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*insert episode 7 reference*

hooray!! pride month!! have some headcanons that are literally completely irrelevant to my au!! they mean absolutely nothing! go and headcanon whatever you want in regards to my au i just wanted to have fun with this!!!

also love you guys! it means so much to me to learn that I’ve been such an inspiration to so many people! lots of love from the big brain ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥

thats-what-sidhe-said

BRUCE: I’ve created jobs by keeping Wayne Enterprises in Gotham. I’ve provided scholarships to every employee of my company and I offer them to others as well. I’ve built orphanages and hospitals, including mental health facilities. I’ve provided jobs to ex-felons right out of prison so they can rebuild their lives. I’ve supported pro-reform political candidates and the few honest cops in Gotham City.

BRUCE: It’s going to take time to reform the system and lift this city out of poverty and corruption, so I think I’ll spend my evenings protecting the people who live here. Tonight, I’m going after the criminals preying on the sex workers struggling to make a living in Crime Alley.

BRUCE: And once I’ve kicked some ass, I’ll offer their victims jobs at Wayne Enterprises so they can get off the streets and have stable, safe, legal employment. I’ll pay for any education or training they might need.

ALFRED: Don’t forget your cape, sir.

brunhiddensmusings

there was an entire episode of the 90s series ‘the forgotten’ where he personally visits a homeless shelter he funds, discovers some homeless people who frequent it have gone missing, then to find out where they went purposefully pretends to be homeless to be beaten up, captured, and taken to where the other homeless guys were being used as slave labor

he legit willingly submits himself to torture and nearly dies trying to help homeless people, at least one person actually died in this situation he willingly entered then when he gets out straight up has Alfred pull the limousine up with job applications for the guys he was locked up with

-that- is how to batman

astalitha

This is reason number two modern cinema doesn’t get Batman.

If you can’t picture your batman as Matches Malone, or getting the ventriloquist into a job at Wayne enterprises, you’re not picturing batman.

(the first test is “Can you picture your batman taking time to comfort a lonely, scared child?”)

whumpbby

Tbh, Batman comforting a scared child should be the last thing we should want to see of that character if we expect him to be well written.

Comforting a child is easy. It’s like petting the dog. It’s the quickest shorthand trope to show the audience “see, he’s not that bad of a guy!” without having to invest anymore time or thought into it. It works for many characters, is great with villains (oh look, Insert Villain saved a little girl, that means they are complex!) but it’s a shortcut. It’s the absolutely lowest bar to cross for a “hero”.

Batman is a dificult character because most of his shtick is punching working class guys and then going home to his mansion, repeating over and over that Gotham is his city and how he is the justice in it, blah blah. It’s a bad look for a character if the writer doesn’t pay attention to the subtext. Especially when some authors (couchZackSnydercough) are more interested in the violent potential of the character than the reasoning they have to put behind it.

So no, we shouldn’t care if Batman comforts a scared child. We shoukd want more of Batman dealing with the consequences of his actions and making a conscious decision to give the people he’s against - the small fries, the mooks and the crooks and the cannon fodder - the benefit of the doubt the big villains get. We should want it to be a staple of his character rather than an off-episode somewhere on the side when the “I am the night” gas runs out.

brunhiddensmusings

a good example of this- in the 04 series ‘the batman’ emphasis on the ‘the’ for some reason, there is an episode where the ventriloquist is released on probation on the stipulation he not have the scarface puppet, and is allowed to be an entertainer for childrens birthday parties with a new friendlier puppet to channel his split personality into

batman 1- shadowed him without interfering just to make sure he was showing signs of improving mental stability 2- during the shadow has a misunderstanding that there would be a criminal regression, so busts in to accidentally traumatize children before realizing his mistake 3- spends a serious amount of time worrying his actions have legitimately jeopardized the rehabilitation of a formerly violent criminal mastermind let that part sink in- this isnt sitting down with a child in pain, which is easy because empathy for a child comes naturally. no, this is worrying about the emotional wellbeing of a criminal because batman believes he could in fact become a good person if given help despite having been punched by this mans henchmen

kitsuneheart

I sent this to my husband, and learned he doesn't know what knotting is.

upsettingandunfortunateclasshate

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

brawlcloud

This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

monkey-cat-vivi

He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

#transphobia #transphobia tw #tw transphobia

animusrox

No one: Tumblr gif makers: *downloads a 70GB video file just to make one gifset of some blorbo that’ll only get 120 notes*

theprimememeister

snapcracklepop-myjoints

i dont CARE that its your special interest bitch whats your SOURCE !!!!!!

snapcracklepop-myjoints

"source: me ! hahaha🥰" NO !!!!!!! SOURCE: First Name Middle Initiall. Last Name, Name of Book, (City: Publisher, year) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

snoopyoftheday

snoopy of the day

interestingmistakes

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

demilypyro

phone somehow autocorrected "the joker" to "the worker." why so devoid of class consciousness, batman

demilypyro

pipermintz-deactivated20260402

I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

eternalfarnham

I like this site. Y’all just shotgunning counterfactual timelines

allthingswhumpyandangsty

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

rosiesdreams-deactivated2023081

“A little heartthrob” The Canadian Goose and Vermilion Flycatcher

what-even-is-thiss

The diversity of problems that different transgender people face kind of boggles the mind, tbh.

Gender and culture and expression of both of those things are so individual and the problems that come with them are also incredibly individual. And people like fight over what problems are worse.

At a certain point I feel like we’re arguing that our cage is worse than our neighbor’s cage because they get to have a potted plant in there or something. Friend, the potted plant has nothing to do with the cage that you’re stuck in.

what-even-is-thiss

Passing, non passing, transfem, transmasc, androgynous, binary, non binary, neogender, fully transitioned, never transition, partially transitioned, stealth, out and proud. So many different situations. So many different problems. We should all be pointing our death lasers at The Man instead of each other though I think. I think that would be a bit more efficient.