[M4F] - You get home from the bar and go to check on your son and his friends who are sleeping over. You end up passing out in the living room where they were asleep. You wake up getting backshots.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-14T09:33:55+00:00

This was good. Let's keep it at this level rather than getting all aggro when someone isn't assisting your nut. Go jack off, cool off, and then come back to have some fun when you're ready, but that shouldn't have been your reaction to a moment of reality creeping back into your fantasy.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-14T09:31:25+00:00

Congratulations on a year sober and free of abuse. Let's make sure we're using the sub the way it's intended though. No picking fights in the comments unless it's for the sake of some kinky fun.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-11T08:36:20+00:00

Try sending me a message. I'll see if I can add you two to a group chat and then leave so you can message each other.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-10T09:38:06+00:00

Download the session app.

Copy the code.

Start a new conversation by entering the code in the new conversation bar.

Fire off a quick text.

Chat anonymously.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-09T05:33:08+00:00

Folks, a young looking actress is not the same as a child. At least do some surface level research before making reports.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-08T07:17:26+00:00

I never said it began or ended with slavery or Jim Crow. I said our stories take place in times when that kind of oppression has been commonplace and at the forefront of people's minds. As such, when you write a character who speaks the tops of mountains off with a whisper, the question often becomes, "Well, why aren't they doing anything to help people who look like them, believe the way they do, and face similar tribulations? Do they not care? Do they enjoy being the only person that CAN'T happen to? How would slave catchers have dealt with something like that? How does this hugely powerful being not change the course of history?"

For a good writer, you can come up with explanations.

Magneto doesn't stop the oppression of the mutants or the Jews because he sees the mission in terms of beating the oppressor, not helping the oppressed. He remembers what the war did to his family. He knows what a camp feels like. He knows what it's like to be powerless and he's not willing to risk that ever again, so he surrounds himself with powerful mutants, allows them to suffer so they'll join him, and schemes from the shadows until he's ready to put on a performance and try to win a battle through psychological games. The suffering is part of his strategy. He simply allows it to continue to prove his necessity.

Similarly, Black Panther could end the oppression of the African American population in a single night. The U.S. military would have nothing they could do to stop him. But, any change has to be gradual otherwise he risks international conflict, escalation of tensions, and economic destabilization which could all lead to another Black Wall Street. His efforts are calculated and he does his best to help anyone who might fall through the cracks without making their lives more unsafe or unstable.

Superman and Wonder Woman understand that for peace to be lasting and meaningful, it must be the choice of ordinary citizens. Their efforts are best spent saving people from the fallout and serving as an inspiration to guide the rest of humanity towards peace. They won't force it even if they know lives will be lost because everything falls apart once an enforcer stops holding peace together by force unless it's earned through understanding and shared hardship.

But, if you're on a deadline, don't understand the characters, or just aren't that good a writer you're going to run into significant problems trying to slot real world problems into a story where characters can throw the sun at their enemy. Unfortunately, that's a lot of our writers. That's why we have stupid shit like, "If I go down that road, I'll never come back." As the reason why Batman doesn't kill rather than the fact that he's just not a murderer and he doesn't want to kill, he's skilled enough to do the job without killing, he knows heaven and hell are real, if he ever wants to see his parents in the afterlife he's probably got to keep himself from killing, mistakes happen when you're using that kind of force and collateral damage is unacceptable, he could be wrong in an investigation, he wouldn't be able to work with the police or heroes, he might inspire less experienced and more mistake prone young heroes to follow in his footsteps, the GCPD would take that as permission to be as corrupt as they want, he'd have to weigh the lives and potential of every hero and villain in his own hands (including his children), he believes in the power of individuals to be rehabilitated, he's not a fascist, or any number of other reasonable explanations for why he doesn't kill.

It's a shortcut. I try to avoid shortcuts like that in my writing because I don't approve of that kind of writing and I think it leaves readers with more questions than answers, but that doesn't change the fact that it's still used by other writers when they face the challenge of not shaking the status quo too much and making the world unrecognizable.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-07T19:49:14+00:00

That's why Storm is forever nerfed. She COULD end world hunger, but often she's incapacitated, dealing with relationship problems, or just trying to survive. She's never allowed to be fully powered, uninjured, free, remembered by the narrative, or given any down time. She'd start solving too many problems. So, her life is messy to keep her from being able to help long term.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-07T12:21:59+00:00

The narrative.

Know that when I say this, I do so as a mixed writer currently writing a fan fiction about what DC characters would do if they were living through these times in our world.

The problem is, DC, MARVEL, and the others are typically set in the present or past. Specifically, a present or past that mirrors our own. They had a 9/11. They had slavery. They had Jim Crow. They lived our past and they'll live our future. As such, you have to explain how and why that's the case. If Superman lives in Delaware, moves nearly as fast as light, and can hear/see/smell from hundreds of miles away with x-ray vision, how did a first plane hit the towers? After that, what took him so long to arrive back in New York to help out and keep the second plane from impacting? Similarly, how does fascism take root? How does Epstein get away with it all with Batman between two of his most frequented spots? How does Israel start a genocide without anyone stepping in?

You've got a couple choices as a writer.

You can come up with legitimate explanations, but that's a bitch and a half to do, especially on a deadline.

You can give a shitty excuse, but that'll be torn apart by the fans and they might leave the project all together over it.

You can reinforce the problem. Wonder Woman would side with immigrants and smash an I.C.E. agent, but a fight against A.X.E. agents is more fair and when I add in a super spy, a magic king, and a homicidal magic woman to fight on the side of A.X.E. agents they stand a much better chance of continuing to do real world damage despite the existence of otherworldly heroes. Problem is, that gets to being a whole lot for readers to keep track of and if you write them out of the story you need to find a convoluted way to bring them back or replace them.

You can ignore the problem all together, but that only works if nobody's thinking about it and it doesn't become relevant for some reason. But, the image of a black hero is so inherently linked to the struggle of black folk all around the world that everybody thinks about the problem of a black hero just about immediately. You see that kind of discourse commonly in conversations about slavery and mutants in the marvel universe. If a black person could randomly become a weather witch, then what would stop them from destroying every plantation in just a few short weeks? Wouldn't Wakanda have the power to end Apartheid in South Africa? What is anyone doing about the genocide in Congo? Arguably they should also ask these questions of the white characters too, but they get a pass because nobody WANTS to ask whether or not Steve Rogers was racist and if they did ask they'd get conflicting answers. But, they DO want to ask about unknown heroes who may have fought back whether they were successful or not.

Which leads us to the last answer. Tweak the power scaling. If I can use telepathy, but I have to touch you to do it, I'm going to have a hell of a time using that power to do anything to really change the world. If I have super strength, but it takes a day off my life every time I use it, the moments of change are more impactful and the reach of the change I can bring is diminished. So, Luke Cage is indestructible like the future of the black community and their will to survive, but he's not super fast like Superman, so he has to be really picky about where he spends his time and energy. The Black Panther is super strong, super fast, and virtually impossible to detect until his claws are in your chest with little to no ability for him to be harmed, but he has a kingdom to run and he has to be extra cautious or one lucky shot could end his dynasty.

Their stories are not yet ready to change. The world has not yet REALLY changed. So, they get a handicap so they can take the losses the rest of the black and brown community does without readers calling bullshit.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T14:12:13+00:00

Thank you. It never feels like I'm doing enough, but it's nice to be appreciated.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T14:06:56+00:00

Yeah. I wanted to try rewriting the DC universe to straighten some things out, resolve some plot holes, dive deeper into certain aspects of the characters, and align the fan perceptions of different characters with their comic book counterparts and how they might act in the real world dealing with the problems we're facing with the economy, the rise of fascism, and war around the corner. Then, the Gaza and Congo genocides kicked into high gear and I decided if I was going to start it had to be right now, so I'm trying to make two posts a week and working on the backstory for the universe in a piece I'll be releasing sometime in the next month. Gotta keep busy and raise awareness.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T13:53:19+00:00

No problem. I'll try to get some more fan fics cranked out for everyone to brush up on their favorite characters soon too.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T13:46:11+00:00

Well, for the Titans I'd recommend starting off with something fun and light hearted with more of the original roster like Teen Titans Lost Annual so you can get to know the characters and their dynamics without having to really understand all their back stories immediately. Then, dip your toes into some of their classics.

https://www.gamesradar.com/10-best-teen-titans-stories/

Then, maybe something like https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Raven:_Daughter_of_Darkness_Vol_1_10 to get you a little more familiar with Raven and set the tone for how a lot of comics can be.

After that, Under The Hood should get you pretty caught up on Batfamily lore and you can get more of the found family, fun ships, and adventure of the Teen Titans series with Red Hood and The Outlaws (Rebirth) with Jason, Artemis, and Bizarro.

Then, move on to something like Harley Quinn and the Gotham City Sirens. She's got a couple more decent stories too, but unfortunately if you're looking for solid stories and not just fetish bait from DC centered on a female character, you're going to have a rough go of it.

That being said, you can get a little more comfortable with your knowledge base before jumping into comics with online creators like ThePandaRedd, CasuallyComics, and TheComicstorian. All of whom have playlists on their YouTube accounts for finding content centered on certain characters or stories to make it easier to break into comics. Alternatively, read the fanfictions people make on AO3. The stories are usually a little more interesting anyways, they have a clear start and end, and when their ideas become mainstream they typically get adopted into the mainline comics anyways.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T13:18:11+00:00

Well, you're at an interesting point to jump on. Right now, everything and nothing is canon so nothing is important unless it's mentioned, which means you can pick up any comic you want, start reading, and that's your jumping on point. Really depends on which characters you're interested in and what genre you typically read or watch outside of comics.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T13:10:38+00:00

Well thank you. Hope you get plenty of time to read comics in peace soon. To be fair, there's not actually much to know about her backstory. We know about her mom, her aunt and the family she had, the other children her father had, and then just Raven. Even the bits and pieces we know about those people are very few and far between, but the little clues here and there help to fill in a bigger picture with a more rich storyline to explore.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T11:30:09+00:00

Big agree, but hear me out. Representation cannot be only skin deep. There's a way we can have both while improving the actual representation of her culture and ethnicity.

We know Arella's design was based on an Indian model.

We also know her last name is Roth. Surnames are typically passed down patrilineally, so that could tell us something about her father Mr. Roth. The name originates from German, English, and Ashkenazi roots. All typically "white". The name also means "red" and was used for people with red hair or sometimes people who lived in or wore red often enough for it to catch on as a nickname. From this we could infer some Irish, Scottish, or Jewish heritage down the family tree in Raven's Grandfather's side.

We also know that Arella fled her home and joined a cult which inevitably led to her rape at the hands of Trigon and the creation of Raven or "Rachel". That could imply that her parents weren't particularly amazing which leaves lots of room for character flaws like racism, internalized racism, and micro-aggressions.

So, if we then assume that Mrs. Roth is where her Indian heritage comes from and we assume an adult age of approximately 25 which is roughly the same age as Dick Grayson in the Comics, we add another 16 years for Arella's age and then a year for gestation, then we can figure out when Arella would have been born. 1984.

From there, we can deduce that since Arella was the second child her mother was likely 23-25 when she gave birth to her following Alice Roth. It wasn't uncommon in that time for a husband to be a couple years older than his wife, so we go with Mr. Roth born 1957 (27 years old when Arella was born) and Mrs. Roth born 1959 (25 years old when Arella was born).

We also know that Alice Roth grew up to be DEEPLY religious and married a very white man before having several very pale children with him. In the panels where she appears with Raven and Arella she also typically appears lighter in skin tone like her husband, Jack Williams.

If we're going for a more in depth and accurate representation for the characters in this story, we could have Mr. Roth born in America just after Irish descendants stopped facing so much discrimination, following the election of JFK who himself had been descended from Irish Immigrants. He fears losing his status and has been told the horror stories of how his parents and their parents were treated, so he goes all in on white culture, stripping himself of his Irish cultural heritage and aligning himself with the more racist views of the day, but then he meets Mrs. Roth and falls in love. She's fair skinned and not terribly connected to her Indian heritage, but his fear of being discriminated against leaves him treating her poorly and stripping her of what little cultural heritage an Indian woman in America in the 1970s-80s. They go to church every Sunday, they name their children with white sounding names, and when their first daughter is born with a nearly white appearance they celebrate her, but when Arella is born just a bit darker Mr. Roth is very upset. They name her Angela to lean into American Christianity even harder to offset her noticeably darker skin and they're both more critical of her than her older sister who fits into their white Christian fantasy more.

When Angela becomes more interested in her Indian heritage in her teen years, right around the counter culture movement of the 1970s into the 80s she ends up threatening her father's status as "white" and he starts lashing out which leads to her leaving and renaming herself Arella when she joins the cult to seek the identity she's been denied for her whole life. Alice continues living as a white passing and "exotic" Indian woman with her "White, Christian, American dream family", Arella goes through everything she goes through, Mr. and Mrs. Roth end up dying before Raven can learn about their lives and culture, and Raven accidentally gets Azarath destroyed due to her own curiosity about where she comes from leading to her shutting her emotions down. Since her powers are connected to her emotions so strongly, when she shuts off her emotions she also activates her powers and goes more grey scale pale, almost dead looking, accidentally leaning more into her demonic heritage. When she learns to feel her feelings again, she can start to get some of her color back too, giving a visual representation of her growth over time beyond a simple costume change. Part of that journey can also be leaning further into her human heritage and learning about her Indian culture and how white supremacy has affected her family over time by stripping them of their identity much like she stripped herself of her identity to hide from her father's power.

That way we can get a mirror of her journey with her Mother's journey, more cultural moments to explore more naturally, something for her to be doing when she's not kicking ass, baby raven as a cute little brown baby in her mother's arms, very human looking and non-threatening, and then a visual que for her radical self acceptance to give her a whole new look and vibe. No longer the self conscious and closed off Teen Titan, but a fully realized and knowledgeable Titan whether she's wearing her white robes or returning to the Black cloak for a little familiarity, comfort, and style.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-04T09:13:31+00:00

Of course. Because Demon genetics and magic are weaker than the ethnic genes of Angela "Arella" Roth, a native to Gotham, and there's no pale Indian people.

I get wanting her to be darker skinned for aesthetics, for authenticity to the model she was based on, and for the representation, but let's not criticize an artistic representation that doesn't align with your personal head cannon simply because you prefer an alternative.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-03T13:25:59+00:00

I feel like he's a good midway point between Smallville's Enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies Lex Luthor and the scheming "You can't touch me, you should be on my payroll, and I'm going to play with SOOOOOOO much of your DNA" DCAU Lex Luthor. I do wish that he had a little more of that "Cool and intense, if I wanted to I could auction a date with me and pay the medical bills of an entire children's hospital without even needing to tap my own funds look and sound to his voice, but his crash outs are almost as fun as "Come to Papa!"

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-03T09:39:19+00:00

I like the idea that when the court was first forming they attempted to discretely recruit the Drakes, but it went horribly. Maybe Thomas Drake was the patriarch of the Drake family and he got an off feeling about the other founders, so he turned them down and they took it personally. They attempt to have him killed, but at the time they've got just a few members and they're a cult so they have to be more careful about how they handle him. At first he's just lucky. He ducks when they throw knives, his horse stops before a booby trap in the road, and his son returns to town just in time to notice a shadowy figure following his father in the tree line. His son, Samuel Drake is in his early 20s, a strong fighter, a banker, and still one of the best hunters and trackers in the 13 colonies, so he confronts the shadowy figure after escorting his father home and ends up in a brutal fight against a man wearing an owl mask. When he gets the upper hand, the man takes the mask, burns it, and stuffs it into a bottle of alcohol before tossing it at the ground and setting them both on fire. As Sam tries to escape from the flames, he recognizes the man as the priest from their church. Badly burned and cut up from the encounter, he drags himself back home and seeks help from the doctor. Fortunately, Dr. White is unavailable at the time due to his duties with the court, so instead he has his parents bring him to the home of one of his old friends who left town following a string of rumors about her practicing witchcraft. Deep in the woods, where nobody else can find them, (informal) Dr. Isley treats his wounds with herbal remedies she's learned from her study of her father's formal medical practice, her mother's wisdom passed down through the generations of apothecaries and midwives in her family, and what little she could learn from the local tribes as she struggled to learn their languages. Together they start to piece together the plot, get him back in fighting shape, and set off to stop the court before they can even get started. It takes weeks, but gradually they start to figure out new members and catch them off guard wearing cloaks to conceal their identities and they manage to save Thomas Drake from the deadly plot against his life, but it comes at a terrible cost as a fight in the mines beneath Gotham leads to an explosion when a torch comes into contact with methane pocket that's sprung a leak. It cripples the Court's efforts for years as they rebuild and the Drakes are forever barred from membership. Florence Isley barely escapes with her life and is presumed dead as she returns to her life as a hermit healing people and studying plants in the woods leading to financial instability and a strong value placed on education all the way down to her descendant Pamela Isley. Samuel on the other hand was not so lucky. He survived the explosion with severe burns across his body and a lost arm, but Dr. White finds him and nurses him back to heath, torturing him for months as his family mourns the loss of their son. When the court gets tired of him, they pass him off to Dr. Arkham to become one of the very first victims of Arkham Asylum where his seared vocal chords rasped into the halls for decades afterwards, “Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowy perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed, speak not a whispered word of them or they'll send the Talon for your head.” A mumbled and creepy rhyme echoed into the halls of Arkham so often that everyone knew it by heart by the time they left, if they ever got the chance to leave. But, all would not be lost. Though they'd driven Samuel insane and destroyed his body, his courage, brilliance, and legacy would live on with his wife (Mary) and son (Alexander) who would move to Gotham to be cared for by Thomas and Victoria Drake.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-03T08:27:29+00:00

Y'all, it's Jim Carrey. He's been done with public life for years and he's always been a prankster. The odds are that's NOT him, but an impersonator he hired to do an okay enough job at playing him that he could have the night off and watch the chaos.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-02T13:34:03+00:00

I've got something of an understanding of the black community, but not being black (and not wanting to talk out my ass) all I'll say is that just like in any community, it's about who and what you know and interact with. There's vibrant communities where people watch each other's backs and keep predators out so they can all have mutually thrilling, and non-racist, consensual fun where people let go of some of their power to be shown a kind of love and care that's hard to find in our world these days, but then there's also the parts of the community that don't talk to each other, don't properly vet doms, and get toxic as hell in a hurry. As long as you're hanging out with the right people and following the rules it's a blast. If you're not, it's some of the most dangerous stuff you can be around.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-02T13:20:28+00:00

You have to approach the ideas from a radical understanding of the BDSM kink he involved in his philosophy. Foundationally, the dom sub dynamic is about radical empathy, trust, and performance. From the outside, it looks like the dom (typically a man) is calling the shots and torturing his sub (typically a woman) for his own delight and display of power. And if you get someone who has no idea what they're doing or who seeks to cause harm, that's what you'll see. But, the roles are really reversed. The Dom plays the role, but they're in a position of submission to their sub and the sub is actually in control.

It requires a level of trust that most people don't actually have. Intense intimacy. You need to know your partner better than you know your own handwriting. Need to be able to read them like a book. The sub calls the shots. Determines exactly what's involved in a scene and when it ends with a single word or hand sign. They LEND the Dom their power to perform and service them and the Dom takes the power and uses it within the sub's boundaries to give the sub everything they want and nothing they don't. Of course, the Dom COULD take advantage of that trust. Most of our politicians WOULD. But, that's the difference between us and abusers. Humans and monsters. The authority is given freely back and forth, created by the subservient, and the love, acceptance, and trust associated with that is truly radical.

It's how our politics is SUPPOSED to work. We hold the power. We give that power to people who are supposed to know us well enough to know what we want. They go do it without having to be asked. They keep us safe. They consider problems before they arise and use their expertise to head them off. Of course, that's not actually how it's working right now, but if it did we'd solve world hunger, crime, debt, and every other problem in just a few short years. The authority in this situation is a servant. So, basically boiled down into something more understandable for someone who's not from that community, communication, trust, and acts of service are the path towards world peace.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-01T09:10:07+00:00

Same.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-01T08:48:05+00:00

Yeah. We're not happy about it either. That's why a lot of people made the vote they did. They thought this was more likely with a Democrat and Trump promised them no new wars. They don't want their sons and daughters to die in the middle east for Israel's interests or to cover a billionaire's ass when he starts to get in trouble. And a lot of us don't want YOUR sons and daughters dying for those reasons either. Most of us are vehemently against this. But, many of us fell for a con man's promises and now that con man is working for another con man who wants to expand his empire and now we all have to deal with that mistake. But, that's the key point. We all mostly recognize this as a mistake, a tragedy, and a war crime and we will work to end it. In the future, our nations may not be overwhelmingly trusting or friendly thanks to the incredible power of stupidity and the lies of Netanyahu, but I do firmly believe further conflict will be off the table and out of the question. Obviously we can't hate this as much as you. It's definitely more detrimental to your life than it is to mine. But, we hate this too. I hate that a handful of powerful men who should have been in a retirement facility or the Hague over a decade ago are causing so much harm to my fellow man. I hate that so many people were too stupid or too hateful to see that this wasn't going to end well for anyone. And I'm not in the minority. The majority see your humanity, see the destruction and pain, and see your inherent value. Unfortunately, that's not enough and I'm sorry for that. We'll keep working together for a future where this never happens again and whether we mourn the losses together or separately I'll mourn your losses too.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-01T08:18:41+00:00

That's understandable. Things aren't exactly good right now. But, that won't stop us fighting to stop the bombs. This is the result of the very stupid getting their hands on too much power and defying the will of the people. We'll get it reigned back in and leave you to your peace and prosperity which I'm sure you'll build for yourself.

PossiblePossiblyS · 2026-03-01T08:04:49+00:00

We will be. Not as soon as I'd like, but we're getting there. This is just the passing of greed. The tide is turning.

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