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Its kinda like Jason calling Tim "replacement" for me. I dont actually inherently hate it, but it usually signals a more fanon sided work. Pretty much always with a large dash of Pride & Prejudice and Austen and romance book Jason fan- which also isnt inherently an issue, just is a shame because he likes a larger variety of books than that. And idk. English degree also usually gets paired with he wants to be a teacher to take care of children and give them the childhood he didn't have (he's still a child) and it all just sorta snowballs.

Im also just sorta instinctively against many popular fanons mostly for the fact they are popular fanons and thus the immediately presumed Everyone Is Doing This

We can't say we like Jason without condemning his actions. We can't say we like Jason without saying that he was one of the worst Robins and Tim was wayyyy better. We can't say we like Jason without thinking he should be punished for his crimes.

And like...buddy, I like Jason because he's committed crimes. Tf do you mean I have to sit there and laugh and be like 'oh yeah I like Jason but (character) is so much better at the job and (character) should be allowed to hit him and Jaybin sucked actually and Jason is a monster for doing this stuff to (character) and yeah I agree he's a fraud'???

Like jfc god forbid I like a guy for being a bit of an asshole. God forbid I like a character who does dodgy stuff and admits his grey morality. God forbid I like a guy without sanitising what he did or putting up a disclaimer that I think what he did was bad. God forbid I have fun with my own fucking opinions. Why do I have to comfort others for liking a character who isn't their favourite, who is someone they dislike or hate, who they for some reason have labelled a fraud? Why do I have to laugh and say he has no good comics just to follow the popular opinion???

Again, none of this is Jason specific. He just seems to get it the most out of all of the Robins; especially Jaybin, because apparently me thinking Jaybin is a great Robin means I'm a larper or a fraud or delusional or whatever. Sorry I like a silly whimsical kid whose slow descent into a terrible outcome makes me emotional ig

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There’s something so insidious (like so extra insidious outside of the dc fandom norm of “so incredibly classist we could go toe to toe with a French elite before the revolution”) and so dehumanising about taking a story of a man’s desperation to give his son a better life then turning it into a story of a man who’s abusive and evil because of the crimes he committed in that desperation. God. And then ontop of that comparing it to Jason under Bruce’s care as if as if there’s any stable footing for any kind of meaningful comparison “Jason had a better life under Bruce” yeah and Bruce has about at least 7 more zeros in his bank account your point?? Like if we assumed both wanted a better life for Jason, like no fucking shit the one with near infinite amount of resources would provide a better life than a man who has essentially nothing- then taking the fact that he has nothing then equating that to he’s abusive and a bad father is just like. Wow. Are we reciting the classist manifesto???

And yeah in some in my eyes extremely classist iterations of the story (because I haven’t delved into classism of dc editorial themselves yet) Willis is an objectively bad father, but here’s the difference Bruce is consistently a bad father- no no no we aren’t gonna start with that whole “he’s trying his best!” He is an objectively selfish father. Doesn’t matter what his genuine intent is if he really loved them or not, his actions especially with Jason is unequivocally selfish. At least it reads as incredibly selfish to me, covering up your own son’s murder to continue your vigilante hobby- letting the man who murdered your son go off Scott fucking free basically again inaction is endorsement- to go off and kill and ruin more families for your own moral code- and don’t start with the “oh of course the Jason fan doesn’t understand the moral code” I DO and that’s why I said selfish- I said selfish not amoral not immoral selfish. Because that’s what Bruce Wayne is. He is a deeply flawed man, a deeply flawed father and pretending he isn’t in comparison to Willis is classist. I highly doubt most iterations of Willis would purposely cover up and hide the death of his own son for his own personal vendettas I highly doubt of Willis was in the position he would let a man who’s done so much evil go because of his own aversion to death.

this is how I know yall weren’t reblogging the companion to this post 🙄