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mzminola · 1 year

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Saw someone claim that canon Stephanie Brown has the character arc / development that "fanon [redacted]" has and buddy I hate to break it to you, but Preboot era Stephanie has the character development of a flat tire.

Stephanie starts out as a decently rounded supporting character who acts as a foil & peer to first Tim and then Cass. She's abrasive, pushy, and impulsive, which works for the narrative role she's in. She has some interesting moments of minor growth and glimpses of potential for more that unfortunately don't really go anywhere.

Then she gets screwed over by editorial's desire for grimdark edginess, dies, turns out not to be dead, and comes back having learned absolutely nothing from her mistakes (including, frankly, the mistake of thinking Bruce Wayne knows what he's doing).

Her following solo title insults other women characters to prop her up, acts like her past mistakes which got people killed are just a minor whoopsie that doesn't need to be addressed, and by the end of the run she's in the exact same narrative place she started.

I suspect if Stephanie hadn't died, or even if she'd died in a different way, she'd have continued to be a decently rounded character. Maybe she wouldn't have learned from her mistakes, but she'd have been allowed to be wrong. Maybe some of those glimpses of potential growth would have finally been followed up!

As-is, it feels like once she came back, DC didn't want to let the narrative criticize her at all, in case they be accused of victim blaming.

Which makes for a very flat character.

#Batgirl 2009 critical #Stephanie Brown Critical #sort of? it's mostly critical of the writing post death rather than the character herself #but I don't think there's a tag for that and I want people to be able to filter out the tag so...#Steph is a character that had a lot of potential and then it just #evaporated #Batgirl 2009 is a great example of judging a work's level of feminism #not by how it treats the lead but by the girls and women in the supporting cast #though actually also how it visually treated Steph too #was not good #see purple dress post for example #Stephanie Brown #DC #Batfam #comics meta #character she was being compared to has been redacted because it's frankly beside the point and a distraction

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vasquez-rocks · 4 months

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Not sure if Edgar Wright should be making movies about uhhhhh Women

#edgar wright #last night in soho #was not good #barbarella #i guess

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honeynclove · 5 months

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looking for x reader fics hurt comfort where the hurt is when reader spends a few hours on a cake just for it to break apart right as he is pulling it out of the fridge for everyone to see

#comfort is the character talking me out of committing after this event #joking #☕️!- clove speaks #like Martha speaks #tw suicide joke #just incase #my poor tres leches….#Ik what the issue is I didn’t let it cool completely before assembling bc I was in a rush and it caused the whipped cream to melt a lil and #oughhh #was not good

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personallbest · 3 months

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me when I only liked half of singular act i

#i’m sorryyyy but hold tight #was not good #sabrina carpenter #jo.txt

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inkyquince · 1 year

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Is because you are a vicious lil Inkster taking the world by storm

-q uwu

I KNEW THIS WAS YOU FROM THE FIRST COUPLE OF WORDS

#also kissing u #lovely thing #mwah #quiet the beloved #but god SCHEDULING IT TOMORROW AFTER MY FUCKIN HAND OVER AND MOVE IN TI #WAS NOT GOOD

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headlamprey · 1 year

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Anyway. Bioshock Infinite fuckin sucked

#i loved the first one but everything else just #was not good

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macdenlover · 4 months

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it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

#making this at 2 am was like top 10 autism moment for me #this is helping me make sense of so many things hopefully it helps someone else too idk #user macdenlover drops badly drawn infographic media literacy rates skyrocket theres world peace #anyways #for sunny 1.5 is the sweet spot for me. a sexy medium rare if u will #but it completely depends on the piece of media #with supernatural i was a 2.5 on a good day.

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koobiie · 4 months

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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

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its-arson-time · 5 months

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this post is meant for mobile users

#arson screams #rb bait #kinda #its-arson-time im so good at this #arson explodes #this post got 1k when i wasnt looking

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maudiemoods · 2 months

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If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes

#and i live by that #life is just life #ok ren go to bed ‼️#life is a constant loop of worry but also a constant loop of support #a constant loop of love and connections #thats what it is to be alive #omg period cramp ok good night #ren won't shut up #mood ruined ouchie

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theres-rue-for-you · 2 months

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my brother works on a boat so when he rants about his job I can’t take it seriously because he keeps angrily referring to his boss as “captain”. like sorry ur having 19th century sailor problems my guy

#this is not my normal kind of post but I think it’s hilarious #I don’t usually post abt my life but this was too good #boat #ocean #summer

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qrowscant · 3 months

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