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[mysterycitrus]

alright i think im gone again byeeeeeee 😗✌️

[mysterycitrus]

i do think. hmmm like one of the greatest gifts bruce wayne (unintentionally) bequeathed upon his children is the ability to return to grief without drowning. you can run from gotham forever and a day in one direction, out past the harbour north and over the bridge and up through new york and conneticut only to turn and find yourself still tethered to the clocktower, the bay, the park and downtown, with the manor sitting squat on the horizon. you always turn around because it is in your nature to look for that grief, to see if it still follows you (it does) and if it will ever truly leave (it won’t) and if you might one day wish it gone (you can’t). says orpheus: at length i yielded, won by mighty love! so you find the circus and the valley and the hallway of your father’s house and that man’s office and a cave of blood and your mother’s empty smile and rather than swallowing you whole it instead welcomes your return. to gotham, to yourself before the grief, during and after. you turn to see yourself, to see others, to see the dead and dying. here is how you transform loss. here is how something truly terrible can change the world and act to prevent it happening again. here is the meaning of the suit. this is what it means to save a life. so says orpheus: i wish to be able to endure nor shall deny that i tried; love conquers!

[mysterycitrus]

the alternate reading, of course, is bruce wayne doing this

[mysterycitrus]

i do think. hmmm like one of the greatest gifts bruce wayne (unintentionally) bequeathed upon his children is the ability to return to grief without drowning. you can run from gotham forever and a day in one direction, out past the harbour north and over the bridge and up through new york and conneticut only to turn and find yourself still tethered to the clocktower, the bay, the park and downtown, with the manor sitting squat on the horizon. you always turn around because it is in your nature to look for that grief, to see if it still follows you (it does) and if it will ever truly leave (it won’t) and if you might one day wish it gone (you can’t). says orpheus: at length i yielded, won by mighty love! so you find the circus and the valley and the hallway of your father’s house and that man’s office and a cave of blood and your mother’s empty smile and rather than swallowing you whole it instead welcomes your return. to gotham, to yourself before the grief, during and after. you turn to see yourself, to see others, to see the dead and dying. here is how you transform loss. here is how something truly terrible can change the world and act to prevent it happening again. here is the meaning of the suit. this is what it means to save a life. so says orpheus: i wish to be able to endure nor shall deny that i tried; love conquers!

[shartberries]

Hallucibin

[mysterycitrus]

im writing a fic about nightwing #93 in the same series as persephone and can i just say. its fucking killing me. most of the motivation behind writing it was specifically because of its popular use in fandom — specifically, someone outs dicks assault against his will, and then a peanut gallery of witnesses pursue bloody justice on his behalf. it sucks. it’s very very hard to portray this kind of trauma when there is no objective justice to be had. any objective justice dick grayson could ever feasibly want for himself.catalina flores died in bludhaven, as did 100k others. dick can never forgive himself for it. he can never stop performing. he can never leave the spotlight

[mysterycitrus]

thinking about hmmm the immortalisation of dick graysons tragedies in life and death. ‘i know something u don’t know’ because u left us behind. u left him behind. he doesn’t know i know. he’ll run if he finds out. we’re not kids anymore but i want to be. i want to go back to before we learnt how to die. u died and came back but we are still wrong etc etc etc

[ilynpilled]

i love characters who do the “i worship the myth i make of you” and in turn dehumanize and get wrong the object of their devotion and love. yes project a thing that does not exist onto a pedestal and kneel at it like it is your altar. this will surely not blow up in both of your faces eventually

[ilynpilled]

what is so compelling to me is how much of the “hiding your true face from my gaze” was your own obstruction of your vision for the solace and raison d’être the myth provided you with. the element of more so choosing not to look, rather than it being hidden from you, until your eyes are forcefully yanked its direction

[irondive]

this keto shit easy

[ripley-stark]

popular m/f or m/m ship (usually white/light-skinned): man grooms, stalks, coerces, literally beats the shit out of their partner

news, critics, and fans: the popularity of this ship reflects a transgressive counter culture in which women and queer people use fiction as a safe space to explore dark desires 😍. the creators have invented a fascinating, twisted, and thrilling dynamic between these two characters, layered with history and gothic symbolism. a true interrogation of patriarchy

f/f ship, interracial ship: [displays any slightly twisted or unequal elements to their dynamic]

news, critics, and fans: um... idk this is just problematic. the creators really fucked up here. these characters are so unlikable and two-dimensional. women deserve better than this. and anyway, why does every show have to have romance these days? the desire to force romance onto shows reflects the myopia and anti-intellectualism of modern television watching

popular m/m ship: the guys get along really well and are twee, funny, and charming, or their relationship is built on quiet insight and respect

news, critics, and fans: the virality of this show speaks to what women truly want in a relationship: EQUALITY! these characters really work hard to earn their level playing ground, and it's so beautiful to see

f/f ship or interracial ship: [does the same thing]

news, critics, and fans: this is so lacking in imagination, so boring and dull. news flash! i don't want my characters to talk in therapy speak. i want my gay characters fucked up insane and cringe!! i'm so sick of flawless characters that are nothing like real life. these writers need to go outside and touch grass

[remcadll]

The fandom obsession with dick cruelly sentencing his family to Arkham it's so funny like ohhh dick threatened to put tim in arkjam ouhh dick is so evil he threw jason in Arkham with the jokerr meanwhile the only person he was actually letting get tortured in there was Dick Grayson

[mysterycitrus]

HOCKEY ENJOYER AND DC???? BLESS

hockey and despondent crying name a more iconic duo

[bedlund]

i think brady tkachuk belongs in prison. (remembers i dont believe in incarceration as a solution for anything) we should restructure society so that brady tkachuk cannot exist within it

[mysterycitrus]

whats up fellow kids

[emphasisonthehomo]

You ever see someone have such a bad take on the blorbos that you need to go stand outside for a little bit and look out at the beautiful sky and remind yourself that this is fictional?

[stantanly]

u walk into a closet in titans tower and see homotron & gaylord what do u do

[mysterycitrus]

also i haven’t read a mainline dc comic in six months. what’s the goss and who do we hate

[mysterycitrus]

reflecting on that one dc hockey au and rewriting it so bruce is a patrick roy style menace of a goalie who hates everyone and whose children keep abandoning him to play forward….

cass (favourite child) is also a goalie with an all-time scoring record. dick as a centre for the titans with roy and wally as wingers. bruce on the jla team with clark and diana as allstar defencemen. kon plays defence for yj in san francisco with a tim/cassie/bart first line. the gotham gritty equivalent probably killed jason todd. many things to consider here

[fredricwertham]

Every time Bruce got scared he wasn't capable of taking care of Dick as a child he tried to release him into the wild like the kid in Air Bud

[fredricwertham]

Bruce & Dick