Oh Yeah After Reading The First Issue Of FS TT Last Month I Was Disappointed (like Many Fans Considering

Oh yeah after reading the first issue of FS TT last month I was disappointed (like many fans considering the majority of tweets about it on socials always joking on writers always finding a way to make the titans suffer or worse) and considering that academy is going to be written by the same guy completely overturned my expectations and hopes for it. Is there really no one out there that can offer better? I'm no writer (my passion is drawing) and I know writing is an art in itself but really?

Unfortunately...Yeah.

I had really low hopes going in because the guy came with experience from like. Writing TTG for an episode and on DCAMU (LOL). 

I also almost always get nervous when they make Raven a forefront of the story, because 9/10 it’s never good. 

It’s yet another story about dead Titans, or sad Titans, or evil Titans, and like...do they ever get bored of this shit? It’s almost always the same formula time after time. 

Another “epic” battle with some “epic” boss that wipes out a bunch of them/turns a bunch evil (except never the HUMAN heroes, like batbrats because...lol because of course not). And Raven doing some magic-y shit that requires her to faint/go evil again. A giant cast of characters, most of which have no real relevance to the story other than being a cameo. 

Oh, and summoning the ghosts of their dead friends, I guess. 

Honestly, the book is ruining Red X for me a bit, too. He’s fun because he’s chaos, this book is trying to make him be a hero and...that’s not really fun. Nor is it really him. He’s not really a hero at all. And I don’t mean to gloat or anything, but the fic I’m writing him in, it’s more about the concept of Red X, what he stands for - a rogue character, a mask to hide a truth everyone is too ashamed to confront. 

A persona utilized for nefarious purposes that doesn’t necessarily mean the individual is misguided, but that for the current time, that yes, he/she is lost.

Removing that significance and making him some...misunderstood hero feels...I don’t know, kind of cheap to me. When Robin donned the Red X persona, he was working for Slade, against the Titans. When Red X shows up again, he uses the identity and powers of the suit to steal and gain for personal reasons. I honestly don’t think it works so well with Red X being a “pupil” of the Titans, but I get this might just be me because I’ve created an idea in my story and it’s hard for me to look beyond it right now. 

I don’t know why every writer that tries to write Titans is always so cursed, though. Like, sometimes it doesn’t even matter if they DO have good credentials, they come onto write the Titans and just fail miserably. But like, this is why the GNs are outperforming their main continuity. Hello, DC? That’s NOT a good thing!! 

I mean, it is, but also, it speaks a lot to how disengaged they are from their fanbase. 

I still feel like it’s DC’s lack of care for these characters and this title that is the main contributor to having such weak writing, with so many repeated formulas. 

We’re tired of seeing Dick and Kory as “jilted exes” who can’t be together because batfam.

We’re tired of seeing Dick/various batboys always hogging the spotlight in some way. 

We’re tired of the evil/dead Titans nonsense. 

This Academy idea is honestly so fresh, and yet, somehow and some way, DC has made it...just another rehash of what most Titans fans don’t want.

I guess that does take some level of skill, lol.

Lowkey kinda glad most people are trashing it online. DC is acting like this book is some great thing and really, it’s probably the weakest/worst FS title out there.

Tragic.

Comic!Guardians are an underappreciated medium byeeeeee

(comics) fic preview

Peter isn’t expecting anything. 

Well, technically that’s not true. He’s expecting to gamble and get drunk, to spend some time with his friends and forget all the weird, horrible shit of the past few…hell, he can’t even remember how long it’s been since the whole mess started. Or where he’d actually place the beginning.

But hey, that puts him ahead of the game on the forgetting part. He’s doing pretty well on the drunk part too, head pleasantly floaty, the room going extra bright and colorful and just a little bit spinny around him. 

What he’s not doing so well with is the gambling part, and also the spending time with his friends part. So far, in the time it’s taken him to get moderately drunk, he’s managed only to spot Groot already deep into one of the games. The rest of the time he’s been wandering somewhat aimlessly around the casino, definitely not looking for Gamora, who’s been conspicuously absent since they docked on the Planet of Sin.

He isn’t worried about her, he tells himself. He isn’t worried that she’s somehow managed to turn traitor after all, or that some crazed holdout of the ridiculously fanatical ‘kill Gamora for things she technically didn’t do’ army has managed to find her. He isn’t worried that she’s snapped, run away again of her own volition, overwhelmed by guilt and paranoia. And he definitely isn’t worried that she’s avoiding him because he’s finally managed to blurt out the dumbass love confession he’s been trying to drown in booze and bitterness for weeks. He’s especially un-worried about that last part because, like he’d told her, he isn’t expecting anything.

So he’s definitely not, in any way, shape, or form, expecting it when he turns away from watching a Krylorian poker game and finds her standing there in a skin tight dress, every inch of which is covered in black sequins. Her hair is loose, for once, and it’s even curled, which is…well, something he doesn’t have words for at the moment because she’s taken away his ability to do anything but stand there gaping like a fish.

Gamora arches an eyebrow and rests a hand on one hip, a familiar sort of friendly challenge in her posture. “What?”

“Uh…” He continues to stand there staring as about a billion possible responses run through his mind before, predictably, the dumbest one decides to fall right out of his mouth. “I didn’t know you owned any dresses.”

She shrugs, smirking. “I didn’t. But it seemed…fitting for my purpose.”

“Which is?” he prompts, downing the last of the drink he’s nearly forgotten he was holding.

“Seducing you,” says Gamora, like it’s obvious.

“Uh…” he says again, blinking at her dumbly.

No matter how much you plan and plot and research and prepare, you’ll never actually feel ready, so you might as well just jump right in and do the thing.

As someone who’s strongly against problematic and abusive ships I don’t understand where the idea that BBrae is toxic and abusive comes from when it’s Beast Boy’s and Raven’s healthiest relationship. Their relationship is especially health in the comics.

Most people know and ship their relationship from the cartoon and it’s still good in the cartoon but their relationship is much better in the comics. Raven and Beast Boy’s relationship is develop better in the comics. Their relationship is very different in the comics. They actually don’t have that opposites attract thing like they have in the show, they actually have alot in common in the comics like having a tragic past and messed up family but they deal with it differently which helps each other out. It made sense to make them a couple when they became canon in the comics. They have great chemistry together. Beast Boy is always there for Raven. They bring out the best in each other.

I understand being against toxic relationships but the people who say their relationship is toxic and abusive don’t seem to be genuine cause no else calls BBrae toxic and abusive, not even the people who call out problematic ships call it toxic. Only the people who hate BBrae call it toxic. They’re only calling it toxic cause they hate it and hate that its popular. BBrae isn’t toxic or abusive it’s a very health relationship.

Since I won’t be posting my main bbrae fanfiction here anymore, here is a handy-dandy link!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21585838

Do y’all want me to do a live review of the BB book?