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and I was so young when I behaved 25, yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child

[eatmoresoups]

damian knows about music guys i promise. he plays instruments, he was falling asleep with his headphones in. ra’s would not have an uncultured grandson damian was extensively educated in many things

[withmyluvr]

guess who's birthday it is!!

[withmyluvr]

I'm signing off today can't do this anymore 💔

[withmyluvr]

quitting football 💔 it's okay ziko don't apologise, you did your best against a game rigged against you and your team

[withmyluvr]

anyways I will be praying on argentina's downfall. In fact, I won't write the a in argentina capital again bcs they're not an important noun, they're NOTHING w/o messi

It's ok Egypt, next one ins 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

[withmyluvr]

I'm gonna kms.

[robs-your-robins]

Any Batman fan worth their salt these last few days:

[disaster-j]

Bruce Wayne, who can still to this day identify Talia al Ghul by scent alone, WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Shout out to Matt Fraction for actually uniting both fans and haters of Damian Wayne in hating the recent issue of Batman for how its handled Damian Wayne.

[ennarchy]

i thought it was fitting to make a remake of this

[daminette-56]

Let me tell y'all if a writer has to mischaracterize Brutalia's relationship to uplift your ship.... your ship is shit.

The concept of redrawing panels from the Batman: The Demon trilogy and have the quote of "I was only ever a tourist in her world. An unwilling one at best". SHUT UPPPPPPP

Batman WILLINGLY had a truce with Ra's Al Ghul so he could be with Talia. I hate Batman writers, just be writing bullshit.

[myfavoritecuisine]

Behold, my magnum opus. I've peaked here. Matt Fraction is coughing in 3 days for his crimes against the Al Ghuls.

[eatmoresoups]

“She threw him in my lap and ran away laughing”

But THIS is the unsent letter talia wrote to bruce about damian, that damian stole and delivered to bruce. the racist rewriting of these stories steals so much from the actual themes and strong emotions that already existed.

Typed out under the cut

[sun-moon-talia]

i’m officially beating a dead horse here but bruce saying “she threw him on my lap and ran away laughing” was especially egregious. even as early as resurrection of ra’s al ghul it’s obvious she “threw damian in bruce’s lap” to SAVE DAMIAN’S LIFE. why is it still so hard for ppl to believe she loves her son???

[sun-moon-talia]

anyways here’s some panels of talia with her baby boy!!

[withmyluvr]

more..

(^does this one count...)

[starlitorchids]

whatever this ↓ is rant

okay, so let's break down whatever this monstrosity is.

"I was only ever a tourist in her world" could not be a more inaccurate statement. if you've read any comic involving talia and bruce's relationship from the 70s-90s, you'd know they were obsessed with each other. while they had their flaws, it was a genuine, mutual relationship

"...and an unwilling one at that." aaand this is the magnum opus of this panel. we all know the retcon and how the fandom (and apparently authors) treats it. putting that phrase in any context with talia & bruce is like asking for people to take it and run with the "oh, it's canon again, let's all hate her now" or something along those lines. now, having that on its own just brought up would've been bad enough, but putting it directly above an illustration of the two of them clearly being intimate is like pulling the pin to a hand grenade.

"all steeped in her unorthodox cultural traditions" holy anti/arabphobia. the concept of this line even being thought of, let alone being written, making it past editorial, and being published. but then again, it's DC, so i'm not surprised.

"convinced his presence in my life would destroy me, she threw him [damian] in my lap." honestly, this may be one of the worst things ever written. the entire reason she sent him was to keep him safe and so damian could meet his father. could she have had other motives? yeah, maybe, but it wasn't to destroy bruce's life, nowhere near that extreme.

"... and ran away laughing." while i'm sure this is hyperbole, and she didn't literally walk away laughing, by saying that, implies she took pleasure in just dropping damian off with bruce and found it amusing. which, again, could not be any further away from the truth as this was one of the most difficult decsions she ever made + one of her biggest regrets. and due to the wording it implies she could basically care less about damian and just dropped him off without a second look, again could not be an even falser statement

"it became my job to both dismantle that time bomb, and to make it stronger." ah yes because the feral child will learn how to control himself, all thanks to his white father, after living with his arab maternal side for the first ten years of his life, yes, yes, exactly. and the whole "make it stronger" bit is so odd because you want to dismantle, which the definition of dismantling is: "to take apart a machine or structure so that it is in separate pieces." OR "to end an organization or system by gradually in an organized way." (oxford dictionary)

so you want to take what he learned from the league apart and just essentially reteach him? pick and choose what "pieces" from his time in the league he gets to keep and use while being robin? you do you ii guess.

now the big thing is, well, he would not fucking say that. bruce genuinely loved talia to the point he had her scent memorized. he respected her AND ra's. no way would he be caught dead talking about her or damian for that matter like this.

moral of the story, this whole thing is orientalist, and rascist. also i take back what i said about how talia fans have been eating lately. we are in fact on the edge of being sent back to purgatory & it was fun while it lasted.

[withmyluvr]

Crash out in 3.. 2.. 1..

FUCK YOU MATT FRACTION YOURE SO RACIST NEVER TOUCH TALIA OR DAMIAN OR THE AL GHULS EVER AGAIN

ALSO DONT TOUCH BRUCE AND TALIAS COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP THATS TOO COMPLEX FOR YOUR LITTLE BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND

PLUS DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT BRUVE AND DAMJANS RELATIONSHIP EVER AGAIN

ALSO ALSO. "UNORTHODOX CULTURE"? UNORTHODOX CULTURE????? THATS ALL YOU VOULD FIND TO DESCRIBE MY (ARAB) CULTURE?? HERES SOME OTHER THINGS YOU FUCKER. BEAUTIFUL! COMPASSIONATE! CONNECTED! KIND!

KYS KYS KYS FUCK YOU MATT FRACTION

edit: YOU MADE BRUCE CALL HIS SON A FUCKING TIME BOMB???!?!?!?!?!1!1!1!1!1!?1?1?1?+?1?1? IM ACTUALLY GONNA FIND YOU AND KILL YOU (< for legal purposes this is something said in anger i will not find him and kill him)