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Actually I think the reason why Emerald replaced Wally is because of pokespe's fuckass release schedule. We know that Kusaka originally planned to make Wally the 10th dexholder, but the emerald arc began publishing before RS finished. My guess is that Kusaka elected to make a new character in a new setting rather than write Wally spoiling the end of RS

anyways i do think analysis of the sexism that steph faced in 90s and early 00s comics and highlighting comparison of her treatment with that of tim's as a result of the sexism inherent in the writing by the writers is important & i've done it myself.

however. however. hm. despite this, i do think it's important to remember that by *limiting* it to a 1:1 comparison of stephanie's chances to tim's, of *course* steph is going to come out on bottom & a lot of that has less to do with sexism than one would think (it does definitely have *some* to do with sexism, i won't deny it). because the problem is that steph is a *side* character. a very important one, mind you. and dixon was doing his damndest post NML to try and elevate her to a main/core character. but she has been, since her very inception, a side character. and it's that, more than anything, that truly stymies her character chances. if the third robin had, by chance, been a female character and steph had been introduced/created to foil off her, steph *still* would have come out on bottom. if the third robin had been lonnie and steph had still been created, steph would have come out on bottom. steph coming out on bottom has suprisingly little to do with tim doing well. tim does well & is given endless chances because he's a main character. steph doesn't because she's a side character in that era. if there were a 'spoiler' title written by dixon that was allowed to make her a main character, he absolutely would have had her do well & become one of the best fighters in the dcu, of course he would have. it's why he wanted to make her robin, and not just that, an absolutely amazing robin. but since dc didn't want to elevate her to main character at the time, a side character she remained. and side characters. hm. i get it. it can be tough to like side character because you want the world for them! but in the end, side character are going to be treated as side characters.

so like. if you really want to interrogate steph as a female character of the 90s it's important to compare her not just to the male main character of the work she's in, but also to the treatment of other female characters *in her position of being a side character* at the time when evaluating whether she was treated fairly as a character. was she treated with more care and thoughtfulness to her characterization than other side female characters in the 90s? was her characterization unique to her and consistent? was she the token girl or are there other girls in the narrative? did it seem like the writer cared about her as a person? was she allowed to have interiority? was she allowed to be *more* than just a love interest? was she allowed to have meaningful and complex relationships outside the love interest? she made a lot of mistakes, but was she ditzy or airheaded or dumb? there's so much sexism surrounding steph's treatment, yes. but for a 90s female side character she makes out like a bandit on so many levels, even if she's never allowed to be as good as everyone else. idk.

Seriously bendis fuck you

is talia on the milf list?

Talia broke the blog record for most nominations in the MILF tournament

remembered yj cartoon again

putting the bi in Robin

I feel like making waves!

(Some of these are like my Anti-Takes, so oh god please do not come raze my home to the ground and salt the earth!)

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Hey remember that time Steph almost murdered someone. No not that time the other time. No the other other time. No th

it's so over...

Steph very explicitly stating that she never told Dean about the kid and that he left because of the earthquake and yet every single post about her daughter for some reason claims he left her because of the pregnancy, I think we need to get the calculators back out because shits not adding up

the look of someone who's sick of this shit

Big fan of Cissie's constant "I don't want to be here, I don't know any of you people please leave me out of your problems" attitude. I was a little worried about how Williamson would characterize her and her relationship to the rest of the group but so far he's nailed it.

No sleep. Only draw.