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btw last week on jp twitter they were goncharov-ing a detective conan movie into existence lmao
it all started because of this twitter user pointing out that the Osaka Expo 2025 venue looks like a setting out of a detco movie (x)

then someone fixed the color, added "original work by gosho aoyama", and voila (x)

and then people just kept adding on to it, here's a few more:
they got teaser art posters (1) (2) (3)



a movie logo (x)


and a movie poster ofc (x)

btw if you were wondering wtf that weird blob creature is, it's Osaka Expo 2025's mascot:


oh yeah someone also made a whole ass movie trailer (x)
and end credits too but i can't upload 2 videos so here's the link (x)
someone even made an agasa quiz lmao (x)

someone also brainrotted so hard they managed to gather hattori, kaitou kid, amuro, and akai all in one movie (x)

anyway, we've cracked the code. we can explode any place just by adding "original work by gosho aoyama" (x) (x)


#detective conan#dcmk#kudou shinichi#edogawa conan#detco#i just wanted to share this cos it was hilarious to see go down lmfao#right before the showing of m28 too LOOOOL#i was contemplating whether or not to add the posters since it is art by people but i wanted to fully deliver how much of a community thing#this whole fake conan movie happened so i added it there but with credit#i've actually put links for all the tweets i added here so if you have a twitter account please rt and drop them a like!#im troubled by the posting of posters still esp since ive seen art reposters here for a while now so i just didnt post the art itself just#a screenshot from the account! please check them out!!!#dc prattles#also that person who brainrotted and added kaitou kid into the fray....heheheh you mustve been inside my brain heheheheh
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hello, sekai! 🌎💫☘️💿🎪🎼


it's a good movie sir
#i made this as stickers to give out at the movie! saw it yesterday :)#i'll be giving them out at anime north as well ^_^#came to canada this month. it was soUEUEUEUEUEUE its good Okay ok#i cosplayed tsukasa since it was his borthday yesterday. wore the birthday girl pin. of course#project sekai#pjsk#prsk#proseka#hatsune miku#ichika hoshino#minori hanasato#kohane azusawa#tsukasa tenma#kanade yoisaki#colorful stage#kowareta sekai to utaenai miku#Going in cosplay was really funny. also hit up the japanese arcade first to play taiko. shoutout to the people there who compliment me#and then i turned around and they were wearing tsukasas casual outfit and had a pjsk itabag. and then said they were going to the movie too#Small city(INCORRECT BUZZER)#THE MOVIE WAS SO NICE:) no spoilers but i liked that lots of vocaloid producers were involved it warmed my heart. i love you miku#i was kind of worried abt people being disruptive there was only like 1 or two screams. However at the preshow ads when peppa pig showed up#everyone fucking SCREAMED and clapped i was cryung. Peak#lots of cosplayers n awesome people :) and my bestest friend dressed as ichika playing movie thestre arcade basketball.#Peace and love#WILDCATS X DHOWTIME GOTTA GET MY HEAD IN THE GAME#i havent rlly been playing the actual game much kinda busy but also my wrist was in a lot of pain it made me sad#i cant really tier or play the charts i like to anymore but i love my clowns. Dont talkabout world link 2 O K#sorry for posting this on data on the bus i'll forget if i dont
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So? Who broke the ice? insp (x)
#iwtv#iwtvedit#interview with the vampire#armand#daniel molloy#armandiel#devil's minion#armandaniel#I AM 10000% SURE THIS GIFSET ALREADY EXISTS. probably multiple times over.#i just wouldn't know how to find it at this point so i made my own#also i was going to link the text post going around that inspired this but then i couldn't find it 😭 i planned badly my bad.#anyway. thinking about Them all the time#meet cute of the century#if you made a text post about a parallels gifset w this daniel line and any memory-redacted stuff next season: you inspired this thank u#ETA: found and added the text post that inspired it! a little late but it's there now
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Aaaaand the entire chain is complete!!
#legend of zelda#loz#linked universe#linked universe fanart#lu time#lu wild#lu four#also added shadow cause I didn’t want four to be lonely#wild really doesn’t wanna go to the doctors#my art
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Summer vacation, 4am.
Tons of easter eggs in this one! Click the image to find them (and for better quality ofc)
Close ups and process shots under the cut, description in alt text

#it's all post canon of course#btw you can't see but the paper on the floor has an episode description written on it#it's ep 53.5 which I made up. what's the plot you ask? pure fluff and highschool shenanigans. these kids deserve it#check out Taylor's Matryoshka shirt and Linc's Garfield pullover :3#also the building on the right may or may not be a Sonic's distribution center#I love being not-usamerican and just going on google streetview to research the San Dimas area.. looking at parking lots going ''ah! I see'#also#this one took me literal months... the cart's perspective was so hard to get right#so I just sat and stared at it for a couple minutes - added a couple of lines and erased some others - and then closed off my sketchbook lo#dndads#dungeons and daddies#dndaddies#dndads s2#scary marlowe#lincon li wilson#link li wilson#normal oak#normally oak swallows garcia#normal oak garcia#taylor swift dungeons and daddies#taylor swift dndads#taylor swift not that one#my art#yuviur
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This is why Legend and Hyrule were paired together.
The easy conversation



The joyful banter


and not to mention this beautiful moment:





THIS!! is exactly what Legend needed, this is exactly why these two were paired together!!
Legend needs an outlet, he needs someone that will return his banter and his harsh remarks against his brothers. He needs someone that will understand him. And who’s the one who can provide him that? Hyrule.
Hyrule doesn’t reprimand Legend, he doesn’t yell at him or think little of him he’s just there. He’s just there to explore the dungeon and have fun with Legend and that’s what he needed. If Legend was partnered up with anyone else it wouldn’t have played out like this. They would’ve gotten into an argument right in the beginning as Legend talked about Wars.
But that doesn’t happen here because he’s with Hyrule, who won’t take the bait but instead pursue the conversation on why Legend thinks this way about Warriors and Wild. Hyrule even starts the conversation about knights cause he knows it’s on Legend’s mind.
Hyrule knows his brother, and he knows what he needs in the moment. And i think this update perfectly shows how Hyrule is able to work around Legend and his abrasive attitude, this update shows how different Hyrule is from everyone in the way he treats Legend. He doesn’t hold him up on a high standard because that’s his brother but also his predecessor, he looks up to him sure but he knows that first and foremost Legend is his brother.
Time was able to see this as well, he knew what he was doing putting Legend and Hyrule together. Time is able to read everyone, hence why he put Sky and Twilight together after Wild confronted him. It’s why he put Hyrule and Legend together because he knew that Legend needed that outlet, Legend needs Hyrule because he’s the only one who understands him to an extent.
There’s less for Legend to be worried about as well because he knows that he doesn’t need to worry about Hyrule! Two peas in a pod! Hyrule is capable of himself as is Legend (another reason they were put together) so they’re able to roam around and be silly as much as they want cause they know how to be responsible when the time is right.
If you can’t tell this update really did a number on me, I just love downfall duo so much..
All art shown by @/linkeduniverse
#downfall duo#the new update him me like a brick#i cried just a teensy bit#(a lot)#the hyrule and legend analysis because it needed to be made#lu analysis#linked universe#linkeduniverse#lu legend#lu hyrule#kais rambles#is this longer than the legend analysis?#if it is that’ll be funny#shout out to jojo for making me cry#downfall duo strikes again#i’m gonna go think about them some more now bye bye#added another paragraph shh you didn’t see anything
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@ Steel Wool Studios (Official Twitter/X)
#steel wool studios#five nights at freddy's#fnaf#fnaf security breach#security breach#official#glamrock freddy#glamrock chica#roxanne wolf#roxy wolf#montgomery gator#monty gator#glamrock bonnie#sundrop#sunnydrop#moondrop#vanny#just reposting the official art so the details are easier to see#and also because i was uncomfortable reblogging from the other op directly for a couple of reasons that i will not go into#of course the credit for the art goes directly to steel wool studios#would you believe someone has the steelwoolstudios handle here and ISN'T the company??#so the link i added goes to the official twitter blog!
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i flew too high, please catch my fall
#trigun#vash the stampede#nicholas d wolfwood#vashwood#tsunosagun art#i struggled with this so bad omg but i like the ideas behind it#took inspo from solar flares for vash and used andean condor wings for ww#the pose isnt exact but the hand on the back.. u already know what scene i was thinking of#edit: added link to the song i took partial inspo from cuz why the hell didnt i do that in the first place tbh#i will say the inspo was mostly the lyrics and that the music itself isnt the vibe i was going for#side note i can see vash as icarus as well (see: icarus by bastille)#(and the idea of an ambition that will kill you wrt to his promise to rem and how his decision to break it is like falling to earth etc)#which makes me go oughhHGHHH
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024): Phone Popups Clip
So I uuhhh seen a post about this scene (will reblog) that looked like it could use some HD footage for, uhm, RESEARCH.
HERE'S THE GIFs OF IT AS WELL:
AND A COUPLE SCREENIES TOO WHY NOT:
乁( ◔ ౪◔)ㄏ Happy Beetlebabbing <3
#is this helpful#FOR SCIENCE#PLEASE GO NUTS#ANALYZE IT REMAKE THE POSTERS IDK#TBH DIDN'T KNOW I NEEDED THESE UNTIL NOW#I like how they use 1988 bj for the ads looool#beetlejuice beetlejuice#beetlejuice 2#beetlejuice spoilers#beetlebabe#beetlebabes#beetlelyds#lydia x beetlejuice#beetlejuice x lydia#beej x lyds#betelgeuse x lydia#i'll reblog the one post tho so I can link it back to this i swear#idk how else to do it since I can't add a video to a reblog directly#it is DUMB#I could still add the gifs and screenies to the reblog tho right#aaaaaaaaaa#beetlejuice gifs#muh gifs
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final act. 🌖
last pages from REQUIEM
#piano arts#persona 3#p3re#p3#ryoji mochizuki#makoto yuki#minato arisato#persona 3 reload#ryomina#requiem#so fun fact these last pages werent supposed to exist!#i was actually going to end it with social link 5#but after looking up refs for the final day w nyx i took a look at the lines that sees says when they found out abt ryoji#and im like wow wouldnt this be fucked up in requiem’s context since they actually became friends w him…#yeah.#so this is how the last 2 pages were boen and im so so glad i added it
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Hi y’all 👋🏾
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Here’s a SUPER SHORT animation test for Lockette’s Basix (Magic Winx) which is a companion piece/update to this post
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I really wanted to post my process along side this in a single post but Tumblr said no 🙅🏾♀️ So I’ll make a separate post for it later today!
#winx club#Winx#world of Winx#winx club lockette#Winx lockette#animation#animation test#clip studio paint#clip studio animation#pre-compositing version because it looks better on mobile#my monitor is like really blue and kinda desaturated so when I’m editing I’m pushing values to hard for on mobile I guess#unfortunately that means you guys wont be able to see the cool retro filtering I managed to figure out#BECAUSE IT WONT SHOW LMAOOOO F ME I GUESS????#This took TWO WEEKS#And I worked practically 14 days straight#granted it is animated on 2’s and I did everything by myself#my computer was CHUGGING by the time I started adding the sparkles to the wings OML#I’m probably animating in the most inefficient way possible#but I’m VERY please with the results#and yes this is an effect of the “Art of Winx Club book it replanted the Fairy-Pixie Swap seed#seed** just in case that doesn’t auto correct#took reference from Cardcaptor Sakura for the staff turning smear specifically the Star Release#my art#digital art#fan art#digital animation#amateur animator#hobbyist animator#THE WAY I REOPENED THIS DRAFT TO PUT A LINK AND I CAN SEE MY QUALITY GO INTO THE TOILET AAAAAAAAAA
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hey assholes it's your girl himi and im gonna prove to you that the new leaks are FAKE (credits to Sammy and fawx on twt for alot of evidence) some evidence (mostly in the end) is just my own speculation!
1) FIRST OF ALL THE CHANGE IN ARTSTYLE like sure horis artstyle has evolved and improved but the artstyle is easily distinguishable, the leaks just don't look right
2) the missing scars -- in the new leaks both izuku and shoto are missing their new scars
3) ochako holding things with her pinky is odd because everywhere else she doesn't use her pinky to make sure she doesn't make them float HORI CAN'T FORGET A DETAIL LIKE THAT
4) the official leaks are supposed to come out on the 4th of december
5) theres too many pages – every other time there were 3-4 pages max, why the hell would the leaks have these many times this time ONLY
6) the english translations took time, why did they come out this early this time..
7) we have no clue where leakers are finding these leaks
8) none of the leaks picture a book and theyre all digitized unlike every other time..
9) a japanese speaker went on the official website and the extra chapter is NOT official
10) in the previous leaks other credits are tagged
11) izuocha being canon would be forced and rushed – like it doesn’t add up to me, ochako putting away her feelings about izuku is the start of her character development.. It doesn’t make sense if she goes back to those feelings she put aside BEFORE THE WAR this late into adulthood
12) the fact that there’s barely any mention of the suit in general is throwing me off too – like in the last chapter there isnt enough info about it either so id expect the extra chapter to have atleast A LITTLE MORE INFO
13) himiko and katsuki just being izuochas wingmen makes zero sense to me like this feels like fanfiction its OUT OF CHARACTER FOR THEM ALL
14) hori HINTS romance rather than stating it – like bkdk his hinted in the japanese manga and togachako isnt as subtle but its HINTED so him randomly deciding to make izuocha obviously canon just feels wrong
15) NO MENTION OF HAWKS?? A MAIN PRO HERO?? OR ENDEVOUR?? ANOTHER IMPORTANT CHARACTER??
16) WHERE THE FUCK IS THE LEAGUE..? LIKE HIMIKO AND DABI ARE THE ONLY ONES MENTIONED. WHERE IS SHIGARAKI. THE MAIN VILLAIN. IZUKU COULDNT SAVE HIM PROPERLY SO THAT MUSTVE SCARRED HIM SOMEWHAT..?
17) okay so its said that izuku joins KATSUKI’S AGENCY first of all its wonder DUO, ITS SUPPOSED TO BE THEIR AGENCY – putting that aside no way in hell would katsuki open an agency that fast.. like since izukus still a teacher here, we know he went to get a teachers degree after highschool so its confirmed that hes in his early 20s, and katsukis the same age, its unlikely that he could open an agency that quickly
18) adding to my last point, in the last chapter, katsuki kept his hero ranks low on purpose until izukus suit is over so its way more likely that he probably working for an agency and also the fact that he probably started working after most of his classmates because of his heart issues SO NO WAY DID HE SET UP AN AGENCY ON HIS OWN WITHOUT IZUKU THAT FAST
19) THE PAGES AREN’T RELEASED DIGITALIZED UNTIL THE OFFICIAL RELEASE
20) text bubbles from the leaks look like theyre from some shoujo more than horikoshis
21) if a handhold is soooooooo romantic then what the hell was bkdks handholds…. handholds plural btw BKDKS HANDHOLDS ARE ALSO WAY MORE INTIMATE.. LIKE?
22) how are you still dreaming about toga after like a decade and then u decide u want some guy who u liked for like half a year and who you GOT OVER
23) ochakos character revolves around izuku in these leaks which makes NO SENSE BECAUSE CANONICALLY SHES MORE THAN THAT. THAT CRUSH IS OVER. ITS BEEN ESTABLISHED. HER DREAM WAS TO SAVE PEOPLE AND SEE THEM SMILE, NOT WIN OVER IZUKU,, HER CHARACTER IS SO MISUNDERSTOOD BY FANS SO ITS VERYYYYYYYY LIKELEY THAT A FAN LIKE THAT DREW THESE LEAKS
anyways in the actual last chapter bakudeku kiss and himiko comes back to life for ochako and everybody lives happily ever after ❤️
#im too lazy too add images but go check the twt links i added at the top for them#i know im biased and this is VERY ship heavy but still i refuse to believe those leaks until december fourth#my hero academia#boku no hero acedamia#mha#bnha#bakudeku#togachako#izuocha#boku no hero academia#izuku midoriya#bakugo katsuki#bkdk#deku#katsuki bakugo#toga himiko#ochako uraraka
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sorry to bother! on may 18th, you posted a drawing of silco (i think) with long hair saying you were showing some brushes to a friend. i love the watercolor texture of the brushes you used to color, are they a custom brush or just the default watercolor brush in csp with some kind of overlay and blended together in parts??
They were defaults, since I was showing her mine and other examples of how good the defaults can look!
(they say "2" at the end bc i had initially deleted them and had to readd them)
Along with this I use a paper texture from this csp marker brush pack! The one in the "update" folder, it has the words "soft light" in it. I use this paper texture for everything, it's my favorite one I've found and it carries my work sometimes!
The markers themselves are quite good too!!!!

#skunk mail#anonymous#adding link bc the creator deserves support from how much I use that paper texture...its perfect to me#sorry for nude Bonk jumpscare i couldnt think of another piece off the top of my head where i used em#(im not at my desk so i cant go thru my files)#ALSO it was s/lco in drag 🤭#brushes
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songs that use the ticking sound of a clock as percussion. you agree
#this is about Eternal Inferno from the 惊封AD but I can also be about#link click mastermind#also mountains by Hans Zimmer#One by Sleeping At Last#anyway you get the idea. the list can always go on
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It was sweet that Astarion was under the belief that no one would figure out he was a vampire before his big reveal. Most of us took one look at him and said "yep, that sure is a vampire right there." Most, however, doesn't include the party members. Some of these characters are supposed to be perceptive and intelligent, and I'm still convinced that if you press your ear against theirs you'd hear elevator music.
Over at Patreon, society6, and redbubble we don't let intellect devourers starve.
#champions and heroes#Baldur's Gate#Baldur's Gate 3#Gale of Waterdeep#Shadowheart#Astarion#Tav#intellect devourer#your secret is safe with me Astarion#mainly because the game won't let me say anything#but I recommend that you bring him to meet the Gur hunter in act 1 before he has his reveal#that nervous energy he brings to the conversation is *chef's kiss*#adding the redbubble link again#because society6 is being a butt and has decided that you only get to have 10 designs going forward#unless you pay for the account#so uh... yeah
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Hi, Hello, and welcome to:
Snowbirds Don't Fly is Kind of Good, Actually, and You Should Read it and Rethink Your Biases About The Story It's Telling You
By yours truly.
OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER: now like a lot of people who read older comics, I do have my beefs with dear ol' Denny, but there are a handful of things that your criticism starts to teeter into more than a little bit of a red flag. I'm going to discuss why that is, alongside why I think more people need to learn the core message of this arc.
I HIGHLY encourage people to read Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85-86, which depending on where you read might just be listed as part of the Green Lantern (1960) series because it is in fact technically part of that.
And when you do so I want you to actually read what's being said in the comic, in particular I want you to read Roy's lines. Because it is so, so important to acknowledge that, as a whole, this particular arc SIDES WITH HIM. Which is, honestly incredible.
Like, guys, I'm not going to say you're wrong when you say this is an anti-drugs PSA. I'm saying that if you read this comic and saw it only as an avenue for the "War on Drugs" then I'm not sure you really processed some of the messages in this comic. Because most War on Drugs propaganda is NOT interested in empathizing with the addicts in question, and encourages isolating them ("Just say no, and stop hanging out with people like that" being a familiar refrain from school assemblies over the years.)
Listen, I'm American, I've been having anti-drug PSAs preached at me my whole life. War on Drugs all around me. Grew up in somewhat poorer neighborhoods, literally was told to my face by multiple people that they were surprised how well I turned out because they thought that despite everything I was going to grow up to become a "drug whore." I'm not fucking joking about that one. I had family members say that to me, even.
Anyways, just, keep that in mind. I grew up around dealers and addicts and I have a lot of feelings about their portrayals in media. This whole thing was originally going to be part of a different media but it's probably best to split it up this way anyways.
TW: Slurs, drugs (obviously)
SO, without further ado,
Dennis O'Neil, in addition to comics, has a background in Journalism and some investment in social activism. He actively stated that he thought that he could use this in his comics, especially because, at the time, Green Lantern comics were potentially getting cancelled so he had a bit more freedom to do whatever he wanted. Basically, if it flopped in a probably-cancelled comic anyways, nobody had anything to lose. Think something along the lines of that Flinstones Comic by Mark Russel and Steve Pugh.
Ignore the goddamned cover, it's sensationalist and meant to get your attention, and it does the job. READ the WORDS. The above image is straight off the first page of the book. O'Neil takes off running with the utmost of compassion for the addicts in question, emphasizing their humanity, their mistreatment, and their suffering.
Now, lets be realistic with ourselves: Not every addict is so nobly tragic* as are depicted in Adams & O'Neil's story, but if you've heard people talk about addicts, both then and now, you'd know that it really does mean a lot that they come into this from an empathetic angle. *Yes I'm aware that I called them "nobly tragic" despite actively betraying Ollie & Hal and helping to drug them & leaving them to get caught by the cops while drugged up. Though they do express some hesitation at different parts along the way. The fact of the matter is people often ascribe a certain "nobility" to "victims" that they have enough distance from - whether by them being fictional or by not knowing them personally or changing their narratives after people's deaths to support themselves. in real life it's not uncommon for victims to be unpleasant to be around, they can also be perfectly pleasant people. They're human, and humans cover the whole range of personality and experience. Even if they are not "noble" & even if you do not have that distance, they deserve dignity.
Now, while our first introduction to the addicts (who we don't immediately know are that) they are trying to mug Ollie for money for dope (the dope part is implied). The second time we're introduced to one, however...
We are immediately thrust into the struggle of: quitting. Not using, but how difficult it is to quit. That's the worst part. This won't be the last time we discuss this.
Now, this is an arc where we see Green Arrow, who's typically the more liberal voice voice to Hal's politically neutral straight man, but I have to admit that as a Flawed Ollie enjoyer, I like to see him make a mistake, and he makes a LOT of them here. He is, in particular, harsher with the kids than he should be, and he holds a very very common position of seeing addicts simultaneously as "victims" of their dealers, while also refusing to sympathize with them.
The world is hard for everyone, why can't they Just Say No?
Up to this point, we're looking at pretty standard War on Drugs-style propaganda. But near the end of the story in #85 and for the bulk of #86, this is where I'm going to flat out say that the most important voice in this entire comic, is Roy's.
Roy doesn't at any point hesitate to stand up for himself (verbally) and call his generally well-meaning guardian out for his bling hypocrisy and ignorance. We see that neglect and loneliness led him here, but lets go back a bit and look at the reasons from a few of the other addicts:
Discrimination, cruelty, a need for an "escape." Any even mildly sympathetic media will have addicts explain that's their motivation, and I worry sometimes that people hear this and don't process it, because it's only one part of the circumstances that lead them there. the War On Drugs not only took the people who needed the "escape" the most and shoved at them a bad "solution" then imprisoned and profited off them.
From here we go back into Green Arrow's flawed logic:
He's a good, flawed man. He's like many parents who bring up their kids a certain way, a way they think is right perhaps because it's not unlike how THEY were brought up and absolutely missing the ways that they're harming them. Ollie will eventually see the error of his ways and regret these mistakes, but they're very common and very mundane flaws for him to have.
Alright, I'll admit I included this page mostly because that composition makes me giddy. Like, holy SHIT that's gorgeous. And now we are once again introduced to the idea of the struggle we were shown at the beginning: Quitting Cold Turkey.
It's extremely painful. It's dangerous. It could potentially even kill you as sure as the dope does. This is not something for everyone, and definitely not something to handle alone, which Hal himself expresses some uncertainties over, before inquiring what led Roy to this.
Is he wrong? Are the things he's saying any less true now than they were back then?
Even now there is plenty of pro-war propaganda (Just the other day I overheard someone talking about how their grandfather was in a war "Not World War 2, but one of the other Good Ones."). Even know there's lots of explicit and implicit racism that is treated as if it's justified and really MEANS anything about our humanity (Immigration/border control/ect). Even now we have people who believe that wealth is a measure of a man's worth to society or that it makes them inherently better (... I mean, I don't think I have to explain this one).
Hell, this doesn't even touch on gender (Whether discussing strictly feminism or if it's a trans issue) or sexuality or ableism (Whether physical or mental). Do you know how many people I've heard tell me they won't go to a therapist because they don't want to be reliant on a drug that might get prescribed to them? (ignoring the distinction between different branches of the psych field here, they never know the difference)
These are all things that get parroted to kids. We've seen the rising resurgence of gender essentialism, we've SEEN the rise of neo-nazi-ism, and TERFdom, and all these extremist views and movements and they ALL originate in the exact same place.
"What does that have to do with drugs?"
It's the same story. They're dismissed, they're disdained, they're not treated as equal living and learnign human beings. They are TOLD but they are not EDUCATED and they aren't treated with the kind of respect that leads them to think that they can even believe adults when they ARE being taught.
That neglect will be filled, whether by ideological groups preying on the vulnerable or by drugs or something else.
And here we meet our villain. We see society tossing the children away... and a man profiting off their despair. A CEO of a pharmaceutical company, even. Though, that's not really revealed until a few pages later.
... I'm so obsessed with this page you guys have no idea.
Our villain could have been a foreigner, a slumlord, a stereotypical drug kingpin, but it's not. It's a man with an abundance of wealth and a pristine reputation. A man so well known that he's on TV.
Denny O'Niel may or may not have known about the deliberate efforts to put drugs into black communities and prosecute them for them, but he clearly did see that the root of the issue was NOT someone among them, but something that someone else who could exploit them was bringing down to them.
Bringing this back to the dismissal of the youth and Roy's voice being the single-most important one in the story. Roy explicitly states that he only made it because he had support. Kicking a habit when you're on your own isn't impossible, but it's sure as hell not that far off. And, as I've mentioned, going "cold turkey" can also be deadly.
Now, yes, we have managed to create pharmaceuticals that can be useful for getting people off the harder drugs, and sometimes you can even find it for fairly "cheap"... but in our current day and age I don't think I should have to explain how predatory "Big Pharma" (and the health insurance industry) tends to be for those who have a need.
Like many things these days, even something like a rehab center is an industry - largely for profit, and the ones that aren't are often religiously and ideologically motivated. Even THOSE have issues that many result in incredibly dehumanizing conditions. (I was trying to find an article I read a while back including a few interviews from people discussing the conditions and treatment they faced while in rehab to link here, but I can't seem to find it. Must've gotten lost in all my other links and bookmarks.)
Despite there being places online you can look for how to spot a bad rehab center, the fact that these places will continue to exist with bad treatment methods and a complete lack of regulation and many people fall prey to them especially because they don't know to look for this stuff remains. Even still, and this particular one might be a bit outdated, It's not fully understood how best to treat addiction, especially since the one thing we do know of for absolute certain is that it has to be judged on a case-by-case basis. Though there have been good outcomes recently using MORE.
Social stigma and discrimination Including in media and news journalism plays a huge role in perpetuating these systems. And most people have this mentality of thinking it can be "cured", rather than being a chronic disorder with a management system. Here's another page discussing addiction treatments. Have I made my point yet?
My point is that this comic only reads as war on drugs propaganda if you're only listening to Ollie, who is FREQUENTLY being challenged on this throughout the entire arc by every person around him. Ollie in this is someone who has heard and fully bought into the propaganda, despite being a good person who typically tries to help those in need, He Is Not Immune To Propaganda.
There is a reason that this comic starts with a statement emphasizing that the story is about humans being mistreated, and ends with Roy calling Ollie out.
Ollie comes away from this with a changed perspective. It's not outright stated at this point but it's strongly implied because of how proud he is at the end there, and the ways he tries to repair his relationship with Roy down the line without (mostly) being too overbearing.
I would definitely say the worst part of this comic is that the solution our "hero" (Roy) uses is going cold turkey, which is a miserable, godawful, and dangerous experience. I will allow some forgiveness because it's likely that better addiction treatments weren't well understood back then.
So, in conclusion, Denny O'Neil is not without faults, but if you're issue with his works are "He wrote one of the most human-focused anti-drug propaganda pieces of his time, if not also compared to a lot of our time as well" or "He incorporated a lot of social justice topics into his comics" then I genuinely think you need to reevaluate yourself. Maybe he's a little heavy-handed with it, but have you SEEN people's reading comprehension even TODAY?
Sometimes a heavy hand reminding you that other people are human too, and you need to face the "ugliness" of our society and how it treats them and how YOU treat and think about them is the kind of kick in the ass people need.
I'm not even mad that they used Roy, because nobody is above addiction - not even a hero. It doesn't ruin him, because addicts aren't ruined. It's interesting and dynamic. If later writers take this history and write dehumanizing storyline that frame Roy as the villain of his own addiction, that's their biases, not the original story.
Anyways, ending this on my favorite moment that's not fully relevant but not irrelevant, from Justice League of America (2006) #7:
#dc#green arrow#green lantern#speedy#oliver queen#hal jordan#roy harper#Dinah Lance#Black Canary#<- I debated tagging her but she's in some of the panels.#I don't heavily discuss her role here but it's very important to me nonetheless.#Mashing Meta Bones With Axel#Fuck it I'll post it now.#I considered adding more links#But I gotta go to work
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