Out of tintin and captain, who the supportive cuddly one when the other gets upset?

anon ur asking all the right questions.tintin would be smooching THE HELL of the captain, but thats a comfort thing among,,, others. like, he will kiss him good morning and good night and to congratulate and to reassure. he’s a kissy boy in general! he’s tactile all the time!now, on the other hand, haddock would be the biggest of spoons. im talking, like, kissing top of tin’s head.,. Holding him.,,… Whispering sweet nothings..,? You Better Believe It Babey..,.!

tl;dr pic unrelated its haddock silly

I reblogged that one "racism and imperialism in Tintin stories" with a little headcanon about how Tintin's stories (as we know them) are often distorted versions of his true adventures, concocted by the publishers to make them more palatable to the Belgian reading public. What do you think of it?

It’s a nice thought. A good headcanon to have if you headcanon the stories being told by the papers in the fictional world of Tintin, rather than the adventure playing out from an invisible onlooker’s POV.which for a fic writer can be good because it gives you justification (beyond the fact that transformative works is something to be encouraged) to make up w/e u want to have happened during these adventures that the readers just didn’t get to see in canon.but as a piece of fiction in the real world in which Tintin does not exist as a real person, it leads into speculations as to how much control Hergé had over his work. which I feel requires alot more research to tackle or even poke at with a 10-foot pole.Given how critical Hergé was of his older comics, such as Tintin in Congo for being very racist, I like to believe that had he still been alive today he would have made similar criticism to all his work and kept improving himself in that aspect in the hypothetical future work he would’ve made.I’m an optimist that way.but in the end, it doesn’t really take anything away from what the books are.while I still struggle with it because of anxiety, I do believe you can enjoy something while still being aware of it’s flaws, wether the flaws be in terms of quality or problematic themes.