bout to watch The People's Joker again :)
so good!!!
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people's joker spoilers / fictional grooming
thinking today about what this movie does with carrie kelley by positioning him as being groomed by batman, who pays for his transition and pampers him until soliciting for sex. how this intervenes on frank miller's fascist power-fantasies in dark knight returns. how this intervenes on "lol batman and robin are secretly gay". and how it's still somehow nuanced enough to never feel like a heavy-handed bit of fanon. ACTUAL DC WOULD FUCKING NEVER
people's joker spoilers / fictional grooming
@sarahzedig Frank miller? 
like what really hit home both times was that despite this being a parody movie where all the comic book stuff is meant as a cypher for a semi-autobiographical trans coming of age story, it's still genuinely a VERY GOOD comic book movie. it is very intelligently interrogating the batman mythos from a place of care and investment, it's fanfic-as-analysis-as-art, which is a rarity even in the world of batman parody videos that The People's Joker clearly emerges from. it's just good man idk