I was talking about Killer Moth to a friend and it makes me really sad writers don't explore this character more because he has a lot of narrative potential. Batman's rogues are basically "household names". They made it. But Killer Moth didn't. It is interesting to me that Killer Moth tried to become a big time villain and ultimately failed and stayed a small-time criminal and a gun for hire. Surely he isn't the only one. Exploring this kind of world would be cool. There is also his relationship with Babs!Batgirl: in a lot of continuities he is the very first villain she ever defeated and his defeat at her hands is what causes his short criminal career to decline. He could have become a regular Batgirl villain, obsessed with taking his revenge. He could have become an Oracle villain, and that I think I would have found extremely interesting to see their dynamics years after their first encounter. Killer Moth could also have made an interesting arch-nemesis for Batman. After all, he purposely designed himself as an opposite to the Dark Knight. He intended himself to be a villainous counterpart to Batman. Some stories even show him as being originally a billionaire who ruins himself trying to become a successful villain. I think it could make for an interesting story. And last but not least, there's also his relationship with Firefly, which is to my knowledge barely touched upon in comics for some reason given that most continuities have Lynns starting out his criminal career as a sidekick to Killer Moth. There too there is a wealth of narrative possibilities. Unlike Killer Moth, Firefly has been quite successful in his criminal career, he "made it". Surely this would impact their relationship greatly, especially seeing how Killer Moth is often depicted as a man desperate for respectability and fame. It's really a shame you don't see them interact because those two could have a fascinating and complicated relationship. There is no doubt to me that Firefly learned a great deal from Killer Moth, yet the latter stayed an obscure villain while he enjoyed celebrity.

Anyway all of this to say: DC writers make something of Killer Moth

Every day I curse Injustice for giving us literally the best Suicide Squad lineup in decades just for a quick joke then killing them all

Not joking all these characters are so interesting, distinct and fun with them all having completely different types of engaging motivations and pathos, completely unique looks and power sets and there are so many different types of neuro divergence and mental illness within them you could make such an engaging story about these villains who are all treated as jokes being forced together.

im gonna need yall to get on fanfiction.online STAT. it has the abilities of ao3, is extremely streamlined, and their guidelines are ACTUALLY GOOD. https://fanfiction.online/guidelines

please get the word out so we can all finally abandon the cesspool that is ao3

fanfiction is a rare gem and a solid, living proof that, in a world of tiktok, influencers and content posting, not everything is about money and going viral. art can still be art just for the sake of the artists’ pure love, joy and passion for the art they create. fanfic writers write 100k words and more about the characters they love for free. just because they love these characters and the art of writing so much. art is not dead and the world is still beautiful.

shoutout to fanfiction and fanfic writers

fanfic writers: *placing down a fic in front of of me* careful, it’s hot

me: *touches it* ow *touches it again* ow

fanfic writer: are you…ok?

me: *tears in eyes* *fingertips are charred and smoking* oh yeah it’s perfect just the way I like it

archive of our own: are you sure you want to proceed?

me: oh hell yeah

therapy can be expensive. archive of our own and toxic old man yaoi are forever free

saw an elderly woman walking around with a tote bag whose design were the four AO3 fic category squares and she very excitedly asked if i was a reader or a writer bcs nobody else at the con had recognized it, and after telling her that i've been writing fic since fanfic.net, she solemnly nodded and explained that she'd been reading fic since "the days of personal websites" but that she only started writing fanfic when she was 47 and oh my god when i tell you that i genuinely teared up on the spot!!!!! like!!! HELL YEAH???? LITERALLY NEVER TOO OLD TO START WRITING. NEVER TOO OLD TO WRITE AND SHARE YOUR FIC.

her enthusiastic "i'm a very nice and bubbly person, i swear! but i love writing angst and major character death :)" nearly took me the fuck out.

icon. legend. diva. i wish her nothing but a kajillion million comments and kudos. i hope her fic updates crash AO3. i hope she knows i'm promoting her to my personal patron saint of AO3.

“You can tell if fanfiction is written because someone was mad at the writer!”

Yes. That’s why fanfic gets written sometimes. Big news to you, love?

“But that makes it bad!”

What makes a fanfic bad? What does it even mean for a fanfic to be bad?

“I didn’t like it!”

Well, fanfiction isn’t written so you can like it, is it? It’s written so the author can deal with whatever thoughts, emotions or circulating plots that won’t leave their heads any other way. Sometimes they’re written just to be fun, sometimes they’re written to make a statement, but they’re not written so you can like them. You liking them is incidental to the final product.

Fanfiction cannot be bad by its definition, because bad is subjective and fanfiction is not written for you.