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[glmentoring]

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[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

(Over on Earth-98)

Tai: So, my grandma was your mentor, right? John: Yes, she taught me everything I needed to know about being a Green Lantern. Tai: Right, and that's great but like... does that mean you were basically her sidekick? John: ... it was more of a Padawan apprenticeship thing.

[bvcktommy]

boc are serving us sapphics and i have never been more seated in my life (x)

[stalecherios]

Guys can I say that all Sneeg characters key connecting fault

Is that they are selfless and selfish at the same time.

O!Sneeg did everything to find his people, to try and bring them back, jumping worlds to find his Phil… and in the end he’s still searching

Gl!Sneeg gave his life trying to save the ‘Hero’ if that’s showfall programming or not, he always saw himself as Ranboo’s friend, the only time he was selfish was when he tried to escape before episode 3 and died only a few feet from the only ‘unguarded’ exit

Q!Sneeg died not a hero, not a villain, just another corpse, yet he still out of everything, was the one to step up and be the leader his team needed, and now he wanders a radioactive, practically dead island, a monster, with nothing else to make him whole.

And Tr!Sneeg, from an outsider perspective, was a tool for the king. Not his hand, advisor, or even subject. He was a dog to be called on whom ever the king saw fit. He was selfish, never sharing his secrets to nirvana, entitled. But to the ones on his inner circle, he was kind, a hand who reached out when no one else did, and while his tongue was sharp, he had joy to spread around, he let himself be a dog willingly, because he saw purpose in being the wall that protects its castle, its kingdom. He was never an active force, he was a passive, reactive one, one who never started serious fights, but one who tried to end them. And now? He is that active force, he’s not a wall anymore, yet alone a person. He’s closer to that dog outsiders saw him as than ever, and he doesn’t have the humanity left to care.

[protagonistscum]

reverse robins call to me because i love hitting Damian with the big brother bat

[wonderjanga]

Marvel’s a Good Hugger.

He really is. Like he’s the go to guy for hugs. More than a couple times, he’s hugged someone with daddy issues and they’ve broken down crying.

Marvel and GL: *hugging*

GL: *sniffles*

Marvel: *pauses and looks down in confusion* “What was that?”

GL: “Nothing.” *sniffles again*

Marvel: “You sure…?”

GL: “Yeah. Shut up- yeah.”

Marvel: “…Okay…?”

GL: *pulls away after a bit, rubbing his eyes*

Marvel: “Are you crying?” *sounds super concerned*

GL: “No! No I’m not!”

There’s also the fact that Marvel’s a nice eight feet tall so almost everyone comes up to his chest. So, when he gets particularly giddy and happy…

Marvel: *Bouncing around super happy, hugging Batman*

Batman: *one side of his face is smushed into Marvel’s chest. His feet aren’t even touching the ground*

Robin!Tim: *videoing the entire thing*

Batman: *just resigned to his fate*

This video was passed around the other sidekicks, then their mentors and that’s how Bruce ended up getting teased by Flash and GL for the rest of the week.

Then, just for Adam specifically…

Marvel: *with a smile on his face, hugging Adam spine crushingly hard*

Black Adam: *punching, kicking, and overall just flailing to him to get him off*

Marvel: *unfazed up until Adam gets him in the eye and he lets go*

Black Adam: *slightly heavy breathing because he felt his lungs being compressed*

This clip goes viral and Batman’s just thinking of all the times Marvel’s hugged him and how easy it could’ve been for Cap to do him like Bane did. Meanwhile, people are wondering why the Captain was hugging his archenemy so tightly.

Also, just randomly, a YJ member will yell:

M’gann: “Group hug!”

And everyone will just rush to hug Marvel. It’s not even really a group hug too. They’re only really hugging Billy. And the thing is, these kids will brawl each other to get there first. Tim would pull a Robin from Teen Titans Go and swing his staff at one of Wally’s legs. Of course, he wouldn’t break it, he’d just trip him, but still. As for why they brawl for it? Whoever gets there first gets the full extent of Cap’s hug. Everyone else gets it to a lesser extent since they either have to sort of dog pile or hug around the person who got there first.

[tanenigiri]

Like several others in the fandom, I'm still recovering from the feels that Chapter 25 of Hirano and Kagiura has given me, especially the scenes that paint Hirano in a rather green and purple light. As someone who only recently came to terms with being aro and acespec, seeing Hirano go through very familiar struggles felt like an out-of-body experience.

It also made me want to revisit some manga that I've read so far that have featured characters in the aro and ace spectrums. Since I mostly consume BL, there understandably haven't been a lot that's come into my radar, but the few I've read have all been great, and I wanted to take this opportunity to give them a shoutout.

I Want to Be a Wall by Honami Shirono - Definitely my favorite in this list and one of my top 5 fave manga overall, this stars an aroace woman and a gay man who get into a marriage of convenience. It deals with expectations from their families and society as a whole about what an ideal marriage should be, but it also spends a lot of time exploring how Yuriko comes to terms with her asexuality and how the people around her react to it, especially her husband Gakurouta - who also deals with his own issues about hiding his homosexuality and his very apparent attraction to another character in the series who's presented as straight. On top of dealing with all these issues very tastefully, it's a great slice-of-life manga with a lot of humor and fluff squeezed in, so if you want a feel-good read with depth and lots of soul, I really recommend this one.

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki - The manga on this list that's most blatantly about aromanticism and asexuality, this explores the story of Chika and her journey to discovering, questioning, and accepting her romantic and sexual orientation. It goes very in-depth into this journey, and it even has multiple other aroacespec characters that she deems as role models, such as a professor who serves as a mentor for Chika and many other characters in the series as well as an older brother figure who had a much rougher time discovering his own asexuality. If you want to read a coming-of-age story where the lead comes to terms with her asexuality much in the same way that many BL and GL manga leads come to terms with their own queer identities, I highly recommend this manga. (Trigger warning for a brief sexual assault scene at the start - it's not graphic, but it definitely shows the attempt, so stray away if a scene like that would unsettle you.)

I Think Our Son Is Gay by Okura - I've talked about this manga before, and in my previous posts I mentioned that my favorite character is Yuri, the brother of the titular son Hiroki. Turns out I was onto something, as throughout the manga, Yuri mentions that while many girls in his school have expressed interest in him, he always turns them down, saying that he doesn't really get why everyone's making such a big deal about love. That already got my attention, but there's a scene in the fifth volume where Yuri actually goes into this more and researches why he's feeling that way, and it leads to a certain label we all know and love. Sadly that fifth volume is also the series's final one, so we don't get any more after that, but it really solidifies Yuri's journey throughout the manga, making for a nice parallel for his mother's own journey about accepting Hiroki's identity.

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare by Yuhki Kamatani - I've also talked about this manga before, and just like I Want To Be A Wall, it has pretty much cemented its place in my top 5 fave manga overall. What made me fall in love with this manga is how it explores so many types of queer stories in a very realistic light, dealing with issues like discrimination, family acceptance, and identity crises in a way that really shows how serious they can be. Expectedly, one of the types of queer stories it explores is about Someone who's aroace (whoever's read this manga - yes, that was a pun), though unlike the other characters in this series (and unlike most of the other characters in this post), that character is already at the point of their journey where they're comfortable with their sexual identity. Instead, the author uses Someone-san as a mentor throughout the story, helping other characters come to terms with their own identities and running the safe space that most of the story centers around. If you're looking for manga that's explicitly about the aroace experience, I don't think this would be the one for you, but if you're looking for great queer manga in general, this should be at the top of your list.

Bonus:

Cherry Magic by Yuu Toyota: I can't end this post without talking about queen Fujisaki. In the manga and anime, she takes on the role of a fujoshi who's a big fan of Kurosawa and Adachi's relationship even before they get together. But her role in the Japanese TV series (and movie) was changed, toning down the fangirlism (though hints of it are still there!) and instead giving her a unique storyline, one that eventually reveals to Adachi (though not explicitly) that she isn't interested in dating anyone. There isn't any explicit confirmation about her sexuality beyond this in the show, but there have been interviews from the showrunners where they do mention it. And honestly, as someone who was only starting out with BL at that point, seeing a character like her have that kind of background was already so incredible to me.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading! I hope you check these manga out, and if you know of other manga with great aroace rep, let me know!

[thenewgirl76]

Why Can't We Be Friends?

Before John can spend his rare downtime bonding with his childhood friend Angela Foley's son for the next two weeks, he first has to find someone to babysit the... weird looking creature that's apparently his nephew in all but blood's best friend. Not an easy feat given how clingy to the point of being attached to the hip the ferret shaped thing is.

Tucker has to bribe his pet(?) with hanging with the Green Lanterns along with the rest of the Justice League up in the Watchtower(they'll definitely be discussing that later) just to convince him to not try and tagalong. And that's how Hal finds himself dealing with the major headache that is Phantom.

No, he's not exaggerating. That's exactly what the measly gremlin is with his constant demands for food, affection, or playtime from anyone who's present and insistence on getting into whatever he can, one never-ending headache. What makes it even more taxing is how everyone else, even Batman is so wrapped up in how "cute and lovable" the little bugger is they see nothing wrong with his annoying antics.

And as if it couldn't get any worse, the tiny menace seems to have taken a liking to him the most out of all the League and won't quit following him around. It's like dealing with an abnormally needy and scarily intelligent cat, and Hal absolutely abhors cats.

That said, he does find himself feeling just a smidge of regret when he allows his stress over a grueling patrol to get the best of him and yells at the little creep for drinking his coffee. If it'll get everyone off his back and stop Phantom from making those hurt puppy dog eyes at him he'll make it up to the diminutive devil later somehow. Right after he sneaks a nap in while he's stuck on monitor duty.

But of course Phantom won't even allow him that, as he's now pestering him rather persistently with that aggravating chirping and trilling. Since napping is no longer an option he'll just see what Phantom wants and hopefully get rid of him for at least a few minutes afterwards. So Hal slowly drags himself into consciousness, and is met with a large oddly colored hunk of swiss cheese?

Waking up a bit more he starts hearing the swiss cheese begging him for death. Okay, clearly something's wrong with this picture. Wiping the last of the sleep from his eyes Hal looks again, and is instantly screaming in horror upon realizing what he had mistook for swiss cheese in his sleepy haze is actually Sinestro, looking very much like he'd fought a school of piranhas and the piranhas won. With all the blood and all the chunks of missing flesh and skin Hal can see why his former mentor was pleading with him to end him.

And throughout all this that little monster Phantom is staring up at him, perched on the barely alive korugaran, covered in his blood and looking far too pleased with himself. If it weren't for Hal's training and fortitude he'd either be running scared or having a nervous breakdown. That doesn't stop him from being immensely relieved over no longer having to be on guard around Phantom once John finally comes to get the miniscule hellion off the Watchtower.

Though it would be nice if; Superman stopped trying to guilt trip him. *He swears on everything holy he's gonna find the biggest piece of kryptonite and shove it where the sun don't shine if he has to listen to how Phantom never would have did what he did if Hal hadn't been so harsh one more time.*

Wonder Woman ceased with her badgering about how he should have shown more appreciation towards Phantom and the gift he had bestowed upon him.*He'd love to see just how appreciative she'd be if it was Cheetah getting dumped in front of her all chewed... oh wait.*

Flash quit laughing at him. *Shut the hell up Allen. He did NOT scream like a little girl.*

And most of all, John and all the other GL dropped it about how they were so jealous he was the one Phantom gifted instead of them. *Seriously guys? With all that little miser put him through, that's what you're taking from it?*

Missing Scene

*When Sinestro was confronted by Little Baby Man*

*What Little Baby Man did to him before hauling him off to present to Hal*

[brucewaynehater101]

Sorry love space world building so wanted to add onto the fashion world building

So fun ideas for Tim Ruler of Worlds AU

To start, I think that the discowing inspired fashion becomes synonymous with formal ware. Because it was for a bet, they probably only plan on wearing the outfit one time for one major public event, so the planetary citizens think that “oh this must be a special outfit” AND this leads to them adopting discowing inspired trends into their own local customs for formal wear (bright colors, feathers, fringe, sequins, rhinestones, glitter, etc) (like how people copy royal fashion trends)

After seeing the popularity of the first discowing fashion trend (and subsequent subject happiness boost) Tim makes this the standard bet for YJ. Like whenever you wanna have a bet it’s not like “do this for $20” it’s “do this for public appearance in discowing” (“discowing” first becomes a name for an entire subset of fashion) They use it so frequently that there are so many different varieties and styles for Tim’s subjects to adopt (I also think that Tim’s subjects adopt everyday style fashion from YJ casual and costume outfits but that’s not the focus right now even if it’s also really fun)

Dick’s just feeling like such a good big brother/mentor figure cause his little brother and all his friends keep coming to him to play “design the costume” He knows they’re never going to wear whatever he designs (he never sees it on Earth so how would he know) But he’s glad they’re having fun hanging out with him nonetheless

(His heart explodes when he eventually finds out about the planets with “discowing” fashion. Explodes!)

Additionally, I think that because they end up making a lot of their public appearances in “discowing” fashion, the YJ and Tim start calling his empire “the discowing worlds,” aka, world where they’ve worn “discowing”

But after they end up referring to the discowing worlds while on a planet ruled by Tim,

“The Discowing Worlds” becomes the unofficial official name of Tim’s empire

All the different planets have their own local language variations of the name cause the cultural context of disco and wing are kinda hard to translate into something similar to “discowing” but they try (So like “the worlds of color and flight” or “flying music” or “song wing empire” or “space of radiant feathers” etc)

(This becomes the second use of the phrase “discowing” fashion aka how other galactic peoples refer to fashion trends from the discowing worlds)

I also think that the term “discowing” is only really used by Batfam and friends so it’s really unlikely that any of the human GLs have heard of the nickname for the costume. When they hear the name of the empire they can obviously tell that it’s human in origin and what each component means, but that doesn’t mean they could figure out that it’s referring to nightwing or use it to actually figure out Tim’s identity as mystery overlord (Maybe if they told JL, someone could figure it out but I just don’t think anyone who could figure out the connection would bother to tell the GLs what’s going on or even seriously consider that it’s an actual connection and not a funny coincidence)

So yeah Tim and YJ mess around and make Dick’s brand of fashion a flamboyant well-respected sub-genre of galactic style and accidentally name an empire after the poor design skills of the first Robin in the process

My gods. This would be hilarious to witness (Tim's entire empire being named variations of discowing. Some of the variations seemed rad, but the OG name is silly).

I wanted to add on, though, that YJ encounters a disco hell at some point. I wonder if that plot line could fit anywhere into this as well?

I'd also love to see drawings of their various "royal" outfits.

[lurkingshan]

I really liked the first episode of Reverse 4 You

SISTERS! I love that Vivi is our narrator, and that she and Jattawa have a close bond. They feel very much like real sisters.

The time bending powers are very cool, and I love that the opposite powers suit their personalities: Jattawa is our hard working eldest taking responsibility for everything, so she has the ability to rewind for short-term do-overs, while Vivi is our optimistic dreamer, so she can see into the near future.

I like that Wa quickly settled in to a friend group at university. Top is an angel, though I am wary of Khun because he is giving me big second lead vibes. I don’t want to watch a dude pine and cause trouble for a budding lesbian relationship, praying he stays cool.

Speaking of a budding lesbian relationship, I’m not really into Four yet, though I don’t think I’m supposed to be. I’m sure there’s a backstory that will tell us why she’s so mean all the time. I wonder if she actually lives in that house where she accepted the food delivery.

Shoutout to the elder lesbian Wa rescued from the purse snatcher, I think she’ll be coming back as a mentor. I also appreciated the helpful uncle.

The nerve of those men trying to sell their house out from under them! I need all the details on why these sisters live alone, their financial situation, and how we’re going to fix this.

I am absolutely seated for this one. I’m really excited to have a gl drama available worldwide on Netflix—everyone should watch!

[andthekitchensinkao3]

TBD chapter 8 teaser

I have been tagged by several people this week, and last week, and and and, you know how it is. You don't always have something to share, but you appreciate the tag anyhoo.

Guess who's finished a whopping 3,4k words on this bad boy [gender neutral] right here? Estimate about 18-20 pages of double-spaced Arial 12pt goodness. In one single chapter. My usual average is twelve! Which is roughly where I'm at, at this point.

This is from the upcoming chapter of To Be Determined, the Emmrich/Astarion fic that's completely running away with me. Pspspsps @tinygameralec

... or it's running away from me. Either/both. Nobody's following my carefully planned outline, but the reward for THAT is going to be one massive chapter with action, high stakes and DRAMA. Who's excited? I'm excited! Are you with me?

Gentle tags under the cut, in case you want to share something, or if you just want to know what I've been up to lately. Thank you for tagging me: @sunny374940 @biowaredisasterbisexual @notyourmamasdeerbat !! <3<3<3

First, a blurb for the chapter: When Astarion rolls a critical failure on a perception check, Emmrich comes to his rescue, with… unforeseen consequences. Injured and separated from the team, they have to put their trust in each other, or they’ll never make it out of Weisshaupt alive.

---First scene, go!--- Content warning for BG3 canon approximate violence and mild gore. We're taking down an ogre, here, people.

Weisshaupt was glorious.

The air was thick with the sounds of slaughter, and the smells of burning flesh and otherwise filled him with a sense of purpose so ripe and juicy he could taste it. These ‘Darkspawn’ had a wonderfully singular mindset - kill everything that moves and isn’t one of them - which made them delightfully predictable.

They were on the ramparts of the fortress, making their way to the War Room with a girl as their guide - fiercest little thing he’d ever seen, miniature version of Karlach, without the horns; she would’ve loved Mila - and the battlefield below was like a dance floor. Rook and Davrin were in the thick of it, fighting off the little beastlies with the red googly eyesockets like the heroes they were always meant to be. Aw. Emmrich kept a safe-ish distance: ish, as nothing was safe in this place, and he rained down necrotic spells like he’d done it his entire life. He probably had, at that.

Hence, Astarion’s detour to higher ground. He had his eye on a pair of big, muscular whatsit, hitting hard with their long-distance projectiles. If he could clear a path for Rook and Davrin, he might impress them further. Show them he could be useful, that his invitation to join the team wasn’t for nothing.

Blades at the ready, he sneaked closer to the edge of the outcrop of cliffs. He picked his target, and jumped into the fray, landing with his legs over the hurlock’s shoulders. The second one barely had time to react before he’d half severed its head from its shoulders, and the first - the one getting intimately acquainted with his thighs - made a gawping sound at its friend.

“Sorry, darling,” he said, tutting, and thrust both blades into his new friend’s chest. And twisted. “I shouldn’t have made you watch that.”

The hurlock choked on its own blood, and as it sagged to its knees, Astarion flipped himself forward, pulling his daggers with him.

Up in the air, Assan made ooh-ing noises that were equal parts impressed and teasing. On ground level, Davrin came running with a fresh smile, pausing only to cut down an uppity spawn of the ‘dark’ variety. “Good job taking those two down.”

“Flashy,” said Rook, not quite so impressed despite his grin. The weight of responsibility, and whatnot. “In the words of my mentor, ‘don’t get cocky.’”

“Varric’s a wise man,” said Astarion - who else could it be? “But I’m afraid that ship’s sailed a long time ago.” He patted Rook’s shoulder and spied down the crumbling path. “Run along now, I’ll see where Emmrich ran off to.”

“We don’t have time!” Mila glared at him, running past them all. “We have to find my dad!”

“He’s right behind us.” Rook pointed in the general vicinity of that-a-way, and pushed forward with Davrin. True to his word, there was Emmrich. Leaping backwards through the air like something taken right out of a ballet performance, raining down mayhem on any darkspawn foolish enough to go at him. Covered in blight and blood. Looking perfectly…

Their eyes locked across the vast expanse of corruption taken physical form. Emmrich’s eyes were quite something. In the warm light of the Lighthouse courtyard his irises were almost amber-like in quality. In the infirmary, they were hazel; brown and green combining in the most delightful way. But here, they glowed a bright green. Like his magic.

Something crashed behind him, but with the general calamity and all, he didn’t think much of it. Lucanis had said something about Emmrich being a battlemage, and hells’ bells was he right about that - the way he moved on the battlefield was nothing short of distracting. He came running, his eyes widening with alarm and the sweet rush of adrenaline. Shouting. Something.

He remembered the first time he’d seen that colour. Emmrich’s features disappearing into the darkness of oblivion, nothing left but a pair of literal twin orbs of that green. The second time, the Grand Necropolis, and the Veilfire lanterns.

Emmrich’s magic coursed through him to the point of bursting, and in a weak moment Astarion might admit to being smitten. If he were weak. Which he was not. Categorically not.

“ASTARION!” Emmrich’s teeth were bared, his face covered in grime and sweat-sheen, pale and flushed at the same time. “MOVE!”

“What?”

“OGRE!” Emmrich’s voice cracked over the words, and still Astarion couldn’t move. “BEHIND YOU!”

A shrill sound carried through the air to his ears, and the air came away from him, displacement brought on by something enormous and very, very bad. His instincts more than rational thought kicked in a fraction of a second before something as big as him crashed down a hair’s breadth from his skull. He threw himself out of the way, tumbling onto his ass on the craggy ground. The loud chink of metal hitting stone; the gleam of a sharpened blade and the bloodied pike sticking out at the top like a lethal exclamation mark. A halberd bigger than his own head, and attached to it was, indeed, an ogre.

Its eyes glowed a menacing blight-red, much like its maw, lined by far too many razor sharp teeth. It roared at him, but didn’t immediately attack, too preoccupied with trying to yank the halberd loose from the rock it had cleaved.

And then, there was Emmrich. Wild-eyed and hollering, he rushed the beast, wielding his mage staff like a close-combat weapon. The glowing skull connected with the ogre’s big head with a resounding crack, and Emmrich used the momentum to leap off its broad shoulder, spinning sideways in the air for another unforgiving wallop.

Behind the ogre was a wall of debris, cutting off their path forward. Davrin and Rook were nowhere to be seen. It was just them against one pissed-off behemoth with horns. Or, rather, Emmrich going at it tooth and nail… defending him.

The ogre gave another marrow-curdling roar and lashed out, grabbing Emmrich by the arm, and shook him like a ragdoll. Emmrich cried out in pain, his staff clattering over the edge of the rampart.

“Emmrich!” Astarion’s breath caught in his throat, and he went scrabbling for his daggers. He ran, using the halberd’s handle as a stepping stone, catapulting himself through the air to land, daggers first, on the ogre’s broad back. He snarled, driving his blades deep through bone and soft tissues, deep as they would go. Once wasn’t enough to make it let go, but Astarion didn’t mind. He stabbed, and he stabbed, and he stabbed, to the sound of gurgling wails of agony like music to his ears. Leaving a latticework of flesh behind once he was satisfied, and jumped out of the way.

The ogre gave a final, desolate groan, and sagged right over the edge into the darkness. Dragging Emmrich with it.

Tagging everyone, as always:

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And if I've failed to tag someone who's reading this - consider yourself tagged!

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

Hey! Just wanna say im really glad i found this account ive been getting into green lantern comics recently and your page is a godsend.Aside from that its one of the few that isnt overrun with batman/batfam content propinng him or his orphan child soliders by putting down other dc characters..so i was curious if you knew any dc fanfics that portray the lanterns as competent and or calling bruce out on his bullshit ( sorry if my text is a bit jumbled english isnt my first language)

I'm glad you like my content!

Tbh the fanfiction situation for Green Lanterns is just as bad as it is on Tumblr, if not worse. So a few of these fics are going to be bat-centric, but I've specifically selected those that I feel actually respect and understand the GLs instead of flanderizing them to be stupid assholes.

I've tagged the authors whose Tumblr usernames I could find in the fic or their AO3 profiles. If you're one of the authors I haven't tagged, just let me know and I'll edit the post to add you.

But without further ado, the GL contents of my bookmarks in no particular order:

Fics where the Bats are uninvolved or only play a minor role

In the end, we all bleed Green. by catboyollie (series) - a collection of GL shortfics

Kink Meme #5 by Perpetual Motion (perpetfic) - Most people forget Guy Gardner was a teacher...

Friendship, Ice Cream, and Green Lanterns by MildlyRebelliousMint - GLs hanging out after a battle

Family is What You Make Of It by @exasperatedfey - in which Hal has to bail his fellow GLs out of jail

In Case of Emergency by @susanphoenix - Kilowog’s been adopted by the Earth heroes as the GL to go to if they can’t find the earth lanterns. No one told him that.

i ate up all the light by @effietrinket1619 - Six times Hal was there for a fellow GL (and one time they're there for him). TW for roofie

Good Cop/Bad Cop by @meduseld - shortfic of Hal being a scary mf

Adrift by @rose-cake - Simon and Jessica are partners. That word has multiple meanings. Minor Simon/Jessica

These Mountains by @pastelplastic - Superman meets Tomar-Re, the Green Lantern who failed to save Krypton

Justice League's most wanted fugitive: Hal Jordan by @panamic Panamic - The Justice League are trying to find Green Lantern. Hal does not want to be found by the JL. Shenanigans ensue

No Rest for a Superhero by Crimson_Crystal - Kyle sacrifices sleep to finish an art commission and crashes

A Mind Of His Own by @wolfsbanesparks - The Justice League finds out Captain Marvel is actually a kid, and Hal is the only one who still treats him like a fellow hero

The Goddess of Petty Annoyances by @galahadwilder - Jessica invades Apokolips specifically to annoy Darkseid. Crack

Shooting for the Stars by @green-lanterns-c0ck - Guy in his yellow ring era bumbles into saving a galaxy far far away. Crack crossover with Star Wars

canary in a coal mine by BrandyFromTheBottle - Guy is an asshole to Dinah, but he's trying to be better about it

the memory hurts but does me no harm by @effietrinket1619 - The Sinestro Corps have captured Hal and want information. He refuses to give it to them

Hal & Kyle fics (there's enough of these that they warrant their own category)

Luminance by @lanternwisp - Hal slowly realizing he thinks of Kyle as a son

trajectory from me to you by @softpunks - deaged!Kyle thinks Hal is his dad

the moldy cup is not a metaphor by MildlyRebelliousMint - Kyle calls Hal "dad" and Hal goes to visit Barry, totally not freaking out

friendly fields and open roads by ufonaut - Hal returned to life and feels like shit. Kyle comes seeking a mentor.

ship in a bottle by @hopeworth - Two former hosts of Parallax meet up for brunch

Fics involving Bats that respect Green Lanterns

we're in the mellow mayhem together (series) by lunaratlasky - Jason seeks out Hal whenever he wants to piss off Bruce

Emergency Line (series) by @crucifixinhell - jason looked at hal once and went "you seem like good dad material"

For Whom We'd Give Blood (series) by Boogalee99 - How Hal Jordan becomes the favorite uncle of the batfam

There's Always Another One by lapsedpacifist - Dick gets fired and decides to crash at Hal's place

To Overcome Fear (ongoing) by @dc-sideblog - Stephanie gets fired and Kyle decides that if the Bats don't want a perfectly good superhero, the Green Lanterns definitely do

Disclosure by @aj-artjunkyard - Maybe Hal isn't as at peace with a certain android's death as he thought he was... and maybe he's not alone in his grief either.

Stars in a Paint-Filled Sky by @thenaphorism - Kyle has to explain to the Justice League why he has a Red Hood/Troia tramp stamp

because you know better by @matchahater - Ion and Red Hood contemplate the ethics of resurrection

catch the asteroids that come your way by @thepackwantsthed - the only JayKyle fic that I've ever liked

Justice League International - Spoiled! by @secretlystephaniebrown - Guy Gardner, Crystal Brown's childhood neighbor and best friend, ends up taking in her daughter Stephanie after an unexpected turn of events.

the superhero game (ongoing) by Nyame - Jason Todd Peggy Sue longfic ft. a near-omnipotent White Lantern

I'm gonna pin this post and update it as I encounter more fics I like, so drop some recommendations in the comments for me and everyone else!

[aingeal98]

What do you think of an au where cass ends up in another city instead of gotham and idolizes their respective hero and symbol instead of the bat

Like she ends up in star city and in star city and idolizes green arrow and tries to mimic him instead and (eventually) become a member of the arrowfam?

Or she ends up in coast city and somehow a green lantern ring chooses her and grows up as a green arrow

I mean we've already seen this semi-done with "cassandra lane" and her growing up in metropolis and lois and clark instead

But what about other cities? just wanted to hear your thoughts

Ooh both of those options sound interesting! Star City would be fun because Connor was also created by Puckett, and it would be interesting to see how he writes and contrasts them. If we place Cass in Star City around the same time she appeared in Gotham, then Oliver is dead, Dinah is working with Babs, Roy is with the Titans and Connor is the main Green Arrow but his series has ended. As far as I'm aware if Cass went to Star City instead of Gotham in 1999, she would have found it pretty empty. Dinah and Roy were the only arrowfam members appearing in comics that month.

So if we were swapping her from batfam to arrowfam, I'd probably have her appear in BOP first. She saves Dinah's life on a mission, Dinah takes her back to Babs, Babs names her Cass and Cass stops David Cain from killing Jim. Only this time instead of Bruce it's Dinah who's watching over her the entire time, and Dinah who ends up being her primary mentor/parent. When GA 2001 kicks off, Cass features primarily as Dinah's kid, with Connor and Mia as Ollie's. I feel like Cass wouldn't really see them as siblings the way she does the batfam. They're friends first and kind of step siblings second. Found family that doesn't need to be clearly defined. Sin on the other hand? Her little sister 100%. Having Cass heavily involved in the Shiva and Sin arcs would be so fun.

Green Lantern Cass would be interesting because at the time the only Lantern was Kyle. Like Kyle was meant to be the last of the entire Corps but suddenly Cass shows up with a ring and she can't explain why any better than he can. So screw it, I guess he has a partner now. A partner who's convinced her purpose is to take all the risks and die for him, which Kyle would not be too happy about.

So what would these changes mean for Cass? I think with Dinah there'd be a lot more focus on addressing her death wish and refusing to let her fight Shiva alone, compared to Bruce who felt so upset about her being a killer that he couldn't cope and refused to think about it. There would be a full fledged acceptance for Cass as a member of the family, over and over again despite Cass's fears. No hoops to jump through no standards she has to live up to. If anything the conflict would be trying to find ways to stop Cass from holding herself to said impossible standards, with limited success.

As for GL, I'm not as familiar with them so I could be very wrong, but I think being chosen to be a Lantern is the kind of duty teen Cass would cling to like a lifeline. Kyle would be the most important person to her, but at the same time she wouldn't really care about his personal life, and would be confused why he does. The burden of being the only remaining Lantern would be shared, but their personality differences would bring a whole new range of conflicts and challenges into their individual character arcs.

Thanks for the ask!

[bengiyo]

Thoughts on Office Relationships, Breakups, Outings, and More in August ‘24 Shows

I couldn’t bring myself to finish Cosmetic Playlover today, so instead I decided to write about three shows doing interesting things with relationships right now. I don’t really have the time or interest in Stray Thoughts anymore, so I hope y’all enjoy this. For the past two weeks I’ve been thinking about the breakups and new relationships in The Trainee and Mr. Mitsuya’s Planned Feeding, and now I’m also thinking about Takara being upfront with Taishin about the state of their relationship on Takara’s Treasure. I want to get some of these thoughts down for posterity. 

The Ba-Mhee and Tae Breakup on The Trainee

I genuinely love that this show followed through on these two splitting up. I also like that Ba-Mhee asked to take the time to figure out what she’s feeling for Judy before doing something else. Ba-Mhee seems to define herself a lot by the relationship she’s in, and it was sad to see her struggling with the way Tae didn’t always respond to her attempts at expressing care and affection–methods which he never asked for. I think the two of them definitely needed to separate, because it’s not going to work if she’s feeling insecure because Tae is working hard in his preferred field.

That being said, I don’t like the thing with Judy because we know so little about Judy. All I really know about Judy right now is that she’s a workaholic with few personal relationships outside of the office, she’s queer, and she is good at handling clients. When she went to see Ba-Mhee after kissing her drunk intern the night before her anniversary at a work event, I wasn’t keen on the way it felt like Judy managed Ba-Mhee in that scene. Judy feels a bit inaccessible as a character right now, and I hope that’s a choice the show is making about how Ba-Mhee’s relationship with Judy is also rather one-sided, and entirely about her. I hope part of Ba-Mhee’s queer journey is recognizing how she seems to define herself by her relationships, and finds an identity independent of romance.

As for Judy… I hope there’s more to her here than just being pretty and good at her job. We’ve been let down twice this year by GL office romance, and I’d like for that to not be a constant trend. I’d like to see them give her nuance in her pursuit of a relationship with one of her reports.

Lastly, I really loved that Tae is trying to figure out how to be single again, and Pah got mad on his behalf. It’s a good compromise in a genre that seems to really not want characters to be  mad at each other for too long, especially when one of them has really hurt another. Tae got to be sad, and someone got to be righteous on his behalf. We even had good storytelling come out of these two using their jobs to punish each other, with it being very clear that these were bad choices. 

Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko Betrayed Its Characters

While I’m here, let me just say that the back half of this show was utterly offensive, and actively betrayed its own characters. I cannot believe that Hiroko’s own community was so quick to betray her trust and out her repeatedly. I cannot believe this show abandoned Hiroko’s straight girl problems from the beginning for a message that “It’s not that bad now, so just come out. I cannot believe this show had a Boob Monster lesbian withhold sex from her horny girlfriend for a year so she could “cherish her.” I am baffled by all of the choices that went into this, and I will not be recommending it. It gets a 4 from me. 

Jane’s Ex on The Trainee

I thought it was really interesting to introduce an ex at this point while Ba-Mhee and Ryan are both considering potential relationships with their mentors. There are consequences in a professional field when you date within your field for some folks, and it’s clear that happened with Jane. Nine, the ex, was here to once again benefit from Jane’s talents, and Jane did not seem like he expected to receive any real credit or benefit from that work. I’m curious if the show intends for any resolution for Jane with Nine, or if he’s here as a romantic tool for Ryan.

Speaking of Ryan, he is clearly in his early 20s, because his jealousy spiral exhausted me. Jane was obviously not into that man, and assured Ryan that he would be back later by making sure he and Ryan had plans for later. I hope we get back to Ryan actually being a good supporter when he’s focused and motivated, especially now that we know that Jo was meant to illuminate things about Pah.

Mitsuya’s Breakup with Noguchi on Mr. Mitsuya’s Planned Feeding

One of my favorite things about this age-gap story is that Mitsuya has been out for a long time, and he has a romantic and sexual history. I loved that he’s had an on again-off again relationship that he needed to bring to a close as part of his own story, and I loved how it wasn’t the ugliest of breakups. These two men know each other intimately, and this final break for them turned into a small celebration of what they had between them. Important things got aired, they snipped a little at each other, and they got to enjoy one last meal together in a way that added a gentle finality to the situation.

On Ishida’s end, I absolutely loved that he’s continued to be upright with Mitsuya about his feelings, called their date what it was, and stepped down from his professional role with Mitsuya. On top of that, I actually love that it was Noguchi that gave him the final inspiration he needed to go back to sports and face his own angst there. It’s actually so special for me that a 27 year-old man who felt like he had to give up on his dreams is finding a way to do something with the specific feelings he has about that. 

I’m also never getting over Ishida telling Mitsuya that he wants to be seen as a man and not a cute kid.This, right after introducing Mitsuya to a food he’d never experienced before! We can thank @isaksbestpillow for making this possible, and this feels especially poignant for me right after we said goodbye to Okita Kakeru, who explicitly wanted to be seen as cute. I am really excited about the queer themes that keep coming out of this show, and I’m sure I’ll have more to say.

Takara and Taishin Avoiding Breakup Nonsense on Takara’s Treasure

So often in these shows with small age gaps in school, they never seem to know how to cope with graduation. I finished rewatching You’re My Sky last night, and that show solved it with travel for one couple, and external collaboration for the mains. I loved this show having the older partner ask the junior directly about the challenges of life after graduation for them as a couple. 

This worked so well, because the show has shown us for weeks that Taishin is always paying attention to Takara, and @lurkingshan detailed how many ways Taishin showed that he understood Takara this week, and I appreciated @clownshoessqueaking covering how Takara has managed his restraint across this show. It’s just so rare that we see two characters have the important conversation that needs to be had, and give each other the exact assurances they need. Taishin got to hear directly from Takara about how things were going for them, and was able to say that he wanted the relationship and initiate physical intimacy between them. 

For all that this show has felt really quiet for two months, it’s becoming one of the shows I will likely remember from this year. 

That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!

[darkangel11122]

Imagine once again that you are a well known expert swordsmen, and with two adopted children, a son and daughter. Your son, who is adopted later in his life you firmly believe that if you had him since he was a child he would be better manured or at least have better highine and Taste in alcohol. He will drink anything with alcohol content in a pinch, you watched him down two bottles of cooking sherry one night because he couldn’t find the wine celler, not that you were out of booze he just couldn’t find it. At least he has his looks, and can be rather caring in his own way proven by how he treats his crew and even his sister. You might as it shows in his relationship as well but the two bicker like an old married couple on a good day, and still dispite it all keeps you on edge with worry as you still very much don’t want to no longer be able to go to your preferred dive in the middle of now where. The owner and you are at lest getting along as your bother suffering with your children’s antics. Does little to calm your long since frade nerves though. 

Your title as the world best swordsman now gone, past to your adopted son. Not through an act of nepotism of course he beat you fair and square. Given your injured state, and refusal to succumb to unconsciousness you were privy to watch the frantic and desperate admittance of feeling. Rather sweet if you’re honest, glad the news got the picture and the story, two thumbs up. At least if you gave those kind of things, but you don’t. While you might no longer be the best you still have a reputation. 

After the fight you go home and lick your wounds over a bottle of champagne. You are happy for your adopted son and the dive owners son. This happiness is short lived as your celebration is interrupted by… you refuse to call him your partner as he doesn’t need the ego boost, so the man you let sleep In your bed. He’s babbling on about his own not actual child, suppose the kid is technically one he mentored, he’s the captain of you kids crew so he’s just telling you things you already now. It’s something about him being king now and yadda yadda, it take him a full 20 minutes to notice your currently wrapping your torso in bandages.  He then trys to cozy up to you much to your slight amusement, not that you let him or show it. Again reputation to keep up. The only new information you got for his babbling is that your son’s captain apparently said something about a wedding. 

Now while you don’t fully believe that you may have witnessed your son’s wedding while bleeding out, you honestly wouldn’t put it past all of them. All of them being the rang tag crew that’s a bit like a frat house if you really think about it. You half pray that the dive owners son is trying to be married off by his sperm donor again. As the dive owner would have a bit of a small fit to at least not be given a heads up about such a thing, you might too honestly but it’s mostly because we’ll a party be them. Which they would Have at Their captain loves to celebrate, most to eat him self silly, which is hard to do given his appetite. Anyway it promise good food and you love good food why you love the dive to begin with, refined taste and all that. 

Thankful you see nothing in the news about it so you relax a bit over the next months. It’s perhaps the most calm few months, you find the no longer needing to defined your title every time you leave the house nice. Means you can eat in peace when you dine anywhere now so that means you can enjoy your other passions in life, one being expensive wine’s. Life is peaceful, or at least as peaceful as it can be in this world. This peace of course is often interrupted by the person you let share your bed and personal space. Who is his own form of tabloid journalism at this point and keeps babbling about a straw hat wedding happening soon. He of course brings this up IN FRONT OF THE DIVE OWNER, who looks at you like how you assume people look when just watching someone sip form a glass of poisoned wine. The words ‘I have no idea what he’s taking about, I don’t even know who he is… go away insane man who much be suffering form a head injury.’ Though used to your antic at this point the person you let share your space isn’t deterred and just laughs and coos over you. While the dive owner leaves you be your now very worried your choice is company will get you actually killed and not just banned. 

It was a Week later that the news announced who it was that married at least in a sinse even, you know criminals. You thank you lucky stars and who ever is clearly watching over you that it isn’t your adopted son and/or the dive owners son. 

serval months later when your adopted son darkens your door step in the middle of the night when most rational people would be sleeping. Your roused form your sleep by the stomping sounds of his footsteps pacing in front of your door. Not letting him vex you as he seems to enjoy doing, rolling over as you try to get back to sleep. Eventually he just opens the door like he’s argon opening the doors of hornburg, holding the frame on either side of the frame.  The words that have been keeping your wake at night since you took him in then leaving his mouth. “He’s gonna leave me.” 

Okay for once in you life, fuck your reputation, shooting in your bed to be upright eyes wide in shock. Mouth hanging open the whole nine yards, Shouting like you were just told your car bet you were enjoying was actually just grape juice. “What?!?” Then you start babbling or perhaps ranting depending on who you ask. Calling him stupid, repeatedly asking what he did, why is he so sure of that? why is he here and not begging for the kid’s forgiveness? All things you don’t really hear the answer to, at least until his clear indignation that you assume it was something he did. Then you start to almost argue further insults building in your throat as you actually take in his appearance at the moment. Clearly upset, and not the angry upset but something else. 

“Why are you so sure of that?” 

Theirs a pause and what a normal person would call a shaky breath. “‘Cuase next thing I now he wants and that I want isn’t gonna happen cause no way is Zeff gonna say yes and that’s gonna be something he wants. So he’s gonna leave me because his dad hates me.” 

“He doesn’t hate you.” 

“Pretty sure he does, he threatens me all the time.” 

“…. Okay maybe he hates you a little bit, I’m sure he loves his son more than he hates you.” 

“Dought it.” 

This is of course when your bed partner wake up and sleepily chimes in about how could offer a dowry to sweeten the deal of the dive owner. Unfortunately this is something your adopted son latches on to, returning to his pacing outside your bedroom for the rest of the night as it seems he thinks about what to offer. Thankfully your daughter yells at him to go to bed as she’s sick of hearing his stomping around.  It starts an argument but that’s easier to sleep to then his stomping. 

Which leads to how you are now being dragged allong in a sense by your adopted son to see the dive owner in person, with a large amount of exsotic spices to give to the dive owner. You had sugest the spirm donor’s head but apparently that’s not something the son want at least for now. They have a thing about it and you leave it be and just offer to come along as it’s how it’s traditionally done that way. 

You just sit at the table rather bored as your son offers the large crate to the dive owner, who just looks puzzled and not at all amused by this. Likly expecting the worst, as your son ever do vary tactfull, you mean this sarcasticly, just out right says it. Blunt at ever as he sits relaxed as can be with his arms crossed. 

The exact words that leave the dive owners mouth aren’t what you expect exactly but it is some variation of it so you’re not that surprised. “Bout time you asked, you could have just called to ask.” Neither you or your adopted son let on your slight surprise, both stone faced. The words of ‘I told you so’ being past worn a side eyed glance to your adopted son. Now feeling much more secure you leave with tour adopted son who now looks both more relaxed and more anxious. Though any words of comfort you try to offer him are brushed off, then agian you two aren’t the warm fuzzy type anyway so it’s to be expected. 

You hear no word after leaving the dive with your son, no word on if he asked or if he get rejected. The only reason you know he’s not dead is that those isn’t a scramble for a new greatest swordsman or a new one declared. You do decided to avoid the dive for a while as you’d hate for your luck to turn while you’re there and end up kicked out before you can finish your Cabernet. There’s of course a lull in the news at this time, no big happenings from the crew your sons on which can only mean their firmly at sea or up to something probably both in all honesty. 

Unfortunately the day it seem finally came the next month, you were bearly able to sat down when the dive owner comes charging out of the kitchen with a large meat cleaver on his hand. The word outside being shouted at you is something you comply with as you’d hate to leave the place wracked as it would be a lose to cuisine across the globe. Standing on the deck neutral faced as ever as you face down what you have been dreading for years at this point. Only it’s not that apperntly, he just wanted to talk wedding details outside of the public eye. You don’t let on how relived you actually are by this news or excited. Again reputation to up keep. 

[theflashjaygarrick]

Absolutely wild to me that with all of DC's reboots/retcons no one has had the sense to completely erase the Arisia incident (and no, I do not count Johns' whole 'Hal thought it was creepy but then learnt that her planet rotates differently so she is actually 200' nonsense. It's probably the biggest stain on the green lantern franchise (followed by the Kalmaku nickname thing) and genuinely there is no benefit to it existing.

But importantly I don't mean erase Arisia. She is a character with a lot of potential as a little sister with self esteem issues, a child who has been conscripted into a literal galactic army and is honestly just trying her best. She's adorable and had a lot of potential before Englehart made it so disgusting I stopped reading his green lantern comics my I own sanity. And I do feel like while it definitely did tarnish Hal and his reputation (and lets be real, probably should have done so for almost every green lantern in that era except John) Arisia herself was honestly a lot harder hit with being hated and erased. Which is how a lot of comic controversies - and even real life abuse cases can - go. I feel like she honestly deserves a second chance to be explicitly and overtly removed from that uncomfortable and unnecessary arc rather than just being pushed aside so people can write Hal as a space maverick male fantasy (when will Spectre Hal come back from the war).

But like imagine an Arisia year one with me (wherein the writers and the corps aren't creeps):

Arisia is a young orphaned alien girl who is still grieving when she has the responsibility and powers of a lantern ring thrust upon her. While still trying to get a hang of her new powers she is called into OA where she meets the other Green Lanterns. She begins training and becomes the (actual) little sister/kid of the green lantern corps. Crucially no one is weird about her. I would probably make it so that her home planet values really strong familial ties so that as an orphan she is desperately seeking out a family in the green lantern corps, which clashes with some of the other members who initially see the other corpsmen as work buddies at most. In this when Hal and her hang out its because he's her mentor and he radiates cool uncle vibes.

And honestly you could keep the ageing up with the ring idea but instead of making it part of a creepy romance arc it could be used to further explore her own anxieties. Maybe she feels overlooked as a kid so decides to make herself look older to feel more powerful when on missions, but it eventually it makes her feel more self conscious about what she looks like normally. Then it ends with her learning to embrace and find confidence in who she really is. You know, classic coming of age stuff. And after that Hal and Jon decide to introduce her to the Teen Titans so she can be around other heroes (roughly) her own age.

So she ends up on Earth for while where you could have a fun fish out of water dynamic whilst she explores earth life in San Fransisco. Not only is she a member of teen titans as their GL (or Teen Lantern as they probably insist on calling her). She can have a whole side plot about making friends in her civilian identity and wanting to be a normal kid (milkshakes, diners, roller skating, baby gay crushes) while also knowing that at some point she has to go back to OA and to her home sector. Back there she has to embrace this massive responsibility (honestly too big for someone of her age) that she didn't choose, but that was rather an inherited burden from her late father and duty as a member of the corps.

Ultimately it would be about finding confidence in your own heroism, a found family, and having fun coming of age moments. And rescuing a promising female character from being an embarrassing footnote in DC (and Hal Jordan's) history.

DNI INTERACT IF YOU ENJOY HAL AND ARISIA AS A COUPLE. I DON'T KNOW IF THESE PEOPLE ARE REAL BUT IF THEY ARE, LEAVE MY POST/BLOG ALONE.