#no? ..

[cattheraccon]

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[nightmaretour]

I wish I could express my experiences as someone with moderate brain damage in a way that wouldn't prompt people with low support needs neurodivergencies to jump in to tell me all about how it's exactly like them and severity doesn't exist

[bigassbowlingballhead]

ever have a pee so good you let out a little moan?

[d4rkskyp4r4dis3]

so, turns out what i thought was just “having an active imagination” was actually “paranoid delusions and hallucinations” so that’s really fun.

[hot-flippin-mess]

Yo what's with the new bots everywhere?

[grubhumor]

Oh god, art YouTube is talking about Mary Sues and Self Inserts again, BOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[herringstrait]

Are we going to talk about how Pops is tracking down a plushie Hana wanted while Nagumo's over here winning a bear because it vaguely resembles his estranged best friend??????

[cdawgcaps]

His beautiful silver eyes 😭

[donfermin]

Fx2 do you have something for me?

[galaxy-lilies]

i. have no explanation

[theseadolls]

I got what I wanted already. Is that not enough?

[mak0nthetrack]

need fourteen redbulls a cart and a transmasc lesbian STAT!

[sparksflys]

I might be the only who’s not particularly sad about the eras tour ending tonight

[listen-to-my-eyes]

when someone in front of you takes a picture so you look away and act like an npc for a sec

[sinkingwmyships]

i’ve been consuming a fair amount of Batman & batfam materials (comics, movies, fan creations…) over the past weeks, and this is my rant about why “canon” (maybe especially in comic book universe(s)) shouldn’t be taken so seriously, especially if it hampers your enjoyment

(full disclosure, the need to write this stemmed from the fact that i’ve been consuming a lot of Jason Todd/Red Hood content, and there are so many different characterizations of him in both “canon” and fanon, which i think too many are losing too much sleep over for no good reason)

w the amount of retcon that happens… idk if it’s bc i’m a fanfic writer that it’s easier to have this attitude, but i started looking at a lot of the canon stuff made later on almost as fanon… like, aside from some core details (eg. Alfred is Bruce Wayne’s butler & father figure; Batman is scary and brooding; Gotham is that one fucked up city but only the locals don’t realize it…), aren’t continuity and characterization so varied things just start feeling like fanon? i mean, fan creations is putting your own spin on canon materials. isn’t it what different comic writers do? the only difference is that their works are declared “official” by DC (or sth, idk how that process works).

take movies for example; how can Whedon & Snyder’s JL movies both be canon? but if one is fanon how are both shown under DC? does one cancel the other out?

another example: as a new Red Hood fan who’s been reading different comics w him in it, like- bruh. aside from his main grudge w Batman his character is forever bouncing back n forth b/w good guy vs bad guy, kill vs no killing, in vs out of the batfam, on good vs bad terms w his siblings, etc…. (even his appearance, skunk hair vs plain black hair, autopsy scar vs none…) there isn’t much consistency even within the comics, which is supposedly the canon.

all this is to say, i see ppl getting so caught up in “this is how a character should be characterized!” “this is how this relationship dynamic is!” bro. does it matter? have some flexibility bc even the “canon” materials do. and also, remember that nuance and duality exist. you know ppl change their minds, lie to others & themselves, regret, go back on their words, break personal rules depending on the situation they find themselves in, act different in front of different ppl… all the time, right?

i thought Jason was an asshole and hated him for not letting Batman rush off to Bludhaven toward the end of UTRH. but that same guy can pull Nightwing back from getting hit by a train in TFZ. maybe he grew; maybe he changed his mind; maybe he stopped Batman back then simply to agonize Bruce & not bc he wanted Dick to be dead; maybe he pulled Nightwing back bc he knew if Nw died it would make Batman more annoying to deal w, not bc he cared for the guy’s life… etc etc!

there are so many reasons and possible nuances; one action you see is not all a character is. just enjoy the bits that you like from whatever material you’re consuming, and take it all with a grain of salt? it’s supposed to be fun.

[delicatelystrangepolice]

Can I just add that I hate the word 'blorbo'? I know, I know - it's just a way people are being people; they will invent a word and if enough people agree we just have to accept it.

But man, there's something so unattractive about it.