Hi, my name is Mosab , and I’m from Gaza. Life here has been harder than I could ever imagine, but today I’m sharing my story with hope in my heart, because your kindness has already given us so much strength.
This journey hasn’t been easy. The war has taken 25 family members from us—25 beautiful souls we loved deeply. Their laughter, their presence, their love… all of it is gone, leaving behind memories that are both precious and painful. Every day, I carry the weight of their loss, but I also carry their spirit, which gives me the strength to keep going.
Our Journey So Far
When I first reached out, I couldn’t have imagined we’d make it this far. Your support has been a light in these difficult times, and we are so deeply grateful for every single contribution.
But the road ahead is still challenging. Every day, we’re reminded of how much we’ve lost and how much we still need to rebuild.
Here’s what life in Gaza looks like for my family right now:
🏠 Safety: The uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavily on us.
😢 Loss: The absence of the 25 family members we’ve lost is a pain we carry every moment.
💔 Dreams on Hold: The future feels so far away when survival takes all our strength.
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Thank you for helping us get this far. Your generosity and compassion have already brought us closer to a better tomorrow, and for that, I’m endlessly grateful.
Hey everyone, my name is Abdelmajed. I don’t usually talk much about myself, but today, I want to share a little piece of my story.
I was born and raised in Gaza, a place that has always been my home 🏡. I grew up surrounded by my family, my friends, and the streets that I knew like the back of my hand. Life wasn’t always easy, but we had love, laughter, and dreams. I used to think that no matter what happened, home would always be here. But life has a way of changing things in ways we never expect.
Over the past months, everything I once knew has disappeared. The streets that were once filled with children playing are now silent. The houses that held so many memories are now just rubble. And the people I loved—some of them are gone forever. 💔
I headcanon that Batman has all the bats in the batcave vaccinated for rabies. It was Alfred that personally vaccinated them all and the people to take over the vaccinations of bats was Damian and Tim. It weirds biologists out that there is an area of the world that bats just don’t seem to get rabies and it’s new jersey of all places.
Do other people in the world really believe the genocide is over or that conditions have improved? They began starving the North in March last year and then continued to starve the whole Strip for a year and now they are starving the whole Gaza Strip again this March, in Ramadan.
Genocide is an act of collective punishment and neglect of the most essential life sources.
In reality they began committing genocide against the people of Gaza the day that the siege on Gaza was imposed. What we continue to witness since Oct 7th is only the same genocide accelerated which I will never stop repeating.
Not only that, the murder by aircraft has not stopped. israel’s fascist death machines are still hovering and threatening and firing and killing people in their tents, in their damaged homes, in cars, at people trying to rebuild…their thirst for Palestinian blood is literally infinite.
Even if the fire stopped, it would still be genocide. There is no such thing as an israeli ceasefire because they practice murder by freezing and starving and medically neglecting and physically and psychologically torturing Palestinians too.
I’m shy I swear because I keep asking you for your help but that’s the only way to help my brother plus my relatives to survive
Reports from people in Gaza that’s the bombs its like earthquake they feel the ground moving because of heavy bombs dropping on them ….
not only was a journalist tent bombed, which is forbidden under international law, but the whole world watched the journalists burn alive and do nothing about it.
I totally understand after one year and half you starting to ignore what’s happening and feeling not useful at all and almost there’s no donations i get for my brother and my family and my relatives in gaza
But all we have is you
You are our hope you keep us surviving in this madness please guys continue supporting us
I’m sorry for keeping asking 🙏
This message for anyone donating a little and telling me they’re sorry and they wish that’s they have more
Your donations helps so much and thank you so much for your love
I love you 🫶🏼
Today my brother told us that’s he bought okra just 250 gram for 15$ and piece of cheese for 10$
And still he needs to pay 40% fee
For 30 days there’s nothing entering gaza no aid at all
Does Jason’s behaviour suggest he was a victim of csa?
There is very little, in terms of clinical signs, that’s going to point to csa specifically, because most symptoms, for psychiatric disorders, aren’t specific to one disorder or cause. One thing that’s usually a good hint would be children making very sexual statements/references/jokes/behaviours that are very inappropriate in context (a good example of this would be Roman Roy from Succession); night terrors are bed wettings amongst children/teenagers over a certain age. But that is absolutely not necessary: many, if not most victims of csa don’t display these specific signs, and a twelve years old that suffers from night terrors is not necessarily a victim of csa. The one thing that tells you for sure, in a person with trauma, that they have been a victim of csa, is that they’re telling you they have been a victim of csa. I’m insisting on that part because there’s a whole bunch of therapists (cough cough psychanalysts) that will tell you confidently that your psychiatric symptoms stem from a childhood sexual trauma (cherry on top of the shit cake if it’s incestuous) that you didn’t know about because you’ve repressed it. I repeat, that’s bullshit. If you meet a clinician who tells you that, RUN. So, a warning: this is probably the least “psychological analysis” of my “Jason psychological analysis posts”, because Jason’s symptoms do not allow us to conclude formally for or against a history of sexual abuse. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do some meta, make sure we’re on the same page with what’s analyzed here, some textual analysis, discuss what the csa headcanon does and does not imply in terms of his behaviour. I think it’s a good idea to start with it so we know where we’re standing with our analysis, regardless of the fact it’s maybe not the most interesting in terms of psychopathology and neuropsychology.
A couple of disclaimers:
I only talk about the comics I want to talk about. This is for two reasons, which are that 1) I do what I want and if I don’t like/don’t find something interesting, I’m not gonna waste time on it; and 2) I’ve been reading comics for a couple of months only, and there are, like, a lot of them. If there are comics you wanna see analysed under that lense, feel free to suggest them! I might not want to, but it also could be that I haven’t read them yet. Additionally, I’m not interested in questioning the morality of Jason’s actions here. Ethics are fun, and I like talking about them sometimes, and morality sometimes has a place in talks about demonization but largely speaking this isn’t the space for that. I separate talk about morality and psychology stuff as much as I can for a reason, so if you are looking here for excuses for his behaviour or arguments as to why he is a bad person, you’re in the wrong place. Moral judgement is irrelevant here for the most part.
On the events of Red Hood: Lost Days:
Jason has, at some point in the comics, been a victim of csa. When Talia kisses Jason before pushing him off a cliff right after he got out of the Lazarus Pit, and when she initiates sex with him in Lost Days, that’s not consent!! That’s a grown woman taking advantage of a traumatized teenager who is, on top of that, deeply indebted to her. That’s a predatory act, with a steep power imbalance, it’s sexual assault, and on top of that there’s an element of suggested pseudo-incest. That decision was retconned, and thank god, because it was a brutal assassination of Talia’s character based on a good bit of racism, and also because the way it was portrayed doesn’t make it clear that Jason is a victim in a situation rather than that super annoying trope of “teenage guy gets to bang a hot MILF and hahaha lucky him”, writing a male character in a situation of SA without acknowledging it as SA or taking it seriously is one of the tropes I hate most, it reinforces stigmatisation and isolates victims. For all of these reasons, I’m not gonna include that element in my analysis, but it’s important to note that if you do include those scenes in your conception of it, then Jason is undeniably a victim of csa and everything discussed about it applies to him.
What if it were a lie?
I’ve said it before (and I’ll say it again), I deeply, violently hate headcanons/tropes where a character lies about being a victim of csa (whether it’s for manipulation, personal gain, any reason really I don’t care). It’s rare as fuck in real life, however it’s a common trope that feeds into fear of being wrongfully accused that causes push-back and increases social stigmatization. CSA is a painful thing associated with intense feelings of shame and already a deep fear of not being believed. Imagine making a considerable effort to seek help after something terrible happened/is happening to you, and you have to brave your fear of not being believed on top of that, and once you’ve made all that effort you get rejected and villainized because it’s just easier for the person you’re reaching out to not to believe it. So I’m awfully weary of this type of headcanon, and I think a general rule of thumb is “if your interpretation of what the character is saying is that he’s talking about how he was abused, especially if he’s talking about sexual assault, then it happened.” If you don’t like that, if you don’t feel like that’s good representation, then you can question the story, think it should be retconned, or rethink your interpretation of what the character says if it’s ambiguous, but hcing that the character lied about his assault is not a hypothesis we’re going to accept here no matter what. So we can start by scratching that one out: Jason never lies about being a victim of csa, or wilfully hints at it even though that’s untrue, at any point.
Two other ideas I’ve seen floating around that I think are worth mentioning:
No, just because Jason lived in the streets as a kid doesn’t mean the only way he survived was through underage prostitution. I genuinely don’t understand that idea, yes being a street kid makes you extremely vulnerable, yes it makes the risk of resolving to underage prostitution to survive higher but it’s absolutely not a fatality. That idea is, quite frankly, weird. Do you automatically assume if a real life person tells you they were in the streets for some time at a kid that they are a victim of csa? Also, I’ve seen the idea go around that because some people have a strong reading/hc of Jason as bi (which I have no problem with I love bi Jason), that would be an argument in favour of the csa hc. Please don’t do that. There’s no link between queer sexual orientations and childhood sexual abuse, that’s a harmful myth that we should work to deconstruct or, at the very least, not continue to vehiculate.
Another important thing to keep in mind: childhood sexual abuse =/= childhood sexual trauma.
Now, a traumagenic situation is a situation that might induce trauma (so development of, acute stress disorder, ptsd, cptsd, derealization, any traumatic pathology really). These situations exist on a continuum of probability to be traumatized by this situation. For example, a flood, a car accident, witnessing a murder and being sexually assaulted are all traumagenic situations, but the probability of developing trauma from them are very different. It hinges on personal, situational, social, and environmental risk factors (that have nothing to do with being weak, anybody can develop trauma). A definition for traumagenic situations can be found in the diagnostic criteria for ptsd in the dsm-5:
A. “Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence in one (or more) of the following ways:
1. Directly experiencing the traumatic event(s).
2. Witnessing, in person, the event(s) as it occurred to others.
3. Learning that the traumatic event(s) occurred to a close family member or close friend. In cases of actual or threatened death of a family member or friend, the event(s) must have been violent or accidental.
4. Experiencing repeated or extreme exposure to aversive details of the traumatic event(s) (e.g., first responders collecting human remains; police officers repeatedly exposed to details of child abuse). Note: Criterion A4 does not apply to exposure through electronic media, television, movies, or pictures, unless this exposure is work related.”
Note that the this last criteria has been added from the DSM-5 in order to explain cases of PTSD observed in at-risk jobs like cops exposed to repeated detailed child abuse, first responders collecting human remains, or, crucially, vigilantes repeatedly exposed to brutal crimes. This means that Jason, when he works on the Dumpster Slasher case, when he is horrified to find Gloria in the immediate aftermath of her rape (and later finds her dead body, because witnessing the consequences of these traumatic events is also an important component of that second-hand trauma), is being exposed to a very traumagenic situation. As I said before, that doesn’t necessarily mean you will experience trauma (thank fuck for that), but there are factors that influence that. SA related situations has an already pretty high probability of inducing trauma. On top of that, age is a big factor in that: the younger you are, the less resources, emotional regulation, development and coping mechanisms to face the traumagenic event you have (though there is such a thing as “too young to have PTSD" -when your memory is simply not developed enough for the memory to traumatize you because you will not remember the event.) At fifteen, with his memory fully developed but his brain going through so much changes because of teenagehood and his past history, Jason would be at risk. On top of that, you’re more at risk to get traumatized if you’re already stressed out when the event happens, so Jason’s mental state at this point in his robin run is also a risk factor. All to say, it’s very plausible for Jason to have sexual trauma without being a victim of sexual abuse in relation to canon events. Besides, in headcanon territory when it comes to Jason’s childhood before Robin, there are so many ways to be exposed to sexual violence : witnessing/finding his mother being a victim (considering the position of extreme vulnerability Catherine was in), witnessing assault in the streets, being the victim of attempted SA and escaping, watching street kids get picked up and later find their bodies/being told by other kids, as a cautionary tale, in excruciating detail, testimonies of their own assault… Or for example, if we’re thinking about Arkham Knight, being constantly threatened with SA, it being hinted and joked about and hanging over him like a sword of Damocles is something I could see Joker and other inmates do that could definitely induce sexual trauma even if it doesn’t happen ; what matters most, in trauma, is that the fear is real. Mechanically, when we’re looking at the way trauma works even on a biological level, the overwhelming fear is at the core of the pathology. (This is also why you can develop PTSD after a psychotic episode.) Like, my point isn’t that one of these things happened to Jason, or that he has to have sexual trauma from the events of the Diplomat’s Son or anything -mostly just that this is a possibility, something very serious that happens and an important nuance that I never see in discussions on the csa headcanon, and while it’s not exactly what the debate is about, I think it’s something important to ponder.
Do you consider the csa hc to be canon?
So, there are a lot of Jason stories, and I’m very pro “not take in account what is said in comics you dislike in your conception of canon” because if I did that absolutely no bat character would be readable, I have to believe that no character is defined by their worst writers. And boy, does Jason have a lot of bad writing… On top of the personal retcons, there are also the canon retcons: like Battle for The Cowl is retconned… Unless someone decides to reinject/revamp it into the narrative (please don’t please don’t it’s irrecuperable let it lay with the Flying Todds where it belongs). So, let’s see. There are three writers/arcs that imply/mention the csa hc: Starlin’s writing of Jason’s post-crisis Robin Run (canon though some stuff in it seems to have been retconned), Winick’s writing in Green Arrow: Seeing Red (canon as far as I know), and Battle for the Cowl (retconned). It’s worth noting that one of those are considered to be foundational works for Jason’s character (Jason’s post crisis Robin Run and Starlin’s part in it), and another was written by Winick, who wrote the other two foundational Jason stories: Under The Red Hood and Red Hood: Lost Days. On a personal level, I’m very mitigated about what I like and accept about it. I base my whole love and characterization of Jason about his post-crisis Robin Run, I love that little guy so much, Starlin’s take on Jason’s Robin Run is absolutely canon to me (which does not mean I like Starlin as a writer, thank you very much). On the other hand of the spectrum, the only reason Battle for the Cowl isn’t my least favourite comic ever is because The Killing Joke exists, absolutely not canon, get this thing away from me. And then in the middle, my feelings on Seeing Red (on the entirety of Winick’s Jason really) vary depending on the day, because I do like a revenge story that challenges the status quo with tropes of “bad victim” and it sets up Jason as a character based on love rather than morals which I adore, but there are also some elements of psychophobia in the writing that I (who approach stories through the filter of psychopathology first and foremost) can’t just look past, and also the way it intertwines with classist stereotypes. So do I consider Seeing Red to be canon? In good faith, yes, but whether I’ll accept it as such really depends on the day. In terms of the csa headcanon: it’s heavily hinted in BTFC but not outright said, it’s there as a undercurrent in Starlin’s run because of his intention (to make Jason die of AIDS). And then we have Seeing Red. Basically Jason lists elements about Mia’s life, including her past with underage prostitution (so, just to be very clear, csa), and says they’re very similar, having both lived on the streets, and understand having to do bad things when it’s necessary. This is not the same as saying “I was a victim of csa”, and what he’s saying could be interpreted differently (we know that he was stealing tires, and “only what he needs to survive”, so he could have been referencing small-time theft.) So, it could be a reference to something else, I totally understand why some people want to interpret differently. It just… Feels like such a weird and weak argument to be equating boosting tires to underage prostitution, to me it’s very ooc (in comparison to UTH Jason), and it would feel like weak writing from someone like Winick. Aka it’s not technically canon, and you don’t have to accept it as such(I understand the mentality of “I’m rejecting this interpretation because it feels like demonization of csa victims” perfectly), but personally I think it takes a lot from Jason’s character in Seeing Red and from this story in general.
But do you like/integrate it in your conception of Jason’s character?
Yes. One thing about my conception of art and headcanons is, I think a work of art is born from the encounter between a creator and a spectator through the intermediary of the work of art. A book is just a book until you pick up the story, it’s the collision of the two worldviews that create the story, including what you think the author is saying, what the author thinks you’ll understand from what they’re saying, your prior knowledge of the writer and his world but also your knowledge and conception of the world (like if you’re reading hamlet and also know the criteria for depression), etc. So it’s not that the curtains are just blue, or that the only thing that matters is whether or not the curtains were blue. The curtains being blue means the character is sad if 1) you associate blue with sadness and/or 2) you think the author associates blue with sadness, and it matters to you what the author says. Art, and any story, is fundamentally interactive. Sometimes, that meeting is love at first sight; and sometimes, it’s a fistfight. My relationship with Jason’s character in comics is very much a fistfight, so let’s talk about writer intent and reader context for the csa headcanon.
1. Writer’s intent:
I love Jason so much in an “enemy of my enemy” kind of way, I think a big part of why he’s my fav is just genuine spite. I can’t unknow the fact that Sterlin wanted him to be a victim of csa when looking at this scene (which had no reason to be included in the dumpster slasher story but to set the “mystery” of Jason being a csa victim and create a lovely parallel between Judy and Jason.)
With that said, because Starlin’s idea and his treatment of AIDS sucks so bad, I might have thrown the baby away with the bathwater if it were just him. But with the fact that it was followed up by two arcs, by two different writers at different times in his story where Jason plays an antagonist in a way that’s verbally hinted pisses me off so bad. I call it the “Sheldon Cooper” effect (it probably has another name that idk though). In Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper is evidently autistic-coded, and not in a “oh he’s so me he’s definitely autistic” kinda way, but in a “these are all the most famous autism stereotypes concentrated in one character and dialled up to eleven”. But because in the show they tell you “oh he’s not autistic dw we had him tested”, they’re able to get away with saying “what are you talking about? It’s not that deep, you’re projecting your headcanon, stop being so offended by everything smh…” He’s a virulent caricature of autism that’s only “funny” in that it allows the viewer to make fun of and punch down on autistic people in total impunity. (this also happens with queer-coded characters, mental illness, etc. just bad faith). In Battle For the Cowl it’s especially clear that implying it without saying it allows to get away with using csa as a reason to trigger Jason into randomly going “crazy evil” without having to acknowledge they’re saying “being a victim of csa makes you go crazy evil when you’re triggered”. My opinion would probably be more nuanced if it were just Winick, especially given that Jason’s more of a sympathetic villain in it, that Winick has given us Mia, his background when it comes to talking about AIDS, and the fact that Seeing Red was about Mia means I could be more charitable about not taking up that space for that at that time in the story (though I’m still pissed about the unacknowledged SA in Lost Days). But Battle for the Cowl makes it very clear that Jason’s “mysterious traumatic past from his childhood before Bruce took him in”, to dc writers, is a “mystery to be solved later”, a little plot-hook that they can put in their bag and play with later when they need it.
I’m pissed at this. I want them to take it seriously. As far as I’m concerned, Jason’s status as a csa victim exists as a semi-official ghost hanging over his storyline, and I’m like no, you don’t get to do that. You want to talk about themes this heavy, that have such an impact on people’s life, that has such a stigma and taboo to it, you better engage with it. You don’t get to shy away from what you are talking about. You don’t get to write horror without looking the horror in its eyes, you don’t get to further the culture of taboo and shame around childhood sexual abuse by shying away from even naming it like a coward. You want to talk about csa? You better sit at the table and talk about csa, and fucking do it well. So yes, to me the csa hc is an unavoidable part of Jason’s character and if I were a dc writer I would do my best to write it into a story where it establishes clearly and openly as something that happened, I would talk about the shame, taboo, stigma of it in a way that makes it clear both the impact it has on his mental health and that the narrative directly contradicts these ideas, I would talk about the parts of his mental health and development it impacted, his disillusions and worldview, I would make it crystal fucking clear that this is not what turned Jason into a killer, I would bury Battle for the Cowl into the ground and I would make it as hard as possible for any writer that comes after me to use Jason and his pats with csa as a tool to shame and demonize victims any further. That’s the dream.
2. Reader Context
The second part of the fistfight, the context and worldview of the reader, also matters a lot. While Jason’s death and rebirth probably wasn’t meant as a metaphor for sa survivors (if i’m wrong and winick did intend it that way please correct me because that would be very cool), it reads like it to a lot of readers, including me, who find in it a very relatable echo of their experiences/of the cautionary tales they have born witness to. This experience and outlook is valid and interesting and enriches the experience. You don’t have to share it, you can dislike it (I totally understand the sentiment of how the hc and similar readings feel like demonizing victims since UTH! Jason is a villain who chops off heads), but you absolutely must respect it. There’s another post that explains why it reads like this to many people very well, and I’ll add to it that there’s a parallel between death and rape/sexual assault that is all about dehumanization. There’s a reason with traumagenic situations are defined as “exposure or threat of death, bodily harm or sexual assault”; that’s something that’s often mentioned in testimonies, the comparison between SA and the idea of death, the sentiment of being objectified and dispossessed of your body. This reading is also very present in my conception of Jason and another reason why I “like” and believe the csa headcanon. I’m also a sucker for stories where the characters endure things/face trauma in a very real way that is also mirrored in themes by metaphors in their story.
For a psychology meta, this talks a lot about your philosophy of comics and very little about psychology. What would be the consequences of csa on an analysis of Jason’s mental health?
Yeah, sorry. I’m gonna include the csa hc in a lot of the metas going forward, so I felt I had to talk about why, its status in canon and my analysis, even though it might take us a little off-topic. So, you’ll see me talk about it later in other more pointed analysis. The thing you have to understand here is, nobody is the same in the way they’re going to process their trauma, their resources etc. Trauma, sexual or otherwise, does not “make you” into one thing (which is why someone with sexual trauma might develop touch-aversion while another might be super sexually promiscuous). I can’t tell you “well if this happened to Jason here’s what we can expect”. Well, we can expect CPTSD (again, csa is extremely traumagenic, and most people who were victims of csa will develop a form of trauma (as in “a trauma disorder.” We’ll talk about cptsd/bpd later on, just know when I say trauma I can mean ptsd, cptsd, bpd, did, derealization/depersonalization disorder, etc.) And hey, Jason does have CPTSD! The issue is, he also has a dozen other traumatic events going into the CPTSD, so it’s not that simple a ball of yarn to unravel. What we can do is form hypothesis as to what the manifestations of the trauma from csa look like, what beliefs were engrained, what patterns are taught. In this picture, for example, my understanding of it is an attempt to regain agency by reversing the power with an aggressor: Jason is asking “how does it feel to be the victim for once?” as he regains control over his narrative, agentivity in a situation where he was objectified, and closure as he gets to the “good ending”, the conclusion of his story that never occurred in his past and every time he’s dissociating/having a flashback.
That’s the angle I like best for considering the role Robin plays for Jason while taking in account the csa headcanon: Robin gives Jason agency, and more than that, power. It allows him to change his place in the narrative, from helpless victim to the one in control, the one who can defeat any villain, the one with the bright cape and confident smile, and Batman has his back. Can you imagine? One moment, you’re a child wishing a superhero would come beat up your abuser and rescue you, and the next you’re the superhero? (Mia certainly can). That’s the way I love to interpret it, that to Jason, Robin gave him the magic to be able to change the ending of his own story*.
But of course, the story does not have a happy ending. And The Dumpster Slasher, the Diplomat’s Son and A Death in the Family actually make a lot of sense for that theme when considered under that angle. Consider : in The Dumpster Slasher, Batman and Robin are powerless to stop the villain; Judy, however, is the one in control of the story, and when Jason praises her at the end, Batman condemns her and makes it clear this isn’t an option for Robin to take this course of action. The storyline is dumb in many ways but it really comes in as a first confrontation to Jason of the limits of what Robin can do. Then, of course, there’s the Diplomat Son, another Batman and GCPD epic fail where they are, this time, completely unable to get to the “happy ending”. The abuser isn’t gonna face justice. He is going to go right back to his country where nothing will protect the women there from his violence, and on top of that not only couldn’t they save Gloria from getting assaulted, but they couldn’t stop him from pushing Gloria to suicide right in front of them. And all of this is thrown directly in Jason’s face, first when he is the one to find Gloria in the immediate aftermath of her rape, and second when he finds her dead body. Jason’s reaction to refuse Felipe impunity and immediately rushing after him makes a lot of sense. And then? Well, either he kills him or he doesn’t, but what matters most is that Batman believes he did it – a direct mirror to Judy’s actions- and condemns it. And though he does not bench him for it then, it’s clear that this is a turning point in Batman’s trust in Jason as Robin, that not only does Bruce condemn it but it makes him question Jason’s place as Robin, the imprinted idea that Robin, which used to give you the magic to fix the bad things that happened in the past, is incompatible with the possibility of fixing the bad things that are happening now.
So that’s that! I’m sorry if that wasn’t as like, psychopathology-dense and informative as you had hoped, hopefully you liked it and it was clear on my position on the topic. Now here’s to hoping someone at dc will have the clarity of mind and empathy skill to address the topic respectfully for once -or at the very least, that they never drop another Battle for the Cowl storyline on us again.
Reblogging this again for no particular reason, with the small caveat this time that the deeper I get into dc continuity the less clear i am on whether btfc is canon in rebirth. Ugh.
The concept of Jason Todd, who makes so many good friends around Crime Alley, so they eventually start asking him to help them out in their small businesses or take their shifts are so funny to me, because imagine the sheer confusion of randomly catching him, standing in the midst of Crime Alley in a stupid bright red-yellow uniform behind the street vendor cart, screaming “Hot dogs! Fresh out of oven!"—
Tim, during the patrol, landing to grab a food: Hi, can I have—
Jason, pale: …
Tim: You said you are out to help a friend
Jason, through gritted teeth: Yes. I am.
Tim, trying not to choke on his laughter: Well. Uh. Ahahah, SORRY, THIS IS HILARIOUS
Jason, irritated: Of course you would find it hilarious, rich boy
Next week, in the early morning, Bruce pauses before ending his patrol to help some teacher with a line of kindergarten kids to cross the busy road, and it is only when they are in the middle of the street that Bruce realises that the teacher is… his son?!
Batman: J— Lad?
Jason, holding the colourful rope that all kids hold on to, so they all would follow him, as ducks, in the bucket hat and with a name tag hanging on his neck: …I cannot curse when I work with kids, I cannot—
Batman: …What are you doing here?
Jason: Can you please, PLEASE, kindly f… fridge off my way, sir?
Batman: …
Kids, in awe: Nanny Jay is so cool. He is not even afraid of big Bat!
Jason, in the verge of tears: Just go.
Batman: Have a nice, uh, day?
Batman, minutes later: O? Had you made screenshots of this encounter? I need to put it in the frame. He looked so cute.
while i do not believe that duke is the only completely sane/normal person in the batfamily but i do believe that because of how weird the rest of the batfamily can be, duke doesn’t even notice that he’s not totally sane/normal at all until he’s around people who are actually normal and well adjusted, lol.
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the “personal life” part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you’ll either find a major tragedy he didn’t recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she’s not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he’s done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn’t work in history, or, women aren’t auteurs, or, there just aren’t as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
If I am right this is so funny. In one comic she was calling both Damian and Jon her older brothers. But also this could mean that Trinity, a character not even two years old, a character that was born this year, ended up old enough to date Jason which means in many ways she frog leaped over Tim Drake a character that has been around since 89 in maturity, Tim who is the forever 17 year old boy just got out grown by a baby.
