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[mamawasatesttube]

…..do you have any aroace bart thoughts….for the fans (it’s me i’m the fans) (i am always thinking about that one early impulse (1995) issue where bart & carol are both hit with compallo. and kiss eugh but then start laughing and go “friends?” “friends”. augh.)

that issue is definitely a huge component of why bart is soooo aroace to me!! even the later stuff with future bart/carol in a romance in dark tomorrow feel like. hm. still aroace here. i can't explain this coherently because i haven't reread impulse in a while, so it's kinda just like. source: dude trust me. but listen. trust me

in general i think bart just does Not vibe with 20th/21st century queer labels though because he grew up in future VR and to him, the entire social constructs of gender and sexuality are just. different. he has a different concept of what "boy" means than anyone in 1990s alabama, and that whole thing just kinda underscores his whole relationship with queerness as an identity. i see him as aroace and agender but i also don't think he'd ever see himself with those labels - i think the only 20th/21st century label he'd care for is just an umbrella "queer", precisely because it is an umbrella and therefore can encompass the definitions and terms that actually hold meaning to him. (when i write queerplatonic konbart, this is also why they don't really label it even as a qpr! they are just Kon And Bart and that's good enough for them.)

i also enjoy hitting bart with my own personal flavor of aroace beam, i.e. "guy who just doesnt fucking notice romance". ive had like 4 different couples where im friends with both halves get together, after i witnessed months of flirting, and only after they announced they were dating did i go "oHHHHHhhhhHHhhhhh so THATS what was going on... no WONDER i sometimes felt a little third wheely... i thought it was just that i was doing friendship wrong! who knew!!" like i just never fucking notice. at this point its kind of funny. i love to hand this to bart. he has no idea why cissie has been staring daggers at anita's instagram story (shopping with cassie! cassie's holding all the bags for her!) and fuming but he assumes she'll get over it eventually. or maybe not. she's weird like that. like, if she wants to go shopping with them next time she can just say so??? oh well, not his problem.

in general tho i do think bart does not think about himself or his sexuality or gender labels much. hes like. hold on i have to make a fake tweet

[gnomewithalaptop]

hey!!! been thinking about the fites lately and you’re one of The yj98 experts to me so i figured i could ask - what do you think about oshi fite and also don/ishido?

askfjakf I've never been called an expert in anything before this is so sweet

but yeah! oshi fite is sooo interesting to me and it makes me sad that we know so little about her! as far as I know, the only time we ever really get a sense of her personality is in YJ98 #32, when Anita's telling Lil Lobo her backstory -- and we really only get a few small details: namely that she has a complicated relationship with her mother (Anita's grandmere), that she runs off with Don Fite against her mother's wishes, that she's the one who gives Anita the Empress nickname, and most interestingly, in my opinion, that she might not have been entirely honest with Don about her family and their connection to Voudon

This scene in particular is what I'm talking about. Since we've got about two pages to work with, it makes every moment hold that much more weight, and it's fascinating to me that one of the few lines of dialogue she has is a lie. It makes me want to know more -- did Don learn about her connection with Voudon only after he sent Anita to live with her grandmother, or did she come clean earlier than that? If Oshi did keep this arguably huge part of her culture and upbringing a secret, was it because she was trying to distance herself from her mother, or was it because she was worried about Don's reaction, given his flippant remarks about it when they first met? The world may never know

I do wish we'd gotten more of her tbh -- even if it was just in terms of Anita's own trauma regarding her mother's death. Considering Anita says herself that she doesn't really remember Oshi, and yet she still describes in excruciating detail exactly how she died, I think it's reasonable to assume that waking up in a house fire to find her mother's body is probably one of the only memories she has of her

It would've been nice to see that thread persisted a little bit throughout Anita's tenure in YJ, either through a fear of fire or through nightmares or something else, but alas. Maybe they would've brought it back in as a thread if the series hadn't been cancelled though -- who knows

We do get a little bit of a reference in YJ #48 and #49 since her dad dies the same way, but I honestly don't think that it's done intentionally, or if it is, it's very implicit -- Oshi's murder is more referenced as a "that first explosion was supposed to kill your dad, not your mom, sorry about that, kiddo"

In my mind, Anita would definitely have some complicated feelings surrounding fire and her parents, but especially her mother, since that would've been one of her first memories

But yeah! I realize this turned into more of an Anita meta post than an Oshi meta post (sorry about that), but honestly, my read on Oshi is that, unfortunately, like so many fridged moms before her, she is a little bit of a blank slate. I think it'd be really cool if DC decided to flesh her out further in some kind of time travel storyline or alternate universe, kind of like how Tim got to see an alternate version of his mom a little while back, but I'm not sure how likely that is to happen -- tbh I'd settle for Anita getting brought back at all at this point

(and before I forget: don/ishido is canon to me in the same way that troy/abed from community is canon to me <3 that is all I shall say on the subject)

[roydick]

your favorite vic and/or raven ships for the ask game? 🤩🤩

ahhhhh I am SO late to this I AM SOOOOO SORRY link to the ask game in question

truthfully (and this is awful im sorry) I havent read as much vic or raven as i should (i have a personal vendetta against marv wolfman (no im not kidding i truly hate his writing 90% of the time) so i havent read very much of the ntt era stuff)

THAT SAID

for VIC: i do think vic and sarah were VERY cute in the things ive read of them (and titans 99 made me love them even more for how tragic it felt) also dickvic is COMPELLING (i was a dickie girl first so there is a bit of bias) but something about them is very interesting to me

ALSO one of my lovely darling moots has opened my eyes to vicrae

as for RAVEN: same moot has me nodding along emphatically to donnarae, eternal devotion can be something so beautiful. and as i mentioned above vicrae is also so very sweet and i can see it so clearly

[soop-jpg]

can i ask. do you have any context in your head for the absolute magicwondercheetah drawing? it’s SO COOL!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

THANK YOU! my context is diana should have crazy sapphic things happening to her at all times <3 NO breaks NO time off just women who don't realize it's legal now and think their only option is attempted murder to get her attention

(the actual context is i used this promo photo for a production of twelfth night as reference! i have wanted to use it as a reference for YEARS. i was incredibly hyped about absolute barbara's instant attachment to absolute diana and absolute zatanna's immediate flirtation, and it felt like they fit the photo super well! i don't have a story idea beyond just wanting them to have something complicated and intense going on)

[stephexmachina]

wallylinda and, um, any f/f ship you have from yj98 for the ship ask game? 😁😁😁

wallylinda 🫶💕💖🩷💘 they are 100% soulmates & i'm super attached to their dynamic HOWEVER. every time i reblog WL fanart i also have 2 reblog my "just reblogged a post about a ginger man i swear i haven't been bodysnatched" disclaimer so u could say my love for them is forged through great hardship & psychological turmoil...... fortunately my sheer love for linda park + their being a beautiful interracial couple is enough 2 make up for wally's general everything 🙏🙏

[fluorescent-starro]

ooh, i have a question!! why do you dislike dc bombshells? (/gen)

Hi!! I'll be honest, I just don't think it was for me! I wasn't the biggest fan of the writing, and some of the storylines felt rushed or paced oddly, though it did not help that the only version I could find was the digital version. I also just don't like Joker's Daughter at all, in any of her iterations except for her few appearances pre-crisis (sorry Duela).

I did enjoy some parts of it and I liked a lot of the story surrounding the batgirls and Kate, as well as the lesbian polycule thing they had going on lol, I want to to go back and re-read it at some point just to see if I like it better on a second try, or at least pin down more accurate what I didn't like about it. (Also I just want more wonder woman, not just in bombshells but for DC in general but I get why she wasn't in it as much)

[mamawasatesttube]

OH MY GOSH can i ask about the cassie & artemis relationship?

YES!!!!! so in wonder woman '87 diana wasn't the only person helping train cassie as wonder girl - artemis was her primary mentor and teacher for awhile, which was literally the only redeeming quality of eric luke's run (#139-159, with the exception of #153 my beloved). i really really liked their relationship!!!! it was set up during byrne's run from like #122ish onwards too. i care them so much...

also i believe in artemis of bana-mighdall/helena sandsmark yuri. its real. its possible. hear me out

[mamawasatesttube]

ooh top five cassie headcanons? 👀 or anita if you prefer!!

LESBIAN. BUTCH LESBIAN. she has a rough phase of comp het + pressure to be hyperfeminine compounding with her grief for donna and then kon and all of it just snowballing into The Worst Year Of Her Life, but her final form? a beautiful butch lesbian. i will not die on this hill because i will kill on it instead

she does a blacksmithing internship on themyscira with io, who is thrilled to teach her to make cool swords and things. and also is SUCH an inspiration to cassie as she gets back in touch with her butch roots

the first time she brings kon home to meet her mother is also a classic cassie "i'll ask mom's forgiveness rather than permission!" moment. what this means: helena sandsmark gets home from work and things smell like smoke and she's like oh Fuck did someone attack our house again?!?! as she frantically turns her key in the lock and opens the door. false alarm. it's just that two teenagers did a really bad job of making stovetop mac 'n' cheese. her first impression of superboy is him up to the elbows in soap suds bc he's trying so hard to scour the burnt macaroni out of the bottom of the pot (he got too annoying about ttk and then cassie was like i bet you don't even know how to wash dishes without ttk and now it's a challenge). poor helena is jamming her key in the lock like god dammit its always something!!! and then it turns out the something is two (2) idiots squabbling in the kitchen. kon goes deer in the headlights for 0.3 seconds and then Immediately tries to salvage it by putting on his most charming smile (the one that always makes ma kent pinch his cheeks) and going hi good afternoon doctor sandsmark! awesome to meet you properly! you look lovely today! and cassie just Immediately starts smacking him on the shoulder with a soapy sponge like STOP. do NOT try to charm my mother STOP that RIGHT NOW. its a mess. <3

even when she's fully an adult, sometimes artemis still treats her like a naughty kitten and just scruffs her. and she just has to accept that.

she canNOTTTT handle the cold. she insists she can. she is from the san francisco bay area. she is lying. her ass is out there in shorts and a t shirt and a vest and shaking and shivering at 50f while she insists she's fine. this has resulted in Many of kon's and donna's jackets ending up in her closet because they both keep taking pity on her and bundling her up after she goes "it's not THAT cold i'm fine" and then experiences regret.