Will humanity ever be free of the influence of Edna Mode? Can any of us so much as consider the character design for a hero or villain without her manifesting in the room, fully aware of our sins?
You know what, another layer of difficulty is when you’re thinking about villains, and the wise words of Megamind come into your head. You don’t just want your child to be just a regular villain. But how do you make your villain a Supervillain with no cape? Where is the drama? But Edna says no capes, you must deny them the flair. It is impossible to please them both, and it’s tearing this family apart.
turns out i DO prefer tumblr’s way of providing me with information, in that i get it from memes and fatalistic humor instead of the panic attack info dump of twitter
I really want to emphasize the slightly ridiculous timeline of Bruce taking in children and how funny this has the potential to be re:Dick being the eldest, because I think it’s really important that people understand that Bruce basically only has Dick around for like…11-12 years. Dick formally moves out when he’s around 19 or 20, and roughly six months to a year later, Bruce picks Jason up. Dick and Jason never live in the same house at the same time, and three years later, Jason dies. So he gets 2 kids over a 15 (ish) year period, which doesn’t sound too ridiculous, right?
Except then his adoption tendencies accelerate, because he picks up Tim and Cass within 2 years of each other (and Steph came as a package deal with both of them) and then finds out about Damian 2-3 years after that. Then we’ve got Duke, who (when you vaguely fit together timelines) enters stage left about 2-3 years after Damian.
So after a 15-year period with two kids, Bruce manages to pick up 4 ½ others (counting Steph) within the 7-8 years afterwards. The sheer missed comedic potential of Dick being a grown-ass adult and then his dad decides to adopt a pack of kids within 5 years of him moving out is incredible. Dick went from being essentially an only child for his entire life to being eldest of 6, only one of which he’s ever actually lived in the same house with, all because Bruce got Empty Nest Syndrome and went “well I raised one child to adulthood successfully. What’s another 5 or 6 at the same time?”
The only valid movie adaption of a book ever is Jumanji (1995), which took a perfectly good 5 minutes-read children book and turned it into a not-so-much-for-children 104 minutes-long movie led by two adults with PTSD and rolling on the extrapolated chaotic energy of the book while at no point disrespecting its original lore. Iconic.
Like….when everyone has mental illness maybe the problem is with the systems 🤔
[Image description: series of ‘whatradicalizedyou’ tweets:
Top Tweet by Eidi ‘Reeki @TuhRxxk on May 15, 2021 at 9:27 AM: "As someone training to become a therapist, y’all recommend therapy for too many things tbh. I think the activity y’all are looking for is ‘revolution.‘”
Second row left tweet by The People’s Oracle @PeoplesOracle on July 7, 2021 at 4:48 PM: “I been wanting to tweet this for a few days now… If Everyone needs therapy, then the problems Everyone is dealing with are systemic, cultural… too big to be confronted alone between two people. It’s actually a grave injustice to make individuals responsible for this.”
Second row right tweet by justine says join your union @kvetchings on July 8, 2021 at 8:24 PM: “As someone who has been consistently going to therapy for years & working ‘on myself’……let me tell you there is only so much individual introspection and healing you can do when the structural forces and external events contributing to mental illness continue acting on you.”
Third row left tweet by justine says join your union @kvetchings on July 8, 2021 at 8:25 PM: “Individualized wellness culture gaslights people into thinking the problem and the solution lies within themselves. The truth is we literally have a sick society and it needs to get better for us to be truly well.”]
Third row right tweet by Jules he/him Yup’ik/Cup’ik @feraltakahayato on June 23, 2021 at 11:04 PM: “I wish people realized that suicide prevention isn’t always posting the hotline. It’s adequate housing. It’s basic health care including dental and vision. It’s affordable living. Proper care in in active addiction. Proper care post addiction. It’s everything we need to live.” /End ID.]
