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[paradisechid800]

Though Wonder Woman earth one does have some issues, I have to hand it to Grant Morrison, they accurately portray how Diana would react to the outside world. She wouldn't be amazed, she would be horrified, confused, and disgusted. She was raised in a Utopian paradise that has no war, poverty, sickness, death, disease, misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc, so to see it all here for the very first time would be a lot for her to take in.

[ineffablemurderhusbands]

I realized that I should probably put my fanfic in here so it'll get more readers. Here are a few of them:

Of love handles and fat asses: Rated Explicit

You put on some weight recently and your clothes don't fit right anymore.

Bucky is there to reassure you that you're still hot as fuck.

Make your man call me daddy: Rated Explicit

Tony brings up the idea of a naked calender for the team.

Natasha rebutts to say that the women of the team would be sexualized and the men praised. Someone jokes that the men should pose in lingerie instead.

Since it's for charity, they accept.

Bent the whole world over and said: Spank you very much: Rated Explicit

You are briefed with an undercover mission where Steve needs to pose as your Dom in a BDSM club.

You enlist Bucky's help in this learning quest.

Of course it turns into a threesome.

The beginning of a friendship. Or something more: Rated M

Diana helps out and comforts a drunk girl in a club's bathroom.

Kerosene is half as cheap as therapy (and that's what I call irony): Rated Explicit

Bucky stops a scorned woman from wrecking her ex's car.

She decides another type of revenge is in order.

Or alternatively: "Don't stick your dick in crazy, Bucky!" Sam says. Bucky does it anyway.

[blueteehood]

@faytelumos clearly it was both

Tom King is introducing Diana’s WHAT

[kal8elle]

By https://x.com/themycira

[pugugly001]

I wanna sneak into Themycira!

[ellestra]

Godkiller

I just saw Wonder Woman and it was so much fun. From the Amazons to Diana’s first snow. This was the first DCEU movie that finally didn’t feel like an excuse for CGI fight scenes. It wasn’t bunch of explosions connected by faulty logic. I wasn’t even bothered by all the slo-mo scenes which shows that when they are used for the story and not for the sake of showing off everything can work.

This was fun, heartfelt and touching. It made you care for Diana and for Steve and for all the secondary characters. It gave them all moments to shine and even background characters were given moments to make us care about their fate. And it made you care about Diana’s journey. And it left me wanting to see more adventures of Diana of Themycira. I couldn’t say that about other DCEU movies.

Gal Gadot is great as Diana. She shows her nativity and her drive. Her heart and her heartbreak.  And Chris Pine did great job as Steve. He is guide for Diana in the outside world but he also had his own quest and the film has a nice balance of being about Diana but also allowing for other stories to feel important. It has certain similarities to the first Captain America film but in a good way. It was certainly as much fun to watch.

I knew instantly David Thewlis was the bad guy. I wasn’t spoiled. I didn’t even know he was in the film. But I knew the moment I saw him. He had that fidgety, calculating look. And he has been playing this kind of duplicitous characters in fantasy films since The Last Dragon so it was not unexpected.

I wasn’t sure he was Ares or just working for him at first but the whole time they were telling him their plans I wanted to scream “Noooooo, don’t tell him - he will betray you!” I also though the CGI monster he turned to was much more ridiculous than when he was just there in a suit. It looked especially fake in front of real Gal Gadot standing there but they wanted big an muscular and that’s not Thewlis so CGI monster it was. ( But this was  my one complaint. Everything else about the film was awesome.)

However, I loved that Diana defeating Ares wasn’t the reason war ended (and of course it didn’t end all wars - even worse one came 20 years later). This was already the very end of the WWI (4 years on, and the time of year looked like November) and they keep talking how Germans are out of food, men and munitions and how they are about to sign the armistice. The only reason it wasn’t sign yet was because Ludendorff promised the Kaiser he can win the war with the poison gas. Once that was off the table the war ended like we all know it did on 11th of November 1918. So it wasn’t Diana defeating Ares that did it. It was Steve Trevor destroying that plane that ended the war. A hero’s ending like only Chris playing a Steve could get.

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[autisticcassandracain]

....Yes? I never said she didn't have a personality, or story hooks. I do think you are overestimating how set in stone and defined it is, but that's simply a result of being one of the most popular superheroes for decades upon decades; Batman and Superman have a relatively fluid personality too. The big three has simply been written by far too many people under far too many editors and bigwigs to have a truly consistent personality. I've talked about that before and you can disagree with me if you want to, it doesn't really matter, because regardless, I never said lack of personality for Diana, the character, was the issue. You misunderstood my post.

I originaly wrote a long thing but I was just repeating what was in the post and I don't feel like doing that. If you wish to argue with me, please read the post again and point to specific parts you disagree with, because "Wonder Woman is-at the core of the character- too volatile and off the mold for a USA meanstream corporation. So they bring her back to the mold, they do the same 'safe' stories over and over and over again. It might not even be the writters' fault. I think they are just not allowed to do much with her," is the entire point of my post. That's what I said.

I think you misunderstood my usage of the word identity. 'Identity' =/= 'personality'. Diana has a personality, story hooks, and lore. Wonder Woman's identity is Girl, and that's narratively weak. All the things you mentioned (Themyscira, her Hellenic peliefs, her struggle with USAmerican laws) are things that loop back to Greek Mythology, not feminism, despite feminism being the supposed core of Wonder Woman's character. (Themyscira is also a thing that loops back to feminism but the treatment of Themycira is marked by the same problems as Wonder Woman and I Do Not have the time to get into it but like. The reason they routinely get portrayed as man haters is because ppl are scared of feminism. Hell, Perez's entire concept change of Themyscira made it 200% more sexist, and it was an explicit attempt to revitalize her character for a wider audience. A society with feminism at its core routinely gets portrayed as evil/bad and/or completely neutered. It reinforces my point.) That's... kind of the problem. The Greek Myth aspects to her character, her connection to Themyscira and her resulting distance to the USA, and her connections to the gods, are interesting. They're also not what she's known for in the wider public, or what DC celebrates every time they talk about her. That'd be being a Girl. Wonder Woman, the concept's identity is being a girl, because 'feminism' is too risky to tackle for a corporation. THAT'S my point, not that Diana has no personality.

As I said: it's not about individual stories or writers, or even Diana the character. It's about the fact that a Feminism Hero as a concept is too volatile for DC to really dig into, but they do want to please the crowd, so they walk a middle ground that makes no-one happy. In pleasing everyone, they pleased no-one.

Actually I do want to expand on why I think Wonder Woman has, in many ways, gotten stuck in ‘the girl’ role rather than having a unique defined identity. Because it’s not like there’s no potential here. It just goes consistently underused. 

Please do keep in mind that I’m not a Wonder Woman expert by any means and also that I have the memory of a goldfish.

So yesterday I made a short post where I stated that the reason Wonder Woman consistently under performs in sales compared to Superman and Batman is because DC Comics is sexist and has an audience that is accustomed to this. In addition, I also noted that, whereas Superman and Batman have clear identities in relation to their heroism (Superman is idealism, Batman is a grittier, darker take on justice), Wonder Woman’s ‘hook’ seems to simply be that she’s a girl. I implied this was part of this aforementioned normalized sexism in comic books.

The thing is, I don’t actually necessarily think that it has to be. Superman and Batman’s core characters are tied to the way they approach justice; Superman is there to take on justice in a very ‘paragon hero’ kind of way, a brilliant shining beacon of idealism and hope for tomorrow. Batman takes on justice in a darker way, bare-knuckling his way to victory, using fear as a tool against those who’d threaten others, and showing that justice doesn’t have to be a friendly smile. These identities are connected to their personal histories; Superman is a Moses allegory, the last survivor of his planet, a savior with superhuman abilities that make most physical threats trivial. These things allow him to represent justice in its purest form. Batman, on the other hand, is really Just Some Guy whose parents got shot; he is intrinsically tied to Gotham, a known depressing cesspit. These things make it so that he can’t just be the unquestioned paragon Superman is; he needs a darker, grittier, arguably more realistic approach to justice. 

It would really not be difficult to apply the same approach to Wonder Woman. Diana’s unique attribute in the trio is usually her gender; she’s the girl to these two guys, and stands out in the man-dominated superhero scene. But rather than using this as a form of tokenism, it would be really easy to tie this to her ‘type’ of justice. Wonder Woman as the fight against systemic oppression; with a focus on sexism, sure, but sexism does not exist in a vacuum; to adequately fight for women, you also need to fight for women of colour, disabled women, trans women, etc. It would be so, so easy to make Diana’s form of justice center around justice for minorities, for women specifically.

And it’s not that this isn’t at all present in her character. Many of Diana’s stories and consistent story elements revolve around her struggle against sexism. But that’s not actually what her character is about.

Diana was sent to Man’s World to teach peace. Her primary antagonist, as such, is usually war. War in many forms, ranging from personal conflict to actual battlefields to the literal Greek god of war. Sexism often appears as an obstacle in her stories, but it’s rarely the main antagonist. Antagonists use sexism to their advantage to whip up the masses, or are sexist themselves as a personality trait, or they may even have sexist goals, but what Diana fights is rarely, at its core, the force of sexism. It’s war leveraging sexism.

And this distinction seems pedantic, especially since bigotry is often nothing more than a convenient tool, but it makes a huge difference in the kind of stories that are told. An easy example is Perez’s Challenge of the Gods arc; Zeus appears and wishes to have sex with Diana, seeing her as little more than an object, and doesn’t care about her consent. This is obviously incredibly sexist. It is also the catalyst for the arc; it is an obstacle. But the arc itself is actually about the challenge Zeus presents to her, and what she discovers as she struggles with it. The arc is not about Zeus’s sexism; it is never even truly resolved. It is simply an obstacle. (Also in the same arc Perez thinks it’s a good idea to make Hippolyta have romantic feelings for her rapist and his handling of rape is horrible in general but I truly don’t have the time to get into the mess that is Perez’s Hercules).

It is not that Wonder Woman stories never deal with sexism head-on or resolve it. Recently, in Nubia & the Amazons, they had an entire arc about how sexism colours who we consider villains. Medusa, the antagonist of that arc, ended up being treated with kindness, because she truly wasn’t the enemy, but a victim of sexism like everyone else on Themyscira. That’s an arc about sexism. But these kinds of arcs are really not the mainstay of Wonder Woman stories, the way Batman’s struggle with light and dark is a mainstay in his.

While DC desperately wants to present Wonder Woman as a warrior against sexism, a feminist icon, their stories rarely capitalize on this image. It would be impossible to remove Superman’s shining paragon idealism and still have him be Superman. It would be impossible to remove Batman’s darkness and still have him be Batman. But removing sexism from Wonder Woman is possible. Certain aspects of her story would have to be changed, but Diana and Themyscira would still be recognizable, at the end of the day.

Ironically, Greek Mythology is what I would say actually defines Wonder Woman. Removing this from Wonder Woman would make her a fundamentally different character. A Themyscira that isn’t based on ancient Athens is not Themyscira.

But Wonder Woman isn’t billed as the Greek Mythology Hero; she’s billed as the Female Hero. And yet, the sexism is more superfluous to her story than the Greek mythology.

And it’s easy to see why. Unlike Batman and Superman’s forms of justice, the fight against sexism is not uncontroversial, or even universal. Everyone can pretend that Batman or Superman would be on their side. Even stories like Superman Smashes The Klan do not stop conservatives from identifying with him just the same as leftists and liberals. No matter how explicitly Batman is against guns, American conservatives believe he’d be on their side just as much as American leftists and liberals do. Everyone believes that Superman and Batman would be on their side, not because of the actual content of their stories, but because what they represent is a kind of universally relatable feeling; a fight against a nebulous force of injustice, albeit in different ways.

But not everyone relates to the fight against sexism (or other forms of bigotry). Justice for the oppressed is not a universal kind of justice. It is a specific form of justice in reaction to a specific form of injustice. And not everyone can get behind it, because many people do not agree that this kind of injustice even exists.

If DC were to explicitly connect Wonder Woman to the fight against sexism, as intrinsically as Superman is idealism and Batman is dark justice, they would loose a large portion of their audience, and open themselves up to a barrage of criticism. The notion of justice for women is still a radical one; how radical depends on the way this justice is expressed, but even the most limp ‘mascara that can kill a man’ #girlboss #girl power anti-sexism message is still controversial at best in many places around the world. And that’s just women; that’s not even getting into justice for other oppressed groups.

So, from a marketing perspective, it’s infinitely safer to play into the idea that Wonder Woman is a feminist icon, without actually making feminism her identity. That way they can attempt to do the same thing as with Batman and Superman, and try to keep her as universal as possible. Wonder Woman represents all women; even the racist, transmisogynistic American congresswoman who cheered on the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

But in neutering her like this, they’ve also inadvertently created a situation where Wonder Woman’s identity is just ‘woman’. Woman with an ancient Greek aesthetic, but like, still woman. And ‘I am a woman’ simply does not lend itself to many stories, if you refuse to get into the true nitty gritty of sexism and feminism. Hence why Greek mythology tends to be front and center in Wonder Woman stories; you can actually create a narrative from that.

And what ends up happening is that most Wonder Woman stories tend to be stories about (or at least involving) Greek Mythology with some feminist dressing. Not feminist takes on Greek mythology. Stories about Greek mythology with feminist dressing. 

And that’s how you end up with a character who feels aimless compared to Batman and Superman. In an attempt to appeal to the widest audience possible, Wonder Woman’s identity ends up being narratively weak and comparatively unmemorable.

For the record, I love Wonder Woman, both the wider mythos and Diana as a character. I think many Wonder Woman stories get unfairly overlooked in favor of Batman and Superman stories. There’s some true gems in her long history, and even when talking overarching themes and mythos, I think there’s many extremely interesting aspects to it (a personal favourite being Diana’s connection to the truth as a concept).

But this post isn’t about specific writers or arcs or stories, even if I pulled up some as examples. It’s about the wider Wonder Woman image, the kind even people who barely know what a DC Comic is are familiar with, and how this fundamental identity interacts with her actual in-comic stories. And unfortunately, that identity is incredibly underwhelming compared to her ‘big three’ counterparts.

And that’s why Wonder Woman consistently seems to under perform. In attempting to please everyone, DC has managed to please absolutely nobody.

[thewriterwithnoplan]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year and Enjoy Your Holiday!

This is officially my first Christmas since starting this blog so firstly thank you for all the support and encouragement! So enjoy some Christmas headcanons from my most popular reader inserts! (Spoiler alert).

Smallville - Wishes Do Come True

Despite being Jon’s soulmate your Christmas day would start at Wayne Manor.

Of course, Diana got the week off to spend the holidays with you.

So the pair of you get up early to make breakfast and catch up (it also gives Alfred the chance to sleep in).

After everyone wakes up and eats you all exchange gifts. It's fucking ridiculous.

You’re hanging out with the Waynes so you can expect some stupidly overpriced presents.

Despite not knowing you very well Tim has noticed that your laptop is outdated by two years, so you get the newest Wayne Tech computer.

Dick gets you designer sunglasses claiming that it's because the press has been after you lately. But you’re 90% sure it's so that everyone stops making fun of his own $500 Prada shades.

When Jason swings by he gives you a gun. You don't tell anyone but are you really a Gothamite if you don't carry a weapon 24/7?

Bruce gets you - or rather your superhero self - a fucking motorbike which is only upstaged by the fact Diana bought you a car.

[You can decide what you get them]

So by the time you get on the Batplane to the Kent farm you’re already decked out with enough gifts to last you a lifetime.

Diana takes a jet to Themycira, she invited you but the Amazon’s can be a little intense and even if they’re family, you’d like to see your soulmate on the holidays.

When you get to Smallville you’re whisked away from the Batfamily to join Lois and Martha while they cook.

At first, you’re a little put out that you’re expected in the kitchen (Gender roles like this suck especially during the holidays).

But you quickly find out that Lois and Martha are like lionesses they won't let anyone near the food, not even you.

So instead you sit on the end of the bench and just keep them company, helping them with little things like stirring whatever is in the saucepan and washing the dishes as they went.

Bruce came in to help at one point but he was quickly shooed away, but not before telling you what the boys had been up to.

Apparently, they were “behaving themselves”, only 2 brawls had broken out (one between Damian and Tim, the other with Conner and Jason).

When Dick comes in screaming like a headless chicken (something about kryptonite laced Batarangs???) Lois and Martha send you to sort it out.

Honestly, you should have seen it coming. Bats and Supers? Not exactly your best idea ever.

You end up confiscating all Kryptonite and forcing the boys to sit quietly in the lounge while you help set the dining table.

You come back and they're at it again.

Lunch is uneventful for the most part.

In all honesty, you just gossip about the other members of your superhero team's (Justice League, Young Justice, Teen Titans, etc.)

But this also means you, Damian and Jon are bitching about each other to your faces.

After all that food most of the adults fall into food comas.

You and Jon are no different but the house is pretty packed and it's an overcast day so you both end up lying on the barn roof.

You talk about anything and everything for hours.

When the sun sets you exchange presents; he got you a beautiful necklace with the El family crest on the pendant.

Ironically you bought him dog tags with your family’s Wonder W’s.

You laugh about for a bit but one thing leads to another and the next thing you know your lips are on his, with the sunset in the background it’s perfect. 

“I love you.”

“I know.”

Dirty and Useless - Christmas is Complicated

Christmas has always been hard as the only Wayne child.

For the last few years, you’d spent the holidays with Melisa so being back at Wayne manor during December is just plain weird at first.

But things like the ridiculously sized Christmas tree in the foyer and the constant hum of carols blasting from speakers bring back the happier memories.

It’s strange having Jason there too, he’s not too into the holidays - having spent some time in the streets - but having another person there to do Christmas themed things with is nice.

Bruce, on the other hand, is freaking the fuck out. It. Has. To. Be. Perfect.

He’s missed the last few years of holidays with you and he’s terrified that if one thing goes wrong you’ll bolt.

In all honesty, you’ve contemplated it. You have money put aside (not that you - daughter of a billionaire - have to put money aside for things) just in case you decide last minute to go see Melisa.

It’s not until two days before Christmas do you start your shopping. Melisa’s present being the exception - you bought her concert tickets earlier in the year. 

You’ve got zero idea how to shop for people other than you and Melisa. You don’t exactly have many friends or close family members.

So in true Wayne fashion, you start throwing money around. In the end, you accidentally bought Jason a car, Alfred a full expenses paid week-long holiday and Bruce... 

Well, you build him a tablet just like the Batcomputer.

Not your smartest idea, now he can ignore you in favor of his cowl, on-the-go.

Christman day rolls around and you’re surprised to find yourself whelmed.

Bruce made breakfast. You’re pretty sure he left the shell on the eggs and burnt down half the kitchen but it’s the thought that counts. 

After breakfast, you change into your Christman sweater that you had to wear thanks to the bet you lost to Jason.

When you step out to find the house basically abandoned (more so than usual) you aren’t exactly surprised. 

You find a note pinned to the front door. You expect an apology note but it’s anything but.

You’ll find your first scavenger hunt clue at WE.

For a moment you short circuit but then you have your keys and you’re in your car.

The scavenger hunt takes you half-way across Gotham and then back again. The clues slowly get harder and harder until you’re scratching your head.

You only got almost mugged twice and catcalled four times - a Gotham record.

You’re in the Iceberg lounge - pretty sure Penguin is about to start asking questions - when you find the last clue.

You’ll always find your way...

You have no clue at this point, it’s already 11 and you don’t want to be late to Christmas lunch so you end up calling Melisa for help.

She tells you, you’re an idiot and then you’re heading home.

When you open the door it’s suspiciously quiet... and then people jump out.

You punched Jason in the nose.

Once you’d calmed down you apologized profusely but he only laughed and joked about keeping your present for himself. He didn’t. He gave you brass knuckles - much to Bruce’s annoyance.

It was only after you’d hugged him in excitement and people had awed, did you realize that there were others there.

Bruce, Jason, and Alfred had invited people (namely Dick, Kori, Gar, Rachel and to your delight, Melisa.) to surprise you at lunch. 

And although you knew Bruce had planned it and Alfred had done all the cooking (thank god), you suspected that Jason was the mastermind behind the idea.

“Merry Christmas Ms. Sparrow.”

“Merry Christmas Dork.”

[bellabooks]

Five Good and Gay things this week: 3/2/20 – 3/6/20

It’s so exciting to be taking over as managing editor of Bella Media Channel! I completely adore Bella Books and love our commitment to uplifting positive queer content. Five Good and Gay is an amazing recurring article created by our very own former managing editor and current Bella author, Dana Piccoli. This week’s Five Good and Gay is all about women loving women across TV and film. Enjoy! Wonder Woman is gay in Superman: Red Son. In the animated film that was recently released, an alternate universe Superman tries to put moves on Wonder Woman and she helps him understand that where she’s from, there are only women. Quick, someone book me a ticket to the sapphic wonderland that is Themiscyra! “i come from an island of all women. work it out for yourself.” SHE DID IT FOR THE LESBIANS pic.twitter.com/fzPmya3oWj— lana ʬ⁸⁴ saw bop (@themycira) February 25, 2020 Source: Twitter The Clifford the Big Red Dog reboot shows lesbian moms just being moms. Dr and Ms. Mulberry are the parents of Samantha, a child on the series who goes over to Emily Elizabeth and Clifford’s house for a barbecue. Catch their normalcy in Season 1, Episode 19 “The Big Red Tomato/Dogbot.” Australian queer teen romcom Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie’s Dead Aunt) continues to gain viewer support. The film opened the Mardi Gras Film Festival and is set for another showing at Brisbane Queer Film Festival. Following Ellie and Abbie as they prepare for year 12 formal (Australian prom), the film was created by Monica Zanetti to be a family-friendly lesbian romance. The Shakedown documentary tells the story of pop-up lesbian strip clubs that existed Los Angeles in the 2000s. I genuinely never thought I’d be writing these words, but the film will be available on both PornHub and Criterion. The film represents the underground, Black lesbian owned and operated eponymous strip club and the Shakedown Angels who were the club’s performers. This unique documentary promises to be enlightening. Gina Torres will play a vampire queen in Brides, a Dracula reimagining on ABC. Torres plays one of the three wives of Dracula—a former queen turned vampire turned vampire real estate tycoon—but the wives seem to have moved on from their powerful ex in favor of their non-traditional family. Though the queerness isn’t explicit in the announcement, it’s hard not to see three wives forming a non-traditional family as pretty damn queer. View this post on Instagram So this happened!! So happy to be able to share this news. Thrilled to be working with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ( @writerras ) and Berlanti Productions on this most delicious and edgy reimagining of the Dracula tale. #womenrule #QueenCleo #dreamsdocometrue Link to full article in my bio! A post shared by Gina Torres (@iamginatorres) on Mar 2, 2020 at 2:32pm PST Source: Instagram The post Five Good and Gay things this week: 3/2/20 – 3/6/20 appeared first on Bella Media Channel. http://dlvr.it/RRNzzz

[lovedrr]

Superman/mulher - Maravilha - Themycira

By: DRebello

[star-of-troy]

Donna considered her sister's words, taking a moment to settle herself on the sofa again. Everything still felt so strange... she wasn't sure what she was supposed to be feeling right now. Anger, sadness, confusion, understanding, empathy, guilt at her earlier outburst, they all swirled around her, washing over her like the tides. The way Steve Trevor had described it was so far removed from Diana's approach that part of her wondered what he was expecting her reaction to be.

"Talk about sudden surprises." the younger girl snorted. if the story is true, well, that thought was going to keep her awake tonight. Growing up, she'd never questioned the story of her birth, why would she if she was reminded of it every day of her life? Mother, Antiope, Tekmessa, Vera, Orana, every woman on the island knew she was her Mother's creation, brought to life with Magala's aid. Who was she to question all of Themycira? Then again, they'd said the same of Diana... Diana who was currently holding her hand as she'd done countless times before. Diana, who despite this new information, was her big sister.

"I remember most of it..." Donna admitted, giving Diana's hand a gentle squeeze. "I remember throwing an absolute fit each time Mother tried to put me to bed. I remember sleeping in your room for a week or two afterwards, because I was sure the nightmares would come back if I didn't- and screaming any time someone tried to coax me back into my own room before I was ready." They were some of the few tantrums she'd thrown in front of anyone who wasn't Diana. Even then, her 'tantrums' to her sister never went past pouting and whining. "DId you? I honestly thought you were with me the whole time... " A sigh, as she leaned against her sister. Did she bring up her outburst with Diana's love earlier? "Ever since leaving Themyscira, since Magala said goodbye, I've felt.... different.. stronger, faster, I don't know how to describe it... and I'm not sure how to control everything yet."

Diana shrugged slightly as she heard Donna ask if she would ever tell their mother. "I don't know. I planned on doing it the last two times I saw her. And, in the end, I was just... glad to see her. I still feel really weird about it, but... I don't know what good it would do to confront her." It wasn't as if she disliked her mother because it turned out she wasn't her biological mother. She did the job Zeus asked of her, as far as Diana could tell.

Diana shrugged. "My only guess is that I was somehow involved in your creation if the story is true, but... mother just came back to the palace one afternoon with a newborn." There was a period of time in which Diana had wondered if a baby had washed up in a basket or something like in some story.

Diana took her sister's hand gently. "I can't tell you what to do, Donna. And I'm not asking you to shut it down completely. Just... enough that it's not hurting you. I don't know if you would remember this, but... when you were eight, you started screaming yourself awake every night for weeks. Mother thought it was just night terrors brought on by sugar or something before bed. I got you to describe the dreams that were scaring you so much, and... it was my own nightmares. You were getting to the point you were scared of sleeping. So I told you that, if you slept in my bed, you wouldn't get the nightmare. And, while you slept, I went out to the roof and did my school work under the stars. The next morning, you were so excited that I was right that you wouldn't have any nightmares. That was when I decided to put up the walls. Because what was affecting me was also affecting you, and I couldn't bare the fact that I was hurting you."

[kal8elle]

By https://x.com/themycira

[calista-de-galanes]

O que Calista assumiu da ousadia de Diana — a primeira a cruzar os limites de Themycira —, compensou reanimando as raízes amazonas: a perversidade é vista em toda figura masculina; o homem é depravado e escuso; a validade de confiar em um deles deve ser vista e revista por quantas vezes for possível e, se oportuno, descartada.

[star-of-troy]

"There's no big secret there, I was sent to my room when the horn blew signaling an attack. And told to remain there when word reached the palace of a prisoner. Mother would've sent Diana off as well, but according to what Diana told me after your questioning, she was already in the thick of it when Mother and everyone else arrived." Donna shrugged, with a wistful smile and a roll of her eyes. "After that... well, Mother had just lost her sister, and later that night her eldest child. Someone had to stay with her..." Or at least that's what Diana had said at the time as she prepared to leave. "I won't pretend to know what Diana’s reasoning was, nor what she is thinking- not unless she lets me. My best guess based on our conversation is all this," a gesture at air around them. "-took its toll on her. She's never been good about opening up, not completely. Tries to protect those she loves... even from her own problems."

"I know you didn't." She sighed taking his wrist into her hand and squeezing it as she'd do to Diana's hand. Apparently Man's World had a thing about hand holding and she wasn't sure if it applied here. Immediately she knew he spoke the truth, as he would know that she spoke true. She wasn't sure how it worked, or why, but it'd started happening ever since she'd left home. She wasn't just stronger, or faster, but this as well. It was one thing, she supposed, to know the truth, to intentionally coax it out at her touch, it was another, to be ready to accept it. It was strange, to feel the cool sensation when he'd spoken yesterday, but to have her mind and heart fight tooth and nail against it. Donna let go, offering Diana's love a small smile. "I may not know you Steve Trevor, but I know you are important to my sister. I'd like to get to know you better, to start over."

"I am Donna, Princess of Themycira, told to introduce myself as Donna Prince while I'm here." She said sticking her hand out as she'd seen others do to introduce themselves.

"You know, I met Diana a long time ago, and even after I came back, this is the first time Diana has ever mentioned a sister. And I'm good with faces, and I don't recall seeing you that day on Themyscira when I showed up and the Germans attacked, or maybe everything was happening so fast that I didn't have time to take in my surroundings" he confessed.

Steve looked away. "Look I meant nothing by it, half of this stuff still confuses me. I admit it probably would've been better to wait for Diana and let her explain. I panicked and called in Zeus, I honestly had no idea what to do and Diana was busy with the Justice League. Can't say she would be thrilled to stop in the middle of a fight to answer a call, I'm sorry for dropping that huge bomb on you like that, I meant no harm, really"

[isagrimorie]

Things I still really like from Justice League

- The Amazons and their deadly ‘keep away’ game with Steppenwolf. I can still watch an entire miniseries about them. 

- The Amazons showing that using lassos in combat is something all Amazons can do.

- Queen Hippolyta being awesome and showing why she is the Queen of the Amazons. And then, later, Hippolyta taking a moment before launching the arrow to warn Diana, and whispering in almost prayer: ‘Hear me, Diana.’ 

- Bruce, after Diana casually walks into the Bat Cave/Workshop (?): ‘This building has the most state of the art security system.’

Diana, as if she didn’t just stroll into one of the most secure locations on the planet: ‘Yeah, they looked expensive.’

- Diana’s situational awareness and knowing Victor was lurking on the lakeside all along and the reaching out to him.

- Diana always on guard, and on lookout, and just. She’s such a warrior. 

- Diana calling Clark ‘Kal-El’, just like in the comics! (Except, how does she know Clark’s Kryptonian name? Did Lois write that Superman article, after all??). But again, calling Clark ‘Kal-El of Krypton’ because unlike Clark her real self is Diana of Themycira and not Diana Prince.

- Clark headbutting Diana, and Diana headbutting Clark back. My heart. 

- Everytime Diana looked annoyed when people try to shoot her and stab her and then she kicks their ass 

- ‘Leaders get people killed.’ And then later in the conversation, ‘Everyone was Steve Trevor.’ And my heart broke for her, how many people did she lose that by the time we see her, she’s retreated and become a loner. 

- ‘On my lead.’ 

- Diana getting annoyed at Steppenwolf’s ranting and strikes a blow at him with Clark’s assist. 

- Oh, and did Diana move from Paris to the London? Is she now working for the British Museum???

[superscanaries]

Best slogan for themycira "no boys allowed" 👍