THEYRE ALL SO SILLY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IM HOING TO BE SICK /j

THEYRE ALL SO SILLY I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IM HOING TO BE SICK /j

I love them

crimson rivers chapter 40 literally crushed me I won't be able to communicate next 24 hours

YES OMG FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS MY PLIGHT

WHAT IF ALL I REALLY WANT IS A NICE PAINFUL “UH BROSKI UR SPINE?!?!!” FIC WHAT THEN?? IVE READ TWO

T W O FICS ABOUT HIS METAL SPINE PLS GIVE MY BB SOME LOVE

I see the "Bruce/Batfam finds out that Tim had lost his spleen" fics all the time. Which happened when Bruce was 'dead' and the family was scattered and Tim had went out alone.

What I have never seen is "Bruce/Batfam finds out that Damian lost his whole ass spine when he was shot 5 times point blank by Flamingo. And his mother replaced it with a metal one. And then a zombie Batman ressurects and tries to kill Damian by throwing him off the roof, in which Dick saves him. And then it's revealed that Talia had hidden a secret controller inside the metal spine and gave it to Deathstroke, who then controlled Damian through it to try and kill Dick in a graveyard with a shovel. So to stop Slade's control over Damian's spine, Dick punches Damian multiple times on the stomach with electrical fists, telling Damian that he can take it" fics. Which honestly sounds more entertaining to explain.

I mean when he was shot, only a couple of people knew of it. Dick and Jason were there during the fight with Flamingo. Commisioner Gordon found out later on, along with Alfred. Talia obviously knows. And there is Slade as well. But other than that it's pretty unknown and I don't really remember anyone mentioning it to Bruce. (If there is a panel that shows that Bruce knows, please share it with me. But when I skimmed over the comic I couldn't really find anything.)

Anyways, it just sounds more exciting because during that time everything just kept getting worse and worse for Damian. And unloading all that trauma sounds interesting.

i have some thoughts on zar’s exit from the fandom & their decision to delete their fics and how the fandom is reacting to that. and the fandom is reaction horribly.

and the irony of it all! because, arguably, crimson rivers is what zar is most known for. crimson rivers, set in the hunger games universe, created by suzanne collins to criticize capitalism, the entertainment industry, and consumerism patterns of offered media and how it varies based on a social class. and zar’s work added so much nuance to what suzanne collins had written. zar had done an excellent job writing james, sirius, and regulus as victors and exploring their respective traumas when it comes to being in the public eye.

regulus (and james, too) constantly felt like he had no autonomy and no choice because he was thrust into the public light and pressured into doing exactly what was expected of him. and sirius? oh, sirius. sirius won his games and was made into this galaxy-sized celebrity by the hallows, expected to conform to every assumption made about him, to follow all the rules his new role as a mentor & a victor burdened him with. but most importantly—the hallows viewed sirius as nothing more than what he could offer to them. they looked at him and did not see the person.

zar wrote that, and tens-hundreds of thousands people read it and completely misunderstood. because zar wrote 865k words exploring how traumatizing it is to be made into an Image, to be stripped away of your autonomy for the sake of entertaining others. zar wrote that, only for the marauders fandom to do the exact same thing to them that the hallows did to sirius, to regulus, to james; to victors.

and that. that is fucking infuriating.

because, yes, zar is a brilliant writer, but first and foremost, zar is a person. and the way a large part of the fandom has been treating them is completely dehumanizing.

STOP saying “i respect/support zar’s decision but [insert a paragraph about how devastated you are and how you cannot stop crying]”.

STOP sharing the pdfs/epubs of his fics on literally all social media platforms when it’s the one thing zar explicitly asked people to not do.

STOP feeling entitled to the creative work that does not the fuck belong to you. STOP thinking that you have any right to demand anything from zar. STOP hiding emotional manipulation in-between words of illusory support and respect.

and to quote zar: for fuck’s sake, STOP calling them zeppazariel.

zeppazariel is a brilliant writer who was elevated within the fandom to a height so big that it hurts when you fall and crash, and the fandom pushed zar down. the marauders fandom made zar into a full-blown celebrity, but

zar is a person.

REMEMBER THAT.

I’m just going to leave this here and you come to your own conclusions.

a favourable misunderstanding 🧣

this was supposed to be a meme redraw of a b99 scene but with my own twist on it … instead: it took on a life of it’s own, became super fluffy and ridiculous, and consists of 5 different styles at once lmao