Librarian and Discowing Enthusiast

Local Folk Trying Their Best. Fandom-ly interested in Batman and Star Wars. Academically interested in fandom.

[androxys]

The Great Big Pinned Post

After about two years on this blog, I suppose it’s about time to make a pinned post. I figure that most folks who follow me know the rundown, but if you’re new to here I want to wish you welcome and show you around!

So hello! I’m Androxys! I spent an absurd amount of my childhood reading Batman comics and then never grew out of it. So now I read comics, read about comics, and write about comics, mainly as fic and the occasional nonfiction essay. All my fic can all be found on the Archive of Our Own. There’s also a link to my AO3 in my bio.

I try to maintain a pretty consistent tagging system on this blog for my own reference. Every post that has my original words or commentary is tagged #chit chat, and everything reblogged is tagged as, you guessed it, #reblog. All my writing can be found under #my writing, with my fic also being under #fic.

DC Comics stuff is, you guessed it, #dc comics, and comics characters are generally tagged by their real names. That helps eliminate some confusion from mantle swapping. I tag posts about fandom as a whole as #fandom logistics, including things like updates from the Organization for Transformative Works.

When I’m not behind this computer, I’m usually doing library things. I got started on this career after 4+ years in social work/social services, and found that while I loved serving the public, I needed to do it in a different venue. Despite a brief dalliance in academic libraries, I work in public libraries. I love my field, and I love to talk about it. Library stuff is tagged #librarianship, should you want to see my musings there.

Other than tumblr, there are a few other ways to keep up with me, namely on Dreamwidth or on BlueSky. Dreamwidth is where I cross post my more substantial or long-form work from here: things like my Nada Parbat primer, my write up on DC’s government agencies, or my post-Crisis Batman read-through. I tend to use BlueSky (and Twitter before it, RIP) for comic news.

I suppose that’s as good a primer as any. Welcome to my blog! Stay a while! I’m glad you’re here.

[androxys]

JPV whump drabble keeps ballooning and I’m at the point where I can’t tell if I like it

[ggothamite]

happy birthday tim!!

[unconventiononthelawofthesea]

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

[akindlyowl]

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”

[24hrsoda]

babs won the last poll so i sketched her 🩵

[lunarblazes]

do the people know that jack kirby created the best characters of all time in 1971 when he created the new gods. do they know about how deeply beautiful his exploration of personal freedom and anti-fascism and nature v nurture and the value of good in the world is. do they know

[androxys]

Okay thai basil ice cream I NEED you to turn out good

[dccomicsficrecs]

Fic rec: gates of horn and ivory by mishencockles

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59104816/chapters/150697594

Summary:

‘’You know the Mad Hatter?’’ An involuntary shiver runs up Roy’s spine. ‘’Jarvis Tetch? Short little freak with a hard-on for Alice in Wonderland? Yeah, Wings' mentioned him, once or twice. Dabbles in mind control. Gives me the creeps.’’ ‘’Well, back in the day he built this thing called the Dream Machine, trapped its victim in a kind of dream world. It seems someone found the blueprint. Spruced it up a bit.’’ A cold feeling settles in Roy’s stomach. ‘’You’re saying…’’ ‘’You’re looking at the Dream Machine 2.0.’’ --- Or: Dick is dreaming and Roy needs to get him out. He learns a lot of things along the way, things Dick would've preferred to keep buried.

Continuity: Post-Crisis Era: Bronze Age (1970–1985), Modern Age (1985–now) Comic/Comic arc: n/a Main Characters: Roy Harper, Dick Grayson Main Relationships: Dick Grayson/Roy Harper Comment: Submitted by anon.

[theburialofstrawberries]

awesome awesome interview with Emily Wilson

[poei33]

happy orion eve! here’s some lightrion

credits to @hesscottfree for the idea of orion getting woken up to lightray floating and glowing in the middle of the nightgddhhd

[valtsv]

obsessed with the concept of the anti-saint. you will suffer cruelties and humiliations that should be unthinkable and die pointlessly, and if you must be remembered at all, it will only be with revulsion, as if you were a festering scar on reality itself. neither resistance nor submission will redeem you. god will not save you. god has abandoned you. everyone has abandoned you. you are alone in an uncaring universe.

[fruitkingfrog]

[ID: Chibi fanart of the New Gods from DC Comics. The page is designed like a mother box and features Orion, Lightray, Big Barda, Scott Free, Serifan, Shilo Norman, Vykin, Big Bear, Beautiful Dreamer, Mark Moonrider, and Metron. End ID]

Clearing out the drafts! Stickers done for the @fourth-world-fan-projects calendar.

[penny-anna]

Everyone needs to stop saying death of the author when what they mean is separating the art from the artist. Like FR stop it.

[penny-anna]

I know it's mainly just ignorance of what the term means but I do wonder if this happens in part bcos 'death of the author' sounds so dramatic like oh this author is dead to me, I don't care about them anymore. Whereas 'separating the art from the artist' is a lot more neutral and well. In CERTAIN CASES it is kind of immediately apparent that you cannot.

[penny-anna]

TO REITERATE:

Death of the Author is a term coined by Roland Barthes for his essay of the same name in 1967.

In brief: death of the author is the concept that analysis of a work of art should not be focused on the artist's intent; the artist's intended reading of their own work is just A reading and no more valid than anyone else's.

A good straightforward example of this in practice is the response to Andy Weir and Project Hail Mary. Weir is adamant that his work contains no politics but I would say that PHM is pretty clearly a story about climate change.

You can apply death of the author to any work of fiction and it has nothing to do with whether the author is a good or bad person.

[androxys]

Aw man I’m going to re-read Knightfall, aren’t I?

[cosmicpoutine]

rebooting voltron is a mistake prime video is not ready for

[ngoziu]

I HAVE HEARD THE WORD...

ORION, my second graphic novel with DC Comics is out in bookshops & comic book stores EVERYWHERE! ☀️