sillylittleclownsblog - Tumblr blog

sillylittleclownsblog · 13 days

Text

Damian 🤝 Hades: Kidnapping people

Jon 🤝 Persephone: getting kidnapped

533 notes · View notes

sillylittleclownsblog · 13 days

Photo

had to draw proper art of my favorite hero team

834 notes · View notes

sillylittleclownsblog · 2 months

Text

#this is 100% Alastor #alastor #hazbin hotel

1 note · View note

sillylittleclownsblog · 3 months

Text

Please join us in a global demonstration is solidarity with Palestine. Boycott! Strike! Walkout! Pickett!

🍉🍉🍉🍉

15K notes · View notes

sillylittleclownsblog · 4 months

Text

Happy New Year!🐉

Thank you for 2023, and looking forward to 2024!

The zodiac sign for Japan this year is the Dragon 🐉!

So, I drew Dragon Medusa-chan.

This year, I'll work hard with the strong and intense spirit of a dragon!

4K notes · View notes

sillylittleclownsblog · 4 months

Text

"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. [EDIT: I SCREWED UP! This was created in 2019 by the guy who runs the Midnighter-Core page on Facebook, and Joey just reposted it!]

So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe is fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

- Midnighter-Core, 2019

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0bU6TrKdX6QgMLnUFk64jResHMVwiSyENASvJk7efasgZ94G4c81XJCVgGcLFPgPsl&id=594855544368212&mibextid=Nif5oz

50K notes · View notes

sillylittleclownsblog · 4 months

Text