#also in the oldest comics he was just a misogynist and it was retconned into him not being interested in women once they realized that was

[enigmaticvariation]

as a jughead connoisseur for most of my life my view of him is that in the comic universe he's aro/ace, because I really like the chip zdarsky and ryan north comics where this is explicitly canon, as well as the fact that I appreciate characters who do not care about romance at all and have plot lines very disconnected from it. I am not aro/ace, but I am very romance indifferent and I am normally the only single person among my irl friend group at any given point, so I relate to jughead not giving a shit about any of his friend's romance drama. he's winning the idgaf war. however, in the show riverdale he is so disconnected from comic jughead and the show tries so aggressively to make him act straight despite the fact that at this point every single character is gay or has had at least one gay scene (cole sprouse WILL NOT kiss a man!) it's almost comical. to me it comes off like he's definitely into men but he's too busy being the narrator or whatever tf he does in that show to care. the absence of his gayness makes him gayer.

#I still love aro jughead he is my everything it is just impossible for me to fully connect comic jughead and riverdale jughead in my brain #those are two different guys #I am not touching on the discourse of whether they should have made riverdale jughead aro/ace bc the comic where he was depicted that way #came out in the midst of riverdale development and that wasn't their vision #even if it would have been nice. in the older comics I still #see him as aro but all that's talked about in those is that he's not into women which leaves room for interpretation #also in the oldest comics he was just a misogynist and it was retconned into him not being interested in women once they realized that was #bad trait for a supposedly likable main character to have #either way he is not straight and if you think he's straight you are actually insane #tl; dr: comics jughead aro riverdale jughead gay that man does not like women!! #enigma musings #sorry for this I am very invested in archie lore

[animentality]

Hiiii so you've low-key turned me into a batfamily stan so i have to ask, do you know where i can read their comics? i'd love to get into them but i have no idea where to start

OK FULL HONESTY TIME.

I don't follow DC comics, I literally just read DC AO3 fanfics because I am a degenerate.

I have never read a single DC comic...except this one:

This is where those images come from.

The only reason I know these characters and most of the lore is through reading their fanfics.

I'm so sorry. I am truly beyond help.

I saw Tim Drake was bisexual but I didn't care about superhero comics, so I just delved into AO3 land and there I remained.

In all honesty, if you wanted to get into DC comics, or at least Batman related, hoo boy, where do you even start?

Because Batman himself has not only had like a million retcons and re writes and continuity breaks, but all the other robins have too, I'm pretty sure.

But hey, some nerd out there does have a list you can peruse for where to hop in:

https://www.comicbookherald.com/complete-robin-comics-reading-order/

Also just in general.

The oldest and first robin is Dick Grayson, the wholesome brotherly nerd. He's also the one I'd say most people know. He's always wearing blue since his hero alias is Nightwing and his suit is blue.

Second is Jason Todd, famous for being killed by the joker and becoming very troubled and angsty over it. He's the one with the white hair. His color is typically red since he was "red hood" for a while.

Tim drake is the third, known for being a detective. He figured out who batman was, and has living parents, wealthy ones too, so he was more of a mentee than an orphan that got adopted like the others. He wears red too but it's mixed with yellow.

Damian is the tiny one. Aggressive. Biological son of Bruce Wayne too, with Talia ghul, who's of course the daughter of ra's al ghul.

You might remember them both from the Nolan verse movies.

Anyway, I feel bad, but I know very little about Duke, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown, and Oracle.

I know Oracle/Batgirl was disabled by the joker in a misogynistic way in the critically acclaimed killing joke, though.

But essentially, yes.

You can probably enjoy the comic with only an approximate knowledge of all these characters.

I know I do.

The comic also kind of explains the stuff you need to know anyway too.

#dc #batman #robin #i feel bad but also come on i have adhd you think im gonna keep track of batman robin lore #its kind of ridiculous ok #look at that list #read it if you want or just check out the comic itself after like #a wikipedia check up