#messy rant

WARNING: ITS MESSY AND ALL OVER THE PLACE AND FILLED WITH HOT TAKES.

It's not unusual for a company to let them come out in a very unexpected way That didn't exactly feel earned to the character, Especially if they don't know what to do with that character. I feel like they really didn't know what to do with Tim, so in order to make him more interesting, they said, here's your tokenized bisexual Robin, and then made him leave the Robin mantle Just to solve the problem of "there were two Robins so one had to go".

Tim is mischaracterized a lot, and recently, especially in DC Comics, he has been giving me the vibes of more, like, what the fans have been portraying him as in headcanons mostly, like the uwu soft boy. I'm not blaming the fans at all. I'm blaming the writers who don't know how to write Tim. Tim is going through whatever Jason Todd is going through when it comes to the types of writers that he's getting.

As soon as Tim got a boyfriend, he started acting like a soft boy. He started leaning more towards how some fans depicted him as.

Just to clear things up, I'm really happy that Tim is bisexual, and I love it, and I don't personally care who he dates (yes I do, Timkon for life) But as long as they don't bring him down when it comes to his character. I don't care when characters want to settle down and all of that, but this is Tim we're talking about.

The red robin.

The leader of young justice.

The boy who found out who Batman and Nightwing really were as a kid and made himself Robin.

You really think that after everything, after his best friend dying, after trying to revive him and clone him back obsessively, after everything that he's done, you really think he's gonna just quit the mantle?

Nah.

Not to mention, this puts Damian in a place where he feels like he HAS to be Robin.

Damian did want to quit the mantle, but for a good cause. He wanted to learn medicine and help people medically. He wanted, he still wanted to be a hero, just not Robin. And I think it would be very interesting to see where that could lead for Damian.

And Tim quit the mantle. why? Oh, for his tokenized boyfriend, of course.

I like the characterization that Bernard got. It's honestly better than Jay Nakamura, in my opinion. But I don't believe that he is gonna last, especially now that, um, Tim quit the mantle. Now we know Bernard is fucked.

But moving on, after the Jon age up, it's safe to say that DC didn't know what to do with his character. At all. Recently, Jon has been feeling, like, different, and I feel like it's because us as the viewers, we didn't see him grow. But it's just mischaracterization after mischaracterization with him. Most of us loved the SuperSons days, Mostly because we got to see Superman's literal son Growing up, experiencing how it's like to be Superman's son and the expectations that come with it. Same thing that's happening with Damien. You have two characters who are like the kids of two very important heroes, and we get to see them grow up and learn from each other with each other's support because only they know what it's like to be the children of superheroes.

Or better yet, how it's like to grow up as a gay kid who is also gonna be in the legacy of Superman or something. Even exploring how it's like to be a gay kid, we can maybe see how John copes with his crush on Damien, because let's be for real, he definitely did have a crush on him. But we've all been there as gay kids. We have all had a crush on someone as kids, or like a very close friend, even if they were straight or not. Maybe some of us got together with them. Maybe some of us didn't.

It would have been such a great opportunity to see how Jon realizes that he is LGBT and, like, how he comes to terms with his sexuality, because I know for a fact, gay kids definitely need that kind of representation.

To let them see that whatever they're experiencing is normal.

To not let them feel alienated by everyone else around them when they think they like someone else of the same gender.

But they didn't do any of that, because they don't know what to do with and Tim.

So they grew Jon up, gave him a basic-ass college life. We never got to see his trauma coping when it came to like getting stuck in that volcano on a different earth, or the fact that he got his childhood ripped away from him.

Not to mention how he has a fucking journalist job. It's so clear that the writers are aiming for him to become just like his father.

This might be a stretch, but I see the parallels when it comes to Nia, Jay, and Jon. Jay is supposed to represent Lois, Nia is supposed to represent Wonder Woman, and Jon is supposed to represent Superman.

They're aiming for this fuckass love triangle like when Wonder Woman and Superman have been a thing, and the whole situationship issues when it came to Superman, Lois, and Wonder Woman.

Jon Kent would be a scientist, and I stand by that firmly. He has a love for the stars, for the universe, for all of that. He would definitely want to know how our galaxy works. He is that bright-eyed curious boy.

Y'all remember the whole drama and shenanigans that happened when jon and tim came out as bisexual? Especially with the headlines and everything that it got, and how out of context it all was? Especially for Jon.

I think all of this was prepared in such a way to make it as big as it seems and made it into some kind of spectacle, because right now...Majority of the people that are not comic fans or something would just look at Jon and say, "oh, that's the bisexual Superman."

compared to when they looked at him before and said, "oh, that's Superman's son."

Can't it just be, "oh, that's Superman's son, who so happens to be bisexual."?

and then we can get to see who he grows up to be, maybe outside of Superman's shadow. We get to see him grow as a person instead of becoming Clark Kent 2.0.

Now what the hell is Tim gonna do? Is he just gonna sit on his ass while, I don't know, while crime is still happening? What about young justice? He could at least just say that he's going back to Young Justice, that he's maybe going to help with the Teen Titans or something. But no, he just up and quit the mantle for no reason but his boyfriend. That's literally it. And it's so strange to think about that, because Tim Drake was always someone who would go above and beyond when it came to a case or just something that he thought was right. Even when it came to cloning Kon, he didn't sit on his ass and accept the fact that kon died.

and we were crazy and lacked common sense for saying elain’s book was coming and that the increased presence of Az + his secrets revolving around Elain = he gets the 2nd PoV in Elain’s book. outrageous fr.

… it’s not really the G/A ship that bothers me, it’s the lack of logic.

The “Az book” insistance exposes the recency bias, but also the flaws in their reasoning:

elain’s story being pushed aside in favour of a necklace/ribbon-centered love triangle (opposing 2 women) that originated in a bonus chapter… really?

the idea that gwyn would get a PoV before elain (let go of character preferences for a second and ✨ponder✨).

worst yet: in general, Gwyn only ever serves as a LI in their theories, a sidekick to Az & Nes because gwyn isn’t directly nor uniquely tied to any plot point (atp).

the way they gaslighted ppl into thinking more training & libraries & HoW gang (with 0 new characters) is more urgent to the narrative than an Elain story; than a *new* story that actually advances the plot & characters.

them not getting that gwonriel would be a consequence of elucien: E/L would have always needed to happen 1st because it is ELAIN’s story & choice.

you can’t just compare the structure of ToG and Acotar as if they’re equivalent: the PoVs work vastly differently, and either way it’s always the women that primarily drive the action… i.e. Nesryn & Yrene in ToD. “bUt cHaOl’s boOk”

if anything LUCIEN is the Chaol of acotar (it’s a compliment i adore chaol). and Vassa’s presence/importance in the series relative to other side characters makes her the closest we have to a Nesryn or Yrene figure. Gwyn is more of a Fenrys.

their characterization of Az goes against what we know of his character; “Az is horrible to women but but it’s ok we love him cause he’s different with Gwyn! she makes him better, she’ll help him heal… mates!!” …how convenient. and weird.

they acknowledge only a (convenient) portion of Elain’s character. her visions / powers involve Koschei… but also much more. Cauldron and Truthteller? never heard of them. Nuala & Cerridwen don’t matter (they’re spying on her guys!), her attraction to Az is dismissible… Lucien being her mate is all that really counts. her “need” for sunshine is her character… a result of picking and choosing of ‘evidence’ ngl (as is the way they spin all her scenes with Az). etc.

refusing to acknowledge the feysand bonus. or the set up in FaS. or the continued development of Elain in SF.

I don't know if it's just me but as much as I love Red Riding Hood and Badwolf together living happily ever after with their two daughters I need angst.

So I started thinking about how much more heartbreaking it would be if Cerise didn't know that Badwolf was her Dad and that Ramona didn't know that Red was her mom because they had separated for safety.

Red wasn't allowed to tell Cerise about her father or her sister again for safety reasons and fear that if she said who Cerise's father was out loud someone might hear and take Cerise and Ramona away, with Badwolf being the same way.

And now with Cerise in Ever After High Badwolf sees her every single day, he sees how much she's grown and how he missed everything. And he wants so badly to go and talk to her, to embrace her, to just stand in front of her and really see her if only for a few seconds. He can't though, he knows he can't, because that would put them all in danger.

Red on the other hand doesn't get that torture/privilege she doesn't see Ramona until way down the line and it's only for a brief moment. It's only for a few seconds while running around town does she sees her oldest daughter, and she wants to run to her and hold her close like she had once done so long ago; then she blinks and she's lost in the crowd.

And in this world, Cerise doesn't really have any outer wolf traits, but she does have inner wolf traits speed, strength, agility, the need to be in the woods at all times, to rough-house, to bare her teeth when a threat shows its head. She doesn't know why she does these things, no one else does these things, and she doesn't know why there's this empty feeling in her chest whenever she hears a wolf howling at night.

Then there's Ramona who has no clue why she feels so hollow even if she's around her Dad and the rest of their pack. She doesn't understand why when she sees flashes of red she feels a sort of nostalgic longing and sometimes a little teary-eyed. She doesn't know why she feels like she's missing an important half of herself that she can't fill no matter how hard she tries. She's not alone, she knows she's not alone, Ramona is almost never alone, why does she feel like she is?

Don't even get me started on how Red and Badwolf long for one another, how they both stay awake at night wishing that the other was with them, wishing for one more night or one more morning just anything other than longing glances.

So out of fear of being cancelled there is a severe lack of discourse and in-depth analysis surrounding John/Arthur's dynamic... and vandermorgan too, don't get me started on that.... Everyone loses their hair over a mildly "problematic" fictional relationship. Bunch of fake fujoshis.

It's always selective outrage, depending on what the majority in a certain fandom decides to like and hate on because most claims that deem ships problematic have actually no validity to them.

Take me back to the good old days when it was perfectly normal to fangirl over even the most obscure crack ship. When fiction was just fiction and not a reflection of your morals and political identity.

It's the same with liking villain characters. "you can't like this character!! bc he's EVIL!1!! he did this nd that ur just as evil for liking them you deserve to be tortured and stoned to death blah blah blah"

How utterly boring, and again it doesn't apply to every morally grey character. It hinges on the opinion of which character/ship the majority in a particular fandom elect to unequivocally bully

It's entirely subjective policing, which is absolutely ridiculous. Where do you actually draw the line?

I say if you are unable to engage with fiction on a level that's separate and disconnected from reality, if morally grey fiction corrupts your very soul and compels you act and behave in indecent ways, you should stop consuming it entirely.

Stick to your children's fables, kid.

None of this has any affect on my love for morston, in fact it strengthens it LOL. Shipping morston becomes almost like an act of defiance.

She manipulates you and tricks you She makes you jump through hoops makes you hurt. But under all of that malice in cold calculating anger is still that scared little girl. That desperate little girl who just wants to see the sun and be loved by someone who could never love her.

Elizabeth wants a life that she'll never get to have. A world in which she doesn't have to kill and lie and cheat and scratch and Bite just to get with most people Take so for granted. And when you break her perfect plan break her way out when all of those layers of lies and tricks don't work she just goes back to being that scared little girl begging you to just let her in.