@evilpixiea
No, no, no! Don’t stop now! This was going so well! See, I completely see the “relationship” the same way as you do. I ship the mental assault, the sexually one-sided relationship. The way, yes, the culmination of Joker’s erotic obsession would definitely be to be killed by Batman. And while Batman wouldn’t have a sexual drive toward Joker, yes I believe the equivalent of it is how Joker gets under his skin in a way no other villain does. And so it creates a sort of unhealthy relationship.
And in shipping them, I like seeing how deep and dangerous that relationship (because it’s more than simple interactions) can go.
So my ask was really: in a world where maybe the Joker, just like in maybe Snyder’s Death of the Family, takes things dangerously far, and Batman is dangerously strained by it yet will let himself be affected by the dynamics, how would Superman react, in a world where there is a Superbat relationship. How would he react seeing how consumed Batman is by the very destructive dynamics, yet does not pull himself away from it.
I may be rambling and incoherently incapable of putting coherent words to my thoughts, I admit...
(Side note, I’m actually a fan of Troy Baker’s Joker in Origins.. I thought he did a perfect rendition of a younger Joker. Perfectly in tune with Mark’s)
(Can I also add how much I dig Supes’ face when he’s under the Joker’s toxin’s effect in Endgame??)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen much of BatJokes in your work, but I’m going to bring this up.. hope it’s alright.. I consider the relationship between The Joker and The Batman to be heavily sexually charged. There may not be anything physical, but there is sexual tension that creeps on the “mentally sexually charged”... If this would be the case in your worlds, what would Superman’s reaction, and to it via-a-vis Bruce? Extra points for angst..?
Personally, the BatJokes ship has never been one that gels very well with me. That’s not because I don’t think there is sexual energy between them (I very much do) but because I think that energy is very one sided. From my readings of the comics and other media Joker has for a long time has had a very explicit and obvious sexual interest in Batman. Not Bruce. Batman. However, instead of trying to have sex with him he tries to hurt him. For the Joker, intimacy is achieved when he successfully gets under Batman’s skin or (better yet) makes him lose control.
A part of the Joker wants Batman to kill him. That I think would be the climax of his erotic obsession with Batman. He wants to be that person that breaks Batman and unleashes the beast.
Bruce, for his part, I think really truly does hate the Joker. There is no softness, no caveats, or round edges in that feeling. He hates him as much as a person can hate another.
He wishes Joker was dead… which is what makes the dynamic interesting from a hero/villain point of view. Bruce, to uphold his code, needs to not kill. Joker wants Batman to kill him and will continue trying to hurt him until he does.
That is the dramatic tension. That is the push pull. That is what makes the pair so interesting.
However, personally, that also means I don’t really enjoy shipping them. I can’t see Joker ever giving a shit about the parts of Bruce which aren’t Batman and I can’t see Bruce ever not hating Joker with every single fibre of his being.
However, as anyone who has spoken to me on this subject knows, I am fine with people interpreting and building on canon however they see fit. This is what fandom is all about and fandom is a beautiful thing. So, if people see their relationship differently than I do and like to imagine them together or, at the very least, a two way erotic energy, then that’s cool. I am fine with people shipping whatever they want. That’s what makes fandom interesting.
And even if I don’t ship them I still think they have a really interesting hero/villain relationship. One of the best in comics, if not the best.
Some of my favourite Batman vs Joker moments which really (I think) highlight Joker’s fetishisation of the Batman persona and Bruce’s utter hatred mixed with his constant near loss of control are…
The Joker’s POV scenes in Arkham Origins. God, if only they had Mark Hammil it would have been perfect.
The Joker in Scot Snyder’s Death Of The Family.
The Joker in The Dark Knight Returns.
Side note. It’s really interesting that the queer coding of Joker hasn’t gone away yet, don’t you think? Traditionally comic book villains (like Disney villains) were given gender non conformist traits to emphasis how evil and different they were… we’re a little more enlightened in regard to queer folk now and tend not to do that with our villains anymore. Joker’s the exception. He is still very queer in his coding. Everything from the way he moves, the way he puts on his makeup, the way he often wears women’s clothing like high heels, and the language he uses.
I think Joker gets a pass on the whole ‘evil character being queer coded’ because DC has decided to play into the idea of Joker’s fetishisation of Batman. It’s interesting, no?
Anyway, I’m rambling. Sorry. I’ll back out of this post now.
his inability to wink properly continues to endear me
Reposting for myself, because this is my issue, but also for visibility for anyone who struggles
The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.
The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.
The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.
The “get stuff done while you wait” method.
The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.
The “break the task into smaller steps” method.
The “treat yourself like a pet” method.
The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.
The “put on a persona” method.
The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.
The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.
The “wait for a trigger” method.
The “do it for your future self” method.
The “might as well” method.
The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.
The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.
The “make it easy” method.
The “junebugging” method.
The “just show up” method.
The “accept when you need help” method.
The “make it into a game” method.
The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.
The “trick yourself” method.
The “break it into even smaller steps” method.
The “let go of should” method.
The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.
The “fork theory” method.
The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.
Be positive like Nico
nico: “i love lego. my daughter can play with it too!”
I finally got round to translating the ten winner questions of my little Yoneda Kou Poll. Sorry for the wait, I had a busy weekend. You can send Sensei these questions by answering the 10-Year Anniversary Survey until July 31st. It wasn’t specified anywhere if the number of questions per person is limited, so it should be okay to ask more than one. If you ask all the questions at once though, that might be considered spam, so choose your favorites below and then copy & paste the Japanese translation into the specified field in part 3 of the survey. Maybe there’s a word limit once you try, but I don’t know since I haven’t answered it yet.
At the end of the post I’ve also added some questions I translated for @lustfulcat as a bonus. She’s always working hard for the fandom, so I thought that’s only fair. I also included my own questions, in case someone else wants to ask them too.
On to the Questions:
(1) If Yashiro had outright confessed to Kageyama, would they have dated? How long would it have lasted for?
もし高校生の矢代が勇気を絞って景山に告白してたら、2人は付き合うことになったでしょうか。なかなか想像がつきませんが、2人の関係はどれくらい続いてたでしょうか。
(2) Why Yashiro have a change in his color hair? I see a lot of posters and in them his hair changes.
矢代の髪の毛の色は絵によって違う気がしますが、先生はなぜ時々髪の毛の色を変えたりしますか。
(3) If she could pick actors to play Saezuru characters, who would she pick?
もし「囀る~」の映画化が決まって、先生は世界のどの俳優でも選べることが出来るのなら(あり得ない前提ですみません)、誰が「囀る~」 のキャラに一番イメージが近いと思いますか?
(4) What are your top ten yaoi manga by other mangaka?
先生の一番好きなBL漫画を10作教えてください。もし答えにくいのであれば、どういうBL漫画が個人的にお好みですか?
(She might be hesitant to directly name titles as her favorites since she has many BL mangaka friends who she might be afraid to offend with her answer. So I’ve added : If it’s difficult to answer this question, what kind of yaoi manga do you like in general?)
(5) Which of her couples are reversible? If none are, would you ever draw a reversible couple?*
先生は リバーシブル についてどう思いますか?先生のカップルの中にはリバCPがいますか?小野田と出口ならリバあり得るかなと思いますが、もし違うのなら、いつかリバカプを描きたいと思いますか?
(What do you think about reversible couples? Do any of your couples like to switch? Onoda and Deguchi kind of seem like they would, but if I’m wrong, would you ever draw a reversible couple?)
(6) What’s a detail in one of your works that you think most people don’t notice?
今まで描いてきた漫画を振り返ってみると、こだわったわりにはなかなか読者に注目されていないところ、又はあまり気付かれていないところなどありますか?
(7) Do you get *feels* when you read your own work?
先生はご自分の作品に萌えられますか?
(8) Is there a Yoneda Kou “universe” in which all or many of her works take place? Now that we’ve seen Shark and Whale from “Saezuru” in “Op,” I really want to know whether Masaki from “Nights” (police, drug division) and Ryouji from “Why do you love me anyway” (police, organized crime division) know Yashiro’s sex friend … (No. 1)
ヨネダ先生の多くの作品の舞台になった「ヨネダコウの世界」みたいな設定がありますか?鮫と鯨は「囀る~」にもOpにも現れますが、NightSの真崎は「俺に恋して~」の良司や「囀る~」の矢代の(警察の)セフレとの知り合いですか?とても気になります。
(9) Does Yashiro have any particular feelings about his birthday? Did any specific event happen that might have soured the occasion for him?
矢代は自分の誕生日について何か特別な気持ちを抱いていますか?昔、その日には何か嫌なこととかありましたか?
(10) Who is Yoneda-sensei type of man among all the characters she has created, and why?
ヨネダ先生が考えたキャラクターの中から、個人的に誰が一番タイプですか?こういう人がいれば気になるというキャラはいますか? 理由も教えてください。
Bonus Questions:
1. How does Yoneda Kou feel about the love she gets from foreign fanbases? (@lustfulcat )
先生は海外のファンもたくさんいるかと思いますが、そのことについてどう思いますか?もし何か伝えたいことがあれば教えてください。
2. Would she consider a Saezuru OVA / is that something she eventually wants? (@lustfulcat )
もしそういう機会があれば、先生はご自分の作品のアニメ化を望ましいと思いますか?どの作品が一番アニメに向いていると思いますか?
(Worded more generally: Do you like the idea of one of your works to be made into an anime? Which one of them do you think would be suited best?)
3. We know why Kageyama fell in love with Kuga, but what is it that attracts Kuga to Kageyama? What are their dates like?
景山は久我のことをギラギラやイケイケと言いますが、久我は景山のどういうところに惹かれてますか?2人のデートはどんな感じでしょうか?
4. Will there ever be a continuation of Yorube Naki Mono?
「寄る辺無き者」の続きがとても気になります。いつか続編が読めるでしょうか。
Notes:
*@wouldnt-touch-you-anyway kindly reminded me that Sensei had once said in an interview that she liked gentle semes like Doumeki and Onoda who ultimately wouldn’t mind being uke if their partner asked them to. She also said that Togawa probably wouldn’t switch.
Title: I Will Be Waiting For You In 1999 Author: D Jun
I want to protect you forever… Because you and I have no other loved ones in this world. The coming-of-age story of two orphans who become best friends. Original Webcomic
this tumblr has been, for most of its existence, just a way for me to reblog privately any posts I wanted to keep for myself, of any fandom I've been part of through the years, with a very poor (read, non-existent) tagging system.
However, over the past few years, I have been going through a rough patch with an important person in my life. This person was someone with whom I could discuss things, fandoms yes, but also just anything in my life. As the rough patch has been quite continuous, I find myself needing to exteriorize some of those musings and thought processes. I started writing them down in my journal, but then they are quite random and not deep by any means, and thus seemed a bit incongruous with the rest of the journal. I therefore decided to experiment on this blog (I also can't deal with the admin of more than one account, so it will all be here).
I don't expect to have much of those, but if anyone following would prefer not to have these ramblings on their feed, I will tag these posts with two tags: bubreherro and bubreherro thoughts. Feel free to filter them out.
That being said, I feel this will lead to some written analyses as part of my current fandom, Formula 1 (specifically Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr, with some other drivers too).
voilà
Also, I guess it will finally be time to figure out tumblr.. years after the fact ^^;
Ha, I just sent @evilpixiea an ask about Rebirth, and came back to read this.
My problem is, I actually like New 52 Supes, but finding answers is not so easy! Haha how in the world did he go from leaping to flying??
I know he’s dead now.. but I liked it.
I’m gonna start into rebirth in 2018... does anyone even remember him?
Hi! I just finished reading the fourth part of your omegaverse series on ao3. It was soooooo good. Your characterizations are really realistic and I love the way you write. I've never been into the DCU fandom before, but after reading your fic, I've been sucked in! I'm not really sure where to start because there's so much. Could you possibly point me in a direction?
You have a few options.
If you’re looking for Batman a good beginner-friendly place to start would be Scott Snyder’s work on the New 52. It starts with Batman: The Court of Owls and continues with some other really good stories after that. You can buy it in trade paperback from any good comic book store or online. Also in the New 52 and by Scott Snyder is Superman: Unchained which is, likewise, a good comic for people just getting to know the universe and the characters.
In fact, while there is a lot of criticism of the New 52 one thing it did do well was make the universe accessible to new readers. I would also recommend Geoff John’s Aquaman and Brian Azzarello’s Wonder Woman (if you’re a fan of Greek Myth) from the New 52. Green Lantern was also amazing but might not be a great place for beginners.
A lot of Superbat fans started shipping with the Superman/Batman series by Jeph Loeb which I personally am not hugely into but because so many people in this fandom are I would still recommend it.
Stepping back a bit I also enjoyed the 90s Nightwing Series by Chuck Dixon and back even further the New Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman is absolute gold once you get over the way comics were written in the 80s.
There are a lot better comics than that but I am trying to think of stuff which inspired my writing which would be good for someone starting out.
If, though, you would rather not do comics there are other options.
This is probably a good way to jump into the bat family as they have some simplified versions of famous bat stories. The best in my opinion is Batman: Under the Red Hood.
There is also a whole chain of movies with Bruce and Damian. I personally am on the fence about them as they are VERY simplified but they’re actually a pretty good place to start if you’re a bit confused as to how Damian fits into everything.
If you’re getting bored of movies and want something longer then the Justice League Animated Series is the place to be. That for me was really where I fell in love with the universe ad with Clark and Bruce. Yes, it’s a kid’s show, but I would highly recommend. It is also a really good place just to get to know other members of the DCU. The series eventually evolves into Justice League Unlimited which has a really diverse cast of characters… but it starts slow with just seven iconic heroes.
Here are some of my favourite DC fanfic writers:
FabulaRasa
Skalidra
Mithen
BuckinghamAlice
ohmcgee
Plus there are heaps of others out there that I either can’t remember, can’t find, or haven’t discovered. If you hunt around I am sure you’ll be able to find some cool rec lists to hit up.
Otherwise, I am really glad you liked my work and thanks so much for leaving such a lovely message. It’s always a treat to come back from work to see another pair of thumb up aimed in my direction. <3
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(ty @rb19, @reigningm4x, + @blamemma for the source work 🤍)
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