Betsy's Bday Shenanigans🎉

bring back TJ! Nightcrawler needs a daughter of questionable parentage

So, I just finished reading Maze of the Beast and made a rather interesting observation. 

This is the first book of the series where Dain features prominently. The decription of him from Lief’s perspective, and his growing respect for his strength and bravery all signal to Lief’s admiration of the other boy. Prior to this, Lief shows basically no romantic interest in Jasmine (he obviously cares for her a great deal, but I wouldn’t describe his feelings at this point as romantic). And a funny thing happens here. When Lief notices Dain admiring Jasmine for her skills and manner, he feels jealous. An odd thing, that, because you would think that if he was interested in Jasmine, he would be jealous in Jasmine showed interest in Dain, not the other way around, and she shows no such emotions. It’s hard to be jealous of someone feeling for another person, when those feelings don’t exist. Not to mention Lief has show little indication of similar feelings for Jasmine. So who, then is Lief jealous of? Is it possible that our dear boy is in fact rather hurt that Dain is showing an interest in his best friend, rather than himself? It’s something to think on, at least.

Basically, I’m saying that Lief had a crush on Dain well before he ever had one on Jasmine. Because seriously, someone try and provide me with a heterosexual explanation for what happens in that book, really.

Betsy Braddock Butterfly Sun 🦋

LEADING WOMEN OF THE EXILES BLINK → FAN BINGBING TJ WAGNER → ALINA SERBAN MARIKO YASHIDA → TAO OKAMOTO HEATHER HUDSON → JASIKA NICOLE

So we all know Jason is a huge literature nerd and reads a shit ton in his free time

and since Jason's always on the move, he might not own many books (since he might need to abandon them), like maybe only a few that are his favourites

so i imagine that Jason frequently hangs out at libraries or bookshops in Gotham in order to get his weekly reading in.

Anyways, I headcanon that Jason totally hangs out at his designated library/bookshop but in his full Red Hood gear because he's well known by the librarians and bookstore owners to the point where it's just normal to be chilling at any of these places only to suddenly see this huge 6'0 hunk of armor covered in blood walk in just to sit in a corner and read.

It started out as Jason visiting these places as his civilian identity like a normal person, but one time he came back from patrol and was so tired that he just didn't care what others would think and just walked right into a library without changing and went straight to reading

Gothamites are used to seeing weird shit everyday so obviously they don't bat an eye, and the employees aren't paid enough to deal with this shit so they don't give a fuck, and ever since then, Jason just doesn't bother with his attire anymore.

i like to think Jason can just chill out at these places with a bag of heads and still not be bothered by anyone

Non-Gothamite visiting for the first time: Is-is that the Red Hood?

Bookstore employee who's been here since the beginning of Jason's visits: Yup.

Non-Gothamite: Is uh..Is that allowed?

Employee: You mean reading? Well yeah, I mean this IS a bookstore.

Non-Gothamite: No—yeah I get that..I meant the uh..didn't he decapitate like six crime bosses in one night?

Employee: Seven, but yeah.

Non-gothamite, baffled: but—aren't those dead bodies in the bag next to him..?

Employee, completely unbothered: Oh, those. Well as long as he cleans up his mess before he leaves.

Non-Gothamite:

Jason, completely oblivious to the world around him and enjoying his book: :D

also, Jason totally keeps the libraries and bookstores under his supervision and makes sure that they're protected from villain attacks

sometimes he'll be reading stories to random children who approach him and will end up with a circle of kids listening to him read by the end of the day

also also, sometimes other batkids will join him while in costume and they'll be huddled up in a lil bat pile in a corner reading stories :)

(these are just dumb little thoughts I have. feel free to add!)

mentions of 616 hawkeye’s deafness prior to 2014

see here for my simplified timeline of 616 clint barton’s deafness

clint barton debuted in 1964 as a hearing character. in the last issue of his first solo series, hawkeye vol. 1 #4 (released in december 1983), clint became hard of hearing when he activated his hypersonic arrowhead in his mouth to drown out a mind-control frequency:

clint’s subsequent official marvel handbook entries would note that he was 80% deaf in both ears:

he would remain so up until either 1996 or the end of 1997, after which he was hearing once again (we’ll get to his re-deafening in 2014 later). the following panels will focus on the 1984-1996 period.

clint returned to the avengers after the events of his solo series in avengers #239 (1984), wherein he informed the team of his hearing loss and was given a hearing aid (which he chooses not to wear in the issue because he’s appearing on tv):

he informs cap, who wasn’t present in #239, of his hearing loss (and elopement) in avengers #241 (1984):

his hearing loss isn’t brought up again until over a year later in west coast avengers v2 #1 (1985):

he first mentions that he’s wearing a hearing aid in captain america #317 (1986). this issue was written by mark gruenwald, who also wrote hawkeye v1 where clint was deafened, so he was in a good position to call back to it and remind the reader of this development:

all further acknowledgment of clint’s hearing loss in this period occurred in one series: solo avengers (later renamed to avengers: spotlight). it’s interesting to note that in all but one of these instances, clint is written as either turning down his hearing aid to avoid sound-based attacks, or “turning it up” to hear extraordinarily quiet noises.

the first instance is in solo avengers #9 (1988):

solo avengers #10 (1988) establishes in-comic that clint is 80% deaf in both ears, a specificity which had only previously been mentioned in his marvel handbook entries:

solo avengers #16 (1989) has clint hearing something that would be undetectable by an average hearing person. notably, this is also the only panel i’ve seen from 1984-1996 where clint visibly has a hearing aid. although as you can see, the coloring places it outside of his mask (half the time clint’s mask is portrayed as covering his ears and half not because of coloring):

here’s a sound attack dodge in solo avengers #17 (1989):

in avengers: spotlight #26 (1989), clint disables high-tech devices, and is shown not to hear tony speaking to him once his hearing aid is turned off in the last page:

in avengers: spotlight #28 (1990), clint is immune to the combined sound powers of the issue’s villains–where others perceived a visual illusion of them as other people, clint saw them in their true forms:

from what i’ve observed, there were no mentions of hearing loss or appearances of hearing aids from 1991-1996. so to tally these up, 6/10 of all mentions after hawkeye v1 #4, and all those after 1986, were from the same series.

in 1996, clint was killed in marvel’s onslaught event (along with most marvel heroes). he then appeared in marvel’s briefly rebooted universe, counter-earth (created by young franklin richards and accessible through his toy ball. yeah.). whether counter-earth hawkeye is considered the same person as 616 clint is a whole can of comic worms we’ll not worry ourselves with…

he did appear without a mask on counter-earth in avengers v2 #11 (1997). honestly, with how it’s drawn, i can’t entirely tell if it’s meant to be a hearing aid, some take on a futuristic hospital monitor, or what. in any case:

in 1998, clint is revived/returned, and is no longer deaf. an in-universe explanation for why is given in avengers annual v3 2001:

the editorial reason given for the change is that clint’s hearing loss was treated very inconsistently in-comics, and by ‘98, was largely not known among both writers and readers. this seems plausible; unless they had read hawkeye’s 1983 miniseries, consistently read solo avengers, or scoured what were essentially marvel encyclopedias, there had been little indication that clint was deaf (no visible hearing aids, not brought up in main titles for 12 years…). since it seemed to the writer that clint had continued to be written as if he were a hearing character, he decided to revert him to one.

clint’s period of hearing loss was acknowledged in she-hulk v2 #2 (2006), when jen walters states that clint knows sign language:

in fact, this appears to be the very first mention of clint knowing sign language, as ASL was never referenced in all preceding issues and handbooks.

in 2014, clint would be deafened again in hawkeye v4 #15. currently, the degree of his hearing loss and the type of hearing aids he wears–though usually a BTE when visible, and at times IICs in the form of “stark tech”–is dependent on the writer/series. here’s clint in hawkeye: freefall #6 (2020):

he is, however, shown to be fluent in ASL, as it was retconned in hawkeye v4 #19 that he had temporary hearing loss as a child and learned it with his brother

Jason (Wally's voice actor) keeps posting Spitfire love notes after every Artemis episode and now Steph (Artemis' voice actor) is commenting hearts with arrows through them and I'm- 🥺

Edited LINE sticker of Kris to be an icon, ft. Dark world edit. Transparent and with bg for whatever you want

Hey you know what just occurred to me

identical twins are never different sexes because they come from the same pair of gametes

So there are a couple of possibilities with Vax and Vex: - They're actually semi-identical twins, which is massively rare - They're fraternal twins that just happen to share an uncanny resemblance - Elves have Something Weird going on with their sex chromosomes - One of them is trans 👀 - Absolute handwave (the boring option)

top 10 black sails characters as voted by the fandom: #5-6 Anne Bonny

That fucking island. Makes you do shit you don’t wanna do. How is it we haven’t figured that out by now?