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Right now, a popular post I made about religion is being reposted by a dark subset of people who are literally asserting that all Jews are reptilian overlords, baby killers, ritual child murderers, satan worshipers, and animal abusers. Some are literally saying things like “we need to have a holy war to cleanse these people.” I have reported and blocked over 100 accounts for this, and I’ve seen their bios, their profile pics, and their pages. And here’s the thing.

They’re right wing, and they’re left wing. They’re men, and women, and trans, and nonbinary. Some have their preferred pronouns in their header, and some have deus vult or 14/88. They will have a post about meaningful gun reform right before a post about killing Jews for blood libel. Which it turns out people definitely still believe in today. They are from America and Germany, but also Ireland and Kazakstan, dozens of countries. They have swatzika tattoos, and cross tattoos, and bisexual pride flag tattoos. They are white, but they are also black, asian, latinx, mixed race. They are Evangelical, they are Catholic, they are atheists, they are all religions. They are all ages. They share the same viral posts you share, they laugh at the same memes you laugh at (although they do have a strange love of frogs). They work manual labor jobs in rural areas, driving trucks, but they also wear suits and live in the city and work in politics. They are diverse. They are “woke.”

It really stinks, and please feel free to stop by anytime for some Jewish solidarity.

The modern State of Israel was founded in 1948. That, as far as antisemitism is concerned, is so modern that it barely even registers on the timeline of brutal antisemitic violence and genocide.

Let me walk you through a timeline, focusing only on some of the largest, most violent antisemitic purges:

The Holocaust began in 1941, and left 6 million Jews dead.

Before that, there was Kristallnacht, which occurred in 1938.

That same year, Ecuador forcibly expelled all Jewish residents not working in agriculture.

Four years before that, in 1934, 2,000 Afghani Jews were expelled from their towns forced to live in the wilderness.

In 1929, the Jewish community of Hebron was massacred.

In 1922, the Hebrew language was banned in the Soviet union, and thousands were sent to the Gulag for so-called “Jewish cultural particularism”.

In 1921 all Jews living in Mongolia were forcibly expelled.

In 1919, Jews were mass executed by the Polish Army in the Pinsk massacre, and the the Kiev Pogroms killed 30,000-70,000 Jews, and left half a million more homeless.

The year before that, 3,000–10,000 Caucasus Jews were killed during The March Days.

Between 1917–1921, Russian Pogroms killed as many as 250,000 Jews.

In one 48-hour interval in May 1915, all 40,000 Jews living in Kaunas, Lithuania were forcibly expelled from the city.

In 1910, Shiraz blood libel pogrom swept through Shiraz, Iran, brutalizing thousands.

In 1891, 20,000 Jews were forcibly expelled from Moscow, Russia.

In 1881–1884, pogroms swept through all of Russia, forcing 2 million Jews to flee the country.

In 1864, at least 500 Moroccan Jews were massacred in Marrakech and Fez.

In 1862, during the American Civil War, General Grant issued an order expelling all Jews from his military district, before being directed by President Lincoln to rescind the order.

In 1815 Pope Pius VII reestablished the ghetto in Rome, and forcibly confined the Jewish population of the city there.

On June 29, 1805, 200-500 Algerian Jews were massacred.

In 1791 Catherine II of Russia confined Jews to the Pale of Settlement and doubled their taxes.

Between 1790–1792, most of the Jewish communities of Morocco were destroyed.

In 1786, Jews were forcibly expelled from Jeddah.

In 1776, the Jewish community of Basra was massacred.

In 1768, the Jews of the Jews of Uman, Ukraine were massacred.

In 1766, Jews were forcibly expelled from Toruń.

In 1753, the Jewish community of Kaunas was forcibly expelled.

In 1744, the Archduchess of Austria Maria Theresa forced the entire Bohemian Jewish community to pay for their readmission into the country every ten years, and introduced a law limiting each Jewish family to one son.

In 1743, the Jewish community of Riga was forcibly expelled.

In 1742 Elizabeth of Russia issues a decree of expulsion of all the Jews out of Russian Empire.

In 1727, Catherine I of Russia issued an edict forcibly expelling all Jews from Ukraine.

In 1718, the Jews of Carniola, Styria and Carinthia were forcibly expelled

In 1717, all Jews living in Gibraltar were forciblt expelled.

In 1715, Elector Max Emanuel ordered the deportation of all Jews living in Bavaria.

In 1712, a blood libel in Sandomierz led to the forcibly expulsion of the entire local Jewish population.

In 1691, 219 people were convicted of being Jewish in a court in Palma, Majorca, and 37 of them were publicly burned to death. 

Only 500 Jews survived Austrian sieged the city of Buda in 1686. Half of them were then sold into slavery.

In 1679, a large percentage of the Jews of Yemen were forcibly expelled in the Exile of Mawza. Many died along the march to the Mawza, and more died once there due to the barren and inhospitable conditions there.

Between 1648–1655, the Ukrainian Cossacks massacred about 100,000 Jews and destroyed 300 Jewish communities.

In 1639, more than 60 people accused of being Jews in Lima, Peru were burned at the stake in a single Auto-da-fé. 

In 1633, Jews were forcibly expelled from Radom.

In 1615 King Louis XIII of France decreed that all Jews must leave the country within one month on pain of death.

In 1593, at least 900 Jews were forcibly expelled from Bologna.

In 1593 Pope Clement VIII forcibly expelled Jews from all Papal states except the ghettos in Rome and Ancona.

In 1591, Philip II, King of Spain, banished and forcibly expelled all Jews from the duchy of Milan.

In 1571, the Mexican Inquisition began, leading to the trial and execution of those suspected of secretly practicing Judaism.

In 1569, Pope Pius V forcibly expelled all the Jews of Bologna, and encouraged the vandalization and destruction of all Jewish graveyards within the region.

In 1560, the Goa Inquisition began, and those in the region who were suspected of secretly practicing Judaism were tried and executed.

Between 1537-1546, Martin Luther whips up antisemitic sentiment throughout Germany, leading to multiple forcible expulsions of the Jewish communities living in the region.

In 1543, all Jews were exiled and forcibly expelled from Basel.

In 1540, all Jews were banished from Prague.

In 1539, all Jews were forcibly expelled from Nauheim.

In 1535, the Spanish sold all of the Jews of Tunis into slavery.

In 1526 Jews were expelled from Hungary, Croatia, and Slovakia following the Battle of Mohács.

In 1519, the Jewish community of Ratisbon was forcibly expelled, and it’s synagogues and graveyards were looted for building materials.

In 1511, most Apulian Jews were either expelled or tortured to death.

In 1510, the Jews of Naples were forcibly expelled.

In 1510, 40 Jews were executed in Brandenburg, Germany, and the remainder of the Jewish population was forcibly expelled.

That same year, 38 Jews publicly burned at the stake in Berlin.

In 1506, a massacre in Lisbon, Portugal killed over 2,000 Jews in the span of just three days.

In 1499, all Jews were forcibly expelled from both Nuremberg and Verona. 

In 1498, Jews were forcibly expelled from most of France.

In 1496, the Jews of Portugal, including those who had fled the Spanish Inquisition just four years prior, were forcibly converted to Christianity and expelled.

In 1495, the Jews of Lecce were massacred and the Jewish quarter was burned to the ground.

In 1493 approximately 37,000 Jews were forcibly expelled from Sicily.

In 1492, the Jewish population of Tuat was massacred in a pogrom.

In 1481, the Spanish Inquisition began, leading to the murder, torture, forced conversion, and forcible expulsion of the Jewish population of Spain.

On Assumption Day, August 15, 1474, the Jews of Modica were massacred. During the evening, Christians are recorded to have run through the streets chanting: “Hurrah for Mary! Death to the Jews!”

In 1473, the Jews of Cordova, Spain were massacred.

In 1421 in Vienna, 270 Jews were burned at stake, and all remaining Viennese Jews were forcibly expelled.

In the single year of 1391, more than 400 Jews were massacred in Barcelona, another 250 Jews were massacred in Valencia, and all the Jewish inhabitants of Palma, Majorca were killed or forced to convert.

In March of 1389, approximately 3,000 Jews in Prague were killed in a single massacre.

In 1370, the entire Jewish population of Brussels was massacred, completely eliminating the Jewish community there. The event was commemorated by local Christians as “the Sacrament of Miracle”.

In 1354, approximately 12,000 Jews were massacred throughout Spain.

On August 4, 1349, 6,000 Jews were burned to death in Mainz as a part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions. Around 3,000 more Jews were massacred in Erfurt for the same reason, 600 were burned at the stake in Zurich, 600 more were burned at the stake in Basel, and the entire Jewish population of Speyer was destroyed.

In 1336, roughly 1500 Jews were killed in Franconia and Alsace.

In 1328, approximately 5,000 Jews were massacred following antisemitic preaching by a Franciscan friar.

In 1321 the Jews in central France were accused of ordering lepers to poison wells. After a massacre which killed an estimate 5,000 Jews, King Philip V admitted that the rumor was false and they were innocent.

In 1298, German knight Rintfleisch claimed to have received a mission from heaven to exterminate “the accursed race of the Jews”. Under his leadership, approximately 100,000 Jews were massacred, often by mass burning at stake.

In 1290, the Jews of Baghdad were massacred.

In 1290, the Edict of Expulsion forcibly expelled all Jews from England.

In 1285, a blood libel in Munich, Germany resulted in the massacre of 68 Jews. Following the massacre, 180 more Jews were burned alive inside  synagogue which was lit on fire.

In 1275, King Edward I of England passed the Statute of the Jewry, forcing Jews over the age of seven to wear an identifying yellow badge, and seizing Jewish assets. Scores of English Jews were arrested, and 300 were publicly hanged.

In 1236, Crusaders attacked the Jewish communities of Anjou and Poitou and slaughtered an estimated 3,000 Jews.

In 1232, over 1,000 Moroccan Jews in Marrakesh were killed.

In 1203, the entire Jewish quarter of Constantinople was burned down by Crusaders.

In 1190, the Jews of York were massacred by departing Crusaders.

In 1171 the Jews of Bologna were forcibly expelled.

In 1146, an estimated 100,000 Jews were massacred by the Almohads in Fez and 120,000 more were massacred in Marrakesh.

In 1124, the Jewish Quarter of Kiev was burned to the ground by antisemitic arsonists.

During the First Crusade, more than 5,000 Jews were murdered in the Rhineland. Another 1,200 Jews committed suicide in Mainz to escape torture and forcible conversion.

In 1066, the Granada Massacre killed more than 4,000 Jews in a single day.

In 932, the Jewish quarter of Bari, Italy was destroyed.

In 694 King Ergica of Toledo ordered the kidnapping of all Jewish children over the age of seven, and the raising of those kidnapped children as Christians.

In 469, half of the Jewish population of Isfahan was put to death.

In 325, all Jews were forcibly expelled and banned from Jerusalem.

Between 132–135, the Bar Kokhba revolt was crushed, and 580,000 Jews were killed. Hadrian then ordered the forcible expulsion of all Jews from Judea, which was then merged with Galilee in order to form the province of Syria Palaestina, renamed in order to suppress the Jewish people’s connection to their historic homeland.

Sixty years?! Sixty years is nothing.

Antisemitism is one of the oldest forms of bigotry that still exists, and it exists in largely the same form that it always has. Non-Jews persecute Jews because we refuse to assimilate, because we emphasize literacy and education, and because we are an ethnic minority. These thousands of years of violent murder, torture, expulsion, exile, and degradation have nothing whatsoever to do with the modern State of Israel.

Antisemitism, much like the original post highlighted, transcends modern politics. It transcends most modern cultural divides.

A lot of it is/was motivated by money. Yes, even the holocaust.

The justification for hating is classically based in the Christian religion, but antisemitism is now definitely also political. It’s about blaming everything on us and having a scapegoat.

Stalin had hoped that the freshly created state of Israel, which was a very left leaning nation when it was reconstituted, would side with the Soviet/Communist bloc. When it didn’t he felt personally slighted, and so started trying to take that petty grudge out on Russian/Soviet Jews. That whole Doctors Plot conspiracy was actually just an excuse to added Jewish doctors to the list of dead in Stalin’s purges. Thankfully he died before it could be fully started, but it started the ball rolling. His hatred of Israel tapped into the latant Russian antisemitism left over from the Tsarist period and twisted it from the recent antisemitism that birthed that conspiracy book Protocols of the Elders of Zion and into a whole gaslighting thing of “we are just opposing a settler/colonial state, not just blindly hating Jews for fake reasons again.” This led to various levels of Soviet/Russian antisemitism, ranging from passing over Jews for various jobs in various fields to outright denying Soviet Jews the ability to even visit Israel (the Refuseniks).

And so that soon became party line for many left leaning groups around the world, never really realizing that all Zionism is is just an indigenous people that have been targeted and hated and oppressed for millennia living with security and autonomy in their indigenous homeland. The fact that western society focuses so much on Ashkenazi Jews (Jews that went to central/Eastern Europe in the diaspora after Rome expelled us after we failed to expel their occupation of Ancient Israel and so have become white-passing over the near 2,000 years in Europe) as what all Jews look like doesn’t help either. Cause that ignores Jews of color, such as all of those that got ethnically cleansed or expelled from Arab lands, who make up two thirds of Israel’s population.

The two largest religions in the world (Xianity, Islam) are later derivations of OUR religion. That makes that piece of land MORE attractive to them, because controlling it gives them a sense of religious authority.

A big reason that Xianity as a (technically heretical) sect of Judaism split off and became their OWN religion is that VERY early Xians and mainstream Jews were allied during a revolt against the Romans (who again, wanted that land because location location location). The job of Mashiach in Judaism is to free Israel and establish a safe home for Jews there, and to establish world peace. (Jesus obviously did not accomplish this, hence the need for a “second coming.”) Because the leader of this revolt looked like he was about to succeed in DOING THOSE THINGS, most Jews said “hey, maybe THIS guy, Bar Kokvah, is the Mashiach!” Xians DID NOT LIKE THIS, because they thought that their dead guy (who again, did not accomplish the things) was the Mashiach. So we already didnt LIKE each other because they were heretics, but it boiled over when…

They betrayed Jews at a crucial point, thousands died, and the revolution failed. Jews got mad and said “you can’t be part of our synagogues anymore because you BETRAYED US AND WE DIED,” and Xians said “fine, we hated you anyway because you didnt accept our weird Mithras cult” and ran directly to the Mommy, the remainders of Roman Empire, and said “can we be the state religion now?” Mommy Byzantium, seeing an oppprtunity, said yes, Xianity separated from Judaism and rose to POWER, and held a bunch of official meetings and added things to their own writings (even they will admit this). They added theology that is 100% not compatible with Judaism, and they also outlawed Jewish practices and shit talked Jews a lot. Many verses in their books before ecumenical councils are also antisemitic. The Byzantine royal family (at this point, all that’s left of actual Rome) had sensed a shift in religion and power, and capitalized on this new and upcoming religion by making themselves very important figures in it, solidifying their political power through divine authority. (Later, Germans and Italians would say “hey, that’s not a bad idea, and copied them, creating the Holy Roman Empire, famously neither holy, nor Roman, nor an actual empire. Popes did not like this, and constantly tried to squash the HRE and Byzantine Empire, and I guess ultimately they did, but they also lost all political power in the process.)

Xians also then decided that they would blame Jews for killing Jesus forever, and would constantly murder and punish them for it, even though A) according to Xianity Jesus HAD TO DIE for them to be “saved,” so really they shouldn’t be mad about it and B) Jews literally DID NOT have the authority to sentence people to death, especially by crucifixion, literally ONLY Rome could do that.

Then, Xians decided that they needed to control Ye Holee Lande™, so they slaughtered a bunch of Jews and Muslims to get it and promptly lost it again, but they didn’t stop trying to get it back, and they killed thousands on all sides in the process.

Jews at this point have no homeland, having been kicked around by Romans, Xians, and Muslims. The latter of whom actually usually treated us way better than Xians, in general, especially in Al-Andalus, which you might unfortunately know now as “Spain,” because a bunch of important Xian families married and united their armies and killed all the Jews and Muslims there and said “this is our country now, get out and/or we will kill you.” They erased a powerful and prosperous Emirate of universities, poets, scholars, artists, musicians, and theologians, which had flourished all through the Dark Ages in Xian lands. (They then promptly sailed to the Americas, so that they could forcibly convert, rape, steal from, and murder those people too. )

But anyway, no homeland, which means that we often lived in OTHER peoples countries and didn’t get to participate in society or government. General xenophobia turned people against these Jewish “outsiders.” Painting us as dangerous, disloyal, christ killers, immigrants, was an easy way to create fear and fighting and keep the poor poor and the rich in power. (We see this today all the time. Think about it with other groups. I’m sure you can think of how leaders in your country have exploited public fear and xenophobia to stay in power.)

Xians, who had by this time been stealing and mistranslating our holy books for >1000 years, saw a verse that said “Jews may not charge other Jews unfair interest rates.” But Xians are “uncomfortable when we are not about me,” so THEY decided that this meant “Xians are not allowed to charge other Xians ANY INTEREST AT ALL.” But that would have made their economy collapse. So they had an idea. “What if we make it illegal for Jews to own any property or land or normal businesses, BUT, we let them run banking guilds, and THEY can charge US interest, and the economy will work.” It was a great idea for everybody but Jews, because the side effect was that A) poor people suddenly saw JEWS as the ones taxing them and taking their money when really it was the Kings, and B) whenever Jews got too successful, the government would kill them all (or kick them out, if it was a nice day), and poof - all that money (and land they were renting) was “liquidated” and could go to the government. (This was a super easy score for the Church, largely synonymous with the government for many centuries, because the idea that Jews are greedy money grubbing thieves is baked into the literal text of the New Testament, so they didnt even need to be creative to get people to accept this lie.)

This trope of Jews running things and making money off everyone and being greedy eventually led to a conspiracy theory that we wanted to/did already secretly dominate the Entire World, which is where the Elders of Zion/Illuminati/Lizard people/“Global Elite” trope comes from. That’s why you get FUCK-OFF RIDICULOUS things like DC councilmen saying “well we all know Jews control the weather and cause natural disasters to make money off them” from. Yes, that really happened. (And then, they made him go on an apology tour of the DC Holocaust Museum, where he played games on his phone and stormed out halfway through. Yes really.)

Again, because xenophobia, lots of other nasty aspects of Jew hatred popped up. The formula goes: Jews killed Christ -> Satan is the enemy of Christ -> Jews are in league with Satan -> Jews are witches and evil. This isnt even a stretch for them, because this kind of language is ALSO literally found in the Xian bible. A particularly nasty and pervasive part of this cycle was the idea that Jews (in a perverted version of holy communion, because Catholics and Xians view of witchcraft was just “upsidedown/backwards Xianity”) was the idea that Jews kidnapped Xian babies and used their blood to make bread. That one got a LOT of Jews killed.

Even the Holocaust is fundamentally part of this whole pattern. Post WWI Germany owed MASSIVE unpayable debts to the world for their role in the great war. They were bankrupt, disunified, and unstable. Hitler used fear and propaganda to rise to power by appealing to a base who were economically suffering and already super racist and xenophobic (like… many modern politicians… do the math…) and then the Holocaust itself was again, super super about real estate and property liquidation. (Bonus, they were invading the rest of Europe, so they ALSO got to steal art and money and national treasures from conquered governments, not JUST Jews.) Nazis really liked shiny things, and they really liked taking them to Berlin.

Later, Russia, who got to Berlin, also admitted to really linking shiny things, having made off with a LOT of international treasures and pretending they didnt have them for decades. They still have them, and they basically announced “there’s nothing you girls can do about it.” They also killed millions of Jews during the USSR days, made our religion illegal, and the current Russian government and Orthodox Church officially blames Jews for the revolution and murder of the Romanovs. Yes really. Let me say, unequivocally, fuck Russia.

With alienation from society and with cosmopolitanism.

With being capitalistic exploiters and also revolutionary communist advocators.

The Jews were accused of having an imperious mentality, and at the same time, they were the people of the book.

They’re accused of being militant aggressors, at the same time as being cowardly pacifists.

With being a chosen people and also having an inferior human nature.

With both arrogance and timidity.

With both extreme individualism and community adherence.

With being guilty of the crucifixion of Jesus and at the same time held to account for the invention of Christianity…

Everything and its opposite becomes a reason for anti-Semitism.”

——

Damian listened thoughtfully until Tim got to the end. “So basically we need your help. Any questions?”

“Yes,” Damian decided, after a few seconds of silence.

“Shoot.”

“When did I give you the impression that I cared?”

“Oh come on.”

“What was my mistake?”

“We’re on a timeline here.”

“No, really,” Damian asked, raising his hands in an exaggerated gesture of confusion. “Where did I go wrong?”

——

“I’m confused,” Duke told him. “Red Hood Jason or Trophy Case Jason?”

For some reason, Tim didn’t seem to understand the question. He pointed across the cave, to where Hood was sorting through medical supplies. “Jason.”

“So not the Robin that died.”

Tim pointed again, slower this time. “Jason.”

“That’s… the same person?”

“Yeah.”

“He didn’t actually die?”

“Oh boy,” said Tim, biting at his lip. “No, he was definitely dead.”

“Was?”

“Short-term. You really didn’t know?”

“It’s not an uncommon name?” Duke could hear the panic in his own voice, but he didn’t feel inclined to check it. “Why would I assume that one person… came back from the dead?? Instead of assuming there are two people named Jason?”

“Oh boy,” Tim repeated. He turned to Damian, who Duke suddenly noticed was smiling in a very unsettling sort of way. “You didn’t tell him?”

Damian shook his head. The smile became downright maniacal. 

“Tell me what??”

——

“It’s a family meeting,” Dick told him. “You have to stay.”

Jason collapsed back into his armchair, glaring. “You know sometimes I think I never actually came back to life? I just died and went to hell.” He crossed his arms. “Because honestly? This could be hell.”

“Stop being dramatic.”

Jason threw him a look that clearly communicated ‘when hell freezes over’ in the most dramatic way possible, or at least that was the goal.

Dick turned away, rolling his eyes. He seemed to get the message. There, Jason thought. Nailed it. He felt better.

“What’s the holdup?” Tim asked, settling onto the couch next to Cass. “Something wrong?”

Dick shrugged. “Bruce says he has an announcement.”

“We have a new sibling?” Tim guessed.

“What? No.” Dick frowned, probably running the odds just to be sure. “Not that I’m aware of, anyway.”

“You had to think about it,” Tim noted, and then turned to face the door as Bruce finally made his entrance.

“I have an announcement.”

“We have a new sibling?”

“What?” Bruce asked. “No.” His eyes flicked upward for half a second, and then he continued, decisive. “No, you don’t.”

“See?” Tim asked. “He had to think about it.”

——

“I thought you were against this plan,” Duke said.

Damian nodded. “I am, but Todd and I reached an agreement.”

“Yeah?”

“Simple bet,” Damian confirmed. “If it works, I have to go to Drake’s birthday party, but if Todd dies again, I get to put ‘Damian told him so’ on his new headstone.”

“Oh,” Duke told him. “That sounds… fair.”

Damian leaned back against the wall, smirking. “I like my chances.”

[scene break]

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

1. Diana Prince AKA Wonder Woman.

I'll forever die on this hill, they need to be seen together more. She's been knowing him ever since he was a literal child, just like Clark. If Clark can be the uncle, why can't Diana be an aunt figure?

They met on several missions and what, she just ignored him? There are some of their interactions (I'm gonna make a whole post about everything I can find), you can tell that there's at least mutual respect... But it's not enough for me.

There's an issue of the recent Batman/Superman World's Finest of the first time Batman, Superman and Robin went on Themyscira and they interacted, what, once? Barely, even. You cannot convince me that Diana would just ignore a child. She's so nice with them, she would not ignore Robin.

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #30

They really didn't interact at all... In issue #16 they went on a small mission together and we saw so little anyways.

We have limited interactions with them BUT we saw her kissing Jason's cheek (their only meeting btw, idk where the whole "he's her biggest fan" thing came out from. Also she mentioned Grayson that one time too) and hugging Damian before Dick. Criminal to me.

Not saying they have to be all huggy and clingy or stuff like that, but little affection in a aunt-nephew way wouldn't hurt.

A plus in this is that Dick is literally Donna's best friend, they grew up together, Diana was never ever there? And don't get me started on the wasted opportunity in making them mourn together Donna's death. Literally her sister and brother's figures, two people who shouldn't even be strangers. We didn't even get one panel of them... Not even eye contact... Nothing.

He's been existing for more than her (Dick's first appearance being Detective Comics #38 (1940) in April and Diana's All-Star Comics #8 (1941) in October). They have been around for so long and yet.

2. Lois Lane.

Dick sorta grew up around Clark, so as Dick or Robin, he should have had a few interactions with her a few times. Which, he did, like in Nightwing: Year One... Then it wasn't much explored after. Fair, I suppose, but still...

There isn't much I can gather on them, surely a little more than this, but not by much.

I feel like they would be an interesting duo to see working together, especially when he was Robin.

Ditching Batman and Superman to solve a case together and managing to do so.

Also there's the plus now that Dick was a mentor to Jon, and it did give us some of them together! But... Not enough.

3. Dinah Lance AKA Black Canary.

Dinah, his girlfriend's best friend, one of his best friend's mother figure, one of DickBabs' biggest shippers... And their interactions are limited.

Don't get me wrong, there's surely quite the stuff and nice moments like this:

Nightwing #58 (1996)

Or them fighting together.

Birds of Prey #54

But very brief stuff.

I wish to see more of them sparring or fighting together on a mission guided by Oracle Babs. They probably have a closer relationship than he does with Diana or Lois but y'know, we lack moments of it.

4. Carter Hall AKA Hawkman.

Except for the whole bird thing being one of the reasons, that man? His grumpy butt simply has a soft spot for the OG Teen Titans. I'm telling you he was happy to let them in. Like, to him those are still five snotty kids okay? He does respect them and thinks "highly" of them! As even shown here with Dick:

The Brave and The Bold #15 (2007)

...But they're still the snotty kids of his colleagues. And while he might seem like a jerk, he loves them deep down. Dick called him a jerk but kinda funny.

Robin and Batman #2

(The way he spoke so much about everyone and then with Diana is just "Oh and I met WW too"😭...)

Anyways have this small funny moment too.

The Brave and The Bold #15 (2007)

Anyways I'll forever be of the belief that Hawkman really got this big soft spot for the OG Titans. And even if he might come out as a jerk sometimes, he's actually caring for them. After all, they grew up around the League.

5. Cassandra Cain AKA Batgirl, Black Bat, Orphan.

It's crazy that we don't have much on them while they're literally adoptive siblings. That's his sister. She was his sister way before Melinda.

They had such a good relationship, rocky at first but softened soon, Dick even played Cinderella for her (and we didn't get to see that...ugh).

Batgirl #58 (2000)

She even helped him with Slade once (Nightwing #81 (1996)).

He also made it clear once that if she ever needs someone to talk with, to let him know because he's been there.

Batman: Family #7 (2002)

Then, unfortunately, DC had messed up with the whole evil Cass thing... And they weren't in the best relationship but luckily enough made up, and now we do get moments of Cassandra calling him brother, kicking asses for him, sparring and making pancakes...

But again, very little compared to other stuff, which is kinda a shame.

So where's my Nightiwng/Batgirl book with Batgirl being Cass?

6. Stephanie Brown AKA Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl.

That's the Batgirl to his Batman. And I "hate" how little we got of them back when he was Batman. I kinda get why of course, it was... An era.

I can barely think of moments of them... One on a rooftop in a Detective Comics issue where they sorts went live together? I don't completely remember but I remember her saying something along the lines "Nightwing, we're live"?

Tom Taylor did grace us with them hugging once...

Their meeting in Batman and Robin Eternal...

Just little exchanges.

BUT.

She's going to be on New Titans, so we WILL get more of them together and I'm so excited about it (if y'all didn't notice before, my friends are probably tired of hearing this😆)

In an interview, Tate Brombal said that "they’d have different ideas of the Titans themselves and what they can be" so I wonder what their relationship is going to be like, and hope this will get them closer.

Maybe Dick being kinda a mentor to her and trusting her abilities unlike many do. In a way, they're also quite similar so it's a duo with potential y'know?

Even if they might have different ideas for the team, I hope it won't be too bad.

Brombal better not mess this up... I've been waiting for this moment ever since I was a foot tall... I've been wishing to see them together since ever...

Anyways have this variant cover for New Titans with Dick and Steph.

7. Garth AKA Aqualad, Tempest.

Ah, one of the OG Teen Titans, a founding member of the Fab Five, someone who was there even before Roy iirc... And gets forgotten. Everyone always forget about my boy Garth I swear...

Dick has such a close relationship to all the Fab Five but barely when it comes to Garth.

I mean of course they're best friends, we just don't see it happening I suppose... They do have some cute and nice moments, like this:

Teen Titans: Year One #2

Like, my babies ugh🤧

Oh and Garth sorta going against Arthur over Dick, lol.

Titans Annual #1 (2016)

"Why is you, my king, taking the lead when Nightwing's our leader?🙄" And that smirk at the end, love it.

As always, almost everyone respect Dick, Garth being one of those people.

In a moment where Garth needed advices (even if already knew what to do) and was seeking comfort, out of all the Titans he went to Dick.

Titans #15 (2008)

8. Duke Thomas AKA Robin, Signal.

They had a rocky relationship at first because of the whole We Are Robin thing... But it's been so long...

We could have them being in a, again, "rocky" relationship at first and grow a little closer after a mission together.

Perhaps having Dick apologizing about that time too😭;;

Not saying they need 50 issues together and be besties but it would be nice to see members of the same team interacting a little more from time to time.

Ah wait, DC needs to use Duke more in general.

We'll see him in Batman at least...

9. Koriand'r AKA Starfire.

Now, I think it's an exaggeration saying they don't even get to stand next to each other, I do agree that they should talk more though!

And I don't like the way DC tries to erase or discard their relationship, since it was important for both characters and helped their growth.

I do like the idea of them being exes who are still on friendly terms and very close. Not as in "we still love each other romantically", more like a "we still love and care for each other a lot platonically and a break up won't get in the way of our friendship" thing.

And as I've said after New Titans #33 came out, they need to talk, and maybe will... Don't know how good that'll go though...? I hope not badly, I really want to see them being friends even after everything, at least.

DC just need to make a choice, and we all know what I mean. Until that day, I fear things won't be so "normal"? I don't know how to describe it😅

So we do have lots of their interactions, of course, but not much lately and that's the problem.

10. Garfield Logan AKA Changeling, Beast Boy. Victor Stone AKA Cyborg. Rachel Roth AKA Raven.

I'm including them all together because I don't have much to argue on them.

They're also his close friends, his teammates, his other family, so I'd like more of their relationships.

We are probably going to get him and Cyborg, since they'll be the only remaining members of the Titans with the New Titans.

And a Titan is showing up in Nightwing soon... There are theories of them being Raven, Gar or Kory...👀

Genuinely hope for Raven, it would fit the atmosphere and plot more than the other two.

11. Talia al Ghul.

I wanna see bitter Dick arguing with her, their interactions are so funny.

12. League members.

Back to the point I've made for Hawkman, this boy grew up with them. He was the first sidekick and all.

They watched him starting as a child and now he's one of the best leaders and most trusted/respected guy around, they'd be proud bet.

If I gotta go more specific and pick members, I'd say: Barry Allen AKA Flash, Hal Jordan AKA Green Lantern (I love Hal, please I need them together), Oliver Queen AKA Green Arrow, Arthur Curry AKA Aquaman, J'onn J'onzz AKA Martian Manhunter (we did get a little from Watters!), Shayera Hoo AKA Hawkgirl...

This is pretty much it... What I can argue at least. There are characters that would have no reason at all to interact with Dick and I still want to see it happening, lol.

I would have said Connor Hawke days ago for no reason at all and we did see them talking in the background together (SPOILERS, BE WARNED!).

Another example is John Constantine. I just love the guy so...

This post was made for @bahibuu who was curious to hear my whole rant on the matter😆

I'm sure I've said more stuff, especially about some characters, to the co-worker... But my memory sucks, I don't remember everything of it;; And maybe our conversation was longer because I had to explain the moments since I didn't have the pics to show her.

Sorry if the post is kinda late! Something came up yesterday and I was gathering material so... But here it is now :)

Before Damian Wayne, there was Tim Drake. And then Stephanie Brown. And then Tim again. Then Jason Todd. And finally, or technically firstly, Dick Grayson, the original Robin.

And before Jonathan Kent, there were two glasses of wine, a Pulitzer Prize and Lois Lane stealing her husband's glasses. But I can't say any more about that. This is a family comic.

I think both his arms are red up to the shoulder, buddy. Working with the League didn’t just mean taking people out individually — their work resulted in thousands dead, even if Bruce didn’t pull the trigger himself.

Would they realize at first that he's actually killed? Or would they just think it's because he's worked with the League (and other rather dubious groups on occasion) anyone the League killed during his time with them is on his head, and only later realizing that Bruce also actually killed people, and there's a reason he is so adamant about killing?

And what abou the kids? They've been involved in deaths too.

Never mind Jason. Jason kills when he deems it necessary and everyone knows it. Sure, Bruce isn't going to like suddenly being reminded of that fact when Jason's hands are suddenly dripping red, but it isn't going to be a sudden revelation causing a massive argument like with Bruce himself.

And what about deaths that you didn't actually cause but that you consider yourself liable for? Sure, Dick didn't actually kill all those people in Bludhaven he failed to save, but he still considers it his fault that they died. Does the magic work even if you're not guilty as long as you think you are? Is Dick considered at fault for everyone Deathstroke killed while he was unwillingly at his side?

And then you have Damian, who's come so far and grown so much, only to be suddenly and viscerally reminded of where he used to be when he didn't know any better and killing was all he'd been taught to do, the red dripping off his hands.

Is there blood on Stephanie's hands for the deaths in the gang war she incited? Tim's, after those League of Assassins bases he blew up? Cass, for that one man she killed so long ago?

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:

Damian: Mulan, obviously. She's the only worthy warrior.

Jason: Belle. I want that library besides I look sick in yellow, sorry Duke.

Duke: No, that's OK, I see myself stepping away from yellow. I want to be Aurora. That way I can get a nap

Dick: I want to be Cinderella. What about you, Tim?

Tim: Well-

Damian: Clearly, he's Snow White.

Tim: Oh, because the animals love me? I can sing?

Damian: No, because a mere apple could take you down. You are the weakest of us, Drake.

Tim:

Batman: Thank you all for not drinking. Robin will only need fifteen minutes to show Superman his Halloween costume and then you can celebrate how you wish.

Robin: *dressed as Superman wearing a Robin mask* Uncle Clark!

Superman: It's like looking in a mirror!

Robin: Really?

Superman: Yeah. This is so amazing! And I have a surprise for you.

He whistles. There is the sound of distant breakages

Then Krypto bounds in, dressed in a Robin costume. He runs up to Robin, slowing just enough to gently knock the boy off his feet.

Robin: He's me!

Superman: He wanted to dress as his favourite hero too

Robin and Krypto run off to play.

Batman: How much damage has the dog done to the base?

Superman: When I tell you the answer, I want you to be looking at how happy Robin is right now and how a smile like that is priceless.

Batman: The damage is in the millions, right?