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JINX! // teen titans’ jinx icons — made by me || like or reblog if you save &/or use ♡

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*R1 starts boop R2's nose thrice.* *boop boop boop* R2: Ow-ow-ow, watch it, Robin. R1: Nothing, just poking around. R2: Seriously? R1: Nope XD *contines booping R2's nose, much to his annoyance*

I’m bored so, I animated this.

Body Switching: Kuroo, Hinata

Hey everyone new header for all Haikyuu sickers! Here I am with second chapter about our favourite characthers, let me know if you want specific characthers next time!

Plot: Based on the movie “ It’s a Boy Girl Thing “, our chara and his girlfriend change bodies for a day.

Characther: Tetsuro Kuroo, Shoyo Hinata

Warnings: Sex, 18+

Body Switching: Sugawara, Kenma

Like other weekends you wake up feeling your boyfriend huggin you. Your bare body huggin his one, or this is what you thought. Feeling boobs on your chest you shout "WTF!", waking Kuroo, who finds his body in front of "him". The first thing he feels to do is touching your boobs, accidentaly leaving a moan for the stimulation. "Tetsu you pervert!" stopping and looking at "you" he says "Well babygirl, if this isn't what we call lucky!" he says towering you and putting your boobs in front of you. "Cmon babygirl, let's have fun" he says smirking to you and grinding your pussy on his long cock, enjoying this new sensation you put his builted body on use and start to suck on the nipples. Even being inside your body Kuroo doesn't feel ashamed at hall and starts grinding "yourself" on his cock. Laying Kuroo or you on the bed you watch your body with glimmering eyes "This is what I see, everynight love" and spreading your legs, you insinuates his body above him and start fingering and licking. "Ohh, ohhh babygirl you're so dirty. Cmon give me more, make me cum with another finger", following his instructions you add another big finger and start to move senselessly feeling the tight walls, clamping around "your" hand  and liquid going on your tongue "AH AH! Cmon babygirl, I'm cumming, CUMMING!" he shouts without shame he screams in pleasure and you find yourself panting. On "your" face a blush makes you even more excited, the cock twitches uncontrollably and a pool of precum is on the sheet. Confused you watch "Kuroo" smirking and he starts to jerk his cock "Do you like this babygirl? Is this what you want or you want to fuck me?" Feeling unraveled, you stutter "T-Tetsu, I like this but I want to fuck you!", continuing his ministrations he spread the legs even more and show you your leaked pussy "Is this what you want? Do you want to break this pussy?" he says watching the lust in "your" eyes, "Yes Tetsu! I want to fuck you", without shame you shove the cock inside "him" and you feel an intense pleasure right away "F-fuck Tetsu! So tight!" you saying moving the hips messily and wildly. Kuroo feels groans on the hear and he can't help but push and guide you with the movement "Calm babygirl, calm. That's it move like this or else you will cum in second. That's it follow me" moving your bodies in synchron, you find a rhytm and Kuroo can't help but moan in pleasure "Ahhh babygirl more! Fuck me more, I want to cum again", shoving the big cock inside with a steady pace, Kuroo can't help but moan even more loudly and touch the clit to cum. The coil on the stomach starts form and Kuroo says "Cumming, AH, babygirl" you hear a fantastic moan, lips parted from the both of you pants cumming together you shoot the inside the pussy and you fall on "him". After a while Kuroo turns to you and says "Did you like it babygirl?" smirking you kiss him and say "Absolutely yes! Wanna go for another round?".

The little ray of sunshine hears the alarm and getting up he crash into the nightsand "Strange, I didn't remember the nightstand so near"  he says after having let out a scream of pain, suddenly he finds himself in front of a mirror and see a feminine figure and a Teen Titans pajama "Eh?" he says and then pass out on the floor. Poor baby waking up the only thing he can do is taking your phone and dials a number "Ka-k-KAGEYAMA!" on the other part of the phone a rather angry blueberry boy shouts "SHUT UP BOKE! Why are you calling me so from Y/N's phone so early?" Hinata explains that you switched body and says that you're going to wake up very late and he doesn't know what to do "So what, Hinata boke? Come and let's train together!" Hinata shrugs your shoulder and getting ready, he sorts out feeling completely natural with your body. You wake up 4 hours later and see a message "Y/N we switched body. I'm playing volleyball with Kageyama and then I'll come to you-me-you" a laugh escapes your mouth, even with a experience like this, the only thing on his mind is playing volleyball.

Weirdly enough Red Robin is the series I’d be most scared to review, because for obvious reasons I imagine more than any other character it’s the Tim fan base (I won’t say fandom, because I feel like that gives a different connotation nowadays. and it’s a bunch of chill, un-interactive but very passionate, chaps) that follow me.

And I’d just get sooo many people giving me nit-picks, and telling me stuff I already know.

Cause I can say anything against Teen Titans 2003, New 52, Rebirth, and Wonder Comics stuff cause that’s the generally agreed upon stuff that you can complain against for Tim. Cause like, to not play dumb to it, this whole Bat-Family fandom acts like there’s freaking laws to abide by if you don’t want a bunch of batty (not a pun, not even saying not a pun in sarcasm lol) fans and stans down your neck. Normally involving certain characterizations or comics that, honestly, aren’t even usually the more accurate ones, but the contradicting ones that don’t make a lick of sense, and that’s not even talking about the straight up fanon ones.

Not to say I wouldn’t get why it’s the Red Robin series that’d get people to give me crap out of all the Tim stuff, because I do. It’s a lot of peoples entry to Tim, and it’s pretty heavy implications of suicidal ideation, and more so obvious mental breakdown journey across continents means a lot to people. I can get why, and if it wasn’t those characters in it, I’d think it was great too.

Also I know for a fact people would act like I’m just bias for 90s Tim, and point out Timmy’s in a teddy bear hoodie in my header. Cause it’s the most weakest defense someone could possibly make cause they’re lacking an actual point. Like they know everything a fucking ‘bout me, when they don’t, I’m just allowed to think my own stuff, and I’m allowed my dang comfort art, so blah blah blah. I’ve proved myself enough. I don’t need some random dismissive guys random approval or not, but man can it be annoying when someone thinks they’re smart about it.

Like basically put, it would be very exhausting to go through the many different series and years of comic book content to explain why I think the way I do, when all the other person has to say is “I like this series a lot, and it means a lot to me, it’s story about depression, and plus it’s Tim being at the button of his sanity so-- And I think this person is stuck on 90s Tim” cause like I freaking get it, and acting like cause I prefer a different Tim comic means my opinion isn’t valid, is the most childish thing ya can really do. Like I love 90s Tim the most for a reason, and I started reading Tim as Red Robin first, ya ninny.

But to just be honest, it is an incredibly flawed series that has overall, in the long game, soiled the character of Tim Drake, and directly influenced the New 52 and beyond depiction of him. Not to give Lobdell an excuse, I just find it really odd that people getting praising it as the peak of Tim content when it’s even caused some really freaking toxic fandom beliefs.

When some of the most important scenes in the series are so botched that it has genuinely made people despise other characters when I don’t even think they were portrayed well for that to make sense. The messy inconsistent writing as it went between two different writers causing some absolutely terrible characterization for Tim that isn’t even always consistent within the series itself because FabNic is just awful, and how forgettable most stuff after the first story is.

That first story I can understand the love for it. But people treating the whole series as a whole like it’s a great journey of long-term story development just feels like a real bad describer for it. Because to me by the end of it’s run it caused Tim to be put in the terrible spot that he’s only now escaping from little under a decade later. As well as only really starting cause people in the company didn’t like Tim and the characters around them as much as you’d hope.

In total, I honestly feel like if it wasn’t released during a time were the common tastes were very edgy and emo-esque, as well as around the time the online fandom spaces were only really then being formed in a way that was practical for casual interaction and discussion, and being the only series titled “Red Robin” therefore people seem to think it’s Tim’s variation of “Nightwing”, when it’s honestly not, it wouldn’t be a series that highly regarded.

I’m not saying the whole thing is a pile of shit, cause it’s also frankly not. There’s some powerful stuff in there, and some moments that really do hit super hard in ways that don’t feel superficial. Cause another thing people don’t seem to understand that when I say his characterization isn’t good in it, does not equal me saying “He is not the same exact character he was 15 years before the series came out”, it legitimately just means I feel they took the character to places that felt more forced than genuine, or just had him stuff that goes against what he’d do for the sake of just being edgy as if it’s deep, even during his circumstances and it created people having a false understanding of who Tim is at his heart, that made it incredibly difficult for Tim to get a good story for basically a freaking decade.

It’s a series I want to review because I have genuine things to say about it, but when ever I do say anything about it I feel like I see several sub-posts that are almost undeniably about me (hasn’t happened for a while cause I don’t really bother talking about stuff I don’t like anymore, cause life's hard enough, and I’ve seen the worst end of a lot of people from it) trying to downplay me, because they got defensive about it, rather than actually trying to process what I meant by things instead of just assuming it cause it’s touchy for them.

Like I’ve openly shit on Damian’s most popular series’, and accepted fandom malarkey, because I legitimately think they’re overhyped as could be, not that great, and only have the popularity they do through bandwagoning and going along with things. And I did that while knowing how defensive the Damian fandom is, and how quick they are to just leak out nasty assumptions or outright suicide bait you (yes I remember someone tried to defend me by suicide baiting someone else, but fuck them too, I never defended them or asked them to. idgaf which fandom does it. i’m clearly not on anyone's team. this isn’t a fucking sports game).

I’ve even straight up shit on pretty much every single Jason story except Under the Red Hood, while defending some Robin Jason stories, and I haven’t even got crap on me for that, which is honestly strange. Surprisingly just got told “Ya know what. Fair point. I can accept that. I don’t agree, but I can accept it.”. Which given what I have been shown of the Jason fandom I expected much worse, but they’ve honestly been really chill with me. Me and the Jason fandom has been actually some of the most pleasant interactions I’ve had outside my own bubble.

The majority of Steph’s existence as a character I’ve criticized and gotten crap on it, but honestly I found the response of countless anons going “YEAH MAN I AGREE WITH YOU” and going way harder on her than I ever did to be pretty dang annoying, and even more annoying cause people kept thinking I said stuff I freaking didn’t out of it. So every now and again people will just straight up lie about me to my face. Like you try to talk to someone that’s been preparing to talk to you by fighting an imaginary version of yourself. It’s pretty difficult if I had to be honest. Talking ‘bout bias’s like I didn’t write TimSteph fan fictions before I realized they weren’t that great and didn’t work, while realizing that I honestly didn’t think Tim was into girls in-general.

But, to get back on topic, with the Tim fandom it’s less like, open faced attempts to make you feel like a garbage human being, and more just straight up rudely dismissive as quite often the ones I’ve seen do it try to portray themselves as some calm knowledgeable unbias source of Tim knowledge.

And there’s a different sensation of annoyance at that.

Like what is the point of trying to pretend to be some source of knowledge and for a few comradery, while also being a dismissive person that first has to make others seem lesser.

And there’s some that I’ve seen do it that I don’t even think are dicks honestly, and have no problem with it, cause it’s just so innocently “I just really like the series and still think it’s good”. That I’d be confused why people would think I have a vendetta against everyone else. I’ve never been like, straight up offended more than once over the specific topic of Red Robin. But it is a thing that makes me like “I’ll get so many people giving me crap over having a different opinion for this won’t I”. And get some people trying to validate just being a bit of a fucker to me for no good reason.

So like, may or may not write a Red Robin review, but I might not cause despite quite a few people in the Tim fandom being quite chill about it, there’s quite a lot of people that are low-key toxic about it, and a lot of bad fandom things came out of it as well.

hi guys! this may be slightly unconventional but artists do donation commissions a lot and i figured why not toss my own writing into the ring to hopefully inspire some people to donate! quick rule: the donations have to go to a relevant black lives matter charity, freedom/bailout fund, etc., or some equivalent in your country if you’re not from the states. any prompts i get from this will be immediately shot to the top of my queue, and i should be able to get them out relatively quickly, barring any major issues.

if you can’t donate, please at least consider sharing and reblogging resources that will directly help freedom funds, spread accurate information, and keep protesters safe (reblogging this post would be much appreciated, but the others are more important).

(other fandoms - merlin, supernatural and check please, as well as some other DC properties (flash, titans, a few others) - i am also willing to write for, but it heavily depends on the ship/prompt)

compilation of donation/petition links (petitions don’t really help but they don’t hurt either)

black lives matter information/research/resources

link to my ao3 to see examples of my work

questions can go here (please feel free to ask questions or have me clarify.)

submissions can go here

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the first image has two columns, with the first section reading ‘will write’ in a yellow box, with ‘Rusty Quill Gaming (+specials), The Magnus Archives, and DC Comics (Batman, Teen Titans, Superman, & Young Justice comics)’ listed as options. the second section reads ‘won’t write’ in a yellow box, with ‘NSFW, Anything including rape/noncon, incest, underage porn, or abusive relationships (or the like), Specific romantic ships I won't write for: RQG: anything with a historical NPC, Zolf/Grizzop, Hamid/Azu, TMA: anything with Elias or Peter, Jon/Daisy’ listed. There is an asterisk after the last bullet point that leads to a disclaimer, saying ‘*DISCLAIMER: I am willing to write platonic relationships for most of these, but if you request something I am not comfortable writing, I reserve the right to ask you to change your prompt.’

the second image also has two columns, with the first section header saying ‘donation rates’ in a yellow box, with ‘$5: 800-1000 words, $10: 1000-1500 words, $15: 1500 - 2000 words, $20+: 2000+ words’ listed as options. This section has a double asterisk attached to it, which leads to a statement saying ‘ **I put the cost in USD, but however much you donate in your own currency applies to this as long as it's roughly equivalent! Also, the word count is a rough ballpark - they may go slightly over, but never under‘. The second column has a header that says ‘how it works’, followed by a paragraph stating ‘Send me a DM/submission on Tumblr (@ohallows) or a DM on Twitter (@ohallows13) with a screenshot of your donation and your prompt request (as much detail as you would like). and once I am completed, I will send you a google doc link with the fic. I am aiming to have all of these done ASAP.‘]

Who's your fave member of each of the (primary? most-promoted?) DC Fams: The Super-Fam, the Wonder-Fam, the Bat-Fam, the Flash-Fam, the Lantern-Fam, the Aqua-Fam, and the Arrow/Canary-Fam? Oh, and the Shazam-Fam, if you want? I saw in your header thingy that you wanted peeps to talk to you about comics, so here I am!

Super-Fam: Kara Zor-El/Supergirl. Supergirl was one of the first comics I ever read, basically Supergirl made me gay.

Wonder-Fam: Donna Troy/Troia. I love her personality and her aesthetic, hate her taste in men.

Bat-Fam: Dick Grayson/Nightwing. I’m an elder sibling, I’m gay, and I’m a Titans stan, it’s just basic maths.

Flash-Fam: I’m so sorry to continue the Teen Titans trend LMAO but I love Wally West. I projected so hard on him when I was younger and if you can weed through the shit writing, he has a lot of good moments and growth.

Lantern-Fam: Aya from the animated series. I could list off one of the comics ones but tbh I haven’t kept up with GL since Brightest Day and Aya is an icon. Once I read more Far Sector it’ll probably change to Jo.

Aqua-Fam: Kaldur’ahm, hands down. He is BI. He is BEAUTIFUL. And he deserves a NAP. 

Arrow/Canary-Fam: Tempted to go with Mia, because I do adore her, but let’s be honest, it’s Dinah Laurel Lance. She is perfection.

Shazam-Fam: I don’t know that much about the Shazam-Fam, but I know I love my pure-hearted son, Billy Batson. He has the courage of Billy Batson.

Thanks for the ask! I’m sure this is more information than you were looking for, but I had fun.

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Lead From Behind

Wrote something finally. For a fandom I know a very limited amount, but hey ho! Consider this vaguely Geoff Johns era Teen Titans.

“Gah!” Tim jumped in his seat. Years later and Batman still had him almost losing his bowels every time he emerged silently from the shadows. Breathing deeply through his nose, Tim recovered himself then turned to look up at Batman, something in his neck pulling painfully with a loud pop. Batman, cowl down and hair glued to his forehead with sweat, stood with his arms folded, eyes still fixed on Tim’s screen. A thick finger prodded at the second paragraph down.

“A jump in logic there.” The finger drifted south. “And there.”

Tim followed the finger, saw the slack in his reporting Batman had spotted, and grumbled, “I was going to circle back to it…”

A warm huff, voice like velvet. “Sure.”

Tim turned again, felt the strain in his tired neck and shoulders as he stared up into amused blue eyes. “I was.”

Batman huffed again and strode off, beginning to unfasten the rest of his uniform. Tim hastily locked his screen and slipped from his chair to follow the man. He’d been out of his own uniform for hours, having finished up his sweep of the city earlier that night; already half-exhausted by his trip back from San Francisco. Despite the quiet ‘night on the town’, the shorter stint dragged as much as his damp cape did in the miserable Gotham air. He had nothing to show for his hours back in the city other than the tedious report currently driving him demented on his computer. Namely, his attempt to somehow clear the name of his out-of-town cohorts. Generally speaking, the Teen Titans. Specifically speaking, Beast Boy and Wonder Girl. A pair who may or may not have destroyed an entire art installation near Pier 39, under the watchful eye of several television cameras, all while screaming bloody murder at each other (Beast Boy with the underwear of the interim, possibly extra-terrestrially compromised mayor clenched between his baboon jaws).

Batman lay his gauntlets down on a table and dragged a towel across his face. “Fun trip?” he asked, still with that amused pur.

“Was quiet. Quiet route. Real quiet.”

Batman canted an eye over his shoulder at Tim, who found himself lingering around the man like a dirty wet crumb that wouldn’t quite make its way down the plughole.

“San Francisco was quiet?” asked Bruce, turning fulling to face Tim now, eyes like darts.

“Gotham was.”

“I know. It is. I’m here. I saw.”

“Good. Quiet. For both of us. That's good. You had a quiet day and I had a quiet day.” Tim kicked at the floor. "Quiet." He drew the word out into two distinct syllables.

“San Francisco,” Bruce prompted.

Tim hiked his shoulders up and said, “Good” at least an octave too high. “Sunny. No fog.”

“The report you’re working on, Tim...”

“What report?” 

“The one on your screen.”

“What screen?”

“Tim…” Now it was Bruce's turn to suck a steadying breath through his nose.

“Yes, Bruce.”

“I’m very tired.”

“Maybe you should go to bed then, Bruce. Forget today. Get some rest.”

“I’d like us both to pretend for a moment that we both know which report I’m talking about and which screen I’m talking about and which city I’m talking about.”

“Ah…”

“You wouldn’t be trying to write a couple of metas out of trouble would you?”

“Why, what’d Superman and Wonder Woman do this time?”

“Tim…”

Tim flung himself up on the table and cringed under the weight of Bruce's weary stare. He wished he was still in uniform. He hated when Bruce caught him with his tights down. “Yes, we messed up. Just… everything got so crazy with the mind-control and the St Elmo’s Fires and that mayor, and by I managed to get myself out of the water, which is way colder than you’d think, by the way, Beast Boy and Wonder Girl were already at each other’s throats. Like, literally:” Tim mimed choking a ghost.

“They destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property.”

“I know.”

“Put a wrinkle in all that outreach work you’ve been doing on behalf of metas.”

"I know."

"Knocked over several Porta-Potties."

“I know,” Tim groused, dragging his hands down his face. He chanced a look at his boss through split fingers. “Look, Bruce, they know what they did.” He dropped his hands to his lap with a defeated slap.

“I have no doubt.” Bruce’s eyes shuttered for a second, a sign of something deeper he didn’t want Tim to see. Something uncomfortable. “Tim…”

“Hoo boy.”

“They know what they did. It’s all over the press. All over everyone’s mouths at the League.” Bruce lowered himself to sit next to Tim. “But I wonder…" He was being careful. "Do you know what you did? What you’re doing?”

Tim steeled himself, but it didn’t translate into his weak shrug all full of petulance and doubt .

“Whenever you come back here and try to save them, make excuses for them...You’re not thinking like a Robin or a team leader.”

There it was: a Robin. Not ‘Robin’. No. 'A'. One of many. Bruce only spoke that way when he was disappointed. When he, Tim, a Robin, had messed up. Tim thrust his tongue into the side of his cheek and tried to will his face to stop burning.

“You’re thinking like a kid who’s been caught flunking school with his buddies. You have to be bigger than this. Harder. They’re your team, Tim. When they mess up…” Bruce sighed heavily, regretfully. “That’s on you. Sometimes you have to play a heavier hand. Not make excuses, but make them better. You see?”

“Sure. Yeah, I see.”

A heavy hand found Tim’s shoulder and squeezed. “You good?”

Tim made a dry sound that might have been a laugh. “Yeah.”

“You get it?”

Tim dropped from the table, his still-untied shoes squeaking on the smooth floor. “Yeah,” he said. “Yeah, I get it.”

Bruce’s eyes narrowed, then he too pushed off the table and tugged down the zip on his suit. “Good. No need to finish your report. Just sign off on the Justice League’s statement. It should be on the system by now. They were very keen to send it to me.”

“Sure, Bruce.” Tim drifted back to his computer. “Thanks.” He dropped back into his chair and erased his report, which even at a glance now seemed paper-thin and childish. What was he thinking? Of course he knew they'd know. He just thought, maybe some words, some... reason could distract them. That the chaos of the day could be underwritten somehow. Stupid. Foolish. Selfish. Because of his team reflected badly on him, then he, a Robin...

He clicked the blinking red icon that indicated a new message from the League. Teen Titans Foil Out-of-Worlder Mayor, Destroy Priceless Geddison Exhibition , the statement header read. Tim’s cheeks were flaring.  “I’ll talk to them.”

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you know what really annoys me about the whole “she chooses to dress that way!! she’s empowering herself!!” argument that people (read: guys) like to pull out when people criticize the way a female character is objectified is that it’s really ridiculously easy to tell the difference between a female character whose well-written personality includes being confident in her sexuality, and a female character who is being objectified. 

lets use a character who gets thrown under this bus really often as an example: Koriand’r aka Starfire from DC Comics debuted in the 80′s The New Teen Titans comic book series, and has stuck around as a decently popular character since then. She’s an alien from planet Tameran, where people are a lot more open about their emotions and their sexuality; as a result, she has trouble understanding Earth’s social conventions surrounding those things, and often does not particularly care for them either. Kori often wears revealing clothing because that’s the norm on Tameran, it’s what she feels comfortable in, and she’s open about her sexuality. Considering the fact that she debuted in the 80′s, it’s important to acknowledge how feminist a female character confident in her sexuality was back then, and to a lesser extent, still is today. 

Unfortunately, DC Comics is staffed by assholes and idiots, and as a result, she is often badly written and/or objectified, especially in modern comics. However, whenever people point this out, they get hit with the “she’s written to be that way!!” argument. Which is bullshit, because Kori, in the never comics, is often given very little agency, and is instead presented as a sex object. And I will show you a comparison between two scenes to show you what I mean.

Exhibit A, From the 1980′s The New Teen Titans:

[Image: three panels of Donna and Kori getting dressed in swimsuits; donna is still wearing her jacket, while Kori stands with her back to the audience, naked, but with her hair covering up everything but her legs and arms. She says (off screen, while Donna is getting changed): “Wonder girl, I still don’t white understand... why am I supposed to wear...” she appears on screen in the above mentioned position, holding up a bikini “This!?! (bolded, in capslook) It certainly can’t be for protection, does it possess any special properties?” 

Donna looks exasperated and says “Yep. It’ll keep the guys from going insane when they see you. Trust me, Starfire.” 

The ‘camera’ focuses on both their faces when Kori answers: “Please, call me Koriand’r, that’s my real name.” 

Donna: “Only if you call me Donna. Anyway, on this planet, you’ve got to wear clothing.” 

Kori: “I don’t understand why, but if you say so, I will do it.” End description.]

Kori is literally naked on in these panels, but it’s done tastefully: she’s with her back to the audience, and the camera is far enough away that there is no ‘hint of an ass’ or whatever, just the basic shape of her body and what she’s holding. When it does pan to a close-up, it’s focused clearly on her face. And on top of that, she asks a very reasonable question for an alien who has just landed on Earth, in a way that doesn’t infantilize her or make fun of her, but rather in a very plain ‘these Earth ways are strange to me’ kind of way that you’d expect from, you know, an alien. Maybe this was immensely titillating in the 80′s, but as far as I can tell and to a modern audience, these panels show her confidence with her own body and sexuality clearly without making her a spectacle for the audience. 

Exhibit B, from her 2015 solo series Starfire: 

[Image: (cropped) comic page showing Kori showering and getting out of the shower while Boone is also outside. Kori is showering happily, swaying her hips to one side as she washes her hair. Her soapy hair swings to strategically clover her vagina, and it and the soap also strategically hide part of her breasts, although you can still make out their outline. 

When she gets out of it, she’s turned away from the camera, wearing a towel around her head but otherwise fully naked; a fern strategically covers her ass, while a convenient leaf just manages to cover the nipple of her breast. She says: “Hello Boone! It is very windy, yes?” Boone stares at her with open mouth, replying “Uh-Oh” before hastily shoving a towel at her, his head turned away, saying: “Kori, this isn’t a nudist camp”. 

Kori seems surprised, and the towel only barely covers the lover half of her breasts as she says: “Oh, thank you, but I do not need another towel. The sun and wind dried my skin. It is only my hair that is wet.” 

Boone: “Uh... Right. Anyway, just take it. Not that I’m complaining, but you gotta get dressed, and we gotta go over grandma’s rules for living here. And then there’s that storm coming, so we need to get ready.” 

The camera pans out to show a wider shot of Kori and Boone. Kori, now with an additional towel covering her body, steps into a caravan as she says: “That sounds wonderful! I am going to go watch the sunset first.” 

Boone, facepalming: “What --?” 

Kori: “I will see you later.”

Above this whole page, there is a black rectangle with blue writing in it, which reads: “Wet, then wild”. 

End description.]

This is almost the exact situation as shown in Exhibit A, yet you can see how it’s handled very differently. Exhibit A never really focuses on Kori’s body or her looks, but rather on her personality. This page, however, makes a point to show as much of Kori’s body as they can get away with; the strategically placed hair, leaves, and soap cover only barely enough to be decent, and in all panels except the last one, you can see at least part of Kori’s breasts. 

In addition, Kori is rather infantilized in these panels; rather than have her ask questions about the American customs in a way that still acknowledges her agency and maturity, she undergoes a social misstep and doesn’t seem to pick up on it, then gets corrected in a way that doesn’t really expand her knowledge of Earth’s customs, and she doesn’t seem at all curious about why Boone was so shocked to see her naked. Her character and her agency don’t really matter in this exchange: Kori does not learn anything new, we the audience don’t learn anything new about Kori (outside of basic plot progression), and Kori is given little to no agency about the way she’s presented to the audience. 

And above all, there’s the header to this page: “Wet, then wild”. While ‘wild’ could refer to Kori’s adventure later on, let’s be honest here, this header was definitely meant to be an innuendo. 

So, to summarize: this page shows Kori’s body of in a way that’s definitely meant to entice the viewer, Kori character/personality is not developed in these panels, Kori herself has no real agency in the way she’s presented to the audience, and above all this, the header to this page is an innuendo. All this cements that the way these panels are supposed to be viewed doesn’t fall into the ‘Kori is a strong female character confident in her sexuality’ category, but rather the ‘fanservice’ category. 

And I didn’t even bring up Red Hood and the Outlaws yet, but just in case anyone wasn’t convinced yet about Kori’s current objectification, this is how Kori flies in her superhero outfit in The New Teen Titans:

[Image: Starfire flying off into the air saying: “Then, we will make (bolded, in all caps) them help us. We have the power to do whatever we want!” While Robin in the corner yells: “Starfire! Don’t!” Starfire’s outfit is made out of metal and consists of a large necklace that’s connected to what’s essentially a metal bra, with metal strips running down her stomach to her metal panties. She has three bracelets on both her arms, and a forth on her left, and two long boots. There are two golden, red, and black ornaments in her outfit, one on her chest below her necklace in the shape of a flower trapped in a circle, and one where the metal strips connect to her shorts that vaguely looks like a sun trapped in a rectangle. End description.]

Outfit is undeniably revealing and looks extremely uncomfortable and unpractical, so I’m not exactly enthused by it. However, it’s still infinitely better than whatever this is:

[Image: page from Red Hood and The Outlaws showing Starfire standing on burning rubble, purple starbolts flickering out of her hand. Next to her, there are red-on-black text boxes explaining her backstory. Her outfit is still metal, this time purple metal with white accents. She still has her long boots and bracelets, but the rest of her outfit is different. Her shoulders and neck are covered by the metal, but they aren’t connected to the rest of her outfit. Her breasts are cupped by a thin piece of metal that barely reaches the nipples from the underside of the breasts and does not cover them entirely. They aren’t connected to her metal shorts, which look like sexy panties, even thinnier than 80′s Kori’s, with another slap of metal slightly raised above them. Her back is bent on what looks like a painful angle, jutting out her ass, and her breasts resemble balloons. End description.]

Aside from her outfit being absolutely atrocious (HOW are those breasts not popping out of those cup holders???) her entire pose and the way she’s drawn clearly mark as a sex object rather than an actual character. Her back is bent in a way that makes me seriously worried about her health, her ribs are jutting out in a way that ALSO makes me worried about her health, and her breasts look like flesh-coloured balloons. This is an absolute disgrace and I hate the fact that someone looked at this and greenlit it.

Compare that to 80′s Kori, who, while definitely wearing an impractical and revealing outfit, still had some actual dignity going for her. Her body has human proportions, for one. 

Like, I could keep dragging out examples of Kori being objectified, but I think everyone with a brain has gotten the point now.

Koriand’r, when well-written, is a character who is in control of her appearance and proud of her sexuality, and not afraid to show off either. However, newer comics use this as an excuse to blatantly objectify her, while erasing her agency entirely.

Let’s put it like this: if your sexy, in-control female character doesn’t have control over how she’s presented to the viewer, you’re not writing a sexy, in-control female character, you are writing a sexy lamp. The fundamental difference between 80′s Kori and newer Kori is how she’s presented to the viewer: in The New Teen Titans, her sexuality isn’t used as an excuse to use her as a blatant tool for fanservice, and the art remains respectful to her and her body even when she’s wearing revealing clothing. In the newer comics, the camera is showing off as much of Kori’s body off to the viewer as it can, and often puts her in weird and unnatural stances in order to achieve what the artists think is ‘sexy’. 

The difference between a sexy, in-control female character proud of her sexuality and a tool for fanservice is who is meant to enjoy this character: is it women, who might relate to her or at least admire her, or is it horny men?

Anyway, essay over, TL;DR: there is a fucking difference between objectification and ‘being proud of your sexuality’ and it’s called basic fucking respect. 

Teen Titans Spotlight #1: Starfire

Comics in 1986: "Let's begin our new series with Starfire battling Apartheid!" Asshole Fans in 2019: "Comics should go back to the good old days when they weren't political!"

Really, M&M's? Everyone? Haven't you heard about Apartheid?!

So far the craziest thing about this comic book to modern audiences is how boring M&M colors were in 1986. I suspect I don't have the maturity to comment on a story about Apartheid. Oh well! Let's do this! The story is called "Black and White" because, you see, Apartheid was about how whites and blacks experienced two disparate South Africas. It's also a play on how "black and white" is a way to describe issues that have easily recognizable positive and negative sides. It's probably racist that we automatically assume the black side is the negative side. Maybe that also plays into the title! Chess pieces are black and white too so maybe the title alludes to chess. Maybe something about pawns versus the gentry. Marv might even work in some bits about The Beatles seeing as how they're using that zebra crossing on the cover of Abbey Road. Starfire has just returned from Tamaran where she married that dweeby Prince Karras guy. He was Tamaran's version of Terry Long. I'm surprised more panels didn't show Starfire and Donna in the background giggling and holding their index fingers and thumb a teeny, tiny distance apart. Starfire didn't spend eighth grade on Earth so she never learned Earth geography. So instead of flying in from space and looking at Earth and going, "Okay, that's New York right there!", she winds up in South Africa. I bet she came at Earth upside down and got confused. It's easy to get confused in space where up and down don't exist in any objective way. Starfire descends upon a group of black people chanting "Informer" at a woman they eventually soak in gasoline and light on fire. Holy fuck! This comic book just got more real than all 114 issues of New Titans I just recently reread! Except maybe that part where Raven raped Starfire during Starfire's wedding. That was pretty heavy. The white police arrive to commit some justice. Unless I meant "racism" instead of "justice." Sometimes, living in America, it's hard to see the difference.

I bet this guy has a MAGA Twitter account.

How many of your racist family members often bring up black on black crime when discussing gun control or cops shooting unarmed black men? How many of those idiots don't think they're being racist when they bring up that argument and just think they're being logical? It's fucking racism, dudes. Cops killing unarmed black men has nothing to do with black men being killed by criminals who happen to share their same skin color. Nobody ever talks about "white on white" crime. That's just crime perpetuated by criminals against innocent people! But somehow a black person shooting another black person belongs in some kind of special category? Of course a black person is probably going to be the victim of a black criminal because America had this thing called white flight. It caused places to become poor black neighborhoods because white people couldn't handle having even one black neighbor. So people and businesses moved out, local governments ignored infrastructure of those areas (or purposefully simply just built freeways straight through them), and constantly sent the police in to hassle innocent people just trying to live their fucking lives. Systemic racism (and racists!) segregated the races in a fairly efficient manner. So when a black criminal looks for a victim in their neighborhood, of course they're going to almost certainly find a black victim! That's simply crime, not black on black crime. Maybe I would think differently if anybody ever at any time in any of these debates brought up white on white crime. Y'all realize that's the most prevalent crime there is, right? Which means whites are the biggest criminals of all. If you're, you know, going to argue that way, you stupid racist asshole. Plus saying black on black crime is just a way for people to intimate that most crime is caused by black people. "Even though they keep criming us whites, they still have time to crime up their own people!" This comic book taught me that South African police would use purple dye in water cannons to stain people during protests so that they can be identified later as people who participated in the riot that totally didn't erupt later due to the police being overly aggressive and also racist. Wolfman says people "affectionately" called it Purple Rain which led me down a rabbit hole to figure out which came first, the racist ploy to arrest as many people as possible or the Prince album. Apparently the dyed water was named after the Prince album. That's probably why it was an "affectionate" sobriquet.

I'm a little bit worried that Wolfman is about to "both sides" Apartheid.

Starfire winds up with the South African police who tell her all about how terrible South African blacks are and how she's going to get a medal for helping quell the protest. They also call the woman who burned to death a bitch so I'm getting the feeling that they're not really interested in any kind of justice or peace. It's quite possible that — hear me out on this — they just want to oppress the black citizens and make sure they know their place. But I don't want to jump to conclusions! I should wait until I hear their arguments in a frank and logical debate. "Please, white South Africans, explain to me how South Africa needs your violent tactics and racist attitudes to maintain peace and order. Also explain how peace and order aren't different from justice for everybody. I might be convinced to stop calling you racist if you debate well!"

This guy doesn't realize how true it is that he's teaching these black South Africans how to behave.

It would have been easy to read this, at one time, from a privileged position as a citizen of America and think that the white South Africans in this story were caricatures of racist monsters, playing up their terrible qualities to get the reader to sympathize with the plight of the black South Africans. But these caricatures of despicable and horrible systemic racism using tactics to dehumanize a segment of the population are absolute mirrors of Trump and his deplorables. "They're animals." "They're not like us." "They do not think." "They are like children." "They fight amongst themselves." "We are just securing the peace." "This is God's country." "They need to be taught how to behave." "Their flagrant disregard for the law must be stopped." And all of these statements are simply excuses to treat certain people as less than human. "They get what they deserve." I'm so fucking disappointed in so many Americans right now. Starfire is completely confused by everything she's seeing. In her confusion, some journalists get her to sort of say she's for Apartheid. Uh oh! The Teen Titans are going to get worse press than when they destroyed New York City while arguing with their parents about their curfew.

Starfire's response is me on Twitter every fucking day.

The South African leader, Racist McRacisthole, tells Starfire not to worry about the journalists because they're always asking terrible questions and lying about how awful everything is. But Starfire is all, "Just because I have big hair and big tits and my ass is hanging out, don't think I'm a fucking idiot! Not that I'm trying to say people who look like that are idiots! But I know terrible people like you, Mr. Racisthole, think like that! So I just want you to know that I see you! I see what you're doing and how you're trying to snow me with all this fucking dehumanizing garbage! You remind me of the Gordanians!" Then Starfire gets so angry and delivers such a passionate speech that her nose falls off.

"I'b not gobing do libben do yub liebs aby lobber!"

Starfire declares she never cared for politics and tells Governor Racisthole that she's leaving. But instead of going, "Good! Stop interfering with our terrible government!", he says, "I won't let you leave which will probably cause you to stay and help the oppressed!" Starfire hears a prisoner screaming in pain before she leaves and decides to stick around to help him. While doing so, she realizes that maybe she show these government officials real power! No, I don't mean she's going to flash her tits. Jesus. Some of you comic book nerds just don't stop, do you?! Sure, DC panders to your boners by putting Starfire in her underwear. But you do have the choice to stop being such creepy little fucks, you know?

Imagine reading this and instead of thinking, "You tell 'em, Starfire! Way to go!", you think, "Virtue signaler."

Starfire has some more thoughts from 1986 for us here in 2019. She just won't stop!

Virtue signaler!

I swear the rest of this commentary can just be scans of Starfire saying important shit.

I mean, if this 1986 comic book is an example of older comics that Comicsgaters want to go back to, I'm fucking up for that shit.

In the next panel that I'm not going to scan because I'll never finish reading this comic book if I scan every fucking panel, Starfire says, "Unwittingly, my father helped ruin our world by caving in to our enemies rather than fighting for what was right. I won't do that here on Earth. I've got to care." I should probably send that panel to Nancy Pelosi. Starfire frees all of the political prisoners and escorts them back to where they're forced to live outside the city. She tries to figure out what Apartheid means and Father Nelson Mandutu, the rebel leader the police have been searching for, tells her, "Ah, I see — you are trying to make sense of madness." It's as good a reason to dismiss people always pressing you to debate their terrible ideas and worthless topics. How can you win a debate against twisted logic and racist madness? Just ignore them when they call you a coward or an elitist when you refuse to debate. I was always taught that the best way to get shit off of your shoe is to scrape it off, not to get in an argument with it. Starfire follows Mandutu around for the day except for the one moment when he's kidnapped. When she goes to rescue him, she destroys an armory and discovers that Father Mandutu has been killed. BY HER! And there are cameras rolling! Totally not suspicious or anything! I bet we discover she was framed next issue! That's the kind of intelligent speculation you get from a Grandmaster Comic Book Reader like me. I can't be fooled even by the most subtle of plot twists! Teen Titans Spotlight #1: Starfire Rating: A. I should probably apologize to Marv Wolfman for all the insults I've made about his Teen Titans books. This was a well-written infotainment issue putting precisely the right character at the heart of an international travesty. And I thought a story about Apartheid was going to be boring! It's almost as if I forgot that every panel would have tons of side boob! Oh no! I just realized I'm one of those creepy little fucks!

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