Just saying Dick’s tendency to put random evidence in his mouth to determine what it is must've been such a pain for Bruce when he was a baby Robin. It probably prompted many panicked calls to Leslie about whether Dick was going to die.
Gordon: "I've sent a sample to the crime lab, do you want one? Hopefully, we can figure it--"
Dick: "It's Drops. Cut with dexamisole."
Gordon, staring at the bag again: "Oh. Thanks, how do you know that?"
Bruce: "Spit it out. Right now."
yeah yeah carbon nanotubes. but what about the copper nanotubes.
I bet you'd need some high quality copper for that huh?
not again you mesopotamian son of a bitch
things that are enjoyable:
things that are not enjoyable:
The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)
The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.
Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.
*broadly defined
schrödinger's flirting. i mean it as much as you do
I feel like a lot of people who haven’t read Green Arrow 2001 don’t realise how important the speedy title is to Mia Dearden. She isn’t speedy because she’s a young Green Arrow sidekick and that’s just what they’re called. Her being speedy isn’t even about Green Arrow at all.
It’s about her looking up to Roy Harper. She sees in Roy someone who went through hell like her and came out stronger as a hero, a leader, and a friend. And grounded ‘everyday’ hell rather than the time loops and supervillain abductions that normally effect heroes.
(the art here is very questionable but the dialogue is important)
Because Green Arrow didn’t need Speedy. Mia Dearden needed Speedy. Someone who helped her feel that no matter what she’d been through, no matter what her HIV status is, she could be a hero.
Comics come in issues because that's what they give you.
Asian women are the strongest characters in DC and I don't just mean Cass and Shiva I mean in general if you exist as a nonwhite female character there's a 90% chance that DC is going to pull some weird racist sexualised shit and destroy your character to prop up some white man or boy due to the writer's personal fantasy. And the fans will be like wow that character is so evil for throwing themselves at this man and seducing him because they definitely have agency and aren't written that way by a male writer who views it as a power fantasy.
And sometimes they're ocs created solely to be these racist sexual caricatures and sometimes they're established characters who get massacred to become these racist sexual caricatures but if you're an Asian woman in a DC comic it's most likely going to happen to you and it'll be wrapped up in like 5 different layers of orientalism where the writer thinks you're evil and naturally inclined to be hypersexual due to being an Asian woman and obviously the virtuous white man can't give in to your temptations but the writer totally thinks it's hot so he'll write you coming onto him anyways.
Best case scenario you have a solid fanbase and clearly defined previously established character that you end up like Cass where you're heavily derailed as a character by the racist sexist bullshit but fight your way back to being treated with respect again. Worst case scenario is either being one of the ocs that only exists in the context of this terrible writing so anything interesting that exists within your character will barely ever be addressed by anyone OR you get character assassinated so badly they're still trying to put the pieces back together. If any white male DC character went through what happened to Talia Al Ghul the uproar would define DC for years. It's happening over at marvel with spiderman on like a 10th of the scale. Batman and his fanbase would not last five seconds if he was in their shoes like the fact that some of the best characters from that racist comics company are Asian women is a fucking miracle given all the odds that are stacked against them since day one of character conception.
