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Why are you helping me?

Because I like to help fools!

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just one more reboot boys. one more crisis will fix it i promise please just ONE more reboot

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The thing about having Ollie as your favourite character is that you feel like you need to defend him constantly. People are beefing with that man all the time including writers. Especially writers!

I expected this when I became a Guy Gardner fan. It doesn’t even bother me that much when people misconstrue him because yk, fair enough.

But Ollie?

Note: this isn’t about anything in particular. Sometimes I think about him for 5 seconds and get mad again

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I don’t have time to write up something properly on this topic this week, but here’s an incoherent ramble.

It’s so important to me how it was as an end point for Guy’s new52 character to be him as a Blue Lantern. The blue ring is about healing and faith (in yourself, the people around you, in things bigger than you), and is rooted in belief that things can always get better. That Guy gets to spend his future going around healing people in a universe where he didn’t get the opportunity to pursue that as a career initially is so rewarding.

His role as community leader/teacher/public servant is so integral to how he was first introduced. And through the ups and downs of his story arc in the years following, his ability to forgive people for anything, even to offer that forgiveness first, is what makes him such a good person. We see this most often in his relationship with his family and with Hal, but it’s definitely not limited to them.

There’s also something about Guy opting away from any of the rings that give him strength to do violence in favour of one that is powerful in taking down enemies in other ways. He still carries them with him, and knows sometimes he might need to use them to save people, but thats not his first instinct anymore.

Social worker Guy, psychology student Guy, the version of Guy that is gentle and timid and doesn’t like violence at all (that we only ever saw as a joke in JLI) would all be so proud of him for getting here in the end.

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man this guy is my favourite character (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him) (throws rocks at him (thr

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*goes to type "congrats!" on my mutual's post*

what if they're being sarcastic? what if they think I'm being sarcastic? what if I mistype and accidentally type kill yourself?? what if congrats is actually a slur everyone knows about except for me???????

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Magneto is not Jewish.

everyone point and laugh

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I hate the fact that somewhere, out there, another interest that will change my life again waits for me to discover it but i haven't stumbled upon it yet. It's like a weird limbo

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has anyone made this one yet

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Quick what are you doing RIGHT now (besides scrolling Tumblr)

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i find it so interesting how people act like "critically examining a piece of media" is the opposite of "enjoying that piece of media." rip to you but i actually find it really enjoyable and compelling to dissect and think through the art i engage with

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do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it

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When you’re in a “most overdramatic” competition and anyone from the batfamily walks in:

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How did Rot Lop Fan deal with the yellow weakness before it was no longer a problem for Green Lanterns? I imagine Katma Tui probably explained it with sound-based metaphors, like “your ring’s music won’t be able to affect E-flat resonant objects” but I think it would be infinitely funnier if this one GL just never had problems with yellow because the very concept of color meant nothing to him

Katma Tui: oh one more thing, your power ring has one weakness: its constructs can’t affect anything that is the color yellow

Rot Lop Fan: what the fuck is a color?

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They need to introduce the concept of "women" to the dc fandom

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I think in the same way there's a 90/10 rule with horror and comedy (horror works best when it's 90% horror and 10% comedy and vice versa) there's a 90/10 rule for some relationships in fiction that's like. Wholesome and fucked up. A good friendship is at its most compelling when it's also 10% a bit fucked up. Fucked up relationship is at its most compelling when there's at least 10% of something actually sweet and substantive within. Do you get me

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hot take maybe, but my opinion of you automatically dives if the first reaction you have to a cool character is to ask if there’s a c.ai bot of them. write shitty fanfic like the rest of us, or just maladaptive daydream if you must. find a community and rp online!! we’re losing important social and writing skills to a tech product controlled by and overseen by the slimiest, most exploitative billionaires silicon valley has seen in a generation and we’re doing it willingly???