I'm a Birdplaaane

superbat is a bad ship name. it should be manman

“You took an oath to uphold the law and defend the citizens without fear or favor," said Vimes. "And to protect the innocent. That's all they put in. Maybe they thought those were the important things. Nothing in there about orders, even from me. You're an officer of the law, not a soldier of the government.” -- Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

[id: a drawing of lilacs and an egg, and text that reads "truth! justice! freedom! reasonably priced love! and a hard-boiled egg!" end id]

Of all the weird contrivances that superhero media have by virtue of genre, I think the no-kill rule is one of the easiest to justify. "Why don't these paragons of virtue extrajudicially murder people?" fuck dude, I wonder.

In light of the no.1 trending topic on this site, I'd like to inform youse that Kitty Kendall, one of the survivors who bravely spoke out against Neil Gaiman and accused him of rape in 2025, has said here and here that if you are looking to support her and other survivors, you can make a donation to OurVOICE (the counselling service Kendall herself used) or your local rape crisis centre. If you can't make a donation, you can help to ensure people do not forget what Kendall and other survivors have gone through and continue to go through as they pursue legal action, and that Gaiman has already spent a lot of money in the attempt to sue these women for speaking out.

[addressing the children of the future when i am an aged dame] there used to be a website — a little library accessed through a sort of window — with a large and impressive collection of english-language sequential art. you could read many stories that would otherwise be expensive to access. and the companies — they still held tremendous power at this point in history — resented us for our riches, and we were left bereft of our library. but there was a time...when you could read comic online