The Crux of the Matter

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A shipping manifesto for Guy Gardner and Ted Kord

loosely inspired by "The Lesson of the Moth" by Donald Marquis

Hope you don't mind the mess, fellas. 'Cause it's about to get messier. Even though I've never done one of these before--despite my decade-long penchant for shipping fictional characters--I decided to take on the Herculean task of trying to explain something basically no one else believes in. So, I'm not pulling from anyone else's posts, ideas, visions. I'm just posting from comic panels and my interpretations of them.

DISCLAIMER: This shouldn't need to be said, and it probably doesn't, but I am paranoid about someone coming across my nothing blog for nobody and getting really mad at me for this post. I'm a human being, okay? Please remember that. If remembering I'm a whole entire person is not enough to dissuade you from trying to be mean to me then that is on your conscience and not mine.

Um, but basically, I am not perfect and I don't know everything. I just want to talk about something I think about a lot. Okay? Great. I've already outlined above that nobody thinks this is real except for me, nobody's tried to do a full analysis (that I know of), and nobody's going to read this. So if you're mad...it is your fault for reading it. Thank you! Disclaimer......ended!!

i was talking to a moth

the other evening

he was trying to break into

an electric light bulb

and fry himself on the wires

from uhhh some parta JLI I'd gotta go find it

From Doctor Fate (1988) #15

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• other examples of this??
• the "wow you must be sooo shocked to see me cos I'm a hero haha" thing
• doing smth stupid and having the excuse of "it's funny"
• inappropriate joking ? kinda ties w/the above^
• this feels like a more JLI era thing but i wonder...

copypasting directly from my discord dm's until I can collect my deranged thoughts

I'm mentally ill but Ted considering himself crazy and/or jsut as crazy as Guy is like extremely good for my pores but terrible for my sanity

I have to find the JLI panel bc it's so crazy for Ted to act familiar with Guy in that way when he very specifically avoids it and they both actively antagonize each other. I understand the joke, though, so this is simply a matter of overthinking.

I gotta find the panels that say that Ted gave Guy books about tactics and how it's insane bc of JLA #52.



the fact this was in? around? 2018(the JL series is from 2018 but idr if this is same year) is crazyyyyyyy I have to get their full convo in this bich cos tehy're sooo chummy in it