CEO of Heatwire

Dreaming since July 2023

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Omg we won so much

Might just be my favorite version of Livewire now.

[filibusterfrog]

have made some pose blanks with thin/fat variations! ive noticed that those handy artist renditions of poses typically dont have a lot of bodytype variation and i thought these might be helpful :)

i have a set of 10 of these available to my patrons and kofi members, id really appreciate any support!

[tuxedosaurus]

I was asked by @chaosbeetlefrontiers to rank Justice League of America members and… it was surprisingly easy? Legacies like Flash and Green Lantern are treated as a whole.

1. Flash

2. Wonder Woman

3. Green Lantern

4. Superman & Batman

5. Red Tornado

6. Vixen

7. Aquaman

8. Martian Manhunter

9. Green Arrow & Black Canary

10. Zatanna

Zatanna is at the bottom because I have almost never felt the urge to read JLA for her nor read her solo material. She’s aight.

[sockiepuppetry]

Supergirl, her girlfriends and her beautiful wife (Brainiac 5)

Gift for a friend, featuring her favorite Supergirl ships!

Because her messages kill me lmfao

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

As a Silver Banshee connoisseur the Kara/Siobhan rep is always appreciated!

[firebunnylover]

I started publishing some shorts for the A Future to Belong To AU

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Two chapters are out now, and the second one is Heatwire content that has been peer reviewed by @chaosbeetlefrontiers :3

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Back on Tumblr, gonna take things easier still but I thank everyone for the support.

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Thank y’all for the support but I’m gonna be deleting the Tumblr app for a while just to recuperate mentally a bit.

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Superman fans when you tell them that a fictional immigrant character can come from an imperfect nation and still serve the themes of the story and the allegory very well:

[bumblingbee1]

If you unironically claim that the new Superman movie is "anti-Israel", I'm not taking anything you say seriously.

Tom King, a former CIA agent, is heavily involved with the DCU. Not to mention, James Gunn is literally glazing the shit out of him every chance he gets!

For all it's worth, it's best to just boycott the movie entirely, as it's has Tom King's war-torn blood all over it.

[bumblingbee1]

Putting these tags by @shim-changmin because these are pure facts!

The movie is literally just liberal propaganda, as you cannot claim your work to be “anti-Israel” and “pro-immigration” while simultaneously supporting those who stand for the exact opposite.

Additionally, people from the SWANA have been saying for years that Tom King is a war criminal, and that reading his comics and watching DCU is directly putting money in his pocket!

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

When I started posting more on Tumblr I never expected to just simply be dealing with stupid people more. So let’s talk about Tom King’s involvement with the DCU. We only know that he was one of the first people to read the script and give notes, we don’t know how involved those notes were and we certainly know that he wasn’t majorly involved in the movie’s production afterwards. Still, we know that he’s working on shows later down the line and Supergirl is heavily based on his Woman of Tomorrow book.

I will preface this by saying that I hate Tom King, I really do. Many of his books have insanely sluggish writing, he neuters a lot of the pre existing characters that he writes when he isn’t getting help, and his history as a war criminal who helped with plotting out the invasion of Iraq should be known more especially given his lineup of books talking about just how much his main characters regret their war crimes. And yes, there are plenty of other DC writers that should’ve and I hope getting a writing spot for the DCU, Mark Waid being the most obvious candidate. Using Tom King to discredit DC is still really stupid to me. And while I could try to justify King’s inclusion I’m not because not only is the answer kinda unfortunate but that really isn’t the point.

The point is that it’s incredibly elitist to go to people who are enjoying a good movie and calling them stupid for enjoying it solely based on an incredibly loose guilty by association link. Gunn has his own beliefs on the current climate of the world that were shown in the movie and don’t align with the shit King’s done and believes in. And if you’re doing it here for the DCU, you’re doing it for DC as a whole. Tom King is still part of the brand (and unfortunately here to stay) but there are still plenty of other writers part of the company that tell good stories and are worth a damn. The DCU projects that aren’t made by him do not lose their luster just because he’s a part of the company. If you don’t want to support King’s works that’s perfectly fine and I don’t care. But that doesn’t give you the right to a moral high ground and to put other people on blast for not following your footsteps.

Otherwise you sound like these guys but with extra steps.

[canonsinthehead]

"Me too, I want to be a baddie thief living in a mansion..."

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Yes I watched the new Superman movie, yes it was fantastic and yes I want to talk about Jor-El and Lara.

I think the hate is way too overblown. Spoilers btw.

I get why people would be put off with this take on them being more evil (keep in mind we don’t know if all of Krypton are evil here) but when watching the film it actually furthers the story along for the best as well as Clark’s character arc. Clark’s main arc is learning to let go of the expectations his birth parents actually had for him and making his own choices. The message works because Clark ultimately still makes the right choices regardless of the expectations set for him but rather his own experiences and the film ends with him embracing both his life on Earth and what he has left of Krypton.

Is the twist still weird? Kinda, yeah. It’s the one singular aspect of the film I am pretty mixed on. Jor-El and Lara wanting Clark to repopulate Krypton with Earth’s population makes sense but the framing of it is quite weird, especially when characterizing Jor-El. I think he’s a character who always has the capacity to suck shit but there are far more nuanced depictions of him in other media. I didn’t need this movie to get into Krypton much at all so I’ll let it slide but I expect future projects to pick up the pace.

With all that said now let’s get into why I think the extreme amount of hate towards this decision is dumb. Superman can have different immigrant stories, it doesn’t have to be the same one for every interpretation. Both this and MAWS portray a Clark who struggles more with the baggage that comes with his heritage, and I find that interesting and fun! Same with how it was handled in Smashes the Klan even though it’s doing something different from them! There is a difference between simply not liking this writing decision (which is valid) and calling it offensive to the immigrant allegory because you can’t stand it when Krypton isn’t perfect. Superman fans can be a special breed of allergic to anything that’s different to what they find definitive, and as a Superman fan myself I’n tired. I just want to enjoy new stories about a guy in red underwear without people trying to treat it like a moral issue. Genuinely the most media illiteracy towards the character I’ve had to deal with since Lois making the jump in MAWS.

[greatkiryukazuma]

Certain Superman fans are truly disgusting for accepting James Gunn's characterization of Els.

Let us all remember how good they actually are.

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Hey how about just shutting the fuck up

I’ve seen the movie three times already I’m ready to throw hands

[scarletfasinera]

They're doing “willingly signing up to kill brown people in an exploited country for the sake of US imperialism is so TRAUMATIZING for the poor abused US veterans who just don't know any better💔" shit to my mutual's comic posts

[tuxedosaurus]

Idk who’s saying “they don’t know any better” but it IS true that US veterans are victims of American imperialist propaganda and the military industrial complex.

Ignoring that just so you can paint every person who’s been military as bad instead of focusing on the people who ENGINEERED THE SYSTEM makes you part of the problem.

God forbid people on the internet have sympathy for everyone who’s been hurt and killed by America, including American citizens.

[darkholme]

what’s your favourite brand of boot polish that you like to lick?

[tuxedosaurus]

WHO’S BOOT LICKING

I FUCKIN HATE THE US MILITARY

THE SYSTEM MUST BE DISMANTLED

VICTIMS OF THE SYSTEM INCLUDE AMERICAN CITIZENS

WHAT’S NOT CLICKING

Y’all are pretending to be progressive so bad it’s looping around to the same dehumanizing bullshit the government uses

[tuxedosaurus]

I think the question y’all need to ask yourselves is “who are you willing to dehumanize for your revolution”

[darkholme]

if i wanted to waste my time further with you i'd say that you are still valuing the potential regret from an imaginary us veteran who previously had willingly signed up to kill brown people in another country - which at this point in world history is not something anyone can claim ignorance of - over those very real brown people in the global south who are suffering right this moment, as the usamerican empire and its excessive military force has been known to do with its destabilization of countries and entire regions for almost the entire last century. it seems like you yourself are readily willing to further dehumanize the lives of people from another country who are being bombed and invaded, and have been being bombed and invaded for decades for benefit the united states' empire and its own unwitting citizens.

however, you've made it clear that you are set in your ways, and nothing i or anyone else says will make you change your very narrow, usamerican-centric world view. how sad!

lucky for me though, its much more enjoyable to just make fun of you. is this a picture of you?

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

OK let me ask you two questions.

One, do you know what nuance is? Two, have you maybe also stopped to think to consider that a lot of soldiers are not bad people and the issue is that the system they have to work for is total ass? I could expand on this point here but I gotta make sure that you’re truly not just really, really stupid first.

[scarletfasinera]

They're doing “willingly signing up to kill brown people in an exploited country for the sake of US imperialism is so TRAUMATIZING for the poor abused US veterans who just don't know any better💔" shit to my mutual's comic posts

[tuxedosaurus]

Idk who’s saying “they don’t know any better” but it IS true that US veterans are victims of American imperialist propaganda and the military industrial complex.

Ignoring that just so you can paint every person who’s been military as bad instead of focusing on the people who ENGINEERED THE SYSTEM makes you part of the problem.

God forbid people on the internet have sympathy for everyone who’s been hurt and killed by America, including American citizens.

[darkholme]

what’s your favourite brand of boot polish that you like to lick?

[tuxedosaurus]

WHO’S BOOT LICKING

I FUCKIN HATE THE US MILITARY

THE SYSTEM MUST BE DISMANTLED

VICTIMS OF THE SYSTEM INCLUDE AMERICAN CITIZENS

WHAT’S NOT CLICKING

Y’all are pretending to be progressive so bad it’s looping around to the same dehumanizing bullshit the government uses

[tuxedosaurus]

I think the question y’all need to ask yourselves is “who are you willing to dehumanize for your revolution”

[amylikescomics]

Summer time's comin'

Does this qualify for Mermay? She is a type of mermaid in my universe.

[rickroll-25]

Sorry I don’t make the rules

[chaosbeetlefrontiers]

Y’know what I think I finally have the energy to rant about this. This post is the equivalent of getting the right answer but the math is completely fucked up, and yes I’m referring to the tags.

People who complain about MAWS Lois and comparing her to Amber are genuinely some of the biggest losers I’ve met. When was the last time you actually engaged with the show? Genuine question by the way. If you engaged with it at all recently like I have you’d pick up on the fact that Lois lying and her more hypocritical traits are not only criticized in the show itself BUT Lois also makes the effort to improve herself as the show goes on and we see that these flaws mostly stem from her dad’s poor parenting. When you criticize a character like Lois for having flawed traits that the show acknowledges and builds on that’s just telling me you’re not engaging with the story well enough in the best case scenario. And I don’t wanna assume the worst case scenario but I think you have a good idea of what that’s like.

I prefer DCAU Lois but both versions are really good.

[rickroll-25]

Sorry I don’t make the rules

[tuxedosaurus]

(regarding the Amber slander in the tags)