#w: rh

[termagax]

no running at the pool :/

[kingbeeleth]

went thru my roblox recordings the other day and rediscovered meow dancing in rhs

[boyfriendgideon]

as yr favorite local jason todd fan sometimes i get so fed up with the apparent inability of most dc comic writers to write a class conscious narrative about him.

and yes, i know that comics are a very ephemeral and constantly evolving and self-conflicting medium.

and yes, i know they’re a profit-driven art medium created in a capitalistic society, so there are very few times where comics are going to be created solely out of the desire to authentically and carefully and deliberately represent a character and take them from one emotional narrative place to another, because dc cares about profit and sometimes playing it safe is what sells.

and yes, i know comics and other forms of art reflect and recreate the society within which they were conceived as ideas, and so the dominant societal ideas about gender and race and class and so on are going to be recreated within comics (and/or will be responded to, if the writer is particularly societally conscious).

but jesus christ. you (the writer/writers) have a working class character who has been homeless, who has lost multiple parents, who has been in close proximity to someone struggling with addiction, who has had to steal to survive, who may have (depending on your reading of several different moments across different comics created by different people) been a victim of csa, who has clearly (subtextually) struggled with his mental health, who was a victim of a violent murder, and who has an entirely distinct and unique perspective on justice that has evolved based on his lived experiences.

and instead of delving into any of that, or examining the myriad of ways that classism in the writers’ room and the editors’ room and the readers’ heads affected jason’s character to make sure you’re writing him responsibly, or giving him a plotline where his views on what justice looks like are challenged by another working class character, or allowing him to demonstrate actual autonomy and agency in deciding what relationships he wants to have with people who he loves but sees as having failed him in different ways, or thinking carefully about what his having chosen an alias that once belonged to his murderer says about his decision-making and motivations, you keep him stuck in a loop of going by the red hood, addressing crime by occupying a position of relative power that perpetuates crime & harm rather than ever getting at the root causes, and seesawing between a) agreeing with his adoptive family entirely about fighting nonlethally in ways that are often inconsistent with his apparent motivations or b) disagreeing and experiencing unnecessarily brutal and violent reactions from his adoptive father as if that kind of violence isn’t the kind of thing he experienced as a child and something bruce himself is trying to prevent jason from perpetuating. because a comic with red hood, quips, high stakes, and familial drama sells.

it doesn’t matter if it keeps jason trapped, torn between an unanswered moral and philosophical question, a collection of identities that no longer fit him, and a family that accepts him circumstantially. it doesn’t matter if jason’s characterization is so utterly inconsistent that the only way to mesh it together is to piece different aspects of different titles and plotlines together like a jigsaw. it doesn’t matter if you do a disservice to his character, because in the end you don’t want to transform him or even understand him deeply enough to identify what makes him compelling and focus on that.

and i love jason!!!!! i love him. and i think about the stories we could have, if quality and art and doing justice to the character were prioritized as much as selling a title and having a dark and brooding batfam member besides bruce just to be the black sheep character are prioritized. and i just get a little sad.

[cam-stopped-eating-candles]

Victoria Whitman close up with chalk pastels 💕

[nexo-nex]

If we ever get an eah reboot i want more diversity ill die on this hill, cause the blatant racism and colorism eah has in it really throws me off a lot. And also they will get torn to shreds if they dont fix their diversity problem in the dolls in this current era

[struck-by-the-rain]

ummmmmm silly wip under cut (it's a tad suggestive but not that bad) 👯🥋

[orbeater]

Aeverie for art trade with @sapphymayeyeplease!!

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

The only junkrat & roadhog lore stuff I'm aware of outside of voicelines are:

*a moment in crime (their 2015 introduction video)

*going legit (2016 comic)

*the plan (2017 animated short)

*wasted land (2018? comic)

*a friendly rivalry (2024 short story)

Does anyone know if there's anything other than this? I'm assuming the gap in lore stuff between 2018 and 2024 is from adding junker queen content, but I'm not as familiar w stuff relating to her... (I know junk & hog show up in jq-specific lore stuff occasionally but not substantially afaik)

Mostly asking bc as ive mentioned i kinda stopped paying attention to ovw around 2017-18ish before getting back into it in 2022, so. Just curious.

[termagax]

baby picture :]

[litmajorjasontodd]

Going from reading Hickmans xmen run fairly recently to looking for recent Batman comic runs to read is like getting whiplash fr </3

Is there a spreadsheet for Batman/dc similar to that big xmen reading list spreadsheet does anyone know?

[fishtank32]

Lmk doodle page that turned into a dragonfruit doodle page. I love them sm.

[msfcatlover]

The Agony: Red Hood!Steph's civilian style is 1000% Pastel Punk, but 99% of reference images I can find for that style expose waaaaaay more skin than I think she'd be comfortable showing with all her scars.

[gece-misin-nesin]

Just saw a take saying that jason should have more parallels and similarities with joker and no. Just no. Don't give them ideas...

[b00m-b0mb]

Something really funny that's occurred to me is the way Joe talks about Maccie is like she's some catastrophic event that happened to their family "I can't believe she's been here that long." / "Everything's been different since she was born" / "Everything changed." / "She changed everything."

And it's just rlly funny to me. I want to up the dramaticness of his words at some point. And anyway, he's talking to the Samurai/Ronin for the first time and I'm wondering the impression he's getting lmao

Joe is certainly expressive to me, but only when he's given the chance. And I think w Ronin, he just started letting a lot of stuff out bc thus guy is gonna go on his way anyways.. but then he's like wait!!! Actually let me go?? For a little? (Platonic yearning so bad)

Ronin like 》^. "I suppose.. Alright, curious karate man, I'll accompany you a little longer."

Or something I'm messing around UGH

[struck-by-the-rain]

idk if anyone else does this but I kinda like getting over the "honeymoon phase" of a hyperfixation but still rly liking it. like oh I'm still insane about this thing but I can actually talk about it or make content for it without feeling like I'm going to spontaneously combust

[toastydoll]

Victoria restyle! I want to find/make more blonde-beige-peach clothing that matches her hair better (bc otherwise she’s extremely difficult to place in the rainbow)