before you ship something stop and ask yourself... Is this otp material? Make sure your characters are:

Obstinate and inflexible in their actions

Terrible for each other in most circumstances

Poor communicators

Namor Week day 5: Friends/Allies

Im passing out😂😂

Got inspired by the solar eclipse a while back but I forgot to post it anywhere. I meant to post this for Superman day but I also forgot to because I was drawing Superman yesterday too

Being born with red hair is just as common as having green eyes and just as common as having Dissociative Identity Disorder and just as common as being intersex.

this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

objectively it's really funny that the percy jackson universe has the greek gods move away from mountains in greece and relocate everything to new york

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

My least favorite fandom trope that writers fall into as well is giving Dick problems that he didn't have as if his triumphs as an adult can only be validated if he had a hard childhood. As if losing his parents right in front of him isn't enough. It's okay for him to have been a generally very happy kid in a very lucky situation who loved being Robin and simply grew up

Dick's relationship with school is so nuanced and I fear people like to shave it down to he hated it and refused to go. And listen they throw out random fake flashbacks about made up moments in Dick's childhood. But golden and silver age Dick's actual school career was just boring. Dick was an honor roll student an expert chemist before anyone had thought of the name Barrence Allen. When they thought he was failing Bruce banned him from patrol and Dick fell asleep studying (Bruce carried him to bed cute!) before it was revealed it was actually that other Richard Grayson who was failing Dick's a genius. Dick somehow managed to be on the track team in high school he had a trophy. When Bruce was sick and Dick and Babs conspired to keep him at home Bruce was like "but who will go to your parent teacher conference?" which is irrelevant to my point I just thought that was really funny.

Everyone cried when Dick went to college. Bruce moved out of the manor and into the city. And sure Dick failed out of college but he was kidnapped out of his dorm room biweekly. And Bruce was really uncool about the whole thing and essentially harassed Dick into going to Gotham College before Dick quit that too and decided full time heroing was for him. School was just There for Dick. He did it and did it well but he had no particularly strong feelings about it. His aversion to college came from Bruce being on his back about it all the time. Like when you're going to do a chore and then someone tells you to so you back out and refuse that was Dick with college.

I miss the pre-New 52 Tim and Jason dynamic so much. It was basically Jason beating the fuck out of Tim well being all "nothing personal kid I just hate everything about you, your existence and the fact you're breathing right now" and Tim spitting up blood going "what if your mother was a whore, kill yourself" and Jason just deciding right then and there that this kid is his favourite person. Then it just turned into a Tom and Jerry hunt across the city where Jason keeps hitting Tim with the "join me, be my robin" and Tim kicks him in the balls.

Tim: good cop

Damian: bad cop

Dick: you better fucking be interrogated by my brothers

how?? just how?

Batman AU where the original pre crisis proposal Dick gave of adopting Jason happens. He's 19, a two time college drop out, leader of the Teen Titans, and was explicitly the reason Jason was an orphan to begin with. Could have been great

Too many writers are obsessed with Jason and Dick being identical when they explicitly rebooted Jason after crisis to be Nothing like Dick after their pre crisis attempt at Jason was an identical copy.

Like the imagery, they created with turning Jason into a delinquent. Someone with no practical skills to be Robin. Someone with anger issues in comparison to Dick Grayson the shining golden star. The boy raised in a golden age with Batman and Superman showing him the ropes. But Jason, now Gotham runs in his veins. The new grit of the post shining golden and silver ages into the bronze age have hit him. He's a diamond in the rough Batman never got to polish.

Jason didn't listen. Jason didn't play by comic book rules. Jason wasn't allowed to be on the Titans to keep him isolated now (they retconned that away but this was an original change). Jason wanted to enact change that explicitly went against Bruce and Dick personal vow to each other to follow the path of the righteous. Under the Red Hood Jason did not come out of nowhere and was not a massive personality change. It was a natural conclusion to that version of Robin who wanted to kill the bad people.

But since the writers want to assign Dick similarities with Jason but are unclear which Jason he's supposed to mimic now we have to go back in time and pretend Dick Grayson had anger issues as a child instead of environment and personal relationships causing a genuine sense of friction between him and Bruce. And this rips away Jason's one defining character trait. Dick was never the angry Robin not until fans saw angry Nightwing and the writers figured he was always the same and a static character. Boring as people find Tom Taylor his current Nightwing is silver age Dick Grayson before the first crisis to a T.

They even have begun discussing this in parts recently. How Dick's childhood was light and bright and things were just less serious <- the golden age was very unserious. But with their everything is canon their retcon of Dick being an angry kid fits so poorly into the puzzle of he's the shining light who showed Bruce the way in the dark.

Overcoming anger issues was never and should never have been Dick Grayson's role. It was always Jason's. But Dick is so much easier for them to write because all they have to do is throw up leader of the Titans, Batman's pride and joy, 80 years of history next to some pretend flashbacks about moments Dick was so angry >:( and then voila it's like character growth happened. But Dick was never At that stage. Dick's been an adult since 1969 so everything is a flashback to a hypothetical childhood they don't actually have to explore outside of whatever point they want to make then. (For example trying to retroactively establish Two Face and Robin feuds to give Tim something to do) And whenever they want they can flash up something from Dick's real childhood that was fun and awesome.

My point then I suppose is editorial likes to make the Robins indistinguishable in lots of ways broad strokes for readers. What's one Robin to another. But that is lazy and boring. The 80s writers may have wanted to kill the idea of Robin but really they inspired the idea of Robins being anyone, instead of Robin needing to be Dick Grayson. To the point the writers don't even think Dick Grayson's Robin needs to be Dick Grayson. So where we're at in 2024 is you say the angry Robin and DC wants you to ask which one. Only Tim remains with a single defining feature of being 'smart' but DC would really rather you think of him as the bisexual Robin instead of any personality traits.

im sorry i literally cannot get this out of my head since last night

Johnny Storm is such a weirdly handled character. Because the writers keep being like oooh every time he gets in a relationship he regresses years of maturity see how immature he is. what a playboy and then you check out the relationships and it's always;

Crystal who left him for Quicksilver and was really dating him as a placeholder for Quicksilver anyways

Frankie Raye who leaves him to be a herald of Galactus

Lyja the skrull wife pretending to be someone else who was sexually assaulting Johnny the entire time and then continued to harass and freak him out to the point he lost control of his powers something he is beyond in control of usually. And ruined the concept of a safe relationship for Johnny

A woman who filmed their sexual encounter without Johnny's consent and then was blackmailing him with it but somehow Johnny is at fault cause he slept with her??

Wolverine's son who may or may not have been using his mutant pheromones to roofie Johnny constantly but was taking advantage of and manipulating him.

Medusa who is Crystal's sister and again a placeholder relationship she's Black Bolt's wife that will always be the status quo return

And Skye who forced Johnny into a made up soulmate bond and tried to accuse him of cheating on her when it was only in her brain that they were even together. And Johnny was particularly rattled because his abuser Lyja had Just made another appearance pretending to be the new girl who is still forcing something on Johnny.

Like it should really be addressed that since he was a teenager people have viewed Johnny as free game. And even in instances where he explicitly tells people to stop they force kisses on him. So I think they should explore that yes Johnny does regress. Yes Johnny is immature in his relationships. Because mature relationships have been bad for him. Intimacy fails for him. A celebrity pretend relationship to put up a front (he has three or four of these) does make sense to someone who has been assaulted so. many times. He can't even trust his family to understand because they have constantly pushed him into the arms of abusers and admonished him for not going along with it. And Johnny canonically does get fed up with his family wanting him to grow up and settle down.

Like it's just the frame work is all here but the writers keep dancing around saying that Johnny's mental state about sexual relationships is incredibly damaged. And I think going for full on age regression 30 year old man acts 16 about his relationships because he's been unsafe in love for next half of life is absolutely implied. But they just say Johnny is immature and won't grow up and is too much of a playboy when that's not the context they put in the comics and it's really confusing sometimes. Because Johnny is incredibly mature in every other area of his life especially now that he has nieces and nephews all grown up. Frustrating to read.