Comicgirl12 - More Or Less DC Universe

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! 

jason to the batfam gc at 3am: @ duke @ babs this could be us but u playin (by the old mans rules) :/

duke: god i wish that were me

babs: im the girl in red who knew that had to be done

duke: im the girl in brown pretending to be shocked in case she’s caught on camera, so she can just say she was forced to participate and is left off the hook

jason: damn you’re good thomas

bruce: you know we can all read the groupchat right.

i miss your oliver queen facts series king :(

preboot canon ollie facts™

→ he’s a recovering alcoholic and has relapsed under stress a few times

→ he has chronic pain on one of his shoulders from an old injury

→ he mostly reads non-fiction and philosophy - mentioned authors he has read include ayn rand (lmao), marx, thoreau. he also seems to like shakespeare tho, he quotes & references him a bunch & in at least two (i think?) versions of non-comics canon he’s a theatre nerd

→ needs reading glasses :’)

→ worked as a columnist after he lost his fortune

→ loves jazz, hates rock and roll but comes around on it circa ga/gl era (i like to think it was because of roy being in a rock band then aw)

→ surprisingly introverted, for such a loudmouthed person ― his default coping mechanism is going incommunicado for months on end (he & i are both amazed by dinah’s patience i am sure) and he “doesn’t do teams” (though he is actually part of several lmao)

(from dc special blue ribbon digest)

→ has been arrested more times than i can count (i’ll attempt to someday)

→ was framed and then made an enemy of the state once

→ fbi has a file on him

→ one time he walked so far he accidentally crossed the canadian border lmao i’m aware that’s not an important fact it’s just fucking hilarious

→ was an active vigilante before the mcfreaking batman

→ taught the mcfreaking batman how to shoot

→ didn’t actually pick “green arrow” for a name, the media did

→ middle name is jonas (i don’t remember this weezer song)

→ has killed seventeen whole people

→ stabbed deathstroke in the eye one time

→ robin hood kinnie superfan

→ in some versions he’s actually descended from robin hood

feel free to rb & add on my mind always goes blank when coming up with these

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Oh? You like the batfam? So, are you queer, neurodivergent, mentally ill, or all three?

Ok but fr, the amount of batfam fans I know that are at least one of the above, and often all, just goes to show how much this messed up family resonates with people like us.

Queer people adore the concept of found family because we are so often rejected by our blood family. The concept of superheroes is inherently queer, and especially trans. Having a secret name only a few trusted people know? Having an entire community of people just like you that you can't tell the people in your every day life about? Leading two entirely separate lives with only a handful of people who know both sides of you? Queer.

The batfam especially is found family, because only a few members are related by blood (Bruce and Damian). The far majority of them is either adopted (the Wayne kids) or very very close to the rest of them to the point they're considered family (Alfred, Steph, Barbara, etc). Most DC families are blood families, so it makes sense that queer people gravitate towards the batfam. (Queer people love adopting each other. Looking at all my friend-sibs.)

Multiple batfam members are neurodivergent coded (Bruce especially), although unintentionally so, and they're all severely mentally ill/traumatized. We look at these characters and think, yes, you are like me, I understand you.

A lot of traumatized people project on the batkids, because, well, it's kind of a wish fulfilment to have an adult come save you when you're at your lowest, huh?

(Also why I suspect so many people project onto Tim specifically, because his trauma is the easiest to relate to. Most people don't grow up as assasins, or have their parents murdered.)

(And also why I think there is so much batfam fan content. We saw these characters who are so much like us being mistreated in their source material and decided to take them in as our own and give them better lives, the same way we long to do with ourselves.)

Besides, a big part of fandom in general is made up of nd ppl. We tend to hyperfixate on stuff and produce a fuckton of content cause this is the only thing we can think about. It's only logical that there are so many of us in the batfam fandom/larger DC fandom.

There wasn't really any point to this, just... we looked at this broken, messed up family, saw ourselves, and called it our own. I don't know, I just think that's pretty meaningful.