This Is Your Random Reminder To CHECK IF YOU'RE STILL HAVING FUN

I’d tell them you said that, but they really don’t need that kind of ego boost

DC as actual things my friends have said: Part 2

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Dick: Woah! What’s with the face?

Jason: It’s Bruce. He never leaves me alone! I swear he’s so far up my ass I can feel him in my ovaries

Dick: You don’t have ovaries?

Jason: Exactly

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Tim:

~at 3 in the morning~

Tim: Did you know that only 5% of the ocean has been uncovered? For all we know, there could wild JoJo Siwas in the ocean

Kon: And she attacks your boat and violently humps you

Bart: Or there could be glowing squids! That’d be pretty cool

Cassie: Have any of you ever heard of inside thoughts??

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Tim: Why are you crying!? What’s wrong?!?

A very pregnant Stephanie: Sometimes when my eyes get lonely I cry because they’re friends with my tears :(

Tim:

Absolutely nobody gets how much Dan Mora's design of robin!Dick Grayson means to me.

Like–???

This saved my life.

robin 129 has one of the most intense tim panels i’ve ever seen. this is why i read comics

oh the blessing and the curse of having a good film adaptation of a fandom you love

"yeah im neurodivergent", i say. you think i mean not neurotypical, but as you finish that thought, my mind itself diverges, splitting into an infinite fractal of me's, the resulting hivemind overwhelming your brain with information about random media you've never heard of until you explode

I find it really funny that people take a panel out of any comic to say "see?? X is not like fanon says, actually he is like this". Bestie, the first thing I've learned from DC is that canon's fucked. Not in the sense that it's bad (sometimes it is), but in the sense that is inconsistent at best.

I'm talking about Batfam right now, so the thing is people want to say x or y robin was the chaotic one and... They all are. They all are very polite or absolute menaces. And It's a staple of the genre. Obviously if you read Tim's run as robin or his comics you're gonna get the impression that he is the main character. Just the coolest, most nuanced, goes through every single event ever kind of character. But if you read Dick's comics...surprise! He is also the smartest coolest funniest robin ever. And omg isn't Jason traumatized when you read his story? But also isn't Steph even more so? Or Cass?

Jason's og backstory was so similar to Dick's they had to change it. Like sure they give each robin/batfam their own traits and backstory, but they also end up with really similar abilities/going through similar events a lot of the time. And personality wise it's not much better because you would think that's one of the things they'd want to keep stable but no.

Tim swings wildly between Batman's most obedient good little soldier and feral child that lies to his face. The evolution sometimes is non existent or not coherent with the plot but that's because a new writer picked it up and he doesn't want to focus on that. Even their unique characteristics get fucked around in canon. Paraphrasing "the characters will do what the writer wants them to do".

If you're afraid of misrepresenting the character I would fall back on these core traits and build up from them. As long as you keep that in mind it's gonna be more canon compliant than some parts of canon. I'm also big on "let people fuck around with fanon" because truly, I might hate some interpretations of the characters...but it's not like it's canon. That's someone playing dolls with a comic character, who cares? I say let them. Simply don't engage if you dislike it.

Somewhere across the country, Dick Grayson just burst into tears of pride and doesn’t know why

The reason Cassandra Cain fans are so defensive of the idea of her being the best is because it's absolutely core to her character. It's not just a dumb fanboy power scaling thing, it's that this character literally only makes internal sense in that context. Part of the reason she puts the weight of the world on her shoulders, pushes herself past her limits every single night and rejects any and all attempts to help her is because in her mind she's the only one who can. It has to be her because no one else can do the things she can do.

"My favourite superhero is Green Lantern!"

"My favourite is the Flash!"

"Mine is Robin!"

holy shit