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Hi diva

More versions under cut

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A stephcass mermay drawing but in June

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K-Pop Demon Hunters weapon concepts! (By Euni Cho (I think??))

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wanted to share euni cho's norigae designs here for the folks who don't use twitter 🥰 their caption:

Norigae designs for #KPOPDEMONHUNTERS 🎀 Norigae are traditional Korean decorative pendants — the Huntrix girls rock cute, modernized versions, while their mentor Celine, from an older generation of hunters, keeps it classic in traditional style.

(the zoey and rumi charms on mira's norigae 😭💕 SHE LOVES HER GIRLS!!!)

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Some of my fav yuri

And the first shitty doodle

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Can we appreciate the attention to detail?

They really gave the thought and effort in designing the logo for the Idol Awards in it’s 2008-ish era and transform it in how it would be redesigned today. I mean, in the past logo, they really included the title and star element as a whole, with its characteristic golden and black palette from the early 2000’s. And for the actual logo they really simplified it to its minimalistic form, such as we are living with so many minimalistic redesigns right now.

Here you can appreciate them better. I just wanted to give a shout-out to the whole team of the movie, especially for including so many well-thought details even if they are shown for like .3 seconds.

EDIT: hold up, I just realized something. Celine dressed baby Rumí with a sleeveless dress…. Did Celine applied makeup over Rumi’s patterns for the red carpet OR did the patterns appeared when Rumí was a little bit older?????????

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kpop demon hunters has such 90s saturday morning cartoon energy in the best possible way

i want 20 seasons of the huntrix girls kicking ass, singing insanely catchy songs, and kicking demon ass while gwi-ma and the saja boys go to increasingly ludicrous lengths to try to out-idol them and the tiger and bird cause low-stakes mayhem all over seoul

it was so FUN and i need MORE

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Rumi is such an amazing character. It’s rare that I connect with a character so deeply, but the way she’s written — raw, flawed, and painfully real — hits hard. Her insecurities and weaknesses don’t just weigh her down; they completely shatter her self-confidence, to the point where she literally loses her voice. It’s heartbreaking. Céline’s “education” didn’t make her stronger — it destroyed her self-esteem.

She cant accept her demonic heritage because it’s ugly, dangerous, a mistake. But it’s also part of her and her journey to accept that part of her that she hates so much comes with Jinu. He gives her a new perspective on her marks on who she is. That those marks don’t define her as a person but are still part of her identity.

But it also comes with Zoey and Mira. They both suffer from different issues but are also the victims of Céline lessons. They learned to be strong but at the cost of their mental health, their self esteem and even their relationship with each other.

And when you really look at it, Céline is just continuing a cycle of psychological abuse. One that probably started with the 1st Huntress. A legacy where self-sacrifice is everything. Where saving the world comes before your feelings, your mind, your life. But what makes this story so powerful is watching them finally push back. Watching them choose healing over duty. Watching them say, “We deserve more.”

It’s beautiful, it’s heartbreaking, it’s real.

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You can dislike Gretchen Felker-Martin without comparing her to Tom King or resorting to transmisogyny.

She's had a few controversies where she did some shitty or even unforgivable things, but she didn't literally kill thousands of people and brag about torture methods. You don't need to compare to prove you don't like her or whatever. Just say you don't like her for the things she actually did do

If you don't know what they are, here we go

CW: Harassment, Discussions of Incest, Rape, Abuse, Attempting to Trigger PTSD, Pedophilia, Misgendering, Biphobia, Aphobia, and CSA/CSEM

TL;DR: Gretchen Felker-Martin has a history of online controversies surrounding the above topics and has shown little to no signs of remorse, growth, or apology, even though one has caused lasting damage to an author's career.

Please use this information to make an informed decision about supporting her work if this affects you.

I know many people within this fandom who are affected by the above content and would like to make an informed decision about supporting her work in the future. I am fair and will acknowledge that some of these things may no longer be true, but the lasting effects have still harmed people who have struggled to recover and others who never fully have.

One of the biggest ones involves her harassment of a Twitter user named Pat, who at the time went by NightGem. Pat wrote several call-out posts in 2020 against the glorification, romanticization, and fetishization of incest and pedophilia in fiction.

They did direct their posts at specific people whom they found guilty of this behavior. Several of these proven pedophiles were (maybe even are) associates of Gretchen Felker-Martin, who took it upon herself to retaliate against the "puriteen." Yeah, she's someone who unironically uses that

Archived forms of the original tweets are included in this thread on top of screenshots

Her form of retaliation was to send incest gifs to a survivor of CSA, even after being told to stop. This is sexual harassment. It is also the incitement of harassment. This is true under most social media's guidelines and falls in line with United States Laws concerning sexual harassment.

Yes, even if they are clothed actors, because they are showcasing sexual acts and violating Pat's consent after they repeatedly told her to stop because it was triggering his PTSD. Not an entirely unbelievable thing, as she and her lackeys will try and tell you, because even fictionalized acts can trigger PTSD.

She uses her own position as a CSA survivor to claim she knows best about confronting it, as she uses explicit material to confront the things she has felt. Individually, if that helps someone, then they are free to do so, but to spread lies, misinformation, writing an article disparaging other victims, and leading a harassment campaign against someone much younger than you is not a responsible way to handle situations like this.

This article was targeted at Pat and anyone who agreed with them. The "messy art" in question is again material containing pedophilia, rape, abuse, and CSEM.

This is an example of a lie. None of these things happened with what Pat did. No one was doxxed, no one was fired, no one was suicide-baited by Pat. Nor did they condone that behavior as they just supported de-platforming. There is no evidence that Pat's call-out posts actually lead to others doing the same.

You may notice that these threads are several years old, and that is indeed the case. According to Pat, GFM referenced and continued her lies up until she left Twitter, so several more years after the fact. Upon searching her Bluesky account, there are actually other instances where she continues this behavior. Here is an example from 2024. There is a similar post from January of this year that includes all of the controversies, but some that I will say are false. This one is more direct and brings us to another example.

However, GFM knows a thing or two about leading people to do things like that and to demonstrate public support while doing so.

I do also believe the Bad Writing Takes Thread is not the best, but there is some information there that honestly kind of shows a "rule for thee, but not for me" mindset as she continuously defends her stance of using fictional sex for her choices, she disrespects queer literature and authors who do not even though that is their choice.

This thread about YA includes rather negative perceptions of bisexuality, asexuality, and the sexuality of teens in general. From what I've gathered.

One of the named examples of YA literature is her response to another author, Sophie Gonzales, who wrote Perfect on Paper which contained messages of bi-erasure and biphobia in different gendered relationships. Neither characters are straight, they're just m/f and her response to this was "my book has tons of graphic gay sex" and positioning her book as a better queer story because of it's focus on sex when in reality the comparison never should've been made. Both are valid. Saying "mean things" is not.

You could also note that in this thread Bad Writing Takes does not call GFM a sexual criminal or serial abuser once. Not one. Actually no one in this thread ever used those words. The other claim of just attacking trans woman is also generally inaccurate.

Bad Writing Takes does mention GFM's rude behavior during this debacle. Such as this aphobic tweet that caused mental anguish and dysphoria to a user after she continues to center sex as a part of being queer.

She dismisses the messages of the book while executing them in real time.

She was also seen supporting clearly biphobic tweets from her followers

Outside of the thread, she has very little support for the sex repulsed, which does loop in aphobia. Many of her supporters try to write many of her remarks as feeling attacked or jokes in poor taste. which may be true but there's also some truth that as a lesbian transwoman, she should consider her actions in joking about queer identities she is not a part of. Including "jokes" such as these:

Hopefully, being "retired from the force" does mean something positive. You'll notice some of these are from bluesky...guess what kind of jokes you can also find there. The most supportive thing specifically about bisexuals is this reply for JoJo Siwa. Internet's feelings aside about JoJo, this is a valid take about a controversial situation. Anything else that seems supportive is often in general LGBTQIA posts, which isn't a bad thing.

But what IS a bad thing is launching a targeted harassment campaign against another author during a turbulent and terrible time. This section is about the unfortunate exit of Isabel Fall from the queer writing community. After her work, "Helicopter Story" previously known as "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter" was poorly received, the author was attacked in a way that forced her back into the closet and to stop writing.

Gretchen Felker-Martin was an enthusiastic supporter, standing by those who believed the story was horribly misinterpreted. This was a very good thing that she did, but it stopped being good when she began tweeting about Neon Yang.

Neon Yang is a nonbinary author from Singapore who also expressed negativity surrounding Fall's story. They were quoted in the Vox article about this incident, which many, including and especially GFM, saw as Yang being one of the ringleaders.

GFM claimed to have seen pretty strong evidence that Yang was guilty, and that she saw I,t but it was deleted. She also made false claims, such as this one, and asked to find the receipts for what she claimed was surefire evidence

These tweets and several more that GFM made launched a harassment campaign against Yang without any further evidence other than GFM's misinformation, which was spread by other authors.

Here is one post that describes a lot of the misinformation that I reblogged the other day. Yang was just one of the two authors singled out to find someone to blame for this heartbreaking event.

GFM's lies continue, even though they are easily debunked. Such as saying Yang never apologized and never said Fall's name. When evidence was presented, she said it wasn't a strong enough apology for someone who caused so much harm (maintaining Yang's rumored ringleader status). Here is what she was referring to

Neon Yang's career was permanently damaged by having an author as prominent as GFM make these accusations against them. Even now, when you look up their name, people are telling you not to read their work because of Isabel Fall. Fortunately, Yang has published since this incident, but they have never been able to shake the reputation written about here

GFM's claims fell without any evidence to maintain them other than misinformation. Because of that, she also ignored articles like the one above and the one below that proved Yang's innocence as a ring leader. The comments were still said and unfair, but the accusation is what caused the biggest problems. This evidence of Yang only having a negative reaction to Fall's story and not being a ring leader is what remains to this day. The evidence that GFM claimed to have seen does not.

GFM wrote an article about the controversy herself, where I don't believe Yang is included. Can this be interpreted as a quiet apology? Potentially, it would be great if it were, and if it maintained the focus of what or who actually caused the main issues. N.K. Jemisin is primarily used, which above, also combats the misinformation so I'd advise caution in that reading.

I know if GFM saw this, she'd probably call me a puriteen tenderqueer, as she often likes to use phrases like that against people who criticize her, even though I'm 25. Or maybe call it typical tumblr behavior.

Honestly, the most meaningless internet insult I could say is that she antagonizes Tumblr like it's 2014 even though there are plenty of people here who would agree with her complaints over DeviantArt or her support of loli/shotacons claiming that all fictional depictions are fine and not illegal when technically that's not fully true and the arrest rates of shota/loli creators doesn't help the "fiction isn't reality" claim.

At least she said real humans in that reply. She also claimed similar after people were upset with this reaction to the DeviantArt rules, but I think the error there is not specifying that she's glad the real CSEM and non-consensual depictions of real people weren't included. Twitter had room for that word count. Okay, maybe that's a little "catty," but it's true.

If you've made it this far, congrats. I may not have covered every possible thing, but that can come in time; this is enough to show a pattern of behavior I do not care to see in creatives (or people in general).

Once again, this thread exists to allow you to make an informed decision, just as you would for any other comic writer and artist cause DC has terrible hiring practices with the many fuckheads I don't keep my mouth shut about either known nazi(s?), war criminal(s?), sexual predators, and bigots. I could say it's better, but how is that actually a win?

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stephanie looking up at the batsignal like how she used to stare up at the moon and dream of a bat swooping across the night sky as a child and deciding to go out as batgirl for just one more night.

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getting litty at the fortress of solitude

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why do white green lantern fans still not understand that the john stewart “i'm the only normal one” fandom jokes are racist as fuck. especially when it's queer headcanons. like how is it not transparent to you. how is it not immediately obvious that foreclosing john from non-normative expressions is reinforcing the way that white-dominated media posit black men as these rigid paragons of white-centric hypermasculinity. you are excluding him from black portrayals of queerness and ergo blackness altogether, because of his blackness. you are revealing that you only think of him to exist as this spectacle of stoicism. delete your account or grow and change.

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did someone say best jli couples

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Spoiler alert !

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just hold my hand even if you don’t understand

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Hi guys, this is going to be brief, but lets talk about Lady Shiva and motherhood: 

I'm fairly certain that most comic book fans, if they are aware of Shiva, know her from the Batgirl (2000) comics and her appearances in other works in subsequent years (which is fine!! Batgirl 2000 is great and Pucketts run contains some of my favorite Lady Shiva moments ever). Most have not read her earlier appearances, with the possible exceptions of "A Death in The Family," in which she cameos, and her prominent role in Robin vol 1 (1991) where her character is grossly distorted to bolster the virtue of the new titular Robin. It may come as a surprise to some, that Lady Shiva was originally a character who represented transience, freedom, duality, passion, grit, and skill, rather than just death, violence, and (still) incredible skill. I don't mean to sound too extreme, this may be a dumbing-down of her more contemporary comic book appearances, and it is a given for long-running comic book characters that their personalities and defining traits will shift, but it is truly so frustrating to lose a character you love to a version of them who wears their skin and only sometimes speaks in words that belong. While Dixon's writing choices can be blamed for her turn to villainy, he cannot be blamed for the thing that most frustrates me about modern Shiva portrayals: her commitment to motherhood.

Shiva became a mother during her Batgirl (2000) origin story, which absolutely gutted and threw out her original motivations. In this origin story David Cain selects Lady Shiva for her desirable traits, like an animal, kills Shiva’s sister Carolyn, and then beats her in a fight. Shiva is threatened with death and is essentially used by Cain as breeding stock. She is literally trapped by motherhood. This is a painful and stark contrast to the absolute freedom that the character previously embodied.

More than once in this issue Shiva says that Cain freed her or gave her life purpose. It is unclear why she attributes this to him because her most liberating moment appears to be when she chooses to leave him and abandon her daughter–the daughter she never wanted, the daughter she was forced to carry.

So much is unclear and confusing about this story beat. If she was capable of freeing herself, why did she wait long enough to carry Cain’s child to term? What changed within that time frame? How much was Cain coercing her? Why does she renounce the part Carolyn's death played in her life and instead emphasize Cain’s role?

The original version of her origin (Richard Dragon 1977) has her become Lady Shiva to take revenge on her sister's killer. For Sandra, Lady Shiva's dangerous life offers a thrill, a sense of freedom, and an outlet for grief.

The Batgirl (2000) version of Shiva’s origin appears to present Lady Shiva's becoming as an evil act. She frees herself, yes, but she is a broken woman, she is fueled by hate and the desire to cause destruction. Instead of from grief, she frees herself from her rapist, and importantly, from motherhood. This action almost slots her into an evil queen archetype. Warped by archetypical motherhood, she is immediately less defined as her own character and more associated with the act of abandoning a child. 

Of course, in Pucketts run, Shiva does become an important figure in her daughter’s life, though less as a mother and more as a catalyst. It is other writers who drag Shiva back into the role of mother bit by bit.  

Though Batgirl comics often handle Shiva’s character with the most love and nuance, they are also the comics in which her role as a mother is most emphasized. One of the most recent Batgirl releases, (SPOILERS FOR BATGIRL [2024] ISSUE 6) has Lady Shiva complete her lukewarm redemption arc by doing the most motherly thing a woman can do–sacrificing herself for her child (this arc is even called the Mother arc). Cass's inner narration reads: "A mother always sacrifices in the name of her child. So her child may live--even as she dies." To me, this is a hollow and unworthy death for Lady Shiva, because I would prefer for her to be known as something other than a mother. By placing the label of mother onto Shiva her most interesting traits are reduced or villainized. Motherhood is not freedom, for this character. Motherhood was not the plan for this character. And now it is the thing she is most known for. Now, she has even died for it. (Supposedly! This is comic books, she’ll probably be back in a few months so whatever idk.)  

Okay bye ily