means it that someone is abusive. they could be the nicest person you know and still abuse someone else.

My mom was a schoolteacher. She was literally a mandatory reporter. Her job was to be good with kids, and she still screwed me up bad. I've never doubted that my parents love me, but that doesn't mean they weren't abusive.

I'm not saying that if you defend Bruce Wayne you would fail to recognize a real-life abuser, but fandom is a reflection of society. If your impulse is to disbelieve that Bruce Wayne is an abuser because he's kind in other ways, I don't necessarily trust you to believe that your neighbor who is always friendly and helpful is also abusing their kids.

[greenrosesinagarden]

You suck, dude by @ethan4sias

Khoa is always the dominant partner in relationships, but he's willing to be the submissive one if the other person is Bruce.

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Superboy!