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Intro Post

I mainly post about DC comics, specifically red hood, green arrow (+ arrowfam), and green lantern. I do also like some marvel, mostly black widow and the winter soldier, and assorted other things such as resident evil, the crow (both the movie and the comics), 90s grunge, and emo music. It was not a phase, mom.

Some specific characters i post a lot about are jason todd, kyle rayner, mia dearden, oliver queen, hal jordan, and rose wilson

I am mia dearden's biggest fan everybody should read mia

Look at her, I love her.

I also write a lot, and am far more proud of my writing than my various shitposts, and my fics can be found with the #my writing tag, and I will link some here

Speedy and the Outlaws AU: my personal magnum opus and a rewrite of post cry for justice arrowfam where I attempt to fix that absolute dumpster fire and make all of my favorite characters friends. Also has its own tag (#speedy and the outlaws au)

A Conversation

Speedy and the Outlaws (1, 2, 3, 4)

This Changes Nothing

I am the Highway

Musing on Mortality

Terrible Lie

Field of Innocence

Spirit of Vengeance

It Will Come Back

livingdeadbat

He is so normal about bruce

livingdeadbat

So normal <3

I have about 10 issues of grayson's gotham knights run left and I love it. She actually made tim, alfred, and bruce likeable I haven't been annoyed by them once this run thats so impressive. Also my boy jason getting the occasional mention (the best i can get out of this time period really). Probably going to finish her nightwing run next.

Thats all. Have a hallucijason for your time

(Bruce is also hallucinating his and dicks parents arguing in this scene. Jason just wanted to witness the drama)

Haunt that narrative jay. You're doing amazing sweetie

He is so normal about bruce

Been liking gotham knights so far

#dick is very normal about bruce

I really liked thunderbolts when I watched it a year ago but now the whole thing puts me off because of how the mcu adapted alexi. WHY DID THEY MAKE NATASHAS EX HUSBAND NATASHA AND YELENA'S DAD??? WHY??? WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA???

why-i-love-comics

Marvel Swimsuit Special: Brand New Beach Day #1 (2026)

pin-up by Dan Panosian

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#she is my hero

goodman-grace

Kyle meeting Hal was like looking into the abyss and seeing the mangled corpse of a once great man and going Yeah, I still believe in you, because belief is the only thing we have left when everything seems like it's breaking apart and anyway I think that's one of the reasons Hal was able to become the Spectre and redeem himself because the one person who should've hated him for what he was at his worst still thought that his humanity would shine through and Kyle was right. Hal is nothing but a man, and a man is kind.

ennarchy

anyways lads, talia al ghul in the first few days after leaving her son with bruce. talia al ghul walking away with a feeling of suffocating emptiness. talia al ghul walking away with that sinking feeling in her gut and that tightness in her chest that comes with grieving and missing someone who isn’t dead. talia al ghul swallowing down the lump in her throat, forced to go on with her day to day life and maintain her decorum without her son. talia ‘my fate is to be a mother and suffer for it’ al ghul

guiltyofbitchcraft

I love them

rmbunnie

Major bummer that "emotional brick wall/hyper-masculine" Jason ended up as some of the prevailing characterizations because both of those things are like notably not things that he particularly is. The closed-off thing I understand (outside of Lobdell's characterization) to be an extension of general bat-family behavior, which is an extension of general Bruce behavior, bc in everything pre-Lobdell he's just trying and trying to form bonds and even post-Lobdell its the less prevalent of the two, but I have trouble pinning down the hyper-masculinity. I think realistically (beyond questionably-written stuff like NW:BIB) it's probably a mix between his physical appearance of being a big strong man, the pragmatism-centric Red Hood identity, and being mean/punk and seen as more hotheaded/violent than the others due to the killing (with the aterisk that his hand to hand fighting style isn't actually much more brutal than any other bat,) but idk I feel like we're overplaying it a little. I'm not saying he's the fem-est beast to walk the earth, I'm definitely not getting into Jason-is-woman-coded discourse, but. He's referred to as a drag queen (derogatorily) at one point, every worthwhile platonic connection he has outside of Bruce and Dick (and as of N52, Roy, which isn't done well but something that would have potential imo if it wasn't done awfully) is with a woman, he takes a recurring interest in victorian culture/fashion, he tends to be REALLY theatrical, is emotionally open as much as he's emotionally self-aware (which is still more than most bats, even if it's the lowest of bars,) and cries like, a noticable amount, none of which super gives tropey macho meathead. And although gendering personality traits is arbitrary and pointless, I could get it if he actually had any real stereotypically masculine interests (besides weaponry,) or was a gym bro, or one of the guys, but he isn't, really. You know who is sporty with a close friend group of other men? Tim Drake, who never gets hypermasculine allegations despite that. And I'm not saying Tim should get them, I just think it's a little weird that Jason does so much!

rmbunnie

@gothlight The drag queen comment is from Batman 649, All They Do is Watch Us Kill part two! Black Mask says “you costumed drag queens and your toys…” in reference to both Jason and Bruce

batman-analysis

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#he also calls Jason a “(censored) little girl” in part one for using a small bomb instead of fighting him like a man which means#without weapons ig? Like they're in close quarters anyways Jason is just using something more refined than a pool cue#the comments as a whole defines black mask as a misogynist more than it marks Jason as feminine#but does show that to someone in-universe who sees tactics as aligned with femininity and brute force masculinity#Jason comes across “girly” which. is a strike against the whole yk meathead macho characterization#kind of the same situation as the “loud and queer” comment in Suicide Squad: Get Joker

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Sometimes you remember what it's all about (Jason instigating and rage baiting everyone around him into hurting him because it's the only type of attention he can reliably get).