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I think fandom doesn't realize that even when male characters get "the female character treatment" (meaning victimized) they often are afforded much more narrative agency than actual female characters.

You see people love to say dick is female coded bc he was raped (which is stupid in and of itself bc men can experience sexual assault too), but as the writers treat it, it's not done to make another character sad. We often see his reaction prioritized in the text, even if it's handled in an unsatisfying manner. Compare that to sue dibney and how the text is entirely focused on how mad/sad it made her husband and the justice league. If we expand this to "female character is assaulted in general for man's pain" you have the text of longbow hunters and follow up hunters moon way more interested in Ollie's reaction to Dinah being tortured than it is interested in her reaction. He gets more agency in processing her trauma than she does.

Then there's the whole "jason was fridged for Bruce's pain" thing which like. Yes, I'm sure the writers were thinking somewhat about angstifying Bruce (but also don't forget that they just didn't like robin). But compare that to babs in tkj or Dinah in longbow hunters. Death in the family spends 2 40 page comics about jasons journey, about how he feels with Bruce benching him and his discovery of his bio mom. He is allowed to make choices that affect the story and makes a heroic sacrifice to try to save his mom despite her betraying him - like you can't compare the amount of panel time and choices he was allowed to make to the lack of panel time and choices babs and Dinah got in their events where they were hurt for man pain.

I guess I'm just saying fandom analyze the narrative around events rather than the fact that they happened. B/c the complaint about fridging shouldn't be "bad things aren't allowed to happen to characters" (tho I am aware it is used that way sometimes) but "stop making bad things happen to female characters while making their pain or death not about them and giving them no agency in their recovery and doing this all to make a man sad"

#all extremely valid points #dc comics #dc #dick grayson #jason todd #dinah lance #barbara gordon

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#stopppp this is so cute #clark kent #superman #dc fanart #dc #dcu

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“It’s not his powers, it’s not his costume, it’s not his heritage. It’s that, unlike his myriad counterparts, he has more faith is us than we have in ourselves […] that faith elevates and redeems the human race.

Notice how the men and women of Superman’s world, from Perry White to Jimmy Olsen to even the loutish Steve Lombard, have so clearly been fortified with Superman’s courage and reverence for truth and life. And most important, watch how Superman achieves his ultimate victory - not with a swing of his invulnerable first but with a gift of understanding. In every fight, Superman punches when he must and grapples when he has to, but at the end of every battle, he wins his best and most decisive victories when he allows his foes to see their world - our world - through his eyes.

When Superman, without a second’s hesitation, takes time from his world-building feats to embrace and comfort a suicidal young girl. When he tells her, “you’re much stronger than you think you are”, they become the most moving words we have ever read in Superman history. And they are perfect because they reveal, in one sentence, the fundamental secret of Superman and why we love him so:

Gods achieve their power by encouraging us to believe in them.

Superman achieves his power by believing in us.“

                                                                                        Mark Waid, 2008

#superman #clark kent #mark waid #dc #dcu

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little yellow creature :)

#dc fanart #robin #jason todd #dc #dcu

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the one that got away

#supergirl #supercorp #kara zor el #kara danvers #lena luthor #dctv #dc #dcu #arrowverse

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Are you ever reading vintage comics when a panel just hits you in the face because holy crap HINDSIGHT

#can’t remember exactly what comic this is from #but it’s definitely mid-late 80s batman. somewhere around the time Jason died #dc #dcu #dc comics #canary reads vintage comics

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2023 reading list: Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka - Vol. 2 (1987; issues #205-217)

"This was never about my eyes... This was much more important than that."

(ID under the cut.)

ID: Three animated panels from Wonder Woman comics.

1: Diana Prince stands in front of the landscape of Olympus, a building with traditional Ancient Greek architecture and a golden sky. Clouds drift across the screen. Diana is tying a blindfold around her eyes.

2: Medusa, a woman wearing a brown cloak and gold clothing with snakes for hair, stares at a cardinal sitting on a fence. She says, "Look at me." The cardinal slowly turns to stone as she watches. The jewelry around her neck catches the light and shines brightly.

3: Diana crouches. The Caduceus of Hermes is attached to her belt beside her lasso and shines rays of light over a yellow background. The same clouds from the first image drift over the screen again now. A text box appears: "I am true to my course, Great Pallas."

/End ID.

#epic. #wonder woman #diana of themyscira #diana prince #dc #dcu

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Happy soup day!!! (Superman day!)

Rambling:

Close ups:

Him shirtless:

#my boy!!! #superman #clark kent #dc fanart #dc #dcu

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I know what you think of me. You think I’m just a doll. A doll that’s pink and light. A doll you can arrange any way you like. You’re wrong. Very wrong. What you think of me is only a ghost of time. 

I am dangerous. And I will show you just how dark I can be.

—DR. HARLEEN FRANCES QUINZEL / HARLEY QUINN

#this is freaking stunning #harley quinn #dc #dcu

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miss kara zor-el  💝

#cutie 🥰🥰 #supergirl #kara zor el #dc fanart #dc #dcu

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I am so freaking angry about how DC has treated disabled characters in recent years.

Many people have pointed out all the negatives of making Babs into Batgirl again — taking away her character development, de-aging her, casting aside two other Batgirls, using comic book science to “”cure”” her, etc, all for the sake of nostalgia. Oracle was an icon and an inspiration to many, and that was taken from us. Some great meta on this here and here.

But what I don’t hear anyone talking about is how this was also done with Joey Wilson/Jericho of the Teen Titans, albeit in a slightly different way.

In the post-52 DCU, he doesn’t use sign language anymore (he’s mute) and instead uses technology to speak.

First of all, artists drawing Joey signing shows loving detail and care toward representation for that form of communication (which is frequently overlooked by able-bodied people). Joey using ASL is such incredibly important representation for everyone, and taking that away from him feels like an easy way out so artists don’t have to draw ASL and writers can give him typical dialogue. It reminds me of stories about deaf people (especially kids) who were disappointed when Hawkeye didn’t experience hearing loss in the MCU. There’s a lot of people who see themselves in different kinds of characters, and when you take that diversity away, you lose something important. I hate these cop-outs to fit differently abled characters into the cookie cutter superhero mold. Superheroes aren’t defined by their abilities — they’re defined by their heroism! Characters like Oracle and Jericho, among others, have reminded all kinds of people that anyone can be a hero so long as you care about helping others. That’s literally the point of superheroes. The superhero genre should always have room for diversity and representation of all kinds. Minimizing or erasing disability does a massive disservice to that legacy.

#joey wilson #jericho #barbara gordon #oracle #dc #dcu #dc comics

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Destiny is calling me

#screamingggggt #also I am SO sorry but the second set of gifs just based on their faces looks like lex is angrily giving clark a handjob 😂 #and now I can’t unsee it #clex #clark kent #lex luthor #smallville #dctv #dc #dcu

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dick grayson by jerome k. moore

—edited from new teen titans #86

#this was SUCH a look #he’s never looked better tbh #like that first panel? the most beautiful man in the whole world right there. perfect amount of disheveled #dick grayson #nightwing #new teen titans #teen titans #dc #dcu

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Just gonna insist on calling Dick Robin from now on. Gonna make that 30 year old man go around wearing the costume and calling himself the Boy Wonder. Gonna tell fans that nobody's ever cared about the other Robins and he's the only one who really mattered. Maybe they can be brought back as his sidekicks or something a decade down the line. See, the joke here doesn't even work because this would still unironically be less stupid than Barbara being Batgirl in 2024.

#barbara gordon #oracle #batgirl #dick grayson #robin #nightwing #dc #dcu

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Smallville + text posts ➡️ Lex Luthor edition

#text posts #smallville #lex luthor #dctv #dc #dcu

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Starfire doodle💖

#she’s stunning #starfire #koriand'r #teen titans #dc fanart #dc #dcu

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dinah for @sassylittlecanary!!

#this is flawless and I adore it #you spoil me op 🥰🥰 #dc fanart #black canary #dinah lance #dc #dcu