And I Know That You Have an Awfully Big Wound.

*in the bathroom in front of the mirror with the lights off* Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens

Ivan Powell, 1983

Just got denied unemployment

dead internet theory but it's realizing that most of the people you see posting about comics do not read comics

every time i post something like this someone gets mad at me but i really don't know what to tell these people. every year we get an influx of people who will enter these spaces for a shared interest in comics that they not only have not read, they often have no interest in reading and sometimes will actively degrade the entire medium to justify not reading them. and if you express any discontent with this arrangement you're the bad guy for not enabling a deeply incurious practice of not wanting to engage with art or its creators beyond digestible abridged versions plastered over slideshows of out of context panels and stolen fanart

This is a hugeeee problem on comic TikTok where people are actively discouraging each other from reading comics and telling each other if they want to learn more about the bat family and other characters to read fanfics and that comics are TOO hard. Also a huge influx of people who are shipping superbat because they think David cornswet and Robert Pattinson are hot (which is whatever do what you want) but they’re making up headcanons for these characters that are SO ooc and not even based on the stuff shown in the movies that you’d have NO idea who they’re talking about if they didn’t tell you. And they’ll argue with comic book readers as if THEYRE wrong for talking about the characters in a complex nuanced way vs reducing them to these wubbified fan fic flanderizations.