Batboys band meeting pt. 2

Duke: Alright glad everyone could make it here today !

Damian: We live here.

Duke: Moving on. First order of business is a band name, I was thinking-

Jason: Tim what the hell is that?

Tim: A bass guitar

Dick: You have your own guitar?

Tim: No, I bought it

Duke: Why?

Tim: You said I was the bass player

Jason: Hold up, so you just bought a guitar?

Tim: Yes?

Jason: The hell did you do that for?

Tim: You guys said I was bass, What else was a supposed to do ?!?

okay, walk with me:

when they’re having a particularly bad day, kon has cassie, bart, and tim to come over to the farm. he formally introduces them to all the livestock and such.

he’s going over the naming conventions for the chickens (henrietta, obi wan henobi, etc) and tim raises his hand—it started as a bit because of him being bad with interrupting—and asks if he can name one. kon’s like sure go wild. tim names it hentress.

everyone had no idea why, but he seems very pleased. helena goes into her kitchen the next day and finds a polaroid of it with the name written underneath in familiar handwriting. she sticks it on her fridge with an apple-shaped magnet conveniently gifted by the same person. do u see the vision?

Young Justice is consuming my every waking thought and I'm about to make it everyone else's problem >:]

I wish you guys could understand how much it sucks that this season really does seem to give the POSSIBILITY of something ACTUALLY shifting in terms of Buddie, but Kr*sten did so much damage and had me so pissed and scarred from the Season 6 finale that I spent this whole goddamn hiatus conditioning myself to stop getting my hopes up.

As a follow-up from this post, Talia who starts to present herself as "your mother" to any new batkids she meets, because she is living in her reality, where Bruce is her soulmate whatever he says or does. He may have another girlfriend, another partner, even a spouse, it doesn’t matter, they are just a "plaything" and he is her betrothed. And those batkids (Duke, I'm imagining Duke) being totally lost because "who the fuck are you????".

And Dick, as her n°1 hater, is screaming that she's nobody's mother (apart from Damian, he has to accept that), she is certainly not his mother, nor his stepmother, and she needs to back-off.

Tim Drake is NOT a chronic insomniac, he is taking a nap right now as we speak

☆ Nathaniel Wilson ☆

I Really Like Nathaniel because the guy embodies Hope and Positivity without forcing it down the gullets of everyone around him.

He looks like he'd be a pleasant individual to actually be around at 7 am. Even before his coffee. [ Sera should be too, she doesn't seem like an unbearable person to be around in La Matinée ( the Morning ) . But still, she is alot grumpier than her other half. ]

With that said. Insert Happy music here. Nujabes or Smth.

Submitted by @mettamorphoses!

Love the way you drew Nate here! such a clean style and serious face :> He's my favorite little quadfocal guy... friendly, polite, and a good conversationalist! You're absolutely right, he's one of the easiest people to get along with. It's almost like he knows exactly what to say to people.

Sera isn't grumpy so much as she is disinterested and dismissive. She heads to work without bothering to make small talk besides a basic "Hello." if she passes you by. Not the worst outcome, really, if silence doesn't bother you.

woe, gay thoughts be upon ye, timothy

A trend in whump fanfiction that has been bothering me for a while actually is the conflating of morality messages with whump stories. 

As a great fan of the catharsis through Whump (Whump is like “Angst with a happy ending” or “extreme Hurt/Comfort”) I’ve been noticing that it greatly irritates me when the character being saved out of the bad situation of the premise has to either prove their moral worth before or after being rescued. 

The two characters who get the most whump attention are Tim and Jason, and I want to talk about each of their cases and why implying the need for moral goodness is problematic.

Tim is commonly going to “deserve” his salvation through silently suffering prior to his rescue. These stories enforce the mentality that it is good to not speak up about one’s suffering, that other people will notice if they really love you and that your best hope to be saved is to comply as far as possible with the expectations placed on you, to the point of self-neglect or self-harm.

Jason will commonly “deserve” his rescue through punishment or repentance after the fact. Often he is portrayed to be ashamed of his actions, asking for forgiveness and promising to change his ways. Along the lines of Tim, if silence is rewarded, then Jason’s willingness to speak up about his trauma must be punished. Often the defense for this is to say that Jason has killed people though, and surely we all agree that is just wrong. And indeed, in the real world, we do. But Jason is a fictional character, and his killing is more of a symbolic action for the demand of extreme justice in reaction to one’s trauma than meant to be understood purely literally. 

If we suspend our disbelief for the dressing up in a Batcostume and child-soldier-indoctrination of Bruce to be part of the medium, then we ought to understand Jason’s character with the same degree of abstraction. In the real world context Bruce suffers from severe delusions and Jason commits arbitrary murder. Suffice to say, this is not the story these comics are purporting to convey.

However a lot of fandom whump works choose to include an overt or covert moral message within their work. While it is understandable to cathartically want to feel that one deserves to be relieved of one’s suffering, it is troublesome that the implication arises that one ought to deserve it. The truth is that everyone deserves help and support, regardless of whether they in turn act in the ways we think would be best for them. After receiving help, a former victim should be entitled to the same freedom of self-determination as anyone else. There is no moral debt created by the act of having been saved by someone else.

Where Tim is usually the “good” victim and Jason typically the “bad” victim, they both get measured according to the same insidious metric that pervades the western cultural ideal of victimhood. Silence in suffering is expected and rewarded, complying to the demands set by the abuser is seen as more deserving of outside intervention than standing up for oneself and the narrative that being understood and having people agree with you, means that you are right and that you are loved. I find these implied moral conflations to the whump element of the story upsetting as a former victim of abuse. 

Because, look, the fact is that you aren’t more likely to be saved irl no matter how good you are. Victims don’t have to deserve help, everyone inherently deserves to be helped out of respect for them as a human being. No strings attached. 

another tangent to that but the funniest thing about the modern conflict and dynamic between bruce and talia is that if you wanted to pit them against each other in terms of parenting philosophies you could have done that just as easily going off of son of the demon alone. talia being an abusive mother is never something that should have been in the cards but her choice to prioritize bruce’s position as batman over the life they could have had together as parents of their child is something i think about a lot and generally talia is someone who was shown to criticize bruce when he let personal emotions and conflicts get in the way of honoring his duty. i could totally see her struggling to fulfill her role as a mother bc of how seriously she takes her ethical duty regardless of however much love she has for her child meanwhile bruce would take one look at an under-10 damian and be on the verge of dropping everything for him out of grief and severely emotionally clouded judgment bc that’s just who he is when it comes to his blorbos in dire straits 

...I think I need to log off until Sunday evening (let’s say 4:00)

I feel a little guilty because there are discussions up in the air right now, but when I need to disappear, I need to disappear. Take this as a rain check for conversations and stuff.

god im in such a mood to draw research era jon and tim but every time im like yeah lets do this my mind goes blank

i finished Wednesday and, idk if this is a hot take but whatever, i hope xavier gets major character development. he is so toxic, especially in the way he treated bianca. facts don’t care about your feelings

i love blocking people. heart

Firmly believe that in the Wayne Manor living room there is a large rock that is the designated seat for whomever has either:

A. Last crashed the Batmobile

B. Ate the last of Alfred’s cookies

Or

C. Annoyed Jason during the monthly Chick Flick night

what can you say to deranged tim hate other than “and this is why your favorite robin is straight” 🤭