i b enveloped in green goop and whatnot.

See the early Cass parental square was so good because they ALL paralleled and bounced off each other. Bruce and David both deeply love Cass but project onto her and make her out to be 'perfect'; Babs and Bruce both want what's best for Cass and despise what David did to her, but their ideas of 'what's best' differ widely; Babs and Shiva are both mother figures who prioritise Cass having choices, but Babs goes about it in an overtly loving (and meddling) way while Shiva is more distant emotionally and in the ways she helps; Bruce and Shiva both understand Cass the most, but the way Bruce helps (giving Cass a Bat symbol and a path) is in opposition to Shiva (giving Cass freedom/choice); David and Shiva are both Cass' biological parents, but David was terribly present while Shiva was absent; Babs and David both love Cass in ways that don't fully understand her, but Babs learns from her mistakes while David is unable to. Their relationships to Cass are connected because a lot of them deliberately differentiate themselves from one another (Babs and Bruce from David; David from Bruce; Shiva from Bruce and David; Babs and Bruce from each other). Any of these relationships in isolation misses the point to me, because none of them exist without the context of the others.

i know it’s been retconned and rebooted so that she was born and raised outside the us but my personal canon remains that lady shiva is from detroit because that’s just so awesome. i don’t want her to be a sexy asian martial arts lady who is mysteriously foreign and therefore her odd morals are part of that. she can be a sexy asian martial arts lady with odd morals who grew up in michigan. i want her to have an affinity for polish desserts and strong opinions on ginger ale. during tim’s training arc when they’re hiding out i want clyde to come back with a quick grocery run and for shiva to toss tim a can of zesti and say “oh, he got you that pop you like” with an accidental slip of a midwest accent and tim just sits there like ????

always remember that chell is canonically* a transgender woman

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

we live a world where one man is a trillionaire while people are starving in gaza and sudan, 81 million people are below poverty line in india, kids are being forced to do manual labour in mines in congo to survive and his own countrymen are dying because they cannot afford healthcare and then people will wonder why we think capitalism is the root of all evil