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When I was small, my brother had a WWE vs RAW game for the 360. It was a lot of fun, especially when we unlocked the ability to make your own characters. But some of the styles of match were gender locked -- I distinctly remember gradeschool-aged me being deeply upset that I couldn't do a cage match with my wrestlersona

Brother: "Kiddo it's okay -- look, here, we'll just find a different way for you to fight Undertaker. What about a Tables Ladders 'n' Chairs?"

Me, despondent: "BUT I WANNA FIGHT HIM IN A CAAAAAAAGE"

And now I cannot help but picture a similar interaction between Roy and a younger Mia that Ollie time-travelled and stole somehow I guess

They'd also go insane over that interstellar trans-dimensional wrestling thing that Wally did for an issue awhile back. The one with Space Hulk Hogan. Honestly Lian would get into it too, in the way that small children do. (Yes I know they aged her up in canon but it was stupid so shhhh)

which arrowfam do you think would be really, REALLY, into pro-wrestling?? (like wwe & aew etc)

i hc that its the majority of them... bc i love projecting my interests on my fav characters.

I’m noooot a wrestler guy I fear but based solely on vibes I feel like Roy is most likely. WWE is very showmanship in my mind and Roy is the most dramatic bitch of them all. Maybe Mia too. I think she would love to break a chair over someone’s head

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poor dick wouldn't survive regency era drama, he'd be too easily caught up in some mama's scheme to entangle him in a compromising position with her daughter, and on his honor he would feel very obligated to marry her regardless of the actual circumstances. heaven forbid he gets caught holding someone's hand in front of others

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Symphony: A Jericho Zine - PREVIEW!

Hey guys! As some of you may know, I'm one of the guest writers for @jerichozine!

Symphony has over 50 pages of Jericho content and all profits will be donated to Communication First (a civil rights advocacy group for those with speech related disabilities).

Here is a snippet from my piece, A Scarf of Red Tied Round His Neck, which is about child Joey learning to adapt to his disability and rebuild his love of music now that he can no longer sing.

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER 29, 2024 so make sure you get your orders in!

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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action comics #845

thinking about how this is the only one of clois' kids lois gave a name to. someone give her her babyboy back!!!

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Drawing them with a baby yesterday made me think about if I thought Prestonbart would have kids and the answer is not necessarily but IF they were to have a kid, it would be in this sort of constellation. Carol decides to have a kid, asks Bart and/or Preston to be a known donor, they discuss this with each other and eventually decide yeah, a kid sounds rad, but they'd like to be properly involved, as dads not just fun uncles. So -- et voilà -- three parent family. Also, the free space in this image bothers me immensely.

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Look at him !!!

He is just a little guy. Baby Dick is so cute in that artstyle.

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forcing every character into romance or found family ruins character discussion imo

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Phil Jimenez is working on a Donna Troy comic! ❤️💃

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Why do they deserve to win?

You

Garth

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Am i the only one who really dislikes the talon grayson shit? I genuinely don’t think the court of owls is very interesting in general, but their relationship to dick and hally circus specifically really rubs me the wrong way. It’s like writers took a story about normal, well intentioned people (that in some versions have mary and john being poc, which only furthers the racist stereotype that romani folks are “sketchy”) who were struck by tragedy, and made it into a whole ass conspiracy theory that ruins the point of multiple minor characters who already didn’t get much attention from the comics, but especially, it ruins the point of nightwing and his origin.

Do we really need another character who was raised to be a super secret and important weapon that is tied to random stuff across the whole universe? Don’t we already have two of those? Don’t you think it’s better when batman characters are just normal people??

Just. what was even the point of that??

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One thing about Joan Garrick that is often overlooked is how funny she is.

Another thing is that she is badass and lowkey a force of chaos.

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Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

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Hooboy Williamson's writing is giving me psychic damage but Izaakse's art... I have to study it...

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Discowing you’ll always be famous

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Did a critical analysis comic for one of my classes where I analyzed Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne, watch me be so normal about the parentification of Dick Grayson

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I'd seen a couple of panels with him out of context, but I had no idea how that related to anything else. If he's an Elseworld character, that makes it make a little more sense.

Now, I do think you could do something interesting with the concept of a baby boy being born on Paradise Island, but nothing that would be added to by making him be Diana's son specifically. Frankly, I think that would detract from the concept, especially if he's born when Diana is out in Man's World.

Diana being an absent mother kind of makes sense, in that she was raised by the Amazons as a group and... Was the only baby on Themiscyra for literal centuries. I could see her defaulting to just sorta... Expecting the village to raise the child, so to speak. It could also be a refreshing take on the "absent father" trope, but only if she gets called out on it and it becomes a source of conflict (probably with Clark). And that doesn't seem to be what they're doing here either.

As it is, I don't think there's much more to explore with a "Daughter of Wonder Woman" concept that isn't already there in Lyta. And furthermore, I'd like to see Artemis, Yara, and Cassie get more focus (and maybe un-mothball Vanessa Kapetis (I spelled that wrong), now that she's no longer a villain?) before we go adding anyone of any gender to the cast here

Sure, Lizzie's cute, but I don't think she brings anything but sugar to the table. We need more than that to make a dish, let alone a meal.

dc (fandom) takes / opinions:

shouldn’t have aged up jon but damijon shouldn’t happen either

speaking of damijon, if you hate nika, nia, and jay WHILE shipping damijon, i IMMEDIATELY don’t trust you

lizzie prince was an unnecessary addition and her origins sucked

i think people want diana to be a mom bc bruce and clark have children and that’s not a good way to go with this concept (this is what i think why they made lizzie tbh) so right neowwwww i don’t want diana to be a mom especially if the reason is because of A MAN. A MAN!!!!!

there are……. so many…….. supers ..????

i’ve said this before but personally shipping timkon, damijon, and superbat at the same time in the same universe (example: in a fic) is jus weird

i hate it when people make cass talk in emojis in socmed aus like… she can talk……….bro

the joker is boring as a villain im sorry, there are much more appealing villains in batman’s rogue gallery (he’s annoying that’s why i kinda like him)

speaking of the joker, i could never understand batjokes… the only batjokes acceptable is lego batjokes

ion like … jason, starfire, and roy team up bc i don’t understand it (aren’t those guys dick’s friends??????)

cass should be the next batman or nobody at all

jason and steph wouldn’t or shouldn’t wear the bat symbol