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Do you know this Jewish character?

#baby im in love with him ofc i know her #also some of the tags on this are so rancid....@ everyone read spectre 2001 idek what to say

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pov: you’re flying into coast city and look out the window

#hal jordan

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carol's relationship with star sapphire is so thematically enriching in context of the discordance between power and agency in green lantern comics. the power that she (and hal!) possesses is a) contingent upon her ability to fulfill a given role in the hierarchical establishment and b) thrust upon her without her consent!!!! her role at ferris air is a condition of her father's approval, while star sapphire exists as a violation of her personal autonomy—which is why it's so fascinating to unpack her motives when she does choose to pursue its power. carol's worst offenses are consistently a reaction to the destabilization of her environment: predator manifested in response to carl's belittlement and jason bloch's attack; star sapphire only targeted green lantern after the zamarons abandoned her. it's the revelation of her true lack of agency that drives her to lash out. power is illusory as long as someone else controls it—this was carol ferris' mantra long before it ever became parallax's

#carol's deal is that she denies the fact she cannot win the system and that her success is contingent on how she acts as a woman #despite the fact that she is simultaneously aware that she was placed within that system against her own personal desire #carol ferris

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get ready for an exuberant summer

#need this

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starman — jack knight

#jack knight

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As someone who is a barry allen stan, you are personally oppressing me by claiming that he is a Republican because superheroes are good people and conservatives are all evil!!! Are you implying that barry allen is not a good person

i think barry allen is the worst person ever i hate how he's a nuanced character with politics that don't match with mine and i hate how those politics enforce the decisions he makes as the flash which in turn separates his relationship to the cowl from that of his successor and what's more those beliefs coupled with his own character flaws ended up leading him to one of the worst moments in his life (i.e; the death of eobard thawne) and how that def didn't make him a better more complicated character than before....also he microwaved a baby once what a freak.

#anyway hi karol #.asks

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Not the “hate” anon, but if you don’t like Wally, which of the Flashes do you like? I like them all, but I have a soft spot for Avery and Ace despite how stupid some of the comics they’re in are.

hi anon there's been a misunderstanding here because im a wally superfan and he's my favorite dc character of all time lol. but i also rly like barry and and max, with a soft spot for bart, jesse, and jay in that order. i haven't really seen much of either avery or ace since i stopped reading modern flash comics about two years ago but i liked ace when he was around. i would have rly loved an in depth look into any potential tension ace and wally would've had with each other but the dynamic of "you're my universal doppleganger and i feel rly weird about how my loved ones interact with you in comparison to me" got dropped way too quickly.......

#like man i have so many questions about ace where does that kid even live now... #.asks

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what does it take to get authentic hate mail that isn't a psyop from my mutuals.......

you're such a poser i bet you don't actually like wally 🙄

this is the best ask i've ever gotten. to address the accusations: yes

#karol u should've kept it a secret that ask was so fucking funny man #.asks #karol tag

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you're such a poser i bet you don't actually like wally 🙄

this is the best ask i've ever gotten. to address the accusations: yes

#JKSDFHJKSDFHKSFKSDKF #.asks

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i made a league of comic geeks account b/c i wanted to look at my statistics and someone explain to me how batman is my third most-read character WHEN I HAVE NEVER READ A BATMAN BOOK.

#this man is a DISEASE what the FUCK #logging in all the jla stuff i read fucking ruined me. you know whose titles i also haven't read? hawkman. or wonderwoman. or superman. #also wally is number 8....this list makes me feel like a middle-aged man i have no swag #i posted this on the wrong blog first no one saw that <3 #.mine

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Kyle: exists Wally: Bitch.

#TOP TIER WALLYKYLE MOMENT !!!!!!! 🥴🥴🎆🎆🎆🥳🥳💃👯💃💃 #wally west

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the "start a fight with kyle" reflex is so strong, he hears the name and just starts swinging

#will never forget the one panel where Wally’s in a jail cell cursing out kyle. girl he’s not even in the issue 😭😭😭 #wally west #kyle rayner

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from a practical standpoint i think the main difference between green arrow and his oft compared foil batman is that the former's moral code is so dependant on his own emotional reactions. ollie can and will bend the ethical standard for his idea of "justice" (i.e; capital punishment is fine if he's the one doing it) and so his own principles are flexible to an ill-defined perception of virtue. in comparison, batman follows a set of social mores (i.e; his famous "no killing" rule) that are maintained without exception. his condemnation over what is and isn't acceptable stems from whether that action is direct or indirect, and so his rationale to who is culpable for a crime is inflexible no matter their intentions. the common area here is that both of these philosophies are rooted in their own lived experiences and that respective trauma informs how their moral code can be compromised.

#oliver queen #batman #<- first time i have ever tagged that man im a changed person #citations include: roobylavender + halcarols + some random batman meta b/c idk shit about him #.mine

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lrb is also why i wish there was more of an impact of hal's death on wally in terms of moral code because the thing wally consistently took away from his admiration of hal was his sense of duty and responsibility in the face of being vested with immense power but at least as waid wrote him wally was also skeptical of external authority that interfered with what one might call the "truth" or "sincerity" of his heroism and if anything hal's death should have been something to exacerbate this viewpoint. in this essay i will

#mmmmmmmmm #smth smth wally as a legacy hero smth smth his contemptuous first opinion of kyle stemming from the concept of duty #smth smth alex in some part being killed b/c of kyle's idealism of the superhero identity smth smth wally not having a secret identity #idk where the dots connect here im ruminating on it.... #wally west

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it's very significant to me hal jordan's origin stands in contrast to the stereotypical superhero—one who independently pursues vigilantism—in that he did not become a green lantern his own volition, but was rather propelled into the role and limply adopted it as sacred doctrine. he navigates his entire heroic career while extremely susceptible to some ambiguous authority's tenet of morality. which is not to say he lacks principles or methodology,, but it's ollie's (yet another external influence whom hal holds in high regard) prompting that leads him to question the institution he's upholding for the first time. even hal's definitive tragic backstory exacerbates his desire to prostrate himself in the face of authority rather than yielding a moral code of his own (i.e. batman's no killing rule)!! the innate qualities for which he was selected were the very traits that primes him for indoctrination; he was dutiful and doomed from the start

#w/ this i think its important to note how hal acted when he was parallax i.e; when he governed his own moral code instead of followed one #in that he doesn't have a clear direction of what to do or how to act and reverts back to old habits (ex: tries to get ring from kyle) #he's fully aware that his desires contradict themselves but has no internal agency to be able to stop himself from a moral standpoint #so his solution is reliant on an external stimulus (coast city) to go back to when there WAS a system he was comfortable following #tl;dr i think hal's a dog thats either beaten or starved and sometimes fed #karol making me rewrite all my damn tags yayyyy

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the new teen titans #15 (1982)

#i miss him so bad #wally west

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boy be upon ye

#bart allen