Hi :)

26, aro/ace, working on my masters

[three-semicolons]

I saw some discourse on twt about dick in tt and yj actually being tim because tim is the detective what do you say?

I’ve discussed this before, and it essentially comes down to: “people trained by same man possessing same mantle have similar skills and traits, news at 11”, but seeing as I’ve said all of this before, one thing that does bother me is specifically about the pants.

Sure, you could say that modern Dickbin has been retconned to wear pants as he gets older, thereby making the versions of Dick that wear pants canon. Someone else could say “well that’s also ripping off Tim’s design”, and you could get in a whole debacle about that. I don’t really care who has a patent on pants. What bothers me is when the conversation eventually devolves into “which is better” or “why does your guy suck more than my guy”, whereupon the inclusion of pants is always treated as this kind of objective win. Or the color of the costume, for that matter. As though the leotard and the vibrancy were automatic demerits to Dick, and it’s so obvious that Tim is trouncing Dick style-wise because, come on, pants.

Tim’s costume, and the changes he made, makes sense for him because he’s the normal kid from Gotham. This was a good character choice for him. Character choice. Dick is from a circus. I love the ties to Dick’s circus heritage. I really dislike modern renditions of Dick that add the pants or reduce the saturation of his uniform. And frankly, call me Missus Offended, but I think it’s insulting to Dick’s heritage to treat these things as automatically lesser than the more “normal” look of later costumes. To me it’s almost a microcosm of that era in hero books where everyone got rid of their “cringy unrealistic” uniforms to wear bikers jackets and tactical suits. Except, whereas the public eventually embraced Superman’s trunks or the blue Batman suit again, Dick’s costume — which is arguably the most grounded in who he is and his culture — is not viewed in the same manner. Why are we deploying cringe culture against a teenage acrobat trying to carry some of the legacy and attributes of his dead parents, because “lol no pants”? What about the leotard, besides deferring to “no pants”, is bad design?

It just makes me miffed, especially when comics throughout various canons have attempted to ground both the Robin and the Discowing design in the Graysons’ uniforms. This isn’t what you were asking, but I delivered it regardless. Alas.

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

So it’s widely accepted within the fandom that Jason Todd likes to read, and as someone who has read a lot of his comics, there are lots of instances of Jason making references to literature throughout the years.

But do you know who else has made many many references to literature over the years? Who is canonically a Shakespeare nerd with a particular passion for seeing Shakespeare performed? Who consistently is depicted with floor to ceiling book shelves in his room, and who had a whole arc in Rebirth about his favourite book from childhood which massively inspired him? RICHARD JOHN MOTHERFUCKING GRAYSON. I love Jason, but there are not enough fandom references to Canonical Bookworm and Shakespeare Nerd Dick Grayson for my liking.

I’m not even saying we should take away Jason’s status as the resident bookworm (sure it might be slightly over-exaggerated in fanon, but I do think removing it as a trait entirely could lead to some narratives which are accidentally (or purposefully) classist, and it’s not like there’s no canon evidence to support it anyway) — but I do think that there is a lot of potential in recognising Dick’s own canonical interest in literature. Just think of the arguments about Hamlet! They’d be insufferable!

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

@curly-cottage-girl you are a genius

Spot the difference: yellow stockings edition

[vintagerobin]

The thing about Dick and Wally is that, in canon, they're both incredibly stubborn, deeply performative master gaslighters, who have a lot of ability to empathize with each other but always think they know better than the other. Which is what makes their canon relationship so interesting to me.

[sippsysip]

Last daughter of krypton

Kara wip

CAN you tell I have nothing to post

[vintagerobin]

Sometimes I really wish there was a longer story wherein Wally kidnaps Dick for his own good rather than that just being something that happens offhandedly maybe for a few panels or pages, because it's always so funny to me. How do you escape your well meaning friend with the power to be invisible and virtually omnipresent. Imagining Dick really just wants to go die under the porch like a sick cat but every time he enacts some elaborate escape plan he just finds himself sitting back at Wally's dining room table like nothing happened. Wally not even acknowledging it and waiting for Dick to crack and snap at him, which will take forever because that would require admitting that something is wrong and therefore Wally would be "winning"... whatever this is.

[vintagerobin]

(Nightwing '16 #90)

[epiphainie]

some of the best tropes: divorce, cheating, cucking, weird love triangle, breaking up making up, breaking up never making up, pining for your ex, pining for the person you're nominally in a competition with for the third end of the triangle, infidelity, emotional infidelity, fucking someone and imagining they're someone else, toxic soulmates, toxic codependency, proxy sex, exes with benefits, cheating, divorce

[cherikin2026]

What are your favorite comic panels with Charles Xavier? >:)

[mkpersephone]

I'm glad you asked😁😁

[zinthelost]

On the nose.

[artbyblastweave]

My take on Wildbow’s prose is that it’s good. This assessment began life as the much more conditional, hesitantly advanced and semi-apologetic “Good given the absurd production circumstances under which the work was created,” and then finally evolved into just flat-out “good” somewhere midway through reading Ward. There is a degree to which I view this as inevitable, because Jesus Christ, imagine doing this much of anything every single day for twelve years running and not getting significantly better at it than when you started. Pale’s immense length was therefore palatable to me because it’s also basically the high point his technical skill; I fell off reading it purely because my personal torments and derangements overran the battlements in my senior year of undergrad, but there was nothing I found unpalatable in the text itself. I find his descriptions evocative, his character voices distinct, his imagery excellent, his turn of phrase frequently pretty nifty, and, most crucially, his ability to string lines of thought together in such a way that my attention is dragged along for the ride through the whole body of prose. And, admittedly, there’s almost certainly a glass-houses-and-stones element warding off more a serious critique of his prose on my part; I have had the thought, numerous times, “I wish I could write prose not as beautiful, but as efficacious and functional as that of Wildbow.” Because I can run in witty ironic little turn-of-phrase circles all day long on this website, but I’ve always been much, much harder-pressed to stitch those witticisms together into a cohesive narrative long enough to convey something Beautiful and True.

[prettiestthor]

“I think there is someone out there you LOVE, even if you pretend not to.”

“A SIBLING, perhaps.”

“You act like you have nothing to lose. But you are afraid... because you know it targets those we LOVE.”

Thor is the love of Loki's life 🙏

[mff-doom]

[jenlog]

this is from the 2000’s btw

[anarchopuppy]

Looks like @staff mistakenly censored this comic, which is an ironic and very funny thing to happen

Here it is again. You might want to save it just in case an accident like that happens again

EDIT: HMM. LOOKS LIKE OP WAS BANNED TOO. WHAT A FUNNY. IRONIC. ACCIDENT

[mephistopheles]

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

[cosmogyros]

[milfzatannaz]

this diva

[getanshi]

“could jason beat cass in a fight” jason cant even beat dick in a fight let’s be serious for a minute.

[getanshi]

half convinced that besides the general jason glazing the only reason anyone even bothers to entertain this idea is because people can’t square the asian woman as being a bigger physical threat than the hulking white guy and so they have to underestimate her. its no different from a chud who plays a bit of tennis in the summer and convinces himself he could probably go toe to toe against naomi osaka

[masterhallmark]

The Green Lantern franchise is one of those series that was just MADE for easy self inserts and OCs. Especially after they added the other lantern corps

Other Superhero fandoms: Ugh, I gotta pick a name, outfit, and superpowers for my character, along with my backstory

Green Lantern: All right, here's your superhero name, overpowered set of super powers depending on the color ring, the color palette for your outfit, and we gave you a prompt to inspire your backstory and personality (Willpower, love, hope, fear, rage, etc). You can handle the rest.

[chemistasshat]

Concept: Blue Lantern who has immense hope for everyone but themself. An underground boxer type, rough around the edges, generally not friendly on the outside but exceptionally kind. Someone who has been failed by society, but has HOPE that someone will start a revolution and break the system to make a better one

Gonna fuck with the lore a little when I say this: due to the low amount of Blue Lanterns and their importance, every time a ring chooses someone, a green lantern is chosen as their escort/partner to bring them to Oa, where then a Green Lantern (can be the same who brought them here or another) is chosen as their partner in crime (because we know that a blue ring works best with the presence of a green one).

Saint Walker gets called to Oa as well, as one of the proponents of the Green/Blue partnership, and now he needs to convince both an unwilling Blue Lantern (reader, who swears up and down that they aren't the right person for the job because LOOK AT THEM) and a Green Lantern (to be a glorified babysitter) into a partnership

Who do y'all think would be the right person for the job?

(This might be set pre or post Blackest Night, depending on how I feel. Leaning towards Post, because of the angst potential)

[sentient-stove]

have hope, for you are made of it—

Blue Lantern Tim by @goddessofbees for my au/fic: Carry Your Hope Behind Your Teeth (out now!!!!!!!! Go read it!!!!! Also go follow goddessofbees!!!!)