#has it been a year?? idk it was either like this past sept/oct or the previous years' lol

[zwei-rhunen]

hmm, maybe there's yet a use for my tomestones after all

[ufonaut]

Idk if its been completely comfirmed but i read an article about the gl series for hbomax and theres nothing about hal being in the series + the suspicious and recent pattern of comics sidelining hal gives me the very "oh no."

On top of that everything with teen lantern and even simon and jessica (for the hbo series) kinda make me believe theyre trying to push for a new gl "look" so to speak but to me it feels like the same thing with "whos gonna become the next batman?" Or with a new member of the superfamily but instead of having a established story or strong support for "passing down the cape" or whatever its a new person entirely and that honestly it just doesn't work with green lantern and if it did theres plenty of creative room with alien races like i dont see any of this really working out in the long run if thats what they're trying to pull with gl

Even with batman and superman it always goes back to bruce and clark and there's plenty of dynamic with hal to keep him as a present figure in gl, theres literally no substance outside of earth with the new lanterns nor do they have really any traction with lantern relations within their own corp or enemies like hal has with sinestro or the commentary about ethics/morality of law enforcing IN SPACE or literally how the guardians are inherently war criminals etc etc like i know im rambling but i feel like you would understand hence why im typing this because ive been sitting on this all day and tbh four human lanterns was more than enough like to the other human lanterns please leave the room its full

everytime i hear anything about the recent human lanterns im just like :/// where's the weight, the quality, like they keep looking forward but theres so much room for things they looked over on the past like give me more about kilowog or abin sur like please god who thought itd be cool to have a teen lantern like did they even think past "lets try to get as much representation with no substance into this all the while ignoring the opprotunities that this long loved dc hero has within its world of thousands of alien races, lantern corps, social/political intricacies, and hal jordan <3

1) i thought asks had a word limit

2) BUD WHERE HAVE U BEEN!!!!!!!!!!! the good folks at ufonaut hq (me) have been following hbo gl since its initial announcement in either sept or oct last year and hal has literally never been part of the plan, he & john are both being saved for the upcoming glc movie. that’s a fact that’s been said repeatedly in various statements from both hbo and dc, if you’d cared to listen

hbo gl seems focused on untold stories and literally every element of it is a dream come true to me. i can’t complain about the human - alien ratio of the cast because it’s nearly equal (alan, guy, jess & simon -- unnamed alien female lead, sinestro, abin & kilowog), the non-linear storytelling and every episode being set in a different time period is genuinely innovative AND. NOT TO MENTION. WE’RE GETTING THE FIRST LIVE ACTION ALAN SCOTT? WHO’S ALSO GONNA BE CANONICALLY GAY? DO YOU REALISE HOW HUGELY IMPORTANT THAT IS. DO YOU REALISE.

i’m sorry i get what you’re saying about feeling like hal is being sidelined and i’m assuming you know how i feel about the new gls & the guardians situation but as a fan of alan scott. i have to laugh. the original green lantern has literally been repeatedly erased or forgotten or cast aside so i don’t think you can really claim a character coming off a very successful solo run (that had two seasons and an interlude!) is being sidelined

i agree with you about certain aspects, definitely, but i would rather have hal in fewer stories that are actually meaningful & complex rather than have him as the no personality space cop he’s been written as for the vast majority of the modern era (with the sole exception of...last stories of the dc universe). my problem isnt necessarily the introduction of new lanterns but rather, like you said, the lack of substance & weight. i’m ecstatic to see a sinestro story without hal in hbo gl specifically because he IS a sufficiently developed character capable of carrying it by himself.

a lot of representation in current comics does feel empty and it is disappointing but, from a purely canon pov, hal is a straight white man and the most popular green lantern in the universe. he’s never gonna be lacking in appearances. i love him dearly, i do, but complaining about content like hbo gl when it’s giving us something as absolutely immense as gay alan scott in the 1940s simply isnt the way to go

when it comes to wildly mainstream characters like hal & the rest of the jl -- characters who’ve become synonymous with their superhero identities and who have starred in every story in existence -- my stance is mostly what mr keith giffen used to say in his columns at wizard mag dot com

[ivanaxoelle]

jan 06

today was definitely filled with up and some downs with a mix of pms (lol i hate to reinforce stereotypes but i think it’s also why i’m kinda sensitive for the past few days)

in the few days leading up to today, there was a rumor going around in school about a teacher. i am not going to disclose it anytime soon as i really do think that the teacher deserves the privacy she has the right to have, but all i am going to say is that the rumor caught between my friends as some of them were directly involved in making this rumor known across the entire year, quickly to half of the school, and now even to people outside of school. until i knew about how the entire situation came down, leading up to the teachers also getting involved; (very immature, i know) i didn’t think it was a major issue. until after the teacher expressed herself crystal-clear that she wasn’t happy with this (which should be expected, but seems like the people who were involved didn’t realize?? if your personal life got mixed up into your school/work life and people you barely knew knew this fact about you, you would be pissed too) i took it upon myself and made this known between my friends to directly apologize to said teacher and explained why this was a clear invasion of privacy, as knowing the fact is already an violation, but to have the guts and such decency to “expose” her by posting a picture of it between people on online chats that turned to a school gossip was absolutely beyond me and needless to say, extremely disrespectful and potentially harming to both the person the rumor is about, and your reputation. luckily, it wasn’t as dramatic as i make it out to be, but it could’ve been worse is what i’m saying. having experienced a very similar privacy invasion, i feel very personal to issue when i’m not even associated with it at all? idk i just had massive empathy to the teacher to the point i wanted to write up an email or even write a godd a m n letter to her. it’s now the weekend(as i’m writing this, i forgot to post this yesterday and i ceebs to edit the tenses, sorry) and i hope my friend apologized to her like she promised me.

anyway (sorry4thelongtext) our cas week allocations came out and my first choice got cancelled. basically, for those who have no clue what i am on about, each year’s sept-oct, my school has a week called cas week - creativity, action, service in long form - where class is suspended for at least 5 days where students participate in activities that they choose from the brochure (options are chosen half a year before the actual cas week, but the options consists of activities either in the local area or abroad/overseas) as the year i was choosing for was my last cas week, i decided to go overseas and choose cambodia; as it would be a great experience to volunteer, teaching children and help build the school they study in. needless to say, my other friend who also chose the same as me were very pumped to do something that we’ve always wanted to do and (i can finally tick it off my bucketlist :p) give back by helping others in need. when we checked our allocations after submitting our options (we had to choose 3 options), it turned out that the trip had too little participants and got cancelled. bummed. i ended up being allocated to iceland (my 2nd option) but had very conflicted about going. sure, it would be a great trip, but it seemed like a choice i could’ve made myself easily. there was no way that my parents would let me go to cambodia alone anytime soon where as for iceland ...

either way, i came to terms with it and now i’m pumped to go to iceland! (very excited to film and take pictures there, will definitely post when i get there!) though it will be during sept 2017 so it’s a long wait haha

(anyway, here’s pics from the walk to the train station at around 5-6 after going to the gym.)