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I went to art school and multiple of my teachers were comics artists and/or writers, and they explained how you get hired to write/draw for a comic. It's not about talent, it's about your connexions. We were told that it didn't matter how great we were, we were never going to be published or given the opportunity to participate in making a published comics, unless we made connexions with the right folks. The thing is, these "right folks", the people in charge of publishing companies, there are often white men, and sadly, they are often sexists and/or racists. So, they will give the jobs to white men over more talented women or poc. Like, one of my professors, a comics artist, was a huge fan of a female artist and he was also pissed because, as talented as she was (and he called her "a goddess of the art"), she was not recognized or given as much opportunities as men, because it's a very sexist industry. The Angoulême festival, the most important comics festival in Europe, has been criticized plenty of times for being sexist af.

god I just want to incoherently rant about how the comic industry is so stupidly insular and has absolutely zero hiring imagination beyond their tiny existing pool of mediocre white male writers and their friends, because there are thousands of super talented and well-respected female writers across the globe who would literally kill to get their hands on Diana for a couple of years and all DC's willing to do is hire Tom King

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

They make me insane. Bruce is incapable of giving praise normally ("I expected you would" is his own way to say "I knew you could do it") and Dick is calling him "the best" and sending the praise back ("I could do it because of you"). Bruce is struggling to ask for help, cutting himself from saying "need" to, maybe, not make it sound like an obligation, and Dick answering with "I'm here. Anytime." Dick is screaming "I LOVE YOU" without screaming it. And Bruce is showing how much he believes in Dick's abilities.

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

Can we harass DC writers (comics, shows, movies, video games) with these panels, please? Like, Bruce NEEDS a kid, he is "as obsessive about family as he is about preventing crime", it's in his character to be a dad, give him his kids!!!

Also, everyone keeps talking about how being Robin is about being Bruce's kid, no mention of fighting crime, and Tim is going to take the job THEN dare to be shocked that Bruce is treating like his kid. Buddy, you were warned.

Side note about the "replace" thingy: Jason wasn't meant to replace Dick, to be Dick, he was meant to fill that void Dick's independence made. That's what Alfred is talking about. If Batman had been created before the Empty Nest syndrome was discovered, they would have named it after him, I swear.

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

There's a lot of informations about Bruce and fatherhood being shared here.

"Master Bruce has not been the same since he lost Robin... A second time." Dick leaving was a loss to Bruce. Whatever version of Dick leaving you take, this implies Bruce suffered from it.

"Someone to care about..." Bruce needs someone to take care of, like a child, to be well. That's why he needs Robin, he needs a kid. Btw, Dick is insulted because he is being told that he needs to be Robin again, not because he disagrees with Bruce needing a kid to take care of.

"That man raised me. [...] And the first thing he taught me was how to become a man, not how to become a kid all over again" Just... That's his father. That's his dad. Bruce taught him how to become an adult, which parents should do. This is so important because a huge part of this fandom acts as if Alfred was the one who raised the boys and not Bruce. No, Bruce raised them.

Also, how much Jason was loved. Bruce is devastated, Dick wants to bury Robin with Jason, and they deeply wish they could have him back.

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"Steph is too female" Who THE FUCK is making Damian listen to Andrew Tate?

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So many folks joined the batfam between Jason's death and when he came back

Jason when he comes back: WTF is there so many of you?!

Tim: Well, it seems that one new kid isn't enough to make Bruce feels better when the last one left because they died and not just moved out.

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oh…

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𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐌 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊…(2)

·˳.🦇✶˖·˳..𖥔 ݁ ˖ִֶָ࣪☾.

“This is the best day of my life.” — Batman #424 (1988)

( This quote is from a moment where Jason Todd, as Robin, pushes a criminal named Felipe out of a window to his death. )

However, this post isn’t about this particular moment, but rather a little fun fact about Jason!

Before his resurrection, Jason Todd was notably shorter than his fellow Robins. According to his death certificate, he stood at 4’6” (137 cm) and weighed 87 pounds (39 kg) at the time of his death.

This makes him significantly shorter than the average 15 year old. Kinda cute isn’t it? Especially considering Jason was the more “rough and tumble” type!

It makes me wonder if maybe this was why Bruce was a lot more protective and strict when it came to Jason? After all, imagine a small, scrawny boy fighting alongside you, going up against men who were triple his size. Literally. I can see why Bruce may have been a little anxious.

In contrast, after his resurrection and subsequent training, Jason experienced a significant growth spurt, eventually reaching a height of 6’0” (183 cm) and 6’2 (188 cm) other times.

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Sourced from “theawkwardvirgin”, Thanks!

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Bruce has never put Jason in Arkham or even jail when he deserved it, so calm down on your hate train. When Dick put Jason in Arkham, Bruce had literally left a message asking Jason to come back home and taking all the blame for everything Jason had endured. It happens at a moment where Bruce is the most forgiving batfam members toward Jason's actions, while the siblings are like "I have enough of your bs". Like, the post is literally about how Jason was a villain and killing people left and right, and needed to be imprisoned and Dick was the one to step up and finally do it, and y'all are still trying to paint him as an innocent victim and the family dealing with him hurting people they love as the villains. Also, Jason being afraid of the Joker is a very recent thing and it was not the case at the beginning of his Red Hood career. Actually, it would not have been safe for the Joker to be near Jason, because this boy would have beat his ass.

"as usual, nobody cares that dick threw jason in arkham right next to joker" ur right nobody cares‼️joker wasn't there + jason was a villain + arkham was the safest place to keep him. man got put in regular prison and killed nearly a hundred people. dick was right and he should do it again

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

What a fucking fanboy and stalker. He is excited to meet Alfred because he is Batman's confident, he knows the art pieces Bruce owns and read about them, he wants to see the whole house, he's touching everything.

Some people likes to say that Tim was only a fanboy of Dick, but I believed this boy has a Nightwing shrine, a Batman shrine and a Robin shrine. He's a lil weirdo.

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

I came for Tim Drake becoming Robin, and I was served Bruce and Harvey being "inextricably linked". So, me and who?

Do not tag this as "there's no hetero/platonic explanation for this", as an aspec, I will hunt you for sport.

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~ A Lonely Place of Dying

Bruce shuts down when confronted about the self-harming and suicidal tendencies he has developed since Jason's death. The way he stops to talk and barely moves, his eyes looking at nothing, his head slightly bowed, it's screams depression. And the circle: fight crime, get wounded, be healed, sleep, eat, fight crime...

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THIS IS A JOKE

Based on how critical of comic Jason's actions I can be, while arkham Jason is my baby.

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Collection of screenshots I took playing the Arkham games

(More for fun than actual criticism)

There's something wrong with the child Bruce's model, especially the legs. He doesn't look like he has human proportions, more like a lego.

Do you ever punch a guy and he gets stuck in the wall?

Cute Halloween decoration

Ace's bowl in Bruce's office at the Wayne Tower! Ace's canon in the Arkhamverse!

Another one stuck in the wall, but this time it's his head in the door.

Tim looks so SMALL in comparison to everything else! These are huge ass vents!

🎶 I always feel like somebody's watchin' me 🎶 (It's Azrael. Not JP tho 😢)

New fit just dropped

I think he's dead. (it's Ra's Al Ghul)

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Hate the Joker as much as y'all want, but he is not shy from calling out Batman as the parent of the batkids and that's so great. In the Batgirl DLC of Arkham Knight, he complains about Batman having a "baby brain" and how he must get rid of the babies to fix that so his attention gets back to him instead of his babies. The babies in question are Batgirl (Barbara) and Robin (Tim, who immediately disagreed with being called a baby). And a "baby brain" is a term to indicate change in a parent's brain during or after the birth of a child because of hormones to help the parent develop parental behavior. It has been primarily studied in mothers but fathers who did not birthed the baby have shown to develop it too.

Batman being clocked as a dad is one of my favorite thing ever. And the kids in question aren't even legally his, they have their own father at home, but he is still acting like a parent.

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I love that Damian is named Damian. Let me explain why.

The name Damian comes from the Greek, δαμάζω (damazo), which means "to tame, to conquer, to vanquish, to master, to overcome, to dominate", but can also mean "the untamable". Already, this is great. Damian is the heir of the League of Assassins and the Bat, he is meant to conquer all, to master everything, to dominate above all. He is meant to be untamable.

But also, the word "damazo" comes from Damia, one of the names of the goddess Cybele, a goddess that is associated with wild nature or viewed as Mother Nature. And the Al Ghul are all about nature.

Finally, "Damian", and its other forms, is a name that has become associated with the word "demon". I think this is probably why he was named this, because he is the grandson of the Demon's Head, and Damian = demon. Well, about the word "demon": it comes from the Greek δαίμων, daímôn, which is a term associated with some divinities. These divinities aren't evils, they are mostly (from the ones I have encountered being called demons) associated with the afterlife or darkness, but they aren't evil. The Furies, goddesses of vengeance and justice that go after guilty folks to punish them before their death, are called "demons" sometimes. Thanatos, god of death, is called "demon" sometimes. The negative connotation comes from the Abrahamic faiths who villainized aspects of the polytheist beliefs, so their believers would drop them (in polytheist practices, every god exists, others just use a different name or view them a different way, which is fine because they are gods, and you cannot as a mortal define. Which means that polytheist cultures don't villainize other gods they don't know or don't pray to, you can join in the celebrations without renouncing to the gods you honor. Monotheism cannot have you do that.) Hell is the example of that. Hell was simply the realm of the dead, but the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity is the guilty one here) painted it as the "bad realm of the dead" (the division of the afterlife was done centuries after Christianity was created and so the Church could hold more controls over its believers). Another one is Lilith, who was a Mesopotamian goddess also referred to as a demon, so what did the Abrahamic faiths did? They made her a creature of evil. All of this talk because Ra's Al Ghul, when he named himself that, did so to criticize religions. It was all about how demons, evil spirits and creatures are something created by religious authorities so they can target and harm people they don't like, and could harm their power. So, to finish, it makes little to no sense in my opinion for Damian to be displeased with being named or associated with demons. Because the ideology that demons are evil is associated with Abrahamic faiths, and that's not what the Al Ghul believe, they cannot have taught him that. What I'm saying is that when you write any of the Al Ghul associating demons with evil, you are looking at their family from the pov of a culture who depends heavily on an Abrahamic faith, and not from their own culture and ideologies, which are that all this religion stuff is bs. They take pride in being associated with demons, not because demons are evil entities harming humankind, but because demons are something that the authority in place hates.

Anyway, Talia cooked when she named her son Damian.

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The batfam fandom: Alfred is a saint.

Me: He was a soldier in the imperialist british army, how good can he be?