So some asshole on tumblr has decided that Batman And Robin #23 (ft. the return of Jason Todd) is an objectively bad story because, horror, girls might like it. Judd Winick knows that his audience has a lot of women & queer folks and he actively encourages those people to keep reading his books, and this is proof that his writing is terrible and ( Read more... )

70 Bechdel-passing DC Comics icons for halfamoon. Featuring Bats, Birds, Outsiders, Young Justice, the Secret Six, a few Justice Leaguers and Titans past and present.

( Insert song lyrics here )

Yet another heroines_fest piece, for the prompt "An AU or displaced Spoiler joins the Runaways."

( I couldn't NOT take that prompt. )

For heroines_fest, prompt: Future Titans (Sin, Milagro, Lian, Iris), "Damian just thinks he's the leader. We've got him outnumbered."

( Designing costumes for next-gen heroes is amazingly fun. )

OKAY OKAY OKAY ( Read more... )

For heroines_fest, prompt: "Lian Harper, AU where her mother raised her."
PG-13 for implied violence, I guess? There is an awful lot of blood.

( Growing up, it was just me and my mom against the world... )

(There's one more batch after this, as well. I wasn't kidding when I said I was making them compulsively ( Read more... )

So I've started doing shifts at the daycare my mom works at, for the summer. Which is great! Because as much as I love (and also hate, often at the same time) working at a comic shop, retail pays shit. And children are great! People think because I am a sarcastic misanthrope that I must therefore hate children, but that is so not true. I love kids ( Read more... )

Yesterday colonize had the BEST ADVENTURE. My mom works at a daycare, so she has a membership at a local toystore, where we've been saving up points for basically the last twenty years. We cashed those points in for $75 in store credit, which for some reason you had to spend all in one go. .....So I now have $75 worth of Playmobil that I hadn't had before ( Read more... )

For halfamoon, 40 icons featuring the Awesome Ladies of Gotham City ( Read more... )