I need artists to stop being scared of drawing characters that are older, ugly, and grimy. JOHN IS NOT A PRETTY MAN! He's an old, tired, wrinkly, dishevelled, alcoholic chainsmoker. He's hard to look at. He's pathetic. Get with the program or don't draw him at all, dead serious.
Since we're being brutally honest on the TL...
The way the Teen Titans show turned Raven from this... into this. The pipeline from a mystical eastern-inspired sorceress to a emo girl is a direct result of the show.
In comics, deadbeat dads usually make up for being awful parents to their kids by raising their adopted children better after learning from their mistakes the first time around.
Charles Xavier is the rare exception, as he simply abuses them all. Equality win!
The way Kon El is the gayest straight character I have ever seen in a comic book. Just confirm him as LGBT+ already good GOD he cannot control himself around Tim.
It's really telling how there's genuinely a lot of disabled characters in comics but they never get that side of them explored in depth, or it's ignored entirely by both the fans and the writers.
For example, Cyclops is a disabled character, but you RARELY see it get discussed.
Currently thinking about the sheer amount of male friendships in comics that are blatantly homoerotic, and how if one of them was a girl, they would have been a legacy pairing with a few decades under its belt by now. Absolutely bizarre.
THE ANATOMY OF CYCLOPS' EYES.
Since
@Marvel
wouldn't give it to me, here's a brief anatomical dissection of Cyclops' eyes, how his eyes work, and the various affects his TBI has on his mutation. Citations and extra information below!
Being the pioneer of a brand new, completely baffling ship is both incredibly funny and terrifying. Yes, it started off as a joke. Yes, I am aware it's never going to be canon and I don't want it to be. Yes, it's unhinged. I can and will convert you anyway.
@NekroTheDhampir
I'm a transman you buffoon.
And no, I don't think a term that's used in extremely fetishising porn should be applied to trans people, real or not. Hope that helps!
Five of Cups— Loss, disappointment and dwelling in the past. Regret, missed opportunities, dwelling on the past. His grief over his loss blinds him to the present and holds him back from his full potential.
#XSpoilers
The Human Target's xenophobia is horrific, but it's even worse when you take into account that Tom King was CIA. He was actively part of oppressing the groups he is now stereotyping and mischaracterising in his comics. This is lowkey CIA propaganda.
And here's Jinx on the cover of Tales of the Teen Titans
#57
, the issue you got that panel from. And here's some more panels from it. Oh, and her entry in Who's Who that states she's East Indian with George Perez's visibly brown Jinx pin up.
I'M SO DISTRAUGHT THE RUN ENDS HERE. THERE'S NO MORE. IT CLIFFHANGS HERE. THAT LAST PANEL IS THE LAST TIME THEY'VE BEEN SEEN SINCE JANUARY 2019.
DC I am on my knees PLEASE let Gail Simone continue this run. Please. It was so fun and good.
Another issue I have with erasing Dick's Romani heritage is that they cite Devin's very clear fetishisation. Yes, she's a disgusting person, but what, his heritage gets erased now that Devin busted her load? She had her fun, he's not Romani anymore? That's WORSE.
You really saw their tiny, cramped house on top of their failing laundromat that four people are living in and you decide that "profitable" is the correct adjective here to describe their business?
Also the mean nasty IRS is evil (and ugly!) for trying to……. get a profitable business to pay its fair share of taxes and not write the owner’s hobbies off as business expenses
Well, considering the fact that Mary Jane has been playing second fiddle to a dead blond who's blander than a piece of white bread for over 30 years... Lois Lane without a doubt.
Reading some Jason Todd stuff and good fucking lord. You guys like this torture porn?
Also, VERY interesting how DC comics wants to heal Barbara Gordon up and pretend she was never disabled by The Killing Joke while Jason shackling to it and making it define him. Hm!
I cannot believe this has to be said, but under NO circumstances should you post thirst tweets about the serial rapist Jeffery Dahmer. He is a real person who tortured and killed real people.
I'm really tired of the same 5 characters + Nightwing being in the DC Pride stories and variant covers. They could use this event to shed light on lesser known queer characters.
Where's Obsidian? Pied Piper? Mikaal Tomas? Glacier? Cheetah? Jericho? Bunker? Jinny Hex? The Ray?
@simply_batty
Peter putting her back together while Miguel experiences loss all over again. Life flashes before his eyes. Makes a noise of agony only dogs can hear.
@flxshallens
Devin Grayson really set Dami up with this one. People calling him homophobic for this when context makes it clear he was prepping for possible attacks... dctwt was highkey unbearable for a few days ngl.
It's a pilot's jacket. He's co-piloting a mech with Hal, and his jacket is matching with Hal's. He's not stealing anything here.
This is cute af. Don't be fucking weird.
Aside from being unable to control his mutation, he also suffers from Cluster headaches. They're also referred to as suicide headaches. Terrifying, but it really hammers home just how debilitating the condition is.
And this is NEVER discussed at length for Cyclops. Bizarre.
New headcanon unlocked:
Kon is near IDENTICAL to Clark save for complexion and eye colour, which he got from Lex Luthor. You could write off the tone for him living in Hawaii for a few years but then you see his fucking eyes.
Lex Luthor is 100% petty enough to do this.
mfw the people in the QRTs don't seem to understand that POC can be goth too. Being brown and being goth are not mutually exclusive. Jinx could've been brown AND goth but they decided to whitewash her. 🤨
Imagine being gay since 1995 but then your dad steals your thunder when he comes out in 2021 and has appeared in more DC Pride pieces than you. Could not imagine a more pathetic meow meow than Obsidian.
@noahfinnadams
I was the androgynous tomboy who was always mistaken for a guy and called an ugly girl. I was too masculine to be desired as a girl but too girly to be wanted as a man. I thought I was ugly for SO long bc of it.
Now that I'm trans tho... people think I'm pretty/handsome. W.
The current trend in the way Carter Hall is depicted in recent media makes it so abundantly clear that he is NOT a white man. Maybe he used to be, but my bitches in Christ... look at him and tell me he's white.
A character being more obviously dark-skinned as a villain but as soon as they become a hero or a character the reader is meant to like, they get coloured far lighter and their features are watered down.
@0307KhomenKo
@Josh3174
@endsanctions
Please don't bash larger breasts or compare them to udders. You can uplift someone without putting down others, and comparing breasts to udders is rather uncomfortable and dehumanising.
Some characters should simply stay dead when they die. Not every character needs to survive the next era. I can name so many who would've had far more meaningful arcs if they stayed dead, or were killed in the climax of a well written run that fulfills them as a character.
Tim Drake wasn't canonised as bisexual to "improve" his character. He has years worth of queer coding. And his solo cancellation has nothing to do with him being bisexual.
Much like Dixon, you did the exact opposite of what you set out to do! You made him sound worse! Congrats.
This is coming from the same guy that admitted while on stream saying that even if turning Tim drake bi, it’s not gonna improve the character which he is right about.
Which Uh Oh, his comic got recently cancelled, hmm I wonder why?
I didn’t knew you put his opinion up so high.
Miguel/Lego Peter's dynamic is exactly this but you swap their personalities. Do with this what you will, Lego99ers 🫡
It may be a crackship, but that doesn't mean it can't have SUBSTANCE!!
@krembeni
Me when I draw silly crackship fanart as a joke because myself and my moots were tired of Miguel being shipped with Peter B. Parker in extremely odd and fetishising ways but it leaves my target audience.
@JRussAV
@vicious696
The race swapping isn't the issue; it's changing Magneto in such a way that it erases his Jewishness and its impact on his POV. Black jewish people exist, and a black jewish Magneto isn't an issue.
Race swapping is perfectly OK when the core ideals of the character are the same.
If a bigot spits in your face, you deck them. Easy as. The idea that you can't even react to that lest a bigot hurt someone else in retaliation is absolutely idiotic.
Midnighter should have broken his jaw. The better message to show kids is that we have a SHRED of self respect.
I do not particularly like Jason, but this is just cruel. Bro doesn't deserve to be used for shock factor plots and forced into being the "bad" Robin so the rest of the batfam can be morally superior. At least explore his trauma if you have to keep reopening the would, jesus.
Very happy to see all the transphobes and TERFs saying they'll return their Docs. GOOD! I don't want to see any posers wearing Docs if they're not punk enough to defy the cisnormativity. Check my purple ladder lacing while I step in you. 🏳️⚧️ 👢
Then what she needs is an Indian writer to address the problematic stuff rather than removing Raven's Indian-coding entirely. Straight up make her Desi. She was initially based off an Indian woman. She just needs the right writer and a chance.
@franklinsherald
This just in! Zdarsky is taking an unexpected turn with Daredevil and is going to begin the journey of converting Matt to Judaism in his next arc in the comics. /j
And you people are eating it up and defending it. Please think critically and listen to the people affected when they discuss the overwhelmingly problematic elements in The Human Target.
Once a fed, always a fed.