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Paige, she/her, 21

I post almost exclusively about dc but Tara, the Wilson family, Arisia, Power girl and wildcat (ted) specifically.

At times I talk about topics that may be triggering, so be wary if you follow, I try to put trigger warnings where applicable.

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Arisia reading list, Terra II reading list, Terra III reading list

My review (rant)

YouTube recommended me this video of this pig called "chris p bacon visiting kids" and now I just keep thinking "would Terra name a pig chris p bacon?"

Please, professor of markovology..I must know what would she name a pig and would it in fact be chris p bacon.. /supersilly !! :3

dick, donna, raven- victims of grooming and/or sa themselves and it skews their ability to recognize what is happening to tara

dick and donna- "that's just what it's like being a sidekick" mentality + inability to see what happened to them as grooming or sa + didn't view themselves as kids when it happened so they're not viewing tara as a kid because she's not that much younger than them (i think they'd be more perceptive to it if there had been 2 more years in their existing age gap) + don't explicitly blame tara but also don't exactly know how to view her as a victim

raven- thinks of tara as being at fault because of her own darkness + raven's life is so deeply fucked up when it comes to sa and self blame and struggle with herself that i can't even hold it against her

kory, victor- more open to seeing tara as a victim or as a kid + not child sidekicks in their early teen years + generally not as quick to blame themselves for what is done to them by other people

kory- victim of sa + goes the trauma olympics route sometimes when it comes to tara (to be fair, her past with sa and slavery is genuinely one of the most fucked up of any of the titans) + what was done to her was so blatantly wrong so she doesn't have the "i was complicit and i wanted it" angle that dick and donna have + she does view tara with more compassion than most others

victor- not a victim of sa (as far as i have read) + was a normal highschool student before so a "mentor-sidekick" dynamic like slade and tara's would be less normalized to him than the titans who were child sidekicks + faced loss of autonomy in a different way + is the nicest to tara out of all the titans

i don't really have much to say about roy, wally and garth because i can't think of their thoughts about tara from the top of my head and i will not be talking about garfield on principle alone

I think this is such a banger take anon cook.

When it comes to Tara’s relationship with Roy, Wally and Garth they never really had one.

Wally was Tara’s favourite titan but at the time he had other stuff going on + his decision to leave so he didn’t really care.

Roy and Garth both met her one time each.

Hear me out bc the way I phrase this isn’t the best but okay. I don’t particularly like Slade as an antagonist in other stories I prefer him being a villainous protagonist of his own stories. To me Slade is most interesting when he’s with his family ruining their lives. And I guess by some extent that means I’ve chosen titans bc Joey, Rose and Tanya (she’s Slade’s daughter in my heart) are all titans at some point.

I think Slade does need to be fighting hero characters to keep his like reputation of being a merc and doing his actual job. However, I don’t feel it should be defined as narrowly as just titans or just Batman. I think he CAN be a Batman villain and CAN be a Nightwing villain but I don’t think either of those should be defining for him.

If a zatanna story needs him he can be her villain for some issues, if a jsa story needs him to fill a role he can be their villain. Etc etc.

As much as I dislike identity crisis I do think it gets Slade’s ROLE as accurate to how I would like it as I can define. He gets hired by someone and then he does his job in taking them down, that’s how I think he should work. I don’t think he should have that level of power and omg he was overglazed so bad but that’s how he should work. Same with outsiders when he was in that, he had a job to do, fought the heros and got the job done. Thats what I like, when he’s versatile.

If I have to give him the definition of being anyone’s particular villain I would give it to the titans over Batman and Nightwing any day.