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good smut is really a character study and that is final. i need it to be about vulnerability i need it to be about trust or lack thereof and most of all i need it to be emotional agony. thats what sex is for

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A presentation I made for a PowerPoint Night!

Shoutout to @tasabian for helping me with sources and various Clex gif makers for the “context” section. The “Red” audio commentary link is here, shoutout to @fairyroses for this wonderful service 🫡. Also a note that the art was taken off Google and all credits to the original artists.

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"The truth is he's been lying to me since day one."

AND YOU'VE BEEN LYING TO HIM!!!!

BRO. BROOOOO.

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People always say Lex is the jealous one because of y'know, everything about him, but I think it's way funnier when it's Clark. And I mean... the way he was in Smallville towards most of Lex's relationships, that comment he made in Luthor's Gift about his "endless dalliances", even the way he reacted to Lex’s marriage to the Contessa in the 90s by crashing out and projecting... it’s not like the idea comes out of thin air.

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also i think this has been figured out at this point but the whole "i miss queerbaiting" convo is like... the part of queerbaiting that ruled was because the show was usually putting forward two dudes, those two dudes got to have character arcs and motivations and writing behind both of them. they could both be interesting individually. because neither of them were shunted into 'disposable romantic interest' for each other.

but if a gay couple on tv is now supposed to be there, writers can fall for the m/f trap of 'only one of these characters needs to be fleshed out, the other is just here to explicitly be the love interest and maybe die later' except now they can both be dudes. it's not that queerbaiting was inherently better it's that unfortunately people have always been bad at understanding what makes fictional romance compelling, which is 'who the fuck are these people in the first place and why should i care'

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Ngl the more I think of it the more I think that Clark and Lois should have chosen to not have kids. Both because it should not be possible for humans and kryptonians to have biological kids (thus eliminating any dumb "Clark thinks he needs to repopulate" plot) and because we have so few examples of couples choosing to be child-free in fiction. Clark and Lois choosing to not have kids due to lack of time/it being irresponsible given their type of works/Lois not really caring to be a mom, fits them so well.

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observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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In a just world Lex stans would regard Elliot Maggin the same way Magneto stans do Claremont… like, this was the first writer who was interested in making this character feel like an actual person with nuance and we owe a lot of the modern writing to him.

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My take is that if you’re going to break up a happy healthy committed straight ship to make room for a gay one (or vice versa, but lbr the former happens more often in fandom) then you HAVE to keep the characters’ insanity for each other intact. Like ok yes sure we can handwave “it was a different time and we were younger and now that things are settled it’s for the best that we split” sure whatever BUT! I will not accept these guys becoming ambivalent to each other. You MUST maintain the fact that they would absolutely kill someone if the other asks. if you take away the romantic attraction then the years of history and emotion remain and now instead of kissing each other the blorbos just have to be really intense about their ex’s health and safety instead.

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being doomed by the narrative is cool and all but i like when a character is doomed just by being a fucking idiot. sorry that happened to you but it is entirely your own fault and you could have just chosen to not do all that

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Australia, as a country, has developed a weird national collective amnesia that winter ever exists in this country to the point that every solstice the national broadcaster runs an article going 'Australians once again shocked at to discover this new thing called "cold"'.

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Actual quote was like, "He should have been dancing at the Chaumière, as young people have a moral obligation to do."

One more late contribution to Barricade Week. I think M. Gillenormand is one of my favorite characters from the book. He is not a very good guardian, but everything he does is so funny. I had to pause at the end of this chapter to draw this.

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They were meant to be apart <3

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So years ago I randomly found a Finnish Superman special at a flea market that included the story ”Crisis on Three Earths” (DC Comics Presents Annual 1 (1982)). I didn't know much about Lex Luthor at the time, so the name given to Earth-2 Luthor ”Alexei Luthor” confused me as I had thought that Lex is short for Alexander and always has been, right? So I wondered if Luthor's first name had really been Alexei during the Golden Age or was he named so retroactively? I tried to look for an answer online, but I couldn't find any, so I did what any sane person would do and simply decided to read every single Pre-Crisis Lex Luthor story to get to the bottom of this mystery. And to spare others the suffering I went through, here's a brief history of Luthor's name during Pre-Crisis: Action Comics #23 (1940) First appearance, only called by his last name Luthor Adventure Comics #271 (1960) He is given the first name Lex Superboy #131 (1966) The first time he is called Lexy (and it's by Clark) Joker #7 (1976) Joker calls him Lexie and Lex reveals his mother used to call him that (This little tidbit is more of a joke than anything and since this whole issue is very comedic, I'm personally ready to completely ignore it.) Action Comics #512 (1980) Lex is revealed to be short for Alexis Superman Family #202 (1980) Golden Age Luthor is retroactively named Alexei Luthor (there you have it!) DC Comics Presents Annual 1 (1982) Earth-3's Luthor is called Alex Luthor Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 (1985) Earth-3's Luthor's name ”Alex” is revealed to be short for Alexander