#he just rubs me the wrong way

[sso-montana]

I started playing Genshin Impact a bit over a week ago. Oh dear, the rabbit hole I fell down. Anyway, 1 am thought of the day: what would Montana playing Genshin look like.

Answer: Bennett and Amber are her faves. This bitch has a soft spot for pure cinnamon rolls and she hates it. She also wants Beidou and Ningguang to step on her, and honestly, can't blame her. Pobably mains Diluc cause she thinks he's relatable. Will feed Mona to Garnok any day.

[comedicreliefonlyworkswhenfunny]

@wahhchan if you're still looking for unpopular HeroAca opinions ((I was gonna send in an ask, but I wanted to explain my reasoning and it didn't fit in the ask box))

I don't like Best Jeanist.

Of course, he's a strong Hero making it to the number three spot in the rankings. All of his interns and sidekicks wear denim because that's the fabric that he has the most control over and can easily save them in a pinch.

However, the way that he treated Bakugou was uncalled for in my opinion. Yes, Bakugou is a work in progress. He's a spitfire asshole that frankly couldn't give two shits about public image, and, yes unfortunately, his mindset on the matter does need to change. However, Jeanists way of doing so was rather unnecessary.

Imagine one of the top five Heroes reaches out to you as an aspiring hero student- then you learn that they only picked you because they thought you were a problem.

That's how Jeanist dealt with Bakugou. Like he was a problem that needed to be fixed.

Yes, he has some bad ways, but, in my eyes, he didn't really grow during that internship. In canon, Bakugou respects Jeanist and understands where he was coming from, but, to me, those are two different things. Yes, I think that Bakugou's behavior needed to be tackled, but the way Jeanist went about it rubs me the wrong way.

Idk it gives me the same vibes as the people who want bad things to happen to Bakugou so that he learns to be a better person, but bad things have already happened to Bakugou and it's only hindered his development.

He tried to force Bakugou to maintain the perfect pretty image that he had in mind of a Hero rather than learning what Bakugou's goals for his own image were. Even if Bakugou only chose the Agency because it looked good, that's only to be expected because he's a child with a one track mind. Jeanist took advantage of that and set out to make Bakugou "his project" rather than "his intern." He didn't see Bakugou or an aspiring Hero student with goals and aspirations; he saw a problem child that needed fixing.

Maybe I would like him more if we actually got to see him and Bakugou interacting more than we had. Maybe if we got them having a heart to heart or something, but all I really got from their interacting was that Jeanist saw Bakugou's problematic behavior. Even if Bakugou learned from that experience, it's a poor overall message that 'problems need to be fixed-' even moreso when those 'problems' are children.

[missmitchieg]

I’m serious about Trevor pulling strings to go see Carrie perform in venues he makes calls and pays for, by the way. If you’re gonna pull strings for you kid to go places, you better pull strings to get yourself there for emotional support, too.

I mean, look at Carrie. She doesn’t get approval and/or validation from her father other than him (according to Flynn anyway, so it might not even be a true/accurate statement but an assumption) getting Katy Perry’s choreographer (what if it was her and Kayla as co-choreographers, hmm?) and buying cool costumes (what if Carrie bought and DIY’d their costumes herself, hmm? What if she designed them herself, hmm?), so she seeks approval and validation from teachers and classmates and record execs that can make her a big name everywhere because she doesn’t get it from him. Like, he’ll probably tell her their lyrics are good or they sound good in rehearsals but he won’t show up at performances.

Meanwhile, Ray memorized the lyrics to Finally Free and was very apologetic about costing Julie an opportunity at Eats & Beats just because she was supposed to be studying and called Flynn to tell the kids at school Julie’s performing and was there and filmed it with a professional camera to put a high quality video on her youtube channel so that people could watch it again and again and maybe some big names in music could find it and he was openly completely supportive of the band and was there at The Orpheum and was paying attention and cared and was singing the words with her and Carlos when they got home.

And that’s not even mentioning that Ray knew Rose’s passing hit Julie hard and put her in therapy and told her she could go back if she felt like she needed to and was looking at school music programs in Australia for Julie to go to if she didn’t get back into the program at Los Feliz

So, yeah.

[windsroad]

I get that joe manganiello is very famous and really loves dnd but he’s pretty much the last celebrity I’d want to play dnd with

[sexyvictorfrankenstein]

absolutely no one: *me, projects onto Logan (sometimes virgil) because he reminds me a lot of myself a year or two ago constantly and bullies patton because he reminds me of someone who hurt me*

some random fander: “oh fuck you!! how dare you hate patton my soft little bean!! you are the scum of the earth!!”

[yokohamasonebraincell]

me @ this character: no

[bootdork]

...I don’t care for Chris Pratt

[chattahoochiecoochie]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m overjoyed that Max is okay. To lose such a young and talented driver so early in his career would be horrific. But his attitude? Babe. Please. Helmut’s comments and the whole lawyer fiasco, Christian Horner’s comments about the crash, Max’s dad being such a dick to Toto who was just trying to be professional and kind? Obviously those people aren’t Max but hes in wrapped up in it all and is basically Horner’s star child. The whole thing just gives me the heebie jeebies. Redbull sold their soul for Max, and I’m just really curious, outside of wins, what are they getting? Because to me its seems like its just more toxic as the weeks bear on.

[saveadancejustforyou]

i used to adore zayn but... he’s a cheater and a pretty shitty person underneath all this? and his fans defend him like a baby, especially about him leaving 1d which was in reality prompted by yet another cheating scandal with a blonde woman

[acleangreenlightedplace]

I don’t think I’ve ever disliked a man more than I dislike tom brady

[smp-live]

I was rewatching Resurrected Gentleman and I noticed a specific Wilbur quote: “You’re not a follower, [Tommy]. You stand up for yourself, you fight for what you believe in.” And it stuck out to me because of cc!Wilbur’s “He just wants someone to follow,” since this new context of his understanding of c!Tommy means that it’s a c!Wilbur-specific belief that Tommy isn’t a follower, and not a carry-over from the cc’s knowledge. He deliberately made his character believe that Tommy isn’t someone meant to follow others.

Which does make sense, given c!Wilbur’s experiences with Tommy. Tommy’s always been by his side, yes, but never blindly listening to him. He’s always rebelled in his own way, whenever he thinks Wilbur is being stupid. The duel for L’Manburg’s independence, the Railway War, opposing the TNT plan, all of these were done while under Wilbur’s leadership but directly opposed his instructions. And given how notable these events are, it’s not surprising that Wilbur remembers the times he didn’t follow him more than the times he did. He remembers Tommy as this rebellious kid who didn’t listen to Dream, who didn’t listen to him, didn’t listen to his lessons, and even went directly against his orders, half the time, even while sticking nearby.

But that’s one of Tommy’s most admirable traits, isn’t it? Despite wanting someone to look up to, someone’s judgment on which to fall back on, he never gives up his morals for it. If his gut tells him what they’re doing is wrong, he will make that known, without ever leaving their side. Tommy follows, he needs someone to follow, but he’s not a follower.

[marshmallowgoop]

Spoilers for the ninth Detective Conan OVA, "The Stranger From 10 Years Later."

Realistically, out-of-universe, I know it's little more than fanservice. It's a peek at what a popular recurring character's future could be, a snapshot of how things may turn out for him. But in-universe, I can't help thinking about the implications of 26- or 27-year-old Heiji's short cameo appearance in Shinichi's literal fever dream.

There's an immense level of detail to the entire scenario. The tree in the Kudo yard has grown taller, downtown Tokyo is littered with new buildings and renovated old ones, a high school teacher's face is lined with more wrinkles than he ought to have after a mere "few months." It's a vibrant, breathing world that Shinichi's imagined—one that indicates to me that he's deeply considered the possibility of never returning to his old life. He's walked by his home, in a body so small that he can't even unlock the gate, and thought to himself, "One day, that tree will tower over the fence, but I'll still be stuck as tiny Conan." He's ruminated about it, wondered and speculated and deliberated, how the city around him will change while he hasn't been allowed to, not in the way he wants.

And he's done the same concerning Heiji. And... it's positive. Immensely so.

Interviewer: For today, we'll be interviewing... The famous detective from Naniwa, Hattori Heiji-san! He has brilliantly solved numerous intricate cases and is now recognized all over Japan! He's even opened his own detective agency!

Or, at least, it is at first, anyway. It's quickly revealed that Heiji and Kazuha's relationship hasn't progressed in the slightest, which, while obviously not a particularly favorable outcome for either of them, does say something about Shinichi. Because you could argue that Shinichi envisions Heiji living the life that he himself so desperately desires. You could say that the true purpose of Heiji's appearance in this OVA is to accentuate the future that Shinichi craves but cannot have, not yet and never as himself, where he's the mastermind behind a thriving, well-renowned detective agency, where an interview with him is unquestioningly broadcast on a huge screen overlooking Tokyo streets, where busy passersby stop in place, look up, and listen to what he has to say.

And... where he's also popular with girls.

Heiji is known as "The Lady-Killer of Naniwa" in Shinichi's imagination, and especially early in the manga, Shinichi does explicitly enjoy that kind of attention (File 10, included as File 1 in Volume 2, spells this out directly).

Interviewer: I've heard that the young ladies have a certain nickname for Hattori-san... "The Lady-Killer of Naniwa."

But the fact that Heiji and Kazuha have gotten nowhere points me elsewhere. This isn't an idealized fantasy that Shinichi wishes he could have for himself in the slightest. Ran is his dream. The emotional heart of this special, the dominant, overarching tragedy, is how Conan's overwriting and erasure of Shinichi prevents him from being with his lifelong love. There's no way that Shinichi would ever imagine a "happy end" that's anything like what Heiji and Kazuha have going on in this OVA.

So, what does Shinichi's conception of 26- or 27-year-old Heiji mean? A few things:

Even in this nightmarish "bad end," Shinichi cannot conceive of a life without Heiji, just as he cannot conceive of a life without Ran. It's unthinkable.

Shinichi wholeheartedly believes that Heiji will be wildly successful in his career.

Shinichi wholeheartedly believes that Heiji is so attractive and good-looking that of course he'll be wildly popular with women. Undoubtedly.

tl;dr, Shinichi's thought about Heiji's future, and those thoughts are really essentially, "Yeah, there's no way that my boy Hattori isn't going to have his own fantastic detective agency one day, and also, he's a hunk, so he'll be called 'The Lady-Killer of Naniwa.'"

Seriously.

[bigskydreaming]

That last reblog has me now contemplating.

What if to mess with his shiny new little brother, but like....gently....when they first started hanging out Dick told Jason a couple of slight falsehoods as umm. A training exercise. That’s it. It was about helping Jason get up to speed with his information gathering skills and also his bullshit detection. So in the interest of being helpful and A Good Big Brother, Obviously....Dick sowed a few.....less-than-entirely-factual details about the more fantastical elements of their lives. The stuff that isn’t common or public knowledge to most of the DC Earth. And then he just.....waited to see how long it took Jason to realize Dick had fed him a handful of straight up lies when briefing him about All Things Superhero.

Look, it was for Science. That’s Dick’s story and he’s sticking to it.

Thus, for the first couple months of their new sibling relationship, Dick had Jason convinced that Atlanteans were actually aliens who landed here thousands of years ago, speedsters can run so fast they can travel back in time, and Superman once accidentally let out a burp so forceful it created a shockwave that shattered every glass in a quarter mile radius so whenever he starts to look....gassy....your best course of action is to hit the deck. Don’t even hesitate for a second, just dive to the ground and grab some floor until he’s got it back under control. And oh yeah, Diana has her Lasso of Truth, but Donna’s version of truth-related powers is that she can sense when people are up to no good....only, the way this manifests for her is she suddenly registers a distinct bad smell in her vicinity, alerting her that bullshit is afoot.

“You’re kidding,” Jason said flatly. “You expect me to believe that Donna can literally smell bullshit?”

Dick just raised an eyebrow. “Like that’s somehow less plausible than Gar being able to change into any kind of animal but only in shades of green? And oh yeah, speaking of green, Green Lanterns can do just about anything with their rings....except protect themselves from yellow paint? I don’t make the rules, Jace. The truth is sometimes superpowers aren’t super-glamorous and not everything related to magic or gods or other planets is as....sophisticated...as we presume. I mean, its not like these things exist just to match up to our expectations for them. Why should alien civilizations or the rules of magic be influenced by whether or not our society would find something weird or ridiculous?”

Jason chewed his lower lip contemplatively. He lacked an official bullshit detecting power himself, but he did have good instincts. Unfortunately for him, his shiny new big brother gave good Lying-to-your-face Face.

“Plus, if you really think about it, it does make a kind of sense,” Dick continued to explain helpfully. But only according to certain specific interpretations of ‘helpfully’ that actually mean ‘like a liar.’ “Our brains are constantly translating all kinds of input and stimuli into shapes or patterns we can actually process in a way that means something to us. So we can make use of that information. This is just the same thing. Donna’s power takes however many variables are involved in registering something as false or something she needs to be wary of...and just condenses it into a simple ‘red alert’ indicator that takes all that abstract, ephemeral data and makes it something actionable. Something she can actually do something with. Her power - or how her brain perceives it - just didn’t actually consult her or give her a choice of notification settings, because why would it?”

“I guess that makes sense,” Jason begrudgingly agreed, with a frown that suggested this particular ‘truth’ Offended his sensibilities.

“I mean, you can ask Donna to explain it herself if you want,” Dick said with a shrug. “Just a heads-up though....she’s not really a fan of how that power works either. Its not exactly a superpower anyone wants to be known for, and she’s heard allllll the jokes about it by now. Roy, Wally and I were perhaps....not the most sensitive when we were younger and she was honing that particular skillset? Though in our defense, I maintain that most of our jokes were hilarious. But anyway, just saying. If you wanna bring it up with her directly, go right ahead! Its definitely one of her favorite topics and Amazons are for sure known for how well they handle being self-conscious.”

And that’s the story of the three months Jason spent convinced that Atlanteans were from another planet, confusing the hell out of Garth with his occasional references to ‘your homeworld’ and his numerous questions about all the Atlantean Green Lanterns that he for some reason seemed convinced the Green Lantern Corps must obviously have a long history of.

And its also why Jason spent those same three months getting wide-eyed and nervous any time he noticed Donna’s nose so much as twitch when he was around. Which it did a lot more often than usual, thanks to how often Dick got horseradish to go with whatever he was having for lunch, knowing full well that Donna can not stand the smell of horseradish. (Dick’s actually not a fan either, and he hates how it tastes, but he’s not afraid to Suffer for the sake of Shenanigans. Its a fundamental part of the Robin experience and persona, after all.)

But it was the Donna thing that gave Dick away, ultimately. No matter how hard he tried to keep a lid on how entertaining he now found the sight of Donna’s occasional nose twitch...even a Batkid poker face can’t keep an empath and telepath from finding this a mystery worth untangling after the tenth time it happens.

(Not that Lilith or Raven are gonna apologize for prying any time soon. They had an obligation as his friends and teammates to investigate when he’s acting bizarre, y’see. What if its because he was brainwashed again? “We’re intrusive because we love,” Lilith insists with zero shame. Raven clarifies: “I was intrusive because she was already doing it so there seemed no point not to.” Lilith points out that this could also be construed as a sign of strong leadership potential. Dick glowers. Lilith waves a hand dismissively. “We can circle back to that later. That’s fine.”)

Anyway, the truth came out at last, Jason cites this as the Moral Justification for every single time and way he was a pain in the ass to Dick in the years to come, and Donna - who was Not Amused - gave a pointed sniff and called bullshit when Dick tried to claim this was an important Bonding Opportunity for he and Jason, wherein they became brothers ‘for real’ instead of just via Bruce. “There are intricate sibling rituals to be observed,” Dick insisted. “I did my research! We had so much time to make up for, I had to speedrun through my shenanigans to get us all caught up! Would I have done all this if I didn’t care?”

Every Titan in the room, familiar with the lengths he’d gone to when messing with Rogues and randos as Robin and thus distinctly unimpressed: Yes. Absolutely. One hundred percent.

Dick foraged on heroically. “Regardless! That’s not the case here, as all of this was clearly done in the name of brotherhood and bonding! We’ll laugh about this someday, you’ll see!”

Ten years later, after Jason’s returned as the Red Hood and reintegrated with the Batfamily to varying degrees, enough so that he accompanies Dick and the rest of the OG Titans on a mission where they’re ambushed, captured and trapped in a supervillain dungeon they’re now trying to escape...

Dick: Definitely kicking myself for not seeing that ambush coming. Where’s a bullshit-sniffing power when you really need it, huh?

Jason: Still not laughing yet.

Dick: Oh come on!

As far as the rest goes, Jason does get a kick out of the speedsters discovering that actually, they can run fast enough to travel through time. He’s like, despite your best efforts you accidentally got one right. And Dick’s all ‘was it an accident or did I actually know or have strong suspicions all along’....but Jason shuts that down. “Nope. Not giving you this one. Try it with someone else.”

However, that still left one last card in play, long after everyone - even Dick and Jason themselves - had all but forgotten about it.

See, every Batkid knows that the best lies contain elements of truth. And that’s why Dick only peppered in his fake trivia very, very sparingly amidst a massive info-dump of actually accurate and useful info he gave Jason about all that stuff, way back when.

So despite the handful of things Dick had told him that Jason eventually discovered to be untrue...the vast majority of it did check out.

Which means even once he did catch on to Dick’s game....that didn’t change his acceptance of the stuff that had turned out to be true or verified by others. But in the end, there was only one little fib that slipped under the radar. Because the scenario it was based on just never happened to come up until long after Jason had returned....and thus Jason never had reason to put much thought into actually questioning whether or not it was true. Not until long after he’d stopped scrutinizing stuff Dick had told him, in search of possible ‘traps.’

And THAT is the story of how Jason - on one of the rare occasions that he joined the Titans and Justice League for an all-hands-on-deck kinda teamup - just happened to be in the right wrong place at the right wrong time to notice Superman suddenly start to look queasy after trying some alien cuisine....

And without a second thought, Jason just instinctively dove for the floor. With this followed by Clark letting out an extremely normal-sounding burp and a sheepish apology.

Everyone else, staring at the infamous Red Hood ducking for cover because Clark had a moment of indigestion: umm. wut

Dick, staring wide-eyed at his brother and trying not to laugh: Oh shit. I totally forgot all about that.

Jason, almost conversationally, while climbing to his feet and stalking ominously towards his big bro: Hey can you believe that after all the shit we’ve been through and all the times we’ve fought over like...actual life and death stuff, THIS is the thing I’m actually gonna kill you for?

Dick, backing away, hands raised placatingly: Hey, c’mon now, Jace, we called a truce about all this ages ago, remember? It was a much younger, dumber me who did all that in the first place, y’know? You’re better than this!

Jason: I’m really not.

Dick: Well then can I just take this opportunity to mention again how sorry I am for any creative embellishments I might have once come up with, in the mistaken belief that I was honoring important traditions of brotherhood, and....

Jason: Hey, where’s Donna? Can anyone see if her nose is twitching?

Donna and the rest of the Titans, blatantly amused and offering no explanation to the very confused Justice League: Oh, bullshit absolutely detected. In the interests of Truth and Justice, you should totally proceed.

Dick, jabbing his finger at his teammates before dashing for the door: Betrayal! J’accuse!

Donna, shrugging: Sorry, Rob. Justice demands impartiality. Our hands are tied.

Jason, running out the door and down the hallway in pursuit of his fleeing brother: Yeah you better run! I’ve waited ten fucking years to get back at you for this shit. Where you going anyway, bro? I thought you wanted to laugh about this someday!

Dick (offscreen): I regret nothing! It was all worth it! You should have seen your face!

Jason (offscreen): You couldn’t even see my face, idiot! I’m wearing my fucking helmet!

Dick (offscreen): Semantics! If something’s funny enough, you can sense what someone’s face probably looks like! If you know, you know!

Jason (offscreen): Oh yeah, go ahead and make up some more shit, Grayson, that’s definitely the right way to go here!

Batman, looking to the Titans and waving his hand at...whatever all that is offscreen: Explain.

Roy: Hey don’t look at us. You’re the one who made them brothers. This is on you.

Batman: What does that even mean.

Lilith: If you know, you know. Dick’s right about that much at least.

The Titans all nod like an actual, self-evident truth was just expressed. Bruce pinches the bridge of his nose, and starts muttering under his breath.

“You need to encourage Dick to seek out and make like-minded friends, Alfred said. It’ll be good for him, he said. Its what he needs and definitely not the point everything starts to go downhill.”

Lilith picks it up loud and clear, because of course she does, and incidentally, the smug, obnoxious know-it-all teenage psychic who started hanging out with Dick when they were teenagers has absolutely nothing to do with Bruce’s profound dislike of telepaths, nooooo, that would be ridiculous and irrational, to bear a grudge against everyone with a particular skillset because one of your son’s childhood friends was a royal pain in the -

Lilith: Oh, that’s adorable. He thinks we’re the reason Dick’s so profoundly weird and inexplicable.

The Titans, in unison: LOL.

Roy: The self-deluding, it is strong in that family.

Bruce is suddenly extra glad he’s wearing a cowl that hides what is definitely not a pout but might be mistaken for one by the uninformed thus its better to just dodge that issue entirely. He crosses his arms and stares down the collection of his eldest son’s friends, whom he has been unfairly plagued by since most of them were pre-pubescent little demons. Literally no one has suffered like he has.

“I don’t like you,” he informs them officiously. Not sulkily. Officiously.

Several of them snort. There’s a couple giggles. An eye roll from Roy. An aborted response hastily turns into Wally coughing into his hand. Blatant dismissal from Victor, his attention clearly on whatever he’s browsing online. Three varying shades of raised eyebrows: unflappable bemusement from the sorceress, patronizing amusement from the psychic, naked incredulity from Donna. Garth gazing off into an empty corner which he has on very good authority is basically the Atlantean version of the middle finger.

“Yeah, no shit,” Roy drawls, apparently on behalf of the whole group.

Ugh, they’re just. The worst. Why couldn’t Clark have had a kid Dick’s age so he never had to go looking elsewhere for socialization? That’s it. Clearly this was all Clark’s fault. He can’t believe he never realized that before.

Dammit Clark.

[shadow-and-purgatory]

I think abt Twilight Princess’s Hyrule so much it’s not even funny. It’s soooooo fuckin weird and I love it.

There are inexplicable chasms. Everywhere. What’s beyond them? There’s no ocean, the biggest (and only) body of water is lake hylia. The entire continent seems to be a plateau. There are mostly hylians but also just Normal Actual Humans in Ordon village. Where did the humans come from/disappear to? There’s a secret resistance, but it’s unclear what they’re resisting. The Gerudo desert exists. It is walled off for some reason and you have to access it via canon. The Gerudo themselves are just fucking gone. This is probably because the Hyrulean royal family committed genocide. The only signs of them are at the Hyrulean royal family’s off-site prison/execution grounds. They had a dinosaur at the off-site prison/execution grounds. What were they doing with the dinosaur?? There are four provinces, of which the main three are named after the three golden goddesses, and their respective light spirits. Are these light spirits the goddesses? Servants? Something else? They do not make another appearance in any other game (to my knowledge), so we don’t know. The fourth province is named “ordonna”, after the light spirit, ordonna. What is ordonna? She is completely omitted from the creation story interloper section. Is she not important? She’s literally never mentioned again in any other game, she doesn’t even have a mountain or hill in botw. Was she just so good at minding her own business that when like. Calamity Ganon showed up for the first time, she just took her whole province and peaced out??? Is she just the fourth goddess before skyward sword lore made hylia the main goddess and removed all significance from the other three???

[inamindfarfaraway]

Being a big sister is so important to Selina’s character, actually.

Listen. We don’t know the exact age difference between her and Maggie, but based on the size difference in flashbacks to them as kids, I’d say probably two or three years. That means that accounting for early childhood amnesia, Selina has been looking after someone less capable than her for as long as she can remember. Giving and caring and nurturing and protecting. This is such a fundamental part of her personality, it’s older and deeper than the stealing; sarcasm; self-sufficiency; cynicism; even than the loss of innocence. This is her core. Her foundation. For years, she never put herself first because her sister needed her. She had to learn to do that, the hard way. To value herself at all, let alone above others, was an uphill climb, so no wonder she can take that too far when she’s older - she constantly has to outweigh her inner conscience! She tried to rip that selfless part of herself out when she left Maggie behind to a life of safety and peace, while condemning herself to one of struggling and fighting to survive.

But she didn’t. She couldn’t. In her late teens, Selina was a sex worker with an abusive pimp, no support system, no financial security, a lot of psychological baggage and generally nothing good in her life. She had every reason to only look out for her own wellbeing. To decide that with all the problems she already had, everyone else’s were only theirs. Yet the moment she she saw Holly in need of help and protection, she stepped in. She took this needy, dependent kid under her wing and raised her for years. No ulterior motive, no external pressure. Because that’s who she is.

Yes, Catwoman is a strong independent badass. Yes, Selina has issues and some notable deficiencies in social skills and sometimes not that great mental health, which can make her act selfish and uncaring or be unable to commit or show vulnerability. But beneath that surface, she cares so much. She needs and deeply values relationships. Pushing people away is almost always an effort to stop them getting hurt by her or proximity to her, even subconsciously.

Selina Kyle is just as inherently predisposed to care about people as Bruce Wayne. The reason Batman was always a hero and Catwoman was originally a ruthless thief was that his environment and experiences rewarded that altruistic drive, while hers punished her for it. So I’d like to see more of Selina the protector and the nurturer, without her softer side negating her coolness or getting written off as Batman’s influence alone or her not being true to herself, when really it’s the opposite. Her falling in love, making friends, switching from theft to vigilantism, becoming a mother figure to Kitrina Falcone and the Batkids, etc. are all natural developments of her character. They’re her rediscovering another, equally true side of her identity and learning to love and embrace it.

[patronsaint-ofthedenial]

Ffs Mick Jagger is not a "bisexual icon" even if he really is bi, he isn't open about it and he clearly doesn't want to be, famous people don't have to be out