batman af

DC sideblog. 18+, I post freakily… I follow from klobexia. Mostly Batman, but I'm branching out! There will be villian/hero, villain/villain, and other dubious dynamics, so be aware of your preferences and limitations.

[batstrap]

I finally got my Ao3 invite. SEND DC FIC REQUESTS!!!

My Favorite Themes:

Hero/villain

Hero/hero

Power imbalance

Investigative

Fight sequences

Injury/first aid/recovery

Whump

Actually requited unrequited/Mutual repression

Polyamory

[malewifesband]

the setting is also a character. many do not know this but its true. it has a history and a future and often an arc of its own, and the other characters all have personal relationships with it

[lokutofu]

I redrew the face of some old art

[vanta-bat]

Just Barbara doing wheelies to stim during long work hours

[absolutearsenal]

[airportreflection]

batman fans: with enough prep time my goat could take this 50 inch dragon dildo EZ

[nightwing-official]

"we all want something that will last forever. but what we get is love." is a statement so profound that you would expect it to come from devin grayson's nightwing (1996) and it does come from devin grayson's nightwing (1996)

[adilichka]

[ll-de-jess-ll]

Nightwing.)

[renviary]

(platonic/familial) sketch dump from the past few days ive done for the twin todds au ibs: purpl3h00d over on twt😌we've been tormenting e/o w hcs

[aliteralchicken]

Happy birthday king

[theyhitthe2ndtower]

[lilacpaperbird]

direct, concise, unapologetic, succinct, compelling

[fra4tas]

[inertiaafk]

nightwing!!!

(click for better quality)

[arkham]

dead internet theory but it's realizing that most of the people you see posting about comics do not read comics

[arkham]

every time i post something like this someone gets mad at me but i really don't know what to tell these people. every year we get an influx of people who will enter these spaces for a shared interest in comics that they not only have not read, they often have no interest in reading and sometimes will actively degrade the entire medium to justify not reading them. and if you express any discontent with this arrangement you're the bad guy for not enabling a deeply incurious practice of not wanting to engage with art or its creators beyond digestible abridged versions plastered over slideshows of out of context panels and stolen fanart

[donkoogrr]

As an anecdotal note, my brother, who does not read the comics, still enjoys talking about Batman, Superman, DC, and Marvel. He loves the TV shows and the movies and the video games. There are a lot of times he's been mocked and sneered at by comics purists for this.

So I wonder if the issue (pardon the pun) is that so many people aren't communicating clearly or are gatekeeping whether someone's opinion is valid based on what media is/was available to them.

The property that owns Batman is DC Comics, so a person can be yapping about a Batman show under that tag. It doesn't mean that they've read the comics - it means that they liked the show and want to talk about that. Their character interpretations for that show are still valid and they still may have really interesting takes and thoughts to share.

Engaging with people on their level is fun as fuck and extremely eye-opening to different ways of life. For the best fandom experience, let yourself be open to the next Gen character enjoyers who are growing up watching Batwheels and TikTok. A lot of them are going to come onto the Internet excited and wanting to yes, talk about a character outside of the comic book medium.

Because most of these characters have also been on TV shows and video games and movies for nearly a century and we should really be used to that by now. Give the comic book classism a break and listen to the new kids the way you wanted adults to listen to you when you were new. Treat someone with respect and you might make a friend who will listen to you describe a comic plot and then they can talk about how elements of it were adapted to a different medium.

[arkham]

this is just fundamentally not the point i'm making, given that i am expressly talking about the comics, discussions about the comics, and forums and communities about and surrounding the comics. i pointedly did not mention adaptations because i am not talking about the greater fanbase or cultural presence for these characters, i am talking about the comics.

it's the same principle as the wizard of oz books vs the wicked books. they're the same characters, one is an adaptation of the other, but ultimately, if you've only read the wicked years and then join a forum by and for fans of the oz novels and then try to speak with authority on what happens in them, you are just not engaging with the same material. there's nothing wrong with being a fan of the wicked novels, and there is overlap between the fanbases and characters, sure. but you still haven't read the oz books, you don't know what happens in them, and you're in a space of fans of those books who are engaging with those specific stories.

most of the people engaging with this post are the "new kids" within comic spaces, and you can see just from scrolling through the notes that there is a very clear consensus about this for a reason. comic books and graphic novels are their own stories, written by real writers, drawn and colored by real artists, that have real fans who are engaging with those works, not just the nebulous, overarching cultural presence of batman.

it's not about classism, and while i find that insinuation endlessly ridiculous considering comics are just about the easiest thing to pirate on the internet right now, it's also just not the point! this is not about who should be allowed to talk about superheroes. i do not care if you have only seen mcu movies or only like the dcau. they are different iterations with different creative teams and different narratives and artistic presences altogether.

nobody is making you read the comics to post on tumblr or talk about it with your friends and family. but if you are in a space with comic fans, talking about the stories, events, and narratives in the comics, then yes, i expect you to have read them!

[mirlumae]

I just wanted to draw the cape go swish