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My thoughts on Tim Drake and how they relate to my stupid teenage life, LET ME TELL YOU THEM, LJ. (More specifically, my feelings regarding rape and Fabian Nicieza.)
Because I don't feel entirely comfortable with tumblr yet, especially not enough to text ramble, so I'm sticking this here on my unused LJ.
Let's just start out with the last page of Red Robin #24: What a way to go! And now my feelings.
As ridiculous as this makes me feel because I don't usually relate to my favorite characters (I find Bart and Aang adorable and I only relate to Miharu a little), I relate to Tim a lot and kindasortasometimes use him as a role model or a reason to just fucking study. This isn't why I like him; his overly serious narration and dorky puns in Robin were endearing and then everyone died and if that didn't just break my Timmy-loving heart. But Tim Drake, aside from breaking the law sometimes as a vigilante and lying to everyone and the goddamn Batman, is a straight-laced teenager. He doesn't drink, he doesn't do drugs, and he's not interested in sex. He's incredibly intelligent and dedicated to helping people and goddammit I respect that. Sure, he's socially awkward and kind of a douche to girls inadvertently, but he means well. I relate to this. It's nice to have a teenager in the media who isn't obsessed with sex, drugs, or drinking. It makes me feel better when my friends spend all day planning how they're going to get drunk that night together and one tells me it's tragic I've never gotten drunk or high. I'M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY kid-who-uses-pot-as-their-cell-background, but I'm not interested. This might change when I go to college or reach the drinking age, but I'm not now, so I'd appreciate it if you kept your judgement to yourself while I stay a perfectly content nerdy virgin.
MOVING ON. I love Tim Drake and if a genius superhero doesn't need sex or teenage rebellion then neither do I. But either Fabian Nicieza doesn't realize this or he's trying to show up Tim/Kon fans because he just keeps massacring this character. It started with just mediocre writing, to making Tim more of an ass, to making out on rooftops with sexy maybe-criminals, to setting him up to be raped. Now, if I trusted DC to actually handle this correctly, I would be fine with a rape plot (since I love a good rape fic and with Tim's brooding, obsessing character it could be interesting), but I don't. Hell, no one does. This can go one of three ways: Tim bamfs his way out of those lackluster chains, he gets raped and likes it, or he gets raped and blows it off because he's Tim motherfucking Drake-Wayne and he's phased by nothing. That or Cass saves him because I'm honestly wondering how they're going to wrap this up AND feature her in the next issue. But the "what a way to go!" caption on that page really bothers me because really, DC? Really? You're going to be that flippant about raping a seventeen year old boy for his child? Or raping him and claiming it's not rape because all guys want sex, right? Especially when in the solicits for this issue, it makes it sounds like he's just being deflowered, not...forced into sex by an assassin that wants to kill him after taking his sperm.
Besides the whole actual rape plot, I'm bothered by the responses. Marcus To, flawless beautiful art god Marcus To, teased us a month ago when he drew this scene by tweeting something about how it'll make the fangirls happy. Naturally, people expected a shower scene, Tim and Kon making out, etc., not rape. I'm going to go ahead and assume he meant Tim in shackles and chains because well, that is pretty nice, and I'm willing to forgive Marcus To anything. Tumblr, however, is split about 40/60 between DC WHY ARE YOU RAPING TIM to LOL LOOK AT TIMMY'S FACE HE'S SO GAY. Which...I can't even. There shouldn't even be posts of this page with people laughing at it because what the fuck. He doesn't look terrified because oh my god there are BOOBS and he doesn't like those!! he only wants Kon's penis!! He looks terrified because he's fucking chained up in some tunnels under Paris, held captive by two assassins, one of which is determined to rape him, kill him, and then bear his child. What the fuck is wrong with you, tumblr. (Not to mention the rest of tumblr is too distracted crying over Cass and Steph being left out of the reboot because DC hates girls!!! Even though a metric fuckton of characters lost their books in the reboot, including popular rich straight white male Tim, while a bunch of minority characters gained books (not to mention Cass hasn't had a book in years), but that's a rant for another time.)
I'm just glad Fabian Nicieza won't be allowed to write Red Robin anymore come September. At this point, Swan Queen Tim will probably be an improvement. (Unless he gets deflowered, decides he is now A Man, and decides to get a new costume, which is just ridiculous enough to be worked into the reboot.)
tl;dr: Nicieza, if you deflower my Timmy just because you can via badly written rape, I will unleash all of my virgin rage upon you.
In other news, I'm done with high school and I went to England in March.
My thoughts on Tim Drake and how they relate to my stupid teenage life, LET ME TELL YOU THEM, LJ. (More specifically, my feelings regarding rape and Fabian Nicieza.)
Because I don't feel entirely comfortable with tumblr yet, especially not enough to text ramble, so I'm sticking this here on my unused LJ.
Let's just start out with the last page of Red Robin #24: What a way to go! And now my feelings.
As ridiculous as this makes me feel because I don't usually relate to my favorite characters (I find Bart and Aang adorable and I only relate to Miharu a little), I relate to Tim a lot and kindasortasometimes use him as a role model or a reason to just fucking study. This isn't why I like him; his overly serious narration and dorky puns in Robin were endearing and then everyone died and if that didn't just break my Timmy-loving heart. But Tim Drake, aside from breaking the law sometimes as a vigilante and lying to everyone and the goddamn Batman, is a straight-laced teenager. He doesn't drink, he doesn't do drugs, and he's not interested in sex. He's incredibly intelligent and dedicated to helping people and goddammit I respect that. Sure, he's socially awkward and kind of a douche to girls inadvertently, but he means well. I relate to this. It's nice to have a teenager in the media who isn't obsessed with sex, drugs, or drinking. It makes me feel better when my friends spend all day planning how they're going to get drunk that night together and one tells me it's tragic I've never gotten drunk or high. I'M SORRY YOU FEEL THAT WAY kid-who-uses-pot-as-their-cell-background, but I'm not interested. This might change when I go to college or reach the drinking age, but I'm not now, so I'd appreciate it if you kept your judgement to yourself while I stay a perfectly content nerdy virgin.
MOVING ON. I love Tim Drake and if a genius superhero doesn't need sex or teenage rebellion then neither do I. But either Fabian Nicieza doesn't realize this or he's trying to show up Tim/Kon fans because he just keeps massacring this character. It started with just mediocre writing, to making Tim more of an ass, to making out on rooftops with sexy maybe-criminals, to setting him up to be raped. Now, if I trusted DC to actually handle this correctly, I would be fine with a rape plot (since I love a good rape fic and with Tim's brooding, obsessing character it could be interesting), but I don't. Hell, no one does. This can go one of three ways: Tim bamfs his way out of those lackluster chains, he gets raped and likes it, or he gets raped and blows it off because he's Tim motherfucking Drake-Wayne and he's phased by nothing. That or Cass saves him because I'm honestly wondering how they're going to wrap this up AND feature her in the next issue. But the "what a way to go!" caption on that page really bothers me because really, DC? Really? You're going to be that flippant about raping a seventeen year old boy for his child? Or raping him and claiming it's not rape because all guys want sex, right? Especially when in the solicits for this issue, it makes it sounds like he's just being deflowered, not...forced into sex by an assassin that wants to kill him after taking his sperm.
Besides the whole actual rape plot, I'm bothered by the responses. Marcus To, flawless beautiful art god Marcus To, teased us a month ago when he drew this scene by tweeting something about how it'll make the fangirls happy. Naturally, people expected a shower scene, Tim and Kon making out, etc., not rape. I'm going to go ahead and assume he meant Tim in shackles and chains because well, that is pretty nice, and I'm willing to forgive Marcus To anything. Tumblr, however, is split about 40/60 between DC WHY ARE YOU RAPING TIM to LOL LOOK AT TIMMY'S FACE HE'S SO GAY. Which...I can't even. There shouldn't even be posts of this page with people laughing at it because what the fuck. He doesn't look terrified because oh my god there are BOOBS and he doesn't like those!! he only wants Kon's penis!! He looks terrified because he's fucking chained up in some tunnels under Paris, held captive by two assassins, one of which is determined to rape him, kill him, and then bear his child. What the fuck is wrong with you, tumblr. (Not to mention the rest of tumblr is too distracted crying over Cass and Steph being left out of the reboot because DC hates girls!!! Even though a metric fuckton of characters lost their books in the reboot, including popular rich straight white male Tim, while a bunch of minority characters gained books (not to mention Cass hasn't had a book in years), but that's a rant for another time.)
I'm just glad Fabian Nicieza won't be allowed to write Red Robin anymore come September. At this point, Swan Queen Tim will probably be an improvement. (Unless he gets deflowered, decides he is now A Man, and decides to get a new costume, which is just ridiculous enough to be worked into the reboot.)
tl;dr: Nicieza, if you deflower my Timmy just because you can via badly written rape, I will unleash all of my virgin rage upon you.
In other news, I'm done with high school and I went to England in March.