Daily Archives: October 18, 2013
Birds of Prey: Dark – Fanfiction Trailer
Only four women can protect Platinum Flats from mobsters, supervillains, secret organizations, and paranormal/supernatural threats. They are Black Canary, Huntress, Batwoman, and Raven: the Birds of Prey!
Music is from Justice League: Doom, and all images belong to DC Comics.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9749387/1/Birds-of-Prey-Dark
Related articles
- Are The Birds Of Prey Set For An Appearance On Arrow Season 2? (themarysue.com)
- Arrow News – Could Birds of Prey make an Appearance? (wasahiro.wordpress.com)
- Are You Ready For Batman to Come to Fox? (cabletv.com)
- DC Despatches: Constantine, Arrow, Wonder Woman (geeksyndicate.co.uk)
- Marc Guggenheim Hints At Plans For The BIRDS OF PREY And SUICIDE SQUAD On ARROW (comicbookmovie.com)
- Our First Look at Black Canary in Arrow (themarysue.com)
How Would I Rebuild The DC Universe From Scratch? – LGBTQ Heroes In My Fanfics (FEEDBACK REQUESTED. IF OFFENDED, PLEASE DO NOT READ)
So, this time I’m dropping all pretence and basically being honest here: As you know, I’ve done a number of DC fanfics under the same alternate universe setting…which I still haven’t named. Speaking of which…
…Anyway, I’ve been planning on having as diverse a cast as I can for my fanfics. This is actually easier than you might think, because, while they don’t all get as much attention as they should, DC superheroes/superheroines do come in a wide range of shapes, sizes, colours, ethnicities, and characteristics. They have African-Americans, Brazilians, Asians, Russians…I think only a couple of Canadians, but hey, we got Captain Canuck and frakking Wolverine elsewhere, so not a big deal. They have handicapped people, like Vengeance Moth and Proxy (who I hope comes back with Steph next year). They have bisexuals, they have homosexuals. Heck, one of them is in one of my fanfics, that being Batwoman in Birds of Prey: Dark. But there are some types of superheroes they don’t have, at least not to my knowledge: Transsexuals, hermaphrodites, transvestites, or having had surgery (or I suppose magic, since hey, it’s comic books) to change their sex. Now, there IS a transgendered character, that being Alysia Yeoh (Batgirl‘s room-mate), which IS awesome, but unless she’s gonna get in a costume and fight crime (which I would not be against, Gail Simone, just in case yer wondering), there are no transgendered heroes or heroines in DC Comics.
So that’s when I started thinking: My fanfics exist in an alternate reality of my own creation. Meaning, I could either make a whole new character that is one or more of the above, OR I could change a pre-existing character to be LGBTQICTA-whatever-the-hell-else-there-is-that-I-would-count-but-there’s-too-damned-many-of-them. The only question is, if I went with the latter, who? Well, I DO have a few options that I thought of. Dick Grayson would be an awesome possibility. And NO, I don’t mean making Batman and Robin the Ambiguously Gay Duo, I JUST mean Robin. Raven would also be a good choice, and would actually explain a bit since she’s one of the seven children of Trigon that represent the Seven Deadly Sins called the SONS of Trigon.
What do you guys think? Lemme know in the comments below whether you think I should do this or not, whether I should do so with a pre-existing character, and if yes to both, who you think that should be. Ja né!
Related articles
- What Should I Call My DC Fanfic Universe? (FEEDBACK REQUESTED) (jygersrant.wordpress.com)
- It’s not a bird or a plane, it’s just me writing about that stuff (wwwdotjasonmacaskilldotcom.wordpress.com)
- What adding fanfic has done for my website/blog (lissywrites.com)
- “Comics are Gay!” A Flash History of LGBTQ in Comics (graphicpolicy.com)
- Williams bids farewell to “Batwoman” (robot6.comicbookresources.com)
- DC Comics’ First Transgender And Bisexual Character (buzzfeed.com)
- Let’s get this straight: DC is anti marriage, not anti GAY marriage (comicsbeat.com)
- Roundtable: Race and Gender in Comics (womenwriteaboutcomics.com)
- Why We Worry About DC Comics’s Gay Characters (theatlanticwire.com)
- When Will the Perception of Women in Comics Catch Up to Reality? (usnews.com)