that’s a good write-up of batman, im stealing saving that. Another question now that you’ve divulged a bit of yer opinions, what’s yer least favorite batman opinion
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I’m in the camp that goes a step further: Batman is trying to slowly commit suicide out of guilt for getting his parents killed, but can’t pull the trigger himself, so he’s trying to do it by proxy by fighting crime, and is just too good at it to succeed at his unconscious death fantasy.
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Like I said it is definitely “Batman needs to be alone to be good” at least right now and off the top of my head. Certain versions of the “Batman is a fascistic bully” and some counterpoints to that also irk me but at least they seem to attempt to grasp Batman as a concept the former is simply just rejecting a means to develop Batman as a character.
No need to say steal, a lot of Batman writers reach similar conclusions and there is always the extreme end of “Batman is actually just as insane” which also can agree with but no-one ever seems to think to hard on what that says about how we view mentally ill. You can join me tomorrow at 8 in Hall H for my lecture on why the X-Men are poor allies and why the Green Lantern Corps aren’t “space cops”.
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That is an interesting theory and it makes a lot of sense that you of all people would say that . Also not uncommon, I am pretty sure a few Batman stories like framing his crusade as a protracted suicide attempt especially Paul Dini who (at least metaphysically) killed Batman off in the Arkham-verse after his crusade reached a terminus and I think “I Am Suicide” is literally one of Snyder’s Batman runs.
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fair, its probably the stupidest point you can make about batman
I’ve always seen the x-men as a racism allegory for white people (aka talking about discrimination without involving actual race so the white readers dont feel bad). And people actually see the green lantern corpse as cops?
It also adds another layer to his constant animosity with, not only The Joker, but Ra’s Al Ghul, Mr. Zsasz, Bane, and those guys, the ones he’s always most intense on. It’s like he’s mad at them for killing all these people, yet they can’t kill him, on some level.
Which is true and in a lot of cases the allegory can be valid (and not always about race right now the allegory is Zionism and collective identity) but I want you to think of something: Civil Rights. What was civil rights? It was a movement, it was the expression of ideas and it had a series of concrete steps taken to ensure it came about. More importantly there was actual institutional disadvantages against African-Americans, anti-mutant bigotry is almost always societal while lacking any sort of institutional recoginition one way or the other oddly enough.
Do the X-Men actually advocate to solidify their rights institutionally? No or at least not regularly before they abandoned the dream of co-existence all together in the beginning of Hickman’s run but his run mucks things up so I will ignore it. They were reactionary, they waited for more problematic mutants to show up then took them down. You can see the very liberal idea that bad ideas can be defeated by good ideas without the need for institutional change, you identified them and it is the same sort of rhetoric liberals use to justify wanting equality yet never making tangible action for it. White Moderates if you will.
It isn’t meaningful change either because there will always be bad mutants because a lot of those bad mutants are because there poor support structures for them or because they are extremists or down right supremacists who have internalised unchecked anti-mutant talking points because they don’t exist and the biggest advocates for their rights are basically just a glorified PR campaign and the other advocates are a terrorist organisation.
Next is intersectionality, sociologically this term first came about when Black Feminists realised that White feminists still discriminated against them due to their race and that being a black woman had unique sociological characteristics separate from White, Asian and Latino women.
For now I am going to use it to raise a question: Where are the “ugly” mutants? No main X-Men team has a member who is a Morlock or some other physically altered mutant. Aside from Cyclops and Rogue there are few people with defective powers as well. The X-Men cared so little for their wellbeing that they were late to a genocide of the Morlocks then let on of the aggressors be a team member (whose wife is a defective mutant) and now they have a team named after the genociders that functions as basically a well-intentioned human trafficking ring. Again you can see that the X-Men like supporting rights for everyone but edge out mutants that aren’t conventional or human appearing.
Alright so next I am going to talk about legislature and how the X-Men racial allegory is mostly Americanised and specific only to American issues. I said that there is no institution discrimination against mutants and it is true. They could still vote, they have no issues being recognised as their own distinct heroic unit, they have freedom of movement, they have freedom of association, they can voice their issues freely and the like but there have been attempts to legislate policy that would discriminate against mutants and that is Senator Kelley’s Mutant Registration Act. An act that that functions much like gun control legislation
The thing is that the X-Men make a big deal out of this one American bill. They never try to fight it legally, they never advocate for some sort of compromise (Kelley makes some good points that mutants can be dangerous even if they are functioning members of society and heaven forbid you get a mutant who snaps) and they never try to reason with him. In the end Kelley is saved from a terror attack, he renges in the bill but is killed by one of his own people (I actually like this because it is a good dig at Southern Strategy politicians who had changes of heart about their bad racial stances far to late and a good display of extremist mindsets).
The thing is trying to frame the bill as though it was both a Jim Crow like bill but like a gun ban is stupid and it also seems to ignore the actual Jim Crow era laws they could have used (most likely because of the notion that Jim Crow had no knock-on effects since they had been repealed long before Days of Future Past) or even something like the Bantu Passports Act. The infamous apartheid era law that made it mandatory for Indigenous South Africans to need passports to travel even in their own cities, it could have been an actual human right that can be withdrawn from mutants under the guise of making sure they could be monitored.
All in all it is indicative of the fact that until recently very few writers for the X-Men were from actual persecuted groups or groups that faced discrimination and it is the biggest reason why the X-Men are such a bad allegory for the struggle for right.
I could go on but since I am a huge X-Men nerd I am just going to stop right here because I think you get my point well enough.
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You don’t? Pair bonded people who protect designated sectors of an area from violent threats is pretty much an American idea of a police officer from when the GLC were reconceptualised.
I don’t agree with the assessment though and. I see the GLC as more of a citizen’s militia than anything else since I take a less charitable view of what a police officer is and what they do.
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damian is the best robin imo. he’s like burt ward on bath salts.
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Halloween is at close and I’m starting to follow the things of the cosplay I mentioned of the Kiyoshiro dude from Digimon but need help with an important part, please: anyone knows how is this hairstyle called or the closest IRL haircut, plz? Since couldn’t find a wig and I have very long hair ATM, I plan to get 2 birds with one stone and get a haircut plus the style of the character.
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I’m not a hair expert, so i don’t really know if that’s a specific hairstyle, but I think you’d be able to pull off the look by having long hair at the back, leave room for some bangs at the front, then use looots of hairspray and maybe some gel to get that Anime Style correct, and stay that way (at least for a night or two for Halloween)
Not sure if Anime hairstyles are that easy to recreate IRL with real hair.
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Go to a hair stylist with that photo and ask them if they can get you close!
There is alot of volume in that bc of the animation. You may need something to add thickness to your hair. They make all sorts of goup and mousse and spray that adds volume.
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Go to a hair stylist with that photo and ask them if they can get you close!
This is good too. Go to a hair expert™️
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Yeah. STarting to think that’s what I’m gonna do. Directly show the image and look like a dork who wants anime hair… wich is true after all. LOL :V
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Well, there is much coming together there. It is kind of a layered bob, but the ends are blow-dried outwards, while the bangs are more blow-dried inwards. The bangs look very loose, but the ends look very sharp, almost like spikes (especially in the middle picture). So, for making them hold, you would need something very much “harder” than hairspray, probably some gel like this:
And teasing the hair would probably be necessary, to add much volume.
If you’d ask me… buy a wig and do all that stuff with the wig, because otherwise it will be a hard treatment for your hair 
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I’m not sure. I already left my hair grow a lto precisely for this. Aaaa, thanks for the information. I’ll try to find something similar that can be handled nicely without doing extraordinary efforts but still being stylish. And that I can keep myself in care with mouse, gel and hairspray, as you say.
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Here is something I wonder about since I started playing WOA… how do they hold these weapons onto their backs? 
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We’re supposed to pretend there’s a strap. It was just too annoying to animate with the resources they had at the time. Will probably be rectified in future games.
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I guess if 47 can hold a pistol, lock pick, three coins, crowbar, screwdriver, wrench, hammer, camera, coconut, sawed off shotgun, three vials of poison, four or five different types of fruit, keys, and an explosive baseball in “swimwear”, he can levitate a rifle on his back.
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Looks even funnier in the train, where he has no cloth on and still holds big firearms on his back.
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