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sigh my babies 😞 ignore how usagi is the smallest, Oh the irony

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i may be a month late but this movie was so good it deserves a post so have some doodles

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Tie-in piece of chapter two of ‘Little Thief’

you can read it here :)

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It's been a while and I think this is funny enough to think about

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My piece for the fantasy dc art collab on ig!! I drew Tim as a paladin :)

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"I hate how people make everything about shipping instead of doing serious literary analysis" says person who could have started an interesting literary analysis discussion of their own if only they'd stop bitching about shippers for 5 seconds.

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okay so... i think it's been long enough after the initial hype of Superman (2025) for me to post the little criticism I have previously only published in the author's note of my fix-it fic. here is the basically copy and pasted version of that under the cut:

I want to preface this by saying that I loved 90% of the movie, it was pretty much everything I ever asked for in a Superman movie. However, I personally found that the decision to make Jor-El and Lara comically villainlike in their message to Clark and to cast the Kryptonians as colonizers disrespectful to the immigrant allegory that Superman has historically always been--and especially because Superman was created by two 2nd gen Jewish immigrants & has been interpreted as a metaphor for how people can bring their heritage into their new adoptive country for the betterment of said country. I recognize that the Kryptonian colonizers thing has precedent in the comics and in other Superman media, but I still think it's a story better left to other characters that don't have the baggage that Superman has had as decades as the Champion of the Oppressed.

My problem with the Superman movie is not ONLY that Jor-El and Lara were made evil (which, in isolation, could perhaps be interpreted as a parallel to a particular immigrant experience in which your homeland was morally not-so-great), but also that it was combined with Clark's speech to Lex about being human and him watching the videos of him, Ma, and Pa at the end (while they would be moments that I would probably love in any other context) also served as a thematic rejection of his Kryptonian identity. While I do agree that Clark's particular brand of heroism is special because of how human he is, the framing of these scenes cast the movie as more pro-assimilation than pro-immigrant. I get the whole found family and the nature vs. nurture thing, but by coming down so heavily on the side of nurture, the movie obfuscates what it says about immigrants, essentially saying that to be a good immigrant, you must wholly reject your heritage (which is bad, people from your home are bad), and only be proud of being an American. (To be fair, that's not even mentioning watching the movie under the lens of a metetextual deconstruction of dark/gritty/"realistic" deconstructions of Superman that have become so popular in the last couple of decades, which admittedly makes me want to give more slack for the obfuscation of the themes of immigration and xenophobia, if only because they were chasing so many rabbits at the same time. Huge shoutout to my mutual ella for opening my eyes to that analytical lens!!)

Furthermore, Lex was thematically proven incorrect about wanting to take down Superman, but in not revealing the message to be inauthentic in any way by the end of the movie, Lex WAS proven correct to suspect aliens--Jor-El and Lara.

(Also: nitpick, but Superman still doesn't have rights by the end of the movie? I understand that there's only so much screentime you can devote to anything in a movie, but when the parallel was drawn between Superman not having his rights read to him and...yk...the real world happenings in the U.S. right now, it feels like it was a little like, yay xenophobia is solved, but there's still nothing that legally protects him from more systematic racism? What would that mean for other extraterrestrials in that DC universe?)

The argument that has come closest to turning me around was maybe that Superman's parents were supposed to represent Israel as an added layer on the allegory of the Boravia-Jarhanpur conflict--which, upon thinking about it, could indeed have been the writers' intention. I have heard this from a couple different people, and that would be a very interesting story. But to make your only immigrant character in the movie (I'm aware the background shots and side characters were very diverse, but none of them were emphasized to be Other like Clark was) come from colonizers rather than a place of underprivilege, as a refugee...rubs me the wrong way.

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i love superbat

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Gay idiots with far too much power for their own good

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wayne family portraits

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Diné (Navajo) Inspired Mermaid!

Inspired by beautiful photos of Diné women, complete with the stunning silver and turquoise jewelry.

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram, tiktok or check out my coloring book available now \ („• ֊ •„) /

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These mermaids all made it into a mermaid colouring book!

There are also PDF copies available!

https://linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

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Colored an old sketch

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by @Ddeng98856440

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His best day

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Absolute Flash sketch!!! Might finish it, might not. That suit looks too much like a nightmare to color cuz it's very detailed compared to what I usually draw 😅