No Because I Feel Like It’s Not Discussed Enough How Young Dick Is (bcs Of All Of The Younger Batfam

"cool character I guess..." I mutter, walking away with a suspiciously character shaped lump in my throat

no one understands the beef i have with john locke

the Withnail and I fandom is dying reblog if you’re gay and a fucking failure

sad rant time abt aot highschool caste au !!!

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you know what destroys me when i think about it too much? aot high school caste au. ngl it cheers me up usually because its so damn funny.. but then i get sad when i think about the fact the caste version of the characters is what they could’ve and SHOULD’VE been if they weren’t forced into such devastating lives in the original canonverse. LIKE OKAY LISTEN… the fact goth mikasa is so whimsical and ditsy instead of the fierce and realistic canon au mikasa is basically isayama telling us that “haha mikasa could’ve had the chance to actually daydream like a normal teenage girl and explore her femininity lol” baby mikasa in the OVA’s was so innocent and airheaded, SHE COUD’VE CONTINUED BEING A NORMAL GIRLLL 😞😞😞 AND nerd armin in the caste au being so unaware of his surroundings and actually having the chance to indulge in living out his teen years in a life where he could focus on his interests.

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bye im such a loser can someone else relate to my level of loser-ness for aot

It’s so him

One of the things which really annoys me about Dick Grayson’s characterisation by both DC and the fandom is how they treat his being Romani (I say this as a gypsy from the circus myself) also before people cancel me for saying gypsy - I am not American and it’s not a slur where I am from. I am a gypsy myself so please don’t freak out about my using this term which feels comfortable and accurate to me

I know this is a common complaint, but being a gypsy or Romani is such a niche ethnic identity, and so often I see people treat it almost like a nationality. For example, the idea that Dick Grayson grew up not knowing English is so bizarre to me… of course he knew English, he may be Romani and speak it, but he is also American. The shopkeeper who he is buying food from doesn’t speak Romani, nor do the local authorities whose permission we need to even put on a circus/fair, so it makes sense that he’d speak English to them. He works in the circus: his family’s livelihood depended on his being able to draw a crowd - if he can’t interact with the people he’s taking the money from, how does he expect to make it in what is essentially a customer service job (I speak from experience here). Also, historically, by the late 18th century, the vast majority of Romani-speaking gypsies also spoke another language as a first language, and by the 20th century, I could argue that this is about 99.99999% of us, if not all.

The other thing I often see is how Dick Grayson is portrayed as being the Bristol-raised kid who doesn’t understand Jason’s Crime Alley upbringing. And yeah, whilst Dick lived with Bruce from a young age, and might (even based on his personality) have a better chance of mixing with the rich kids, let’s not act like Dick didn’t know struggle as a kid. Even if his parents were fairly comfortable economically, he spent at least half the year living in a trailer/vardo, which people associate with being working class. All gypsy kids are taught to fight from a very young age because whenever we pull on somewhere to open (aka put on the show), we expect a hell of a lot of racism from the locals, which often included getting jumped, often by multiple older gadja/gorja/non-gypsy children - and hell, even adults! As well as knowing how to defend ourselves, this also leads to a lot us developing a bit of a defence mechanism wherein we can talk ourselves out of a situation, or endear ourselves to people quickly in the first place so we don’t get fighting (keeping us safe, and keeping us in the good graces of the locals so we can continue earning a living there) - perhaps this could be explored as part of the reasoning behind the famous Dick Grayson charm? Anyway, all this to say, Dick would fully understand what it’s like to be the poor outsider who has to fight at every corner just to exist, and justifying his existence to others who view themselves as his ‘superiors’.

My final complaint is a small one: every single gypsy I know grows up absolutely BELTING Cher’s ‘Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves’ and the fact that I’ve not seen Dick pouring his heart into that song, screaming the words ‘I was born in the wagon of a travelling show’ is honestly a hate crime which must be fixed immediately.

Trying to decide whether I make a separate tiktok account specifically for lost edits or if I just slap them onto my old acc w everything else

The problem that basically every 21st century adaptation of Batman has is that they've failed to understand that Bruce's "I work alone" schtick is a character flaw