Konbart Is Real

Call me Orla. 30+ Pacific Northwest, She/Her. Queer. Orphan. Header by @domnorian PFP by @nopes--and--dreams Bart Allen and Kon El- Centric 90% Bat-Free Read banned books, watch fucked up movies, just read the comic.

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🦣🌌✨ Call me Orla. She/Her. I'm 30+, and queer 🏳️‍🌈 Autistic.

This is a Bart Allen, Kon El, Superman, Fourth World and Legion of Super-Heroes centric blog. This is a COMIC blog. Whenever I talk about comic characters, unless I am specifying otherwise, I am referring to the comics. I've been reading comics for as long as I can remember, and I love them a lot.

This blog is 21+ and there will be occasional mature/adult content or themes.

Don't want to hear me complaining and criticizing the Batfam? Blacklist: batman critical, batfam critical

Please do NOT send me questions about the Batfam. I will just delete them and block you.

Find me on AO3 as just Earthshine

KonBart Shipping Manifesto and Friendship Deep-Dive

I love and embrace all queer headcanons, but most fervently aro/ace and trans headcanons.

Fanon vs Canon nuanced statement - I just want my non-Bat faves to stop getting mischaracterized in fanworks just to glaze and prop up Bats, because I cannot filter these types of content out because it is so widespread, and no such universal fanon tag exists, this is heartbreaking to me as I love comics for their depth and nuance. And I am tired of having to see posts all the time from non-comic readers saying how much my favorite characters SUCK in ways that aren't event true.

Comics that I blog about frequently:

Impulse

Superboy

Young Justice

Legion of Super-Heroes

L.E.G.I.O.N. and R.E.B.E.L.S.

New Gods

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Adventure Comics (2009) #519

This is honestly one of my favorite things to see in any work of fiction, star gazing where aliens locate the stars of their homeworlds while on another planet.

In the PZH run they established that Winath was in the Centaurus spiral arm which in proximity to Earth, even on one of the clearest nights in Smallville, KA, would not be visible from Earth by the naked eye... ever. But because this is a different timeline Winath just must be closer.

Colu, to my knowledge, has always been almost a next door neighbor to Earth located within the local cluster so their star would very likely be visible.

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I also remembered a detail that may or may not be canon for the above iteration of LoSH, Colu in one imagining orbited an M Class red dwarf star which would have made seeing the star certainly impossible with the unaided naked eye with so much light pollution.

That or Coluan eyeballs are damn powerful.

In reality it is a detail no one cares about (except me).

Still, it's a lovely scene and still a theme I love to see. We can bend the science, it's okay.

[jay-rayart]

Feeling so many things. FLY launches on Kickstarter tomorrow morning. (June 9th 11am EST) however it goes, I am so so glad to pursue freedom through my art in the face of a world that has doubted me and everything I am made of. Much love to you all.

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

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Adventure Comics (2009) #519

This is honestly one of my favorite things to see in any work of fiction, star gazing where aliens locate the stars of their homeworlds while on another planet.

In the PZH run they established that Winath was in the Centaurus spiral arm which in proximity to Earth, even on one of the clearest nights in Smallville, KA, would not be visible from Earth by the naked eye... ever. But because this is a different timeline Winath just must be closer.

Colu, to my knowledge, has always been almost a next door neighbor to Earth located within the local cluster so their star would very likely be visible.

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I got distracted by something no one will care about.

Legion Worlds #2

Winath really is a fascinating place in its niche and people that reproduce in twins naturally, and bless Abnett for attempting to give us an approximation of where Winath actually is in our galaxy.

To note; those numbers he provided (237:661:727:001) are literal gibberish and is useless for pinpointing any solid location. We do have a Galactic Coordinate System that is based on our own observations and the format those numbers provided are not anything resembling what they should be.

Real galactic coordinates look something like this: RA: 6h45m8. 9s Dec: -16°42'52.1"

This is however scifi, and a comic, and the numbers he provided could just be what they use in this particular story and future - it could be a direct serial number for their planet, a coordinate system, or the numerical classification of their star or local cluster. We don't know.

He does however give us which spiral arm Winath is located (that part is real) which is on the Centaurus Spiral Arm - which is one of the main arms spanning a very large reach of our galaxy.

In relation to us (we are located on the Orion Spur)... this tells us nothing because Winath is located on the Centaurus arm, which as you can see has an arching formation covering over half the galaxy.

So... Winath could be anywhere from ~approximately~ 15,000LY away to 60,000LY away from Earth.

I'll keep a lookout to see if distance is ever mentioned which may give us a better idea of where Winath is supposed to be but I'm not holding my breath for any of this to be consistent.

And always remember; space is huge, unfathomably huge.

Here is a simplified map showing the galactic arms that may be easier to distinguish.

My classmate once said we were on the "dick of Sagittarius" and it's never left me.

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Oh no.

I lost my galaxy map over everyone's homeworlds and their placement in relation to each other.

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A poll only 7 people will probably care about featuring details that only bother me alone

So in the spirit of the other post concerning my writing and options, what would the potential 7 LoSH readers most like to see regarding a potential one-way trip in the cosmos?

Useful information below before you vote, or just look at the pictures.

Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way

An incomplete diagram showing some known satellite/dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. The image I wanted to use crashed Tumblr :(.

Stellar Streams and Known Milky Way Stellar Streams

(artist's impression of stellar streams, the loop-de-loops around the whirlpool, encircling the Milky Way, NOT a real image, we do not have the technology to take images of our own galaxy from this perspective)

The Milky Way Galaxy

Our own galaxy, it's huge, really huge, and not even the biggest galaxy out there. Even 1000 years in the future there are areas that have not been traveled to due to the distance and placement of Star Gates (or other modes of rapid space space travel but for the fic I am using Star Gates specifically for REASONS)

Artist's impression based on data from the GAIA Space Telescope, again we do not have the technology to captures images of our own galaxy from this perspective.

Again, (some) of this fic's primary themes are one-way trips and impossible distances. It features Bart and Querl in a canon-divergence AU where Bart never evacuated to the past and never had speed aging.

WHERE and WHAT should Orla do for the SETTING?

A currently known satellite galaxy [KEEP the current name]

A currently known satellite galaxy [CHANGE the current name]

MAKE UP a NEW satellite galaxy [it's not scientifically impossible]

Move them to one of the stellar streams around the Milky Way Galaxy

Have the fic take place in an under-explored area of the Milky Way

Remaining time: 2 days 22 hours

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People who really really want to read media about found family that does not dissolve into tradfam nuclear niches should pick up any Legion of Super-Heroes, and I am not joking. Each member comes from another part in the galaxy, some have families, some have broken homes, some have no families at all and are considered government property and yet they find each other and become each other's chosen families.

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

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Happy Pride to Bart Allen who broke time to find Kon and the lightning guided him right to his side when he least expected it.

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Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.

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Me writing this LoSH fic and debating whether it should take place 1.) in an area of the primary (known) Milky Way galaxy that is not well explored, 2.) one of the satellite galaxies, or 3.) in one of the stellar streams.

If it does take place in one of the satellite/dwarf galaxies should I A.) keep the name they have currently or B.) rename them because this takes place 1000 years in the future in an interstellar community where these objects have likely a standardized Interlac name.

The final option is just making up a new satellite galaxy which wouldn't be impossible in the slightest, the most recent satellite galaxy discovered around our galaxy was identified in 2024.

[starspgl]

aroace flag picked from this picture of ryland grace

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[wolfythewitch]

furthest we've ever been

[pansyfemme]

cant stand when a mocktail costs as much as actual alcohol. Like i guess i would understand it if they used really fancy ingrediants but sometimes its like soda + juice in a nice glass for 9$ and its like cmon

[aliteralchicken]

let’s play…BUILD A CASSIE

Starting with pants:

playsuit

jumpsuit

Regular jeans

Baggy jeans

Flared jeans

Biker shorts

denim shorts

cargo shorts

cargo pants

Leggings

shorts leggings combo

skirt leggings combo

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