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Fanon: Cass loves all her brothers equally even she calls them "little brother" š
Canon:
Cass with Dick š¤:
Cass with Jason š:
Cass with Tim š„°:
Cass with Duke š„°:
Cass with Damian š :
She is not subtle and I love it š
It would be:
1- Tim or Duke
2- Dick
3- Damian
4- Jason
Itās that time of the year again! 2025 marks the 85th Anniversary of Billy Batson as Captain Marvel debuting in Whiz Comics #2, the first official cover-dated issue released February 1940.*
A brief history In December of 1939, children at newsstands were picking up a particular issue with the cover of a flying man dressed in red, effortlessly lifting a car overhead. Bill Parker, senior editor at Fawcett Comics during this time, had developed a new kind of superhero: Billy Batson is a young orphan boy who transforms into a powerful champion named Captain Marvel at the drop of the word āSHAZAM!ā He fights crime against notable villains together with a memorable cast of heroes he calls āfamily.ā
A few years past their heyday, Fawcett Publications endured troubling legal problems that put their sales in jeopardy, eventually settling their dragging copyright case with National Comics Publications (predecessor of modern-day DC Comics) and putting Captain Marvel to rest indefinitely. The Captainās return to comics happened in late 1972 under DC Comics, a run which the original artist C.C. Beck had worked on for only a year. Ever since, Billy Batson and his counterpart have appeared in many different iterations in many different comics, one of the only memories still enduring from a time already passed.
The role of an archive is to make nostalgia obsolete. [...] Every comic book page is, like a work of scholarship, an act of recovery, or at times a dream in which nothing is ever lost, as past, present, and future make room for each other and exist in harmony. Studied carefully, a fanzine or a comic book, like Billyās Historama, might reveal several lifetimes to us, one generation after another of names, faces, and stories. The art of nostalgia is figuring out which one to tell next.
ā Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia, Brian Cremins
This yearās overall theme is NOSTALGIA. Take this as you might, for however you interpret nostalgiaāperhaps a reflection on your own personal narrative with Billy Batson, or an exploration between him and his own massive history, be it in-universe or with real life pop culture. You might even disregard the day-to-day prompts below and dedicate yourself to nostalgia thematically for the entire week! How youād like to work with it is up to you.
Day 1 ā February 23, 2025 HOLY HISTORAMA
The Historama, similar to a crystal ball, is described as Shazam the Wizardās āsuper-television screen,ā of which he may use to see the past, present, and future. In later iterations, it presents itself as a book or object that displays any scene through time and, possibly, space. On this day, you might center the Historama itself, or explore any scenes of Billyās history from any time or place.
Day 2 ā February 24, 2025 THE BOY OF ARTHURIAN LEGEND
Bill Parker, when asked to describe his inspiration for Captain Marvel, once said, āSpecifically I got it from the Stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, stories with which I had been familiar and read as a child.ā
At its core, the story of Billy Batson as Captain Marvel was a story about old wizards, spells, myths, and secretsāelements which children center their greatest fantasies and perhaps still carry with them throughout adulthood. Use this day to commemorate Billy Batson as a fulfilled fantasy, maybe as a knight facing dragons in some faraway world or a space-wandering sailor, the wildest childhood dream come true.
Day 3 ā February 25, 2025 SWEET HOME FAWCETT
This prompt is simply Fawcett: Fawcett Comics and their previous publications, possibly outside of Captain Marvel and friends, or Fawcett the city as depicted in the DC Comics iterations, home base of Billy and Captain Marvel.
Day 4 ā February 26, 2025 RETURN OF THE CHAMPION
Across his storied history, Captain Marvel has faced many setbacks in his journey back to comic book stands: previous lawsuits and settlements, harried DC Comics events, logistical decisions made behind closed doors. However many times heās put on the back burner, Captain Marvel still manages to return in a triumph. We will see him again in fleeting appearances, celebrated homecomings, maybe a long-awaited reunion...
Day 5 ā February 27, 2025 THE WORLD HE LIVES IN
It is of note that, while Fawcett Comics held onto its hero as long as they could for the first few years, the DC Comics universe is where Billy and the Captain have held their homeāfor over fifty consecutive years. Use this as a day to reflect on Billyās past DC universe adventures, from teams heās been on to events heās partaken in.
Day 6 ā February 28, 2025 A MARVELOUS FAMILY
Billy Batsonās not the only one with a candle to blow. Mary Marvel debuted in 1942, while Captain Marvel Junior had appeared much earlier, in 1941. Their contributions to the stories of Captain Marvel have been monumental in immortalizing his place as a beloved hero with weight and history. They are also deeply adored by Billy himself. Have this day to celebrate family, for each Marvel Family member who has added to the menagerie over the years, or to simply center Mary and Freddy and their own achievements.
Day 7 ā March 1, 2025 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BILLY
Happy Birthday Billy Batson! Give him a cake. Give him a balloon. Give him a present. Tell him how much you appreciate him. He is eighty-five years old. He looks timeless! Is the secret the amber from the Sivana suspendium?
This is a free day, open for anything.
How to participate On Tumblr (and elsewhere, if desired), use the hashtags #billybatsonweek and #bb85week simultaneously so that others might see and engage with your work. Late entries are always, always welcome. Iāll be sure to reblog all entries inside the tags for archival reasons, so please donāt hesitate to tag my blog!
The Archive of Our Own story collection is linked here.
On previous weeks Feel free to browse entries from previous years for inspiration, or reuse the old prompts altogether!
2022 Prompts Post / 2022 Entries
2023 Prompts Post / 2023 Entries
2024 Prompts Post / 2024 Entries / AO3 Collection
*FOOTNOTE: Captain Marvel/Billy Batson celebrated his genuine 85th Anniversary December 2024, a date which acknowledges his original on-the-shelves debut in December of 1939. The cover date used in this character celebration week corresponds with what DC Comics used in their 75th Anniversary year count.
(i gave billy thick eyebrows because i thought it would be cute. also i wanted mary to look tomboyish and like sheās not really trying today and freddy's trying to look fancy to sell more newspapers)
Literally anyone meeting bruce and his family for the first time: So how did you get so many kids by 30?
Dick: HE WAS A TEENAGE DELINQUENT
Jason: *shouting over him* HE LEFT MY MOTHER AT THE ALTAR
*tim is sitting, just happy to be included*
Bruce: BE-quiet.Ā They're ADOPTED!
Jason: *not a beat missed* Because heās never known the touch of a woman.
You canāt see the whole page because I drew what Peter might look like if I hit him with a bullet train <3
I like to think Poison Ivy only thinks of herself as Poison Ivy. Also I put what type of fighter they would be in a Plants vs Zombies type game.
(This is in an au where Bernard Dowd is Robin and Tim Drake is Joker Junior. I didnāt color in Timās hair because itās either mint green or white and I donāt use colored pencils.)
this comic is my favorite comic Iāve ever read.
In honour of Talia being written terribly in the new web comic here's the comic everyone who writes Talia should be forced to read before doing anything
The Batman Chronicles (1995) Issue 8
This comic shows the inner monologue of Talia when she's given a mission to kill Bruce
This comic is so overlooked despite being one of the most important comics for her character. It also goes into depth with her relationship with Ra's and his possessive nature over her. Back when this was released Talia's character was about wanting freedom away from Ra's and being torn between this need for freedom and her loyalty towards him, this aspect of Talia's character is often ignored in favour of using her a villain.
What you'll find if you do go back and compare Talia's original character to how she is written now in both cannon comics but also fan interpretations is that very little of her original character remains. For this reason I will always recommend anyone wanting to write about Talia or just get into her character start at this comic as it gives a really inadept show of how her mind works.
i don't usually make posts like this, but this is a truly upsetting topic to me as a lifelong cat owner, so i feel i have a duty to share my knowledge with others.
there is a type of automatic litterbox for cats being sold that is EXTREMELY dangerous and has killed numerous cats through blunt force trauma, suffocation, etc. this litterbox is being sold under different brand names and logos, so i will include the picture of the model and two links to informational videos with more evidence and eloquence than i am able to provide.
please consider not having this type of litterbox in your home for your furry friends. me and my 16 year old tortie, puddy, want the best for all your kitty friends
image of litterbox below:
here are my two video links that provide proof and testimonials of this harmful product:
This Scam is Killing Cats by penguinz0
The DEADLY self-cleaning litter boxes that have flooded the market by One Man Five Cats
(The little sketch thing below Billy is a kind of watermark thing that looks kind of like me)
This is a redraw of an old post. Hopefully I improved :)
is this anything
This is just a theory by the way. Unless it was stated as canon somewhere but I donāt think it is.
Larry is Poppyās dad, Rikaās his sister, and Hasselās both Rika and Larryās father.
Iono is Grushaās big sister. Melony from PokĆ©mon Shield is their aunt.
Katy and Brassius are cousins. Theyāre related to Clement from PokĆ©mon X & Y
I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.
That's love. šāā¬šā¤ļø
My fave little guy
there is SO much misinformation circulating about harris right now. remember that if something will affect your vote or make you feel bad about your vote, you need to fact-check it. for decades, people have intentionally spread misinformation about candidates, and itās not going to stop now (not to mention the misconceptions or warping of information that can happen even among the supporters of a candidate.) check reliable news sources. donāt just trust social media. if it will change ANYTHING for you, make sure itās true.
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My family is still staying in half of the church that wasnāt affected by the bombing because there is nowhere else to stay other than tents. They are limited to one small meal a day and one shower a week. They are sleeping on the floors, but no one can sleep since there is bombing everywhere around them. Even when there is no bombing, they can still hear the loud buzzing sound of the military planes above them, which would keep anyone who hears it awake. Along with everything, My grandma has diabetes and osteoporosis, so she canāt walk. She has to take her insulin medication along with many others; however, she has run out of many of her medications.ā Am on my knees requesting for donation. Target $450
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It just makes me unhappy. Rose and Apple are very different people and I enjoy Rose much more than Iāve ever enjoyed Apple.
Pink was raised in an abusive environment. They would lock her in her room for misbehavior and never treated her like an equal. White Diamond was controlling, Blue was infantilizing, and Yellow was neglectful and saw Pink as annoying. Pinkās actions were similar to those of Uncle Iroh from avatar.
Then at one point the diamonds discovered Earth. Pink saw the beauty of the Earth and became Rose Quartz to defend it. Rose asked Pearl to join her and Pearl accepted. They faked Pink Diamondās death at the hands of Rose Quartz to try and get the diamonds to surrender. Due to the way the diamonds treated her Rose was surprised when they were saddened by her (fake) death. Rose and her allies (the crystal gems) fought for the protection of Earth and ended up victorious.
After the war Rose lived on Earth peacefully. Then she fell in love with Greg Universe and sacrificed her life to give birth to Steven. (Rose didnāt expect Home World to attack Earth because it had been thousands of years of peace. She did NOT create Steven to pawn of her problems on.) Rose thought the most beautiful thing about Earth was its ability to grow. She didnāt see this ability in herself and died so she could create a creature that could.
Apple is a selfish person. That trait is incredibly dominant and static. Apple had a mother that cared a lot about appearances. Appleās mother wanted Apple to be perfect. She represented those with privilege. Have you seen the short āThe Place Where Nothing Bad Happens.ā Apple is kind of like the person in the pink dress in that short.
If you want more of me complaining about Apple I have separate post talking about why I dislike her. Itās mostly that sheās never punished and the fans donāt hold her accountable.
I like Rose because when other characters learn everything about her theyāre conflicted. Rose is a morally gray character. Apple is an Anti-Villain at best. Apple was never forced into any of her choices. While she may have been manipulated, helping someone that throughout her life she was always taught was evil is stupid. And Apple is shown to be intelligent. This either means the writers just wanted Apple to help the Evil Queen for plot or sheās a pretty bad person. Rose made her decisions to protect an entire planet from a nation it had no way to face.
Sheās awful. I donāt like Apple for a series of reasons. Her design is lovely and I like her voice but thatās all I really enjoy about her. By the way this is only about the show. I donāt know anything about the books but I heard they were good.
Apple represents the privileged while Raven represents the underprivileged. I get that. Itās just, she doesnāt seem to change much, if at all. The whole story it just feels like sheās just being kind and sweet for her image. She seems to love her friends but not nearly as much as she loves herself. Apple was willing to have her supposed best friend live a horrible life just so she could live a life of perfection. Apple never felt like she got less selfish to me.
Literally all Apple did was apologize and she was instantly forgiven. No one was apprehensive or upset after that. Itās one of my least favorite things when someone (fictional character or otherwise) does something awful says āIām sorryā and is instantly forgiven. An example of where this was better handled was in Avatar: The Last Air Bender. Zuko apologized to the gaang and they didnāt forgive immediately. It took him proving that he was trustworthy and on their side for them to trust him. And even after that they still had individual episodes where they form a bond with him. And what Apple did was on a similar scale to what Zuko did. Apple freed the evil queen (basically a terrorist(which was an accident Iāll give her that)) and then aided her afterwards. The school didnāt punish her neither did the government.
They woobify her to hell and back. Yes her mom is bad. No that does not justify her actions. Itās like people believe that just because someone has trauma or family issues that they canāt be held accountable. They take away all of Appleās agency and act like she was mind controlled into doing everything she did. Apple had free choice. While she was manipulated, she wasnāt forced. Theyāre just like āSheās just a sad misunderstood lesbian!ā Or āApple has a tough home life! She was just guided by what she was taught!ā While the second argument is true. It doesnāt excuse her behavior in any way. An appropriate punishment would be suspension or even expulsion.
Apple seems to have trouble seeing any perspective but her own. She doesnāt seem to understand Briar issue. Apple equates her destiny (to sleep for a few days before being woken up by her true love) to Briarās (to sleep for a hundred years before being woken up by her true love)
Apple seems to care way more about her image and winning than her friends. She injured Darling playing the sport in Dragon Games. Apple likely got this from her mother.
I donāt think Apple should date anyone until she works on herself for a while (Two or three years)