[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

something that feels particularly hard to swallow about writers constantly mischaracterising talia’s relationship with damian and completely removing love and affection from it in an attempt to paint her as unfeeling and apathetic and cruel is that (especially from the pov of a brown/asian woman myself) family values, for better or for worse, are such an integral part of asian culture in general, but that’s one part of talia’s character that is consistent in how she’s torn between family loyalty and romantic love BECAUSE SHE LOVES SO MUCH!!! she loves sooo much and so hard. and they want me to believe she ran away laughing i feel sick

fraction’s batman was always unimaginative at best but it feels particularly sinister to tear down the character of a brown woman (who’s one of the strongest and genuine love interests of bruce) in favour of the new white love interest, completely just making shit up to paint her as an unfeeling seductress AGAIN while insulting her culture for no added plot value all at the same time. how the hell do you even manage that in one single page

saying that talia ran away after dropping damian in his lap LAUGHING and that bruce was unwilling the whole time (grown man mind you) had to fix the ticking time bomb that is his mixed race child because he grew up with her cultural traditions instead of his own and that the new white love interest is needed here more than his own mother. who are these people WHERE AM I

“all steeped in her unorthodox cultural traditions” “-to figure out how to both dismantle that time bomb..”you don’t even need to be that smart to understand that this is plain racism and yet somehow the same fans who talk a whole bunch about how they care about talia and damian will still go out of their way to support the current batman run like its not actual garbage that was written by someone who should have been out of a job a loongg time ago

“Time bomb I had to dismantle”. this is a kind of racism that it’s just creepy. Like of course Damian had to be molded, corrected “made safe” by his white father all because of his “unorthodox cultural traditions” inculcated by his mother. fuck fraction