#The sisterhood of DaDa

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

yr fav Shelley Byron outfit? *pretend y dont me and I'm anon*

Ooh this is a tough question. I think it's going to have to be that outfit that she's wearing in the scene where they decide on doing the Eternal Flagellation. Very good shiny waistcoat, love the trousers, love the shoes. Everything is on point👌🏻

I also especially like the outfit with the red turtleneck, blue blouse and the suspenders (though it might just be the way she carries herself that makes it hit me so hard). Also really fond of her look from the early Bureau days.

[ladyorlandodream]

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Does the Brotherhood of Dada exist in the headverse?

It does! They form around Eric Morden after he breaks away from the Brotherhood of Evil over their Thorul Society ties. The initial team (The Quiz, Sleepwalk, The Fog, and Frenzy) were a peaceful art collective until Morden (as Mr. Nobody) co-opted the group to assist him in the infamous "Painting That Ate Paris" incident. After being saved from a piece of the Consumptive Mural, that version of the Brotherhood reformed around another BoE alum, Laura DeMille.

Every Brotherhood and Sisterhood after that was essentially a "pop-up" team of metahumans of various moral persuasions, with some variations in name like "Nada" "Dangerous Animals" or "Young Animal" (the latter being the combined Brotherhood/Patrol group that formed during the Milk Wars)

Morden, despite constantly putting himself in charge of teams, was notoriously difficult to work with, but the group did stabilize a bit under his successor, Teresa Morden, better known as either Terry None or just the second Mr. Nobody (or Lil' Miss Nobody, but only if your name is Casey Brinke).

Terry has a particular ace up their sleeve after the Milk Wars, though converting Milkman Man from Retconn to Dada is a whole thing unto itself

[mndvx]

ginahiraizumi And the Oscar goes to….#BrendanFraser for The Whale! 🏆 Brendan was my ‘scene partner’ in @dcdoompatrol Season 3 on @hbomax - he voices Robotman aka Cliff Steele🤖 The Whale is so incredible, I can’t even describe it in words. You just gotta go see it and your heart will melt into a 1000 pieces. 💔🥹 Amazing work Brendan! #TheWhale 🐳 #OscarWinner *fun fact: as I look on the stills above, I get so emotional remembering the absolute pain I was in fighting through the 1st trimester symptoms🤰🏻 Baby Brooke was growing!

[braintapes]

i have to admit i still do not think rita's ending was a good one. even setting aside my annoyance with malcolm, i don't think her just straight up dying felt right when everyone else got to live in some form. especially for rita farr, who spent so much time on the show desperately clawing for any meaning or significance or purpose in life. she wanted, desperately, to be a good person and to have a place in the world and constantly struggled and failed. and i just don't see how her dying to end up in heaven with her lame ass boyfriend forever is at all fulfilling in that regard.

[cursedcorpse]

who the fuck am I? I'm a bird.

[starleska]

[*long, ragged sigh*]…you got any recommendations on media to consume and where to find it for me to accrue information and/brainrot about The Love Glove? |:]C For strictly scientific reasons, of course

hahahaha! oh yes my dear friend, i certainly do - looks like someone wants to get up a little close and personal with The Love Glove, eh? 😉 taste!!!!

regretfully, The Love Glove is quite an obscure character and i've only know about him for a brief period of time!! however, his appearances are within Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol comic series:

Doom Patrol Vol 2 #49

Doom Patrol Vol 2 #50

Doom Patrol Vol 2 #51

Doom Patrol Vol 2 #52

this series of comics follows the run of a supervillain team called the Brotherhood of Dada. the group was founded by Mr. Nobody (Eric Morden) a two-dimensional shadow who is able to drain sanity from human beings, after he was rejected from The Brotherhood of Evil. the Brotherhood of Dada is named after Dadaism, a counter-culture art movement emphasising a lack of reason 👀 because of this, all the members of The Brotherhood of Dada (and i believe Love Glove is part of the Second Brotherhood) are absurd! Love Glove's team aside from Mr Nobody includes: Agent !, a guy who 'comes as no surprise'; Alias the Blur, a broken ghost mirror who formed after an actress fell in love with her reflection and killed herself; Number None, who is simultaneously everything and nothing, and the Toy...who we know knowing about 🙈 i'm not gonna lie, reading these comics is a trip!! you can tell the people making the comics were having a blast leaning into the nonsense...i definitely need to reread a few times to get what on earth is going on 🙈💖 i believe a gender-swapped version called The Sisterhood of Dada were in the live-action Doom Patrol series, but alas, there was no version of The Love Glove! 💔

[beanarie]

rouge rightfully got a lot of shit for turning on the sisterhood of dada, but no one mentions how rita abandoned them to decades of being tortured and weaponized by the bureau of normalcy because all she cared about was revenge

[ladyorlandodream]

I should repeat Piffle Paffle more often in my life

[thenwethrowitonthefire]

this may sound very common but I would like think of her take a look around mr. fell bookshop while she is having hot coco in angel mug (: maybe they would talk about books, fashion, aesthetics, foods etc. or perhaps practice some magic tricks? and I'm sure they joke about not being 'more than just a human' when they are suprised by other ability in tricks (;

(ngl I thought she and crowley can have conversation over some random topics (and how broken the system and they can't fit in and they don't want to) till they end up drinking on who got more heartbreak =))

Ohhhh I really like your thinking in her visiting the bookshop. Both her and Aziraphale know how to build a safe space for themselves and their trusted ones to retreat to, as do they have a taste for the sweet things in life. I like this A LOT!

Also I can see her and Crowley drunkenly rant about the broken system ... -oh shit did you just unlock a crossover I really like! One might even go as far as to say... Crowley joins the sisterhood of dada. I AM UNWELL. WHAT A THOUGHT.

...Dada Crowley. Good Patrol AU. what would Aziraphale be in that world? He might not be unlike early Laura I guess, no intention to fight in any war but still working for the system. (Though Crowley would also be a good fit for Laura's kind of position, where he protects people like Aziraphale because he knows better than anyone how the system burns people.) Maybe something like Aziraphale being in Laura's position, but in this story Crowley and the sisterhood manage to pull Aziraphale out of it and win against the system.

AND equally, Doom Omens in which I'd put Shelley and Laura in the roles of Crowley and Aziraphale. Again that could kind of go either way with who is the angel and who is the demon. I see Laura more as being rejected by the system but still trying to hold on to the system, and Shelley as rejecting the system outright and saying fuck it so that would fit Crowley better, but they could both be the fallen one. Which is rather the point with Crowley and Aziraphale anyway.

Anyway that kind of got away from me but to get back to your initial ask about crossovers and not AU's: YES. Shelley meeting Aziraphale and Crowley. ABSOLUTELY.

[mndvx]

season three of doom patrol wasn't bad you just didn't like the sisterhood of dada and couldn't understand dadaism as a whole....... in this essay i will-

[adivinationwitch]

Not a care in the world

[salswitchtrial]

idk about y'all but I still don't give a shit about Malcolm

[analogskullerosis]

Apologies in advance, what I want to say is too long for tags… 😅

I agree that Laura’s ending could’ve stuck the landing better, but I think her taking a blowtorch to the Ant Farm was still in character for her and reflects where her story was going. The “weapon/not a weapon” binary absolutely wrecked her brain and I think her literally beating herself with the “weapon” stamp was her way of slowly reaching acceptance as to what she is. She IS a weapon, the same way her fellow Doom Patrol members can be considered weapons. She wrestled with how she treated Cliff at the beginning of the season and how haunted she was that she was slipping back into those ways by only seeing Cliff as a weapon. Her moral compass was the same as Vic’s at the start of the show: you can either be GOOD or BAD. WEAPON or NOT A WEAPON. It was only when Laura became comfortable with the idea that you can blur the lines and be a mix of both that I think she was able to enact real change. I took her torching of the Ant Farm as symbolic, in the sense that fire cleanses things. The only way Laura would find peace is by destroying the place that ruined her life and her mind. In a way, I think she was also honoring and doing that for Rita and the rest of her Doom Patrol family. Larry had been tortured and experimented on for years, Niles was given free reign to do basically whatever he wanted (plan out the accidents that made the Doom Patrol), Flex Mentallo had been locked away and barred from reuniting with his wife, and Rita, the Sisterhood of Dada, Wally Sage, and countless others were terrorized in dehumanizing ways.

I think for Laura, that was her way of truly making amends and taking that first step necessary in order to become a truly better person: destroy the system that ruined so many metahuman lives in a chaotic and terroristic way fitting of Laura De Mille. She just needed somebody like Vic to come along and give her that final push and a guiding hand that says, “there’s grey area. It’s not simply one or the other.”

In the end, I think someone like her simply can’t fully learn the lesson “you need to love yourself before you can learn to love and be loved by others.” If she can, it’s a lesson that takes years to really learn… but I think the ending we saw was the first step towards that.

That’s my own take on Laura at the end.

On the one hand I think there's value in stories that celebrate a healthy sense of independence and comfort with solitude. Not everyone thrives in familial settings or being paired off romantically. And I think in a way it could've made a lot of sense to see that represented in Lauras ending, especially if she's on the ASPD spectrum like Doctor Harrison diagnosed in 4.1.

BUT LIKE.

her whole arc was spent wanting/resisting/fucking up/grieving human connection. part of me loves the idea of her going off to be a badass fighting for humanity with questionably moral tactics, but maybe a bit of "you need to learn to love yourself before you can learn to love and be loved by others" context would have made her ending make a lot more sense.

[sweetbrunch]

can't believe we have to wait many months for season 4... in the comics laura has a good and a bad personality, but in the series so far she only looks like someone that has to take very hard decisions to me, I see no double personality...

ps: the real malcolm is at the underground?

doom patrol makes no sense, but I like it more than the other superheroes shows LOL in fact, it's the first superhero show I watch

[serpentbearer18]

Finally watched ep6 two nights ago and I'm still reeling - and I wrote this the morning after, but I'd forgotten it was in my drafts shhh

I don't think I've ever seen Rita this happy??

Like, I'm sure the fact that she can't remember every trauma she's ever had is a huge factor in this, but still she is so happy.

And the sisterhood is so supportive and they actually feel like a family, something the doom patrol has never felt to me (sorry).

Does the sisterhood know about Rita? Like in the present? The patrol told them about Laura, but they didn't mention Rita. And even if they had, they probably wouldn't know the name "Rita".

I don't get why they don't like Laura though?? Like, in the past, she's one of them. Does something happen? Does it have something to do with Niles' letter?

Or do they not dislike her? Have they actually been looking for her?

I'm just thinking of the sisterhood showing up at the mansion like:

Hey, Laura, we're your family, come on- *Rita walks in* OH MY GOD BENDY???? Girl, you're with us too, come on.