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Damian: ”tell me what you desire and I would place it at your feet.”

Raven: *giggles* “don’t be ridiculous now.”

Damian: “No truly, name it. A flower? I will give you a garden in full bloom. The moon? I will set it by your window, so it may keep watch over your night. Do you want the world? Say the word and I will lay it gently in your hands. Just tell me what you want, let me love you the way you have always deserved to be loved.”

📅 August 24th – August 30th

We are thrilled to officially announce the dates and prompt list for Damirae Week 2026! Get ready for seven days of celebrating our favorite demon and bird duo.

🎬 MONDAY (8/24): Show Me Something

Themes: TV Shows, Movies, and Mixed Media.

Genres: Any genre goes! Sci-Fi, Drama, Anime, Comedy, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Noir, Rom-Com, Period Piece, or Mockumentary.

Media Ideas: Press conferences, publicity, documentaries, blogs, or gossip rags.

🏖️ TUESDAY (8/25): Vacations & Travel / Summer & Beaches

Themes: Great outdoors, getting lost in the wilderness, looking through camera rolls, honeymoons, or beach days.

Settings: Earth, interstellar travel, or interdimensional travel.

Scenarios: Campfire stories, summer camp, or a heroes' retreat.

⏳ WEDNESDAY (8/26): 2026 ＝ 2016

We are honoring this trend by paying homage to the year the Judas Contract movie was released.

Time Tropes: Time jumps, flashbacks, or a sudden return to the past.

Media Focus: Modernize something from the 2016 Titans/JL movie, comics, or general DC media.

Pop Culture: Create art, fics, videos, or playlists inspired by 2016 fashion, music, books, shows, and movies. Draw a direct parallel between 2016 and 2026.

🔮 THURSDAY (8/27): Magical Creatures & The Mystical

Mystical Elements: Fables, ancient artifacts, grimoires (Book of the Beast, Book of the Dead, Necronomicon, Book of Shadows), magical convergence, and gemstones.

Creatures: Vampires, incubi/succubi, wendigos, werewolves, hybrids, demons, mermaids, or sirens.

DC Lore: Justice League Dark, Occult, DC Vampires, Bombshells, League of Assassins artifacts, Temples of Azarath, Nanda Parbat, or the Church of Blood.

🦇 FRIDAY (8/28): Band of (Bat) Brothers & Sisters

The Bat-Family: Damian's side including Gotham, Talia, and Ra’s Al Ghul.

The Roth Family: Raven's side including Arella, her half-siblings, and Azarath.

Connections: Found family dynamics, and of course, Titus and all the pets!

💔 SATURDAY (8/29): Angst & Alternate Timelines / Free Day

Angst Themes: Rivalry, devastating losses, unrequited love, or hiding true feelings.

Sci-Fi & Magic: The butterfly effect, Flashpoint, and alternate timelines.

Free Day: Feel free to create anything you want!

👑 SUNDAY (8/30): A Place of Their Own / Legacies

The Future: Finding a new path, inheriting a legacy, or rebuilding/reimagining the League of Assassins or Azarath.

The Mantle: Inheriting the Batman cowl, ruling Azarath, leading the Teen Titans into the next generation, or joining the Justice League.

📝 HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

1. All mediums are welcome! Fanfiction, fanart, edits, gifs, playlists, and cosplay.

2. Tag your work with #DamiraeWeek2026 within the first 5 tags so we can find and reblog your creations!

Jason Todd Week 2026 will run August 16th (Jason's birthday!) to August 22nd!

Prompts and more information below the cut.

Welcome back to my blog, where today I am waking up and choosing absolute violence against fandom culture. We need to talk about the severe lack of media literacy on the dash, specifically how people completely objectify brilliant fictional characters—either by hyper-sexualizing their designs or reducing their entire existence to a shipping prop. Put down the fanfic for five minutes and let’s talk about the top 10 characters you are actively robbing of their agency.

Let's start with a basic reality check: writing a character with emotional depth, intense trauma, and real flaws takes absolute mastery. But the second a character hits a fandom space? If they are remotely attractive, all of that writing gets tossed out the window.

Fandoms love to objectify characters, flattening them into two categories: "aesthetic sex symbols" or "the prize in a ship war." I am entirely finished pretending this isn't incredibly lazy. Here are the top 10 characters getting absolutely cheated by their own fanbases:

1. Raven (Teen Titans 2003)

Raven is a teenager holding back a literal apocalyptic demon god with nothing but her own mental fortitude. She is a masterclass in psychological survival and boundaries. But the internet completely objectifies her as the ultimate "goth girlfriend." They hyper-sexualize her design and treat her emotional walls as a game for self-insert romance, completely ignoring the sheer weight of her isolation.

2. Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Zuko has arguably the greatest, most hard-fought redemption arc in television history. He is a survivor of severe child abuse, systemic indoctrination, and facial mutilation. Yet, a massive portion of the fandom completely flattens him into a "misunderstood bad boy." They objectify his aesthetics and his anger, treating his deep-seated psychological trauma as nothing more than a cute, moody trait to be "fixed" by a ship.

3. April O'Neil (TMNT)

Across almost every single iteration, April is a brilliant scientist, a fearless investigative journalist, and a literal tactical asset to a group of ninja turtles. But historically, fandom spaces reduce her entirely to the token "hot human girl." She gets stripped of her intellectual agency and turned into a damsel or a visual trophy to give the male-dominated audience something pretty to look at.

4. Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Katara is a revolutionary leader, a master waterbender, a survivor of maternal genocide, and the literal emotional backbone of the Gaang. But if you look at the ship wars, you’d think her only purpose in life was deciding between two boys. She gets aggressively objectified in the Zutara vs. Kataang trenches, where people strip her of her independent moral agency just to turn her into a trophy for their favorite male character.

5. Arcee (Transformers Prime)

Arcee is a battle-hardened veteran soldier dealing with massive, textbook PTSD after watching one of her partners get brutally murdered in front of her. She is fierce, closed-off, and survival-driven. But because her CGI model is a sleek, purple motorcycle with feminine lines, parts of the internet hyper-sexualize her to a repulsive degree. It is peak objectification to look at a giant alien robot dealing with war trauma and reduce her to a sexualized aesthetic.

6. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

The objectification Korra faces is a deeply toxic mix of misogynoir and body-shaming. Korra is a muscular, physically powerful, queer woman of color who literally undergoes paralysis and severe psychological depression. Instead of respecting her unprecedented physical and emotional resilience, a massive chunk of the internet objectifies her muscles or her relationships, minimizing her incredible journey down to pure physical optics.

7. Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Catra is a masterclass in generational abuse, defense mechanisms, and complex villainy. Her entire arc is a messy, painful deconstruction of what abandonment does to a person. Yet, parts of the fandom completely flatten her into a quirky "sassy cat-girl." They objectify her aesthetic and completely sanitize her dark, raw choices just to make her a perfectly neat, non-threatening partner for shipping reasons.

8. Emily Prentiss (Criminal Minds)

Prentiss is a high-level federal agent, a brilliant international profiler, and a woman who literally faked her own death to protect her found family from an international terrorist. She is a powerhouse. But the fandom frequently objectifies her by completely ignoring her professional genius and trauma, reducing her instead to a static aesthetic icon or an empty pawn to be used in workplace shipping dynamics.

9. Jessica Knight (NCIS)

Agent Knight is a powerhouse REACT agent who runs toward explosions, specializes in high-risk hostage negotiations, and possesses intense tactical capability. She is fiercely independent. Yet, a vocal section of the fandom collapses her entire identity into her relationship status, objectifying her beauty and treating her purely as a romantic option rather than a highly competent federal agent who can snap a suspect in half.

10. Mako (The Legend of Korra)

Fandom loves to use Mako as a punching bag, entirely objectifying his role in the narrative. This is a kid who grew up as an orphan on the streets, literally funding his younger brother's life through underground pro-bending and street survival. He is incredibly hard-working and protective. But the fandom strips away all of that context, reducing his entire character down to a "pretty-boy cheating plot device" for a so-called "love triangle".

The Bottom Line:

The prompts for Stephanie Brown weekend 2026 are here! Each day has three prompts and a theme. There are three additional wild card prompts that can be swapped out for any prompt or used as inspiration for our free day. Plain text version under the cut: