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I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3's TOS before confidently making 'user guides' to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.

Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that's illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request' from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.

No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive'. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn't able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it's known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren't allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!

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the batman chronicles #4 page redraw

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more comic characters should haunt their writers like how everyone who’s written John Constantine keeps meeting him in dark alleys

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like i do think that when wolfman was creating the drakes, he wasn't necessarily intending them to be like super liberals BUT alpod taking place in 1989 which the circus flashback taking place ~10 years prior (tim being like 3-5ish years old, meaning the circus would have taken place 1979-1981ish) him having janet used the word "liberated" in reference to jack's casual sexism is, in fact, a very specific historical term to choose that really does only have (1) specific context that it could have been used for, which was to reference the women's liberation movement of 1970s. the fact that they even casually mention the mmm kind of hot button term of liberation in a pretty friendly conversation is not necessarily total proof positive they're totally meant to be progressive, obviously jack isn't, and is still kind of sexist--which is why janet calls him out gently, but the fact that they have janet even *mention* things like jack is being slightly sexist and having her, a woman, make a fairly positive reference to the fact that jack is supposed to presumably be liberated, not the sexist he's currently being, does in fact posit them as supposed to be more pro-social reform for the era. like he's not saying for sure that janet is pro-women's lib, but the historical implications are certainly there in her and jack's conversation. and this does fit, i think, with wolfman's tendency (despite his own very present sexism in his writing) to push towards more socially progressive causes for the 80s that you do see in at least some of his writing. he could have chosen to like. just not have the conversation about sexism? but he chose to put it in and he chose to have janet use the very context specific term of liberated. and it's a very interesting starting point that never really got to go anywhere because alan grant chose to make them detestable yuppies to push his own agenda and foil tim's circumstances against lonnie's, and then obviously janet was dead and jack got taken over by dixon which turned him from a detestable yuppie into just a detestable reagan conservative, which. if you think about it. jack starting as a supposedly liberated man in the 70s (read: is super pro women's lib, because those women put out, that's sexy) and then becoming a conservative in the 80s because he thinks reagan has a good point is, in fact, a very reasonable and realistic character trajectory for a man. and janet got to die before getting character development which means that dixon didn't get to make her a republican woman like he would have (because he made dana a republican #bless), which means that all she has is her humble origins of implied women's liberation support.

long tangent but i do wonder what the drakes would have been like if wolfman had had a chance to go further with his story for them. like i still maintain my spy theory, but like personality wise i genuinely wonder what a wolfman jack drake would have been.

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just started reading superboy (1994) and the way kon's preyed on by all these grown ass women is so crazy . . . DUBBILEX DO SOMETHING

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yoou guys wont be laughing when i suddenly collapse unconscious and have to be taken to the hospital. then youll all see <- normal thought process to have while doing anything i dont want to

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how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

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internet friends are kinda like illegally downloaded friends. you don’t get the physical copy but you still get all the great content

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seen a lot of people talking about fanon stuff specifically irt dc recently and i have to say i think it really comes down to a lot of people just… not caring about comics as a medium. which sucks imo! comics are such a unique and special format for storytelling and i really just think a lot of these stories or characters don’t hit the same when you divorce them from that context. which is where i think a lot of the stuff i’ve seen people talk about comes from… like sure you can look at panels posted online or read through a character’s wikipedia article and know all of the technical canon about them but i think that by not reading the comics you’re robbing yourself of smth very special... i really love when you can tell people who talk about these things have a real love for & knowledge of the medium and its history

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Grown up young justice girls yet again...

Written out text under the cut:

Greta Hayes - Secret

After being brought back to life by Darkseid, she discovered that she has the ability to separate her spirit from her body

Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark - Wonder Girl?

She's pretty sure that she's outgrown "Wonder Girl", but she's not sure who to be next, and has been spending a lot of time training on Themiscyra to try to figure herself out. At least she's got this sick sword now.

Buzzed her hair during an identity crisis

Anita Fite - Empress

She took a short leave of absence from the whole hero business to take care of her parents, but now they're a bit older and have been officially adopted by Maad, she's back, and better than ever.

She does roller derby with Cissie in her free time

Cissie King-Jones - Med Student (and part time babysitter to Anita's parents)

Traya Sutton - Mechanical Engineer, guy in the chair, and part time babysitter.

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every time i see a post about damian becoming a doctor like his grandfather (thomas wayne) i feel the need to point out that ra’s was a doctor too actually and talia was in med school like its a legal obligation

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that's... not how it works. you can't guarantee that your work definitely won't squick anyone. what do you think you're saying?

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“tim drake is still 17” “i can’t believe it’s been x amount of years and tim is still 17!” “wow everyone is aging except tim bc he’s still robin” SHUT THE FUCK UP

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may i humbly request some yuri timkon.......

they would have the most heinous "i dont like this girl" to "turns out i had a crush on her the whole time" pipeline

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"batman singles out this category of people as inherently and uniquely dangerous and therefore justifies discrimination against them. and also the narrative completely supports him doing this btw. but it's funny XD" genuinely why do you people like fascist batman so much

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"they can never make me like you, janet drake" SHE DIDN'T DO SHIT!!!!! SHE SENT TIM A POSTCARD AND DIED! SHE LITERALLY DIDN'T EVEN SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH FOR TIM TO BE ROBIN! YOU JUST HATE WOMEN! BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU BITING YOU