never you mind

[whywhywhymoney]

There's way too many people reblogging my old posts and all of a sudden I feel massive imposter syndrome like why was I yapping so confidently

[dchuntress]

is it weird to write self indulgent platonic fluff fanfics where it's just me being like i wish a and b were friends and here's why and also include scenes that are gay as hell but it's clear they're both just really close friends and they genuinely enjoy each other platonically and don't feel the need for romance?

[whywhywhymoney]

Hellion is showing up in at least one other (Sinister's Six) based on the cover and basing on the role he has shown to be in could show up in a small capacity in others, so he probably won't die in LKS.

Been months since I got this ask, anon u were wrong, sorry!

[stormofstarlight]

Hellion's characterisation is kinda funny to me because everyone thought he'd turn out to be a supervillain because he was mean to people at school, meanwhile he was actively holding Laura back from committing mass murder

[3ch0locator]

rereading the black mask arc in brubakers run and as much as i love it. geez the last issue cover.

it says so much. like you have this arc designed to rip every part of selina’s status quo apart. to test the allies and and bonds and friendships selina has build up. to put pressure on the concept of “vigilante catwoman. protecter of the east end” and to see if it breaks.

and the final issue? were we see the horrors that happened to selina’s family? watch previously young and innocent seeming characters like holly being pushed to the brink? were selina faces the threat of black mask after everything he did to maggie? the cover is this.

i truly do not have words. its feels like someones sex fantasy. even the position selina is put in thats similar to this in the comic is not this gross.

it reminds me a lot of how steph is also drawn later when she is also tortured by black mask. just so unnecessarily gross in framing. this cover did not need to be this sexy. it, considering the contents and mature themes of the arc should not be. and yet.

it literally cannot escape her, even in one of her best and richest stories and most traumatic storylines selina is still positioned as a sex object. the emphasis is on that & not the horrible things black mask has done, or the overwhelming odds she is about to face. its this unnecessarily tone-deaf sexy cover.

[whywhywhymoney]

naya saal mubarak ho, blue!! i love and cherish you 🩵

omg and for you too sans!! ❤️❤️❤️

[gothamcitycentral]

Cousins!

[clytemnestraaa]

i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.

[clytemnestraaa]

okay actually this is a great phrase for it

[thelibrarybat]

Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.

Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.

However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.

The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.

The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.

To me, there's something very uncanny about it.

[athingofvikings]

I've made this observation before, but there's a distinct and strong correlation between "wanting simplistic, saccharine, and morally binary media" and "authoritarianism". It's not a 1 to 1, which is where a lot of people seem to misunderstand things; it's not "If you like fluff, you're a jackbooted authoritarian." Very much not. This is a pattern that grows up out of thousands--hundreds of thousands--of individual interactions, out of culture, out of a shift of perspectives on what is seen as the norm and what is seen as outrageous.

Individual people liking cutesy fluff? Not a problem. Thousands of people insisting that fluff is the only acceptable option and if you dare make them think and consider, you're the problem?

That's a Problem.

It's the shifting of norms in culture, and fandom is not an isolated bubble--it's a representative of larger trends. And the trend right now in our larger culture, especially in America, is authoritarianism. Authoritarianism that has gone past "creeping" and is now "prancing", "dancing", "galloping", or dare I say goosestepping. Of course that's going to have an impact on the cultural scenes, including fandom!

And there's a correlation in societies that want saccharine fluff and their own authoritarianism. I can point to numerous examples--Victorian England with the censored stories for children. The USSR with an entire kitschy style of stories and art. The USA before the rise of Trump with Thomas Kinkaid's art. And that's just scratching the surface.

The main point in bringing this up is to be aware of the trend, not to take it as a personal attack for enjoying fluffy stories.

[notaplaceofhonour]

And I think the way to keep this from pendulum-swinging into “fluffy stories bad” (because we know this does happen with any observation of problematic trends—see: feminist critiques of objectification turning into puritanical sex-negativity, critiques of appropriation turning into enforcing cultural “purity”, etc) is to shift the focus from the presence of this kind of fiction to the proportional absence of the alternative.

Obviously, the presence is easier to spot—you can actually see something that is present, but you can’t directly see something that’s absent—so it makes sense that this is the first piece of evidence in building this critique, but the critical thing that makes this an issue is the absence of engagement with challenging works, not actually the engagement with unchallenging ones.

Positive emotions and things that make us feel safe and cared for are as important a part of the human experience as for the negative. And safety-seeking can be as much a response to the rise of fascism to get away from it as an indication of people falling into it. We just can’t only have the safe, unchallenging stuff. Because it is that censorship and cutting out of fundamental parts of human experience that feeds into the social conservatism & puritanism of authoritarianism.

[kosmogrl]

on sisters

[dchuntress]

@whywhywhymoney

[veliseraptor]

hate it when you're noodling on a story and all of a sudden you're like. "oh no. I have thought of a way that I can make this stronger and more thematically coherent and impactful. but I don't like it"

[contact-guy]

why isn’t there an animated kids show about the Baker St Irregulars do I have to dO EVERYTHING MYSELF

[whywhywhymoney]

not an animated show but the BBC did make a miniseries about the Baker Street Irregulars for their kids channel in 2007 and it was my first real taste of Sherlock Holmes and I was thoroughly disappointed by all the proceeding adaptations that came directly after it (RDJ films, Moffat Sherlock etc) which didn't capture the same vibe

[duahhail]

most sane group of dc siblings

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[vinnie2757]

Back when I was teaching, we were doing a phonics lesson and we were doing a bit on homophones. (meaning same sound. I was teaching 6/7 year olds) And there was a "game" we did where there were a couple of sentences which used the homophones and they had to tell me which word was being used.

Bear and bare. Their and there etc.

That day's which word was "one" and "won" and the kids were looking at me like. That's not the same. And I'm like. I know. But this is what the government is telling me to teach you. We were used the govt backed little handle scheme, which I loathe anyway for it's hatred of HoH people. But won and one are not homophones. Unless I've been mispronuncing one of them all of my life???

Keeps me up at night

[whywhywhymoney]

I think it's quite literally just RP and a significantly strong Queen's English level of RP where it sounds the same. Otherwise even in my own accent which I assume is what the national curriculum bases it on (which is ridiculous but still) they sound noticeably different

[vinnie2757]

You're probably right. I'm in an area with a Brummy's disowned cousin for an accent so we never stood a chance. I feel for areas with much stronger accents. How are scousers supposed to do it. The training videos only showed RP. Unrealistic in the year of our lord 2023 (which is when I taught this drivel. Bring back jolly phonics)

[whywhywhymoney]

They really do have to de-standardise phonics 😭😭 there are kids growing up being taught by the first gen of teachers who grew up speaking only MLE and they're struggling with -th and tr-, and estuary/cockney in general has always had trouble distinguishing between Ls and Rs (or ewls and awrs)

[vinnie2757]

Back when I was teaching, we were doing a phonics lesson and we were doing a bit on homophones. (meaning same sound. I was teaching 6/7 year olds) And there was a "game" we did where there were a couple of sentences which used the homophones and they had to tell me which word was being used.

Bear and bare. Their and there etc.

That day's which word was "one" and "won" and the kids were looking at me like. That's not the same. And I'm like. I know. But this is what the government is telling me to teach you. We were used the govt backed little handle scheme, which I loathe anyway for it's hatred of HoH people. But won and one are not homophones. Unless I've been mispronuncing one of them all of my life???

Keeps me up at night

[whywhywhymoney]

I think it's quite literally just RP and a significantly strong Queen's English level of RP where it sounds the same. Otherwise even in my own accent which I assume is what the national curriculum bases it on (which is ridiculous but still) they sound noticeably different

[seilnakyle]

do you think that Helena Wayne personality-wise resembles more her mother or father?

I like to think she’s a more spunky version of Bruce. She seems a lot more Bruce-like on the surface, serious, driven, obsessive, but once you get to know her more the Selina part of her really shows, adventurous, silly, daring, curious…That’s how she’s always read to me 🖤

[cashmerecorey]

can someone give me just GOOD comic recs? Like really enjoyable, high quality, interesting stuff. Not “it’s so bad it’s good” or “the pacing was too slow but it could’ve been great” but like top tier (idc if the art looks bad though). Preferably a longer run but doesn’t have to be.

for reference, comics I place in this category are Batgirl 2000, Huntress: Year One, and Absolute Martian Manhunter

Thank you!

[dchuntress]

@bannedcomics @whywhywhymoney @glitter-stained @arkhamverses @snowberriesromanoff @armed-with-a-waffle-iron @clarkcvnt

[baltharino]

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One (2024)