#flamebiirds

YES I DO! HANK PYM IS A PARTICULAR FAVE OF MINE HE'S. VERY NICE.

uh honestly i liked his early avengers stuff! though there's that Period Typical Sexism™ and once you get to his Mental Breakdown™ a lot of Period Typical Ableism™ and pseudo-psychology so fhdhhfhd it's kind of hit and miss tbh

i really liked him in west coast avengers, that's when he joined not as ant-man or giant-man or goliath or yellowjacket, but just as hank pym! issue 6 & 7 are particularly good, ultron is a Good Guy™ in it and tries to build a relationship w/ his dad and its honestly kind of sweet! also i enjoy his relationship with tiagra! trigger warning for issue #17 though, in it hank attempts s//icide so 😬 but yeah he was good there.

avengers a.i for sure! it's also one of my fave vision appearances and victor mancha is in it too and it's just generally fun chaos! it also has my favourite hank pym backstory, where his parents aren't abusive but they also don't know what to do with him or how to accommodate him and as a neurodiverse person it's really good and speaks to me! its also where he is portrayed as bipolar and tbh i think that in comic book standards? it's really well done and good rep as far as comics go :>

avengers academy is also really good! he's a teacher for kids and it's just very good and sweet and fun and i enjoy it, it doesn't always focus on hank but it's a good story and shows old and new superheros to get in to! laura kinney also features and it's where hank's son/godson william is introduced :>

he also plays a semi prominent role in avengers forever i believe? which is only 12 issues long so that's a good thing to read. it's been a Hot Sec but he has to work w/ his yellowjacket persona from back in the day (context; bc of the pseudo-psychology yellowjacket was like a fragmented personality of hank's, like originally they were going for a dissociative identity disorder which has since been changed into bipolar but yeah that's why they're Different People™ in comic world)

avengers: united they stand is an au based on one of the cartoons but they are focused on hank and are a good story! vision & ultron have some good moments in it too that are enjoyable. the outfits uh fucking suck tbh but its generally nice and lighthearted. and short if memory serves well djdjdjd only like 6 issues or something

hank appears in many tales to astonish issues, but issue 47 is my particular favourite! he's got some nice moments with jan & is shook up over an ant and yeah it's good fun!

and finally to stop this getting too long, ant-man: season one reintroduces his backstory for a modern age! i could be crazier abt some of the retcons it makes w/ his science and stuff but on a whole its a good reintroduction of hank for a modern time!

HELL YEAH LETS GO

Favorite thing:

Cass is so bright and has such a great sense of humor actually??? Like. From start to finish her batgirl run was so much FUN and had so much HEART and she’s just such a good character??? I love her

Least favorite thing:

Other than fandom treatment of her, I really fucking hate the Orphan moniker. That’s felt more and more like a slap in the face with each passing month honestly. I’m just 🙃🙃🙃 very bitter.

Favorite line:

“The only thing more ridiculous than thinking I don’t know how to cheat... is choosing to wear that outfit into combat.” -said to Huntress and tbh... I cried laughing lmao

Friend-Ships:

Her and Babs relationship makes me v 🥺🥺🥺 otherwise I just wish more of her relationships with her brothers could be like. Properly explored. DC rlly said ‘yeah we’ll have Bruce officially adopt her’ only to then push her out to Hong Kong just aksjak THANKS I HATE IT

Romantic-Ships:

Oh god, Stephcass, CassRae, CassCass, there’s others uhhh I like KonCass but only just as a comphet thing now (esp from Cass’ end lmao she’s wlw and y’all Can’t convince me otherwise) OH. CASSROSE!!

Don’t Ship:

Other than the Obvious uhhhh, again, not too fond of shipping Cass with boys haha she’s a lesbian harold

Random Headcanon:

When Cass is Batman she doesnt take like, selfies with Gothamites or anything BUT she DOES make it a point to randomly show up in pictures like the lovable cryptid she was always meant to be lmao. Bruce WISHES he could’ve attained #ConfirmedUrbanCryptid status.

Unpopular Opinion:

Cass is??? Actually a pretty angry character? And it esp obvsly gets erased when fandom portrays her as the demure/quiet Favorite Child but??? The reason WHY she’s the perfect bat to take on the mantle is BECAUSE she DOES reflect a lot of Bruce’s passion and especially his anger! (How she channels it is a bit different but that’s a convo that the greater batfandom Isnt ready to have 💅)

Song I Associate with them:

“Speaking Voice” by Coin! I was listening to the band a lot around the time that I started getting into Cass so... this just kinda will never be unassociated with her now lmao. And yknow... I think it works actually.

Fav pic of them:

1. Tell us about your current project(s)  – what’s it about, how’s progress, what do you love most about it?

I have, at any given time, 200-odd projects I’m working on, but for this specifically I will talk about Half Light because I am saving my current needlessly giant project for a different ask I got.

It is going badly! I need to update but I have barely started on the next chapter, meaning I still have at least 9,000 words left to put to paper! I know what will happen and how it will set things up for the next installment, but for some reason I cannot get my act together enough to write it! And I know it’s not just disillusionment with the source material in general because I still felt that when I wrote the last chapter and somehow...here we still are. But I love it. It’s my baby. I’ve been planning it since, jeez, 2016? Probably had the little basis of the idea in 2015? It’s very emblematic of the things I like to read and write, namely trauma and more importantly the recovery from that trauma, and I know people love it. It’s long and difficult to write and read and I’m an idiot who shouldn’t have decided to make every chapter so long, but I swear I will finish it as long as I have the means to do so. Like I said, it’s my baby--and at least I’m almost done with this part, right?

So only...what, three more to go? Yay...

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

I think I have two distinct writing styles? One of them is kinda flowery-prosey and that’s the one I use for my longer stuff/serious shorter stuff, and the other one is shorter and snappier and that’s what I use for shorter less serious things. The first one involves a lot of run-on sentences. I also think I’m really repetitive when it comes to certain story elements? Not like I use the same things over and over again (which I do to an extent) but that I’ll start paragraphs with the same phrase every time, repeat words in thought processes to represent what it’s like to have anxiety around things, etc. I think people would agree that I do that!

13. Do you share your writing online? (Drop a link!) Do you have projects you’ve kept just for yourself?

morning in america / jon bellion a question of time / depeche mode edge of seventeen / stevie nicks vampire again / marlon williams elevator song / keaton henson

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Actually wait didn’t they actually get married in canon at some point? Wasn’t that the one that everyone was like ‘lol it won’t last’??? ANYWAYS

Def a private/closed ceremony & reception for their various JLA friends/coworkers (so ppl can attend both in/out of identity as they feel comfortable)

Dinah’s got the birds n leaguers alike as her bridesmaids

Babs is her maid of honor but Zee insists on handling the Bachelorette party “Oracle is sweet but she d o e s n t know how to throw a rager for an entertainer”

Ollie’s bachelor party on the other hand is a quiet night in comparatively speaking bc Roy (the Best Man) knows it’s all he really needs by this point aksj

Again, Dinah’s doing flowers, Ollie’s hiring a DJ, seating arrangements are rlly more of a first come-first sit kinda deal bc they know their friends will sort that shit out lmao

Wouldn’t be a Superhero Wedding without a Villain Crashing it but I honestly keep drawing a blank on who it should be but I just REALLY love the drama for that kinda thing so just fill in that blank w/ ur own Fav for now aksjak

So this is from a set of asks from MONTHS ago that I’m JUST now getting to I’m so sorry y’all. I realized the reason I put them off was bc they required a bit more Thought that I was willing to put into them at the time (but that I’ve found the spell slots for now at least)

I won’t be accepting any new characters for this ask meme at this time! Just answering the ones I have in my inbox over the course of the rest of this week! Thanks y’all!

So without any further ado~

Favorite thing:

Stephs tenacity is something that time and time again I admire so much. “No” is simply NOT in her vocabulary. It’s an answer she refuses to accept. She’s willing to put in 120% into anything she makes her mind up about, Damn the consequences. And tbh? It’s something I just love abt her to pieces

Least favorite thing:

Moreso a fandom thing, but obvsly any time she’s left out of a Robin line up aksja. She did not DIE to be ignored. She was INTENDED to STAY DEAD just as much as Jason was! (& I’m so glad that she was brought back anyways but yknow) it’s just something Important to me and the ways that some fans will approach her just... rubs me wrong

Favorite line:

“It’s only the end if you want it to be.” Just hits me SO HARD. Her run was so short and KNOWING in the meta sense that she was abt to be erased from the continuity, even for as short of a time as it ultimately ended up being ;-; idk man. It just HITS

Friend-Ships: LOVE when ppl explore her platonic relationships with diff batfam members ofc! would’ve loved to see maybe her and Charlie (Misfit) hanging out post-resurrection? Also in a BoP Jr group maybe lmao. Uhhh I liked that one issue when she and Klarion hung out, that one was rlly fun akdjaksj

Romantic-Ships: I think Tim/Steph is Important & I appreciate it as a Young Love thing, but I totally get why most ppl don’t ship it or don’t ship it beyond the canon points. Tbh. I don’t want it explored any further than that either lmao. I think I’ve made it pretty obvs I love Steph/Cass and Steph/Rae more anyways uhh can’t think of many others tho ahhh

Don’t Ship:

I got recommended a Dami/Steph group chat here on Tunglr™️ once and snakes began manifesting in my house. The grossest part was that a big-name batblog was part of that group too so yknow 🤢🤢🤢 (if anyone wants to know who I’ll give it privately but anyways suffice it to say I blocked all those ppl in that chat immediately)

Random Headcanon:

When Steph’s getting her bachelors she briefly considers an Engineering/Geology dual major (bc IMAGINE the improvements she could make to the Firewall or even relocating/expanding it?) but long-term I don’t see it panning out/holding her interest

Unpopular Opinion:

Ultimately I do like the idea of her becoming more detached from the Bats and going her own way. Whether that means doing something in the med field or even just doing part-time private investigative work (ala next Question ofc) I love Steph & her place in the batfam is never going to change in the wider fanon eye. But personally? I’d like to see her step more away from them as she grows. She fought so hard for her place but imagine the GROWTH that would show on her part in just... recognizing that she has nothing to prove to them ultimately.

Song I Associate with them:

Listening to Neon Tree’s “Trust” gave me Steph vibes that I can’t exactly explain but like... idk. I just Feel her and her struggles (esp Spoiler/Robins days-wise) in it? That chorus esp just hits a little different from the perspective of Steph who’s JUST “returning from the grave” too I think.

Fav pic of them:

Took me forever BUT I’m finally knocking the last of these out lmao here we GO

Favorite thing:

She’s strong and kind??? And just a wholeass woman??? And unapologetic about it??? Idk I just love her and she’s amazing

Least favorite thing:

Uhhhhh, can’t rlly think of anything off the top of my head so 🤷🏽

Favorite line:

Not instantly coming to mind unfortunately ;-;

Friend-Ships:

The birds! The JL! The JSA!!! I’m so proud of her for having so many hero connections she’s just 👏👏👏👏 love that for her!!!

Romantic-Ships:

Haven’t actually read GA comics (at least since forever ago that One Time) but DinahOllie is objectively good 👍 obvsly got my love for DinahBabs or DinaHelena overshadowing it tho haha. Also wild but I really loved DinahShiva actually aksjak OH AND DINAHZEE I FORGOT ABT THEM AKSJAK FISHNET QUEEEEEEEENS

Don’t Ship:

Can’t say there’s any that I’m not too fond of? Nothings rlly coming to mind at least 🤷🏽

Random Headcanon:

She ALWAYS goes hard for karaoke. She WILL be showing EVERYONE up. Doesn’t matter the genre, the artist, the crowd (or lack of) she’s singing her damn HEART out for karaoke night and puttin on a damn SHOW

Unpopular Opinion:

Idk if this is Unpopular per se but when ppl call her fishnets impractical I get super annoyed like, yes okay I GET IT, but as someone who’s worn fishnets with some regularity there IS something just unspeakably empowering about them for me so like.... I GET IT BABE. I get that they’re not Ideal for protection but they SLAP and I absolutely feel like I’d have the power necessary to kick a mans ass SO

Song I Associate with them:

Idk why I can’t completely justify it other than Kelly Clarkson’s voice does still impress me to this day and I feel like “Hear Me” has some Dinah vibes idk. Either as something she would sing or even smthn that just reminds me of her

Fav pic of them:

Ooooh these are rlly good dude omg

Slow Burn: Kara bc given how friendly she usually is I can totally see it as thing that’s built up reeeeeeeeeally slowly over time until she asks out of the blue ‘but what ARE we’ aksjak

Fake Date: Zatanna absolutely. It starts off as a way to mislead paparazzi and dismiss questions abt her love life but goddammit. My charm and humor’ll win her over anyways lmaooooooo

Enemies to Lovers: Steph bc okay hear me out- if we double up with my med student!steph Headcanon, we met while Stephs doing premed and have that INSTANT animosity (there were plenty of Future Nurses at my uni who were either rlly chill or who I wanted to punch ngl) we keep running into each other in v random courses BC our schedules somehow wind up rlly similar and we’re assigned to a lot of projects together (bc OFC) and OBVSLY we slowly wear each other down UNTIL during finals week we’re double-booked for a study room and both refuse to leave and well 👀 something finally breaks the tension