i want to be in the dc fandom and learn about the characters and stuff. whats the best way to do this without comics bc its really hard for me to find them? unless there are sites you have. and which characters do you reccomend i read on? im so sorry lmao i just love this and i want to know more about them. thank you so much! i love your blog ❤️
1. wikia & comicvine
there are a fewvery handy dc databasesthat basically have explanations about nearly all events, issues and characters released by DC so far. they naturally don’t include every little tiring detail but they do have everything you need to know or might have missed. whenever you have time, just relax and simply skim through every character you’re interested in. i suggest comicvine a tad bit more because the format is easier on the eyes and they have labels about every comic age the character has been in, so you can choose where you wanna start. it’s not the absolute best way to find out about the characters’ interactions and relationships (given it’s hard even when you’re reading the actual comics), but you can get a decent grasp of what’s going on as to not get completely lost whenever a shitpost about DC usually by me starts circulating tumblr
2. if you’re a DC employer, don’t look, this is just my grandma’s tomato soup recipe
melt the butter in a large pot or dutch oven. throw in the onion and cook until translucent. now dump in the diced tomatoes and let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way, it’s time you became a pirate, let your parents down, proclaimed your life as an internet criminal. good chance the CIA won’t hire you but that’s okay, you’d most likely get fired after you bored all your co-workers with too many useless comic book facts. you can safely download whatever you want using this site. it’s ultra understandable that not everyone has 1. the means, 2. the money, 3. the means to give the money. it is however super important to remember to support the creators and buy comics when you can because that way they can buy food which will make them less cranky which in turn results in less awful storylines
3. please don’t listen to me
i suggest you start with batman, and before people come ganging up on me that of course i’d suggest batman: you’re right. you fucking know me, why wouldn’t you expect this. aside from my fascination with the human personification of an onion wearing black tights, the reason i want to suggest batman is that he’s essentially a crossroads characters. he interacts with a lot of other DC heroes so you can start getting interested in the rest of the DCU after you’ve began reading batman comics (or.. bang your head against a wall. that works). there are a hell of a lot batman comics so here’s a reading guide if you want the help. if you couldn’t give even approximately two additional fucks for bruce wayne, come to me and i’ll dig up a reading list for the character you’re interested in
last but not least: take everything you read with a grain of salt. you’ll soon realize you need to have your own canon version of all the events that happen in comics when it comes to companies like Marvel and DC because writers don’t care about continuity as much as they should. if something doesn’t make sense, there’s a good chance it doesn’t make sense to anyone. like… i’m being as literal as i can get here. you’re not alone, we’re all pretending we understand what’s happening
What the HydraCap fiasco has proven to me is that, with a few exceptions, superhero comics these days are written by white goy dudebros for white goy dudebros who don’t quite understand that they have a bigger audience than that, whose emotional attachments to characters and stories might be based on something other than edgy moral ambiguity and violent splash panels. Some people read these stories for hope.
Poison Ivy’s plants gave birth to plant/human children
Stephanie Brown faked her death and moved to Africa with an older woman
Scarecrow turned into a literal monster. It was called the Scarebeast and Penguin kept him as a pet
Everyone is Clayface
Rainbow Batman
Batman punched a talking shark in the face. And body-slammed a bear
the joker fell in love with dinah lance (black canary)
batman got visited by an alien batman from the planet zur-en-arrh
batman got erased from existence except he didn’t he actually got sent back to the stone age before slipping into other eras and living as a pirate, a cowboy and a witch-hunter
Don’t forget my personal favorite
Batman was Jim Gordon for a bit and he hunted a flower delivery man who looked like the slender man and sold seeds that gave you superpowers
A few more:
Jason Todd turned into a tentacle monster and started eating a person
Batman knew Sid Vicious when he was young and stayed with him for a few weeks. After Bruce left, Sid “turned his predatory hunger” to Nancy, which eventually led to her death, and thats why Batman hates rock music.
(Also from the same comic as the previous one: Two-Face listens to ABBA)
Batman turned into a toddler and Robin had to take care of him
Also from the above comic: all the inmates of Arkham Asylum enjoy rock and roll and Batman thinks this proves it is Evil. He took a young Dick Grayson to Arkham and threw him in with the inmates to try and scare him away from listening to it
There is a crimefighting cow who is part of the Bat-family called Bat Cow
The leader of the Secret Society of Supervillains was Alfred Pennyworth from Earth 3 who was literally a supervillain and he nearly destroyed the entire earth and killed the Justice League
Batman once fought an evil ancestor who claimed to be his father, Satan and a billionaire movie producer and who tried to plant proof that Thomas and Martha Wayne were abusive nymphomaniac coke fiends and battled Batman with a Club of Villains made up of weird stereotypes from all over the world
One of these was a man called El Sombrero who made his living designing death traps for less imaginative supervillains and another was a killer mime from France
and, of course, anti-dc shit, even tho making green lantern a murderer and cap a NAZI are 2 different things…basically semi-acknowledging his actions are wrong but saying ‘look, DC did it on a less offensive level!’(EVEN THO PPL WERE ACTUALLY PISSED ABOUT THAT STORYLINE TOO)
and claiming that ppl are unfairly treating dc rebirth better…
France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.
please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please
Listen. I love my followers and my mutuals dearly. You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’? I’m talking about this shit. I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time. Please stop ignoring this. This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.
This is the first I’ve heard of this, and I’m flabbergasted! If you go and read the article it’s even worse; “anti-Jewish violence is seven times higher than in the 1990s, and 40% of racist violence is against Jews, despite them making up just 1% of the population.” I mean, holy crap! I know Tumblr is very US-centric but this definitely needs to be heard about!!
i’ll have you know that this ask dumped me into a crisis where from now on this is the only acceptable way for me to draw superboy, i hope ur proud of urself
damian: *is being nice and gentle to the enemy, gives a whole speech about it, makes him see his mistake, tells him he is more than just a pawn in his father’s game, makes him correct his mistakes*
me: damian, i am so proud of you i love you you have come so far
I think as a culture we have all forgotten that fandom is supposed to be fun.
It’s not that serious.
It was never supposed to be that serious.
Especially since most of the drama and hurt revolves around shipping.
All of the ships are fictional. Being canon doesn’t actually negate the fact that the ship isn’t real.
No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.
It’s not that serious.
“No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.”
I’ve had the misfortune of encountering some people who really, really, really need this drilling into their skulls.
“No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly.”
i’m not kidding when i say this is going to be hell for amber heard. like every woman who comes forward about domestic abuse, there will be a bias against her but one that is amplified so much more by her position in the limelight and depp’s career. she will be dragged every day in the press and accused of all kinds of things by twitter and mocked on websites and people would rather joke about it than support her vocally but she needs to know she has support right now. she is a young woman accusing an older man of something people would rather laud than address, please give her your support.
she filed her evidence and restraining order today. the police had to be called to their home on saturday and, according to the source, it’s not the first time something like this has happened. this is disgusting behavior from a man that she placed her heart and her trust in. the way that this is already being handle by depp is gross, already he has come out on the defense and has said that he will not address any ‘salacious gossip, false stories or lies about his personal life’.
already, he is setting her up in the traditional way that media view women who come forward about domestic abuse: as an attention seeking liar. already, he is setting her up to fall.
we need to believe amber heard and we need to stand with her through this. every account anyone has of her it’s that she is a kind and genuine person; she deserves better.
i stand with amber heard.
And if anyone tries to tell you that this is somehow some falsified made up story, remind them how infrequently domestic abuse accusations are fake. Remind them that two extremely high-profile people are involved and that Amber Heard is risking her entire career and putting her ass on the line so that she can stand up to her abuser.
If they say “well, he’s never done anything like this before,” remind them that nobody believed Bill Cosby had for his entire beloved life and career, either.
I stand with Amber Heard.
remember that people gave her shit and call her a whore and a gold digger for “daring” to file for divorce three days after his mother died, despite the fact that it was later revealed that she filed because he threw a phone at her face after he came home high and drunk and she decided she’d had enough and didn’t deserve to be treated like that
remember that Depp’s camp started the smear campaign immediately, trying to imply that her “bisexual nature” and “lesbian friends” ruined their marriage
remember that Amber Heard had to show up in court with bruises on her face and literally tell the world that her husband hits her regularly despite knowing that she would be immediately vilified for it
and remember that Johnny Depp does not deserve to be defended just because he made some movies that you like or helped an old lady with her hearing aids
