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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 7 hours

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the kid and her mentor Green Arrow vol 3 #22

#mia dearden #oliver queen #arrowfam #dc #comics #comic panels

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cassie's big gay crush on cissie is the absolute opposite of "get out of my school" energy. arrowette announces her retirement and cassie's immediately like "no you can't leave my school the team. stay with me. come back. come back and play interplanetary death baseball with us. come back. are you suuuuure you're retired? come back."

#cissie king jones #cassie sandsmark #cissiecassie #dc #comics #funny #young justice 1998

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 7 hours

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a lot of ppl hate that guy and bea dated after tora’s death but i think it’s a prime example of the two ppl who were closest to a recently deceased person trying to find pieces of them in someone who feels the same intensity of grief that they do. they don’t love each other they don’t even like each other but they can help each other cope in a fucked up sort of way.

#dc #comics #guy gardner #tora olafsdotter #bea da costa #previous tags >#this happens a lot irl too #that’s why you see widows/widowers marrying their dead spouse’s best friend

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we deserve to see them again all together. they’re literally pivotal…. love them too much

#dc #fanart #core four #kon el #bart allen #cassie sandsmark #tim drake #team: young justice

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 8 hours

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#raven #dc #fanart

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 9 hours

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a story in 2 parts

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 9 hours

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I feel that the 2003 Teen Titans cartoon has a weird chokehold over a lot of the DC fandom, particularly the parts that don't actually READ or even like COMICS, to the point where this show, whose creators openly admit had to be simple enough for a toddler to follow, largely informs a lot of fans' interpretations of some pretty complex characters, themes and continuity. The show, specifically, can tend to become nostalgia bait, and I think it's due time for a lot of this fandom to take off their rose-tinted glasses and let the show go.

Like I enjoyed the show growing up and I still have a soft spot for episodes like Lightspeed and Hide & Seek, but...frankly it's a simple show tailored to young kids that just does not, and was never meant to, do justice to the Titans' comic canon. This show could never have done Who is Donna Troy? and conveyed the unlabelableness of Donna and Dick's relationship, but it was never supposed to. Characterisations are intentionally dumbed down, themes are broken down into bite-sized morals, half of the show is dedicated to comedy, and character development is purposely few and far between because this show was designed for kids aged 2-11. And all that is fine but it's just not at all a reflection of what the Titans really are in print. It should not really inform any serious reading of the DC comic universe.

On the one hand, I really didn't need to see a Red X comic arc or Starfire talking in broken english in a comic, it's all just cheap nostalgia bait that people need to stop falling for. It's sacrificing theme in favour of cheap references. On the other hand, I do think the fans I'm talking about probably owe it to themselves to a) be a little more honest and critical about their engagement with DC media, and b) challenge themselves more when engaging in media to avoid wallowing in flanderized fluff.

#ive hated that show since i was a kid and i hate it even more seeing it impact the comics and comics fandom #dc

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 9 hours

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

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also i do think that the pervasive idea where "canon doesn't bother to respect itself, why should i respect canon" wrt comics is like. hm. the idea that the many different iterations of characters due to a variety of writers seeing them a variety different ways isn't a bonus actually....the variety means there are many different ways and opportunities for a character to vibe with you in a certain story or under a writer. rather than decry it all as useless because it's so inconsistent therefore you can do whatever you want because the characters don't matter, there is probably *more* opportunity than most within comics as a medium to find a characterization thay works for you. but in order to do so, you do have to interact with the canon to find it. because there's a difference between personal interpretation of characterization and just making stuff up.

#dc #comics #previous tags >#again how can you transform if you don't know how and why you're transforming

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 9 hours

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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

#dc #comics #my advice for starting comics is read a characters 'year one' as they make good intros #batman year one #was the second comic I read when getting into dc #right after aditf #really helped me

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is-this-fandom-who-knows · 10 hours

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Ra's, to Talia : I'm allowed to criticize you. I made you. You're my mistake.

#dc #incorrect dc quotes #talia al ghul #ra's al ghul #source: unknown

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Ted: Dinah, you're never going to get a husband by being sarcastic.

Teen!Dinah: Alright, no husband.

#dc #incorrect dc quotes #ted grant #dinah laurel lance #source: unknown