#anarchist lonnie machin

[batfambyval]

So usually I just stick to writing fics but I’m not getting anywhere on this so imma just post some random Anarky thoughts here.

I think Lonnie is AFAB. Transitioned at a young age because they didn’t feel comfortable with feminine shit. Realized as the got older they weren’t totally masculine either and created Anarky, an identity with no gender who represents all the people. Men, women, non-binary folk, children. They decided to forgo figuring out their own identity and instead turned themself into a representation of everyone else. They decided that their goals and ideologies were more important than their gender identity and to forget all that bullshit. And accidentally discovered that if you stop worrying about gender you free yourself from it and become your truest self.

I think Lonnie still uses he/him pronouns and only uses they/them as Anarky because Anarky is supposed to be a representation of the people and therefore is plural and ungendered.

I think Lonnie would never have a sexual relationship with someone who he didn’t have an emotional or intellectual connection with but I don’t think he’s demi. He’s totally internally going “fuck, fuck, fuck, shit, fuck, why is he so hot?!?” When he’s interacting with Robin before they get closer.

Tim totally found Lonnie because he was completely confident that he cut that line. He did not miss. He doesn’t fucking miss! Anarky has to be alive because Tim does not miss. So he looks for Anarky and just shows up at his place. Idk what happened next.

I think Tim and the dog are the only beings Lonnie interacts with as Lonnie. With everyone else they are Anarky. Lonnie isn’t always representative of the people when he’s alone or just chilling so when he’s not Anarky he’s just Lonnie and he has his own interests and idiosyncrasies and just doesn’t care how anyone perceives him and therefore doesn’t care about pronouns or what he’s called. If he’s only representing himself then it doesn’t really matter. Especially since hardly anyone even knows Lonnie exists at all.

Tim and Lonnie grate on each other’s nerves for a while, before they get used to each other. They are just so different from an ideological standpoint but so similar in a lot of other ways that they can’t understand why the other doesn’t see things the same way. But they end up being good for each other because they are both geniuses and see each other as equals intellectually and can’t write one another off. They have to listen to each other and they learn to understand each other’s perspectives and soften their edges a bit. Tim teaches Lonnie how to look at money from the perspective of someone who has it and wants to do good with it and Lonnie teaches Tim how to look at the power structures that make up our society and see how incredibly unjust and broken they are.

Tim totally teaches Lonnie to skateboard and they’re both skater boys.

If anyone wants to use any of these ideas please link it in the comments or reblog because I would love to read it!

[gothamspring]

this is a crazy thing to have lonnie say when

no company based on wage labor is 'ethical' for a socialist, it'd have to be a co-op. and even then im not sure an anarchist would like a conglomerate born out of late stage capitalism.

hasn't wayne enterprises sold ships and jets to the us military before? what I'm not sure about is when in canon this was stated, and if it was before lonnie's creation. im calling for the community's help with this one.

i dunno why they try so hard to have lonnie like bruce. in what world does an anarchist think a CEO's conglomerate is ethical. i know im nitpicking, but i can't stop thinking about the cop out this is, because here a business is considered 'ethical' because of how it is run, instead of considering the structure of capitalism as unethical in itself. anarchism has never been about running the system ethically from the inside, it's been about dismantling it entirely. how did grant miss that.

in conclusion:

[gl1tchr]

a lil wip of Lonnie for the Reevesverse au :3

[aliteralchicken]

Lonnie needs to start being a menace again.

Speaking of Lonnie, have they resurrected him yet? I haven’t seen him in a while

[domnorian]

With what's happening those past few days in France, I felt like drawing my boy Lonlon.

[punkrockkonel]

this is so sad alexa play sex and violence

[prognostik-a2]

thinking about him ( anarky )

[zahri-melitor]

So reading through various 90s Batccomics means I’ve been enjoying every time Anarky shows up, and by god does Lonnie ever exude some stupol energy.

You ripped that rant straight from Red Flag, young man. You have intense SEP member energy. You have a specific beef with everything SAlt for being your nearest enemy. I predict you’re going to be organising a protest against the pedagogical insult that is marking any moment now.

This child is such a stereotype I’m amazed half his sentences don’t start “solidarity with [since devolved section of the USSR]”. He needs to sneak off to badly photocopy more pamphlets on African starvation due to Western Imperialism on the school photocopiers.

I’m guessing I’m supposed to disagree with his statements? But it’s just so much Babby’s First Political Awakening stuff that I just want to set him up with a student union election campaign and watch him spend half his time yelling insults at the other socialist parties on the SRC, most of which have ridiculous names. Except he’s running around electrocuting people instead.

[do-you-ship-this-comic-ship]

propaganda:

The chemistry. the banter. Being a hacker and bisexual are too coolest things in 1995. The way years later Tim created an entire vr suit/world for Lonnie when he was fully paralyzed so they could team up to defeat DC's darkweb the Ünternet.

(second propaganda is very long so it goes beneath a read more)

Lonnie is the first vigilante peer Tim interacted with and a major part of Tim's first solo detective case before becoming Robin - their histories are connected inside and outside of the comics, as Lonnie was the third Robin that never was and Tim is the third Robin that was. Tim maintains the myth of the Bat and Lonnie works to render the need for it obsolete (despite admiring Batman to a degree) which makes for interesting contrast. Tim's been at least somewhat interested in talking to and understanding Lonnie since their first interaction despite their couple of clashes, offering to discuss Anarchist politics with him, and Lonnie is someone often misunderstood by the wider vigilante community. Their banter is fun when they're up against each other, and Tim arrives at the conclusion that they'd make a good team the second time they meet. Tim makes a few comments here and there about how Lonnie's motivations are right and how his heart's in the right place, proving a sympathy with his cause even if it chafes against Batman's. Later on, Tim saves Lonnie's life when he's about to die after getting trapped attached to a blimp set to explode. Tim saves Lonnie's life again when Lonnie's kidnapped by Ulysses Armstrong at the end of his Robin solo, beforehand starting to correspond with Lonnie to try to track him down and rescue him and then actually rescuing him with Ulysses makes Tim choose between apprehending him and saving Lonnie. Tim in Red Robin shows signs of liking Lonnie, teaming up with him, being very concerned about his well being, even calling him his "best friend" a few times, even if sarcastically. Lonnie uses the fact that Tim understands him and how he operates to convince Tim to let him deal with the Unternet. Tim defends Lonnie's character. There's a lot of potential for the two of them any way you slice it (because there is some rivalry, annoyance, mistrust present), but I think they're people who are both similar enough to each other and different enough from each other in ways that would challenge each other to reflect on aspects of themselves, and there's nothing Tim loves more than someone who challenges him. Lonnie's painfully lonely and often needs others to drag him back down from the clouds when his well-intentioned schemes get out of hand as well as thoughts that he's the only one who can actually save the world, and Tim tends to connect or connect well with others, working well with a team. Lonnie is someone who has big, alternative ideas about society and how to deal with societal issues and has the drive to get things done, which I think would be good for Tim who is so averse to becoming like Batman, and they make nice conversation partners. There's more I could say but this is already getting so long. TL;DR timlonnie sweep forever.

[dccommies]

DC LEFTIST INFIGHTING CAGE MATCH: ROUND ONE - SET 8

JOHN CONSTANTINE:

“His leftist working class background is essential to understand his character. The very first issues of Hellblazer show his hatred of Tatcher and the horror in the comic is intertwined with the political landscape of the era. He's more of an anarchist, clearly influenced by his connection with subcultures like hippie and mostly punk, and his distaste of establishments is pretty well known."

LONNIE MACHIN:

“she's lonnie machin what do you MEAN."

[sunnymusingsao3]

How to Play Twenty Questions

Words: 7,444 Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tim Drake/Lonnie Machin Summary: I give an anarchist a sexuality crisis Tags: Pre-Relationship, Developing Relationship, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Missing Scene, Pre-New 52, New Earth, Coma, There's one scene done in the style of a chatfic at the end, This is rather slice of life for superheroes, There's a lot of talking and not much mission

Preview:

Adjusting to life the way it’s turned lately has been… labyrinthine, to put it mildly. That is, Lonnie’s been doing as he always does– surviving at all costs– but it’s not as if that’s been made easy for him to do.

He doesn’t tell anyone about the worst parts of it; the aches that score bone-deep and radiate through his muscle tissue and nervous system, the numbed and prickly pieces of his body that he can’t feel at all, or the arrant humiliation of knowing that someone much, much less intelligent than him had been allowed to cause this much harm– to name a few.

Steve Neumann. Sean Jacobs. Dave McEvoy. Their families will never see them again, and Lonnie has helped make that happen.

There is something gut-wrenchingly devastating in how completely, how irreparably, a fascist child playing soldier dress up has razed Anarky to the ground. The people will never trust the moniker again. Brought on by a gunshot– incomprehensibly quick and calamitously loud, perpetually drumming in repetition in the depths of his skull, always where it hurts the most– Lonnie Machin has lost at once his sword and shield, and Gotham’s voice has been choked off–

To name a few more.

These are the things he believes he will never tell anyone. See, there is nothing so torturous as being so totally and finitely unable to do anything to reverse the slaughter of one’s singular, self-made purpose in the century of life gifted at birth. There is one thing that Anarky wants, one penultimate goal for the people he’s vowed to protect– but as it’s turned out, he can’t even protect three people from someone who should never have presented as big a threat as he did.

There are no how-to manuals about recovering from that.

So, he doesn’t tell anyone about it.

Instead, he moves his knight on Chess.com and waits for Tim’s answering play.

“Interesting.” Tim hums, and he looks like he wants to talk smack, but for whatever reason, something stays his hand. Rather, tongue.

Lonnie dreams of telling him off for it, but he settles instead for, “No commentary for the spectators?”

“Not when my spectator is working as my opponent.” The on-break vigilante responds, a grin cracking across his lips. Tim is half-undressed from his gear, his belts and cape discarded in a chair by the wall, and his gloves are dangling off the arm of the one he’s pulled up next to Lonnie’s bed. His hair is disheveled, and at its current length, it flops to either side of his temples, curling a tad around his ears. It’s a strange contrast to the cropped cuts he’d gelled to the nines back in the day, and Lonnie suspects that if he were to reach out and touch it, it would be softer than he’s ever seen it before. If not somewhat sweaty, that is.

���Your turn.” Tim mentions, which draws Lonnie’s attention back to the game–

Where it becomes evident that he’s losing. Badly.

“I hope this hasn’t been too easy for you.” The computer pipes up, as Lonnie simultaneously stalls for time, and watches Tim’s reaction.

Alas, it reveals everything that Lonnie was afraid of.

“What? Of course not.” Tim laughs, too hastily, too stridently.

Fancying a sigh, the anarchist resigns the game, the sting of disappointment washing frigidly through his veins, not unlike the feeling of the IV drip when it releases medicine into his bloodstream.

“Hey– you could have come back from that.” Tim is trying to placate Lonnie, and the spider knows this. But it tastes bitter against Lonnie’s tonsils, so in spite of Tim’s most well-meaning intentions, he rejects them.

“I’m not going to insult you by banking on you losing to gross negligence or sheer accident. It’s fine. Let’s start again.”

Lonnie invites Tim to a new game, and in silence, the pair begin.

It takes less than ten moves for Lonnie to get wise to what Tim is doing.

He resigns again, which makes Tim blanch, his head shooting up to peer at his friend in unwarranted surprise. “You were winning!”

Lonnie can’t clench his jaw, nor hit the keys on a virtual keyboard with any force, but he hopes that the voice of the screen reader makes his disdain apparent. “Do you have any idea how belittling it is to let me win?”

Tim Drake is known to be a fantastic liar. But Lonnie Machin is known to be truthful to a fault. He identifies Tim’s tells as they happen. “I wasn’t–”

“Save it.” The robotic voice cuts him off, and Tim’s jaw shutters. “If you’re not going to play a fair game, I don’t want to participate. I won’t enable cheating, and I certainly won’t be complicit in it. I can’t believe you’d try something like that.”

Red Robin passes like a cloud over Tim’s icy eyes. “I didn’t want you to get discouraged.”

Lonnie itches to laugh. “Whatever. Let’s get back to business; we have a lot to do, don’t we?”

“I mean, we could take a few more minutes–”

“Let's get back to business.” Lonnie pushes harder.

And Tim doesn’t need to don the cowl for Lonnie to be able to pinpoint the changes in his posture, in the way he distributes his own weight, for him to know that he’s speaking with the recently-graduated former protege of the Batman, now, rather than his new best pal, Tim Drake-without-the-Wayne.

“Fine.” Tim stands, as he prefers to do when discussing matters like this. Lonnie wonders if he’s aware he does it. “What’d you find on the new Lynx?”

[Read the rest on AO3]

[batfambyval]

Ok. I love Lonnie Machin aka Anarky and I am a firm believer that he is NOT biologically related to the Joker. That was never the plan the series just got cancelled before they revealed it was all a lie. This is confirmed by the author.

However.

I recently had an intrusive thought about it and what version of the Joker it would be if it were true. And now I really really really want Lonnie to have some connection to Jerome Valeska!

To be clear I don’t think they would get along and idk what the relationship is but it would be so interesting! They’re both anarchists in very different ways and they have have enough similarities that ignorant people would lump them together and it would be so fun to have them trapped in a situation where they have to work together!

They can both rant about how fucked up society is, thinking they’ve found a kindred spirit and just agree until they get to talking about solutions. And then they’re arguing and seething and deciding they are Mortal Enemies.

Because Jerome is a Nihilist. He doesn’t think anything matters and his only coping mechanism for all the shit he went through is not taking anything seriously and doing whatever the fuck he wants and convincing others to do the same.

Whereas Lonnie is an idealist who believes that the world can be fixed and humanity saved if people were just smarter! Which is so relatable honestly. People can be dumb and ignorant and that causes the majority of our problems as a species. Unfortunately for Lonnie making people smarter is not an easy thing to do. I doubt it’s even possible on the scale he wants. Not the point.

Point is these two would be so interesting together and I really want to see how that would play out!

[lonniemachin]

my stupid brain reading anarchist & communist political theory like woah... and how can i apply this to lonnie machin !!!

[volucerrubidus]

the unpopular character that you actually like + why more people should like them and it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

North Chooses Violence II Accepting

The answer will shock no one who knows my blogroll (sup @peranarkia), but Lonnie Machin.

I am, first of all, obsessed with that character in general. But second of all, if you have to get into Lonnie by being into Tim first, how can you not get into Lonnie? He's such a deeply integral part of Tim's story that it's impossible to miss him unless you're intentionally ignoring everyone but Tim.

(To be clear-- Lonnie is also much more than a support role character. But most people are introduced to him via his support of Tim as Moneyspider, so that's why I say that).

Believe you me, as a communist who was converted to being an anarchist via Lonnie's comics (not a hard sell to be fair) I fell hard and fast for Lonnie's character, and it is a crying shame that he is 1. slept on in the fandom in general, but then also 2. severely misunderstood by the comic fandom that prefers fanfiction to canon in terms of understanding characterizations and canon events.

I have never pretended to like fanon, but the way the fandom as a whole understands Lonnie makes me wanna tear my hair out. He is a character motivated by unconditional love of humanity, the belief that we have no choice but to be our best selves because it is how he sees humanity, by the knowledge that we not only can, but will change things for the good of all mankind-- and he is literally, canonically, so honest that he can't even bring himself, morally, to lie to The Joker. He is not, by any stretch of belief, some adventurist who only blows shit up "4 da chaos lols" or "because society sucks or whatever." Lonnie is willing to engage in (non-lethal, mind) property damage, of course, but unless someone understands what Direct Action is, it is very rarely presented correctly or with the right amount of nuance in the fandom, and as an anarchist (been one for about two and some change ish years now), it is infuriating to see how anarchist characters are handled by comic book fans (given the trust in the justice system that they provide. and hey, fair enough that trust in comic/fictional justice is present; it's just... comics were built on real-world commentary. DC not using that chance to make real statements about the world is just capitalistic and cowardly at this point, and fans should stop trusting or crediting DC with/to present any kind of good faith argument for anything but institutional, corporate-benefiting, punitive justice that doesn't work, flat out.)

At the end of the day, I can't control how someone engages with comics, and I won't be rude to them about it, but I do reserve the quiet/private right to believe that someone is going about Lonnie comics the wrong way if they don't 1. look at him past his involvement with Tim and 2. give his ideology a real, hard, genuine, earnest look.

Lonnie is a delight through and through, and if you'd like to know more about him, my pages at @peranarkia are readily available to show more about him, such as: a reading guide, a (not comprehensive, but close to it) case-by-case bio, a canon-exclusive FAQs page, and my own personal musings tag (not fully canon-based, as much as indie rp can't be 100% canon sometimes).

I cannot recommend this character enough.

In fact, to add to the propaganda, enjoy a scene from Batman Chronicles that makes me giggle every time:

[dc-polls]

They Would Not Fucking Say That! Preliminary Poll

Lonnie Machin (Anarky)

From: Prelude to the Wedding: Red Hood vs. Anarky. New 52/Prime Earth(?) Context: Anarky attempts to thwart Catwoman’s bachelorette party (it was a lead-up to the Bruce/Selina fail wedding) and Jason Todd attempts to stop him.

Teams up with fascists to ruin Selina’s outing by sowing violence, chaos, and destruction in a large crowd of people because the Joker played on his desire for a father figure.

Lonnie, prior to the reboot, was conceived as and most prominently depicted as a politically left-anarchist character until his creator and primary writer, Alan Grant, began getting into Randian Neo-Tech Objectivism and projected it onto Lonnie as Lonnie was always his political mouthpiece. However, despite Lonnie's political sway going from more anarcho-communist to objectivist, he was always a character who had near-unwavering, passionate stances on social issues. He considered anyone who preyed on the common man, or "enemies of the people", to be *his* enemies, and he often came at this from a leftist point of view. He was a strong supporter of social justice for the oppressed, and it was his sorrow and outrage at oppression that led him to take up vigilantism. He despised fascism and considered anyone who used initiatory violence against others to be opposed to him. To Lonnie, anarchism is a philosophy of total freedom from oppression, self-determination, and helping your fellow man, not 'chaos'.

He was also *very* anti-gun and anti-weapon of mass destruction. Whenever he used bombs, they were often smoke bombs or paint bombs. On the one single occasion he used actual bombs to blow up a munitions factory, he evacuated everyone in the building before it blew up, as he cares for the lives of innocents and does not kill. The one single time that it is implied that he killed, his victim was a man who blew up 20+ innocent people in a public setting via bombing and used him as a scapegoat. He has said before that he 'can't let innocent people die because of him'. He holds to this even if he can be clumsy in his methods. When he once experienced a machine-induced dream in which Gotham City descended into fiery chaos because of his well-intentioned actions, he had a crying breakdown.

And, on the Joker - in his 1999 solo series, there is a plot point that is left open-ended that implies the Joker could be Lonnie's biological father, as he is an adoptee. This was done to cement Lonnie into the Batman mythos, as his creators Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle cared a lot about him. When editors disapproved of this, they let Grant write it on the condition that he would prove it wrong later on, but after the Joker issue the series was canceled, and so for all intents and purposes, it was not meant to be lasting 'canon'. Lonnie has been known to hate the Gotham Rogues, as he considers their actions against the people of the city to be completely antithetical to his views and ideals, some of the most important things to him. When he thought that the Joker could've been his father, he had a breakdown. He visited Arkham in order to find out and the Joker briefly played on his (at the time, a 16 year old child) yearning to figure out his parentage in the wake of his adoptive parents' implied death (with some genetic determinism 'does this mean i'll be a "madman" too? involved, but, eugh), but once the Joker tried to use Lonnie to help him break out of Arkham, Lonnie quickly acted against him to prevent his escape. It is said in a (dubiously canon) Batman encyclopedia that the crisis that the Joker could have been his father put him through caused him to self-isolate even harder than he normally does for a while until Cassie Sandsmark's speech during YJ: Sins of Youth inspired him back onto the field. Needless to say, he hates the Joker, and his hatred for the Joker's actions was enough to override his want for a parental figure.

In the post-reboot continuity, Lonnie is no longer an adoptee and his single mother would tell him the Joker was his 'real father' and would come and get him if he misbehaved. He began writing letters to the Joker, who eventually tried to get Lonnie to 'impress' him by giving Batman a 'rehearsal' before his wedding. Lonnie did this by gathering militant anti-feminist terrorists and gun nuts alongside leftists and anti-fascists in one place in order to get them to fight each other and cause 'blood, smoke, and chaos.'

As always, remember to check the notes for info others may have shared, and reblog to help increase reach!

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[dcu-rarepair]

Day 3 Gifts

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We also have a handy Commenting Guide to help our Giftees with showing their Giftors some love. And now, here’s today’s works: 

double page spread by anonymous for Zero_Ducks

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Dubious Consent Explicit | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Dick Grayson/Clark Kent/Slade Wilson It's not the first time Slade has fucked him before completing a rescue. It's not unusual; in fact, it's expected. This is the first time they've ever been walked in on, however, and he doesn't seem surprised. Dick doesn't know what to make of it.

honey, can't you see? by anonymous for ZeroMonster

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply Stephanie Brown/Kara Zor-El Kara Danvers is in Gotham on a work trip with her boss, Cat Grant. After an accident at the studio's filming location, Kara has to summon her acting chops at the doctor's so as to not give away her identity.

Little's Worth In Famine by anonymous for DontStopHerNow

General Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Clark Kent/Vandal Savage Detailing the inner thoughts of Vandal Savage during the Justice League episode Hereafter as he works with a time-displaced Superman far in the future after an apocalypse on Earth. As well as the lonliness when Superman has to leave him.

Catching a Canary by anonymous for Pillow Lord

Art | Teen and Up | No Archive Warnings Apply Dinah Lance/Sandra Woosan Lady Shiva and Black Canary have a run-in on a mission.

Have you seen The Matrix? by anonymous for dxncingquxxr

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply Dick Grayson/Joseph Wilson ‘You’re okay ?’ He asked one-handed, knuckles touching Dick’s cheekbone when the man ducked his head and smiled. “Have you seen The Matrix ?” Dick goes down in a fight and Joey is anxious to make sure he's okay. They spend some well-earned comfort time together, but is everything as good as it seems ?

A little discipline can mess you up inside by anonymous for kieran_granola

Explicit | Underage | Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Kon-El | Conner Kent/Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent & Kon-El | Conner Kent Kon has never needed to follow orders and he isn't about to start now. But discipline is important for any young hero and Batman is going to make sure he understands that, even if his methods are a little... unorthodox.

Only for you by anonymous for abovesnakes

Mature | No Archive Warnings Apply Minhkoa Khan/Jason Todd Jason stared at the box left in his safehouse. He needed to figure out who left it here and what they wanted. It was an easy enough task. He really didn't expect a boyfriend out of it.

if i can't dance (i don't want to be part of your revolution) by anonymous for Silver_Snow_77

Canon Divergence AU - College Roommates Teen and Up | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tim Drake/Lonnie Machin Lonnie’s goals when he decided to apply to Gotham University were simple: introduce anarchist ideas to the students and build connections to create a network of like-minded individuals. Nowhere in his plans did Lonnie foresee Tim Drake as his college roommate or his growing feelings for the other man.