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crossbreeding fanon with canon promotes genetic diversity

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you can call me q, or ink. 30s, she/her, extremely tired. this blog is for dc comics, primarily batfam and yj98. i've lost control of my life. do not come into my house and involve me in your discourse.
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a very important masterlist of very important polls

(a sort of spiritual sequel to this post)

poll projects:

poll series (not cool enough to be projects):

and also a selection of polls i really liked on the subject of --

continuity and comics timelines:

authors, comics-reading, and fandom:

weird comics minutae:

and some miscellaneous fun stuff:

#organizational post#chiropteran and other taxonomies.#got tired of having pennyworth manor as my pinned post so
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i do find it fascinating and funny how badly acceptance of major superheroes' potential queerness in the comics (& adjacent) industry as a whole lags acceptance of major superheroes' potential queerness by the people who are actually writing those major superheroes' comics

like is batman going to come out as queer any time in the near future? absolutely not. has batman been helmed by multiple writers who, if it was up to only them, would already have written a storyline about that one guy batman slept with during his world training tour? 100% absolutely.

#one day we ARE going to get canon ghostbat and on that day i hope that james tynion will still be among us to shed a single tear#txt pst
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sheepysnoozes asked:

hi!!! i read your dc skating au on ao3 recently and i loved it so much and i thought it would be soo cool to write as a longer fic.... i wanted to ask if you would be comfortable with me using your idea as inspiration for a longer dc skating au of the same (or very similar) premise (with credit ofc)? thanks so much!! :))

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hello! go right ahead, i'm so glad you liked the skating au! i have fondness for it myself.

link me whenever you're done with the fic, i'll try to reblog it here!

#txt pst#(btw i'm still alive just taking an impromptu break from tumblr/comics)#(for those of you following along at home)
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hi i'm alive

i haven't been keeping up with comics. what did i miss

#txt pst
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i think the long delays have truly freed me from any remaining temptation to keep following along with hush 2 -- sorry, i mean ~~h2sh~~. Literally Who Cares

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It’s funny how much the fact that Batman fans are spoiled for choice means there is absolutely no incentive to care about the Loeb/Lee run right now.

Want a run for readers not across DC continuity but who want to see Bruce being badass? That’s Absolute Batman.

Want intricate mystery plots in classic story setting? That’s Batman: Dark Patterns.

Want detective noir Batman? That’s The Bat-Man: Second Knight.

Want current era vibes based Batman stories with his broader cast? That’s Batman 2025.

Want heartwarming Batman-as-parent stories? That’s Batman & Robin.

Want a bog standard current continuity Batman run that’s across the current status quo? Detective Comics.

Want internal Batfamily conflict beating each other up? DCKO and Knightfight are right there.

Like, even if you are the world’s biggest Loeb fan, surely you’re reading The Last Halloween instead as something that has its own coherent other-universe continuity.

It’s a fill they might as well not have had while waiting for Fraction to start, given the delays.

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Yeah, this whole thing has clearly been a cash grab meant to ride on the success of Hush 1, but given everything . . . it might have been better for DC to give the six fill-in issues to literally anyone who could hit a deadline. It would definitely have been less embarrassing.

#very important fake comics fan opinions
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Nyssa: Try as I might, you know I cannot feel these feelings. Angel Breaker: You once said that I alone stirred something deep within you. Nyssa: This heart is but a phantom limb. Whatever I may feel, I soon wake ... -- Batgirl (2024) #13

anyway. have we talked about this yet.

i'm honestly intrigued by the crisscrossing romantic entanglements in this generation of the league of assassins (and associates). isn't angel breaker khoa's ex????

#curtains 98 (a tag for panels)#tuesday spoilers#i think this is last week's issue actually? but anyway
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i think the long delays have truly freed me from any remaining temptation to keep following along with hush 2 -- sorry, i mean ~~h2sh~~. Literally Who Cares

#txt pst
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anyway this week's batman was fine but i am seeing leading indicators that fraction is not particularly interested in following the continuity that previous writers have established

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  1. everything about the killer croc plotline in #1, which cuts oddly against the way he was being used, immediately previous to this, in g. willow wilson's poison ivy
  2. bernard appearing not to know that tim is robin in #3, when even a cursory reading of td:r would indicate that he very obviously does

in both cases it's possible to finesse these apparent inconsistencies -- maybe croc's time in arkham had some really bad effects on him, maybe bernard is just pretending for any eavesdroppers at the hospital/separately mad at bruce -- but it doesn't read like that. it reads like fraction didn't know or didn't care about this previously-established canon and used the characters anyway

and this is more speculative but damian's early college plotline in #3 also feels like it cuts very oddly against previously established canon for the character (by williamson and pkj) and doesn't square very well with pkj's plans for him in the current storyline. which, i mean, if that's true, that is a problem! pkj is damian's primary writer! he should, you know, at least be involved in major decisions made about damian.

#very important fake comics fan opinions#tuesday spoilers
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Renee: ... I'm thinking about getting out of this dump myself. Head east, maybe. Gotham or somewhere. Somewhere with a future. Renee: Chief Hand calls me the great detective like it's a joke, but ... I could be a detective. I could work homicide. I'm dying of all this small town crap, you know? Jo: You'd make an amazing detective, Renee. You're so ... I mean ... Renee: Hey, maybe you can come with me. Be my partner. You'd make a pretty amazing detective yourself. Renee, leaning in: I know you notice things. You've been picking them up, right? All the clues? -- Absolute Green Lantern #8

look, if we had started with all this messy queer woman relationship drama, my early reviews of absolute green lantern would have been very different

#curtains 98 (a tag for panels)#tuesday spoilers#god this issue was ruckaesque.
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anyway i did catch up on dc ko in a bored moment and i feel about it pretty much the way i expected to feel about it, which is, i do not care about whatever flimsy in-universe rationale you've constructed to hold a fan-voted tournament arc, or about the tournament arc itself. i want to hear about the logistics of evacuating the entire earth's population in rocket-powered, t-shaped towers, and also about the foursome lois clark diana and bruce were apparently having before this kicked off

what i'm saying is, i have great priorities

#txt pst
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this winter we all need to stop asking “when will tim be allowed to age?” and start asking “when will bart be allowed to age?”

#txt pst
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St. Louis Post Dispatch — Tuesday, October 23, 1990

HE'S BACK. His return is one of the great cover-ups in comic book history. There's a new, improved Robin. Batman's Boy Friend is finally wearing pants.

Tight pants. Tights, to be exact. It's the first time Robin's had his legs covered in 50 years.

The new Robin really is a Boy Wonder. His new hi-tech costume gives him a leg up on evil doers.

#incredible. i mean incredibly mean to jtodd but also just incredible#c: perpetual backup robin
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one thing i will say about this week's jlu, though, is that mark waid clearly spends a significant portion of it going, "hey, remember the 90s? weren't the 90s cool?" and, yeah, actually, the 90s WERE cool

#txt pst#tuesday spoilers
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fun absolute universe hero ideas:

  • absolute huntress
  • absolute starman (jack knight version)
  • absolute manhunter (kate spencer version)
  • absolute doom patrol
  • absolute damage
  • absolute steel (john henry irons version)
  • absolute wild dog this would be tonally appropriate but i cannot countenance it. no more wild dog
#extremely good ideas (extremely bad ideas)

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