Reading an issue of Harley Quinn right now where she gets tired of being herself and tries to just abandon her responsibilities, go somewhere else, and be unhinged for a while...but can't escape her conscience and ends up fighting fascists and the bourgeoisie all over again....ugh, stop being so relatable Harley!
The desire to just give up on everything and stop managing my mental health to just let myself go be unhinged and in my owb little world is strong. But I feel too much and know that the conacience that anchors me would pull me right on back. There's too much that's fucked up and needs doing in the world we live in right now. I'm tired but won't retreat, at least never for too long.
Thanks Nutbuckets for reminding me why i keep myself hinged for now ❤️🖤❤️🖤❤️
Also, randomly, when someone tells her she needs to take her meds, Harley does confirm she already did. So that's kinda nice too, knowing my girl has to take her psych meds too. Admittedly...it was the taxidermied beaver she hallucinates can talk and gets in arguments with...as one does....so, also relatable that the meds help manage symptoms but don't make the mental health conditions go away.
Flick! Zoom!
Harley returns the pill blister
Flick! Zoom!
Harley returns the pill blister
Flick! Zoom!
Harley returns the pill blister
Flick! Zoom!
Harley is part Golden Retriever
She zooms
Now she sleeps
In the bathroom sink
Wait, so both Deadpool and Harley Quinn are bi/pan, and they are both some of the only characters of their respective franchises that can engage in meta-commentary....is this a secret bi/pan stereotype? Does everyone believe we have the ability to engage in meta-commentary to an unseen audience and break the fourth wall on reality?!
Joscelyn turns to camera Little do they know, right? Shhh...this is just between you and me...
You know them bisexuals and pansexuals! Always turning and talking to invisible onlookers who aren't there making hilarious commentary on their circumstances! Having the ability to modify reality on a whim for comedic effect! Can't trust 'em!
If I ever win the lottery, I'm using the money to bankroll a sequel to Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn that would also be written by Christina Hodson and directed by Cathy Yan where she finally gets to fall in love with Poison Ivy. Heck, maybe James Gunn can help, because his suicide squad did great by her.
@bellenoir that's what I wonder about, if maybe she's done with the role, which is fair. I just love her version so much once she got to do her thing fully.
I love that many of the writers and illustrators of Harley Quinn comics really get the character and lean hard into the ADHD chaos and "mentally ill but working on her shit and caring about people" ethos of the character
Like, in this run, Stephanie Phillips, Riley Rossmo, and Laura Braga do things like allow the panels of a scene to be played out chaotically and then arrows to try to clarify...like, this is literally something is used to do in my completely disorganized notes from classes back in the day and just is absolutely delightful to my ADHD brain.
Dr. Harleen Quinzel is checking in for her shift at the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane (i.e. the fediverse). I am here to support you all in your recovery so that you may one day return to being productive members of society.
In fact, I can't stop thinking about one of my patients...I must pay a visit to one Dr. Pamela Isley ( @salad_bar_breath ) later today and fully assess her. Once I am done with our session, maybe I should also examine Ms. Selina Kyle ( @bellenoir ) and Nora Fries ( @sofia ) as there as been some gossip among the other inmates about some mysterious "Cobb Squad," surely another criminal gang or delusion I must disabuse them of.
So, why does Harley Quinn mean so much to me? Well, there are all the ways I identify heavily with the versions in the Margot Robbie movies and the animated Harley Quinn series - she is a blonde girl who is a ditsy, impulsive bisexual that used to work in mental health and was highly educated, but crashed out of that career due to the intersection of ADHD, PTSD, an unspecified dissociative disorder, and borderline personality disorder / codependency. That, um...is basically a description of me, so um... 😅
Also, this panel has a great little "Fantabulous Emancipation of Harley Quinn" easter egg in the upper right corner on the shelves, with her overalls, roller skates, taxidermy gopher, and the bean bag launcher gun all on display 😏
This clip from #DaysOfOurLives in 1987, in which she appears as a court jester in a dream sequence, apparently was the inspiration for the creation of Harley on the Batman Animated Series.
The Clown Queen of Crime — or Crime-Fighting, dependent on her mood — #HarleyQuinn is the most popular #DCComics character created in modern times. Few know, however, that #HarleenQuinzel was the fifth clown-themed character to use the #Harlequin name. (Or something close to it.)
The latest season of #HarleyQuinn has a canonically trans character (Alysia Yeoh) and a nonbinary character (Tefe Holland) played by actors who are actually those things.
I was extremely happy to see Alysia show up in something. I didn't think that was ever gonna happen especially after the Batgirl movie got canned.
They don't play coy with it either. Alysia outright refers to her transition and Tefe says "not all of us are women" when Jim Gordon calls the group they're in "ladies."
I'm also just happy to see Tefe in something because I didn't think that was ever gonna happen either.
