ah beans

When you have a hammer, every problem looks like it's a nail. And when you have a character, every post looks like it's about them. And that's cause it is! 😊 #wisdom

the thing about anti-babs posts is that 99% of the criticism is overblown because people can't stand when female characters in comics are as flawed as male characters. babs is SO similar to bruce in her flaws. but she's the one called toxic boderline abusive stalker for it while he's the greatest character of all time. this is why we're stuck with 99% of dc female characters nowadays being standard infantalized mary sues with no interesting conflicts. y'all want women to be mother theresa and it's killing their writing!!!! babs is a stubborn manipulative overbearing woman sometimes and IDGAFFFFFF i hope she's meaner to your favorite boy and runs them over with her wheelchair

My toxic trait is that i think every struggle that the batfam went through in the early 2000s would have been avoided if they had just killed off timothy drake.

#Jason is not the top acrobat (Dick) or computer master (Babs) or martial artist (Cass) but he IS the top Looney Tunes hijinks specialist. (op's tags)

#Jason is not the top acrobat (Dick) or computer master (Babs) or martial artist (Cass) but he IS the top Looney Tunes hijinks specialist. (op's tags)

It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.