#thomas sa

[sunayyyy]

Worst fandom mischaracterisation/headcanon of each bat-associated character, in my opinion (these are in no particular order) :

1. Duke Thomas is the sane, rational, "normal" one.

Have you ever read the We Are Robin arc? Duke is fucking unhinged, his introduction was him jumping off a bridge to escape cops. This is a kid whose father is immortal and is the first metahuman in the batfam. He lost his parents in the most horrendous way possible (joker venom. They're still alive, but it's horrifying) and organised a whole gang as a child. He threw down with a green lantern and 2 shot his ass. Hopefully, this headcanon is just a product of people not really knowing the character and goes away soon once people find out more about him, when he isn't just the token black guy in a fic or a background character in batfam drama.

2. Stephanie Brown is quirky and sassy, and ONLY quirky and sassy. She's over her trauma with Black Mask and Cluemaster!!

Stephanie Brown is a very interesting character, with an origin story that is very similar to jason todd. She's been through hell, yet she constantly gets infantalised by the fandom, which gets kind of ignored in favour of talking shit about how people infantilse tim (super valid and I'll come back to it later on in this post). You most commonly see this in timsteph stories where they show her as the immature first love, and how as tim grows up, he needs to date more "serious" people, as if tim wasn't the main reason their relationship never worked. This is also common in stephcass fics, although on a smaller level. Writers tend to make stephanie the bubbly outgoing girl that balances out all of cass' angst (some of those fics are really good, but they mould steph in a specific shape so she can be a prop for cass to heal). On an even smaller scale, I've seen both romantic and platonic jaysteph stories where stephanie appears as the "good" victim who let go of her animosity to black mask and cluemaster, and so now, she can help jason let go of what happened with the joker, and bruce's abuse. Obviously, this is a disservice to both of these characters, but people tend to focus on how it's more of a disservice to jason instead of steph. Let my girl express her trauma and heal, and stop using her as a prop for other characters! She wasn't just cutesy as robin, she threw the fuck down. Her introduction included hitting tim in the head with a brick!

3. Slut/himbo Dick Grayson is reductive of his abilities as a leader, and is not only offensive to real survivors of SA, but incredibly racist towards Romani people.

Do I really need to explain this one? Dick Grayson is a symbol of hope that bruce wishes batman could be. This man is a natural born leader and has stepped up to the plate multiple times, both during his time with the titans and as batman. He's charismatic and lovable and a genuinely intelligent man, but for some reason, he gets depicted as a dumbass who has to deffer to bruce or tim or babs any time he has an issue with detective work. Yes, you can delegate. Of course, you can delegate, but going straight to tim and rattling off the case you JUST accepted doesn't make sense, ESPECIALLY if you're on seperate cases and tim or bruce have to postpone their work just to solve it for you. As for the other part, Dick has been heavily implied to be demisexual, given that he only has sex with people he has genuine feelings for. He wouldn't just sleep with any random woman who compliments his ass enough. Also, having an SA victim be characterised as a slut is both reductive of their trauma and a weird way that some authors justify how he's "over it." Really doesn't help that he was slut shamed (canonically!! why is this canon??) by the rest of the titans after sleeping with mirage, who pretended to be kori. Additionally, it's really weird if the first thing you think of when you see an attractive romani man just sleeps around. People don't say that about other conventionally attractive characters, even ones who HAVE slept around. The only character i can think of that gets characterised like this is bruce, but that's an image that he cultivated to keep batman hidden.

4. Jason Todd was always doomed by the narrative. He would have died if bruce hadn't intervened. Also, pit rage.

The tragedy of jason todd was, and always has been, that he was doomed by the AUDIENCE. He wasn't just an angry, reckless child, and calling him the angry robin is stupid and reductive. Was he angry? of course he was, but so was dick, and so was damian. Using a single word to describe a person is never going to be enough. Jason was notoriously compassionate to victims, especially women and children, and sex abuse victims. He got pissed when the system he was asked to believe in was shown to be ineffective, to the point where bruce believed he killed a man over it. The kid had a bright future ahead and loved school, modt of robin!jason's shitty qualities came from bruce and alfred compartmentaling his image and shitting on him to ease their guilt over his death. Pit rage is also a cheap way to take away his autonomy, an easy pass to explain the shitty things he's done. I like it when the pit has side effects like glowing eyes or increased healing or something, but pit rage is stupid. It's either used to force characters to forgive jason since he wasn't himself or as an angst prompt for jason, another testament to how he came back wrong, or a way to have him hurt a character to further up THEIR angst (*cough* titans tower AU fics*cough*). Yes, he did shitty things. Let him do shitty things without giving him an easy out. Otherwise, your story isn't compelling at all.

5. Feral Damian Wayne is just straight-up racist, no?

I love damian. I think that, for the most part, he's been written pretty well. However, damian suffers from the fact that he's an arab character in a post 9/11 comic, and thus there is bound to be some casual racism, both in comics (like when tim assumed he was too uncivilised to know what a handshake is) and fandom. Has damian wayne done a lot of shitty things, especially to tim? Yes, absolutely. But that doesn't make him feral. He was raised by assassins as the heir to the throne and to the greatest hero in the world, raised to think that blood relations are the only ones that matter, so of course he's dismissive of tim. He's also a prince who was raised in luxury, who was born as royalty and has experienced more opulence during his birth thsn most peoole do in a lifetime, although this opulence is extremely conditional, with horrifying requirements (the story with damian having a metal spine as a child is insane). Does it make what he did to tim right? Definitely not. Does it excuse his actions? Also no. But it does explain them, it tells us where it came from. Being traumatised and having extremely high expectations of both sides of your family doesn't make you feral.

6. Tim Drake is just a small little baby who can't function without his coffee.

Let me preface this by saying that i don't like tim drake. At all. As a huge fan of the al ghuls it was a real kick in the balls having Ra's be reduced to a creepy pedophile who wanted tim as an heir, and sent a woman to rape tim in order to carry his child. Also, I hate how DC decided to prop him up by shitting on jason todd. However, this doesn't mean that I don't enjoy his YJ run and that I don't enjoy some of his comics/fics. That being said, nothing on this earth pisses me off more than tim stans. You know the ones, the people who want damian hanged, who want dick and jason and bruce to fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness. Tim has been through an insane amount of trauma, and that's understandable, but please, for the love of god, don't create more whump for tim at the cost of other characters. You can hate damian, I wouldn't blame you, but remember that he's like 10 and tim put him on a hit list. Dick never wanted to put tim in arkham, and he didn't have time to support tim when it came to an honestly insane (although ultimately correct) conclusion. Also damian as robin was alfred's idea, and damian was the one that put on the costume preemptively, dick got pissed at damian for that. When it comes to jason, I'd say it's complicated. While titans tower was fucked up, it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be. My first introduction to the fandom was through jason todd since he was my favourite robin, and then i learned they brought him back to life when i played injustice. The number of fics and posts that mention that jason went to the tower specifically to kill tim is insane. When i got into comics, it was like whiplash; it wasn't a one-sided beatdown, tim was conscious until the end, the goofy ass robin suit jason had on, jason never slitting tim's throat (that happens in hush, and even then i don't think he really slit his throat, since the art shows that the skin was kinda nicked), all of that was wild to me. BftC is one of the shittiest comjc book runs when it comes to characterisation in general, and I've already discussed dick and tim, so it's only fair to talk about jason and tim. There's no justification here, honestly, other than shitty writing i guess. The other side of the coin is enemies to caretaker jason and tim, which is so fucking wild?? they're like 2 years apart, and tim is extremely competent, he wouldn't pass out mid patrol because he forgot his coffee.

7. Bruce Wayne doesn't believe people can change and doesn't care about Crime Alley.

For the first one, please fucking read a single comic book. Just one. Better yet, maybe research why batman doesn't kill. You know, the most popular thing about him? As for the second, it's mostly just a way to show how jason is better than bruce and how he's right to take over the alley since no one cares about it. Now I LOVE jason todd. He's my favourite comic book character of all time tied with gambit and Dr. Strange. But I hate it when you create angst or comeuppance by blatantly ignoring the chatacter and their motives. Bruce became batman so that what happened to his parents can never happen again, and this includes helping the poor people in crime alley either through patrolling there or by setting up countless charities to improve life there. You can make the case that batman avoided crime alley after jason died. It's not canon, but it would make sense. However, I dont see him ever giving up on the alley, both to prevent what happened to his parents, and to help people like his dead son. I fucking hate bruce, he's done a lot of shitty things, but making shit up just to make him worse is getting old.

8. Misc

There aren't really enough mischaracterisations about cass and babs to warrant separate paragraphs, so I'll just reiterate the infantalisation of cass and babs having no qualities outside of oracle, master hacker, and dick grayson's on and off lover.

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Peb's Unhinged Halloween Party! 🎃 🍂 ☕️ 🕯 👻 😈

My dear sweet, beautiful feral folks,

SAS, Holy Order of the Sacred Mango, Loki's Subjects, Blessed Followers of Eddie Spaghetti, Wives of the Feral Raccoon Munson Boy, Geta's girls, and Hux hoes,

I cordially invite you, once again, to Peb's Unhinged Halloween Party with all our favorite fictional men.

The beautiful ancient mansion is decorated festively and the music is a-blarin.

Loki, hasn't shown up yet, the diva (or maybe he has, knowing his disguise skills we may never know). Either way, I'm sure he won't be able to resist a grand entrance of some variety.

The ghost of Thomas Sharpe mingles on the vast marble dance floor, forlorned and handsome, wondering if any of these beautiful living creature would do him the honor of a waltz.

Hux, our brutal little red-headed general, has hidden himself away in the library with the best of the scotch. He's brooding about being dragged here, but I'm sure the right person could crack his shell delightfully.

One particularly villainous man with deep black eyes and the golden robes of an emperor is strutting around. When you tell him, “nice costume,” he only grins maniacally and give you a filthy laugh.

Eddie has already polished off a six pack by himself and is hanging from the chandelier dressed as Dio, and belting out Holy Diver..uh...maybe...we should help him?

I'm very honored to be your host yet again. I'm at the top of the staircase, dressed all in red as Wanda/The Scarlet Witch and holding up a glass of red wine in a toast to all of my lovely friends.

Enjoy! And let me know what you're bringing and wearing and up to at this gala event.

Much Spooky Love!

Peb! 🪨 🖊 💜

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[hesbuckcompton-baby]

Not Strong Enough, boygenius / Band of Brothers (2001) / 1917 (2019) / SAS: Rogue Heroes, Season 1 / The Shadow in My Eye/The Bombardment (2021) / All Quiet on The Western Front (2022)

this one goes out to my fellow boygenius lover @xxluckystrike

[cantstopcreation]

"genomsnittliga svensken har skickat in 3 mellobidrag" är egentligen ett statistiskt fel. den genomsnittliga svensken har skickat in 0 mellobidrag. thomas g:son, som bor i en grotta och skickar in över 10000 mellobidrag varje dag, är en statistisk outlier och ohc borde inte ha räknats

[dagonet]

Kaamelott, Livre II, Le Rebelle

[newx-menfan]

While I will eventually DO a write up on X-23/ Laura Kinney….

I just want to say THIS after seeing post after post about it on tumblr…and frankly feeling really uncomfortable with it….

Saying Laura is “asexual” and can’t be in a sexual relationship/dress a certain way because she was raped/sexually abused in NYX, when she was a minor…IS in my opinion…kind of problematic (I would say the same about people representing Magik as “asexual” solely because of her childhood abuse, when there’s multiple moments of subtext that she desired Kitty in a sexual way…)

There is literally NO evidence that asexuality is related in any way to experiencing rape/sexual violence, and that stereotype is often used to stigmatize and pathologize asexuality. Linking those two things, in my opinion, actually takes away peoples agency and seems almost subtly shaming- “your identity isn’t real, it’s just a reaction to trauma”…

It REALLY bugs me to see this stereotype represented and frankly I personally feel feeds into “you have to behave a certain way to be a ‘real’ victim”…

Lots of individuals who experience rape/abuse go on to have meaningful, healthy sexual relationships and there’s nothing WRONG with that. It doesn’t mean what they experienced was less valid or less real.

Laura desiring Hellion (she literally watched him half naked while he slept and was obviously upset when he said Sofia’s name) doesn’t in some way objectify her or negate her history in any way.

While I think her relationships with Synch and teen Angel could have been handled better and possibly touched on some of that trauma…I don’t feel representing her in a sexual relationship is “objectifying her”.

It just frankly kind of pisses me off that people act like writing Laura being represented in a relationship is somehow offensive- like victims of rape/SA can never have a sexual relationship again or are somehow “damaged” 😑

[viv-annelore]

[slained29]

All according to plan I suppose 😅

[miasmultifandomdump]

I heard someone say Black Sails was what straight people wanted queer representation to be because of its tragedy and uh, I'm sorry, but what?

Was it perfect? No. I personally disagreed with the use of rape scenes and I noticed that they included sex scenes between lesbians, but not gay men, which could have been due to bad reasons. (I don't want to say for certain as one couple simply may have had less room for that, but let's be real, the fetishization of lesbians and the way toxic gender norms seep into any male expression of affection are both real things.)

That said, I disagree that the tragic fates of many LGBT characters means it's bad representation or aimed primarily at straight people. The thing about Black Sails is that it has many tragic characters. LGBT people aren't singled out. Yes, sometimes people want LGBT people to suffer, but that's so they can pity them. Nothing about the LGBT characters in this show is pitiful. They fight back about the homophobia they face. People who want to pity LGBT people don't typically want to see them fighting back against the oppression they face.

You can personally prefer the happy stuff. That's fine!! If your preference for queer media is light, happy escapism, then that's great and you should enjoy it to the fullest! But it's also okay that some people want Black Sails. Queer stories can exist in many forms.

[thefevercodepdf]

thinking about Thomas and Randall. maybe im crazy but i always interpreted it as a story of CSA. like, R torturing & taking Thomas's name as an allegory for SA....

"He had a hard time speaking ever since the incident with Randall. He had a hard time sleeping, eating, and just about everything else, too."

Two Full Years Later, "Thomas was just as happy to forget Randall forever, though he still couldn't help that spike of panic whenever a man in green scrubs turned a corner. Always, for just an instant, he thought it might be Randall again."

Thomas had nightmares and flashbacks abt him but can't talk to anyone about it. when he gets close to talking abt that trauma, all he can say is "some people could be nicer. like randall." he pretends like nothing happened, but in his head, "he thought back to when randall had taken away his name—it had felt like losing part of his soul." it's hard to tell if teresa even knows, because she cracks a joke about sending R after him, and he laughs???

but he is so terrified of R that among everyone around him, he's the one rushing to get away from R when he's infected and chasing them.

when he runs into R again, as a full blown crank, R pursues him saying "I miss the tasty treats." This passage is so nasty: "'Tasty,' Randall's voice whispered directly into his ear. Thomas screamed, twisting his body, struggling to get out from under the monster pinning him down." And when Thomas bashes his skull in he spends a long while just staring at R's dead body.

it's just a very fascinating aspect of the story, because he just Never talks to anyone about Randall, despite the lifelong trauma it caused. and then he gets to kill his abuser with his own hands, and instead all he thinks is that no one deserves to die that way.

[lapseinrecs]

The Silence Grows Louder (Ringing Out In My Head)

By Kirazalea

On Archive of Our Own

Status: Complete; Oneshot; 10,264 words; complete sequel

Summary: Duke notices something while on a mission, and that one observation turns into a confrontation with parts of Dick's past that he's kept hidden from his brothers for years.

My thoughts: Duke is underrepresented in fics he deserves better so I’m glad to see him in an important role in this Dick Grayson centric fic. His perspective is just so I don’t even know. I appreciate him.

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[fideidefenswhore]

was the tudors 'oversexualized', or was that just how tv was back then?

[fournets]

if you make a hc that anyone was cheating or being abusive premh im stealing something from your house!!!

[just-barrow]

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