the things that hate us

outside of john's burden / obligation to the occult, he's really just a regular guy. he goes for walks, he talks with his neighbors, goes down to the pub to drink pints with his mates, and sometimes he even helps his neighbors with their inconvenient need for problem solving.

sometimes he travels to meet friends in other places, take roadtrips with them, he likes to read the newspaper, read books, watch tv.

that short was really just 30 minutes of trauma porn that was eventually blamed as being john’s fault because of his own trauma with his past experiences and i’m... livid. someone really sat down and wrote that john getting murdered by his loved ones over and over again for centuries was.... all his fault, in a situation that would have otherwise been a happy dream sequence? and then to have him apologize for his fucking trauma, only for him to beg for death at the end and get swallowed up by the universe? for the flashpoint plot irt apokolips war that shouldn’t have been john’s doing in the first place????

if it’s not the biphobia in that terrible city of demons movie, or the out of character bashful, shameful john in that king shark scene that has done irreversible damage, or that lucifer comic where john not only sleeps with him ( a choice i strongly feel john would not make ) but kicks his leg up during a kiss like some middle school tween???? or the urban legends comic where john is an obsessively annoying flirt to the point of being a kiss ass to batman of all people... i am just so annoyed. and im going to blame everyone that went around calling john a twink because the gay terminology has been lost, apparently.

he is a whole grown ass middle aged man. he has been through so much, and is a cynical grump. he is not being the quirky little gay wizard you fanon him to be. he is fulfilling his toxic masculinity bingo card and fucking men and getting into fights and ghosting people. enough,, enough!!!

he is literally the most realistic depiction of a hero among the average human because he is among them, he is them.

because he’s a hippie and a punk that wanted so much more for it, that believed - at one point - that they could get there. he doesn’t want to save the world because he doesn’t want the world to have to be saved! he wants it to just be okay for a while, but it just all goes to hell again after he helps and he’s tired, okay? especially since he never gets to just be tired without someone no sooner guilting him into accepting another job of holding everyone else’s problems together. so yeah, he’s gonna complain, because no one lets him catch a break.