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[pontiuspilatesprincess]

Superman (2025) persuasively sells you on something most other recent superhero movies don't, which is that a world with Superman is better off in meaningful ways than a world without.

It would fucking suck to live in the Marvel Universe as a non-superhero. You can identify with the protagonists, you can fantasize about being Tony Stark or whoever, but if you think about the civilians in those movies, the randos killed by the robot or sucked into the portal, it's hard to see the existence of superheroes as a net positive. They mostly seem to clean up problems that wouldn't have occurred in the first place without their egos and mistakes. Superman has a different emphasis though. The fantasy isn't just about having superpowers yourself, but about what if the natural disaster equivalent only did property damage, what if military aggression could be stopped in its tracks without a single civilian casualty, what if the evillest people in the world actually got their comeuppance.

It really meets the moment. I think a lot of us are wishing someone with power would do Literally Anything for the public good.

[vintagerobin]

The core fantasy behind superheroes was originally "what if someone who had power used it to help people?", and of course that ideal was most directly embodied by Superman, who's also generally credited as the first superhero. Other early superheroes are often variations on that theme, like Batman's "what if someone with every imaginable privilege used it to help people?" It's very idealistic and earnest and it was so overwhelmingly successful for that reason in the turmoil of World War II.

Since then Marvel has often competed with DC by focusing on being more cynical and self aware, "more realistic" than DC, and DC in turn has tried to keep up by becoming darker and deconstructing itself. But that core of idealism and hope is really deeply ingrained in those early superheroes, and they've endured for as long as they have because that's still what's comforting and inspiring when it feels like everything around you is going to hell.

[fandomobssessed57]

I've decided that Steve did NOT go back to Peggy, but lives in a secret apartment in Brooklyn with Bucky with their two adopted daughters. And after the whole void fiasco, Bucky goes home, curls up with Steve on the couch as they laugh at their daughters yelling at Dora the Explorer (one is a toddler the other is a teen). They live happily ever after while coaching the new avengers

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

[spoked-wrong]

I love artists who draw Bart with big hair. Like yes of course I want his hair to defy all laws of gravity.

[allshipsareok]

[zykamiliah-temporal]

i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom

as well as the three laws of fandom:

Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship

[sorcererofsolitude]

📣 Purity culture kills fandom! 📣

[atlinmerrick]

NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.

I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and just…motor.

[rewordthis]

This but also:

Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.

[spoked-wrong]

Unfortunately I need to find another Batfam fic

Dont remember the title, author, or tags but I do remember who was in it: Selina, Bruce, and Tim

From what I can remember, Tim is a ghost and his soul is attached to a cat artifact found in a dig site tht gets stolen by Selina. Since her cats can see Tim, they get anxious and stuff and cause a ruckus which causes Selina to give the cat figure to Bruce and admit she stole it and doesn’t want it anymore bcs her cats are getting more anxious. Tim cant really get away from the artifact, so wherever it is he’s there and stuff cus I think Bruce leaves it in the cave or office and Tim just stays there cus he’s basically bound to it. At one point the cat figure gets destroyed cus Bruce threw it but I don’t remember why. I also don’t remember how it ends or how many chapters it has either.

This is really long but I always tend to remember plots of fics but not anything else and it makes me mad. Tumblr is the only way for me to find it again without going through my ao3 history cus if I did tht it would take a while and I’d get distracted and reread other fics

[mrslexluthor]

[brionysea]

usamericans, do you remember in the incredibles when syndrome made the robot go haywire just so he could swoop in and 'save the day'

[spoked-wrong]

Sorry if I like ur post from months ago I’m probably going thru the tags of my fav characters and liking posts bcs they make me feel smth

[spoked-wrong]

I’ve been looking for a Batfam fic for a while and I don’t remember the name or who wrote it. Can someone pls help

All I know is that it starts with Jason getting sick and almost passing out when he’s gonna drive Tim to school and Tim not knowing what to do calls Dick to help him because Bruce and Alfred are gone (don’t remember why) throughout the fic all 3 of them get sick at one point. I think Tim also falls down the stairs bcs he’s gonna wash his sheets cus he threw up.

I think it’s like 6 chapters or so, can’t remember tht well. I’ve tried to remember wt tags it has but every time I try to find it I can’t, so please someone help I really want to read it again