It's Always So Fascinating And Heartbreaking When A Character In A Story Is Simultaneously Idolized And

suddenly struck with thoughts about the devastating concept of Jason Todd

because he was good. because he had a bleeding heart despite every reason not to. he loved school and was good at it. he was the first to be adopted, with little pretense of guardianship. he did everything he could to be a perfect Robin and live up to an impossible ideal. he only ever wanted Bruce and Dick to like him.

because he met Bruce in the same place and on the same day that Bruce's parents died--the single defining moment of Batman's existence. and he made Batman laugh. he hit the Dark Knight, Terror of Gotham, with a tire iron. he wasn't afraid of the man who turned fear into a weapon.

because he couldn't save his mother from herself, but he tried. because he was too good not to try and save the woman who gave him up. too good to play the Joker's game. the crowbar didn't kill him, the bomb did. he died knowing he wouldn't make it and tried anyway. he died a hero.

because other Robins have died, but none of them put an irrevocable tear in the mythos of Batman. because Jason Todd always dies, in every universe. he dies for the sins of his father. he was put to death by popular vote, sacrificed by the crowd. doomed by the narrative and doomed by the audience. the boy who only ever tried to prove he was good enough--wasn't good enough.

because he has every reason to be angry. because he didn't ask to be murdered, didn't ask to be brought back, and when he did everyone acted like he was better off dead. Bruce tried to kill him and nearly succeeded. he's blamed for his own death and blamed for his resurrection. he can never come home because the house is haunted by his own ghost.

because he's been the hero, the victim, and the villain. because his family and his writers and his universe don't know what to make of him. they don't know how to look his tragedy in the eye. and how can you?

it hurts to look at the hero who cannot be good enough, the victim who will only ever be angry, the villain who can sometimes be right. the audience hates to feel complicit and, in this exceptional case, they are.

Tsukki being the biggest meance

Haikyuu boys x you + enemies to lovers

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reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

The fact that this wouldn't stop me

I saw this on tiktok and I-

Credit to Keegan.bakos on tiktok

Angry Bruce is kinda hot

So I’m back on my ‘I want Bruce to snap’ bullshit

Like I want this this man to full on cuss a mf out. I want him to throw all his manners out the window and become absolute Gotham TRASH for a moment. His posh accent is gone, he’s got the thickest Gotham accent imaginable, words are pouring out so fast that if you weren’t from the area it’d sound like he was speaking another language

Poor Cass and Damian are struggling to understand what the fucks coming out his mouth in general because of the accent alone

And what caused this you might asked? They were crossing the crosswalk when a car almost didn’t stop. Bruce the stubborn fuck he is didn’t move, he straight up stood his ground and glared at the driver as if that alone could stop a moving vehicle. I mean seriously, what was he gonna go jump on the hood? (Absolutely)

I would love to write this

Listen - a whodunnit on a yacht with batfam... as the Waynes, esteemed, normal, absolutely not known for any detective work guests at the party, and famous private detective Percules Hoirot (or whatever) on the case.

Bruce, losing his mind by knowing EXACTLY who did it but being unable to SAY anything because this would bust his secret identity, and running interference so that his kids won't bust THEIRS, because what the hell are they doing, kids, just stop.

Tim being impatient (having a date with Bernard later?), and trying to lead Hoirot to the realt culprit by giving some velied tips and leads, and thus landing himself in a position of a main suspect in Hoirot's eyes (who is not as much of an idiot as batfam thinks), as Tim a) seems to know too much, and b) behaves very wierdly

Damian making it a game to see how far he can strech the truth, without outright lying or making stuff up, to implicate Tim further as a main suspect. He's doing great, Horiot eats it up, and if Damian keeps it up Tim WILL throw him off the boat, thus cementing his prime suspect status. Damian is having a time of his life.

Dick and Jason 'befriending' the real killer and toying with him by one just throwing an offhand comments about how the crime was done, and dismissing them. "Oh maybe YOU are the killer, Mr Novak?! Hahaha" "Don't even joke about it Dickie, this guy wouldn't hurt a fly, not to mention kill anyone, even if it was, for, i don't know, inheretance" "you're right, besides it's not like he COULD do it with his AIRTIGHT alibi." "must have been the aliens" "mush have been, Jace".

The ‘Theseus’ Thesis

Parallels between the Fantastic Beasts series and William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

*Spoilers for both of the things mentioned above, you have been warned*

Okay, so I went to see Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore the other day and I couldn’t help noticing a few similarities between the series so far and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (AMND) so I’m going to talk about them here because J.K. Rowling doesn’t really like it when people claim that her stuff is based on other stuff, insisting that she made it all up in her head (see this article about how Diagon Alley is NOT based on The Shambles in York) even though (as Mark Twain puts it) 

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”

Anyway, onto the good stuff:

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Watching Assassination Classroom for the first time and I’ll tell you, I don’t know what I was expecting from an anime where the summary is “teacher is teaching his students how to kill him,” but an analysis and criticism of modern classrooms and how educators have a responsibility to not pit students against each other based on grades because curriculums based on large numbers will always exclude someone because our weaknesses in childhood can always be overcome with the right role model was certainly not it. But I’m super happy it went in that direction instead of being a simple action show.

[image of the teacher, who is a yellow smiley face creature, waving around his tentacle over a book that reads “note” in English. His subtitles read: “I will indeed destroy the earth, but first, I’ll be your teacher.” End./]

i illustrated this post by @iminthedance

(and took the liberty of changing the colour to the one he’s actually wearing here)