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I cannot survive if I'm not obsessed with a work of fiction, I need something to focus on to function, so here's a side blog for this. I tend to not stay focus on one fandom in particular. Today I'm obsessed with one thing, tomorrow it will be another.

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Things I do not tolerate:

Pro-shipping (imo, shipping is actively supporting the idea of two characters together, not a "one time/once in a while" thing. If you write a fucked-up fic or a toxic relationship without romanticising it, I will not judge. It can be cathartic. Fucked work of fiction are not a bad thing. I have an issue with painting a toxic relationship as okay)

Starting "debate" or "arguments" with no capacity to be polite. I'm super anxious so I really dislike debate and argument in general, and most of y'all cannot behave online. My complaining isn't an invitation to have an argument.

Finding excuses for abusive characters, especially toxic parents. Yes, I'm a good dad Batman believer, but I will not argue that some of his behaviors in some comics is abusive, I'm just against that characterization.

Some stuffs about me.

I need to write a fic about Batman being comforted by the JL after Jason's death, but it's not the founders, it's the JL he was part of when Jason died in the 80s (aka Martian Manhunter, Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Fire, Ice, Mister Miracle...)

#I have read JLI (1987) and the following JLA so I know them #they are his nightmare it's really funny #the idea of him losing his son and going back to work with the losers (affectionate) is really funny to me #bruce wayne #batman #justice league international #dc comics #my ramblings #justice league #justice league of america

Me, looking at JLI fanarts: Where is Batman?

#pls put my loser back with the others!#bruce wayne #batman #justice league international #dc comics #my ramblings #idc that he is everywhere all the time he deserves to be with them

somewherefornow

DICK GRAYSON/ROBIN & BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN in BATMAN AND ROBIN ETERNAL (2015)

#Bruce hiding his wound from Dick because as the adult/parent he doesn't want Dick to worry about him #Dick screaming at Bruce that he is not his dad and being a teenager wanting to be treated as an adult #this is a much better fight than “Bruce fired Dick from Robin”#bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #robin #batfam #dc comics #BTW this is not the batcave in Gotham it's the one in Prague in the catacombs #which is why there are human skulls it's actual human dead bodies arouns them

Bruce is probably so bad at taking compliments. Sure, people tells him he is pretty, but that's Brucie they are complimenting, they don't know him. And people have called Batman smart, and he knows he is. It is what is expected of him, what he needs to be. But genuine compliments? He cannot handle that.

He did not grew up hearing good things about himself. He had expectations to fulfill and he failed most of them. And he feels like if anyone knows him, really knows him, then they would stop seeing him as pretty or smart.

So, when he gets genuine compliments, either he brushes it off as a lie, or he loses his voice and blushes. He does not know how to handle them.

#bruce wayne #batman #dc comics #my ramblings #inspired by a batlantern post but also by brutalia in the comics especially in Batman: Odyssey

jewishbarbies

so christopher nolan drilled into an active historical site to rig a scene, dumped a bunch of plastic skeletons into the ocean with no plan to fish them out, and ruined an actual Viking ship on loan from sweden and refuses to pay for damages. all for that garbage movie.

jewishbarbies

Swedish nonprofit alleges cost to repair replica was $6,000 but Universal – which made $264m on film’s opening weekend – has not stumped up

Concerns about prop disposal as filming on new Nolan film comes to a close | www.italianinsider.it

looking for a news outlet to pick up the archeologist drama over this but you can google the practical effects used for the cyclops and find the pictures pretty easily

jewishbarbies

Despite Morocco’s hopes that its film industry would reap rewards, the blockbuster’s success will be tainted by controversy surrounding film

and it gets even worse

jewishbarbies

ahh forgot about that one

Jewellery made from BC Iran worn at Odyssey photocall throws spotlight on the trade of rare archeological finds

I’m sensing a theme with this production guys

#as an archeologist I'm so mad I hate this #and all of that for another ideolization of the perpetrator of a genocide because that's what Troy is a genocide #and in the texts it is clear that the Greek enslaved the survivors and raped them #like the Iliad is about Achilles throwing a tantrum because he couldn't rape a prietress of Apollo #but they prefer to continue to put the Ancient Greek on a pedestal and to make their propaganda more digesteable for modern audiences #anti christopher nolan #anti zendaya

renairinwrites

Hey yep hi there, I need the comic nerds assistance.

Send me your panels of the batkids doing bad things to Bruce. Any kind of bad thing. I need the material for fic endeavours.

Preferably the entire context please 💙

We get so many posts about how "terrible" Bruce is and oh look here's the same out of context panel or notorious bad ooc portrayl being shoved down our throats for the billionth time. I think it's time we start collecting the times the kids do the same shit but back onto Bruce.

littlefankingdom

I'm not sure every instance I have would count as the batkids doing bad things, but I'm still going to present them. Most of the time, when the batkids are bad to Bruce, it's in their words. But there are a few times where it gets physical. Also, the batkids in question are adult, or at least 18, in the examples I have, so no child being an immature child, but adults who feel like entitled to Bruce and how he must behaves because of who he is to them.

~ Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive - Bruce is going through a bad episode mentally, like he is in crisis psychologically, and he persuaded himself that Bruce Wayne is not real, only Batman. Upon stating such to the batkids, Dick is hurt because Bruce is his dad, and if Bruce doesn't exist, then who raised and loved Dick? As always with Dick, he wants the argument to continue, and when Bruce refuses to do so, Dick gets violent and hit him. He then try to have Bruce fight him, which Bruce refuses at first, escaping Dick's hits, before finally giving in and hitting back only once. The fight stops when Dick, upon trying to hit Bruce, hits Jason's memorial and breaks it.

~ Detective Comics (2016) - I forgot what was going one, but Cassandra is very emotional and suffering, Bruce is trying to be supportive (they hugged in one of the issues before). Then Shiva shows up, and Cass decides to go fight her. Bruce tries to stop her, to protect her because she isn't doing well, and Cass starts a fight, in which Bruce refuses to participate. Of course, while Bruce can dodge Dick's hits, Cass is a better fighter than him, so she kicks his ass.

I do not have the panels, but in the same comics, just a couple of issues before, Steph also fought Bruce while he refused to hit back. This happened because they were fighting a group that presents itself as the victims of Batman, and Steph finally agreed with them that Batman and vigilantes are a bad thing (ooc of Steph imo. That's the girl that got killed because she refused to stop being a vigilante).

~ The Outsiders (2003) - Dick just learned that the company that was financially supporting the team (bought the bunker they live in, pays their salaries because they have salaries, buys their equipment, without expecting anything in return) is owned by WE and so by Bruce. Mind you, he was approached to be part of the Outsiders by Roy who already had the support of this company to back them up, like Bruce didn't sneak in behind, Dick joined a team paid by Bruce without doing research on who was paying them. But instead, Dick yells at Bruce that he is a controlling asshole for using his money to support young heroes. There is also the fact that Roy admitted to receive informations from Batman, but in reality it's Deathstroke disguised as Batman, so Bruce is innocent. Anyway, I included Alfred asking them to not hit each others, because people have use it to be like "Bruce hits Dick!" when Dick is the one yelling and being ableist and rude, and the one to jump to violence when Bruce doesn't yell back. For Dick, Bruce not yelling back, aka him being mature and controlling his emotions, means Bruce doesn't have emotion (a stupid belief some other characters also have, like Oliver Queen)

I do not have the panel either, but I'm going to mention New Teen Titans, when Dick confronts Bruce about Jason's death. Bruce hits Dick, sure, but it's because Dick just blamed Bruce for Jason's death. This is deeply rude and disrespectful, so for the time period, Bruce's reaction is ok (my parents were slapped for way less, and Dick is being HELLA disrespectful to his father). Bruce is also grieving deeply, not sleeping much and fueled by a desire for vengeance. Also, like always, Bruce did tell Dick he did not want to fight, but Dick disregarded it and went into Bruce's face to get the reaction he wanted.

There is also this panel right here from Batman: The Court of Owl with Dick being a dick to Bruce.

~ Gotham Knights - While we are talking of blaming Bruce for Jason's death, here we have a flashback with Barbara doing just that at the boy's funeral. Before that, when she was still Batgirl, Bruce asked her to go on a mission with Jason because they had issues, and he wanted her opinion on how Jason was doing. She reported that he is emotional because he is a teenager. Then she commented on Bruce failing to catch the Joker, and upon Bruce feeling that it would be ok because the clown is obsessed with him and hurting him, she made a comment about how he could hurt the people around him (like Bruce doesn't know that). Anyway, she is blaming Bruce for the obsession Joker has toward him, which led to Jason's death, at the boy's funeral. In the present, she doesn't feel this way at all anymore, but still, she did it.

~ Bruce Wayne: Murderer?/Fugitive - Well, Bruce's bad mental health episode is over, and he is self-deprecating, and instead of being understanding and showing support, Barbara agrees that he is a difficult person to know, Dick and Tim not having a problem with that. (Tim being a child, I let it pass) I hate it so much, that's just ableist af to me: yeah, let's tell our mental ill friend/father figure that he is a hard person to know and love, that his illnesses made it difficult for US, like living with these illnesses isn't more difficult. Let's center our feeling over his, the person who is suffering from mental illnesses. Cass not being in the panel matters to me, because she was supporting of Bruce during this arc, not forcing herself unto him or going against him, but telling him and showing him that she was there, in his corner, and if he needed help, he could come to her (and girl was fighting Shiva! She was busy af)

~ Detective Comics (2016) - This one is complicated, because it's not really a fight, but I hate it soooo much and I have been wanting to make a post about this fucking bs. So, the context: the batfam, and especially Cass, have been working with Clayface and rehabilitating him. Following her father's advices (a man working for the US gov and who tried to kill Batman, knowing it was his nephew, and they believed had successfully killed Tim until recently, and she knew all of that), Kate kills Clayface in front of Cass, when the man loses control. Cass tore a new one in Kate, but the young woman is now deeply depressed, as SHE BELIEVES THE BATFAM WOULD KILL HER TOO IF SHE LOSES CONTROL because, like Clayface, she has a bad past. Cass sees herself as a murderer and a monster, and Bruce believing in rehabilitation and second chances is how she stays alive, it matters deeply to her. Seeing how much this hurt Cass, Bruce calls the batkids to discuss what they will do with Kate, and here starts this bs. The kids, as you can see (Damian doesn't count, he barely speaks), have the fucking audacity to tell Bruce that he is only mad because his pride was hurt, because someone didn't follow his order, and that he cannot chose who can or cannot wear HIS symbol, because she's an adult. I would have been here, I would have lost it on them. The bat symbol is BRUCE'S, it represents his mission, his hope. When he and Cass first hugged in Batgirl (2000) (different timeline, but still) and he asked her what she was loyal to, she told him that she was not loyal to David, or to Bruce, but to the symbol. Because the symbol means something, and Cass gets it, and it's why she tore it off Kate's chest after she killed Clayface. No, they do not have the right to choose if they can or cannot wear Bruce's symbol, it's his. But also, it has a meaning, and that meaning matters more than their feelings. "Because it hurts your pride" shut the fuck up, omg. And using Bruce's mother against him too, why not!

Can only put 10 pictures, so I'm keeping Jason's many instances of hurting Bruce for a reblog, because he is the champion among the batkids, even tho he learned to be entitled about Bruce's reactions and emotions from his older brother.

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Before I talk about Jason, I have another moment I forgot about.

~ Batman (2016) - The situation here is special, in the sense that the kids are hurting Bruce, but it's mostly Alfred's fault. Bane is controlling Gotham in the shadow, and he revealed himself and his ally, Flashpoint Batman aka Thomas Wayne, to Bruce at the manor. Bruce immediately called for help from the whole Batfam, with a special "code red" signal (Steph ignored it because she is against vigilantism rn, Jason told the fam to tell Bruce to go fuck himself, and Dick is amnesic). However, they don't find Bane, and Alfred, who is currently forced to serve Bane, LIES TO THEM AND TELL THEM THAT BRUCE IS HAVING AN EPISODE. Alfred utilizes Bruce's mental health's history to turn his kids "against" him. So, the kids are being lied to, but it doesn't change that they are hurting Bruce by treating him as if he is "insane". Btw, because this is Tom King, Bruce hits Tim after that.

Anyway Jason! I have some things to say about Jason!

An interesting thing about Jason is that, sometimes, the way he hurts Bruce is very similar to how Joker has hurt Bruce, and I wished the comics exploited that parallel. I think the animated movie A Death in the Family did in one of its storylines, with the Joker telling Jason that he is his and Batman's son, but I have never seen the movie, only clips on youtube, so don't quote me on that.

Another thing with Jason is that anytime he does crime, anytime he kills or hurt someone or Gotham, he hurts Bruce. This is something he is conscious of, he chooses to use guns to hurt Bruce, he chooses to become a crime lord to hurt Bruce, because he told himself, when he backed down from blowing up the batmobile to kill Bruce, that he couldn't simply kill Bruce, he needed to hurt him. This is told to us in both Under The Red Hood and Lost Days.

~ Batman: Hush - When people talks about Hush, they mostly talk about Jason hurting Tim, but Jason isn't hurting Tim to get at the boy, he is hurting Tim to hurt Bruce. He doesn't give a fuck about Tim there, it's only about Bruce. (Just like Joker) He is threatening to kill Tim because it would hurt Bruce. This is well shown by how Jason only looks at Bruce during the whole thing, not at Tim or even at Selina who uses it to attack to free Tim. And Tim may have a father back home, but Bruce is literally called his dad too earlier in the comic, so Jason is threatening to kill his son to punish Bruce for "failing" him. I also included the fight after because Bruce doesn't fight back with his full strength, as Jason points out and screams at Bruce to fight him (just like Dick does) while Jason is not holding back. We saw before that Bruce holds back when his kids fight him, staying on the defense and not attacking, and here, Bruce has to convince himself that it is not really Jason to fight back. We don't know when Clayface and Jason switched place in that fight, but I don’t believe Jason did not give Clayface directives on what to say and do to Bruce, so even if it's Calyface, it is still Jason hurting Bruce. Also, the "one punch" Jason is talking about wasn't a punch, Bruce tackled him when Selina freed Tim to create distance between the two of them.

~ Green Arrow: Seeing Red - Like I said, Jason likes to hurt Bruce indirectly. He knows that his actions, even if they don't target Bruce, will hurt his father and he's all for it. Here, Bruce tells us and Oliver that Jason is hurting Oliver and Mia, and making them go through a mirror to what Bruce and him went through in Ethiopia, because he is punishing Bruce for stopping Jason from smuggling weapons into Gotham. But also, and this one is important, for "bringing others in their conflict", which is a thing Joker has done many times, even saying these words, with "our game" instead of "conflict". Again, Jason is hurting other people to hurt Bruce, and he doesn't actually care about who he is hurting, just that it hurts Bruce. He picked great victims here because Oliver, after being told that Jason is doing that hurt Bruce, verbally abuses Bruce and paints him as a monster to be close to, that his existence is only bringing suffering to others.

~ Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) - This is the start of the comic, btw. Jason and Bruce are working on a case together, and Jason discovered that the mayor is being mind-controlled, and he has this gun that can stop it. However, he doesn't tell that to Bruce, and just shows up pointing a gun at the mayor. Bruce tries to stop him, Jason kicks his ass and goes to the mayor. And so Bruce is on the ground, utilizing all his forces to beg his son to not shot a man. Later, they fight about this lack of communication, but to me, it's clear that Jason did not care about how it would hurt Bruce to see Jason shoot someone again, when this is very close to his trauma (and Jason started using guns because he knows about that trauma).

I stopped reading RHatO (2016) very early on, so don't take my word for it, but Bruce and Jason fight again later, and you probably have seen around that panel of Bruce hitting Jason while Jason claims that Bruce never hit the Joker that hard (that some people use as proof that Bruce hit Jason harder than the Joker 🙄). Well, the thing is that Bruce is reacting to Jason pointing his gun at and shooting Bruce, which is attempted murder normally. Bruce is portrayed as more violent because they want you to side with Jason, even tho Jason is wrong.

~ Batman: Three Jokers - Context is that there are three Jokers, and Bruce and Barbara are trying to determine who is the original one or if there always have been three Jokers. Jason is just whining that Bruce didn't kill the Joker and is against Jason killing the Joker. Finally, Jason kills one of them and Barbara fights with him. Jason then decides to go after the other Jokers but it was a trap, and they undressed him and hit him to get to Bruce, to remind Bruce of the time Joker took Jason from him. Bruce and Barbara runs to the rescue, Bruce terrified that he will be too late to save Jason again. Upon being saved, Jason's reaction is to immediately blame Bruce for everything, not the Joker(s) or himself for his own actions, but Bruce, and to reject him. Later on, Jason is still complaining about the same shit, and Bruce cracks, as shown here, telling Jason that he has dreamed many times of killing the Joker for hurting them. But Jason is like "but you didn't, so you don't care", then he yaps about how Bruce isn't arresting him for the murder of one of the Jokers (Jason, you have killed more than 80 people canonically. That's the number given in RHatO (2011)) not because Bruce cannot throw him in jail, but because he would reveal their secret identities. This comic showcases that three Jokers could be interesting, especially if each behaves like a Joker from a specific time period, but three Jasons would be unsufferable. And after whining so much, he turns to Barbara to be like "If you are willing to date me, I will change", like wtf is this? Bruce and Barbara's own trauma with the Joker is minimized and erased so much in this comic, just to put Jason on a pedestal, and it's frustrating. (If I remember well, Bruce's failed marriage with Selina was before that, and during that arc, Joker killed a newlywed couple as a message that Batman belongs to him and he would kill anyone who dares put themselves between them. The impact of Joker's obsession with Bruce on Bruce is so underexplored by DC.) Barbara is very much only a love interest for Jason too.

It may sounds like I hate Jason, and I really don't. I just think the narrative keeps babying nowadays and refuses to make him confront the bs he has done and does or says. And I can only handle a pity party for so long, especially while you are being a dick to everyone around. Like, sometimes he is so annoying I'm wondering who keeps inviting him, because it's always the same thing and they must be TIRED.

#bruce wayne #batman #jason todd #batfam #red hood #red hood critical #dc comics #my ramblings #Damian going “who the fuck invited him” anytime Jason shows up is deserved because who keeps inviting him?#Bruce probably

waynekhan

Batman whenever he encounters a reformed criminal: Hey, do you want to work for this friend of mine, Bruce Wayne? I heard he's hiring and you seem like the perfect guy for the job!

Jokes aside, it must be so rewarding for Bruce to see former henchmen he gave a second chance truly striving to redeem themselves and trying to provide for their families honestly, of course he will do what he can to help

Detective Comics (1937) #579

#the girl mentionnong getting whipped really show how normal abuse used to be because no one reacts #but also kind of show that Bruce is really an excellent father for the time period because he doesn’t use physical punishment #or at least really rarely does he spank Robin or slap him #anyway Bruce caring about people having second chances #bruce wayne #batman #dc comics

waynekhan

Batman's cape has steel weights at the extremities

Batman (1940) #469

#the cape is everything a blanket a protective gear a weapon #bruce wayne #batman #dc comics

butchinelli

rereading war games again with my fist clenched at my side seething in anger the entire time . they could have been something. do u hear me. the girl wonder. they could have been something amazing im airing everybody out

#she is described as bringing light in Bruce's life just like Dick has and that's all I will say #they ruined it because they knew she was going to be better than Tim #someone tagged them “doomed dynamic duo” and that's so right #stephanie brown #robin #batman #bruce wayne #batfam #dc comics