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I finally posted my first commissioned fic lmao. I think you'll really like it if you like mind control/hypnosis gay fiction

Unfortunately it’s a one shot since the commissioner only paid for a single chapter. I’m definitely open to continuing it though, or any of my other stories by brute forcing it (most of them are almost done but are in development hell), should anyone else pay me 20$ for a choose my own plot with your characters commission.

If you or anyone else is interested you’re totally free to dm me on discord at abyssmaluser#7790 so we can discuss what you want.

I have plenty of ideas for chapter two for this fic already haha.

It took me a while but I finally drew the main characters from one of my original stories (which there is a lot, heh heh). I still need to color them tho.

Here's another Nightwing, I actually drew this one before the other one I posted, but I don't really like this one, I think something about how I colored the skin is funky. Any suggestions?

Obscure Hero Essays?

Hi, I feel bad for my poor followers and my lack of posting. Some of you may not know I’m a HUGE superhero and comic book nerd. Ive been thinking about writing an essay about my all time fave obscure super hero Guy Gardner and how not only is he the best and most underutilized Green Lantern but there’s a ton of interesting angels and storylines not being utilitized.

Also, Tora aka Ice of DC Comics deserves to be written about beyond her relationship with Guy and her Best friend and potential love interest Fire. I want to do an essay on how Tora became a symbol of women fighting against stuffed in a refrigerator syndrome and how nodboy recognizes it.

Would anybody be interested in me writing it?

I'm going to watch the cartoon, 2001, and 2016 versions of the Tick and then write a review about how I think comedy is a better way of deconstructing the superhero genre than certain gory superhero shows.

(Pretty sure the comics will be different but I'll get to that much later.)

mcu has done IRREPERABLE damage to the public view of superheroes and im not even kidding. so many people (especially in leftist spaces!) when they think superhero think "soulless profit-driven husk of vaguely liberal ideologies". i am begging and pleading and screaming and throwing up and jumping onto spikes please read a green arrow comic or doom patrol or anything please i promise you superheroes have merit and worth i promise you the mcu is lying to you and superheroes have so much more potential than disney allows them to experience PLEASE *foam dripping from lips*

All of the above please

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The original "Damn Bitch you live like this?"

take a picture, it might last longer 💘🍽️😋🫀🥩

A supervillain. One almost no her believed was able to be defeated long term. Announced to the entire heroic organization that they're joining the team. Turns out this villain's mortal, completely human child was dated to become a hero. Knowing that there's never a truly happy ending for those do-gooders and that their kid would never last amongst basically gods that walk on Earth the villain dons a new costume and turns their offspring into the greatest superhero that ever lived. A single line is whispered to their sleeping little one one night. "If it means protecting you. Then I will become a hero too."

Ain’t no party like a speedster party, ‘cause a speedster party is fast.

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Prompt #96

Superhero and Supervillain are both de-aged without their memories of their adult lifes and they somehow become best friends.

Prompt #82

There is a superhero team with two members who are constantly arguing. But most of the time it’s about one of them who got themselves into too much danger or something like this, and everyone can tell that they are just really worried about each other.

Naturally the whole team ships them and they make matchmaking plans.

Little do they know that the two have already been married for a long time.

Prompt #81

When the hero finds out, that the supervillain is just a teenager and an orphan, they adopt the villain.

The villain is not happy about this (but maybe one day they will be).

Prompt #77

When a supervillain gets amnesia because of a car crash, they forget everything about the past twenty years. Therefore, they don’t remember getting powers and becoming a villain. And since no one knows the villain’s secret identity, nobody comes looking for them.

So they live a normal life until they rediscover their powers one day. That day they decide to become a superhero.

Things get complicated, when the new superhero starts to remember their past...

Prompt #76

Two ex-archenemies meet again years after they both retired from the superhero/ supervillain business and actually get along quiet well.

Prompt #75:

Supervillain: „Welcome to this job interview. As you may have heard, my archenemy recently retired. And that is why you are here. By the end of the day, one of you will be lucky enough, to call themself my new archenemy!“

Captured Superhero Number 1: „That is not how becoming archenemies works.“

The other captured heroes agree. The supervillain disagrees.

Prompt #69

The supervillain won and finally achieved world domination. It’s all they ever wanted, all they ever dreamed of, but somehow they don’t feel what they expected to. They should feel good. Ecstatic. Content. Satisfied.

Happy.

But they don’t. They just feel empty and restless.

And alone.

So they make themself a new costume and rescue their own archenemy out of their own prison...

Prompt #68

You are a superhero with a secret identity. Or it should be a secret identity, but somehow you are not very good at lying. So everyone knows who you are.

However, nobody ever admits knowing your secret (even though you know that they know).

So when you are standing in the middle of your room in your costume without your mask, you are not really surprised, that your roommate only says: „Cool cosplay.“

Prompt #61

The League of Supervillains sends one of their lesser known members undercover. Said member poses as a superhero to infiltrate the Superhero-Team. And they succeed.

However, the villain has accidentally made friends among the heroes while undercover. They never had friends before. (Among the villains there are no friends, only allies as long as they have a common goal and after that nobody is surprised to get stabbed in the back (literally and figuratively)).

Therefore, the villain doesn’t want to betray his first friends, but neither can they tell them the truth. And if they betray the League of Supervillains, they soon will be right on top of every villain’s to-kill-list...

Prompt #57

You may be a villain, but not one of the really bad ones. You are actually just a low level thief.

However, you somehow accidentally acquired some kind of super-weapon, made to destroy superheroes (and everything in a 10km radius around them). Since you kinda like this world, you can’t risk this weapon getting in the wrong hands. So you look for a save way to destroy it.

Would be easier, if not every supervillain and superhero were after you (or more precisely: after the weapon).

Prompt #54

A lot of superheroes keep their identity a secret by acting differently in and out of costume.

So what happens, when the superhero-team finds out, that the supposedly grumpiest, unhappiest and most silent hero is without his mask a real sunshine?

Prompt #53

You are a supervillain. You also have been de-aged due to a failed experiment. However, that will not stop your evil plans.

...If your archenemy would just take you seriously. (No, you are not cute, you are very dangerous and you will destroy this city, so if the hero could just stop looking at you, like you were some kind of puppy, that would be great.)

Prompt 41

There are aliens that can possess humans and control their bodies and minds. Somehow these aliens managed to possess every superhero in the world and they are using their superpowers to destroy humanity.

Now the last hope are the supervillains, who have to save the world from the heroes.

Your supervillain nemesis is little more than goofy comedy relief, always coming up with clunky machines and insane, nonsensical schemes. When a new dangerous villain appeared, your nemesis utterly destroyed them, and then continued on like nothing happened.

"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

MARVELous

Avengers Infinity War

The interesting, underutilized thing about the intersection of superheroism and apocalyptic fiction- zombie fiction in particular- is that a core part of the appeal of the superheroic fantasy is that you're simply powerful enough that you don't have to make hard choices or do triage; you can just save everyone. Whereas zombie fiction is basically predicated on so much going wrong at once that saving yourself becomes a stretch goal. A total societal collapse highlights the ways in which the superheroic power fantasy was always kind of quietly dependent on the continued existence of modern society to function- the extent to which a superhero's basic identity is being outsourced to the continued existence of observers, to your continued success at the project of keeping those observers alive so they can continue to agree that you're a superhero. If everyone is going insane and eating each other and you're an indestructible guy who can bench press a car, suddenly that's all you are. Applicable to the scenario at hand, sure. You're in a better position to survive than most. But that's all that you are.

I'm asexual and spent my childhood reading the DC & Marvel character encyclopedias over and over

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