Red Lantern Tim, Indigo Lantern Jason

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[greeneyedkon-el]

I have a DC AU called Earth-24

I have a separate blog for it [HERE].

Based mostly on "New Earth" Continuity, comics published between "Crisis on Infinite Earths" April 1985 and the beginning of the New52 November 2011, with some elements (characters, teams, plots/story elements) from New52 and Rebirth continuity.

[rneliflua]

this female character has toxic masculinity because she's rude and angry. it's misogynistic to hate my male fave because he's popular with women but it's ok to hate on this female character because she's bad female rep and women who like her don't count. it's actually misogynistic to like badly written women because it is rewarding low effort of male writers and I'm the sole arbiter of what is a badly written woman. it's misogynistic to write women with personality flaws because complexity is for silly boys. it's feminist to remove women from stories and focus on the men because I don't have to deal with that bad rep in my fanfiction. it's misogynistic how the narrative has reduced her to a love interest for a man so I reduced her to the mom friend, yaoi cheerleader, and therapist for the same man instead. she deserves better so I decided to remove her from the narrative altogether so she won't have to suffer all the interesting conflict my guys will have to suffer instead. no, I'm not a misogynist, my disregard for women is 100% feminist.

[greeneyedkon-el]

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn't always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn't receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don't know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn't raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a 'space dad' who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Rip Tim Drake and Cassandra Cain being the Bat Twins of the Bat Family because recent Batgirl issue really showed Tim Drake taking a break from Robin means he doesn't even bother to show up to Cassandra's welcome home dinner, let alone to show up to help Cassandra as Robin. Because according to DC, Tim's relationship with Bernard is more important then even Tim's relationships with his family at this point.

[greeneyedkon-el]

#but like seriously the way this is now being used to not write tim with his family#i think only time we got him with his family recently post-bad writing is in detective comics#where i still swear the whole 'former robin' was edited in after the bad writing#cause the way everyone there but tim has hero identities....#but like the way bat twins used to be so close and such#but nowadays dc will do crap like this#because apparently good lgbt+ rep is reduce the characters to only their romance and thats it

[zelekhia]

Someone please explain to me how this

and this

is the same character

[vereval]

i would like bernard as tim’s love interest a lot more if he were at all similar to how he was when he was introduced. tim’s first impression of him was “he’s fun in small doses” and i think thats hilarious. modern bernard is nothing like 2000s teenage dirtbag bernard and its a crying shame that they just blasted him with the twink ray.

[blancdasta]

Robin 1993 #121

okay see THIS is a timbern i can get behind

[spite-and-waffles]

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I absolutely hate the New-52-fication of Bernard Dowd. It's neck and neck with Jason being besties with Roy and Kory on my list of New 52 atrocities. Bernard was such a funny gossipy tinhat, his expansive clownishness masking a shrewdness that made Tim have to put in some real work to deflect and side-step suspicion and really lean into his wry, aggressively normal civilian persona. Why they had to mangle him to produce a cute little blonde twink for Tim to date that doesn't bear any resemblance to OG Bernard's personality I don't know.

The reboot signalled to those of us who had followed DC comics for years that DC no longer wanted or had any use for us. I thought we'd at least always have a separate Pre52 fandom, but canon just keeps cannibalising and warping Pre-52 continuity to service the reboot timeline's complete lack of substance and legacy. I wish there was a way keep them separate.

[silent-wolf]

genuinely what the fuck was that valentines special I NEED BERNARD DOWD TO *** im so fucking tired of dc reducing all of tim's past female love interests into platonic friends and fujo's... god give ariana a gun

[greeneyedkon-el]

#daminika being the only upside to that dumpster fire

[doesthebatfamknowpopculture]

Ariana Dzerchenko has seen West Side Story

Ariana Dzerchenko has seen Forbidden Planet

[cassiebat3]

robin (1993) #1

they’re actually really cute 🥹

[bat-bleed]

[non-binary-lil-star]

Imagine you're dating a guy and you're both like, 14, so really young and he's nice and loves you but you end up mutually deciding to break up. 3 years later, the guy you dated is adopted by the most famous billionaire in town. Said billionaire then dies. The guy you dated becomes CEO of his father's company at the ripe ol age of 17. You see him in the news looking like he hasn't slept in 6 months and is one more bad pun from the interviewer away from committing suicide. You remember him so young, and how he loved cars and nerd shows and going out with you. His eyes look dead even through the TV.

[getanshi]

in the interest of “i don’t like this decision but if we have to live with it we should at least do it good”: someone save bernard dowd from being a generic love interest with no sauce please god bring back his pre-flashpoint personality. both him and tim are suffering being in this relationship because editorial is too scared of giving them any conflict because their position as a same gender couple is already so precarious and its draining the life from them both. make bern smarmy and mouthy and clout chasing and crude again and give him some leftover trauma from the fallout with darla he can be all those things while still being a good and loving partner

[mycoolfixations]

I get why it's like this, but I am so tired of basically all of the recent Tim content we get having something to do with Bernard. Like, I really truly get why but I still really dislike it. It feels like when you are trying to hang out with your friend but their shitty boyfriend keeps tagging along, and they are constantly like "Isn't he great?"

[alazxh]

Teenage birdsnake for me is a beautiful coming of age story where a queer boy is given the opportunity to explore his sexuality and preferences through navigating a summer crush in an all boys school, it's translating the subtle hints that makes his heart skip a beat each time.

And then there's tim. Who discovers nothing. A love for jet skis maybe. He learns how to make out with tongue but thats probably irrelevant.