#john rant

i always rember a small panel on delano's hellblazer run in which he goes through his old things and a pin of "Rock Against Racism" can be seen, his comics address plenty of things some more obvious like discrimination against working class or how the elites try to squeeze them dry, homophobia, the bad buch of skinheads (could be applied with far-rigth movements today tbh) or others a bit more subtle like racism, or, in a way, mental health and the stigmatization against it.

john is elbow-deep in all of that, and if you strip him from those, you strip him of his identity.

I was talking with a friend today about THE swamp-thing issue, and they literally said, albeit jokingly, that they should neuter John, and I was like, well, most of his children technically come from a non-consensual relationship on HIS end. And they hit me with the "Wait, seriously?"

And in that swamp-thing issue, that I showed them btw, you can literally see John crawling in the floor while trying to take the roots off his body as swamp-thing says something about "The metallic taste of fear", referring to JOHN's fear.

I feel like John's sexuality or the way he engages with sex or relationships is never really treated seriously, therefore people don't treat it seriously either, and it pisses me off so much.

I know I have spoken about it before but unfortunately for us all I came across something again.

it was a Spanish tweet about "DC with its LGBT characters" (Then a bunch of chars) "Look at my cute babies, I feel so proud of you all"

then a pic of John "You know? I'm part of the community too"

DC: "Who gave you the permission to come out of the basement?"

until then okay, a joke calling DC out. but then, someone asks, without any ill intent, "What's Constantine's orientation?" and I kid you not, everyone answering but one, that said "I believe he's pan but nothing has been confirmed I think" (which is not true but well, bi erasure doesn't surprise me, maybe Spurrier is partly at fault), said things like "he's holesexual", "YES", "Any hole but Harley, you gotta have limits" and things of the sort.

people it's pride moth and he's one or the most misunderstood queer characters, pick up a comic! again, it doesn't mean John shouldn't engage with sex or sexuality, he should, but he's not a rabid beast who would go after anything that moves.

I wonder when the notion that he's a failure as a person and that he doesn't do anything but screwing up started. Because I mean, yeah, he messes up, that's part of his character, but I think there is a line between being a bit shabby with his methods sometimes (Which don't get me wrong, he totally can be)

(See for example Blathoxi's summing, he mentions having lost or borrowed some parts of his "magic kit" or not bothering in finding a cat, although it actually has a meaning in context, and Blathoxi himself doesn't bother in appearing)

And the conception of him being totally unworthy of any form of trust. Many of his friends or people close to him in general end up dying yes, but I do think it has been exacerbated to a greater extend than it should? He's not your typical hero with a cape, but he worries about the world, he wants to make it better, and yeah as I said, he might be shabby with his methods from time to time, but like, for example, look at this poll posted on dc's youtube account and the results (@ have been erased due privacy but technically it's still there in their page so)

And before I did read it I came across a video that basically said, not implied, said, that John had invited Strange to "spend some time and have fun" with some demon ladies, and like it seemed strange to me (pun not intended) but I said, okay?? Maybe it's something about dc John, dunno. Upon reading it, of course there is nothing about that! He did invite Strange to his world in case he wanted to "see the horrors" of it, but that's it, nothing sexual about it, if you wanted you could maybe think of it as John "flirting" with Strange, but that's it, just a bit of flirting if you really really wanted to see it like that, but nothing sexual, much less "speding time with demons ladies".

I came across some sites that called him that, and although I know people can change that and there is a lot of misinformation, but like, a big point of his character and magic is that it does have a price for him. Maybe mainline dc John could be confused as an homo magi, but unless they retconned that in the current mainline, I don't think he ever was one and honestly it's better that way, makes him seem more human and relatable in a way.

He's not a hero with a cape or someone with big flashy powers, he's just a guy trying to go through life and helping as he can, not without messing things up in the process and that's the whole point, he being more than a "normal human" would spoil things I think.