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100000%!!!! this is also why they don't use spousification and why i think parentification (which refers to inappropriate role reversal with an adult, typically a parent or guardian) is so consistently used in this fandom to mean "parenting a younger sibling" (which is a possible element of parentification, but is not the primary one--parentification is far more likely to be used by professionals and in academic writing to refer to a child "parenting their parent" or acting as a surrogate spouse for a parent).

people are uncomfortable with the reality of emotional incest because it has the scary yucky i word. it's easier to make dick's relationship with bruce about the younger bats and create a (largely non-canon, to my understanding, even in rebirth) dynamic where dick is an overburdened parent figure to them rather than to acknowledge that his relationship with bruce is definitionally inappropriate for a parent and child.

this could be somewhat sidestepped by just not centering the father-son element of bruce and dick's relationship to the exclusion of everything else, but dc and the fandom have both put all their eggs in the father-son basket. when that is the only dimension allowed for their relationship it makes the rest of the established canon of their relationship (which is ostensibly all canon!) emotionally incestuous.

Hi! First of all, thank you!❤️ I still can’t comprehend the idea that people like my art to the point of studying it, so I’m trying not to be weird about it. Unfortunately, all my speedpaints look VERY messy (except for the ones I already posted, you can find them) so I can’t give you that BUT I made this quick erm… tutorial… kinda. DISCLAIMER I`m not a professional and I don’t have art education, so be careful about it bc I can be wrong about a lot of things. This is not drawing lesson, it’s just to show you what I do. Thank you again and hope it’ll be helpful!

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