Gandpa's Rants

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

Okay idk how to describe it, but for like 30 issues, the way Dick’s cape was drawn was unfathomable levels of peak.

I can't believe this game isn't a fanfic

No thoughts but Bat Family doing group costumes for Halloween to win an annual costume competition at a gala. First, it was Bruce and Dick as a flower (Bruce) and a fat little bumble bee (Dick). Then it was the PowerPuff girls with Jason arrived. With Tim and Cass, it was the Teletubbies. With Damian added to make five, they went as the Scobby Gang. With Jason back and Duke added to the family and Steph clamouring to get in on the action, the family's latest costume was the kids as sheep and Bruce as Lil Bo Peep. Concept:

Clark: Guys, this is extremely dangerous

BEAT HIS ASS SUPERBOY!!!!!

Also this:

I hate it when fics make Diana the trusted adult of the Justice League because not only is it very sexist, I just think we forget that Diana's comics in themyscira often involve trying to fight people for being mean to her mommy or also getting in brat fights with her sisters over the pettiest things