#This is about Hal Jordan btw

[thelesbianthespianposts]

hey btw every time you dumb down a superhero in order to make the resident Bat look smarter an angel fucking dies

[littlefankingdom]

I'm thinking about how it is canon that Bruce, as Batman, sends a gift to Hal Jordan's niece for her birthdays, even when he was mad at him for the Parallax' stuff. It demonstrates that Bruce CARES about his teammates, enough to care about their family, even when he is not in good term with them he cares.

And, also, just imagine all these people that gets a gift from BATMAN for their birthday, every year. The Kent. All Oliver's kids. Wally and Donna. Bart, Kon and Cassie. Hal's niece doesn't even know his identity, so it doesn't stop him. All of them had been getting gifts for years!

[froginmygarden]

DP x DC It started with an ad

It's been a week since he came back to earth, two weeks since the notice was taped to his apartments door, and he didn't have much time left to look for a new place. Why did this keep happening? He couldn't crash on the station, because someone was allways up there, and get interogated on the state of his civvy life. On the other hand would anyone even rent to him at this point? Like yeah, he knows he doesn't look really good on paper, what with the months of absence, injuries and ocasional confescated contraband, but Hal Jordan is an upstanding citizen, he swears.

So in short his current probalm was this - by discription he sounds like a criminal. So noone was really willing to rent to him after looking him up. The eviction day kept approaching and he was getting desperate. So how could anyone blame him for jumping at the first willing offer he could find?

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It wasn't all that bad, the apartment was quite spacious, the walls a soft pastel yellow. What furniture they could get was second hand - Ellie absoluteley loved her bed as it was, covered in faded stickers and doodles, probably by the kiddo who last had it, from nonsencical swirls and stick figures to little clouds and planes on the headboard. It was nice, cozy even, but as much as this place had been a godsent, it came with it's own set of problems, that cheep homes usually did.

There was much that needed to be fixed, and while some of it could be done quickley with a bit of cash, like replacing the moldy curtains - likeley left behind by the last owner, however long ago they actually lived here - some would take a bit more money then he curnetly could afford to spend.

So he had a problem - he didn't make that much and he couldn't spend it on renovation. He had a daughter to take care of and the bills didn't feel like paying for theselves, so he did a thing.

He paid a buck for a newspaper ad, it really wasnt much, just a small square among many of it's kind at the back of Coast City Ledger. So imagine his suprise when someone actually saw and was interested in his spare room.

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Part 1 ; Part 2; Part 3

[ashenquill]

[The Watchtower. The Flash is relaxing in a common area, sprawled chaotically across a couch and munching on a high-calorie protein bar. Green Lantern approaches from the side, pushing away Flash's legs so he can flop down beside him. The Flash quickly finishes his bar, then spitefully brings his feet back up to rest on Lantern's lap.]

Hal: I’m getting real sick of Spooky giving me heart attacks, man.

Barry: What happened to being “always vigilant”?

Hal: I am! It’s not my fault he’s the scariest dude alive!

Bruce: [Appearing out of nowhere] Just be grateful you haven’t dealt with my kids.

Hal: WHAT THE F—

Barry: Your kids?

Barry: I always thought they were more…

Barry: sociable

Bruce: [gives him a tiny grin, looking something between smug and amused]

Hal: Hang on, I feel like I missed a chapter — Spooky has kids???

Barry: Keep up, Lantern

Hal: You cannot in good conscience tell me to “keep up,” you’re literally a speedster—

Barry: So, wait — if you’re not the scariest guy alive, then who is?

Bruce:

Bruce: Depends on who you ask

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[Cut to an Office-style confessional with all of The Batman’s sons. Each is interviewed in a different location, and required varying levels of convincing in order to participate.]

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Dick: [Upside-down, in the middle of doing a workout on gymnastics rings. He wears a thoughtful expression as he holds a handstand, making it look effortless.]

Dick: The scariest one of us?

Dick: Well, I guess… probably Tim. His morals aren’t exactly... clear.

Dick: Not to mention the fact that he literally stalked us for years as an untrained, civilian child without anyone noticing.

Dick:

Dick: Actually, I’m pretty sure he still does.

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Jason: [In his apartment, arms crossed and seated on a hideously outdated couch. There is flipped and scattered furniture all around him, and he holds close a copy of Pride and Prejudice. Its cover is spattered with blood.]

Jason: You really broke in just for this shit?

Jason: Fuckin’, me, obviously.

Jason:

Jason: But, if I had to pick someone else…

Jason: [Sighs]

Jason: [mumbling] Demon Brat.

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Tim: [Sitting at a large desk in his office at WE, wearing an expensive suit. His tie is loose and his eyes are dark-rimmed, and papers are stacked all around him in a messy, yet organized fashion. He was woken up from a nap for this, despite the fact that a mug of coffee is sitting to his right and several discarded energy drinks can be seen behind him.]

Tim: I mean, I don’t think any of us are particularly scary anymore. Like, we all have similar skill sets and abilities, and there are contingencies for if anyone goes rogue.

Tim: [smirking] Plus, you don’t just stalk the “world’s greatest detectives” completely unnoticed and feel intimidated by them — I know way too much for that.

Tim: [sighs] So, if we’re going by my standards? Couldn’t tell ya. But if we go by sheer intimidation-factor to outsiders, then it’s probably Jason.

Tim: Like, sure, Batman has his whole schtick, but plenty of Gotham has been around the block by now and knows he won’t kill people. But the Red Hood? He made his debut with a duffle bag of severed heads.

Tim: [shrugs] I hate to say it, but that’s pretty badass.

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Damian: [Sitting in a plush chair in Wayne Manor, looking poised. The fireplace is flickering picturesquely behind him, and Titus sits faithfully at his feet. The scene is incredibly photogenic compared to the others.]

Damian: Tt. What a pointless question to ask — the entire purpose of our training is to ensure we are all equally intimidating. But I suppose I will entertain the thought.

Damian: Grayson, as the heir to Batman’s mantle, is the obvious answer. He is highly skilled in combat, deductive reasoning, and, of course, acrobatics. He is confident, competent, and a strong leader.

Damian: [grinning smugly] Of course, even if this was not the case, it would still be an easy conclusion to reach, given his competition. Drake is weak and Todd is soft, therefore giving Richard the clear advantage.

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Alfred: [Calmly preparing dinner, chopping vegetables with speed and precision. He is nonchalant and does not look up as he gives his response.]

Alfred: While I would be happy to entertain the question, I am afraid if I were to answer honestly, I would have to say none of them.

Alfred: [smirking faintly] The boys are all very well-accomplished, of course — but it is my opinion that the “scariest” one in the family cannot be anyone other than Miss Cassandra.

Alfred: After all, stealth is the key to startling one’s peers, and she has mastered it thoroughly.

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—alternate response from Tim—

Tim: Oh, definitely Dick, but probably not for the reason people think.

Tim: Like, sure, he started before he hit double-digits, but I figured out who Batman was at that age, so it’s not really that impressive. And, yeah; original Boy Wonder, successor to Batman, Tamer of the Demon’s Heir— all great for the resume. But the real reason he’s the scariest?

Tim: [shudders]

Tim: He went to therapy.

[nuuxta]

I re read Absolute Power

So I noticed things :

can we just appreciate how Bruce used Damian tt ???? Please ???? I didn't see it the first time (too focused on the story, now I went for details), and yeaaaah, i love it.

the frienship between Hal and Barry... god I love them (yeah, my favorites heroes are the original Flash and Green Lantern, could you tell ?? (Sorry for one of my friend, Nightwing is way further away :) )) And obviously : GL and the Flashes. I love them all (yeah, I love mostly Hal, Barry and Wally, but all of them T-T)

And this made me laugh, and my friend -who was beside me when I read that chapter-.

[flashdoesahundredyarddash]

Under blue moon, I saw you 🦇

[kiseiakhun]

Anyway, I think the worst thing Geoff Johns did to Hal's character is that he just made him boring. The fun thing about Hal is that he's the worst man to walk the earth. He's a trainwreck in the making. Every day he wakes up and thinks nothing and makes 20 awful decisions and messes up everything and goes to sleep content in a job well done and it's great. Hal is the Worst Man Ever™. He's a donkey in human form. By all means his personality and skillset makes him the perfect supervillain but he's a hero and he's imperfect and he claws himself back from the brink long after most people would've given up because that's who he is. That's at the core of his character. Even when he's below rock bottom, he never gives up, and god does he hit it, over and over again.

Johns just... erased all that complexity by making Hal the bestest greatest most precious lanterny lantern ever. Suddenly everyone loves him and treats parallax as just a 'hehe! Whoops!' and it sucks because if you take away the fact that Hal is a garbage human being he's just BORING. He's just a boring stereotypical stoic superhero. Who wants to read that! Who wants to read about Universe's Best Most Precious Greatest Man Gets Praised And Solves Every Problem And Is Never Wrong. Like at least when batman does it they try to give us a detective story. Usually it's not a good detective story but they at least try. Hal doesn't need to do detectiving. He can solve pretty much anything with the ring on his finger. He's invulnerable and powerful and perfect and let's be real, at this point he barely has a secret identity. There's nothing adding stakes to the story, not when Hal the best boy is here.

It's so fucking boring!! It's genuinely an injustice to his character. Hal's much more interesting when he makes every single bad decision, ever, and then has to dig himself out of the hole that he dug. That's someone I can root for. That's a character I can develop complex feelings about. If you just hand me the perfect being in creation I feel nothing. I'm already bored.

[aesiraa]

barry: seriously, all you do is bitch

hal: i happen to bitch the perfect amount for someone in my situation

[bitchyblkqueer]

how am i supposed to be normal about them (action comics 1938 issue 617)

[kara-zor-els]

Insert the "you construct intricate rituals which allow you to touch the skin of other men" meme

[oceanicflyboy]

*long insurfable sigh* I miss my friend Tails, i miss him alot.. I'll be back 😿

[witherby]

I need someone to hear me out on a selkie!Hal AU with BatLantern and it's the classic silly mishaps of 'you left your blanket btw' and '..do you know what that actually is?'

Like just silly stuff instead of.. the usual sad stuff selkies go through– Besides non-human Hal Jordan goes hard and i need to yap to someone about it but my friends are probably tired of it already so yeah, LOL

Oh my god yes yes yes yes

Hal keeps his flight jacket on the first few times he visits with Bruce, who mistakes this as a temperature issue and adjusts the thermostat for him every time he comes around.

When Hal feels comfortable enough to take the coat off, he's still leaving it in his lap. That's fine! Maybe he just has a habit of forgetting it. Bruce certainly won't touch it since it seems to mean a lot to him.

But more time goes by. They get closer. More romantically involved. Bruce, being Bruce, eventually figures out exactly what that flight jacket is.

And he still won't touch it.

The one time it seems like Hal is going to forget it, having draped it over the back of a chair, Bruce quickly calls him over and passes it off with a smile and a kiss for the road.

And here's where it gets silly.

Because Hal knows what the jacket is. Obviously. It's his. Bruce knows what it is. Hal knows that Bruce knows what it is.

So why the fuck isn't he coveting it? Is he ugly? Is he not laying pipe well enough? Is Bruce seeing other selkies on the side!? Does he want him to stop coming around!? WHY WON'T YOU KEEP MY COAT YOU SON OF A BITCH —

[nitewrighter]

To everyone freaking out about this week's MAWS episode, I'm just going to say: They broke up in the 90's and it proved better for them in the long haul. Lois got the space to figure her shit out for herself while also realizing how much Clark meant to her on a purely personal level. Clark never stopped loving her or believing in her but also he wanted the best for her so he gave her that space. They figured their shit out. They found each other. They got married. Jimmy was Clark's Best Man. Also Clark got de-powered for a significant period of time and Hal Jordan became evil at this point but don't worry about that. Oh, also Lois got a whole arc where she got to go full Rambo to rescue Clark (still de-powered) on their honeymoon which was fucking hot as shit.

Here's Lois being fucking shredded on her way to rescue Clark btw:

(also Clark got dosed with truth serum and said "i'm superman" while high off his ass but don't worry it all worked out).

[diluckissrr]

Hey guys welcome back to my channel

Halbarry spy au based on a fic my friend wrote for me 🫶

I havent uh...done hals character sheet yet but ill add it later

Okay lore time:

This is sort of a combination between the cw flash show and the comics because my friend only knows the cw show

Iris, Barry and Hal all work under the same spy agency (i guess its a version of the justice league but i think i need a diff name for it).

Barry "flash" allen is an agent well known for his agility and efficiency, and yk he loves a plan!

Specialty is cryptography and tracking people down (forensics background)

Picked up some code and info gathering from iris. B + I work really well together because they understand each other's fields and also are BFFs (yay!)

I like to think hed be interested by new technologies and gadgets because hes a nerd

Not a very good liar, Iris has tried to teach him her tricks and he has. sort of improved?

Iris "dutch" west is like the woman in the chair. (I named her dutch becuz of the dutch iris flower, its very pretty you should look it up).

She's known for digging up information and learns a lot abt the clients/targets/whatever so that her agents are best prepared (barry loves this). S

Works behind the scenes during operations to make sure everything goes smoothly

Very good at manipulation and getting things out of people.

Wanted to be a field operative but Joe wouldn't let her (its apparently dangerous or something...🙄). She does occasionally go on little unofficial missions that only barry knows about because a girls gotta have her fun!!!

Joe is some sort of supervisor for the agency btw. 👍

Hal "highball" jordan!!! Hal is overall a very skilled agent. He's a creative and unpredictable fighter, plus he's able to think quickly on his feet.

He really enjoys the risk of the job and sometimes gets a bit too into it which can cause some erm. predicaments. But hey! quick thinking!

His impulsiveness has put many of his partners in danger due to their inability to keep up with him.

Charismatic (rizz!!), helps him on missions that require a little people shmoozing.

Many people underestimate his actual ability and think he has gotten to where he is by nepotism/sleeping his way up but hes a very hard and ambitious worker

side note: Carol ferris is a higher up and after she and Hal broke up she sent him on really dangerous jobs out of spite. "haha yup almost died. shes so funny <3"

Barry sort of gets paired with hal as damage control and is NOT very happy about it because he thinks hal is incredibly annoying and impulsive. Hal is also not very happy about it because he thinks Barry is uptight and a goody-two-shoes. They are both not wrong!!

Because of Joe and Barry propaganda, Iris doesn't really like Hal at first but likes teasing Barry about working with him. Eventually hal wins her over

Barry can be a bit of a control freak in terms of sticking to the plan so working with hal forces him to loosen up and become more adaptable. I think Hal learns to appreciate Barry for his skill and respects his work ethic. He really trusts Barry and eventually goes along with his plans (even if he knows they won't go perfectly, but thats what improv is for). I think as they work together they build a really strong trust between them like 'Ik u wont let me die! thanks a lot xoxo'. imagine them gayly and clichely driving away from a mission in a cool convertible with the radio on. yeahhh!

[shoot-i-messed-up]

because I couldn’t get the idea of La Femme Spectre Helen out of my head

notes, close-ups, and sketch under the cut!

i was talking w birdie about how we would reintroduce Helen from the Spectre 2001 timeline back into main GL comics, and we thought it’d be cool if Helen got her reality warping powers back and called herself La Femme Spectre (as a legacy thing, not bc she holds the Spectre, bc i’m think the actual Spectre is Jim Corrigan again rn and he’s also maybe at god level so he can’t be a main character???).

We were thinking smth, like, Monsieur Stigmonus is back and he’s trying to threaten the world so that Helen would remember the pre-Johns timeline and he could hasten the bad half of her destiny, and it turns out that Materna Minxx purposefully blocked Helen’s memories of that timeline because she didn’t want Helen to have those powers in the new timeline without the protection of Spectre Hal and is also maybe disguising herself as Janice Jordan.

ANYWAYS. Notes for my design of La Femme Spectre!Helen:

- i ofc wanted to take inspiration from both Hal’s “main” Spectre form and his La Femme Spectre variant, which is mainly shown here in the green cloak, the flame pin on her forehead, and the heart-shaped mask

- i also wanted to do a callback to Helen’s iconic nightgown from The Spectre 2001, so i HC that after she’s brought to the Geoff Johns timeline and forgot what happened in Spectre01, she still had that nightgown and could never let go of it even when she outgrew it, so she upcycled it into a cute dress. I also like to HC that Helen gets into fashion and textiles, so that also fits with that <3

- purple shoes and the insides of her pink dress to reference Materna’s influence on her

- I was waffling on what color to do for her pants and dress pockets since I wanted them to be the same color and landed on just keeping it white because I feel like it gives her the slightest bit of a ghostly vibe/edge

- light green bracelet to 1) remind u that she might be a teenager but she’s still a kid and 2) perhaps be a connection to her favorite uncle…

- also. Who is the letterer of the spectre01 i just wanna talk. that shit was genuinely the hardest part of drawing this, was copying the lettering for la femme spectre.

Here r some of the images i used as inspiration:

That last image is one that I got from my Helen Jordan civvies fashion pinterest board btw <3

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

When Geoff Johns rewrote Hal and Sinestro's first meeting in Rebirth, the latter mentions having trained several other Green Lanterns before Hal, which is just a fascinating concept to imagine.

Green Lantern: Rebirth

Stel is easily the most recognizable name among those that Sinestro lists here, and he still occasionally appears in the comics. You might also know Arkkis Chummuck if you're familiar with Corps history, though he's often mistaken for fellow Toomeyan Barreer Wot. Khen-To is the most obscure one, as his sole appearance is in Emerald Dawn.

Anyway, these three guys being established as Sinestro's students is a bit of a retcon, since it was never mentioned previously who else Sinestro had trained besides Hal. Which in itself is a retcon, because originally Sinestro had been expelled from the Corps before Hal ever joined. It wasn't until Emerald Dawn II that their current mentor/protege relationship was established, as well as the fact that Sinestro had recruited and trained other Green Lanterns.

History of retcons aside, I do wish that line about Sinestro's other students wasn't just a throwaway reference. The Corps is at its most interesting when the members have connections and relationships with each other. I get why no one, not even Johns himself, expanded on Arkkis and Khen, the former was killed off back in the 80s and the latter only existed to die while defending Oa in Emerald Dawn.

But Stel! He's still alive and kicking ass! There's still so much you could do with that connection to Sinestro (and Hal by proxy)!

Like, imagine what Sinestro's downfall might have looked like from Stel's perspective. He wasn't there like Hal was, he only learned of the atrocities committed on Korugar when the rest of the Corps also did. And upon learning of what his mentor did, he almost certainly went back through his memory banks, searching for any sign of whether Sinestro was always that corrupt or if he’d changed at some point. Trying to see if there was a point when Stel could have prevented all of this.

Or, if Stel isn’t the type of robot to dwell on the past, perhaps he seeks out Hal Jordan. Especially if Arkkis and Khen had already died by this point, who else could possibly understand what Sinestro's last student would be feeling?

One day, this human will become the greatest Green Lanterns, far eclipsing his traitorous teacher. But today, Hal is just a rookie who has seen his mentor put on trial and expelled. He is unsure of his place in the Corps, if there even is one for someone trained by such a treacherous monster. When a hulking android approaches him after the trial, Hal thinks that it's his turn to be thrown out. But to his surprise, the robot introduces himself as a fellow protege of Sinestro, and asks Hal how he's holding up.

This is one of the strangest conversations that Hal has ever had, speaking with an alien that looks like a sci-fi robot but addresses his doubts with understanding and compassion. Stel reassures Hal that the Corps will judge him on his own merits, rather than by the actions of Sinestro.

(that's Barreer, not Arkkis btw)

Even after Parallax and Emerald Twilight, Stel is willing to give Hal the benefit of the doubt- and is respected enough that his fellow Corpsmen will take his side over Salakk lmao