I Would Die For Alphonse Elric

[icon is a picrew of a white person with a mushroom head, with other plants growing around it. Header is a sign that says "if life shuts a door, open it again. It's a door. That's how they work"] my name's Charles Catherine, and I'm chaotic neutral at best || 20s || Queer || 🇦🇷 || white || any pronouns || español || English || 中文 || I'm a Heathen and ex-christian, talk about religion might happen here

[thatqueerweirdo]

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[parkchanwoohoo]

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Me, finishing my cocktail: “Man, I should make that post. Really kick the hornet’s nest.”

Pip: “You should. Drinky post time!”

Me: “It’s gonna make people really mad.”

Pip: “Time to hurt some 🎶feeeeeeeliiiiiings🎵~!”

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

They gotta stop aging Robin up I swear to god. He’s like fully an adult man half the time and it fucking sucks. Make him recognizably a child or don’t bother including him at all. “But it makes people uncomfortable” yeah dude! Because it is! You’re never going to make it okay so make it interesting! Make it mean something! Like Robin is fully just a grooming story. I don’t mean sexually but it’s a narrative about a man convincing himself that his relationship with a kid is so special and unique that the normal boundaries between child and adult can be suspended, that the child’s circumstances and capabilities and needs are so extraordinary that they are rendered a kind of un-child, and that the scale of their eagerness and want counts as consent. Robin’s already traumatized, so what is there to lose?

Everyone wants Batman to be morally complicated so they make him a huge douchebag for no reason but flinch away from the actual parts of his character that are really troubling. The “is it wrong to have Robin?” question is always brought up and then neatly solved in a way that absolves Batman. But like. One of Batman’s most consistent character traits is that he’s able to convince himself of anything no matter how stupid.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Batman is a hyper-intelligent, hyper-powerful Sherlock Holmes character piloted by the ghost of a lonely child. He’s a genius who uses his intelligence to justify acting upon the emotional impulses of an 8 year old with horrific trauma and unmet needs. He uses children for his own emotional gratification and convinces himself that, while it might not be right, it’s not wrong enough to stop doing it.

And, well, many such cases!

Honestly I think the cognitive dissonance of like a 9 a year old Robin does so much more to establish Bruce as a psychologically complicated and morally gray character than any amount of the pointless assholery people just keep piling on to his personality.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

TBH I actually think it’s even weirder in stories where the larger DCU and other child heroes exist.

The higher the stakes, the more Batman has to be depicted as The Most Specialist Smartest Boy In The Whole Entire Universe to justify pitting him against intergalactic psychic wizard tigers from beyond time. His importance scales with the stakes. Everyone has to be awed and impressed with him at all times.

Other sidekicks have psychologically fraught relationships with their mentors but somehow Robin and Batman are always weirder. Robin is written like he’s in an abusive cult but because it’s Batman leading it, this is treated like it’s ultimately a good thing.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

Also the “and they all look Just Like Bruce” thing is so under-explored. Even in the more Bruce-critical stories it’s treated like a total coincidence that Batman keeps finding little blue-eyed, black-haired, light-skinned boys that all mysteriously share the same disease for which the only treatment is becoming an extension of Bruce Wayne and a mirror into which he can stare at himself.

Weird that this disease only affects kids who are Bruce’s Type™️ but ummm it’s fine because word of god says it was the best and only viable choice for them.

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[creekfiend]

Y'ALL I ASKED FOR SKIPPY BABY PICS AND 😭😭😭😍🥰🥰🥰

[contourkit-deactivated20160224]

What if everything gets better in 2016

[melonisopod]

[dykemd]

[kosmogrl]

[sagaspell]

I've gotten comments on my writing in the past that I write kids too smart, too aware, too well-spoken, but more and more I realize the cardboard fucking cutout of a non-human entity the ppl around me have replaced their knowledge of their own childhood and childhood friends with and I opt not to take their writing advice.

Can you no longer access your own memories? Do you remember the voracious reader you once were? Do you remember knowing, very easily, when an author was talking down to you? Do you remember graduating children's fiction early and moving onto more mature works? Because you had a mind you were developing rapidly through exposure to new ideas? Like every human being ever born?

[sagaspell]

"Insert Famous Children's Media here' was NOT FOR KIDS..." Yeah it was. You've just forgotten children have thoughts. Apparently an easy fucking mistake to make

[phantomrose96]

When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.

[phantomrose96]

people killed: 0

direct orders of "you really really need to kill this guy" ignored: 1

ongoing murders being committed by Ed's own friends/colleagues that Ed got in the way of to specifically stop that murder from happening: 2

[phantomrose96]

God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.

[amateurarthistorian]

Cueva de las Manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina

The handprints were stenciled using bone pipes to spray the pigment. They were placed in waves over the course of over 6000 years.

[oldschool-lolita-archive]

Mystery lolita-chan wears Innocent World’s quatrefoil lace op in black x off-white. It is worn here without its detachable sleeves.

Example image via Lmar on LM (it is missing the collar so I hope to replace it).

[moveslikekeithrichards]

huge fan of when cats reach out and touch each other with disrespectful intent

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[joycomplexx]

by the way it's fine to like sexual content just for the sake of it. "we can't ban porn because other stuff will get banned" "sometimes nude art has value" "the government will classify queer people as sexual" this is all true but it's okay to just like porn. its okay to not want porn to be banned because you like it.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[the-stars-descend]

You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass.

You know what that means?

[the-stars-descend]

You matter