#ooc: i feel like dick wouldnt know what to do with this lol but hes still supportive

[the-blueprint-robin]

Sir I've got dysphoria

What can I do?-

Because somedays I wish my chest was bigger like other girls but somedays I wish I could be a boy or that people could mistake me for one but actually most of the time I just wish I could cut my hair in a way that could make me look more like something in between and my country doesn't have gender neutral pronouns and I think I'm talking too much but I really need to tell this to someone and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be because being a girl is good but being treated like a boy is good too but it's strange because i like being treated like both depending of the day and I love when people can't decide whatever I'm a girl or a boy(?). I like it. Its like my mind just decided to play Russian roulette with my gender and now I want to use a dress but I feel like a man and I'm not sure if I should use it or maybe I'm too feminine to be non-binary or transmasc and currently I'm confused and want this shit to end-

my friend, best you can do is find yourself (i have no clue what im doing)

ooc: BUT I DO!! ya boy here is transmasc so i kinda know what might be going on?? maybe but it sounds to me like you might want to read up on bigender or maybe gender fluid or even just gender queer OR you can go unlabeled, remember that you dont ever have to put a label on anything if it makes you feel uncomfortable. remember that what you present yourself as doesnt have to be the same as what pronouns you want, remember that your gender can fluctuate, remember that you have the right to do what ever the heck you want with your life, its yours to live!! its definitely a problem that your language doesnt have gender neutral pronouns so maybe pick ones that you feel more comfortable being referred to. i think you should be able to dress and present yourself however you want without the boundary of fitting into a "gender" because gender is what? A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT!! say it with me now, gender is what?? A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT you dont have to conform if you dont want to, and whoever has a problem with that isnt worth keeping around and ill personally beat them up :D anyway hope this helps and i love you no matter what you decide. take some time to think about it though and really search your soul lol it can take a couple tries to get it exactly right too, i thought iw as non binary before figuring myself out a little more so be patient with yourself!! im sure you'll come around <3

[bartendingkitty]

I have to talk about when Husk says 'I thought you were better than that' in regaurds to Angel's drug use in the latest episode, because it really gave me a He would Not Fucking Say That moment. Its not even like, I disagree with this interpretation of the character or would want to see him differently, its just literally in direct contradiction with the values he's previously stated to have in an episode where he was a more focal character. It almost feels like he has a different person writing his dialouge when he's the focus vs. when he was more in the background here. Being judgemental and passive aggressive to Angel for doing drugs is directly contradicting the message of 'Loser, Baby'. What happened to 'baby thats fine by me' in response to Angel being a 'coked up dick suckin hoe'?' Like the entire reason they *bond in the first place* is that Husk is accepting of Angel and not trying to change him, not saying he has to stop doing drugs in order to be a good person and cared about (which is the message that Charlie is giving him unintentionally and why he gets sad and runs off when shes praising sir pentious).

I think it makes sense for him to be *concerned*, he doesnt want Angel to hurt himself with drugs, but he knows ultimately its Angel's life and Angel's decision and wouldnt be a passive aggressive prick about it. I feel like it could have been like story boarded that Husk is concerned and wants Angel not to do drugs here and that would make sense but then someone filled in the actual lines with something that completly misses the whole point of Husk's character as it has been shown so far, like all they understood about him is that hes a grumpy cat lol. Which is weird because this show usually has such an attention to detail that I just dont understand how this got in. (though the high detail is usually in the animation so maybe thats how?????)

Also it weirdl acts like alcohol somehow isnt a drug by having husk be drinking a ton while still judging angel for indulging in his own vices, as if they arent the same fucking thing. Husk should have said something like hes worried about it and like to try not to do too much or something about harm reduction. Like I know they wanted cherry and husk to be an angel and demon on Angel's shoulder, and they still totally could have done that in a way that wasnt so surreal and ooc for Husk.

[lazaruspiss]

I neeeeed to know about the stephdick AUs or touch me till I vomit

Touch me ‘til I vomit: it's a spin-off/bad end version of the first chapter of I’m bad, he’s worse, we’re already dead! I actually wrote most of this version first, lol. it's pretty OOC for jason. it's just a "what if jason took advantage of/assaulted dick instead of helping him" scenario.

"Fuck me." Jason waits. He lets the words linger in the rancid air of this shithole bar within a shithole city. Dick is asking for it, desperate for someone bigger and stronger to whisk him away from it all. Too much of a coward to just admit defeat and shoulder the consequences, leaving all of the most important choices in someone else’s hands. “I could.” Each sentence. “But you’re drunk.” Enunciated, almost patronizing. “That would make it rape.” Dick seems embarrassed by Jason’s response, like a kid who fucked up a question that should’ve been easy for them to get right. It’s shockingly easy to play into Dick’s insecurities.

moving on, ohh stephdick my loves. i keep meaning to do more with them and my attempts always seem to fall by the wayside... (this got long lmao)

stephdick mob: one of those things thatre more au than fic, despite my attempts to try and just write A Story with the setting. the setup is that dick and bruce dont meet, and dick becomes a gangster ala that one alt timeline i can never stop thinking about. i think it was in trinity? anyways, dick fills this sorta "moralistic gangster" trope, where anyone in their right mind would turn and walk the other direction, but he wouldn't actually hurt anyone without a good reason.

steph is still a rough n tumble kid livin in a rough area. she gets threatened on the street one day and gets rescued by her hyperviolent knight in shining armor, and it turns into a bit of a sworn loyalty dynamic. she "helps" him without his permission until he caves and agrees to train her. time goes on, she makes her interest in him very clear, but dick doesn't want to be that guy, doesn't want to take advantage of her. very forbidden-romance-core where they both want each other but there's an unshakable wall in the way (dick's moral compass and/or personal trauma).

an idea that i had that i'm undecided on if i wanna use it: dick having been taken in/groomed/abused by zucco when he was first brought into the world of crime. itd be interesting, and itd give explanation for why dick worries about taking advantage of steph while being desensitized to all the criminal violence he does already. like, sleeping with your apprentice isn't really worse than the Many Murders and the Torture he'd be doing, but it could still /feel/ worse to him, esp if he has his own added history. that and it'd let me give him zucco based daddy issues. "im no better than him..." and all that <3

stephdick no capes: i'll be honest i forgot about this one. i had the mental image of stripper dick beating a man to death in a catwoman costume. you wouldnt think thatd come with a 10 step program but my notes beg to differ. like stephdick is a sideplot thing that doesn't even come up once in the main outline. it's like, past brudick and mostly sibling conflict/bonding.

bruce takes in dick same as usual

without robin dick is more restless w pent up frustrations/energy and bruce has to actually learn to take care of him

bruce starts to get... attached. affectionate. dick seems to return the sentiment. they kiss, and dick is in heaven- only to crash when bruce makes him promise to not tell a soul about this.

this is the biggest secret in their lives. dick becomes a teenager, goes to school, talks to peers, finds out one of their classmates was molested by a teacher. and talking to them makes it all click. he still doesnt say anything, but makes plans to run away.

jason. dick tells jason to be careful, lashes out at bruce and swears that if he touches jason he'll rain hell on bruce.

dick leaves at 16. bruce tells jason that dick is troubled, and always has been. don't worry too much about what he says, he had an incident at juvie (lie) and has been paranoid ever since.

jason buys it, and starts to resent dick over time. bruce is nothing but kind to him. even when he fumbles he is a loving and caring father to jason.

the neighbor kid misses dick and starts asking everyone about it, alfred, bruce, jason- he even hunts down barbara and dicks old friends. eventually jason tells him dick left, that he wants nothing to do with any of them anymore.

tim is stubborn. he wants to watch dick do his flips again. he searches and searches until he finds the club where dick works. dick avoids him for a while, but eventually gets the drop on him- given the camera and his job he assumes tim is either an extreme sex pest in the making or being paid off or threatened by one into stalking him. when dick realizes this is the neighbor kid he starts to think bruce put him up to it and is furious at the thought. tim insists bruce has nothing to do with it, but dick knows this wouldnt be the first time bruce made a kid lie for him.

eventually he gets frustrated enough with tims pestering and snaps, telling him about how bruce fell in love with him when he was around the same age tim is now. describes being held, tasting bruces mouth for the first time, tells tim he hasnt been a child since bruce wayne sunk his claws into him. tells tim to stay away from all of them if he knows whats good for him.

like wtf is wrong with me. i just wanted a scene of dick meeting steph while wearing leather and heels, why did it need this much backstory.

[dailyjasontodd]

Any opinion on Red Hood: Outlaws (Webtoons)? I only read the first five chapters and kind of don't like the angry-robin-approach... Thanks in advance!

Hello! I stopped reading it a while ago so 1) my criticism for the comic isn't very fresh in my mind and 2) i don't have the full picture since i only read a handful of chapters, so i wouldnt be able to write a whole essay on it, but who doesn't love giving opinions!

From what i remember i didn't like it either, like i said disclaimer that i stopped reading halfway through and a while ago so maybe my complaints got solved down the line, my bad, etc. but the thing is that i sincerely do not want to go back and re-read it/read all the chapters which should speak for itself 🙏 I found the writing cringy and very superficial, very close to lobdell's rhato which will always leave a bad taste in my mouth. atp i don't care about jason being written as an "angry robin" as long as it has nuance and context, but i didn't get to see those two things in the webtoon so i get you (not to say it wasn't present, just that i literally didn't get there if it was expanded on later lol). What i remember pissed me off was the amount of memes and mcu style jokes in the comic, it felt lazy 🤷 i can text my friend and use 5 viral video references in it but doing the same thing on an official comic? Be serious please, i'm not asking you to become judd winick and give us the next utrh but at least dont steal funny tweets from the internet for a dialogue...

Also a thing i like about jason is that he's a dickhead but fun and charming in his own way and the jason in the webtoon was just boring sorry, if i google "action movies watch online" and picked a random title and pressed play im sure the main character would have the same feel as webtoon jason. AND ALSO! (family guy dad voice) i did not care for jason/artemis. Boring, yawning, sloppy, lazy. very predictable from the go and not even in a fun way, i was over it already and i read like only 7 chapters.  

And also a minor detail that i disliked, i hated jason's haircut KJLFG like that pissed me off so badly everytime i saw him without the helmet, put that shit back on.

Anyways, hope that was semi coherent, complaining about the way a comic is written just for the criticism so be terribly redacted is extremely ironic but well, i'm not being paid for it :P

lets hope the shawn martinbrough jason solo gets a date announcement soon jasonbits 🙏

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edit just to add that unfortunately i Have been keeping up with it (stopped paying for fast pass v early on tho lmao), and the issues jules mentions above do persist and only get worse as the comic progresses <3 it's all very superficial, doesn't make sense most of the time, pacing is so clunky and writer doesn't seem to know which canon to stick to. jason is very ooc, he's just a dick just to be a dick and not in like a fun cunty way yk ? he's portrayed as uncaring and very like,, incompetent. artemis is ooc too to an extent. like you can't even enjoy it in the way wfa can be enjoyed as a silly little webtoon it just kinda like. sucks.

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[steveandbucky]

I don’t understand if ur serious when u say that you’re anti fatws (esp bucky) lol???? for real?

yeah i think he’s not bucky. OOC. and like, not for stupid shit, but when it comes to stuff that matters. i always thought bucky has a solid moral compass (similar to steves). i mean just from what we’ve seen in canon, idk if this is just my own intrepratations, but anyway, i don’t agree with his actions, i dont agree with him asking sam to put his safety on the line with the ‘you helped steve with the accords i think you should help me’ ok bucky you were taken in as a refugee by an untouchable nation, sam was put into a supermax prison steve had to break him out of, and then was on the run as a fugitive for two years. the absolute NERVE.

and like, the man he breaks out of prison is z*mo? really? that’s his ABUSER. i don’t understand why no one else seems upset by this. that’s not bucky. OOC. if he wanted any help from z*mo, he could have asked for him to help from behind the bars he very much deserves to be behind. if he refused to help, oh well, too bad, buh bye. i dont understand who thought this was a good idea. are we forgetting z*mo intentionally triggered bucky into going into his winter soldier programming, which resulted in bucky killing again? the thing he did not want to do? he literally says, over and over again, ‘i dont do that anymore’ and ‘i dont want to kill anyone’ and ‘(resigned) wheres the fight’.

im not gonna describe *that scene* that triggered me very badly, if you dont know what im talking about im sorry but i cannot physically write the words. but im very very upset at the writers for a throwaway line that implies past sexual abuse* knowing FULL well the majority of their demographic who like bucky/identify with him are in fact women/afab, and like, going by the statistics alone, would find something like this 1. triggering and 2. a slap in the face. just, for why? what purpose did that line serve, actually? was it necessary? for plot progession? (*though, i maintain, z*mo doesnt know shit, he’s being a dick bc thats half his personality, and talking shit bc thats the other half of his personality). but yeah. one of the major reasons i dont like whoever it was that writes bucky in this show.

another thing, the obsession with the shield? putting all that blame onto sam? i mean... i understand he’s upset about being abandoned by his best friend (and arguably only friend, i guess?) but like. shut up about the shield. shut up about the shield!!! where’s the ‘the little guy from brooklyn, im following him’ like bucky never gave a shit about captain america. whats going on through his head actually? bc like.. if there’s things he’s not saying, we won’t fucking know about them, will we?

i honestly dont know what the writers are doing, i don’t know whether they’re completely misunderstanding his characer, or trying to foreshadow bucky going to the dark side, or whats going on. bc at this point he looks more like an antagonist at the very least, if not outright villain.

the only accurate bucky content i have seen so far is like, him and sam acting like a married couple, him making nerdy references, and the flashback scene in wakanda which is the only time i have seen sebastian stan actually acting.

i don’t know who this fool is, but it’s not bucky.

as for the show in general, im not liking what im seeing, and no i dont need to watch it to form an opinion. not gonna put myself through however many hours of mediocre content. i never had high hopes about it, but this half-assed storyline with the flag smashers (clearly a poor attempt at portraying antifas as the enemy), the super soldier serum, the dollar store captain america, z*mo??? why is he even here????

sam not having enough of the spotlight...in his own goddamn show... like. idk. i think he deserved something of his own. a better storyline. something that’s about *him*, his life, his struggles. with bucky as his sidekick. sam, pretending to be too sensible to run into crazy shit, bucky, resigned, being dragged along, being sam’s wingman, his support. *thats* their dynamic. from what i have seen about sam’s scenes, he seems to be more or less in character, imo, but i just... feel like he’s being sidelined. in his own show.

THE THERAPY/THERAPIST. I hate EVERYTHING about it. from her demeanor, attitude towards her client, not addressing him by his preferred name, her judgmental tone/statements, her belittling/dismissing bucky’s pain, her ‘rules’ and just. everything. everything. for ONCE i would like to see an ACCURATE portrayal of therapy in media. because it’s the opposite. the exact opposite of this. there’s a long thread from twitter i reblogged that goes more into detail, but i think like, it’s one of those things that really piss me off. therapy is about creating a safe space, putting your patients comfort first, listening, empathising, not judging, not mocking, not disrespecting, helping your patient open up, help them recover and make progress at their own pace. i mean. its so disgusting to see this. i’ve never had professional psychologist training, not as part of my degree or anything else, and i wrote a fic with steve going to therapy that’s 100% better than this bullshit we’re being served (and at the time i wrote the fic, i had never been to therapy, only counselling, which is very different). how come? why cant they, with their budget and their resources, their ability to conduct extensive research and even hire consultants, not do a better job with this part of the show? disappointing. truly.

maybe i don’t know exactly what’s going on, plotwise, or whatever, but like, if i dont like what i’m seeing, why would i invest more time to find out more about the show? the mcu has been steadily declining since 2016, lets be real. civil war, infinity war, endgame... this was all an absolute shitshow. fatws can only do so much with the canon they are being given to work with, without outright retconning everything, but even so... it’s weak. i always thought the writers wouldnt be able to write anything thats half as good as the stuff fans come up with and... i think i was right.

thanks for the question.