The moment I realized that I didn't have a problem with the way a female character was written but with the way people chose to take it was life-changing. The first time I saw this was with Katara from ATLA and I noticed that a lot of people were lwk hating on her, like "OK Katara's soo boring' 'Oh she's just such a snob' 'oh I hate her because she's got weird anger issues'. I mean what? Like a lot of it was objectively true my problem is that when a male character is serious he's just seen as responsible and they see it in a positive light but when it's a girl it's horrible and she has a stick up her ass. And same thing when they make a mistake with a dude they're like 'oh but he has TrAuMa so it's different' but even if the girl does too it's 'oh I just hate her character, she's too much'.
This is just a small one of the many inherently sexist things I have a problem with.
comment if u want to talk abt it or if u have more examples!
hear me out. Batman is Gotham's justice and he's their knight a whatever but the real souls of Gotham are his kids/pseudo kids. Those kids are Gotham's royalty their court if you will.
Dick is Gotham's sense of revenge and it's ability to simultaneously foster a strong ass community and take care of it's own and then to have no mercy on anyone. Dick didn't come from Gotham and he wasn't born with Gotham blood but he saw the blood spilled in Gotham first hand and was welcomed into the city as if he'd always been there. He left but Gotham never left him.
At first Jason was Gotham's kindness and hope. The way a bodega owner would give a homeless man a break once because 'Jerry is a good person'. But after he dies he becomes Gotham's righteous fury, it's violence and just as there is a spark of anger in any kind person there is still a bit of that kindness and hope it's just buried under scar tissue.
Tim is Gotham's intelligence. In Gotham you don't survive if you're stupid. Street smarts or book smarts every gothamite is going to have at least a bit of substance. He is in the way he found out who Batman is by himself and took it in stride because gothamites don't snitch. He's the way a Gothamite will clock in an instant if someone has a gun and they're about to do something stupid. He's the way every Gotham resident knows where the exits are and how likely they are to escape if there's a robbery.
Stephanie is Gotham's laughter. In the same way traumatized people always seem to be the funniest. Stephanie has always been in Gotham she saw all of it in some manner or another and she still laughs. All of the bullshit she's gone through and she still smiles and that is gotham.
Damian is Gotham's pride. The way they all have a sick sort of pride in their city. He wasn't raised in Gotham but he inherited it and he saw it and was proud of it's grit and darkness and the way people there seem to survive like roaches.
Barbara is Gotham's truth. The way residents of the city always seem blunt and to the point. The way they don't sugarcoat much. The see's it and she's rarely afraid to say it. She grew up the daughter of a policeman so she saw crime and almost became desensitized to it.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
My fic first chap is up should be posting bi-weekly if everything works out
So with approximately 72 hours notice Damian found himself halfway across the world, on a random rooftop in Gotham City with his mother beside him. Staring at a man across from them, dressed in full vigilante attire. Finally. Finally, Damian is able to set eyes on a man he’d only seen pictures of. But as he stood overwhelmed in front of his father, all he could bring himself to do was scoff.
Or
Reverse Batkids AU featuring well adjusted Damian!
“Girls want a Superman, but they walk past a Clark Kent every day”
You fuckin CLOWNS think you’re a CLARK KENT? Not on my fuckin watch. You dumb, headass motherfuckers are barely a Guy Gardner and you think you’re a CLARK KENT? The amount of disrespect is unreal.
Listen here, wannabes: My boi Clark is 240 lbs of PURE KANSAS BEEF trained from a young age by Ma Kent to Love and Respect women as the Intelligent, Independent beings they are. He is shy rambling about tractors and casually moving the copy machine when my pen falls behind it and he would NEVER demand I be sexually or romantically interested just because he’s nice.
I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”
A/N: To anyone reading this as I post it, sorry for not posting for a while. To EVERYONE reading. HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!!!! 🌈🌈🌈 Also the dog is Kosmo and if you've never seen a Pyrenees and Husky mix search it up 100/10 cuteness. Also TW for homophobia towards the end some slurs but all are bleeped out like for example I would write fuck as f***
For Keith and as a stunt double everything had started out slowly for the first couple of weeks. But once that third week hit, damn. This movie is sure as hell living up to 'action movie'. Keith is loving the job so far.
(He will take the fact that he damn near passed out when meeting Takashi Shirogane to the grave)
The one and only problem was Lance. Keith seriously can't distance himself from the guy in any sense. He works pretty closely with Lance since (of course) the guy does his own stunts. But the real kicker is; no matter how much Keith tries (And he does) he is undeniably attracted to the obnoxious actor.
So, over the last month it seems that Lance has gone out of his way to irritate him. He refuses to call him anything but mullet and samurai because the character he's stunt doubling for uses a sword. He always tries to one up Keith during shoots. And to be honest the worst part is that Keith is developing a crush on the bastard.
It's quite frustrating that no matter how annoying he finds Lance most times he still finds himself chuckling at even the cheesiest jokes. But at the very least he is highly entertained by the stunt competition they have going. Lance genuinely surprised him by being truly good at stunts. Unluckily for Lance, Keith had been doing stunts since he was 3 in his Moms living room.
Anyways this past month has been a bit of a whirlwind with work and Keith trying to get a dog and everything. Everything has pretty much worked out so far though. With the very disappointing exception of breaking into acting. Nobody has hired him yet.
Keith sighed as he rolled out of bed at the ass crack of dawn. Morning Keith is untrustworthy, Morning Keith would sell his soul for coffee or ten more minutes of sleep. He chugged a cup of coffee and just like that he was a good person again. He's still thinking about just huddling back under his covers though.
Keith let's out a soul withering deep sigh. It should be a war crime to ask anybody to be up before 7 A.M and that's being generous. But at the end of the day Keith loves his job. However, he does have a huge ass bruise on his tailbone and honestly he could do without that.
Keith slides on his favorite pear of fingerless gloves. The comfortable softness of the worn leather always calms him down. He gets on his motorcycle and promptly takes of down the freeway. Something about the adrenaline and wind in his hair make riding his motorcycle one of his favorite things to do.
As Keith slinks off of his motorcycle he rolls his eyes at the inexplicable flutter in his chest at the thought of seeing Lance again. The day seems to go by in a flurry of colors, noise and bruises. Just like that he's at home getting ready to finally go to the shelter and pick up the Pyrenees and Husky mix that he's been trying to get for two weeks. It was bought at top dollar to a family that probably had no idea how to care for a dog.
The poor dog was thrown in the shelter soon after. The dog was trying to play with one of the kids and the parents saw the kid being knocked over. The parents then pretty much locked the dog in their garage with little food and water thus making the dog distrustful towards humans. Keith had gone to the shelter and pretty much fallen in love with the dog.
After a couple weeks of paperwork and frivolous meetings he finally got to take the dog home. He hadn't ever put much thought into the dogs name. He supposed he didn't need a name yet. He has to take him to the vet today and he'll have to leave him their for a while due to the necessity of grooming and such.
Keith plans on going to see the pride parade while his new dog is at the vet. He can't take his motorcycle because he's taking his dog to the vet the heading to the parade. He throws on a T-shirt that says 'Born this Gay' in white lettering on an all black base. He gently coaxes the dog into his vehicle.
He gets the dog signed in and ready and then gets going. He obviously has to play Chappell Roan on the way to the parade. He parks a ways away from the road where the parade will be and heads to check out the vendors. He buys a snow cone because he's weak and it's hot out.
Keith is content to look around until the parade starts at 6 PM (18:00 for non Americans). He stops and watches the drag show for a while. (He tipped his favorite drag Queen 15$) He's having a great time until he's stopped by a bunch of people wearing 'make America great again' hats. They stop in front of him.
He tried just walking away but they surrounded him. They were yelling a bunch of slurs at him and a group of people they had cornered. "You bunch of F******" one yelled.
They continue yelling about their homophobic ideals until a police officer who is working the parade comes over. The group disperse in light of the officer. Keith is about to walk back to the area where most of the vendors are set up when he spots Lance. He's pale with tear stains on his cheeks, Lance is sat over to the side of where the group of MAGA's were yelling.
Lance is mostly hidden from view as to avoid being recognized. He looks like he's about to be sick. Keith walks over and sits next to him. He holds out a hand, silently offering support.
this is just something that I felt was very tumblr. OK so I have this friend, she's great but my first impression of her was when we were in kindergarten and she was wearing all black she's pretty pale and she has messy black hair. She was digging in the woodchips on the playground and just turned her head slowly at me and my little kindergarten brain went holy shit! A cryptid. And I was just terrified of her for like 2 years. She's very proud that kindergarten me was afraid of her by the way.
Lance isn’t sure when everything in his life decided that it was going to collapse, but like, fuck this. He hasn’t talked to his girlfriend in about a week then he sees a post of her straddling some other guy on a beach in California. His Mamí, hell his entire family is pissed at him because he hasn’t visited them in Cuba since Christmas and it’s fucking April. He’s pretty sure he’s just pissed off that really hot stunt double because he made fun of him, like what an asshole move!
He kinda wants to scream or cry and he can hear everything, his girlfriend breathing on the other side of the phone, the footsteps of all of the employees and he needs everything to stop. He can’t even think, but he also can’t move so he’s just standing there listening to his soon-to-be ex scream at him. His, now, ex finally hangs up on him and he still can’t think clearly it’s like he’s been dunked under ice water. He stumbles into his trailer, numb to the world.
He doesn’t know how long he’s been scrolling, and even though he hates himself for it, he can’t convince himself to get up. He’s arguing with himself about getting up, he needs to study his lines, but if he’s going to do that then he needs to find the script and if he’s going to find his script then he needs to clean his trailer and he just can’t do all of that right now. Allura is going to so pissed. He sat there for a while he really doesn’t know how long until Allura comes in to get him. “Lonce” She says in that posh accent that he can never place. “I told you that you needed a haircut for the movie”
She had, in fact, told him that he would be needing a haircut for the movie he was only half listening though. Damn it why is everything so loud right now? Lance walked over to the set up they had for his and a few other people's haircuts. He feels numb but hypersensitive at the same time. He sits down next to the pretty stunt double named Keith.
"What haircut am I getting?" he asks only having just realized he doesn't know.
"Really just a trim on the sides I believe." Allura says absently.
He sits for a while and Lance really doesn't mind the way it turns out, he feels, lighter. Which is ridiculous because he didn't even shed much hair but it's nice.
Lance feels his phone vibrate in his pocket and take it out. His sister texted him telling him to check social media. He opens Instagram and searches his name to find a post saying renowned actor Lance McClain's girlfriend outs him across social media. He clicks on the video and sees Nyma, his newly broken up with ex saying "Lance is not straight or as perfect as people think, he is bisexual and straight up dirty." She rants in the video "I may have cheated on him but I assure you he more than deserves it for being a bisexual piece of filth."
Lance doesn't know how to feel, he just came out to her and his family and he wasn't out to the public yet. That homophobic bitch had almost immediately left for California after he came out. He should have known. He doesn't feel comfortable now that the media will surely be honed in on his love life.
"Shit!" He yells. Why did this bullshit have to happen right before he starts working on a movie? If this gets enough bad media he could get fired!
"Allura!" Lance calls, "you have to see this!" She'd have found out eventually he tells himself as she walks over to him.
"What is it Lonce?" She asks as she walks over to him. Lance stays quiet and just shows her his phone.
"Oh my!" She gasps, "That... That" she struggles for the correct wording.
"Allura just say bitch." Lance says drily.
"That Bitch!" Allura, somehow, elegantly exclaims. "I loathe to use profanity but in this situation it's more than called for."
Lance can't help but chuckle despite the shitty situation. Allura hates cussing yet, every rare time that she does she manages to make it sound as if she had said some fancy word like 'exquisite'. Allura has the sort of effortless regality that makes you feel like a hobo no matter who you are. Lance knows he's no slouch as far as looks or poise go but Allura is a league of her own.
" Allura" Lance says, "Is this going to get me fired?"
Allura pauses, "I do not believe so, if anything this might be good press for you."
Then Lance comes to a realization, Pidge! That weird ass genius will be his salvation. But that also means risking their wrath. Pidge is one of his best friends and his agent but he really didn't want Pidge to threaten his ex, a very real very possible outcome.
'Time to risk it all' Lance thinks pulling out his phone to call Pidge. They answer "This better not be over something stupid Lance." Pidge answers the phone in that, somehow, terrifying monotone voice they mastered.
Lance takes a deep breath "Go to any social media platform and search up Lance McClain." He says quickly
Pidge would usually respond with some version of 'are you being vain, Lance?' But they must here the shake in Lances voice because the next time Pidge speaks it's through a gasp, "Lance, no are you OK?" Pidge says uncharacteristically serious.
"I'm fine, but tell me we can do something about all the attention on me particularly my love life." Lance says shoving down all of the ugly emotions trying to bubble up.
Pidge sees through his lie but chooses not to comment. "You can post something saying you're proud of who you are and come out officially to the public maybe call out Nyma." They say, "But, I don't think you'll have much privacy until the media moves on to another story"
Lance sighs, "At least most people are on my side." He admonishes.
Lance makes the post 'I saw what my ex posted and it's true I'm bisexual and I'm not ashamed of it, if people don't like that then they should look at themselves.' He smiles when it immediately gets a surplus of likes and comments.
Fame and Fortune(are nothing compared to you) Chapter 1
Credits to the wonderful p1nbackedpunk who edited this for me!
Keith just got a job on a movie called The Countdown and honestly, he has no idea what it's about, but money is money. As he walks onto the set, the first thing he notices is that 'holy shit this is going to be cool', because renowned action movie director Takashi Shiro is directing this movie. As he looks around, he can't help but wonder what it would be like if he was an actor instead of a stunt double. Then a loud crash sounds behind him. Keith whips around to see an objectively attractive man. He has bright blue eyes, wavy brown hair, and a smirk that could make knees give out. His legs were lean and muscular, almost lanky, and his shirt stretched across his chest in a way that alluded to the strength of the person underneath.
He didn't know if he had ever seen a man that attractive. What? He does have eyes! "Are you okay?" Keith questions, not sure where he had seen the man before.
"Huh? Oh! Yeah, I'm fine, just a clumsy moment." the man replies.
“I feel like I know you from somewhere." Keith blurts out.
The unfairly pretty man laughs and says, "The name's Lance McClain."
"Like the actor?" Keith asks dumbly, and immediately regrets it, but Lance just chuckles.
"The one and only. And you?" Lance asks, "Or should I just call you Mullet?"
It takes Keith a minute to truly process what Lance just said. Unfortunately for him, Keith's mouth works faster than his brain and he blurts out. "It's not a mullet asshole!"
Lance laughs, "Yeah right Billy Ray Cyrus."
Keith bristles, "Keith. My name is Keith.” He replies as professionally as possible, but Lance just laughs. "I think I'll stick with Mullet.” he says.
Keith thinks he understands why people say never to meet your heroes. While Lance isn't his hero, he sure is let down by his personality. He's just hoping that he doesn't have to interact with him too often. "Please call me by my actual name.” Lance looks at him with a smirk, “Ooh is mullet mad?”
Keith glares at him and screeches, “Yes I’m fucking mad, you’re being a pretentious ass!” Lance seems to chill out a little bit at that.
“Ok I’m sorry. I was just trying to joke around with you.” he apologizes, “I really didn’t mean to offend you man.” Keith pauses. ‘Okay so he’s just trying to…. be friendly?’ He thinks, slightly confused as to how that's supposed to be funny.
He's opened his mouth to say something when Lance says, “What are you here for? You a crew member, producer, or what?”
‘Okay, I can work with this.’ Keith thinks and says, “I’m a stunt double.” Lance's face lights up. “That’s really cool man! I do my own stunts, so I know how difficult it is.” then he smirks, “We’ll have to see who can do the stunts better!”
Keith smiles back, “Hope you like second place Mr. Movie star.”
Lance laughs, “I would hope the same for you, Mullet Man.” he retorts. And with that, Keith leaves to try and find the executive producer Allura. She told him to talk to her so that he could meet the actor who he was stunt doubling for.
A pretty white haired woman walks up to him and says, “Are you Keith Kogane? My name is Allura Queenston, I’m the executive producer for The Countdown.”
“Oh, I was looking for you.” Keith replies.
She motioned for Keith to follow her. “I would like you to meet the actor you will be stunt doubling for.” she looks him up and down, “You look just like him, minus the hair. We will need to get you a haircut, are you okay with that?”
Keith pauses for a second. He's had to get haircuts for jobs before, and it’s always a possibility, so he’s not really surprised. Besides, he needs a haircut anyway. What Lance had called a ‘mullet’ was really just an overgrown mop that he hadn’t had time to cut. “Yeah, that’ll be fine.” he says, “What haircut will I be getting?”
Allura looks at him, “You’ll be getting an undercut.” She answers.
Keith doesn’t know how to feel about that. “Ok, is that it?”
“No, I believe that you will have to dye your hair non-permanently for some scenes towards the end of the movie.”
‘Okay, that’s not too much, I can work with this.’ Keith thinks as he walks with Allura. As he looks around, he notices that Lance is on the phone with somebody, and he looks either pissed off or distraught. No, both. Lance is almost crying, and it looks like the only reason that he isn’t yelling is because whatever's going on is private. He isn’t close enough to hear what Lance is saying, but quite frankly he doesn’t want to know. I mean, Lance is a pretentious ass who thinks that insulting people is funny.
Keith realizes that he's stopped walking to stare at Lance and hurries to catch up to Allura. They arrive at a very posh trailer with a name on the door. It reads: "Steven Yuen". Holy shit, that guy played Kester Kennedy in the movie Voltron. He costarred with Lance, who played Langston Sanchez.
Keith might not be the biggest fan of Lance, but he loved that movie. Allura knocks on the door. Keith hopes this isn’t another Lance situation. Steven walks out and smiles at him. “Hi I’m Steven, you must be Keith. It’s nice to meet you.” Keith felt relieved, maybe this guy will be nice.
“It’s nice to meet you too, I loved you in Voltron.” He says professionally, and feels rather proud of the fact that he didn’t fanboy over Steven.
Steven chuckled. “Thank you! I heard that you’re a very talented stunt double, what’s the biggest movie you’ve worked on?”
Keith thought for a moment. “It would have to be Watch Your Back.”
Steven looked thoroughly impressed. “Wow! That movie had some very hardcore stunts.”
“Thanks, I’m looking forward to working with you on this movie.” Keith said.
Allura walks over. “Keith, it’s time for your haircut, are you ready?”
“You bet Allura!” Keith says, “See you later Steven.” Keith has some mixed feelings on this movie, but overall it doesn’t seem like it will be unbearable. He just really wants to beat Lance McClain at stunts, that asshole needs to be taken down a peg. He swears he will do the absolute best stunts on this entire damn movie. Suck it Lance.
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