Clex - Tumblr Posts

Hello!!! So it looks like Twitter is kinda dying 😭 which is a shame because it seems most of the people over there don't have a Tumblr backup (and I mean, I didn't have this one until recently) but anyway, I want to start posting more here and once again create a safe space for pro-ship bottom Tim fans who just want to have fun and meet people!

After I download my tweets I might start re-posting some ideas here, but also I'm thinking about using Tumblr to create short fics more comfortably (threads have never been my thing) so perhaps moving here would be good for my works 🤔 since I could come here, write and then just do some quick edition before posting on AO3. Anyway!!!

Again, I'm Mistress! I'm a pro-ship and anti-harassment account. Exclusively bottom Tim Drake!!! I'm an everyone/Tim shipper, meaning I give Tim an harem! Mainly Ra'sTim, BruTim, JayTim, JeanTim & KonTim.

I'm also a huge fan of Lex Luthor, Ra's al Ghul, Cole Cash, Barbara Gordon, Selina Kyle and Jean-Paul Valley 💚

Other DC ships: Clex / BruDick 🔄 / DickDami 🔄 / BatJokes / Clexlois / ClarkDick / BaneJean / SlaDick / SlaTara / JonDami 🔄

Other fandoms: Transformers/ Hannibal / Saint Seiya / Naruto / Good Omens / Winx / Steven Universe/ Lord of the Rings / Fullmetal Alchemist / NANA / True Beauty / Avatar: TLA & Korra / MD House / very basic Marvel stuff

Oh Clex is DEFINITELY implied in canon. Or rather, there's this coding to them feeling too strong emotions about the other.

I think a reason it isn't so easy to see as let's say, in comparison to BatJokes subtext, it's because Clark has been married to Lois for years, whereas Bruce is usually in an on and off with someone, but it's always having fights with Joker. Idk if I'm explaining this as good as in my head? Basically Bruce is in a position where it's easier to write him with certain queer subtext. Clark isn't.

Plenty of works portray Clark and Lex with an awfully intense relationship tho, and Lex in the last few years has been getting more and more queer treats on his persona (thank you, Smallville and BvS). The fact that Lex openly calls Kon their son and that different media have explored this (Young Justice cartoon, Titans, Smallville) it's something a lot of haters ignore when attacking Clex shippers: It must suck to see the ship you dislike does have bases in canon 🫣🤭

Even then, Clex is definitely closer to be portrayed as a "love that never was", because like I said, Clark is way too established as a family man. Also I know a lot of BruT*lia shippers hate Clex and attack it but those two ships have many parallelisms so...

Clex is canon in Earth 32, and Clark and Lex stayed as very intimate friends in Injustice (plus in that universe Clark was fine with Lex creating Kon and had a way more paternal attitude). The only thing truly keeping Clark and Lex from having more explicit queer treats it's that Lex is a villain. Just my thoughts tho.

Question for Clex (Clark x Lex) Shippers

I just have to know…are there any out there that not only love this ship, but genuinely believe it to be hidden canon instead of some inside-fandom-joke/crackship? 

I’m talking about across all/most Superman media involving both of them, btw. I personally do and could probably write/type up a 20 page essay based on a few comic panels alone that involve them. 

So much evidence imo… But what do YOU think? Basically canon or purely fanon?

My favorite part of this it's the very obvious attempt of Manchester to make Lex mad. I haven't have time to read the whole arc but just by these panels you can see that he wants Lex to be angry, he wants Lex to lose control, he wants Lex to be hurt.

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"He doesn't think of you" it's a very clear lie. Again and again Superman (Clark) has always thought of Lex as the one behind any crime he comes across with, not to say that Clark also keeps an eye on anything Lex does because he assumes there's a second intention (and I mean, usually there is one). It reminds me a bit of Batman&Joker, with Batman constantly going to visit Joker at Arkham and ask about the crimes outside because on Bruce's mind there's no way Joker isn't involved.

For two heroes who insist they aren't obsessed with their villains, they sure tend to think *a lot* of them and constantly blame them for any crime that happens. Almost as if they wanted them (Lex&Joker) to be fighting once again.

And sure, Clark's emotions about Lex aren't equally intense. Clark is resigned and has been like that for years at this point. Clark convinced himself that Lex couldn't be saved or changed (which is hilarious considering that just some years ago DC did a whole run of Lex playing hero). Clark closed that door of memories and moved on. Clark had to move on, which doesn't mean he hadn't wanted to tell Lex the truth at some point (Smallville explores this so much better that I could do in here).

Lex, in the other hand, *has* to be in a position akin to obsessed. After all, Superman is what stands between him and ruling the world to finally make it change to his image of perfection. However I think here's where Lex is different from Joker: Joker is capable of living without Batman, turning into an agent of chaos and definetely losing his main objective, but he *can* and will keep going without Batman - see Return of the Joker for an example -. Lex? Lex would be lost without Superman.

Not in a literal matter, no. Lex is more than capable than being alive without Superman, and it has been showed that, if given the chance, Lex could create an almost perfect society. But what do you do when you finally have all you want? Lex wouldn't turn into an agent of chaos like Joker does without Batman. Lex would finally create his perfect society, he would have anything he wanted, he would be the most powerful creature. And what would he do then?

What would someone with a mind as intelligent as Lex's do when there's no challenge to defeat? This is also why hero!Lex can work so well: Lex likes to be challenged, his mind too active as to live a normal life as a business man or even president. He needs to be obsessed with a goal, whether it be kill Superman, achieve a perfect world or save people.

Anyway, I find extremely beautiful that even if it was just for a few panels, we got to see this emotional side of Lex again: Clark was his friend, and if you ask me, his soulmate. Clark and Lex were a perfect pair, and both of them ruined it in different ways, yet it was Lex who kept being bitter and kept mourning, while Clark decided to stich up his heart and move on.

Have I told you that Lex's canon reminds me a bit of the new canon regarding Talia? If you look at comics before n52, it was Lex who came off as an ex who was still in love and couldn't quite keep on, while Talia was written as still caring about Bruce but caring way more about her and the world (hence why she tries to destroy Lex). She had moved on and had her own things until recently where writers decided to write her as never getting over Bruce. It's interesting to see as a Lex fan, because Lex 100% has never been able to let go of Clark.

I'm talking too much and it's all to say that I think these panels were brilliant. Lex is exactly the type of person to break down at a lie as big as Clark's identity (again, watch Smallville!) and he would not be able to forgive this. Not easily, at least.

Clark has also been obsessed with Lex, Clark has also been hurt by Lex's lies. But there's something captivating about the proposition that the humble farmer boy decided to heal while the most intelligent man of the world decided to mourn forever.

Lex is the smartest creature of Earth, perhaps even one of the smartest of the universe, and yet he still misses his best friend. He mourns, he craves, he screams for Clark so loud that it hurts him. And he doesn't even know it, because Lex *refused* to see that Clark (his Clark!) was Superman. Lex decided to be blind, and it only made everything hurt so much more when Clark told everyone his secret.

I think that deep down, Lex knew the truth. There's no way he looked at Kon's face and didn't see Clark's soft features. There's no way Lex didn't notice that same smile on Kon that Clark used to have in Smallville. But it was easier to be blind, it was easier to pretend he didn't know.

So yes, of course Lex would get mad. He has been hurting for Superman (Clark) all these years and he gets told that the man doesn't think of him? It's natural that he would get mad. And Lex, as smart as he is, can't see that it's a half-life.

Clark thinks of him. But he doesn't think of Lex as someone to be saved anymore: He thinks of Lex as someone who has to be stopped.

Hello, I'm Mistress!

I'm a fic writer and lover of Tim Drake! I have named myself the CEO of Ra'sTim and bottom!Tim, but I love all/Tim ships! 💚💚💚

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In summary, this account:

- Problematic & has dead dove content

- Bottom Tim Drake only!!!

- All/Tim (no 🔄)!!!

- Lex Luthor, Ra's al Ghul and Jean-Paul Valley apologist!!!

- Other DC ships: Clex, BatJokes and SlaTara (mainly), but also: BatCat, BruDick, SlaDick, supersons (🔄), BruLex, Harlivy, BaneJean, OliRoy, LionelLex, KonLex, WallyDick, CassSteph, DamiSteph, DamiDick (🔄), KateSelina, DinahBabs.

- Minors & antis will be blocked 💅

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(Yes, I accidentally deleted this post when trying to delete another one 😭 I decided to make a new one and have a better order of things? Whatever)

Some quick edits of my favs!!!

Tim, Ra's, Jean-Paul and Lex are all my dolls. Tho I admit Tim is my favorite Barbie by a long shot... And Ra's as his Ken... 👀😈

Tim in his CEO suit, hair perfectly blushed, black leather gloves, silver ring with green rock on his finger. He's stepping over a halfdead & bloody Kon-El.

Tim's smiling.

"Oh darling, we both know I was never your Lois Lane," & Kon gasps in pain.

"I'm your Lex Luthor, honey."

Gotham Pride: So many WE sponsored posts that are bland and tacky. A bunch of cops with night sticks. Very boring. Bi Robin and lesbian Batwoman aren't even there. People are literally getting maced in the crowd. Police warned Catwoman not to go.

Metropolis Pride: There's a whole ass LOD float. Lex Luthor was in drag, got kissed by Superman AND Lois Lane. It lasts for a solid 4 days. No crimes are committed because no one wants to be called homophobic by the Superboys. Dreamer and Supergirl lead the parade. Everyone is having the time of their lives. Bi Robin was found dancing with Superboy and Impulse.

I know we all have complex feelings about ROS but this whole sequence is so funny to me.

Lex: "I want an abortion!"

Donovan: "Sir, you can't do that!"

Lex: "Why not!? It's my body, my choice!"

Donovan: "... Sir, your child is 15yo and sitting right here drinking a smoothie"

Kon: "It's fine, doc. He does this every week"

This was the moment where Lex got pregnant btw

I know we all have complex feelings about ROS but this whole sequence is so funny to me.

Lex: "I want an abortion!"

Donovan: "Sir, you can't do that!"

Lex: "Why not!? It's my body, my choice!"

Donovan: "... Sir, your child is 15yo and sitting right here drinking a smoothie"

Kon: "It's fine, doc. He does this every week"

Slightly softer AUs of Clex with tiny hints of KonTim are my favorite and they live rent free on my mind.

Just. Tiny Kon been raised by single not-so-evil Lex and going with him to galas. Tiny Kon running into tiny Tim, and both of them becoming best friends instantly 🥺

Clex who are so deep into their own drama, their complex relationship, their own on and off, and suddenly their son is a teenager, playing hero and - oh yes, dating Batman's protegee!

Clark: "Wait, when did that happen?" Lex: "Probably between the 12 years we have been raising him. Oh wait, that's right, I raised him 🤷"

"You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling"

SCREAM IT!!!

Like, okay, everyone can like their own ships, that's kinda my whole thing here. But this tendency of bashing Clex in order to prop up ANOTHER non canon ship is insane. Specially because as you all pointed out to OP, Lex and Clark have a long, painful and complex history together.

Again and again, we see each other being incapable of staying away. They have been tied for so long that they might not know what to do without the other.

If people don't like Clex then fine (I literally don't care), but they need to stop pretending it doesn't have the content it has in DC media. Denying all the comics and others showing Clex being almost intimately close to each other is almost as delusional as denying Clois media. Because it's there, whether you like it or not.

And, lastly, putting ship bashing on a ship tag is extremely rude. Which I'm used to, as a fan of certain ships who also have to deal with haters like this one above. Still, rude! Don't do that, people.

say what you will about superbat vs clex, but at least Bruce wants to fuck Superman AND Clark Kent. Lex really can’t say the same, huh?

These two don’t really have the best of luck with best friends lmao

@luthwhore thank you for giving me Elliot S. Maggins!!!!!!!!

@clarklexlois hdjdjdjdjdjdjddj, I am so sorry quoted the wrong person. It was you who said this, thanks for the idea.