Hey! So , for anyone wanting to get into Jubilee’s comics, this guide is fantastic in terms of a place to start! But aside from that, I have a few recs outside of the guide for more recent stuff!! ✨🧵
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I maintain that Tara wouldn’t have betrayed the Titans if it weren’t for Beast Boy
Like literally every time they get vulnerable with her or vice versa and she shows some doubt he’s literally right there to make her hate them all over again
Finished. It makes me so upset that Perez and Wolfman’s narrative worked for so long. That people spent years talking about the actions of a rape victim lashing out at the world as a result of her situation as if she was a monster simply because she wasn’t the perfect victim.
Yeah except
A. She’s not irredeemably evil, as shown by the fact that she’s gone through redemption in the comics
B. The manner in which she’s displayed to be irredeemable is muddled with rape culture rhetoric, making wolfman’s intent with her incredibly problematic.
@nightwingcity It’s fascinating to view The Judas Contract through the lens of Tara as a character and what she’s experiencing that could lead to the choices she makes
@Genghistwelve So why does writer's intent matter with Wolfman but not with Priest? He clearly states that his intent was to make a statement about the effect of CSA. I think you just want to villainize the 16 year old girl because she's not a perfect victim.
The issue in which Garfield sexually assaults Tara repeatedly and then everyone gets surprised when she has a panic attack and beats the dogshit out of him
@Deathstr0king Hoping to god whoever this was wasn’t trying to talk abt me
I’m a million times more likely to yell at someone for making shitty jokes about an actual rapist than I am to get upset at someone for being a fan of a character I’m also a fan of
@purgeking1234 The narrative intent was to portray her as a complete and total monster but it doesn't work that way in terms of how the story unfolds.
Wolfman wanted us to believe that Tara was such an incredible actor that all of the genuine doubt she showed was fake, even though she's 16.
@Genghistwelve Someone didn't read what Christopher Priest actually wrote about DSRebirth. Editorial made him shave that off. I'm not saying Tara is completely innocent, but I do think Beast Boy was also a sexual abuser and that he deserved getting his shit rocked.
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For those of you that haven’t read it, this is what Christopher Priest had to say about Slade and Terra. He never retconned it, he simply said that he didn’t want Slade to be the punchline of pedo jokes.
@Genghistwelve I’m not “ficcing it in”, I’m going off of books that were written later (and not by misogynist rape apologists). Fun of you to post Deathstroke 2016 when the whole point of that story is that Deathstroke was responsible for a lot of what Tara was as a character.
@Genghistwelve Yeah, and her actions are no excuse for Beast boy sexually harassing and assaulting her. Her "insanity and hate without reason" are all results of her lashing out as a result of being a victim of Child Sexual Assault. Children aren't born monsters.
@Genghistwelve You're an odd person.
"I think that we shouldn't be calling children pure evil sociopaths"
"You're connected to this actual real world murder trial, aren't you?"
I’m glad!! I love Tara sm, and it makes me so upset to see that others only discuss her to make her the butt of shitty pedo slade jokes. I’m hoping to get more people into her for her, and I’m glad you think I’m doing well!
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