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Earth-One while having its own quirks continues to be relevant to the present day (and while it contributes to the Helena Wayne retcon oddities, it’s still a specific timeline that turns up)

Pre-Crisis Earth-Two became Post-Crisis pretty smoothly. Aside from resetting Jason (and tbf most people use the latter version anyway) and concreting a modernised version of Bruce’s origin, the history and events are remarkably unchanged compared to other properties. There are, don’t get me wrong, changes, but mostly on the ‘reinterpretation of events’ level more than ‘we rewrote whole swathes of story and threw out huge chunks of existing canon’.

The scramble to attempt to retain essentially all of Bat canon in n52 actually created a bunch of the biggest pressures on that timeline. ‘Make Bat canon return to normal’ was basically the thrust of Tynion’s Tec run at the start of Rebirth, and other properties have consistently navigated around the Bats trying to fix stuff.

If you compare even the biggest ‘problems’ with Bat comics and timelines (a bunch of weirdness around Thomas Wayne generally, n52!Tim, Cass and Steph not existing for a bit, arguments over Jason’s personality as Robin) it is NOTHING compared to say “what is Hawkpeople lore, are they aliens, how do their rebirths work” or “does Donna Troy have a backstory? Which one? What memories are real?” or “what’s going on with the JSA, time travel, The Trinity, and how are half of them alive?” or “exactly what is Power Girl’s current name and backstory” etc

There ARE issues, but of the big ones people are pretty aware of the tension points and how to tug them into a reasonably coherent story, and most of the smaller ones are navigated by people just choosing not to look too closely.

because it's genuinely insane the things i've heard americans say 'america doesn't have' when it's just factually incorrect.

for some perspective: during my longest move i did by-car in the u.s., i drove ~3,000 miles. That's ~4,800 km. It took nearly 50 hours drive-times alone. Meaning, if I could have driven without stopping once, it would have taken nearly 50 hours. Of course I split that up over several days.

Driving that same distance here, If there's a ferry+road from Rabat (in Morocco) to Kyiv (Ukraine), I could take it and keep on going another several hours.

So you can understand how silly it is for someone from the u.s. to be asked to answer a question on behalf of the entirety of the u.s.—geographically, culturally, etc.

So now that we've said all that, I need you to know that I listened to a guy from Idaho tell an Irish person today, "yeah, we just don't really get snails much in America."

"Mfinda", an upcoming African-American-Japanese feature film produced by N LITE.

DC Holiday Special: DC's Supergirl Next Door #1 - "Like Home" (2026)

Fatalistic sarcasm is a thing, however, it usually hides deep feelings of insecurity, and whether you consciously recognize this or not, it validates them. Seriously, I used to constantly make jokes about how other people’s work was better than mine, and it did nothing for my self-esteem, it was a tool to deflect from my own feelings of inferiority and it actively worked against me thinking critically about my own and other people’s work. If it was a joke I could put myself down instead of analyzing why someone’s work was better and trying to incorporate that into my own

As someone who took creative writing courses I was constantly surrounded by other brilliant people, if I hung my head in shame every time I read something as good or better than mine I never would have lifted it. 

As someone who has watched a lot of writers with very good idea’s crash and burn I mean it when I say you either develop a healthy sense of respect for your own work or you stop writing. 

There’s three things I really wish more people consider

1. Do you think their work is better because it’s a different style, one that you like? There’s an element to ‘the grass is greener on the other side’, I have seen people work in some amazing styles that I wished to god I could replicate, some I managed, some I never did, but there’s nothing wrong with either. having a different style Is Not the same as having a bad style, each has their own strengths and you can admire one without putting yours down

2. Knowing someone who is a better writer is a blessing and if they knew you were using their work to bring yourself down they would not be happy, mooch off that friend, analyze their work, ask them to edit your shit, as long as you’re not annoying them be shameless about it. the best thing creative writing did for me was give me the confidence to ask people to critic my work and shamelessly better each other for that sharing 

"Stuff like this is made to brainwash young girls into thinking that they can 'fix' dangerous men. Such girls usually end up in abusive relationships and their parents are right to worry."

It is rather strange to come across such a gross generalization, operating on an assumption that girls are blank slates whom anyone can manipulate and who can't distinguish between real and make believe on top of it.

In my entire "career"(if you can call it that) of engaging with fiction , the girls and women that I have run into in fandoms happened to be some of the most intelligent, talented, cool, witty and insightful people I have ever met. I've devoured the fics they have written. I have delighted in the arts and edits they've made. Their perspectives and interpretations about the characters and their relationships are genuinely fascinating to read about regardless of whether I agree with it or not. They are the ones who are most often at the receiving end of the antis' ire for no valid reason but they just keep deriving joy and inspiration from their favourite characters and ships and keep sharing it with others through stories, art and thoughts. They are not just smart but incredibly resilient, sensitive and aware not just about the media they consume but about the world around them and its issues.

all the replies: you're a fucking idiot

*after act 2*