Untitled

like, she has attacked him unprompted twice (twice!!) because she assumed that he'd done/was going to do something evil, and didn't give him a chance to defend or explain himself before escalating to attempted murder. and he is simply never mad at her? he's not upset at being repeatedly misjudged, by someone that should know better!!

she literally has unspecified foresight of some kind. she is immortal. they had some sort of situationship that was close enough that jason would risk his life for her. she should know better. she should know him better. yet she does not. and despite that the next time he sees her he still calls her his friend.

I saw a skit on TikTok about Tim’s lack of a spleen (because it has become a fandom joke, and I respect that because it is funny) and someone in the comments asked for an explanation. They got a reply saying that, ‘Ra’s Al Ghul stole Tim’s spleen and he constantly brings it up, etc etc.’ That comment also got a reply from someone, quite rightly, explaining that no the fuck that’s not what happened, to which the person who explained in the first place was like, ‘oh ok I’ve not read it.’ So why the bloody hell did you comment then?

Same with someone talking about the ‘Krypton didn’t die in a day’ line from the new Supergirl film. There was someone in the comments explaining that the line was about the rise of fascism on Krypton. On the one hand, I get that they’re trying to combine the first film with the next, but at the same time, the comic that it’s based on is, like, 8 issues. You can read it in one sitting. You can pirate it.

i want it to be like fucking. Forrest Gump levels of insane connections. there's an old news report about some kind of incident like an attempted attack during a winter Olympics game held in Beijing years ago, and Damian will casually walk by like 'oh yes, i remember that game. Todd made me take a photo holding the torch after he stopped the attackers.' and then everybody has to just stare while he walks off. he's spotted briefly in the background of a nature documentary when a specialist visits a tribe in the amazon rainforest, and Tim watching it genuinely thinks he's seeing things until he shows Damian and the kid casually goes 'yeah Todd trained with the leader of their tribe, so we were there for about nine weeks. i have a box of old polaroid's taken during the stay if you wish to see them?'. Tim is losing his mind. Bruce finds an old photo of toddler-Damian in the Fortress of Solitude playing with Krypto and he's about to go into cardiac arrest about Clark lying to him until Damian tells him 'yes, Jason worked alongside Kara as the Red Hood on multiple occasions, and she always had us meet her in the Fortress of Solitude when Superman was out.'

They brush his comment aside, continuing their conversation as if the case name isn't special.

But it is.

Not only does it dehumanise the victim, but it shifts the focus of the story. How those with dipolamtic immunity, can use their power to dodge any charges against them. How the system fails consistently. How a man can easy get away with a crime if they have enough money to.

It removes the harm and impact the victim experienced, sometimes undermining it, and instead is remember as just the victim. The victim's name often forgotten, turned into just another statistic.

But by using the Gloria's name, it bring more agency, making it known who exactly the victim was and what she experienced. She wasn't just a victim, she was a victim of rape by a man that could silence her and anyone else that might protestagainst him.

By using Gloria's name, it focuses on how society and the systems fail. How the justice system is corrupt, letting a man who did a horrendous act like rape get away due to diplomatic immunity and money.

By using Gloria's name, it reduces Felipe's notoriety, preventing him from being glorified, turned into a film to watch as the victim is depicted inaccurately or completely different or wiped from the story.

It brings recognition to those that see the case just how fucked up society and the systems are. And from that, change can happen.

So I posted about this on twitter ages ago, but I felt the need to share it here too, since tumblr is a much better platform for archiving things.

There was an un-made Batman cartoon in the 1980s starring Bruce and Jason as Batman and Robin and the writer’s bible for it is available to read online.

It is literally the cutest thing I have ever read, and everyday I curse the gods that it didn’t get made. Here’s just a selection of the cuteness from this thing:

                                                        ~***~

                                                         ~***~

…and there’s way, way more but I don’t want this post getting really long. The whole thing can be read here: 

http://www.criticalblast.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_full_node/public/field/image/Batman%20Writers%20Bible.pdf

× × ×

BATMAN AND ROBIN 1988 CONCEPT DRAWING 01-03

“Nelvana, at one time Canada’s largest animation house, briefly had the rights (or were gunning for the rights) to develop Batman. The executive team asked anyone interested to pitch some character designs, so I did.

I got positive feedback on it, but the next thing you know, Nelvana no longer had rights to Batman, and were going to produce Beetlejuice instead. (To great success I might add, but still… I was disappointed I wouldn’t get a chance to work on the Dark Knight.)

And the rest is history. Warner Bros. Animation, and the visual style of Bruce Timm, along with Paul Dini’s great scripts, creatively redefined Batman for a generation.”

-Michael Thorner on Flickr, 2012

.

x

“Another relic from my days in ABC Children’s Programming. A pitch cell from Nelvana when they had, for a brief moment, the rights(or at least I think they did) to pitch a Batman animated series.”

-Dan DiDio on Facebook, 2015

“Here’s an even bigger mind-fuck for you: a month or two ago, I was digging through the archives looking for something and stumbled across the treatment for a Batman series that I wrote for Nelvana at that time. Small freaking world….”

-J. Mlchael Straczynski comment on post

.

Batman wiki that led to me discovering these images

It's spelled out for you. The words are right there on the page. They're circled in a neat little bubble. If you read the words you could understand the story. The story about Mia. A story where Mia confronts Jason, a mirror of her experiences. On purpose. Winnick did that on purpose. He meant for that to be the reading. Which is why he wrote it that way. The person she could have been without Ollie, and a support system, and Roy there to argue for her right to not be Speedy, and Dinah there to understand the struggle of a street kid. The bad ending to her story. He is like her. That's the point. That's the point of the story being told.

If you go out of your way to not look at the evidence laid out in front of you so you can cover your ears and proclaim that actually Jason is inherently evil and has no good traits and could never be a victim (because obviously the millisecond you externalize your trauma - on characters that aren't random petty criminals, because no one gives a shit when other vigilantes do that- you are no longer a victim obviously) and if he IS a victim it's because he stole it from Mia or Selina or whoever (because obviously no one else is allowed to have that specific trauma and Jason is a Bad Victim who doesn't deserve to represent the experiences of REAL victims and it's not like they showed him being graphically assaulted on panel which is obviously the only way to get a story across. Subtext? What's that? That's just implied! No one cares about details several authors across several reboots have gone out of their way to insinuate. Why would that matter?) And Mia is A Good Person so she can have absolutely nothing in common with Jason because he is A Bad Person.