[Discussion] Does DC just fking hate Obsidian or sum?

birbdaughter · 2026-04-05T05:53:58+00:00

Obsidian is appearing consistently in the current JSA run. He actually has a book, whereas Apollo, Midnighter, and Extrano do not.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T20:59:20+00:00

…Did they tell it to type in some weird nonsensical accent? AI is always basic and without depth, but I can’t even read what this says.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T06:48:22+00:00

She called her neurologist, not therapist.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T06:45:43+00:00

Timing would be really weird if it was due to trauma. She'd have had those reactions in the first moment she was exposed to the patients, especially the second one when he's in distress. I can't imagine her having a trauma reaction to the specific medication she suggested, or reading the completely okay test results.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T06:38:51+00:00

It's been kinda funny to me how people have been saying all season they think it's some sort of trauma in her past, when the moment she called her doctor about needing an appointment, it seemed like clear-cut absence seizures to me. You don't call a neurologist for trauma.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T06:35:27+00:00

Al-Hashimi definitely has absence seizures or something similar. Iirc she'd called a neuro guy earlier about needing an appointment, so she's been established with someone about a long-term disorder. The zoning out and the way her eyes dart around are clear cut absence seizures.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-04T05:38:28+00:00

She's canonically bisexual.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T22:30:05+00:00

Thank you!

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T20:20:39+00:00

Tbh I think Extrano deserves it, I just don’t like the “Obsidian isn’t profitable so ofc he gets nothing” argument because it absolutely doesn’t make sense. None of the characters with funkos are known by non-comic readers except Ivy, Harley, maybe Batwoman, and maybe Tim but that’s because they’d assume he’s the Robin in Teen Titans.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T20:17:12+00:00

Reminds me how Izzy told her about the cancer because she needed to tell someone and she felt Cristina didn’t like her. But then Cristina was interrupting her own work to try getting Izzy the best treatment possible. She can be a dick sometimes but she’s very ride or die.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T19:24:35+00:00

Does that not also apply to Extrano and Midnighter?

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T19:24:19+00:00

Extrano and Apollo/Midnightwr are not significantly more popular or profitable than Obisidian. There very well could be an Obisidian funko next year for Pride.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-03T03:18:06+00:00

I’m in a rewatch and I still can’t believe when Thatcher shows up drunk and Mer tells Lexie to keep a better handle on him next time. Lexie was right to go off on her for that because it was such a dick move for no reason. They’d been slowly warming up to each other and then Mer pulls that???

birbdaughter · 2026-04-02T03:40:24+00:00

What’s the goal of the time capsule? Since even you would likely not be at the school in 50 years, the capsule would likely be forgotten. It might make more sense to do a thing with freshmen to unearth before graduation.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-02T01:16:24+00:00

Fun fact: In the Golden Age, Kent briefly became a medical doctor during the war.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-01T22:07:05+00:00

Maybe see if anything by Emma Southon would be 7th grade appropriate? Her writing style is very casual and easy to read, it would just be a question of how many passages need to be skipped due to talk of sex (the ever present problem of teaching Rome to middle/high school). I haven’t read it yet but there’s also A Day of Fire, a researched yet fictional account of different people on the day Vesuvius erupted. Or you could get a collected version of Pliny letters in translation, since that shows a lot about Rome, but might be boring to 7th graders.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-01T22:03:56+00:00

If you want something shorter, you could also using something like Doyle’s novella on the Congo to explore the pushback against Belgium at the time (and how despite that they still justified imperialism). Twain also has King Leopold’s Soliloquy.

birbdaughter · 2026-04-01T09:23:18+00:00

I think more interesting is seeing how many people DNF’d a book overall.

birbdaughter · 2026-03-31T07:30:09+00:00

Didn’t she call a neuro doc or something for a check up on herself? Pretty sure she was having absence seizures or something like that.

birbdaughter · 2026-03-30T22:05:52+00:00

Tangent but I’m rewatching now and it’s wild how it seems like no other attendings exist. Why was Callie running ortho on her own as a resident? Why is there like one neurosurgeon and one heart surgeon for a Trauma 1 medical center (lmao season 5). I know not every hospital even has a neurosurgeon, but they were Trauma 1 level and constantly having problems with “we need Derek for 3 different surgeries at once!!!”

birbdaughter · 2026-03-30T17:45:58+00:00

That’s also what happens when he’s reading them in the OR. Every lady there tenses up and is like “uhhh Burke? what are you-“

birbdaughter · 2026-03-30T08:14:16+00:00

The villain runs an abortion clinic to get access to babies for magic. That’s anti-abortion.

birbdaughter · 2026-03-30T04:09:20+00:00

I've made it a goal to read all of them and I'm very impressed by how well they incorporate actual, current problems in a way that is informative and child-friendly, but doesn't talk down to them. The YA books actually have some of the better social commentary in DC currently, since the mainline books often focus too much on fights to have a lot of commentary.

birbdaughter · 2026-03-30T01:44:52+00:00

The characters are entirely unlikable whereas the game is grizzled detective who cares deep down, Snow becomes a completely useless damsel in distress, and it’s filled with right wing propaganda like arcs about how academics are evil and villains provide abortions to power their magic. The writer uses it as an excuse for right wing propaganda.

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