"Yeah, and what are *your* issues?"
There are these things. Testing my GD patience. Among them: my cousin's sweaty feet on my computer and comics, the constant headache and crick in my neck, the $215 I have to fork over to the state of California for speeding, Lj/Six apart posts, my non existent privacy, my complete inability to sleep through - the crackhead leper dog's need to bark at every fucking thing it hears, my grandpa's 30 nightly bathroom trips, and his tv volume set to blasting while he watches the Spanish religious channel at 1 in the morning.
Then there are these other things. Things that are keeping me sane.
Among them: My grandma's unmatched awesomeness, watching Scrubs and Freaks and Geeks, knowing that I'll be spending the weekend in San Francisco with my sister, finding snail mail for me in the mail box, how upon a closer inspection of DH it's clear that Goyle and Draco are more made for each other than ever, how fucking delicious the avocados are here.
There's how aching happy gredandfeorge's DH drawing of Harry makes me, how perfect and hilarious buttfacemakini's Malfoy's in the Great Hall illustration is, and the way these tongue in cheek DH H/D subtext drawings that lilithium did remind me that I do actually love fandom even when it's ugly and driving me nuts.
Also glitterandlube's insanely lovable Kon voice. (You people that I've sent Kon things too in the hope of hooking you on comics? READ THIS IMMEDIATELY. Scratch that. EVERYBODY READ THIS IMMEDIATELY. If at the end of it you aren't knocked flat on your ass from all the Kon love, I'm not sure I want to know you)
And THE DARK KNIGHT TEASER. (Oh God, oh God, OH GOD. It just tingles me. Want now. PLEASE)
There's nothing like frequent reminders of the universally acknowledged, never matched or duplicated, beauty that is Dick Grayson to make life tolerable.
(First, Peter Petrelli wants to be him. Then I was reading old issues of Birds of Prey and Dinah (Black Canary) sums it right up.
Oh Babs you are too funny. Not even Bruce can lie well enough to cover The Dick issues up.
Damn straight. *SNORT* Even Dinah's oh so hetero boyfriend Oliver Queen knows what's up when it comes to Dick.
Thanks to glitterandlube, I've been reading Devin Grayson's Inheritance and holy cow. Ollie's all 'This kid is gorgeous' this and 'No wonder people think Bats has something going on with him' that. My jaw keeps dropping. He's comparing looking at Dick's behind to sex with Dinah!
No really. Look.
"Watching the back of the original sidekick, who also happened to be the adopted son of one of his best friends, wasn't as good as, say, pulling the fishnets off of Black Canary's shapely legs, but it was up there."
As if that wasn't mind blowing by itself, a few pages later Ollie is telling Dick the story of the first time Roy impressed him with his throwing/archery prowess and -
""Man, I wish I'd been doing something that cool when Batman first saw me."
Green Arrow climbed off the back of the bike and gave Nightwing's shoulder a quick, paternal squeeze. "One look into your baby blues and I'm sure he didn't care what the hell you could do."
I almost dropped my book too.
AND. All of that is in addition to paragraphs like this one -
" . . Nightwing was just about to hop back over the counter and try to determine if anyone was still conscious when he felt a presence obliterate the space immediately behind him. . . . For just one fraction of a second, Nightwing closed his eyes and exhaled in time with a hot release of breath on the back of his neck, synching his breathing to the presence behind him almost instinctively. Even after all these years, the strange feeling of protective danger that ran up the back of his spine when he unexpectedly found himself in his mentor's shadow thrilled and overwhelmed him."
Dick. Synchronized. His. Breathing. With. Bruce's. Out. Of. Habit.
Jesus but that's freaky and erotic. Devin, YOU ROCK. I'll never understand all the bitching about your Nightwing run. Anybody who views Wolfman's current run as an improvement is deluded beyond help.
For more Dick, read ethrosdemon and petronelle's Dick/Roy porn - Titans Only Say I Love You When There's a Funeral. Again people I've sent Dick to - READ THIS! You might not know who the hell Roy Harper is (pst he's Green Arrow's sidekick speedy and fellow Teen Titans member back in the day when Dick started the Titans. He's Dick's best friend. He currently runs as Red Arrow on the JLA) but Kassie and Petra know/LOVE (to know him is to LOVE him) Dick and it shows. Careful though. Reading it will likely melt your brain for days the way it did mine.
Because there's never enough Dick, you can read petronelle's The Seven Year Itch after that. One of the few Bruce/Dick stories set in the modern era that I've read that made me believe it whole heartedly and with no reservations. DICK!)
Oh and getting emails from mskatej about Batman! (DC aware people should go be friendly and share Robins and Bat type things with her, bop_radar, and isilweth. Spread stuff around. Reel them in)
Since I mentioned the Tim Sale/Darwyn Cooke short story 'Date Night' to Kate and a couple of other people, I figured I'd put it up here for them and anybody else who wanted to read it. Since it's Selina being flirty + TIM SALE - I'm sure that means everybody.
(That big crease makes me sad but I've no idea how people scan double pages without it - can you even?)
(The right side the scanner cut off)
Comic bliss yes?! I wish Tim Sale drew my life.
Then there are these other things. Things that are keeping me sane.
Among them: My grandma's unmatched awesomeness, watching Scrubs and Freaks and Geeks, knowing that I'll be spending the weekend in San Francisco with my sister, finding snail mail for me in the mail box, how upon a closer inspection of DH it's clear that Goyle and Draco are more made for each other than ever, how fucking delicious the avocados are here.
There's how aching happy gredandfeorge's DH drawing of Harry makes me, how perfect and hilarious buttfacemakini's Malfoy's in the Great Hall illustration is, and the way these tongue in cheek DH H/D subtext drawings that lilithium did remind me that I do actually love fandom even when it's ugly and driving me nuts.
Also glitterandlube's insanely lovable Kon voice. (You people that I've sent Kon things too in the hope of hooking you on comics? READ THIS IMMEDIATELY. Scratch that. EVERYBODY READ THIS IMMEDIATELY. If at the end of it you aren't knocked flat on your ass from all the Kon love, I'm not sure I want to know you)
And THE DARK KNIGHT TEASER. (Oh God, oh God, OH GOD. It just tingles me. Want now. PLEASE)
There's nothing like frequent reminders of the universally acknowledged, never matched or duplicated, beauty that is Dick Grayson to make life tolerable.
(First, Peter Petrelli wants to be him. Then I was reading old issues of Birds of Prey and Dinah (Black Canary) sums it right up.
Oh Babs you are too funny. Not even Bruce can lie well enough to cover The Dick issues up.
Damn straight. *SNORT* Even Dinah's oh so hetero boyfriend Oliver Queen knows what's up when it comes to Dick.
Thanks to glitterandlube, I've been reading Devin Grayson's Inheritance and holy cow. Ollie's all 'This kid is gorgeous' this and 'No wonder people think Bats has something going on with him' that. My jaw keeps dropping. He's comparing looking at Dick's behind to sex with Dinah!
No really. Look.
"Watching the back of the original sidekick, who also happened to be the adopted son of one of his best friends, wasn't as good as, say, pulling the fishnets off of Black Canary's shapely legs, but it was up there."
As if that wasn't mind blowing by itself, a few pages later Ollie is telling Dick the story of the first time Roy impressed him with his throwing/archery prowess and -
""Man, I wish I'd been doing something that cool when Batman first saw me."
Green Arrow climbed off the back of the bike and gave Nightwing's shoulder a quick, paternal squeeze. "One look into your baby blues and I'm sure he didn't care what the hell you could do."
I almost dropped my book too.
AND. All of that is in addition to paragraphs like this one -
" . . Nightwing was just about to hop back over the counter and try to determine if anyone was still conscious when he felt a presence obliterate the space immediately behind him. . . . For just one fraction of a second, Nightwing closed his eyes and exhaled in time with a hot release of breath on the back of his neck, synching his breathing to the presence behind him almost instinctively. Even after all these years, the strange feeling of protective danger that ran up the back of his spine when he unexpectedly found himself in his mentor's shadow thrilled and overwhelmed him."
Dick. Synchronized. His. Breathing. With. Bruce's. Out. Of. Habit.
Jesus but that's freaky and erotic. Devin, YOU ROCK. I'll never understand all the bitching about your Nightwing run. Anybody who views Wolfman's current run as an improvement is deluded beyond help.
For more Dick, read ethrosdemon and petronelle's Dick/Roy porn - Titans Only Say I Love You When There's a Funeral. Again people I've sent Dick to - READ THIS! You might not know who the hell Roy Harper is (pst he's Green Arrow's sidekick speedy and fellow Teen Titans member back in the day when Dick started the Titans. He's Dick's best friend. He currently runs as Red Arrow on the JLA) but Kassie and Petra know/LOVE (to know him is to LOVE him) Dick and it shows. Careful though. Reading it will likely melt your brain for days the way it did mine.
Because there's never enough Dick, you can read petronelle's The Seven Year Itch after that. One of the few Bruce/Dick stories set in the modern era that I've read that made me believe it whole heartedly and with no reservations. DICK!)
Oh and getting emails from mskatej about Batman! (DC aware people should go be friendly and share Robins and Bat type things with her, bop_radar, and isilweth. Spread stuff around. Reel them in)
Since I mentioned the Tim Sale/Darwyn Cooke short story 'Date Night' to Kate and a couple of other people, I figured I'd put it up here for them and anybody else who wanted to read it. Since it's Selina being flirty + TIM SALE - I'm sure that means everybody.
(That big crease makes me sad but I've no idea how people scan double pages without it - can you even?)
(The right side the scanner cut off)
Comic bliss yes?! I wish Tim Sale drew my life.