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I'm in my pre-Halloween horror binge, just tried the 2019 movie Brightburn (a few plot spoilers but not a review, just dropping a thought)

esp given how thoroughly superhero-fatigued I am after the last 15yrs of Marvel/DC's advertising campaign inspired by uninterrupted air raid sirens, an unaffiliated subversion of the genre was welcome.

for those who don't know what it's about, it's basically

I didn't think it was particularly special as a movie and it seems like most reviewers agree, but I'm setting aside stylistic criticism of the movie's execution and getting to the point: none of the commentary I've found so far on the plot latches onto the gendered aspect. that's what I wanted to prompt you (radblr) about.

(Yes, yes, the point is more about "good thing Clark Kent has a moral compass that aligns with humanity's interests cuz wow if he were interested in world domination and apathetic about killing we would be Fucked" and, no, I don't want to get dragged into the comic lore about his parents imparting him with specific values or any discussion about the similarities to the premise of Invincible.)

I was thinking about how heavily the premise is arguably influenced by the maleness of the superpowered alien kid (Clark Kent / Brandon Breyer). We have a male director, male writers, and a male producer coming together to tell the story of a socially alienated (and literally alien) boy mired in his repressed violent urges and his discovered inheritance of a legacy of conquest. While it's clear that we're not exactly supposed to be rooting for him and that he's not a 'hero', my immediate read was that this is the narrative framing found in the manifestos of incels and shooters. The way they built up Brandon's anger and isolation followed a recognisable path: at the cusp of puberty, his temperament changes suddenly and for the worse; he's bullied and begins to view himself as a martyr for it; when a girl is kind and sympathetic towards him, he becomes obsessed with her and stalks her and scares her; when she correctly identifies him as a pervert, he crushes her hand; when his mother tells him the upsetting truth about his origins, he trashes her house and kills his crush's mother who had gotten him in trouble for severely injuring her daughter; when his parents try to stop him, he kills them (with a big emphasis on the mother's love for him). I'm not arguing anything about the intent of the movie, I'm just pointing out the centrality of the 'male manifest destiny' world view we know from copious real life examples, and it's a story we've seen many times before.

all this to lead up to my main question for y'all:

what if she were female? not actual superman and not even necessarily horror, but a reimagining of the premise from the scratch ingredients like this (think of what Ann Kelley's Koh Tabu was to Lord of the Flies, not the unambiguously-still-a-superhero-story execution of Supergirl).

On a non-horror side, I imagine there's potential for a story of suppressed strength, of pretending to be weaker/reliant/lesser while fearing the irrevocable consequences of failing to keep secret her exceptional gifts, until she's freed by her discovery that her power being greater than men's isn't something broken in her. On the horror side, I can see two main angles: one would be horror-tragedy, where she has an almost Princess Kagura life in which, unbeknownst to her, she is a visitor to our planet for just one lifetime, blessed with curiosity and scrappiness and the capacity to improve our world... but her potential both to save and even to experience the earth is stifled by the expectations of her as a woman. The other horror angle would be more like Carrie meets Brightburn but without the incel mentality: the alienation goes hand-in-hand with the constant reinforcement of her 'female inferiority' and she finally fucking snaps (I'm picturing that one similar scene of Yennefer's explosive unleashing of her power).

The feminist comedy angle on the last one would be following the world's reaction and news coverage each time some male general is confident he can bring her down (I always think of what you see when you read ancient Roman men's writing about formidable contemporary female enemies of the state like Cleopatra or Boudicca; insisting that she's just a woman and not a serious threat, but having to explain how she keeps outsmarting them).

TLDR: I'd be curious to hear radfem thoughts on the basic premise of "overpowered humanoid alien grows up female on Earth"

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Series Review: Gen V is cynical, violent, authentic and honest

When we think of superheroes, the first thing that comes to mind is the classic pop culture icons, Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, X-Men, and many more, all of them have gone through changes throughout their history, They have evolved themselves to adapt to a more modern environment. Not everything has been said nor is it the end of an era that has been more than productive for the studios, whether they earn millions of dollars at the box office or are a complete failure, these films and television series are liked by everyone and everyone. Comics have been the main source of inspiration for these stories and these characters to become real on screen, in the very particular case of The Boys created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson came to give that dark and sinister turn to these heroes. As a television series in its 3 seasons, The Boys has been a success for its crudeness, its violence, for touching on political themes, the intrigues, and how well structured its characters are, this chaotic universe is completely apart from what we all already know. , where no one is all good. In 2023, The Boys franchise evolves with the development of Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, and Eric Kripke and serves as a spin-off of The Boys, based on the comic book arc of The Boys We Gotta Go Now, Gen V promises that nothing is what it seems.

What is the series about?

At America's only college for gifted teens, talented students test their moral and personal limits as they compete for the college's highest ranking and the chance to join The Seven, Vought International's elite superhero team. , when the school's dark secrets come to light, each of them must decide what kind of heroes they want to be. Interestingly, a spin-off is being made of a series that at the time caused a lot of controversy for being strictly for adults, its graphic and explicit violence brought more followers and alienated some more, there is no doubt that this work has evolved and now they present to a group of young people who want to occupy a place in this world either because they want to help people or to gain fame and money. This popular genre, whether in film or television, has come to saturate the general public for a few years now, the varying box office figures and the critical work on the failures of many franchises are what is most talked about on social networks, being DC has had the worst productions, while Marvel is already seeing the twilight of what was a glorious era for them. Since the premiere of the Prime Video series The Boys in 2019, it has managed to do something that other superhero movies or television shows had not even imagined, attracting more serious criticism and debates about the genre at hand. When it was announced in September 2020 that there would be a spin-off of The Boys, both fans and critics were surprised that this franchise could expand even further. Talking about a spin-off as such is not so easy if it is not They have things very clear because it is precisely at this point that other productions have had a resounding failure and proof of this is the various Star Wars series that Disney + has, this was planned to introduce us to new characters that "study" in a university. The above may sound very well known, but there was already a great cinematic failure in the X-Men franchise with the film New Mutants that promised to have a group of teenage mutants in an environment more of horror than adventure and that did not work, in Partly due to the numerous changes and the global situation that existed at that time, the truth is that what starts badly ends badly. Gen V is not only a series that promises to be spectacular but also wants to deal with other types of topics and the typical problems of a teenager in a university, we have the typical sports team with possible superstars, the pretty girl who is the handsome boy's girlfriend, the misfit, the nerd, the gay, the African American and all those clichés that we have seen thousands of times but the twist here is that they all have superpowers, we have the fire boy, the one who can control minds, the telekinetic, the who can become small, the invisible boy, the one who can change gender, the one who has super strength and the one who can control his blood and make it a weapon, yes, it sounds stupid but that's how it is and he is precisely the central character of this story. It all begins with a girl named Marie Moreau (Jaeda LeBlanc) who gets her menstrual period for the first time, surprised by not knowing what is happening to her, which seems very absurd if we take into account that we are in the 21st century. and he is even more so when his blood begins to float as if the substance had a will of its own, from this event what will happen next is even stranger and more violent, his mother on the other side of the bathroom door wants to enter to see what happens and by doing it by accident this tender and innocent young girl releases part of her blood, killing her mother and then doing the same with her father before the eyes of her little sister. This beginning is intended to be as shocking as the first minutes of the pilot episode of the first season of The Boys when A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) kills Hughie Campbell's (Jack Quaid) girlfriend, it is not surprising what we see if we already We know what things are about in this series, a violent beginning to give way to more violence is the charming thing about this show in which super abilities and the consequences that this can bring to normal people are involved in a very irresponsible way. We continue with Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) who is already a traumatized teenager who desperately wants to escape her past and become what she has always dreamed of, a superhero. After what happened to her parents, her sister is separated from her and adopted by another family. while having to deal with his acceptance to Godolkin University, a crime-fighting school that specifically houses students with superpowered abilities where they will be taught more than the basics and that is to understand and know how to use those abilities in the world around them. if they want to become the best. Gen V is not only the portrait of the trite and cliché-filled teenage student life, it is also the portrait of the emotional and, above all, social disorder that they face, going from being stupid teenagers to responsible adults, as is to be expected if we have a group such as the use of drugs, sex, more drugs and more sex but not everything is as it seems in this fantastic school on the night of her arrival Marie sees how the security personnel employed by the university take into their custody a young man allegedly drugged who uses his powers to take them all down and in the end, he is subdued and taken to another place, later it is revealed that this boy is Sam (Asa Germann) an essential character in the story, without understanding what he has seen. is overlooked until other mysterious events make her and her new friends believe that this is not an isolated incident and that perhaps these students are not the ones causing harm but there is something more going on. The plot begins to reveal the dark secrets and mysteries of this university, beneath it and in the basement there is an entire facility where problematic young people with emotional and mental disorders are held captive, they are potentially dangerous because they have super abilities, All this is out of the eye of the beholder in a facade made to distract the world's attention, it is not surprising that Vought International is the one behind all this, at the end of the day the supers are good business for the company and the whole world. Along with this, it is revealed that none of these young people were born with super abilities but that their parents injected them with compound V when they were born to follow a production line that guarantees that there will be supers in the world and which also ensures multimillion-dollar profits for its creators. When Richard Brinkerhoff, a renowned professor at Godolkin University and president of the Anti-Crime Department, informs Luke Riordan (Patrick Schwarzenegger) aka Golden Boy that he is already part of The Seven after the departure of Annie January (Erin Moriarty) aka Starlight, and Margaret Shaw (Dominique McElligott) aka Queen Maeve of the team, the company plans to revamp it and make this something new. A crazy night of drinking turns into a night of horror when the group attends a bar where Andre Anderson (Chance Perdomo) uses his magnetic manipulation powers to impress a girl, things get out of control when he fatally injures her. a woman and it is Marie Moreau who uses her powers to try to save her, thus being exposed, she is expelled from the university by Richard who in turn receives a visit from Luke who, using his powers, kills him and then causes a fight in the who finally commits suicide. Without intending to, Marie becomes a hero in the eyes of the public and her fellow students, becoming one of the most popular students overnight and becoming the first African-American freshman on the power rankings list. But not everything is what it seems. After that dazzling popularity, problems also come and of course, making enemies. When she attends an interview, Marie questions her integrity because she knows that she is not the heroine that everyone believes. She used this to stay and continue her training under the advice and tutelage of Superintendent Indira Shetty (Shelley Conn) who naively believes she can help her become what she most desires.

This is the premise of these 3 episodes that Prime Video premiered and they are:

1. God U. Congratulations! You have been chosen to attend Godolkin University and will be delighted to be part of an unforgettable journey to discover what kind of super you are, since its founding in 1965 Godolkin University has had as graduates the best and brightest superheroes in the world! have met including three members of The Seven.

2. First Day. The Godolkin University Mental Health Hotline would like to remind students that they are not alone in this difficult time, you may be bulletproof and invulnerable on the outside, but on the inside, we understand how difficult it can be for a student to cope. Our caring staff is trained to address the specific emotional needs of superheroes and is here to help however you need it remember that if you need to talk to someone, help is just a phone call or message away. #GodCares.

3. #ThinkBrink. You're invited to the #ThinkBrink Memorial Fundraising Gala tonight at Godolkin University, be sure to dress your best to dazzle everyone with your red carpet presence, then join the world's hottest superheroes and celebrities to take selfies with them and upload them to your social networks while you drink a glass of champagne, we will have a moving tribute video to the legendary Professor Brinkerhoff featuring the participation of A-Train, The Deep and Polarity.

As the series progresses we can seem to move further away from its original concept and immediately take on its personality, although we meet several characters from this world such as the son of a bitch Homelander (Antony Starr) or the perverted and stalker Deep ( Chace Crawford) or the bold idiot A-Train here are not so necessary or basic, each character is designed to be completely independent. Directors Nelson Crag and Phil Sgriccia along with writers Craig Rosenberg, Evan Goldberg, Eric Kripke, Zak Schwartz, Brant Englestein, and Erica Rosbe are very clear about where they want to take things, to begin, this series is set parallel to the fourth season of The Boys that will arrive at some point in 2024, each character develops a very particular personality based on the violence or trauma that their powers have caused them, here the moral discourse as well as the student clichés are more than a shameless mockery, the same as the media and social networks, there are no messages that talk about love or friendship or companionship and much less about family values, here what is talked about is the manipulation of people among themselves and the means, what you are capable of doing to achieve an objective even if you have to kill a few people to do so. The series itself is so cynical that it mainly makes fun of itself, students who want to be superheroes speech that we already know from The Boys with Starlight who sooner rather than later realized that this fantastic world in appearance is shit in reality. the one that no one would want to be in, something that is not very far from the reality in which we live. Gen V as a series has important things in its favor, the first is the teenage drama very much in the style of Beverly Hills 90210 taking it to the extreme then there is that surprise factor that gives way to more moderate violence than we can expect, there is also the intrigue and the conspiracy of a multinational company that only manipulates people who try to help the world, something notable almost always happens throughout the first three episodes, its agile narrative and good direction prioritize the efficiency of what we are seeing, which is engaging. immediate to the viewer to want to continue seeing more of what happens. However, this series does not seem to be competing to be the best but rather for something equally difficult to do in a more than saturated medium and that is to successfully franchise a concept antagonistic to its franchise, it makes excellent use of its youthful cast and brings out the best in them and presents it in a way that could seem simple but is more complex than it seems and it is like that, both The Boys and now Gen V have extremely complex characters in themselves and how they interact with others, how They face the consequences of their actions and worse or better yet, it is what has given it that turn that we all wanted to see. But not everything is so good, although it has good actors and good action sequences with good special effects, some things get out of hand and that is the proportion and scope of the powers they have, for example, in episode 3 we see this girl who becomes small interacting with a normal-sized boy, it is impossible that a detail like this has been overlooked. It is the fact that for her everything would have to be gigantic and terrifying just as any sound would be magnified throughout. Is it his size, or is there the fact that in several shots of Golden Boy the fire emanating from his body looks so fake that something like that couldn't burn, his appearance is completely artificial, we could justify this by saying that it is a series of science fiction and that this is possible, and it can be like that, what is not possible is that they want to pretend that this is real when it is not. Its cast is made up of Jaz Sinclair, Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, Shelley Conn, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Clancy Brown who have done a great job so far. The music composed by Christopher Lennetz and Matt Bowen also has a more youthful personality, something that is very in line with what we are seeing, a good work that can be appreciated in its best moments. In conclusion, Gen V is not just a youth series for adults, it is an example that a franchise can be successful if it is in the right hands and doing what it should do, risking everything to make more authentic and honest entertainment. Gen V is now available on the Prime Video platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkLMXN_lpI Read the full article

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#kasie's art archive #tom and jerry #the cat concerto #tom & jerry #dcshg 2019 #dc superhero girls #dc superhero girls 2019 #dcshg selina kyle #selina kyle #dcshg catwoman #dcshg karen beecher #karen beecher #dcshg bumblebee #i had so much fun drawing this you don't even know the half of it-#i got inspired after watching a toonheads ep #i should do more w tom and jerry stills tbh #my favoritism of selina still shines through...GOOD #selina and tom share the same energy #you can't change my mind

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@mirrorfalls submitted: Came across this while searching for James Bond’s scrambled-eggs recipe (long story). Your thoughts?

But did you find James Bond’s scrambled eggs recipe?

In this article, Scocca laments his inability to find accessible, lighthearted superhero comics suitable to read with his young son, while also demonstrating a mysterious aversion to looking at DC and Marvel’s lines of comics for children, which is where the accessible, lighthearted superhero comics suitable for reading with young children are. He wants his elementary schooler to be able to safely have the run of all superhero media so he doesn’t have to touch the yucky baby books.

This is not an industry-wide crisis. This is just one dude who got paid to write an article where he accidentally exposed one of his personal hangups.

The child headed toward the trade paperbacks of Marvel and D.C. superhero titles on the side wall […] a few steps in front of me. […] Is he with you? a clerk asked me. I said he was. You know, the clerk said, we have a kids’ section. The clerk gestured backward, at a few shelves near the entrance. I said, Thanks, we know and tried throwing in a little shrug, as the kid kept going.

You can’t just turn a seven-year-old child loose in a comic-book store to look at the superhero comic books. […] My seven-year-old really wanted to see that last Avengers movie […] that is, he wished it were a movie he could see, but he understood that it was, instead, a movie designed to scare and sadden him—a movie actively hostile to people like him.

They have a children’s section. Because comics are a medium suitable for stories for everybody, and they are sold in comic book shops, which have sections, like bookstores. You can use this organization to find books that you know in advance are suitable for children. What goes in that category is determined by industry professionals. This area will be bigger the bigger the shop is. These comics are not lower quality that titles from the main lines. They are actually slightly better-written on average.

Your local comic book shop has considerately wrapped Empowered in a plastic bag, so your child will not be drawn in by a colorful superhero and accidentally read a graphic scene. If you think your kid might find a memoir about internment camps upsetting, it is your job to notice them picking up They Called Us Enemy and read the blurb on the back before you let them have it. This comic adults are meant to read is in a comic book shop because that is where comics are sold. Not every public place is supposed to be Disneyland.

Movies have ratings systems. If you do not want your child to watch a PG-13 movie, you will find that most superhero cartoons are for children. They are about the same characters. Some are quite good! I really enjoyed Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Your child may like Avengers Assemble. At least I think that’s right. I’m always mixing those titles around.

This is a deeply weird bias for Scocca to casually demonstrate, because he identifies in the article that real childishness is striving for empty maturity.

He compares an old comic,

[…]a 1966 Spider-Man comic in which Spider-Man meets, fights, and defeats the Rhino; participates in a running argument between John Jameson and J. Jonah Jameson about his heroism; buys a motorcycle; breaks up with his first girlfriend, Betty Brant; flirts with Gwen Stacy; and reluctantly agrees to let Aunt May take him to meet her friend Mrs. Watson’s niece, Mary Jane.

and a new comic,

[…]a 21st century comic book in which Thor, brooding in a Katrina-destroyed New Orleans, beats up Iron Man. He also yells at Iron Man a lot about some incomprehensibly convoluted set of grievances, including involuntary cloning, that he believes Iron Man perpetrated against him while he was dead(?), and then summons some other Norse god from the beyond somehow for reasons having something to do with real estate. I think. Where the 1966 comic is zippy and fun and complete, the whole contemporary one is muddled and lugubrious and seems to constitute a tiny piece of a seemingly endless plot arc—simultaneously apocalyptic and inert.

and concludes that the edgier comic is actually less mature. This is true. (This is not news about mediocre comics.)

It also has nothing to do with either comic being child-friendly, the article’s nominal thesis, except in the sense that ASM #41 (yes, I eyeballed that from that summary, yes I am just showing off now) is better written, making it more everyone-friendly. It also has practically more space dedicated to word balloons than art and is about a college student juggling girl problems and a part-time job with a tyrannical boss. But the immature one, as Scocca points out, is dour.

These are both teenagery issues, separated only by quality. It’s true that lots of new comics published by the big 2 are bad in the specific way Scocca describes here, taking themselves too seriously and hauled down by associated stories instead of buoyed by them. Some are not! Some titles from these companies’ main continuities are zippy, contained, and child friendly. Give your child The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! Or if you like vintage comics so much better, why don’t you…buy some?

The books on the kid’s rack are good and fun and totally suitable for parents to read with their children without wanting to scoop their eyeballs out. Scocca cites the Batman ‘66 comics as the brightly colored, tightly written all ages solution to his problem about sharing superhero stories with his son. My local comic shop stores this title in the kid’s section. I am glad that Scocca’s does not, as he seems to have a peculiar aversion to looking for comics to read with his son there.

Scocca cites Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse as a superhero movie he could watch with his kids. (I was surprised when this line made it sound like he has several. I don’t want to assume the other one isn’t in this article because they’re a girl, but I very much am assuming that.) Great! Go to the kid’s section and look for Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man. It’s a fun, zippy title directly inspired by ITSV where Miles, Gwen, and Peter superhero together. It’s much more tightly written than most of the various Spider-Verse comics, which are ambitiously messy ubercrossovers. You may not want to give those to children because they include murder and so on, but also you just have the choice between the two as an adult reader deciding how much continuity you want to deal with. Adventures is one of the only titles I would buy on sight before corona. The kid comic rack is a reliable place to take a break from How Comics Get Sometimes regardless of how old you are.

This article makes me feel quarrelsome. Maybe it’s that it doesn’t seem like exploration of a single idea so much as a loosely grouped bundle of things to kvetch about. Maybe it’s that the experience of getting into superheroes that Scocca describes experiencing, projects his seven-year-old son will experience, and from which he extrapolates a metaphorical microcosm of the history of the genre is completely alien to me.

Comic books [and] comic-book movies—are […] trapped in their imagined audience’s own awful passage from childhood to adolescence. A seven-year-old has a clean […] appreciation of superheroes. They like hero comics because the comics have heroes: bold, strong, vividly colored good guys to fight off the bad guys and make the world safe.

But seven-year-olds stop being seven. […] They become 13-year-olds, defensively trying to learn how to develop tastes about tastes.

The 13-year-old wants many things from comics, but the overarching one is that they want to prove that they’re not some seven-year-old baby anymore. They want gloomy heroes, miserable heroes, heroes who would make a seven-year-old feel bad. (Also boobs. They want boobs.)

Not because of the boobs line, although that does illicit an eyeroll that this gloomy thinkpiece is fretting over preserving the superhero experience of little boys who resemble the little boy the writer was while casually dismissing everyone else. I was one of those unlikable little seven-year-olds with a college reading level and the impression that maintaining it was the crux of my worth. I only read Books - distinguished media you could club someone with. I have a formative memory of pausing, enraptured, in front of a poster for Spider-Man 3, preparing to say that it looked pretty cool, and being beaten to the punch by my mother making a disparaging comment about how the movie was trash. It wasn’t out yet, but it was a superhero movie. That meant it was for loud, brainless children.

That was the total of my childhood experience with superheroes, excluding being the unwilling audience to incessant renditions of “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells” that left me wondering why in god’s name Batman’s sidekick was named Robin. I certainly never visited a comic book shop. I got into TvTropes, which got me into webcomics, which got me following David Willis, who got me into Ask Chris at ComicsAlliance, which led to me rewarding myself for studying like a demon for the AP tests with three volumes of Waid’s Daredevil, pitched as a return to the character being colorful and swashbuckling. I was seven…teen.

This is of the same thread as Scocca’s point that immaturity is running from childish things. It leaves me baffled that he doesn’t follow that maturity is embracing them.

I will disclose here that while I think it was dumb I had to overcome my upbringing’s deeply embedded shame associated with enjoying arbitrarily defined lowbrow media and children being childish, I think it’s fine that I was allowed largely unchecked access to technically age-inappropriate content. In my limited experience, content small children are too young for is also content they’re too young to understand, so it kind of just bounces off of them, and what actually ends up terrorizing them is unpredictable collages of impressions that strike out at them from content deemed perfectly child-friendly. I would not forbid a seven-year-old I was in charge of from seeing an MCU movie unless I had a reason to believe that specific child would not take it well. These are emotionally low-stakes bubblegum films. It will probably be easier to socialize with other kids if they have seen them.

But then, when I picture being in charge of a hypothetical child, I usually imagine this being the case because they are related to me, and the pupal stage in my family strongly resembles Wednesday Addams. ALL children love death and violence, though, right?? This isn’t a joke point. I know it looks like a joke point.

The MCU thing seems especially weird in light of the article’s particular focus on Spider-Man, which is the kiddie line of the MCU, even if they refused to waver from their usual formula enough to get a lower rating. Though I am more inclined to describe it as “preying on the young” than “child-friendly”.

(MCU movies are increasingly dubious propaganda, but I would not judge them in front of a child who wanted to watch them for that reason, just in case this led to them partaking of them without me the second they were old enough to and then they grew up to run a blog about them while our relationship suffered because they didn’t feel like it was safe to talk to me about their interests…Mom.)

I tried to overcome the philosophy of letting anyone read anything while compiling this handful of mostly-newish superhero recs for the road that anyone can read. (Handily, I have been in spitting distance of being hired as a comic shop clerk enough to have thought about it before):

For actual children:

Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (the new one is reminiscent of ITSV, the old one is more like 616) any DC/Archie crossover, Archie’s Superteens The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (for bookish children who think they’re too good for comics and adults afraid of the kid’s section) Teen Titans Go (even if you hate the show) Superman Smashes the Klan

For teens:

Ms. Marvel Young Avengers (volume 2) Unbelievable Gwenpool Batman: Gotham Adventures Teen Titans Go (the tie-in comic based off the old show was also called this)

Here are a bunch of relevant C. S. Lewis quotes.

#me every time i read a comic book article by a rag not exclusively about comic books: i know more than you.#marvel #spidey #DCU #MCU critical #mirrorfalls #asks answered #submission #unearthed this and bashed it out in one sitting ... i have not been working on it since you sent it last year XD

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Tim Sale

Tim Sale is a famous comic book artist, who had worked in several titles along with the writer Jeff Loeb, including Batman, Spider-Man, Superman, Daredevil, and many others.

Tim Sale was born in may of 1956, in New York, where he studied visual arts, spent a good time of his life in Seattle, and today he lives in California.

For some years he drew his art privately, only to please himself. When he found himself working at a fast food in his late twenties, however, he decided to try to sell some of his work. This led to an association with Thives’ World Graphics, a fantasy anthology series, where he illustrated stories.

What most marks his work is the dramatic aspect that he manages to obtain in the characterization of his characters and in the scenarios he creates, making the stories unique and immortalizing the characters.

The union of Sale’s art with Loeb’s engaging narrative has become the perfect marriage for mysterious plots.

One of the most striking characters worked by Sale was Batman, which he drew “The Long Halloween”, “Dark Victory” and “Halloween”. He was able to fully transfigure the dark aura of Gotham and his Dark Knight. He also worked with Superman in the saga “ Superman for All Seasons”.

Both of The Long Halloween and For All Seasons are what is known as “Year one” comics. These works take their heroes back in time to their earliest days of crime fighters.

His main tool is watercolor, which he uses with mastery. Sale's palette of colors is something really impressive, always drawing and painting his characters very delicately, and calmly. His style is very cartoonish, although this does not diminish his art in any way, on the contrary, his style is very unique and characteristic.

Pedro Franz

Is a Brazilian comic book artist, who was born in Santa Catarina and has a degree in design.

He has been publishing several comic books and participating in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. As an illustrator, he has published works several magazines and books, and regularly collaborates with the Piauí magazine. As a graphic designer, he is a contributor to the Par (Ent) Esis platform. He has comics translated and published in English and Spanish, and has good international recognition, thanks to his publications.

But what is most impressive in Pedro's art, perhaps is his intensive use of colors. Mixing various shades of different colors, mixing different compositions. In addition to sometimes using characters from pop culture, with his elaborate style.

Despite liking traditional comics, he has always published and worked for national publishers, often with authorial works.

Perhaps his best known work, which was even published in the United States is the comic “Suburbia”.

Suburbia tells the story of Conceição, a girls daughter of enslaved rural workers, who flees to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1990s. In the city, Conceição begins to work as a cleaner and to get involved in the world of funk, slums and poverty.

His drawings are extremely surreal, not exactly following a traditional way of making comics, with several images spread across the page, with different shapes and sizes, with extremely strong colors, mainly valuing blue, purple, yellow and red, as his main colors.

Richard Corben

Richard Corben was one of the contributors of elevating the comics to the category of Art, and of its unparalleled style of great influence among many current artists.

Richard Vance Corben was born in Missouri, United States on October 1940, in a family of farmers in the middle west ( where he started reading comics), and lived in Kansas City. There he studied Fine Arts, got married, had a girl and started working in local cinematography animation company. At the same time, he started to create and publish some underground fanzines. From the begging it was clear that he was interested in science fiction, eroticism, and total rejection of institutions ( the Army, the Church, etc), mixed with a lot of humor.

At a young age, Corben was an aficionado of bodybuilding, just like everyone who was interested in a persons aesthetics. The first character that he created, was Rowlf, a dog who took on a human form. In the beginning of the 1970s he amplified his work ( and his fame) in some underground magazines. And in 1971 he started working for the Heavy Metal publisher where he created one of his most famous characters, Den a large muscular man, who was always naked, and always after some adventure.

Corben has a very particular style, with unsettling mixture of caricatured, often satirical grotesque and intense,convincing realism. Never before had such wildly cartoonish worlds proved so convincing.

Also he can handle an exponentially higher standard because of his ability to use colour to show the effect of light on whatever he’s depicting. The way that he mixes light and colors in certain panels to differentiate those elements from each other, is something to admire.

Corben worked in a few mainstream comics, he always preferred to work with authorial works or working in specific themes like fantasy and science fiction comics and not so much on superheroes.

But probably the most famous mainstream comic that ever worked was the character Hellboy, along with writer Mike Mignola.

Hellboy is a series of comics that has a lot of mysticism, Norse mythology, horror and monsters. Something Corben certainly agreed to do, without thinking twice.

Richard Corben is one of my favorite artists, with a style that is perhaps not as realistic as an Alex Ross for example, but the humor and beauty that he puts in his characters is very unique.

Corben died on December 2, 2020, leaving a great legacy, for the world of comics and arts, with a very unique style and extremely stunning worlds.

Charlie Allard

Charlie Adlard is a British comic book artist, who have worked on the comic industry for over 25 years. He spent the majority of his time since 2003 working in The Walking Dead along side with writer Robert Kirkman , until the last issue on 2019 He started reading comics when he was very young, and he said that he was very lucky to have influences of American comics and the more high art, such as Asterix and Tin Tin. He was fascinated by European comic books artists like Moebius, Alberto Uderzo and Herge. He started his career as many British artists and writers, working on 2000 AD, with characters such as Judge Dredd, Armitage and eventually Savage. In the United States he started working with the X Files, Astronauts in trouble, and of course The Walking Dead. Adlard started in The Walking Dead from issue 7, and brought a slightly different style, from the previous artist. Adlard's art is very cartoonish, but the universe of The Walking Dead still doesn't get silly because of it. Quite the opposite, the dirt and rot that Adlerd puts on his characters and the world, only sustains what a horrible world it is to live in. Many readers complain about Adlard's style, being very simple, that his characters are very similar, and sometimes it is difficult to identify them. But I believe that although his style does not vary much, when it comes time to show a horde of zombies, a devastated city, people feeling despair, and extremely disturbing scenes, Adlard manages to excel. Adlard's main tool is ink. All The Walking Dead magazines are in black and white, and he manages to give a lot of depth to the scenarios and characters using only a few ink stains. Today Adlard is doing some comics, mainly for DC, but says that he does not intend to work with Kirkman and zombies again, because he wants to explore other themes, and to innovate his drawing skills.

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid was one of the most important and well known figures in contemporary architecture and design. With a singular trajectory, marked by a versatile, bold and out of the box style, she was the first woman to receive Pritzker Prize for architecture and was also the only female representative honored by the Royal Institute of British Architects with a golden medal. Zaha Hadid was born in Iraq, more precisely in the city of Halloween, in Bagdá, in the year 1950. Her family was of high class, her father being an important politician and her mother an artist. Still young, she traveled and studied in other places of the world, like London and Switzerland, but it was in her native land the she got her first formation, when she graduated in mathematics. At the age of 22, in 1972, she enrolled in one of the most famous independent schools of architecture in London, and there she gave the starting point to her career by studying and creating an important connection with the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, a figure that encouraged her and opened the doors for opportunities. Later in the 1980s, Zaha Hadid decided to open her own office. This, Zaha Hadid Architects was born, which made her name and talent recognized worldwide. Known for her works with futuristic lines, clean and pure forms, as well as the fragmentation of architectural design. Her projects and discussions raise issues that put architecture and its future to the test. This is because the architect seeks in her works to interrelate design, architecture and urbanism. I knew Hadid and some of her works, but it was the recommendation of my teacher Lauren, that I should look for this architect. As my project takes place in the future, she recommended that I look at some works by Zaha Hadid to get inspiration when creating the scenario for the comic. I find it very interesting how her works have this futuristic aesthetic , because it reminds me of science fiction films like Blade Runner with those skyscrapers and buildings with different shapes and sizes that are extremely imaginative that could only exist in films. With unique works and projects, famous for their exuberance, futuristic elements, curves, non linear shapes, distortions and fragmentations, Hadid inspired and generated fascination both for her constructions around the world.

Syd Mead

Syd Mead was a designer, best known for working on films such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Tron and Star trek. Mead was born in Minnesota, United States, on July of 1933, but five years later he moved to a second house in the western of United States prior to graduating from High School in Colorado in 1951. Some years later, he did the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where he graduated with great distinction in 1959. He was immediately recruited by the Ford Motor Company. At Ford he worked in the advanced styling department, creating futuristic concept car designs. But his imagination went beyond cars and he began to imagine clothes, helmets, buildings and scenery from hyper advanced civilization. After Ford, he also worked in other big companies like Chrysler, Sony and Phillips. After that he started migrating to the concept art world of movies. Mead is really important for generation of writers of science fiction, because many of them were influenced by Mead’s colorful paintings. Mead never wrote a novel or short story. He imagined the future in his mind and turned that imagination into illustrations. In 1979 he designed the extraterrestrial spaceship for the first film “Star Trek” in the cinema. Ridley Scott called Mead to design the buildings and flying cars of the futuristic Los Angeles “Blade Runner” in 1982. In 1986 he was hired to design the space station and vehicles of the movie Aliens directed by James Cameron. Almost at the same time, the designer created the electronic world of “Tron” for Disney studios. The same ones who hired him in 2014 to design the futuristic city of “Tomorrowland”. Mead died in 2019 after three years of lymphoma, he was 86 years old. He was a great influence for many designers and science fiction writers and illustrators, due for his creative worlds and automobiles , Elon Musk quotes Mead as one of his major influences, on visions of the automotive future and design in general.

Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson

Transmetropolitan is a comic written by the British writer Warren Ellis and the American illustrator Darick Robertson, published by the Vertigo label, and falls within the cyberpunk genre, and the problems that rampant technology will cause us.

Throughout the 60 issues of Transmetropolitan, Ellis and Robertson build a chaotic and brilliantly alive future, presenting a sci-fi society with a peculiar mix of elements of cyberpunk, political dystopias, bioengineering and transhumanism, sexuality, economics and much more.

In a dystopia, in a not so distant future, the journalist Spider Jerusalem is isolated for fiver years in a hut in the forest, but he has to return to the city to earn some money.

Throughout the comic, amid a nihilistic aura that humanity has no salvation, the author- Warren Ellis - criticizes the consumerism and futility. The illustrations, of Darick Robertson, is full of excesses as the environment should be, a brand of the style of the 1990s.

The search for the truth is the central theme of this work, and in the midst of all this we found ourselves in a investigative odyssey that involves the lowest scum of that society ( thieves, murderers and rapists) until reaches the highest of the scum ( the presidency).

This background allows the work to touch on the most profound social themes, and without fear of saying what needs to be criticized, this is where Transmetropolitan shines, and provoke deep reflections on issues such as racism, the influence of media, the power of religions, the education, and many other themes.

In short, Transmetropolitan dissects and criticizes everything, it points out the flaws, the lies and the hypocrisy of each one. It’s a study about the problems of democratic society in the 21th century.

Jon Mcnaught

Jon Mcnaught was born in 1985, London, England. He work with drawing comics, and work as an illustrator, printmaker and lecturer. After spending several years on the Falkland Islands during his childhood, which will inspire his second book, Pebble island. The book pass years after the war, where he tries to recreate his childhood, with aspects of his curiosity, when he was exploring abandon bunkers, where it was just part of landscape, or somewhere where he could play. His work has essentially been landscape print-making (often situated in the city), but with quite simple intention of capturing the sense of space, light, time etc. His work is mostly about that, places that he was interested in depicting, and trying to reproduce the visual. He want the characters to feel like elements of a landscape or an environment ( he preferes to focus more on the background, than the characters itself). But usually he uses figures and postures to suggest expressions rather than close ups showing facial features. What I like about Mcnaught's work is that they are simple designs, but the colors are very vivid. The way he constructs the scenarios is very invective, because it doesn’t need to be extremely detailed, he just needs a few lines to show what he is talking about.

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Tagging Game

I was tagged by the lovely @nightwingshero Thank you love ya girl!!!

I’m tagging my usual people, but also throwing in some people who I’ve seen in my notes lately and would love to get to know!! @starsandstormyseas @pen-in-hand @swiftly-heart @loopally @childish-kiwi @oathofoaks @witchofinterest @s3rendip1tous @morganwriteblr @invernessie41 @ashen-crest @i-was-bored-so-this-happened @vivian-is-writing @biscottibitch

rules: answer all thirty questions and tag as many people, as you can. let's get to know each other a little better!

Name/Nickname: Melissa/Mel

Gender: female

Star Sign: Aquarius

Height: 5′6 1/2″

Time: 9:55 pm

Favourite Bands: Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, Pentatonix, Queen,

Birthday: February 16th

Favourite Solo Artists: Elton John, P!nk, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Frank Sinatra, Lindsey Stirling,

Song Stuck In My Head Right Now: I don’t even know the name of it. It’s some random song that plays at work and it’s only one line that I can only make out one word in it.

Last Movie: I had to think about this one because I haven’t watched a lot of movies recently but I think it was Invisible Man.

Last Show: Currently watching Legion of Superheroes as a tv show trade with @oathofoaks

When Did I Create This Blog: Oh god I think either 2018 or 2019. My friend @biscottibitch (Kita) recommended I create a writeblr and honestly it’s probably the most recent fun I’ve had on this site.

What I Post: Mostly about my OCs, things that give me inspiration for them, my writing if I ever actually write, and just whatever I guess.

Other Blogs: My main one that I don’t use is @onomatopoetic-aesthetic my personal/the one I use the most for whatever @melapede which never seems to be tagged for some reason and my Marvel one that out of all the OC blogs I’ve created before this one has actually stuck around @winter-is-ending

Why I Chose My URL: My penname on fanfiction.net is Singer of Water and Kita helped me come up with a better name for this blog. I just love the water so I wanted to incorporate it into my penname and my blog.

Do I Get Asks: From time to time, mostly if I reblog ask games. I’d love to get random asks about my OCs, about me, or even to just say hello. I’ve made so many great friends on here from random asks that just started conversations. I’m not a popular blog, but I always enjoy answering any questions people might have :)

Last Thing I Googled: Planet name generator. I’m trying to come up with Casali’s planet’s name and Gribot’s planet. I’m still figuring out if they should be on the same planet, like Casali’s village/town is on one side of the planet and Gribot’s place is on the opposite side so it’s not like their right on top of each other kind of thing. Or make it two separate planets.

I Follow: 218. I follow a lot of different fandoms because of my different OCs and my personal/main blog. I’m looking for more active people in certain fandoms and I never know where to look so I’m looking for more people to follow if you have any recommendations :)

Following: 235. I’m honestly surprised by this number and in the past week I gained three followers. I don’t know why y’all are following me and enjoying my trash children and trash writing but thank you so much! You all are wonderful and make my day!!

Average Hours Of Sleep: 4-8. 8 if I’m lucky. 4 if I’m really unlucky.

Lucky Number: I don’t think I have a lucky number. I’ve never had one. I think when I was little it was 3 or 5. I don’t remember.

Instruments: My voice.

What I'm Wearing: A 1995 Atlanta Braves sweatshirt and some old boxers that I use for pjs.

Dream Trip: Hawaii, Italy, England, France, Tokyo, Korea, Germany. I’d love to see a lot of places, but I doubt I’ll ever get to them all haha.

Favourite Food: Mashed potatoes is the best thing in the world. My older sister and I practically pile it onto our plates on Thanksgiving or whenever our mom makes it for dinner. Ice cream, pasta, fried egg sandwich, nachos, apples, clementines (or however you spell them), tostitos,

Nationality: American

Favourite Song: It constantly changes based on what I am currently listening to, BUT the one that will always be my favorite no matter what is Can’t Help Falling in Love with You by Elvis

Last Book Read: Mockingjay, I’m still working on it...

Top Three Fictional Universes I Wanna Be A Part Of: DC/Young Justice, MCU, and I guess now The Mandalorian/Star Wars. I think there’s something else that beats out Star Wars, but I can’t think of it right now.

Favourite Color: Pale blue, olive green, and light pink has started to resurface in my favorites. Yellow is kinda there too, but like a nice shade of yellow. I don’t like mustard yellow.

#about me #tag game #lets get to know each other!!!

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Dear Yuletide Writer

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! :) I can't tell you just how excited I am. This is my first Yuletide and I guess I'm super nervous, but also looking forward to it. :)

Please feel free to browse my ao3 (KitKaos) and/or tumblr to get an idea of what I stan, like, read or write. I hope I can give you some broad ideas and inspirations in this letter to help you plan. Do feel free to fall back on my general likes if the prompts don't do anything for you. Or just use the prompts, whatever works best for you. Oh, and should you, dear Yuletide Santa, want to write in German and not in English, then I'm definitely okay with that. I'm fluent in both, so whichever you feel more comfortable with. If there's something missing or if you have a question, you can reach out to me via the mods.

General likes: I'm a sucker for the old friends-to-lovers or even enemies-to-lovers (with all the drama of grudginly admitting that the other party maybe isn't all that terrible and all). Things I'll never get tired of include coffeeshop AUs, spy AUs, musical AUs, found families, fake dating, pining, crossdressing, drunken shenanigans, fish-out-of-water situations, pop culture references, etc. Just about any kind of scene you can sneak in there about cooking or eating food (also characters being picky about certains foods and other characters going to some lengths to accommodate that) will make me happy, too. I do have a thing for descriptions of food and expecially impressions of taste - and if you want to make it kinky: food play. ;) I also have a bit of a hand fetish - so descriptions of hands are always welcome. If you want to do it, I probably also won't say no to someone breaking the Fourth Wall, any kind of alternate history AU, crossovers of my fandoms, or even some lovely steampunk aesthetics.

Do Not Want: rape/dubcon/noncon, watersports, scat, humiliation, A/B/O, soulmates AU, vampire/werewolf AU, second-person pov, character bashing of any kind.

Fandoms

Just two more thing before I go into detail: 1. The prompts below are nothing more than ideas - feel free to ignore them if you have a better one. :) 2. Not all of the characters need to be used in every prompt; pick and choose as desired.

Dial H for Hero (DC Comics)

- Summer Pickens, Miguel Montez

The 2019 12-issue run is just pure love! There is worldbuilding galore, relatable characters, a wonderful coming-of-age and initiation plot, interdimensional shenanigans, the question how Joe Average could get addicted to sudden superpowers, and so much fun with the concept of Superhero Secret Origins. Summer is a wonderfully strong and caring female lead and Miguel is a self-conscious little oddball.

As for prompts: Seeing more of their Metropolis adventures or Red/Yellow/Blue/Black Dial transformations would definitely be a lot of fun. Also, there's this cute boy Miguel asks out in the comics and I would love to see that first date. And what about Summer? She definitely won't be reduced to sidekick!

Feel free to include any other ((teenage) superhero) cameos you feel like. Please do not pair up Summer and Miguel romantically - although I don't have any problems with a fake relationship fic for them. ;)

Where to find it: Your trusted comicbook supplier.

Masks: A New Generation (Roleplaying Game)

- any / worldbuilding

I only just disovered Masks as an RPG, and ever since I started playing, it's probably the most fun rping I've had in a long time. I love that playbooks are not by the type of power but the type of problem each teenager faces personally. Like, how do you juggle school, first love, being different in a way no one should know about, being different maybe in a way people will immediately see, adults telling you who to be, chores, and being part of a young superhero team that wants to make a name for themselves? It's hard. And the best sessions alternate between deep emotional connections, hilarious teenage drama and great action scenes.

As for prompts: I would love me some good worldbuilding - so maybe there is a reason the Scarlet Songbird is still around? What was Halcyon City like back in the days of the Golden-Age heroes? What has changed since then? How do especially the older generations view the naming conventions going around for new heroes? Is there a code to follow? Who in Halcyon City pays for all the damage to buildings and infrastructure caused by superhero-supervillain fights? What was it like back in the olden days for the Golden Age heroes as opposed to now? Are there cultural exchange programs with any of the alien races visiting from time to time? Give me a day in the life of an average Halcyon City citizen - they don't even have to be all that close to an epic fight or something. Just their way of coping with the daily madness of a huge city housing most of the world's superheroes. If you like something a little more character-specific: The one actual-play podcast that does it best in my opinion are the Theatre of the Mind Players with their "Future Shock" and "Past Tense" seasons of Masks. And I would love to read more about these characters. Have Sparrow and Figment finally get together. Give me a glimpse of how Horizon assembled his ersatz mom. What will Helix and Remix get up to?

Where to find it: The core rulebook is available from Magpie Games. The Theatre of the Mind Players’ Masks sessions can be found on Youtube.

Super Sons (Comics)

- Jonathan Samuel Kent, Damian Wayne

Super Sons is how I finally came to like and care for Damian Wayne - which, if you know me, is a major achievement! He is still a huge brat, don't get me wrong, but Jon's influence on him and the way he is confronted with certain issues he has... it's magical! It's wholesome! It's healing! They are both so fiercely protective of each other, and they both grow as characters from their experiences with each other.

As for prompts: So, dear Yuletide Santa, give me character growth and banter and friendship galore. I can see slumber parties at Wayne Manor or at the Kent farm. I can see them getting lost in space and time. I can see more adventures once they're at the same school. I can see a canon-divergence AU where Jon is finally admitted into the the Teen Titans at age 13 - how would that go? Or how about an Interrail Buddies AU?

If you want to write slashfic for them, I will not say no but would probably prefer to age them up a bit. I also most definitely don't mind any background appearances of any of their families.

Where to find it: Your trusted comicbook supplier.

Superman Returns (2006)

- any (Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Richard White)

I still love this movie a lot - not because it's particularly spectacular, but it treats the characters with love, it treats the legacy of the Reeve movies with love and it leaves SO MANY questions for fanfiction authors to answer. ;) I mean, I've been a Superman fan for a long time and I've discovered that I'm most comfortable with a Clark who wears a mask both as Clark Kent and as Superman, who isn't either of those two (and who is fallible). And whenever someone learns of his secret identity, they will see that he's so much more than either Clark or Superman. I know Lois is a fairly underdeveloped character in this movie, so I would love for her to be treated not just as a prize, especially since there were those years of her having to put her life back together after Supes just up and left.

As for prompts, I've always wondered about the different coping mechanisms (Lois turning bitter, Jimmy starting up daydrinking - WTF?!) and just how their day-to-day business changed without Clark and Supes there. Give me the Planet staff banding together to rescue Lois when she remembers just that second too late that there will be no superhero to save them (I also wouldn't mind any of the Bats helping out secretly, if that's up your alley). Give me Jimmy trying not to think too much and instead getting on Lois' nerves until he's rescued by Richard intervening. I am also an absolute sucker for continuation fics, so how do things settle down after what happens in the movie? I would love for some real Clark and Jimmy bonding moments, maybe even Jimmy finding out or having known all along and covered for Clark. I would love for some truce and real friendship blossoming between Clark and Richard, as they are both intelligent, compassionate, insightful men. If you want to include Jason anywhere, feel free to do that, as he makes for such a wonderful catalyst for disaster. Feel free to write gen or any canon pairings - I'm also okay with non-canon het/slash pairs (or threesomes) as long as they make sense in-universe. ;)

Where to find it: Sadly, the movie doesn’t seem to be streaming anywhere, but since it’s 14 years old now, you can buy it relatively cheap.

Young Justice (Comics)

- Tim Drake (but do feel free to have any of the other characters in the story, too)

No matter if you're into the old 1990s YJ comics, the companion comics to the cartoon show, or the new 2019/20 version of the comics - I love all of them! So much I don't even know where to begin... The snark! The lovable teenage stupidity! The friendship that goes above and beyond! My definite favourite is Tim, because he is such a bright, snarky, secretive, repressed little bird (the moment he takes off his domino mask to reveal a second one underneath? priceless)! I also love his deep friendship with the others because that's his found family. Yes, Batman is his mentor (even though Tim might understand B better than the other way round sometimes) and Dick is his older brother and idol (hero worship, anyone?), but Young Justice is where he wants to be himself and all of it.

As for prompts: Even though I did not put either Cassie or Cissie in my request as I want something Tim-centric, the dynamic with those two strong-willed girls is definitely something I would love to see explored more. Also how the dynamic with the bats is so very different than the Young Just Us dynamic. What's it like being the one without powers in a group of hormonal teenage superheroes? I also just realized that I would love to see more of Mister Sarcastic trolling the rest of the gang. Or how about: What if Tim had powers for one day? If you're into the 2019 comics, how about a 5+1 of Why Drake May Or May Not Be A Good Superhero Alias. If you want to include the rest of the gang, you're definitely more than welcome to. Tim and Kon's bickering and outright arguments in the beginning turning into such a solid friendship (or more) is something I can read about time and time again. Pretty much the same goes for Tim and Bart. Or how about some Wendy the Werewolf Stalker shenanigans? Why is having girls in your group a bad/good idea? How did Cassie's becoming the team's leader affect Tim's sense of self? Heck, if you feel like it, open up the love triangle Tim-Cassie-Kon since there's like a ton of history there. Oh, and anyway, why is Stephanie Brown never part of any of Tim's teams? Dear Yuletide Santa, do also feel free to include any of the other teens (I have a soft spot for Li'l Lobo/Slobo).

Where to find it: Your trusted comicbook supplier.

Overall, I’m sure I’ll love what you have for me, and I'm looking forward to reading it! <3

#yuletide 2020 #yuletide #dear yuletide writer #dyw #yulebuilding #cheftide #wrapping paper challenge 2020

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What’s Airing On Cartoon Network? (December 2019)

Some surprises here, including some new episodes of Steven Universe, and the return of some LEGO related shows! Listings will be put after the break.

The Amazing World of Gumball: Darwin’s Yearbook

Didn’t think clip shows needed to exist in a world of streaming? If that was true, they didn’t tell Darwin.

December 14th:

Darwin's Yearbook - Banana Joe - When Principal Brown sets Darwin the task of making the school yearbook, Darwin starts by asking class clown Banana Joe for a simple selfie to put on the cover. But with Banana Joe, things are never that simple. Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:00 AM)

Darwin's Yearbook - Clayton - Darwin needs to find a photo of Clayton to put on the cover of the school yearbook - but he makes the mistake of seeking help from Tobias, who has his eye on the cover spot himself! Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:15 AM)

December 21st:

Darwin's Yearbook - Carrie - Darwin sets out to find a photo of Carrie for the cover of the school yearbook - but they end up reminiscing about all their past spooky shenanigans. Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:00 AM)

Darwin's Yearbook - Alan - Darwin wants to put Alan on the cover of the school yearbook - but Alan's apparent modesty gets in the way. Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:15 AM)

December 28th:

Darwin's Yearbook - Sarah - Darwin asks Sarah for a photo to put on the cover of the school yearbook. But when Sarah tries to help, things get a little sticky. Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:00 AM)

Darwin's Yearbook - Teachers - When Darwin asks his friends which teacher deserves to be on the yearbook cover, they struggle to find a single worthy candidate! Featuring hilarious clips from the first six seasons of 'The Amazing World of Gumball'. (10:15 AM)

Apple & Onion

December 7th:

Positive Attitude Theory - Apple and Onion spend a day in Falafel's shoes and use their positive attitude to prove he shouldn't be so grumpy. (9:30 AM)

Follow Your Dreams - Apple and Onion need to find a dream to follow, so that their lives don't head nowhere. (9:45 AM)

Bakugan Battle Planet

December 1st:

Girl Power/Return to the Fold - Girl Power: When Lia battles with China Riot, they eventually come to an understanding as China finally realizes she’s been set up by Benton/Tiko./Return to the Fold: On the run and with options dwindling, the AO turn to Shun’s father, Ichiro Kazami, for help. (7:00 AM)

December 8th:

Kazami Family Feud/Greatest of the Kazami - Kazami Family Feud: Masato attacks, but the AO soon realize that Ichiro is keeping a Golden Bakugan captive, forcing them to choose between the lesser of two evils!/Greatest of the Kazami: Shun makes an impassioned plea to Ichiro, but it is too late as the Kazami compound is overrun by Bakuzon and the Visvus Cell is lost. (7:00 AM)

December 15th:

Our Ugly Selves/Thryno Lives! - Our Ugly Selves: Abandoned in the Vestroia Labyrinth, the AO must deal with their personal losses and, worse, the Bakuzoned Awful Ones!/Trhyno Lives!: When the AO and Magnus form an alliance to free the Golden Bakugan, their differences lead to a horrible sacrifice for Dan and Lia. (7:00 AM)

December 22nd

The Healing Challenge/The Golden Drome - The Healing Challenge: As the AO struggle to hold together, a discovery is made involving the Golden Bakugan, a Golden Drome, and curing of a Bakuzoned Gorthion./The Golden Drome: While Dan and Drago enter the Golden Drome to heal Trhyno, the rest of the AO defend the Golden Drome from a militia of human hunters. (7:00 AM)

December 29th:

The Golden Forge/A Deep Hibernation - The Golden Forge: As Dan and Drago battle to free Trhyno from Tiko's infection, they learn the history of Vestroia and the nature of Golden Bakugan./A Deep Hibernation: Trhyno must give Dan and Drago the power they need if they are to have any chance in stopping Tiko from destroying both Vestroia and Earth. (7:00 AM)

DC Super Hero Girls

Cartoon Network decided to put two episodes on the last day of November the last minute. It is so last minute that no form of guide has a description for them.

November 30th:

#Abracadabrapalooza - (No description yet) (11:00 AM)

#RageCat - (No description yet) (11:15 AM)

December 16th:

#TheGoodTheBadAndTheBizarre - Everything is going well for Kara Danvers, both as a teen and a superhero, until she starts taking the blame for things she didn't do, and the emergence of a new supervillain threatens to destroy Supergirl's hard-earned reputation. (12:00 PM)

December 17th:

#BackInAFlash - After an embarrassing incident ruins Barbara Gordon's reputation, rather than owning it and moving on, she decides it's easier to harness The Flash's newly discovered ability to travel back in time and alter the space-time continuum. (12:00 PM)

December 18th:

#PowerSurge - When Supergirl is presumed dead after a battle with Livewire, Kara Danvers decides to reinvent herself with a new look, a new personality, and a new name, Power Girl. (12:00 PM)

December 19th:

#ScrambledEggs - Thanks to a home economics assignment, the students are paired up and given an egg to "care for" over a weekend. But when tragedy befalls egg after egg, what should be an easy assignment escalates into a madcap romp with super-high stakes! (12:00 PM)

December 20th:

#DramaQueen - Oliver Queen must face off against his greatest rival yet, Mortimer Drake, while Green Arrow also finds himself up against a new foe, The Cavalier. (12:00 PM)

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitsu

December 14th:

The Never-Realm -The ninja arrive in the Never-Realm where they quickly find themselves overwhelmed. Luckily, they are taken in by a tribe of Ice Fishers who tell them Zane has been imprisoned by the evil Ice Emperor. (12:30 PM)

Fire Maker - The Ice Emperor learns of the ninja’s arrival and sends his Blizzard Samurai warriors to destroy them and the villagers who sheltered them. (12:45 PM)

December 21st:

An Unlikely Ally - Lloyd runs afoul of the Ice Emperor’s Blizzard Samurai but is rescued by a strange wolf with whom an unlikely friendship develops. (12:30 PM)

The Absolute Worst! - Back in Ninjago City, three criminals learn of the ninja’s absence and stage a breakout of Kryptarium Prison, telling tall tales of how they were captured as they go. (12:45 PM)

December 28th:

The Message - Lloyd and his wolf-companion find a cave with the mech inside and a message from Zane that provides a clue to his fate. (12:30 PM)

The Traveler’s Tree - Guilt-ridden over having lost the Traveler’s Tea, Cole embarks on a dangerous quest to the top of a nearby mountain in hopes of finding the legendary Traveler’s Tree - a tree which is supposedly guarded by a fearsome beast. (12:45 PM)

Steven Universe Future

Steven Universe Future begins in December, with a full hour on the 7th, and two episodes every week after that.

December 7th:

Little Homeschool - Welcome to Little Homeschool, a place on earth where Gems from all over the universe can come learn how to live together peacefully! But there's one Gem who refuses to attend. (8:00 PM)

Guidance - Amethyst has been helping Little Homeschool Gems find jobs on the boardwalk, but Steven isn't sure about her approach. (8:15 PM)

Rose Buds - Steven gets a surprise visit from some old friends, and an even more surprising introduction to some new ones. (8:30 PM)

Volleyball - Steven is determined to help Pink Diamond's original Pearl heal the scar on her face. (8:45 PM)

December 14th:

Bluebird - Steven questions the motives of a mysterious fusion that suddenly shows up at his house. (8:00 PM)

A Very Special Episode - Rainbow Quartz 2.0 promised to hang out with Onion the same day Sunstone scheduled a home safety Geminar! How can Steven be in two places, and two fusions, at once? (8:15 PM)

December 21st:

Snow Day - Steven and the Crystal Gems get a chance to catch up when they're all snowed in together. (8:00 PM)

Why So Blue? - Steven has heard rumors of a pair of Gems that are still destroying worlds. If he can't stop them, maybe Lapis can. (8:15 PM)

December 28th:

Little Graduation - Steven and the Gems celebrate Little Homeschool's first graduating class. (8:00 PM)

Prickly Pair - After leaving Little Homeschool, Steven has found a new hobby, plants. (8:15 PM)

Teen Titans Go!

Gotta have those Christmas episodes.

December 21st:

Beast Boy on a Shelf - Santa Claus forces Beast Boy to become a spy and report on the Titans' naughty behavior. (10:30 AM)

Christmas Crusaders - Santa Claus and Robin must stop the nefarious Coal Miner. (10:45 AM)

ThunderCats Roar

...is definitely not going to air in 2019.

Transformers Cyberverse

December 7th:

Party Down - An Autobot party turns into an uncontrollable brawl that could destroy them all! (6:30 AM)

December 14th:

Wiped Out - Hotrod takes Bumblebee and Cheetor spaceboarding through an asteroid field where they encounter Sharkticons.

December 21st:

Ghost Town - The mission to save Cybertron is threatened when Windblade steals the Allspark and flees to a mysterious planet.

December 28th:

Perfect Storm - Grimlock and Arcee look for adventure and find more than they expected.

Unikitty!

If you had “new episodes of Unikitty” on your Christmas wishlist, Cartoon Network’s Christmas spirit has you covered. Cartoon Network is dumping a ton of episodes on December 24th, starting at 6 AM.

December 24th:

Late Night Talky Time - The moon is bored of taking the nightshift, since everyone's always asleep. So Unikitty leads the gang in putting on an over-the-top late night talk show to keep the moon occupied. (6:00 AM)

Welcome to the Unikingdom - After Unikitty finds out that tourism is down, she recruits the gang to make a tourism video to inspire people to visit the kingdom. But after calamities come one after another, Unikitty begins to think the video is going to be a disaster. (6:15 AM)

Time Capsule - The gang puts their favorite items in a Time Capsule to send 100 years in the future, but they get stuck inside right before the door seals. (6:30 AM)

Music Videos - Unikitty hosts a live music video countdown show for the kingdom, presenting the ecstatic audience with the top 4 music videos in the Unikingdom, featuring our favorite characters. (6:45 AM)

Brock Most Wanted - When Master Frown starts ruining parties to earn a promotion from his bosses, the Doom Lords, Brock accidentally gets blamed for the calamity. (7:00 AM)

Bedtime Stories - When Puppycorn can't fall asleep, Dr. Fox uses an invention to bring classic bedtime stories to life. But the gang's presence leads to some surprising twists in these popular tales. (7:15 AM)

Grown Up Stuff - Puppycorn doesn't want to grow up. To ease his woes, Unikitty spends the day teaching him all the fun things about being an adult. (7:30 AM)

Stop the Presses - Richard's newspapers aren't selling, so his friends pull out all the stops to put the printed word back on top. (7:45 AM)

Castles and Kitties - Score Creeper traps the gang in a fantasy role playing game where they must follow a complex set of rules to win their freedom. (8:00 AM)

Brain Trust - Dr. Fox accidentally transports the gang inside her brain, where they must control her movements to complete a dangerous experiment. (8:15 AM)

P.L.O.T. Device 2: Beyond the Bored Dome - Dr. Fox reprograms the P.L.O.T. Device to only generate boring events, but the gang can't help but add drama and excitement to every scenario. (8:30 AM)

Sick Day - Dr. Fox catches a "common cold" and does everything in her power to cure herself, ignoring the gang's pleas that she takes the day off and rest. (8:45 AM)

Borrowed - Richard discovers his library books have been borrowed by Master Frown and sets off on a crazed mission to return the books before they're overdue. (9:00 AM)

Best Best Friends - Master Frown and Brock attend a friendship-themed competition intending to ruin it for everyone else, but soon discover their own friendship in need of repair. (9:15 AM)

The Escape Room of Doom - The gang infiltrate an escape room game center to thwart Score Creeper, but their former foe claims he only works there to pay the bills. (9:30 AM)

The Unikingdom Awards - Unikitty throws an elaborate award show for everyone in the Unikingdom, including Master Frown and Brock, but tensions rise when Frown fails to win an award. (9:45 AM)

Stay tuned.

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Sad about Adventure Time Ending and Looking for Something else to Watch?

Or just want to know about the new cartoons series coming up later this year or in 2019? Well, here’s a list! Let me just say we have a lot to look forward to...

2018

The Dragon Prince (September 14th, Netflix):

The Dragon Prince is an epic fantasy series by the head writer and director of Avatar: the Last Airbender. In the magical land of Xadia, magic comes from six primal sources. But when human mages create a seventh kind of magic, Dark Magic — they begin capturing and harvesting the unique magical creatures they need as ingredients. This sparks a catastrophic war between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms. Three kids from opposite sides of the conflict — two human princes, and the elven assassin who was sent to kill them — discover a secret that could change everything. They decide to join forces and go on an epic journey that may be their only hope of ending the war, and restoring peace to both their worlds.

Hilda (September 21st, Netflix):

Hilda follows the journey of a fearless blue-haired girl as she travels from her home in a vast magical wilderness full of elves and giants to the bustling city of Trolberg, where she makes new friends and discovers mysterious creatures who are stranger –and sometimes more dangerous– than she ever expected. Based on graphic novels by Luke Pearson, who storyboarded for Adventure Time.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (November 16th, Netflix):

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power is the story of an orphan named Adora, who leaves behind her former life in the evil Horde when she discovers a magic sword that transforms her into the mythical warrior princess She-Ra. Along the way, she finds a new family in the Rebellion as she unites a group of magical princesses in the ultimate fight against evil.

3 Below (December 21, Netflix):

3 Below will focus on two royal teenage aliens and their bodyguard who flee a surprise takeover of their home planet by an evil dictator and crash land in Arcadia. Now on the run from intergalactic bounty hunters, they struggle to blend in and adapt to the bizarre world of high school all the while attempting to repair their ship so they can return and defend their home planet.

Care Bears: Unlock the Magic (Boomerang):

Care Bears: Unlock the Magic sends the Care Bears on the road for the first time, exploring never-before-seen areas surrounding Care-a-lot called The Silver Lining.

2019

Owl House (Disney Channel):

Owl House is a horror-comedy series that follows Luz, a self-assured teenage human girl who accidentally stumbles upon a portal to the Demon Realm. There she befriends a rebellious witch, Eda, and an adorably tiny warrior, King. Despite not having magical abilities, Luz pursues her dream of becoming a witch by serving as Eda's apprentice at the Owl House and ultimately finds a new family in an unlikely setting.

Amphibia (Disney Channel):

The show tells the story of Anne Boonchuy, a self-centered 13-year-old who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will transform into a hero and discover the first true friendship of her life.

101 Dalmatian Street (Disney Channel):

101 Dalmatian Street is inspired by Dodie Smith's 1956 novel and Walt Disney's 1961 One Hundred and One Dalmatians. But it is has been updated and moved to contemporary London. It depicts the adventures of eldest Dalmatian siblings Dylan and Dolly, parents Doug and Delilah, and ninety-seven younger puppies, all with names beginning with "D", who live all by themselves at the titular address.

Infinity Train (Cartoon Network):

Infinity Train is about an intelligent, albeit frustrated, girl named Tulip who—for reasons unknown—is trapped on a train full of infinite worlds. Accompanied by conjoined robots Glad-One and Sad-One, Tulip is determined to solve the mystery of the train and find her way home.

Victor and Valentino (Cartoon Network):

In the small quiet town of Monte Macabre, two total opposite half-brothers search about the town for adventure and find strange and supernatural happenings with the help of their supernatural grandmother.

Thundercats Roar! (Cartoon Network):

Staying true to the premise of the original series, Lion-O and the ThunderCats — Tygra, Panthro, Cheetara, Wilykat, and Wilykit — barely escape the sudden destruction of their home world, Thundera, only to crash land on the mysterious and exotic planet of Third Earth. Lion-O, the newly appointed Lord of the ThunderCats, attempts to lead the team as they make this planet their new home. A bizarre host of creatures and villains stand in their way, including the evil Mumm-Ra, Third Earth’s wicked ruler who will let nothing, including the ThunderCats, stop his tyrannical reign over the planet.

Villainous (Cartoon Network Latin America):

Villainous is the story of Black Hat Org., run by Black Hat and his team of three less-villainous aides. Black Hat is trying to sell various evil inventions created by Dr. Flug and desperate to achieve his evil aspirations. However, things usually end up going wrong for him as the brilliant innovations tend to have small and often comical flaws. Has already been airing Orientation Videos and Shorts on YouTube for a while, but a pilot will be aired soon, with a full series hopefully to follow.

Golpea Duro ¡Hara! (Cartoon Network Latin America):

Golpea Duro Hara! (Hit Hard Hara!) is the story of Hara, the only female fighter in the world, and together with her friend Tesu, she fights against the discrimination suffered by the brutal men who populate the planet. But Hara has a hidden side: a vicious transformation that frustrates her plans!

Glitch Techs (Nickelodeon):

Glitch Techs is an adventure-comedy following two newly recruited kids as they battle video game monsters that come to life in the real world.

High Guardian Spice (Crunchyroll):

In High Guardian Spice, the lives of four fierce girls, Rosemary, Sage, Thyme and Parsley, converge at High Guardian Academy, the one place where they can stumble towards adulthood while becoming the heroes they’ve always admired. As they master the ways of battle and sorcery, our foursome form allegiances and comical kinships, uncover legacies and betrayals, and discover their true identities while preparing to protect the world from an ominous unknown threat.

Carmen Sandiego (Netflix):

In the upcoming animated series produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Carmen Sandiego is back and ready for a new crop of international capers packed with thrilling adventure and intrigue. This fresh take presents an intimate look into Carmen's past where viewers will not only follow her escapades but also learn WHO in the world is Carmen Sandiego and WHY she became a super thief.

Seis Manos (Netflix):

Set in Mexico in the 1970’s era, Seis Manos centers on three orphaned martial arts warriors who join forces with a DEA agent and a Mexican Federal to battle for justice after their beloved mentor is murdered on the streets of their tiny border town.

Last Kids on Earth (Netflix):

The Last Kids on Earth follows 13-year-old Jack Sullivan and a band of suburban middle schoolers who live in a decked-out tree house, play video games, gorge themselves on candy, and battle zombies in the aftermath of the monster apocalypse. It’s a hilarious series filled with wisecracking kids, crazy gadgets, a lifetime supply of zombies and giant-sized monsters.

Twelve Forever (Netflix):

The series centers on 12-year-old Reggie, whose desire to remain a child is so powerful it creates a fantasy world in which she never has to grow up. She’s joined by her friends Todd and Esther, who visit this amazing world to live out their superhero fantasies and escape the responsibilities of impending adulthood.

Wizards (Netflix):

Wizards brings together the three disparate worlds of trolls, aliens and wizards who have found themselves drawn to Arcadia. The final chapter of the Tales of Arcadia culminates in an apocalyptic battle for the control of magic that will ultimately determine the fate of these supernatural worlds that have now converged.

Young Justice: Outsiders (January 4th, DC Universe):

Young Justice: Outsiders is the third season of Young Justice. The backdrop for the season is described as being one that will touch on "all corners of the DC universe," and that certainly seems to be the case considering the sheer number of bad guys discussed and shown in the trailer. The team will be tasked with stopping a metahuman trafficking ring, as well as dealing with the "intergalactic arms race for control of these super--powered youths." You can also count on new heroes Arrowette, Spoiler, and Thirteen joining in the fight.

gen:Lock (January 2019, Rooster Teeth):

In gen:LOCK, Earth’s last free society is on the losing side of a global war, and recruits a diverse team of young pilots to control the next generation of mecha—giant, weaponized robot bodies. These daring recruits will find, however, that their newfound abilities come at no small cost. As Chase leaves behind his life as a fighter pilot to become the first candidate for the program, he finds his endurance, as well as his very identity, will be tested beyond anything he ever imagined.

Undone (Amazon):

Undone is a half-hour animated dramedy that explores the elastic nature of reality through its central character, Alma. After getting into a near-fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.

Close Enough (TBS):

Close Enough is a surreal take on transitioning from 20-something to 30-something. The show centers on a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right daycare. Was supposed to air in 2017 or 2018, but no word of a release date yet, so I assume it will be in 2019.

Hero High (February 14th, ???):

Not many details are known about this show, but it will be a Legend of Zelda high school parody. Source

Long Gone Gulch (Internet):

Two screwups, Snag and Rawhide, find themselves bestowed as the new Sheriff’s of a strange world adrift in an ever moving dust cloud. Long Gone Gulch holds the inhabitants of myths, urban legends and folklore from around the world. They travel through the land when they are needed and encountering all manner of adventures along the way.

Hazbin Hotel (???):

Hazbin Hotel is the story of Charlie, the princess of Hell, as she pursues her seemingly impossible goal of rehabilitating demons to peacefully reduce overpopulation in her kingdom. She opens a hotel in hopes that patients will be "checking out" into Heaven. While most of Hell mocks her goal, her devoted partner Vaggie, and their first test subject, adult film-star Angel Dust, stick by her side. When a powerful entity known as the "Radio Demon" reaches out to Charlie to assist in her endeavors, her crazy dream is given a chance to become a reality.

Gorillaz (Internet):

A ten-episode show based off of the fictional band. Might not be happening apparently.

2020

Solar Opposites (TBS):

Solar Opposites follows a family of aliens who leave their planet and settle in suburban America.

And that about covers it! Let me know if I missed any of the big ones!

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sleepy-verse · 5 years

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Name: Carolyn “Carol” Kara Baxter

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Birthday: August 4, (Leo)

Species: Chemical X Super/Human Hybrid

Alignment: Good/Solo Hero, The Silver Butterflies (Formerly)

Family

Dash Baxter (Father)

Buttercup Utonium-Baxter (Mother)

Drake Baxter (Older Brother)

Ryan Baxter (Younger Brother)

Blossom Utonium (Aunt)

Dendy Utonium (Aunt)

Dahlia Utonium (Cousin)

Penelope Utonium (Cousin)

Orchid Utonium (Cousin)

Bubbles Utonium-Pines (Aunt)

Mabel Pines (Aunt)

Loyla Utonium (Cousin)

Floyd Utonium (Cousin)

Bliss [Utonium] Dracula (Aunt)

Melvin Dracula (Uncle)

Cheryl Dracula (Cousin)

Bunny Utonium (Aunt)

Xenon Utonium (Cousin)

Aksel Pines (Cousin-in-Law when Bubble married Mabel making Hilda and Dipper Pines Carol's aunt and uncle by the laws)

Skill/Powers/Magical Abilities

Chemical X Superpowers

Special Power: Earth & Metal Manipulation

Hand to Hand Combat Skills

Background

Carol is the middle child & only daughter of Dash Baxter & Buttercup Utonium.She spent her childhood in New Amity Park (a replica of the Amity Park from Old Earth, it is built for civillains of Old Earth's Amity Park if they want a new life, career opportunities, and preparation to evacuate from the upcoming apocalypse) with her parents, her older brother Drake and her younger brother Ryan. Growing up, Carol had a very rebellious streak to her personality. Right up to the point where by the time she was a teenager, she became a delinquent and would frequently get in trouble with the authorities. From getting into fights at school to hanging out with the wrong crowd. One of such was an all-female gang called the Silver Butterflies. Because of her behaviour, she was frequently at odds with her mother and older brother and was often considered the “Problem child”of the family.

Tired of their daughter's rebellious behaviour, Dash & Buttercup decided to send her to Townsville to live with her aunts and cousins in hopes of keeping her out of trouble and that the positive influence could help improve her attitude.

Appearance

Carol is a tall and muscular girl with an athletic build. She has tan skin, long dirty blonde hair, and blue-gray eyes. She wears a dark green t-shirt with the lower part torn apart, a black vest, jean shorts, a slightly slanted silver belt wrapped around her waist. A pair of black fingerless gloves with dark blue ends, a pair of black boots with dark green fringe, and a dark blue headband.

Personality

Carol is a very strong-willed and confident girl. She knows she’s strong and isn’t afraid to show it off to others. She can be very blunt and ill-tempered and isn’t very good at keeping her cool when pushed to her breaking point. Despite her rebellious attitude, Carol can be a caring and compassionate person when she wants to be. But she isn’t very blatant about it and prefers to show affection towards someone in more subtle and alternative ways. The only exception to this is her younger brother Ryan (Who she cares for deeply and is very protective of.) Thanks to her time as a member of the Silver Butterflies, Carol is incredibly street-smart and knows her way around gangs and how they function better than most people.

Quote

“Carol, you need to stop with this nonsense! You’re throwing your life away!” Drake said in an authoritarian tone while glaring at Carol.

“Why!? So I can live the rest of my life as some corny-ass goody goody two-shoes like you and Dahlia!?” Carol snapped, glaring back at her older brother. “Fuck that shit!”

“That's all you got chump?!” Carol taunted while wiping some blood from her mouth. “My baby brother can hit harder than you!”. She smirked at her opponent while getting up.

Trivia

Carol was inspired by a variety of characters. Including but not limited to: Kara Danvers/Supergirl from DC Superhero Girls (2019), Toph & Suyin (Younger) Beifong from A:TLA/LOK, Rainbow Dash from MLP:FIM, & even her own mother Buttercup from the original Powerpuff Girls series.

She is named after Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel from Marvel Comics.

Her voice claim is Nicole Sullivan, Who voices Kara/Supergirl in the Super Best Friends Forever shorts and DC Superhero Girls 2019.

Owner: @cooltmoney95

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morebedsidebooks · 6 years

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15 Years Later Batman: War Games

I’ve considered myself a comics fan from the time as a little girl I received hand-me-down superhero comics from one of my older brothers. I spent a good deal of my childhood wrapped up in various tales published by DC comics mainly but, also other American creations as well as those from Asia and Europe. Lately I’ve been diving back into some of those DC comics. One character from Batman, Poison Ivy has remained one of my all-time favourites. But I’m not going to be writing about Pam today despite her being a recent topic of conversation. The reason being, during my trip down memory lane I was reminded of another contentious event in DC comics history. The October 2004 issue of Detective Comics #797 included the first part of “Low” a three-part story about Poison Ivy and the Riddler. However, that issue also started the first Act of War Games, an event which with prelude War Drums added in engulfed Batman comics for 10 months beginning earlier in March that year.

War Games, where a hypothetical stratagem Batman devised against Gotham’s underworld is put into action with disastrous consequences, can be memorable for several reasons. I remember it because of another beloved Batman character to me who played a major role Stephanie Brown, aka the Spoiler and for a short time also the fourth Robin among other designations. (She was however not the first young lady Robin if one includes The Dark Knight Returns which is outside main continuity.) The treatment of Stephanie, in War Games is the reason that I took a break from reading DC comics for a long time. 2019 marks 15 years since those events. So, with DC once again facing criticisms about how it wrangles philosophy and portrays violence, trauma and death I think it is time to revisit some of Stephanie’s history too.

Stephanie Brown was created in 1992 by Chuck Dixon and Tom Lyle debuting in Detective Comics #647. A teenager from some difficult circumstances with a criminal dad and mother with a prescription addiction.

She becomes a vigilante named Spoiler to thwart her father, eventually gaining allies and older mentors, also dating Tim Drake the third Robin.

Stephanie like those around her is not a perfect character having her share of mistakes and tribulations but, she also strives to improve and works towards making some difference in the world that isn’t as it should be. The Robin comic was particularly noteworthy for chapters featuring her teen pregnancy by an ex-boyfriend and the decision to put the child up for adoption. (Robin #65, 1999)

As well as in another powerful issue her confiding about an attempted rape at age 11 by her father’s friend who was left to watch her during an effort at rehab for her mother. (Robin #111, 2003)

Through it all she had a perseverance and resilience that became inspiring and her efforts and convictions led to her becoming a part of the Bat-family. So, it was quite a development when unable to stop the sudden murder of a key ally Orpheus (whose bloody body would be featured across pages to come as well) she was extensively tortured by the villain Black Mask, leading to a likewise incredibly difficult death scene with Batman by her bedside at the end of the third act of War Games in December 2004. Orpheus became a martyr figure (currently his last appearance which feels like a waste, along with the causticity of killing off a character that talked about representation) and characters mourned Stephanie too, with a whole host of emotions as fans tried to come to terms also.

Not to be outdone though some months later when questions arose in War Crimes, the situation around Stephanie’s fate would get even worse with another principal character Dr. Leslie Thompkins given some of the worst (and out of character) motivations for not properly treating Stephanie, betraying her profession and the people close to her.

After Thompkins’ clinic becomes ground zero for the casualties in the massive gang war it’s an absurd decision to send a message to Bruce and young protégés about their actions. Not the first time the heartbreak would be used in such a manner either. It’s not all happy endings. It would be almost four years before DC returned to Stephanie’s fate retconning, revealing the truth of her death as a deliberate falsehood. (Robin #174, July 2008)

However, pouring more salt on the wound those years were a period during which she was also disrespected in death, an executive editor saying Stephanie was never a true Robin despite that going against Batman’s own words written in the comic on more than one occasion. Unsurprisingly behind the scenes editorial decisions about torturing and killing a 16-year-old teenage character apparently did not sit well with all the writers either. Stephanie taking on the Robin role was some small bright point of achievement to be wrestled before the horrible events to come, but also working as a ploy readers would fall into. When Tim’s father has it out with Bruce to put it mildly after discovering their vigilante personas, the developments of a new Robin (a position Stephanie held story-wise only 71 days before Batman fired her) did reportedly boost sales.

But she further had to die as Spoiler because another dead Robin is too much, for Batman. Young as I was in 1988, I too remember the spectacle death of Jason Todd the second Robin whose memory looms from the start in the prologue War Drums.

DC wasn’t done with him either. Reading stories of Jason, some that felt like the material I’d been craving for a long time, nevertheless always make me wonder where we’d be if the vote on his survival all those years ago had been different. A Death in the Family would seem to be a culmination after other titles usually on one’s lips around the experimentation of the late 80s less of interrogation and maturity perceiving a world growing darker inside and out but, the one question of what is too far to come back from.

And 16 years after it, well a dead Spoiler tortured and gone was too much for me. After nearly just as much time again today in 2019 marking the 15th anniversary of War Games I’m surprised in fact at how much the story even now hits me right in the chest. It’s been a long time with many, many people creating countless more titles at DC Comics. Including stories featuring Stephanie Brown who has gone on to take the mantle of Batgirl at one point (that same executive editor finally acknowledging how she connected to a portion of the fanbase and Bat-family in 2009) and likewise been reimagined through the reboots of the comics. (Stephanie in Rebirth’s Victim Syndicate in 2016 was particularly striking to me.)

Yet, I remember most clearly the earlier Stephanie perhaps by virtue being a teenager back then too. Or maybe in a similar fashion as impressionable of a moment as the comics I first received from one of my older brothers, as a young adult War Games seared into me a visual of a brand which gives its characters direction from bad places, hope, lets them rise and then to paraphrase it as a writer once did crush them like a bug. As a young child I could say wow Robins can die. Older, I could ask so what does it mean.

There are all kinds of stories, and what they offer to people as diverse as humanity itself. The ugly, tragedies and heartbreaks are important too for many reasons. I could write instead about such examples I’m fond of or, respect. Pieces of fiction that dance that line of examining and representing truth, little windows maybe the glass becoming a mirror that’s more painful because it is so familiar or, cuts when it breaks. Superheroes don’t live in the real world. But there is a very real world we live in where there are people that have and are growing up with no trust in authorities, screwed up parents, losing parents, becoming parents, facing sexual assault, abuse, gang violence and schools becoming yet another killing ground among other challenges. These sort of wars that are fought can leave a host of scars and casualties. Whether those 18 years or so are good or bad we’re lucky if they are only a small part of a larger life. Too often that’s not the case. But still, I have to ask when I pick up a comic and seem to find the same over and over, as time marches on what about this common story of harm and death has changed and what is its legacy?

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zeebee-jeebies · 3 years

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drew this goodie for my good bestie @vividvalley! it’s only fair after she blessed me w my bacon haired beauty :) if you haven’t checked out her blog or followed her yet, what are you doing GO DO IT NOW-

#dcshg 2019 #dcshg #dcshg zee zatara #zee zatara #zatanna zatara #zatanna #dc superhero girls 2019 #dc superhero girls #dcshg punk au #kasie's art archive #it was so fun trying to figure out the lighting and everything #i was inspired a lil by captain marvel mysterio and thor if anyone sees it-#i might do one or two more of my girls in their hero outfits #we'll just have to see won't we? ;)#punk au #my AU my rules

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littlebitwriter · 5 years

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THE BATMAN 2021 POTENTIAL PLOT THEORIES, CASTING IDEAS & MORE

The official casting announcement for the title character of Matt Reeves’ 2021 film THE BATMAN had been announced a little while back. It is a done deal with Warner’s and Matt Reeves having agreed to Robert Pattinson’s visions for the character and to really make the character his own. This film will be a standalone with no connection to the now pretty much dead DCEU. Set in its own universe with opportunity of introducing different Batfamily members meaning Red Hood movies, Nightwing movies, Batgirl movies, Ace The Bathound, the possibilities are endless which not long ago weren’t with the ‘Snyder verse’. This film and potential Batman franchise will be its own standalone film(s) much like the Joker (2019) film arriving later this year in October, which also much like this film takes place outside of the DCEU continuity.

One of the most exciting things for me about Pattinson’s casting is the possibility of the Batfamily and I also like the direction they will be taking with the character. From what I hear Reeves is not opposed to storylines from The Animated Series as a reference point for their trilogy. I’ve been hearing things about Mask of The Phantasm which gets me giddy as a school girl and I think that film is the epitome of comic book adaptations, especially for the hero’s journey arc, as well as a lot of the other emotional aspects of a superhero that we don’t really see in Marvel or DC films. The fact that they are even open to including ideas from that animated motion picture that should have everyone screaming their heads off with excitement. I have heard more than one source talk about Mask of The Phantasm when speaking of Reeves’ script and that has me super thrilled.

Showing the detective side of Batman is going to be exciting since that hasn’t really been portrayed in live action before. Since they are potentially using the animated series for reference, as well as Frank Miller and Matt Reeves has expressed his fondness for the early years of Batman and it won’t be a full adaptation of stories like Year One or Long Halloween or Dark Victory of course, it will potentially be a bit of a combination between Frank Miller and Scott Snyder potentially bringing in elements from Zero Year. They are planning a trilogy but that doesn’t mean actors playing certain characters can’t be signed on for other films such as launching a Nightwing film for example. There will also potentially be quite a lot of Arkham villains. I’m hoping in Matt Reeves’ trilogy there will be quite a lot of animated series influences with Batman sticking to the shadows and having it pretty much be the equivalent to the animated series in live-action in parts. Also I’m excited to see more of Batman’s brilliant mind which is something Matt Reeves is going to really bring forward to the screen. There is a tremendous amount of things I am super excited for I have a couple of potential ideas for where this film and potential franchise can go. Considering they are going to film soon take all this with a grain of salt this is all fan theoretical nonsense. Here are my weird theories based on what we’ve heard.

The film will be set in the 1990’s and will be loosely based on The Long Halloween though mostly on it’s sequel Dark Victory and it will be a noir detective driven murder mystery with Batman trying to stop a dangerous serial killer copycat. It is a normal time in Gotham aside from muggings, murder, consipracies, criminal activity, and of course the Gotham rogues until a new copycat killer starts bumping off gothammites and criminals left and right it is up to the batman to uncover the mystery to find and stop this deadly mimic before it is too late. The scope and feel of the film in my mind would be inspired by particularly Dark Victory and Mask of The Phantasm (which in its own right is a murder whodunnit story with a massive twist ending that blew people’s minds even to this day.)

Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2021) will star of course Batman, Alfred, James Gordon, Catwoman and Penguin as the main leads though Robin will appear in some capacity and considering Grayson played a huge role in Dark Victory his inclusion would be very important and omitting him from this adaptation I think would be a very bad move since it would remove the heart of the story because in my mind seeing a young Robin work with Batman is something very much needed. Side characters would include Two-Face, Firefly, The Riddler and another villain who will play a key role in this story overall. Batman will visit many iconic locations in Gotham City such as Arkham Asylum to question his famous rogues as well as other locations.

The film will mirror The Long Halloween although it would not be an origin for Two-Face because I’m sure many people still have that tragic story in there head from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. One thing I’ve been hearing constantly about the film is that the focus will not be on origins and it will show a living, breathing, established Batverse with this young interpretation of The Caped Crusader at the center will eventually lead to more of a Bat-family cinematic universe and help Warner’s make some of that MCU/Disney money.

With this film taking place in the nineties there is potential to establish a young Dick Grayson before the solo Chris McKay directed Nightwing movie. Also we live in a time where people love Robin regardless of who is taking the mantle, he is an iconic character who deserves respect.

As for Catwoman she is expected to have a role in the film. I think one of the runner ups for the role of Selena Kyle may not be a bad Catwoman. Her and Pattinson really look the part of Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle so I could see them having some good chemistry and I can see her being a very good Catwoman. The Penguin is going to appear in this movie as it is his first film appearance since Danny DeVito in Batman Returns. He’ll be a crime boss but more swanky nightclub owner of The Iceberg Lounge and black market dealer rather than a murderous flightless bird. Batman could have a scene with The Penguin interrogating him for intel on the serial killer and outside of that I’d see him playing a fowl role in this film. I’d see Penguin being played by Josh Gad. As for the Riddler’s role he will focus on a battle of wits with the Caped Crusader since the character uses his keen intellect to challenge The Dark Knight over his lack of brawn, I’d like him to be like John Glover’s Riddler from BTAS. I don’t really see him as the sole mastermind behind the killings but he will pester Batman and it’ll be a great take on The Riddler hopefully. I’d see James Macavoy play The Riddler. Firefly is said to play a role I don’t see him being the killer but maybe he could be one of his victims. I can see some of the victims this killer hunts down would also be rogues too. Very Mask of The Phantasm style where there’s this killer bumping off mob bosses and costumed croanies.

As for the killer himself… The Joker is the crazy killer. The Joker being the clown mastermind behind everything would be perfect and a total wild card especially if Warner Bros. hid his reveal until the film’s release. That means no promotional material, no announcement and the actor would have to be cool with not getting a ton of publicity until after the film’s release. That would be very cool. That twist would have people talking for years. The actor I’d be interested to see portray The Clown Prince to Pattinson’s Dark Knight is Macculy Culkin. He’ll have to dodge questions left and right but he would be a great addition to this cast as The Joker.

CAST

Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman

Ralph Fiennes as Alfred Pennyworth

Bryan Cranston as James Gordon

Vanessa Hudgens as Selena Kyle/Catwoman

Josh Gad as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin

Finn Wolfhard as Richard Grayson/Robin

Oscar Issac as Two-Face

Johnny Depp as Mad Hatter

Milo Ventimiglia as Firefly

James Macavoy as The Riddler

Macculy Culkin as Joker

This is my dream for The Batman 2021 movie. If it was anything like this, I would be very, very, very happy.

(Batman/Robert Pattinson fan art above by Diego Riselli)

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Captain Marvel Goes Higher Further Faster

The MCU has once again delivered an outstanding adventure filled film but this time, a female is leading the way. Captain Marvel is a feminist driven film filled with messages of female empowerment, refugees and some more female empowerment. The breathtaking cinematography, powerful performances, emotional story and nostalgic trip back to the 90s creates my new favourite film. The critiques and boycotts of the film however are proof of how much harder it is to be a woman in this world. Brie Larson is a warrior as Captain Marvel, as just one week after the release of the film she is already inspiring thousands of young girls all over the world to believe that they are superheroes themselves.

First of all the performances in this film are incredible. Samuel L Jackson once again shines as Nick Fury however this time we see him before he knew about aliens and superheroes AND we finally get to see what happened to his eye (love Goose). His chemistry with Brie is adorable both on and off screen and I really hope we see them together again (surely she saves him in Avengers Endgame). Jude Law and Gemma Chan play great Kree characters and I love that they cast an Asian women for this role. One of the stand out performances of the film was Lashana Lynch as Maria Rambeau. Her badass pilot abilities, her adorable relationship with her daughter and her fierce friendship with Carol makes her one of the toughest characters in the film and she brought raw emotion to the story. Brie of course was outstanding as Carol Danvers. Her witty personality, quirky facial expressions and her immensely strong power creates a powerful yet relatable superhero. She is a warrior who fights for all women as she inspires and leads the MCU into a new phase.

One of my favourite aspects of the film was the cinematography. There is a really subtle tint to the screen to create the nostalgic look of the 90s but it doesn’t look tacky or fake, it just looks amazing. Some of the shots in this film are breathtaking. My personal favourite was when the Skrulls are looking into Carol’s memories and one says “open her up”, meaning her mind, however the shot shows Carol, the air force pilot walking towards the opening doors of the air force base. I actually held my breath during that shot. The film also uses slow motion a bit but really subtly, It doesn’t look tacky or over dramatic like in some of the DC films, it just gives the audience an extra moment to appreciate what they’re seeing on the screen.

One of the surprising aspects of the story was about the Skrulls (warning spoilers ahead). In the trailer and the beginning of the film, the skrulls (green aliens with australian accents) are presented as the bad guys. They follow Carol to Earth and Carol who has been trained by the Kree believe she needs to stop them from infiltrating Earth. However when Carol listens to the black box and learns about how she crashed and got her powers and the Kree are actually the bad guys on the side of an unjust war, she opts to help the Skrulls. The Skrulls reunite with their family as Carol helps them find a home and the rest of their kind. This is a powerful message especially to America in 2019 who are being force fed ideas by the Trump administration that mexicans, islam and other non-american ethnic groups are criminals and are infiltrating the USA. Whereas the actual reality is that they are refugees just like the Skrulls and they are looking for a home. Americans often see people who don’t look like them as ‘aliens’ rather than respecting them and understanding that not everyone is a white American. This all sounds very political but the main message from this aspect of the story is to not fight unjust wars, but to end them and to respect people from other ethnic backgrounds.

The main message and most powerful one in the film is about Carol discovering her true potential and not letting anyone tell her what she cannot do. Right from the beginning of the film, Yon-Rogg is constantly telling Carol to control her power and her emotions. During the Kree’s first mission in the film, Carol says what she plans to do and he tells her no. He always keeps telling her that he wants her to be the best version of herself. Once Carol learns that the explosion, not the Kree gave her her powers and that if she takes off the controller on her neck she will unleash her full power, she stands up to anyone whoever told her what she cannot do. I love that there is also no final fight in this film. Yon-Rogg tries to start one by saying that she should fight him without using her powers but she blasts him before he can finish his sentence. This is a powerful moment as she states “I have nothing to prove to you”. The audience clearly sees the potential of carol’s power throughout the film and therefore she does not need some big final fight to prove anything. People often hold women up to extremely high expectations in order to prove they can sit at the table with men. However this film shows that audiences need to start looking at women with the same amount of expectations and respect as men. That is feminism, it is about equality.

One of the things that I really loved about this film is that Carol was not sexualised at any point during the movie. There was no revealing outfits or comments about her appearance and there was no romantic relationship. This is actually groundbreaking and very rare especially for a female led film. Some people, like Wonder Woman, find their power in their sexuality and that is an extremely valid fight for feminism so that they can focus on their appearance but not do it for men and still get the same amount of respect. However others, like Captain Marvel, don’t find their power in their sexuality and don’t want to have to dress up or wear makeup etc. Different things empower different women. However I feel like Hollywood only likes to show the former side of feminism and male audiences tend to accept female led films more when they are ‘sexy’ and this can be dangerous as it creates misconceptions about feminism in a culture where sexual violence against women is endemic. So for Captain Marvel to not wear revealing outfits, have perfect hair and makeup and not have any hints at a romantic relationship during the film is a powerful step for feminism.

The response from the white male fans of the MCU about this film prove how far we have to go in order to achieve gender equality. Some were angry that Brie said the film wasn’t for them, others claimed she was too powerful and it wasn’t realistic or that the film was too political. Others simply saw a female led film and heard it was a feminist movie and said they weren’t interested. First of all, Thor is literally a God, the Hulk is virtually indestructible and yet they never had a problem with their power? Also too political? Iron Man was about US sponsored war, Infinity War was about overpopulation and Captain America in the 1940s fought the Nazis and in the 2010s fought against government surveillance. I mean the film is literally called Captain America: Civil War but yet Captain Marvel is suddenly too political. The only difference here is that she is a woman. Some men absolutely cannot stand when even one out of 21 things is not 100% created for them. I love that Captain Marvel is a woman and it is a huge part of her power and fighting for feminism and inspiring young girls is a massive part of this film. However that does not mean it is not for men. I grew up looking up to characters such as Harry Potter, Frodo and Iron Man and Captain America. I did not have to be a boy to be inspired by them so why can’t men do the same with Captain Marvel? If men only look at Captain Marvel and see a pair of breasts then they are the main problem. I hope this incredible film continues to inspire both young girls AND boys to be superheroes and fight for gender equality just like Brie as Captain Marvel does.

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