Gail Simone's Blog, page 906
October 4, 2012
fyeahbatgirl:
Batman and Batgirl by Trevor Von Eeden
I am such...
Batman and Batgirl by Trevor Von Eeden
I am such a ridiculous Trevor Von Eeden fan!
Anyone know what he’s up to, lately?
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Feminist Batgirl!
One of my favorite Tumblr posters, and its their BIRTHDAY!
Happy birthday!
People should follow, this is a great Tumblr every day!
Hey, Miss Simone! First off, thoroughly enjoy your work and second: I'm doing a speech on tumblr and would like to ask why you think tumblr is a good site and the downsides to it for someone in your status. Hope that makes sense and thanks very much!
I think the best thing is that it’s a level playing field and it seems to have almost an anti-bullshit function built right in, to some degree. By that I mean, Tumblr seems to reject attempts to manipulate it commercially in the way that advertising has taken over virtually all other media. I know there’s some, but Tumblr doesn’t seem to work well for some company to promote their crap to everyone. That’s nice.
But more than that, it’s an equalizer. One true voice on Tumblr can be more powerful than a billion dollar film company, or a billion dollar record company. They both have basically the same access. If the one true voice has a message and method that appeals to more people, they win that battle over ad men and the endless, endless promotion we see everywhere else.
But for me personally, I have two things I like about Tumblr.
First, I just like to look at the art and the cosplay and all that stuff. It’s nice to me, the creativity of it all is inspiring and makes me happy. When I see something like that little girl yesterday who wants Wonder Woman to be president, where else am I going to see that? Just here. And it warms my heart.
Second, a lot of people have voices here that aren’t represented well anywhere else. I live in a nearly all-white town in the middle of nowhere that has very little culture or diversity. By reading the true, heartfelt experiences of these amazing people, I feel like I get a TINY bit less ignorant and uninformed every day. Where do you see trans people talk about the shit they have to deal with every day in the mainstream media? Where do you see racism pointed out WITHOUT being painted over two seconds later on television or msm news sites? Reading that stuff, not throwing in my own uninformed two cents, that’s a huge value to me.
I realize I’m a big mass of ignorance and privilege but Tumblr helps me move that needle a teensy bit every day and I’m very grateful for that. The fact that I’ve made hundreds and hundreds of friends I would otherwise never get to meet is just a bonus.
All in all, Tumblr’s essential to me. I try to give back by sharing a little bit about the only thing I really know about that some readers are actually interested in, which is genre writing. That’s kind of my poor but well-intended payback for what I get from here.
The downside is probably that there are some people who project everything they’re mad about or frustrated with onto me at least partly because I’m available, or partly because I’m an outspoken woman in a genre industry that still is very skeptical of women at times, or because I put my foot in my mouth at some point. And those people can be very nasty, they can be very deliberately ugly in the way they react. That’s not fun, exactly. But it’s actually a pretty small price to pay overall. :)
So, the new Green Arrow — sorry, I mean just ARROW show is going to have Deadshot in it. This makes me wonder if the rest of the Secret Six will be able to show up in some way. What do you suppose the odds of how awesome that would be are compared to how L
I think it’s very unlikely, I doubt Bane is available for one thing. But some of the other characters, Ragdoll, Scandal, and Jeannette, they seem like they’d all be a good fit indeed.
I don’t know much about the show yet…I hope they do Deadshot right!
Online, and notably Tumblr, I see a lot of people that talk about the problems in comics. The lack of diversity, the way women are treated, how characters and their relationships are handled, etc. But no matter how many well written articles are posted, no
I honestly don’t know how many creators at DC and Marvel read Tumblr. It seems to be a minority, but I can’t say that with authority. I THINK that more of them gravitate to Twitter, probably because it is a quicker endeavor all the way around.
Do they care? I don’t know. I wish I had a better, more optimistic answer for that. I know of people who DO care and it usually shows in their work, and I do know some of the DC execs who care about diversity, and that’s positive. But I’ve also been disappointed by some creators who dismiss the push for diversity as a ‘political’ point.
That can be disappointing. There are people out there pushing to do better, they are where my hope lies.
However, I do think things are changing. I know that’s a drag to hear but if you compare 15 years ago to today, there’s some positive movement…some female creators who have real traction of their own, POC in leadership roles in both companies, lgbt characters that actually have substance and initiative…some of those things existed 15, 20 years ago, but almost as radical ideas. I THINK now there’s a bit more acceptance.
I think, a book like Secret Six, that just could not have existed even ten years ago, not as part of the mainstream DCU line, and hopefully it means there will be more books that show marginalized characters in the future, it shows it can be done.
There’s a full same-sex wedding in X-men, DC has three female-lead books that are non-exploitative and are top-sellers.
There are steps back, as well. We don’t have a Milestone, there’s no Dwayne McDuffie out there.
I guess I would say it’s a mixed bag…some stuff makes me feel hopeful and some stuff is disappointing. But I feel the possibilities are gradually, very gradually, improving.
That’s my take, anyway.
Floyd Lawton, master of saying just the wrong thing at the worst...
Floyd Lawton, master of saying just the wrong thing at the worst possible time.
bella-fuckin-metallica:
kevin, bill & mike. {i really do...
kevin, bill & mike.
{i really do love these guys. i want to meet them so bad!}
They are absolutely every bit as kind and sweet as you could possibly hope for. I adore them all, Bill has become a good friend and I would trade him for the world’s largest fritter.
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