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 This one's actually two posts for the price of one. They've both got the same title, though

Some Lopsided Fanart

It's a bit of self-depracation that I tried to make into a Thing back in 2017. I haven't done it since, so I'd say it has not become a thing

First, some fanart I made all the way back in July 2017 of symbols for various members of the Justice League


Drawings of superhero symbols for, from top left to bottom right: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, the Flash, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, and Green Lantern

Superman: I kept this one basically the same. It’s iconic. I used the style from Man of Steel because I like the… smoothness? fluidity? something of that version of the symbol.

Batman: My headcanon is that, at least early on, Batman’s symbol was actually a badge - it adds some more protection to his chest and can be removed and used as a weapon if it has to be. Plus you can hide a cool gadget inside it if you want. Again, it’s iconic enough that I kept it mostly the same.

Wonder Woman: I used the standard WW/Eagle motif, but with a twist: I reimagined the symbol as something painted onto Wonder Woman’s armour. The yellow parts are the paint, the reddish parts are the metal underneath.

As a sidenote, if I was making this art again now I'd keep Wonder Woman's symbol true to the comics as well

Aquaman: The classic A-rune is gold, but gold tends to come through as yellow and there are already a lot of yellow symbols. So instead I went with a dark brown (”bronze”) colour with orange (”copper”) highlights.

Or I could have just used a different shade of yellow. I've learned a bit more about colouring since I made this

Flash: Iconic. Unchanged. I was going to make it look shiny, but that just made the white part look grey. Fortunately I used a pencil for that, so I was able to rub it out.

Honestly, the real reason I didn't change it was probably just that I couldn't think of anything to do with it

Black Canary: I don’t know if she has a symbol in the comics, but I came up with this myself. It’s a bird (a canary is a bird!) and it’s black (a black canary is a bird that’s black!). I made one of the wings bent to suggest that the bird is performing some feat of mid-air acrobatics that requires the bending of one wing and to distinguish it from the other two birds.

Martian Manhunter: It’s a scary space eye. An alien with “manhunter” in their codename should have a scary space eye as their symbol. I used red because martians have red eyes in the DCU, The white iris and purple star pupil are just to make it more than a generic red eye.

And because a purple star was sometimes used as a Martian Manhunter symbol in the comics. I can't believe I didn't mention that

Hawkwoman (and maybe Hawkman too but I’m less familiar with him than I am with her): I took the standard logo and decided that there are already too many red and black logos so I made this one blue and white instead.

Green Lantern: It’s blurry because it’s made out of light. Like a projection would be? Get it?


Anyway, that's that for the DC one. This next bit of fanart is for a few agencies and superhero teams in the Marvel universe

Logos of the Marvel superhero teams and agencies

I took artistic license on some of these, and I made mistakes on other ones. I also didn't write an explanation for these like I did for the DC one, and this is mostly just me remaking my old posts with some annotations or comments, so I'm not going to add an explanation now
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 This one's from August 2017

There's Such a Thing as a 'Too Secret' Identity


Think about it. How much easier would a superhero’s life be if they made sure that certain people - like their friend on the force, their older mentor, their love interest, their best friend, possibly their boss - were in the know. How much drama would be prevented if all the hero had to do was say “sorry, [love interest], I’m gonna have to take a rain check on that date, there’s a radioactive wombat creature robbing a McDonald’s”?

Conclusion: superhero stories would be much more optimistic and happy, even if they’re rather dark overall, if the main characters weren’t afraid to mess with their own tropes

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I said I'd remake some of my Tumblr posts on here, so here goes. This one's from July 2017 and is one of the first posts I ever made on Tumblr
 
Why Ariadne from Inception is Awesome

What’s the first thing you’d do if you realized you were in a dream? Remember what Ariadne asked when Cobb told her she was dreaming?

“What happens when I start messing with the physics of it all?”

I mean, some people might decide to make themselves rich and famous but Ariadne doesn’t waste time with that, she jumps straight to freaking reality warping.



 

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Yeah, I tried finding a COAD community but nothing came up in the search so either there isn't one yet, or I needed to use different keywords. Either way - I love that it's possible to make communities here! And now I've made one myself, dedicated to Chronicles of Ancient Darkness - a fantastic book series by Michelle Paver

(On Tumblr the COAD fandom is like 15 people and that's the most fans of these books I've ever seen in one place, so I'll wait and see how many fans there are here)

If you're interested, the community is coad_fandom

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