#Yadda

[wellzofyouth]

Hot take

But I think comic stans would be a whole lot happier if they stopped judging works compared to the source material and judging works about how they best utilized the source material to tell an engaging and complex narrative. Does that makes sense? A lot of criticism since I got back in comics is relayed to the idea about how all works about xyz needed to be like this because xyz. But that mindset is quite frankly childish. And I'm surprised at how popular it is in these circles.

Comics will never directly translate to the big screen. Entirely different medium. This is obvious.

Due to the long running history of the comics , it is quite *literally* impossible to fit years of history into a 2 hour film or 1 season TV show. A lot of comics build on multiple past issues to build a narrative. Lets just say, a character is originally introduced in an event where years worth of storyline is needed, or referenced, for the story to make sense.

You can NOT put that context into a adaptation. In order to do so, you have to go along with the assumption that the audience understands these characters. This is bad storytelling. This is usually fine with characters like Batman or Spiderman as they're ubiquitous in pop culture, but not for lesser known heroes like Nightwing, or even Wonder Woman. Ask how many people know who Steve Trevor is or who Nightwing is compared to who uncle Ben or Peter Parker is.

The audience must be introduced to the character, grow to like the character, and watch the character grow all WHILE having an engaging plot, and, most importantly in relation to this, good pacing and themes. Including the entire origin of a superhero and how they're technically a God might be interesting to some comic fans, but the general audience will get bored.

So you have to gut, rearrange, and combine certain characters to make the story you want to tell and tell it well.

The first two characters that come to mind when comic fans criticize off source material alone and not engaging with the actual STORY, is YJ and how they handled Cass and how Joker 2 handled Harley. Now I never watched either of them--and it doesn't matter for the point im trying to make--but a lot of the criticism I've seen is just that those characters were different and had different backstories.

It's fine not to like a character because they've changed from the source material. Literally. It's fine not to like a character or story for any reason. But I DO think it's bad faith criticism to call a work of art bad because it changed the source material. News flash: all source material is changed in adoptions. Even the original source material is based off changed source material. Fans of old comics will know the pain of having a characters retcon backstory being the preferred one by Fandom. It sucks!!!! And I won't name names but you're thinking of one right now, aren't you?

I dislike the change YJ did to Cass if i solely compared it to the source material. BUT that doesn't mean the work or even the change itself was bad if the way it was handled fitted the themes, did something interesting with her character in THAT story, or improved the quality and pacing of the story. That's it. Nothing else matters I promise you. Young Justice is only bad because YJ itself is an overrated show.

[prettyboykatsuki]

SHOUJIIIIIIII 😞💞💞💞

[commoninfected]

me n my silly little ms paint character references against the world

[hu-manbee-ing]

blood devil

[kaedeakeshisworld]

Having an appointement to sort out your life is something I am never mentally prepared for

Please, I kindly offer my spot to anyone I'm good

[alienprincelee]

From all the things I'd heard about the new Blue's Clues movie, the one thing I did NOT expect to see was celebrity cameos.

Like, I have no idea why they were there, but I'm not mad at all.

[starredforlife]

hello for those planning on voting for kamala harris. could y’all start emailing or calling her specifically to pressure her to stop the genocide. even if you’re a decided voter, mention you are undecided and that this is the issue you would flip on. here I’ll leave a link where you can email

[boredomdlux]

🍁🍀🌎🌍🌏🦁

yaDDa 👑💖🪶🐐

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[ukulelekatie]

anyone else feel like they’re constantly in a state of doing and folding and putting away laundry

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Yinning Yadda, 2023

[savanir]

DP x DC prompt [6]

Weapon design always came easy to Jack Fenton. He grew up with it, all the way back in Atlantis, when he was just a little guppy.

What he wasn’t aware of at the time was that his parents were from a long and prestigious line of scientists and weapon manufacturers in Atlantean society. But things had been getting dangerous. 

The King at the time cast them out when they refused his demands of greater, stronger, deadlier weapons. The kind of weapons they knew would not only destroy their enemies, but themselves as well.

They fled and went where they thought they would never be found, the surface.

Jack had the easiest time adapting, being as young as he was getting used to breathing air was a lot less of a struggle. 

He adopted one of the most generic male names he could, and adapted the family name of Fenestratus into Fenton. And then it was just living as a human, as humanly as possible, nothing to see here.

By now Jack basically doesn’t know any better. but this piece of heritage is coming back now all these years later, when his son is looking to him for help from the government.

But first he holds his boy close and apologizes, because he sees the fear, and he understands a little too well, and he doesn’t like the picture he’s seeing now that all the puzzle pieces are falling into place.

“I almost became the thing I hate the most. I’m so sorry Danny, I’m sorry I made you feel unsafe in your own home”

The hug is long and warm and tight and Danny isn’t ashamed to admit he might have clung a little bit.

Then Jack holds Danny tightly by his shoulders and gives him a big grin, “Good news though, you’re only half ghost, the other half is not only human but also Atlantean, and there are laws protecting us now” Jack mutters to himself, “I wonder if the whole ghost stuff would actually be put under the meta protection thing… hmm”

Danny blinks for a moment, Jazz gapes, Maddie is suddenly no longer spiraling about how her baby boy got in a terrible accident in their lab and she didn’t know.

“I’m also what?”

“Dad!?”

“oh did I forget to mention that? I thought I did, I know for certain that I had been meaning to”

“Jack sweetie, are you-”

“oh yes, and I remember now, I decided to tell you after our big breakthrough because I didn’t want to distract you, and-” Jack looks sheepish, “I hope you aren’t too mad at me Maddiecakes”

“mad? oh I would never be mad at you about this but we could have- I don’t know, accommodated- Atlanteans are aquatic, well I guess that explains how you could always put away so much water, and when you gave me your umbrella and I thought you were just making an excuse when you told me you didn’t mind and in fact loved getting pelted by the rain-”

Maddie goes on, and Jack thinks to himself that this is exactly the reason why he kept it to himself at the time, Maddie never half asses anything, he’s sure a lot of things are going to change in the house now, it honestly only makes him fall in love with her even more.

Meanwhile Jazz had filled up a bucket of water and then dunked her head in, then came back out not even slightly gasping for breath, just saying “oh my god” over and over.

Danny timed it, “yeah okay, I guess that proves it. now I’m starting to wonder if my weird relationship with air is ghost related at all”

[bloobydabloob]

I don’t know if this is worth a post on here. We post anyways maybe (?)

[swedenis-h]

Aww… anyway! (X)

[underfell]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[godlessyaoi]

maybe

[alienprincelee]

I used to spend a lot of time on Tumblr back in the day and slowly decoded to branch out and try other social media. As soon as I thought I was getting the hang of it, Reddit and Twitter did me dirty (the corporations, the people I found were quite neat)

So I guess it'd be better if I had never left at all.

I missed this hellsite 💕