reread world’s finest 289 “the one where alien telepathic worms feed on bruce and clark’s emotions and then have sex and die in front of them and then they weep and embrace over the ashes of the dead telepathic worms and the last line of dialogue is literally ‘here it is warm...outside it is bitterly cold. perhaps no one else, on any world, would understand.’” and i really can’t believe no one has yet written the sex scene afterwards. or if they have i can’t find it :(
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I ran out of steam pretty quick so we have two out of my seven dragonkin made into kitties
Cherryflight (Weleith)
And
Puddlepaw (Iperoth, her prefix isnt set in stone lol. Also yes that is an egg next to her)
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considering what you have spoken about regarding selina do you also get frustrated with like…i cant quite explain it but sometimes especially in more recent years shes been posed or positioned like some sort of damsel that needs a big strong man to save her and like im not saying she should be portrayed with the “hollywood level feminism” for lack of a better term im just think about how old versions of selina would have hated that. like im just thinking of anytime in the reeves movie where bruce grabs her or forces her mouth shut or even when he didnt allow her to kill falcone and im just thinking she should claw the fuck out of him for that. i just miss a version of selina who wouldnt allow anyone to walk all over her personal autonomy like that
oh absolutely! in fact this is specifically why i can't stand loeb's take on her character lol (and as we both know that was a significant point of reference for the reeves film). it's really jarring to transition from her volume one and two canon to the long halloween / dark victory / when in rome. i think a lot of people tend to latch onto these books because tim sale's art is to die for and it's obv hard not to enjoy a good murder mystery. in that aspect they're still books i can enjoy in isolation. but i find it very difficult to enjoy them as a selina fan specifically because in every single one it's like she's looking for solace and security in a man and i'm not sure why. like what was so bad about her original backstory of having a deadbeat dad (whether you ascribe to the volume one or volume two version of him) and why did she need to go looking for her "real" father in carmine falcone. why did she need to seek out temporary boytoy relief in italy. why did she dream about being saved by bruce. none of it really has a reason other than to create a "lack" in her for the sake of it being there, because she'd never needed a man like that before in her post-crisis narrative. as you mentioned it was quite to the contrary and she was fiercely independent and protective of her own peace, esp from men. when she felt empty or without a connection or lifeline to someone real, it was mostly about people like maggie or holly or arizona. her people
what i think it ultimately comes down to are two things: the first thing is the diminishment of her post-crisis origins. after all, it's convenient to ignore how distrustful selina is of people, and of men with power at their leisure to abuse specifically, when her post-crisis origins are no longer relevant to her personal characterization. although selina's status as a sex worker is more prominent now, it was more or less completely swept under the rug for the bulk of volume two. loeb also refused to engage with it in any capacity. it only really resurfaced with the conclusion to volume two because it drew direct parallels to how we initially found her in volume one, and then brubaker expanded on it once again in his take on the character, which was notably juxtaposed against a pre-existing romance with bruce and brings me to the second thing. i've already waxed about this at length so this may very well be recap but i really don't think selina's lack of control over her personal autonomy can be divorced of the modern portrayal of the romance. when selina looking for security and understanding and comfort in bruce is what drives the romance forward there's not much room to maintain her original values and guarded demeanor, if not her outright defensiveness and hostility. a lot of people look at the extensive trauma selina has experienced and argue that she deserves to be in a relationship with someone who allows her to let those walls down. this isn't incorrect in theory. but it does repeatedly ignore who she is. it's kind of like the point i was making about bruce yesterday. exploring the inherently abusive nature of robin or of bruce's right to his children in light of that fact is interesting to do, but the actual execution has rarely managed to take into account who bruce actually is
for however nice it might be for selina to let her walls down romantically and look for solace in bruce—and i say this mostly for the sake of argument, personally i would argue against its necessity—it's realistically not something she's actually going to do. at least not as willfully as she's been portrayed to. realistically she's going to make it extremely hard, which if anything is precisely the appeal. i love it when selina gives bruce a hard time. i love that it's not supposed to be easy or maybe even a possibility for him to win her over bc there's so much about his own ideological stances that's flawed and in opposition to her own. she doesn't have to be any less unrelenting in her principles and worldview for that romance between them to be compelling bc at the end of the day the entire crux of it is that against all odds bruce cares. for however wrong he thinks she might be in a given moment or in her stance against the government, he knows who she is and how hard she's fought and what she's survived and it makes him sympathetic to her because she's real. she's a wonderful character through which to explore the logical limits of bruce's self-righteousness and categorization of crime, as well as a wonderful mirror to hold up to his face as he starts to ask himself whether what he's doing is really the only means of keeping the city safe. and the novelty of it all is that you don't have to sacrifice her character for any of that to be true. writers have simply deluded themselves into believing that they have to and that's why we are where we are today
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GAMERS!!!!!!!!!!!
So a new idea has popped into my head which I'm sure is not an original idea BUT I do really like the idea
I haven't seen this a lot but has anyone thought about the mane 6 and trolls yet?? I tried looking some up ideas and didn't see that much fanart! There's a lot of fanart of the mane 6 with their classpects though ( which I have my own opinions about )
ANYWAY I wanted to give my own take of the mane 6!
Twilit Sparke - Tealblood - Seer of Blood
Twilit was sent by Her Royal Princess to the lower blooded areas to conduct some high blood research. But as she spent more time with the trolls she met she realized she can learn a lot from them and their friendship.
Pinkie Pieily - Goldblood - Heir of Hope
Pinkie is a very sociable goldblood who is known for raising the spirits of the low bloods by throwing awesome parties. Though she has a special type of pysoniics which help her sense any danger that could be near. Trolls call this her 'Pinkie sense.'
Applee Jackul - Oliveblood - Mage of Heart
AJ is a strong oliveblood who helps guard the low bloods and listens to their issues. She does her best to help them in anyway she can, expressing her truth to those who need it. She's well known for her strength and helping around farm areas.
Rainbo Dashie - Cobaltblood - Rogue of Breath
Rainbo is a rambuncious cobaltblood who does what she wants to defy the high bloods. She left her original home in a better part of Alternia to be able to hangout with her low blood friends. If you're in a tough spot she's the troll to call to have your back.
Rarity Diamon - Limeblood - Sylph of Space
Rarity is an interesting limeblood, having a fantasy of living the high life as a high blood. To try and fulfill these dreams, she creates outfits that resemble high blood fashion. She isn't afraid to show off her outfits and occasionally rocks them around town.
Fluttr Schiie - Jadeblood - Page of Life
Fluttr is seen as an outcast to the other jadebloods. She doesn't seem to have a natural mothering to the grubs like the others do. Though she tends to interact with the fauna more, being humiliated by the other jades by calling her a dirtblood. Due to this she tends to hang out with low bloods and fauna more, showing them true kindness that she never got.
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