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Since fanficrantsis having a spate of snitty commentary from people who want to wank, those that want to whine about the pitfalls of OOC fanfiction are finding new places to stick their rants. One of them being scans_daily, which is basically a place to post comic scans and laugh at the crack, bad touching and some such. Enter mightygodking whose header post writes "Thoughts on Bat-slash, from a purist." Can you hear the warning signs go off yet? Basically it's a long justification of how OOC Batman slash would be with the final paragraph reading: "I say this not to be a spoilsport, because I understand fully that posting scans where comic artists have perhaps somewhat inappropriately placed Bruce's hand and suchlike is fun, and well and good to that (even if it is sorta the grownup equivalent of asking a girl in the schoolyard to look down her shirt and spell "attic"). I say this merely to preface three scans from the end of Gotham Knights #17, which really rocked me when I read them, and I would hope that others would approach this scene with the same sense of gravitas that I felt compelled to have when reading it - both because I understand quite fully that the scene COULD be re-interpreted from a slash viewpoint, and because I think the quality of the writing here - the adroitness with which Devin Grayson illustrates Bruce's need to both express how important Dick is to him and how scared Bruce is of doing that - deserves a straight (no pun intended) read." Then comes the scan. Included are arguments on the definition of slash, arguments on how much back story can be given to be in character and lots of people on both sides of the fence. Of course the beauty of scans_daily is the first comment after this was: "Well, it's not a marriage license, but... Aw. Bat love."