#ramblings of an arrow

[arrowpunk]

Life hack for Dungeon Masters: every time a porn bot follows you, before blocking it, write down the name to use for some future NPC

#ramblings of an arrow

[kingnd]

I knew this interaction would be awkward as fuck & I am so happy it happened.

#kingnd rambles #dc comics #tuesday spoilers #joshua williamson #green arrow #emiko queen #conner hawke

[soleminisanction]

I've always really liked DC's in-house choice of referring to their various superhero groupings as "families," but it has gotten a little frustrating recently with people both in canon and in fandom seeming to forget that families aren't just a parental-unit-and-kids formation. They're complicated, and a lot of the DC families are too messy to fit into that neat little nuclear family mode.

Which is to say... here's some scattered thoughts/summaries about how these families are actually structured in canon, because I think it's interesting:

Supers -- The smaller, more traditional Superfamily (Clark, Lois, Kara, Kon, etc.) is a pretty traditional Midwestern nuclear family, with Jimmy Olsen filling the role of close family friend/goofy neighbor sidekick (in the Silver Age, he was Kara's would-be suitor) and Steel feeling more like part of Clark's personal circle of friends. The recent line up, though, with Jon, the twins, Kong and Nat? Starts to feel more like some old dynasty or noble house, complete with fostered foundlings and the Steels acting almost like knights under a noble's banner, possibly reflective of what the House of El would have been on Krypton.

Arrows -- Might currently be the closet to a traditional nuclear family structure. You've got Ollie and Dinah, their younger sisters, Ollie's adopted and biological children, and Ollie's granddaughter through Roy, plus by some counts Roy's co-parent and her sister as "in-laws." Bonnie and Cissie King-Jones are adjacent to but not technically "part" of the family, though I believe it's implied at one point that Ollie might also be Cissie's bio-dad. Pretty straightforward, these guys are actually family and they act like it, for good and ill.

Shazam Family -- Also a literal, actual family. Not originally, the original golden age "Marvel Family" was considerably more complicated and only Billy and Mary were full siblings, but nowadays the whole point of the modern Shazam family is that they're foster siblings united by familial love and that's fantastic. Meanwhile your average Black Adam story is 75% angsty family drama, 25% Egyptian mythology references.

Flashes -- Technically closer to three nuclear families (the Allens, the Wests and the Garricks; four if you include the Quicks), two of whom are united by marriage and all of whom are bound by the Speedforce, which, given its semi-spiritual connections to things like Speedster afterlives, can act almost like a religious force that connects them to the additional members like Avery, Circuit Breaker and Max as Bart's foster-dad. They're a big, sprawling tree with more cousins than siblings, the kind of family that functionally has a reunion every Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Lanterns -- Now these guys are the exception that proves my point about the whole 'family' thing not being straightforward. The lanterns aren't a family, they're a corps. Soldiers. Space cops. Comrades-in-arms. They respect each other, have each other's backs, might even like or care about each other, but those last two are optional, and they don't have the same kind of assumed obligations towards each other that a family would have. They're friends and co-workers, not family, but that doesn't mean their relationships are less significant, they're just different.

Wonders -- Roughly half of them are either one of Hippolyta's daughters (Diana, Donna, Nubia pre-Crisis) or related to them through the gods (Cassie), and the other half (Artemis, Yara, modern-age Nubia) use sister as a term of endearment more in a utopian lesbian commune kind of way. I think they brought Steve Trevor back recently? He's basically the Ken in this equation and perfectly fine with that role. None of which should be surprising if you've seen Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

Bats -- This is the one that people get really wrong when they try to force it into a traditional family structure. Don't let WFA fool you, the Bats are and have always been way more a snarled mess of tangled interpersonal relationships than they've ever been a cohesive family. Whether Dick is Bruce's son or his brother depends on what era you're talking about, and the former reading is much more recent than you think -- as in "started cropping up in the early 2000s" recent. Barbara is both Cassandra's sister and her mother. Duke and Steph both have living parents and neither of them want or would ever dream of treating Bruce like their dad; Tim was the same way until his dad died. None of the Robins ever lived in the mansion together, nor did Cass. Babs considered Jean-Paul Valley her brother and Huntress is so close to Tim she once hallucinated him calling her Big Sister. They're a beautiful mess of people finding places where their broken edges fit together into something that works for them and trying to reduce it down to a cozy nuclear family is just so goddamn reductive and lazy.

Blue Beetles -- Are only tangentially related to each other. Seriously, they never even get direct mentoring, each one just takes over when the previous one dies and works on completely different rules from the other two. They're complete strangers bound by a legacy and that's honestly pretty fun.

Zataras -- There's only three of them and they're literally a father, daughter and cousin.

Martians -- Not really a family because there's only the two of them, but an interesting case where the two survivors of what was functionally a war of mutually assured destruction came together in an attempt to find some peace in the aftermath of what they'd lost.

Titans -- The JLA and JSA aren't really in the "family" category, but the Titans lean into it hard, mostly because they're a textbook found family. They don't mirror a nuclear family structure, they're simply a group of people who came together to form a mutual support network. They're the idealized college friends you grew into your own with, some of them childhood companions and others you only met once you leave home for the first time, but all of them friends that you manage to maintain contact with for life, with everyone coming back together even as you scatter and do your own things.

Young Justice -- Meanwhile, this team is the chaotic group of misfits you hung out with when you were a teenager, especially when you were just starting to be allowed to act without adult supervision. You drive each other crazy, none of you know you're all queer as fuck, and you'd fight a bear for any of them even if they asked you not to. They'd probably be insulted if you tried to call them a family. They come out here to get away from their families, thank you very much.

#dc comics #meta #batfamily #super family #arrow family #flash family #wonder women #shazam family #batman #superman #wonder woman #green lantern #teen titans #young justice #kinda rambling #just kinda throwing some ideas together #families of choice #non-traditional families

[vikingpoteto]

my favorite part of the Green Arrow lore is that Ollie constantly tells his kids to shoot him. If they're being mind controlled, confused or for any reason, his go to strategy is to go "sweetie, would shooting me make you feel better? if so, you can do it, it's fine" and it always causes the kid to snap back to reality. Ollie is the og "the real you would never pass a chance to die" and his family is always so repulsed by the idea of hurting him that they come back to their senses.

#green arrow #oliver queen #arrowfam #poteto rambling #tuesday spoilers #theyre so messy but they love each other so much #i wish they got more time #and maybe better writers and more time to develop stuff

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Broken Roofs and Fixed Perspectives

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #xue yang #xiao xingchen #Lots of cut content notes on this one. Lets all have a moment of silence for all the cut A-Qing's in each perspective. #particularly ripped and buff 'Daozhang Defender 'A-Qing (her perspective) #funny but poor layout #XY also had a red arrow pointed at him in his own POV that said 'just troubled' but it made the panel too cluttered. #He does see himself as troubled and uses that to justify his actions #but I also think there is room for him to not really know exactly how to feel about himself in this situation #Yi-city is such a fantastic tragedy for so many reasons and you will bear witness to me rambling about it in the tags as this arc continues #Helping a blind man fix a roof? A manipulative act of building trust or genuine display of wanting to collaberate? #XY and A-qing have experience of the cruelty of the world where as xxc has blind (haha) faith that kindness prevails #These three simultaneous know each other more than the other's think and *yet* completely miss the mark. #the stories they tell in the blizzard (and the reactions they have) so perfectly display who these characters are #Both xxc and xy tell stories about unfair cruelty. To xxc it is others who's suffering is highlighted. XY highlight's his own. #A-qing understands xue yang more that she wants to admit. She predicts the twists in xy's story and empathizes with the hurt and anger #A-qing is also taking advantage of xxc! She is also lying to survive! #Though shes mostly benign in her intentions. She really did vibe check the rank stank on XY's soul on the spot #Alas...no one listens to teen girls....

[sopuu]

top ten creeper trickshots

#i’m running out of captions #ouhh i missed drawing him with suspenders down #not using the vest from the old design coz then the movement won’t be so clear #jesse’s got soo many cool moves i love him sm #this and also the 360 spin slice?!! BIG favs #and ofc the fan favourite pose after the three headed ghast battle #this isn’t jesse but lukas’ jumping arrow shot to save jesse in s2e2 😍 #it’s the SOLE reason i always choose to craft the fishing rod i want to see him be cool!!! he needs more screentime!!!! #also fishing rod funny #i bet jesse would be fawning over that one moment afterwards #anyways i’m rambling. uhh tags #mcsm #minecraft story mode #mcsm jesse #mcsm fanart #my doodles #sopuuart

[bitter-hibiscus]

WHAT IF I BREAK DOWN SOBBING. WHAT THEN

#ramble ramble ramble #green arrow #arsenal dc #roy harper #oliver queen #dc comics

[zickmonkey]

I love how she holds the whole team together <3

#green arrow (2023) issue 10 #green arrow (2023) #dc comics #black canary #comics #dinah lance #green arrow and black canary #green arrow #oliver queen #roy Harper #speedy #red arrow #jamie shut the fuck up #personal blog #just vibing #rambling

[wren-of-the-woods]

It just occurred to me that Jaskier’s lute is broken for Geralt’s sake every season of the show

#it seems like they fix it pretty quickly in s3 after the arrow shot but still #wren talks #jaskier #the witcher #twn #geralt #geraskier #don’t mind me just COVID ramblings

[stressedjester]

Don't worry Pat I thought it was funny

#i liked him in this comic he was goofy and respectful #meffy rambles #plastic man #black canary #the comic is green arrow and black canary btw #plas posting

[arrowpunk]

My dad texted and said he'd like to talk and to let him know when a good time to call would be and I feel like I am gonna puke.

#ramblings of an arrow #first attempted reach out from either parent since I came out #objectively this is a good thing #that they still want to talk #I am just so ready for it to be trying to 'fix' me

[lunarlilygarden]

Me and the gang not knowing what we're doing in our group project:

#cookie run #cookie run kingdom #crk #last cookie standing #espresso cookie #madeleine cookie #tea knight cookie #rye cookie #gelato trio cookie #milky way cookie #caramel arrow cookie #affogato cookie #cream unicorn cookie #dreamy rambles

[dootznbootz]

I need "Ithaca's waiting~, my kingdom is waiting~

PENELOPE'S WAITING~ For me!"

Injected into my goddamn veins. I don't even have a lover but as soon as you hear that lyric, you just fucking MISS HER.

Penelope is just a name at this point. We've heard it said before (still with extreme longing but that's a different ramble) but we as the audience of this musical have not met her yet. But you feel that excitement and utter joy at the thought of seeing her once more. Joy for this woman we don't know. Just how he says it tells you that this man would do anything ("horrendous horrifying actions" type of anything) to see her again and keep her safe/happy. You just sit there loving her just as much. Love that he would kill you for even having

With the first two lines, it's his men echoing his sentiment: Excitement to go home. But at Penelope, it's ALL those voices together with no echo. Penelope isn't waiting for them like their homeland is, they don't feel that way for her. But Odysseus' adoration is so profound that it needs multiple voices to even release it. Even the fact that the chorus is silent at "for me" is telling you that the fact that she's waiting is what's most important. PENELOPE IS HIS HOME. He's "just a man, She's everything" type of adoration!!!!!! He truly would trade the world to see his son and wife!!!

Even with how he says "Full Speed Ahead" after that kind of drifts off like he's already daydreaming about it and I'm just a fucking MESS. He daydreams in the Odyssey already and I love it so much.

I LISTEN TO THESE PARTS OVER AND OVER! IT IS WHAT REVIVES ME!

#“I FUCKING LOVE PENELOPE!” *Gets shot in the neck with an arrow immediately by Odysseus for my hubris and thinking I deserve her* #and he's so right. I do not deserve her. “Nobody” does🥹 #I will never get over his devotion to her. He's Besotted. Enamored. Adoring. Lovesick. Obsessed. AAAAAaaaaAAAAAnd SO AM I! #I understand him completely for it. I too would kill for Penelope. I would do so many things for Penelope. She'd swindle my stuff #And I would let her. #Penelope~ You want my credit card info???? (*˘︶˘*).｡*♡ Penelopeeeee~ #I LOVE THEM SO MUCH #crying shaking throwing up #odysseus #odypen #penelope #epic the musical #full speed ahead #epic the troy saga #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #essay

[vikingpoteto]

I know it has its problems but will any comic book ever start as hard as Green Arrow Vol.3 did? Ollie came back to life because his best friend achieved god status and decided what the world needed was Oliver Queen. Green Arrow inspired a Mia to save herself, stab her abuser and then she proceeded to reverse adopt herself into his family. Ollie was queerbaited. Connor awakened psychic powers that told him Ollie was back and that was never brought up again.

#poteto rambling #green arrow #oliver queen #mia dearden #connor hawke #the only complaint i have about that start is that eddie didn't follow connor #that was ooc #eddie would follow connor to hell and back #but ga vol 3 is my favorite for a reason

[gretahayes]

Green Arrow (2001) #5

^ not too significant but I've seen this around & I like knowing where stuff is from

#my rambles #comic panel #bruce wayne #steph brown #rus reads roy comics #bruce & steph #though i wonder whats goin on in the bat world atp #rus reads green arrow 2001

[amugoffandoms]

"It's all for making something-Toks to sell your name. (Just for all your vanity, it's the worst, good night.)"

"No way I'm okay with ending it like this! I'm sure what we truly want isn't the money."

Cyberpunk Dead Boy Fuuta!! The second I heard the song, I was like I need to draw him in it right now. Here are the original shots!

Here are some banger versions of the song I listened to!:

English Cover by ami!

The PJSK Cover that I took the shots from!

The Original Song!

Under the cut is the original screenshots!

#mug draws #milgram #milgram fanart #fuuta kajiyama #kajiyama fuuta #should i ramble about my art in the tags uhh yes yes. #this song is so fuuta i dont even know. #the cover was the particular inspiration for making me draw this #IT'S BULLSHIT SO SAY BYE BYE TO THOSE MELODIES!! FUCK EVERYONE WHO LIES LIES FOR VIRALITY!! #this both looks and does not look like my art style. #PEN FADE TOOL IS A GOOD SHADER FOR HAIR ODDLY???? #UM also the lyrics #there was spraypaint in the back of the second drawing and i was like. IT'S BACKDRAFT REFERENCE TIME. #DO YOU SEE THE FUUTA SILHOUETTE SPRAY PAINT?? WRNT CRAZY FOR THAT. #AND THE GUILTY ARROW YEAHHH #ohh i love this a lot :D