Oh The Blessing And The Curse Of Having A Good Film Adaptation Of A Fandom You Love

I find it really funny that people take a panel out of any comic to say "see?? X is not like fanon says, actually he is like this". Bestie, the first thing I've learned from DC is that canon's fucked. Not in the sense that it's bad (sometimes it is), but in the sense that is inconsistent at best.

I'm talking about Batfam right now, so the thing is people want to say x or y robin was the chaotic one and... They all are. They all are very polite or absolute menaces. And It's a staple of the genre. Obviously if you read Tim's run as robin or his comics you're gonna get the impression that he is the main character. Just the coolest, most nuanced, goes through every single event ever kind of character. But if you read Dick's comics...surprise! He is also the smartest coolest funniest robin ever. And omg isn't Jason traumatized when you read his story? But also isn't Steph even more so? Or Cass?

Jason's og backstory was so similar to Dick's they had to change it. Like sure they give each robin/batfam their own traits and backstory, but they also end up with really similar abilities/going through similar events a lot of the time. And personality wise it's not much better because you would think that's one of the things they'd want to keep stable but no.

Tim swings wildly between Batman's most obedient good little soldier and feral child that lies to his face. The evolution sometimes is non existent or not coherent with the plot but that's because a new writer picked it up and he doesn't want to focus on that. Even their unique characteristics get fucked around in canon. Paraphrasing "the characters will do what the writer wants them to do".

If you're afraid of misrepresenting the character I would fall back on these core traits and build up from them. As long as you keep that in mind it's gonna be more canon compliant than some parts of canon. I'm also big on "let people fuck around with fanon" because truly, I might hate some interpretations of the characters...but it's not like it's canon. That's someone playing dolls with a comic character, who cares? I say let them. Simply don't engage if you dislike it.

Absolutely nobody gets how much Dan Mora's design of robin!Dick Grayson means to me.

Like–???

This saved my life.

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Batfamily as actual things my family has said: Part 2

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Stephanie: Cass isn’t just my best friend, shes my baddie from another daddy

Jason: . . .

Stephanie: Oh dear god why did I say that

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Duke: What’s wrong with Tim?

Damian: The idiot took NyQuil instead of DayQuil by accident but refuses to sleep because he’s got work in an hour

Damian: He’d probably be fine if he hadn’t taken twice the recommended amount too

Damian: He’s gonna pass out any minute, wanna watch with me?

Duke: Hell yeah

Duke: Tim! How’s it going dude?!

Tim: I CAN SMELL THE RAINBOW

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Dick: I’m really not that sunburned

Barbara: lobsters aspire to achieve that color Dick

Dick: At least my skin actually has color

Barbara: It’s not my fault I’m translucent!

Young Just us they could never make me hate you 🫶🫶

“liking something in fiction doesn’t mean you condone it in real life” but instead of dark fanfiction tropes it’s about liking jeeves and wooster while being a socialist

if you haven’t seen the rest of their AU yet you should totally check it out! It’s so funny and sweet and the art is so good!!

tbf Cassandra doesn't talk a lot so this is a pretty reasonable question to ask.

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Slightly belated Happy Father’s Day to the man who never wanted kids and the boy who needed a dad. Print in the reblogs.

i was going thru my personal batfam timeline and realized just how funny some events line up. like tim’s introduction to the story lining up with one of the edgiest arcs of dick’s, resulting in this interaction