jason todd is rotating in my mind

thinking about vic planning on coming out and medically transitioning once she's an adult, only for the accident to happen and her dad to give her a very traditionally masculine body because he thinks that's what she wants. she wakes up and looks at herself and she feels like her entire life is over, but in the end she takes back control and literally rebuilds her entire body to make it into something that feels right

every time someone acknowledges cassandra cain as batman’s successor, an angel gets their wings

when people mistake Jason's "I can do this crime, but you must die" ethos as him wanting to kill all criminals + not an evolution of Post-Crisis Jaybin's belief that what mattered was not legality but harm + victimisation. Oughg. he's not Helena Bertinelli, he doesn't think criminals are all scum who deserve to die b/c unlike Helena, he wasn't victimised by criminals. He was victimised by structural inequalities + the institution (+ institutional ethos) of heroism.

"i guess I just wanted to be around someone else who might know how it feels… to be living on borrowed time” "way i see it, you and i are out of time" ough always gets to me! society if countdown capitalised more on the theme of passing time... the challengers of beyond as a team of heroes that each individually lived past the end of their myth... their displacement in the narrative, the liminal area they exist within... they should be plagued with imagery of clocks watches hourglasses

i guess the crux of it for me is that bruce wayne is a very good superhero and a very bad father

I think jason would be taking like college level philosophy classes to put bruce in increasingly complex and morally/emotionally/existentially eviscerating trolley problem type situations

hes jerking it to foucault discipline and punish