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Give me Superman with an awful southern accent. Give me Clark Kent sounding like he grew up on a farm (oh wait). Give me Superman the Journalist using y’all and all y’all and ain’t. Basically just give me Superman from Kansas
And DEFENDING IT.
“No, Lois, it’s not bad English. It’s a descriptive grammar theory and it serves a linguistic function.”
“C’mon, Smallville, are you really defending your use of ain’t?”
“Some of us actually went to class in college. If y’all are gonna give me a hard time about it, I’m gonna fight back.”
Clark making that “oop” noise when he bumps into inanimate objects.
But can you imagine Clark being so conditioned to this he bumps into an unmoving Bruce in the Watchtower once, and Bruce just slowly turns to stare at Clark and now it’s Clark’s turn to freeze because he just ‘oop’ed freaking Batman.
Or using ‘ain’t’ once around Bruce and Bruce just slowly goes rigid and stares at him.
“Did you just say ‘ain’t’?”
“Umm… yes?”
“You’re a writer!”
“Yeah, Bruce, and I’m also a farm boy from Kansas. It’s a legitimate word. Just because I don’t write with it doesn’t mean I don’t say it!”
And Bruce can’t even believe the indignity.
I want to see him defending it as a legitimate contraction for am not.
Clark: But Bruce, amn’t just sounds ridiculous. Ain’t just sort of rolls off the tongue, though…
Bruce: *stares*
Clark: I’ll accept that you shouldn’t use it with he or she or they, but it should be acceptable to use with I…
Bruce: *stares more*
Clark: it is a word, it’s just non-standard English…
Bruce: *turns away, flipping his cape dramatically as he goes, managing to hold in his laughter until he is somewhere even Clark can’t hear him*
Clark pronouncing wash like it has an r in the middle of it when he’s tired and forgets that people will treat him like the worst sort of hayseed over it.
Clark Kent probably made crop-circles in his own wheat field out of boredom when he was a kid –
– and let’s be real, he still makes crop-circles when he visits the farm because it never gets old
I’m not a cop, I’m a reporter.
#i swear to goodness #every single person who writes this extensive meta #about this hero and that hero #and how they clearly engage in social justice in their off time #look I love just about everyone #but Clark Kent Was The Original Social Justice Warrior #both in actual real life #like Superman radio drama helping to stop the KKK #and when it comes to who he fought #who his villains were half the time #and it’s here right here #so the next time i hear one more goddamn thing #about a Superman who isn’t trying to save people #I’m going to have to ask if the poor and disenfranchised don’t count as people #because he put his goddamn career #his fledgling career #on the line #and spoke those words #in canon #clark kent is the original fricking cinnamon bun #too good for this world #and i will not hear any more of this ‘unfeeling god’ bullshit #not in my house (via @yarnzipangirl)
I gotta find a job where I can keep my ear to the ground. Where people won’t look twice when I want to go somewhere dangerous and start asking questions.
Y’know, I really enjoy the concept of Clark Kent.
Like, minus the whole superman aspect.
because, like, okay I can buy that maybe he can disguise himself well enough to hide the fact that he’s superman, but i doubt any amount of slouching and glasses wearing can truly disguise that he’s a very tall EXTREMELY muscular man with a jawline that can cut glass.
So basically this newspaper office has this guy who looks like a weightlifter/supermodel just hanging around but he wears glasses and acts like a huge nerd and everyone just goes with it???
Like “Oh yeah, that’s Clark. No no he works here. Oh no don’t bother being intimidated by him, talk to him for five minutes and he’ll devolve into a lecture on proper tractor maintenance. We like Clark.”
I wonder if the ladies in the office ever drag him with them to bars so they don’t have to worry about creeps trying to harass them like “back off creeps our friend here is 6′4″ and grew up chucking hay bales”
And then it’s funny because (as far as they know) Clark is like, the meekest lil nerd around. (He don’t look it though!!!!)It’s just incredible to me that Clark Kent can pull off being a quiet harmless dork while still looking like, well, superman.
Do you think he occasionally turns up to the office Halloween party wearing a really shitty Batman costume?
Well, I do now.
To me, the core of that attraction is that she is a better reporter than he is. Think about being Superman for a second. The Olympic record for weightlifting is 1,038 lbs., but you could lift more than that as a child. The record for the 100 meter dash is 9.58 seconds, but you can travel over 51 miles in that time. Going to Vegas? You don’t need your X-Ray vision to win at Blackjack, because you can just count the cards while holding down a conversation about nuclear physics. Without really trying, you are better at just about everything than anyone else in the world.
However, (as Mark Waid once pointed out in a podcast with Marv Wolfman) none of that really translates to your chosen profession. Typing really fast does not help your prose. Being able to lift a tank does not help you convince a source to go on record. It is as near to competing straight up with normal people as Superman would ever be capable of. Even then, it comes easily enough to him that you get a pretty lofty perch at a great paper very early in your career. It is just in this one context, there is someone better than you are: Lois Lane.
As mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, you reach up for the first time in your life and she rejects you.
To me, it is an inversion of the Luthor story. Luthor sees someone above him and feels hate. Superman sees someone above him and feels love.
Dean Hacker, comment on “
Giving Lois Lane A Second Look, For The First Time
” by Kelly Thompson (CBR: She Has No Head!)
I’ve reblogged this before without commentary but I’ll just add that this is one of the reasons why it’s essential to the myth that the Clark Kent identity be “real” in some way. Yes, Superman hides parts of himself as Clark. He keeps his head down. He tries not to draw attention. But he CANNOT be a buffoon. He can’t be a total clown. He MUST be real in some complex capacity because when he is not you mIss this very real and important part of the myth wherein he can legitimately compete against Lois Lane as a journalist and try his best and truly give it all he’s got and LOSE. When Clark Kent is a total buffoon, it robs Lois Lane of her right to go toe to toe with Clark Kent and ultimately WIN. Man of Steel actually ::did:: achieve this by showing her track him around the world to the point where he literally just had to give up because he couldn’t outrun her. Smallville/Lois and Clark/the animated series all achieved this. He needs to actually try to beat her and realize he cannot do it. She’s better. He is second best and he not only accepts this but is delighted and besotted that he could try so hard and someone might still be better. And not just anyone…a woman with zero superpowers.
Martha: “When you were a baby I used to lay by your crib at night listening to you breathe, it was hard for you, you struggled, and I worried all the time.”
Clark: “You worried the truth would come out.”
Martha: “No. The truth about you is beautiful, we saw that the moment we laid eyes on you. We knew that one day, the whole world would see that. I’m just…I’m worried they’ll take you away from me.”
Clark: I’m not going anywhere, mom. I promise.
#but of
course this relationship is everything #to me
in every reincarnation this is what i live for and again they delivered all the
heartache <3333 #their
selfless love and absolute devotion to each other like she waits for him to
figure things out to let the guilt go she waits #all
alone on that farm she waits and not for a moment she blames him for leaving
her alone or for not saving jonathan #she
waits with that smile she has for him as he comes back after how many years???
and she still smiles for him like she always did #my baby
boy my beautiful miracle <333 her voice guides him always grounds him is the
very center of the universe for him #follow
my voice picture an island and it’s always like this whatever happens she is
his shelter his blanket his safety #fucking
hell i yelled throughout the entire sequence in the 4th row this is mama and
son content i wanna see on my screen always #they
are just so gentle and precious and warm and smiley and soft together home home
home what the hell #she
climbs on her toes to hug him there are tears in my eyes these babies deserve
the world (via @watson-sighs-and-tuts)
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