#glctxt

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the bottom line is that i am simply not interested in engaging with interpretations that do not acknowledge the green lantern corps as law enforcement, individual green lanterns as cops, and the employment of power rings (the single most powerful weapon in the universe!!) as militarization of the police. because that's the fucking premise of the comic book ❤️‍🩹 "is law enforcement a necessity?" is an incredibly loaded and pertinent question to pose in a genre where vigilantism is the default and that is precisely what intrigues me irt pre-2005 green lantern

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what compels me re: an antipsych reading of the predator arc is the looming threat of sexual violence & (trans)misogyny & abuse vis-a-vis the spectre of self-imposed victimhood. the the villain is manufactured but the destruction is real; to lash out against the unsaid is to ask for punishment; the hysterical woman had it coming

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karol(ina). 19. lesbian. tme. chinese.

i talk about subjects that are pertinent to my life, or simply catch my interest, in manners you might find distasteful (though i am trying to be more thorough re: tagging). keep an eye out for:

abuse, interpersonal violence, rape, incest; antipsychiatry & dignity of risk; nsfw, kink, gore; comics, the medium. primarily bl & shoujo manga & the occasional american superhero comic; i.e. genre fiction; concepts of "the other"

tumblr was my primary form of peer interaction during adolescence and i would love to interact, though i may soft block at my own discretion. i love you 🤎🤎

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detest this post + its ilk when the lack of metaphor in the predator arc is astounding. we see predator sexually assault carol on-panel in gl1960 #187 like. i wonder what star sapphire’s nonconsensual impregnation could possibly mean… what are we supposed to make of the statement: “carol got herself pregnant”? the insinuation being, of course, that she is complicit in her own rape, that it is a consequence of her unchecked ambition—because what is predator if not a confirmation of carol’s hysteria? carol alone bears its consequence; simultaneously she is ignorant of its occurrence because it happened to a version of herself that is corrupt and alienated.

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one must imagine carol ferris as a trans woman

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tangential to my earlier commentary on carol as the hysterical woman—the false sexgender dichotomy is the zenith of the predator arc, and the threat of sexual violence is presented in an arbitrarily gendered fashion. the predator-manifestation of carol's psyche is simultaneously the hegemonic masculine ideal (a position hal was able to approximately though the green lantern mantle) and the sexual deviancy of the insane woman (see star sapphire). here hal can be interpreted as transfeminized subject #2* or a temporarily embarrassed figure of patriarchal authority. they're not mutually exclusive. superhero genre convention posit the rape femme-fatale villainesses perpetuate as emasculation—shame obfuscates—but what makes the difference?

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so what i’m saying is that the ring is his balls

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