Bruce : Last night I gave my kids a lesson in democracy. They voted on which movie to watch and the type of pizza they prefer.

Clark : That's a very goo-

Bruce: Then I picked the movie and the pizza because I'm the one with the money

One of my biggest pet peeves is the justice league being labelled as " The Avengers of DC" and its like. No? The avengers are law enforcement. The Justice League are volunteers

Kinda sorta part two to this one where Tim’s the one working through his feelings this time

Steph happily making use of her big sister privileges~

Fingerstrips gang

Everyone keeps pairing Danny up with the bat kids and I'm not even a shipper, but.

Pair him up with Steph,

Cowards.

Leaked page from Tim Drake: Robin #1

- He’s the same man I knew before in Ireland, but lately...I’m...changed...by him.

You know what? Fuck it, Steph and Damian are taller than Tim

Steph yes 100% to me steph is between 5'7 to 5'9 she's a tall bitch and Damian will grow taller then Tim but rn Damians smaller just bc he's a cute small bean

I got a new mask. Anyone want to see it?

been working my way through countdown to final crisis recently and i've been laughing about this sequence from issue #26 for days. get his ass, donna.

Young Khoa: This date is boring!

Young Bruce: This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store.

Khoa: Then why did you invite me?

Bruce: I didn’t, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "fuck you Bruce I'll do whatever I want!

Rewatching SHAZAM: Fury Of The Gods on HBO channel right now:

Almost forgot how fun this movie was.

a little batman thingy i’ve been thinking about for a while now. maybe it’s already implied in canon, maybe not, i don’t really care. just sorta a thing that’s been stuck in my brain for a while now that i wanted to get out.

had jason todd survived, i believe he would’ve grown to become the best possible successor for batman.

he’s often characterized as the “edgy” robin for various reasons, while he had his issues, all in all, jason was a good kid. he didn’t just die from an explosion, he died saving his mother— a woman who betrayed his trust, and lied to him, and abandoned him.

the dark, edgy robin would have no reason to save someone like that. let her die, save yourself. it’s what she probably deserves, after all.

but jason tried. he did everything he could to save his mother, even after everything she did to him, because jason is good.

yes, he has that darkness within him, and that anger, but so does bruce. they’re both children of gotham, who both struggle with the darkness within themselves, but overall, they’re good people. had jason lived, i imagine he would’ve learned to channel that darkness, and rise above it like bruce has. i imagine he would’ve happily succeeded bruce as batman, and maybe, could’ve been a better batman.

but jason died.

he came back, of course, but he came back traumatized, and broken, consumed by his inner darkness. he’s lightened up over the years— no matter how dark, he’s still good at heart— but i doubt he’d ever want to take the batman mantle now. not after everything he’s been through.

Honestly, imodna would be a good ship if the shippers/stans weren’t so damn insufferable. I also hate how they act like they are already canon and you can’t ship Imogen or Laudna with anyone else in the group. People got so mad when the conversation in the dust storm happened with Ashton and Laudna because people thought they were flirting. Or when on the first episode of 4 sided dive Marisha asked Robbie if Dorian’s crush was on Imogen, people got so mad at that! I also hate that they call them lesbians when THEY HAVE BOTH EXPRESSED HAVING FEELINGS FOR BOYS! Why can’t they be bi? Or Pan? I also hate how people read into Laura’s micro expressions/ movements, like last episode with the whole leaning shit “oh what was that lean Laura?!! Imogen wanted to kiss Laudna because look at Laura’s lean!” I dread the day that Imogen or Laudna fall in love with someone that’s not each other(especially if that person is a man.) because Marisha and Laura will harassed and hated because they didn’t give the people what they wanted.

oof. that's some frustration you really needed to vent, nonnie, and honestly i get it. full disclosure—my mutuals who are into imo/dna are all lovely, and none of them engage in this behavior. if imo/dna becomes canon, i'll be happy for (and potentially even happy with) fans like that. but enough shippers are doing things like this that it's becoming more and more of a source of frustration and friction as the campaign goes on.

i think a lot of fandom—in general, not just cr—still doesn't want to acknowledge that at the end of the day, they are looking at things like shippers, with a particular kind of confirmation bias. it doesn't make them necessarily wrong or right, but as easy as it can be to get swept up in it, i think it's important to take a step back every once in awhile and re-evaluate.

now admittedly, generally speaking, it takes a lot for me to get really invested in a ship; i usually only have one or two per fandom, even fandoms with tons of characters. i'm generally pretty passive about most ships if it's not the otp; like, vax/leth and pike/lan, for example, didn't need to be romantic endgame for me to enjoy CR1 (and honestly might have been more interesting to me if they hadn't), but perc/ahlia absolutely made the show for me and i honestly think them being together actively strengthens the narrative as a whole.

i say all that to say that for the most part, i very much consider myself to be along for the ride with respect to most relationships in most fandoms. if such-and-such pairing happens, great; if they don't, okay. and with CR in particular, it's such a long-form medium that i know going in that any romance is going to take a while, and most of them probably won't just reach out and grab me.

and as such, it absolutely baffles me to have seen shippers insisting, from the moment the characters first appeared in episode 1, that not only are imogen and laudna canon endgame, they're basically already together and just haven't admitted it yet. i feel this way about dor/ym and callow/moore as well—i saw a post making the rounds that claimed that all three of those ships are "not canon YET but let's be real" and like...why would you set yourself up for disappointment like that? because yeah! all three of those ships could be endgame! but they could also not be endgame. we're less than 40 episodes into a campaign that'll probably run well into the 100s.

i also fully agree with you re: the microexpressions and the cherrypicking, and i feel like a microcosm of this issue can be found in a conversation imogen has with orym early on—shippers latched onto the fact that imogen compares laudna's thoughts to music, something that finally brought her peace after the chaos of the world around her, and completely ignored the part immediately after where imogen says that the rest of the party also feels like that to her. i didn't even know that imogen said that about the whole party until i watched the episode, and to me it's an example of how shippers tend to warp canon interactions to suit a particular narrative in such a way that they become almost entirely divorced from their context.

and from the outside looking in, what confuses me about this sort of thing is like...didn't y'all already go through this? because if my understanding is correct, c2 ship discourse was full to the brim with beau/jes and wido/jest fans dissecting "laura's microexpressions" to prove that jester was for sure in love with our fave, really you guys we swear...and then not only was that not true, but jester also didn't even know about beau or caleb's feelings to acknowledge them at all, and from the actual words that came out of laura's mouth in various OOC moments like on TM, laura just...really really wanted to romance her husband's character in her dnd game and like, that's it. there was never going to be another romantic option for jester as long as fjord was on the table, and that was something that shippers always should have been taking into account.

laudna and imogen are canonically deeply important to each other. they love and appreciate each other very much. that love and appreciation could turn into a lovely romance with a great dynamic, and i certainly don't blame people for being invested in it. but it also could not be romantic endgame, and they remain friends or even get with other people. and as you said, fandom can and will turn nasty about their ships being sunk; we've already seen it happen. there's a certain smug, entitled undercurrent from that particular corner that i have very little patience with, and while i think there's something to be said for deciding to enjoy things in spite of the fandom and just be a cranky old curmudgeon shooing the wank out with a broom, i also understand the response of just "...aight, imma head out".

❝  why  isn't  take  out  for  dinner  ever  an  option  ?  ❞