u/mystireon

I know it ain't Wednesday yet but with the way Absolute Catwoman recently got misrepresented through hypersexualized fanart I wanted to throw in possibly my favorite female designs from the Absolute Batman series, the various forms of Poison Ivy.

The living forest of bleeding roots, endlessly digging for freedom. The honeypots, alluring shell bodies for Ivy to lure her victims in with. And her true form, a chimera of all living things fused into one being.

I don't like Chaz

This time without parodying another post, I adore every part of the ace aesthetic. The colorscheme, the charcoal black rings on the right middle finger, card suits, archery because of the Artemis connotation, fucking dragons somehow.

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Every part of the ace aesthetic feels so effortlessly cool and I absolutely adore it. I feel like the coolest motherfucker in town every pride event I attend, it's the best.

I love gender-independent relationships unless either party has a gender preference and/or is aromantic, we seem so different yet we're perfect together, we got great dynamics. I like how we complement each other and the great things we do for one another, no doubt these things represent a huge factor in our progress as a species

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So yeah I wanted to appreciate this aspect of human relations, it's uncommon and also it's not talked about much

There's plenty of ribbons in mythology from Leizu, to Hun Tian Ling, and Gleipnir tho arguably those are as often chains as they are silks.

But what the hell is Frank? Visually he's effectively a gelatinous cube but that's both extremely braud in fantasy writing but also virtually non-existent in actual myth. My base instinct is that he could potentially be a stand-in for a form of animism but beyond the obvious "what the hell would a cube represent in actual nature" there's then also his name which is not only a prominent 20th century name, but also one that's only really gained prominence originally during around the 3rd and 5th century and linking one of the earliest forms of gods to such a modern sounding name just feels odd unless it's intentionally done for soley comedic purposes.

He could also potentially reference Sacred Geometry. Plenty of religions deify squares as an aspect of something divine so that could be something.

Or maybe time just flows all wrong in the realm of the dead gods and Frank is some future interpretation of an abstract god. Or hell, maybe modern fiction ended up being deified at some point. Turning the common gelatinous cube into an image of a god over time.

Either way I'm curious what the hell his deal is actually meant to be

With pride around the corner DC once again announced their Pride Variant Covers for Batwoman, Emperor Aquaman, Justice League Unlimited, Wonder Woman, New Titans, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Detective Comics & A 4 part mural for their new Justice League Pride Event and I just adore these.

Especially seeing Tim Drake's Red Robin flying over a pride parade and the sign "Pride is a protest" paying homage to the parade's origins despite them now often being viewed as purely celebratory.

Marvel similarly has their own Pride Variant Covers but I by far prefer DCs for their variety and how well they show off their individual characters rather than just slapping a rainbow behind them and calling it a day.

Mad props to the artists; Betsy Cola, Bruka Jones, Jessica Fong, Fatima Wajid, Rachael Stott, Don Aquillo, Stephen Byrne, Angel Solorzano and, Phil Jimenez & Arif Prianto for this truly wonderful lineup

It's fun to dunk on the people that you don't agree with but I genuinely love how their pieces always encourage more people into the hobby of making art.

Like people judging Amber from Invincible and Lois Lane from My Adventures with Superman for rightfully showing mistrust in a person who intentionally continuously lied to them, for good reason or no. Cuz the moment you figure out you're being lied to about such a major thing you're probably going to subconscious at least wonder if they're lying about anything else as well.

But apparently these characters are just meant to magically know their men are perfect and would never lie outside of the whole living an entire other life part. /s

Or hell it happened recently Eve from Invincible started to get the same treatment because she got an abortion during the worst time of her life with the pregnancy seemingly killing her powers ontop of it all, and not even knowing if her boyfriend, who was out for war, was going to ever come back. Yet people are calling her cruel for not just patiently waiting for him to come back so they could have discussed it together.

It just feels like girlfriends in media, especially superhero media, get given zero leeway to be seen as actual people who are viewing the stories' events from their own personal perspective within the story rather than the eyes of god the audience is given.

Like Skyler from Breaking Bad for example, found out her husband, not only lives a double life, but is a drug kingpin that put countless people in mortal danger if not being directly responsible for their actual death. Yet for years people would literally wear shirt with prints of her face, calling her a bitch, for not being alright with any of that.

It's insane.