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desperatecheesecubes · 5 months ago

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Every time I see a post making fun of people being afraid to get into comics I think about how when I was first getting into comics I thought it would be fun to read Infinite Crisis because it was a HUGE event and it would give me an idea of what a whole slew of runs and characters were like. I made a post about some panel pretty early into the event (I think it was a build up comic that wasn't even officially part of the Road To Infinite Crisis so EARLY early) and some blog I didn't know made fun of me for not knowing the greater context of the panel I was commenting on. And while I was naively typing up a quick little 'ah sorry I'm new to comics and didn't know that. Thanks for the context!' they had gone through my blog and started doing the same for a bunch of other comics I'd read, and then mocked me for reading IC when I clearly new so little about comics.

Now, obviously, that behavior is ridiculous, and I just blocked them, but it did stick with me. It was one of my earliest interactions with comic fandom and I never forgot it. Most of the people I've intereacted with have been lovely. Even when I have gotten comic cannon wrong corrections are normally very kind. But not all of them are, and the ones who aren't are so vocal about it.

So i actually don't think it's the comics themselves that make getting into comics an unappealing prospect.

#Think about how people have to defend their newness to comics when asking for clarification.#'Help I'm new to coimcs' you shouldn't have to defend that to get an answer actually #I think the people who act like you NEED to be an expert on a character before saying you're a fan are just wrong to be clear #I can be a fan of a character without having read every issue their in ever #You can write a fanfic for a character without knowing their entire history if you want. It's fanfic. The actual authors dont bother #And sometimes you just gotta remind yourself of that #Reading a fan comic with a scenerio that would never happen in canon isn't a sin if it's fun for the people involved.#I've said before that I really like post resurrection fics that focus on Jason and Bruce's relationship because it lets me live vicariously #through jason in having parents who accept me for who i am despite our differences and still loving me #That's pretty explicitly not the relationship they have in cannon and thats fine #I can still look at their relationship and go 'oh damn this has some ingredients to make this scenrio really emotionally satisfying'#Like yeah yeah the concept that comics themselves are gate kept is a little ridiculous when reading comics online is so easy #but how many times have you had a negative experience in a real comic shop #because I know that i have!#How many times have you seen a blog get aggresive about someone being perceived as a non comic reader like thats a slur #I love comics. Obviously because I run ablog where i talk about them all the time.#but I'm not gonna dox someone who only watches the movies or the shows #there are forms of media where I've only consumed the adaptations #So when people say 'you're gate keeping comcis' REALLY think about how you talk about people who haven't read many comics #Becauase as far as I'm concerned if you constantly treat people like shit unless their in your little pre approved circle of #'Actual Comic Readers' then yeah you are gate keeping comics and its fucking weird #mine #No way in hell I'm tagging this as anything lmfaooo #sorry for the rant in the tags I have many feelings about this #not me going off in the tags

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