Unbetitelt

Crying about gay vampires

[sacredfaerie]

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Now that we know that Fraction is basing his Joker and Batman on Hannibal and Will.

Do you all think Batman is going to be the Hannibal for Jokers Will or the other way around?

[transvestat]

"they shouldn't have adapted the incest" yeah girl let's just remove lestat getting raped by magnus too. let's remove his brothers beating him up. let's remove akasha kidnapping him. let's remove any instance of lestat being abused since abuse (especially sexual abuse) is soooo "icky" to watch

[rosenkranz-does-things]

patreon sketch of Denise Bryson 🏳️‍⚧️ happy pride!

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Scott Snyders true superpower is making dudebro male comic fans be into the idea of Joker and Batman having a homoerotic relationship.

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Does anyone remember Batman White Knight confirming that Joker is in love and obsessed with Batman in that universe and then the second he gets on medication and is "healed" from his mental illness he gets together with Harley?

We don’t actually talk about how homophobic that was.

Not because Joker couldn’t be Bi. But because getting healed cured him from his same sex attraction.

[franknfurtherr]

Sigh.

It actually makes me resent that comic so much.

To me, it just perpetuates that old, outdated idea that homosexuality is a mental illness. And it especially sucks because the beginning few chapters felt so promising -- absolutely filled with batjokes moments!

Like this one:

and this:

(I really feel bad for harley here 😭)

But alas, t'was but a ploy to get our hopes up.

Actually, this is one of the few times I've seen something queer-bait so explicitly.

It just leaves a sour taste in your mouth, imo. especially combined with the fact that for a lot of joker fans his queerness is one of the main appeals of his character, myself included. So having that representation handed to the reader so plainly, and then almost completely stripped away just as quickly, it just feels like a punch in the gut (or stab in the heart 😭 lol) to us queer joker fans.

anyways, this is why i spend majority of my time reading fanfiction 🥲less disappointments, less confusion, more gay.

Absolutely no hate to any jarley shippers tho ofc :] 🫶

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I'm not sure what it is about The Vampire Lestat, but it's just not for me. That doesn't mean I can't see its quality or why people like it.

I just can't get into it.

[drbatsponge]

We fucking won.

ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN ONE-SHOT!!!11!!

Full art of Absolute Cass:

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Me trying to justify a 24 year old adopting people the same age as him, because I want Absolute batdad.

[anonymousfisch]

[sacredwhores]

Héctor Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

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Héctor Babenco - Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

[titanebaby]

happy pride month here’s some gender 💚🎞️🎱🥩🔌⛓️🩸🌈🪱🧛‍♂️💖🎥

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Rocky Horror is such a funny movie. It really said two republicans shouldn't be allowed to get married without consequences. And the consequences are gay thoughts.

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Batman comics should be more political. Bruce should run for mayor and go against Billionaires at day as Bruce and against them as Batman by night.

It’s crazy how both Superman and Batman are barely allowed to interact with the political reality in their main universe comics.

Some people online see the fact that Bruce is a billionaire who doesn’t kill the joker as a problem and not as a storytelling opportunity. In my opinion the existence of Batman in comics just shows how corrupt the system really is. I mean think about it if a Billionaire has to dress up like a bat to try and help, then what does that say about the system he operates in?

Fo me personally it would be a lot more interesting to read about that than writers taking away his money or killing joker.

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Does anyone remember Batman White Knight confirming that Joker is in love and obsessed with Batman in that universe and then the second he gets on medication and is "healed" from his mental illness he gets together with Harley?

We don’t actually talk about how homophobic that was.

Not because Joker couldn’t be Bi. But because getting healed cured him from his same sex attraction.

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DC is looking to make the Joker feel new, so Batman writer Matt Fraction is looking to Michael Mann's version of Hannibal Lecter

Matt Fraction has described the dynamic between Batman and the Joker as akin to Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter

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Honestly, this is a natural evolution of these two characters. There have been Batman writers in the past who implied that Joker was/is in love with Batman. It has become a very popular interpretation amongst writers ever since the Snyder run. I just think we might be moving into a direction where writers are actually exploring the complexity of this dynamic. And using the Will/Hannibal dynamic as a basis for this new era is not a bad idea. It might give writers the chance to explore more interesting ideas about these two characters and allow Joker to evolve into a new version of himself.