self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

Nothing forges stronger bonds than hating the same bullshit fanon thing

Me and my cutie patootie mutuals bonding over our shared hatred of the lobotomized cardboard cutout known colloquially as ‘Fanon Duke Thomas’

Reading Batman in a Batman comic: my close personal friend Bruce Wayne who is full of hope and optimism and love. You never give up on anyone, you believe that everyone deserves that 2nd and 3rd and. 15th chance regardless of how many times they exploit and at times abuse that trust because that 45th time could be the difference, because maybe all they need is one person who won’t forsake them as they have been. Your city loves you, and more than that they believe in you, and every time you fall down you get back up because there’s still work to be done. How could anyone ever hate you

Reading literally fucking anyone else’s: how can someone who never says anything make me want to tell him to shut the fuck up. Also why is he monologuing about Dick Grayson for 2 and a half pages. this is a green arrow comic

daily affirmations it’s literally just picture books. these are picture books at the end of the day. it’s not that serious. i don’t care. i’m calm and cool and collected. my opinions are right and everyone else is wrong. it’s not that serious. i don’t care.

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

dc is so boring for not letting their heroes have jobs that don’t tie directly into their superhero lives anymore. everyone’s either a journalist, a cop (ew), a detective, in some branch of criminology, or just rich enough to bankroll their vigilante thing. or worse, their job/personal life doesn't matter to the story.

let these people be artists, teachers, actors, coffee shop owners, whatever. and let that actually matter to them and to the story. just because a job doesn’t connect to their superhero work doesn’t mean it has no place in the narrative. readers care about their personal lives too, not just the superheroing. how else are we supposed to connect with them?

Mao Mao ₍^. .^₎⟆

last thing i finished in 2025 before i got hit by massive art block... my boy who i still think about in the back of my head all the time 😢