In the wake of a disastrous dinner, Barda struggles to parse her emotions. Scott helps.
Valentine's day fic for the couple that invented love and possibly codependency 🤩 [on ao3 here]
headcanons that no one on the planet cares about except for me: im distraught at the idea of bobby bucklen- bobby who had to raise his two younger sisters after they were orphaned, who was essentially a teen dad, who has probably been to plenty of social worker meetings and court appointments and parenting classes- immediately clocking bart as a traumatized foster kid. and being as kind as possible to him. always being gentle, inviting him over for dinner whenever, subtly steering the conversation away from bart’s home life whenever casey or carol mentions it. meanwhile bart and carol panic that he’s somehow figured out bart’s secret identity and wacko past. bart is convinced that he’s a mind reader
re: kon "L"
coming out gone wrong </3
[ID: The ask contains an edited screenshot of a TikTok reply that reads, "So your a man who's attracted to men but they're not attracted to you...wow you really putting the L in Kon-El".
The response is a doodle of Tim Drake, Cassie Sandsmark, Bart Allen and Conner Kent from DC Comics. The above ask is in a speech bubble spoken by Tim, Cassie and Bart to Kon, who stands between them furiously blushing.
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can we talk about scott’s d1 level issues-long crash out at the end of mister miracle vol 1 because that was fucking insane. genuinely unhinged behaviour like he lost his SHIT. man who cannot be forcibly separated from his wife because his cool facade drops within minutes
Watching you read Jack Kirby is bringing me so much joy right now!!! They’re such good comics!!
(Also if you are looking for something newer that is very good in the Jack Kirby Fourth World please check out “Barda!” a graphic novel by Ngozi Ukazu, she writes the characters so well and the art is beautiful)
I HAVE A READING ORDER BUT I HAVE!! READ BARDA. SUCHHH A HUGE FAN NGOZI UKAZU MARRY ME RN.
^ article that genuinely did make me fall in love btw
Okay but I am fascinated by Orion and Scott's relationship.
Because for Orion, there must be so much guilt, right? He got to grow up in Heaven because Scott grew up in Hell. Highfather Omelased Scott so that Orion could have a childhood frolicking in rolling green pastures with Lightray and sleeping in a bed made of unicorn farts.
But at the same time I feel like there's also some resentment. Because Scott had the unhappy childhood...so why is Orion the unhappy adult? Why is Scott the well-adjusted one?
(Is Scott actually well-adjusted? He's very good at pretending he is. And I don't think it's entirely a mask. I think Scott is genuinely a pretty lighthearted, upbeat person, and that's part of what saved him from being broken on Apokolips before he could escape. But it's also a defense mechanism. He's a performer by nature and by trade.
I also think he's a deeply avoidant person. Unpleasant feelings? Uncomfortable conversations? Oh no, Scott is going to escape right the fuck out of that! So even though he absolutely is deeply traumatized by his upbringing - King's Mister Miracle was not the first time Scott has canonically had suicidal impulses - he is simply Not Going To Deal With It.
And this is a mask Orion is completely unequipped to see through. No one on New Genesis is familiar with the concept of "not saying exactly what you mean and how you feel literally all the time." I think Orion might be misread as stoic sometimes but he is super not! He literally just says how he feels all the time always! He's never lied even one single time in his life except for how on Earth he goes by O'Ryan instead of Orion! He has no ability to unpack "This person is pretending to be totally okay but actually they're only somewhat okay." Orion has never been somewhat anything.)
So yes anyway I feel like Orion is a little jealous and resentful that...somehow Scott still landed in a better place than him, for certain definitions of "better"? He's happy, he's well-adjusted, he has friends, he has a loving and functional marriage. Meanwhile Orion is having regular rage blackouts on a flying scooter.
But then he feels guilty again because how can he resent Scott after what he took from him? (Not that Orion had any choice in or even real knowledge of the Pact, but if you think Orion is going to let himself off the hook because he was a traumatized bald child when it happened, you don't know Orion.)
The other interesting thing is that even though Scott seems like the affectionate people person, it's Orion who makes all the overtures. Orion is the one who consistently refers to Scott as his brother (Scott's a little all over the map on this one). Orion wishes out loud that they were closer. Lonely, lonely Orion, who has absolutely no one in the universe who understands the tortured duality of his nature ("I am two worlds - like New Genesis, and that demon's pit - Apokolips! - One drifting forever in the shadow of the other - "), longs to hang with the one guy who might get it.
Whereas Scott...well, Scott's harder to read because he doesn't make a speech every time he has an emotion. He doesn't ever display any hostility towards Orion (King's MM run aside, which...yes, please, let's put it aside forever), but he also rarely demonstrates the same interest in building a relationship. His most loving gesture was pretending to be injured one time so that Orion would have to go fight Darkseid in order to lay flowers on a mass grave in Scott's place (it did actually make Orion feel better, so there's that).
I don't think Scott blames Orion, intellectually. I think he blames Highfather, as he should. (Not getting into whether Highfather ultimately made the right choice, just saying that Orion didn't get a choice at all.) And I think Scott is VERY VERY UNCOMFORTABLE with blaming Highfather, because it means he really has to think about what happened to him. In general, I think being around both Highfather and (to a lesser extent) Orion raises a lot of extremely uncomfortable thoughts and feelings and very painful memories, and so he just...escapes. He avoids being around them completely. It's very telling that Scott lives on Earth by choice and almost every time we see him on New Genesis, he's longing to leave. Being on New Genesis makes it impossible to avoid the Bad Thoughts.
So yeah, as much as I want to see these two having adventures together and hugging it out on the daily, I don't know that they can ever have the closeness Orion wants. (And god, can you imagine how much he would beat himself up if he knew that his desire for closeness was hurting Scott? It would be delicious.) But one of the reasons I love Simonson's Orion is that they find roundabout ways to show caring with the limited vocabulary they have, and maybe that's the best we can hope for.
STOP! reading batman. START! reading new gods & mister miracle & forever people from the SEVENTIES! thank u very much
let’s all KILL ourselves (<- girl who just read barda 2024)
yunno when you -
cassandra cain u make my head and heart ache
The goobers line up
Close ups under
donna TROY 💜
i. feel sick.
MISTER MIRACLE In The New Gods (2024) #2
The most couple ever in DC
Sorry to frustrate you, but cheating death is my business!