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You still taking up requests? If you are uh John in his jungle explorer outfit

Jungle John! Now in two flavours!

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thought that said bitch tar and was like yeah and then

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Noharlinestantine Ilu

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i think more people need to hate on king shark x john constantine

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HELL YEAH

prompts from my instagram chat group!!<3

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oh yikes didn’t realize that person shipped something weird im going to take THAT down 😔

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dad bod….

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yapping a lot on main rn but i take writing john very seriously. i think he's a lot more mild mannered than he's depicted in most works and this ties specifically into how oversexualized he is. which is another can of worms. he's just a guy. you can't mess that up. he's a bit of a bitch but he's just some guy. he likes to relax, read the newspaper, lounge on the couch watching tv, laugh with his friends. it's those little moments that are so important in hellblazer when he's not losing his mind from all the traumatic things that happen to him. to strip his normalcy of him is leaning into the facade he creates for himself.

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oc x canon truthers, i see you and i hear you and i respect you

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dc comics should never have taken on john constantine for a variety of reasons, but mainly that. sorry, but a lot of people- not just comic readers, but people overall- cannot connect to the constant sex he proclaims and is shown to have in the dc series, with men and women alike. i knowi myself cannot connect with him in the dc universe because that's all it really is- sex, sex, sex. oh look, it's mostly women, but this one time it's with a guy! crazy! they stop trying to make him human. of course, in hellblazer, john had his plethora of problems and constant newly generated traumas, but he also had moments where he was just a guy. a guy who wanted to hang out with his friends. a guy who wanted to stay home with his girlfriend. a guy who cares deeply about his friends having a baby, or his friends who had aids. he is deeply inbedded into politics and engages in it on such a consistent basis that taking it away from him is just ripping his character in half.

let's be honest, though. it's mainly dc people who haven't read anything for him that want to write him, because they think they can somehow do better despite not having of read anything vertigo produced. which sucks, because currently, with our political climate, i think john would be very much aware of it.

if only people understood he's a very political character.

John Constantine was made to represent the common man. However he was later stripped of said humanity because comic writers couldn’t handle relating to a bi, mentally ill, homeless British guy.

I think a reason why many Hellblazer fans relate to John is because he IS them. Some Bloke who struggles. Who represents the average working class man. Friends struggling with addiction that consumes him like a monster. Ghost of past relationships that eats away at him and ruin his interpersonal relationship. Stigmatised mental health that makes it impossible for him to keep a job (an essay I am almost down btw) he’s so funny or relatable in a horror situation because he just wants to survive. A base urge all humanity can relate to. When he sees a monster he doesn’t go to slay it out of some heroism. He goes “fuck no” and sods off.

But.

Noticeably later writers chose to remove aspects about him that made him relatable. Kind. Like his love. Such a core feature of him removed and replaced with this overly cynical view of the world. I don’t think this was done out of malicious intent. While his character largely changes in newer comics to fit a narrative (and steal characters like Zatanna’s spotlight. Which is weird cus it kinda just feels like they wanted a man to take his role) I think it was instead new writers being uncomfortable about what he represents. How he was close to them. In an attempt to make John before “consumable” they villainised the very groups that read his comics.

Or something idk.

Consumerism killing the common man. Funny. Exactly what John protests about.

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yapping a lot on main rn but i take writing john very seriously. i think he's a lot more mild mannered than he's depicted in most works and this ties specifically into how oversexualized he is. which is another can of worms. he's just a guy. you can't mess that up. he's a bit of a bitch but he's just some guy. he likes to relax, read the newspaper, lounge on the couch watching tv, laugh with his friends. it's those little moments that are so important in hellblazer when he's not losing his mind from all the traumatic things that happen to him. to strip his normalcy of him is leaning into the facade he creates for himself.

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i cannot handle the dc x dp fandom crossovers because they are all absolutely terrible i am so sorry to those that enjoy but it truly never is true to the characters.

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basically what reading hellblazer is

hellblazer 2019 posting

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oh hell yeah

Good news everyone. I've decided to bring back Constantine Tits Tuesday. By force (ran out of his cannon titties so now well be drawing this shit.)

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LMAO yeah he’s old as hell taste dust old man

also happy birthday john constantine my good friend john constantine

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the funniest thing is that that’s the shot they use which isn’t that bad at all and then the next panel is THAT

don't be dramatic, the photo isn't THAT bad

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this always makes me laugh 😭