#bearritalks

basically the best thing a story can have is a woman who is doomed. massive points if she destroys the people around her in response.

the best part about dick grayson is the fact that his happy-go-lucky nature is a façade built on hundreds of micro-analyses of each current situation and his seemingly carefree expression is a very carefully calculated mask to make sure people in the vicinity are comfortable. when it breaks down it is not because he has suddenly Become Something Else - only that he has failed to contain what usually sits below the surface. also, he really is just unnervingly cheerful in odd situations.

okay iron lung fandom. we can stop crying about how simon was "never supposed to make it back" now. this is patently untrue and goes against most of the wishes and motivations of the other characters in the film, especially captain ava, who is acting in the explicit interests of the consolidation of iron and the continued survival of all of humanity. they didnt just send him down there with oxygen reserves, food, water, manuals and maps, expensive x-ray camera technology and a computer, not to mention a life vest, just to watch him die. not only is that unbelievably cruel in a way that nobody in that movie is intentionally capable of, it's just a plain old waste of resources. simon is not that tortured.

im all for "defending evil women characters" but most genuinely she was not evil. nothing she did was cruel or wrong. within the parameters of her story she was one of the only people acting both logically and with the interests of other people in mind.

house is a type of body that decays around you. sometimes a house falls in love with you (malicious intent) and sometimes a house becomes you or absorbs you and you become a malign infection within the solid walls of the body. sometimes a house goes looking for you and you realise thats what was missing from your life. some times you are the house.

likely a lukewarm take but i do believe that a core part of babs' character is that she's intensely overbearingly controlling especially around things that are literally unable to be controlled because such a crucial part of her life was (in her eyes) taken out of her control with a very simple, preventable action. she has to have a finger in every single pie because the one time she didn't, she lost a whole lot more than she was willing to.

"just remember [character] is actually a BAD PERSON!!!" okay 👍