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pro censorship people are always like “actually I’m living proof that books can be really harmful to kids! when I was a child I read a book that upset me and of course I couldn’t talk to my parents about it because they would throw rocks at me whenever I confessed to reading anything but the Bible, so as you can see, that book was the source of my trauma and warped ideas about right and wrong”

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sorry but the “lex luthor is the baby mama from hell” jokes will never not be funny

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"A Light at The End"

Art by @yrkhn!

For @dukethomasweek2025!

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman Incorporated (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman and the Signal (Comics) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Bao Pham/Duke Thomas Characters: Duke Thomas, Bao Pham, Stephanie Brown, Damian Wayne, Jason Todd, Cassandra Cain Additional Tags: Strangers to Lovers, Kinda, Duke Thomas Deserves the World, Bao Pham Needs a Hug, Idiots in Love, Awkwardness, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Implied/Referenced Sex, Suicidal Thoughts, References to Depression, The Joker is dead, Post-Canon, Explicit Language, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 11 of The Kids Are Alright

“Ya know,” Bao groaned, “If I had your bullshit cheat powers, I’d be fine too.”

Signal snorted. “Uh-huh. How many fingers am I holding up?”

Bao lazily looked over at his hand, and then winced. “Bro, I can’t tell when you’re making yourself glow, not cool.”

Signal stared at him for a long moment. “...Bao, I’m not using my powers.”

“...Oh. Aw, fuck. That’s bad.”

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A Wolf Among the Roses

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jason and tim as brains vs brawns as in jason uses a long range weapon that should require him to think about trajectories and ricochet and shit and tim's out there whacking people with a stick

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Wonder Woman by Jordan Kroger

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Sue Storm - Invisible Woman

I was very inspired by the pretty prism/light effects they use for Sue in the movie for this outfit

Twitter

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I love the idea of Guy Gardner being really good with kids, because he was a gym teacher and a social worker in the comics (depending on the comics ig, I haven’t read them yet)

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fuck killing a victorian child by making them listen to hyperpop all you gotta do is make a white tumblr user listen to rap

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It’s so interesting to watch white n nonblack liberals/leftists who swear on their lives they love everyone be against Black edits. Like they’ll start dancing around it and call it sm its not.

“Oh but isn’t this racist?”

“I just want my favorite character to look the same :(“

“No whitewashing and no Blackwashing! Both are wrong!”

But in that same breath they’ll get mad at Black artists for calling out whitewashing? And actively defend artists too lazy to learn how to draw Black people? God I do not miss white dominated fandom spaces at all.

I think the wildest experience for me has been realizing that people genuinely don't know what a Black edit is. It's not been any of the Black people- we all heard me and immediately knew what was going on. They're so ubiquitous among us, particularly when you're an anime fan, that hearing people just... NOT KNOW is really like damn. Y'all really don't see us, huh 😅

No, I don't miss fandom either, fr. Like, there's a part of me that always yearns for community and inclusion, because it would be nice! I enjoyed having people around that liked what I liked.

But knowing that THAT'S the cost, that I'd have to be dehumanized and whined about and harassed? For the audacity of pointing out racism? For the audacity to be Black and want a character to be Black too? For wanting to have an "escape" as it is claimed fandom is, only to find out y'all just as racist on here as you are offline?

Over what? Some blorbos? I'll be all right. Y'all got it.

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wow! your understanding of this character is so. . . Unique! just wondering by the way but when was the last time you directly interacted with the source media

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The New Gods #11 (DC, October 2025) cover by Nimit Malavia

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Fanfic writers be like: goddamnit, this idea is so fucking sad it’s making me cry just thinking about it. Let me write it down so I can inflict it on others.

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note to my followers

you are always ALWAYS welcome to come into my inbox and start talking about aus and headcanons

i don’t care if i’ve never talked to you before

if you just randomly show up in my inbox and start yelling about ideas for headcanons/fics/aus i will immediately start yelling right back at you about said headcanon/fic/au

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On a spectrum, not saying which one. Could be visible light. Maybe not.