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one of the most enduringly obnoxious things about algorithmic feeds is that there is genuinely no amount of blocking and tailoring and "not interested in this" and "show me less content like this" that will ever ever convince the algorithm that you don't want to be shown content promoting weight loss

i can convince myself anyone deserves to be mistreated. i am also unshakable in my belief that i'm pure of heart and objectively a good person <- how you guys sound to me

i know i've said this a lot i'm just sooo exhausted with the casual cruelty of the internet i genuinely don't think you guys have any awareness of how badly you've been poisoned. every day i watch people i follow gleefully feed into it by embracing "haterism" and finding new and exciting ways to make interpersonal violence cute and memeable. you can contribute to making the world a worse and more unsafe place for everyone as long as you learn therapy words and reblog a mutual aid request every once in a while for cover

@disco-troy and i were talking about it... but one of the things that really breaks my heart is how it's both dick and bruce who are such unreliable narrators. consider donna's wedding...

in tales of the teen titans (1984) #50, we have dick asking bruce why he adopted jason and not dick:

what's really interesting about it is the way dick is depicted here... the refusal to make eye contact till he eventually does. there's an element of dick being terrified of bruce's answer and his posture in the beginning of this interaction is almost... defensive? he's hunched, leaning on the balustrade, shadowed... till he receives assurance from bruce. and then, bruce immediately reverts to toasting the success of dick's team... which dick reciprocates but i feel like there's possibly still a degree of doubt from him... about dick grayson's role in bruce wayne's life (because yes, bruce has affirmed that he loves dick as much as any son but it doesn't take away from the fact that jason was adopted instantly and dick is only adopted after tim appears... we've seen how dick reacted to both the times bruce was considering adopting someone else— tim and cass— and it isn't pleasant!!! which means there's still lingering unease about it for him)

and then you have justice league of america (2006) #0, which is a series of flashbacks and future occurrences woven to focus on the trinity. but here's bruce's recollection of this talk at donna's wedding:

there's such a difference between the two!!!

here, it's almost a role reversal... dick is the one reassuring bruce and reiterating the importance of their familial bond... even the physicality of reassurance is from dick to bruce through the hand on the shoulder. despite the similarity in postures between this and the panel from tales, dick is not afraid to meet bruce's eyes— in fact, he's the one who takes it a step further and offers physical reassurance along with the verbal. moreover, the conversation is cut short by dick being pulled away for other obligations... which is an interesting consideration of how bruce has often viewed dick's priorities being split between him and the titans.

of course, we can chalk it up to different things— maybe this part of dick and bruce's conversation actually happened and we simply didn't get to see it in TotTT + it's not always possible for writers of different comics to have the exact same considerations for characters + dick is arguably the focus in tales whereas bruce is the focus in JLA so it makes sense for the narration to pander to them in their respective comics.... but there's also the fact that this is very much a flashback whereas the conversation in tales is happening in the present...

we already know dick & bruce are prone to miscommunication when the communication even happens + bruce is often painfully nostalgic about dick's robin years... so i don't think it's a stretch to say that bruce's recollection of this conversation is warped by his own emotionality.

especially when you consider the handling of robin being passed on to jason. in the very same JLA issue, this is how bruce talks of it:

which is, once again, very different in terms of how that conversation actually went in batman (1940) #416:

(although, i would be remiss if i didn't consider that bruce probably thinks he is being truthful here... because we do see how dick accepts jason as robin. moreover, bruce himself sees it and is grateful to dick for it)

but i think it's interesting how in both cases, bruce is a first-hand spectator to dick's unease/hurt/fear of rejection... and how differently he remembers it... perhaps, even chooses to remember it.

like, just look at this... right after dick & bruce's conversation in JLA, this is what follows:

it's so interesting that he remembers his own sadness and nostalgia at the kind of man dick has grown to be... how that is, in his mind, at a distance from him... how he remembers being the one receiving reassurance and affirmation of his importance to dick from dick... and all of this, maybe, comes at the cost of dick's feelings being diminished & considered with less gravity.

tldr: bruce wayne... you are so deeply unwell!!! you sure are... a Father.

get this an oscar

simply dont monday

I oil painted your puppy I hope thats ok. Happy simply dont monday

Image descriptions:

1: A photo of a nervous-looking wolf curled up in the snow, with several layers of overlayed and scribbled out meme text over it ultimately reading “I DON’T WANT TO I dont want to”.

2: a photo of the same wolf, curled up tightly.

3. An oil painting recreation of the first image, including the text.

I did a charcoal of them too btw they just really resonate with me. you know.

slapped some colour on this roxy before i gotta get back to uni work

tumblr users when tumblr offers premium and little badges and thingies to purchase: ew no gross sellout, bad tumblr!

tumblr users when tumblr has to put shitty ads everywhere to keep it running otherwise: ew gross no bad why is this happening??? stop

tumblr users when tumblr is laying off staff: omfg boycott bad naughty why would you do this?!

tumblr users when tumblr is shutting down or being sold because its current owners can no longer afford to be run it: omg no, there’s nowhere else like tumblr online; it’s so special and beautiful and unique and unlike other shitty apps; how could this happen??? what can we do to stop this???

If you like tumblr and want it to continue existing, you might try throwing them a couple bucks now and again to keep the lights on

Twenty-One Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual by Riki Anne Wilchins.

In TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 3, volume 1. 1994.