#whyj

[ittybittytatertot]

[bandydear]

I hope Zatanna and Raquel finally kiss this season.

[dyketectivecomics]

thoughts on the Young Justice cartoon?

Thanks! I hate it!

[neopuff]

I love that dcshg gives each heroine a distinct and vibrant personality! to get kind of negative, it's much better show in that regard than yj, where I can probably describe more of what happens to a character than their actual character traits.

i agree!!! its a lot of fun and fits well into the magical girl genre that theyre going for. i love the combo of superheroes and magical girls

and lol well. youre not wrong

[dykerachelsummers]

(1/2) another reason i dislike sp//tfire is the fact linda was erased. and i completely understand there’d be no way anywhere in the show to include her since wally died so young and all that, but sp//tfire fans take lindas children and just give them to artemis as if linda (and artemis) only exist to give wally children. (and the implication that linda, a korean woman, and artemis, a vietnamese woman, are interchangeable is also. gross). i’ve seen fics that even try to have

(2/2) linda and artemis coexist and linda is just wally’s close friend and never anything more. it’s just a mess

i fucking love linda park with like. the entirety of my lil gay heart. and wallinda is such a good ship??? like i love them?????? and this is such bullshit, you’re right

also you’re right, the racism present in making linda and artemis out to be the same character is nasty. also, it treats both linda and artemis as if they’re only purpose is to have babies for wally which like. do i need to explain why that’s sexist?

[lacependragon]

I'm so glad to see someone calling out this latest Young Justice episodes bullshit. I've seen no one talking about it critically and every I know talks about how great it is that they confirmed Harper as Bi but like?????? They literally did so by having her cheat? Which is one of the biggest biphobic stereotypes out there. I'm so goddam upset about this episode and people are just worshiping the season still.

I’ve seen some critiques of the episode, quite a few when it first came out, but definitely not… as many as I was hoping.

Especially for the season as a whole.

Here’s the thing: Harper and Violet kissing was a huge, huge biphobic stereotype and a massive slap in the face for lgbt/queer fans. Its just. So god damn bad. Violet and Harper are both cheating, both of them are obviously struggling with things, and we’re supposed to celebrate?

I’m incredibly upset about this episode, more than I can put words to, but it’s the last nail in a coffin full of them.

So, let’s take a list of what pisses me off about Season 3 of Young Justice:

Hey let’s start with fucking Nightwing, shall we? A gun! With bullets! Rubber ones, but still. He pulled a GUN on TEENAGERS for TRAINING. Boy ain’t Nightwing, anymore. Boy ain’t even a Bat.

How about the complete lack of character focus? Who are these new characters? What is up with the old ones? Uugh.

THE BABIES. WHY ARE THERE SO MANY.

“I feel out of place, being the only dad,” says Will, and immediately IMMEDIATELY gets called out by the women. That ain’t feminism. That’s standing with stereotypes about fathers. Of course he’s out of place, he’s the only Dad! So help him! Support him! He’s a single father and none of these mothers are supporting him! FUCK THAT!!!

Hey how about that shitty non-binary representation. Forager’s people have really complex gender and he didn’t get to pick his pronouns or discuss his gender at all. I headcanon he’s a demi boy, because it feels right to me, but the show didn’t try. And Violet? Just… god, man. Violet got so much hype from me and then they just. Threw it away. Constant references to them being a woman/girl - primarily to sexualize them - and no arguments against it.

“I’m not Muslim” -immediately drinks-. No, no no no. You don’t get to wear a hijab, talk about it feeling “right”, and then fuck off with all that.

Hey how about that bullshit “are they/are they not” Ed/Bart? Especially with last week’s episode and Ed’s seeming annoyance over Bart’s hug with Virgil.

Hey how come Bart wasn’t upset about the funeral. How come he comforted Virgil. How come.

Cyborg is being handled badly.

The meta human plot is being handled badly.

The weird Wendy/Ed vibes are totally inappropriate and for a show that bad Dinah call out when M’gann/Connor were fucking around with that as a role play, they should know that.

WHY ARE THEY OUTSIDERS. THEY ARE TITANS.

WHY.

I just. I hate this season. So much. The biphobia, the queerbaiting, the bad character designs (Jaime, Connor, M’gann’s freckles are awful; the lack of characterization, the lack of development, everything). I adore Supermartian and I am so glad that it got more focus this season, but that’s about the only thing I like about it.

And season 4 makes me fear we’re gonna jump another couple years in the future and destroy what little is left of the show that I enjoy.

I’m so done, man. I’m so done with all this.

[cakeandpi]

GW: The same is true in terms of both her gender identity and orientation. ... [F]rom Halo's point of view, she isn't sure that she's either a girl or a boy, though clearly, she's in a cis-gendered female body. (source)

Excuse me?! Greg we need to have a little fucking chat over this.

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