Mr. Malone's Human-Shaped Trouble

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

Batman was trained by Tibetan monks and Santa that's why he's so OP

truly anything can be good if you do enough textual analysis

fandom at its core is about asking the age old question “what if they were doing that shit on purpose” and then they weren’t

this tweet made me laugh but more importantly. it made me think. are we prepared for twobats to be mainstream again

The fanonization of Tim Drake is completely unsurprising and actually a core function of his character. Fanonization is often facilitated by particularly relatable or flexibly-characterized characters, often termed “blorbos,” who inspire the audience’s sympathy, recognition, and/or imagination. Considered in historical comics context, the character of Tim Drake—including his hobbies, relationships, and personality—was constructed to be perfectly relatable to contemporary audiences. Over the next few decades, Tim Drake was propped up as a vessel for both readers’ and authors’ projection. It is no surprise, then, that Tim Drake’s fandom takes advantage of this built-in “blorbo” and interprets his character in wildly different, often extreme, ways, ranging from “poor wet cat” to “cold blooded killer” to “the most competent neglected seven-year-old in existence.” In this essay, I will—

and so I continue my series of dignified and powerful depictions of superman

Jeremy Adams: I need to... fujo out... like Geoff Johns would want...

bruce haters will present you with a thirty-year-old panel of bruce beating up a drug addict and say here i have undeniable proof that batman is a bad guy actually and if you say don't you think this was politically motivated and says more about the writer than batman himself they will respond with well my favorite character never beat up any drug addicts as part of a misguided attempt by dc to discourage teenagers from abusing methamphetamines in the mid-nineties (not their exact words) and then you have to find a nice way to tell them that their favorite character is culturally insignificant 😔

I hated Bruce ever since he cut his son's neck. Go ahead and explain how that's politically motivated or whatever. I'll wait...

jason should have ducked that's on him

@roguestorm your tags made me laugh thank you

super-duperman val-zod

silent night, yaoi night

superman, batman

juni ba’s the boy wonder changed my life

girl help i’m seeing wildly inaccurate characterization of my faves via the incorrect quote format

being black in fandom comes with realizing over and over again that other people in these spaces who aren’t black truly have no idea how much racism and anti blackness is still prevalent both in these spaces and in real life.