A Realignment

Sep. 18th, 2025 10:40 pm
babbling_bookends: Collage of covers from various Marvel Comics, including Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and others (Comics)
[personal profile] babbling_bookends

DC Comics took action against Gretchen Felker Martin, unjustly firing her; now I am taking action against DC Comics, in the only way that I, a lone consumer, can: by cancelling my subscriptions for DC Comics books.

Read more... )



TL;DR: DC's bigotry and transphobia has led me to cancel purchasing comics from the publisher; additionally the celebratory attitude from people in the DC Comics fandom towards the cancellation of Red Hood has made me reconsider my presence in these spaces.

What's Next? & a Thank You! )

September 10th 2025 Comic Pulls

Sep. 12th, 2025 08:05 pm
babbling_bookends: Collage of covers from various Marvel Comics, including Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and others (Comics)
[personal profile] babbling_bookends
Two pulls this week and both of them beginnings: for B&R the start of a new arc, and for Red Hood the start of the new series! (kinda)

Batman and Robin 25 )

Red Hood 1 )

Notes )

Dear FFFX Author

Sep. 11th, 2025 04:07 pm
beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (Default)
[personal profile] beatrice_otter
I use the same name everywhere so I am [personal profile] beatrice_otter on AO3. Treats are awesome.

I would rather get a story you were happy with than "well, she said she liked x, so I guess I have to do x even though I don't like x and/or am not inspired that way." This letter is long with lots of suggestions and preferences if you find it helpful, but feel free to ignore it if it is not helpful. I'm fairly easy to please; I've been doing ficathons for over a decade and am usually very happy with my gifts.

The most important thing for me in a fic is that the characters are well-written and recognizably themselves. Even when I don't like a character, I don't go in for character-bashing. If nothing else, if the rest of this letter is too much or my kinks don't fit yours, just concentrate on writing a story with everyone in character and good spelling and grammar and I will almost certainly love what you come up with.

I have an embarrassment squick, which makes humor kind of hit-or-miss sometimes. The kind of humor where someone does something embarrassing and the audience is laughing at them makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, the kind of humor where the audience is laughing with the characters I really enjoy.

General Likes and Dislikes

other things to keep in mind:
  • I like stuff that takes side characters and puts them center-stage, especially when the characters and/or actors are marginalized. I enjoy seeing them come to life.
  • I don't like it when marginalized characters get relegated to the sidekick/supporting/helper role so that it can be All About The White Dude.
  • I like it when female characters are more than just the Strong Female Character(tm) or The Nurturer.
  • I like fluff
  • I like angst with a happy ending
  • I like stories that make me think about things in a new way.
  • I like to know that culture matters to people, and to see how different cultures interact and where the clashes are.
  • I like unreliable narrators.
  • I like acknowledgment that different people can have different points of view without either of them being wrong.
  • I like stories that engage with problematic aspects of the source, and which deal with privilege in one way or another instead of sweeping it under the rug.
  • Worldbuilding is my jam, I am pretty much always up for explorations of why the world is the way it is. I love hearing about the economics, the politics, the religion, the clothing, the history, the folklore, all of that kind of stuff. And I want to know why it matters--how is all this cultural background stuff affecting the characters, the plot, everything. You don't have to do deep worldbuilding, but I'll enjoy it if you do.
  • I don't like it when plots hinge on characters being selectively stupid, or selectively unable to communicate. Like, if they are stupid or a himbo or whatever in general, or have problems communicating in general, that's fine! Or if they canonically have a blind spot in that area, again, it's fine. But if it's just "the only way I can think of for this plot to work is if the character spontaneously and temporarily loses half their intelligence and competence," then I'm going to spend the rest of the fic wondering why the character didn't just ____?
  • I like AUs, but not complete setting AUs (i.e. no highschool or college or coffee shop AUs, and especially not mundane AUs--nothing where you keep characters but drop most of the worldbuilding). I like fork-in-the-road type AUs, where one thing is different and the changes all result from that one thing, and you explore what might have been if such-and-such happened.
  • I like the concept of sedoretu marriages.
  • I like historical AUs, but only when the author actually knows the history period in question and does thoughtful worldbuilding to meld actual culture of the time with the canon.
  • Crackfic is really hit and miss for me, sometimes I love it and sometimes I can't stand it. Basically, if it's the characters we know and love in a ludicrous situation, that's great. If they're OOC or parodied in order to make something funny ... it's not funny to me.
I like plotty, gen stories, and plotty stories in general. I don't care for explicit sex, particularly when it's just thrown in for teh porn. I'm asexual; a lot of the time I don't even bother to read the sex scenes. Romance is awesome (as long as both are in character and the romantic plot doesn't hinge on one or both of them being an idiot). I love it when friendship is held up as important and not secondary to romantic relationships and blood ties.

Please no incest or darkfic. I define "darkfic" as stuff where there's a lot of suffering and no hope even at the end and all the characters are terrible. Angst with a happy ending is fine, I enjoy it, but there's gotta be a payoff. Even an ambiguous ending is fine! But there has to be some note of grace or redemption or hope somewhere, it can't just be "people are awful and the world sucks, the end." I define incest as siblings and/or parents, cousins don't count.

I love outsider perspectives and academic takes on things. In-universe meta (newspaper articles, academic monographs--especially with the sort of snarky feuding common in actual real-world academia, social media feeds in current day or future worlds) is awesome.

Also, I'm picky about European historical clothing details. You don't have to talk about it at all! In fact, if you don't know much about historical clothing, I would prefer if you didn't mention it at all. My pet peeve is corsets: no, they weren't a restrictive tool of the patriarchy, no, they didn't interfere with most women's daily lives, no, most women weren't wearing them so tight they couldn't breathe.

I like religion but I'm picky about it. Basically, Christianity is deeply weird compared to most other religions, and a lot of people whose only experience with religion is living in a culturally-Christian nation assume that what they know about Christianity is some sort of universal principle of What Religion Is Like, and that's just not the case. For example, in Christianity what you believe is more important than what you do. This is not to say we Christians don't teach and practice Christian ethics or have rituals we are very attached to, but rather that if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, it doesn't matter what rituals you participate in or what ethical things you do, you are not a Christian (although you may be a "cultural Christian"). Every Christian group has at least a minimal core theology that members must affirm, but participation in ritual is far less rigidly a requirement. Most other religions rank what you do (both ethically and ritually) as more important than what you believe, and it is often quite possible to be a member in good standing if you participate in the practices and rituals even if you believe none of the teachings. Anyway, point is, if you are doing worldbuilding for a fantasy or SF or otherwise non-Christian religion ... unless it is explicitly a Christian-analogue, it should be different from Christianity. Question your assumptions and see where that leads you, and I will be fascinated and thrilled.


Fandom for Robots )

Peter Wimsey )

Rivers of London )

DS9 )

TOS )

TNG )

Oh, My General )

Thrawn Trilogy )

Goblin Emperor )

September 3rd 2025 Comic Pulls

Sep. 6th, 2025 08:42 pm
babbling_bookends: Collage of covers from various Marvel Comics, including Captain America, Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and others (Comics)
[personal profile] babbling_bookends
Three pulls this week; I keep track of all my pulls on League of Comic Geeks, but there must have been an error on there with the release date for Birds of Prey, because when I made my September Pulls list, Birds of Prey #25 was scheduled for the next week (which I thought was odd because it's usually with Batgirl, but I just assumed there was some kind of delay). However, it seems like the issue has been released, given that other people have picked up their physical issues and it's out digitally. (Though I don't actually have any phsical copies yet; I read the issues online because I didn't have a chance to stop at my LCS this week). Not sure what happened there, I'm guessing there was a mistake with the release date on LoCG.

Spoilers ahead!

Batgirl )

Birds of Prey )

Cheetah and Cheshire )

Notes )

(no subject)

Sep. 7th, 2025 09:58 pm
queenslayerbee: Mia Dearden winking and making finger guns with both hands. (mia dearden (dc comics))
[personal profile] queenslayerbee
Picture of brown leaves on a tree. It features the hashtag "a Speedy Equinox" in white letters in the centre, surrounded by a faint silhouette of the circles of a red and yellow dartboard.

FIFTEEN DAYS TILL MIA DEARDEN DAY

We welcome all sorts of fanworks, of any length, form or shape. You're encouraged to post anything and everything pertaining Mia's character and, if you want it reblogged here, feel free to @ us or tag your posts with #aSpeedyEquinox.

➶➶➶


Profile

sasheneskywalker: (Default)
sashene

September 2025

S M T W T F S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930    

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Sep. 21st, 2025 02:14 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios