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I’d best be seeing that anti JKR energy for this twilight show too bc Smeyer continuing to profit off the Quileute tribe is not cute
I keep seeing people on Twitter being all "I'm sure they'll be more respectful and mindful of the Quileute tribe this time around."
Except, they won't be. Even if they get actual Native American actors to play these characters, even if they bring on a Native American to serve as a cultural advisor, it wont matter. Why? Because Smeyer appropriated a real Native American tribe and twisted their culture and history in her fantasy books for her own profit.
This fictional Quileute Tribe is and always will be disrespectful to the real life Quileute tribe.
The Quileute Tribe is still taking donations to move out of the immediate tsunami zone as of April 2023. Instead of directing attention to this TV series if/when comes out (and even if it doesn't honestly), please consider supporting the tribe financially here if you can afford it.
but GOD. this last entry. Yeah; I wasn’t expecting things to get any better for jonathan, but dracula telling him he’s free to go? and then threatening to send the wolves after him if he leaves? forcing jonathan to say he wants to to stay in the castle??
it’s a frighteningly realistic portrayal of an abusive relationship. jonathan can leave if he wants; the door is unlocked. but the second he sets foot outside the door, dracula warns there will be consequences, because he controls the wolves. and so jonathan chooses to stay, despite the fact he knows dracula is slowly killing him. and just like everything else dracula has done so far, he shifts the blame of jonathan’s own suffering to jonathan himself- because jonathan entered the castle of his own free will. and now, he says he wants to stay.
Hey man. What’s under that paper
The fucking Nazi insignia is so obvious I almost didn't notice the 14 Words.
the thing abt Scott that rlly Gets Me is the fact he has nothing outside of the xmen really. this is extremely evident in the early comics where whenever they get time off he remarks on how he has nothing. in the last issue i read thry got time off and since he had NOTHING to do for the two weeks they got he just booked a nearby hotel for the two weeks. if shit didn't happen he'd be doing fuck-all alone. and Charles knows this! Charles remarks on how lonely Scott is as if he didn't fucking put the guy in that situation. its no wonder Scott keeps going back to the xmen he literally has to to function because he hasn't been given anything else. he doesn't have any friends outside of the group. and he doesn't know how to make them! he struggles to socialise!!!!canonically!!!!!! fuck man
YOU. YOU GET IT.
sometimes you see a ton of ATLA meta about ‘Aang should have killed Ozai’ or a ton of other situations where a lot of the fandom discourse boils down to the assumption that Game Of Thrones-style realpolitick is universally applicable to all stories so to this, I raise the question: AtLA’s story is pointedly hostile towards the idea of ‘pragmatism and ruthlessness are the sensible options’ as well as ‘whatever works is what we should do to get what we want’ and of course ‘the ends justify any means to acheive it’
the story of AtLA has a bone deep focus on the idea that the spiritual dimension is very really important; its repeatedly shown time and time again that the ruthless and quick option is almost invariably wrong and spiritually unclean, from both the atrocities committed by the Fire Nation and the extremes that the Earth Kingdom is descending to, to the actions of non-Fire Nation antagonists to the Fire Nation’s own beliefs, culminating in Ozai’s declaration that the Air Nomads were weak and deserved to die essentially being a culmination of that entire attitude wrapped up in a neat little bow. At the end, the story is of Aang combating that attitude from Ozai and the world in general
the whole series is like this; did you honestly think they would abruptly change it at the last second and completely break from its established ethics? I mean did you seriously think Ozai being killed was ever a legitimate option on the table.
there is also, I think, a discussion to be had in how this insistence on ruthless victory at any cost nicely parallels Wan Shi Tong’s statement about humans and war, particularly since a lot of the attitudes amount to ‘whatever ends the war is fine’; do you mean to say that these actions and atrocities are not inherently bad, but only bad because the opposing side is doing them to you? Do you imply that there is no inherent moral dimension to them as long as they achieve the goal you want? One imagines He Who Knows One Thousand Things silently staring at a pile of burned books, thousands of years of knowledge gone in a single moment, and bitterly regretting that it seems that humanity won’t change, it actively refuses to. Generations upon generations saying that THIS deed is justified in the moment, and the wheel of history goes on and it just keeps getting worse and worse, generations building on it until someone says ‘ENOUGH’, but people don’t say it often enough. Thus is the Avatar necessary
We don’t talk enough about the two identical old women who just hang around Azula saying ominous shit in unison. What’s their deal. Is there a comic about them. Are they paid for their services
WHAT FUNCTION DO YOU SERVE IN THE GOVERNMENT
Anonymous asked:
sorry if this is a weird question to drop on you you were just the first person I thought of who might know but do you know if it's canon/canonically-based evidence that jason is physically stronger than other bats because I always see people say jason is the one with "brute strength" and I can't remember if that's based on anything besides people saying that as a nicer way to call him a brute(maybe it was on lobdells stuff? but I wiped most of those out of my memory)
You thought of me first? <333333 I'm blushing. And it's not weird at all! Even if it was, I love answering weird shit.
Anyway:
So part of Jason being considered "the muscle" of the bats comes from the fact that Jason's currently the biggest of the robins. (Adult!Damian is usually drawn as the tallest of the kids when all is said n' done (that's vague for "age")).
Well, how big then?
I always go with this chart which was released while UtRH was being released:
(I Love this! I wish DC still did little info things like this within their comics. Or maybe they do and I'm just blind. But Look! Canonical Information!)
So canonically speaking, at least when running around pre-crisis, Jason is 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. (Also note criminal mastermind and put a pin in it)
But you've probably heard 200 & 220 thrown around a lot. Those numbers are specifically pulled from two different DC character encyclopedia books which I don't trust at all because there notoriously filled with false information and are dubbed as not canon all the time.
Personally, I use the 6', 180-195 pound range which estimates for fluctuating weight, the passage of time, muscle mass, and minimum bulk & cutting (which I assume is part of most superheroes' training to stay in fighting form, but please recognize that vigilantes are more athlete than bodybuilder) because it's from a canon source (Canon is "king" and all that). No shame to people who use the other numbers or even headcanon something completely different, but again, vigilantes are predominantly running all over cities day after day, not stagnant weight lifters. Cardio vs weights body compositions are quite different even if both are healthy. (And it's not all "swimmer's body illusion" either (they have that body because they swim? No, they swim because they have that body.)
How much muscle mass a person can maximally obtain is up to your genetics. But that max only comes with constant maintainment. It's not feasible for Jason to be doing all that cardio and also have that much muscle mass and fat. Cardio burns "fat" (calories), weights build muscle. We constantly see the former and former-adjacent workouts more than the latter with him. Jason is running across rooftops, flipping off them before falling into a shoulder roll onto the next roof over chasing after bad guys every night. The number of calories he'd have to eat and time put into lifting weights (too many reps a week lead to damage, not growth) to maintain his max (max being what a lot of weights category athletes try to achieve which Jason just hasn't been shown to be (except in his jailbird phase where he could literally only lift weights, read, and avoid being killed to pass the time)) isn't possible.
Using comic art to "prove" how much he weighs doesn't work either. Firstly, because everyone wears weight differently. Two people can be the same height, weight, and sex and look completely different. This is due to different body types, composition, genetics, diet, (what kind of) exercise, and many other factors. Assuming someone thinner is automatically "super light" doesn't factor in different body compositions (fat, muscle, bone percentages). (yes, I know it's stupid to apply science to comics. There's my digression. let me live). Secondly, Jason (just like everything else about him) isn't drawn consistently at all. Sometimes he's pretty damn massive, but we also have Twink and Twunk Jason (DC can't even decide on hair color? Do you think they're gonna decide on his body?).
So, comic book art isn't super reliable as evidence unless we want to theorize if, how, and why he seems to fluctuate between weights all the time (<- Which I have a whole headcanon about if anyone's curious), especially in comparison to the others because, seriously, it's totally a Jason thing. Most characters are pretty consistent in body type. Anyway, someone could argue "See! he is 210!" but it's also not for a long enough period to stick around :/ Again, hard to consistently maintain that much weight as a 6-foot-tall, cardio-based athlete.
Also note: DC is horrible when it comes to weight-to-height lineups. A woman hero can be ~5'7'' and then we're told she's 110 lbs which Fact 1. is considered underweight for this kind of height-to-sex ratio, Fact 2. probably isn't factoring in the fact that muscle is heavier than fat, she just "looks thin", and 3. Usually, totally, absolutely is just blatant sexism.
Really, the numbers don't seriously mean anything of actual substance because their comics, are unreliable, and also usually just...scientifically wrong. But Jason's perception on page, as well as the information we've been told, is one reason he's considered "brute strength first and foremost."
Furthermore, Jason has been shown repeatedly to be on par with Bruce (even when Jason, most of the time, plays defense in their physical fights) but many people chalk this up to him and Bruce having similar physiques making it "easier". Again, counter-productive argument because Bruce and Jason have been drawn very similarly before in stories as well as completely different from each other in others. Also, this purposefully, blatantly ignores Jason's actual skills. No one chalks Dick Grayson or Cassandra Cain beating Bruce up to their body types. Moreover, when Bruce and Jason are drawn similarly in body, no one refers to Bruce as "Brute Strength" either. Bruce gets to be tactical, strategic, clever. (Also Also: In Pre-Crisis, Bruce, Dick, and Jason are deliberately drawn to look similar (height, mass, looks, etc.) to get that Brothers in Blood effect. Still, No one chalks the formers up to all strength. Just Jason)
And that brings us to your question, Anon: Is there canonical evidence for Jason being stronger than the other Bats?
Remember how I told you to put a pin in that "Occupation: Criminal Mastermind" note? Well, first off, Jason creating jobs for his community. Go off, king. Second off, and more importantly so, "Mastermind": a person who supplies the directing or creative intelligence for a project (Merriam-Webster).
When Jason was first re-introduced, what made Jason dangerous was that he was highly skilled and smart. He was playing with both Black Mask and Batman like a cat batting a toy mouse. He orchestrated an entire "slow-growing" takeover of Gotham's underworld (he was actually very quick about it). Jason controlled the situation and planned so well that he had the villains and heroes who were both after him fighting each other so he could slip away and do what he actually needed to do.
Throughout Jason's history, he's always had tools with him when he fights. To the point that Bruce says to Jaybin "You won't always have this" cutting his utility belt, insinuating he relies too much on it, which Jason returns the favor to on his return and fights B hand to hand <3 Love a cocky callback. Furthering this, he knows many, many different fighting styles and techniques both from life experience and from extensive training. Jason's a quick learner by nature and is incredibly adaptive. Guns; knives; swords; pens; sets bombs to specifically implode, not explode; makeshift gadgets; a baseball bat just laying around; a tire jack that one time; brains. I could go on. Jason doesn't just hit things. He uses what he has as a means to an end. He's canonically known as one of the best strategists in-universe and is incredibly creative with his surroundings. Jason isn't just great at extensive, long-term planning either. Bruce himself has remarked on the fact that Jason thinks incredibly quickly on his feet, he's really good at improvisation. Concisely, he has plans A-G and if all those fail, he can pull something out of nothing. Contrast this with Bruce who needs to have a plan for everything. Even if it doesn't look like he's following a plan, Bruce is. Opposed to Jason who can go with the flow and figure it out along the way.
Jason even said this in present-era in TFZ:
And that's the whole point, isn't it? Jason is strong. Incredibly so. He's big and tall and has gorgeous thighs. Not to mention, has a mean right hook. But just because Jason's strong doesn't mean he isn't a bat first and foremost who relies on his brain before anything else. He died 4'6 (on his death certificate, his height varies depending on what source you pull) and famously had to defend himself his entire life ever before being Robin. Being young and small and forced to survive shaped Jason into a quick thinker who could either get away or take enemies 10x his size down. Nowadays, he just has a longer reach.
In Event Levithan when Damian says: "Jason Todd is one of the Great Master fighters of all time" He doesn't say strongest because Damian doesn't mean strongest. Damian means adaptable, smart, capable, and well-rounded in skill.
While I don't doubt that Jason is most definitely one of the strongest Bats due to his size, what makes Jason dangerous is not his body, but the fact that he knows how to use it. It's not "Brute Strength" as many people like to say, it's Strategic Strength. He knows just because he's stronger than someone doesn't mean he'll always win. A la see panels above. Jason knows throwing his body around won't do anything of real, long-term substance. That it's just blindsided and stupid.
I'm sure if I looked I could pull panels where other bats and/or vigilantes refer to Jason as the muscle, brute (strength), all brawn (no brain), other such implications, etc, but whenever people do, it's always to undermine Jason's skill. Because it's not actually about his strength. Jason, with his taller, more built form, makes walking quiet seem easy. And it looks easy because he's good. Jason himself knows his skill set, it's everyone else that undermines him time and time and time again. (Again, Event Levithan, Bruce doesn't agree with Damian's statement even though Jason just outsmarted the six or so people who all just tried to take him down (for something Jason didn't even do, mind you))
But, again from Damian, Jason's not known as "the muscle," he's "the emotional one" also usually used to...degrade Ja--We can't have anything nice apparently is what I'm saying. But yes, when people refer to Jason as "Brute Strength" it's usually them trying to find a nicer way of saying Brute or "thinks with his fists" or "Jason hits first, asks questions later." It's in the same vein as when people say "Jason likes books" as short-hand for "see, he's smart at something" rather than acknowledging that Jason achieved a degree's worth of knowledge in comp-sci by age 13.
Anyway Smart and Strong Jason, my beloved. I wish DC & others loved you as much as Rosenburg and the teams of artists he's been working with do.
tfw the king you dedicated your life to serving ended up causing your homeland to be completely destroyed by the armies of heaven - all because he wasn't invited to a party.
Jason reliving his child of divorce era
Jason continues to not beat the adoptability allegations
X-Men #169
Chris Claremont/Paul Smith
On this day, 99 years ago, my people were banned from Canada solely because of their race for 24 years. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 remains the first and only Canadian law to forbid people from entering Canada because of their ethnicity. For decades, thousands of families were separated; hundreds of Chinese Canadian men lost their lives to sinophobic hate or to suicide as they were forced to live in isolation in a country surrounded by colonizers who hated them.
On this day, we also remember the Indigenous people. When Chinese immigrants first came to Canada, it was the Indigenous peoples that took them in, sheltered them, and created communities (and families) with them. Beyond that, we are the ones who live on their land; we live on land that was stolen from their communities. We live on a land built on blood and genocide. In the past few years, tens of thousands of bodies of the Indigenous children that had been ripped from their homes have been recovered from the residential schools that stripped them of their identity, their culture, their dignity, and their lives.
For more actionable items, donate to Indigenous-led charities, buy from their creators, or educate yourselves on history (and don't just do it today - find ways to support them throughout the year if you're able):
It's the 100th year since the first Humiliation Day.
Things have not changed much from last year. We are still outsiders. After the pandemic, many of my people have been alienated, attacked, and killed for the crime of being born.
We do not celebrate on this day. This is stolen land. We listen to Indigenous voices and remember - this is what was taken. Canada is a country built on genocide. To celebrate it means to celebrate white supremacy.
