#mia's reading

[miabrown007]

going crazy about kaz brekker hours

[keirahknightley]

Crimson Peak (2015) 🎬 Guillermo del Toro

+ IMDb trivia

[wreniriis]

an unbearable secret

[fantastic-nonsense]

it's actually super funny when you think about how the Superfam 🤝 Flashfam 🤝 Arrowfam 🤝 Wonderfam = basically all collectively being friends with and/or respecting the hell out of Dick Grayson

You think it's just Clark but no. Lois loves him. Post-Crisis!Kara thought of him as a mentor and big brother figure. Kon canonically thinks Dick is cool. And Jon looks up to Dick a lot (and obviously Clark literally put Dick in charge of looking out for Jon while he was off-planet)

And then you think it's just Roy, but no. Lian calls him "Uncle Nightwing," Dinah thinks he's good for Babs, Connor's generally chill with him, Emiko thinks he's nice and hot (lmao), and Ollie's apparently fond enough of him that we're told Dick is the one who named the Arrowcave

And then you think it's just Wally but no. Wally's kids love him, Barry likes him, he's on good enough terms with Bart to get a focus panel at Bart's funeral, he's led Jesse on two separate teams, and Jay's willing to swing by NYC with the rest of the JSA to help him move out of the Cloisters after Final Crisis

And THEN you think it's just Donna, but no. Diana watched him grow up and thinks fondly of him, and Cassie respects Dick enough that she not only took Damian onto the Teen Titans on a trial basis just because Dick asked but he's also the first person she calls when she thinks Tim's gone crazy after Bruce's death

truly the linchpin character of the DCU, we have no choice but to stan

[mo49ko]

"In the Heavenly Procession of the Shangyuan Festival, the God-Pleasing Martial Warrior and the Demon were the two most important roles."

This is the piece I made for the "palace of xuan zhen" mu qing zine last year !! I'm also sharing this design notes that wasn't included in the zine!! I hope you enjoy it !!

Commentary etc. under the cut ↓

(This version of the illustration has some minor corrections before posting.)

For the illustration, I wanted to paint the whole thing in gold with him all in black. There's the whole world that is radiant and him like a "black cloud", but he's shining so brightly in this moment.

I spent a lot of time thinking of how to make the outfit look meaningful and I chose to draw this scene from the book because it says so much about his role in the story.

As it says on the design image, the overall design of the outfit mirrors the crown prince's God-Pleasing Warrior outfit, instead of looking "monstrous" like in some official designs.

I wanted it to look like a "younger" or "still blooming" version of his god form 800 years later, so I put some clothing elements of those robes on the outfit, but didn't make them "luxurious". The fabrics are plain without any embroideries.

I wanted to draw the boy that no one knows yet, but who will become one of the greatest and who will rise to the heavens in the future. 🌟

[elbiotipo]

[fatestayyuri]

#girl

[batcavescolony]

I see a lot of people upset about William Kaplan being dead and no one mourning him cus Billy stole his body and I just don't see it that way. The kid in Wanda Vision is Billy Maximoff, The teenager at the Bar Mitzvah is William Kaplan, the Teen that got taken to the hospital after the wreck is neither and both Billy Maximoff and William Kaplan. That Teen went home with the abilities of Billy Maximoff, to the home of William Kaplan, with memories of neither and lived there for three years. He cares about Rebecca and Jeff, he lied to the to protect them from pain, they are his parents. He wants to find Tommy, he has magical powers, he wants to know who he is. All of these things are true. I wouldn't say William Kaplan is dead he just doesn't remember, like Agatha wasn't dead when he was Agnes, she just didn't remember.

[glitter-stained]

The thing you need to remember about comics ages and timelines is that yeah it's messy there are retcons at stuff and it will never be clear and perfect. But also, DC has an interest portraying age the way they do. They have an interest in aging Barbara down so she can be Dick's pretty girlfriend with whom he raises a cute dog (and maybe a cute little family next perhaps?). They have an interest in trying to keep Tim young and draw him younger than he looks so they can milk his Robin's popularity for as long as possible. They have an interest in drawing Jason to make him look 40 when Bruce slits his throat, to make him look like a grown man fighting a teenager when fighting Mia even though they're the same age (though i mantain that mia is a little bit older), in having him call Tim kid even though they're the same age, in having him offer Tim a drink and Tim pointing out he's not legal when Jason isn't either. They have an interest in Jason looking older in Jim Aparo's art style in ADITF than he looked in precrisis or in 308. They have an interest in Steph magically looking older in War Games, where she gets tortured and brutally murdered, than the fun colourful round and much more youthful art from her Robin run. There are probably many more examples but bottom line it's not fucking innocent. DC knows how to hire artists that know how to draw children it's really not that hard. Characters who look young, characters who remind you that they are young, create more empathy; which is good when you want the public to continue to root for them, and bad when those characters challenge the status quo or that excess of empathy might create pushback after you decide to have them brutally murdered. DC can't have Batman grievously wounding and causing the death of his underage son, but if he looks as old as Batman? DC can't have Jason making a valid point about vigilantism being unsafe for Mia and relating with her with childhood sexual abuse subtext because it makes the heroes (and especially Batman) look bad, but if it looks like this is a grown ass man harassing a teenage girl, then it's clear who is the villain, it's okay, no problem. DC needs Barbara to be younger so the power dynamic between her and Dick fits their idea of a perfect little nuclear family much better and they can shove Barbara back into the role of Batgirl even though she is very much a girl rather than a woman. DC needs Steph to look older when she's tortured so they can be edgy without people being too horrified at them doing something horrifying, DC needs Jason and Steph to look older on the day they die because young looking= innocent which makes it so much harder to victim-blame. DC needs Mia to look younger than Jason so they can make it look like the good old "good victim/bad victim" dichotomy and even though that's not what the story is actually about, regardless of how much it disrespects Mia's character to do so. DC needs Jason to look ugly because it's harder to empathize with ugly people and it makes it so much clearer who is the bad guy and who is the good one, and it's a much easier dichotomy, so much more comfortable than challenging the whole mythos around which Batman is built. DC needs Barbara to be sexy in their traditional male-gaze way, because this is the audience they're trying to appeal to.

So like, I know that I'm nit-picking when I say "actually according to any and all logic Jason is younger than Tim by a couple of months and than Mia by around three years". Or when I say "they should bring back Dickbabs' old age difference" or even interact with Dickbabs as if they still have that difference and refuse to interact with Tom Taylor's version of the ship. I know comics are incoherent and the timeline is messy; but just because it's messy, just because it's always been, doesn't mean it's innocent. So I'm gonna keep nitpicking, and I'm gonna stay an annoying bitch, because I refuse to allow comics to manipulate me out of my empathy. And because I don't see everything and am very aware of how easy it is to be manipulated even when you're careful, I encourage you to add to this with things you've noticed whether it's in portrayal or in art about character age, appearance, or any other device they might use to manipulate our perception of the characters -and what narrative these resorts serve.

[orphiclovers]

i love how in orv when we see (outside perspective) yoo joonghyuk its like he glared with murderous intent. he growled menecingly. and we think ah typical badass hero archetype. but then you read yoo mia side story (which is from yjh's perspective) and you get his internal dialoge which boils down to:

how do people work. i dont know what to say so ill just stay silent. eye contact is weird. DO I HAVE A SOUL? how do people work. how do i socialize. AM I A PERSON?

[spacebubblehomebase]

I don't know how I drew the first one really. All I remember was feeling so upset and projecting and the next thing I know, Damian's suffering in front of me. Good thing I also drew him some great friends to help him pull through! Really wanna do more of his crew. They're all color coded and everything! UGH!!! SO CUTE!!! Why must I be so busy? TvT As always, I often challenge my own artstyle, so their designs may change from time to time as I wasn't completely satisfied, but I'm happy to at least finally have them out there for y'all. -Bubbly💙

[miabrown007]

HE GOT HER A NET

[agnesandhilda]

left to its own devices, the natural tendency of any fictional universe is to develop towards chaos. and bisexuality

[ghuleh-anima-mia]

he's bringing me such comfort

[sillyballoonmilkshake]

Ava: Who's Niko's biggest enemy?

Killian: It's Landon

Cecily: Probably Landon

Jeremy: Landon

Glyn: Definetly Landon

Annika: Landon

Landon: Me

Mia: Obviously Landon

Bran: Clara

[prettycoolducks]

These Resident Evil doodles I dug up are so old they may even be from before the dlc was released