#Junie Morrison

[boricuacherry-blog]

How can we dance, we're in a simulated trance,

We just sit here all day, and play computers in our dreams

Don't we know, our machines have caught us in a tractor beam

Or we man or machine?

We have to make a chance tonight

Remember how to freak, and everything will be alright

[boricuacherry-blog]

Junie Morrison from the Ohio Players

techno-freaks, evacuate yr seats!

junie’s got a beautiful voice

[damian-lil-babybat]

"Eventually, I will no longer drown from the overflowing of an empty cup"

Pre-Morrison Talia would be the kind of love poets would write for.

Talia al Ghul, with all her history, faults, and flaws, have no means to have had so much love for the people she cherish. But she does...she does.

"We are immortals, Habibi. When others say they love forever, they lie. But we don't have the same luxury. For people like us, forever means eternity, beyond death and even after. It is a curse, my heart. Our curse. For such promise meant to taint such noble feelings— And yet, I will never apologize for loving you."

"Boy Wonder" (2024) #4 by Juni Ba.

[ghost-qwq]

coughs up my red dead doodles... haiiii

[glitter-stained]

I’m trying to get a handle on Jason as a character. I got a great answer on Jason and Tim from @ultimate-marysue but they directed me to you as the Jason Todd expert. I’m wondering about Jason and Damian now. Do they interact at all in canon? Are they friendly/friends, typical brothers, enemies, or just acquaintances? Or do they just ignore each other?

I hope you can give me an answer. Thanks either way!

Oh goodness, that's because @ultimate-marysue is an absolute sweetheart but unfortunately my Jason knowledge is far from exhaustive, especially when it comes to Jason and Damian since some of their relationship happens in, um, unfortunate comics that are hard for me to get through (they probably say that because I study developmental psychopatholgy and do in-depth analysis about jason through that length rather than exhaustive lore-knowledge).

Sorry to toss you around like a pingpong ball, but I know @daisybell-on-a-carousel is currently trying to read through every single one of Jason's apparitions in comics (godspeed), so depending of where they're at in the comics they're definitely the one to ask for stuff like that in general. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who posts a lit of lore/meta about Damian and Jason's relationship, but I do know @spicy-apple-pie loves Damian a lot and does really sweet comics so idk if they can help you but at the very least if they can't you'll get to read some cute comics.

The little I know about Jason and Damian's relationship:

-Jason and Damian's first meeting, from what I've gathered, is either from Battle for the Cowl (brutally butchers Jason's character, my second least favourite ever if I could go back in time to stop Tony Daniel from writing it I would), in which Jason shoots Damian in the chest, or Morrison's Batman & Robin run (somehow even more hated by the fans than Daniel, Morrison has admitted later to just not liking Jason's character. According to a survey I'm running these two are in the top three of worst Jason writers, but Morrison has a bonus of also butchering Talia's character to an unfathomable level and I don't know if I like his Damian very much either.) in that run (which is Dickbats with robin!Damian) Jason is portrayed as the classic "crazy evil villain" bs and making Dick his sworn-enemy apparently (he's more of a plot device than anything imo). So, we're off to a great start.

-The issue is, with the reboot, I find it pretty hard to clarify for some events which ones are still canon or not. The current state of dc comics is pushing the batfam conception more than ever before, with Jason back in the family (something that vaguely happened off-screen in the n52) and neither jason, dick, tim, damian nor anybody else seems to reference or resent anything about that despite how cartoonishly evil jason was in those so I think it's implied that they're not canon anymore (and I hope they stay this way and buried under twenty layers of retcon). However I don't think I've heard or seen any mention of a different first meeting for them so there's this shadow area of yeah btfc and morrison's jason probably didn't happen but then what did?

-currently as I said dc (ie tom king amongst others) pushes for a very "classical family batfam vibe" so they're on panel/on missions together but i haven't heard of them having arcs together in mainline (people who know more than me please feel free to correct me in the notes, in general but also if there's more about this specifically). I'm getting "siblings that don't really like eachother but don't hate eachother either vibes", especially on Damian's part. It's really not the most developed relationship in the batfam, of that I'm sure.

-for many people I've seen that their favourite damian and jason comic is juni ba's boy wonder volume 2. It isn't canon in mainline (and not my favourite jason characterization tbh) but since the two of them don't seem to interact that much in canon and the story is pretty popular and feels kinda parallel-ish to canon I get why people would consider it their reference. Also it has pretty sick designs for the both of them which certainly doesn't hurt.

-in the young justice show, a brainwashed/brain damaged(?) Jason is shown holding a baby Damian in his arms. This has no incidence on any dc comics canon but is extremely cute and therefore worth mentioning.

[cluescorner]

What I like about this more than anything is that Juni Ba clearly KNOWS THAT THE LoA IS NOT JUST A FUCKING CULT! They are eco-terrorists first and foremost. It was formed by a man who has witnessed how humans ravage the earth and decided that the only solution was drastic population reduction (similar to how Poison Ivy is sometimes written). Their goal is to preserve the earth, the cult-ish stuff is secondary and imo mostly a result of Ra's demanding absolute loyalty from everyone (to the point of even trying to make his own daughter kill the man she loved), a means to an end (in order to ensure loyalty), and his own ego. So yeah, to say that they would HATE billionaires and the elites who hoard their wealth to further strip the world of its resources and pollute it in order to further fill their own pockets...is an understatement. I hate when people write them as ONLY an assassin cult as if that's the only thing there is to them. I hope that in the next issue we get to see more of the environmentalist side of the LoA, this line just gave me way too much hope lmao

[aalghul]

read boywonder and exploded died (in a bad way)

talia... what have they done to you... what do they always do to you... ‘there is no honour in assassin’s work’ talia... where are u... the apple of my eye, i adore her sm very close to sending pipebombs to GM everyday waow...

watching people talk about how good this was for talia feels like chewing glass. boy wonder was clearly written by someone who has not read anything involving talia prior to grant morrison and doesn't care about her outside of whatever can justify her becoming an abusive backstory for damian.

boy wonder completely disrespects her struggle during the time when she was so conflicted because she wanted to be loyal to her father but wasn't sure if she believed in him entirely anymore. the struggle existed because talia knew she would not abide by nor aid him if she did not agree with him. because talia has her own moral compass and beliefs that she follows. juni ba disregards this very important part of her journey to instead make her an entirely different character apparently did not disagree with ra's at any point before her own son was threatened (going as far as making her uncaring towards damian's former caretaker to show us how twisted her way of thinking is. mind you, this is supposedly the same talia who cried the first time she accidentally killed someone and has risked her life to help strangers, the JLA, jason todd, etc). she has to be turned into a different person just because boy wonder needs her to be framed as a somewhat sympathetic villain who gets what she deserves by having her son leave her for a better family. her "happy ending" is knowing that damian's other family is making him happy, which she never could because the story deems her incapable of that.

along these lines is another thing i found insulting: juni ba insinuating that talia's love for bruce may have been caused by talia wanting to please her father, who wanted bruce as an heir. when in reality, ra's only took notice of bruce after talia fell in love with bruce. it was because talia was outspoken enough in front of her father to bring up bruce that ra's cared about him at all. it was because talia had been off in cairo studying medicine that she had been caught up in a scheme that took her to bruce. all of those were her own choices, and juni ba wants us to question whether any of it was real because he doesn't believe talia has ever had agency. all because he himself clearly has never read talia outside of recent comics.

related to the above: juni ba insists talia wanted to be the heir to the league of assassins. pre-GM talia has never expressed this. she's never even implied it. from everything we've seen, it's pretty clear she would never want to nor would she able to stomach so much death. because it's canon that talia's heart hurts for everyone she sees killed. but, again, juni ba does not care about this whatsoever because his story is about damian and the bats. talia's characterization is always acceptable collateral damage when it comes to damian and the bats.

the more I think about it, the more I hate juni ba's misinterpretation of her. people so readily accept things like boy wonder and WFA when it comes to talia because they know so little about the most foundational parts of her character and it's really upsetting that big projects will continue to give such ooc stories as the best case scenario for talia. this is equivalent to someone writing a story where bruce decided to not take in dick or jason because the mission's more important than one kid. that would make bruce a different and less compelling character, right? that's exactly what happened to talia here (and in wfa and in everything GM wrote and in pretty much every story written since then). these are very integral parts of her character. if boy wonder as a story can't function without talia being so thoroughly destroyed? it was never a story worth telling (and it really isn't. because it's truly not a good story at all, which makes talia being wrecked for it even worse).

it makes me so angry because things like this are exactly why people don't see talia the same way they see selina or bruce or any other character ever! she continues to be pushed into the role of the harmful past who can only atone for her mistakes by now becoming an obsolete observer.

[alldancersaretalented]

How many placing dancers won 1st at regionals (including Radix)

disclaimer: just thought it might be interesting, especially because certain dancers who won 4/4 times didn't place at all.

Minis that placed:

4/4: Belle Marie Arauz, Stella Brinkerhoff

3/4: Sylvie Win Szyndlar, Kennedy Marble, Mikayla Isler

2/4: Tatum Self, Junie Beus, Chase Lang

1/4: Savannah Jackson, Harper Schwalb, Abbey Scott, Melina Biltz

Dancers that won at regionals but didn't place in overalls at TDA LV (only including dancers that scored a DJ's Pick!):

3/4: Jessica Sutton (1)

1/4: Aria McCrea, Soleil Lynch, Kinley Harper, Naomi Harper, Remington Frye, Kaci Oh (6)

Juniors that placed:

4/4: (0)

3/4: Aria Du, Ella-Nani Knight (2)

2/4: Skylar Wong, Kelsie Jacobson, Brooklyn Ward, Charlotte Shinnefield (4)

1/4: Isla Gardner, Monica Gonzalez, Violet Schwarz, Bella Charnstrom, Vera Escamilla (5)

Teens that placed:

4/4: (0)

3/4: Makaia Roux (1)

2/4: Lilly Allen, Taylor Morrison, Claire Monge, Kylie Kaminsky, Stella Condie, Keelyn Jones (6)

1/4: Savannah Manzel, Laci Bloss, Klaire Simek (2)

Dancers that won at regionals but didn't place in overalls at TDA LV (only including dancers that scored a DJ's Pick!):

1/4: Failenn Daley, Gigi Mourad, Kinley Bertrand, Alexis Alvarez (4)

Seniors that placed:

4/4: (0)

3/4: Izzy Lynch, Hudson Pletcher, Caleb Abea, Lola Iglesias (4)

2/4: Keira Redpath, Cameron Kennedy, Ayla Rodriguez (3)

1/4: Eric Barker, Caroline Skrable, Brielle McCoy, Bella Jarvis (4)

Dancers that won at regionals but didn't place in overalls at TDA LV (only including dancers that scored a DJ's Pick!):

1/4: Charly Frost, Gianna Mojonnier, Kieran Holmes, Mia Ibach (4)

[solardrink]

hi so so sorry if this is annoying if it is pls ignore it. but i rly wanna get into the batman comics, specifically grant morrisons run and i have NO IDEA where to start and if u have any wisdom id really appreciate it 🙏🙏 thank you thank you good day

Ooooooooooooo

Don’t EVER apologize for asking ANYTHING lemme help u out :3

This is prolly the most straightforward list I could find on the order to read his stuff in

And my personal recommendation(s)?

The Boy Wonder by Juni Ba, phenomenal writer and artist!! A must-read if you like Damian in particular also the recent Wonder Woman comics containing Trinity ! Very cute has Lizzie and Supersons andddd yeah!

[ceristhedivine]

Just gonna add onto this: Good Damian stories are when he is actually in character and not shoved into the high school/anime phase of a stereotypical insecure, meek, gullible, disorganized, emo boy.

(YES. I'M GLARING POINTS AT JOSHUA WILLIAMSON TOO ✌️🫵).

writers seeing a kind-hearted boy who just had a rough childhood: is this a brat?

[kerakeriza]

I do not find my enemies in fandom. I find my enemies among official DC writers and editors. The only reason anyone in the fandom thinks Talia is a bad person is because of (unfortunately) canon comics, kick-started by Greg Rucka and continued by Grant Morrison.

The only reason anyone thinks Ra's doesn't love his family was also kick-started by Greg Rucka.

Because of that fuckhead... Damian's entire backstory relies on a version of Ra's that didn't exist until the year 2000, contradicting 30 years of his history, and a version of Talia that is predicated entirely on her being brainwashed and acting out of character on purpose. If it weren't for Rucka, Morrison never would've had the *chance* to set this brainwashed, evil version of Talia in stone.

If it weren't for Rucka, the Resurrection of Ra's Al Ghul would never have happened, and we'd never be forced to witness a version of this character willing to ruin his own family just to extend his own lifespan again.

Gleason wouldn't have invented that ridiculous Year of Blood concept. There would be no mass slaughter of man-bat creatures. There would be no Goliath.

Juni Ba wouldn't be continuing the cycle of destroying Ra's's character to prop up someone else's tragic backstory.

So many of my problems started with Greg fucking Rucka.

[djmossback]

Spacebar 07/20/24

Third Space Saturday

The Tracks

2100 hrs

Brothers Johnson, Strawberry Letter 23 (12 Inch)

Grace Jones, I Need A Man (12 Inch)

Junie Morrison, Techno-Freqs (12 Inch)

Wire, Ahead (12 Inch)

KC and The Sunshine Band, I’m Your Boogie Man (LP cut)

Judas Priest, Metal Gods (LP cut)

George Clinton, Do Fries Go With That Shake (12 Inch)

One Way, Cutie Pie (12 Inch EP cut)

Beastie Boys, She’s Crafty (LP cut)

Booker T. & The MG’s, Hip Hug-Her (LP cut)

Average White Band, Pick Up The Pieces (LP cut)

Foreigner, Urgent (12 Inch)

ZZ Top, Cheap Sunglasses (LP cut) (2200 hrs)

Emotions, Best Of My Love (LP cut)

Michael Jackson, Rock With You (7 inch)

Sanford and Townsend Band, Smoke From A Distant Fire (LP cut)

Dazz Band, Let It Whip (7 inch)

Gap Band, Outstanding (LP cut)

Robert Palmer, You Are In My System (7 inch)

Roots Manuva, Again & Again (12 Inch)

Sade, Hang On To Your Love (12 Inch)

Dillinger, Cokane In My Brain (7 inch)

Simple Minds, Don’t You Forget About Me (12 Inch)

Vince Staples, Norf Norf (LP cut)

Flying Lizards, Money (That’s What I Want) (LP cut)

Dry Cleaning, Scratchcard Lanyard (7 inch)

Mary Jane Girls, In My House (12 Inch)

Donna Summer, I Feel Love (12 Inch)

Berlin, The Metro (7 inch)

DEVO, Snowball (7 inch)

Tilt, Arcade Funk (12 Inch)

Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue (LP cut)

Toni Basil, Mickey (7 inch)

The Clash, Rock The Casbah (7 inch)

Cheryl Lynn, Got To Be Real (7 inch)

Lakeside, Fantastic Voyage (LP cut)

Steve Miller Band, Abracadabra (7 inch)

Run DMC, Walk This Way (12 Inch)

Nazareth, RAZAMANAZ (LP cut)

Amyl & The Sniffers, Some Mutts (7 inch)

Kingsmen, Louie Louie (7 inch)

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Ruby (Don’t Take Your Love To Town) (7 inch)

Police, Roxanne (7 inch)

Go-Go’s, We Got The Beat (7 inch)

Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi’s Dead (12 Inch)

Madvillain, America’s Most Blunted (12 Inch)

Cameo, Word Up (12 Inch)

Skee-Lo, I Wish (12 Inch)

Pet Shop Boys, West End Girls (12 Inch)

Eiffel 65, Move Your Body (12 Inch)

Kylie Minogue, Can’t Get Blue Monday Out Of My Head (12 Inch)

J.J. Fad, Supersonic (12 Inch)

Ohio Players, Love Rollercoaster (12 Inch EP cut)

James Brown,I Got You (I Feel Good) (7 inch)

Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Mistadobalina (LP cut)

Kendrick Lamar, YAH (LP cut)

Leroy Sibbles Nicodemus, Rock Steady Party (12 Inch)

Barbara Lewis, Baby I’m Yours (LP cut)

0113 Finished

The scenery

TASTING NOTES

I spent the day not thinking about the set, preferring to head into Spacebar “cold” to see what developed. But, I had spent a fair amount of time since my last set combing through online lists and the singles section of the local Record Hut to find some fresh material. And, a lot of it found its way onto the decks and into the ears of the listeners at Third Space Saturday. I do love the format of the single. I’m not necessarily attached to the extended mixes; often I will play the LP cut included on the single, or the 7” mix if it is on there. I like the focus of the shorter versions, but sometimes the songs lend themselves to the stretched-out format. Just depends on the song, as always.

It is really hot in Boise – not just summer heat, but triple-digit temperatures every day for weeks on end. I got sweaty just loading the rig. When I got downtown, there was a huge event of some sort happening in Capitol Park, with several streets blocked, and I worried that I would have trouble finding a parking space. But I found a space really close, and rolled my gear into the elevator. Nothing worked. The door wouldn’t even close. I text Will, and am surprised when he appears at the elevator. We lug all my gear down the stairs, past the line going upstairs to the speakeasy. Evidently, the fire department had visited just before I got there, because the fog machine had tripped the fire alarm. Will is working the door, and I recognize absolutely none of the bar staff.

I’m later than I wanted to be, so after I set myself up, I hurriedly weigh my options. I usually start with a song that has kind of a fanfare intro, but tonight it seemed appropriate to ease into things, so I chose “Strawberry Letter 23” by the Brothers Johnson, a new 12” single I acquired last week. My first hour is a combination of 12” extended versions and LP cuts; going from Wire to KC and the Sunshine Band to Judas Priest to George Clinton sounded better in person than it looks on the page. The bar scene is ebbing and flowing as usual, but it’s summer, people are outside, or in the mountains, or hunkered down in the most air-conditioned spot they can find.

I put on a long Grace Jones single, and Will gives me a tour of the changes coming to the bar. The room that used to house the print shop is cleared out. It’s going to house more machines, and be a separate space within the space. The music will still be there, but there will be more options for people, and a better use of the space, which was not generating enough use before. It will be good to give people more places to hang, to be with their people. Our sound volume is lower, which I kind of like. It presents the music better, and makes things more comfortable.

My son shows up with a posse. He comes into the booth and greets me. I express my unease, how I feel like I’m aging out of such things as nightlife, and fun, but he is unconvinced. Says I’m fine. He heads out on the floor with his crew, and I lose track of him for a while. About a half-hour later he comes back up to say goodbye, introduces me to a friend, and they ask about the Grime record I played. Roots Manuva. They dig it. I told them I couldn’t see anyone reacting to the music one way or the other, aside from the kid who came up and scrolled through the new internet jukebox that’s on the wall by the bar. They assured me that people were vibing, even the youngsters. It was good to hear, and I noticed people moving to the beat after that.

After Sam leaves, I don’t see a single person I know come in for the rest of the night. I am ok with this. Not that I don’t love the support from people I know, but I’m also a realist. I know it would require great effort for me to be out downtown on a Saturday night, so I understand what it entails.

I’ve hardly played any 7” records, mostly concentrating on longer 12” mixes from my new acquisitions. It feels really good. I’m putting things together in the right places, there are very few technical gaffes from me, and I generally feel good about how I’ve put records together.

The Donna Summer 12” single “I Feel Love” is a record I’ve been looking for my entire adult life, and now it’s mine. The 8-minute version did not disappoint! The mechanized spine of the song, the repetitive bubbling riff, it was the first record I heard from her, and I instantly became a fan. The simplicity and directness appealed to me, as did the four-on-the-floor kick drum.

I put a different Nazareth track into the mix, RAZAMANAZ. (I don’t know, it just seems to work better in all caps.) I had it cued and ready to go, but I then reversed course, and instead of following it up with RUN-DMC (again with the all caps!) I switched the order, and played “Walk With Me” first. It worked. The Nazareth track is like Motorhead, with a “better” singer. I need to find a better copy of the record, though. It was kind of worn. So is the Bauhaus record I plucked from a dollar section a while ago. Even though it’s got an audible (and visible) scratch on it, it plays through, and the surface noise doesn’t detract – it kind of adds something to the sound of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.” It’s kind of a gothic doppelganger to the Donna Summer record – repetitive, atmospheric, less busy and more organic. Music is amazing that way. Very disparate intentions coming through, and changing the way things sound. And you don’t stop/you go on and on/til the break of dawn.

The thing is, though, a lot of the old 7” records from the ’50s and ’60s still sound great, even with the wear. The record players they were made for were not like the Hi-Fi players for classical and pop records of the day, and by pop records, I mean things like Doris Day, Johnny Mathis and other adult music. I’m fascinated by how time takes language and meaning and metamorphosizes it to fit the needs of people, of audiences, of commerce. You don’t/can’t control it, but you can ride it, and see where it goes.

That is the essence of what I am trying to do: follow the through line, and paint pictures, express myself, play things that sound good to me, communicate a feeling and vibe to people. I didn’t put Amyl and the Sniffers next to the Kingsmen and follow it up with Kenny Rogers to be a clever show-off, I did it because I thought it would sound good, that they were all good records, and the juxtaposition would make a listener reconsider what those songs were about.

Or, they could just vibe to the beat.

I’m so happy I get to do this, and I’m glad to have the opportunity to contribute to Spacebar Arcade. I sometimes feel I should be doing more – get on the microphone and get the party started, as it were. It’s just not me. All I can do is show up until they tell me not to. It’s a tough business. It’s not complicated, but it is unpredictable. You can do everything right, and still fail. Luck is underestimated by our culture. Being in the right place, at the right time, doing something you love and believe in and being rewarded? It’s not a given. Trust this: it’s just business. Pivot. Change course. Listen. Be true to yourself.

Next Third Space Saturday for me is on September 21st, 2024. I’m taking August off for Holiday. Just like a European.

[cature]

characters. susan pevensie, himari takakura, blair waldorf, clara oswald, odette (bluth animation), celia bowen, kirakishou, clara / the changeling (patho), mina harker, arabella strange, nicolas de lenfent, faith lehane, abigail hobbs, olivia dunham, river tam, wendy darling, lelouch vi britannia, xie lian, alice morgan.

listen. boygenius, carly rae jepsen, dashboard confessional, death cab for cutie, debussy, deco*27, ellie golding, fall out boy, fiona apple, frank turner, ghost quartet, green day, james morrison, loona, majiko, mayday parade, meg and dia, my chemical romance, natori, orla gartland, paramore, perfume, radwimps, regina spektor, slipknot, stormzy, taylor swift, the 1975, the decemberists, the used, the weepies, thriving ivory, yoh kamiyama, you me at six. [insane playlist here.]

play. 1bitheart, arkham asylum, caligula effect, corpse party, dgrp, dead space, death mark, deemo, fate extra, honkai impact, legend of zelda (ocarina), lobotomy corp, nanastars, outlast, oxenfree, pathologic, payday, persona, pixel horror, red candle, resident evil, rumu, silent hill, sims, skullgirls, transistor, undertale, until dawn, warhammer, we know the devil, yume nikki.

read. animorphs, cheese in the trap, clamp, cold comfort farm, discworld, dungeon meshi, fables, hooky, inso’s law, iwtv, jjk, live forever, lotr, more than human, morning glories, narnia, old kingdom, orange, pandora hearts, rubyquest, shinshi doumei cross, strange tales of oscar zahn, sweet home, the house on falling star hill, the night circus, the red country, tokyo ghoul, uglies, uzumaki, watership, wmmap, witch hat atelier, x-men, yumi’s cells.

watch. 28 days later, 30 days of night, ahs coven, baccano, btvs, code geass, critrole, death parade, doctor who (classic, big finish, new, novelizations) firefly, fringe, fdtd, got, ginger snaps, goblin, gossip girl, hellboy, i am in eskew, juni taisen, justified, kiznaiver, labyrinth, les mis, luther, magpod (s5 hater), motorcity, mxtx, netflix haunting, no. 6, penguindrum, precure, princess tutu, rozen maiden, the thick of it, tmfu film, yorimoi, zankyou no terror.

[cspasfan15]

Updated TDA LV Predictions

My Last predictions before tomorrow

Mini Female

Top 25- Macey Strickland, Penelope jenson, Neala Murphy, Abbey Scott, Melina Biltz, Nixie Vance, Aria McCrea, Remington Frye, Kinley Harper, Scarlett Manzel, Naomi Harper, Amanda Carpenter

Top 13- Jessica Sutton, Stella Brinkerhoff, Mikayla Isler, Belle Marie Arauz, Madisyn Rose Amos, Junie Beus, Lexie Charnstrom, Alivia Hughes, Maylin Munos

Top 4- Savannah Jackson, Tatum Self, Kennedy Marble, Lucia Piedrahita

Mini Male

Top 4- Chase Lang, Kyle Young, Brody Schaffer, Sebastian Saenger

Junior Female

Top 24- Rory Frye, Brooklyn Ward, Ella-Nani Knight, Piper Perusse, Violet Schwarz, Mika Takase, Kylie Lawrence, Mila Ayshford, Vera Escamilla, Isla Gardner, Charlotte Shinnefield, Tayah Klimuck

Top 13- Brynn Jones, Kennedy Anderson, Anistyn Larsen, Roxie Onellion, Finley Ashfield, Annabella Atkinson, Emery Duffin, Bella Charnstrom, Lilly Anderson

Top4- Aria Du, Skylar Wong, Kelsie Jacobson, Emily Polis

Junior Male

Top 4- Matthew Conway, Grayson Niemczyk, Aiden Ecenbarger, Lincoln Russo

Teen female

Top 22- Madison Ronquillo, Caroline McGowan, Katie Shinn, Kinsley Oykhman, Georgia Beth Peters, Keelyn Jones, Vivienne Mitchell, Laci Bloss, Daphnie braun, Mya Tuaileva

Top 12- Caitlyn Polis, Makaia Roux, Kamri Peterson, Stella Condie, Kira Chan, Mariandrea Villegas, Kylie Kaminsky, Ellie Duffin

Top 4- Lilly Allen, Savannah manzel, Taylor Morrison, Claire Monge

Teen male

Top 12- Justin Nguyen, Griffin Abrahamse, Daniel Tamburro, Cade Kaiser, Gabriel Kleeman, Cayman Lee, Caleb Livingston, Johnny Gray

Top 4- Logan Asuncion, Musa Fofana, Zachary Roy, Cooper Macalalad

Senior Female

Top 21- Maliah Howard, Addison Middleton, Zoe Ridge, Brightyn Rines, Madison Goulding, Ceilidh McSeveney, Gianna Mojonnier, Gianna Garwacki

Top 13- Kaitlyn Tom, Beth Anne McGowan, Lola Iglesias, Ayla Rodriguez, Isabella Jarvis, Brielle McCoy, Alexis Leistner, Caroline Skrable, Emma Donnelly

Top 4- Izzy Howard, Hailey Bills, Isabella Lynch, Keira Redpath

Senior Male

Top 10- Grayson Skarsvaag, Charlie Head, Erik Barker, Adin Pracic, Jagger Starr, Alonzo Dock

Top 4- Hudson Pletcher, Caleb Abea, Drew Rosen, Cameron kennedy

[dew1s]

kay so i know you haven't asked me, but there's been something that's been bugging me, and it's about the batfandom.

for the most part, i DESPISE the batfandom.

the main reason: "It's ALWAYS racism"

every. single. time. someone. in. the. batfam. is. a. poc. there's. racism.

"oh, cass doesn't have enough personality! it's because the writers are racist!"

"damian is portrayed as feral because he's brown!"

"signal doesn't have any other hairstyle because he's BLACK and the writers are AFRIAD cuz they're RACIST!!"

bruh.

idk if you agree with them, and if you do, i'd love to debate you! (amicabaly)

and it seems to me that there's such simple explanations, especially for the damian one.

maybe (and here me out on this one) it's because. . . he was raised by the laugue of assassins. who kill people. and he's basically a baby and we all know how babies are. it's so simple. also, damian is a pretty grumpy-looking kid, and it's easy to show grumpy people as feral.

anyway, yes, i don't want this to turn into a rant, though i fear that it has regardless, so have a good day! and one question-who's your least fav dc character?

This is a great ask!

Now I'm not gonna deny that there is racism in dc comics because there definitely is.

I can't necessarily speak on Duke and cass although I think cass does have a personality so I'm not sure where fans are getting that from lol and Duke is one of my favourite batman characters and I think hes really well written despite not being including in many comics.

However I can definitely speak on damian. I don't have an issue with how damian is written. It makes sense that he acts the way he does. He was raised to be a weapon and praised for his ruthlessness. Of course he's gonna act 'feral'. And his character has developed a lot over time. I'm happy that he isn't a copy and paste of the other Robins.

I do have a problem with how damian is drawn though. Talia is brown. Bruce is white. Realistically Damian should have a skin colour in the middle. So why does he look identical to Tim? Why does he have no ethnic features. It's a bit irritating for the only arab robin to have that aspect of him erased.

And don't get me started on Grant Morrisons character assassination of Talia.

I don't think it's fair to blame everything on racism but there is definitely some remnants of racism that come with a franchise so old.

And I think Juni Ba's 'The Boy Wonder' is a really well written Damian story which I would 100% recommend. (Sneaking in a plug for a really good comic >:] )

Anyway that's my opinion :)

And when it comes to least favourite dc character I've genuinely been sat trying to think of one but I can't think of any. There's loads that I'm indifferent towards and ofc I hate characters but not in the sense that they're badly written if you get what I mean. Maybe I'll come back again later when I've thought of someone. But I'd love to know who ur least favourite dc character is!