words n things

Sideblog for junk I don’t want to spam irl friends with

[starsapphire]

bruce will just yell at you plainly to your face if you piss him off but dick will give you the New and Improved Ultra Concentrated Therapy-Declining Mother's Manipulation Technique (Fast and Flawless Guilt Every Time!)

[starsapphire]

bruce: Robin. You didn't respond to my signal quickly enough and I was forced to attend to the victims, letting the shooter escape. I have a partner for a reason, and you left both myself and those civilians out to dry tonight. This is not acceptable.

dick: one day i'm going to leave and never come back and then you'll all see just how much i do for everyone around here

[hylialeia]

listen it's not that I think epic the musical is a perfect adaption of the odyssey but it was an impressive passion project that knew what it wanted to be and knew what people gravitated to in the original work and it put significant effort into conveying this through its unique medium and tone to the point that hundreds of other people felt compelled to put effort into their own artistic interpretations of that version of the story. and that's really cool! and yes I would be more critical if it was a 100 million dollar project made by a professional because what the fuck do you mean you're a world-famous director and you cut the my name is nobody scene are you goddamn serious

[rafterdarkr]

why are all these modern aus for the Odyssey set in a high school. where's the retelling where Odysseus is just a guy lost in an airport who keeps missing his connecting flights home due to a comical series of delays and disgruntled airline employees

[dickgraysonsptsd]

hot take but people use “eldest daughter syndrome” to describe Dick even tho it isn’t accurate bc they mean “emotional incest” but don’t want to use the language

100000%!!!! this is also why they don't use spousification and why i think parentification (which refers to inappropriate role reversal with an adult, typically a parent or guardian) is so consistently used in this fandom to mean "parenting a younger sibling" (which is a possible element of parentification, but is not the primary one--parentification is far more likely to be used by professionals and in academic writing to refer to a child "parenting their parent" or acting as a surrogate spouse for a parent).

people are uncomfortable with the reality of emotional incest because it has the scary yucky i word. it's easier to make dick's relationship with bruce about the younger bats and create a (largely non-canon, to my understanding, even in rebirth) dynamic where dick is an overburdened parent figure to them rather than to acknowledge that his relationship with bruce is definitionally inappropriate for a parent and child.

this could be somewhat sidestepped by just not centering the father-son element of bruce and dick's relationship to the exclusion of everything else, but dc and the fandom have both put all their eggs in the father-son basket. when that is the only dimension allowed for their relationship it makes the rest of the established canon of their relationship (which is ostensibly all canon!) emotionally incestuous.

i think batman & robin year one (2024) was an effort to combat this by creating a new early days batman and robin history that isn't emotionally incestuous/inappropriate in light of them being only father-son now (and in light of the us's like cultural obsession with "grooming" at the moment--we can't have "batman creeping on robin" as a potential reading or even as something readers can joke about). but b&ry1 portrays bruce as like... basically not caring about dick. so it is actually worse imo. or at least it pisses me off more

[shamebats]

Emos & scene kids got this close to abolishing gender for real. I try not to think about it too much.

[shamebats]

The idea of a popular teenage subculture where girl & boys pretty much all dress the same feels impossible now but for a while it was reality and it was beautiful.

[holybats]

we really got to start teaching people about the difference between something being coded within a text (i.e. queer coding) vs a particular reading of the text (i.e. queer reading)

[boringkate]

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

[douglas-duke-keane]

[heinousier-bitch]

Strong contender for most depressing thing Charlie Brown has ever said

[fishandshesmygills]

the point of fanfiction is to write something so self indulgent that nobody else has thought of it before or cares

[dovesfraith]

This picture means so much to me..

[homoquartz]

if you spoke to lestat or louis about your pain, they would say, "your pain? what about MY pain?" but if you spoke about your pain to armand he would say "let me lobotomize you and you will never feel pain again." he has a solution-based mindset and we could all learn from him.

[willgrahamscock]

Gay people can never just have sex, instead they stop mid-nut AND mid hallucination of a foursome with his therapist, ex co-worker, and his therapist's current patient to have a second, worse hallucination of an eldritch horror stag man that resembles his therapist in the corner of his room, and then bust.

[littlegirlinvisible]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 3.06: Montreal TVLTwT/IWTVTwT Version. +bonus bc op is very tired of seeing terrible takes online:

The Vampire Lestat is now streaming on AMC+. If you have the chance, please support the show by tuning in on the official platforms. Every view counts!

[smokingrozanov]

if Heated Rivalry was about two chefs facing off against each other in a cooking show then season 1 episode 4’s montage song would go My spoon and my pan. Thank you everyone for reading my tumblr post :)

[aeturnum-mendacacium]

To be a true batman fan you must simultaneously believe that batman is a middle aged man loser with mental issues, an eldritch monstrosity who is human in all the long suffering torturous wrong ways, and an cunt-serving diva with a face card so lethal it's a partial reason for inter-galaxy peace.

[prokopetz]

The big reason it gets me when folks act like it's unlikely that the author was considering the esoteric symbolism of the colour of the curtains is that, like, there are people out there who consider the esoteric symbolism of their home decor in real life. They're not even rare – Pinterest is full of them.