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I cannot survive if I'm not obsessed with a work of fiction, I need something to focus on to function, so here's a side blog for this. I tend to not stay focus on one fandom in particular. Today I'm obsessed with one thing, tomorrow it will be another.
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Things I do not tolerate:
Pro-shipping (imo, shipping is actively supporting the idea of two characters together, not a "one time/once in a while" thing. If you write a fucked-up fic or a toxic relationship without romanticising it, I will not judge. It can be cathartic. Fucked work of fiction are not a bad thing. I have an issue with painting a toxic relationship as okay)
Starting "debate" or "arguments" with no capacity to be polite. I'm super anxious so I really dislike debate and argument in general, and most of y'all cannot behave online. My complaining isn't an invitation to have an argument.
Finding excuses for abusive characters, especially toxic parents. Yes, I'm a good dad Batman believer, but I will not argue that some of his behaviors in some comics is abusive, I'm just against that characterization.
Some stuffs about me.
Favorite Anime/Manga: One Piece and Mob Psycho 100
Top Three Favorite non-animated Movies:
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Rogue One
Lone Ranger
Top Three Favorite MCU thingy:
Big Hero 6 (it's marvel, it's a movie, I'm right)
Moon Knight
Captain America Civil War / WandaVision
My Top Three Archenemies (aka the fictional characters I have the most beef with):
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Every orphan in Gotham is Bruce's child and responsibility in his eyes so, as always, Bruce took care of all the kids, even taking Herbert under his wing. Bruce being "like an uncle" to the boy also implies he was present in his life too.
Anyway, another time Dick called Bruce "the best father". I just know he would argue, with the deepest seriousness, that Bruce IS the best father in the world.
Also, the "he's still a boy wonder at heart" on the same panel Dick turns toward someone with a smile, probably Bruce, and the next page, "and he wouldn’t have it another way!" with him on patrol with Bruce, the both of them happy? To me, it reads as Dick forever being Bruce's boy wonder, Bruce's Robin, like he is forever the Graysons' boy wonder and robin. Forever a boy wonder and Robin at heart, because he is forever his parents' son.
[i am venting my frustrating bc this is my blog and it is not an invitation for you to argue with me. incest shippers do not interact with this post]
you people pmo im gonna be so completely honest
if you make jokes about bruce grooming dick or you genuinely think their relationship is in anyway allegorical to sexual grooming, youre a homophobe with patriarchy brainrot
men arent expected to take care of children(especially not by themselves) in patriarchy so you make the connection of grooming because you cant believe that bruce has no nefarious reasons for taking care of dick and i know you wouldnt be writing bruce as a groomer if he was a women because you people think all women inherently have motherly qualities and it is expected of them to care of kids
you believe queer men are predators who will kidnapped your children and molest them and turn them queer and dont tell me im reaching because i literally saw someone say dick could be read as a csa victim because of the reasons bruce decided to care for him. you know why bruce was drawn to him? because he saw himself in him since they have the same trauma. you know what prevailing belief as to the cause of homosexuality used to be? that it was caused by csa and would turn into a cycle gay predators creating more gay predators. so literally how am i not supposed to read that as "the abused will become the abusers and queerness is inherently predatory"
i hate you people so much and as a gay man i dont trust any of you
Jason asks Bruce if they have a history of cancer in the family and Bruce says yes and gets worried about passing it on to Jason and they talk about that seriously for 30 minutes before Remembering
Hey... Remember when a month ago I commented on this post by @ilovemybruciewayne that I would write something in the day? Well, I did I start it, but I didn't finish it in a day, then my internship was a lot of work and I didn't have a lot of internet, none on my computer where I prefer to write and to edit...
Anyway, I don't know how to finish it, so here is what I have wrote, so it stops bothering me and I can go back to my other wip. Yes, it's very short, sorry.
He wasn’t even supposed to be here, because they did not trust him with Bruce, which Jason thought was insulting. Sure, sometimes, he wouldn’t listen to the plan, especially to Batman, and he liked to be a dick (maybe more than its eponym), but he didn't believe he deserved that treatment. However, someone needed to be there to watch over the gala Bruce was attending, some art exhibition full of rich pricks, and everyone else was busy.
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Dick was going to kill him. Or Cass. Either one of them would make an exception from their morals to end his life.
It was a rule, made behind Bruce’s back, but he probably knew about it as it was nearly impossible to hide something from the Batman, that one of them had to watch over any event he attended, in case something happened. Sure, Bruce could often find a way to escape the scene and reappear wearing the cowl, but there was always a chance he couldn't, and they couldn't risk it. So, one of them had to there, and possibly not Jason, according to Dick, Cass and Damian. Not that surprising from the last one, as he liked to remind his older brother that he was in probation. When would this probation end? Who knew!
Well, probably not tonight. Because, tonight, Jason had been left, as a last resort, in charge of protecting Bruce, and he had royally fucked up. He had felt vindicated in paying minimum attention to the party, insulted by their mistrust, and in the process, had proven them right. When some thugs had crushed the event, not only had he been slow to react, he did not take them seriously, their faces bringing no name to his mind, and preferred to show off instead. And now, there was blood on the floor, dripping from Bruce's leg. So, Dick or Cass was going to kill Jason.
The small, ever-growing, crimson puddle on the polished gray faux marble appeared like a garnet sea through the eyes of the new Red Hood, submerging him in his failure. It was one thing to see blood on the dark armor of the Batman, even if a certain amount agitated his heart and awoke a strange feeling in his chest, it was another on the ebony suit pants of Bruce Wayne. For a time, he had dreamed of ending the man's life, however it had been nothing but the petty tantrum of a child, and he knew now that the simple idea of Bruce leaving this world (leaving him) sickened him. The simple sight of blood pouring from the man twisted his stomach. And he may not have held the gun this time, but it was still his fault.
Then, as Jason was drowning in these visions of horror, Bruce sprang up despite his injury, while his (son? mentee? ward? mistake?) stayed frozen, and pushed the younger man down.
A gun shot resonated in the ballroom. Then a second one.
Screams erupted all around.
Jason turned just in time to see his (father? mentor? guardian? benefector? curse?)'s body fall on the ground, a pool of blood soon slithering under it. One of the thugs held, just a few meters away, a fuming gun aimed at them with shaking hands. Gotham's Prince hadn’t been his target, Red Hood was, but Bruce, self-sacrificing and riddled with survivor guilt, had jumped in front of the bullets.
The scene unleached a deluge of feelings inside Jason, terror leading the charge. The pressure led to unstoppable tears to cascade down his cheeks, hidden behind his helmet, saving his identity in more way than one. His vision became a blur, not just from his sobs but his emotions themselves.
Jason had to save this. Jason had to save Bruce. Otherwise, his siblings wouldn't be the one to kill him, he would do it himself.
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I'm sure this manifests into some deductive reasoning, but the visual of Alfred reading Bruce's journal full of his musings about how he let himself get too attached to his family and the mantle has made him something more than a man etc etc but only being interested in weird grammatical choices is sooo... like you see why Bruce is the way he is right
Wolfwood being Knives' favorite human is an implied detail only present in the manga only. During the whole story, it's clear that Knives doesn't care about a single human and their life, that his followers are just pawns (he even discuss killing Legato with Elendira at some point), and he kills them the moment they get in his way. He is even describes to never smile. However, upon meeting Wolfwood, who was trying to kill him, he smiles and he doesn't kill him, he doesn't punish him, he gives him the job of protecting his brother. After that, Knives only brings Wolfwood to praise him, even sending Zazie to tell him how good of a job he is doing. Knives do not praise anyone else, Wolfwood is the only human he seems to like, making him his favorite human (yes, the bar is in hell)
~ Knives being described by Midvalley as never smiling, only maybe once
~ Knives smiling upon opening his eyes and meeting Wolfwood, who is above him, pointing a gun at him
~ A tired Knives talking about Wolfwood to Legato
The animes (be the old one or the current one) are not bad, but they aren't accurate adaptations of the manga, and the manga is so good. Nightow is every good storyteller who utilizes very well his art and framing to tell his story, especially in the final chapters. He also understands very well how trauma works, which is shown in how he writes each of his characters, from Vash and Wolfwood, to Meryl and Knives. (Meryl is sooooo traumatized in the manga) Vash and Knives' trauma is also always a bit different in the animes, which is very sad because the manga's version is perfect (again, very good representation of trauma). Knives in particularly is always written more like an evil child in the animes, when in the manga, he is portrayed as the weakest twin, which is why he suffered the most from their trauma. And even Vash's trauma, as a child, is ugly in the manga, demonstrating that there are no perfect reaction to trauma (Knives is more quiet, so Rem doesn't catch his trauma like Vash's, leading to the Fall, which is a great message about how children who are quiet are NOT not suffering and should be checked on before they explose) Knives' abandonment and mommy issues are also less present in the animes, his character is really the one to suffer the most in adaptations, a lot of details being thrown away for time and new storytelling (in the manga, Knives is always tired and frequently sleeping because he overuses his powers, which is an important detail when later, the twins' powers, their uses and their life's expectancy is revealed to be linked. But in the current anime, he doesn't need to sleep to appear less human)
Also, in the manga, Elendira is a trans woman, and there is no transphobia.
And the manga is available, for free, on the blog @/trigun-manga-overhaul, who work hard for an accurate translation and still improve the scans to this day!
The message that having a child biologically doesn't make one a good parent comes back here with Cyanide arguing that she knows what is best for her son (again, an argument MANY parents use, the idea that nobody else than them know what their child need because it's THEIR child), while Batman disagrees.
At the same time, Bruce is, once again, a defender of children rights instead of a wiser parental figure, similarly to when he was drugged. Batman exists so no child suffers like Bruce did, and here, he is willing to die for this child, who did lost his parents to her, so he is seeing himself in him.
However, "If I'm going to hell then you're coming with me!" is, imo, about parenting and so Bruce is back in his role as a parent: if Bruce's a bad parent and deserves to be punished, then so does she as she is worse.
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If you ship Brudick, never interact with my posts and block me. Also, stop fucking reblogging my posts about Bruce and Dick and tagging it with your ship, I'm yapping about a father and his son, this is disgusting.
okay, so let's break down whatever this monstrosity is.
"I was only ever a tourist in her world" could not be a more inaccurate statement. if you've read any comic involving talia and bruce's relationship from the 70s-90s, you'd know they were obsessed with each other. while they had their flaws, it was a genuine, mutual relationship
"...and an unwilling one at that." aaand this is the magnum opus of this panel. we all know the retcon and how the fandom (and apparently authors) treats it. putting that phrase in any context with talia & bruce is like asking for people to take it and run with the "oh, it's canon again, let's all hate her now" or something along those lines. now, having that on its own just brought up would've been bad enough, but putting it directly above an illustration of the two of them clearly being intimate is like pulling the pin to a hand grenade.
"all steeped in her unorthodox cultural traditions" holy anti/arabphobia. the concept of this line even being thought of, let alone being written, making it past editorial, and being published. but then again, it's DC, so i'm not surprised.
"convinced his presence in my life would destroy me, she threw him [damian] in my lap." honestly, this may be one of the worst things ever written. the entire reason she sent him was to keep him safe and so damian could meet his father. could she have had other motives? yeah, maybe, but it wasn't to destroy bruce's life, nowhere near that extreme.
"... and ran away laughing." while i'm sure this is hyperbole, and she didn't literally walk away laughing, by saying that, implies she took pleasure in just dropping damian off with bruce and found it amusing. which, again, could not be any further away from the truth as this was one of the most difficult decsions she ever made + one of her biggest regrets. and due to the wording it implies she could basically care less about damian and just dropped him off without a second look, again could not be an even falser statement
"it became my job to both dismantle that time bomb, and to make it stronger." ah yes because the feral child will learn how to control himself, all thanks to his white father, after living with his arab maternal side for the first ten years of his life, yes, yes, exactly. and the whole "make it stronger" bit is so odd because you want to dismantle, which the definition of dismantling is: "to take apart a machine or structure so that it is in separate pieces." OR "to end an organization or system by gradually in an organized way." (oxford dictionary)
so you want to take what he learned from the league apart and just essentially reteach him? pick and choose what "pieces" from his time in the league he gets to keep and use while being robin? you do you i guess.
now the big thing is, well, he would not fucking say that. bruce genuinely loved talia to the point he had her scent memorized. he respected her AND ra's. no way would he be caught dead talking about her or damian for that matter like this.
moral of the story, this whole thing is orientalist, and rascist. also i take back what i said about how talia fans have been eating lately. we are in fact on the edge of being sent back to purgatory & it was fun while it lasted.
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