Idk If This Is A Boomer Take But I Think Ppl Should Make More Of An Effort To Go See Movies In Theaters

i loveee watching my friends go through different interests and gain new favorite characters... like yes girl when can i meet your 17th wife whens the wedding and am i invited

Jason Todd turning into an octopus is terrifying…and unexpected.

Bruce has always masked his worry as anger, especially back in the 90s/early 2000s. I saw that moment as both him giving Dick some tough love but also him being extremely concerned about Dick and didn’t know how to express or even process it really. I suppose it’s easier to be pissed then to think “Oh shit, I’ve watched my son go through a depressive spiral for months and I haven’t done anything and now he almost got himself killed”

If only Bruce knew how to healthily process emotions 😔

Dick Grayson really gets the OC treatment in Nightwing (1996) and what I mean by the OC treatment is: “Just how much trauma can I put this character through”

Let’s go through the list

- First he decides to become a cop to take down the corruption of the police force; he basically swears off of sleep. He’s fighting crime during the day, he’s fighting crime at night. There is no time for this man to sleep.

- He actually ends up loving this job and even though he planned on quitting once the BPD got fixed, he stays. Just when he’s happy BAM! He gets fired after his boss and former partner learns about his identity

- Barbara breaks up with him

- Blockbuster learns his secret identity and decides to make his life a living hell

- He burns down Haly’s circus

- He blows up Dick’s apartment building, killing a good chunk of the supporting cast

- He’s pretty much homeless after this and sleeps on a fire escape using newspapers as a blanket and pillow

- Blockbuster threatens to kill everyone he knows. Literally. He says that if Dick so much as shakes someone’s hand, he’ll kill them

- He’s so severely fucked up about this he lets Tarantula kill Blockbuster

- She then SAs him (and it’s literally NEVER addressed??)

- Dick can’t handle the guilt and pretty much becomes passively suicidal.

- He has so much trauma and PTSD from this entire thing that Tim, Alfred and Barbara all mention something about him losing his spark

- He turns himself in but his former boss/partner gets himself out by saying he’s undercover

- Then he joins the mob???

- He pretty much pushes everyone away

- Then Death Stroke drops a chemo bomb on Blüdhaven

- Despite knowing that it’ll kill him, Nightwing continues to go into the wreckage to save as many ppl as he can.

- He passes out and is saved by Batman who takes him back to the Cave. He then gives him some tough love and talks to him about his suicidal tendencies

And that’s all I got because I haven’t finished the run yet but JESUS they put this poor guy through the wringer.

Begging someone either make an animatic or edit of Bruce and Dick to Slipping Through My Fingers by ABBA.

Okay I’m gonna drop an unpopular opinion here

I really

Really

Really

Hate the Jason and Damian met in the league and have a close brotherly relationship

I honestly think it detracts from BOTH of their development and makes both the characters a lot more 2D and boring.

And also I think it disrespects my GIRL Stephanie brown. Bc that close personal bickering, anything goes sibling shit? Yeah that’s Damian and Steph all the way.

And yeah I tend to credit Dick Grayson (bc he’s my boy) for a lot of the Growth Damian goes through. But Stephanie brown and him have the funniest sibling relationship in history

And I think to have as interesting of a development as Damian has had you needed characters like Dick and Steph to be his Batman and Batgirl.

Dick who I think we can all agree is objectively the least violent of the bats at a baseline (Richard crash out Grayson moments notwithstanding) as well as Steph. Both have angry moments of doling out justice but BOTH prefer rehabilitation methods and tend to be more mouthy and loud about their thoughts during a battle

Steph CLAWED her way up into her position, she fought for that and held on with an iron grip that left indents. She wasn’t as good as, Dick born acrobat Grayson, Barbara prodigy Gordon and Tim genius Drake. So she worked her ass off and FORCED people to pay attention to her and got good enough that she matches the rest of the bats on the field.

Dick HAS the experience of working with difficult cases. He’s lead teams his age filled with drama, infighting and death successfully, he’s trained kids younger than him successfully on panel.

He’s canonically a very adaptable teacher, who has strength in meeting you where you’re at and getting you to move to where you want to be.

Both these things helped Damian exponentially

Now let me be so clear.

Damian did the work.

Damian put in the blood, sweat and tears into changing his beliefs and perceptions of the world. But that would not have been possible if these two didn’t at least make it known that “hey you can be the kind of person who cares and still have value and not be weak and pathetic”

Damian going vegetarian/vegan bc of his morals, Damian choosing not to kill, Damian choosing to leave Robin, Damian making choices unrelated to mantles, regrets and vengeance. Is due to the fact that he had Dick Grayson and Stephanie brown as examples (now ofc Alfred was also very very very imp but I feel like no one ignores his significance so I don’t feel the need to add him here)

And Jason?

It also imo, FUCK UP JAYS DEVELOPMENT.

Bc if Jason could be this kind, empathic older sibling to Damian? WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK WAS HE DOING WHEN HE FIRST CAME TO GOTHAM? the way he treated the bats and the rogues gallery? Slaughtering all of blackgate to end up in Arkham, making dick watch him fall to his ‘death’.

No absolutely not

This is the ‘pit madness’ nonsense all over again

Jason had to see the world outside of Gotham and work with other people who were anti-heroes who fall into the category.

Bc Jason didn’t start out as an antihero

Jason was a full on villain with a grudge against other villains, he worked for the place he’s in. It’s bc of characters he interacted with, it’s bc of realizations he’s dealt with. It’s because he’s been a little too trigger happy in the wrong place and ended up looking at the grief he caused others and realizing he didn’t want to do that.

It gets rid of Jason realizing HE CAN work with his family.

It gets rid of Jason BECOMING a solid older brother to Tim and erases the Jason who WANTS to have a relationship with his family.

It erases all of the times he’s tried and failed and still got up and tried again

Both of them have grown bc of the people around them and I think if they had each other at that time it would’ve gone 1 of 2 ways

1) a toxic loop re-establishing bad beliefs and practices that damage both of them and leave them more resentful and stuck in their ways

2) they would’ve hated each other and tried to kill each other

In summary

-both these characters didn’t show up nice, they worked for it, don’t erase that

- don’t erase the characters that helped them grow (my girl Steph Brown being left out of conversations she started will kill me)

- Jason can have close relationships with the family im not saying he shouldn’t. I’m just saying that Jay is the cool older brother who very obviously loves you but was at college when you were a kid and now doesn’t really know how to interact with you and it’s awkward but you know you can go to him even if he isn’t your first call in most situations

- Damian was not a good person, he CHOSE to be that’s important to his growth. And with that growth came the ability to form the close connections he now has in canon. Without the growth he undergoes he wouldn’t be able to form the protective loving group of family and friends he has around him

- STOP IGNORING STEPH, I AM LITERALLY A DICK GRAYSON STAN ACCOUNT AND I AM OVERHERE TRYING TO GET CRUMBS OF MY GIRL OHMYGOD

- I would highkey love a short miniseries of Jason and Damian working together and developing a nice relationship both in and out of the masks but until we get that. I’m sticking to awkward brother that loves you but doesn’t get you at all

Also if you disagree/ have more nuanced takes on the Jay Damian sibling arc please leave in the reblogs and comments, I like hearing more nuanced takes and discussing just please don’t be a dick (hehe) about it

they are verrrryyy important to me actually

One of the things I love most is the bond of complicity between Selina and Dick that has been built over the years.

She saw the little, nosy Robin grow up and become a leader, a good man who carries the weight of so many responsibilities, just like his father.

He met the woman behind the thief he wanted to catch so badly, he saw someone who cares about the strays of Gotham (and Batman) as much as she loves jewelry.

Their journey today is independent of Selina and Bruce's relationship. Aside from a certain stupid editorial decision, they have seen each other mature over the years and care for each other like family.

I totally head canon that when SKK was in the port mafia together, Dazai and Chuuya just caused Chaos together and Hirotsu just chased after them trying to prevent them from causing World War III

Dazai: sets chair on fire and performs satanic rituals 

Chuuya: starts making random things float and acting like a demon 

Hirotsu: I hate my job

shiro is like "i know a guy" about everything but all of his guys are just keith

“I hate writing”

- I an aspiring playwright says, staring at the blinking cursor on a blank screen.

(Someone put me down before I crash out)