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My general observation as a long-time Star Wars fan is that people whose favorite Star Wars movie is Return of the Jedi tend to rank The Last Jedi as either their least favorite or second-least favorite SW movie. Meanwhile people whose favorite Star Wars property is KOTOR generally liked The Last Jedi and rank it near the top of their tier lists
Every cover or panel where the Bat Family is togetherĀ
(not pictured: the current authorās OC whoāll disappear as soon as the creative team is changed, Harley Quinn for some reason)
If the sender of this ask really wants be anal abt Barb originating the Batgirl mantle, thatās already a pretty moot point considering Bette Kane was the OG. The false dichotomy presented here of āyou must hate Barb if you donāt want her as Batgirl againā is justā¦wha? Sheās gotten decades of material as Oracle, a character that provided really key rep to disabled heroes. There have also been 2 other Batgirls in that time, so her resuming that mantle is as much of a detriment to Cass and Steph as it is to her. Itās pure regression as her resuming her status as Batgirl has led to almost 0 interesting stories. And ironically? The people who point it out more are some of the characterās biggest fans. Honestly, to the sender if they see this? Next time just say youāre willing to kick down other characters so that Barb can be in a costume and shut up.
Ppl on t*kT0k about to get all these scan comic sites to shut down yāall r such pricks
Did yāall not see what happened with Zlibrary??? Do you guys not know what internet gatekeeping isš
The entire discussion about pirating comics is fucking stupid cause comics now are like 10$ a fucking issue and if u were to buy every single thing u wanted thatās like 50$+ a month for comics probably more if youāre into other companies and indies not everyone can spend that I legit buy like 1 or 2 issues and it has to b titles I really really like
The other side is how many countries donāt offer the same things like in USA/Canada/UK a lot of comic fans wait for MONTHS just to get a comic issue and Dc universe doesnāt give a much pleasant option Iād pirate too if I was in another country the fuck!?
The other part is how rare/expensive old comics are and also can be used for archiving god knows DC doesnāt even have a proper archivist Iād rather allow comic sites to give ppl access to easily read vintage comics which legit grows in popularity and gets ppl to buy them
Iām always for supporting creators and artists but it seems stupid especially in our internet age to still be complaining about pirating, I buy digitally and then with trades for physical but damn sometimes weāre just poor

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Want to get āthoughtsā out at some point outta like, curiosity and the funzies, and Iāve been in thought abt Batmanās no kill rule
Obviously Iām of the frame of mind that he shouldnāt kill for the funnies, nor maim or torture or so on. Punisher is the standard character dressed in black with a trigger finger. But I do find myself interested in the weird little exceptions, like accidents. Maybe different origins for the rule too.
Maybe Bruce did let someone die in his early year or so, maybe on his world tour of training. Heās so wrought and wrapped up in his pain at this point that itās not implausible it would happen (if handled with a certain grace ofc), but afterwards it eats at him afterwards. Always. To him, all human life is now eternally equal. Thatās 100% his greatest strength as a hero, but itās also a somewhat interesting flaw. Not in the sense of āgrow a pair, do what has to be doneā kind of way, especially as no one man should play judge, jury, and executioner to Gothamās dregs. Especially as some of them are people suffering from mental illness and have a chance to change their ways and become better. But thereās definitely a pitfall to the idea that someone like Victor Zsaszās life is just as valuable as slippin little Jimmyās, and to an extent, Bruce knows that. But he just canāt allow any one person to die under his watch. Thereās too much potential for something good, and he canāt bring himself to be equated w/a guy like the mugger that killed his parents.
Heck, you could argue thatās kinda of what sets him apart from other heroes that donāt really like killing. His trauma has just got the guy so hardwired that he canāt bring himself to end any human life. No matter what.
So, lately I've been finding myself feeling... annoyed with very modern reimaginings of Greek myths being presented as like the "secretly TRUE versions of the myths before they were warped by the patriarchy."
Like, I don't really have an issue with #GirlBoss Persephone retellings (even if I find them a bit tired because they so often have to rely on villifying Demeter to do so.) But to act like that very modern interpretation of the character and story has any basis in the classical sources is just untrue, and it is frustrating because it refuses to engage with the difficult or uncomfortable aspects of stories that are 3000 years old. It refuses to engage with the cultural differences and history of these stories that still find ways to speak to us today. Instead it just seeks to sanitize and erase the bits that don't fit into our modern sensibilities.
But the one that *really* gets me is Medusa. Because as modern audiences, the idea that Medusa being turned into a monster was *punishment* by Athena for being *raped* by Poseidon is really upsetting. And I've seen people legitimately try to say that *actually* Athena would never do that. Athena was actually *protecting* Medusa by making her a monster so that she wouldn't be assaulted again. #feminism
But HERES THE THING- the entire idea that Medusa was transformed by Athena after being raped? COMES FROM FUCKING OVID.
(Ovid is a Roman writer who HEAVILY REIMAGINED the Greek myths in Metamorphoses because he was working with a Roman world view and political agenda.)
All EARLIER classical (and actually Greek) sources have Medusa being *born a Gorgon.* (whether the Gordons as a rule are beautiful or monsterous varies, and Hesoid does mention in the Theogny that Poseidon and Medusa had a thing, but he doesn't describe it as rape. But that they "lay in a meadow of soft flowers", and theres no description of her being transformed because of this.)
So like.
No.
no.
Obviously, the idea that there is some "true" Canon Orthodox version of these myths just...isn't true. That's just not how that worked.
But no. There is no classical support for any of that.
Thanks.
Side note- speaking of myths that have Athena just wildly lashing out at people- Ovid also may have just... invented the myth of Arachne.
We have 1 reference to Arachne that predates Ovid, from Virgil (Also Roman), and he doesn't name her. "The spider, hateful to Minerva, hangs in the doorway her loose-woven nets."
There is no surviving earlier Greek references or even Greek art depicting Arachne at all, at least that I can find reference to. š¤·āāļø
Which, again, there is no "Greek Mythology Orthodoxy" or anything. Buuuuuuut.
So I just want to let yall know how deep of a rabbit hole I have fallen down.
So here is the question- did Ovid, or at least Romans around Ovids time if not Ovid directly, invent the myth of Arachne? Does it have any basis in Greek oral tradition at all?
And the answer seems to be...we have no idea. The lack of art seems particularly weird to me, right?
But like, ok, I found 1 website (a museum IN GREECE) that claims to have 1 vase from 500BCE which depicts the myth of Arachne.
But this is the vase.
Here is a scan of that image
... why has this been identified as Arachne and Athena? One of the women is larger (the one they have identified as Athena) but she doesn't have any of Athenas traditional iconography- the helmet the shield, even an owl. Anything. And why is that Arachne? There's no spiders, and the tapestry isn't detailed enough for illustrations to be seen. Unless I'm missing something, this is just a scene of 2 women weaving. Maybe with some funky proportions. Why not say it is Penelope and one of her slave girls? Or anyone else? Weaving was pretty popular.
But this isn't a well known or well studied piece. And I'm not an archeologist. What do I know?
But having proof of the Arachne myth from a Greek source in 500BCE would be super interesting, yeah?
So. What do you do when you're hyper-fixating at 11:30pm on an unknowable historical question?
I emailed the museum and asked.
I'll let you know if I find anything interesting.
So it's been a few months, and...to the best of my knowledge, this is just where we stand on this.
The museum never got back to me. I posed this question to a classics professor on TikTok who said basically the same thing - the references from Virgil and this specific vase seem to imply that there was *some* version of the myth that existed before Ovid.
But even he was like "...yeah, they are identifying this vase as Arachne but... it seems a bit speculative."
He also added that Arachne having a Greek name, not a Latin one, makes it more likely that Ovid was adapting something rather than just making it up himself (since he otherwise might have just used a Latin name?)
So. Unless someone digs up another villa or temple at some point and finds new evidence.... this is just... the state of things.
Which is kind of frustrating, but still very cool. If anything, it kinda hammers home HOW we, as modern audiences, know about these myths, how much of that tradition has been lost to time, and how we always need to be thoughtful about our sources and what assumptions we make based on them.
Honestly, and I get the irritation with the fandom revisionism that states "This is the real story" because they are trying to present this as an actual history when we don't know, these stories are LIVING stories.
They were invented and retold ALL THE TIME.
We have this tendency to treat ancient myths like a fandom as if there's some canon interpretation and some "true" character of the gods, but really--and this is true even for a living worshipper like myself--the gods are ALLEGORICAL. They represent their domains. The only incorrect interpretation is the one that has them acting against their domains.
A lot of those Zeus stories are actually about the evolution of patriarchal or institutional power, and what the storyteller thinks the proper use of that power is. Meaning sometimes the teller told it as a rape and sometimes the teller told it as a marriage.
The myth of Hades and Persephone is about DEATH and descent into the Underworld, so of COURSE it's terrifying from Persephone's perspective until she comes to terms with it and takes power in her experience. That's nothing about like, Hades as a person, it's that he represents Death and the Underworld and all it's varieties.
And Athena is SO complex here, because yes she represents wisdom but she ALSO represents the ideal woman of influence who is at the side of institutional power. So she can sometimes be righteous but if you're critiquing power she, like Zeus, is someone you're going to want to represent flaws.
And some of those critiques are BAKED in, even if they started as positive aspects. Like no matter what your interpretation of Medusa's story, when you bring Perseus into it you see Athena sacrificing this person to help her brother AND ultimately absorb Medusa's power herself. This means you cannot have a redemptive story of Medusa that spares Athena any embarrassment, because it calls to mind the nature of her death. And I freaking love Medusa and Hermes, but they're at odds here unless you want to make Perseus a thief and a liar. (Which you can, but don't go saying that's the historical story.) But the story as is works, because Hermes and Athena are both upholders of institutional power, and Perseus is basically the little brother getting an internship here.
Arachne can be seen less as a hit piece written by someone with a grudge against Athena as a story told about what happens when someone of little power goes up against someone with big power. No matter what your skill, if you cop an attitude, power is going to find zero use for you.
That is, of course, if you follow the version of Arachne where she gets turned into a spider as punishment. If you are telling the version I originally heard, which is that Athena was incensed but didn't really DO anything, it just scared Arachne so much she tried to hang herself to get away... well, then Athena felt bad and turned her into a spider to save her, and it's a story about mercy.
Ahem, point is... we've lost a LOT, but the original versions of these have been long since lost to time and they've been told and retold in a million allegories. So if someone wants to tell a story of Persephone as an allegory on independence against a smothering parent, or a story of Medusa that sees being ostracized as a blessing... Well, it's every bit as valid as story of Medusa that is flatout about patriarchal women absorbing the power of marginalized women via the actions of their male relatives, or a story about Persephone that is about the sudden, horrifying, dizzying onset of mental illness.
That doesn't mean the retelling is GOOD, mind you, or that the allegory itself tells any underlying truth about the world as we know it. Like, I personally DESPISE the current state of Wonder Woman stories where Zeus is her father and the source of her power because that is saying she gets her power from the GOD OF PATRIARCHAL ORDER. I'm just saying that as a concept modern "try looking at it from THIS angle" tellings are fine and actually a long, proud tradition.
There is no canon for myth*, and anyone who tries to enforce one purely on the idea of accuracy is very mistaken.
*There is, however, cultural sensitivity and cultural appropriation, so don't be an ass and fuck up someone else's gods and heroes**
**And remember, King Arthur was Welsh
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Hi, all!! Iām Stephen! If you know me from Twitter, Iām Straw Hat Stephen over there. Iām not sure how all this works, yet, but Iām in here in case something happens to my Twitter. Still wanna be able to keep up with all the internet friends!
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Heyo, I am Crow! Tumblr return-er and rambler, I'm gonna do like. The standard thing of an intro-post.
My interests cover stuff from Big Two comics (though I'm always down for indie recs!), musicals, Star Wars, and various books I shuffle through. I do the drawing and writing, and have an Ao3 I use at times! There is of course also the obligatory promise of random rambles about random things because I can't keep words to myself. Ope.
Gonna use varying tags like "crowdoodles". "crowtypes". and "crowrambles" for my art, writing, and rambles respectively <3