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briar. 25+. lesbian. they/she. villain stan. deep in my cringe era. mostly a dc comics blog right now but fire emblem, the locked tomb, and baldurs gate 3 will show up occasionally. superman enthusiast. lex luthor's pr manager. art in header & icon by hiero-green.

[luthwhore]

lex recs:

💚💜 lex luthor comic recs 💜💚 (last updated 8/1/23)

💙❤️ superman comic recs ❤️💙 (last updated 12/29/23)

clex fic recs [x] [x]

the superman stories of elliot s! maggin (not all issues have scans but the ones that are up here are very high quality)

tags to check out:

meta

comic panel uploads

lex luthor tag

clex tag

lex & kon tag

other links:

lex/clex spotify playlists [x] [x] [x]

my "league of comic geeks" account

meta, headcanons, & other thoughts on lex beneath the cut:

clark & lex's relationship in the comics [x]

clark & lex's relationship in smallville [x]

clark & lex in injustice: gods among us

on lex & kon

on lex & mercy

pre-crisis vs post-crisis lex

on lexcorp

smallville lex's mental illness [x] [x]

lex is not a republican (his actual politics are way weirder)

parallels between clark/lex and clark/lana in smallville

the "lex luthor" in the smallville series finale is not the real lex (and how i think that plot could have worked better)

parallels between kon & smallville's lex

on the smallville episode "reunion"

on lena's n52/rebirth treatment

twink lex isn't new (you guys just don't read the comics)

my thoughts on pre-crisis vs post-crisis lex:

[tempesthawke]

trust your heart, vora'shivan. it's a good heart and it'll never lie to you.

[mooreaux]

I think they should have been in Inquisition and also married

[nateeseart]

[lem0nicle]

i recently started playing da2 and i really like him🤭

[kirkwallguy]

also maybe controversial, but i think even in dai a lot of the writing choices surrounding solas were gimmick-y and done for style rather than for any deep reason... like finding out his lines were actually just written 'to the tune of hallelujah' to sound mystical and musical rather than in actual iambic pentameter for shakespearian tragedy reasons was a betrayal on the same level as finding out half of cole's 'mysterious' banters are actually just film references that mean nothing.

[vampirefabio]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[sevenmoreminutes]

kurtis conner video: This Conservative Influencer is Crazy

drew gooden video: The us governments obsession with integrating ai into every facet of our daily lives is going to bring about the collapse of society if we don’t get of our ass and start taking action

danny gonzalez video: Buying Food on Ebay

[sevenmoreminutes]

eddy burback video: I did the russian sleep experiment for a month

[wheatiewintry]

women deserve to be ugly. and by that i mean they should be allowed to have conventionally "unattractive" features and not be treated as lesser for it. women should be allowed to be fat and lanky and tall and short and have scars and physical differences and stretch marks and cellulite and acne and wrinkles and hair on their faces and arms and legs and armpits and maybe even be a little stinky and gross sometimes. and this should be normal

[bunjywunjy]

10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

AAAND WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

[bg3-tournament]

Ship Tournament, Round 3 — Match 7 / 7

Lae'zel/Shadowheart

"lae’zel/shadowheart is THE enemies to lovers blueprint in bg3 idc. they start off genuinely ready to slit each other’s throats over the artefact, the gith/sharran distrust is off the charts, and somehow it turns into this insane potential for two women who were both raised inside brutal religious systems slowly realising they were lied to by the people they worshipped"

vs. Karlach/Wyll

"I mean, those two are almost implied in the Blade of Avernus, Karlach and Wyll traversing hells together ending. Karlach's dialogue about doing this with someone she loves is both in romanced Karlach ending, and if she's just with Wyll! Karlach was my first romance, and when I saw a non-romanced Karlach and Wyll epilogue for the first time, I just felt such a "it should've been me! Not him!" feeling that it's hard to say there's nothing there. Also, Karlach has been through tough times. She deserves a fairytale prince to sweep her off her feet - what companion doesn't, really, but still. Also, Karlach will stand up for Wyll when he gets too self-sacrificing, I'm sure of that, and he deserves that, too. They're dear to each other, is all I know, and they'd be good together. After they get out of Avernus, I'm sure they could have a good, comfortable life in Baldur's Gate, adventuring, and when needing a break, having a nice house in the upper city to belong to."

Which ship do you prefer?

Lae'zel/Shadowheart

Karlach/Wyll

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[zazrichor]

DANDELION | overcoming hardship, healing, resilience, hope

I had the pleasure of painting the illustrious Dorian for @daflowerzine 🌼 leftover sales are now closed but you can still get a print of Dorian here!

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Three, Bracket 2

Hen Wilson (9-1-1) vs. Edelgard von Hresvelg (Fire Emblem)

Hen Wilson

Edelgard von Hresvelg

Remaining time: 5 days 23 hours

propaganda below the cut:

Hen Wilson:

Constantly overlooked by the fandom in favor of men, and when people do focus on her it's all about how she helps the m/m ship du jour get together, or supports them, or guides a man in his sexuality discovery. People outside the fandom are constantly being bombarded with the noncanon ship between two white (passing) men, and never even hear about the Black lesbian main character. The OG animals facts girlie but everyone gives that trait to her (white) male coworker.

BADASS Black lesbian firefighter who joined the crew at a time when it was rife with racism and misogyny. Had to fight three times as hard to earn her place and boy did she! Multifaceted, makes devastating mistakes, lashes out, is sososo compassionate, funny, and the smartest character on the show! And her wife is so hot

Hen is a main character who has been in a lesbian relationship since the very first episode(!!!), and yet it's only when the white male lead comes out as bi that fandom celebrates how wonderfully queer the show is and put his face on all the fandom Pride events and artwork! I guess it's not queer rep until it's a white man doing it…

Hen is brave, kind, has a huge heart, makes mistakes, loves, laughs… She's such a wonderful and vibrant character and she doesn't deserve to be overlooked by both the writers and the fandom!

Fandom turns her into a cheerleader for their fave m/m ship, usually Buddie but sometimes Bucktmmy (the latter being especially crazy considering her history with Tommy). Fans also hated on her for what she said about feeling like no one supported her after Bobby died because Buck made her fill out a grief checklist one time, even though that speech (while maybe not super supported by the previous episodes) had very clear subtext about her being the only black woman at her workplace.

Hen is a friend to all animals and is extremely messy in her personal life, two great qualities for any character.

fandom refuses to give her the same rich inner live her male coworkers have, because she's just allowed to be the mothering, wise, funny black woman. it's not that fans hate her, they proclaim to love her, but everytime she gets a storyline they complain. everytime she behaves like a human being, with flaws, on the show they complain. anyone's guess whether that's misogyny, racism or misogy-noir

Henrietta fucking Wilson, smartest person you'll ever know (except for her rocket scientist wife) is a firefighter/paramedic, she is badass, she's a mom, she's a lesbian, she's a great friend and she has this incredibly dry wit sometimes. she has flaws, she's stubborn, she tries so hard not to burden anyone that it's burdening, she makes decisions and takes the fall for them. she!!!

This is a complicated answer but here's my thesis. Hen (main character) is sometimes (sometimes!) not served that well by the canon, and I think it's because they are (since s1) afraid to let a black lesbian character be too messy. But this is about fandom, not canon. And she does have some really juicy storylines. And what I have noticed is that fans love to hate the show and they like to say Because Hen Has No Story as one of the reasons. And then when Hen has a juicy story, many of these some fans will insist it's Bad Actually and will come up with some of the most convoluted nonsensical reasons the storyline is objectively bad, when they are in fact clearly just upset their fave didn't get more attention that ep, but they can't say that because that would be racist and they are Not Racist, you see. So some really fun and interesting stories gets crickets at best and torn up and discarded at worst and sucks.

She marches to the beat of her own drum. She's compassionate and kind and brilliant. She's Judging You. She is SUCH a good friend. She is constantly celebrating people and making sure they feel appreciated. She had a really cool villain foil in s5 and nobody ever talks about how good it was. She loves animals. She's had to carve out her place wherever she goes. She has excellent intuition and she's daring and kind of egotistical about her ability to save lives with risky ad hoc medical hail marys. It's hard to sum her up, she's been here 9 seasons. In some ways the family dynamics of the team started with her.

I am a big gay dyke and I've had multiple (three) people recommend me 911 (before I started watching) on the basis that there is queer rep and the queer rep in question that three (THREE!) people went out of their way to mention to me (lesbian) was BUCK. NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT THE LESBIAN!! WHO WAS IN IT AND MARRIED FROM THE BEGINNING!

Edelgard von Hresvelg:

DIMITRI FANS BLAME HER FOR GENOCIDE(?!) AND RUINING HIS LIFE AS HIS EVIL STEPSISTER. SHE WAS LITERALLY SEVEN

she is one of the most interesting, complex, and tragic figures in the game, but people frequently flatten her into a militaristic fascist and treat her as unrepentantly evil because she’s the main antagonist on most of the game’s routes, even though it’s clear that many of the other characters agree with her goals, just not her methods.

she is a beautiful, tragic, complex woman, and the single most interesting and nuanced character in the game. if she wasn’t, the game’s entire plot would fall apart.

All of Dimitri's short comings and mistakes are waved away/excused as being symptoms of his PTSD. Meanwhile Edelgard's trauma and the clear signs of her C-PTSD are ignored to instead label her as an irredeemable bitch.

Edelgard comes from a game where every main character is meant to be morally ambiguous but hmm for Some Reason edelgard isn't given the same grace as her male peers, I wonder why. If she were a man, she would dominate the fandom with no competition. Like it is that obvious. Also, she gets hit with the misogyny mallet on both sides like most women, the "she's the source of all evil in the world" and "she did absolutely nothing wrong!" which while well meaning, still reduces her character down. She DID do wrong things, they all do! That's the Point. She's meant to be as complex as her male peers but fandom refuses to give her that complexity (and again, they would be frothing at the mouth over her and her complexity if she were a man)

She is from the "choose your favourite war criminal" game, they're all supposed to have very questionable flaws. But she isn't given nearly as much grace by the fandom as the popular male characters are.

[samstarstuff]

Shadowheart and Night Orchids piece from early May

Look at me being all professional and actually posting my backlog of art like I said I would

[dragon-age-tournament]

Dragon Age Fight Club — Group #26 / Match 3 of 6

Ashur

No propaganda submitted.

vs. Iron Bull

"He was Ben-Hassrath. He notices habits, tells, fear responses, weak sides, old injuries, all of that. So in a one-on-one fight you’ve got someone huge with a two-handed weapon, and he’s also actively reading you while you’re trying not to get split in half."

"iron bull fights dragons for fun. i feel like that says enough about his threshold for danger"

Who would win in a fight?

Ashur

Iron Bull

Remaining time: 22 hours 21 minutes

[oxalees]

gloominess won’t last 💗

[spring-ephemeral]

it doesn't matter which country we're talking about here, if someone from any country in the world says "oh where i am from there is simply no racism", you not only shouldn't believe them, but you should actually never take them seriously about anything ever again.