batman needs a robin….or something like that
jean and scott thing that is not fully formed and i am mulling over : jean is the partner with more initial dating experience. though none of it is shown very comprehensively or explicitly, she is hangs out w multiple guys (in ways others read as romantic) prior to her and scott getting together. scott on the other hand is someone most defined by his lack of relationships; even with his friends among the o5, he is the least social, and unlike the others he’s not really given any peers, even implied peers, in his early backstory.
anyway the interesting part: when scott and jean get back together in x-factor, them getting back together is in part predicated on scott’s partial denial of half of the other relationships he’s formed. while scott does periodically insist on the importance of his relationships with phoenix and maddy, and insist he loves them, he filters these speeches through his love for jean. he loved them because of jean, and not as distinct relationships (he does say other things at other times, esp in his internal monologue, but go w me here for a bit). his relationship w colleen isn’t brought up, but it was itself kind of preemptively disregarded during his relationship w phoenix, where scott first ghosts colleen and then reasserts his love for phoenix. lee escapes this, but largely it seems bc jean is unaware of her existence (and in fact remains unaware of her existence). i find this really interesting from a character perspective? like the idea that scott has to be regressed in order to fit into this relationship via comic mandate, but also that the character might feel as if in order to recommit to jean, he must rewrite all prior loves to be about in some way committing to jean. instead of acknowledging a growth of experience outside of their relationship, it makes all experience about her.
this becomes interesting to me in an emma context? bc i think it’s pretty clear in modern x-men that both jean and emma were/are very important to scott, and he can’t really conflate either of them with the other. it’s an interesting point to hone in on, to me.
anyway blah blah blah i don’t have a conclusion i am just. considering this framing and thinking.
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Not to be insane but I have this idea in my head of Jean-Paul as Batman respecting Tim's opinion and having that levelling force of a Robin would have made him more successful and bc Robins can do literally whatever the idea of Tim levelling with Azrael as well
Yeah! I think it would be good!
Jean-Paul/Tim relationship could be so compelling. Hold on I’m rewriting it in my mind to make it more interesting to me.
look at them!
like. there's a version of this story where it works. where tim does manage to get jp in line, where the system doesn't make him ~crazy~ and violent and they find some type of balance, even if it's very different from the balance he and bruce had
And like I said I do love Tim's "I can't bother Bruce, he's got too much going on, I need to be better and do better and handle it" because I think it's so in character AND it nicely parallels Bruce refusing to ask Dick to take up the mantle because Bruce won't make his problems and enemies Dick's problems and enemies
But, also, I think there's an AU here that would be really interesting!! Where Tim has divided loyalties between his first Batman and his current Batman, where when Bruce does come back and criticizes something Paul is doing (Tim repeatedly calls him Paul instead of Jean Paul, it's kind of cute), Tim has to make a choice about whose side to take, where Tim is the only member of the family who has full confidence in Jean Paul, where Tim who respects and loves the entire idea of Batman has to like reckon with having two Batmans. IDK I just think it would be interesting, from a Tim characterization standpoint! (also I think JP deserved better)
Jean-Paul/Tim relationship could be so compelling. Hold on I’m rewriting it in my mind to make it more interesting to me.
look at them!
like. there's a version of this story where it works. where tim does manage to get jp in line, where the system doesn't make him ~crazy~ and violent and they find some type of balance, even if it's very different from the balance he and bruce had
Dinah Lance/Black Canary in BATMAN & ROBIN ETERNAL (2016) #26
Jean-Paul/Tim relationship could be so compelling. Hold on I’m rewriting it in my mind to make it more interesting to me.
look at them!
brainiac 8 and brainiac 5 are both my little children and they are friends and siblings la la la fingers in my ears
Jean-Paul/Tim relationship could be so compelling. Hold on I’m rewriting it in my mind to make it more interesting to me.
#m.txt#I feel like JP was always set up to fail as Batman#by the writers#and so there’s not even a little bit of time where it looks like he maybe could be successful#and working with a Robin would indicate that he could do it#I think#batfam blogging#jean paul valley#ch: world's greatest detective#tim drake
SCARLET WITCH #9 cover! ✨🧲 Drawn/colored by me!
lmao Adam Conover found out marvel was gonna be filming near by so he took a bunch of folks down and picketed in front of the location so the teamsters wouldn't be able to get in and stopped the filming
teamsters, like the union? Why would they be getting in?
A few days later, Conover was there when WGA West members shut down an active Marvel production with the help of members of the Teamsters and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) members, an approach the union has gone on to use with remarkable success. “We’d been tipped off about the shoot and the Teamsters were being cooperative and didn’t cross the picket line, so we ruined the shoot for the day,” says Conover of shutting down the Marvel production. “That picket led to us building an entire system: putting a team together, collecting call sheets, and figuring out where to go.” Conover is quick not to attribute the union’s success in shutting down productions to writers, emphasizing that shutdowns are only possible because members of other unions have been willing to sacrifice on behalf of their fellow workers. That wasn’t a given: during the 2007 strike, the Hollywood labor movement was less unified, and many productions continued rolling.
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The Teamsters are in the news a lot right now for the potential UPS strike, and it was founded primarily for drivers (hence the name), but the union does include a diverse set of laborers (as many unions do these days). The Motion Picture Division of the Teamster is for those members of the union who work in motion pictures, including a variety of jobs like location specialists and casting directors. I think the number I saw was that it represents about 6.5k people in the industry.
Basically, Conover and the WGA set up a picket line, and members of other unions, including the Teamsters and the IATSE, refused to cross it. The solidarity shown to the WGA by these other unions helped stopped the production entirely.
#yeah i'm a grad student and i'm in an electrical union#unions are less organized by jobs than you might think#bc it's important to have a large union backing you#i did have to look this up though bc i was also confused by the original post#also if you're wondering: this was back in may so before actors were on strike
finished forcibly presenting on baby tim to my roommate so here's my favourite panel for u guys to enjoy
baby tim is SO funny.... hes running around muttering to himself "i could totally kill this guy. i could stab him. i could just shoot this guy right now" and the ONLY thing keeping him from acting on it is his pathological need to impress all father figures
Galura is so right for this [New Mutants Lethal Legion #5]
[Image Description: A panel of Karma and Galura. Karma is wearing a purple three-piece suit with a pink shirt underneath. She is wearing purple gloves, and purple sunglasses, and her hair is up in two buns. Galura is wearing a black shirt with a sweetheart neckline and loose gray pants. She has a long cream coat over it and a matching cream hat with a purple feather in it.
Karma says, “Excuse me. I am Xuân Cao Manh, CEO of Hatchi Corporation.”
Galura says, “We were told there were investment opportunities. I trust we will not be disappointed.”
In slightly smaller letters, as if in an undertone, Galura says, “You look so hot right now.” In the same small letters, Karma replies, “Shhh. Don’t make me blush.”
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Beatriz da Costa and Tora Olafsdotter (and L-Ron) in Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1, cover by Terry Dodson and Rachel Dodson.
