#brucewayneisbatman

[redrabbitspod]

Uuh, stay safe you guys?

Andrew’s update says they’ve called the National Guard in and he thinks they’ll get on with the certification once they clear out the chambers. Hopefully, anyway. We’re far away from it and I know there are protests happening around the country, but none where we are as of right now.  -N

[bramlouisgreenfeld]

One thing that kinda bothered me in aftg is how the hell wasn't andrew adopted when he was a baby. I mean, he was a white, blond, light eyed baby boy. That's like everything people want when they are adopting. When he got older its understandable, but during those first couple of years? I know it's probs for plot reasons, but it still bugs me ya kno.

i totally get you!! but good news: from what i remember, he was fostered a bunch of times - the foxhole court wiki says he was in 12 foster homes by the time he was 13. so i assume that meant he had no trouble getting fostered when we was younger it just… didn’t work out. (he says he doesn’t remember any of them as good, so… rip. my poor baby boy.)

[redrabbitspod]

Okay i did google it before asking, but did mot quite get it (brazilian here, sorry), what would the 25th accomplish in this case?

It’s broad, but there’s an article that would allow for the VP to take the presidency if the sitting president is proved unstable and unable to perform their duties. -A

[redrabbitspod]

Just let me say: Jeni terrified me enough as Andrew that I sent most of my asks as anon, even though i pretty much NEVER use anon. She's just that intimidating and I LOVE IT OK?

I am so glad to hear this 😂 Back in the first season when Andrew was perpetually grumpy, I had more than one person DM me to ask if I was really mad at everyone lolololol. I was not, but Andrew was.

[redrabbitspod]

I see Andrew's toes barely reaching the floor even with the big ass boots and I gotta say. Mood. Short people unite.

I think it's weird when people can sit all the way back in a chair and have their feet flat on the floor. You just live your life like that? It's why I can't sit in a chair correctly. I always have to put my feet up.

Also, I'm gay. -A

[redrabbitspod]

Andrew, I thought about another short person thing you will probably identify with. Car seats. Car seats and the need to pull them as close to the steering wheel as they will go. And people mocking you for it when they drive your car after you did. Either that or saying how great it is to seat right behind you because there is so much room.

This is not as bad as driving manual and having to not only have the seat all the way up, but then sitting on the edge of it in order to push the clutch all the way in. -A

[redrabbitspod]

I don't know if defenestrating country leaders will start a war, but hell, am I willing to take the risk. Ps: I'm brazilian. Fuck bozonaro.

Fuck him, indeed. Hoping for a turn around and the safety of the indigenous people of Brazil. -A

[bramlouisgreenfeld]

I guess i just don't really understand how adopting works in the us. I was just thinking that when he was really little, all wide eyed and stuff, before he became jaded and bad behaved, he would end up being adopted, instead of bounced between foster homes like he was...

ok now i’ve officially Looked Into Adoption (my search history is now definitely going to tell a story) BUT here’s a couple of pages i looked at in my brief research - x, x. the second one is a british charity but both sites seemed to cover domestic and international adopting so i’m kind of assuming they’re more general than specific… also as a disclaimer, this is super cursory research and the below is only gonna be my guesses. if anyone has actual knowledge of adoption and fostering in the us, please weigh in ahah

from what i can tell, adoption is no longer hugely common for young children, and andrew would have been adopted from birth, more or less. also if tilda went back for aaron it wouldn’t have been a stretch to guess she might want to come back for andrew, so the carers may have thought fostering was the best option.

additionally, adoption is a long long long process, and often starts before the baby is even born - but obviously tilda didn’t put the twins up until after they were born, thus limiting some opportunity for that. and following thatx it may have made more sense to just try to get him into a home rather than aim for adoption?

andddd the least cheerful one, adoption costs money. fostering earns you money. and given we already know andrew’s foster parents were shitty… well. that’d be a motivation for sure.

and of course, i know you mention the early on thing and i totally get you, but later on when he’d been labelled a problem child, people would have understandably been very hesitant to adopt. poor child.