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I need to catch up on my Stuff I Got Done On The Week Off posts (which I will do, probably, I swear) but meanwhile I went to see the Harley Quinn movie. It was really good! I did not get bored at any of the fight scenes *or* any of the car chases, which is super rare! There are a lot of variably terrible people doing variably terrible things!
The main thing I came out of it thinking was that it did a better job of capturing what the grown-up Gotham City corner of the DCU really should be like (And the heart of the DC universe in general) better than any other movie I have ever seen, and also than most of the comics I have read, I think.
But I need to not go see movies on opening weekend, because I came home and there was almost nothing on AO3 for it yet! And even now several days later, over half of the fics are - wait for it - slash for the only two white dues in the film.
I have a lot of patience for the many reasons transformative fandom gives for its white dude problem, but look, by the numbers on that one tumblr post this movie's f/f to m/m ratio should be 24:1 or better, and yet, here we are with two creepy white dudes yet again. (Also the ratio of possible white/white ships to ones with some color is 10:1 or better, and yet: two creepy white dudes. At least nobody's bringing back the Joker yet, knock on wood.)
(And of course the f/f ships I came out of the movie wanting are the ones that have no fic at all yet. :P) (I also want this Cass to hang out with her comics counterpart and Steph, but I have faith fandom is on that one, at least.)
I do think a large part of why things so often default to white dudes is that people write what they read, and so white dudes are easy, because there's a lot more white dude slash out there to learn from. (That is certainly my excuse.) So I just want to make sure people know that there is lots of beautiful Harley Quinn f/f waiting for you on AO3. And most of DC comics fandom long ago decided to pretend it's a fandom like King Arthur where there is no original canon left anymore, you just need a vague idea who the characters are and everybody spins it in their own direction from there, so you really don't need to know any canon for it, as long as you know who Batman is and that Ivy loves only plants and Harley.
Anyway while we are on the subject of comics fandom, the last thing I officially did off the week off to-do list was to reorganize the comics floppies, after giving in and acquiring shortbox #5. So if you want to get an idea of the state of my comics life, they are now all sorted into:
Box 1, Beloved comics of my childhood, and other really old ones, and most of my DC, Marvel, and Archies, since it's my only silver-age sized box and I wanted to keep the new and old together for those. (No, I'm not quite silver-age old, but most of my childhood comics came from my grandparents' basement.)
Box 2, newer comics that I have read and decided to keep, and also my long but incomplete runs of Barsoom comics, the original Static Shock, and the 90s Superboy.
Box 3, complete runs of things that I have not read. Also my collection of comics with vagina dentata and/or men vs. tentacles on the covers, and my collection of public service announcement and/or advertising comics.
Box 4, incomplete runs of things that I have not read but that have (mercifully) ended.
Box 5, things that are still coming out and I may get more of.
So that's, what, 2 boxes of comics I have read vs. 3 I haven't? Could be worse, right? Eventually I will get them organized well enough that I can spend to the time reading them instead of organizing them. (Or I will come to terms with the fact that I enjoy reorganizing them more than reading them.) Yes, I should stop getting more floppies, but I promised myself I wouldn't get into ecomics until I'd read all my floppies, so what can you do?
The main thing I came out of it thinking was that it did a better job of capturing what the grown-up Gotham City corner of the DCU really should be like (And the heart of the DC universe in general) better than any other movie I have ever seen, and also than most of the comics I have read, I think.
But I need to not go see movies on opening weekend, because I came home and there was almost nothing on AO3 for it yet! And even now several days later, over half of the fics are - wait for it - slash for the only two white dues in the film.
I have a lot of patience for the many reasons transformative fandom gives for its white dude problem, but look, by the numbers on that one tumblr post this movie's f/f to m/m ratio should be 24:1 or better, and yet, here we are with two creepy white dudes yet again. (Also the ratio of possible white/white ships to ones with some color is 10:1 or better, and yet: two creepy white dudes. At least nobody's bringing back the Joker yet, knock on wood.)
(And of course the f/f ships I came out of the movie wanting are the ones that have no fic at all yet. :P) (I also want this Cass to hang out with her comics counterpart and Steph, but I have faith fandom is on that one, at least.)
I do think a large part of why things so often default to white dudes is that people write what they read, and so white dudes are easy, because there's a lot more white dude slash out there to learn from. (That is certainly my excuse.) So I just want to make sure people know that there is lots of beautiful Harley Quinn f/f waiting for you on AO3. And most of DC comics fandom long ago decided to pretend it's a fandom like King Arthur where there is no original canon left anymore, you just need a vague idea who the characters are and everybody spins it in their own direction from there, so you really don't need to know any canon for it, as long as you know who Batman is and that Ivy loves only plants and Harley.
Anyway while we are on the subject of comics fandom, the last thing I officially did off the week off to-do list was to reorganize the comics floppies, after giving in and acquiring shortbox #5. So if you want to get an idea of the state of my comics life, they are now all sorted into:
Box 1, Beloved comics of my childhood, and other really old ones, and most of my DC, Marvel, and Archies, since it's my only silver-age sized box and I wanted to keep the new and old together for those. (No, I'm not quite silver-age old, but most of my childhood comics came from my grandparents' basement.)
Box 2, newer comics that I have read and decided to keep, and also my long but incomplete runs of Barsoom comics, the original Static Shock, and the 90s Superboy.
Box 3, complete runs of things that I have not read. Also my collection of comics with vagina dentata and/or men vs. tentacles on the covers, and my collection of public service announcement and/or advertising comics.
Box 4, incomplete runs of things that I have not read but that have (mercifully) ended.
Box 5, things that are still coming out and I may get more of.
So that's, what, 2 boxes of comics I have read vs. 3 I haven't? Could be worse, right? Eventually I will get them organized well enough that I can spend to the time reading them instead of organizing them. (Or I will come to terms with the fact that I enjoy reorganizing them more than reading them.) Yes, I should stop getting more floppies, but I promised myself I wouldn't get into ecomics until I'd read all my floppies, so what can you do?
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*facepalms lots*
our household is planning to see Birds of Prey but hasn't yet, and I'm deep enough in a megafandom right now I'll be astonished if I surface enough to fic anything in any other fandom for a while, so I can't be more than tentatively planning to help fix those numbers—but I definitely hope they improve!
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It's super violent and there was one torture scene I couldn't watch, but it did a good enough job I don't care. I hope it's just that all the great f/f writers are halfway through beautiful longfic already!
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siiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
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