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Confused bat anon here-what comic and characterization are you referring to exactly in you whack rant? Just so I know what to avoid

jerseydevious:

to be totally honest? in my opinion, bruce’s character was mostly mishandled throughout the 2000s, save for the animated series. for a while, batman’s characterization was just constantly and constantly bland, boring, assholish – it was a trend that people had decided that batman needed to be Batgod, Capable Of All. that’s also when the “prep time” meme was most popular, and the TDK trilogy was coming out with its mr. gritty realism batman, and the collective decision was that batman had become too badass for emotions. the empathy and compassion that had been central to his character for such a long time was scrapped. his dedication to gotham was recolored as a personal, narcissistic obsession, rather than any real desire to help people. 

one of my favorite batman stories, and in my opinion one of the greatest batman stories, is in ‘tec #500, and it’s called to kill a legend. in it, phantom stranger shows up and gives bruce the chance to save his parents in another universe, and bruce, of course, takes it. but the little bruce wayne of that universe doesn’t grow up to be a bored playboy – he becomes batman anyway. that, to me, is the nexus of batman; bruce recognizing that this world needs heroes, and that if there isn’t any – and, in that world, there aren’t even literary heroes, so people from that earth fundamentally can’t fathom what a hero is – you have to make them. batman is a dark hero, but he’s not an anti-hero; his vengeance isn’t who gets punched, it’s the people he saves, and the families they go home to. that’s why i argue that any bruce wayne characterization worth its salt would become batman irregardless of the loss of his parents. maybe it shouldn’t be that the death of the waynes is the cornerstone of any stable timeline, and maybe it should be that the birth of batman is.

i don’t recognize that batman throughout the 2000s – i see a character that’s been stripped entirely of this interesting cross-section between idealism and darkness, and demoted to Loner Asshole Who Punches People To Satisfy His Rage Issues. 

tanoraqui:

ivanvorpatril:

kk-maker:

albaoaurora:

albaoaurora:

albaoaurora:

I had a dream Bel was holding a baby

okay

Bel Thorne bursts into Miles’s house, carefully holding a small bundle in its arms, “hello I’m back! and I brought a guest! say hello to Miles, say hello to Barrayar, baby!”

baby: *waves arm*

i have to revise this dream

baby: *waves four arms*

maybe it would not actully be so good to bring the quaddie baby to Barrayar

Bel: *spitefully keeps handing baby to various Vor while talking up war stories*

Vor: *can’t actually shriek or make displeased faces because Diplomacy and also Baby*

Miles: *with too much wicked glee* “Can’t argue that they’re healthy! Ten fingers, ten more fingers…”

Bel: “They’ll be a right terror once they’re old enough for weapons–after all, they’ll be heavily armed.”

Vor: *tries very hard not to scream*

no Vor, no Barrayaran, would dare do anything to the baby of Lord Auditor Vorkosigan’s dear friend, except maybe look uncomfortable.

also the fact that Bel falls squarely into the group of people whom Miles proudly shows around the planet and every party he can, and any time someone asks how they met, Miles says blandly, “Courier duty.”