hi! I came across one of your older posts on my dash and realized it's been a couple months since you were active on here -- I hope everything's okay! your art always makes me smile whenever I see it, so if nothing else, I hope your break from social media has been restful so far, and that you're doing well in the land of touched grass!
hi!! thanks so much for the kind message <3
life and work and a healthy dose of art block have been happening for a minute, but now i'm getting back to the art thing(!), which will be posted as soon as i can figure out how colours work again lmao
hi! your taste is so peak and I always am really happy to see your reblogs + tag commentary on my dash -- do you have any thoughts about cissie and the other yj girls post-yj? either how they were handled in-canon, or the direction you would've liked to see them go?
THANK YOU!! I have SEVERAL thoughts actually >:D thank you for the opportunity to yell about them!
I really like the idea of Cissie becoming an EMT after yj breaks up. I think she would want to continue to help people and I think her (brief) time as a field medic would've been really foundational in her realizing she can make an impact without being a vigilante still. In her early adulthood, Cissie changes up her look constantly. Nearly every time you see her she has a different haircut or hair color. I think she does a lot of things that are pretty pointedly exactly the opposite of something her mom used to say or do, both as a way of testing if her mom really has changed or just to try to figure out who she wants to be. It is also VERYYY important to me that adult-Cissie gains weight on purpose. She sometimes does very public work again—she might go back to the Olympics another year just to see if she can, and she might take some sporadic acting roles—but I think as she reaches her mid-20s she decides she doesn't like the spotlight anymore, even though now she's getting it for herself rather than for things her mother made her do.
Other girls under the cut:
Cissie, Anita, Greta, and Traya all stay in pretty close contact into their adulthood, and Cassie just sorta naturally drifts away from them a bit. I think it's probable that Cassie and Anita are still connected a good bit, since they are both involved in hero work still (I do not think Anita would ever truly want to give up being Empress), but I feel like Cassie struggles with the transition between teammate to friendship and it only gets worse as she gets older (I have A LOT of thoughts on Cassie having issues that I go into later on). The other girls get together semi-regularly and as they all move away from each other they have an active group chat.
I have a few career options in mind for Anita and I like them all pretty equally; I could definitely see her being an EMT along with Cissie and doing hero work on the side whenever she can (also in this version I think her and Cissie are roommates at some point), but I feel like that job wouldn't give her as much time to be Empress as she would want. Another option I like for her is physical therapist; she would still get to help people, but I would imagine it would give her much more consistent hours and much more time to be a vigilante. I could also DEFINITELY see her being briefly recruited to work for APES under Maad's guidance, but I don't think she would want to be in such a structured setting for her whole life so I don't think it would last. Also, backtracking a bit, I think there is NO chance that she would drop out of high school to take care of her parents, so if they end up having to grow up the long way then Maad definitely takes the lead so Anita can still live her life. I also think that Bonnie decides she is going to be a supportive figure as well, so she and Cissie move to be closer to the Fites. Other option is Anita goes to the same school as Cissie now and lives on campus so she can stay focused on her education and Bonnie and Maad tag-team caring for Don and Oshi, and they live close enough for Anita to visit frequently.
I think Greta would really crave consistency and a grounding existence in her adulthood, so I think she should work in a bakery while she figures out what she wants to do with the rest of her life. I feel like she would get really invested in activism regarding people being experimented on by the government. She would probably struggle with making that her entire life, though, and I don't think she wants the pressure of being expected to save people, so she tries to fill most of her life with as much normalcy as possible. Also I think she has a punching bag she uses FREQUENTLY.
I unfortunately do not have very many thoughts about Traya, but I think it would be really fun for her to go into something related to the law—especially after everything that happened with her dad not being recognized as a person and thus not being allowed to have custody of her. I could for sure see her either being a lawyer or getting involved in social work to some degree.
I have SO MANY thoughts about Cassie (hence why she is last), but I will TRY to be brief (also I strongly suspect she's become more of an OC in my brain, and therefore if this is ooc then it's simply because I have thought about her too much </3). A lot of it is the repressed lesbian narrative that tends to be pretty popular in the butch Cassie-truther circles, and thus it needs very little elaboration, but I ALSO think she should never have a healthy romantic relationship until she is at LEAST 35. She should struggle with balancing normal life and hero work forever and it ruins her life over and over, but she can't stop the cycle because she can't risk letting someone die or be hurt when she could've stopped it if only she wasn't busy being Healthy and Communicative and Normal (that's a lie, it's just her excuse because she is scared to let anything be as significant in her life as being a hero is). I don't think she ever has a consistent job and she mostly couch surfs. There are periods in her life where she struggles to talk to non-heros at all because she's too caught up in whatever it is she's doing and she doesn't always remember how to relate to people who aren't doing similar work. She definitely wants to stay in touch with the yj girls, but she probably only remembers to reach out a few times a year. Also I think her hair turns brown as she gets older and she bleaches it whenever she remembers, but she forgets a lot so she usually has like an inch of roots showing at any given time.
Have you read two hummingbirds in the eye of a hurricane?
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Voting ended onApr 24
Authour: @gnomewithalaptop
Subfandom: Flash Family
Media: Comics (specifically Post-Crisis)
Relationships: Gen (Helen Claiborne & Thaddeus Thawne)
Year: 2025
Rating: Gen
Warnings: None
Summary:
Helen raises an eyebrow. “Just for future reference,” she says wryly, “I will always prefer you knocking on the door to you hiding under my porch like some kind of two-bit supervillain. Got it?”
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Midway through the end of the world, Helen Claiborne finds a speedster hiding under her porch. It's not the one she's expecting.
Submitted by starshine
Submitter's comment:
ohhhh i. this hits so hard and the bart of it all and the impulse (1995) of it all and the helen characterization!! thad’s behavior!!! the softness and laughter and sadness and hope of it all and the way they have each other and they can learn to know each other and. ohhhhhh just trust me when i say you should read this. you will be slammed with fifty truckloads of impulse feelings (/pos)
I love love LOVE your art style -- it's so chunky and fun and lowkey reminiscent of woodcuts almost? Plus the amount of thought you put into your Anita costume redesign was just 🙌 so cool to read -- it really makes me wanna ask though: do you have any thoughts on Cassie's design (either current or previous)?
tysm :D <33 my anita costume is genuinely one of my favorites i’ve ever done so i’m glad to hear it :]
as for cassie’s designs, i’m not the biggest fan of her current one. under the cut bc i got kinda rambly
it reads very bland to me i guess, especially compared to the other amazons. the gwen-stacy-esque haircut is not doing it for me (and honestly worked better with her late yj98 & yj19 costumes, even if i still didn’t necessarily enjoy it in those either). i believe i saw someone say that she just looks too childish? which rings true for all of the core four rn to be honest. i’m also sad they scrapped her most recognizable color palette (red, gold, black, and white) that matches her friends :( like the blue added in Could work (and has before) but it falls flat imo.
her yj98 costume works a bit better as far as not being bland, but the skirt is just kinda there. this is more of a personal grievance but i really hate when costumes just have skirts just to have them when the character wouldn’t do that? did the person who designed this even read ww87 #153 smh. same with the color palette but honestly i think the jacket works better here, and i’d like to see this flipped into a aviator jacket rather than the jean as a nice middle ground between this and her leather jacket.
tt03 is it’s own can of worms & where the barbie-fication of her design is made the most egregious. these are pretty ok to me though! i think the way she’s presented is more of the issue + the long hair.
this one is 0/10. so many notes. i swear it gets worse every time i see it. only comparable one is the awful skintight n52 suit but at least that one has potential to be made into something cool.
these are definitely my favorite cassie costumes :) i lean more toward the one on the left but i love the shirt on the right. i tend to pull the most inspiration from these two when i draw her.
lastly, i’m a sucker for baby cassie. look at her stupid wig. look at her shorts and her skater gear. u wanna love her.
my adult cassie design from a while back combines her older yj outfits with some armor from other amazons + artemis specifically if only bc i’m sad that their relationship got deleted out of existence. i pulled in a teal as a nod to her blue jeans + to compliment the deep reds and blacks :^) i just really want her in armor… she’s grown up! she can have more details in her costume!
I need you to know that your "fuck that old man" tag had me in HYSTERICS
hahahahahahah yeah i fucking hate alfred. i like him in robin93 and pre-2000s bat comics, but at this point it is emotionally important to me that he is dead in the ground
