nicky loves putting flowers in his mama's hair, naturally whenever rio is around she makes sure to grow the prettiest ones for them

I want a hard travelling heroes TV show but when I say that I don’t mean I want a faithful adaptation. That would be terrible. I want an adaptation that’s faithful in spirit. Give me a ridiculously topical political commentary on America (but more nuanced, sorry Denny).

I want to see Green Arrow and Green lantern deal with the futility of the opioid crisis and go against MAGA and corrupt cops. I want to see them help undocumented immigrants after Hal’s expressed concerns that what these people doing is illegal and Ollie calls him a fascist bootlicker. I want the finale to be Hal deciding to wreck the Ferris air base after he finds out they hurt the anti war activists protesting them and quitting for good as he contemplates his own complicity in their actions. (He does that in the original over environmental concerns btw)

Give it to a bunch of angry, promising leftwing writers and tell them to go off. Hire a diverse writing room to tell the stories. Green lit a DinahHalOllie polycule subplot. Make the anti woke crowd fume.

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I’m really torn about the current birds of prey because on one hand the way Thompson treats Babs is questionable and ableist (why can’t she use a wheelchair dc and Kelly?) but on the other it’s the only prominent Birds of Prey run that isn’t aggressively racist towards Asians.

"My mother needs me home." (x Agatha All Along, S01E09)

oh this is an insane parallel.

You mean to tell me someone at DC saw this sweet little girl and said “drop a house on her. blow her up.”

Just for fun, all of 'em together. This was my original intent, since I've done it before, but felt they could all stand on their own.

(I may have already started sketching some new ideas)

A funny side effect of the Corps generally recruiting only adults is that the Green Lanterns of Earth are probably on average the most well-educated of all of DC’s hero legacies*

Like, Hal was a fighter pilot in the USAF, for which a bachelor’s degree is a requirement. Guy in his original backstory got two degrees in education and psychology at the same time. John’s an architect, so he would’ve gone to college for at least five years.

Kyle’s run in the 90s mentions that he went to college, probably for art. Simon is stated to have a degree in automotive engineering. Jo went to freaking Princeton University. No idea what she studied but I assume it was something like criminal justice since she became a cop afterward.

The only reason Jessica didn’t get to finish her forestry degree was because she was hiding in her apartment for three years after her friends got murdered. But she would’ve if not for that horrifically traumatic event!!

No wonder Bats don’t like Lanterns. They’re all bright and colorful and college educated, like many of the most infamous Gotham rogues.

*I’d like to point out that this is more so because the other superhero families tend to include multiple kids, who are statistically unlikely to have graduated high school yet (and if they haven’t by now they likely never will thanks to DC’s sliding time scale)

Legit, I’m pretty sure the Earth GLs are the absolute last hero legacy to get a kid in main continuity (Keli’s first appearance was in 2019!)

And bc reading comprehension on this site is piss poor, this isn’t me saying that the Green Lanterns are smarter than all your hero blorbos. Just that the majority of them went to school long enough to get their diplomas.

The Brightest Star Kyle Rayner by Jo Cheol-Hong (Mi-Gyeung)

Emerald Twilight AU: Cassandra Cain

Ganthet showing up in some random LA alleyway and choosing the first human he sees is so funny. Like, the Green Lantern Corps just got Order 66'd and the smurf tossed the last power ring at some rando's head and called it a day. No instructions or warning, just "you'll have to do." If Kyle Rayner hadn't been there, Ganthet would've given it to the drunk hobo lying on the ground.

But what if Ganthet picked a different alleyway for his cosmic gamble? There's no artist in his early 20s to be found here, but a scrawny teenage girl digging through a dumpster.

Cassandra Cain is reaching for a crust of bread that's only starting to turn moldy when a green light appears in the sky. As she watches, it turns brighter and brighter, until she's forced to shut her eyes against the blinding intensity. When it fades, there's a little blue man standing in front of her.

The strange man says something, but his words mean nothing to Cass. What she does understand is the green ring he holds out to her, and his clear intention for her to take it. It's warm in her hand, surrounded by a gentle emerald glow. She looks up at the blue man questioningly, but he has already vanished, leaving behind only a chunk of what looks like the same green metal as the ring.

This is all very confusing for Cass. She has no idea what the strange man wanted, though his posture had all but screamed of grief and desperation. He hadn't seemed to intend any harm toward her though, so she puts the ring on her finger, the way that she's seen others do.

Immediately, Cass's ragged clothes are replaced by a skintight green and black suit. It's an unfamiliar feeling, to be wearing something that actually fits her. On her chest is a symbol, one that she has seen before in newspapers. She can't read the words, but the pictures are more than enough for her to understand what a hero is.

Cass looks at her hands and finds that they are wrapped in pristine white gloves, unstained by the grime of the alleyway. She's never dared to think that her hands could look that clean before, not after what she has done. They look like the hands of someone who saves lives, not the weapons that have ended one.

But if the strange blue man had given her this ring, had put this symbol on her, did that mean Cass could be a hero too?

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Green Lantern (1990) #59

oh yeah he hates bart

Kyle and Jo are both canonically huge weebs, they definitely hang out together to binge watch mecha and shonen battle anime. Probably tried to copilot a Jaeger after watching Pacific Rim and found out the hard way that just bc they're both GLs doesn't mean they're automatically drift compatible