Literally just came to tumblr because ao3 is down just to see it’s number one trending
I am BEGGING you all to please watch My Adventures With Superman.
It's everything you've ever wanted in a Superman. Kind. Wholesome. Altruistic. A total fucking dweeb.
And I love every bit of it so much.
CLARK KENT IS NOT A HIMBO. HE IS NOT STUPID. YOU HAVE TO BE STUPID, HUNKY, AND NICE TO BE A HIMBO. HE IS HUNKY, NICE AND SMART. COME ON PEOPLE.
A Himbo is Pure of Heart, Dumb of Ass, and Hot As Hell.
Clark Kent is intelligent, but he is also Very Much a Dumbass and therefore fully qualifies as a Himbo.
Margot Robbie at the Barbie premiere, channeling Solo in the Spotlight Barbie.
Iconic
“My adventures with Superman Clark Kent isn’t stupid so he can’t be a himbo” yes that is a smart man but he’s stupid socially so it still counts he is a himbo
Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers (SPOILERS if you haven't seen the show yet):
Lois Lane has a cut out clip of Vicki Vale. Vicki Vale is a journalist in Gotham City. Her first appearance was in Batman #49 (1948) as seen in the panel here (W: Bill Finger, A: Lew Sayre and Bob Kane, I: Charles Paris, L: Ira Schnapp).
Looks like Jimmy is a fan of Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask. Good video game taste.
Jimmy mentions a psychic starfish and the one starfish in the DC universe who is psychic is Starro the Conqueror, who's first appearance is in Brave and the Bold 28 (1960) (the cover art here is done by Mike Sekowsky, Murphy Anderson, and Ira Schnapp) and has the power to mind control people.
Lois, after barging into Perry White's office about a story, mentions Mt. Simonson. This is a neat name drop to Superman: The Man of Steel writer Louise Simonson, one of the nicest comic book writers you'll ever meet. She helped co-create John Henry Irons a.k.a Steel with artist of the Superman: The Man of Steel comic, Jon Bogdanove (really hope we get to see Irons in this show too).
Jon Bogdanove also gets a name drop here as does...
Dan Jurgen, comic book writer and artist on the Superman comic in the 90s (also one of my favorite Superman artists). Now who are these kids that call themselves the Newskid Legion? Well, they are a VERY deep DC cut and reference to the Newsboy Legion back in the 1940s. The group was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, LEGENDARY comic book creators.
The page here is from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #16 (1986) with the art by Jack Kirby and Karl Kesel. Most of the Newskid Legion is named after the Newsboy Legion members
Gabby and Big Words here share names with their Newsboy Legion counterparts as does Flip Johnson...
who shares names with Walter "Flip" Johnson here on the cover of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olson #137 (1971) which was done by Jack Kirby, Neal Adams, and Gaspar Saladino.
Patty, the cartoonist of the Newskid Legion homages this panel from Adventures of Superman #500 (1993) (W: Karl Kesel, P: Tom Grummet, I: Doug Hazelwood, C: Glenn Whitmore, L: Albert DeGuzman), the first appearance of Superboy, Conner Kent/ Kon-El.
But who is the one below that drawing? We'll his name is in Big Word's word puzzle, in the show. It's Jim Harper, the Guardian.
Jim Harper becomes the Newsboy Legion's legal guardian despite their causing trouble for him. The page here is from Star Spangled Comics #7, the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian's first appearance, by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, and Whitney Ellsworth. You might've seen the Guardian on the recent Young Justice cartoon.
When Lois, Clark, and Jimmy go investigate about the smuggled robots in Metropolis, Jimmy makes a reference to super intelligent gorillas in France. This is a subtle hint at Monsieur Mallah, the Doom Patrol villain who will be in the show along with his partner, the Brain. Both made their first appearance in Doom Patrol #86 (1964) .
The cover art here is done by Arnold Drake, Bob Brown, and Ira Schnapp.
Later in the episode we see Clark receive his powers and he is surrounded with electricity, giving off Superman Blue vibes when in the comics, Superman gained electricity powers and became Electric Blue Superman who's first appearance was in Superman #123 (1997) (cover art by Ron Frenz, Joe Rubenstein, Patrick Martin, and Todd Klein. The second half of My Adventures with Superman - Adventures of a Normal Man easter eggs will be out later. I'll link it here eventually.
One nice thing I like about My Adventures with Superman is that it isn't just the glasses and demeanor that makes Clark distinct from Superman, it's also the hair
It's a small thing, but it's Very Good
Yes, Superman saving cats from trees
ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT
CLARK KENT IS NOT A HIMBO. HE IS NOT STUPID. YOU HAVE TO BE STUPID, HUNKY, AND NICE TO BE A HIMBO. HE IS HUNKY, NICE AND SMART. COME ON PEOPLE.
petition to start using “suffering sappho” as an interjection irl
Gosh that’s suddenly making its way into my vocabulary
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Ahem
witch-with-a-dick
Gay as FUCK
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“Is she, you know, *makes vague gesture with hands* quite familiar with Sappho’s surviving poetry?”
ok was talking to a friend and now i’m crazy curious:
expand on ur answer in the tags if you want & rb for more answers pls pls pls !!!!
I used to think this was weird and pointless -- why not just read online? But then one of my favorite authors flounced from the fandom and deleted all their fics. I was much more heartbroken than I expected! And there's also the risk that AO3 could go under, or get taken over by censorious antis... If there are fics you like to revisit, I urge you to spare yourself the heartbreak and download.
heyoooo so I know the calligraphy stream is usually saturdays at 3 but due to the insanity of this week's print releases and other factors, I've had to bump the stream to today
so join me today, at Sunday, 2pm EST for some calligraphy streaming!
As per usual, song requests will be open and you'll be able to throw a few dollars my way (twitch subs, direct donations, bits) to write for you!
we're live! come hang out!
I'm happy to see all the meta this year, re: the parallels between Jonathan and Dracula at the castle versus Renfield and Seward at the asylum bc last year, it wasn't really a popular topic of analysis from what I remember, and without spoiling anything, I do think doing a read-through of Dracula last year put Renfield in a different light on a re-read, and it's honestly a relief to see Renfield being treated with more respect and sympathy this time around, as opposed to him being a joke character, prop for Seward's storyline, or his mental illness being stigmatized as something that makes him evil, creepy, and undeserving of sympathy and compassion.
Likewise, as someone who does like Seward as a complex and very flawed character, I'm glad to see more discussion about the way he and Dracula are foils to each other instead of such posts being dismissed as character slander - a lot of characters in the novel parallel Dracula in unique ways, so it's a legitimate topic of analysis if approached in good faith! - as well as viewing his treatment of Renfield in a more critical light bc while he isn't actively malicious in terms of intent, it was a little frustrating last year to see some of that critique reduced to how it's unfair to hold him to modern standards when his actions still nevertheless caused harm and some Victorian contemporaries would have seen them as wrong, not to mention that many of our 'modern' standards regarding mental illness are not progressive at all.