#not a junior partner a PARTNER

[thesulkycroissant]

Saw an out of context panel of World's Finest that required me to go and find the issue because it seemed to me like Clark was about to scold Dick, but instead it was Clark scolding the random child he obtained for a few issues. But anyway what was fun about that was that Dick whispered to him, "I know you can hear me. Don't do this in front of his friends," and you know what. Clark listened. No questions asked. So I continue to adore the way Mark Waid showcases the respect and partnerships between Dick, Clark, and Bruce.

[hamable]

WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

love watching junior year as a non-american because at times i genuinely can’t tell which parts are made up and which parts are just how the american school system is

[loony-bear]

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[multifandom-nerds-blog]

I'm rewatching Trollhunters in the background right now, and the disfunctional mother son relationship between Jim and his mom is making me crazy.

Like, he's taking care of the household and his mother for years as a teenager and before probably. She is sometimes giving half hearted comments about him not having to do so much, but very obviously she's not gonna make him stop do all the cooking and cleaning. Y'know. Both because they've been living like this for years, and because it's obviously also very comfortable to have someone do all the house work.

Then Strickler comes into the picture, and if we ignore the whole Troll and changeling side of the story, Barabara gets very offended cause Jim doesn't want her to meet him privately. Again, ignoring the whole magic and trolls stuff, STRICKLER IS JIMS TEACHER. If Jim hadn't figured out that Strickler was a changeling he probably wouldn't have a problem with it, but the fact that he does, no matter the reason, should be enough for Barbara to put a stop to the relationship. Her child is clearly uncomfortable with her seeing/dating that guy, for whatever reason, and even clearly vocalized it. But she doesn't care about, or rather, she tells Jim that she "wouldn't expect something like that" from him. Obviously not, cause she may see him like her child/teenager he is, BUT DOESN'T TREAT HIM LIKE ONE.

And then Jim, unknowingly to Barbara, becomes the Trollhunter, and his behavior changes. He's suddenly doing reckless stuff, sneaking out, getting bruises, landing in detention and even at the police station, barely avoiding a police report. What does she do? Asking him what's going on? If everything's alright at school? If he has any other problems? Maybe trying to lower his workload around the house, which again, he's doing most of that as a teenager and longer probably.

Nah. She doesn't do anything until he lands in the hospital. Except for again, dismissing him rather negatively at the one topic he's openly expressing any negative opinions about (Strickler). And after he lands in the hospital she now starts not asking questions, but demanding answers. Demanding answers from a teenager in a difficult situation who is also now acting much more like a teenager than he ever did before, from her point of view at least. Except she obviously doesn't know how to deal with a teenager, cause she has never had to raise or live with a teenager. She instead lived with a child pretending to be an adult for years, that was partly much more of an adult than she was, who did way to much work even before Jim became the Trollhunter. So she throws punishments at him and grounds him, but does he listen?

No. Cause why should he? Not only is he dealing with things much more important than being grounded, yknow, saving the world, he's trying to protect her from the sheer knowledge of the supernatural and physically protecting her from getting harmed. And again, for the majority of the time since his dad left he pretended to be an adult. He was and is the main adult in the household, dealing with important things she doesn't even know about.

The only one's treating Jim like a teenager are teachers, other children and Blinky and Aaargh sort of when they're not in the middle of Troll business. Strickler, in the first episodes where Jim doesn't know about his true identity, is much more of a parental figure to Jim (also after his redemption later on tbh) than his mother.

In summary: Barbara is treating her son like an adult, almost like a partner, instead of a child/teenager. And when that isn't possible anymore she doesn't know how to properly treat him. She also doesn't really care that her son is uncomfortable with her being around Strickler, or Strickler in general. And it takes Blinky telling her (when Jim is 16) that Jim might be affected by his father leaving when he was five years old.

Jim meanwhile is treating his mother more like a child/teenager instead of the adult and MOTHER that she is. Seeing her as his responsibility. Cooking for her. Cleaning for her. Telling her to rest and take breaks.

They obviously love each other other. And their relationship might not be toxic, but it's very much disfunctional. In a way that is mostly negative for Jim.

[apollo-justice-irl]

diversity win! this lesbian goddess is the stark father of an aromantic goblin's romance partner!

[avalon-author]

Your honor, I love her ♡

[lindele12]

Ineffable juniors - the continuation!

[deathnguts]

Bipolar sociopath Regulus and BPD narcissist Barty who are famously bad at relationships because of these diagnoses but are literally perfect for each other within them

[starzzmissthesun]

Partners in crime

[daily-hanamura]

[perdamian]

thinking about the way i said, out loud, “they should cut the rat grinders heads off and throw them in the lava so it’ll be harder to revive them” mere moments before murph made the same comment… riz gukgak you will always be my most beloved maniac

[dumpster-fire-sapphic-failgirl]

I’m generally of the belief that Murph is the wife-guy of all wife-guys but that ear-to-ear grin and rumbling-contented-joy sound that Emily makes when he cracks the dead-god-name-redaction is yet another example that she matches his energy with a husband-gal vibe of her own

Anyway, just love supportive partners and these two in particular and wanted to call out that little moment

[islandoforder]

Jumping on the Porter-hating train to say, Brennan initiated the "roll perception" check against Porter and Zara (but mainly Porter) which resulted in the 'there's a little bit of a vibe' comment, BUT! every teacher who has flirted with Fig so far has turned out to be the bad guy (for obvious reasons), and Zara even references this as a reason she's not going to flirt back ("this isn't freshman year with kalvaxus" or something), whereas Porter made that flirty/creepy comment about 'we're happy to share you'.

I might just be reading too much into this but I'm still holding out for a revelation

okay don't get me wrong, i do not want to be in a position where i'm defending porter, but i definitely read that as there's a bit of a vibe between porter and zara (which i personally do not vibe with) and the perception was meant to be like oooh are porter and zara flirty?? i think zara was more being like okay fig you can't ask your teachers if they're flirting, that's inappropriate, and i think porter saying 'we're happy to share you' was meant to be like ayyyy i get to work more with zara, happy to have an excuse to hang out with her, not like flirty towards fig in any way. like i hate the guy don't get me wrong, but if this was the subtext of that scene i def missed it haha

[tranquilitybasehotelcasino]

my one great six-degrees is that this very viral vine of a keyboard collapsing while these kids are playing a weezer song at a talent show was filmed at a school in my district and the kid on guitar in the white shirt was my friend for many years

[qualitygaigework]

I hope Baron from the Baronies turns out to be like Cassandra/The Nightmare King where there's like a whole new person trapped inside of them and, as his römænce partner, only Rizbert Gukgak can set whoever's inside baron free and that the person who he sets free will be his actual love interest that we finally get after 3 seasons (or some sortof queerplatonic situation if fanon is correct and he's on the aro spectrum(because he's already cannon ace but romanticism is a whole different thing))