[ SECRET POST #4782 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4782 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/xPkrXMo.png

[(Anonymous)]

This is a new low even for FS.

[(Anonymous)]

How on Earth?

[(Anonymous)]

This comm tries to find something wrong with everything, but Batman/Robin? Seriously?

[kaijinscendre]

[(Anonymous)]

DA
I love that GIF!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care one way or another personally, but it seems really obvious why some people might not like a father figure / much younger protege ship????

SA

[(Anonymous)]

And it's not like OP is trying to tell anyone not to ship it, either!

[(Anonymous)]

That's how you define their dynamic? I just thought he was his sidekick.

So this is just standard-level FS age-gap purity.

[philstar22]

OP isn't telling others not to ship, they are just saying they personally don't like it. How is that a "new low?"

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. One actually is his son, biologically. At least two others were unofficially adopted as 'wards'.

I don't have a horse in this race ship-wise, but to say there's no element at all of guardianship at the very least is kind of missing a big chunk of the Batman/(most)Robin(s) dynamic.

[(Anonymous)]

How peaceful and drama free your everyday life must be if someone not wanting to ship Batman/Robin(s) is a "low", much less a "new low".

[(Anonymous)]

this just in: people can not like things, shocking i know.

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr is thataway -> ->

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, I'm confused, because usually "Tumblr" on FS is a stand-in for the sort of "purity brigade" approach to fandom that AYRT is accusing OP of endorsing

[(Anonymous)]

Oddly enough, *most* people aren't keen on a pairing of "Adult man / his adoptive son(s)". Wild, I know.

[(Anonymous)]

So, what's the new low? Robin/Robin shipping? Not shipping Batman/Robin? Stephanie Brown erasure?

You confuse me, dramatic-yet-vague anon.

[(Anonymous)]

I really do not like father-figure/child ship dynamics, nor mentor/student either, so I have to say I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I like protégé/mentor fics as much as the next degenerate but whenever it's so much as hinted at in canon I die a little. I litterally can't stand it.

Inheritance by Devin Grayson was an EXPERIENCE.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone that ship Batman/Nightwing, I have zero issue with this secret whatsoever. If you dislike a ship, as long as you're not being a douchenozzle (which, at least in this secret, you're not) that's not an issue.

[(Anonymous)]

If you dislike a ship, as long as you're not being a douchenozzle (which, at least in this secret, you're not) that's not an issue.

I have no dog in the fight in regards to this particular fandom, but YES, co-signing this on a general level.

[philstar22]

This is exactly my feeling when it comes to shipping. Ship and let ship. Dislike whatever and let others dislike whatever.

[(Anonymous)]

As the comm’s resident Starker shipper, I would just like to say: I am NOT the anon being needlessly defensive ITT.

I definitely get why someone would be squicked or just not into Batman/Robin, even if the premise is that they don’t get together until Robin is of age.

[resnullius_bells]

OP only expressed a subjective opinion that they're 100% entitled too and didn't attack anyone in the process; they deserve the same courtesy.

That said, a lot of people in this thread are acting as if the worst that comes out of purity culture in fandom is people telling us not to ship something/saying a ship is disgusting. Have you missed the death threats, rape threats, doxing, sexual harassment, violent threats, etc. that regularly gets thrown at people for their "problematic" (sometimes not even THAT problematic) ships?

Obviously OP didn't even come close to any of that and as defensive as I get someone that's been through it might get, they don't deserve to be treated as if they had. But that hardly means people complaining about purity culture are whining about something inconsequential.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, OP. Well, except for Dick and Damien. I can’t do any flavor of Batman/Robin, even if it’s former. But....(in response to the rest of the thread)...that’s my preferences only. Not trying to criticize anyone that does.