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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
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In terms of 'people haven't read comics' I actually think there's a nuanced position people sort of instinctively understand and don't spell out:-
A lot of people enter comics fandom via an adaption medium (be that movies, video games, tv shows, cartoons)
That means they come in with a level of background understanding of various characters existing and some knowledge of them via osmosis, either from adapted stories or reading fic
General fandom discussion tends to coalesce around a small subset of characters and story runs
Because getting into comics is expensive, people preference what's easily available and/or what's most highly recommended in an attempt to maximise a story they will like
This is where all the panicking about 'where to start' comes in - it's overwhelmingly huge to look at and people are scared of 'getting it wrong'
They then read a run of a comic. Given all of the above for DC it's probably going to be a Bat comic, and there's a good chance it's UTRH, Red Robin 1-12, Batgirl 2000, Robin: Son of Batman, or The Court of Owls. They want the best storyline after all and that's what people tell them are favourites
They have also from being peripheral to the fandom noticed discourse about how certain stories/writers 'don't get' or 'ruin' characters and then avoid reading those stories
Because people are likely to only have read this small subset of stories, the discussion then focuses further on that subset
Echo chamber, the narrative that there's no such thing as a consistent canon in comics causes people to continue to avoid reading further, because they've been told Not To Read certain writers, and what they read doesn't really match how the fandom describes it
Because they're enjoying the fandom, they lean into the fanon and just...never read more comics. Sometimes pride themselves on not doing so
You end up with people who have 'read comics' but they mean about 3 famous runs totalling well under 100 issues, and very little comfort with even DC teams or families outside of the Bats
The current situation compounds because people aren’t comfortable with reading characters written by different writers and how that changes the story, even though that’s a huge part of comics
#as always I'm so fond of your mind#yes!!#dc comics#meta#reblog#god I wish I could have two coherent thoughts in a row#I'm earmarking this post to come back to after a good night's sleep#(so like two weeks from now)#but I'm thinking of Taylor's Nighwing re: creative teams wanting to do new things#(in that there's a lot of fair criticism of Taylor's Nightwing as its own thing#but also a lot of criticism that's just 'This isn't Dixon/Tomasi/Seeley)#and then also the way that the so called “mediocre” runs DO make a more complex character#and fandom historically flourishes best out of the sort of mid parts of a story#because that's where the most fertile ground is#but people only flock to the extremes and then try to keep tilling that soil and it isn't sustainable#idk
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the work printer cries out, "no stop, that's too much! youre gonna make me jam!" as i load a full ream into her tray, but it's too late. "see, you can take it. you're doing such a good job for me." i coo into her feeding tray as i begin printing the morning reports. her warning lights turn red as she moans in i assume ecstacy
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Edit Requests: Helena Bertinelli as the Huntress for anon.
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jumping on this little trend of drawing tim wearing bernard's t-shirt because of this post
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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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#I guess I'm down to 2 current runs?#BoP and Nightwing#living like it's 1999#I keep meaning to start Tec#but then keep not starting Tec#which I know is a mistake#reblog#polls
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just to clear up some confusion im seeing, if you see panels from "Batman (1940)" it does not mean they were all published during the year 1940 😭 that is the year the run started! this is because there are two main Batman runs, one from 1940-2011 (#1-#731/#1000000) and then another one from 2016-ongoing (currently at #148). this is because there will be an overlap of issue numbers, and since both runs have the same name, to avoid confusion one run is "Batman (1940)" and the other is "Batman (2016)".
the same can be said for the two Detective Comics runs, "Detective Comics (1937)" (#1-961/#1000000) from 1937-2011 and "Detective Comics (2016)" (#934-ongoing), currently at #1084 from 2016-ongoing.
so instead of saying Batman #57, to make it clear from which run, it's easier to say Batman (2016) #57 !
#yep yep yep#sometimes we also may refer to each run as a “Volume”#Batman Vol 1 is Batman (1940)#but that can get confusing if you're also talking about collected editions#Because if there are multiple collections of the same comic run#they may refer to each book as a “volume”#The New Teen Titans (1980) is NTT (Vol 1) and was collected into books labeled Volume 1-14.#And Collected Volumes 1-14 collect all of NTT (1980)/(Vol 1)#talking about the year a run started is just less confusing#reblog#dc comics
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Slowed Down Read Along - Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #3
Welcome back! Thank you to @delicatebatharmony for nudging me back on track, sorry for getting off a week! We're discussing here today issue #3-- be here May 10th for #4! As always, these are just suggestions and prompts to get your thoughts moving, but feel free to discuss more as you desire!
So far, what genre would you say this story is? Would you consider this issue to be horror? If so, why? If not, why?
Ruythe details everything they see from the roof of the Maypole Bed and Breakfast. Why do you think this was included?
"And my name is Supergirl," she asserts to the Mayor of Maypole. What thoughts do you have about this moment?
"It's too big," Ruythe says. "We're too small." What do you think she means by this?
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My guess for the casting requirements for Dead Boy Detectives:
Must look preternaturally haunted by the regrets of infinite lives not lived
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My actual halbarry opinion is that half the people who ship it {or like, 70% of the who ship it) actually ship KyleWally. Because that is how they are written. Barry is Kyle and Hal is Wally. The dynamics are. Like. They are Kyle and Wally.
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i have the opposite of that “everyone is an npc” mentality people have embraced where i’m instead like. the person next to me in line has someone they can’t wait to go home to, the person picking up their mail has felt devastation before, everyone in this grocery store is doing their sunday shopping, maybe the person that just honked at me is having the worst day of their life, my neighbor has doctors appointments and favorite foods and a song they can’t stand to hear anymore… you are all fully realized complex people and that is overwhelming me on a spiritual level…
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I AM NOT IMMUNE TO THE SOUND OF HER WINGS
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I feel like making waves!
(Some of these are like my Anti-Takes, so oh god please do not come raze my home to the ground and salt the earth!)
#I won't tell you what I voted#but I will say that early Gotham Knights is so good actually#and that I enjoyed the Arsenal mini#and Technis Imperative was decent#so...#polls#reblog
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some batkids + author self-insertion
dick
gets a hot red head alien girlfriend based in part on perez's first wife (wolfman and perez)
"one bad apple spoils the bunch" view on cops (dixon)
sees a couple of girls and assumed the redhead is the one with the irish accent, surprised when it's the asian girl (dixon, based on a real story where he heard an irish accent on tv and was surprised when it was an asian girl)
implications of bisexuality that align explicitly with the writer's very own personal experience of bisexuality (greyson)
unable to not flirt with anything that moves (greyson)
let's just go ahead and put greyson's entire run here.
jason
entirety of red hood and the outlaws (lobdell, enough said)
tim
anti-drug (dixon)
can be condescending to his friends and girls (dixon)
honestly i don't think the good moral boy who would never have premarital sex thing is actually self-insertion, that's more dixon wish fulfillment of his ideal 14 year old boy. rules for the characters and not for him!
the weird military circlejerking (willingham)
obsession with bernard (fitzmartin)
steph
pro-life (dixon)
anti-welfare (dixon)
hates bill clinton + the court system (dixon)
personal vengeance over restorative justice framed as the right thing (dixon)
bootstraps mentality (dixon)
damian
child who never met his father because father was too busy saving other people (morrison, morrison has explicitly said that their parents marriage didn't work out due to their father's inability to prioritize his marriage and family over helping other people + the affair)
child who was saved by their father from a life of darkness (morrison explicitly has credited their father with saving their life at their lowest by giving them a typewriter)
child who suffers and pays the price from divorce conflict due to parents being so caught up in their own conflict they refuse to listen to the child's wants and needs (morrison, as racist as the conflict between bruce and talia is damian's entire story is intrisically wrapped up in morrison's working through their own personal feelings of their parents' divorce)
becomes a vegetarian (morrison)
#For a split second I thought you were talking about how you insert YOURSELF into these#as author of this post#and my eyes just kept getting wider#but no#i see now#good analysis!#this does make good context for why some characters are#(or were at one point)#a certain way#dc comics#reblog#meta
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War Games is not good but this scene lives in my head permanently
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