I Was Forged By Fire, You Were Forged By Men.

Tikvah| Dick Grayson Stan, person second|follow back from rhiannnon|20|they/them

[lesbianmarrow]

presidential fucking alert

[lesbianmarrow]

explanation for those not in the know: 

the image that jesschillin tweeted and vita ayala quote tweeted is a comics panel depicting cassandra cain & stephanie brown, two teen girl superheroes who are best friends and currently not confirmed as identifying as anything other that heterosexual

more precisely, it depicts the versions of cass & steph from dc future state, which was a recent event that showed a possible near future for the dc characters in which masked superheroes are outlawed 

this panel is specifically from the comic future state: batgirls, in which the now adult cass & steph team up

future state: batgirls heavily implies that cass & steph used to be a couple and went through a bad breakup. they reconcile by the end of the comic

current dc comics have been teasing the advent of future state in canon. the possible future of future state may become the canon present or past

jesschillin is an editor for the newly announced ongoing series batgirls, which will focus on cass & steph. she tweeted this image in response to vita ayala congratulating her on the series

vita ayala is the writer who wrote future state: batgirls

in the quote tweet, vita ayala added heart emojis whose colors represent the bi pride flag colors, as well as an emoji of 2 girls resembling cass & steph holding hands

(not entirely relevant, but recently steph’s boyfriend tim broke up with her and started dating a boy)

conclusion: stephcass real?????????

[hvrleyquinn]

the joker has been portrayed as queer for decades

cool! I talked to the other gays though and we don’t want him 

[johannasbarker-moved-deactivate]

time to look at dc fanart! surely this batfam artist i just reblogged from is a normal person who doesn’t ship incest

[johannasbarker-moved-deactivate]

by talos this can’t be happening

[dykeseinfeld]

when andrew garfield’s peter parker was saving ppl in cars hanging from a bridge and that one little kid is too scared to climb up so he rips off his own mask and says “see? i’m just a guy” like. mcu really truly could never have such a simple and compassionate moment ever

[johannasbarker-moved-deactivate]

time to look at dc fanart! surely this batfam artist i just reblogged from is a normal person who doesn’t ship incest

[alphabeticalcrabattical]

Shout out to fanfic writers who write their favourite characters into incredibly specific niches like complex academic studies or horse taming or the intricacies of the fashion industry or historical politics just because they love it. I do in fact want to learn about your niche interests disguised as a slash fic, thank you

[claudeleine]

A FAMILY

[kqtekqne]

Buzzing with excitement from the new dc conics web toon announcement

[11thsense]

What do you like about Jason?

Idk he be killing people and stuff

[fanfictiongreenirises]

Dick and Damian in Robin (2021) #5

[nite-wing-deactivated20220418]

[soledadmiranda]

nothing but respect for MY spider man!!!!

[anteaten-deactivated20220228]

Being besties with my lesbian friends would be so fucking exhausting if we lived in Gotham. I'd be dragging them by the wrist away from the villainess of the week and they'd be like "Nooo Poison Ivy might show up! I missed Catwoman last time!!!" while straight up refusing to get out of the danger zone. Insanity.

[comicstoastonish]

[memewhore]

[our-happygirl500-fan]

Kinda interesting that a lot of Babsgirl stuff was stolen from Cass & Steph’s Batgirl runs yet DC insists that Babs is the ‘iconic Batgirl’

[arsed-again]

we've all gotten so used to superheroes being mainstream and with sprawling connections across the globe that i think we've started treating them like extensions of law enforcement - not in the way that, like, green arrow would help break up a picket line or superman would protect private property from the homeless, but that we've forgotten that what theyre doing is illegal

i think it would actually be more interesting to focus on that aspect of it. like, the gotham police are supposed to be the most corrupt in north america, jim gordon has the batsignal because he cant trust most of his officers. flash has a good relationship with his rogues a lot of the time because he can afford to, he's a vigilante, he's not forced to arrest them by anything except his own moral compass. wonder woman is an amazon, she literally has only the gods to answer to! she isn't gonna turn someone in for stealing food - she would be more likely to just give that person a random sack of coins and sent them on their way. the lanterns technically dont actually have jurisdiction if earth police dont recognize it, wouldnt that make a lantern popping in illegal? And if so, wouldnt that make a great fucking comic book??

i dunno i just see a lot of fanworks and media where there's cops n shit who barely bat an eyelash at heroes and vigilantes dropping into investigations and maybe its just the marxist in me but, realistically, cops would hate superheroes and vigilantes and would probably not cooperate with them one bit. yknow how CADMUS acts in the dcu? the cops should basically be the same but in the public eye, with less experimenting on metahumans and more systemic rascism. the police force is the armed body of the state, designed specifically to keep the oppressed masses in line; barring exceptional outliers like the mentioned jim gordon, why on EARTH would they do anything but try to shoot dc level vigilantes on sight????

and since im also a sucker for heroes and want them to still do good and for people to look up to them, how about more stories about ordinary people helping them out, realizing they help more than the police do, loving them because they're not law enforcement and that's a good thing!! because no way is green arrow gonna do anything but protect that picket line from the cops, and superman would sooner give a homeless guy the shirt off his back than help anyone remove him from private property for trying to find shelter, and batman's going to take his rogues down so they can get help and he still shows empathy for them even when they've done horrible things, he's going to talk to drug runners and thugs working for the mob and give them a business card, and then bruce wayne is going to give those guys a job to help them leave crime behind.

give me stuff like this over zombies or alien invaders any day!!!