#i am seething to write about how part of tma fandom treats trauma in a way that contradicts Jonny's explict intent

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I think people have a weird absolutist view of the whole concept of cannon in DC, either the cannon is the only thing that matters or it doesn't matter at all.

But that is such a weird way to view a complicated concept. The history of the characthers and what they mean/meant and what they are/were is important and we need to discuss it on these merits. We need to understand how the Al Ghus are and have been used as negative steriotypes or why certain things are absolutly necessary to a characther. When reading a comic we need to understand what in the past of that characther lead to the point we are now.

But the thing is when something has lasted as long as comics have and been writen by so many people it is impossible to not see this characthers less like people and more like concepts. And DC just endorsed it with the omniverse (wich actually just creates so many plot holes it's fucking insane). As someone who read a lot of Silver Age, there's a reason this characthers were rebooted.

When I talk about the separation from cannon is not because the writers don't matter or because the histories could mean anything. But because they matter. Because Gal Simone meant something different than Ed Bones when writing the Birds of Prey comics. And while both influenciate cannon in different ways their versions are separated. I don't think nothing has meaning but that all has meaning. It's not that there is no cannon but that there's multiple cannons and you can and should be able to nitpick it on your head.

It's because anyone with enough talent - on theory - could be a DC writer and while I might disagree with how they see the characther, while they might just miss the point and write something that's so clearly not Batman, not Wonder Woman, not Booster Gold, what they wrote is now cannon and we have to discuss it like it is even if in our head it isn't. And that implies discussing their versions as their versions. To see it separate from other writers. Batman didn't do that. Frank Miller's Batman did that.

P.S: this is like absolutly my own opinion I'm open to hear other points of view and to be wrong.