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welcome! multifandom 'n multitopic. [ they / them , NOT a minor ] @empressingdad on ao3

[empressdad]

give stephanie her own comic run. give koriand’r her own comic run. give talia al ghul her own comic run. give proxy a standalone comic. i want nocturna to have a well written comeback. HAVE ALL OF THEM TO BE PUT FIRST.

[eonslice]

second chances

[margotelizabee]

I find it funny how many people love primehood and makes jokes about primes 4th wall awareness but people don’t focus enough on the fact that Jason is super meta as well.

Like there is a panel where Jason talks about turning 53 (which would be his real world age given his 80s continuity). Like there are so many small bizarre instances of Jason alluding to his real world characterization and impacts but like done in almost the same way I would expect a seer or conduit might.

Bro basically does a soliloquy to the audience like in a Shakespeare play. Only he doesn’t know there is an audience.

I think it would be super funny if Jason said some meta shit unprompted and it throws Prime off.

Jason: me and Bruce don’t work. Like him admitting he’s wrong would break the universe and that can’t happen.

Prime (squinting his eyes): yeah.. something like that.

Or

Jason: I had a dream that none of this was real. That no matter what I do I don’t have any control. I’m not the one writing my own story. I’m just a character for others amusement.

Prime (doing a double take): the $@&!

Jason: It’s probably nothing.

Prime: it’s definitely something!

And possibly

Prime: that’s what you get for crawling out of your coffin.

Jason: I’m not sure if that’s what happened. It’s all so muddled anymore. Who’s to say what actually brought me back.

Prime (Turing to the reader) you seeing this chat?

And of course

Jason: I feel like people are always hoping my down fall. Like if you put my life in the peoples hands the would vote to kill me off.

Prime: ….

Prime: who the fuck told you!

Prime: do you know about the readers too?!

Jason:??

[loservillepopulationthirteen]

prime can talk a lot of shit but cant take anything back

tried to be a bit more on model with these sketches but idk how they turned out

[lesbiangeraldford]

i personally think starfire should be seven foot. at least.

[soshinee]

if u think abt it i guess bald ppl are the most aerodynamic. i bet if u shot a bald person out of a cannon they wld fly way further than a haired person

[soshinee]

which of course is a huge advantage in day to day life

[vfx-batman]

Bruce’s favourite children = the rose-tinted memory of Dick as the child who was him but better, the costumed corpse of Jason which he keeps trying to bury further underground, the colder version of Tim whose Bruce-like tendencies he encouraged + cultivated, the ideal version of Cass he made up in his head, + the obedient version of Damian he misses once his youngest son learns he can disobey his father without being doomed.

[cloudabserk]

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[stratfordsympathizer]

one of the funniest bruce wayne moments of all time. to me. "tim, i would never endanger a child. unless he was really cool and i was super sure he wouldn't die. ignore the mannequin wearing my dead son's combat uniform in the basement btw."

[phantomchick]

#the implication of “look you're not a fucking dipshit like that last guy” is frying me#nothing can rival this run's crimes against cassandra cain but this scene really has a special something via @stratfordsympathizer

[just-aro]

sometimes it's so very draining that the majority of aro content is about fictional relationships.

irl, i live alone. irl, i am disabled. irl, that intersection and my lack of interest in partnering actively makes life really hard. everything is expensive. i can't always cook when i want to or have fresh ingredients, because my symptoms don't care if I want to cut up vegetables and eat something homemade before they go bad. if I have a bad flareup and getting up is not in the cards, that's it. i have what's next to me. the lack of social support for single folks, for disabled folks, for folks whose family care is inadequate or damaging... it's impactful.

I talk about how i once visited a place with an ex partner. i mention how our relationship started because i was pressured into it, and i wasn't really into the level of seriousness and 'forever' she treated it with. everyone says it's weird that i agreed if i didn't want it to be serious. i remember being 16, saying no, and a chorus of people telling me i was stupid and immature, that her family was rich, that we would be cute and to listen to them, not my heart. my heart was saying nothing.

i look at my current age and life goals. for many of my peers, dating and marriage and eventual kids are common goals. i am watching my rights erode and trying to practice good mental hygeine. my five year goal is to be alive. my next major life milestone is a nebulous desire to find a life i can tolerate living.

being aromantic significantly impacts my day to day. i want to see aro people living their lives, and doing so with joy. i want to see aro adults making it, ones like me. i want aro people to thrive. i want to live, aromantically.

i scroll the aro tag. it's fandom and shipping and asexual posts.

[wesavegotham]

It's kind of ironic.

Damian in Robin (2021): I have given up on you being a couple, please just show each other respect for my sake.

Bruce and Talia since then:

Like? I'm fairly sure that wasn't what Damian meant? But good for them I guess.

[wesavegotham]

Steph seems to have her doubts about the whole thing and honestly I can't blame her.

Bruce never really trusted in her and now she's supposed to blindly trust in a plan Bruce and Barbara didn't fully reveal to the others until after the mission had started (and knowing Bruce he's probably still keeping them in the dark over some aspects). Barbara outing her civilian identity as a Batman ally for this plan is a huge risk and cost, even if Barbara wants to do it out of her own volition. Steph is also probably still unhappy that she was told about Tim's retirement from Damian and because Tim isn't helping when they need more hands on deck.

Really not sure how to feel about Damian continually acting so obedient/blindly loyal towards Bruce since Bruce's agressive outburst towards him. I guess it's supposed to be Damian wanting to win his father's favor back even after they somewhat made up last issue, but I think that would be a problematic message if it doesn't lead to other problems later on.

Being a good son/Robin isn't about not questioning your parent's decisions.

[heetyhoo]

"Damian wants to take after his paternal grandfather and be a doctor-" I am violently grabbing you by the face and forcing you to look at the Al Ghuls. Talia and Ra's are both doctors. He's not only following in Thomas Wayne's footsteps when his literal mother and maternal grandfather are also both doctors

[wesavegotham]

Yeah, I said this when PKJ introduced this element in his B&R run, while I like this direction for Damian it is kind of the most uncreative decision he can make as a Wayne and an al Ghul.

Honestly I think it could be cool if at some point Damian seeks out Ra's library (you can't tell me he hasn't one, if not several of them) and reads through what Ra's has collected or even written himself throughout his long life.

[certifiedgirlrotter]

Some fanfic writers will genuinely write Talia as an evil maniacal dictator who’d rip every hair on Damian’s head off as a nightly ritual and then say “I wrote her morally grey!” I fear you have never heard of a grey area ever

[l0adingout]

a generation of sidekicks

[charseraph]

No one knows if finishing a drawing is possible