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wish me luck, guys, I'm three rooms and a hall into trying to turn the Mystery Shack into a sensible floor plan

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Detective Comics #1100 - "Lost & Found" (2025)

written by Tom Taylor art by Mikel Janin

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dragons tend to form civilizations that last a really long time because dragons are very hard to kill except by other dragons. a short-lived dragon country can last anywhere from 150-300 years on average, and some of the longest-lived ones have been around for thousands of years and are still thriving

because of this, dragon laws are stupidly complicated

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I JUST FOUND THIS IN MY DRAFTS AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHETHER I ACTUALLY SENT IT TO YOU OR NOT. SO SORRY IF THIS IS A DOUBLE.

So, your Big Three swap au. Does Thalia already think Jason is dead when she's in the Lotus Hotel, or is he in there with her?

Because on the one hand, Jason Grace, all grown up at Camp Jupiter, who probably spent decades believing that his sister was dead, for whom protecting these people has become his entire life. Did Juno keep him alive by passing him off as a legacy until he aged out? Did the gods ever debate on whether or not to kill him? Has he noticed, in all his years, that the gods are hiding something Greek from them? How do he and Thalia get to reconnect?

...And on the other hand, tiny Jason coming out of the Lotus with his sister, while Zeus and Hera panic-plot to split them up so he can get sent to CJ. He's probably like 3-4 at the beginning? No, Thalia can't go with the Hunters right now, haven't you seen her baby brother, the literal toddler? For the quest, Percy suggests 2 campers, 2 hunters, and 1 Thalia, who seems to hate both groups equally, so balance! Thalia probably tries to kill him for that. Does Hera kidnap toddler Jason to drop him with Lupa/the Romans? Because that WOULD make Thalia leave camp, probably to blast a smoking path through the Titans' army, since that's definitely who she thinks has the most reason to take him, right? Or do we just get a ccouple years of tiny Jason at CHB, who puts everyone on edge for some reason and takes to latin oddly easily?

So I think you totally did send this in, but this one came in when I was already thinking about this AU and I finished my assignment at work so!!! Thank you for sending it again at precisely the right time!!! Onto the Ramblings.

Sooo I actually played with a few ideas for Jason because I Love Him Dearly and his and Thalia’s relationship is just So. So !!!!! You know. The first idea I played with was the one where Jason was a toddler to Thalia’s 13 year old self and he was going to be taken from the Hotel earlier than she was and when she comes out suddenly her baby brother (the one she looked away from for one second, the one who disappeared without a trace, the one she’s desperately searching for) is older than her. Jason remembers her, in some deep part of his mind. Decades of care and love still take root, no matter how frozen you are in time. I’m still fond of this one, but it didn’t feel Quite Right. This Jason would end up too close to his canon counterpart, so it kind of felt like not enough of a swap.

And then I briefly considered if Hazel would be the Praetor daughter of Jupiter and if Jason would be the dead son of Jupiter that Nico felt sorry for and brought back. This is not canon to the main au but I might explore it as an offshoot at some point!!

But what I eventually settled on was really digging in on the idea of Jason being in Bianca’s role. Bianca dies in this AU, so while Nico grieves her intensely, she never made that choice to leave him. She instead chose to protect him, and died for it. Still lots of grieving, but not as many abandonment issues. Jason in canon, meanwhile, has so little agency it’s like. Depressing. So what happens if we give him agency? What happens if he’s the older sibling, desperate to keep his little sister safe?

What happens when Jason, the firstborn son of a woman in the ‘50s, isn’t promised to Juno from birth? When Beryl wouldn’t even consider a second daughter a warrior to promise to Hera? What if pledging himself to Juno is a choice he gets to make? What if he’s trying to keep his sister safe by abandoning her? Trading his service for her life and her safety? Jason has internalized a lot of ideas about being a Son and a Man of the House from growing up in post-WWII America. He and Thalia aren’t even that far apart in age compared to canon—around 3/4 years—but there’s so many gender dynamics and his insane Sense of Duty going on that he ends up feeling much older and viewing Thalia as much younger.

So Jason leaves his sister to go to Camp Jupiter as Juno’s champion shortly after they leave the Lotus Casino. Hera doesn’t target Thalia nearly as much as in canon, and what she does do is meant to push Thalia away from getting Ideas about fulfilling the prophecy. Thalia goes to Camp Half-Blood, thinking her brother is dead. She latches onto Nico as a sort of Replacement Brother (and source of goth gender envy of course), but even that relationship can’t keep her from eventually leaving to find her brother’s ghost. Hades doesn’t like a daughter of Zeus poking around his realm but he is pretty smug that she ends up liking him more than she does her dad because she’s heard all about him from Nico. She never finds him. Nico and Annabeth know she’s looking for Someone or Something, but she doesn’t tell them who it is. It hurts too much.

(She also doesn’t join the Hunters, partially because she’s searching for the remnants of her brother, but also because she’s struggling with her own feelings on gender and Being A Girl, which are intensified by growing up in the ‘50s with Beryl Grace as a mother.)

So when Jason Grace shows up after the war without his memories, and she finally returns to camp to check in with Nico, there is a bit of an explosion of feelings. You know. Abandonment issues, yelling while refusing to stop clinging to each other. Thalia being the one person Jason remembers on sight. Jason and Nico will eventually have to deal with their warring Brother Emotions towards Thalia also. May or may not end up in rivals-to-lovers Jasico where they’re both So Fucking Weird.

Anyway. Have a little excerpt beneath the cut from my notes :3

The Argo II is underway when the girl arrives.

A short little Athena kid had run up to Nico halfway through their latest planning meeting, and he’d leaned down to let her whisper in his ear.

A smile had grown across his face, wide and relived and uncharacteristic, and he’d promptly turned and ran out of the room.

Befuddled, Jason had followed him along with everyone else.

Trailing at a distance, he’d watched as a runt of a kid with dark hair had collapsed into a hug against Nico as if it was the only thing keeping them standing.

“—been safe?” Nico’s asking as they approach.

A voice like the whistle of the wind answers, but Jason doesn’t hear the words over the wave of familiarity that crashes over him.

He stops dead. Piper gives him a concerned look, Leo a confused one.

The girl sways away from Nico, and Jason sees her face.

It’s heart shaped, with full cheeks and a sharp chin. There’s a smattering of freckles across her straight nose, and bright blue eyes set underneath heavy brows.

“Thalia?” Jason asks, and doesn’t hear himself over the ringing in his ears. His voice must carry on the wind, because the girl turns sharply.

Their eyes meet.

She goes dead white. “Jason?” She asks, and her voice carries too, or maybe she’s just yelling loud enough for him to hear.

She breaks into a sprint at the same time he does.

They crash together somewhere in the middle, a flurry of limbs and static and the rumbling of thunder.

He manages to get her cradled against his chest, the same way he’d had to hold her when she was a baby, a toddler, a kid, and now a gangly pre-teen.

“Thalia.” He whispers into her hair. “Thalia, Thalia.”

“Jason.” Thalia says. “Jason, are you real? Are you alive? Please don’t be a ghost, please don’t be a ghost.”

“I’m here, I’m here.” Jason says. “I’m not a ghost, I promise, I’m here.” And then, wounded, “I’m not going anywhere.”

“You left.” Thalia spits, and he can hear the tears in her voice. “She took you and you left me alone.”

Jason’s heart is heavy in his chest. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s not fair.” Thalia protests, well on the way to an emotional meltdown. “You weren’t supposed to leave me alone. You promised.”

“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” Jason chants desperately. “I just wanted you safe.”

“I don’t care if I’m safe!” Thalia shoves at his chest, sending harmless sparks across his clothes. “I wanted to be together!”

“Well then, I guess I care enough for both of us!” Jason says fiercely. “Because I will do anything to keep you alive and nothing will ever change that.”

Thalia bursts into tears. Great, heaving sobs wrack her body. “I hate you.”

Jason presses his lips together tightly and pulls her gently into a hug once again, hands shaking and heart breaking. It’s okay if she hates him for the rest of his life, as long as she stays safe and whole and alive.

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Jerejean's two dogs (I know Kevin fought hard for that bed)

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my knight you have to live you have to get up you have to put your hand over your wound and hold it there. you have to keep walking and walking and walking because you cannot lay down yet, it’s not time. wipe the blood off your breastplate and look up into the sun. lean on your sword if you need to. lift one foot after another. get up. get up. this would be a pitiful grave.

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SQQ: Ok that's it! *pulls out paper and a brush*

SQQ, narrating his letter out loud: Dear Liu Qingge, please accept Ming Fan into Bai Zhan Peak-

Ming Fan: Shizun no!!

SQQ: As he has decided he knows better than this master he must continue his cultivation elsewhere.

Ming Fan: I'm sorry Shizun!

SQQ: I trust you will be able to handle any further uncouth-

Ming Fan: *gasps*

SQQ: and unfilial -

Ming Fan: *starts crying*

SQQ: behavior. He is good at organizing things perhaps you can put him in charge of the armory.

Ming Fan: *falls to his knees* This disciple was wrong Shizun! Please don't send me away!

SQQ: *folds and seals letter dramatically*

SQQ: *hands it to Ming Fan* take that to the kitchens and burn it- then I don't want to see you again today!

Ming Fan: *sniffling* Yes Shizun. Thank you Shizun! *leaves*

SQQ: Oh hello Shidi I didn't see you there.

LQG, who is just here to show SQQ the weird bug he found on his last mission: Shixiong has such an interesting relationship with his disciples.

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I was going for "Muslim vampires and their cats" here

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MATT FRACTION IS WRITING THE NEW BATMAN LINE IN SEPTEMBER?? I AM SO SEATED!!!

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okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:

look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly

i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.

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if your content involves cavalier/necromancer relations, the following requirements MUST be met:

all participants must be in a formalized necromancer/cavalier pair

a scene must be included PRIOR to Lyctoral Ascension, in which all participants affirm they have an absence of libidinous desires towards the other

a scene must be included DURING Lyctoral Ascension, in which there is a verbal check-in between the participants and a statement of duty is enthusiastically given

a scene must be included AFTER Lyctoral Ascension, in which the Vow is provided to the participant who was in the cavalier role

this is non-negotiable. if you have any questions please ask God for clarification

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imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

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Twirling my hair sighing dreamily because my evil shixiong who is jealous of my superior talent (universe just gave it to my idek why) keeps trying to sabotage my cultivation and ruin my reputation but he's sooo bad at it that it backfires every time. Kicking my feet and giggling because he's gonna spend the weekend trying to get me disqualified from the upcoming tournament and that means we get to spend time together!

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I’m familiar with alt text, and am glad you included it in your added images! The first two images before the poll, however, are undescribed, hence the tag.

PROPAGANDA

Agatha Heterodyne:

The main character mad scientist in a comic full of them

She's the titular Girl Genius, which is a good start. In the comic, mad science is genetic and called the Spark; she's the latest in a long line of of powerful, mostly evil Sparks who terrorized Europa for centuries, until her father and uncle became heroes instead. She's a bit in between the two extremes. Some of her greatest hits include: building a small army of self-replicating robots, briefly killing one of her romantic interests in order to cure him of a terminal illness (he thought it was a brilliant idea), repeating the procedure on herself, nearly blowing up after glimpsing the fabric of the universe, repairing the sentient castle at the heart of her town, frequently having to shuffle around brains that end up in the wrong body (they are usually happier afterwards), building a giant robot in order to ask the Godqueen of England to dance, and making coffee. At this time in the comic, she recently rescued her town from being frozen in time and is working to kill a horror from another dimension.

GLaDOS:

I LOVE GLaDOS. Such a well written and funny and interesting character. And Portal 2 is one of the best games of all time. If you haven't played it, go do that.

Never has a womans consciousness inside a robot had so much beef with a mute test subject before.

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PROPAGANDA

Agatha Heterodyne:

The main character mad scientist in a comic full of them

She's the titular Girl Genius, which is a good start. In the comic, mad science is genetic and called the Spark; she's the latest in a long line of of powerful, mostly evil Sparks who terrorized Europa for centuries, until her father and uncle became heroes instead. She's a bit in between the two extremes. Some of her greatest hits include: building a small army of self-replicating robots, briefly killing one of her romantic interests in order to cure him of a terminal illness (he thought it was a brilliant idea), repeating the procedure on herself, nearly blowing up after glimpsing the fabric of the universe, repairing the sentient castle at the heart of her town, frequently having to shuffle around brains that end up in the wrong body (they are usually happier afterwards), building a giant robot in order to ask the Godqueen of England to dance, and making coffee. At this time in the comic, she recently rescued her town from being frozen in time and is working to kill a horror from another dimension.

GLaDOS:

I LOVE GLaDOS. Such a well written and funny and interesting character. And Portal 2 is one of the best games of all time. If you haven't played it, go do that.

Never has a womans consciousness inside a robot had so much beef with a mute test subject before.